The next day.
Kanpū got up early and rushed to the third changing room of the bathhouse. About half an hour later, Kakashi, Tenzo, Itachi and the others arrived one after another.
Itachi, as usual, appeared without expression, changed into his Anbu's attire, put on a mask, and didn't say a word during the whole process.
After entering Anbu, he has always wanted to investigate the truth of Shisui's defection. Unfortunately, no matter how hard he tries, it was useless, as if there was an invisible wall of air that firmly excluded him from the truth, preventing him from moving even an inch forward!
As for the clan, the incomprehension, complaints, and insults of the clansmen have never stopped. Fortunately, Sasuke is there, so his heart can still recover.
Kanpū glanced at Itachi secretly, thinking of getting close to him, but thinking about what he did to him before, it's better to stay away, right?
"Everyone is here."
Kakashi looked around, and said lazily, "New mission, in the next period of time, everyone will enter Advisor Danzo's Root to do things. On the surface, everyone needs to listen to Danzo's orders, but our real goal is the confidential information in the Root, as well as the addresses of secret laboratories, research bases, and stations that Root has established in the village. Do you understand?"
"Yes!"
Everyone simultaneously responded.
"Let's go then." Kakashi's figure flickered and he took the lead towards the Root's Headquarters.
Tenzo consciously followed Kanpū and asked softly: "Brother Gekko, does Hokage-sama want to disband the Root?"
Kanpū pondered upon hearing this, 'Tenzo has been in the Root before for a period of time, so there may be feelings,' then, he said tactfully: "Advisor Danzo's acting style is too extreme, which makes Root act unscrupulously. If it is a war, the existence of the Root will play a positive role, but in peacetime…"
Kanpū didn't said more, but he believes that Tenzo can understand.
"Actually, I felt it when I was in Anbu."
Tenzo whispered, "The Root's selection is very strict, even cruel. Many young children died during the training… If it wasn't for Wood Release Kekkei Genkai, I'm afraid I would have died in the selection training long ago."
Kanpū patted him on the shoulder, and changed the subject: "Tenzo, you have stayed in the Root for a while, right? Do you know the addresses of those secret laboratories and so on?"
Tenzo nodded: "When I was in the Root, my code name was Kinoe, and I often followed Advisor Danzo, so I knew something."
Kanpū was startled. He just asked casually, but didn't expect he would get something.
But then, he felt that things would not go so smoothly.
'From Tenzo leaving the Root, and then joined Anbu, it took several years in the middle. With Danzo's cunningness, how can he not move the Gozu Tenno to those secret laboratories that Tenzo didn't know?'
'But just in case, we still have to check it out.'
Kanpū immediately created seven or eight shadow clones and asked them to look around according to the address provided by Tenzo.
When Kanpū's group rushed to the remote Root's Headquarters, Kanpū's shadow clones also disappeared one after another. The result was naturally as Kanpū expected, nothing was found.
'Sure enough, it is impossible for that old fox Danzo to show such a naive weak spot.'
"How is it?" Kakashi moved to Kanpū's side. He just saw Kanpū and Tenzo is secretly chatting, and then Kanpū creates shadow clones, so he could naturally guess one or two things.
Kanpū shrugged, shook his head and said: "I didn't find anything."
Kakashi then said: "Minato-sensei said that Danzo might have been prepared for this a long time ago. I am afraid that this mission will not be so easy."
Kanpū glanced at Itachi, who is standing alone not far away, and whispered: "Why not ask Itachi to use Genjutsu to ask?"
As for who to ask, nonsense, of course it was the Root's members.
Kakashi shook his head and said: "Root's members have Curse Marks on their body. Even if we used Genjutsu to confuse them, there is no way for them to tell the information bound by the Curse Mark."
With Danzo's old tricks, such thing as the secret laboratories will definitely be included in the Curse Mark's bounds.
The two then continued to chat, and Danzo walked out of the three-story building with two rows of Root's members.
Although Koharu and Homura's resignation made Danzo extremely passive, but thinking that as long as the Gozu Tenno succeeds, he will be able to grasp the power of Konoha, Danzo immediately felt that a temporary loss was nothing. After a night of rest, Danzo at this time has returned to his former calmness!
"Danzo-sama." Kakashi took two steps forward and bowed.
Kanpū and the others followed suit and saluted Danzo one after another.
Danzo nodded expressionlessly, and said: "Kakashi, you and Tenzo will be responsible for protecting me, and the rest are responsible for guarding the Root's Headquarters. Come in with me."
Danzo didn't ask for who agrees and who opposes, and just turned back to Root's Headquarters after saying this.
Kakashi and the others look at each other, and had no choice but to slowly follow.
After entering the small three-story building, Danzo pointed to XX, XX and XX in Anbu and said: "The three of you are responsible for guarding the first, second, and third floors respectively."
When they arrived to the entrance of the underground headquarters, Danzo ordered another Anbu's Shinobi, and when he arrived at Root's Headquarters, Danzo assigned the remaining Anbu one after another.
It is unknown if Danzo made the arrangement deliberately or accidentally. In short, Kanpū is unfortunately assigned to Itachi, and the two are responsible for guarding the same area.
Compared to Itachi, Kanpū obviously prefers Tenzo. After all, Tenzo is a 'pure' young man, who has Wood Release Kekkei Genkai!
It's a pity that Danzo took this 'pure' young man as his own as soon as they arrived, and didn't give others a chance to get involved.
"Danzo-sama, besides guarding anything, is there nothing else for the Root?" Kakashi asked in a low voice.
This mission has two goals, one is Root's confidential information, and the other is the secret laboratories established by Root.
