Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_377
("Floating Brain")
The canon inspiration for the central hub.
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There were ways to protect the mind from outside invasion. One such me...
2025-04-20 14:56:28 +0000 UTC View Post
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Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_376
A day after their return from the ROOT research facility, Campbell was summoned to Barbary's office to talk about it. On his way, he ran into one of his peers.
"You sure are lucky, Campbell," said Largemouth with a sarcastic smile, one of three squad leaders of the Inquisitor Unit at Ironwood Protection Company. Hi...
2025-04-18 19:40:26 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_375
It took a total of 24 hours after Krait left the bunker to call home for Barbary to arrive with Campbell, Kestrel, and a large team of ANBU staff from the Inquisitor Unit and Domestic Branch general support, who were going to seize and document everything before allowing other relevant outsiders to come in do their work like recovery and ...
2025-04-14 17:14:18 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_374
A buzzing hive of insects flew up to the ceiling, leaving behind the guard's body, which they had swarmed and which fell to the ground.
Krait pulled out his short sword from another guard and let the lifeless body sink to the ground, leaving behind a long streak of blood on the wall. He heard a scared whimper and turned to look at t...
2025-04-13 15:18:02 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_373
Krait knew he had to hurry when he heard the commotion in the distance. Each passing second increased the possibility of something going wrong and lowered their chances of getting out safely. He glanced at one of his insects flying ahead of him and followed it until he reached a room with its door wide open and sounds coming from inside.<...
2025-04-11 18:36:51 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_372
Takuma spared the last guard and dragged his unconscious body to the nearest open room in case Krait wasn't able to capture a guard alive. He didn't follow after Krait and instead maintained a distance between them to act as a barrier between him and the guards.
He found a guard sprawled in the middle of a corridor but didn't find a...
2025-04-07 17:17:02 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_371
The corridors flashed between red and white with an accompanying blaring alarm. A group of five decked guards hurried into the corridor and stationed themselves on either side of the door momentarily before the leading man prepared a flash tag and gestured for another one to kick the door down.
As the harsh flash dimmed, they rushed...
2025-04-05 17:32:39 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_370
Deep inside Taiheiyo Evergreen Forest, Takuma and Krait hid in the bushes as they stared at a large hatch obscured by the forestry just enough to hide it from anyone who didn't know what they were looking for.
"That chakra signature is coming from here?" asked Takuma as he looked around and felt that the density of trees in the area...
2025-04-04 05:14:07 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_369
Takuma was back at Yamanaka Inenpachi's clinic.
"I'm interested in this research," said Inenpachi.
He already knew the iryo-nin had decided to take on the research because he would've politely declined over a phone call if he didn't want to.
"I'd like to preface this by saying we don't know if there'll be a positive outcome. We...
2025-03-24 22:17:33 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_368
Coming across Kabuto lit a fire of urgency in Takuma. That weekend, he found himself in an office for an appointment. He sat on a lounger seat facing a full-wall library stacked with leather hardbacks on the mezzanine that stretched across three walls.
"Apologies for keeping you waiting."
The door behind opened, and an academic man s...
2025-03-23 18:40:46 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_367: —ARC 10—
Takuma stared at Uchiha Gouki's photograph on the funeral altar.
Gouki wore his Police Force uniform in the photo with a stern expression befitting an Uchiha.
When Arisu told him that Gouki had died on a mission, he struggled to wrap his mind around the sudden news. Gouki was their colleague at Narcotics Taskforce, and the only Uchih...
2025-03-19 20:26:27 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_366: INTERLUDE_9.3
SEE EDIT NOTES AT THE END OF CHAPTER
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A team of Leaf shinobi entered a small town near the northern edge of Land of Fire. They were far from Hidden Leaf Village, which wouldn't have been strange if the group wasn't part of the Leaf Military Police Force, which generally only operated around the village.
Uchih...
2025-03-17 19:27:02 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_365: INTERLUDE_9.2
On the first day of school, a six-year-old with shoulder-length cinnamon hair fiddled with her new notebook so that it would sit exactly straight on the table. She nervously glanced around the classroom with amber eyes at the other kids already talking and laughing. Some looked like they already knew each other from outside the academy. 2025-03-16 23:42:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_364: INTERLUDE_9.1
"—You have the potential; you should seriously try to become a jonin... No one's going to bring up the snake creep if you become a jonin—"
She wondered how long ago she had stopped believing that she would be able to kill him. It was always a daunting goal, but hate fueling her didn't allow her the mountain she...
2025-03-14 20:23:04 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_363
"He's not from Odama. I checked," Hidesine fidgeted with a cup of water. "He appeared out of nowhere one day. Didn't have a reference, just said he heard about me from someone, and wanted to know if I was ready to get out of the kiddy pool and take on some serious work."
"And you decided that brokering murders was the natural next s...
