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  Tao and Enji were tense as they looked at the Genin standing nontly in front of them. The older Root ninja remembered the order that was given by their superior. 'We weren't supposed to be discovered. All of us were given orders to operate with absolute secrecy. If we're captured, it would bring trouble to Lord Danzo.'

  Daichi had a smile as he looked at the two. "That's a cute pet bird you have. Mind if I keep him? Don't worry. I'll make sure to take good care of him while you two are in a deep dark hole somewhere."

  The two Root ninjas kept aionless face as they heard the Genin's mild threat. Mind games of such level wouldn't affect them.

  Tao/Future Sai had his hands on his tanto and was tense. 'It's a good thing we don't have any identifiable objects on us. For all this Genin knows we are two enemy shinobi trying to kill their t. Still… We o leave. Based on the information we have, Daichi Hekima is already much strohan the average in. There is only one possible path to escape.'

  Tao and Enji g each other from the er of their eyes. A silent unication passed betweewo.

  Daioticed the silent exge and his smile vanished. 'They're about to make their move. But you two won't escape me.'

  The three were in a stand-off but a sed ter Tao swiftly threw three smoke bombs a few feet in front of him while Enji threw several kunai aimed at Daichi. The small balls exploded and thick green smoke covered the area iween Daichi and the two other ninjas. A fra of a sed after the smoke bomb exploded several kunais came out of the smoke speeding in Daichi's dire.

  The older Root ninja threw the kunais in a way that forced Daichi to leap backwards and up to a tree branch. The sed two ink lios burst out of the grouhe tree Daichi was standing on and headed straight for the Genin with their jaws wide open. He easily evaded their attacks aroyed them in seds.

  Despite being forced backwards Daichi wasn't distracted from his targets. He had his chakra focused owo Root ninjas and sehem esg higher into the air. He jumped high up and saw a bd white bird carrying the two ninjas getting further and further away from his position. The gamer ninja stood atop the rge tree and his eyes narrowed as he gazed at the esg ninjas.

  Right then as if time was reversing, the events started pying backwards faster and faster and ihan a sed Daichi was standing in front of the two Root ninjas. They were still gng at each other from the er of their eyes trying to decide on their move.

  From Daichi's perspective even a sed was several minutes long. 'Brain Augmentation plus Hyperition skill in jun with Parallel Processing. One hell of an OP bo.'

  As a single sed passed in the real world Daichi's mind was going through several simutions of his battle with the two ninjas. Daichi's braied these mental simutions based on the information acquired from Observe, their body and muscle structure, their on poud its position on their body and the enviro. His mind also took the information he had on Sai from the past life and used what he knew as reference. After multiple variations Daichi finally came to the most likely strategy the duo was going to try.

  'The st version is the most likely ohey would use.'

  The Genin had multiple thoughts running through his mind. 'I could let them escape without making it look like I let them. If I capture these two, then I'd have to take them back to Kakashi and the Hokage would have solid proof of Root's activities by the end of this mission. It will definitely create a flict with Danzo and that one eyed geezer could do something drastic. Desperate people like him might try stupid things. Not to mention Naruto's graduation is in a couple days. All this mess…'

  Daichi was in a precarious position. 'If I let them go, the status quo won't ge. I'll just tell Kakashi that the attacker escaped and plete this mission without any trouble. But if I capture them, it might bring Danzo's attention to me more than it already has.'

  At that moment the image of Reo and her parents came to his mind. And along with that image came blood boiling ahe gamer ninja ched his fist as he thought about what had happeo his friends Ren and Kimiko Uchiha.

  'If that useless geezer hadn't fahe fmes of hate between the Uchiha d the vilge, then Obito wouldn't have taken advantage and killed the like he did. Reo would still have her parents. Not only that, then the bastard had the gall to send his Root after Tsunade sensei and injure Shizune senpai... All to get to me.'

  [Skill Gamer's Mind has activated]

  The Gamer's mind was doing its job keeping Daichi from doing anything impulsive but the anger alpable around the Genin.

  'Calm down Daichi. Think this through. How you use this situation to your advantage?'

  Daichi's various mental Mana abilities were active. He went through several sarios and the outes of his decisions. Hoturing the Root affected him, the vilge.

  'Keold me that there is already fri between the Hokage and Danzo and it's only getting worse. With this I'll put the nail in the coffin… Directly interfering with a mission assigned by the vilge and killing someone like Ryoma. The Hokage won't tolerate that. Even if Danzo knows I'm the one who took down his agent and brought them in, he won't be able to do anything about it. He'll be too busy dealing with the fallout of his as. His Root will be busy proteg their master. If Danzo es for me or tries to use Naruto then it's game over for him. I'm a rising prodigy, student of Tsunade and Kakashi and Naruto is the Jinchuriki. So even if I bring these two in, Danzo won't be able to retaliate unless he pns to start a civil war. Ohat he won't win.'

  Daichi even took into at how removing Danzo from the board would affect Orochimaru and the Akatsuki. 'If I'm right, Itachi's number one is Sasuke. He knows that at the moment Danzo is the greatest threat to his brother. If Danzo is taken care of, then Itachi will turn his attention to Obito and the Akatsuki. Itachi might be able to gather more intel on that anization and maybe… If it's possible… I use Itachi as a proxy to wage war on the Akatsuki. Or at the very least gather intel on their group…'

  Daichi's thoughts and calcutions were moving faster than ever, going through various possibilities. His eyes were still owo Root ninjas standing in front of him, oblivious to their fate. 'All the possibilities… With the capture of two pawns…'

  Daichi thought hard about his step and he made a choice. A choice he wasn't going back down from. 'Fuck Danzo. Fuck Obito, fuck Zetsu, Fuck Orochimaru. Fuck all those fucks. If I get the ake their lives harder I'm gonna do it. What's the point of being strong if I'm just scared and 't do what I want?'

