Danzo's Right Arm

Bang! Danzo opened a scroll.

"Ah—" A miserable scream reached Jin's ears.

"Groups Three and Four, stop him! Take him alive!" After using a ninjutsu scroll, Danzo actually appeared beside a Root member far away. And the one who fell before Jin was actually a Root member. Jin cursed, "Damn it! He actually got away! How does he have a scroll with Space-Time Ninjutsu? I'll let you go this time." "Danzo, I'm leaving. I'm done playing with you! I doubt you'll recover within a year or so! You'd better stay on guard at all times." After leaving those words behind, Jin used the Gale Technique, and his figure vanished in an instant.

"Go. Escort me out of here!" Seeing Jin disappear, Danzo ordered his subordinates. Protected by more than ten ninjas, Danzo left the area.

Watching the direction the group had gone, Jin spat. "You think I'm just going to let you off like that? Strike while you're down and finish you off! Maybe now is the best time to kill a Kage-level expert like you." Jin followed them at an unhurried pace, slowly recovering his chakra.

With more than ten Root jonin protecting Danzo, Jin had no chance to make a move and could only follow them toward a cave. Two Root members stood guard at the entrance while the others went inside. At that moment, Danzo was being supported by two Root ninjas as they headed inward. The passage in the cave was a full two meters wide, with torches hanging on both walls. After walking twenty meters, Jin arrived at a hall fifty meters in diameter. There were three doors on the opposite side of the hall. Danzo was carried through the middle door. Three more Root members stood guard in the hall. Jin directly ignored their existence and followed the ninjas into Danzo's room. A Root member ran out through a hidden door in the wall.

"Lord Danzo, I'll immediately send someone to bring back the medical team. Please hold on a little longer."

"I'm fine. I need to rest for a while. You and the others stand guard outside. Without my permission, no one is allowed to enter," Danzo said weakly.

Only Danzo and Jin remained in the room. Jin did not know whether he was excited or nervous. His heartbeat began to quicken as he silently stared at Danzo. Danzo opened a hidden door in the wall. A tunnel five meters long and two people wide, extending underground, appeared in Jin's view. Danzo walked down, and Jin followed him into the secret tunnel. Halfway down the tunnel, Danzo suddenly crouched and pressed two bricks. Another concealed door appeared in the wall beside him.

Jin was startled by the furnishings inside. More than ten empty bottles sat on a table. Beside it was a bed. At the far end was an experimental table covered with all sorts of jars and bottles. Several of those bottles even contained Sharingan! Jin was utterly enraged by everything before him! The six-pointed Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan appeared in his eyes without him realizing it. Danzo suddenly stopped pulling open a drawer. Jin immediately realized he had made a huge mistake and hurriedly suppressed his anger. After waiting for a while, Danzo eventually opened the bottom drawer, took out a bottle of semitransparent liquid, and drank it.

"The Sharingan really is formidable! I have to find a way to evolve my Sharingan into the Mangekyō Sharingan. Otherwise, the next time I see that shorty, I still won't be able to beat him. Who exactly is he?" Danzo muttered to himself. Jin slowly approached Danzo with a kunai in hand, silently guessing, Killing intent gives rise to bloodlust. If I only intend to cripple Danzo, will bloodlust still appear? I'll test it first. My invisibility is about to end. At my fastest speed, I should be able to injure Danzo's right arm.

Jin suddenly leaped up. Swish! With Lightning-nature chakra infused into it, his kunai slashed toward Danzo's right arm at an incomparable speed. Thud! Jin actually cut off Danzo's right arm in a single strike! Danzo dropped to one knee with the motion. Jin froze for half a second. Using that half-second, Danzo pressed a kunai in his left hand against Jin's throat, and his Three-Tomoe Sharingan spun wildly. Jin glanced at the kunai against his throat in surprise. In that instant, the scene before him began to change, and a hint of danger rose in his heart.

Danzo laughed inwardly. Hurry up and turn into the Mangekyō Sharingan! Then my wish will come true! All I need is that instant!

Before Jin's eyes were all kinds of live experiments: hearts being gouged out, eyes being dug out, limbs being severed. Each was more horrifying than the last! Jin instantly elevated his Sharingan into the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, shattering the illusion. The moment Danzo saw those six-pointed Mangekyō Sharingan, he thrust his kunai forward. A thread of blood seeped from Jin's skin. Looking at everything before him, Jin instantly understood the whole sequence of events. He immediately used his Sharingan to slow the kunai down, then, at one ten-thousandth of a second, concealed his figure. His body instantly accelerated tenfold, and he tilted his head to the right. Danzo's kunai carved a line of blood across Jin's neck.

Beads of cold sweat seeped from Jin's forehead. Danzo's supposedly certain killing blow had actually missed! He was stunned for half a second, but Jin was still shaken and failed to strike back.

Neither of them spoke in the silent room, both thinking of a countermeasure. Blood continued flowing from the wound where Danzo's right arm had been severed. Time passed, second by second. Jin made his move. A kunai suddenly slashed toward Danzo's left shoulder.

Clang! The two kunai collided. After failing in one strike, Jin vanished again. Clang! The two kunai collided once more. This time, Jin had aimed for Danzo's foot. Jin finally understood. Danzo could sense his intent to attack at the very instant he launched an attack. In other words, bloodlust would still leak out. Jin said, "I didn't expect that you wouldn't be defeated by me, but would bleed to death instead."

Danzo did not even look at the blood on his shoulder as he smiled. "I didn't expect that I had been plotting against you, only to be outmaneuvered by you instead! One move short of victory! Can you tell me who you are?"

Jin smiled. "Dead men don't need to know! Water Release! Water Dragon Bullet!"

Danzo said viciously, "You're ruthless!" Swish! He pulled another scroll from a kunai, took it out and unfurled it, then instantly vanished without a trace.

Watching all this, Jin did not know how to explain it. The water dragon struck the experimental table, shattering it with a series of crackles.

Jin quickly packed away ten pairs of intact Three-Tomoe Sharingan. Looking at the severed arm on the ground, he gave an evil smile. "Fire Release! Great Fireball Technique!" Whoosh, the arm caught fire.

Jin turned and left the secret chamber, sprinting toward the room above!

"My life's work!" Danzo suddenly reappeared in his previous position, swiftly extinguished the fire on the severed arm, opened a very well-hidden secret door, and ran inside with the arm.

Jin concealed himself and opened the door. Swish—swish—swish—swish! A row of kunai shot toward Jin.