Ch. 59
3.pov
Mito could feel that Orochimaru and Jiraiya summoned a lot of summons. Most Root Anbu were attacking them, hoping to eliminate the biggest threat. That made it easier for rest of the Konoha shinobi to fight Root. Mito could relax it seemed everything there was under control. She led Hokage team toward the sealed room, hoping that Danzo doesn't have escape route from the room. The best option was now to meet up with those 6 teams that didn't go to the middle of the maze. But that would make a chance for Danzo escape. Mito spoke with Hokage while she ran:" Hokage - sama, do you wish to pursue Danzo with just one group."
Hokage looked at Mito wondering if she didn't believe he could handle Danzo :" Yes, I will handle him."
Mito then asked :" You then don't mind sending the rest of teams in the maze towards the middle. "
Hokage asked :" Is everything alright there. "
Mito answered :" for now yes, but Orochimaru and Jiraiya are losing a lot of chakra. Soon they will have to fight with bare hands. "
Hokage understood :" Then send them. "
Mito said:" Yes Hokage - sama. " Mito jumped next to Yamanaka clan head who waited for orders, Mito said :" contact with teams 10 to 15. "
Once they made a contact she explained the plan. Teams were 20 to 30 minutes distance from the middle but it was better than nothing.
Soon they reached the sealed room, and just as they reached Danzo and best six of his root Anbu walked out the room. Danzo looked pissed, he was staring at Mito with hateful glare. Danzo asked :" Hiruzen what is the meaning of this"
Hokage answered :" You are charged for treason, you stole many of clan secret jutsu."
Hokage team was outnumbered 6 VS 7. That meant if Hokage was going to fight Danzo somebody had to fight against 2 root Anbu. Mito suddenly regretet her earlier decision. Mito was about to volunteer to take 2 guys but Uchiha clan head was faster and honestly Mito was glad. Mito wasn't going to hold back so she unsealed Samehada.
Danzo ordered :" Kill them all, but leave the girl alive."
Hokage nodded his head and attacked Danzo. Danzo avoided his first attack and fled in the sealed room, Hokage followed him and that is when Mito lost contact with Hokage. She was extremely worried but she could not follow the. She had to fight here and hope Hokage beats him.
Mito fought some root Anbu who was huge, he was 3 times her size. However he lacked speed because of that, well he was fast but not as fast as Mito. She mercilessly attacked him with Samehada which took both her and his chakra. However Mito chakra reserves were huge and Samehada did seem to like her, so it gave her some of chakra here and there back. She was having problems closed space, every two swings Samehada would hit the walls of the maze. Root Anbu looked tired out after 4 minutes obliviously because he did not have enough space to avoid Samehada. Mito decided to use paralysis seals to finish him. She jumped in the air and threw herself to hug the root who was ordered not kill her so he decided to attack her in non fatal place. Mito hand with Samehada was kicked however she managed to land few centimetars next to root Anbu. She fell down face first and puted the seal on his leg. Mito regretted this attack but it seemed successful. Meanwhile Uchiha head had a lot trouble fighting two opponents. He wasn't losing they were in stalemate. And rest of the heads were wining as it seemed. Mito was thinking if she would help them or follow the Hokage. She decided on later. But as she was lifting Samehada and preparing to go in the sealed room one of the root anbu who fought Uchiha head jumped to stop her from going in. So it seemed she had to help them.
In the middle of the maze was a chaos. Firstly Orochimaru and Jiraiya summoned tons of summons. Orochimaru 's were more effective. His small snakes knocked out 10 of the enemy shinobi however when Root noticed them, Orochimaru started losing a lot of chakra trying to summon enough of summons. Soon both Orochimaru and Jiraiya did not have enough chakra for summons. And they had to fight taijutsu against 5 Anbu each. So the rest of Konoha teams (around 43) had to fight 30 root anbu. Even though they had a number advantage Root knew the area the best some of them spreaded out and managed to knock some forces out but didn't have enough time for finishing blow thanks to numbers of the teams. Root members mostly aimed for sensors at first and then for trackers. And they defeated most of those easily with only few loses here and there. Orochimaru managed to knock down his enemies however he was tired and bruised everywhere he had to stop to rest for a few minutes. Jiraiya however was still fighting and seemed to have more energy. Jiraiya had knocked 3 shinobi out, but these two last were pretty strong and he couldn't relax for a moment. Orochimaru was getting ready to help Jiraiya when he noticed that group 11 come in. That meant Hokage sended them here believing he could beat Danzo, Orochimaru wonder if that was true.
Jiraiya with help of group 11 managed to defeat those two. Orochimaru jumped to them he was still tired, but now he looked like he was on the same level of tiredness as Jiraiya. They began to clean the rest of the Root Anbu. They managed to clean everyone in 15 minutes. The Root Anbu started to run at the first when they realized that Konoha forces received back up but they did not have anywhere to run to. From the middle there were more than 20 injured and knocked out Konoha shinobi. Jiraiya decided to split the big group when he couldn't reach anyone from high command. He did not panic because he heard Mito mentioning sealed room and that they need to go there. Almost everyone was to go back on surface and help injured to get there. Jiraiya, Orochimaru and on Fugaku request, Fugaku would go towards where the Hokage was expected to be.
On the way outside groups were moving slowly and could rather loud bangs of swords hitting the walls. It didn't seem to send any kind of message so they just continued to move towards the surface. There the rest of companies helped them up. Med nin rushed to help injured. There were only 2 of them and they just had finished patching up those that came earlier. It was around 5.am and the sun was slowly rising up. The team on surface was worried because the last message from the Hokage team was over half an hour ago and it seemed that they couldn't reach them neither with radio or with Yamanaka. Sensors tried to calm them by saying that could be because they entered the sealed room. But soon that wasn't their only worry.