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Chapter 73 73: Roots in the Darkness · Oct 25, 2026

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51 Chapter 51 51: Jiraiya’s Killing Intent 2026-10-25
52 Chapter 52 52: I’m in a Very Bad Mood Right Now 2026-10-25
53 Chapter 53 53: So What If You’re the Strongest in the Shinobi World? 2026-10-25
54 Chapter 54 54: Father… Mother? 2026-10-25
55 Chapter 55 55: What Sins Did I Commit in My Past Life? 2026-10-25
56 Chapter 56 56: Mom Must Have Suffered Too, Right? 2026-10-25
57 Chapter 57 57: Which Matters More: A Person… or the Village? 2026-10-25
58 Chapter 58 58: That’s It? It’s Resolved Just Like That? 2026-10-25
59 Chapter 59 59: Rage 2026-10-25
60 Chapter 60 60: Is Hiruzen Sarutobi Brain-Dead or What? 2026-10-25
61 Chapter 61 61: Tsunade, Beautiful and Unyielding 2026-10-25
62 Chapter 62 62: Third: Sakura Haruno 2026-10-25
63 Chapter 63 63: Divine Technique 2026-10-25
64 Chapter 64 64: Find the Cave 2026-10-25
65 Chapter 65 65: Is This Even a Ninja Anymore?! 2026-10-25
66 Chapter 66 66: When Sasuke Comes Knocking 2026-10-25
67 Chapter 67 67: She Makes Her Move 2026-10-25
68 Chapter 68 68: You’ve Gone Too Far 2026-10-25
69 Chapter 69 69: You’re Going to Get Me Killed 2026-10-25
70 Chapter 70 70: The Third Hokage Is Truly Aggrieved 2026-10-25
71 Chapter 71 71: Utterly Shameless 2026-10-25
72 Chapter 72 72: Did Nothing at All 2026-10-25
73 Chapter 73 73: Roots in the Darkness 2026-10-25
74 Chapter 74 74: Another System 2026-10-25
75 Chapter 75 75: Truly Shameless 2026-10-25
76 Chapter 76 76: The Outburst 2026-10-25
77 Chapter 77 77: Missing-nin Sakura 2026-10-25
78 Chapter 78 78: Anomaly 2026-10-25
79 Chapter 79 79: The Order of the Divine Knights 2026-10-25
80 Chapter 80 80: Sakura the Trainee 2026-10-25
81 Chapter 81 81: Is Naruto… Not Normal? 2026-10-25
82 Chapter 82 82: The Chakra of Reincarnation 2026-10-25
83 Chapter 83 83: The Reason for the World’s Destruction Has Been Found 2026-10-25
84 Chapter 84 84: The Evil Final Boss Takes the Stage 2026-10-25
85 Chapter 85 85: The Monster Beneath the Sea 2026-10-25
86 Chapter 86 86: An Unsolvable Defense 2026-10-25
87 Chapter 87 87: The Seventh Gate 2026-10-25
88 Chapter 88 88: The Mysterious Figure 2026-10-25
89 Chapter 89 89: Massacre 2026-10-25
90 Chapter 90 90: Collecting the Blood 2026-10-25
91 Chapter 91 91: Research 2026-10-25
92 Chapter 92 92: Ordinary Blood 2026-10-25
93 Chapter 93 93: Orochimaru’s Excitement 2026-10-25
94 Chapter 94 94: Karin 2026-10-25
95 Chapter 95 95: The Demon God 2026-10-25
96 Chapter 96 96: This World Needs Purification 2026-10-25
97 Chapter 97 97: I’m So Happy 2026-10-25
98 Chapter 98 98: Karin Goes on a Rampage 2026-10-25
99 Chapter 99 99: Devil’s Whisper 2026-10-25
100 Chapter 100 100: The Demon Child Descends 2026-10-25

”How am I even supposed to wear this forehead protector when I go out now…”

A young ninja hung his head, utterly dejected.

The Sky Screen continued to shift, and time moved to the following day.

Sakura Haruno seemed to have temporarily forced down the unease from yesterday. After completing a round of training outside, she returned home, slightly exhausted.

But the moment she pushed open the door, the sight before her made her blood run cold and her expression change instantly.

A ROOT operative, wearing an animal mask, stood silently in the middle of her living room—like a ghost that had appeared out of nowhere.

”You—why are you here?!” Sakura demanded, shocked and furious, a powerful sense of dread rising in her chest.

The ROOT member’s voice was flat and mechanical.

”Lord Danzo requests your presence.”

”I’m not going!” Sakura refused without hesitation, her eyes full of vigilance and disgust.

”I already reported everything to the Hokage yesterday! You people can forget about targeting me again!”

Faced with her refusal, the ROOT operative neither grew angry nor retreated. He simply stared at her coldly from behind the mask and repeated:

”You will go.”

Those three calm, certain words struck Sakura like a bolt of lightning.

A terrifying possibility flashed through her mind. Her heart nearly stopped, and her voice trembled uncontrollably as she clenched her teeth and asked:

”My parents… where are my parents? What did you do to them?!”

