Crushing Danzo

"Danzo, I'm honestly ashamed of you! You've lived this long, yet you're not even as good as a child like me! Can you at least make me take you a little seriously?"

"Damn it!" With his experience, Danzo knew this was Obito trying to get inside his head. But he still couldn't hold back his anger!

Danzo swiftly formed Hand Seals. Smack! His pale right arm slammed against the ground.

Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence!

Whoosh!

Tree after tree burst out of the earth, growing at incredible speed. Their branches coiled like enormous green pythons, intent on strangling Obito on the spot!

"Oh? You're even using Wood Release. But is this supposed to be landscaping?" Obito dodged at full speed, still making sure to get under Danzo's skin.

Obito had never been provoking Danzo for the sake of winning the fight. There was no need!

He simply hated Danzo to the utmost, ever since watching the anime back on Earth in his previous life. He just wanted to get under his skin!

"Such petty tricks won't affect me! I'll take those eyes of yours!" Obito's constant dodging eased Danzo's nerves. The fact that he was dodging meant that his strange ability wasn't invincible. As long as it had a weakness, that was enough!

"Old dog, do you think you've figured out my weakness? I was just messing with you." Obito let the python-like branches pass right through his body.

Shikai! Flames blazed along the blade of Ryujin Jakka.

Danzo's pupils shrank. Almost instinctively, he quickly put some distance between himself and Obito... It seemed that instinct had been engraved into his very bones.

Infernal Hell! A towering pillar of fire erupted. The powerful explosion and intense heat instantly destroyed everything nearby, reducing Danzo to ashes in an instant!

Light and shadow shifted, and Danzo appeared again, completely unharmed. Another eye on his arm had closed.

"Use whatever other tricks you've got. If you don't use them now, you won't get the chance."

Damn it! He's too strong! Why is he so strong? If only I had that kind of power, I'd become Hokage and lead Konoha to the pinnacle of the Shinobi World! The heavens are so unfair!!! Danzo's expression grew more and more twisted.

Fire Release: Shadow Clone Flame Bullet!

This was a technique Danzo had developed based on the principles behind Shadow Clone Shuriken! A fireball split apart as it flew toward its target! One became three thousand, covering the entire battlefield!

Danzo swiftly formed Hand Seals. Wind Release: Vacuum Serial Waves!

Dozens of whirling Wind Cutters, each giving off a buzzing sound, shot toward Obito one after another! They were faster than the Flame Bullets, and with the Wind Cutters boosting them, the three thousand tiny Flame Bullets rapidly swelled! The power of the combined techniques was plain to see!

After all his probing, Danzo still didn't know the specifics of Obito's ability, but he had discovered some of Kamui's weaknesses: it struggled against sustained attacks with great power and a wide range!

As long as he could maintain a continuous, high-intensity barrage, he could win!

Bankai! Zanka no Tachi! The flames on Ryujin Jakka's blade went out, leaving it looking like charred wood!

Zanka no Tachi, West: Remnant Sun Prison Garb! He transformed his chakra into flames reaching fifteen million degrees and cloaked his body and blade in them. He looked like a war god wrapped in the blazing sun!

The Flame Bullets and Wind Cutters alike were incinerated before they could even reach him! The surrounding space seemed unable to withstand the sunlike heat, creaking and cracking! Black fissures appeared in the space where Obito stood!

"Danzo, the outcome of this fight was decided from the start. You're like a little bug in my hand. I can crush you whenever I want! I'm tired of playing. You can die now!"

Danzo could no longer summon the courage to fight! He had always been a coward, afraid of death. When the Second Hokage proposed that someone stay behind, he was too afraid to speak up. Years ago, when a young Obito broke into Root's headquarters in the dead of night, he had been too afraid to stay and fled Konoha.

When he learned that the Uchiha possessed a secret technique called Izanagi, which could sacrifice an eye to erase anything unfavorable that happened to the user within a certain period and turn only favorable events into reality, he was ecstatic! It was as if the technique had been tailor-made for him.

But Sharingan had a powerful rejection response, and transplanting one into a non-Uchiha placed a burden on the body! However, he had studied the First Hokage Cells with Orochimaru, and knew how powerful they were. They could serve as a perfect power source for the Sharingan!

The moment he successfully transplanted the First Hokage Cells and acquired ten Sharingan by hunting down Uchiha who ventured outside the village, he'd wanted nothing more than to return to Konoha at once and kill that hateful brat and Hiruzen Sarutobi!

But his fear of death immediately made him abandon the idea. He still needed to build up his strength! Hanzo thought Danzo was training Anbu for him, but this was Danzo's own force! Even Amegakure was already in his grasp!

And yet that same pest had shown up again!

Zanka no Tachi, Tenchi Kaijin!

Zanka no Tachi released a slash in an instant. Everything in its path turned to ash! The very space was cleaved by crack after crack, which lingered without healing!

"Arghhh!" Apart from shouting in rage, Danzo could do nothing. The slashes were too fast for him to dodge. All he could do was watch as they struck him again and again, turning him to nothingness!

The helplessness drove Danzo mad! As time passed, every Sharingan on his arm had closed!

Rage! Helplessness! Fear! Danzo's bloodshot eyes were covered in red veins! The First Hokage Cells inside him stirred, eager to devour his body!

Obito watched Danzo coldly, cutting him down again and again until he turned to ash! This felt so good...

"Despairing? Feeling the pain? Want to live? Just get down on your knees and shout three times, 'Grandpa Obito, I was wrong. Your grandson Danzo apologizes!' Then I'll let you leave. How's that?"

Hope for survival suddenly shone into his darkened heart like a ray of light. What did it matter if he had to kneel and say a few things? As long as he could stay alive, there was still hope! Konoha still needed him to protect it!

With a thud, Danzo fell to his knees and shouted, "Grandpa Obito, I was wrong. Your grandson Danzo apologizes! Grandpa Obito, I was wrong. Your grandson Danzo apologizes! Grandpa Obito, I was wrong. Your grandson Danzo apologizes!"

"Haha... hahaha..."

Obito laughed so hard his stomach hurt. "Old dog, look at you now!"

"Can I leave now?" Danzo asked, his eyes full of hope.

"Of course. I'll send you out of this world right now!"

"You! Uchiha, you despicable bastard! I curse you to die a horrible death! And Tsunade, that bitch! You'll all go to hell!" Danzo shouted curses as his figure vanished in an instant!

But no matter how fast he was, he couldn't outrun Zanka no Tachi's slashes! The last Sharingan closed!

The fight, a one-sided beatdown from beginning to end, was over!

Danzo had never dreamed he would die without a shred of dignity! Every day, he had fantasized about leading a vast army back to Konoha, torturing Obito Uchiha to death, overthrowing Hiruzen Sarutobi's rule, and becoming Hokage...