Tsunade: There's a Lunatic Here

Konoha Hospital.

Tsunade stared at Shimura Danzō on the hospital bed. He looked alive, but he might as well have been dead.

Her brows drew together.

Beside her, Shizune looked baffled. "Lady Tsunade, his condition is strange. I don't even know how to describe it..."

She was at a loss for words.

"..."

So was Tsunade.

A long silence passed.

She turned to Hiruzen Sarutobi. "Old man, you're saying he ended up like this after fighting Shinji?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi's expression was complicated. "Yes..."

"Did Shinji use some kind of Reanimation Technique?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi sighed. "Danzo tried to use Izanagi to rewrite reality, but it failed... From what he said, Shinji stopped him somehow. I can't imagine what Reanimation Technique he used."

Tsunade's frown deepened. Her voice turned sharp. "Izanagi?!"

"...Sigh."

Hiruzen Sarutobi sighed and casually changed the subject.

"At first, I thought the First Hokage's cells had left him like this. But thinking it over, I'm afraid this really was Shinji's doing."

"He didn't kill Danzo outright because he didn't want the conflict between the Uchiha and the village to erupt completely..."

Tsunade scoffed. "That kid's the only one who could stay rational. He's so even-tempered he hardly seems like an Uchiha... Hah. Taking Uchiha eyes, using an Uchiha forbidden jutsu, then fighting the current Uchiha Clan Head?"

"If it were me..."

Tsunade turned and glared at Shimura Danzō's ugly face. "I'd twist his head off and kick it around like a ball!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi: "..."

When the old man said nothing, Tsunade gave a cold snort.

She pondered the matter.

What Ninjutsu or secret technique could leave someone permanently half-dead?

She could understand Hashirama Cells running wild.

What she couldn't understand was how her grandfather's cells had gone halfway out of control, then stopped.

It was as though...

Time