As Chiba and Hanbi started nearing closer and closer to the Konoha secret outpost, they began using the wall walking technique to dump out the majority of their chakra.
By the time they'd reached the outpost, they had little chakra remaining and were covered in seemingly terrible injuries.
As they neared a large Boulder that stood out from the forests foliage, blades were quickly rested on both of their necks as two Shinobi used Flickering body to get behind them.
Knowing that they only have three seconds before they'd get their throats sliced open, Hanbi quickly spoke.
"Fire Blossom's scent on a moonless night" there was a moment of silence as the Ninjas removed the blade from their necks and one of them lifted the boulder up slightly, allowing all four of them jumped in.
Underneath the boulder was a large underground room that had three dozen battle ready Shinobi, all ready to be sent out on a mission in an instant if the need arrises.
With the two heavily injured shinobi jumoing down, a group of four Shinobi rushed over and began treating Chiba and Hanbi. Two went over and set Hanbi's broken bone back in places and put on a temporary splint as the other two helped Chiba.
Grabbing ahold of the blade tip sticking out of him, the healing ninja accurately pulled the blade out with one quick motion and began sowing the bleeding wound. Immediately after pulling the blade out, another ninja placed their glowing green hand on the other side of the wound.
Then they perfomed medical jutsu on Chiba's broken foot in the same way they did Hanbi's broken arm, realigning it and putting a split on it.
Once their major wounds had been roughly treated, they stopped the treatment as they needed to have enough chakra necessary to perfom emergency mission when the time arrives.
While they were being healed up, a Shinobi with dark hair, a mole on his cheek and an emotionless face stared at Chiba intently.
Chiba figured he was the leader of this small secret hide out but noticed something was off about him. His Observation Haki seemed to pick up a weird chakra signature on the man's tongue, the chakra was similar to that of a Seal?
If chiba had functioning eyes, theyd widen realizing why his tongue had a seal.
'Wait a minute! The only people that I remember having their tongues sealed, were Danzo's Minions! This guys must be a root Shinobi!' as he came to this realization, the Root ninja who was in charge of the secret base walked up to the duo.
"I'm Tanshi Shimura, acting leader of this outpost. Give me the report of your mission, I heard there was a Jinchuriki in the area and need information." The root ninja said to the both of them, but only stared at Chiba.
"We were sent out on a mission to collect Intel wh-," "Your story will take too long and might have inconsistencies, I'll just read your memory for a quicker and more accurate understanding of what happened.... it's standard procedures when dealing with S ranked missions involving tailed beasts, you have no reason to object." The root Ninja Tanshi squinted at Chiba.
'Fuck! He is only doing this to read my memories on how my sensing ability functions! Whether its my unnaturally powerful sensing ability, my swordsmanship as a blind ninja, or the Kannabi bridge Meteor "incident", Danzo would want to know it all!'
Chiba forced his face to remain neutral as he looked at Hanbi with his Haki, the man remained completely nuetral as well. Being a Nara clan member, Hanbi was a lot smarter than most and had a grasp on his mind scape, but Chiba saw Hanbi beggining to sweat.
While Hanbi was confident in tricking the mind reading technique as a Nara Jonin who routinely worked with Yamanaka's, Hanbi was worried about Chiba. The moment they read Chiba's memories, it would show Hanbi hiding away and faking his injuries!
"We understand, read mine first as Ive faced the most difficulty " Hanbi said as he stepped toward Tanshi.
The root Ninja looked at Hanbi with a slight annoyance when he stepped forward first, he only wanted to learn about Chiba's secrets but decided to play along and raise his hand and out it on Hanbi's head.
The man stood there for a few minutes reading Hanbi's false memories before taking his hand off and nodding, quickly moving on to Chiba. The root ninja just gave a cursory glance at Hanbis memories as he could barely wait to read the blind Chunins memory and be more useful to his clan patriach, Lord Danzo.
"Me and him were in the same squad, there isn't a need to look through his memories." Hanbi said, trying to sound as casual as possible.
"You were fighting for you life and nearly got killed from your injuries, it would be impossible to know everything this boy had done. This is merely regulation." Tanshi said as he raised his hand to Chiba.
Hanbi had his hands in his pockets, two military ration in one hand and multiple smoke bombs in the other, ready to flee the moment they find out! Hanbi would leave now but he needed every second to regain a little more of his Chakra that he had just dumped out.
Chiba felt his mind racing as the man neared him with his hand out.
