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Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_407: Starting The Investigation
EDIT: Changed the size of the border outpost from small to big after doing some research on import checkpoints at the border and ports.———.As they sat in Fujita's office, the man had recovered from his initial surprise. He was still anxious, but managed to keep his nerves in control. The s...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_406: A New Case
The angry sun glared down on a five-man band as they travelled across the Land of Fire on trade routes. They were dressed lightly but covered themselves well to beat the heat and protect themselves from the sun, while carrying between three and four absurdly large wooden cargo boxes on their backs.W...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_405: A Sharper Blade
Campbell exhaled through his nose, slow, steady. He adjusted his grip and kept his blade low with his shoulders rolled back. His stance was narrow, his feet silent on dirt. Every motion born of drilled repetition; every muscle etched with the shape of battle.Across from him, Ratel bounced on the bal...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_404: Some Time Later...in ARC-11
Takuma, like most people, had highs and lows in his life, but it had been so long since he had experienced a high period since starting his second life that he had come to cherish the "flatline" moments of normalcy.The past few months had been the best flatline periods of his second life.He ...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_403: The Grey Remanent
Yamanaka Inenpachi's office was one of the calmest and quietest places Takuma knew, and yet, his time there was never so. He and chaos were always double-booked every time he visited."Are you ready?" asked Inenpachi as he closed his journal.After spending numerous sessions with the iryō...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_402: Bingo
The ANBU headquarters was a block of concrete built inside a mountain without any natural light. On the best days, it was a dreary place with art curated by a sixty-year-old as the only form of common decor. That was why people who worked in the building took it upon themselves to individualise pers...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_401
Even though four ROOT agents had recently been captured in Inahara, there was much more buzz about the discovery of three agents. This wasn't surprising because they were found in the Hidden Leaf Village. The higher-ups were much more concerned about spies in their backyard, and because of it, t...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_400: That's Too Many Chapters
Takuma felt strange to have luck on his side.Inuzuka Yubi had managed to find a solid connection to ROOT by discovering an undercover agent or an external collaborator. It wasn't strange that they had left behind people in important positions, or those who simply existed in the village as a conn...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_399
Ten days had passed since Takuma returned home from Inahara. During that time, he led the team—and a number of water clones—to complete and organise the case material into a knowledge base that would serve as the foundation for the case. It was a lot of work, but they finally managed to complete...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_398
Takuma checked his clothes for the fourth time before ringing the doorbell.It was his first time visiting the Uchiha house after his run-in with Itachi. Even though it was a job requirement to keep his position in ANBU a secret, he felt guilty keeping it from Mikoto, especially since finding out tha...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_397
"A traitor? Like Orochimaru?" Takuma asked with concern because while he agreed with everything she had said, he couldn't see how a tumour like Orochimaru would help the village. Even if there were some upside, it would be drowned out by the downside."Orochimaru? Why did he come up?&...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_396
"Even the thought of swearing fealty to a clan makes me want to die."It was clear that she had some complicated feelings and negative views towards shinobi clans. Could it be that she was a civilian-born shinobi and felt some form of complex towards her clan-born peers? But she had been abov...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_395
Takuma wasn't expecting to meet someone he knew. He put down the shovel and bucket as he returned the greeting. "How have you been? If I'm not wrong, the last time we met was at Inuzuka Hana's promotion party, right?"Okubo Momoe was his shinobi academy classmate. She had cinnamon...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_394
After taking over the case, he unexpectedly found some time on his hands as Amami worked on the agents and other prisoners. After what happened at Inahara, they needed additional information before proceeding with any new leads. Until then, they had to complete paperwork and process what they had fr...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_393
Takuma's dry throat stung as he nervously swallowed. He gazed at one of the captured ROOT agents through a pane of glass, lying on a surgical table. The agent was missing one of his arms from his shoulder.They were in the medical ward of the facility.Down the hall, the other three agents recover...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_392
Rui was on the road for longer than he had initially expected. Things had changed since he was stationed at Inahara and had limited access to information. Being ousted from the Hidden Leaf had changed ROOT's situation drastically. After he conveyed his messages and asked to be brought back in, h...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_391
It took until the following midnight for them to be released from their cells.The door to Takuma's cell opened while he was repeating a kick routine. He opened his eyes to see Barbary standing in front of his cell. The ANBU lieutenant was so big that Takuma couldn't see his face because the ...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_390
The jōnin put all of them in jail, where they were treated like high-risk terrorists.They were separated in different cells, stripped of their clothes and gear, subjected to cavity searches, slapped with chakra suppression cuffs while fūin-nin could draw suppression seals directly on their bodies,...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_389
The vortex drenched Takuma as he struggled to run on the turbulent water. He looked up at the ROOT agent floating down toward the other riverbank in frustration. The unstable flow of water forced him to constantly adjust the flow of chakra in the soles of his feet just to remain afloat. He wouldn...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_388
Earth Release: Rock Pillar SpikesTakuma slammed his hands on the road when he heard sprinting footsteps. Sharp, earthen spikes in the shape of narrow pyramids shot out from the surface, but the intended target leapt over them like it was nothing.He felt a lava of anger sludge in his veins as he defl...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_387
'What do I do now?' Rui thought as he crashed into the boundary stone wall of a house that all but crumbled on impact. He bore the agony from his back as he slid down against the cracked stone. He wanted to rest, but the dozen or so feet-sized flying beetles that appeared from around the cor...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_386
Takuma gritted his teeth as he desperately gripped the handle of the kunai on the side of the wall, as he faced the full force of the Wind Release ninjutsu. It felt like trying to resist a windstorm that uprooted trees and houses. He raised his hand to protect himself from the dislodged bricks that ...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_385
All of it started very abruptly as the sun had just begun to fall from its peak, and temperatures began to cool. The people on the streets stopped in surprise when they saw heavily armed and armoured men appear on the street, moving quickly and with precision. They looked up to see similarly dressed...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_384
The city of Inahara was among the major cities in the Land of Fire. It had a large population and a growing economy, owing to its position as the centre of a thriving region in the country. It had a larger civilian population than the Hidden Leaf Village, generating more business for shinobi, which ...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_383
Early the next day, Takuma arrived at the designated spot where he was meeting Krait and the assault squad before they were leaving for Inahara. It was the city he had identified as the possible location of the kidnappings for the human test subjects used in the bunkers. It made sense that the couri...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_382
Inenpachi watched as Takuma was utterly taken in by the mindscape. From the moment they had come in, he had become absorbed in the surroundings and hadn't made a single comment or asked any question.Everything that didn't make sense to Inenpachi seemed to make sense to him."Do you recogn...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_381
Krait and the assault squad successfully captured their target at the bunker. He was transported home to be interrogated by Kestrel at the facility managed by Torture and Interrogation. However, unlike the scientists with loose lips, the supply courier had the mouth of a monk who had taken the vow o...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_380
The two ANBU-nin stared at each other for a moment until someone else's footsteps broke the silence in the stairwell. Both of them looked up and saw a kunoichi skipping up the stairs by leaping from railing to railing every couple of floors. She looked at Takuma, ignored him, and did the same wi...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_379
The bunker wasn't the place in his vision.Takuma sat behind his new desk in the big open space assigned to the team for the case. All five people involved had a desk in the space they would be using for the coming months. All sort of evidence was transported to the room, taking over half the roo...
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_378
Maruboshi sensed something was wrong when he returned home to find Takuma brooding in the living room. He was still dressed in outdoor clothes and had an untouched bottle of water on the table before him."How did the visit to the iryō-nin go?" he asked as he sat across Takuma.Takuma pushed ...
