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Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_229

Gaku was grateful for his cover identity as Chinatsu’s pimp, Jimii, but he didn’t take the job expecting to enjoy it. Contrary to his expectations, spending his days in high-end men’s clubs, sipping on expensive alcohol, wasn’t a bad way to spend his evenings. Perhaps he had judged the posh snobs too harshly.

2024-03-02 02:26:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_228

The masked group of four entered a rusty, dusty factory as they returned from blowing up a police station. They removed their porcelain masks to reveal Anko, Daiki, Iori, and Kameko. Upon entrance, they spotted the remaining three team members sitting on old couches.

“How did it go?” asked Gaku as he lit a new cig...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_227

“Sueo! Get me a drink!” said a tall and burly man who sat down behind his dirty and cluttered desk with his feet on the tabletop.

“Coming right up, boss!”

Bunji joined his fingers behind his head and looked around the police station run by his gang mates. Several months ago, he would’ve felt...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_226

Fukiko woke up early in the morning, still feeling exhausted from the last day’s work, having slept for barely six hours. She was a single mother of pre-teen twins and the sole care provider for her elderly father, who couldn’t do anything other than barely walk himself around the house.

She hurried through a brie...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_225

In the base, Anko weaved through hand seals for the Summoning Jutsu and slapped her palm on the ground, which spurred the jutsu formula(shiki) that used her blood as a component. As the haze of smoke cleared, the twisting form of a snake became clear.

Both Gaku and Kameko were standing behind sheet m...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_224

Hajime, a sensory-nin of the Hidden Leaf stationed at Camp Banana, strolled on the makeshift earthen perimeter wall that covered the village center. A stigma was attached to sensory-nin, stating that they were only good at their sensory capabilities and nothing else. There was some truth to it, as sensory-nin were hired for their spec...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_223

Takuma wandered the streets of Yu alone, observing the city on foot.

He had completed his task of setting up the base in the abandoned factory handpicked by Gaku. The cleaning took the majority of time as he wanted a thorough job because, unlike the others, he was living in the base. The furnishings of the base were p...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_222

A horse-drawn carriage trundled along a wide road towards the enormous defensive walls surrounding the Spring City of Yu. The brick wall was actually an earthen wall erected forty years ago with the help of shinobi adept at using earth-style ninjutsu and afterward covered in baked bricks as another layer of fortification.

2024-02-13 10:23:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_221

The meeting in the war room continued, and Anko accepted the mission on behalf of Team-9. It wasn’t like she had a choice; Team-9 was ordered to take the mission.

After Shirakumo was done explaining, Anko took him and Benzou to the side to discuss more details about the mission. Rikku and Daiki gathered around Kamek...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_218 (NEW): INTERLUDE_6.1

AN:

So, this is INTERLUDE_6.1 (218). When these chapters go public, this will be posted before the start of ARC-07. As I was thinking of what to write next, this came to my mind, but instead of putting it in ARC-07, I thought it would be better as the end of ARC-06.

I have changed the chapter numbers to reflect the additio...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_220

Three days after Anko had poisoned Takuma, forcing him to flush out the paralytic agent from his body with chakra, Takuma was bent over the toilet, puking his stomach out. He heaved noisily before hurling again into the toilet bowl.

The venom Anko had given him today had him crawl on the floor and lay just outside the...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_219: ARC-07!!!

“There’s a common misconception among shinobi that chakra control makes them stronger… that by improving their control over their ability to mold and manipulate raw chakra, their jutsu will become more destructive or effective—this, however is a misunderstanding that has propagated wide,” Anko said as she slowly paced betwee...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_217

Takuma woke up to see three iryo-nin around the bed he was lying on. He was completely naked, other than a towel draped over his groin and hips. The two genin iryo-nin were using iryojutsu over him, with the chunin iryo-nin looking over them, giving instructions. He closed his eyes and lay still, feeling uncomfortable about having his...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_216

Team-9 ran to Anko, worried and apprehensive about the situation before them. Anko herself looked nervous as the waves of heat and chakra washed over her and felt the danger Masumoto posed, even to her, if she was fighting him in Takuma’s place.

