Picked up a copy of Konoha Ninja

Chapter 21 Invitation from the Roots

At dusk the next day, the three members of the team walked along the long street.

"I completed 7 D-level tasks in one day, and each person made a net profit of 3800 taels. It's amazing. You are worthy of Obito." Rin handed Obito a handful of banknotes with excitement, "I didn't expect those grandmas to be so enthusiastic. Well, it seems that Obito skipped classes before to help his grandmother."

Kakashi rarely said anything this time, but looked at Obito with a strange look.

"Hey, tomorrow is the holiday. How about I invite everyone to have barbecue together tonight." Namikaze Minato suddenly jumped in front of the three of them, showing a warm smile.

"Minato-sensei, weren't you shopping with Kushina-senpai just now?" Lin looked surprised, "Kushina-senpai is still at home waiting for you to eat."

Minato's face turned red, "Well... well, we don't live together yet."

"Why? I heard that Kushina-senpai was your girlfriend a long time ago."

Minato smiled awkwardly, "I just bought a small house and the loan hasn't been paid off yet."

"Hey, with Minato-sensei's strength and having completed so many missions, do you actually need a loan to buy a house?" Obito said with a surprised look on his face.

Minato reached out and ruffled his hair, "Teacher, unlike you, you have a house left by your parents, and you have to earn every brick by yourself by performing tasks."

"Kushina-senpai is also a jonin, why doesn't she go on a mission?" Lin asked subconsciously.

"It's different, Rin. How could a man have the heart to let his beloved girl go out and fight for her life?" Obito saw Minato's look embarrassed and immediately answered first.

"Hey, Obito knows a lot. Teacher, he really doesn't want Kushina to carry out those dangerous missions."

"Let's go directly to the barbecue restaurant. Next time, we will probably have dinner at the teacher's house."

"Teacher's house? Will Kushina-senpai cook in person?"

"Kushina..." Namikaze Minato thought of the dark cuisine when he first moved, and he shed a drop of cold sweat with lingering fear.

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After a delicious barbecue, Obito walked across the wooden bridge and saw Orochimaru by the river.

"Lord Orochimaru, are you waiting for me here?"

"Obito, I heard that you are in Minato's class now."

"Yes, does Orochimaru-sama know Minato-sensei too?"

"Speaking of which, Minato has to call me Ichiichi-sensei. I've taught him ninjutsu before."

"Oh." Obito followed Orochimaru until he walked outside the Uchiha clan's station. He looked at the dimly lit security station, "Obito, in fact, in this world, there are people like your teacher Minato Namikaze and Sakumo Hatake. There are really not many ninjas who are not from a big family and have no bloodline limit, and can work hard to practice to their level."

"Okay Obito, just stay here today. When you take a rest, come back to my place."

"Yes."

Orochimaru took two steps forward and suddenly stopped, "By the way, my cabin is in the forest."

"Ah."

Obito walked back to the house feeling disappointed, "It seems that Orochimaru is really keen on the Sharingan of my Uchiha clan."

"But I have not used Sharingan externally so far. Even Kakashi and Lin don't know why Orochimaru is targeting me."

Outside the Uchiha Clan's camp, Orochimaru stopped as soon as he reached the edge of the forest.

"Duanzo asked you to follow me, right?" Orochimaru glanced at the two root ninjas who came out from behind the tree, his eyes a little sinister.

"Lord Orochimaru, we just discovered you during a routine alert. Don't get me wrong."

"The Uchiha clan doesn't have any conflicts with the village at the moment, right?" Orochimaru said with a sigh.

"Last month, when the security force was dealing with the street sales stalls in the village, there were more than a dozen conflicts with the residents of the village. There are still people being detained in the prison next to the security force. Later, after they accepted the punishment, they were arrested by the Third Hokage Your Excellency has let me out. However, some people in the security force seem to be very dissatisfied with this."

"I understand, go back and tell Lord Danzo that my research here will take some time."

"But Danzo-sama's condition..."

Orochimaru stretched out his long tongue and licked the corner of his mouth, "Do you need me to say it a second time?"

"Yes." The two ninjas trembled in their hearts. They did not dare to look directly into Orochimaru's eyes. They each used the teleportation technique and disappeared in place.

Orochimaru walked into the dark forest, and the ground under his feet gradually became moist. His shadow was like a long snake, and his steps as he walked in the forest were winding.

"Huh", when he landed in front of a tree house in the forest, he stopped on the tree trunk and looked at the village in the distance, his mind had drifted far away.

