Escape! Part-1

{Training Ground 21, Konohagakure}

{3:35 PM, 27 March 78 Yrs}

{Hiroshi's POV}

Hiroshi suppressed a groan, whatever genjutsu Danzo used on him just now did a number on his senses, everything was spinning, and his eyesight was alternating between going in and out of focus, he tried to remember what happened but he couldn't figure out what he had said during his brief moment of hypnotic daze.

He looked up, his gaze clashed with Danzo's before he adjusted to look at his eyebrows, fearing for another genjutsu attack, after some brief moments before he asked, "What do you know about Uzumaki Naruto?"

'Tch,' Hiroshi suppressed his immediate response preventing himself from giving any indication of irritation, right now his eyes were focused on Danzo's face but his ears were focused on his surroundings, there was no way he would allow himself to be caught by this madman, even if he discounted Katoamatsukami, Danzo controlled a sizeable amount of broken shinobi under his command, which just proves that whatever method Danzo used to break someone to only follow his commands works.

'I need to be outside of roots surveillance if I want to run, I would need at least a couple of minutes... how do I get to that.'

Hiroshi thought hard for any vulnerabilities that he could exploit due to his foreknowledge, nothing immediately popped but Danzo's question still needed to be answered, there would surely be more root shinobi surrounding the training ground right now so attempting to escape would do more harm than good.

'I need the castaway orphan routine, that could buy me some time, and maybe throwing the Aburame clan's plan to kill me would throw him off guard enough to create a diversion...'

"I don't remember my parents Danzo-sama, and I have heard whispers about Naruto Uzumaki being the Jinchuriki of the Demon Fox...maybe if they had lived then maybe my situation would be different-"

'Alright that should have created some confusion, quite a lot of people in Konoha hate Naruto so maybe whatever I said could be interpreted in that regard...'

Hiroshi stood up slowly, his knees felt a little weak because of the phantom pressure, but he still maintained a pseudo-eye contact with Danzo, a stupid thing to do considering he had access to the most powerful genjutsu, Katoamatsukami but he was hoping that he would not waste its long cooldown on a reserve genin, "I'm hiding my real strength because the Aburame clan wants to kill me, so one day if anything does happen, I want to have the strength to at least survive..."

'Alright now I need to see how Danzo responds, which isn't a pretty thought but right now I am surrounded, even if the training ground is a little bit isolated, Danzo should not do the abduction in broad daylight... hopefully.'

Suppressing a grimace Hiroshi waited for Danzo to speak, he hadn't done anything bad or plotted against Konoha, so Danzo should not be wary of him, many shinobi hide their real strength, Danzo being one of them, most likely he wanted to recruit Hiroshi into root considering no one would even notice he's gone.

After a brief standstill that lasted for a few more moments, Danzo spoke, "Do you hate the Aburame Clan?"

Hiroshi was expecting many things but an abstract question was not one of them, but it gave him a way out so he was a little excited to take it, he shook his head to hide his expression before he spoke, "I don't hate the whole clan, I do hate whoever is planning everything against me..."

It was an honest answer where he didn't have to fake anything, he did hate whoever has been planning everything, and he would have his revenge someday, but right now the possibility was rather slim. He won't take any chances with his life, he had already expected since a long time ago that there was no way this was a lucid dream. He had the basics of an escape plan prepared but beating Danzo's ROOT surveillance would be a little harder than he had taken account of. He didn't know the reason for his transmigration to this world, he was here now, and he wasn't betting against a grade-A lunatic.

"You have potential-"

'Alright here comes the recruitment speech, according to the show, most of Danzo's recruits were trained from a young age so he was easily able to mold their understanding of the world, I wonder what his approach would be towards a 14 years old shinobi who already knows a lot of things...'

