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  3:18 AM.

  In the shadow-cd corridors of the ROOT headquarters, the air hung heavy with an unusual sile was a little over 3 am, a time when darkness was deepest, cloaking all activities in the shadows.

  e Daichi had assumed the formidable guise of Monkey D. Dragon. The transformation was fwless, a variation of the one his former teacher Tsunade uses.

  His aura was ing a palpable sense of danger and and. He had one mission. infiltrate the Root and plete his quest. He sehe presence of two ninjas a short distance away from his position the momeered the base.

  'Just as I thought. Danzo has guards at the entrance. He's a paranoid guy but then again, it's not paranoia if it's true… I o ralize them before they cause me any headaches. And I 't let myself get hit even once or it's game over.'

  Daichi's senses were heightened, his every step was calcuted as he moved deeper into the den of covert warriors.

  Ahead, two Root ninjas stood guard, their masks bnk aheir eyes sharply sing the surroundings. They were traio detect the slightest disturbance, warriors hoo perfe under Danzid tutege. Their thoughts were filled with duty to the Foundation, their senses fiuo any anomalies.

  The moment Daichi opehe entrahe two Root ninjas sensed a disturbance. A slight shift in the air flow, the barely audible sound of stones moving and the sixth sehey've hohrough their careers.

  One of the root ninjas tensed, hand ing towards the kunai strapped to his thigh. "Did you feel that?" he murmured, his voice barely audible.

  "Yeah." The sed guard sed the corridor, his senses honed from years of living in the shadows. "Someone must have opehe barrier."

  "But they didn't trigger any traps. Are we expeg someone?"

  "Must be the ones Lord Danzo recalled… Still, we should make sure." With a swift hand signal, they aowledged each other's readiness, their bodies tensing for bat.

  Yet, before they could fully react, someone on them.

  The intruder's approach was like a blur, his speed otherworldly. It showed his ninja in and dispyed a mastery of movement that was almost unnatural.

  The first guard barely had time to draw his kunai before 'Dragon' was on him. With a swift, precise motion, the transformed Daichi broke his wrist and disarmed him, sending the kunai spinning in the air.

  The Genin quickly and expertly caught the kunai and plu deep into the eye socket of the guard and snapped his neck food measure.

  The sed root ninja was surprised at the quick deadly way his fellow ninja was dispatched. 'Who the hell is he?'

  He didn't care about the root member who's body just hit the ground as his attention was pletely oruder. The sed guard reacted with more speed, drawing a short sword and lunging forward in a desperate attempt to kill the enemy.

  But Daichi, embodying the mysterious and powerful persona of his identity, vanished from guard's view.

  'Where did he-'

  Before the man could plete his thought he felt a sharp pain ing from the back of his head. He sensed somethiering his brain and saw the end of a sword appeariween his eyes. In seds he slumped to the ground joining his rade.

  Before his eyes pletely lost their light he looked at the other fallen guard and it was only then that he noticed the man's short sword missing.

  Daichi stood still for a moment, his breathing even. He sed the area to ensure no arm had been raised. The fight had been swift, silent, a deadly match that ended as quickly as it had begun.

  The disguised 'Dragon' now alone, felt the weight of his as, the adrenaline slowly ebbing from his veins.

  He looked at the two dead bodies and he didn't feel any jony over their death. 'You were both destio die today. Either by my hands or the Hokage's. I won't take your body and use you for any reanimations. It's the least I'm going to do for you two. sider it a courtesy.'

  With both guards dispatched, Daichi moved forward, deeper into the heart of Root, his mission only beginning. The silence of the corridor swallowed the echoes of the brief flict as if there was o begin with.

  Daichi sehe sed e entering the base and soon a new message came from the e.

  'I think I sensed Zetsu just wheered the base.'

  'Are you sure? Was it bck Zetsu?' Came the query from their inal.

  'No. I'm pretty sure it was a white Zetsu.' The sed e replied.

  'We're not ging our strategies are we? This art of the pn after all. If someone else were watg we'd want them to know about 'Dragon' to keep their attention for a while. Take their focus away from 'us'.'

  The first e chimed in and the inal Daichi agreed. 'Yes. I was expeg this. Right now the vilge is in a state of high alert. I had a feeling Obito would have Zetsu spy on the movements of the vilge. If he sees the Hokage gathering his people to attack the Root, he'll inform Obito. He'll definitely e to the vilge to muddy the waters.'

  'Yes. He'll e. If he hasn't already. We should be o.' The sed e spoke even though he knew his doppelgangers were all vigint.

