Of course, Haru had known that ROOT agents were stalking him.

They had been even before he entered the village. Still, it took him embarrassingly long to realize that Danzo himself was going to be at the recruitment/threatening party. He only had about a five-minute warning; as opposed to the full ten minutes the agents had been slowly boxing him in. After that shock, it had taken every ounce of willpower he possessed not to react to seeing the man. A storm of rage and grief had swirled to life in his chest with such violence he woke Kurama.

'Stop me from killing him, ' Haru requested of his partner in a growly voice.

He purposely allowed Kurama more room in his mind. He did not think about the irony of asking that from the notoriously homicidal nine-tails.

'I 'll do my best, runt, you 're the one who came up with that complicated plan with the perverted toad, don 't fuck it up before it starts. '