The next day, Takuma arrived at the office in the morning with his belongings in a crate and his office furniture packed in a storage scroll. The greetings to the relevant people in the headquarters had gone well; they had treated him better than ...
2025-10-14 02:41:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe meeting continued for some more time before Ratel left for his round of greetings. He dismissed the squad for the day, but they hung around to decide who would use which office. They had to set up their offices quickly so they could start work...
2025-10-13 00:40:10 +0000 UTC View PostWith the introductions over, the squad moved into the meeting room for their first informal meeting. The room had two rows of long benches facing a podium on wheels in the front. Takuma stood behind the podium as the team took their first seat on ...
2025-10-10 22:27:39 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a week of rest for Takuma, devoid of the things he usually did. Aside from light warm-ups and walks around the neighbourhood, he was forbidden from doing any physical training. It was a much-needed vacation that he, to his surprise, managed...
2025-09-30 02:08:42 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the Hokage and Stag left, Takuma retreated to his room.
The conversation had gotten heavier by the end, but he didn’t let up because a busy personage like the Hokage wasn’t going to spend hours on a home visit. He asked a couple mo...
2025-09-29 02:33:31 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma looked outside the living room and saw an ANBU-nin in the garden and the heads of four more regular shinobi patrolling outside the house’s boundary wall. There was more security he couldn’t see all around the house premises.
He tu...
2025-09-28 00:42:37 +0000 UTC View PostAfter ANBU cleared out of his house, Takuma shut the door to his room behind him and pulled out the chair from his study table. Sunlight streamed through the window, creating a bright spot on the floor while gently illuminating the silent room. 2025-09-22 19:57:03 +0000 UTC View Post
In his quaint house on the outskirts of the village, silently taken over by ROOT, Danzo read the information set by his agents undercover in the Hidden Leaf Village. Because it wasn’t a scheduled routine report, the contents were short and to th...
2025-09-21 22:12:49 +0000 UTC View PostMitarashi Anko was feeling the blues on Monday morning. She had so much fun drinking and dancing at the club late into the night, but now she had a work week in front of her before she could let go again.
“I don’t want to work,” she wh...
2025-09-20 00:50:41 +0000 UTC View PostKon wheezed in pain as he hobbled his way through the field with a bloody hand on his aching belly. He had a trail of blood going down from the edges of his lips, and the simple act of swallowing blood and saliva felt akin to downing needles becau...
2025-09-15 22:23:03 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma and the twin agents gazed at each other. It was from experience that both sides intuited that they had reached a critical point in the fight. They had already observed and probed each other and tested a few strategies to finish the job. The...
2025-09-14 22:10:57 +0000 UTC View PostThinking a clone would be the perfect teammate was a mistake. Unlike the twins, who probably spent years working together, Takuma never trained for team combat with his clones. They rarely shared a common goal and instead divided responsibility be...
2025-09-13 00:54:00 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma gazed at the identical agents. There had to be a reason why they were given their identical personas. From their short exchange before, it was clear they had great coordination with each other. He even considered that they might be true ide...
2025-08-25 23:34:09 +0000 UTC View PostWhile the world of chakra and shinobi was more dangerous, when it came to the depiction of horror, Takuma's original world was far ahead. The internet had allowed people to share their twisted imaginations with other twisted people who were inspir...
2025-08-24 22:58:56 +0000 UTC View Post"Is anything wrong?"
As Takuma was putting on his shoes at the entrance, Maruboshi called out.
"Not at all. Why do you ask?" Takuma said, smiling.
"You're armed to the teeth and you're wearing those clothes instead of your unifor...
2025-08-22 22:34:40 +0000 UTC View PostA private room at the prestigious Blue Diamond Bar on a busy Saturday evening was not easy to come by, even for those with money and influence. It smelled of cedar and vintage whiskey. Heavy curtains muted the noise of the city below, leaving only...
2025-08-18 23:19:24 +0000 UTC View Post"You can depend on us. We will keep our ear to the ground for any news about ROOT," Chūnin Yamanaka Nakushi smiled as he finished presenting the plan his team had prepared for him, outlining their approach to collect information about ROOT.
Hiruzen stared out of the window in his office. His meeting with Takuma, codename Ratel, had ended. Even though the reason for the summons was something else, the actual conversation had given him a lot to think about.
There was a knock on t...
2025-08-15 23:39:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe Hokage's Office was the most prominent building in the Hidden Leaf Village. It consisted of the immediate staff of the Hokage, as well as multiple levels of support staff reporting to the Hokage.
Takuma arrived there early, at nine in th...
2025-08-11 19:40:10 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma nodded his thanks to the group of hostesses who set the table with a variety of beautifully plated food. He glanced at the man, who invited him to the fanciest restaurant he had ever had the opportunity to visit, someone he had been looking...
2025-08-10 21:37:28 +0000 UTC View Post"I want you to make a squad leader."
Takuma held his emotions. He wasn't surprised because he did think he had produced enough for a promotion, but it was still thrilling to see an ANBU Captain making the offer.
"I like that. I'm inter...
2025-08-09 00:07:09 +0000 UTC View PostA week after leaving for the border outpost, Takuma returned home with two ROOT agents, the burnt remains of a third sealed in a special sealing scroll, and outpost's second-in-command, Chūnin Hyouma. He had called in an ANBU iryō-nin to help in...
2025-08-04 22:57:23 +0000 UTC View PostFujita, with his team, arrived at what he could only call a fiery carnage. A long section of the road was burnt black with embers still burning red. The trees around the road had turned into dirty charcoal, replacing the clean scent with the choki...
2025-08-03 20:32:34 +0000 UTC View PostEarth Release: Earth Spear
It was like opening the stopper at the bottom of the pool. A constant stream of chakra was mixed, transformed, and spread to every nook and cranny of the body. Takuma felt his body grow heavier as the bone...
2025-08-01 22:57:39 +0000 UTC View PostEver since Takuma had learned the Shadow Clone Jutsu, his life had been significantly influenced by the jutsu. He had shifted most of his training to his clones while he handled work. Most of his training time was devoted solely to physical streng...
2025-07-28 22:53:32 +0000 UTC View PostIt was the fifth day of Takuma's stay at the border outpost, and things weren't looking good for Tokubetsu Jōnin Fujita. Even though they knew someone had replaced the patrol reports, there was no proof of wrongdoing.
The only evidence was ...
2025-07-27 20:14:00 +0000 UTC View Post"The kid's a magnet. Or is it just his fate?" Kakashi said as he read Ratel's report from the border outpost.
"You believe in destiny?" Itachi asked out of curiosity.
They were in Kakashi's office in the ANBU Headquarters. Itachi had r...
2025-07-25 12:25:40 +0000 UTC View Post"May I?" Takuma asked Fujita, pointing at the latter's chair behind the table.
Fujita, whose skin had paled in real-time from stress, nodded with some hope glimmering in his eyes. Someone had just made a move to screw him over. He was going ...
2025-07-22 03:44:49 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma sat on a high wall with a sandwich in his hand. His ANBU mask lay on his side, and he had pulled his black balaclava halfway so he could eat while he observed Jeju Hyouma in the distance as the second-in-command went about his day.
Th...
2025-07-20 17:18:34 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: In the last chapter, I wrote that the outpost was small, but I've changed it to be on the bigger side because it's the only post like that on that part of the border. The size itself isn't that important, but I just changed my...
2025-07-15 02:02:05 +0000 UTC View Post