"Where did you get those eyes in your arm?" - Sasuke spat those words with disgust out.
"Here and there...but don't worry, I'll take your Sharingans as well..." - Danzo
Sasuke breathed heavily in to calm his anger down, since knowing about Itachi was more important.
"Itachi...DID YOU ORDER HIM OR NOT?!" - Sasuke increased the pressure on his Susanoo arm which crushed many bones of Danzo.
After spitting some blood out, Danzo finally answered: "...I...thought he was a better man than that..."
"?!" - Sasuke
"That bastard...did he spill the beans...as he ran into you not long ago? I guess...you really were...special...to him."
"So...it's true, then." - Sasuke was fully consumed by hatred now, which was reflected by his eerie-looking Mangekyo Sharingan.
"Self-sacrifice...that is what defines a ninja. Scorning the sun...to work in the shadows...that is how it has always been...that is a true ninja. Many ninjas died like that...Itachi is not the only one. Niceties...will not make...the world go round. It is thanks to people like that...that we have been able to maintain peace. You ignored...Itachi's will...you cannot understand...but in telling you his secret...he has betrayed Konoha..." - Danzo was suddenly crushed into meat paste by the giant arm.
While blood was splatting on Sasuke he said: "Do not speak to me of Itachi again."
But even though he just died, a healthy Danzo appeared behind Sasuke: "You are right. Now we must speak with our eyes."
Danzo tried to stab Sasuke with a kunai, but the Susanoo blocked it: "Just as I thought...Susanoo is the perfect shield."
"So this is Izanagi? Looks like he was right...I need to kill you around 10 times..." - with those words, he smashed Danzo into another meat paste with his Susanoo.
"You...how do you know about Izanagi? Was it Itachi? Sigh, looks like I was really wrong abou - " - Danzo who just appeared somewhere healthy again, couldn't finish his sentence because his head was cut off.
"Nah, that was me...I wanted to but in earlier, but Sasuke was so earnest about his revenge that I missed the timing." - A smirking Eiji appeared with his sword on the shoulders while squatting next to Sasuke like some delinquent.
"YOU!!!" - when Danzo saw Eiji, his eyes almost popped out.
"Yeah, it's me, the handsome and chivalrous 5th Hokage. Oh, by the way, Itachi didn't tell him shit. It was me who told our cute little Sasuke over there everything."
'How does he know? This doesn't make any sense...furthermore he knows about Izanagi as well...I...I completely underestimated Eiji...but this isn't important right now. First I will deal with Sasuke and then use Shisui's eye on him...after that I will know how he got to know it.' - Danzo took a deep breath and exhaled several small blasts of wind chakra: " Wind Release: Vacuum Sphere!"
"Oh crap!" - the grinning Eiji hid behind Sasuke's Susanoo, while the wind blasts slashed against the Susanoo.
But this was only a distraction for Danzo to rush into melee.
Danzo was about to reach Sasuke's Susanoo when Sasuke sued Amaterasu on him.
"Susanoo and Amaterasu...be careful to don't exhaust yourself before killing him enough times..." - Eiji
"I told it's my revenge and that you shouldn't but in!" - Sasuke wasn't in the mood to listen to Eiji.
"Yeah, yeah...I promised you to let you solo, so I'll watch for now. But if you mess up I'll step in just so you know." - Eiji shrugged his shoulder and vanished before appearing on a giant boulder to spectate the fight.
"Hmph! You really are trash compared to Itachi: you're naive and let your emotions control you, rushing in like an idiot to blow your hatred off! Insisting on fighting me alone is really nonlogical...why...why would you feel the need to let this piece of trash survive, Itachi...?" - Danzo appeared behind Sasuke again and used Vaccum Sphere again.
Sasuke's current Susanoo wasn't complete and didn't defend him from all sides, so Sasuke needed to dodge the wind blasts.
He jumped into the air but this was a mistake, since Danzo was already in front of him and grabbed his neck, placing a seal on him.
Sasuke wouldn't let him continue to grab his neck, so he stabbed Danzo in the head with a kunai.
But Danzo just appeared somewhere completely healthy again: "It's no use."
"!" - Sasuke suddenly stopped all his movements, while seal marks appeared on his body.
Danzo started to move slowly towards Sasuke with a kunai in hand while keeping an eye on Eiji.
'Sigh...even after I told him about Danzo using seals, he still got hit...now let's hope he Sasuke's Susanoo evolves now or else I will have to step in earlier than I would like...' - Eiji didn't show it to Danzo, but was preparing to step in.