'I have no mental barriers! They're gonna find my memory of Kannabi bridge and the incident with the Jinchuriki! Will they also be able to read my mind and find out I'm not from this world!? What about the sy-' Chiba was interrupted as he felt the cold hands of the root ninja touching his forehead and he immediately went unconscious
[WARNING: HOST'S MIND IS BEING INVADED! SYSTEM IS IN DANGER OF BEING DISCOVERED!]
[SENDING MENTAL PROJECTION TO COMBAT INVADER]
[MENTAL PROJECT HAS BEEN DEPLOYED, SYSTEM HAS TAKEN MANUAL CONTROL OVER PROJECTION]
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Entering the boys mind, Tanshi looked around and was surprised at the scenery around him.
The majority of the mindscapes that he had previously entered were just the homes or towns of where his target lived, but here he saw a beautiful blue ocean with a bright full moon.
Feeling a slight sway beneath his feet, the root Ninja realized that he was standing on an extremely large ship in the middle of the ocean, crystal clear water stretching out for Infinity.
*CLACK CLACK CLACK*
Hearing the sound of something tapping the ground, Tanshi looked up in shock to see a blind 'man' who appeared to be nearly 9 ft tall.
There appeared to be two large scars over both of the 'mans' eyes and he wore a white jacket that had the word [MARINE] written on it.
"What are you? Another human couldn't possibly be in here whilst I am!" The jutsu that Tanshi used to enter minds was very dangerous. One wrong mistake and he could end up braindead, yet another 'man' was able to somehow enter as well?!
The tall blind 'man' opened his mouth to speak, but instead of words coming out, the world around them began to make noise.
"-.-- --- ..- .... -.-. .- -. .----. - .... -... . .... .- .-.. .-.. --- .-- . -.. .... - --- .... .-.. . .- ...- . .... .- ..-. - . .-. .... .-.. . .- .-. -. .. -. --. .... --- ..-. .... -- -.-- .... . -..- .. ... - . -. -.-. . --..-- .... -.-- --- ..- .... -.-. .- .-. .-. -.-- .... .- .... - .... .-. . .- - .... - --- .... -- -.-- .... -.-. .- -. -.. .. -.. .- - . .... .- -. -.. .... -- -.-- .... .- ... -.-. . -. ... .. --- -. -.-.-- .-..-."
Mind shatteringly loud clicks and clacks filled the root ninjas mind making him unable to even think properly.
Thats when suddenly white energy flew out of the blind 'man' an it quickly overtook reality, it began to tear away at the blue sky and boat, changjng everything until all that remained was a large white box that had just the two inside of.
Raising its hand down, the 'man' slammed Tanshi into the ground as the Ninja felt his bones creaking and he could barely breath with this invisible force weighing down on him.
Desperately using all of his strength to put his hands together, the root ninja made a snake hand sign and tried to activated the return jutsu, only for nothing to happen.
The man was shocked that he couldnt escape this mindscape, he tried using all of his strength to stand up only for his muscles to strain and snap under the force. Just when the root ninja thought it couldnt get worse, he noticed a box of text appear before the tall blind 'man'.
[INCREASING PAIN SENSITIVITY BY 2000%]
[TIME PERCEPTION INCREASED BY 1000000%]
[REMOVING DEATH CONDITIONS FROM BOX]
The root Ninja barely had any time to read that when suddenly the blind 'man' drew his sword and stabbed, piercing the heart of the ninja!
Shreaks of soul piercing pain reverberated from the still alive Ninja, but he still couldn't move from the gravity.
The sword in the blind 'mans' hands turned into a blur, his sword began slicing and dicing into the shrieking Root Ninja at well beyond the speed of sound
The blood and viscera splattered onto the blind 'mans' face, his expression however still remained emotionless even with the the gore splattering on him and the soul chilling screams that rang out.
With a sudden flash of his sword, the root ninja's head was decapitated and fell onto the floor. There was finally a bit of silence in the white room when suddenly the head flew over and reattached itself to the body!
The blood and bits flesh that had splattered on to the white floor began flying back to the Ninjas body, quickly resembling him back to perfect health!
"W-what? H-how am i s-still alive!" The blind 'man' didn't answer as his sword once again turned into a blur of attacks.
This cycle continued on for what appeared to be only minutes in the real world, but for the Root Ninja it was Months.
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Just a headups, im setting the story up so that Chiba will get two endings. One is the true ending where he lives out his life and grows old in the narutoverse, but ill write an alternative ending where after the plot is finished, he'll transitions into another world with his memories and powers intact.
Basically after this story is finished, i want to write another fanficton with the end of series Chiba and have him take on other verses and grow stronger. Its just an alternative ending that doesnt affect this story too much except every now and then.