8 days since last one...Same lame excuse as in the last chapter, blame school xD

For everyone who was been reading my story, I want to clarify something. The reason why there have been fighting scenes in every chapter is because this is the end of the Five Kage Summit Arc. I think that's a normal procedure in the final moments of an arc.

I plan on ending this arc in chapter 7. If all goes well, a new arc (and the true beginning of my story) will start in chapter 8.

On a last note, many thanks to everyone who has been supporting me. You guys are the best! :P

Chapter 005 - Despair! Illusion or Reality?

"Where did you get those eyes, Danzo?" Yamato inquired from a distance. Even though the large group of shinobi was staring at him from quite far away, they could all see a Sharingan on Danzo's right palm and at least four others across his forearm.

"Here and there. It's a quite long story." As Danzo moved his arm, a total of ten Sharingans became visible.

"Taking one enemy's weapon to strengthen himself and his own village is one thing, but to take that many eyes from people who are supposed to be comrades...it's sickening." The disgusted Shi stated.

"Wow, wait a second! By taking, you're suggesting he had something to do with the Uchiha massacre?" Kurotsuchi asked, surprising everyone else.

"No, I wasn't actually speaking of that, but now that you said it..." The also surprised Shi started to think. "What better time to take the eyes than after the massacre?"

"He has everything to do with the Uchiha clan!" Suigetsu shouted, getting everyone's attention. "He and the other old geezers from Konoha! They ordered Itachi to kill his own clan!"

"Was that your objective? Getting Danzo?" Ao asked to the former Kirigakure shinobi.

"Yeah, old man Ao, but what does it matter to you?" Suigetsu asked back.

"Things just changed quite a bit, then. We'll fight by your side, since we have a common enemy but..." Ao took two kamas from the inside of his jacket, pointing one to Danzo and the other to Suigetsu. "...after this is all over, I'll come for you Suigetsu-kun. You're still one of Kirigakure's missing-nins and I'm still one of it's hunter-nins."

"Hmph, whatever..." Suigetsu answered with a smirk that immediately fell, as he saw two of the shinobi charging towards himself and Jugo.

"Darui! Shi! What the hell are you doing?" Kankuro shouted, as Darui tried an overhead slash with his cleaver sword that was still blocked by Suigetsu's broken Kubikiribocho.

"I don't know if you attacked the other Kages or not, but you guys sure attacked my boss so..." Darui slashed twice more and Suigetsu successfully blocked them, but the third slash forced him to his knees. "...there's no way I'll fight by your side. Sorry but like Danzo, you'll have to be captured too."

"Darn it!" Suigetsu tried to push Darui's blade away but to no avail. Then, Jugo charged with his right forearm changed into an axe but Shi slided between the giant and Darui, so he could kick Jugo's arm away. A shuriken thrown by Darui slightly touched the right side of Jugo's torso, but since it was infused with lightning chakra, it made a deep gash on the bipolar's body. Suigetsu turned himself into water that moved behind Darui, causing the broken blade to fall with a clang, before the Hozuki Clan member's body reformed, allowing him to lock Darui in a sleeper hold-like maneuver.

"Go forth, Fu, Torune!" Danzo ordered and both disappeared with a Body Flicker Jutsu.

"ANBU! One's coming for you!" Ao hastily warned and Yamato instinctively raised some tendrils in front of himself to create a wall. Indeed, Torune's punch was coming from that side and was blocked by the wall, but Yamato felt that his defense was getting weaker by the second.

"He uses Shikuro Aburame's bugs! Watch out!" Kurotsuchi shouted and the shocked Yamato jumped back as he saw the hole created in the wall by the nano-sized insects.

"Shikuro's bugs attack at the celular level. With my Wood Style creating sources of life, this guy is possibly the worst opponent I could find." Yamato thought as he continued to dodge Torune's blows.

"Your eye! I'll make sure I take it this time!" Fu shouted as his kama clashed with Ao's right one. The Hunter-nin tried to use his second kama to slash his opponent's exposed right side, but Fu blocked the attack by grabbing Ao's wrist. The Root member dropped his weapon and grabbed Ao's other wrist, before trying to join his hands together to completely lock him. Ao realized that wasn't the only thing and kicked his opponent in the gut before he could complete the Mind Transfer's hand seal. Before he could try a new attack, Fu rolled to his left side just in time to avoid Chojuro's Hiramekarei enveloped in hammer-shaped chakra.