When Danzo reached Sasuke and was about to end his life, memories of Itachi and his parents surfaced in Sasuke's mind.
Those memories amplified his hatred, which gave him power and his body responded to that.
"?" - Danzo sensed danger and instantly jumped back.
'Is that Susanoo...? It's different than before!' - Danzo
Sasuke's Susanoo wasn't a ghostly big skeleton now, instead, it grew a ghostly armor and had a giant bow and arrow!
'Phew...even though it was risky, it paid off. Now Sasuke is even stronger...hehehe continue to grow and feed off your hatred...wait I sound like a villainous mastermind!' - Eiji
Sasuke's Susanoo fired the arrow, with an unbelievable speed at Danzo.
'There's is no time to dodge! I have no choice!' - a big tree grew instantly out of his arm full of implanted Sharingan eyes, changing the course of the ghostly arrow.
But Sasuke didn't care and just shoot another arrow, which this time pierced Danzo completely.
Like nothing happened, Danzo appeared next to where the arrow landed, completely healthy.
Danzo looked at Sasuke, who panted heavily from using the powerful techniques of his Mangekyo Sharingan without pause.
'A chance!' - Danzo rushed at him, but Sasuke used his rage to force himself and shot an arrow which Danzo couldn't dodge.
Again, Danzo appeared as nothing happened.
He looked at the number of eyes still open on his arm: 'Only five left...I have to finish it soon...should I bet all on this moment?'
Summoning Jutsu!
A giant tapir appeared from Danzo's summoning jutus.
It was really big!
Just from appearing, a huge area of the forest was desolated.
The tapir started to suck air with an immense force in a huge area.
All kinds of trees were flying around, being sucked into the tapir's mouth, and even Eiji who was only watching needed to hide behind the large boulder.
'Now Susanoo can't move...and I can use the tapir's suction to increase my power..." - Danzo used a stronger version of Vaccum Sphere.
With the suction force from the tapir, it dealt devastating damage to Sasuke's Susanoo, which opened up because of that, giving Danzo a chance to hit Sasuke.
But Sasuke used the Great Fireball Jutsu in the direction of the tapir.
After sucking this great fireball, the tapir's mouth started to burn and it disappeared in confusion.
Fire element counters wind element, it was a good move by Sasuke.
Danzo who missed his chance looked at his arm, only four eyes left.
Now it was only a matter of who runs out of energy first.
The battle continued until when Danzo finally got his chance when one eye was left.
He buffed a kunai with wind chakra and was about to pierce Sasuke's heart when Eiji suddenly appeared in front of Sasuke.
Instead of Sasuke, he was stabbed.
But Eiji drew his sword and stabbed Danzo too.
"So you finally decided to join? I still have one eye left and Sasuke isn't able to fight anymore...it's my win...I will just need to use Shisui's eye on you after com - W-what's...happening?! Gah (spitting out blood)! Why isn't Izanagi working?!"
Eiji smiled amused: "Even though Sasuke's Sharingan can't compare to Itachi's in terms of genjutsu...casting a weak one just enough to fool you on how many eyes you had was enough...because you managed to get your hands on some Sharingans, you underestimated a real Sharingan user in a fight...and that was your downfall." (Eiji shamelessly stole Obito's words for himself...)
"Ugh!" - Danzo fell on the ground.
After that Eiji regenerated his wound easily, before taking something out.
"..." - Sasuke
"What? Don't you think this is the best way to celebrate the end of this ass here? Or do you want a beer as well?" - Eiji started to drink his beer with extreme delight while kicking Danzo.
Eiji looked at Danzo who was grunting from the kick thinking: 'Finally, something went according to plan...well they do say that three is the magical number...'
"YOU DAMN FOOLS!! I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN CHANGE THIS WORLD!! THE ONLY WAY TO BRING PEACE IS TO...UNITE ALL THE COUNTRIES AND VILLAGES!! AND YOU...FOR SUCH SMALL REASO-UGH!!" - Danzo was interrupted by another kick from Eiji.
"Shut up, no one cares about your megalomaniac delusions...anyway, he is all yours, Sasuke. Just make sure he doesn't die before we get some distance from him or else his kamikaze attack activates and I don't want to die so stupidly."
Hearing that, Danzo felt for the first time in a long time fear: "You...who...are you?"
There was no possible way for Eiji to not only know about the truth of Itachi and him using Izanagi but that his final trump card would be the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing as well!
