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  Leaf Vilge.

  Somewhere in the leaf vilge deep underground, the stru of the Root's new base of operations was near its pletion.

  An elderly man with an eye bandaged and arm in a sling was walking the dimly lit hallway. He had mu his mind.

  'It took a long time with Hiruzen keeping an eye ohing but at st it's dohe stru is pleted and with the new added measures not even the Hyuga and their Byakugan would be able to see in here… Things are proceeding acc to pn.'

  The man Danzo Shimura, leader of the Root, soon reached his office. He saw a red scroll with the Insignia of the Hōzuki Castle on his desk.

  Danzo opehe scroll and read its tents. 'So Isen has passed away huh. Serves right for that traitor. Because of Kensei, Hiruzen had been far too merciful with Isen's punishment. But now that's no longer a . He is now no longer a threat to me.'

  At that moment the child he assigo keep tabs oain students in the academy appeared before him and k.

  "Lord Danzo. I have an urgent update."

  Without a word of aowledgement, Danzo closed the scroll and pced it inside his desk. Only then did he turn towards the child Touma Asai.

  "Report." The cold tone couldn't be mistaken for anything other than an order.

  "Daichi has left the vilge."

  Danzo's one visible eye slightly widened. It was the st thing he expected.

  "Tell me everything you know." He o find out everything behind Daichi's departure.

  —-

  It has been a month since Isen regained his memories and freedom. He had learhat the Hokage was the one who vinced Danzo to spare his life. At Isen's insistence Kensei sent word to the Hokage and arranged a meeting.

  Night Time - Hokage Residence.

  Hiruzen was in his home waiting for the man to arrive. Because of the secrecy of the meeting he had dismissed his guards. Before long he sensed a fn presen his home.

  He turned around a Isen's eyes. After a few moments of silence Hiruzen spoke.

  "You look better than I thought."

  Isen was silent for a moment as he looked at the old kage. "Am I supposed to say thank you for saving my life…"

  Hiruzen narrowed his eyes. "Yes. What you did was reckless, stupid and could have put a serious strain on our retionship with the Daimyo. Prison and the memory loss was a merpared to what Danzo would have done."

  Ise out a sigh as he heard those words.

  "Thank you…"

  Hiruzen looked at the man and then nodded his head.

  At that moment Isen spoke again. "Just to be clear, I'm not thanking you for saving my life. I'm thanking you for what you did for my wife Binami. Keold me that you made sure she had a new identity, provided safe passage to the capital and gave her the suffit funds needed for a new life."

  "I remembered you telling me she regnant a few weeks before the whole mess. I didn't wao get caught up in all that." Hiruzen took his wooden pipe and lit up the tobacco.

  "I see you haven't quit that habit."

  "Everyone has a vice. This is mine."

  Isen was silent as he looked around the house. He noticed the absence of two important people in Hiruzen's life.

  "I'm sorry about Biwako. Keold me what happened. She was a good woman."

  The old kage merely nodded his head appreciating the se.

  "You know… After everything that's happened I thought you would be angrier with me…" The old kage said as he narrowed his eyes and looked at the man.

  "Make no mistake. I'm angry about what happened. I spent 17 years in that pd I missed the first 17 years of my son's life… So yeah, when I learned everything, I issed… But I also see the bigger picture. You did what you could. And it was my decision that nded me in that prison."

  Hiruzen took the pipe from his mouth a out some smoke. He asked a question that has been bugging him for some time. "That brings me to another question. What exactly did you find out about Danzo that he went through all that trouble just to get rid of you?"

  "I was under your and in Anbu. But what you didn't know is that… I was also part of the Root."

  Hiruzen was startled at that admission. "Expin!"

  "During one of the missions I discovered that Danzo had sent several spies to most of the vilges disguised as Merts, bandits or meraries."

  "Yes. I know about them. After the loss of Lord Sed, Danzo and I decided that it was imperative that we had an intelligeheriwork throughout the nations in pce."

  "Yeah well… What you don't know is that his work does a lot more than gather intelligence. He has created aework that unders moraffig rare materials, ons and people…"

  "People?" Hiruzen's eyes narrowed.

  Isen nodded. "Hm! More specifically those with special blood lines."

  "Kekkei Genkai users."

  "That's right. And that's not all… He's also ied in Tailed Beasts."

  The old Kage's eyes narrowed. "Do you have any proof?"

  "Just my memories."

  "It still doesn't expin how you became part of Root or how you found out about these things… Danzo is a very careful man. He would have had safeguards in pce for all his root members."

  "I felt that something was wrong when I was on a mission in the Sand vilge. I found a mert selling some of our secrets to the sand vilge. But the thing is, he was not from the Sand and he was keeping tabs on the Oails as well. At first I thought he was from another vilge but ter I found out that he was from the Root. I felt that something was wrong and when Danzo came to recruit me I accepted. I joihe Root to see if someone had been promised in Danzo's anization but what I found was that I was wrong. The man was under Danzo's orders to leak some intelligeo the sand vilge."

