Sharingan Arm, Hidden Leaf's Shame
The night wind swept through the ruins in front of the Hokage Building, bringing with it a strong, earthy smell.
The entire arena fell silent. All eyes were Danzo on Danzo's deformed right arm. Amidst the pale muscle lines, a dozen scarlet Sharingan spun erratically, like a swarm of nauseating insects.
The veins on the back of Sasuke's hand, gripping the Kusanagi Sword, bulged. Purple-blue Lightning Release Chakra wildly on the blade, crackling and electrifying the surrounding air. His crimson Mangekyo Sharingan spun rapidly, its gaze fixed on the eyes of Danzo's clansmen on his arm.
"I'll kill you." Sasuke uttered the three words, then pushed off with his feet and charged forward.
"Slap." A hand slammed down on his right shoulder.
The immense Pure Yang Chakra pressed down like a mountain, forcefully suppressing Sasuke's about-to-go berserk Lightning Release back into the blade. Naruto withdrew his hand, placing half his body in front of Sasuke, his gaze coldly sweeping over the old dog opposite him.
"Don't rush, Sasuke," Naruto said in a flat tone. "He has to strip naked in front of the whole village today. Killing him like this would be too easy on him."
Sasuke his teeth, the blood vessels in his Mangekyo Sharingan clearly visible. He stared intently at Danzo, finally taking a half-step back. "Save your breath. I want to gouge out those eyes myself."
Danzo coldly and raised his deformed arm high. In the darkness, those Sharingan exuded a viscous malice.
"Sacrificing the few to protect the many—that's the reality of ninjas!" Danzo his chin slightly, his single eye filled with arrogance. "I bear the burden of all the sins of this village, eliminating dissidents for you in the darkness! You fools who only know how to enjoy peace in the sunlight, what right do you have to judge me here?"
"You cut up your comrades' corpses and pieced them together to fit yourself, and you dare talk about reality?" Naruto spat, retorting mercilessly, "Your darkness is hiding in the basement disgusting your own people? You really think you're something special."
From the back of the crowd, Kakashi Earth Flow, one hand in his pocket. In his hand, he held a black scroll sealed with red lacquer, something Shikamaru had just risked his life to retrieve from the Root archives.
"Danzo, we have just read about your 'great contributions' to Hidden Leaf." Kakashi stopped beside Naruto, tore off the seal, and with a flick of his wrist, the long scroll unfurled with a whoosh.
Kakashi's eyes were as cold as ice. " In Hidden Leaf 49, they secretly intercepted medical supplies from the orphanage, forcing the director Yakushi Nonō to carry out a death mission in exchange for five orphans as human test subjects."
The Konoha Ninja around them were stunned, and suppressed heavy breathing came from the crowd.
Kakashi continued, " In Hidden Leaf Year 51, Hizashi Hyuga took his brother's place in death. Root members intercepted the transport convoy Root route, attempting to steal the Byakugan. After failing, they assassinated three of the accompanying guards and fabricated an attack by remnants of the Land of Lightning."
Hyuga Hiashi clenched his fists tightly, the knuckles on the back of his hands cracking. The dozens of elite members of the branch family following behind him activated their Byakugan in unison, their killing intent almost tangible.
"In the 55th year of Hidden Leaf, the night of the Uchiha Clan Massacre. Root took over the outer defenses, prohibiting the Anbu from intervening. Afterwards, sixty-one Sharingan were gouged from the corpses and sealed away." Kakashi closed the scroll, looked up at Danzo, and said, "The rest, Orochimaru's human trafficking, the secret arms deals of Sunagakure... do I need to continue reading?"
Shikamaru stood on a section of broken wall, picking at his ear. He cursed inwardly: I knew this old bastard was ruthless, but I never imagined even the rats in the sewers weren't as ruthless as him. Does he really think the entire Hidden Leaf is his private domain?
"You scum, you don't deserve to wear Hidden Leaf's Forehead Protector!" Tsunade was so angry that even the diamond-shaped mark on her cheek trembled. She ripped off the bandage on her shoulder. "You keep talking about Hidden Leaf, but what you've done hasn't been uprooting the Hidden Leaf!"
The ninjas from all sides who had surrounded them drew their ninja tools. No one paid any attention to the Root Anbu anymore; all their killing intent was focused on the old man with the cane.
Danzo's remaining single eye swept rapidly across the entire area. Contempt, anger, and deep-seated hatred pierced him like nails. He had always firmly believed that he was an indispensable shadow of Hidden Leaf, and that as long as the outcome was good, no one would care about the means.
But today, the legitimacy he was so proud of was uprooted by these younger generation members and trampled into pieces on the ground.
