Chapter 254: Tongue Disaster Root Severing Seal
Assassinating Shimura Kabi was originally meant to strike at Danzo, but unexpectedly it ended up helping Sakumo Hatake instead, which was a pleasant surprise.
It seems that as long as we work hard on Danzo, there will always be rewards.
Fox Squad is about to head to the Land of Hot Water border.
Purple Cat followed Fox Captain into Lord Kiiroinu’s office.
Kiiroinu and Fox chatted about what to pay attention to when going to the Land of Hot Water.
The last topic was a request from Fox.
“Minister, when I was a guiding jonin in Root, I discovered a new recruit, Yamanaka Ruri, with good talent. I hope she can join my squad.”
“Oh?” Kiiroinu said: “Yamanaka Ruri, why does this name sound so familiar?”
He looked at Purple Cat behind Fox and remembered that Purple Cat’s real name was Yamanaka Riko.
Fox was afraid that Purple Cat’s sister would be assigned to Danzo’s Root.
Becoming a Root ninja was indeed terrifying.
Kiiroinu said: “Good. Come with me, we’ll go to Root to get her now.”
“Thank you, Minister!”
Yoru and Purple Cat followed Kiiroinu to Root.
The Root Base was also in Death Forest, 1 kilometer away from the Anbu Base.
After entering Root, Kiiroinu came to the training ground and saw the new recruits and children training.
He signaled B to come over.
B hurried to Kiiroinu’s side.
Kiiroinu said: “Anbu is preparing to add 5 members. Take the stronger new recruits directly into Anbu. B, bring the list and training records.”
B had Gui bring the scroll.
The scroll recorded the new recruit list and their performance during training.
B said on the side: “Lord Kiiroinu, these new recruits haven’t even trained for three months yet. Letting them into Anbu like this, isn’t it a bit irresponsible?”
Kiiroinu said: “Lynx Squad is heading to the Land of Grass, Fox Squad to the Land of Hot Water.
Both squads will soon suffer casualties, so arrange replacements in advance.
The new recruits are all chunin or special jonin themselves; let the various captains train them during missions.”
Soon, Kiiroinu selected 5 people.
Yoru thought to himself, if Kiiroinu had specifically picked one person, B might have noticed something unusual and refused Kiiroinu’s request, but now selecting 5 people, including Yamanaka Ruri, made everything much more reasonable.
B said: “Lord Kiiroinu, please wait a moment. I’ll take these five to see Lord Danzo right away and get Lord Danzo’s approval.”
Purple Cat saw everything going so smoothly and felt extremely excited inside.
The five followed B away from the training ground.
Yoru looked at the 20 children.
They were training extremely diligently; they should have been enjoying the carefree days before school, but now they were practicing taijutsu in a proper manner.
Visibly, a few kids had very good talent.
They waited for a long time; the wait was a bit long.
Purple Cat uneasily looked at Fox; Yoru also felt that the five had been gone too long.
After a long while, the five returned to the training ground with B.
B said: “Lord Kiiroinu, you can take these five now.”
Kiiroinu nodded and left with the people.
After entering Anbu, Kiiroinu said to Butterfly: “Butterfly, have a few squad leaders come pick people.”
Yoru selected Yamanaka Ruri and left first.
Purple Cat excitedly took Yamanaka Ruri into her office.
As squad leader assistant, Purple Cat had an independent scroll room to store the squad’s various scrolls, which also served as her office.
Removing Yamanaka Ruri’s Root training mask, Purple Cat excitedly said: “Don’t be afraid, Ruri, it’s me.”
Purple Cat saw a pale and terrified face.
Clearly, it had been less than a month since they last met, but Ruri’s expression had changed dramatically; the little girl’s liveliness and playfulness had all disappeared.
In their place was panic and fear after trauma.
“Ruri, what’s wrong with you!”
Ruri said: “Nothing, we can’t address each other as sisters in Anbu. Purple Cat, what is my code name?”
Purple Cat felt sad inside: “Come on, I’ll take you to find Fox Captain; he will decide your code name and assign you a mask.”
The two entered Fox’s office.
Purple Cat said: “Captain, the new recruit doesn’t have a code name or mask yet.”
Yoru pondered; when he went to Root to take the new recruit, the wait was very long; the new recruit was taken by B to see Danzo.
