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Chapter 4 - Ch-4 Danzo is Already on my Shit List

Tenketsu Points. 

Also known as Chakra Points or Pressure Points.

They are distinct three hundred and sixty one different nodes present within the human body. They are extremely small, each node being smaller than the tip of a needle. They are extremely hard to locate and even harder to actually hit. 

Ryuma, during his free time, simply plopped himself down on the floor and started meditating. He slowly started trying to open up his Tenketsu, specifically the ones around his arms and legs, which would allow him to dispel chakra at a younger age than the normal minimum. 

It was a painful process, but he was able to manage. It won't be long until he can properly expel chakra from his arms and legs. 

An earth shaking screech shot through the air, making Ryuma look up in surprise. He recognised that road. A wrathful roar filled with hatred and fury. He hears explosions following soon after, all in the distance. 

'Ah... So the attack has started.'

Kurama was released and controlled by Obito, who then used the nine tailed demon fox to try and crush the leaf village. During this chaotic and horrible night, the Land of Fire lost their beloved Fourth Hokage and Nine Tails Jinchūriki. Both of them died protecting their newborn son from their enemies. 

Since he couldn't do anything about this, he simply went back to meditating. He noticed the ANBU that were stationed around him and guarding him. He figured they were there to protect him from external threats that may try to harm him during his time of turmoil. Either that or they're Root agents working for Danzo. Ryuma was wearing a little pendant with a small crystal gem. 

He closed his eyes again and sighed, a sharp streak of cold air being released from his mouth, producing a tiny whistling sound. He attempted to calm himself down, his heart rate slowed down. His breathing steadied. His mind became clearer. 

Meanwhile, outside the Senju Compound, was a man with blood dripping from his left hand. 

The man had a cross-shaped scar on his chin and had the entire right side of his face bandaged up. His right arm was also in a cast. He was Danzo Shimura, one of the elders of Konohagakure and the head of the Root Organisation; the Shadow Hokage. 

He was the man in the shadows, who did everything for the 'greater good' of Konoha, in his own vision. The Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, was a pacifist and far too soft to maintain a leadership role. Danzo and his organisation handled all the things that Hiruzen didn't want to handle himself. All of Konoha's dirty work was done by him. All their "war crimes" were orchestrated by him. 

Danzo believed he had to become Hokage; because only he could lead Konoha into an era of greatness and turn their home into the strongest shinobi nation. He completely disagreed with the soft methods of his former comrade, Hiruzen. 

He was, as Ryuma called him, completely and utterly delusional. 

The ANBU stationed around the Senju compound, were all dead. 

As for the ones inside... Some Root ANBU had infiltrated the estate and the actual guards were falling, one after the other. 

Meanwhile, Ryuma was completely unaware of this. He was lost in his own thoughts. 

Danzo, stationed in front of the estate, huffed and patted his own clothes to clean the dust. His single eye narrowed and scoured the outside of the estate. There were no seals in the area, no real defence outside of ANBU guards. 

After confirming that the cost was clear, Danzo walked in the Senju Compound through the front day and made a quick turn to his right, walking down a hallway. He was looking for a certain child. 

Meanwhile... 

An ANBU agent had entered the living room, where Ryuma was sitting. Right there, in the centre of the room, was Ryuma. He was sitting, eyes closed and breath steady. The ANBU with a bull mask stared at the child emotionlessly. 

He then took a step towards the unsuspecting baby, his footsteps were completely silent. Before he knew it, the distance between the agent and the child had reduced considerably. With a hand stretched, he was about to grab the kid in front of him. 

Ryuma's eyes shot open and his felt his own chakra pulsate. As if through pure reflex, Ryuma had thrown himself halfway across the room. He was blinking in confusion, not even understanding how he ended up flying through the room or how he jumped that far, high and fast, with his tiny little baby feet. 

'Wait, how the hell–?' Ryuma blinked, utterly confused at the explosive power he generated from his legs. 

He landed on the floor again, but lost balance and fell over. He wasn't even a year old yet, so such heavy movement immediately challenged his stabilizers and he immediately lost balance. His centre of mass shifted too fast for him to correct and he fell on his back. 

He looked up at his assailant. He noticed the outfit and the mask; he immediately realised who it was. 

'ANBU ? Why did he try to grab me ? I know they were stationed around the house to watch over me for whatever reason, but they have no reason to actually touch me, much less try to grab me like that. Why would he do that ? I'm fairly certain my mom wouldn't appreciate such callous skin contact.' Ryuma narrowed his little eyes, scrutinizing the ANBU standing before him. 

Ryuma stood up again. This time, he seemed wary. 

'Somethings wrong. He should have said something by now. Why's he so silent ? Why doesn't he talk ? Now that I look closer, that mask is not one I remember seeing.' 

Ryuma's eyes scoured the room, scanning his surroundings carefully. He noticed new figures entering the room. They were all ANBU. And they all had the exact same cold feeling. 

