Danzo's Final Trump Card

"Kotoamatsukami!"

Danzo's hoarse roar sounded extremely eerie in the night wind. He suddenly raised his pale, twisted right arm high, and the Mangekyō Sharingan belonging to Shisui Uchiha deep in his palm spun wildly, bursting out with a chilling red light.

This power of the eye had no physical form, yet it was like a vast, all-encompassing net, carrying an irresistible force of rules, directly enveloping Naruto Uzumaki stood at the very front.

"Trying to forcibly rewrite my will?" Naruto's lips curled into a mocking smile as he stood rooted to the spot, neither flinching nor dodging.

Buzz!

Just as the Genjutsu fluctuations were about to touch his brow, Naruto's Pure Byakugan suddenly erupted with an extremely dazzling golden-red halo. The vast, ocean-like Pure Yang Chakra within his body, like a primordial beast awakening, burst forth and transformed into tangible golden flames that enveloped his entire being.

"Hiss hiss hiss--"

The Kotoamatsukami Genjutsu, powerful enough to kill even the strongest ninja in the entire Shinobi World, collided with that golden Yang Release aura and produced a piercing sound like hot oil being poured onto snow. It couldn't even last a second before being completely purified and crushed.

"This is impossible!" Danzo's eyes widened in horror, his single remaining eye filled with terror.

That's the Kotoamatsukami, hailed as the strongest Genjutsu! This monster actually managed to shatter the Genjutsu simply by using the sheer volume of its Chakra?!

The intense pain of the backlash instantly swept through his entire body. Danzo groaned, and the uncontrollable Hashirama Cells in his right arm began to run rampant. Strands of green wood chips emerged from the pores of his arm, and his skin and flesh rapidly hardened and dried out.

"Faced with absolute power, your prized trump card is no different from paper." Naruto dusted himself off and stepped forward. With each step, cracks appeared in the ground from the violent Yang Release Chakra.

There was no way to retreat.

Danzo's breathing was rapid, like a broken bellows. He knew he was unlikely to leave the square alive today.

Since neither physical methods nor Genjutsu could defeat Naruto, he abruptly turned his head, his malicious gaze fixed on Sasuke Uchiha standing to the side. If he couldn't kill the big one, he'd take one down with him! As long as he angered this Uchiha orphan and forced him to get close, the Reverse Four Symbols Seal he had etched on his chest would take him to hell with him!

"Sasuke Uchiha!" Danzo suddenly suppressed his panic, his expression twisted and crazed. "You stand here with a sword in hand, do you really think you're avenging your clan? It's utterly ridiculous!"

Sasuke paused, the Kusanagi Sword in his hand emitting a dangerous low hum.

Danzo his voice, tearing through the stillness of the night. "Your brother Itachi, who was called a genius, was not some rogue missing-nin forced into it! He was a scavenger carrying out my orders! He personally shattered the Uchiha Clan's ambition to rebel!"

"You're talking nonsense!" Sasuke's eyes instantly flashed with crimson Mangekyou Mangekyo Sharingan, and his killing intent exploded.

"I'm talking nonsense?" Danzo laughed wildly, his withered chest heaving violently. "Didn't you hear the screams on the night of the massacre? For the peace of Hidden Leaf, he killed his parents and his fellow villagers without batting an eye! He and I are the same kind of people; we are both heroes who bear darkness and silently protect this village! If you kill me, you are denying your brother's faith!"

Every word was piercing to the heart.

The temperature in the air plummeted to freezing. Sasuke breathed heavily, the thunderous roar of Chidori raging wildly in his palm, the blinding blue and white lightning illuminating his profile like a demon. Images of the files on the scroll, the bloodstains of the massacre, Itachi's dying smile—all these images gnawed at his mind.

"I'm going to cut you into pieces..." Sasuke gritted his teeth, his body slightly arched, and he charged forward with all his might.

Danzo opened his chest, a sinister smirk playing on his lips. "Come on! Just two more meters, and I'll seal you into an endless abyss!"

"Bang."

A hand, not particularly broad but as hard as iron, unexpectedly pressed down on Sasuke's shoulder. The raging Chidori Lightning was forcibly suppressed back into his body like a docile lamb before this hand.

"You can kill him yourself." Naruto's voice rang in Sasuke's ears, steady, calm, and devoid of any warmth. "But you'd better think carefully first: are you going to throw your life away to vent your feeble anger, or are you going to live and personally settle these messes one by one?"

Sasuke's body trembled violently.

He turned his head and saw Naruto's expressionless Byakugan. Following Naruto's gaze, he finally saw the eerie black markings on Danzo's chest that were faintly glowing.

A formation designed to ensure mutual destruction.

A bucket of cold water was poured over his head, freezing the madness in Sasuke's eyes completely, and reason regained its footing. If he had rushed over just now, not only would he have died, but the truth about the Uchiha would have been buried in this old scoundrel's conspiracy.

"Call..."

Sasuke exhaled a breath of stale air, his killing intent receding to freezing point.

"I will dig all the truth out of the ground and expose it to the sun." Sasuke turned to look at Danzo, his eyes fixed on a rotting corpse. "But I don't intend to listen to an old dog like you barking here."

The moment he finished speaking, Sasuke didn't lunge forward. Instead, he leaped high into the air and gripped the hilt of the Kusanagi Sword with both hands.

