Danzo growled at Shizuka. He hadn't seen where the eye went, but he sure as hell was going to take it back. Even if it meant taking the man apart. His eyes scanned over the room, looking for anything that could help him gain the upper hand when his eye fell on a few vials tucked away on a shelf and saw an opportunity in that.Now he just needed a chance.

Danzo fixed his gaze upon Shizuka, taking in every move of the man, but there was something about Shizuka he couldn't quite place, not even with his Sharingan. It disturbed him. It was unsettling. Shizuka took his stance again. A stance Danzo was not familiar with. The taunting hand gesture along with that arrogant smirk irked him, but he, of course, was too composed to let that get the better of him.

Still, a stand-still amidst the battle also wasn't to Danzo's advantage, so he obliged, gripping his Katana and taking the first move for now. He just needed Shizuka to loose focus, even if it was only for a moment.

The clash of steel was the only thing to break the silence for a while. The clash was intense and seemed to be taken personally from both sides, both believing in their own goals and justifications.

Danzo made a particularly fierce strike, coating his blade in Wind chakra to make it sharper and hit harder. It made Shizuka have to brace himself not to be pushed back and lose his balance. In retaliation, Shizuka swiped his leg, landing a kick in Danzo's stomach hard enough to throw him back and land amidst some shelfs. Several shelfs broke, and the content of the shelfs ended broken on the floor, steeping the room in a new layer of chemical stench and fumes. While Danzo bravely withstood the fumes and smells, Shizuka felt his eyes water from them and his nose burning. His senses were so much more sensitive than Danzo's. He raised his arm to shield his nose and mouth with his sleeve and squinted his eyes.

And that was the moment Danzo had looked for. With Shizuka struggling and distracted, he was able to grab the bottle he spotted earlier.

With precision, Danzo grabbed the bottle and threw it at Shizuka, who raised a kunai in a reflexive instinct to protect himself, to block the incoming projectile without truly realising what it was. The glass shattered and the liquid burst out of the bottle. The sleeve with which he had blocked and that side of his body was quickly soaked in the liquid. It immediately corroded his shirt away, and then started burning into his skin. A smell of burning flesh quickly filled the room as Shizuka struggled to remove his shirt and searched for a way to clean his skin.

He hissed in silence at the pain that settled into the majority of his skin, but the chemicals burned and effectively cauterized the wounds it made, making it excruciating, but not taking Shizuka out of combat. The smells were suffocating to Shizuka, and if he was to have any kind of chance, he needed to leave the confinements of this room.

Blinking fast to get the tears out of his eyes, he found Danzo. With a burst of speed he grabbed hold of Danzo and in a flash, they stood outside on the training ground Kakashi and Shizuka had mauled not too long ago.

Shizuka kicked Danzo back harsly as soon as they landed, giving him at least a little time to recover from the assault on his senses, leaving only his burning skin as a disadvantage. The sound of the river nearly was almost temping with the promise of cooling his skin, but he didn't know what chemical was on his skin and for all he knew water would aggravate the reaction.

As he stood, waiting once again for Danzo to move first, he felt his arm shake. Not the normal tremor, but from pain. His skin wasn't healing. The chemicals were still active preventing that. He shook his hand to get the unconscious tension out of his arm and shoulder and regain his focus, but for all the good that did, he might as well have stabbed his hand with a kunai...

Danzo took the initiative once again. With the new-found space, Danzo was free to use more Jutsu than before. He effortlessly combined strikes with his Katana with Vacuum Blasts, which cut through anything as easily as the sharpest blades and Vacuum Bullets, the concentrated air dense enough to pierce bodies like bullets. The fact that both Wind Jutsu went almost unseen and Danzo did not relent in his attacks, Shizuka had to admit he was made to struggle and take some hits he would have probably been able to avoid under different circumstances, but the pain was cumbersome to say the least.

