Naruto started to become stronger by becoming a disciple of Tsunade

"Then do you know about the Root of Konoha?" Tsunade turned her head and asked Okamoto Dousuke.

"Roots? I don't know!" Okamoto Dousuke really wanted to say that he knew, but what would happen after he said he knew?

Where did Okamoto Dousuke get the information from? He had no way of explaining it.

You must know that the Konoha Root is a secret organization within Konoha, even among the Jounin of Konoha.

The Root of Konoha has been operating as the Konoha Anbu outside.

The average, ordinary jonin can't tell the difference between Konoha's Anbu and Konoha's root.

Only some ninjas who had access to Konoha's core secrets and people of higher status in the village knew about this organization that existed only in the dark.

Even some patriarchs of small families had only heard of the Root, an organization similar to the Anbu, but with completely different powers and functions.

Okamoto Dousuke saw that Tsunade seemed to want to say something, so he simply said he didn't know.

Otherwise, Okamoto Dousuke would not be able to explain how a mere Genin like him got the information about the Root.

"The Root of Konoha is a secret organization of Konoha, just like the Anbu of Konoha!!"

"Most people only know about Konoha's Anbu, but they don't know the difference between Anbu and Root." Tsunade said expressionlessly.

"Teacher, from what you said, it seems that the Root was behind this incident?" Okamoto Dousuke pointed at the dead Kaito and the sturdy woman.

"Well, only the root of Konoha would resort to such unreasonable and cruel means!" Tsunade nodded.

"The Konoha Anbu was originally founded by the Second Hokage and is directly under the Hokage. No one can influence it. It is a force directly led by the Hokage!" Tsunade paused and continued.

"Although the Konoha Root is also part of the Anbu, it does not directly report to the Hokage, but to a Konoha elder named Danzo Shimura!!"

"The duties of Konoha Anbu are more focused on the safety of the village, and their main task is to protect the safety of the village Kage."

"There are also espionage activities against Konoha by other villages, as well as intelligence gathering from enemy villages. Every member of the Anbu is an excellent ninja carefully selected from within the village, and the Anbu is an elite force far superior to ordinary teams!! It is an indispensable part of protecting the safety of the village!"

"The responsibilities of the Konoha Root are more oriented towards the internal part of the village. The Root's tasks are more to capture spies who have infiltrated the village, and to secretly review the loyalty of the ninjas in the village." Tsunade explained the difference between the Root and the Anbu.

At the beginning, the Root was established as a training department for the Anbu, but gradually the Root was out of the control of the Hokage under the control of Danzo Shimura.

Eventually, a department independent of the Anbu was formed.

Today's Konoha Root has become a place where the leader of the Root, Danzo Shimura, has the final say. No one else's orders will be obeyed except those from Danzo Shimura.

Even the orders of her teacher, the Third Hokage, were meaningless in the Root.

"When the Root was first established, most of the adopted war orphans were from various countries. After a short period of training, those with potential will continue to be trained!!"

"As for those children who fail, the Root will send these children who have been briefly trained directly to the Land of Fire or even to various countries in the Ninja World!!"

"The Root also doesn't teach them any ninjutsu, taijutsu, or even some common sense about ninjas."

"These people will disguise themselves as ordinary civilians!!" Tsunade shook her head when she said this.

"No, it shouldn't be said that they are pretending to be ordinary people, but that they are ordinary people."

"These ordinary people from the roots will become disposable at certain moments. For the roots, their lives are used to do certain things!!"

"Their existence is the sorrow of Konoha!!!" Tsunade looked at Kaito and his mother's body with a little sadness.

These people are simply disposable tools. If you become such a person, your life will not be guaranteed at all.

This is the dark side beneath the bright Konoha.

"Yes, they can indeed play an unexpected role unintentionally." Okamoto Dousuke agreed with Tsunade's words.

If Kaito and his mother were ninjas, Okamoto Dousuke would definitely be on high alert at the first moment.

I will never be as careless as I was this morning.

After all, who would care about a village woman who has lived in a small town for more than ten years? !

This village woman who had been hiding in Fengyu Town for more than ten years used her own life to persuade Okamoto Dousuke to fall into the deadly trap set for him by Shimura Danzo far away in Konoha.

If Okamoto Dousuke's strength had not been further enhanced, he would definitely have died at the very beginning.

When he thought of Danzo Shimura, the mastermind behind this incident, Okamoto Dousuke was filled with endless anger.

Hearing what Okamoto Dousuke said, Tsunade looked at him in surprise.

"Yes, Doujie, you are right. Ordinary people cultivated from these roots will play an extraordinary role at certain critical moments."

"It is precisely because of this that these ordinary people are cursed by the Root, the Seal of Speech and Disaster!!" Tsunade said in a cold voice.

"Is this the reason why their brains were destroyed into a mess and they died directly?" Okamoto Dousuke asked, pointing at the sturdy woman holding the seaman's body.

"That's right. Because there are so many ordinary people in the Root, when they are sent to various places in the Ninja World, the Root will set up the Seal of Speech and Trouble in their brains!! To prevent them from leaking secrets. And those ninjas belonging to the Root will be planted with the Seal of Tongue and Trouble. This curse will only paralyze the body of the ninja who has the intention to resist, and he can neither speak nor move."

"This seal of speech is even more cruel than the seal of tongue. Once they utter any words or secrets, their brains will be destroyed by the chakra stimulated by the seal. The seal of speech also ensures that these ordinary people have no chance to resist the orders of the root!!"

"And the biggest difference between the Root and the Anbu is that once you enter the Root, you will have no name, no emotions, no past, and no future. You will only have your mission in your heart. You will be a complete "robot."

"What a cruel curse! There are even crueler troops!" Okamoto Dousuke exclaimed sincerely.

"Then is there any way to get rid of the roots!!" Okamoto Dousuke interrupted curiously.

"Of course!" Tsunade said with a sneer.

"How do we get out? To find the Hokage?"

"There is only one way to escape from the roots!!"