"Lord Danzo, the Uchiha rebellion is no small matter. Moreover, the Hokage has already ordered me to handle it. Please do not obstruct me."
The moment Shimura Danzo raised his hand, a crimson light flashed in Uchiha Shisui's eyes, and three black tomoe appeared one by one.
With the Sharingan's insightful perception, Uchiha Shisui easily seized Danzo's wrist.
Shimura Danzo snorted coldly. "Hmph, Hiruzen is already senile. I can't just stand by and watch you waste Kotoamatsukami like this."
Seeing that Danzo was unwilling to let him leave easily, Uchiha Shisui sighed helplessly.
"Genjutsu: Sharingan!"
Faced with Shisui's illusion, Shimura Danzo's body trembled slightly, and then he completely lost consciousness.
The Root ninjas around gasped in shock at the sight.
Their revered Lord Danzo was instantly subdued by Uchiha Shisui with just one look.
"Lord Danzo, I don't have time to linger here. This illusion will dissipate soon. I apologize."
After dealing with Danzo, Uchiha Shisui turned to leave.
However, just as he turned around, Danzo, who had already fallen under the illusion, gradually became transparent and disappeared from the spot.
Before Uchiha Shisui could react, Danzo had already punched him hard in the stomach.
"Pfft—how could this be?"
Uchiha Shisui was very confident in his genjutsu; even Shimura Danzo wouldn't be able to break it so quickly.
"Young man, you still lack combat experience. Give me your eyes!"
Danzo Shimura scoffed, then reached out and successfully gouged out one of Shisui Uchiha's eyes.
"Ah—"
Shisui screamed and quickly distanced himself from Danzo, covering his bleeding right eye.
"Attack! Don't let him get away!"
Shimura Danzo, watching Uchiha Shisui retreat, gave orders to the Root ninjas.
"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!"
"Fūton: Shinkūgyaku!"
"Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu!"
More than a dozen Root ninjas unleashed their ninjutsu almost simultaneously, bombarding Uchiha Shisui.
Unbeknownst to them, in a secluded spot, Naruto Uzumaki in his four-tailed form was watching them intently.
Naruto Uzumaki had long since lost his mind due to the hatred carried by the tailed beast's chakra, but Black Zetsu was completely unaffected.
He could suppress the Nine-Tails and conceal his aura. In addition, with the attention of Shimura Danzo and others focused on Uchiha Shisui, no one noticed him at all.
While the Root ninjas were fighting Uchiha Shisui, Danzo removed his right eye, which had been blinded by using Izanagi, and prepared to replace it with Uchiha Shisui's Sharingan.
"It's a good thing I have this Sharingan, otherwise, I would have been defeated by this brat."
As Danzo sighed inwardly, a flash of black and red light appeared before his eyes, and a black and red chakra claw suddenly appeared, snatching the Sharingan from his hand.
"My Sharingan!"
The sudden turn of events enraged Danzo Shimura, but what happened next nearly made him faint from anger.
The chakra claw that had stolen Shisui's Sharingan clenched its fist in mid-air and crushed the Sharingan, which contained the power of Kotoamatsukami.
"No—my eyes...my hope to become Hokage!"
Danzo let out a mournful cry, and under the influence of his intense inner fire, a mouthful of blood surged up to his throat and gushed out.
"Susanoo!"
On one side, the Sharingan was just crushed, while on the other side, Uchiha Shisui activated Susanoo, forcing back the ninjas who were close by, and then coughed up blood as he fled into the distance.
"Waste!"
"A bunch of useless trash! You couldn't even stop Uchiha Shisui. Did I waste all those resources training you?"
Upon seeing Uchiha Shisui escape with his other eye, Shimura Danzo launched into a tirade of curses.
His actions not only failed to obtain Uchiha Shisui's Sharingan, but also cost him his trump card for survival.
The thought of this gave him a sharp pain in his heart.
His angry gaze couldn't help but turn towards the direction where Naruto Uzumaki was.
At that moment, Black Zetsu had just retracted the Nine-Tails' chakra claws, which was seen by Danzo Shimura.
"Nine-Tails?"
"That good-for-nothing Tenzō, wasn't he always by Naruto's side? Why couldn't he suppress the Tailed Beast when it went berserk?"
"Why did the rampaging Nine-Tails come to me and destroy Shisui's Sharingan?"
Danzo Shimura was furious and filled with doubt.
He didn't think that Naruto was deliberately targeting him. Everyone knew that once the Nine-Tails went berserk, the Jinchuriki would lose consciousness.
Its actions would also be controlled by the Nine-Tails, meaning that the Nine-Tails was targeting him.
At some point, Danzo had developed a habit of distinguishing between Naruto Uzumaki and Kurama (the Nine-Tails).
Over the past four years, in his heart, Naruto Uzumaki is Naruto Uzumaki, and Kurama is Kurama; they are not the same.
"Now that we've been seen, we can't just leave. Otherwise, it'll be easy for people to become suspicious."
Black Zetsu and Shimura Danzo exchanged a glance, and Black Zetsu, who was about to leave immediately, paused for a moment.
"Then, let's have a parting gift!"
With this thought in mind, Black Zetsu controlled Naruto Uzumaki's body and condensed a small Bijūdama.
Roar!
Accompanied by the Nine-Tails' roar, the chakra storm spread rapidly in all directions like sharp blades.
"Not good!"
As Danzo watched the Bijūdama take shape, cold sweat trickled down his forehead.
It was too late to run away at that point.
Izanagi has already been used.
The only way to withstand a Bijūdama seems to be...
"Spiritual communication!"
At the critical moment, Danzo Shimura bit his finger and used a summoning technique.
Whoosh!
At the same time, the Bijūdama shot out.
Boom!
The thunderous roar shook the entire Konoha, and the enormous mushroom cloud immediately pinpointed the direction for the ninjas who had spontaneously searched for Naruto Uzumaki.
"Go!"
"The other god cannot be spared either."
After unleashing a Bijūdama, Black Zetsu didn't hesitate and chased after Uchiha Shisui in the direction he had left.
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The Hokage's office.
Hiruzen Sarutobi, who had been so confident, suddenly turned extremely pale.
He had planned everything meticulously, but he hadn't anticipated that the Nine-Tails would go berserk at this moment.
Even more unexpectedly, Tenzō's Mokuton technique failed to suppress the Nine-Tails' power.
"No wonder the First Hokage said that the Nine-Tails' power was too great and had to be sealed away."
"If this is not controlled, the village will be destroyed by the Nine-Tails sooner or later."
Hiruzen Sarutobi finally understood Hashirama Senju's words and realized that the power of the Nine-Tails should not be underestimated.
"Pass the order: capture the Nine-Tails with all your might..."
Just as Hiruzen Sarutobi was about to give the order, a deafening roar shook the entire Hokage Building.