A/N: Hey so I kinda had school stuff, so this might be a little late. Whoops.

And by the way, the song is Death on Two Legs (Dedicated To...) (Remastered 2011) by Queen. This was probably just the slightest bit self-indulgent, but isn't that what SIs are in the first place?

That being said, though, it was also really difficult...

kukukuku~

Chikage

I watched silently from the shadows as that giant idiot walked up to that shriney thing for Danzō to remove his eye even though we warned him about specifically that. Like an idiot. I was half-tempted to just scoop him up to safety, but then again this was our best chance to either kill or cripple Danzō, so against my better judgement I waited. I let the Hangéd Man walk up to the Tower his noose swung from.

"Danzō," Shisui said. "What do you want?"

"You're going to use your Kotoamatsukami on your clan, aren't you? You know that that won't stop the rebellion forever."

"The Hokage has promised to resolve the issue, we just need more time."

Danzō scoffed. "So, you'll use your eyes on anyone who gets on the way of your ideals? When will you use your eyes on me, I wonder?" Shisui's eyes widened as he understood what was happening. "I'll have to keep then for safekeeping, then," Danzō continued, before lunging for Shisui's eyes.

Shisui activated his eyes, stopping Danzō in his tracks. "Don't worry, it's just a genjutsu, you'll be fine in like an hour." He paused. "Of course, you can't hear me right now, so I have no idea why I'm telling you this." He shrugged and started to away.

Then Danzō disappeared. It was like the hundredth time I'd seen it (and unfortunately the last...) and it was always really entrancing to actually see and sense. In fact, I was so transfixed that I forgot to act when Danzō reappeared with his hand buried in Shisui's gut. Luckily, though, Past Me had already prepared for that. Before Danzō could punch him again, a seal burned on Shisui's hand, and a glass dagger appeared in his grasp. In the process of being unsealed, the dagger infused Shisui with some red chakra, allowing him to quickly dodge Danzō's other attacks. However, one of Danzō's flunkies appeared behind him and rabbit punched him, reinforcements showing up seconds behind the first guy. It looked like the red chakra prevented the blow from breaking that one vertebra that breaks when you do a good rabbit punch, but at the same time that used up the chakra... Danzō removed his bandage over his eye, just in time for Shisui to be the last thing that eye ever saw.

"Sharingan," Shisui growled. He raised the dagger.

Then dropped it when Danzō lunged at him much faster than he expected for a crippled old man to move. In his defense he didn't know that Danzō apparently already got his really creepy prosthetic. I'd always assumed that he got the eyes for it from the massacre, but I guess he also took them from the Uchiha he had his goons kill. It's disgusting, but at least he wasn't wasting them... Before I thought to intervene, Danzō shoved his hand into Shisui's eye socket, then pulled his eye out. I'd seen it enough times to be desensitized, but it was still gross.

I cursed, then activated the backup plan. Okay to be honest I really went all-out with the backup plan. A circle of blood-red light blazed into existence around the area, and I felt my power grow. As the illusory sound of a piano in arpeggio began to play, quiet at first but growing louder, I peeled myself out of the shadows, put on a black mask, and changed my hair color and style. My two tails disappeared as I pulled out a guitar and started to float in the air. "Go, I'll hold them off," I sent a mental message to Shisui. I started playing some chords after the piano reached its peak, an eerie ambiance filling in the background. After a few discordant notes played not by another instrument, a sound almost like a plane set course to crash could be heard. Chakra rushed through me as it reached a deafening climax. The silence after was almost immediately broken by more piano, followed shortly by my guitar joining in. With each note I played, I sent out a wave of power that struck Danzō's minions. The power overwhelmed them right when I finished playing, giving me control over them.

"Ah!" my backup singers harmonized as they surrounded Danzō.

