AN: This chapter did not want to be written, the Danzo bits must have been re-written at least three times by now and I still don't like how it turned out. So my apologies for that.
That being said; THANK YOU for the 30, yes 30! reviews they really were the only things that made me keep writing this atrocious chapter and I actually already have written around fifty percent of the next chapter.
This is the beta'd version, not much has changed so a reread is not needed. A big thank you for Xhexia for the awesome Beta'ing.
Chapter 10: The green eyed God
Danzo woke up, and for a moment he felt disorientated, he was not in his house anymore and a sense of panic should have taken over but despite that he had never felt such pure bliss, he was at total peace, there was a clearer than clear-blue blue sky above him and greener than green grass below him. He could smell his favorite flowers in the air around him, it was perfect and it was because of that that Danzo was trying to stay alert as possible.
The last thing he had remembered was looking in those eyes, those eyes that looked nothing like the green eyes the boy had held earlier. They were full of emotions and they were broadcasting it, it had hit him like a tidal wave; misery, sadness and even a hint of rage had dawned upon him but that did not explain why he was experiencing this right now, because right now it did not really bother him that much. With each passing minute he could feel himself become more at ease.
He had been in the perfect world for a month now, the troubles he had known in Konoha seemed like a dream that was dreamed so long ago, he had enjoyed nights more clearer than he thought possible he had breathed air that did not hold the blood of the dead in it, it was indeed a perfect world in which he was residing now.
He sometimes wondered what was happening in Konoha, so many plans must have failed because he was not there to ensure success, because he was not there to fix every mistake.
But in this perfect world those troubles were far away, in this perfect world he could just be, in peace, Danzo thought as he closed his eyes end decided to sleep again, which turned out to be something he really enjoyed a lot.
Danzo walked to the waterfall, he had been here for years now and he was used to the nice, pure and cold water that the waterfall provided him, Danzo was sure that he was in heaven, if such a thing existed, how could this place be anything but that?
Those judging green eyes must have seen the good and bad he had done and decided that he was worthy of this idyllic place that, while being completely deserted, never felt truly alone. It was as if all the company he needed was the gentle breeze that sometimes made itself known, while the starry sky at night told him stories without words.
The perfectly timed breeze always came when Danzo needed it, yes he must have died and gone to heaven.
Lying on his back in the greener than green grass looking at the clearer than clear-blue night sky Danzo was thinking about the mistakes he had made when he was alive, not that it bothered him anymore, he had not dared to think about his actions when he was still alive afraid of what he would find out about himself. He had been in heaven for almost a hundred years now and he had realized that in his previous life he was a bitter man, someone who was too consumed with his own version of the truth.
His heart had been in the right place 'but did the ends really justify the means?' Danzo asked of himself. He knew by now that in this unchanging perfect world he could ponder on such trivial things as what was right and wrong. Thinking about his actions as the leader of Root, he could not help but think about the painful questions he had asked of himself so far. Had his actions helped the village or done it more harm and after thinking about that question for years now, he came to the conclusion that only time would've told him.
"And that, Danzo Shimaru, was the only answer you needed to find." A child-like voice said.
If Danzo had still been living he was sure he would have reacted in shock to this change to the world around him, it had been silent for so long he should have been surprised, but in truth he wasn't, he had spent too long in this blissful place without real concerns to start caring about it now.
"So are you god?" Danzo asked after a few minutes while staring at the stars that were now like his friends.
Danzo could hear the voice laugh a truly cheerful laugh, a perfect laugh. A perfect laugh for this perfect world, I really enjoy it here. Danzo thought to himself.
"Danzo Shimaru, do you know why you have been here for two hundred and twenty-seven years?" the voice asked of him. Danzo should have been shocked by this; that was at least twice as long as he had thought he had been in heaven.
"No." the man said truthfully. "I am still not sure why I have gone to heaven and not to hell; did the end justify the means? Was it all worth it?" He asked of the voice that he recognized somehow, as if he had conversed with it before.
"Perhaps you should sit up and have some tea with me, Danzo Shimaru; I believe you will find that it is your favorite flavor." The voice said, and Danzo complied, he stood up and walked towards the chair and table with the tea-set that had not been there before.
At the table he could see a young boy sitting, sipping from his tea and looking at him with huge green orbs. As Danzo sat down he grabbed the cup with strawberry tea and three sugar perfectly stirred and cooled down to precisely the right temperature.
"You are Uchiha Haru!" Danzo said after taking his first sip of his tea, memories that seemed like so long ago started to overwhelm his mind. All those memories and feelings that he had felt and experienced all those years ago were suddenly not that distant anymore, it was as if no time had passed between the offer he had made to the boy and sitting in this chair drinking tea.
