Chapter 62 – The Rat Tries to Rob the Wrong People
"Then keep your distance and bombard him with ranged jutsu!"
"Perfect!"
Far away, Danzo saw the boys refusing to close in and puffed up with smug triumph.
"See that? This is the power of the Mangekyou Sharingan! No one can stand against it!"
"Once I take you two and claim the Nine-Tails, the Hokage seat—nay, the entire shinobi world—will be mine!!"
Danzo's ambitions spilled out without a shred of shame.
"Hokage? Rule the world? Keep dreaming!"
Naruto laughed in his face.
"A filthy sewer rat who's afraid of sunlight shouldn't spout comedy gold like that."
"You were born a rat. You'll die a rat."
When it came to verbal evisceration, Naruto was just as lethal as Sasuke now.
The old "Talk no Jutsu" had been traded away long ago.
What replaced it was precision-guided, heart-stabbing trash talk.
Case in point: Danzo looked ready to stroke out on the spot.
The one thing he hated most in life was being called a rat who couldn't see the sun.
Even Root, the village's shadow, still yearned for light.
"Yamanaka Fu! Ryoma! Both of you—full restraint! Immobilize them!"
Furious, Danzo threw caution to the wind.
Sacrifices were acceptable. Victory was everything.
"Yes, sir!"
And right at that moment,
new guests arrived.
"Oh?"
"Izumi, perfect timing."
A lazy voice echoed through the chamber.
Aike strolled in with the four girls, casually scanning the scene.
His gaze paused on Danzo's exposed right eye.
Already pulling out Kotoamatsukami? The old man really was desperate.
Then Aike's eyes slid to Naruto.
He'd overheard the "eternal rat" roast on the way in and nearly cracked a rib laughing.
"Didn't peg you for a master strategist, kid."
He looked Naruto up and down with open amusement.
Naruto suddenly felt a chill crawl up his spine.
"A-Aike bro!"
He swallowed hard, trying to act normal while his heart jackhammered.
We're dead. He definitely knows we traded intel with Orochimaru.
Sasuke's face wasn't much better.
Same thought process.
"You're the Uchiha survivor with the Mangekyou?"
"Perfect. Those eyes are mine too!"
The second Aike's group stepped in, Danzo recognized Izumi.
Ecstasy flooded him.
He launched a surprise attack without hesitation.
To Danzo, another Mangekyou was worth far more than the Nine-Tails.
Naruto and Sasuke shouted in unison:
"Aike bro, watch out! His eye technique rewrites your mind!"
Danzo cursed their big mouths.
But he had already signaled Ryoma and Fu.
Both Root nin attacked instantly, trying to pin Aike's group down while Danzo lined up his genjutsu.
"Parasitic Insects: Cluster!"
Ryoma targeted Aike.
Fu went straight for Izumi with the clan's secret Mind Body Switch.
A black cloud of bugs swarmed toward Aike.
He wrinkled his nose.
Individually pathetic, but the gross factor was S-rank.
If he felt that way, the girls were ten times worse.
"Wind Vortex!"
Carina, already itching for a fight, swung her arm in disgust.
A crushing wall of wind pressure instantly pulped every insect into paste.
Then she turned into a living gale and vanished from Aike's side.
"If you like bugs so much, turn into paste with them."
Carina unloaded on Ryoma like she had a personal grudge.
Wind blades, miniature tornadoes—every long-range trick she could think of.
Pure ranged annihilation. She refused to
get within ten meters of the bug guy.
Fu watched in cold sweat, silently thanking the heavens he hadn't picked Ryoma's target.
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