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Chapter 35: Death(s) of a Tyrant!

Danzo cursed as he found himself facing three of Konoha's heaviest hitters... alone. This was because all of his ROOT agents are locked in combat with Hiruzen's ANBU. He thought about using Shisui's Sharingan but dismissed the idea almost immediately, as Kakashi's Sharingan would allow him to see through any Genjutsu, and since Guy is using the Eight Gates, the constant strain on his body and the density of his chakra made him immune. And Jiraiya's sage mode... That was a completely different can of worms. Danzo didn't know how big of a power boost it would grant him, or if he was even protected from Genjutsu when using Senjutsu, he didn't want to reveal his stolen Sharingan eyes unless he had too.

Kakashi, Guy, and Jiraiya all faced Danzo in ready stances, staring him down...

Jiraiya stiffened slightly as he felt something dark and disturbed radiating from Danzo's chakra, focusing on the feeling his eyes narrowed in suspicion and he addressed Kakashi. "Kakashi... Notice anything off about his chakra?"

Kakashi nodded, his Sharingan showing him Danzo's chakra aura. It was normal for the most part, but as it got closer to his right arm it started destabilizing and going from the normal blue to a dark miasma, almost like the chakra pathways had been artificially regrown, then forcefully expanded... Then he noticed the seals inscribed on the bandages. "Yeah... The chakra in his bandaged arm is almost completely uncontrolled... And the bandages themselves are some kind of extensive seal."

Guy steps forward "Regardless, he's a traitor to Konoha! His unyouthful behavior mustn't go unpunished... So allow me to start us off!" Guy moved, there was no other way to describe it... He appeared in front of Danzo before attacking, roaring out the name of his favorite technique. "Dynamic Entry!"

Danzo dodged the attack, knowing that trying to block it was plain stupidity... He narrowly ducked under Kakashi's follow up punch, then he jumped away and scowled as he saw that his desk was in splinters and his files were scattered around the room. The seals on his bandages made them transparent to him, allowing him to track them with the stolen Sharingan in his skull. With it, he could see that they were aiming to kill him as quickly as possible. He was brought out of his analysis when he saw movement out of the corner of his eye. He turned his head to see Jiraiya coming at him with a powerful right hook. He was able to dodge the strike but as he brought up his hand to strike back at the Sannin, he felt something strike him in the side of the face with tremendous force. He was sent flying into the wall and impacted hard enough to create a webbing of cracks on the impact area. He dropped to the ground and glared at the Sannin. 'What hit me? I know for a fact that I dodged his strike and he didn't use any wind jutsu…' He had to jump again to dodge as Kakashi finished his hand seals, launching a Gokakyu no Jutsu at him... While in the air he was forced to block a punch from Guy, channeling most of his chakra to his arms to keep them from shattering under the force... Even still, he could feel his bones shaking under the strain. He scowled as he realized just how much better they were than him, grimacing at the pain that came from blocking Guy's strike. If things kept up like this he would have to sacrifice one of the Sharingan in his arm...

He didn't notice it yet, but several of the eyes in his arm had simply been popped like grapes from the force of Guy's punch.

Jiraya used this time to quickly form a Rasengan, then he began powering it with more chakra until it swelled in size... He lunged at Danzo and reached him just as he slammed into the wall, thrusting his attack forward and calling out its name. "Odama Rasengan!" The attack began grinding into Danzo's body, quickly pulverizing it. Jiraiya quickly dispelled the rasengan, Danzo's body was nothing but a red smear and a collection of gore in the crater on the wall. He jumped back to stand with Kakashi and Guy, feeling weary still. "...This was far too easy." He declared with finality.

Kakashi nodded his head as he used his Sharingan to scan the room. He couldn't see anything out of the ordinary, just the remains of the desk and a few scattered papers... His eyes once again landed on the smear of gore in the wall that was once Danzo and his Sharingan noticed a chakra distortion... It was like looking at a genjutsu. His eyes widened and he lunged at Guy, throwing both of them out of the way.

Jiraiya had sensed an incoming attack and jumped into the air in time to see a blade of wind chakra cut the area they just stood at.

Pa (Fukasaku) grew confused as he saw the one that they had just defeated come back without a scratch on him "Jiraiya-boy, are you sure that you hit him straight on?"

Jiraiya watched Danzo pull out a kunai and blow wind natured chakra on it, coating it in a blade of wind as long as a katana. "I know for a fact that I hit him... I sensed him die, Pa."

Ma (Shima) looked to the two "Maybe it was a powerful Genjutsu...?"