Fortunately for Shizuka, the open area also offered the space he needed to go all out, starting with several Kage Bunshin to meet the same fate as all Kage Bunshin before them; to distract the enemy, take a hit and then give the caster a better understanding of the battle at hand. It was not his favorite move without reason, after all.

"What is that? That is the seal for the Kyuubi! The Uzumaki boy is supposed to be the only one with such a seal! What are you?" Danzo almost yelled. The molding of chakra had revealed Shizuka's empty seal. Again Danzo only gained a silent stare as an answer. "No matter. I will end you anyway." He said, attacking once again.

Shizuka retaliated, using Wind chakra of his own to coat his Katana. He didn't use it often outside of strengthening his Rasengan, but maybe he should focus on it in the near future. Seeing Danzo use it naturally and efficiently made him realise the potential behind using wind.

Danzo fought dirty, keeping his attacks focussed on Shizuka's open skin. The Kage Bunshin disappeared quickly with the precise hits from Danzo.

With a new set of Kage Bunshin, Shizuka attacked, forming a Rasengan, along with two of the clones doing the same. They cornered Danzo, keeping him in place long enough to let at least one of the three Rasengan hit the target. It shredded through Danzo, and Shizuka smirked.

At that moment, Danzo disappeared. His image shattered like an illusion, only for him to appear elsewhere, unharmed, or so it would seem. Shizuka did notice Danzo was more winded.

Shizuka managed another strike that should have been lethal, but again Danzo dissappeared to appear unharmed elsewhere. "Do you see? Do you understand now how foolish it was to stand against me? You cannot kill me!" Danzo said and Shizuka would have been convinced was it not for the knowledge that Danzo had died already by the hands of Sasuke. It was bravado, meant to cover the fact that the first Sharingan on his arm had closed forever.

Shizuka already took note of the pattern. Fatal damage was instantly healed. Other injuries healed over time, but slower and seemed to take more effort. There was no use in trying to kill Danzo, but maiming might be worth the effort.

A few Kage Bunshin hid in the shadows, gathering energy from Nature, while other Kage Bunshin and Shizuka himself stalled for time with seemingly haphazard attacks. By the time the Kage Bunshin were ready, Danzo had avoided death again and another two eyes had closed on Danzo's arm, leaving seven.

Shizuka went for the three-way approach again, keeping himself at Danzo's back. He charged another Rasengan along with his Kage Bunshin, but dismissed one of the Kage Bunshin gathering Nature energy just before his Rasengan was to strike. He pushed the destructive new force into the Rasengan, also adding Wind energy at the same time, creating a Rasenshuriken.

He didn't throw it. He kept it in hand to be more accurate, cutting through Danzo's shoulder without hitting anything too vital. It worked. The arm dropped to the ground and did not even twitch anymore.

Danzo glares at his arm in distain. With the arm severed, Danzo suddenly seemed a lot more fearful. His immortality, his answer to the end and his power had been simply cut away from him. Not even Hashirama's cells would be able to heal this wound for him, and even if he could grow back the arm, that arm would be void of his precious Sharingan. And there was no replacing them, unless he could find Itachi and take the eyes of Sasuke after he awakened his Sharingan.

Danzo made himself ready to retreat, but he was surprised to see company with Shizuka. Kakashi, and a group of ANBU. Even Sarutobi was present. But even with back-up, Shizuka didn't falter in his attention, keeping his eyes on his target.

Danzo was not stupid. He knew this fight was lost, but he also knew he could bide his time for a new chance to gain power. He stood down, allowing himself to be arrested. After all, he had allies that would not let him sit in a cell for too long. He was needed, essential in a lot of ways.

What he did not take into account, however, was that Shizuka had no intention of letting Danzo live, not even for imprisonment. He approached Danzo, Katana in hand, but no clear intent for an attack. When he was well within reach, Shizuka ran Danzo's heart through with his Katana mercilessly.

Shizuka let Danzo drop, turning his attention to the arm and the possibility to save more Sharingan then just Shisui's while Kakashi followed him, trying to get Shizuka to let his wounds get treated.

"Reckless bastard."