"The Hashirama cells transplanted by Danzo are starting to be erratic. I need new experimental subjects, and Uchiha Obito... needs to teach him some new ninjutsu first, and then let him feel anger and open the Sharingan. "

On a roof a few kilometers away, when the root ninja returned to the roof, Danzo also appeared with a cane with a livid face.

"Danzo-sama, Orochimaru replied that his research will take some time."

"Will it take a while?" Danzo's eyes were cold, "It seems that this guy regards me as his experiment, but I haven't found an eye suitable for my right eye during the Second Ninja War. We still need him. otherwise……"

"Master Danzo, Orochimaru has completed another S-level mission this time. I'm worried that it will be difficult for our people to control him by then."

"Didn't he just come into contact with that brat Uchiha Obito? Then I'm going to meet that brat Uchiha Obito now."

"Danzo-sama, do you want this brat to join our roots?"

Danzo's eyes were long, "Why should we let him join the root? Wouldn't it be better to let him stay with the proud grandson and disciple of Garlic Mountain, of course, if he is willing to be our internal correspondent."

At night, Danzo quietly sneaked into the Uchiha clan's residence.

The moment he turned over and fell from the window into Obito's room, in front of a small house seven or eight hundred meters away, a jounin from the security force whispered something toward the window.

"I know, let's go down first."

"Yes."

Uchiha Fugaku is obviously a little worried. His father's condition has been diagnosed and treated by many Konoha medical jounin, but it has not improved. If it continues to deteriorate like this, he may have to take over the position of clan leader in advance.

In the Konoha forest, Orochimaru's arm holding the reagent shook slightly, and a small white snake crawled out of his collar and rubbed it carefully against his ear.

"Has our shadow of Konoha found Obito? Okay, I understand." Orochimaru lowered his head, blended the two reagents, stretched out his hand to shake the blue liquid in the test tube, his eyes gradually became colder .

"As expected, are you still guarding against me? Danzo."

At the same time, a kunai suddenly flew out of the dark room, and with a "bang" sound, it plunged directly into the wooden board beside the window.

"Who." Obito saw a dark figure dodging in the dark night. After turning on the light, he held a kunai in one hand and stood in a corner with a wary look on his face.

"Don't be nervous, Obito. I am Shimura Danzo, a high-ranking official in Konoha." Danzo sat down beside Obito's bed and looked at the neatly arranged comics and furniture in Obito's room. "I live alone." It's quite pitiful at home, and the village should provide more support to war orphans like you."

"The pension will be paid every month until adulthood. I wonder why Danzo-sama came to my house so late?" Obito put down the kunai standing on his chest, still with a bit of defense on his face.

"I witnessed your performance in the genin exam with my own eyes. With your strength, even some chunin who have performed many high-level tasks may not be able to beat you. I think letting you perform those trivial tasks in the village, It’s such a pity, why don’t you come to my roots.”

Obito frowned slightly, "Is the root the same tissue as the ANBU?"

"Well, the ANBU are directly commanded by the Third Hokage, while the roots take orders from me. The difference is that the ANBU usually wear masks and perform tasks on the bright side, and my roots, even if they die, no one will find out that you are What identity."

"Do you want to do something for Konoha?"

Obito's heart sank. If he were an unsophisticated genin and didn't understand the details of the guy in front of him, he would probably be deceived by him.

It's a pity that I am a lucky person who has read comics many times.

"I'm sorry, Danzo-sama, I'm just a genin with limited abilities. And I have to follow Minato-sensei on missions during the day, and in my free time I have to go to Orochimaru-sama to learn ninjutsu."

"It doesn't matter. If you are willing, I can directly accept you into the root and it will not affect your current life."

"What do you need me to do?" Obito asked again.

"Of course, if we encounter a task that our root cannot solve, as a root member, you also need to help."

Obito pretended to hesitate for a while and shook his head slightly, "I'm sorry, Danzo-sama, if I were a genius ninja like Kakashi, I would have agreed to your request and joined the Roots. I am weak now, I want to If you want to improve your strength, you have to practice hard, and I really don’t have time to worry about the fundamentals.”

"Going out to the village, performing tasks, and practicing in the midst of killing is the best way to practice for a ninja." Danzo walked to the window, "Obito, you can come to me after you think about it carefully. The gate of the root will always be for you. You turn it on." With that said, he used the teleportation technique and disappeared into the house.

After he left, Obito's expression darkened, "I didn't expect that even Danzo Shimura was already eyeing me. Have I gotten too close to Orochimaru recently?"

He wanted to reach out for his comics, but he was worried that Danzo had not gone far, so he could only tiptoe back to the bed, pull back the quilt and lie down quietly.

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