Shimura Danzō looked grim as he fixed his one eye on the "Anbu Ninja" before him.
" Hiruzen... what have you done? Sending the Uchiha Clan to the battlefield is practically throwing Konoha's safety into a boiling pot. Teacher... Hiruzen never should have become Hokage. If only... if only I'd been the one to say those words..."
His fury and resentment twisted Shimura Danzō's face. Thin streams of blood seeped from the eye socket wrapped in bandages.
The pain in his eye only twisted his heart further, magnifying the resentment that already consumed him.
He lowered his head and looked at his severed right hand. His expression grew even more twisted.
If... if only he had become Hokage!!!!
"Ha... Teacher, if you were still alive and knew that the Uchiha had undergone such a change, you'd regret the choice you made back then, wouldn't you?"
Shimura Danzō covered his right eye socket with a twisted expression, his voice low.
Beside him, the "Anbu Ninja" who had reported the intelligence remained kneeling, not daring to move.
"Give the order. We're returning to the front. Hiruzen's mistake... needs to be corrected."
After a moment, Shimura Danzō lowered his hand from his eye socket and spoke coldly. Blood covered his face, making him look utterly ferocious.
"Yes!"
At the order, the kneeling ninja immediately used the Body Flicker Technique to leave.
"Uchiha... You're such an evil clan. Since you're so eager to fight on this battlefield, then... you can stay here forever."
Shimura Danzō's face twisted. With his arm severed and his eye ruined, he was now completely consumed by bitterness.
On the battlefield.
Uchiha Gen stood atop a stone pillar.
Golden flames curled around the youth's slender frame. His dark sacred vestments fluttered in the wind.
He gazed straight ahead without