The sage shook his head "No... I don't think so. You know as well as I do that in sage mode, genjutsu is near impossible to use on us. Our senjutsu negates it... Unless it was powered by another sage, or by purely Yin natured chakra it wouldn't get through." He joined up with Kakashi and Guy as they stood at the ready. "Kakashi, did you manage to get anything with your Sharingan?"

Kakashi nodded "Yeah. The chakra around his arm was flaring wildly, it's only just starting to settle... Not only that, but the amount of chakra in his arm was drastically reduced. Whatever he did, he used his arm to do it."

Guy nodded his head as he got ready to fight but was stopped by Jiraiya raising a hand "What is it Jiraiya-sama?"

Jiraiya stared at the old mummy with a gleam in his eyes. "I want you two to hold off for a minute…"

Kakashi and Guy shared a look before shooting Jiraiya a questioning glance.

Jiraiya barely turned his head, whispering while barely moving his lips. "Kakashi I want you to figure out what he's doing with that eye of yours... Guy, I want you to jump in as soon as he figures it out."

They both nodded at this, standing at the ready.

Jiraiya quickly turned and launched himself at Danzo.

Danzo scowled, feeling unsure of himself for the first time in a long time. 'What are they planning?' His eyes widened when Jiraiya lunged for him, Kakashi and Guy staying behind. He still hadn't figured out what it was that the white-haired man did earlier but he refused to underestimate him. Focusing on using his Sharingan he began to battle the man. As he swiped at him, he kept his eye on the man's hands to make sure he wasn't doing any hand signs. While dodging a kick aimed at his head, he was relieved when he felt nothing but air whooshing past him. He brought up his wind blade and slashed at the man again.

Jiraiya ducked under the attack just in time and attempted to uppercut Danzo but he missed the man by a good margin. This dance continued with both dodging each other's attacks until he saw Kakashi motioning for him to return. Landing on both his hands, he mule kicked the man, not holding back and pushed Danzo away. Landing next to Kakashi he looked to the man "Well, figure something out?"

"He seems to be dodging you extremely well…"

Jiraiya grimaced at this a bit "Yeah, I noticed... Neither of us can hit the other."

Kakashi nodded "Yeah but the way you two are doing it is different. You do it at the last second, and you have the reflexes and speed to avoid getting hit. But with him, he tenses up long before you move to attack, almost like he can see what your about to do next. Much like…." Kakashi paled as he placed two fingers under his Sharingan eye.

Both Guy and Jiraiya's eyes widened as they came to the same conclusion.

Guy looked to Danzo, shock in his eyes. "Kakashi, are you saying what I think you're saying...?"

Kakashi nodded "Yes, I am... Danzo has a Sharingan eye!"

This troubling new information presented the three men with more questions than before, but the foremost on each of their minds... 'How did he get a Sharingan!?'

Jiraiya's mind was going a mile a minute. 'He couldn't have gotten a Sharingan recently, because the only living Sharingan users are Sasuke Uchiha and his brother Itachi... So it must be from before the massacre! The Uchiha were extremely prideful, though and if he had stolen it, then he would have been killed in short order. Kakashi got his Sharingan from a friend as a gift, and they hated him for it, even if they never acted against him... Danzo was no friend to the Uchiha, though so that can't be how he got it- He was the most adamant about dealing with the Uchiha, too... No, he didn't! He wouldn't... This is Danzo, of course, he would! He got it from one of the bodies after the massacre! With that Sharingan... How many times has he manipulated the council?. How many have fallen under his Genjutsu? Is this how he keeps getting recruits for his ROOT program!? He might even have some of the eyes stored away somewhere…' he was brought out of his thoughts as Kakashi spoke up.

"His entire arm has the same chakra flow as his eye...!" Kakashi came up with the same conclusion as Jiraiya but after he realized that Danzo had an implanted eye he looked at the man's chakra. And noticed that the chakra was focused mostly on his eye area and arm.

The three men and two toads didn't know what this could mean but they knew now that they needed to take that arm out of the equation.

Guy once again stepped forward "Alright! No more holding back!" even though Guy had unleashed the gate of pain he was holding back as much as he could to see if they could get anything out of the man... But now...? Now it was time to end this tyrant! Tensing his legs, he lunged forward so fast and hard that the ground shattered, massive chunks of it shooting upwards.

Danzo's eyes widened as he could barely track the punch aimed at him. He wasn't fast enough to dodge the attack and felt a fist hit him in the stomach hard enough that most of his ribs were shattered. The blow instantly liquified most of his internal organs and his heart could not take the force as it exploded inside his chest. He puked up nearly a full gallon of his blood as he activated Izanagi.

