"Hiruzen, you understand me."
Shimura Danzō met Hiruzen Sarutobi's gaze, sincerity gleaming in his eyes even as his heart brimmed with unease.
Shisui's right eye, along with his own arm, had been taken by that Masked Man.
But the other left eye had not fallen into Hiruzen Sarutobi's hands. Could it have simply vanished into thin air?
As Hiruzen Sarutobi stared into Danzo's eyes, he could not help falling silent.
Danzo can't hide things from me. He probably wasn't lying.
Then who had taken Shisui's eyes?
"Explain clearly how you seized Shisui's eyes."
Seeing the grim look on Hiruzen Sarutobi's face, Danzo explained with an equally unpleasant expression, "I had already taken Shisui's right eye when a Masked Man wearing a Three-Eyed Cat Face Mask suddenly appeared..."
Danzo recounted the entire sequence of events, though he still concealed his and the Masked Man's plan to use the Hyuga Clan to start a war.
Naturally, he also said nothing about the arm implanted with Sharingan and Hashirama Cells.
"After the Masked Man took Shisui's right eye from you, he disappeared. Then Root members fought Shisui, and in the end, they were likely all wiped out by him."
Hiruzen Sarutobi frowned. "A few Root members arrived to provide support less than a few minutes later, only to run into Itachi Uchiha. Shisui's body was then brought back to the Uchiha Clan along with them..."
In other words, during those mere few minutes, Shisui had been killed and his left eye taken?
"Even with only his left eye remaining, Shisui was still an outstanding shinobi. Who could have killed him without leaving him any ability to resist...?"
"Was it that unidentified Masked Man who had appeared time and again, or some Uchiha clansman familiar with Shisui?"
For example, Itachi Uchiha and Fugaku Uchiha...