"Uchiha Kaoru, the master has invited you!"
This masked ninja's voice was ice-cold, and made people feel as if they were in a ten-thousand-year-old ice cave.
"The master.....is he referring to Lord Hokage?"
Yugao Uzuki thought to herself inwardly, and it seemed that Lord Hokage had something that he wanted to discuss with Kaoru.
"Master, which master are you talking about?" Kaoru asked aloud.
"You'll know once you get there!" The masked ninja said in a cold voice, and didn't answer Kaoru's question directly.
"And what if I don't want to go?" Kaoru raised his eyebrows.
"If you don't want to go then don't blame me for knocking you unconscious and taking you there!"
The masked ninja didn't waste any time arguing with Kaoru at all, and instead threatened him directly.
"Kaoru......you should still go, it won't do you any harm."
The Yugao Uzuki who was beside him advised Kaoru, and she still thought that this masked ninja in front of her was one of the people from the Anbu that was led by the Third Hokage.
"Since Sister Yugao has already said it like that....." Kaoru nodded his head, "Then I'll have to accept your invitation respectfully."
"Hmph, that's more like it, follow me then." The masked ninja harrumphed coldly, and turned around first, preparing to lead the way.
"Wait for me for a moment, I need to go to the bathroom, is that alright?" Kaoru said with a slight smile.
"Go and come back quickly."
This masked ninja only spat out four words in response to Kaoru's request, and he wasn't worried about Kaoru running away, and he was just a Genin, and even if he ran, he wouldn't be able to escape from the palm of his hand.
Kaoru nodded his head, and then headed towards the bathroom at the corner at the end of the corridor.
He walked into the bathroom, and after waiting for the only person who was urinating in the bathroom to leave, he locked the door of the bathroom from the inside.
"How troublesome, I didn't expect that the people from Danzō would actually be the first to come looking for me, the Third Hokage is truly slow enough."
Kaoru shook his head, and sighed, and he was clear in his heart that he had already succeeded in making a name for himself in the tower in the Forest of Death, and if he hadn't guessed wrongly, both Danzō and the Third Hokage would throw him an olive branch, and what he had to do was join the Anbu, in order to reject joining the Root organization, and otherwise, Danzō wouldn't give up on him so easily.
"It's better to be prepared than to not be prepared." Kaoru said in a low voice, and then waved his hand, and instantly, the Ice Bow and Arrow appeared in his hand.
"Go!" Kaoru raised his arrow and drew his bow, and used the "Eagle Soaring Through the Sky", and shot the Spirit of the Hawk out through the window, and then the Spirit of the Hawk circled around this Leaf Village hospital, and paid attention to all of the movements in the surroundings.
"All done!" After Kaoru had finished doing all of that, he put the bow and arrow away once again, and walked out of the bathroom as if nothing had happened.
"You're truly long-winded enough!"
The masked ninja snapped at Kaoru, and then took the lead and walked off, and Kaoru also smiled slightly, and followed behind him.
Within the hospital room, Shin opened the door by a thin crack, and he had seen everything clearly, from the masked ninja appearing to taking Kaoru away.
The two of them left the Leaf Village hospital in this manner, one in front and one behind, and arrived on the street.
At this time, after a day of matches, the sun was already setting, and the dim and hazy setting sun was stretching out the shadows of the masked ninja and Kaoru on the quiet and secluded street.
"Kakashi has finally come looking for me....."
At this time, the Spirit of the Hawk that Kaoru had released had already seen Kakashi's shadow, and Kakashi at this time was hurrying in his direction under Pakkun's lead, and it seemed that he had come to find him under the Third Hokage's instructions.
"I can't allow myself to be taken into the Root organization just like this, and I have to find a way to delay them a little, and wait for Kakashi to arrive, and that way things will become much more fun."
Kaoru thought to himself inwardly, and then: "Who are you?" He suddenly stopped his footsteps, and asked.
"Why are you still so talkative, didn't I say that you'll know once we get to our destination?"
