"You're... no, you're not him!"
Danzo had thought the man was his reinforcement-the Masked Man who could use Space-Time Ninjutsu.
Now he froze.
This guy could actually use Wood Release?
Could the Uchiha Clan's sudden action have something to do with him?
Excellent! Now I have someone to take the blame!
Besides, hasn't Orochimaru always wanted raw material for Wood Release?
This fellow's entire body is material! Enough for Orochimaru to keep researching until he produces results!
At that thought, Shimura Danzō's eyes filled with greed.
Ignoring the ferocious Wood Dragon bearing down on him, he shouted.
"What are you standing around for? Everyone, attack! We must capture him!"
"Yes, Lord Danzo!"
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The next moment, Root ninja rushed out one after another.
All kinds of ninjutsu and ninja tools flew through the air, engulfing Shisui Uchiha's Wood Dragon.
Shimura Danzō's eyes lit up at the sight.
An opening!
Having already finished his hand seals, he slammed his palms together.
"Wind Release: Vacuum Great Sphere!"
The next moment, Shimura Danzō drew in a massive breath. The wind-nature chakra inside him surged faster and faster until it reached a critical point.
Locking onto Shisui Uchiha, he blasted a huge air bullet straight at him.
Boom...
"Hahaha! So what if you can use Wood Release? Do you think you're Hashirama Senju? Ridiculous!"
As the explosion rang out, Shimura Danzō threw his head back and laughed.
At the same time, he waved at the Root members beside him, signaling them to move over.
"Now we have someone to take the blame."
"Let's go. Since the plan has changed and the Uchiha Clan has gone to provide support, naturally, Root can't sit this out either."
But just as Shimura Danzō started leading the Root members toward the battlefield, an enormous fist appeared out of nowhere.
It came so suddenly that seven Root members had no time to react and were smashed to pieces.
Blood splattered everywhere in a horrifying sight.
"What?! You're still alive?"
He saw the Wooden Man emerge from the explosion, with Shisui Uchiha lounging against its shoulder.
Shimura Danzō's expression turned utterly grim!
"Why would I be dead?"
"You..."
"What about me? If you can't speak properly, shut up!"
"Not a single one of you from Root is getting down this road today!"
With that, Shisui Uchiha casually tossed a kunai, driving it into the ground in front of Shimura Danzō.
Then he tilted his head slightly, and icy killing intent instantly enveloped everyone.
At that moment, he unleashed all his Wood Release chakra!
"Do I make myself clear?"
Gulp. Gulp.
After sensing the powerful chakra radiating from Shisui Uchiha, Shimura Danzō abandoned any thought of forcing his way through.
But that did not mean he would give in.
"Fine. We won't go!"
Poof!
No sooner had Shimura Danzō spoken than thick smoke suddenly billowed around him.
Was he trying to use the smoke to obscure their vision and sneak away?
"..."
At the sight, Shisui Uchiha shook his head speechlessly.
His eyes were full of scorn.
"Pathetic."
The next moment, Shisui Uchiha rapidly formed hand seals and pressed his palms together.
"Wood Release: Four Pillar Prison Technique!"
Before long, clusters of wooden spikes fell from the sky, making the entire Root headquarters quake.
Shimura Danzō, who had just found a secret passage, froze at the sight before him.
Wood Release can do that?
Before his eyes, the wooden spikes raining from above instantly formed a prison, trapping the entire Root headquarters inside.
He could neither win nor escape...
Since becoming the head of Root, Shimura Danzō had never been humiliated like this!
"Aaaah!"
As his expression shifted back and forth, a scream suddenly rang out beyond the prison.
Holding a bloodied head, Shisui Uchiha approached the prison and took out the scroll its owner had tried to deliver.
"One of yours? Pretty fast. Off to deliver a message, was he? A shame..."
Crack. Crack. Crack.
Right in front of Shimura Danzō, Shisui Uchiha crushed the scroll into powder and blew it toward him.
"Useless."
"You bastard!"
The humiliation left Shimura Danzō seething with rage.
Had the Root members beside him not held him back, he would have rushed up to fight Shisui Uchiha to the death.
Of course, some of it might have been an act.
Well, then...
At that thought, Shisui Uchiha turned his back on Shimura Danzō and the others and began writing a letter.
"Since you want to ask that old bastard Hiruzen Sarutobi to help you, I'll be a good Samaritan and let him know for you."
"..."
Seeing that Shisui Uchiha really was writing a letter for them, Shimura Danzō exchanged glances with the subordinates around him.
The next moment, he swiftly formed hand seals and pressed his palms together.
"Wind Release: Wind-Blowing Jade!"
Whoosh! Whoosh!
"Oh? Finally?"
To deal with Shimura Danzō's attack, Shisui Uchiha merely ordered the Wooden Man beside him to catch it with a swipe of its palm.
As for the other Root members' ninjutsu, he left those to the Wood Dragon.
It could absorb their chakra to sustain the Wood Release: Four Pillar Prison Technique.
"I knew you wouldn't admit defeat so easily, Shimura Danzō."
But just as Shisui Uchiha finished dealing with those attacks and prepared to see what final trick Shimura Danzō had up his sleeve, something happened.
He paused.
"Stabbing the Wooden Man with a kunai?"
Yes, he was stabbing the Wooden Man with a kunai!
Behind him, Shimura Danzō wore a savage, confident expression as he gripped the kunai Shisui had thrown earlier and plunged it straight into the Wooden Man's back.
He looked as though victory was already assured.
"Hahaha! It's over!"
"..."
Shisui Uchiha could not understand what Shimura Danzō was thinking.
After all those ninjutsu had failed to hurt him, he actually hoped to stab him to death with a kunai?
Has he lost his mind...?
Smack!
Before everyone's eyes, the Wooden Man slapped Shimura Danzō straight back inside the Four Pillar Prison Technique, knocking him unconscious on the spot.
After that, Shisui Uchiha controlled the Wooden Man, having it scoop up a load of enormous rocks and hurl them down at Shimura Danzō and the others.
Boom!
With a deafening crash, Shimura Danzō and every member of Root were buried beneath the rocks.
Of course, they were not dead yet.
After all, he still needed this fellow to take the blame for the Nine-Tails' Rampage and other incidents.
"Enjoy these days of standing high above everyone else while you can, Shimura Danzō. You don't have much time left..."
As his words faded, Shisui Uchiha created a Wood Clone and left it behind to watch over the place.
His real body vanished instantly and appeared in a tree not far from where Shimura Danzō and the others lay buried.
"Orochimaru, the time has come."
"Now you can tell me what you've chosen."
"..."
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