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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 clone blast. A lush perimeter of trees surrounded the...

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 cover of night as the city was on lockdown. There we...

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 formalities. With the news that an entire shinobi army ...

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 since the troops at Camp Banana had left the troops...

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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Takuma opened the door to Aranai's room, waking up the priso...

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 done.

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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) Expanding Takuma's emotional response/aftermath to what ...

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. But since the past few days, that tranquility had ...

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 screamed. It was a bizarre experience because not only...

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 were out of sight of the two people in the back, keep...

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 meal under any circumstance with every few exception...

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 even though he had an urgent report to give to the ...

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 gestured for the team along with Chinatsu and Gaku t...

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. He was alone having a sad pre-packaged lunch in an...

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 the staff had abandoned their buildings, but some...

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 people with stick up their asses who didn't apprecia...

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 by not only selling drugs to his peers, he had also...

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, scuffed shoulder bag close to his body; it carried th...

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 pacakging. They wore leather gloves and had long sca...

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 son and a Kumi lieutenant. Most didn't know the rea...

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, and meticulously maintained courtyards. A peaceful...

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 would be leaked so soon. However, more importantl...

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 hundred thousand civilians around them who worked ...

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 guards patrolling the perimeter of the warehouse; t...

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 roll sat a few minutes away but Takuma was separat...

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 around the blocks, carefully routing away from the le...

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 nowhere to be seen, Takuma wondered if he had found ...

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. He was continuously being cornered and desperatel...

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 surrounded by unknown hostiles. A part of him wanted to...

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 Gaku.

Takuma, Anko, and Gaku wer...