I sang, emphasizing the pauses between first four words: "You... Suck... My... Blood like a leech! You break the law and you preach! Screw my brain 'till it hurts! You've taken-"

The foundation minions I'd brainwashed took the next part. "-aaall my moneeey-"

"-and you want more!" I didn't sing for a few moments, my guitar-playing synchronized with the punches I had my thralls throw. "Misguided old mule with your pigheaded rules, and your narrow-minded cronies who are-"

"-foo~oo~ools-"

"-of the first division!" There was a woosh. "Death on two legs! You're tearing me apaaaaart!" Dun dah dun dah dun~. "Death on two leeeeeegs! You never had a heaaaart! Of your own!"

"Killjoy! Bad guy! Big talking! Small fry!"

"You're just an old barrow boy, have you found a new toy, to replace me? Can you face me? But now you can kiss! My ass goodbye!"

"Feel good? Are you satisfied? Do you feel like? Suicide? I think you should!"

"Is your conscience all right, does it plague you at night? Do you feel good?"

"Feel gooood?" I smiled under my mask as I began the next guitar solo. I flew around the arena we'd made, looking for... there! Just as the guitar solo ended, I descended, making it look like it was planned. "Ah!"

"Talk like a biiig business tycoon! You're just a hot air balloon! So noone gives you a chance! You're just an-"

"-overgrown schoolboy!"

"Let me tan your hiiide! Dog with disease, you're the king of the sleaze! Put your money where your mouth is mister know-all! Was the fin on your back part of the deeeeal? Shark."

"Death on two legs!"

"Tearing me apaaart!"

"Death on two leeeeeeegs!"

"You never had a heart!"

"Never did!"

"Of your oooooown!"

"Right from the start!"

I smirked, and this time we sang together as the minions distracted Danzō. "INSANE! Should be put INSIDE! You're a SEWER RAT decaying in a CESSPOOL OF PRIDE!" Unknown to Danzō, a small whirlwind formed around a fallen blade, and it jumped to my hand.

The minions grabbed Danzō, preventing him from moving. "Should be made unemployed, make yourself null and void, make me feel good!" I charged, the glass blade glowing with an eerie red energy.

The seal around the area faded as the last note played. "I feel gooooood!" I drove the blade into him, making sure to stick the dagger through both his prosthetic arm and the seal on his chest. A seal made from minute bubbles in the glass activated, denaturing Danzō's dead-man switch seal into uselessness. A flare of red chakra extended from both blades, severing what little remained that held his arm together. The glass blade, now that its purpose was served, shattered. I willed the shards to dig into Danzō's body further, hoping to at least take out another of his eyes and screw up some of his organs.

I scooped up the severed, bandaged limb. "I'm keeping this." I acted like it was more of a taunt than me stealing what was probably the most powerful severed hand on Konohagakure. As I walked away, the last dregs of my possession jutsu fading from the Foundation ninja, I formed a small blade of red chakra-based wind, barely more than a dart, and shot it at his unprotected neck. It probably wasn't a killshot on its own, but with the other things I did to him it couldn't be good. With my back to Danzō and his minions, I made a show of lifting my mask and eating the hand. I was actually sealing it up for later use, but I figured Danzō wouldn't worry about his hand's secret being revealed if he saw the person who took it destroying the evidence.

"Get... them..." he rasped. I smirked as my foot touched the shadows from the trees. Safe.

I turned around to see several hostile ninja staring at me. "I wouldn't go after me if I were you," I said. "If you leave me alone you might just be able to save your leader's life. If you don't, you'll be claimed by the shadows." I started to back up, my body slowly sinking into the shadows beneath my feet. One of the more bold of my enemies stepped foot on the shadows. A pure black seal flashed into being where his foot met the ground, and inky chains shot out of the ground, wrapping around him. "I did warn you," I said as we both disappeared into the shadows.

kukukuku~

I sighed. Itachi turned around, showing me his new Mangekyō Sharingan. "You're gonna do it, aren't you?"

He stared at me.

"I know that that was very traumatic for you, and I'm sorry, but is there any way I can't convince you to not do what we both know you're going to do? I'm sure the Foundation's in turmoil as we speak, if they haven't disbanded thanks to how there is like zero coordination aside from their leader."

He raised an eyebrow. "Why?"

I smirked. "You know about their tongue seals, right?"

He gave me a puzzled look, and his eyes deactivated. "Yes?"