Kakashi kept his eye on the man and noticed the chakra around the arm fluctuate for a second before dying down a bit. He saw another distortion in the air and reacted. He lunged forward and grabbed the kunai that Danzo dropped when he was punched and ran to the distortion. Once he was close he saw that for some reason Danzo was reforming in it. He pulled back the hand with the kunai and channeled his lightning chakra through it much in the same manner as Danzo did with his wind chakra. Using his Sharingan he saw the arm he was aiming for beginning to form and using all his speed swiped at the shoulder, severing the arm in a spray of blood.

Danzo was aiming to kill Guy as he reappeared, but he knew he was going to fail as soon as he saw Kakashi aiming for his arm with the Raiton infused kunai... his Sharingan arm. He tried to think of what to do but in his position in the air behind Guy, he was unable to move much. His chakra wasn't stable yet and he could only use a bit of wind chakra to push himself a bit but it wasn't enough. He felt his arm being cut above his elbow. He would have used Izanagi to return to perfect health, but he soon noticed an orange glow. He looked over Guy to see Jiraiya finishing hand seals in synch with Ma and Pa.

"Fire Style: TOAD FLAME BOMB!"

Ma and Pa had spat out a stream of oil and Jiraiya sent out a ball of fire, igniting the oil and making it spread wider from the force being exerted on it.

Guy used his speed to grab Kakashi and move out of the way of the blast of fire.

Danzo was hit full force by the blast and was pushed back into the wall. The flames broke his concentration and he was unable to activate the Izanagi and unfortunately for him, he wasn't killed from the blast so Izanagi would not activate automatically.

Guy and Kakashi landed on the ground and stood back up.

Jiraiya landed next to the two and looked at Kakashi... Or rather, he looked at the arm in his hand "Kakashi... why did you cut Danzo's arm off?"

Kakashi brought up the portion of the arm that he cut off "Just a hunch..." He began to unwrap the bandaged arm and all three of the men were shocked to see what it was. The portion of the arm they had was implanted with several Sharingan eyes. Two of them were closed but they figured that they were Sharingan eyes as well. Three of them looked to have burst and figured that it was from when Danzo blocked Guy's punch, one of them was in half from the cut Kakashi did and there were two that remained intact. They heard a groan from the now burnt man and they looked to see him slumped against the wall.

Danzo was in pain. Not only had he lost a lot of his chakra due to using the Izanagi a few times, but he also lost his trump card while returning to the land of the living and he was blasted by an extremely powerful fire jutsu that had cauterized his now severed arm. His entire body was barely able to move as nothing was spared. He felt the bandages that he had around his right eye burn away and he was left exposed and vulnerable.

Jiraiya noticed the now unbandaged eye and saw the man slowly open it. It confirmed what they all believed and this just made Jiraiya grit his teeth. Although he had no proof of this, he knew that the war hawk had used that Sharingan to persuade some on the council for his own gain. Walking up to the man, he knelt down and without saying anything he quickly jabbed his fingers around the eye. He was not a cruel man by any means and he took no pleasure in causing others to suffer but the man in front of him was no man, he was a monster. Applying what little medical jutsu he knew into his fingers, he plucked the eye out of Danzo. He then noticed that there were still a couple of Sharingan eyes in the remaining arm Danzo had and with quick movements he destroyed the remaining eyes. Getting up he took a step back and sneered at the now dying man.

"What did you hope to gain from turning the village into your little plaything? Did you expect to rule the rest of the villages using all of the shinobi as puppets? Well, guess what! No shinobi in this village would follow you. Even if you did become the Hokage, a lot of us would have abandoned this village. We don't follow the Hokage just because the Daimyo elects someone, we follow the Hokage because we believe in him. Your belief that a shinobi doesn't need emotions has led to all your top ROOT agents to die by the hands of the very type of shinobi you despise."

Danzo... hated this man, and the lesson he had gone with. He hated Sarutobi for making someone with a bleeding heart as strong as this...! He knew he was beaten, but he would be damned if he let someone like this continue to live in the Shinobi world! He channeled every ounce of his chakra into the seal that he had on his chest. He may die but he was sure as hell going to take Jiraiya with him!

Kakashi had noticed the chakra pooling around Danzo's chest and called out "Jiraiya-sama, watch out!"

"DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!" Danzo roared.

Jiraiya had seen the seal light up on Danzo's chest and paled when he recognized it. "Shit! RUN!"