Wait... 

'Are they Root ? Why the hell would Danzo's puppets be sent here?!' Ryuma started sweating, not understanding why the hell Danzo was making a move against the likes of him. 

He wasn't even a year old! 

"Do not resist." One of them said. 

"Come with us." Another quietly ordered, an arm extended forward as means to invite the cautious baby. 

Ryuma was in a horrible situation right now. His parents were both unavailable. Hiruzen was on the other side of the city, with his mother. Kushina and Minato were both dead. Judging by their appearance and the presence of blood on their weapons of clothes, it's safe to say that they likely murdered the ANBU stationed to protect him. 

Ryuma took a step back instead and shook his head, refusing to go with them willingly. 

At the same time, Ryuma also wondered why there were so many of them. Even a single Root shinobi would be too much for the infant Ryuma. This was just overkill. Danzo did not need to send so many of them just to kidnap or kill him. 

'Seems like overkill to me...' He joked in his head. 

"Ah, there you are, Ryuma Senju." A voice suddenly called out to him, making him freeze in his tracks. 

Ryuma turned his head around to face the man behind him. The tiny infant looked up at the powerful bandaged shinobi that was staring down at him sternly. Ryuma frowned and took a step back, but Danzo had already extended an arm towards him. 

He narrowly avoided his grasp and tried to run. But Danzo was having none of that. He simply grabbed his tiny arm and knocked him out with a quick chop. Ryuma felt the world go dark and his muscles failed him. He completely collapsed, in Danzo's grasp. 

"Hmph..." Danzo huffed. 

He picked the infant up and walked over to his emotionless puppets, handing the child over to one of them. 

"We must leave this place immediately. Take the boy to the rendezvous point. And burn the house down before leaving. I want it to look like there were no survivors." Danzo ordered, making several of his followers bow obediently. 

Ryuma was taken out of the building and the shinobi all disappeared into the forest, slowly moving away from the now burning building. Fire Release ninjutsu was used to set the house ablaze. The wooden estate quickly caught fire and started to burn brightly. 

By the time Tsunade and the others arrived, it was already too late. What's done, is done already. 

"NO!!! NO, NO, NO!!" Tsunade cried and fell on her knees immediately, dirt staining her otherwise lustrous white skin. 

She couldn't stop the years from flowing as the bright flames illuminated the night. Hiruzen appeared behind her, along with numerous members of the ANBU black-ops. Hiruzen looked horrified, his worst fear had just made itself a reality. A nightmare made real. 

Her voice was breaking, drowning in a sob. "You don't get to leave me here. Not like this. Not like them."

Her throat burned, the words breaking loose before she could stop them. "Not like Dan. Not like Nawaki. Not like all the others!" 

Her cries grew harsher, desperate, clawing at the ground desperately. She ran into the flaming building without care of herself.

"Don't you dare abandon me, too. I can't—" her voice collapsed into a scream.

"Please, Ryuma. Don't leave me. Don't leave me like everyone else. Please…"

"RYUMAAA!!!" 

The Senju Estate was burning. 

They couldn't find Ryuma. There was no body. They don't know, if he was kidnapped or killed, both situations were horrible. They couldn't find any part of his body. If he has died in the fire, they certainly couldn't find his charred corpse. 

Hiruzen refused to believe that he was dead. He wouldn't believe it lest he sees a body! 

•••

Standing in front of Danzo, were a group of shinobi. They didn't look like they were shinobi of the Hidden Leaf. As a matter of fact, they weren't wearing headbands of any of the hidden villages. They were a group of their own. 

"You're really selling the kid to us, just like that, Lord Danzo ?" One of them, the one at the forefront of it all, enquired. He still found it hard to believe, but he'd never pass up such a good deal. 

He would have the support of Danzo Shimura and obtain support from Konoha, behind the scenes. In exchange for some loyalty and fulfilling a bunch of missions for Danzo, he regards them considerably. The were essentially mercenaries, anyways. 

"Yes. The boy is yours. Do with him as you please." Danzo said, his face didn't betray his emotions and desires. The rouges didn't bother arguing or haggling. They got a damn good deal and they didn't want to refuse it. 

"Take him." One of the men go to take the unconscious body of Ryuma. 

As he did this, Danzo turned his gaze to the many emotionless people within the crowd of people he was "selling" his new pet project to. It was an investment, a long term one, but he knew that it would be worth the time and the effort. With how talented he was, Danzo could only imagine the "good" he could do for the village with the undying loyalty of Ryuma Senju. 

There were numerous Root agents even among the rouges. All spies, set up by Danzo to do his bidding. 

He wasn't just giving Ryuma away to a bunch of people though. He needed him for the future and therefore, he must not be harmed too much. Additionally, he had instructed his agents to act accordingly. 

He will get the Senju heir as a puppet. 

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