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  Around Daichi, stood rows upon rows of shelves, each den with scrolls and dots bound in nondescript covers. Daichi's eyes roamed all around and he inwardly snorted.

  'All these scrolls have traps on them and if someo authorized gets in here, all these will be reduced to ash… So that's why Danzo chose to keep records and not ht destroy them. The barrier seals pced for prote are impressive.'

  The Gamer ninja walked closer and looked at the scroll and files stored on the shelves.

  'Looking at the mundane appearance of these scrolls, very few might think they have explosive secrets that could shake eions.'

  Daichi's eyes sed the room, taking iiculous anization, each searked with cryptic bels that only the most initiated could decipher.

  'Most of these are encrypted. But thankfully that won't be too much of a headache for me.'

  With no time to waste, Daichi disabled all the traps and approached the first se, beled "Geo-political Routes." He was able to quickly decipher the coded intelligence.

  In his hands were maps and dots detailing the hidden paths leading into and out of various nations—a work of routes used by spies and ANBU operatives for covert missions.

  Daichi's firaced the lines eg the Land of Fire to neighb tries, noting the less guarded, more vulnerable passages that could serve as entry or escape routes in times of flict.

  The Genin's eyes widened and he quickly searched for the nearby scrolls and soon he opened a red colored scroll. It had notes o passageways into the Land of Earth and Hidden Stone Vilge.

  'This… This will definitely e in handy.'

  Moving quickly, he delved into the se, "Underground anizations." This was a pendium of detailed reports and dossiers on various destine groups across the shinobi world, including the infamous Akatsuki.

  Profiles of some members, known affiliates, and specuted goals filled the pages. Daichi absorbed the information, the depth of ROOT's knowledge both impressive and chilling. 'Danzo doesn't know the identity of the current members except Itachi, Kisame, Sasori and Orochimaru. But he has several specutions. This might be more information than what even the Hokage has.'

  Another shelf was devoted eo "ROOT Operations." Here, the scrolls were sealed with blood-red wax, eae detailing a different mission carried out by the shadowy operatives of ROOT. These missied from assassination and sabotage to espionage and manipution of political events within and outside Konoha. Daichi skimmed the dots, each revetion was evideo the lengths Danzo and his anization would go to proted trol the ninja world.

  'This guy… If I'm reading these right…then…'

  Daichi was genuinely surprised as he decoded ahe information on the scrolls. He sighed and quickly stored the obje his iory and moved on to the .

  Further along, the young ninja found the "Iional Ninja Database." The se tained detailed information about key ninjas from other vilges: their strengths, weaknesses, known jutsu, and psychological profiles. It was a gold mine of intelligence, insights into potential allies and enemies alike.

  Lastly, he reached a smaller, more secure vault within the archives beled "Cssified Operations" in encryption. With a careful application of chakra to bypass the advanced sealing jutsu, Daichi quickly accessed the tents.

  These were the darkest secrets of ROOT—operations so sensitive aating that their mere existence could lead to wars or the downfall of the current ninja system. Here, Daichi found evidenanipution of the in Exams, secret alliances with rogue nations, and even pns to overthrow a certain Kage.

  'These are analysis on the Wind try and Vilge of Sand… These reports predict the downfall of Hidden Sand Vilge if the current status quo is maintained… Danzo… He khat if the Sand Vilge doesn't get a higher influx of missions their vilge will go under. He predicted that the Kazekage might take drastic as before then to protect his vilge…'

  Suddenly Daichi found the ao a question that guing him. 'Why did Orochimaru kill the fourth Kazekage in ? I had several hypotheses but now it's clear… It was Danzo's orders. Danzo used Orochimaru to kill the Kazekage, weaken the Sand Vilge so they wouldn't do anything rash and the Leaf could still maintain the alliance. He must have known that Orochimaru's invasion would be a failure.'

  As Daichi absorbed the tents of the scrolls, his mind raced with the implications of what he held. Each piece of information owerful on in its ht, capable of altering the bance of power in the shinobi world.

  As Daichi looked arouiced a small hidden seal. He quickly studied it and uood it's purpose.

  'A timer seal. The information on these scrolls are too dangerous. If I take them out of the shelf for much lohe seal will trigger and send a message and Root will be alerted to the theft.'

  Now that he knew he couldn't remove anything from the archives without alerting ROOT to the breach, he decided to take everything important without wasting time and store it in his iory.

  Daichi moved like the wind and used 'Observe' to find the most critical of scrolls and dots. The moment his fiouched the scroll, he disabled the prote seals and stored them in his subspace.

