Mokuton Root Agent(SI) #4

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Mokuton Root Agent (SI)

Chapter 4

–Fugaku Uchiha–

The next moment their eyes met, and they burst into action.

The crowd was startled as Hatake and he burst into action, leaping over the crowd of the gathered shinobi.

Hatake drew out his tanto and he took out my kunais.

He coated the kunai with wind nature chakra and Hatake covered his tanto with the special white chakra that the Hatake clan had.

Their eyes met midway and they threw out their respective weapons towards the invisible chakra tendrils with all their might.

But the next moment, just his my kunai was about to hit the ground, something burst from the ground to protect it.

His eyes widened comically as it was clearly a tree root that had stopped his kunai.

They were not just any kunais, they were high-grade ones coated in wind chakra.

Even the Hashirama trees that littered Konoha would be shredded with those kunais.

The only wood that could stop this level of an attack was the wood created by…

His eyes comically widened as he realised what the tree was.

He turned towards Hatake only to see him looking towards the roots as if he had seen a ghost.

He must have realised what it was as well.

Mokuton.

The coveted kekkei genkai of the Shodai Hokage, Hashirama Senju.

Inferring from the seal on the ANBU’s head, it would seem that Danzo and even the Sandaime had been playing with forces beyond their ken.

This was huge.

This was just the thing he needed to hammer in the final nail in Danzo’s coffin. With this, Sandaime-sama will have to make Danzo back off.

After all, Kekkei Genkai theft is the most severe crime you can commit in Konoha.

All of this happened in a split second as Hatake and him both landed near each other a distance from the corpse.

The other ninjas had not yet gathered what had happened.

The only ones who realised must be the nearby ANBU.

That would not be ideal for him.

This news should spread like wildfire. Everybody should know that one of the ANBU possessed Mokuton, preferably the news would reach The Slug Princess, Tsunade Senju.

Just as he was about to consider shouting about it, an unexpected chakra build-up in the roots caught his attention.

Seeing what was happening, he smirked.

“Ma Ma, why are you smiling, Fugaku-san? If I am right about this, this situation is the opposite of a smiling one,” Hataka said with a casual tone of voice but he could see the white-haired ninja’s shoulders tensing as he was able to see the same chakra movement he was.

He just smiled at him and jumped back towards the crowd, “You should get back if you know what’s good for you.” he told Hatake.

Hatake narrowed his eyes at him but ordered the other ANBU to retreat as well.

He was sure that this news must have reached the Hokage by now.

He just hoped everyone was able to see what had happened before the Hokage arrived and ordered everyone to disperse.

His worries were unfounded though as the next moment, a massive tree bark emerged from the back of the face down lying ANBU.

A smile threatened to split his lips but he held it down and instead started helping the mesmerized ninjas get out of the area and occasionally cut the various roots that had emerged from the surrounding ground.

It had yet to be registered in the minds of these ninjas that the tree they were seeing was also trying to kill some of them.

Oddly, it was trying to kill a few members of the ANBU.

And going by the broken masks that lay nearby, it was successful in doing so.

He could see Hatake nearby trying to cut down the roots that were threatening to kill his team but he was having difficulty in doing so.

They were oddly strong. Having wind nature chakra weaponry helped but even then he was burning through chakra like crazy.

He could only imagine the problem for Hatake as his Sharingan was the biggest drain on his chakra reserves.

But soon the attacks stopped and the roots receded back into the ground.

The only ones who could fight at this point were him and Hatake and even then he was breathing heavily. The fight with the continuous use of his Sharingan and lightning-natured attacks must have drained him completely.

It was a testament to his willpower that he was still standing with his tanto drawn, ready to defend his comrades till his last breath.

Before he could tell him to relax though, a massive chakra signature made itself known to every ninja in the area.

The next second, the Sandaime in his battle armour crashed in front of them.

It had taken him less than a minute since the tree sprouted from that ANBU.

