Danzo Really Was Dead—No Coming Back from the Grave

"Haha, what a naturally evil Uchiha Clan. You could even raise your hands against comrades from your own village. I never imagined this old man would die at the hands of rebels like you.

But right here, for Konoha's stability and the Ninja World's peace, you shall be buried with this old man!"

After saying that, Shimura Danzō's face twisted into a savage expression. Yet after some time passed, nothing happened.

Suddenly, Shimura Danzō's face filled with terror, and he cried out tremblingly:

"How is this possible? Where is my Reverse Four Symbols Seal?"

The moment he shouted, he immediately realized something and pointed a trembling finger at Minagawa Uchiha.

"It was you! It had to be you! You broke this old man's Izanagi, then destroyed the Reverse Four Symbols Seal on this old man's body without him noticing."

"No, impossible! You couldn't possibly have broken this old man's Izanagi and Reverse Four Symbols Seal in such a short time. There must be some conspiracy behind this. Did you leave some hidden trick on us higher-ups long ago?"

"What evil Uchiha. This old man cannot die yet. Once this old man dies, no one will expose your sinister methods. Konoha must never fall into the hands of evil Uchiha like you. This old man is Konoha's hope."

No one knew where he found the strength, but after saying that, Shimura Danzō turned over and began crawling toward Root's exit, muttering under his breath as he went.

But as he lowered his head and struggled toward the hall's exit, a pair of ninja sandals entered his shining eyes. In an instant, Shimura Danzō seemed to lose every trace of life and collapsed limply onto the ground.

The owner of those feet was Minagawa Uchiha. At that moment, Minagawa Uchiha crouched down, his scarlet Mangekyō Sharingan gleaming with mockery as he looked directly into Shimura Danzō's dim eyes and spoke softly.

"Our dear Advisor Danzo, you need to understand one fact. No matter how useful Izanagi is, it is the ultimate genjutsu unique to our Uchiha Clan. You hoped to use Izanagi to turn things around before the Uchiha. Don't you think that was a little too wishful?

And Konoha is not your Konoha, nor is it the Hokage's Konoha. Konoha belongs to everyone. It is not only Uchiha who can become Hokage; others can become Hokage too. The only ones who must not become Hokage are people like you. Just look at how far Konoha has declined since you higher-ups took office.

You keep claiming everything you do is for Konoha, but has Konoha grown stronger in your hands? The truth is that you persecuted one pillar of Konoha after another and sent Konoha's future onto the battlefield, while you useless higher-ups sat comfortably in the village and took their sacrifices for granted."

Those words completely provoked Shimura Danzō's heart, which would stop at nothing for the Hokage Seat. He began arguing himself hoarse.

"Everything this old man has done was for Konoha! As long as this old man takes the Hokage Seat, he will surely make Konoha great. How could evil Uchiha like you understand this old man's painstaking efforts?"

Hearing Shimura Danzō repeatedly call them "naturally evil Uchiha," the surrounding Uchiha began cursing one after another. Uchiha Itachi's expression was equally ugly. He could not help but feel unable to face his former self—he had actually believed such a selfish man and nearly slaughtered his own Clan Members because of his promise.

Minagawa Uchiha was not about to merely curse like the other Clan Members to vent his anger. He directly brought up everything Shimura Danzō had done and questioned him about it. He intended not only to utterly destroy his body, but to completely shatter his beliefs as well.

"'Naturally evil Uchiha'? Then, Advisor Danzo, what evil deeds have we Uchiha committed that make you hate us so much? Are they more evil than your desecration of the First Hokage's corpse? More evil than your deceiving the Senju Clan into conducting human experiments? More evil than you and Orochimaru using children, civilians, and ninja from the village for human experiments?"

"Were they more evil than your spreading rumors to ruin the Konoha White Fang and the Fourth Hokage's Orphan? Or your pushing out the Sannin and targeting the people and things they cared about?

Compared to all those evils, where exactly are the Uchiha evil? Or do you not consider these things evil? If someone else had done these things, how would you have treated that person?"

As Minagawa Uchiha listed those crimes one by one, the Uchiha Clan Members present stared at Shimura Danzō's evil in disbelief.

Even Shimura Danzō, who lay sprawled on the ground with the expression of someone convinced he was the light of the Ninja World, found it hard to believe. He began wondering whether he had truly done all those things.

But after only briefly recalling them, cold sweat instantly broke out all over him. Everything the Uchiha youth before him had said was an evil deed he had committed over the years.

In fact, there were even more things he had done that Minagawa had not mentioned—for example, joining forces with Hanzo of the Salamander to eliminate the Akatsuki Organization, which sought to preserve peace; silencing Yakushi Nonō and Kabuto Yakushi, who had been loyal to Konoha; and countless others.

Without realizing it, after all these years had piled up, Shimura Danzō discovered that he had committed so many acts that outraged both heaven and man for the sake of the Hokage Seat.

"No, everything was for Konoha. Their sacrifices were worthwhile. As long as I become Hokage, none of this will matter. I will lead Konoha to wipe out the other Ninja Villages and dominate the Ninja World!"

Shimura Danzō instantly made his logic consistent and freed himself from the accusations Minagawa Uchiha had woven around him, his face filled with righteous conviction.

That left everyone present stunned. He could even defend himself like that? What was most speechless was that he probably truly believed it himself!

For a moment, everyone was left speechless before such a Shimura Danzō. The surviving Uchiha, after the earlier battle, had all Realized how self-satisfied they had once been. They never expected there to be someone even more Uchiha than them here.

You could never wake someone pretending to sleep. There was nothing anyone could do about a person like that, so they all turned to look at Minagawa Uchiha, who was rubbing his forehead.

Minagawa Uchiha was equally helpless and could only test the waters by saying:

"But you're about to die now. You'll never become Hokage, so all those people you harmed and killed will become nothing but your sins!"

Those piercing words instantly froze Shimura Danzō, who had still been moved by his own righteousness. His eyes reddened as he glared furiously at the Uchiha.

"It's all because of you! Why couldn't you just obediently die? Evil Uchiha like you destroyed Konoha's future, the Ninja World's future. This old man..."

Before he could finish, Shimura Danzō failed to draw his next breath and died of rage.

The many Uchiha Clan Members present all looked at Minagawa Uchiha with admiration. They could hardly believe he had actually enraged to death someone so completely immersed in his own world!