'He is dangerous...even more, dangerous than Orochimaru...I can't let him live...' - Danzo moved his hand to try to take the bandages off to use Shisui's eye on Eiji, but Sasuke cut his arm off with a Chidori.
"Urgh!" - an enormous amount of blood flowed out of where his arm was.
Sasuke emitted pure bloodlust while grinning darkly: "Next is the other arm...seeing all those eyes there makes me sick..."
This time he moved slowly to savor the satisfying feeling of revenge, but Danzo's arm full of eyes transformed into a giant tree, though it didn't change anything of Danzo's situation.
"Looks he isn't in a state to control Hashirama's powers anymore..." Eiji shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly.
"Hashirama's powers?" - Sasuke asked him.
"Yeah, he made some shady deals in the past with Orochimaru to help him control the power of the First Hokage...without that, he wouldn't be able to use so many Sharingan's as a non-Uchiha. That's why no one believes him when he talks about doing all for the sake of Konoha. Anyway, if you want to piss on him or something before he dies, now's your chance."
"Not believing that I do everything for Konoha? Hahahaha...you just can't understand...you two...never experienced the horrors of war...so I won't be berated by some naive kids who grow up in peace, which was painstakingly achieved from the sacrifice of countless lives...I will see you two in hell!" - with that he bit his tongue off and black symbols started to appear on his chest.
'Tsk, should have just smacked his head to knock him out...now I'll have to do us that!' - Eiji expected something like that might happen, so while he was drinking his beer, he gathered natural chakra.
With that, he entered Sage Mode and instantly used "Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation" to breathe "live" into the large black sphere which started to form from the symbols on Danzo's chest, to change it's shape so it doesn't touch him, Sasuke and even Danzo.
Despite that, Sasuke gulped when he saw the devastation this sphere did and how he narrowly escaped death if it wasn't for Eiji.
"Sigh...this old ass was stubborn and didn't know when to give up until the last minute..." - Eiji started to approach Danzo's corpse.
"Hmm...this guy is really like a raid boss...dropping some amazing loot..."
"?" - Sasuke already knew of Eiji's occasional nonsensical ramble and just decided to ignore it, until he saw how Eiji fiddled at Danzo's corpse.
"You...what are you doing?"
"Hmm...securing Shisui's eye...Shisui's Mangekyo Sharingan is said to be able to caste the ultimate Genjutsu. There exist no stronger Genjutsu than that and it's said to be so powerful that it can be only used every 10 years..."
"!" - Sasuke was unsure how to feel.
It was true that Eiji not only told him the truth but helped him immensely in his revenge as well.
So if Eiji wants to take it, could Sasuke really refuse?
But his Uchiha pride made him feel conflicted and he was contemplating on what he should do.
'...this is really disgusting, to be honest...I never want to do that in my life again!' - after forcing himself, Eiji managed to take Shisui's eye from Danzo's corpse and put in a glass with a strange substance.
He stared at it for some time while being lost in thought: 'If I transplant it, I would not only get a Sharingan but actually one of the best Sharingan's out there...who would not be tempted by this?'
Sasuke saw him staring at it while he was still contemplating on what to do when Eiji suddenly threw the glass to him with the words: "Here, catch!"
"...What?" - Sasuke was completely baffled but he still caught it.
"Take it! Since using Mangekyo Sharingan will slowly make you lose your eyesight, having an extra one as a reserve is pretty good, right?"
"..."
Eiji smirked thinking: 'Even though it's really tempting, giving it to strengthen Sasuke is way smarter...after fucking the future, I will need to oversee the changes and probably "correct" some things, but I won't be doing it from the spotlight, so I won't need it. Instead, I will do it from the shadow's, manipulating people like Sasuke... so the stronger he gets, the better for me...'
Genma and Raido looked at the corpse in front of them.
Not long ago, they noticed how someone was observing Eiji's home, so they ambushed him.
He was surprisingly skilled, but against the two, he stood no chance.
Seeing how he had no chance, he followed Danzo's order to kill himself as to not leak any information from being captured.
This extreme action surprised Genma and Raido, so they couldn't stop him.
"Sigh...you stay here and continue to guard, while I take the corpse and go to report it to the Hokage..." - Genma took the corpse and vanished.
...
"What do you mean the Hokage is missing? Is this a joke? How did no one notice?" - Genma looked in disbelief at the trembling Koharu and Homura.