2025-03-10 16:58:13 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_362
A comment from the last chapter:
So in a previous chapter Takuma said that he technically can make 3 clones (by both him and the first clone making another one) but that all 4 of them would have only around 20% chakra each, which would make them tired and is not the best for training, but has he considered using Soldier Pil...
2025-03-09 12:46:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_361
It had been three days since Takuma discovered that Okahachi's missing client, Kyussai, could be from Odama. He had forwarded the information and the sketch to the local shinobi, who were better equipped to find a person in their territory than him.
It was very possible that Kyussai had lied to the hostess, and he was wasting his ti...
2025-03-07 08:20:26 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_360
Takuma visited Kanaoka while looking for the missing Okahachi, the middleman, and now he was back in town to find the missing client behind six high-profile assassinations who had introduced himself as Kyussai, which Takuma doubted was his real name.
He was only back in town because Okahachi knew nearly nothing about Kyuusai even ...
2025-03-03 20:50:46 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_359
The past two months of Okahachi's life had been turbulent to say the least.
Until two months ago, Okahachi was a middleman for people who wanted to hire shinobi assassins. Five years ago, he set up shop at Kanaoka near Maizuru Quarters, and roughly a year and a half later, he convinced one of his regular shinobi to accept an assassination....
2025-03-02 20:24:28 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_358
When Takuma and Campbell returned with the Third Squad in tow, Barbary was alone in the courtyard, peacefully reading his book. The guards who were watching them were stunned when they dumped the injured squad members on the floor. Fukoji and the injured genin, who had helped bring the others back, stood there fearful and gloomy.
"Get an i...
2025-02-28 20:22:19 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_357
Two parties faced each other in a trade route lined with woods on either side. A warm breeze flowed from between the trees, working to distribute the heat from the sun's rays hanging above. It was a clear day, but the mood between the two parties couldn't be cloudier.
"It'd be wise if you returned to Maizuru, gentlemen," said the black-clo...
2025-02-24 19:33:51 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_356
Onikuma Kumagoro was a month away from completing eight years as the jōnin commander of Maizuru Quarters. He had been a jōnin for ten years, promoted just before the Great Five had waged the Third Shinobi World War. His contributions in the war had catapulted him to his current position.
Maizuru was a mess when he arrived. The previous l...
2025-02-22 18:53:20 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_355
ALERT:
I previously established the internal ANBU hierarchy as—
Operative < Squad Leader < Captain < Major < Commander
I have decided to modify it—
Operative < Squad Leader < Lieutenant < Captain < Commander
Below are the changes influen...
2025-02-21 17:11:36 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_354
Three men sat in Barbary's office at the Ironwood Protection Company, reading Ratel's report after spending five days at Maizuru Quarters chasing his trash mail case.
"This is... unexpected," Barbary said as he held the page, which looked like a note, in his massive hand. "Is this accurate? The staff didn't make a mistake in decoding?"
... 2025-02-17 16:05:40 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_353
Genin Oritada was a deputy at Maizuru Quarter's military police. He was the youngest among the group, only seventeen years old. By the time he was done with dinner, the sun had set, and the evening was on the verge of turning into night. He was tired after walking his daily route and wanted to jump into bed after visiting the public bathhouse. 2025-02-16 12:49:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_352
Takuma sighed, exhausted after not sleeping well the previous night and the few nights before. He had been sleeping late working on the case, and when he did turn in, he couldn't sleep because his restless mind ran rampant with thoughts about it.
He looked up at the signage of the local branch of the military police at Maizuru Quarters. Th...
2025-02-14 19:06:35 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_351
The next day, Takuma began his work in earnest. He was left alone with access to the record rooms, which was both a boon and a curse because while he could work without someone keeping an eye on him, he also had no help if he wanted assistance.
At first, he thought that if he asked for records, they would bring what he asked for while hidi...
2025-02-10 16:46:44 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_350
"I should've gone through the trash mail as well. Maybe I'd have a case of my own," Amami said as she sat in Caracar's office, balancing her chair on its hind legs while she tossed a shuriken toward the ceiling just low enough that they wouldn't make contact, only if barely.
Takuma had returned from Chibumi copper mines and stayed for two ...
2025-02-08 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_349
Takuma was sitting on a rock in a dusty field under the sun when he heard the sound of footsteps and looked to his side to see his clone hauling two of the prison break culprits with him. He looked funny with the giant man twice his size on his shoulders.
"Yeah, laugh it off. I did more work than you," said the clone, unceremoniously dumpi...
2025-02-06 17:42:17 +0000 UTC View PostNaruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_348
Rinji ran as fast as his legs could take him. The sun glared down at him as he sprinted down the rocky terrain, kicking off dust. He felt embarrassed when his breathing grew hotter and laboured; he was stronger, capable of striking harder and moving more weight when he was an active shinobi because he had been mining daily. But he hadn't properl...
2025-02-02 16:52:20 +0000 UTC View Post