"Explain this to me! What have you done, I am not in heaven am I?" Danzo asked of the boy, feeling that his inner peace which he had acquired so long ago had vanished without a trace.
"Calm down, Danzo Shimaru, I will explain everything to you after we have finished drinking our tea." Uchiha Haru said while taking another sip of his tea. Danzo decided that perhaps the best course of action was to patiently wait for the boy to start talking.
And so they sat there for what felt like hours to the man before the boy started to speak. "You have not died, Danzo Shimaru. I have simply shown you my reality, a dream I wish to share with the world."
Danzo looked at the boy wondering what he meant by that.
"When an Uchiha is born they are rinsed by the mid-wife and taken by the council to the Ancient Stone Tablet, the stone tablet can be read in various ways. I was born with a fully awakened sharingan and I could read the tablet and to me it read about a technique so cruel, so decisively meant for torture that I felt sick. At that moment in time I was but a baby not older than twelve hours but I could understand it quite well." Uchiha Haru started to explain to Danzo.
"It taught me about the world of Tsukuyomi, the spiritual world of darkness. I decided that day I would never use Tsukuyomi on a person." The boy said while looking as if his mind was somewhere else. Danzo had heard of the ultimate genjutsu, Tsukuyomi, it was a power to rightfully be feared, many a man had fallen to it, the three days in one second torture genjutsu was unblock able and absolute in its control.
"I created upon awakening my Mangekyou a world of my own, where I control space and time. Where I control everything that is, was and will be. It is something that came to me naturally. You see, every Mangekyou is different, where there are only a few recorded Mangekyou jutsu's there are an endless amount of jutsu's possible with it, each pair of kaleidoscope eyes gaining their own characteristics, their own special jutsu. Mine I like to call 'Tengoku no Yokubou' or Heaven of Desire. I believe you took poor Shisui's eyes because of the gift bestowed upon him by the curse of the kaleidoscope, so I think you understand what I am saying here." Harry told the man.
"I took you into my world, my heaven." The green eyed child said as if it was some sort of honor bestowed upon Danzo.
"And I desired of this world to help you, for you to realize that perhaps your way is not the only way to achieve peace. You who fights the battle in the shadow through manipulation and assassination, needed to remember that you are not infallible. That your choices may not be the right ones. It took you longer, much longer than I thought before you allowed yourself to start to doubt your own actions." Harry told the man in front of him. "Men who are convinced that their way is the only way to ensure peace, destroy more people through their manipulations than they dare admit to themselves, and all that for the greater good, for peace" After saying that Harry poured some more tea in his cup. "But do you think it wise for one man to see himself as a god, to see himself as someone who will be able to change everything?" Harry asked of the man, waiting silently until he got an answer.
"You are but a child, you have not seen the same hardships as me, it changes a man. I will not give excuses for my decisions in the past." Danzo said with a tone that left no discussion left to be held. "However, I have had time to think in this place and… perhaps I could change some decisions for the future. Perhaps your dream of peace, that is not decided by one man but by many has some merit. The roots that have kept Konoha healthy will start surfacing and thus show that the entirety of Konoha is willing to be burned by the will of fire, one tree that will not wither because it stands strong as a whole." Danzo mused out loud to the boy.
"Danzo Shimaru, if you can unite the roots of Konoha with the rest of the tree that stands so mighty in this world. I will allow you to leave this place, but I will keep a close eye on you, and believe me when I tell you this; The attack you have thought up for the chuunin exam in five years time, will. Not. Take. Place. You will withhold all information you wanted to give Orochimaru and you will inform Hiruzen Sarutobi of the possibility that Orochimaru will attack even without your help." Harry said while the heavenly world of Desire was starting to illuminate, growing in brightness.
"One last point advice" Harry's voice, now very low and almost booming out of him, started; "Never use my affection for my parents to gain access to my talents, ever again, I will not join your forces, I will be loyal to my hokage and my family." And when that last word was spoken, the world around Danzo turned white and he had to close his eyes but the light that was engulfing him was still visible through his eye-lids and Danzo whited out, losing conscious.
Three years ago.
Harry felt cold, the warm place he had lived in for nine months was so much better than this cold world, blankets in all honesty had nothing on a well-placed warming charm. Harry cursed himself for firing that Avada Kedavra on himself, he didn't have it that bad in his last life, he just wanted to die because of those wretched deathly hallows messing everything up.
But alas, hindsight is always 20-20 if he had known he would be reborn he surely would not have ended his life, previous life. He was rich, had influence, he had the most powerful wand ever in existence and he was an adult...
Harry was currently being doted on by several women, he couldn't see them properly so he pushed magic into his eyes and then he could clearly see the proud faces they had held. It was quite a special feeling to see people look with pride because of him, he wondered why they would feel that way, he was just a baby right?
