The letter made it clear that Danzo had stayed in contact all these years, relying entirely on Orochimaru's medical methods to keep the Hashirama cells in his right arm from running wild.
But now the old man's greed knew no bounds.
With age catching up to him and no hope of getting anywhere through training in this lifetime, he had turned his attention to "transplants."
The Hashirama cells had twisted him into something neither human nor monster, but they had also given him a taste of the benefits of a Kekkei Genkai.
Now he had his sights on two things-
Shisui Uchiha's Sharingan.
And the Nine-Tails inside Kushina Uzumaki.
According to Danzo himself, as long as he held both the Senju and Uchiha powers in his hands, he could control a tailed beast even more reliably than Kushina.
But transplanting a Sharingan was not a job just any Medical Ninja could handle.
Danzo had approached Orochimaru again, wanting him to perform the surgery.
Orochimaru had written to ask what Xuan Zhe thought.
Honestly, he had little interest in Shisui's eyes. He even wanted to see just what kind of explosion would result from cramming both Senju and Uchiha powers into one person's body.
"So that's been happening too." Xuan Zhe tossed the cucumber end onto the ground and dusted off his hands.
Xuan Zhe tapped his forehead, then grinned a little awkwardly.
He had long since forgotten all about Shisui Uchiha's situation.
Who could blame him, when the kid was practically invisible in both the original story and this lousy book?
He could not remember when the boy had died at all.
"Shisui was captured?!"
Rin Nohara and Kurenai Yuhi crowded over to peek at the letter, both crying out at once.
They had graduated in the same year as