Danzo asked Kanpū and the others stationed here, showing that he is confident that he will not let Kanpū and the others find any confidential information, and in this way, Kanpū and the others also cannot leave the Root's Headquarters and go outside to find the secret laboratory.
Danzo smiled, his smile was a little bit bitter, a little bit happy, a little sad, complicated, and joyful. Then, he slowly said: "Root was originally an Anbu training organization, but it has not responsible for the training of Anbu's Shinobi for many years. During the war, Root was responsible for spying on enemy information, planting undercover agent everywhere, and assassination and sabotage activities, but now that the Shinobi World is peaceful, and Yondaime has cut Root's funding and manpower, it is difficult for Root to maintain its former condition with such situation. So Kakashi, what do you think the Root can do now?"
Kakashi rolled his eye under the mask. He didn't believe Danzo's nonsense at all, but on the surface, he showed a correct attitude, and said respectfully: "So that's how it is, sorry for my question."
After that, Danzo walked out of the Root's Headquarters and wandered around.
Kakashi and Tenzo had no choice but to hide in the dark and protect him silently.
As for Kanpū, Itachi and the others, they stood in the Root's Headquarters and are responsible for patrolling and guarding here.
Itachi is still angry with Kanpū, so he didn't talk to him from the beginning to the end, not even making eye contact.
Kanpū secretly thought to himself: 'Do you think I care about you?'
So he ignored Itachi, and just patrolled the intricate underground headquarters, while observing the movement in each room.
When Kanpū dispatched his Byakugan shadow clone to infiltrate Root's Headquarters last time, he used Byakugan to observe the terrain here. It was very large and there were many messy rooms, but most of them were deserted. It is estimated that due to shortage of funds and manpower in the past few years, Danzo's Root has no younger generation that is ready to take over the older generation.
Kanpū gently opened the door of a room, then turned on the light. There were seventeen-eighteen cardboard boxes piled up in the empty room, and there were cobwebs in the corners, which showed that this room looked like it had not been used for many years.
But Kanpū clearly remembered that when he 'visited' last time, there were obviously four Root's Shinobi gathered here. Although he didn't know what they are doing, the room would definitely not look like what he saw at this time!
Kanpū went up and looked through the cardboard boxes, but found nothing.
His heart sinks slightly.
Danzo first arranged them to patrol and guard here, and then leave here carefreely, making it clear that it was to let Kanpū and the others feel at ease to investigate boldly.
'Danzo is really prepared!'
Kanpū knows that there will be no results even if he continued to investigate, but he kept looking around like an obsessive-compulsive disorder. During the period, Kanpū also encountered Root's Shinobi, and the somewhat embarrassed Kanpū waved to him to ease the atmosphere, but unfortunately, the other party ignored Kanpū and patrolled according to the established route.
Kanpū took a deep breath, 'To be an undercover agent, you really have to be thick-skinned.'
Kanpū thought about himself, then continued to search. Later, he met another Root's Shinobi, but Kanpū turned a blind eye to them and rummage in front of them.
At noon, Root served meal, but it is unknown if it was deliberately or they are really poor, in short, the meal is very poor. Although they could keep them full, they had no color or smell at all, and they were not better than food pills.
During the meal, the members of the sixth team communicated with each other in low voices, and finally found that no one had gained anything.
Kanpū suddenly thought of the data room that was burned by his Byakugan shadow clone last time, 'Is it possible that Root's confidential information was burned by me back then?'
'This is really exciting!'
Kanpū imagined Danzo's livid face at that time, and his appetite immediately whetted, and he couldn't help but took out his own food pills and eat them with the Root's food.
At the same time.
Hokage Tower.
Hiruzen and Anbu Commander, Eagle are having a private conversation.
An invisible seal covers the office to ensure that the conversation inside will not leak.
"Did you find a clue about the theft of the taboo data room?" Minato solemnly asked.
Eagle shook his head and said: "According to Anbu's investigation, Danzo often sends people to secretly provoke Uchiha Clan's Shinobi to make trouble, but there is no evidence that he used the Uchiha Clan's Shinobi to infiltrate the Hokage Tower."
"Have you screened out the Uchiha Clan's Shinobi?" Minato asked again.
"The screening has been completed."
Eagle handed over a document and said, "There are 43 Shinobi who have awakened 3-Tomoe Sharingan in the Uchiha Clan. When the data room was stolen, fourteen were in the Military Police Force's building, 23 people are sleeping at home, and the whereabouts of the remaining six people cannot be confirmed."
Minato looked at it for a long time, and naturally, there would be no flash of 'there is always only one truth'.
Putting down the document in his hand, Minato said again: "Eagle, I want you to investigate the Hyuga Clan."
"Huh? What?" Eagle was shocked.
"Some time ago, Hyuga Clan's Shinobi infiltrated the Root's Headquarters." Minato said with a frown.
"Hyuga Clan's Shinobi infiltrated Root's Headquarters…"
Eagle's body trembled, "Hyuga Clan invaded Root's Headquarters, and Uchiha Clan invaded Hokage Tower. Are these two things related?"
Minato's face is grim: "I hope I'm just thinking too much."
These two big families are the real noble clans of Konoha, and their presences can be said to be the biggest in Konoha!
Minato currently has two speculations. One, the two noble clans teamed up to prepare the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.
Among them, the mantis is Minato, and the cicada is Danzo!
Fugaku may take the opportunity to dispel the vigilance of Minato and Danzo under the guise of cooperation, and then team up with Hyuga Clan to turn things around!
As for his second conjecture…
'Hyuga, Uchiha…'
'Byakugan, Sharingan…'
'Kekkei Genkai…'
'Abyss!'