The shinobi attacking me had their transformation jutsu active, so it was very obvious who they were, so I decided to take off my glasses and use my Sharingan in combat.
"Be careful, he has the Sharingan," shouted one of the ninjas.
I threw some special tomahawks, which buried themselves in several trees around me as I dodged some attacks.
Hey, if you attack in turns, it's like I'm playing Final Fantasy.
I'm not complaining that you're making things easier for me, but this is laughable.
When a root shinobi comes after me, I dodge him by a small margin and bury one of my poisoned needles in him.
-UUUGH
He injected himself with something, so it seems they've already developed an antidote. Apparently, they've been watching me closely.
I throw a tomahawk at one of their faces, but he dodges it.
While they're distracted by that, I destroy a pink smoke bomb mixed with hallucinogenic gas.
-Avoid inhaling that pink smoke, it's like being put under a genjutsu.
They start putting masks over their faces.
But while they're distracted by that, I grab a large handful of poisonous flowers and other substances to eat.
-What are you doing?
-Are you poisoning yourself to prevent us from capturing you?
It's a good thing these guys don't know about my secret training, but first I have to make preparations.
I use my monstrous strength and start throwing giant rocks at them.
All this while they throw elemental ninjutsu at me, but they seem to have the aim of a Star Wars stormtrooper.
"How stupid, throwing rocks like a simple ape," muttered one of the disguised root ninjas.
As soon as I run out of rocks, I lunge at them, striking from top to bottom.
The root ninjas dodge the blows, so when my blow lands, it leaves a large crater beneath it.
There was one who was careless and passed close to my marked tomahawks, so I teleported to his side and blew his head off with a punch.
Fortunately, that root ninja's head hit one of his companions, causing him to lose his balance.
I seize the moment and use body flicker to appear next to him, pierce his chest, take his heart, and simply throw it into a sealing scroll while it is still beating.
I've already killed at least two root ninjas, leaving eight.
I continue using the same technique of hitting the ground every time they dodge my punch.
But one of them notices what I'm doing.
"Scatter, this guy is luring us into a trap."
Tch, he figured it out.
But it's too late, they've been led right where I wanted them.
One of them threw several shuriken at me, but thanks to my monstrous strength technique, the shuriken didn't pierce me at all, but bounced off and fell to the ground.
The one who threw the shuriken at me had a look of disbelief on his face, so I took advantage of that moment of distraction to teleport next to him and blow his head off.
But in the end, the rest of the Raiz ninjas fell into my trap, as one who tried to retreat was caught in several sticky threads around him.
"Huh? What's going on? Why can't I move?!"
Others, seeing the scene, wanted to help him, but they fell into other almost invisible nets around them.
They used fire jutsu, but instead of breaking, the nets remained intact while the fire traveled toward the first trapped comrade, who was then caught in the flames, ending his life.
They also tried to use other jutsu to cut them, but it was like trying to cut steel, so it didn't have much effect.
The captain, seeing what had happened, did not understand what was trapping them, but when he sharpened his vision, he noticed a network of threads around the entire area.
"When did this happen?"
But as they tried to analyze the situation, the threads began to entangle themselves around them as if a spider were entangling them in cocoons.
As the captain watched the scene in disbelief, I appeared beside him with the Flying Thunder God Technique.
He tried to escape, but I managed to grab his arm and then rip it off while placing my feet on his body to pull the arm from his body, like a scene from King Kong breaking a dinosaur's jaw.
"Ngh."
I only hear a slight groan from him.
They were trained to tolerate extreme pain, I'll give Danzo that.
But something that seems stupid to me is underestimating the enemy by not sending the best, as well as thinking that using them as tools is the best way to use these ninjas.
While it's true that some see emotions or bonds of camaraderie as an obstacle, if you go too far in sacrificing them, thinking that saving them would be an obstacle, you'll end up with no pieces left.
It's like thinking that pawns are disposable, when by protecting them, you ensure that if they are taken out, that major piece will also fall.
I prefer to use them as bait rather than disposable pieces.
The root ninja whose arm I just ripped off falls into another sticky web, which begins to entangle itself around him like a cocoon.
The captain was still incredulous at what was happening, but when he saw what had happened up close, he realized that several spiders were doing the work of entangling them.
"Are these spiders' webs so strong?" Not really.
I appear beside him as I explain things to him.
He's going to die anyway, so why not let him know what's happening before he dies?
The spiders doing the work were small and black with a red hourglass pattern on their abdomens, but to prevent them from being seen, I enhanced them with chakra so they could use camouflage techniques, so the only way to notice them is when they are at your mercy.
"You see, I analyzed the properties of their threads and thought about creating something similar, so by injecting them with chakra and enhancing their genes, I managed to make their threads much stronger, so that they can easily capture bears or even more than that."
The root ninja is no longer paying attention to me, but since I'm imitating a stupid villain who reveals his plans, I'll continue explaining.
"Not only that, but since they follow my orders, I had them place their threads while I attacked them to distract them, so they wouldn't pay attention, and in the end, I led them directly to these threads and captured them."
I notice that he's not paying attention to me, so now I take a kunai and cut out the tongues of all the root ninjas that contain the curse seal and store them inside my scroll.
