Proving to Lord Danzō How Utterly Loyal I Am!

Root's training ground.

Akihara Kagura watched Shimura Danzō intently.

This superior of his wanted to teach him a new Wood Style Ninjutsu and was methodically explaining the origin of the jutsu. "This ninjutsu is called Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence. It originated with the First Hokage Hashirama Senju of Konoha and requires an enormous amount of chakra..."

In theory, there had been no need to preserve this Wood Style Ninjutsu.

That was because the First Hokage Hashirama Senju's bloodline had not been passed down.

However, at the request of the Second Hokage Tobirama Senju, the First Hokage Hashirama Senju had still recorded all of his Wood Style secret techniques in Konoha's Scroll of Seals, waiting for a new wielder of the Wood Style Bloodline to emerge in Konoha.

Shimura Danzō had naturally read the Scroll of Seals.

Unfortunately, since Shimura Danzō was not the Hokage, the Scroll of Seals could only be kept by successive Hokage. Shimura Danzō could only memorize the Wood Style Jutsu within it.

"Kou, watch carefully."

Shimura Danzō spread his hands, relaxed his fingers, then slowly brought his hands together and formed a Snake hand seal. "This jutsu only requires a single Snake seal... You can directly activate the chakra within your body..."

"Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence!"

Shimura Danzō suddenly let out a low shout!

Akihara Kagura jumped at Shimura Danzō's voice!

However...

Nothing happened.

The training ground fell silent again.

A crow drifted lazily across the sky.

Shimura Danzō possessed neither the Wood Style Bloodline nor an enormous amount of chakra, so naturally, nothing would happen.

"Alright."

Shimura Danzō showed no embarrassment at all and returned to his calm, indifferent demeanor. "I've already taught you this ninjutsu. Now, give it a try!"

"..."

Akihara Kagura's eyelid twitched.

Wasn't this teaching method a little too abstract?

Why did this man think that just because he put on a show of forming a hand seal and told him the ninjutsu was called Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence, he would be able to unleash the God of Shinobi's ninjutsu?

Alright, now that you know one plus one equals two, let's prove Goldbach's conjecture, one of the world's three great mathematical conjectures!

What kind of joke was this?

Unless this man had cheats!

System Prompt: Ninja Professor trait activated. The host possesses the Wood Style Bloodline, has SSS-rank chakra reserves, and the Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence currently being learned conforms to ninjutsu theory. Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence successfully learned.

System Prompt: You have acquired the new skill Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence.

Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence (Wood Style Kekkei Genkai Secret Technique. The caster uses the chakra within their body as the source of life, causing trees to rapidly grow from the ground and instantly transforming the environment into a forest. All trees within the forest can be controlled by the caster to attack enemies, and the forest makes it easier to cast other Wood Style Ninjutsu.)

Akihara Kagura imitated Shimura Danzō, slowly bringing his palms together. The chakra within his body surged, and a childish low shout escaped the youngster's throat!

"Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence!"

The grass covering the training ground trembled!

Thick roots burst from the earth one after another, rapidly growing into towering trees and transforming the entire training ground into an ancient forest!

"This..."

Shimura Danzō involuntarily widened his eyes!

Even though Shimura Danzō had held hopes for Akihara Kagura, he had never expected this little fellow to learn such a powerful ninjutsu so quickly!

What kind of joke was this?

Orochimaru had actually not lied this time!

This little fellow's Wood Style talent was far stronger than that of the previous wielder of the Wood Style Bloodline, judging from Deep Forest Emergence alone. Shimura Danzō's heart burned, and his hopes of seizing the position of Hokage reignited!

"Lord Danzō..."

Akihara Kagura turned back to look at the stunned old man, seeming somewhat uneasy. "Did I... destroy the training ground? Did I cause some trouble... If people find out I damaged the training ground, will it bring you trouble?"

"No!"

Shimura Danzō quickly shook his head. A smile actually appeared at the corners of his mouth as he rarely praised one of his subordinates. "Kou, you did very well! It's only a training ground. From today onward, this will be your personal training ground!"

"..."

That's not what I fucking wanted to ask!

Akihara Kagura could not help complaining inwardly.

He had not made such a huge commotion just for Shimura Danzō!

Besides letting this new superior recognize his talent, he also wanted to see whether he could cause a little trouble for Lord Danzō...

After all, he had used such powerful chakra within Konoha. Would the Third Hokage notice? Could he draw out the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi?

A Wood Style Ninja with such powerful talent should cause these two old friends, Hiruzen Sarutobi and Lord Danzō, to have some new conflict, shouldn't it?

Shimura Danzō had thought of that as well.

Wouldn't that monkey notice the powerful chakra this child had just unleashed?

Shimura Danzō's expression darkened, and he even seemed to grit his teeth. He had to guard against Hiruzen Sarutobi. That old bastard Monkey was always stealing what belonged to him!

A sealing barrier had to be set up around this training ground immediately to prevent Hiruzen Sarutobi from discovering that he had obtained another Wood Style Ninja, and even an unexpectedly gifted one at that!

Besides that...

Shimura Danzō's gaze fell upon Akihara Kagura.

This child...

He would become very strong in the future!

He would definitely become Konoha's most useful tool!

Right now, this child was very obedient to him and very close to him. He was even more loyal and pure than Aburame Ryoma. A ten-year-old child had no complicated thoughts...

At this age...

It was easy to instill ideas in him.

A curse mark alone could control a person's actions, but not their thoughts. He had to figure out how to make this child remain loyal to him forever...

Within Root's training ground.

The youngster and the old man each harbored their own thoughts.

Akihara Kagura secretly activated the Shadow of the Ninja World trait.

Whenever he needed intelligence, the Shadow of the Ninja World trait would store relevant information in his mind in the form of videos.

An image appeared inside Akihara Kagura's mind.

Akihara Kagura wanted to investigate information about the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi. He wanted to see what this Hokage was doing, whether he had noticed the genius waiting at Root's training ground for him to come snatch away, whether he had noticed that Lord Danzō was plotting something again, and whether he had any interest in coming over to cause Lord Danzō some trouble...

As Lord Danzō's subordinate...

He had to find a way to create more trouble for Lord Danzō...

Only when Lord Danzō encountered plenty of trouble would he have a chance to prove just how utterly loyal he was to him...

Good morning!

My glasses broke!

I'm going to get a new pair of glasses first!