"...we assume that he wasn't kidnapped, but left on his own accord..." - Homura
After the Senbon Genma usually has in his mouth fell out from shock, he continued to ask: "Assume? Even if he left on his own accord, how could no one notice him leaving? Since when did our village become a circus of adults playing shinobis?"
'IT'S BECAUSE OF THIS DAMN DANZO!! HE ALWAYS STAYED BY HIS SIDE AND INSISTED THAT HE WOULD BE ENOUGH TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THE HOKAGE!!!' - Koharu didn't show her thoughts and replied calmly: "(fake cough)...we already sent Lady Tsunade to look for him, so it's only a matter of time before we find him..."
"Yeah, if she doesn't beat him into a pulp when she finds him..." - Genma couldn't control himself and blurted his thoughts out loud.
"..." - Koharu
"...we can only hope..." Homura
'WAIT!! YOU AREN'T DENYING IT?!' - Genma
"I assume we don't have much time, so listen to me, Sasuke!"
The usual nonchalant Eiji turned suddenly serious, so Sasuke listened carefully.
"You don't know anything about the truth about Itachi and the Uchiha massacre and you only helped me because it was a secret mission I gave you as the Hokage. Also, it's better to not tell anything about your Mangekyo Sharingan. Just tell, that I was the one fighting and you helped me counter his Genjutsu, alright?"
"What are you talking about? Why should I?"
"...sigh...killing a Council member isn't exactly something legal, so let me take full responsibility, alright?"
"Hmph!" - in his usual arrogant demeanor, Sasuke didn't really reply but Eiji believed he would surely agree.
After seeing Danzo's corpse, Eiji felt a huge burden lifted from his shoulder and extreme relief.
The pressure and anxiety he felt in those recent days, vanished and were replaced by happiness.
But now his mind realized that he would need to deal with the aftermath first, before truly being able to relax.
After being summoned by Tsunade, Katsuyu the giant slug split into a dozen clones that gathered in all directions outside of Konoha to find Eiji.
Soon one clone transmitted telepathically that she found something and with that Tsunade rushed in that direction.
Tsunade smiled dangerously while thinking of how shamelessly Eiji could be to disappear without a word as the Hokage.
She would make sure to "teach" him the proper behavior as a Hokage when she finds him.
But when she arrived at his location, a scene she never imagined was before her eyes.
Eiji and Sasuke standing on a desolate battlefield and a dead Danzo with both arms missing.
This wasn't a time to joke around or blow her anger off!
She turned dead serious and said: "You...I hope you can give agoodexplanation for what happened here when we return to the village...and you as well, Sasuke, will be asked a few questions..."
Despite her exuding a domineering aura, Eiji shrugged his shoulders and said: "Alrighty...by the way, can you take his corpse? To be honest, I prefer the corpses of beautiful girls..."
Tsunade smashed with full force next to Eiji's head, missing his head only a few millimeters.
"This is one of the times where it would be better to just stay silent...or don't you understand the severity of this situation?"
Eiji gulped and nodded.
Sasuke who was completely exhausted from the tough fight with Danzo decided to follow quietly as well.
Now he understood what Eiji meant...this might get him into serious trouble if he doesn't let Eiji took full responsibility.
This...howdidDanzo do all this behind our backs?"- Homura looked at the reports in front of him.
After they got the news thatEiji killed Danzo, he and Koharu felt a mixture of all kinds of emotions.
Even though they were never on goodterms with Danzo, over the years they acknowledged him as being one of Konoha's strongest shinobis and occasionally sided with his views when Hiruzen was too naive.
So hearing of his death they weren't really happy.
Especially since he just didn't die in an accident or an unknown cause, but was killed by the "Hokage".
Just thinking about it gave them a strong headache..a Kage killing his council member?
Calling it problematic would be really a huge understatement.
This isn't something which can be allowed!
Why?
Because it would open up the path into tyranny.
Even if killing a council-member was done with a good reason, the right procedure would be to tell the other council members and the Daimyo and provide some proof.
Just what would happen if one day a Kage would suddenly decide to kill the Daimyo as well and claim with a good reason?
It would be pure chaos.
And that's why they had to punish Eiji, or else who knows how the other Daimyos and villages would react.
So they started to interrogate Eiji.
Eiji didn't tell them much, just that Danzo was threatening him with killing his parents and that he decided to kill him for that reason alone.
It was pretty straightforward and with Gemna providing evidence, it was clear that this was the truth.
