Rinnegan

In his heart, Danzo had already more or less believed what Obito said.

Because he had seen the Rinnegan in his younger days.

It had been near the end of the Second Shinobi World War, when Danzo discovered a child of the Uzumaki Clan in Amegakure.

Most importantly, this child of the Uzumaki Clan possessed a pair of special eyes, something Danzo had sacrificed many Root members to learn.

Those were the Rinnegan, the legendary eyes of the Sage of Six Paths.

Because he coveted the Rinnegan's Eye Power.

On top of that, he had not wanted the war to end, feared that Hanzō and the Akatsuki would grow much stronger if they joined forces, and had also harbored a little concern about Jiraiya competing for the position of Hokage...

All these factors had come together.

Danzo had persuaded the suspicious Hanzō to join forces with him against the Akatsuki.

In the end, it had all gone disastrously wrong.

That child of the Uzumaki Clan had gone mad, summoning a Half-Body Demonic Statue that spat a Purple Illusory Dragon from its mouth.

Anyone it touched died instantly. Only Danzo and Hanzō had escaped.

The Root members Danzo had brought along had also been wiped out.

Danzo had been scared half to death himself and fled desperately back to Konoha.

After that, he had never heard anything about the Rinnegan again.

No matter how many ninja he sent afterward, the Root members who infiltrated Amegakure still lost contact one after another.

On top of that, Hanzō had stayed firmly within the Land of Rain afterward and sealed its borders.

Danzo's plan had thus come to nothing.

Later, he had heard that the Akatsuki still existed, but had become an assassination organization.

That was precisely why Danzo had spent one billion ryo