"Chidori Stream - Earth Flow!"

The longsword, imbued with violent Lightning Release Chakra, did not pierce Danzo, but was instead slammed hard into the bluestone ground beneath Sasuke's feet.

"Boom!"

The raging lightning net spread and tore through the ground like tree roots. The ground within a radius of thirty meters collapsed instantly, and soil and rocks flew everywhere. What made Danzo even more desperate was that the sealing array he had buried underground in advance to cooperate with the Reverse Four Symbols Seal for escape or counterattack was destroyed by this devastating Lightning Release. It emitted a series of ear-piercing cracking sounds and shattered on the spot, turning into a pile of waste paper.

"Squeak--!"

Just as the ground collapsed, an extremely strange and piercing scream suddenly burst forth from deep within the soil.

Immediately afterward, a bizarre creature, half black and half white, shaped like a pitcher plant, was charred black by high-voltage lightning, emitting pungent black smoke, and sprang out of the crack in the ground in a very disheveled state. It was Kotoamatsukami Black Zetsu, who had been lurking for a long time, waiting for the right opportunity to steal the Kotoamatsukami!

"Oh, so there's someone hiding underground watching the show?" Naruto's lips curled into a cold smile. "Hiding so deep, I thought you were planning to stay hidden until your next life."

Black Zetsu's yellowish eye was fixed on Naruto, his hoarse, cold voice revealing undisguised dread. "Nine-Tails brat, that disgusting aura emanating from you makes me want to vomit."

The sudden exposure of Black Zetsu has once again changed the situation in the plaza.

Tsunade and the others immediately went on alert, and Kakashi's Chidori instantly formed in his palm. Just then, several agile figures flashed across the ruins outside the plaza.

"Ninja Art: Shadow Imitation Technique, complete."

Shikamaru crouched on a broken pillar a dozen meters away, his hands still in a hand Hand Seals position. A dozen dark shadows, like living snakes, swept across the ground at high speed, pinning down seven or eight loyal Root ninjas who were trying to take advantage of the chaos to Hand Seals and rescue Danzo.

"Lord Hokage, the outer perimeter has been cleared, and all remaining Root members are under control." Shikamaru raised his head, his tone lazy, but his eyes were unusually cold.

Tsunade snorted coldly, stepped forward, and said sternly, "Surround this place completely, don't let a single fly out!"

The Hyuga Clan ninjas quickly occupied the high ground, activating their Byakugan at full power.

Surrounded on all sides, there is no escape.

Danzo looked at the destroyed formation, his frozen subordinates, and the faces around him filled with hostility and murderous intent. His last shred of hope was finally shattered.

He was unwilling to accept this! He had been plotting for decades, assassinating countless obstacles and getting his hands dirty, finally achieving this situation! He couldn't just die here like this!

"Hidden Leaf... Hidden Leaf belongs to me!"

Utter despair gave rise to utter madness. Danzo roared to the sky, his remaining left hand Hand Seals, completely abandoning the suppression of Hashirama Cells within his body.

"Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence!"

Boom!

Danzo's right arm exploded completely. Hundreds of twisted vines, thicker than his thighs, mixed with his blood and Chakra, burst forth from the ground like raging pythons. In just a few seconds, half the plaza was forcibly transformed into a gloomy and terrifying Wood Release forest.

This is not the complete Deep Forest Emergence, but a flawed product obtained by Danzo at the cost of his own life force. The trees grow wildly for only one purpose—to create chaos and block Naruto and Sasuke's view!

Under the cover of flying wood chips and thick tree trunks, Danzo dragged his half of his body, which had begun to lignify and was completely numb, and scrambled into the depths of the forest, attempting a final struggle.

"Trying to run?" Sasuke sneered, pulled out the Kusanagi Sword stuck in the ground, and transformed into a streak of lightning to give chase.

"Don't rush!"

Naruto grabbed Sasuke's arm, his brows furrowing sharply. In the absolute vision of his Pure Byakugan, he clearly saw that directly in front of Danzo as he fled, space suddenly distorted in an extremely unnatural way.

That was definitely not Body Flicker Technique, but a spatial crossing of a higher dimension.

"Buzz--"

Deep in the forest, a strange spatial vortex appeared out of nowhere without warning.

Wearing a tiger-skin mask, Obito slowly stepped out of the vortex, dressed in a black robe embroidered with red clouds, and accurately blocked Danzo's escape route.

"Danzo, it's such a waste to have Shisui like you." Obito's voice was icy cold. His right hand was slightly open, reaching straight for Danzo's Kotoamatsukami eye, which was still trying to close.

Meanwhile...

Black Zetsu, who had just been struck by Lightning Release, had unknowingly turned into a pool of lifeless black sludge. It writhed rapidly along the dark tree roots, like a venomous snake that had been lurking for a long time, before suddenly lunging out and biting at Danzo's right arm!

The two people and the strange Kotoamatsukami, who possessed the power to change the course of history!

Danzo's pupils suddenly contracted to their maximum size, and a desperate scream got stuck in his throat.

"Picking up scraps on my turf?"

Naruto's eyes blazed with golden light, and a burst of violent Yang Release Chakra exploded beneath his feet. The bluestone slab shattered into dust, and he transformed into a golden rainbow that tore through space, hurtling straight toward the spatial vortex.

Do you two think I have a very good temper?