  Daichi's rage vanished. Despite the anger he felt he wasn't going to make such a decision based oions. He had a calm ral face as he looked at the two Root ninja. Having made a decision he exhaled and focused. Time started to flow normal for him and just as he predicted, Daichi saw Sai reag into pouch to take smoke bombs and holding them between his fingers while his teammate was taking out several kunai.

  Just as they moved, Daichi took out several shuriken from his back pouch. He threw them with greater but precise force at the ons hurled at him by the enemy. All their as took pce at the same time. Just as the smoke bomb exploded c the area, Daichi's shuriken hit the kunias and ged their dires. They flew back towards the two enemy shinobi with greater speed.

  Tao and Enji had jumped back to a new spot a split sed after Tao threw the smoke bomb. But their hidden movements were well within Daichi's calcutions. The two Root ninjas didn't expect to have Enji's kunai redirected and Daichi's shuriken flying at their new location. The two barely defended against the surprise attack but they couldn't deflect all ons.

  Daichi followed after the two Root ninjas just as the smoke exploded. It wasn't harmful so the Geni straight through the green smoke. Daichi used chakra 'Sense skill' and kly where they were. He increased his speed and got behind Tao.

  Before the pale skinned ninja knew what was happening he felt several blows on his back. Daichi hit several pressure points and khe shinobi unscious before he even hit the ground.

  Enji turned his head just in time to see Tao's eyes roll up to his skull and his body falling to the ground. The Root ninja was shocked to see their tactics fail so easily.

  'I o kill Tao and make my escape. He 't fall into enemy hands. Otherwise Lord Danzo will be displeased.'

  Enji gripped his tanto and tensed his leg. Even with keeping his plete focus on Daichi he still couldn't follow the Gamer ninja's movements. Daichi vanished from his sight and the sed he felt a pressure on his ned thehi bnk for him.

  Daichi looked at the two unscious root shinobi and sighed. He created a shadow e and dispelled it, alerting his other two es. One e apanying Ryoma and the other hiding in Ryoma's room.

  —-

  With Ryoma's group: A few minutes before…

  The twanizations were arguing the pros and s of a merger. The discussion had been going on for about an hour. Seeing a stalemate the mediator decided to implement the step in his pns t the two rival paogether.

  Ryoma spoke. "From both of yuments, I tell that you love your families a great deal. This rivalry started with two family members and I believe we end it with two as well."

  Tsuyoshi leaned ba his chair and crossed his arms. "What are you talking about?"

  His rival Yamamoto was also silently paying close attention to Ryoma.

  The mediator chose his words carefully so as to not offend anyone. He looked at the head of the Satoru corporation. "You have a daughter. Middle child. Mika Satoru. 24 years of age I believe."

  Ryoma then turo Yamamoto. "Your you son. Yamaha Hideshi. 25 years I believe. I heard that both of them py quite an important role in yanizations. Is that true?"

  Tsuyoshi nodded. Yamamoto Hideshi narrowed his eyes as he looked at the Dealmaker. "What of it?"

  "The best way to solve this flid make sure it doesn't reignite is to remove the rivalry between your two families. What I'm proposing is a marriage between your daughter Mika Satoru and your son Yamaha Hideshi." Ryoma said as he looked at the two presidents. The two advisors and the guards present in the room were shocked when they heard the idea.

  Tsuyoshi smmed a fist into the table. "You 't be serious. My daughter isn't some odity you use in a business iation." Everyone could see the anger on his face.

  "Hmph! While I don't agree with much of anything Tsuyoshi here says, I'll agree with him on this much. Yamaha isn't some bargain chip you use to leverage me. I'm not gonna force my son into a marriage he doesn't want to." Yamamoto gave his reply.

  Ryoma had a calm smile and spoke to the two. "I wasn't implying any suotion. The reason I suggested marriage is so that there is a medium between your two parties. Both of them are simir in age, good looking, intelligent and an integral part of your corporations. They would both have reasons to protect their families and if they were to get married thewo would also be more motivated to work together for their heirs and safeguard their future. Your profits would increase and so will the strength of yanizations."

  Hearing that, the two presidents g each other with a stoic expression.

  Seeing them ied, Ryoma tinued. "Now aside from that, I've seen that in most love and arranged based marriages, both partners end up happy, satisfied and financially blossomed. This is a win-win sario for all those involved. Right now all I'm asking is for you two to sider this a possibility. Discuss it amongst your family. If you're not ied, if your childre ied, then we fet it and move on… "

  Tsuyoshi and Yamamoto silently looked at each other, uo make a decision. Ryoma smiled as the seeds he pnted slowly sprouted. He looked at Daichi and the Genin gave a small discreet nod. A minute ago the real Daichi sent information to his es updating them ouation.

  The mediator smiled. 'Looks like he captured the enemy. Now I use him or her to my advaomorrow.'

  "I would suggest that we take a break for today. Let's tinue in the m. I have a feeling we're going to make a lot ress tomorrow. I'm excited." Ryoma said with a mysterious grin.

  The people sooed the meeting room and Daichi walked near his t. Kakashi also joihe two and soon they were in front of Ryoma's rge suite.

  "So Daichi… Did it work? Did they take the bait?" Kakashi asked his student.

  "Yup. I have our culprits in custody."

  Kakashi didn't doubt his student. He knew Daichi would have pleted the task without any problems. 'Time to see who they are.'