The Death of Danzo Shimura

The moment he saw Wood Release, a name surfaced in Danzo Shimura's mind: Orochimaru.

At that moment, Danzo Shimura was still pondering something.

But Obito Uchiha paid no attention to any of that. A wooden spike emerged from his palm and shot toward Danzo Shimura.

Though his body had been damaged in many places, Danzo Shimura still possessed considerable strength. He might not have measured up to the level of a Hokage, but he was far stronger than an ordinary elite jonin.

Forming hand seals, he spat out several Vacuum Bullets while dodging the wooden spike Obito Uchiha had fired at him.

"Wood Release... Where did you obtain it?"

At this moment, Danzo Shimura had focused all his attention on Wood Release.

It was the unique ninjutsu of the God of Shinobi. He craved it desperately.

Obito Uchiha did not answer. He allowed the Vacuum Bullets to pass through his illusory body and walked toward Danzo Shimura step by step.

Seeing this, Danzo Shimura could not help frowning. He reminded him, "If you want Nohara Rin to remain in this state forever, then go ahead and keep attacking."

Only upon hearing Rin's name did Obito Uchiha come back to his senses.

"What do you mean?!"

Obito Uchiha asked coldly.

"Exactly what it says. Impure World Reincarnation is a very special forbidden technique. Only the caster can undo it."

"Although I never ordered anyone to awaken Nohara Rin's consciousness, the Impure World Reincarnation ritual has now been completed. And the only person who could undo the forbidden technique has already been killed by you."

Danzo Shimura was extremely pleased with himself. From the moment Nohara Rin had been successfully reincarnated through Impure World Reincarnation, he had won.

But in the next instant, Obito Uchiha's words froze the smile on Danzo Shimura's face.

"Black Zetsu, can the Human Path's ability be used... on Rin?"

Obito Uchiha asked Black Zetsu. No matter what, he would not spare Danzo Shimura today.

"It can!"

With that answer, Danzo Shimura's life finally reached its end.

Faced with Obito Uchiha's Kamui, Danzo Shimura exhausted every method at his disposal, yet he remained powerless.

Obito Uchiha did not seem to be in any hurry to kill him. Instead, he kept leaving all manner of wounds across Danzo Shimura's body, wounds that were difficult to heal.

"Obito Uchiha, don't get cocky. Even if you have a way to undo Impure World Reincarnation, I still have..."

As his life neared its end, Danzo Shimura still wanted to make some threat. But a wooden spike had already pierced his chest...

With no Sharingan left to expend on Izanagi, Danzo Shimura used every ounce of his strength to unleash the Reverse Four Symbols Seal at the final moment.

But in the end, it only sealed away his own body.

One day after Danzo Shimura's death...

"What? Danzo is dead? Hiruzen Sarutobi thinks I did it???"

Having just finished a cloning experiment, Uchiha Yansheng ran into Shisui Uchiha head-on and learned an unexpected piece of news from him.

"Wasn't it you?"

"B-but... Other than you, who else could kill him in Konoha Village?"

Seeing Uchiha Yansheng's reaction, Shisui Uchiha began to doubt his own judgment.

The sudden turn of events left Uchiha Yansheng, who had been in a good mood, feeling somewhat irritated.

"Are you sure Danzo is really dead? Could it be some fake-death trick? And where is the body? When exactly did he die?"

Uchiha Yansheng asked these questions while considering who had truly killed Danzo.

Danzo might have been a little weak, but he could still fight a Mangekyo Sharingan user for a while. His strength was not all that poor.

Setting aside those Otsutsuki Clan people, there were only a few people in the entire ninja world who could silently kill Danzo Shimura within Konoha Village...

Orochimaru, or Obito Uchiha.

"The Tongue Eradication Seals on the Root ninjas have been released, confirming Danzo's death. He died in an abandoned laboratory within Root. The time of death was one day ago. In addition, the Root base was attacked a day and a half ago, and Root ninjas suffered heavy casualties."

Shisui Uchiha told Uchiha Yansheng everything he knew. Naturally, he did not want friction to arise between the village and the clan at such a critical time.

Although he had learned from Uchiha Yansheng about the true relationship between the village and the Uchiha Clan, Shisui Uchiha still hoped there could be a better choice.

"Obito Uchiha probably did it. Only space-time ninjutsu could have infiltrated so easily."

Orochimaru was also a possibility. His ties to Danzo ran deep, and he knew much about Root, but under normal circumstances, Orochimaru should not have made a move against Danzo at this time.

So Obito Uchiha remained the most likely culprit.

"If it had been me, the commotion would have been far greater."

"Also, have you forgotten my age? Although I have enough strength, I do not know that many ninjutsu."

"I can kill Danzo, but killing someone without making a sound is simply impossible."

"Enough. Don't bother me with these trivial matters. I have things to do."

Uchiha Yansheng offered a few words in his defense. Regardless of whether Shisui Uchiha believed him, and regardless of what Hiruzen Sarutobi might do, he turned and returned to his bedroom to catch up on sleep.

In recent days, Uchiha Yansheng had gone a long time without rest in order to separate the two special types of cells he had collected. It had taken him a long time to extract the Hashirama Cells.

Not long after waking up the next day, Uchiha Yansheng was summoned to a meeting.

It was Konoha Village's jonin meeting.

Though he was only ten years old, as an elder of the Uchiha Clan, he still had to take part in certain major affairs of Konoha Village.

Many of the jonin attending the meeting stared at him with curious eyes.

Even in the ninja world, a jonin around ten years old was the stuff of fantastical legend.

"Based on memory examination of the corpse, we have reached a conclusion. The one who killed Elder Danzo was Obito Uchiha, a member of the Uchiha Clan who disappeared during the Third Shinobi War."

At the jonin meeting, Hiruzen Sarutobi announced Danzo Shimura's death and revealed the culprit as well.

Danzo Shimura's death could not be concealed, nor should it be concealed. Not only could they not hide it, they had to demonstrate Konoha Village's stance.

Therefore, in the name of the Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi issued an S-rank mission to the Uchiha Clan: hunt down the rogue ninja, Obito Uchiha.

Upon hearing Obito Uchiha's name again, Kakashi could not help reaching up to touch his right eye.

Kakashi had learned about Obito soon after the Nine-Tails' Attack.

At the time, Kakashi had found the news difficult to believe. It was only after discovering that his right eye truly possessed the Mangekyo Sharingan that he chose to believe it.

After training, he was now able to use that eye successfully.

"Hokage-sama, I request to join this mission to hunt down the rogue ninja."