They are living ninjas and at least chunin or special jounin level, so I won't kill them, but to be sure
Dokuton: jutsu fog of sleep.
I made hand seals and expelled a sleep-inducing mist from my mouth.
The only downside is that now I have to put poison in every meal to recharge, so it's not a kekkei genkai or kekkei dota, but it's a technique that mixes the water nature with the poison inside my body.
In short, I'm a garden sprinkler but with poison, toxins, or anything else just as dangerous.
Anyway, I take the root ninjas with me while I have two bears carry them like sacks of potatoes and take them back.
In Konoha, the root base.
"Damn it, why haven't they come back!?"
Danzo was furious in his office inside the root base, where he banged his desk in anger.
His agents should have arrived days ago to "injure" Kenji, but none of them have returned.
His plan was originally to injure him and place a curse seal on him so that he would "voluntarily" join the Root division.
However, what worries and angers Danzo is not that they haven't returned, but that there is no news of what happened, as if even those who were only supposed to observe and report the results had been intercepted.
"Hiruzen, was it you again who prevented me from taking him?"
The truth was relatively close, but he did not think that it was actually the Uchiha together with Tsunade who intercepted those informants while passing them off as spies from other villages since they are "unknown ANBU."
Fugaku informed the clan head about what had happened in the Hokage's office, so the head of the family decided to send some of his own people to protect him, as he considered him one of his own, so that's why the root ninjas were weaker than normal, cuz they were under genjutsu.
In Tsunade's case, due to her reputation, she disguised what had happened as an interception of spies from other villages, leaving Danzo frustrated at not even receiving any news.
One could say that it was a rather stupid move on Danzo's part to appear before Hiruzen while the others were still in the office, but according to his logic, it was to tell them not to interfere.
Meanwhile, the wolves with the children rescued from the bandits waited for Kenji in a safe place, and as soon as they noticed the bears carrying the enemies, they wanted to devour them, but Kenji stopped them because he suspected that they would have techniques against his wolves.
Days later, Kenji arrived safely in Konoha along with those rescued from the bandit base, but in the case of the Root agents, he took them to his base, so the "remains" will never be found.
"What is all this?!"
Tsunade angrily shouted at Kenji, who had just dropped eight severed tongues with the cursed tongue seal on her patio.
"I want that old man to leave me alone. Just tell them that I faced unknown ninjas and that I found their tongues strange, so I brought them back."
Tsunade frowned and, pinching the bridge of her nose with her fingers, agreed.
Because of that, Sarutobi had the perfect excuse to repress Danzo, so he didn't lose his temper and instead was glad that he brought him evidence of the cursed tongue that only he, Danzo, and other high-ranking officials should know about.
And as an excuse for bringing proof of having eradicated high-level enemy ninjas, he promoted Kenji to chunin to prevent his tailed beast cloak from accidentally leaking in the third exam.
That day, Danzo couldn't have been more furious. Kenji didn't see him in his fit of rage, but internally, he kept laughing as if he were watching a common ant trying to escape from his spiders.
All this was happening in Konoha, but in the Cloud Village, the reports from the ninjas who were observing things were already in the hands of the Third Raikage.
"Hm, so that boy did manage to intercept our spies and take them away as we expected, right?"
Dodai was at his side, nodding and holding other reports from the agents who were monitoring the situation.
"Not only that, Lord Raikage. It was also reported that some mysterious ninjas disguised themselves as our own and attacked him."
The Third Raikage, A, frowned at this.
"Who were those shinobi?"
Dodai dropped the paperwork on the Third Raikage's desk.
"It's all written here."
The Third Raikage picked up the reports and proceeded to read them.
"DAMN DANZO!!! How dare he blame us for such stupidity!?"
In anger, the Third Raikage slammed his fist on the desk without breaking it to release his frustration.
"Apparently, the boy had a suspicion and found the cursed tongue seal, so at least we can be sure that he knows it wasn't us."
But the Third Raikage was not convinced by this, so he wrote some instructions on a piece of paper.
"Tell those in charge of our spies to send this to our agents in Konoha."
He handed the paper to Dodai, who immediately tucked it into his sleeve.
"Do you need anything else, Lord Raikage?"
"Nothing else, that's all for now."
"I'll be going, then."
Dodai left the Third Raikage's office, but inside, the Third Raikage was torn between anger and admiration.
"To think that brat discovered that snake's agents... we really can't let Konoha keep him."
And so, the intrigues between villages were in motion, whether to recover one of their own or to subdue him, nothing was standing still.
A/N
Hello everyone.
Sometimes I really want to get out of control and do crazy things in this story, but I have to stick to the narrative rhythm, which sometimes drives me crazy. However, I have plans for him to start making such lethal inventions from the First and Second World Wars, which would make him much more lethal without having to use so much chakra.
But also, it's clear that combat scenes aren't my thing, so if you have any suggestions or ideas, please leave them in the comments, something like: the root ninjas would use this technique and that one to counterattack, but knowing about something, things could change or something like that.
By the way, we have waifu, so you can already get an idea of who would be members of a harem in this novel.