Guy and Kakashi jumped away and into the hallway, they came from to get away from whatever jutsu was coming...

Guy turned his head and caught something in his hand. He watched as the entire room seemed to implode, and after a few seconds, a large chunk of the room just seemed to be... gone. The room had become a dome-like area. "Jiraiya-sama!" The white-haired man was nowhere to be seen in the room and he, like Kakashi, feared the worst... After a minute he looked down to see what he had caught. It was one of the toads. Shima or Ma if he was right.

Ma hopped out of Guy's hand "oh don't worry about those two. They're fine." She ran through the hand signs for the reverse-summon technique and then slapped her hand on the ground, a large poof of smoke came from the ground, typical of a summoning. Out of the smoke came Jiraiya and Pa.

Jiraiya felt like this was the best time to do a dramatic re-entrance. "Never fear! The gallant and powerful sage of Mount…"

*SLAP*

Jiraiya was now eating the ground thanks to Ma pulling out a large paper fan and slapping the man on the head.

"Don't you know how rude it is to throw a lady like that!?"

*SLAP SLAP SLAP SLAP SLAP SLAP SLAP*

Jiraiya soon found himself on the ground with all his senjutsu slapped out of him.

Pa had jumped off Jiraiya's shoulder and watched the whole thing.

Kakashi looked to Pa and Ma until he got what had happened "So... you reversed summoned him."

Pa didn't look away from the sage as he nodded. "That's right. I reversed summoned him to mount Myoboku and he threw Ma to you two in order for him to be summoned back here. It was a last-second move but thankfully Jiraiya-boy came up with it quick."

Kakashi nodded and sighed in relief as he lowered his headband to cover his eye. He looked at the arm that was still in his other hand before shrugging and sealing it in a scroll.

~council room~

Shikaku looked to the Hokage, wide-eyed, after hearing what he said "Hokage-sama, why would you feel like you should retire?"

Hiruzen chuckled at the question "Shikaku-san, I'm old, and I've spent a great deal of time as the leader of this village... I want to spend my remaining days in retirement."

Naruto was shocked to complete silence. So much so that everyone had forgotten he was in the room. He shook his head to reboot his brain "H-hey Jiji! If.. if you're going to retire than who will be the next Hokage?"

Everyone, but the Hokage, were a bit startled at hearing Naruto's voice. They all turned to him and felt a bit sheepish at forgetting the boy was there.

Hiruzen chuckled at his shinobi's reaction "I have yet to think of my successor Naruto-kun but when we announce it I'll be sure to let you know. For now, however, you're dismissed."

Naruto nodded "Alright! I'm gonna go home and sleep in an actual bed, then. Sleeping in a hospital bed and then going straight to the Hokage's office is not how I thought I would be spending my time today."

Hiruzen smiled at the retreating boy. He remembered the items that he knew he had to give him but he felt that it can wait until all these things are settled. Looking back to the council he spoke "I'll be sending a message to the Daimyo so we can discuss who my successor should be. But for now, you should all go home and continue to repair the damage to your compounds."

And with that, they all left with bigger smiles on their faces.

End of chapter

Now I want a big round of applause to my new Beta-reader: Irusha the Kitsune.

I swear this chapter had been a nightmare for me. I started this a month ago and wrote the first paragraph but then *raspberry* nothing. My hands hovered over the keyboard trying to think of what to write next but nope it just wouldn't come out... The fight just wouldn't come out!

About the fight. Jiraiya chose not to use the senjutsu invisible strike on Danzo to figure out what was going on with the man. Kakashi is the best one to watch the fight and figure it out.

I'm basing Danzo's skill based on what was seen in the anime fight with Sasuke and him. I'm also basing it on who fought who and although Danzo fought Sasuke, I don't think that he would be a match for someone who fought Pain…

I did some research about Danzo's arm and found out that the Izanagi only has a 1-minute timeframe and then the eye goes blind. That's why Danzo has multiple eyes in the arm, so he could use it multiple times. I also found out that he has ten eyes in the arm.

Now I have no clue if I am going to do anything with the eyes. Heck, I might just destroy them since I don't really plan on giving Naruto the Sharingan, which should be obvious since his dad despises the eyes.

Also, I had planned on skipping the fight and just insinuate that Danzo was dead but a few of you reviewed that you were looking forward to it and I couldn't bring myself to continue without doing it.

I am most likely going to come back to this fight and add more since this seemed short but I need to get this chapter out of my hands...

The next chapter will most likely be a filler chapter before we get back to the main story.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter and look forward to the next!

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