Naruto's undisguised mockery of Danzō instantly ignited the fury in the Root ninjas' hearts.
The Root ninja leading them, a loyal follower of Danzō, could not tolerate anyone speaking so contemptuously of the leader he revered.
He stepped forward and demanded coldly, "Naruto Uzumaki, you are openly sheltering an outsider ninja suspected of being a spy, and now you dare spout such wild words and insult Lord Danzō! Do you have any respect for Konoha's rules at all?"
"Rules? You mean spreading rumors about a girl, then arresting her on fabricated charges?"
Having said that, Naruto had no intention of wasting any more words. Several specially made kunai appeared in his hand.
The instant those kunai left his hand, Naruto's figure turned into a golden flash and vanished from where he stood.
The leading Root ninja only felt a chill at his throat, his stunned expression not yet fully forming beneath his mask.
A few seconds later, he crumpled to the ground, the eyes beneath his mask devoid of light.
Yet this was only the beginning.
Naruto moved faster than the naked eye could follow.
To the Root ninjas and everyone else, all they could barely make out was a golden trail flashing and darting back and forth through the crowd.
Naruto's weapon, meanwhile, had changed from kunai into a highly compressed, rapidly spinning sphere of blue Chakra.
"That's... the Rasengan?!"
A ninja who had joined Root during the Third Shinobi World War could not help crying out when he saw the Ninjutsu.
Bang! Bang!
Amid several deafening explosions, the Root ninjas struck head-on by the Rasengan did not even have time to scream before the immense Chakra force sent them flying. They slammed heavily into distant trees or the ground, and almost none survived.
When Naruto's figure reappeared in