"Your sword releases too much chakra. He'll notice it before you hit him." Ao told to his partner, inadvertedly making him more nervous.

"Danzo, is it true that you and the other elders ordered Itachi Uchiha to kill his own family?" Temari demanded for an answer.

"Hare, Boar, Ram..." Danzo intoned as he performed the respective hand seals. He then rushed towards the two present Sand Siblings, aiming his right fist towards Kankuro who was the closest to him. Suddenly, a golem made of rock erupted from the ground to block Danzo's punch. Right after the fist connected with the living statue, it hugged Danzo, immobilizing him completely. As the golem continued to tighten his hug, blood started to drip from Danzo's mouth.

"Lava Style: Quicklime Congealing Jutsu" A large amount of quicklime was spit by the airborne Kurotsuchi, enveloping both Danzo and the golem. The first attack was then followed by a large water jet. "Water Style: Violent Water Wave"

"The water is making it act like quick-drying cement." Kankuro noted as Danzo was completely trapped by the combination of jutsus used by the Iwa duo.

"So, is it true?" Kurotsuchi asked in a dead serious tone, as she landed and seated on Akatsuchi's left shoulder.

"Whether it is true or whether it is a lie, such kind of information is not to be talked about with people of other villages. The fact that you ever heard of the Uchiha massacre is by itself a disgrace to Ko..." Danzo stopped to cough some blood. "Even if you torture me, even if you mutilate me, you'll get nothing. Self-sacrifice is what makes a ninja. Scorning the sun and working in the shadows, that's what it is to be a ninja. Being nice will not change the world. It is only thanks to people who put the greater good ahead of themselves that we have been able to maintain peace."

"Don't talk about peace like you're contributing for it. You tried to fool four villages, so you could get virtual control over their military power. Is that how you want to achieve peace? Then, you're no better than Madara Uchiha. There's no peace in your goals!" Temari angrily stated.

"It's true that many have sacrificed themselves for peace, but what you say makes no sense. There's no need for it to be like that forever. Once there's peace, there's no need for sacrifices, unless someone does something to disrupt it. That's what you're doing, Danzo!" Kankuro supported his sister.

"Like you would..." Danzo's words were cut when his head suddenly hanged down.

"Oh! Oops!" Akatsuchi exclaimed, causing Kurotsuchi to stare at him suspiciously. "I forgot to order the golem to stop tightening."

"Akatsuchi! You clumsy idiot!" Kurotsuchi shouted with blank eyes. "How are we supposed to get information out of him now that he's dead?"

"Don't worry, I'll give you another chance to do so." Both Iwa-nin heard a voice behind them. Kurotsuchi flipped and used her feet to push Akatsuchi away, before thrusting her right palm to block Danzo's kunai. Even though the kunai passed through her glove and stabbed Kurotsuchi's hand, no blood dripped and not even a slight gasp came from Kurotsuchi's mouth. Danzo however seemed to be quite surprised. "So that's from where those explosive kunais came from. Now I'm sure that you can also use the Explosion Style."

"Tsk." Kurotsuchi frowned and backed away, joining Akatsuchi and the Sand Siblings. "Akatsuchi, if you didn't stop your golem, then how is he alive? That should have killed him!"

"I don't know, Kurotsuchi-nee! Maybe I ordered him to stop after all?" The confused Akatsuchi hypothesized.

"What? How can you not be sure of something like that, you clumsy idiot?" Kurotsuchi once again shouted, once again with her eyes blank.

"You saw that, Shi?" Darui asked to his partner, trying his best to not look away from his opponents.

"I could only sense one source of chakra from him, so there's no way that was a clone. Maybe it's an illusion, but I can't be sure from here." Shi informed.

"Gosh, I'm feeling kinda sluggish...I really didn't want to fight them on my own, but since Danzo's is actually our priority, hmm..." Darui stared to his opponents for awhile and then heavily sighed. "Oh well, do what you have to do, Shi..."

"Right!" As soon as Shi left the pillar, Suigetsu charged with his broken blade again.

"If getting the old man is your priority, why waste time with us?" The former Mist shinobi asked while both struggled to gain an advantage.

"Look, boss ordered me to get Danzo and those two, but as his bodyguard I have to get both of you too. That makes a total of five guys I have to capture, one of them being strong enough to be nominated Hokage, so in my point of view, the best way to do this is to take care of the fodder and then release an all-out assault on the stronger one." Darui sighed, pushed away Suigetsu's blade, spun and tried a new slash, that Suigetsu struggled to block. "Your friend already left and since I'm getting tired, hmm...Sorry, I may have to start to use my Storm Style."