"-but you are focusing on the wrong things wasting a lot of your time, in the last two years you have learned just 4 Ninjutsu but according to my observations you have a lot of potential in Earth Release, maybe trying to learn the Body Flicker hindered your progress, everyone had some hidden affinities with some jutsu's, so you have only recently been able to make some headway in the movement technique, but two years were wasted on that, your physical development is okay, but you are overworking your body without any guidance. If you continue to overwork your joints with weight training then your body would soon collapse as your tendons start rupturing, there is a reason the academy advises to hold off on weight training till you have been promoted to chunin, your body is too young to handle that kind of pressure without proper supervision, there are several reasons why the genin in the reserve force barely make it past the chunin rank, the lack of guidance being the number one reason for that..."

'That's not a bad way to put it, he realized that my main goal was to survive until I'm strong enough to do something about my situation, if I didn't know he was a scumbag that would have been a pretty nice recruitment speech...'

"Thanks for your advice, Danzo-sama-" It wasn't hard for Hiroshi to pull off a suspicious stance, Danzo's expression didn't change as he continued.

"I can train you, make you strong enough to survive-" he waved his hand and a team of three shinobi Body Flickered behind him, I suppressed the impulse to jump back, "-I was a student of the Second Hokage, I lead a special division of ANBU called ROOT, we handle most of the missions that are deemed too dangerous to attempt or have a controversial political impact. ROOT is the base on which Konoha flourishes, to attempt those missions to make sure nothing happens to Konoha, ROOT shinobi have to be strong enough to take hits and keep going." He waved his hands and the three shinobi vanished into the surrounding.

"I can make you strong, give you a reason to live, to protect Konoha like your parents once did against the Kyuubi attack..."

'There's the emotional manipulation,' Hiroshi thought, he slowly relaxed his stance, since Danzo was going with emotional manipulation, there was no reason for him to kidnap him in broad daylight, which gives him enough time to get away.

Hitoshi hesitated, he was planning his escape while also telling Danzo that just a few words wouldn't break through his paranoia, his eyes glanced towards his surroundings as if trying to spot anyone before his gaze flickered back to Danzo's, he was still as impassive as he was before as their gaze collided again.

"I..." Hiroshi spoke before he shut up and shook his head, he took half a step back before he resumed his stance.

'Come on take the bait, will he really force me to join right now, that would completely break his emotional manipulation plan no?'

"2 Days, I'll give you two days to think about it, a shinobi would be waiting for you here on training ground 21, if you decide to accept my offer follow him..." Danzo spoke as he looked into Hiroshi's eyes, his words lingering in the air as he vanished with a Body Flicker. The training ground was quiet once again, Hiroshi used chakra to enhance his hearing as he looked around and walked into the training ground.

After a few minutes, the chirping of crickets resumed which meant that at least he wasn't surrounded anymore. He was sure that at least 1-2 people were still hanging around and probably will for the next two days but that was enough. He bent down to adjust his weights bringing them down two levels, Danzo may be an evil anarchist but it didn't mean he was an idiot, Hiroshi knew he was overdoing the weight training but he continued with it since he was fine in the simulation.

'Speaking of the Simulation, not having spars with Ren after returning to Konoha should be the reason everything got fucked, if Ren was here then the ROOT member who was responsible for spying on me at the start wouldn't dare to come close enough to gather any relevant intel, plus I never did learn the Earth Ninjutsu in the simulation since my comprehension stat wasn't strong enough, the Earth Ninjutsu probably caught Danzo's attention the most...'

Hiroshi didn't want to blindly trust the simulation, maybe his legs would have been close to the limits in the simulation but he never noticed because it was just some vague text that described his gains instead of in reality, the enormous amount of pressure he was putting on his body to increase his stat gain.

'I'm going to focus on gaining stats on the next one and not damage my body right now, unfortunately, I don't have a simulation chance right now before I plan my escape so I can't guarantee that it would work... I never wanted to use this jutsu with my real body but it seems like it's my only chance...'

Hiroshi opened his stats and looked at the secret skill that he has never used in reality.

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AN- So is it time? Bye Bye Konoha, may we meet again!

Can anyone guess where MC would run off to?

P.S.- Read Chapter 47 - 6th Simulation! Part 4(END) at my P.atreon- p.atreon.com/DesMark.