Squelch!
Before Nagato's parents, Shimura Danzō, and the others could react, Nagato had already raised his left hand and plunged two fingers into his eye sockets, gouging out both eyeballs with brutal force.
Blood and fragments of neural tissue from around his eyes mingled together, clinging to Nagato's left hand.
"Nagato!"
Not far away, Nagato's parents watched the heart-wrenching scene, overwhelmed with grief yet completely powerless.
Nagato himself could no longer endure the excruciating pain of ripping out his own eyes. He dropped to one knee, losing his sight forever.
Two pale-purple eyeballs streaked with blood lay silently in Nagato's palm.
"Here. Take the eyes. Let my parents go..."
Enduring the agonizing pain, Nagato extended his left hand and offered up the two Rinnegan.
"You truly are... decisive."
Even Shimura Danzō, who had always been ruthless and merciless, knew he could not bring himself to gouge out his own eyes while still alive as Nagato had done. It required not only immense courage, but also the resolve to die.
Those were things Danzō lacked. Becoming Hokage was his obsession, which was why he feared death all the more.
Shimura Danzō, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Kagami Uchiha, Torifu Akimichi, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu had all been classmates at Konoha's Ninja Academy and were directly led by the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju. After becoming Jonin, the six joined the Second Hokage's elite guard unit and became teammates. During missions, Shimura Danzō and Hiruzen Sarutobi usually operated as a pair. He shared a deep bond with Hiruzen, and the two regarded each other as rivals, constantly competing against one another.
During the First Shinobi World War, Kinkaku and Ginkaku suddenly staged a coup at the alliance ceremony between the Raikage and the Hokage. Using the power of the Six Paths ninja tools and the