The next day,
The sun was shining on the beautiful city.
In his massive estate as big as a small castle, Akashi could be seen sprawling on his massive bed without a care in the world while Kana and Naoya were busy reviewing documents about their news business.
"This is really good!"
"Money's money, money..."
Even though the work was tiring neither of them was complaining. After all, seeing your coffers swell is a very pleasurable feeling.
"Uhm?!"
At some point, Karin's smiling face turned into a frown
"Looks like another group is coming." She said, looking toward the horizon, "This group is much stronger."
"They must be from one of the great villages, it has been long enough for them to locate us,"
"I guess, two team, two jonin and six chunin, we should wake the young master, he has been waiting for the new batch of test subjects for a while now,"
"Should we wake him?"
"Our little lord is already aware of their presence."
"Alright, let's welcome them as they deserve," Karin said, pulling out a massive scroll.
Outside, the ninja of the root were ready to invade the estate.
"Whoosh,"
The moment they entered the estate, the jonin Yamanaka Kitai, one of the two jonin head abruptly shifteded, and of course his partner noticed.
"What's happening?" Shimura Kotake asked
"I... can't feel them anymore,"
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"I can't feel them, it's like someone dropped a veil on me,"
The expression of everyone turned grave; they knew they had been detected, and they felt like the wall surrounding him was the jaw of a beast.
"Doesn't matter, let's follow the plan quickly before they escape," the leader said as they moved toward the last detected presence before they change location.
They had been in this city for a few days and knew that only three Uzumaki were present and after receiving Danzo's authorization they finally moved, even in that situation they were confident in their abilities.
Whoosh
In an instant, they moved toward their target.
With the characteristic speed of ninjas made this massive estate nothing more larger than a sandbox for children.
Whoosh
The two jonin and two chunin burst into the room where only Kana and Naoya were supposed to be present.
Tsk
One of the jonin couldn't help but snear when she saw Akashi also present in the room.
The reason they split was so that the four chunin could take care of Akashi while they were fighting his guards.
This plan had many advantage,s for example, it could have put pressure on karin and Naoya and forced them to make mistakes during the fight, but it failed before it even started.
'Doesn't matter, we still had the advantage,' the root ninja thought in their mind.
In a few seconds, the four chunin will realize that Akashi couldn't be located, and they will come back to assist them.
"Akashi Uzumaki, on order of master Danzo, you are to follow Is back to Konoha-"
"Is there a Yamanaka amount you?!"
Akashi asked without any care for what the man just said
"...!"
When none of them responded, he frowned a little
"Are you waiting for your four little friends? They aren't coming back." He said, and karin lifted his hand and showed the root ninjas the adamantine chains going from her hand to another room.
"That chain goes from here to the room where they are now imprisoned. If you know anything about the Uzumaki, you must know that four chunin can't escape those chains,"
"Now, you, the blond guy, are you a Yamanaka? I wouldn't want to kill my next test subject by mistake."
"Humph, kill them, we take the kids back,"
With that, everyone moved
Clank Clank clank bang bang bang
Weapons clashed, sparks flew, blood spilled in an instant.
The members of the root we more numerous, but we're overall weaker than the three Uzumaki, who had the strength of jonin.
In that small room, no one has a fixed opponent.
Even while maintaining her seals on the room nearby, she was able to fight without trouble.
Each attacks were delivered with deadly precision, each kunai strike could kill at any instant, in that close environment noone had time to weave handsigns for a justu so no powerful attack could be launch.
In a few second the root ninjas quickly started to sweat when they realized how disadvantageous their situation was.
In that enclosed environment, they were forced to fight in close quarters, and that was a strong point for their opponents who had great vitality.
Slowly the ninjas started to sustains injuries on both side, the kunai slowly started to get wet with blood, after al each move was deadly. the battle was fierce, brutal with each side trying to create an oportunity for themself.
After about three minutes of that relentless dance, the root ninjas realized that not only were their oponnents stronger, most, but due to their vitality every injury that they inflicted failed to even slow the Uzumaki down, while their own injuries started to accumulate.
'Damn it, they are trading injury for injury, their constitution gives them the advantage,' the bloody Yamanaka Kitai realized diverting another slash, from the corner of the eye he saw a shuriken anout to strike down one of his chunin.
Clank
In an instant he flickered behind him and deflected the attack when his sense screamed to him once again.
Clank,
He was able to protect himself but his left cheek was slice open through the mask, giving him another injury
'Damn it, it can't continue,'
His companion was in the same situation, after a few seconds of fight, the battle had turned in favor of the Uzumaki they realized too late that spitting up had been a deadly mistake and as if to pour oil on the fire the voice of Naoya resounded in their ears.
"You shouldn't have split up, it was stupid,"
"Silence, abnoxious kid,"
In that deadlock, they know that the weak link was those two chunins, even though they were chunins, it was because of them that the two jonins of the root were not facing the three jonins of the Uzumaki, but they all know that this situation will not last long.
After a few more seconds of battle
Slash
In one fluid motion of his Kunai Naoya slashed the throat of one of the two chunin in the room.
As the blood of the ninjas splurted, painting the ceiling red.
"Well, it wouldn't have changed anything anyway,"
"Now!"
With desperation, the remaining chunin threw himself at Naoya with all his strength. He had used his comrade's death to reach his pouch and took out a single explosive tag.
Boom
The explosion changed the game, and his suicidal move bought the other just a second at the same and with a burst of chakra, Yamanaka Kitai, bloody and desperate, pushed Kana away.
