Satoru brought Naruto and his group back to Konoha.
The mission was perfectly completed.
Tsunade, Kakashi, and others all breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Naruto return.
Only Yamato felt useless and went off to be sad alone.
Nothing major happened in Konoha; everything was fine.
Naruto also began to feel his shortcomings. After Captain Yamato's guidance, he realized he relied too much on the Nine-Tailed's power and wanted to become stronger quickly while the Akatsuki Organization was active.
Sakura felt the same way.
The failure of this mission made both of them realize their own deficiencies.
"Satoru Senior, what is a companion?"
However, Satoru was pestered by Sai.
Sai was still holding a book on psychology.
He seemed to want to extract the definition of a companion from him.
"Aren't you going to train with Naruto and the others?
Or report the mission to Danzo or something?
Why are you so idle!"
Satoru brought Keigo to the library to study, but he didn't expect Sai to be there.
Now Sakura and Naruto were both training hard, aiming to bring Sasuke back on their own.
As a teammate, Sai actually had the leisure to read this.
"Compared to getting stronger, I'd rather know what a companion is. Can you tell me, Satoru Senior?"
Sai was stunned but still asked the question he wanted to ask.
"When I do something right, you should praise me; when I do something wrong, you should support me.
When I'm down, you encourage me; when I lose confidence, you give me confidence.
Focus only on their strengths, not their weaknesses, but you must keep both their strengths and weaknesses in mind..."
Satoru spoke.
"Then are we companions?" Sai asked again.
"Read more, experience more, and you'll be able to break free from Danzo's brainwashing and integrate with the companions in the Village.
Slowly, you'll understand. Otherwise, no matter how much I say, it's useless."
Satoru sighed.
These Root children like Sai were too pitiful.
However, Danzo's time was also coming soon, and it was almost time for the Root members to return to Konoha.
"You seem very dissatisfied with Lord Danzo?" Sai was very perceptive about things outside of emotions.
"No, not at all. It's just that Lady Tsunade is very dissatisfied with him and despises his behavior of brainwashing children, that's all."
Satoru complained.
"I see."
...Time passed.
An unexpected person came to visit Satoru at the training ground where he practiced Taijutsu.
He was accompanied by two masked guards.
"It's rare to still conduct such high-intensity training every day," Danzo said, watching Satoru train.
Satoru turned his head to look, a slight frown on his face.
Why was this old man so idle, coming to find him?
"Lord Danzo, do you need something from me?"
Danzo got straight to the point: "I want Keigo to join my Root to strengthen Konoha's active forces.
As you know, the existence of Akatsuki has threatened all the Ninja Villages.
Who knows how long this war will last? We need to cultivate more powerful Ninja."
In the distance, Keigo, who was studying science with tools created by Satoru, seemed to hear his words and looked over at them.
Whoosh whoosh~
Satoru moved his hand, and the Kunai and Shuriken he had just been practicing flew towards him from all directions.
Some even passed behind Danzo.
This made the two guards ready to draw their swords.
"Fu, Torune, stop."
However, Danzo stopped them.
The Kunai grazed past Danzo's cheek and landed in Satoru's hand.
He also casually put the other Shuriken and such into his Ninja tool pouch.
"I heard that Lord Danzo's Wind Release was once famous throughout the countries.
I wonder if his current strength is still as strong as when he was young."
Facing Danzo's request, Satoru, who usually didn't care what Danzo did, concentrated powerful Wind Release Chakra on his Kunai.
Hoo~
Buzz buzz!
The powerful Wind Release condensed on the Kunai, emitting an ear-piercing hum.
"My Wind Release is also quite good. I'd like to spar with Danzo."
With the Kunai pointed at Danzo, Satoru was expressionless.
Swoosh swoosh!
Clang!
Before Danzo could speak, the two behind him immediately moved when they heard his words.
They drew their blades and attacked from left and right.
Swish!
Satoru flicked his Kunai, and the Wind Release Chakra, like the Sword of Promised Victory, transformed into a long, whip-like hurricane, sweeping directly.
It forced both of them back before they could even get close.
The trees and ground grazed by the hurricane were a mess.
The ground churned, and trees fell.
Bang bang bang!
"Wind Release: Breakthrough."
Boom!
A storm erupted around him, directly blowing away the black insects that tried to approach.
Whoosh Pfft pfft pfft pfft
"Mind Body Switch Technique."
Fu Yamanaka dodged the attack, aiming his Ninjutsu at Satoru.
It hit directly.
"It worked."
However, before he could control Satoru's body, a giant foot stomped down on his mind.
"Genjutsu, when?"
Fu Yamanaka was horrified.
Bang!
He was stomped out.
After a few rounds, the two were effortlessly defeated by Satoru.
Satoru didn't display much power, but the information gap was too great. He defeated two elites with just the strength of a regular Jonin.
"Don't be impulsive. If you don't agree, then so be it."
Danzo frowned slightly, seeing Torune Aburame and Fu Yamanaka easily defeated.
This guy's strength was indeed very strong.
"I'm warning you once: if you ever harbor ill intentions towards my family again, next time it won't be this simple.
Don't think that all those Sharingan of yours can deal with my Genjutsu.
Remember, I was also an Acting Hokage. You're still a bit lacking."
Satoru erupted with a powerful aura. A huge demon god seemed to appear behind him, ready to devour Danzo.
This made Danzo very uncomfortable. He hadn't expected Satoru's Genjutsu ability to be so strong.
He was still caught, even when he was prepared.
"You'll regret this. Torune, Fu, let's go."
Seeing Satoru so stubborn, Danzo turned and left.
The two disheveled guards also quickly followed.
However, they both glanced at Satoru before following.
They were already thinking about how to achieve a higher chance of winning if they encountered him again.
Seeing Danzo leave, Satoru put away his Kunai.
"Old man, if it weren't to keep things from going off track, I'd kill you."
It was only because Danzo hadn't made any moves against him or his family that he didn't deal with him this time.
He didn't know what he had eaten to dare set his sights on his son this time.
Could it be that he knew his son had research talent and wanted him to join Root to research some technology for him?
Satoru made a guess.
But it also made him very angry, so he used visual Genjutsu to plant a Genjutsu seed in Danzo's Chakra.
As long as he was within his perception range, he could perform some operations.
For example, activating suggestive Genjutsu to subtly weaken the presence of his children in Danzo's mind.
Danzo probably wouldn't frequently use Sharingan, Byakugan, or have regular physicals, right?