"A bunch of... ignorant ants." Danzo's face twitched, completely shedding his mask of hypocrisy. He threw away his cane, his voice sharp with extreme anger, "Since none of you understand my good intentions, then die with this ruined village!"
Before he could finish speaking, Danzo hand Hand Seals so fast that only a blur remained.
"Summoning Technique: Baku!"
"Bang!"
A huge cloud of white smoke exploded, and a dark brown monster the size of a hill appeared out of thin air. It had an elephant trunk and tiger claws, and as soon as it landed, it opened its abyssal maw. A violent suction force instantly formed, and the rubble, broken wood, and several nearby Chunin were uncontrollably pulled toward that huge mouth.
Danzo leaped into the air, using the gust of wind created by the Baku to unleash an extremely compressed Chakra.
"Wind Release: Vacuum Serial Waves!"
A dozen or so sharp wind blades, visible to the naked eye, accompanied by a piercing shriek, sucked away all the air in their path, heading straight for Tsunade and Naruto's faces. This level of combined Ninjutsu was enough to cut half a square into mincemeat.
Kakashi immediately raised his hand, preparing to Hand Seals for defense.
"Fancy." Naruto didn't even move an inch. His Yang Release Chakra surged, and his eyes instantly transformed into pure Byakugan.
"Whoosh whoosh!"
Nine dark golden Chakra Chains burst forth from the ground, moving faster than Wind Release! Like nine raging dragons, the chains plunged directly into the Baku's mouth, meeting the terrifying suction force head-on, and then brutally pierced through its nape and limbs.
"Aww--!"
The Baku only had time to let out a scream before its massive body was pinned to the ground by the Adamantine Sealing Chains. The gale suddenly stopped, and the spirit beast convulsed before dissipating into white smoke.
Almost at the same moment the chains erupted, Sasuke moved.
"I'll take your worthless life!"
A streak of purple lightning flashed out. Sasuke activated his Mangekyō Sharingan without reservation, piercing straight through Danzo's wind blade net before he even hit the ground. The Kusanagi Sword, accompanied by a piercing chirping of Chidori, aimed precisely at Danzo's heart.
Danzo sharply, and he gripped a kunai imbued with Wind Release Kunai in his left hand, holding it tightly in front of his chest.
"When!"
Blinding sparks exploded. Danzo old after all, and the pure force of the collision made his wrist go numb. The Kunai was directly cut in two by the high-frequency vibration of the Chidori.
Without pausing, Sasuke grabbed Danzo by the neck with his left hand and slammed him against the ruins behind him. The wall shattered with a deafening crash.
"Pfft!"
The Kusanagi Sword pierced through Danzo's chest without any resistance, the blade emerging from his back and embedding itself deeply in the stone wall. Blood spurted out from the wound, splashing onto Sasuke's cold cheek.
A murmur rippled through the surrounding ninjas. It's over? The scourge that has dominated Hidden Leaf's darkness for half a century is dead just like that?
Sasuke stared at Danzo single eye, twisted his wrist, and prepared to cut off his head.
Naruto, standing not far away, frowned slightly. His extremely keen Mind's Eye of the Kagura sensed that Danzo's life force had not been lost; instead, an extremely strange Chakra fluctuation had appeared.
"Sasuke, retreat!" Naruto shouted suddenly.
It's too late.
Danzo, pinned to the wall, suddenly curled his lips into a mocking sneer. The Three-Tomoe Sharingan on the top of his deformed right arm closed without warning.
The next second, the body that Sasuke was holding rippled out like water, instantly turning into a blurry afterimage, and the blood that had been spurted out also disappeared completely.
"What?!" Kakashi's expression changed drastically, and he abruptly pulled down his Forehead Protector, revealing his left Sharingan. "Genjutsu? No... that was a physical entity just now!"
"It's a forbidden technique that alters reality." Sasuke turned around abruptly, his Kusanagi Sword flashing with lightning. He knew exactly what it felt like to have just pierced through—real flesh and blood.
"As expected of a genius from the Uchiha Clan, his reaction is very quick."
Danzo's voice came from the top of the Clock Tower fifty meters to his left. He stood there unharmed, without a single scratch on his chest, not even a tear in his clothes. Only the closed eye on his right arm proved that what had just happened was not an illusion.
"Izanagi." Sasuke's voice was icy cold, but the flames of hatred in his eyes burned even brighter. To take the Uchiha's eyes and use the Uchiha's forbidden techniques against the Uchiha was a provocation of the worst kind.
"Since you've pushed me to this point, I won't hold back anymore." Danzo raised his right hand, his remaining ten Sharingan gleaming with a greedy red light in the night. "I still have ten lives on my arm. Uchiha brats, and that Nine-Tails Jinchuriki... what do you think you can use to outlast me?"