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While things were going with Naruto, Ranko, Pain/Nagato, and Konan. Things were going pretty well for Danzo if he would say so himself as sure Naruto had arrived earlier than planned even though that girl that tagged along...and was far more powerful than he would have thought them to be. Both were able to compete against Pain that managed to defeat Tsunade and a large portion of Konoha's ninjas with just a force of basically six people. It was interesting that it was those two as he was sure that one of them was reported as dead. At least from what he learned in a report about what happened in the Land of Rain back then.
Though his original plan to save Konoha through its destruction was part of his initial plan. What better way than to convince the daimyo and other leaders of Land of Fire to make him the Hokage in Tsunade's absence as she was not conscious at the moment. Then to point out how her failure lead to the village almost being destroyed, that using Naruto as a weapon was a good idea for the start, though he did not expect it. He planned on using the outsider(Ranko) as another possible threat to them having a power that the current Hokage could not handle either.
That could wait until later as sure that was his original plan to let everyone else look back and then basically say I told you so to when allowing people that influenced heavily by the Third Hokage to keep becoming the Hokage. That they should allow him to do it instead with the reason he would then give them. Never mentioning the fact that he basically just sat back and watched everything play out rather than even try to help in the slightest though
Yet that was not what he was doing at the moment as the girl that came with Naruto had managed to kill off that blue hair woman that was with the enemies. Seeing as she how she was not around and that Naruto as well others with him would be too busy dealing with the aftermath of Pain's attack. This was the perfect time to swoop in and get the Rinnegan for himself as there would not be another perfect chance like this for him.
This time he would manage to get not just merely a single eye from one of the powerful dojustu around but both. Having the Rinnegan as one of his trump card that should prove rather useful as the Shisui Uchiha's right eye serve him well all these years.
'I will just claim that the attack took my other eye leaving me blind' Danzo thought to himself
Also planning to use this as the excuse for why he just showed up much later after not be seen anywhere during all the fighting himself.
Sure enough, he had managed to obtain the bodies of both Yahiko and Nagato using his standing within the village to get the guards to leave them to him. Claiming he would return them to the Land of the Rain personally to show them that they made a mistake thinking they could take their village with just seven people. They might have caused massive damage but he was planning to leave out the part where the dead were revived by Nagato including Konan(who while alive again was taking longer to get up than everyone else) though.
"Looks like I will be ruling in the shadows for a bit longer it seems," he said to himself aloud as the group was well on their way.
He had a place where he could transplant the Rinnegan eyes into him along the way to the Land of Rain so this was in theory the perfect plan.
"Interesting I wonder if you can do such a thing in hell," a voice said as standing right behind him.
Just then a masked figure just appears of all sudden and catching him completely off guard. Tricking his Reverse Four Symbols Sealing into activating killing him and a large number of the people around him in the process. Thus marked the end of one Danzo Shimura as the bodies of both Nagato and Yahiko were recovered by the masked figure earlier. However, Danzo went to his death thinking this, that he had taken them with him. What he did not realize was that he had been tricked by the masked figure.
Also because of his actions that he claimed were for the good of Konoha even when it caused it massive harm, he would go down in history more as a traitor. Since few will willingly defend him for everything good and helpful that he actually did for Konoha over the decades. The actions he made in the shadows would taint them making seem as if he just wanting power and was betraying the village to obtain it yet failing in the end.
It did not matter how Danzo saw his actions as they could have been the best of intentions but carried out in the worst possible way. Such some of his actions that directed towards places outside of Konoha could be understandable. None of the hidden villages has squeak clean history without any darkness to them. Yet Danzo's mistake was that he messed with his people and their allies a little too much.
