Painfully Beating Shimura Danzō

Genkawa Uchiha knew what would happen next, but he had no intention of getting involved.

The reason was simple: it had nothing to do with him. That was all.

Even if Namikaze Minato died afterward, causing the only Hokage who bore goodwill toward the Uchiha Clan to perish and making the Uchiha Clan's situation even worse, he did not particularly care.

To be honest, after his parents died in this life, Genkawa Uchiha had not been without thoughts of the Uchiha Clan. He had indeed considered changing it.

But... the Uchiha Clan truly sucked.

From Fugaku Uchiha, the Clan Head, and Uchiha Setsuna, the Hawk Faction elder, down to the many clan members who had yet to awaken their Sharingan, every last one of them possessed an almost fanatical confidence in themselves and the Uchiha Clan—pride, even.

They clearly knew the Uchiha Clan's circumstances and understood the village's attitude toward them, yet they still lived steeped in Uchiha arrogance.

It was speechless.

He had offered Fugaku Uchiha advice several times, but it had all been dismissed as the words of a child and never taken seriously.

After that, Genkawa Uchiha completely abandoned the idea.

If they wanted to die, then die.

It had nothing to do with him anymore.

Konoha was in utter chaos after the Nine-Tails' rampage, with flames visible everywhere he looked.

Cries and screams mingled together, making all of Konoha resemble a scene of apocalyptic destruction.

Genkawa Uchiha leaped down from a tall wall and walked through streets whose original appearance could no longer be recognized. Casually holding up a wall on the verge of collapse, he pulled a soot-covered kid out from beneath it and pointed toward Hokage Rock.

"Go take shelter over there."

With that, he walked away without looking back.

He had done similar things several times along the way, saving a few people.

Genkawa Uchiha felt nothing over Namikaze Minato's death, because it was Namikaze Minato's own choice. He respected it.

Still, he did feel a bit more sympathy for these ordinary villagers suffering because of the Nine-Tails.

It was not because he was especially kind or could not bear to witness the misery of the world.

It was simply that saving people within easy reach only cost him a little effort. It was nothing much.

As he had said before, he wanted to.

It was that simple.

"Huh, it's still here."

Returning to the previous street, he found the bag he had left behind in a corner. The vegetables inside had surprisingly suffered little damage.

"At least I won't have to buy them again."

Genkawa Uchiha picked up the bag and prepared to head home.

Just then, several people landed around him.

At their head was Shimura Danzō. That bastard seemed to have been watching Genkawa Uchiha from the start, and the moment he arrived, Danzō showed himself.

"Are you fucking done yet?"

Genkawa Uchiha set down the bag and tilted his head slightly as he stared at Shimura Danzō, though his eyes were fixed on Danzō's neck.

Shimura Danzō spoke with a gloomy expression. "The Nine-Tails' appearance is inseparable from your Uchiha Clan, and you appeared alone in the village tonight. I have reason to suspect that this entire matter is connected to you. Now, you had best return with me for an investigation."

Genkawa Uchiha clicked his tongue and said nothing more.

Because in the next instant, his figure abruptly vanished from where he stood.

No one had expected Genkawa Uchiha to be so direct. He actually attacked without even bothering to say another word.

The Root ninja surrounding him moved at once.

Some formed hand seals, some hurled kunai at Genkawa Uchiha, and others charged directly at him in an attempt to halt his advance.

As Root ninja, protecting their leader had become instinct.

But Genkawa Uchiha was too fast. His charge tore through the night wind.

The net of Shuriken thrown simultaneously by several Root ninja brushed his clothes, and in that instant, the youth's left foot slammed into the ground. Amid fragments of blue stone exploding outward, his body became an afterimage that passed through the gaps between the ninja tools.

The Root ninja at the front swung his blade downward, but cut only air.

Genkawa Uchiha's figure merely flickered, becoming like a fleeting shadow beneath the moonlight, but his knee had already smashed into someone's jaw. The crack of bone and the dull boom of a body smashing through a wall erupted at the same time.

Shimura Danzō's single eye abruptly narrowed.

Fast. Too fast. So fast that even he had been caught off guard.

Before one Root ninja could finish forming hand seals, Genkawa Uchiha twisted and launched a spinning kick, the wind from his leg sweeping across the man's neck.

Amid an explosive crack of air, a body crashed into the ruins like a puppet with cut strings.