  "For urpose?"

  "The Root wahe mag bloodline of the Royal family. Rumor had it that the Kazekage nning on starting a family. Danzo's pn was to pnt a spy he family and kidnap a child of the Kage or at least get enough experimental materials. He also had the spy send him regur updates oailed beast of that vilge. Throughout my time in the Foundation, I learhat he has ducted several missions that I'm sure you wouldn't have approved of. He is ied in recruiting talented people and bolstering his forces. he st few years of the 3rd world war I learhat he po kidnap the 7 tails from the Waterfall vilge and assassihe child of the Earth Daimyo and frame another vilge for it."

  "What!?... Something like that could have had unimaginable sequehe war would have gone on for much longer." The old kage was shocked. He never imagihat Danzo was so out of his trol.

  "Yes. It ched with a high ranking member in the Fire Daimyo court. During the chaos Danzo and his fa at the capital would vihe Fire Daimyo to make a move on the Earth try. There would have beey of chaos ah if this pn had moved forward. I had to stop it."

  "If you learned all this then why didn't you e to me?"

  "It was too te by the time I learned what was really happening. At that time Danzo found out about me spying on him. He had to move forward with the pn. He framed me and bought some time. So I had to make a otion loud enough that would draw the Daimyo's attention to Danzo and the people under him in the capital."

  The old kage had a realization. "That public atta the mihat wasn't the act of se filled fool. You did that on purpose didn't you, knowing full well the sequences…"

  "Yeah. I knew if the Daimyo found out that we were interfering in the affairs of the royal court the vilge would lose his bag. And I also needed him to be vigint of external influences... I had a tingen pce if I died so I knew you would learruth soon after my death. What I didn't expect was for me to lose my memories."

  Hiruze out a puff of smoke as he took in the information. "There were many ways this could have been handled differently."

  "I was out of time and options. I did what I could."

  The old kage sighed. After a short silence he asked the man a question. "Are you willing to work under me again?"

  "No… But if you want my help with Danzo then I work with you."

  Hiruzen looked into the man's eyes aed. "I suppose that would have to do… I have a task for you."

  —-

  Leaf Vilge.

  In an underground boratory, 'Shigaraki' the researcher and stist of the Root erf experiments on a certain spe using the geic materials acquired from Orochimaru and Danzo.

  At that moment Danzo walked into the boratory and ied the spe. "How much progress have you made?" He asked the stist.

  "The sample Orochimaru provided is truly incredible. It bio any fn DNA without reje and adapt its properties. Although the effects produced are not as powerful."

  "What are the results of the merger with the blood sample of the first Hokage?"

  "The DNA has adapted to the blood but there were some small mutations." With those words Shigaraki led Danzo to a certain area of the b.

  In a gss tainer filled with nutritional fluids a small child was kept suspehere were several monitors ected to the child. Half his body was made of wood and the face of the first Hokage resent on the left side of his chest. But even with these mutations his vitals were reading normal.

  "The first Hokage's blood tains too much power. More precisely Yang chakra. We need equally potent Yin chakra or something that requires the rge reserves of chakra to keep the band the power of the first Hokage in check."

  "I have something in mind. In a few months Orochimaru will be here with what I need. I need you to assist him with the surgery and graft the first Hokage's blood into my body wheime es." Danzo told the man.

  "I uand lord Danzo but…"

  "What is it?"

  "It's just… No matter how well the surgery goes, there will be some small mutation on your body. The power of the first Hokage is just to." Shigaraki bowed and spoke these words with slight fear.

  Danzo was quiet for a few moments. "I'm aware of the risks. And your duty is to minimize the risks as much as you wheime es."

  "Yes Lord Danzo!"

  Danzo walked away from the b and made his way to his home. 'If I had the best medi in the world then I could reduce the dangers of the operation down to Zero. But Tsunade would never perform the operation on me and if she learns that I've been using Lord Hashirama's blood for research like this, she'll be furious. She might make a rash move and bring Jiraiya and Hiruzen's attention to me and I don't want that right now. But then again, I don't necessarily need her. She has a nereer all… Should I dey the surgery and wait for her to teach Daichi everything before I go after him?... No. That will take too long. This must be done as soon as possible.'

  The moment Danzo learned of Daichi's departure from the vilge he used his tacts and found out what had happened.

  He learhat Kensei wanted Daichi to learn about his business operations and took the boy to the capital. But Hiruzen, not wanting to let Daichi go, made a deal with Kensei. Danzo learhat the pn was for Daichi to e back by the time his css graduates and bee a Genin with them.

  A month ter Danzo learned from his sources in the capital that Tsunade happened upon the child and took him as her student.

  'The boy leaving the vilge is a perfect opportunity. Once she's doraining him I'll make my move. Kensei won't be able to protect him. But the missioo be covert. I 't have anything eg me to it.'

  With that thought in mind he summoned a few of his people and gave them a certain mission.

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