That was impressive speed for his age.

All the more proof that the Uchiha clan going against him would only result in one less clan in Konoha.

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–Hiruzen Sarutobi–

The first sign that something was wrong was that one of Danzo’s ANBU was reporting to the regular ANBU HQ without informing me.

The second sign was that same ANBU being suspiciously small and then somehow fainting right across the HQ building.

Even still he had assigned one of his personal guards to get to the bottom of the matter and resolved to go meet Danzo later to get his reasons.

But then, the first chakra spike came and he had a horrible vision of the Kyuubi attack.

Malevolent chakra being thrown around everywhere, people crying and dying, ninjas burning due to the corrosive nature of the Kyuubi’s chakra.

The second wave was much much colder and darker in nature, making him snap out of his thoughts.

He then immediately signalled the ANBU to follow him and donned his battle armour.

The time between him donning his armour and reaching the site was less than 5 minutes and yet as I crashed between the tree and my men, to my horror, I could already count a dozen ANBU dead.

Kakashi was barely standing straight and his tanto was shaking.

Fugaku was in fighting shape but I could see signs of strain on him.

It must have been a high-intensity battle here.

Unfortunately, I arrived too late as I could see that the battle was over.

“What happened here?” I asked Kakashi before Fugaku.

Despite believing that Fugaku himself was not at all involved in the Kyuubi incident, it was undeniable that the Kyuubi had the Sharingan eyes before Minato sealed him in Naruto, not to mention the message Minato gave me before he died.

It was undeniably an Uchiha clansman who initiated the Kyuubi attack which devastated Konoha on many fronts.

Standing straight despite his exhaustion, Kakashi told him what happened here.

With each sentence that came out of Kakashi’s mouth, his eyes widened more and more in horror.

The tree that he had thought to be the work of an attacker turned out to be the attacker itself.

The more shocking thing was that the tree came out of an ANBU dead body, Kakashi confirmed it himself using his Sharingan.

After listening to the whole report, he robotically turned his head towards the tree which had a face jutting out of its bark.

Then his eyes narrowed as a thunderous crack rang around as his chakra rampaged around him, cratering the surroundings.

Noticing that Kakashi was having trouble standing, he visibly restrained himself and ordered one of his personal guards to summon Danzo at this moment.

The ANBU nodded and then disappeared in a blur.

His mind whirled furiously at the implications.

The first thing that came into his mind was to order everyone to disperse but he immediately banished that thought upon taking a look at the tree.

It was still growing.

Already, it towered over every building of Konoha and was probably visible from the village gates now.

“Kakashi, you are dismissed. Somebody make sure he goes to the hospital and stays there this time,” he ordered Kakashi.

Kakashi must have been even more exhausted than he thought because he didn’t even protest at the thought of essentially being hospitalized.

“Clan Head Fugaku” he greeted Fugaku as he went towards the duo of Uchiha clan members present nearby.

One of them seemed pretty out of it.

He remembered him. It was Inabi Uchiha.

The strongest sensor ninja present inside the village, since Minato passed away.

Thinking of Minato, he felt a pang in his heart.

Minato wouldn’t have allowed Danzo this much leeway and wouldn’t have believed him at every turn.

If what he suspected was the truth, then this was going to haunt Konoha for generations to come.

He desperately hoped that it wasn’t actually what he thought it was and Danzo actually had some sort of excuse this time, however flimsy it may be.

Inabi actually tried to stand up and bow despite being clearly out of it. He had bloodshot eyes and his legs were trembling even as he tried to stand up.

Finally, Fugaku knocked him out and placed him properly in the hands of one of the many medics that had flooded the site.

Fugaku then bowed to him and said, “Sandaime-sama, what can I do for you?”

His words seemed innocent and helpful but the glint in his eyes said anything but that.

This was going to be such a pain in the ass to deal with.

Let’s just hope Tsunade doesn’t hear about this and come back immediately.

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