Naruto: Betrayed From The Start

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Konoha.

Root Base.

In Laboratory One, Danzo, having returned to Konoha, immediately went there.

He carefully removed Uchiha Kiske's pair of three-tomoe Sharingan from the vial and placed them in a human-sized nutrient tank for preservation.

"Not enough, I need more Sharingan."

Looking at the Sharingan in the transparent glass tank, Danzo muttered to himself, then left Laboratory One.

"Sir, the experimental subject sent by the Hokage is in Laboratory Two."

Outside the laboratory, the Root captain on duty told Danzo, who had just come out.

"Hmm."

Danzo nodded and snorted, without any reaction or intention to go to Laboratory Two. He went directly back to his office in the Root Base.

For Danzo now, the most urgent matter was how to continue assassinating Uchiha clan ninjas to obtain more Sharingan.

As for the experimental subject that the Third Hokage had mentioned, who possessed the secret of immunity to genjutsu, a powerful counter to the Uchiha clan's Sharingan, Danzo subconsciously touched his left eye and then laughed.

Heh!

Immunity to genjutsu?

With this Mangekyo Sharingan of Kagami, what is a mere Sharingan genjutsu to fear?

Compared to the power of the Mangekyo Sharingan, any ability to resist genjutsu is insignificant.

The power of the Sharingan doesn't lie in genjutsu.

It lies in the terrifying abilities inherent to the Mangekyo Sharingan.

Thinking of the purple figure, taller than a mountain, that he had once seen from afar, Danzo felt a surge of excitement.

As long as he could continue to possess the Mangekyo Sharingan of Kagami, he could maintain his strength on par with Hiruzen, or even surpass him.

And immense strength was the most fundamental basis for becoming Hokage.

Strength was his greatest guarantee of overthrowing Hiruzen and ascending to the position of Hokage.

Nothing could be more important than his continued possession of the Mangekyo Sharingan.

But... feeling the constant pain radiating from his left eye, Danzo's brow furrowed instantly, and he felt a growing sense of urgency.

The Sharingan of Kagami was highly incompatible with his body.

Even though he had sealed it with sealing jutsu, he couldn't stop the continuous damage to the Sharingan caused by his body's rejection.

Danzo could feel that he had at most one year left before the Mangekyo Sharingan in his left eye would be rendered useless.

If he didn't want to lose this Mangekyo Sharingan, he had to solve the problem of the Sharingan's incompatibility with his body.

Otherwise... he could only hope that the Sharingan forbidden jutsu that permanently destroyed one three-tomoe Sharingan after a single use could somehow change the reality of the Sharingan's incompatibility with his body.

But that jutsu also required many Sharingan for experimentation to find the secret hidden within the Sharingan.

In any case, regardless of which method he used, he needed many Sharingan for experimentation.

Therefore, Danzo needed to hunt down more Uchiha clan ninjas to obtain more Sharingan.

Returning to his office, one of the two deputies assigned to him by the Third Hokage was quickly summoned.

"Who is the next target?" Danzo asked directly.

Sarutobi Fudo, wearing the distinctive mask of Root, held a notebook in his hand. He was a younger relative of the Third Hokage and one of the people sent to monitor Danzo. Hearing Danzo's question, he flipped to a page in the notebook and said, "The famous genius brothers of the Uchiha clan, Uchiha Luffy and Uchiha Ace."

The two brothers had once severely embarrassed the Third Hokage, and the Third Hokage had specifically chosen them as Root's second target.

"Brothers?" Danzo frowned and then asked, "How is their relationship?"

Sarutobi Fudo replied, "They lost their parents when they were young and have been dependent on each other since. Their relationship should be very good."

Hearing this, Danzo's frown deepened.

"Then we can only strike at the same time." Danzo murmured softly.

The closer the companions of the Uchiha clan were, the greater the impact of losing one.

Uchiha Luffy and Uchiha Ace were both three-tomoe Sharingan users and were also known as geniuses. If one of them was killed first, the other would inevitably receive the news and be severely mentally affected, giving them a slight chance of awakening the Mangekyo Sharingan.

