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Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_259

Anko swiftly withdrew her kunai from the Hidden Frost shinobi. Her eyes then shifted to the three-storey U-shaped manor house owned by one of the Yu wealthy who were blown up by Takuma's clo...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_258

It was the dead of the night and the team stalked a manor that was confirmed as the residence of the ROOT team. Getting to the mansion was a struggle even though they had travelled in the co...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_257

It was early in the night when Kon arrived at Ebi's office when the latter was having a late dinner.

"Any clues about the intruders?" Ebi asked immediately, dismissing all forma...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_256

Halfway between Camp Banana and the Spring City of Yu, a temporary base with more than a couple hundred shinobi stood as the army stopped on their journey to take a rest. It had been a day s...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_255 [UPDATED]

EDIT: Re-worked Anko and Takuma's conversation at the end of the chapter to have it make more sense why she's so mad and flow smoother.

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Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_254 [Updated]

EDITS—

1) Chapter has been cleaned up to a public-release ready state.

2) Slight additions to the chapter to foreshadow Anko's displeasure with what Takuma had...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_253 [Updated]

A/N: EDITS—

1) Established background that Takuma had no authority to sacrifice multiple dozens Hot Water citizens so that he could kill the shinobi.

2) Expand...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_252

The Kumi family estate had changed a lot in the past few days. It contained a serene environment of tranquility and peace—guests were rare and only those who were trusted were allowed in. ...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_251

When Takuma opened his eyes, his body felt more uncomfortable than anything. He groaned loudly as he forced himself to sit up in the dirty cot that had served as his bed and his muscles scre...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_250

Sneaking out of the Chinatsu house was easy enough. They snuck out from the backside from a balcony. They stuck to the walls with their backs using chakra adhesion and shifted until they wer...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_249

Hoshiguro's family ate dinner together every day. Him, his wife, their son, their daughter-in-law, and the twin grandchildren. It was a family tradition and no one was allowed to skip the me...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_248

A Hidden Frost genin entered the backyard of a house and stopped when he saw Ebi standing in the middle of the backyard. He couldn't put the feeling in words, but he stood silent and still e...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_247

Late in the morning, a knock on the door sent everyone in the Chinatsu house on the highest alert. Everyone looked at each other, making sure everybody was ready. Anko raised her hand and ge...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_246

It had been seventeen hours since the team had abducted the two Hidden Frost shinobi. Takuma sat in an empty room of an unoccupied Kumi property where they had kept the two shinobi captive. ...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_245

The Hidden Frost army had taken over one of the tourist districts of Yu, forcing the big inns and hotels to accommodate the shinobi as guests for months on end. Most places had shut down and...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_244

"Make sure to enjoy yourself, okay?" Aranai said to his Ryoya, his genin subordinate. He had been lucky to a get a team of three genin, who were in for helping him sell drugs—there were pe...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_243

Aranai was a Hidden Frost chunin who had made a great situation for himself in the city he was occupying as part of a war against the Land of Hot Waters. He was making money hand over fist b...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_242

Yamada stood at the street corner looking at the drug house in the middle of the street. The intimidating guards he had gotten used to once again looked frightening. He clutched the old, scu...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_241

In the Goharu family's drug house, a group of workers busied themselves packaging the crushed brown crystal powder of heroin into bricks and small packets with an umbrella insignia on all pa...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_240

Without fail every single person in the estate gathered around a wide courtyard to watch the bout between the outsider— who everyone was surprised to see was a kid—and Gyon, the head's s...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_239

The home residence of the Kumi family's head was a lavish walled estate with multiple buildings; rock, sand, and grass gardens; a clear pond with fish; several majestic fruit-bearing trees, ...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_238

Takuma paced back and forth in the base with the poster in his clenched fist. He always knew that he had put his face at risk when he had shown it to Motohiro's group, but he didn't think it...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_237

Unilke the Fire Daimyo, the Hokage was a military leader. He didn't need others to handle the military for him. However, one person couldn't manage the tens and thousands of shinobi and the ...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_236

Anko observed a storage warehouse through a pair of binoculars. The sun had long set, and she was standing in open a couple hundred meters away from the warehouse. She saw two pairs of g...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_235

The sun climbed up the sky, bringing about the early morning. In the factory base located in the industrial district, Takuma opened his eyes at dot six in the morning. His comfy camping ...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_234

Takuma released the Hidden Mist Jutsu and ran into the nearest alley with Orange-Mask on his tail. Takuma looked behind and dodged the shuriken launched for his back. He ran aro...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_233

His initial plan was to kill Orange-Mask and then shake off the leader before escaping—but now, as he stood on the rooftop after blasting the leader off the roof and Orange-Mask was no...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_232

As Takuma jumped from the apartment corridor, he considered his situation. Orange-Mask was waiting for him on the ground, and the leader was only a few seconds away inside the apartment....

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_231

‘Take a deep breath,’ Takuma said to himself.

He groaned as another hot stab assaulted his head. There wasn’t a worse time to get a headache when he was surro...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_230

“This is very good,” Takuma said, giving a nod to Gaku.

“Really?” said Anko, surprised by his reaction. She was sure, given their relationship, he would rip into...