  'I'll find Danzo. You head to the archives and ste.' The first shadow e gave the order and the sed e agreed. The two infiltrators moved in different dires.

  The intelligehey gained from the two reanimated ninjas were not pletely outdated. Thanks to them Daichi knew precisely where most things were in the headquarters. Including the archives where information was stored and protected, Danzo's main quarters and the rooms where hidden jutsu were stored.

  Both es used their Mini-Map and Mana skills to determihe location of all living creatures present in the base. He didn't use chakra sense skill since he khere were sensor ninjas.

  'I found Danzo. I'm heading straight for him. I don't sehe Hokage or Obito. They're not here yet but they will be soon.' The first shadow e sent a message and vanished. He made a beeline for the leader of the Root while avoiding all patrolling ninjas.

  'Based on the number of guards I'm sensihe lower west er I'd say Danzo hasn't ged the location of the archives. I'm heading there now.' The Sed Shadow e gave an update and disappeared into the wind.

  —-

  Root Archives.

  The archives of ROOT were a veritable fortress within the already secretive byrinth of the anization's headquarters. As Daichi, still uhe guise of Monkey D. Dragon moved deeper into the bowels of the stronghold, he khe challenge would oe. His footsteps were silent, his presence merely a fleeting shadow against the cold stone walls.

  The corridors became narrower, the air thicker with the heavy st of ink and part—an olfactory indication to the decades of hidden knowledge stored within.

  'There it is. The Root Archives. A treasure trove of cssified information, heavily guarded and shrouded in the kind of secrecy that could topple regimes or start wars.'

  Dragon's face showed greed as he gazed ahead. As he approached the archive room, the faint light from the oil mps cast long shadows on the walls.

  'How many covert operations and silent eliminations had been orchestrated from this very pce? How many lives were saved? How many more were wiped out?... e on Daichi. This is no time to be seal.'

  The disguised genin shook his head to clear away the distrag thoughts and focused.

  The hallway was guarded by multiple ROOT ninjas, their setuo even the mi disturbahey were far more alert than the ones Daichi had entered earlier. They stood in a precise formation, a result of their rigorous training and unyielding discipline. Uhe guards at the entrahese were elite, their postures taut with the readiness of seasoned warriors.

  Daichi assessed them with a tactical eye. His advantage of surprise was vital, and maintaining the illusion of his transformation was crucial to mask his true identity and abilities.

  'There are muards this time. I o adjust my strategy. I'll approach them with a bit more brute force added to my precision and speed. I o incapacitate them without raising an arm, and buy us as much time as possible.'

  Having made his decision Daichi moved, like a gust of wind that seemed to materialize from the shadows themselves. The first ROOT ninja turned just as Daichi reached him, only to meet the edge of Daichi's hand against his neck, a blow swift and precise, dropping him silently to the ground before his rades could fully prepare.

  "Intruder." Reag to the fall of their rade, the uards drew their ons—a mix of kunai and shuriken glittering in the dim light.

  The moment, chaos erupted. Kunai and shuriken sliced through the air, aimed at the intruder with lethal precision.

  Daichi twisted and dodged, his movements a blur, defleg projectiles and closing distances with inhuman speed.

  He struck with calcuted power, each move precise ahal. His hands were not just tools of bat but instruments of fate, deg life ah in mere moments.

  One ninja mao close in with his twin bdes fshing in the dim light. Daichi caught the wrists of his assaint and twisted cruelly. There were snaps of bones, a gasp of pain, and then as the ninja was disarmed, a punch ced with raw power struck his throat, stifling any cry and snapping his head back with lethal finality. The man easily dispatched with a quiet thud to the ground.

  Another lunged from behind, expertly silent, the deadliest so far. But Daichi, fueled by his keen awareness, pivoted and caught the attack, redirected the energy ahe ninja sprawling against the stone wall with a force that left a spider web of cracks ione. "Ghaa"

  He coughed blood and before he could defend himself multiple ons lodged into his vitals ending his life.

  Two ninjas appeared at the front and bad began making hand seals for a jutsu. Daichi reized the seals made by the one in front and dismissed him.

  [Mental intrusioed]

  [Gamer's Mind has ralized the attack.]

  'Genjutsu won't wainst me.'

  Daichi swiftly focused on the enemy behind him. His speed tripled and to the Root, it was as if their enemy vanished in a gust of wind before their eyes.

  Before the ninja standing behind Daichi could locate him, a powerful punch struck his chest crushing his insides. Just atop his heart. Without even waiting for the eo fall to the ground Daichi moved on to his argets.