But then something big happened.
With Danzo being dead, the seal on the Root members disappeared and since losing their only leader, they went out from hiding because they could only serve Konoha from now on.
Of course, since Root was supposed to be disbanded more than a decade ago, it raised some questions, and quickly everyone was interrogated.
And oh boy, what a rabbit hole it turned out to be.
Reports after reports were sent to Koharu, Homura, and Tsunade.
They weren't sure which was worse, the situation Eiji made, or dealing with all this sensitive information about Danzo's nefarious deeds.
After reading all these reports, they wouldn't even be surprised if Danzo would have tried to kill them in the future as well.
"All this information should be classified...really what a disaster..." - Koharu
"Koff...I agree...it's really hard to not think that the 5th did us enormous service after learning all that..." - Homura
"Danzo actually tried to kill Hiruzen-sensei and even colluded with Orochimaru..." - after a short pause Tsuande suddenly erupted with anger and smashed into the wall, leaving a giant hole there.
"Please calm down Lady Tsunade! Now is the time where we need to make sensible decisions with a clear head." - Koharu
Tsunade didn't say anything but sat down with her arms crossed and eyes closed.
"So, what do we do about the Fith Hokage?" - Homura
"Hmph, what is there to think about. Just withdraw his title as a punishment, this will calm all the Kage down and with that there, shouldn't be any problems. Wasn't he just a puppet anyway?" - Tsunade
"I don't think it's enough...this is an unprecedented case after all..." - Koharu
"But considering he was forced by Danzo and he even didn't want to become Hokage, we should make a punishment which isn't too severe..." - Homura
"What do you mean?" - Tsunade looked at him questioningly.
"Are you serious? I don't care about having the Hokage title withdrawn, I would have resigned on my own anyway, but isn't the other thing a "bit" unfair considering I was forced into this shit?" - Eiji hid his anger with a mocking smile.
"Unfair? You should have told us instead of just killing him!" - Koharu
"Oh really? And if I would have told you, would you have helped me? Even if it meant that an internal war could break out? Wouldn't you just have said I should accept it and think for the village?" - it got harder for Eiji to hid his frustration.
"You!" - Koharu and Homura didn't like to be talked back by an impudent child and got offended, but Tsunade was shocked by asudden realization.
From what she could tell, Eiji's plan on how he dealt with Danzo wasn't anything grandiose or something.
But it was a risky one, which required everyone to move exactly like how he planned.
The uneasiness she felt since the first time she met him, she could finally put it into words.
It was like when he first saw her, his eyes showed like he knew everything about her: her past, future, thoughts, everything.
This was an uncanny feeling.
Either he has some sort of secret, or his abilityto read people was terrifying.
If Eiji didn't know how Koharu and Homura would have reacted, Danzo would have won "this fight of minds".
But most in his position would have chosen to ask for help instead.
The same was the case for Danzo, Eiji completely read him like a book.
She underestimated him, but to be fair she saw many geniuses in her life and Eiji didn't fit quite the category, instead, he was something else.
He was like an outside observer, usingknowledge to overcome challenges instead of talent and power.
Sigh...Eiji I think you are misunderstanding something...youleaving the village is the best outcome for you..." - Tsunade interfered, seeing how the overly prideful Homura and Koharu wouldn't admit that they are partly at fault for neglecting Danzo's growing influence.
"You are saying that, but howwould you feel if you have to suddenly leave your family behind?" - Eiji
"But just think about it...with you being an ex-Hokage from now on, the other villages will assume that you know some sensitive information and want to obtain it no matter what. And if they harm your parents because of that, would it be worth it for you to stay?" - Tsunade
"That's..." -Eiji
"Furthermore, if you don't leave the village, you will be heavily restricted for your own safety...so we thought about how we could help you out for all the trouble you got into because of Danzo while making it seem like a punishment to the outside world." - Tsunade
Eiji sighed.
He already knew that.
In fact, he thought in the past about leaving the village, but now that it suddenly happened, he couldn't help but think about the grief this would do to his parents.
Humans are often unreasonable beings, instead of doing the right thing and knowing what to do, they would come up with all kinds of excuses to not do it.
For example, if you have a bag of expired potato chips that are inedible, you would think "but I already paid money for it..." (this definitely did not happen to Choji).
Furthermore, leaving the "comfort zone" like in Eiji's case is especially hard.
In this life, he grew up in Konoha and got to love the village, with all the awesome restaurants, amazing views, etc.