"I destroyed the seal they were all linked to, which theoretically destroyed all of them."

"I... see." He was silent for a moment. "Perhaps it won't be necessary, but..."

I nodded. "Very well then. I'd prefer if you didn't, but, well..." I sat down and made a few seals. A picnic blanket appeared, followed by a pile of sweets. "Want some?"

He stared at my offering for a while. "...Why?"

I shrugged. "Well for one it looks like someone you loved just died, for one. And there's a good chance you'll be forced to kill your family soon."

He nodded lightly and sat down. "Thank you." He took the best of the candies...

kukukuku~

Chikage

Down the cliff, far enough that Itachi never noticed, a dark shadow had coalesced, and when Shisui fell past it a glob of darkness emerged from it and enveloped him. When the darkness retracted back into the shadow from whence it came, Shisui was missing.

kukukuku~

"So," I said, replaying the scene on the crystal ball. "Any remarks?" I asked as the start of the altered-but-still-unfortunately-happening Uchiha massacre played out before us.

Hiruzen frowned. "Not something I'd say in front of a child."

"I can see all. That includes swear words."

"Fine then." He loudly sighed. "I need a fucking smoke."

"Normally I would prefer you not smoke up my divination room, but this is a special circumstance. I'll open the portal back to your room if you need."

"No, that's fine. I'll wait until later."

I nodded, then pulled out a piece of chocolate. "Want one of these, then?"

"Thank you, Kouki-kun." I gave him the chocolate (and ate one myself). "If I may ask, how is Danzō doing? You said you injured him gravely, but clearly he is still alive."

I sighed and played a clip of Danzō using Izanagi from my memory. "I unfortunately missed two of his arm Sharingan, so he was able to heal himself. Good news, though." I played the rest of the clip, showing Danzō to investigate the arm I'd cut off, revealing it to still be missing, the Sharingan my glass shards cut simply not there. "He only has two Sharingan still. I think they didn't come back because I make liberal use of my own bastardized yin-yang release. I managed to snag the rest of his stock in the confusion, so the only thing we have to worry about is the fact that he got Kotoamatsukami."

"Hmm. And what about Shisui?"

"Stable," I said. I switched the crystal ball to show the present, at my infirmary. Shisui was unconscious, tucked into the one bed that I managed to get a good mattress for. He was glowing gold. "So either Danzō placed some kind of genjutsu on him or he passed out from the shock. Either way, he'll only be fully recovered after the massacre is over, even with the stuff I have him on..."

"Aren't his eyes missing?"

I snorted. "What do you take me for?" He groaned. "To be honest I'm kinda using him to test out a theory of mine..."

"Kouki, what did we say about human experimentation?"

"Oh," I said, then chuckled nervously. "Yeah that's a valid concern, I guess. Don't worry, it's mostly just me wondering what happens when you regrow Sharingan."

Hiruzen rubbed his temples. "Fine, I'll allow it." He frowned. "Are... are you okay?"

My mask probably slipped for a second. "Heh... You are the Professor..." I sighed. "I'm fine, I've been mentally preparing for this for a while now." I waved my arm a bit. "Might be a different story tomorrow, but... Don't worry, I'm ready to do what I have to do."

"You don't have to, though. You've already done enough, and it seems you won't be able to prevent the Uchiha from dying..."

I shrugged. "I'll consider tomorrow a success if I save even one more person, and I'm also hoping to make Sasuke not be so single-minded in his need for vengeance." I gestured at the portal I'd made that connected to Sarutobi's room and made it open. "Now if you'll please leave. I need to sleep to prepare or tomorrow."

Sarutobi sighed. "I worry for you sometimes, boy..." He left, though.

I laughed sadly. "I worry about myself sometimes, too... And I don't think I count as a 'boy'..."

kukukuku~

A/N: Hey so I don't know if it's the whole thing with the virus or school or just what I'm about to have to write, but I'm not feeling motivated to do this fic at the moment? I promise I won't abandon it, though. I always hate when fics die when they're right in the middle of something spicy, so I absolutely plan on finishing this thing. Eventually.