  "Who are you? Do you know who you're attag?" One of the few remaining ninjas yelled. But Dragon didn't respond to them. He merely vanished from their view.

  "What? Where is he?" Roared one of the older shinobi. Suddenly he felt pain spreading through his torso and looked down only to see a sword stig out of his body.

  Daichi didn't waste time and quickly moved on.

  Despite how vigint the remaining four root ninjas became, they couldn't find a trace of their enemy. Soured down their faces as they seheir approag deaths. 'Who is he? I don't reize him. He doesn't have ahat points to any other shinobi nations.'

  The whistle of bde and flesh being pierced were the only things the three ninjas heard. They looked to where the sound came from and saw the head of their fellow shinobi falling to the ground and rolling several feet.

  "Sound the arm!" One of the shinobi roared and another was about to use body flicker jutsu and escape but multiple small bullet like projectiles pierced through his body.

  "That's wind style air bullets… But I've never seen one used with such speed and accuracy." One of the root excimed.

  "Could he be from the Hidden Sand vilge?" The other questioned as he looked at the injured root.

  The sed, smoke covered the injured ninja auro several pieces of destroyed stone.

  "He escaped." The two remaining Root ninjas excimed.

  The two immediately stood back to back with swords in front of them. They khe escaped root colleague would bring them back up.

  The two ninjas couldn't see or sehe enemy but figured that he was hem and was looking to finish them off and gairao the archives.

  But their hopes were immediately crushed as they miscalcuted. They heard the sounds of flesh being pierced in the distand a small thud.

  The two remaining ninjas gripped their ons tightly.

  Thud

  Thud

  Thud

  Soft footsteps were heard through the darkness ing towards them. And soon a man in a dark green cloak became visible. The ninjas could barely make out the Dragon shaped mask on the man's face.

  Suddenly killing i flooded the hallaralyzed the two Root ninjas. Despite Danzo's training to turn them iionless killers they still felt unfathomable fear.

  "W-who-"

  Two sword strikes nded precisely on their vitals before they could even plete the question. The bodies of the two guards slumped to the ground, lifeless, their eyes still wide with the shock of an unseen, unfathomable oppo.

  Daichi paused for a moment, his breathing steady, his mind clear. Just like before there was no pleasure in his as.

  To Daichi this was just a y, only the cold calcution of a mission that required silend swiftness. Even the reason he showed his mask to the st tart of his pns.

  'The Hokage will definitely iigate my attack. I'm sure Inoichi or some other Yamanaka will gh their minds to find out any clues. This way they'll have someoo go after.'

  With a final g the ROOT ninjas, ensuring none were left to sound the arm, Daichi stepped over the fallen guards and reached for the door of the archives. His firaced the intricate seals that guarded it.

  'An advahird level prote barrier seal attached with a trap seal. Not bad. Observe.'

  The information gathering skill showed the details of the seal and how to open the vault door.

  Daichi swiftly made the required seals and ied his chakra. A pulse of energy, f masterfully trolled in a utern, and the seals parted for him, an unwilling invitation into the heart of Root's secrets.

  The door to the archives opeheir shelves were heavy with scrolls and dots. Daichi stepped inside and the door shut behind him, enveloping him in the musty air of hidden truths waiting to be uncovered.

  'I have very little time. The absence of those guards would soon be discovered, by Danzo or the Anbu that's ing. I o find what I came for quickly and escape.'

  Daichi's eyes sed the bels, each meticulously anized and coded. He moved with purpose, his firag the spines of the scrolls and files. He soon came across what he wanted. Daichi immediately checked for hidden traps and dismahe ohat were found.

  After that he quickly began st the dots in his iory.

  Bang.

  The room slightly shook and dust along with small gravel fell from the ceiling. Daichi immediately sensed multiple new chakras entering the headquarters from all dires.

  'Looks like the Hokage has ehe party. There is still no word from the other e… I'm sure he'll get it done. I just o foy end.'

  With that thought the shadow e refocused his attention on the vast intel before him.

  Time: 3:34 am

  Author's Note.

  Some of you might wonder how Daichi got to the location so fast and killed the guards.

  He was under mana cloak skill. Making him invisible to everyone.

  Speed is his greatest asset with multiple skills supp it. He attacked from the shadows with the goal to finish his enemies quickly.

  He khe location from the two reanimated ninjas.

  And yes. I pnned all of this from the moment I started pnning the Yota rescue mission in chapter 40. Even the Orochimaru attack that time.

  Every mission till now is ected ter plot. They pyed small parts but they are all ected.

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