Could it be…
“I understand. I’ll chat with the new recruit alone first, see what she’s good at, then decide which squad she goes to. Purple Cat, you go ahead and get busy.”
After Purple Cat left, Yoru casually asked some information about Yamanaka Ruri to make her relax her guard.
Yamanaka Ruri said she was good at Yamanaka Clan secret jutsu and had also learned some medical ninjutsu.
Under the table, Yoru had already formed hand seals.
Demonic Illusion: Nirvana Temple Jutsu!
With Yoru’s current strength, elite chunin level Yamanaka Ruri could not resist Yoru’s genjutsu.
Feathers drifted down one by one, and Yamanaka Ruri instantly fell asleep.
Yoru quickly stepped forward, supported Yamanaka Ruri, and lifted her onto the table.
He removed Yamanaka Ruri’s mask and saw a delicate but pale face.
Very similar to Yamanaka Riko, but younger, with more collagen.
Yoru pinched Yamanaka Ruri’s face, making her stick out her tongue.
Seeing nothing on the tongue, Yoru didn’t believe it.
He formed hand seals with both hands and casually used an unsealing jutsu.
“Five Elements Unsealing!”
The unsealing jutsu corresponding to the Five Elements Seal, used to release chakra restrictions.
Only Yoru’s special chakra, with the powerful sealing attribute from the Uzumaki bloodline, could trigger the Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal.
Yamanaka Ruri uncomfortably turned her head but didn’t wake up.
On her tongue, the curse mark of the Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal appeared!
The Dun Hexagram from the Sixty-Four Hexagrams, two yin lines and four yang lines.
Yoru’s expression darkened.
He was prepared to let Danzo off temporarily, give Danzo a breather, but Danzo didn’t give him that chance.
He had actually engraved the Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal on Yamanaka Ruri.
Unless something unexpected happened, Danzo wanted Yamanaka Ruri to collect intelligence for him.
Danzo’s greatest reliance was his information system.
Konoha’s secret intelligence was all in Danzo’s hands.
Root had suffered heavy losses, and Danzo’s information system was having problems operating.
Unknown whether Danzo was collecting Anbu intelligence or targeting him specifically.
Yamanaka Ruri woke up and found herself leaning against the wall standing.
“You’re awake.” Yoru said: “Looks like Root’s training volume was huge, making you this weak.
Rest at Purple Cat’s place for these two days; once you’re rested, I’ll assign you to a squad.”
After Purple Cat left, Yoru came to the corridor.
Sensing slightly, Golden Eagle Squad was not at the Root Base.
He infiltrated Golden Eagle Squad’s locker room.
The new recruit was wiping their own ninja sword.
Feathers suddenly drifted down one by one, and this new recruit quickly became drowsy.
Removing the mask, Yoru used Five Elements Unsealing to stimulate the curse mark and saw the Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal on this person’s tongue as well.
In the middle of the night, Yoru left his office and scouted that there were three people in Black Ant Squad’s locker room.
Infiltrating Black Ant Squad’s locker room, three new recruits wearing white faceless masks were leaning against the wall corner.
Still starting with Demonic Illusion: Nirvana Temple Jutsu.
Without jonin strength, they couldn’t resist Yoru’s genjutsu.
Yoru checked the three one by one and found all three had the Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal.
In other words, when Kiiroinu went to get people, they waited so long because Danzo had placed the Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal on all 5 new recruits.
The bad news was that Danzo had planted spies right by his side.
The good news was that Danzo wasn’t targeting him specifically; he was targeting everyone in Anbu.
Especially Black Ant Squad, which was the Third Hokage’s most trusted squad, guarding the Hokage Building, delivering orders, analyzing intelligence—all done by Black Ant Squad.
3 new recruits supplemented into 3 squads—what secrets could Black Ant Squad still have?
Yoru didn’t go report these problematic new recruits to Kiiroinu.
He could have Uzumaki Yuki help research ways to break the seal; Kiiroinu didn’t have that convenience.
Let them fight; it would be best if Danzo and the Third clashed, giving him the opportunity to fish in troubled waters.
Yoru prepared to go to the Land of Hot Water, first assist Sakumo Hatake in building reputation, and conveniently avoid the phase where Danzo’s mad dog bites everyone randomly.