  A few mier Daichi was doh his task and took a final gnce around the dimly lit room. A room that reviously filled with the silent whispers of a thousas.

  Daiodded to himself and disappeared to plete his sed task, aware that the knowledge he now possessed made him one of the most dangerous individuals alive.

  He slipped out of the archives, blending bato the shadows, a ghost among the halls of the Root. His mission was far from over, but tonight, he had taken a signifit step towards unraveling the depths of ROOT's influence.

  'I've raided the archives. I'm heading towards the other se of this building. I'll try to collect as many hidden jutsu scrolls as possible. But I'm not sure how long I have.'

  The e sent an update and silently, invisibly moved through halls.

  He suddenly got a reply on the message array from the other e. 'My mission is half pleted but I have a problem to deal with. Once you've pleted your task, dispel.'

  —-

  With the First 'Dragon' e.

  Several minutes ago.

  'I found Danzo. I'm heading straight for him. I don't sehe Hokage or Obito. They're not here yet but they will be soon.' The first shadow e sent the message as he moved through the ceiling.

  He kept to the shadows and soon reached a er. He sensed several guards present and two powerful chakras in the room at the end of the hall. He created a e without alerting anyone and gave instrus to stay hidden and wait.

  'If I attack these guys Danzo might try something. He's crafty and ruthless enough to destroy Shisui's eye if he feels that it will fall into enemy hands. I o strike at him first.'

  Daichi was under his Mana cloak skill which made him pletely invisible. He moved forward and surveyed the guards hidden throughout the hallway.

  'I need a distra. Thankfully the Hokage's going to provide one. I have a feeling that once he breaches the building these guys will move to defend. Some might stay behind but a majority of these guys will rush upstairs to defend this location.'

  Daichi moved closer to the room and he didn't have to wait long. A faint tremor ran through the building and the Root ninjas quickly rushed to iigate.

  Ihe sparsely decorated room, Danzo Shimura sat behind a heavy desk, his single visible eye narrowed in tration. Beside him, his sed in and stood alert, his hand raying far from the hilt of his sword. "Sir, that felt like—"

  "Go, check the perimeter. Leave no stourned," Danzo anded, his single eye narrowing as he sehe shift in the air.

  "I will identify the source of that tremor," the sed in and announced, his voice steady despite the growing arm.

  Danzo nodded, his gaze still fixed on the papers before him. "Be swift, and alert our forces. We ot afford any disturbaonight."

  The door to the room opened and the Root ninja that was with Danzo also disappeared in a body flicker jutsu. As the sed in aed, the door closed softly behind him. Danzo was left alo he was unaware of the invisible threat lurking just a breath away from him. Daichi's e, now in the room with Danzo, paused, his Hyperition skill kig in.

  Simution 01.

  In his mind, Daichi visualized rushing forward, attag Danzo directly from behind. The simution showed Danzo reag to the small disturban the air flow and with ued agility, he rolled aside and drew a cealed kunai from under his desk. The enter ended with a fierce exge.

  Simution 01 End.

  'There are too many variables. Too much left to ce. I don't want a silent assassination to turn into a full blown frontation. At least not before I get what I want.'

  Simution 02.

  The e ehe room ued, staying invisible. It positioself strategically behind Danzo, waiting for the opportune moment when he is most absorbed in his reading. The oved like a ghost, a mere whisper of existence behind the elderly but deadly shinobi.

  Seeing his opportunity, Daichi struck with a chakra-irike aimed at his neck, a deadly silent attack.

  The blow was a trolled force, aimed to sever the spinal cord instantly. But Danzo, ever the survivor, had o trick. His body flickered and the moment it disappeared in a puff of smoke. A shadow e.

  The real Danzo, having anticipated an attack tonight of all nights, stepped out from the shadows, his eyes not surprised but resigned. "I expected someone might make a move on me, but I thought I could identify my enemy. I half expected Hiruzen but you're not him. It baffles me how an unknown like you got here so easily. Who are you?"

  The questio unanswered and a battle began. The otion drew in the guards from outside and shortly after seeing the oute of the fight not in Danzo's favor, he destroyed Shisui's eye.

  Simution 02 End.

  The mental simution stopped and the images began to repy backwards. The simution was created based on all the intelligence Daichi piled on Danzo. Not even a sed passed in the real world as Daichi went through two sarios of frontation in his mind.

  'I don't know what he'll do for certain but I 't make this a drawn out battle. I o take the perfect kill strike. And observe just showed that he isn't a e. So that's good.'