The third man rushed forward, but just as the blade in his hand appeared, his wrist bones were crushed by a hand like an iron clamp.

Using the force, Genkawa Uchiha sprang into the air, stepping on the crown of the fourth Root ninja's head as he leaped forward.

Ten meters.

Shimura Danzō finally raised his right hand.

The Great Fireball's blazing air tore through the sky, but Genkawa Uchiha dropped in midair against all inertia.

The chakra-condensed heat wave skimmed past his hair. The instant he landed, both feet exerted force, and the ground within three meters collapsed in a spiderweb of cracks.

Borrowing the recoil, he smashed through the final two Earth Style: Earth Walls like a cannonball.

Five steps.

Shimura Danzō's fingers forming hand seals were interrupted by the fist wind that suddenly reached his face.

"Arrogant!"

As Shimura Danzō retreated rapidly, a kunai slid from his sleeve to block.

Amid the metallic wail, the finely forged steel blade was actually shattered by his fist bones.

Genkawa Uchiha changed his fist into a claw and reached for Danzō's throat. Danzō hurriedly retreated and threw out a substitution log, while his true body was already several meters away forming hand seals.

Amid the splintered remains of the log, Genkawa Uchiha chased close to the ground like a ghost.

"Wind Style: Vacuum—"

Before Danzō could finish the technique's name, the youth had kicked off the wall and returned with a whip-like kick aimed at his temple.

Danzō hastily raised an arm to block, but it felt as if he had been struck by lightning. His arm seemed to have broken, and the tremendous force sent him staggering back several steps. Then Genkawa Uchiha's elbow strike followed like a shadow, drilling into his ribs and making Shimura Danzō's chest emit a crisp crack of splitting bones.

Seven consecutive strikes.

His fists tore through the air, one after another, seemingly without end.

Shimura Danzō's blocking forearms gradually went numb. Every collision was like being struck by a battering ram, leaving him almost senseless save for the intense pain.

When Genkawa Uchiha spun and brought down a sweeping kick, Shimura Danzō was finally blasted back into a corner.

Dust sifted down from the brick wall after the impact. A bloody sweetness surged into Shimura Danzō's throat, and the gloom in his single eye finally ignited into fury.

"Enough!"

In response to his furious roar came a loud slap.

This slap was especially crisp and powerful, sending Shimura Danzō flying backward. His body spun several times in midair before crashing to the ground.

This outcome was entirely Shimura Danzō's own doing. Perhaps his long time in a position of authority had made him lose his vigilance, leading him to believe that everyone would submit to his orders because of his status.

But he had forgotten that he was facing Genkawa Uchiha, someone who did not care in the slightest about Shimura Danzō's identity or position.

In the end, Shimura Danzō could only blame himself for underestimating his opponent.

It was true that Genkawa Uchiha could not use ninjutsu, but his Taijutsu was far from weak.

Combined with his SS-rank Sage Body, he could even beat the Nine-Tails senseless. Shimura Danzō, someone who had long since left the front lines of battle, was nothing worth mentioning.

"Stop!"

Just as Genkawa Uchiha was about to rush forward and give Shimura Danzō a few more brutal blows, another sound of something cutting through the air arrived.

The sound was familiar. Genkawa Uchiha did not even need to turn around to know who had come.

Hiruzen Sarutobi!

But...

What the hell did that have to do with him?

Genkawa Uchiha did not stop. In an instant, he appeared before Shimura Danzō, grabbed him by the neck, and lifted him up before finally turning around.

The newcomer was indeed Hiruzen Sarutobi. Not only him—Mitokado Homura, Utatane Koharu, and several others stood beside him, all from Hiruzen Sarutobi's generation.

In addition, there were more than a dozen ninja from the village's various clans, all of them jōnin.

Being watched by so many people would naturally make an ordinary person nervous, even uneasy.

But Genkawa Uchiha did not care about any of that.

Without another word, Genkawa Uchiha slammed Shimura Danzō into the ground with considerable force, cracking the earth beneath him.

Pwah!

Shimura Danzō violently spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Genkawa Uchiha, I order you to stop!"

This time, it was Utatane Koharu speaking, anger already visible on her face.

Hiruzen Sarutobi, on the other hand, twitched slightly at the sight.

To be honest, arriving only to see Chang Wei beating Lai Fu—

No, Genkawa Uchiha brutally beating Shimura Danzō—left him, the Hokage, feeling absurd.

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