The ROOT operative didn’t answer—only continued to look at her in silence, exerting invisible pressure.

That silence was more despairing than any reply.

After a long moment, the color drained completely from Sakura’s face.

Her fists clenched tightly, nails digging deep into her palms. Her body trembled with rage and fear.

She knew she had no choice.

”…Fine.”

The word was squeezed out through clenched teeth, filled with humiliation and helplessness.

And so, under the ”escort” of the ROOT operative, Sakura Haruno left her home step by step, her movements heavy, heading toward the outskirts of the village—toward places hidden from the light.

The same underground facility.

But this time, the atmosphere was even heavier, even more suffocating.

Sakura once again stood before Danzō Shimura.

This time, even more masked ROOT members stood around him like silent statues, radiating cold killing intent and faintly enclosing Sakura in their midst.

Danzo gazed down at the girl who had been forced to come, his single eye calm and indifferent. His hoarse voice carried the tone of someone firmly in control.

”Sakura Haruno. We meet again. It seems you’ve recognized reality.”

Sakura was silent for a moment. Instead of answering, she asked a question whose answer she already knew—yet still clung to a final, fragile hope.

”The Third Hokage… he did nothing, didn’t he?”

”He didn’t even summon you to question you. Am I right?”

Danzo let out a sneer without the slightest attempt to hide it. The sound echoed harshly through the underground chamber.

”Hiruzen has always been too ’kind’… and too ’indecisive.’”

He didn’t explicitly admit it—but that near-acknowledgment utterly crushed the last trace of hope in Sakura’s heart.

She took a deep breath, as if forcing down the anger and disappointment in her chest, then slowly exhaled. When she spoke again, her voice was chillingly calm.

”I understand.”

Satisfied with her ”sensibility,” a trace of smugness flashed through Danzo’s eye as he began expounding his twisted ideology.

”Good. Understanding is enough.”

”I am the Root, buried deep in the darkness, holding up Konoha’s great tree.”

”Only in my hands can a power like the Divine Technique be used to its fullest—sweeping aside all obstacles.”

”And only I am capable of leading Konoha to a true peak that no one else can reach.”

These self-aggrandizing words—dressing naked ambition in the guise of noble purpose—made the entire shinobi world watching through the Sky Screen feel physically ill. Curses erupted everywhere.

As for Sakura—

She responded with a cold, merciless laugh.

Raising her head, she locked eyes with Danzo. Her words were like the sharpest of blades, stabbing straight into his core.

”Your ’peak’?”

”You mean the kind of ’peak’ where you watch helplessly as Sasuke tears Konoha in half with a single strike—

and all you can do is hide in the shadows and threaten a genin by kidnapping her parents to steal a secret technique?”

—Hiss!

It felt as though countless people, both inside and outside the Sky Screen, sucked in a sharp breath at the same time.

That was brutal.

Absolutely devastating.

She ripped apart Danzo’s self-important façade and exposed his most incompetent, most despicable side for all to see—bloody and undeniable.

”Well said!!”

”Perfectly said, Sakura!”

”Destroy that shameless old bastard!”

Cheers erupted across the shinobi world.

Danzo’s arrogance and hypocrisy had infuriated them beyond measure, and Sakura’s precise, merciless rebuttal voiced exactly what they were thinking. It was immensely satisfying to hear.

Unsurprisingly, Danzo was completely enraged.

His face darkened instantly, his single eye erupting with undisguised, bone-chilling killing intent. The pressure in the room seemed to drop.

”Sharp-tongued little brat…”

The words were ground out through clenched teeth.

”Filthy, twisted old monster…”

Sakura shot back without hesitation, returning his murderous glare without the slightest fear.

Danzo stared at her in silence for a few seconds.

Then he raised his hand.

At once, two ROOT operatives dragged out two bound figures from the shadows—

Haruno Kizashi and Haruno Mebuki.

Their bodies were tightly bound with ropes, mouths gagged with cloth. They couldn’t speak—only stare at their daughter with wide, desperate eyes, struggling in vain.

”Dad! Mom!”

Sakura’s heart lurched at the sight. She shouted at Danzo in panic,

”Let them go! If you want something, come at me!”

Danzo ignored her desperation completely. His hoarse, icy voice issued a single command:

”Hand over the Divine Technique.”

”Never!” Sakura refused without a moment’s hesitation, her gaze unwavering.

”If I give something like that to you, you’ll only use it to harm even more people! I will not hand it over!”

Danzo seemed to have expected this and didn’t bother arguing further.

Slowly, he drew a sharp tantō. The cold blade came to rest directly against the neck of Sakura’s father—Haruno Kizashi.

”I’ll give you one last chance to reconsider.”

His voice was flat, devoid of emotion—yet more terrifying than any shouted threat.

Seeing the blade pressed against her father’s throat, Sakura trembled violently. An overwhelming killing intent surged within her, and she wanted nothing more than to tear Danzo to pieces.

But she couldn’t move.

Her parents’ lives hung by a single thread.

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