  Daichi tinued with his mental calcutions.

  Simution 03.

  In his mind Daichi stayed invisible and lunged forward as fast as he could with ferocious iy. A swift decisive decapitation before Danzo could activate Izanagi or destroy Shisui's Sharingan.

  However, as the bde sliced through the air and neared his neck, the hairs on the old veteran ninja's body stood. Danzo's instincts honed over decades of flict kicked in as he sensed his impendih quickly approag. With a sudden, almost unnatural twist of his body, Danzo narrowly avoided the lethal strike. Daichi's sword cut a few timeters into Danzo's ned blood flew in the air. But thanks to Hashirama's cells those wounds were quickly healed.

  Danzo's eye fred ominously. It was a clear warning that he was ready to rewrite his fate with Izanagi if pushed further. Seeing his assassination strike fail, Daichi, still invisible, used lightning chakra string to restrain Danzo's body.

  The strings paralyzed the man's body and Daichi moved in for the prize Sharingan. But the instant Danzo felt the invisible man's fingers nearing his face he knew what the enemy was after and he disappeared from his position the instant.

  Daichi was shocked at the sudden turn of events and had to immediately dodge several vacuum air bullets ing his way. He turned around and saw Danzo with the mangekyo activated in Shisui's eye.

  [Powerful Mental intrusioed]

  [Gamer's Mind has partially ralized the attack.]

  [Gamer's Mind has pletely ralized the attack.]

  "You forced me to throw away my most valuable Sharingan. You'll pay for it with your life." The fury in Danzo's voice was evident and immediately a battle between Daichi and Danzo ensued.

  Daichi's attacks that nded were quickly nullified and after about a minute Daichi saw Shisui's eye losing its light showing that it used Izanagi.

  Simution 03 End.

  Daichi reviewed the information ihird simution and he couldn't help but inwardly curse the old timer in front of him.

  'A split seovement. A tilt of the head driven by sheer survival instinct made me miss my mark. This guy… was it luck or unnerving intuition…? Damn it. I o keep going.'

  Simution 04.

  In the simution, Daichi chose a brutally effit tactic. Remaining invisible, he closed the distaween himself and Danzo, his target unaware of his approach. With a precise slice, his bde aimed not at Danzo's body but at his arm—the one bearing the array of Sharingan.

  The hand was severed ly, falling to the ground with a siing thud. Danzo, shocked and pained, instinctively turo his forbidden teiques. He tried to activate Kotoamatsukami to manipute Daichi's will, but the trauma and suddenness of the attack coupled with Daichi's strong mind rehe attempt futile.

  In a desperate pivot, Danzo sacrificed Shisui's eye to enact Izanagi, erasing the severance from existence. His haurned as though it had never been lost, the Sharingan eerily intact.

  Simution 04 End.

  A sed passed in the real world as Daichi kept calm but he was beginning to get slightly annoyed.

  'If he sees that victory is not possible he'll sacrifice the Kotoamatsukami and I'll fail. Such a headache.'

  The gamer ninja ran through multiple simutions. In several simutions Danzo called for backup to help him fight or to escape. In some, he destroyed the eye to keep Daichi from getting it. In several others he used Kotoamatsukami and if it didn't work and if he fell into a desperate state, he'd use his suicide jutsu to kill Daichi alongside him.

  After cyg through two dozen simutions, eading with Danzo narrowly esg or tering effectively, Daichi realized the daunting plexity of his mission.

  'This is harder than I thought but still… Now I have a pn.'

  Each sario provided Daichi with invaluable insights into Danzo's capabilities and the extreme measures he would take to survive. With this knowledge, the Genin prepared to execute the pn that banced risk with the greatest ce of success.

  He sent a message to his e and waited.

  Author's Note.

  What do you guys think of all these possibilities? ent if you guys find any fws in my reasoning or if you want to share any iing simutions…

  There is something I have to mention. The simution. Daichi knows about Danzh all the information he learned from reanimated root ninjas he Interrogated, and the information piled by Kehroughout his career. And what he knows from his previous life.

  He also factored In the rea based on the high intetle he had with Tsunade and Kensei during their training. All these plus a really smart brain helps Daichi makes the simutions.

  Also Daichi at for most variables but he 't at for all variables. He predict most reas but he 't predict every a Danzo might take in an infinite sario. Daichi has formed a pn based on the information he learned. It might be perfect or it might not... He's good but not omnist is what I'm trying to say…

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