But after thinking about it, in the end, his desire to make sure the world doesn't end because of him messing the future up was stronger, so he made his mind up.
"Alright..."
"Good...the official explanation will be that you killed Danzo and wanted to overthrow the Daimyo, but after being found out you fled. This will make you officially an S-rank Rouge Ninja for Konoha, but we will make sure that no Anbu or higher rank will actually try to arrest you. However you still have to hide your identity from now on..." - Homura
"S-rank? Wow, I'll be a celebrity...anyway can I visit my parents before I leave?" - for the first time Eiji showed an expression like a child his age would, leaving Tsunade doubtful again if she actually overestimated him.
"Koff, we can't let that happen in case someone sees you, or it would raise suspicion against the official explanation. But we can allow you to write a letter..." - Homura
"Tsk, how stingy...anyway is this all then? If yes, I hope I will never see you again! May you get blessed with even more wrinkles and bladder problems!" - with that, Eiji left the Hokage Office.
"I never imagined something like that from both of you, considering that you often sided more with Danzo than Sarutobi-sensei. I thought you would insist on having him kept under constant surveillance so that he won't do anything you consider what's against the village's interest. Or did you two grow generous after the whole Danzo fiasco?" - Tsunade glared questioningly at both of them.
"It was the most sensible choice since we can't risk him growing resentful of our village...this was why you did it right, Homura?" - Koharu
"Actually, he was too annoying and getting on my nerves..." - Homura whispered that more for himself than to actually reply.
"YOU WHAT?!" - Koharu started to angrily shout at him and exercised her fist against him.
"Hm? Did you wait for me or something? That's really cute, but I'm into girls, you know?" - when Eiji left the Hokage Office, he saw Sasuke standing there in his usual "cool" pose with arms crossed and eyes closed, leaning against a wall.
Not long ago he was questioned over his involvement in killing Danzo, but he only told what Eiji advised him to.
After he was let go, he waited for Eiji since he needed to ask him something.
Anyway, after hearing Eiji's annoying way of speaking, he opened his eyes and said: "Sure took you long enough...was the interrogation that hard?"
"More annoying than hard...anyway, what are you gonna do from now on?" - Eiji squatted next to him and looked at the night sky.
"You said that Danzo did it behind the Hokage's back, but I'm not really buying it, so I have thought about destroying Konoha...but then I noticed there is a feeling much strongerthan revenge...I just...want to see Itachi..." - Sasuke was unusually open to Eiji.
Eiji thought that it might be to the fact, that he really helped him with his revenge and that he grew softer after knowing about having still a loving brother alive out there, who did everything to protect him.
But Eiji also noticed what Sasuke's other goal was by saying that.
He hoped that Eiji would tell him the location of Itachi.
Thinking about it, Eiji smiled and said: "I actually don't care if you destroy Konoha, since I'm leaving anyway..."
"..."
"I'm just joking...anyway if you want to seehim, your best bet is probably to join Orochimaru, since that snake bastard was part of this gloomy organization Itachi currently is part of...though he may not tell you and his information isn't really that reliable..."
"But you know his location too, right?" - Sasuke didn't buy Eiji's excuse for knowing all kinds of stuff "cause I'm Hokage", but he didn't care how he knew as long as Sasuke could use Eiji's knowledge.
Eiji was surprised.
He mentioned Orochimaru so that Sasuke would join him how it was supposed to be.
But now it looked like Sasuke wasn't thinkingabout joining Orochimaru.
After thinking for a while, he got up from squatting and faced Sasuke.
"Well, I have some information...it's reliable, but the catch is that I only know where hewill show up in about 3 years."
"That's good enough, better than gambling on Orochimaru to tell me...you said you are leaving? Not long ago I was prepared to leave this village as well, so what doyouplan on doing from now on?" - Sasuke looked straight into Eiji's eyes.
"Hmm, I plan to look for the dragon temple while training in the meantime..." - Eiji
"I will look for this dragon temple with you if you teach me sage mode. Training with you made me way stronger than all the time I spent in this rundown village."
"Hehehe, alright, but only if you call me sensei from now on!"
"Hell no."
'Sasuke having Mangekyo Sharingan plus potentially Kotoamatsukami in the futureand now even learning sage mode, won't he become too op? Compared to that, Naruto will only learn to make a bigger ball after 3 years...yeah let's not think about it...' - Eiji thought amused about how strong the difference between Naruto and Sasuke will be in 3 years.