This possibility... must be eliminated!

Danzo thought to himself.

The Uchiha clan's strength was on two completely different levels depending on whether they possessed the Mangekyo Sharingan.

Even if Danzo could use the Mangekyo Sharingan of Kagami, he wasn't sure he could handle an Uchiha with the Mangekyo Sharingan.

Therefore, he must kill both Uchiha brothers simultaneously.

This would eliminate the possibility of the Mangekyo Sharingan awakening.

At the same time, he could obtain two pairs of three-tomoe Sharingan.

Smiling inwardly, Danzo directly asked again, "When will the assassination take place?"

The assassination of the Uchiha was assigned by the Third Hokage, who didn't trust Danzo yet.

Furthermore, the newly formed Root didn't have the necessary intelligence capabilities. Everything still required the cooperation of the Third Hokage before Danzo could act.

Sarutobi Fudo replied, "After they have completed five missions, we will start making detailed plans for the assassination."

"No." Danzo frowned, displeased. "Too long, do it sooner."

Five missions?

After five missions, it would be at least six months.

The Sharingan of Kagami didn't have that much time to wait.

Obtaining enough Sharingan sooner would increase the possibility of finding a way to reduce or even eliminate the Sharingan's rejection problem sooner.

"Sir Danzo."

Sarutobi Fudo explained, "Information about Uchiha Luffy and Uchiha Ace is still incomplete. The two brothers have limited combat records, and there is no accurate intelligence about their preferred jutsu. Therefore, we can only have them complete a few more missions, gather information about their abilities, and then carry out the assassination plan. This will ensure a foolproof operation."

"Twice." Danzo held up two fingers. "I'll give you a maximum of two missions to gather information."

"I'm sorry, Sir Danzo, that's not possible." Sarutobi Fudo shook his head.

"Hmm!" Danzo's eyes narrowed instantly, staring fixedly at Sarutobi Fudo. No one had dared to refuse him like this, except for Hiruzen.

"It's the Hokage's order." Faced with Danzo's challenging gaze, Sarutobi Fudo felt immense pressure, as if being stared at by a dark demon, sending chills down his spine. He could only quickly invoke the name of the Third Hokage.

But instead of not mentioning the Hokage, the moment he said it was the Hokage's order, Danzo felt a sharp pain in his already aching heart.

The words "I am the Hokage" seemed to echo in his ears.

"Hiruzen's order?"

A mere junior member of the Sarutobi clan dared to use the Hokage's name to pressure him. Danzo was truly enraged. He said angrily, "So what has Hiruzen been doing? Gathering information about Uchiha clan ninjas has been ongoing, hasn't it?"

"How come you can't even gather information on two Uchiha brats? You need five missions? Do you know how long five missions take?"

"Ah... do you?"

Danzo stood up and began to berate Sarutobi Fudo.

He didn't accept Sarutobi Fudo's explanation. In his opinion, Hiruzen, as the Hokage who inherited the will of the Second Hokage, should have firmly grasped the information about all the powerful individuals within the Uchiha clan.

Instead of gathering it through assigning missions when needed.

This would delay things considerably.

And he knew Hiruzen. He wasn't someone who would wait until the last minute.

Information about Uchiha Luffy and Uchiha Ace was definitely not as incomplete as Sarutobi Fudo claimed.

It shouldn't take five missions to gather it.

Faced with Danzo's accusations and distrust, Sarutobi Fudo was in a difficult position. He said wryly, "Sir Danzo, Uchiha clan members with three-tomoe Sharingan are not easy to assassinate."

"Without detailed information, trying to kill a three-tomoe Sharingan Uchiha in a short period of time is very likely to lead to accidents."

"If an accident happens..."

Sarutobi Fudo looked at Danzo, his words left unsaid, but the meaning was clear.

If an accident happened, no matter how well they concealed their identities during the attack, the Uchiha clan would become suspicious.