"Mind transfer jitsu," he said
The members of the root had that kind of strategy in place for a desperate situation, and with their incredible cooperation, a single glance was enough to pass orders and for the others to understand.
No matter what one thinks of Danzo as a person, his training and methods are what make his roots so deadly; his ability to train perfect tools ready to die when necessary is terrifying.
"So you really are a Yamanaka-" before he could finish his sentence, Akashi, Karin, and Naoya's eyes lost focus for a brief second.
With the explosion and the mind transfer activated, the situation changed drastically.
The moment he regained control of his body, he saw a Kunai nearing his throat.
"Master!"
Sharingan.
Before the Kunai could slice his throat, Akashi's eyes turned crimson and the three tomoe sharingan activated and put his opponents under a weak genjutsu making Akashi's position slightly off and simultaniously activated the body flicker of Kagami Uchiha, that will later make his grandson famous across the world all that while expelled chakra his massive chakra reserve from all his pores like a Hyugas.
Akashi reappeared at the other end of the room, clutching his neck where blood was dripping.
"Akashi!"
"Master,"
Bang
In a punch, Karin sent the Yamanaka jonin crashing into the wall, half dead, before appearing beside Akashi with Naoya.
In a high-level battle, everyone knows that the slightest mistake could mean death.
The moment Karin arrived at Akashi's level, the Shimura ninja had prepared his other attack.
Wind style: Vacuum tornado
Boom
The entire room was engulfed by raging wind, slicing apart everything, devastating the room.
A few seconds later, the dust settled, revealing Akashi, Karin and Naoya protected behind an adamantine barrier.
"Master, are you alright! Let me heal you!"
Karin shouted frantically, her hands already glowing green.
"No need, this is but a scratch," Akashi said, taking out his hand, revealing the small cut on his neck already healing. "Those roots are really deadly, I underestimated," Akashi said it was true that he had let all his advantage get to his head; he didn't even activate his sharingan and treated that entire fight as a game chase where he was the hunter.
"I will be more alert,"
"Sorry, it's my fault I let that Yamanaka trick me," she said, throwing a venomous gaze toward the barely living ninja on the ground,"
"Go get him,"
"Yes!"
Whoosh
Karin and Naoya moved to capture the fleeing ninja.
In one of the corridors, the root join was running away
'So young, not even ten years old, and yet so full of talents, I need to warn master Danzo of what I saw, the Uzumaki Clan may become a curse for Konoha if they aren't dealt with.'
With that in mind, he used the body flicker to leave the estate,
Bang
The root ninja fell backwards after crashing headfirst into an invisible wall.
"What is that?" His already damaged mask shatters, revealing his bloody face, but his experience quickly allows him to realize what had happened.
"A barrier!"
"Good deduction," the voice of Karin resounded beside the root ninja, but as he turned around, there was no one there.
"The entire estate is surrounded by my chains; the moment you enter this estate, all your moves are under our control and supervision." Like a slow poison, fear slowly gripped the heart of Shimura Kotake
He quickly weaved a few hand signs before launching a powerful wind-based attack on the wall.
Boom
A powerful explosion resounded, rattling the walls, but the barrier remained strong.
Even though the window was open, Shimura Kotake couldn't reach it. From where he was, he could see the villagers going about their day.
Taking out explosive tags, he threw them all on the window.
Boom boom boom
Consecutive explosions resounded in the estate
Crack
A fissure appeared on the transparent barrier
'Chance,'
Shimura Kotake flickered toward the window, ready to unleash another power jutsu and escape
'I need to warn master Danzo,'
After the brief interaction, he realized how dangerous Akashi and the Uzumaki had become, and being a Shimur, his loyalty to Danzo was greater than the others' roots.
'I need to warn him of the danger they represent.'
Clank
Before he could open his mouth, he chain shot out of the transparent barrier.
Splurt
In an instant, he was skewered by the chain that lifted him in the air,
Tap tap tap
The footsteps of Karin and Naoya resounded behind him, and in a few seconds, they were behind him.
"Now I hope that you have impotant information for us, or you will suffer,"
Hearing that Shimura Kotake shuddered in fear, as a member of roots and a Shimura, he had Danzo's confidence and had access to numerous secrets and missions reports.
'You won't get anything from me,' he thought, trying to bite his teeth to use the poison in them when.
Whoosh
Dark markings appeared all over his body, and Kotake found himself immobile
"We already have experience with your root; death won't save you."
Naoya said, opening Kotake's mouth
Crack
In one fluid motion, he violently extracted the tooth containing the poison, then his own seal appeared around the cursed tongue seal of the root, stopping his effect.
"That seal has been made for you, root ninjas in mind, you are going to sing all your root secrets. Oh, I nearly forgot you also have a mental seal right, forgive me, it too will be taken care of."
Naoya said with a smile, flicking his finger before wiping it on Kotake's jacket.
"I am going to make sure that you pay for injuring master Akashi," Karin said happily before knocking Kotake out.
For the poor root ninja, the smile of those two looked like that of monsters that scared even him.
In another part of the estate, Akashi, whose injury had already healed, returned to his room after putting the Yamanaka ninja in a prison cell.
"Oh, I completely forgot about you four," Akashi said, looking at the four root chunin in the devastated room, "Good thing there is nothing important here."
With that, another battle ensued, after a few minutes, the four root chunin were sprawled on the ground, injured but alive.
"Time to leave this place,"