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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.

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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...

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 dri...

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" mo...

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.

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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 com...

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 V...

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 tha...

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...

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 requi...

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 the...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 s...

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 chan...

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...

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...

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 h...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_388

Earth Release: Rock Pillar Spikes

Takuma slammed his hands on the road when he heard sprinting footsteps. Sharp, earthen spikes in the shape of narrow pyramids shot out from t...

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 cr...

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 w...

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...

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 ...

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 lo...

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 ...

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. Howe...

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 leap...

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 ...

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 befo...