And it wouldn't take long for them to guess who was behind it.

After all, they were the Uchiha clan, who had ruled the ninja world alongside the Senju clan for hundreds of years during the Warring States period. No one could underestimate their intelligence.

Therefore, every assassination of an Uchiha clan ninja had to be foolproof.

"Humph!"

Danzo scoffed, not believing Sarutobi Fudo's words at all. He directly ordered, "Three times, a maximum of three missions, then I'll act."

Gather information for three missions, and act on the fourth.

This was Danzo's bottom line. He understood the Third Hokage's intention, fearing that too frequent actions against the Uchiha would cause unnecessary trouble.

He agreed with that point.

But three missions to gather information was the longest he could tolerate.

"I'm sorry, Sir Danzo." Sarutobi Fudo apologized. "Five missions is the fastest possible number to gather information. It can't be reduced. It's the Hokage's order."

Damn it!

The Hokage's order again!

Using the Hokage to pressure him again!

Danzo's menacing gaze fixed on Sarutobi Fudo.

Sarutobi Fudo lowered his head, not daring to meet his gaze.

But he would strictly follow the Hokage's orders.

His mission in Root was to prevent Danzo from acting unilaterally. Otherwise, with Danzo's personality, if he really did something big, the Third Hokage would ultimately bear the brunt of the consequences.

After all, Root had just been established and was still under the auspices of the ANBU. No one doubted that Root's intentions were the same as the Third Hokage's.

The Third Hokage was also wary of this, so he sent his younger relative to supervise Danzo and prevent him from going rogue.

"Very good!"

Facing Sarutobi Fudo's unyielding attitude, even under his intense gaze, Danzo didn't lose his temper this time.

He took a deep breath, then waved his hand, telling Sarutobi Fudo to leave. He then went to Laboratory One alone to study the Sharingan.

Kenshi, was completely forgotten.

One day,

Two days.

Three days.

In a blink of an eye, three months had passed.

In Laboratory Two, in the tall, transparent glass tanks, one of the tanks contained Kenshi, curled up and floating in the nutrient solution that emitted a faint green glow, like a fetus.

But in Kenshi's Chakra Sensing, he was surrounded by a ball of Chakra that emitted a gentle light.

"No one has come for so long... It seems they've decided to seal me away for now."

Kenshi secretly guessed. In the past three months, no one had touched his body, a complete change from his previous treatment.

But Kenshi, who was terrified of being tricked, didn't make any unnecessary movements. Even though he had come up with a way to hide his increasing Chakra, he didn't experiment with it.

He was afraid that someone was secretly watching him, waiting for him to make a mistake.

But now, three months had passed, and Kenshi couldn't remain inactive any longer.

He couldn't just stay like this forever.

To accumulate strength to escape, he had to take risks.

"Let's begin."

Kenshi made up his mind. With a thought, he began to control the natural overflow of physical energy and mental energy within his body, gathering them towards the various acupoints in his body and then condensing Chakra within those acupoints.

"It worked!"

A wave of joy came through Kenshi's Chakra Sensing. A ball of newly condensed Chakra slowly flowed in the Chakra acupoint located in his chest, near his heart.

That's right.

Flowing.

The newly added Chakra in the Chakra acupoint didn't flow like the Chakra in the meridians and the Chakra Sea, which were sealed by the Eight Trigrams Sealing Jutsu and couldn't flow.

This meant that Kenshi's initial attempt to hide his newly acquired Chakra was a success.

In Kenshi's Chakra Sensing, the Chakra in the human body wasn't like water, stored in a "human"-shaped wooden barrel.

It was like blood, flowing through countless meridian channels throughout the body.

Just like how Daoist internal energy flowed through its own meridian system within the human body.

Chakra also had its own meridian flow system.

The Chakra condensed within the body would flow through the meridian channels to the Chakra Sea for storage.

And some of the Chakra in the Chakra Sea would naturally flow out through the meridian channels, nourishing the body and enhancing physical fitness.

