Chapter 232: Reporting!
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Chapter 232: Reporting!
"Where do you want to start?" Naruto sat down in front of her desk, filled a glass with wine, and passed it to Tsunade.
"How polite," Tsunade noted.
"I can be when I want to," Naruto said as he poured another glass for himself.
"That means that most of the time, you choose to be impolite," Tsunade pointed out.
"Mmm… this wine is delicious," Naruto savored the flavor. This may not have been his alcohol of preference, but he had the chance to taste some of the best ones out there. This would be at the top.
"I took a few bottles from Elder Danzo… but I still don't know who the supplier is." That was something Tsunade had been trying to find out as well.
Naruto looked displeased at the revelation. "That's too bad… I won't be able to drink this again."
"How so? I'm sure I can stea—get a few bottles once in a while," Tsunade told him.
Naruto shook his head. "I doubt that… I just killed him."
Tsunade spat the wine all over the table.
"Don't waste it!" Naruto exclaimed.
"You did what?!" Tsunade smashed the glass in her hand.
"I had a good reason," Naruto assured her. It's not like he was going around murdering people. That was not his style.
"Wait… was Danzo behind Ino's disappearance?" Tsunade asked.
"That was mainly the reason. He was also trying to use some sort of mind-controlling jutsu on her. She got lucky on that one."
"Mind control? Why would Danzo do that? The Yamanaka family isn't that influential."
Naruto shrugged.
"You didn't ask him about his motives for kidnapping her before killing him?" Tsunade looked shocked.
"To be honest, I didn't care for whatever ploy he had. I assumed he was using her to lure me in. His plan afterward is kinda irrelevant now," Naruto told her.
"I would've liked to know why one of the most important persons in the village decided to act in such a way. You don't know Danzo as well as I did… the man has always been extremely resourceful and acted on his own agenda." Tsunade glanced at Naruto. "Are you sure you killed him? He's a very tricky one. The type who has a dozen different plans ready at all times… he sometimes reminded me of Orochimaru." She grabbed a new glass and poured herself some more wine.
"Orochimaru is also dead, by the way."
The glass in her hands shattered into a million pieces, spreading the wine all over the desk.
Naruto took the bottle away. "You're wasting it too much… I'm going to drink the rest myself." He took the bottle away from her... she could've used some cheap wine for the purpose of showcasing her shock.
"Orochimaru is dead?!" Tsunade shouted.
"This conversation is all over the place. Maybe we should focus on one thing at a time," Naruto recommended.
"You started it!" She slammed her hands on the table.
There was a knock on the door before someone poked their head inside. "Is everything alright, Lady Tsunade? We keep hearing shouts and things breaking."
The one who spoke was a dark-robed man with a white mask resembling a monkey.
Tsunade raised her hand. "Everything is fine… I just received some shocking news, that's all."
"I see, then…"
"Hold on," Naruto called for him. "Can you bring another bottle of this? The Hokage threw away like half of it."
The ANBU agent glanced toward Naruto. "I'm not a secretary."
"Then call the secretary," Naruto huffed.
"Forget the wine. Bring us a bottle of my strongest sake," Tsunade demanded.
"Uh… okay…" The poor ANBU couldn't refuse a request from the Hokage.
"Now, where were we?" Naruto asked as he finished drinking his glass.
Tsunade sighed. "Let us finish with the report about Ino's kidnapping…"
"Right. You weren't sure if he was dead." Naruto revealed a couple of storage scrolls and opened them up.
"What is this?..." Tsunade stared at the two objects on her table.
One was a bloody Sharingan, poorly ripped out of someone's skull, and the other was a pale-looking arm with more eyes embedded in it. Some of them were closed, while others were open.
"They belonged to Elder Shimura. They were taken before turning his body into a meat paste. So this is all that's left of him...I suppose."
Tsunade was too focused on examining these objects to berate Naruto about his poor choice of words.
"Sharingan, and… this arm." She felt something very familiar in it. "It's impossible to tell for sure without further analysis, but I believe this arm has been implanted with cells from my ancestors… the Senju. And if that's the case, they must have come from my grandfather, Hashirama Senju."
"Is that how he was able to use the 'Wood Release' element? I thought it was strange he had a different chakra in his arm."
"He did?..." Tsunade frowned. "Orochimaru had done a lot of research with my grandfather's cells… this isn't the first successful case I've heard of where one is able to gain access to that element in such a way."
"Yamato," Naruto mentioned.
"So you've seen him use it too…" Tsunade nodded. "But these…" She examined the Sharingan eyes on his arm. "I don't know what the purpose of these was… but I have an idea of where he got so many eyes."
Tsunade's expression showed how furious she was. "I can't believe Danzo had been performing all these disgusting experiments under our noses…"
"His underground base had several laboratories in it. It is quite massive too," Naruto recalled the layout of it as his clones were able to map it out completely.
"He had an underground base? Is that where he took Ino? No wonder we were unable to find her… he must have created a new ROOT hideout after my Sensei forbade him to…"
"So the previous Hokage already knew about his secret army and did nothing about it?" Naruto felt very disappointed with the old man.
"He disbanded the ROOT organization and forbade Danzo from creating another one."
"He did…" Naruto pointed out.
"We must find all of his agents and arrest them before they can cause more harm," Tsunade said.
"I wouldn't worry about that…" Naruto muttered.
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