“Anko, you should call the fight,” said Iori, putting a hand on her...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_215

Toridasu looked between the two fighters, and the speed of his fan grew slower as the fight progressed. Most direct confrontations involving shinobi were short affairs of a few minutes until one party was defeated or dead, or the fight broke up because one party decided to escape. Other real-life factors changed those time observation...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_214

The grip around the kunai felt typical in his hand. He groped it tighter to feel the cold metal underneath the wrapping as he contemplated on how to proceed. Masumoto with his heckling grin was matching his step as they kept an unchanging distance between it. Takuma could wait for Masumoto to make his first move, influence him into ma...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_213

Takuma wasn’t expecting Toridasu’s appearance, but his words had made it a welcoming matter. It made sense that Toridasu would come as Masumoto was trying to impress the guy, but Takuma thought he would observe without being seen. Perhaps that was a wrong assumption for a showy man like Toridasu.

However, Takuma d...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_212

On the sidelines, Team-9 watched the spars together. They should have been discussing their strategy, but that topic died out when Takuma didn’t use his chakra augmentation against his first opponent. Like Anko, they, too, noticed that Takuma wasn’t following his typical combat idiosyncrasies.

“I want to fight, ...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_211

While Anko believed that her genin wouldn’t give her incorrect information, but she held her healthy skepticism that the joint exercise wasn’t a typical training experience, and instead, Masumoto Shohei was trying to make a name for himself by using her as a stepping-stone. Thinking about a situation from both sides of the spectru...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_210

There was an atmosphere of welcome and hospitality as the entire base gathered at the mess hall, eating slightly better-tasting food and the rare no-restriction alcohol consumption as Camp Banana welcomed the new blood to replace their fallen numbers with a celebration. People mingled with each other, getting to know each other and ex...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_209

Takuma grunted and puffed as he ran around the village’s muddy roads with weights pulling him down with his worst enemy, gravity. It had been five days since the return to base, two days since his abdomen had stopped hurting every other half hour. That pain was replaced with muscle pain from lugging the weights around all day long.<...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_208

Rikku knocked on the locked door but got no reply. She waited for a couple of moments before knocking again, and there was a response.

“Go away!”

The tone was angry, and the voice muffled. It told Rikku that Iori was still in bed, hiding underneath the covers. It had been three days since they had...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_207

Takuma rubbed his ear, which had been ringing for more than an hour. The dynamite explosions used to destroy the mining infrastructure had set off his ears even though he was wearing earplugs. Sure, they weren’t professionally made earplugs, but Takuma expected to do something. His ears were especially sensitive because of training....

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_206

It had been around an hour since the Evacuation Unit’s members capable of chakra masking had initially descended into the pit to evacuate the dormitory. His training sessions were always longer than an hour—but he hadn’t felt more exhausted than he was at the current moment. Even the assassination attempt on his life was more ov...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_205

While Takuma was lugging himself across the battlefield, trying to get himself to an iryo-nin to get himself healed, on another part of the battlefield, two jonin from opposite sides faced each other.

“I didn’t think I would meet you here, ‘rainy cloud’ Ogata.” Toridasu smiled at the bear-bellied ma...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_204

Anko dumped Takuma and the kunoichi at the location away from the battle where the iryo-nin were treating the injured. She said a few words to him about being careful before dashing away back into the battlefield. Takuma watched her disappear into the pit of danger. He glanced up at the sky. The sun was now clearly visible over the pi...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_203

As he struggled to get up, Takuma knew he wouldn’t eat properly for at least a week. The bastard with the fake smile had done a number on his stomach. He flinched and whimpered in pain as his chest burned in pain. Pain was simply a symptom; the main problem was the cause— strenuous movements with cracked or broken ribs could furth...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_202

A strange permeating silence covered the pit; even with an ongoing invasion from one side and a defensive effort from the other, the silence stuck. However, that strange silence made the sounds of steel clashing steel, explosions, words and shouts, footsteps in the mud, and everything else more audible.

As Takuma ran ...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_201

Takuma weaved hand seals for Water-Style: Eight Tentacles and water from the wet mud and dirty puddles formed from the monsoon season showers rose and collected behind his back. With a flex of his shoulder blades, eight tentacles burst out. He equipped a kunai in one hand as he skipped forward toward the enemy in disarray. 2023-12-22 18:11:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_200

As Anko and Daiki hanged the guards, the lights in the corridor flickered on. They looked at each other and nodded. They dropped the dead guard at the guard room’s threshold so he would be visible and headed inside the worker’s sleeping hall opposite to the guard room.

The lights coming on was a signal to wake up ...