This was the circulatory flow of Chakra within the body.

Once this circulatory flow of Chakra was restricted, the ninja could not use any Chakra techniques.

The Eight Trigrams Sealing Jutsu restricted and sealed the entire Chakra flow meridian system of the human body, simultaneously absorbing the target's Chakra from the meridians and the Chakra Sea to maintain its own sealing jutsu for a long time, ensuring that the target's Chakra was permanently sealed.

To break free from the influence of the Eight Trigrams Sealing Jutsu and hide his newly acquired Chakra, Kenshi had to find a Chakra storage location that could store his new Chakra while not being affected by the Eight Trigrams Sealing Jutsu. This was the foundation.

Kenshi had actually found this storage location.

Through Chakra Sensing, he discovered that the Chakra meridians and the Chakra Sea were both affected by the Eight Trigrams Sealing Jutsu, but the Chakra within the countless Chakra acupoints woven into the meridian channels remained unaffected.

These Chakra acupoints were amazing. They were like dams built on a long, large river, restricting the flow of Chakra while also storing Chakra like the Chakra Sea.

At the same time, these Chakra acupoints were different from the Chakra Sea. They were like gene locks, locking the Chakra within the Chakra acupoints, completely isolating it from the external meridian channels, rendering the Eight Trigrams Sealing Jutsu useless, or rather, preventing it from entering the Chakra acupoints to seal and restrict the Chakra.

Compared to the Chakra Sea, the Chakra acupoints were like a locked Chakra vault, inaccessible to outsiders.

While the Chakra Sea was like a Chakra hall with the door wide open, accessible to anyone.

It was this unique effect of the Chakra acupoints, different from the Chakra Sea, that gave Kenshi hope of hiding his newly acquired Chakra.

After all, even the Eight Trigrams Sealing Jutsu couldn't affect the Chakra within the Chakra acupoints.

This meant that the Chakra acupoints were a good place to shield Chakra from Chakra Sensing to a certain extent.

If the newly acquired Chakra was stored there, even a ninja with Chakra Sensing ability would find it very difficult to detect the increase in Kenshi's Chakra amount, even at close range.

This would buy Kenshi time to silently accumulate strength.

But before, it was all just speculation.

Now, it was considered a preliminary verification of success.

Kenshi didn't know whether he could actually avoid detection by ninjas with Chakra Sensing ability. He had to try it to find out.

So, there was still a risk of exposure.

But it wasn't a big problem, because this was the best way Kenshi could think of to avoid detection by Chakra Sensing ability.

In the quiet Laboratory Two of Root.

Kenshi continued to control the natural overflow of physical energy and mental energy within his body, gathering them towards the acupoint in his chest, and then controlling them to merge and condense into Chakra in a 1:1 ratio.

There were many acupoints in the human body, scattered throughout the body.

But not all acupoints were the same.

Some acupoints stored more Chakra, while others stored less.

To put it simply, acupoints came in different sizes.

In Kenshi's Chakra Sensing, eight acupoints in his body were much larger than the others, dozens or even hundreds of times larger.

The largest acupoint was the one in his chest, near his heart. In his perception, it could store as much Chakra as the Chakra Sea, making it a second Chakra Sea.

The other seven acupoints were located in two places in his brain and five places vertically from the middle of his chest to the middle of his lower abdomen.

It was a bit like the Eight Gates of the Eight Inner Gates... Hmm?

"It seems like these eight acupoints are in the same positions as the Eight Gates of the Eight Inner Gates!"

Kenshi suddenly realized. He had seen diagrams of the eight gate positions of the Eight Inner Gates in his previous life, and as a graduate of medical school, he had some understanding of the human body's meridians and acupoints, so the impression was still vivid.

Now, he remembered that the acupoint where he was storing his newly acquired Chakra was the location of the Death Gate in the Eight Inner Gates.

In other words, his newly acquired Chakra was stored in the Death Gate.

"This... seems a bit troublesome!"

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