And they kept talking about something called a sharingan which he seemed to have awakened already, Harry had no idea what a sharingan was but he knew these people were very pleased with whatever it was.
He had been alive for a total of five hours by now and he could not help but enjoy the moment they took him outside, the fresh air in his lungs felt so good, it was almost as if these lungs could feel everything that entered them, as if his old lungs that he had in the past were desensitized. He was getting quite tired by now though but he wanted to know what was happening, it felt like he was going through some kind of ritual. Harry got a bit scared when thinking about rituals with babies, what if they were going to circumcise him!
Harry saw a huge shrine coming closer and he knew that would be their destination, he again pushed magic into his eyes to see more clearly and he could read that the name of this shrine was the Naka shrine. It looked old, older than most of the buildings he had seen thus far.
After entering the shrine Harry was cleaned and the people around him were completely silent, one of the men holding him brought him to the basement and said one of the weirdest things Harry had heard up to that point: "Juubi hold you into his eyes, they eyes that see all, the eyes that hold power unimaginable." The man said while uncloaking Harry, "Be in the presence of our most noble heirloom, granted to us by the rikoudou sennin, observe and learn new Uchiha, let your blood join with the Uchiha spirit and become one of the chosen humans to serve the Juubi." With this said the man took out a kunai and made a tiny incision in Harry's finger and smeared the blood that came out over the huge stone tablet that somehow lighted up.
Harry pushed more magic into his eyes and he could see the stone tablet completely now, the blood somehow transferring some magic into the stone tablet that lit up the stone and the words engraved in it.
"You will spend three hours, thirty minutes and three seconds in the presence of our most coveted heirloom and will bond with the Uchiha spirit." The man said looking a bit crazed, as if the blood he had just smeared on the tablet was some sort of drugs.
Harry was left alone after that, he started to read the the tablet; it was quite a lot of text engraved in it.
'Those pure of blood and spirit can read the stone whole, those with the cursed eye can see all but the wicked truth, they with the white eyes see no more than the last remnant of the Rikoudou and those with the Rikoudou's eyes see more than they ought to." Harry read this and wondered what it actually meant.
"The gift of the sharingan, most beloved by me is naught but the first stage of the eyes that control upon themselves. The three tomoe when seen the hurt of loss become the kaleidoscope that crosses all."
"The Kaleidoscope is the truth of a personality, the embodiment, when engraved in stone three gifts of the kaleidoscope are known that all Uchiha can master. The world of spiritual darkness known as Tsukuyomi, the world that despairs the world that is master of the user if the user is master of the despair, the darkness takes the light and does not return to thy who mastered him completely until thy who is mastered has the four eyes"
"The fires of Amaterasu, are a gift of the blackest flames to thy right eye but the blackest of flames does not distinguish between us and them and thus needs thy judgment and guidance at the price of thy light, thy light diminishes thus thy blackest of flames be darker."
"The third and most coveted of gifts is thy sword and shield, Sasunoo is thy avatar in battle, thy eyes will bleed, thy eyes will darken but thy are unbeatable when truly master of thy avatar."
Harry had to think and read about this further, three gifts bestowed upon those with the kaleidoscope. But there was more.
"Thy kaleidoscope is thy and thy dreams is reality in thy eye. The kaleidoscope offers the power to create and destroy all is in thy power if thy's nature allows it. If thy is master of kaleidoscope thy is master of worlds beyond the pure and impure world"
"But thy can't be master of worlds if thy is but one, thy needs to be two in one for thy to master not only the spiritual worlds but thy needs the physical strength to see further than thy holds possible."
The ominous feeling of doom dawned upon Harry and he knew this world held more terrible secrets than perhaps the world of his previous life had, whatever those gifts are, I will not use it, it sounds like the three unforgivables. Three gifts that you either master or they master you and make your light disappear, it sounds like three gifts he should avoid at all costs.
'I can't believe that actually worked, but I have a huge migraine now'… Harry thought to himself while lying in bed. He had taken a huge risk when he used that jutsu for the first time on Danzo. That the man had not outright killed him when he entered the building was something he thanked Merlin profusely for. Harry had literally bluffed his way through that meeting.
But he needed that man on his side, through whatever means necessary. He had told Itachi that they had the same dream for the future, and after knowing that a boy of merely 13 years old went through so much pain to realize that dream. Harry knew he could not just sit idly. No he was going to participate in this world, he would become Hokage and he would make sure that this world would unite unlike his last world.
That night, while he was sleeping in his bed a masked man was watching him, "What an interesting child, to confront Danzo like that. Perhaps with his eyes the moon eye plan will be even more successful than with my own Tsukuyomi."
AN: I am sorry for having to post this horrible chapter, I guess not every chapter can be as good as the last two.
However I believe it should get better next chapter which will have some Harry awesomeness in it.
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