The masked ninja said in a cold voice, and he had been maintaining a single tone in his voice ever since the start, and it was as if he was just a machine.
"There's no one around anymore, and you can very well tell me right now." Kaoru said.
"Alright then." The masked ninja nodded his head, "Since you'll be a member of our organization in the future anyway, it won't matter if I tell you now, we are members of Root."
"Root? I'm sorry, but I've never heard of it before."
Kaoru answered with a smile, and he was just a Genin who had just graduated from the ninja academy at this time, and he "shouldn't" know of the Root organization's existence.
"Hmph, it's also normal that you don't know of our existence, and I would actually start to suspect your identity if you knew about us right now." The masked ninja said aloud.
"Then.....what is your purpose?" Kaoru continued to ask.
"Little stinker, you're asking too many questions ah."
The masked ninja had already become somewhat impatient with Kaoru, and he took out a kunai, and waved it in front of Kaoru, "If you ask any more questions, then I'll cut off your tongue!"
"Then I won't ask anymore." Faced with the masked ninja's threat, Kaoru nodded his head with a smile, and there was no need for him to ask anymore, because....Kakashi had already come.
"I've found him!" A slightly simple and honest voice rang out, and Pakkun's figure appeared in the vision of Kaoru and that Root organization ninja.
"It appears that we were too late, and someone has already gotten here first....."
Then, Kakashi's voice also rang out, and he was still wearing that fox mask, and the eyes under the mask were coldly sizing up this Root organization ninja.
"The people from the Root organization were actually one step faster than me."
Kakashi continued to say, "Lord Danzō received the news so quickly, and his movements aren't slow either ah."
"You fellow are.......a person from the Anbu!" That Root organization ninja also looked at Kakashi with an unfriendly gaze.
"Hmph!" Kakashi harrumphed coldly, and he had come into contact with the Root organization before in the past, and had almost done something that he would regret for the rest of his life due to Danzō's guidance (refer to the Kakashi Anbu arc in the original story for more details), and Kakashi had also brought Yamato from the Root organization into the Anbu, and therefore he didn't have even the slightest good impression of the Root organization that was led by Danzō.
After thinking about it to himself for a moment, Kakashi turned his head towards Kaoru, and said in a cold voice: "Lord Hokage has invited you, follow me for a trip!"
"Wait a moment!" Before Kaoru could even answer, that Root organization ninja spoke up first instead.
"He has already received Lord Danzō's invitation, and I was the one who came to find him first, and therefore this little brat must follow me first!"
The Root organization ninja retorted coldly, and he had to complete Lord Danzō's task, and he had to stop them even if the other party was a subordinate of Lord Hokage, because he only obeyed the orders of Lord Danzō alone.
"What a joke, does this kind of thing even require one to be first come first serve?" Kakashi said with a sneering smile, "Furthermore, do you think that you can disobey Lord Hokage's orders if you want to?"
"You!" The Root organization ninja frowned his eyebrows tightly, and looked at Kakashi with a cold gaze, "Don't push your luck too far!"
"Oh my oh my....." Kaoru, who had been watching Kakashi and the Root organization ninja argue for a while from the side, finally couldn't help but speak up.
"This is truly a headache ah......both of you want me to go and pay a visit to your masters, but it's not like I can use the Shadow Clone Technique to go to both places, can I?"
Kaoru pretended to rub his head with a look of pain, "I think that you won't be able to come to any kind of conclusion by arguing like this, so how about this, if you can use your hands then try to avoid arguing, and you two should have a fight, and I'll follow whoever wins."
A look of contemplation flashed across the faces of Kakashi and that Root organization ninja in response to Kaoru's suggestion, and they were both very confident in their own strength, and after thinking about it for a moment, they all agreed to it.
"Very well then, that's exactly what I wanted!"
"Let's fight then, who's afraid of who!"
Kakashi and the Root organization ninja both said it like that.
"That's just great then." Kaoru nodded his head with a smiling face, and then walked off to the side, and sat down on a railing nearby, and left a space for Kakashi and the Root organization ninja.
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