This Is a Parting Gift

"Genjutsu: Sharingan!"

Uchiha Shisui instantly grabbed his left hand, using the Sharingan's genjutsu to freeze Shimura Danzō in place.

Uchiha Shisui then looked at the Root ninja preparing to attack again and said in a low voice, "It's just a simple genjutsu. It'll be undone soon."

Shimura Danzō's appearance extinguished the excitement in Uchiha Shisui's heart like a bucket of cold water. Even with the Third Hokage's support, the village's views could not be changed overnight.

Just as he was about to turn and leave, he suddenly sensed Shimura Danzō breaking free of his genjutsu.

"Not good!"

Uchiha Shisui was horrified.

Bang!

He suddenly felt an uppercut strike his stomach, sending him straight into a stunned state.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Uchiha Shisui took three punches to the face in quick succession.

"You are a necessary sacrifice on my path to becoming Hokage!"

Shimura Danzō grabbed Uchiha Shisui by the hair with one hand and flung him into the air. His left hand reached for Shisui's right eye, drawing a long streak of blood through the air. The motion was clean, decisive, and seamless.

Uchiha Shisui's feet finally hit the ground. He immediately leaped back, clutching his right eye socket as he stared at Shimura Danzō in disbelief.

He had no idea how Shimura Danzō had done it.

Naruto, who had been watching the show from nearby in the shadows, also frowned. He had told Uchiha Shisui long ago that Shimura Danzō possessed a Sharingan. How had he still fallen for it?

Could it be that Uchiha Shisui did not know the technique Izanagi at all?

Shimura Danzō merely calmly tore off the bandage around his head, exposing the Sharingan that was gradually turning grayish-white.

Only then did Uchiha Shisui recall the intelligence Naruto had given him last time.

Danzo also possessed a Sharingan.

But what he did not know was that after Orochimaru's experiments, coupled with Shimura Danzō's repeated investigations of the Uchiha Clan Compound, he had also learned of the Uchiha's ultimate dojutsu and could already use it freely.

Izanagi!

It was an ability that could turn everything unfavorable that happened to oneself during a certain period into something that had never occurred, while choosing only favorable events to become reality. Even death could be altered.

The price was the loss of a Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

Danzo had long prepared to use this dojutsu. To him, Sharingan were nothing more than expendable materials. The moment he broke free from Uchiha Shisui's genjutsu, he launched a surprise attack on the insufficiently guarded Shisui!

One strike succeeded.

"This will replace this eye of mine. Now, give me your other one as well."

Shimura Danzō looked at Uchiha Shisui with a sinister gaze, the greed in his eye no longer concealed in the slightest.

"Damn it!"

Uchiha Shisui gritted his teeth and glared furiously at Shimura Danzō and the thirteen Root ninja before him. But having already lost one Sharingan, he had the will but not the strength.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

Uchiha Shisui rapidly formed hand seals and unleashed this C-rank ninjutsu with all his strength. Its power was no weaker than that of most A-rank ninjutsu.

"Water Release: Wild Water Wave!"

The thirteen Anbu simultaneously unleashed torrents of water toward Uchiha Shisui's Great Fireball Technique.

Thick mist enveloped this stretch of forest. Under its cover, Uchiha Shisui hurriedly fled toward the Naka River.

He had to find Itachi. His remaining eye absolutely could not fall into the hands of either the village or the Uchiha. It was his last hope.

"Pursue him."

Shimura Danzō spoke coldly. He was determined to get the other eye.

Thirteen figures vanished at once, chasing after the fleeing Uchiha Shisui. Only Shimura Danzō remained at the scene.

But before Shimura Danzō could leave as well, a hoarse, broken voice carrying a trace of laughter suddenly rang out.

"Shimura Danzō, your performance truly gave me quite a show. It was rather entertaining."

The voice suddenly sounding behind him nearly made Shimura Danzō's heart stop. There was actually someone in the Ninja World who could appear beside him without his notice?

Shimura Danzō immediately turned around and saw a figure standing there, wearing a Three-Eyed Cat Face Mask and a white robe.

His pupils abruptly contracted, disbelief filling his eyes.

Uchiha Shisui had not been lying?

"Who exactly are you?"

Shimura Danzō was on full alert. This person had not only emerged unscathed from a confrontation with Uchiha Shisui at his peak, but had also remained in Konoha for so long without exposing the slightest flaw, only to silently appear at his side.

Troublesome!

"Me? I'm nobody."

There was laughter in his voice, as though he had just watched a splendid show.

"Though you made me put in a bit more effort, your hard-working performance still satisfied me. And I have already picked out a gift for you."

"How about despair?"

Shimura Danzō's single eye widened sharply. An indescribable sense of danger suddenly coiled around his heart. In a daze, he seemed to see himself beheaded by a single sword strike.

The ground suddenly began to shake, and a spike of earth burst from the ground, shooting straight at his face.

Shimura Danzō's expression changed drastically at the sudden earth spike. He had not seen the other party make any movements to cast ninjutsu at all. What kind of method was this?

He hurriedly bent backward, his aged spine letting out a series of teeth-grinding creaks as he dodged the earth spike.

But he had no time to concern himself with the intense pain in his waist, because several more earth spikes came stabbing toward him. This time, even the surrounding trees extended their branches and leaves to entangle him.

"Wood Release?"

Shimura Danzō dodged in disarray, several wounds from the earth spikes already cut across his body, blood pouring from them as shock filled his face.

Then a burst of searing pain struck him.

"Aah!"

Shimura Danzō let out a scream as a longsword that appeared out of thin air directly severed his left arm.

The tremendous force sent his arm spinning through the air, its severed end tracing several circular streaks of blood before it finally landed at Naruto's feet. The hand slowly opened, revealing a Mangekyō Sharingan within.

"My Sharingan!"

Shimura Danzō endured the pain and gritted his teeth as he stared fixedly at the eye on his severed arm.

That was his hope of becoming Hokage.

"How ugly, Shimura Danzō."

Naruto bent down, picked up Uchiha Shisui's eye, and directly absorbed it with the dojutsu of his right eye.

An incomparably powerful dojutsu suddenly entered his eye. He felt it grow hot beneath the cleansing surge of that overwhelming power, as though it were undergoing some sort of evolution.

He sensed the dojutsu within that eye. It was a dojutsu capable of gradually influencing others' perceptions without their awareness, but because there was not enough energy, his eye did not undergo its final evolution.

Is it still missing the other one? Naruto wondered.

"You despicable wretch! Where did you put my eye? Give it back to me!"

Shimura Danzō lay sprawled on the ground. The pain from his severed arm and his fear of Naruto's unknown abilities kept him from making any rash moves, leaving him only able to roar helplessly.

Looking at Shimura Danzō, like a defeated dog, Naruto felt that this show should end. He was still in a hurry to retrieve the other eye. He had a feeling that his Mangekyō Sharingan would advance another step because of it.

"Elder Danzo, this is a parting gift."