Danzo

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Shimura Danzo (团藏) 58
Gender	Male 2
Affiliation	Konoha; Shimura Clan; Root, later disbanded 38 60
Occupation/Role	Former Hokage advisor and leader of Root 14 38
Status	Killed by Ye Ning; subsequently converted into a Human Puppet by Sasori. Konoha’s elders, unaware of his death, later have him classified as an A-rank missing-nin 116 133 198
First Appearance	Chapter 2, “He Dreamed!” 2

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Transplanted Three-Tomoe Sharingan	113 114 116	Acquires a pair of Sharingan while imprisoned. Ye Ning suspects the eyes belonged to Kagami Uchiha and that surviving Root operatives performed the transplant. Their continuous chakra consumption severely reduces Danzo’s endurance 113 115.

Background / History

Konoha’s Advisor

Danzo served as Hokage advisor for over a decade and made significant contributions during the First and Second Shinobi World Wars. His rise also strengthened the Shimura Clan, which grew from a minor clan into one comparable to the Ino-Shika-Cho. He used his authority to demand recruits from ninja clans, placing Root’s cursed seal on them to make them his personal weapons 14 59 60 114.

His activities extended beyond Root. Orochimaru acknowledged Danzo’s assistance with his research, which Ye Ning identified as work on Hashirama Cells. Hiruzen later recalled permitting the restart of those experiments among his repeated concessions to Danzo 28 119.

Suppression of Hatake Sakumo

After the war, Danzo argued that Sakumo’s growing prestige threatened Hiruzen’s position as Third Hokage. He demanded that Sakumo be restrained and stormed out when Hiruzen asserted his authority. Whereas Hiruzen initially sought to diminish Sakumo’s reputation, Danzo intended to destroy him 3 8.

Ye Ning challenged the campaign against Sakumo by treating it as the mistreatment of a national hero rather than a purely internal village matter. With the Daimyo supporting that argument, Danzo and Hiruzen agreed to clear Sakumo’s name and investigate the rumor-spreaders. Danzo remained privately furious at being rebuked by the Daimyo’s son 8 14.

Removal from Office

Danzo opposed lending the Scroll of Seals to the Daimyo, but Konoha’s dependence on national funding limited his ability to refuse. Ye Ning’s interference increasingly made him a target of Danzo’s efforts to restore control 2 5 6 33.

With Hiruzen’s approval, Danzo sent two Root operatives to bring Ye Ning back for intimidation. He chose a night when Tsunade was drunk, expecting her to be unable to intervene. Ye Ning instead turned the failed operation into an assassination accusation through fabricated evidence and manipulated testimony. The first incident was a frame-up, distinct from Danzo’s later genuine attempts to kill him 33 35 37 38.

The Daimyo threatened Konoha’s funding, forcing Hiruzen to negotiate Danzo’s retirement. Danzo lost all official duties, Root was disbanded, and Anbu were assigned to monitor him. Hiruzen acted as guarantor for his conduct and allowed him to retain two trusted subordinates 36 37 38.

Assassination Bounties and Imprisonment

Despite his removal, Danzo spent 180 million ryo to have Ye Ning killed: 80 million through the Bounty Exchange, attracting Kakuzu, and 100 million to hire Hanzo. Hanzo turned against Danzo after discovering Ye Ning’s identity and helped expose the arrangement 51 56 58.

This genuine assassination scheme ended Hiruzen’s efforts to protect him. Danzo received life imprisonment without parole in Konoha Prison, under Uchiha custody. At Ye Ning’s instruction, his guards subjected him to harassment, including restricted meals, interrupted sleep, and water being thrown on him 58 59 60 90.

Danzo nevertheless retained loyal Root operatives who supplied intelligence and planned a rescue. During his imprisonment, Ye Ning also redirected Sasori’s revenge for his parents’ deaths toward Danzo, using him as a scapegoat to keep Sasori from targeting Sakumo 89 90 94 113 115.

Escape, Death, and Puppet Conversion

After three years in prison, Danzo expected Root loyalists to rescue him. Before they arrived, Ye Ning arranged for Uchiha Ryu to open his cell. Once Danzo walked outside, the Uchiha declared him an escaping prisoner and surrounded him. He used Wind Release to break through, giving them grounds to report his defection 113 114.

Ye Ning, Sasori, and Shika intercepted him. Sasori’s Iburama puppet overwhelmed his Wind Release attacks, while his transplanted eyes rapidly depleted his chakra. Danzo attempted to seize Ye Ning as a hostage, then switched to Sasori after Ye Ning evaded him; Shika blocked that attack with a crystal wall 115 116.

Cornered, Danzo activated the Reverse Four-Symbols Seal to take his opponents with him. Ye Ning detonated previously planted Explosion Release chakra marks, killing him before the seal could finish. Sasori subsequently converted his body into a Human Puppet retaining its Three-Tomoe Sharingan 116 198.

Konoha’s elders did not learn his actual fate. They believed he remained at large with surviving Root members, and Tsunade approved his classification as an A-rank missing-nin 123 133.

Appearance

• Initially uninjured: At his introduction, Danzo’s body is intact; he has neither the cane nor the thick forehead bandage associated with his later appearance. His demeanor is nevertheless described as dark and sinister 2.
• Bandaged eyes: After the transplant, several layers of bandages cover both eyes, concealing his Sharingan 113.
• Three-Tomoe Sharingan: He removes the bandages during his final fight, revealing two scarlet, three-tomoe eyes 116.

Personality

Danzo is authoritarian and intolerant of dissent. Years of political power leave him accustomed to having his word treated as law, making Ye Ning’s public rebukes especially humiliating. He dismisses the Daimyo as a commoner and resents outside interference in what he calls “my Konoha” 2 6 14.

He repeatedly justifies coercion and assassination as acts performed “for the sake of Konoha.” Even after imprisonment, he considers the bounty on Ye Ning correct. The narration presents this refrain as self-persuasion as much as an argument directed at others 58 60.

His confidence in his authority, Root’s loyalty, and Hiruzen’s protection repeatedly blinds him to danger. Even after years in prison, he still dreams of becoming Hokage and assumes Ye Ning would not dare harm a meritorious former official 36 114. In defeat, his calculation gives way to revenge and a willingness to die taking his enemies with him 115 116.

Abilities & Skills

Wind Release

• Vacuum Wave: Expels a sharp blast of cutting air; used to create an opening in the Uchiha encirclement outside Konoha Prison 114.
• Vacuum Serial Waves: Launches several cutting gusts against Sasori 115.
• Vacuum Blade: Infuses a kunai with Wind Release chakra for close combat. It fails to penetrate Iburama’s Lightning Release Chakra Mode 115.

Transplanted Sharingan

• Possesses a pair of Three-Tomoe Sharingan, acquired during imprisonment rather than naturally awakened 113 114 116.
• Ye Ning suspects Kagami Uchiha as their source, but that identification is not independently confirmed in the supplied passages 113.
• Cannot deactivate the transplanted eyes at will, causing continuous chakra drain. After four B-rank ninjutsu, his reserves are already running low 113 115.
• The eyes remain functional enough to give Sasori’s Danzo puppet additional combat capability 198.

Reverse Four-Symbols Seal

• A seal carved onto his body that expands into a large sphere as blood sprays from him 116.
• Used as a last resort to seal Ye Ning and his companions at the cost of his own life 116.
• Its activation stops when Ye Ning kills him with Explosion Release 116.

Root Command and Covert Operations

• Trains Root members as emotionless weapons and uses the Cursed Seal of Root to threaten death for leaking information or betrayal 36.
• Maintains loyal operatives after Root’s formal disbandment; they infiltrate prison security, relay intelligence, and prepare his rescue 60 113 115.
• Manipulates public opinion against political threats, including Sakumo and the Uchiha Police Force 8 37 59.

Combat Limitations

• Ye Ning estimates his strength at no more than an ordinary Jonin before accounting for the Sharingan transplant; this is an assessment, not a documented promotion 113.
• Has average chakra reserves, with the Shimura Clan not distinguished for exceptional chakra capacity 115.
• Underestimates Ye Ning’s personal strength until his hostage attempt fails 115 116.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Kunai — Channels Wind Release chakra through it to perform Vacuum Blade 115.
• Eye bandages — Conceal both transplanted Sharingan until his final confrontation 113 116.
• Pre-inscribed Reverse Four-Symbols Seal — Prepared on his body for a fatal sealing attack 116.

Relationships

• Sarutobi Hiruzen — Lifelong friend and political partner. Hiruzen secures a lighter initial punishment but ultimately sends him to prison; Danzo resents his abandonment 37 38 59 60 114.
• Ye Ning — Principal adversary. Their conflict escalates from political humiliation and attempted coercion to assassination bounties, imprisonment, and Danzo’s death 8 35 58 116.
• Land of Fire Daimyo — Political opponent whose control of Konoha’s funding forces Danzo’s removal and limits Hiruzen’s ability to protect him 5 36 37 59.
• Hatake Sakumo — Target of Danzo’s reputation-destruction campaign. Sakumo later objects to letting Danzo take the blame for deaths Sakumo personally caused 3 8 94.
• Orochimaru — Research collaborator who acknowledges Danzo’s assistance with work associated with Hashirama Cells 28.
• Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Ryu — Prison custodians acting for Ye Ning. Fugaku oversees harassment; Ryu engineers the escape that establishes Danzo as a missing-nin 60 90 114 115.
• Sasori — Seeks revenge after Ye Ning redirects his hatred toward Danzo; fights him and later turns his corpse into a Human Puppet 89 90 115 198.
• Hanzo — Hired assassin who reverses his position and exposes Danzo’s scheme 56 57 58.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura — Former governing partners who later seek his capture, still believing him alive. Homura requests that he be returned to prison rather than killed 133.

Notable Quotes

“Hmph! Sarutobi, you are simply too soft! If you do not suppress Sakumo’s prestige now, you might as well wait to abdicate!” 3

“Sarutobi, you will regret this! Everything I have done was for the sake of Konoha! You will definitely regret this!” 58