"Wood Style: Branching Forest" Yamato thrusted his right arm forward, transforming it in many intertwined wood tendrils that advanced in Torune's direction. The Root member simply punched the sharp and thick wood spear, desintegrating it in the process. "No way..."

"Persistent bastards..." Fu continued to come down from the pillar, avoiding Ao and Chojuro's attacks while doing so. As Chojuro raised his Hiramekarei to slam it on his opponent, Fu performed the Mind Distraction Jutsu hand seal, forcing the Mist Swordsman to suddenly turn and strike Ao with a baseball bat-like swing blow. While Fu watched Ao being sent high into the sky, the Hunter-nin suddenly turned into some stones that had been taken out of the pillar from one of Chojuro's earlier attacks. Sensing Ao behind him, Fu broke the hand seal and ducked out from another one of Ao's kama slashes. "Substitution Jutsu..."

"Red Secret Move: Machinery Triangles"

"Wind Style: Tornado Scythe Jutsu" The siblings combined attack put Danzo and the triangular blades with explosive balls in a wind vortex that caused a great explosion. Unfortunately, Danzo re-appeared many meters away, shocking everyone once again.

"There has been no changes to their chakra and mine is stable too, so neither of us is caught in a genjutsu. What kind of jutsu is this?" Shi thought as he remained hidden behind the stone pillar he had just came from. Then, without anyone expecting, Jugo appeared from the sky in a full level 2 transformation, similar to the one he used when he met Sasuke for the first time. The double axe handle connected with Danzo's body and to make sure the attack worked, Jugo grew jet booster appendages on his arms to double the damage on the fallen Root leader.

"Good offense." Danzo complimented as he appeared on top of the pillar where Darui and Suigetsu were fighting on. As soon as they heard him, both swordsmen who had been fighting until then slashed at the same time, only for the acting Hokage to dodge with a cartwheel. Danzo took out a kunai from the inside of his white shirt and exhaled wind chakra onto it, expanding the range of its weapon and shaping it like a scimitar. Darui and Suigetsu exchanged sword slashes with Danzo blocking them with quite some ease. Then, in two slashes, he disrupted the lightning chakra-flow that enveloped Darui's Cleaver Sword and sliced a small part of Suigetsu's Kubikiribocho.

"Oh, not again!" The upset Suigetsu complained as he stared into his weapon that was getting smaller with each battle. So distracted was Suigetsu that he could do nothing to avoid Danzo grabbing him by the throat and using his wind blade to slice off his left arm and part of his torso...Or so Danzo thought. The lost body part turned into water and wrapped Danzo's right arm like a whip, before joining together with its owner at the place where he was "injured". Suigetsu swiftly grabbed his broken sword with his right hand and gave Danzo a taste of his own medicine by cutting off his Sharingan arm.

"Storm Style: Laser Circus" A halo of bright energy appeared around Darui's hands, before spreading into many bright beams that hit Danzo's exposed torso, sending him flying from the stone pillar.

"Huh?" Ao, who was once again struggling to gain advantage in his kama fight against Fu, suddenly felt something behind his partner. "Chojuro! Behind you!"

"Wind Style: Vacuum Spheres" Danzo spat many small blasts of wind towards the young Swordsman, who put his sword in front of himself to block the bullets. Even though the sword was big and large, two of the bullets still passed by and pierced into Chojuro's flesh, knocking him out of the bridge.

"Darn it! Summoning Jutsu" Kankuro waved a scroll and summoned Karasu, sending the puppet after Chojuro. The puppet was fast enough to save the young man, much because of its incorporated flight mechanism. "Where's the medic-nin?"

"There's no need. I'm fi...Aaah ahh..." Chojuro frowned in pain as he tried to get up but he wasn't able to do so. "I saw him...He's doing, doing something important. I can hang on."

"What is...?" The surprised Shi asked to himself as he saw one of the Sharingans in Danzo's arm closing. "What did just happen?"

"Got you now!" Fu, whose hair got loose, managed to grab Ao from behind, wrapping his arms around his opponent's neck. "Danzo-sama!"

"Wind Style: Vacuum Wave" Danzo exhaled a wide blade of wind towards his subordinate and Ao. Yamato, who was fighting Torune at the side of the pillar, saw what was about to happen and created a wood pillar that pushed Ao and Fu away from the wind blade, before it was sliced in half. As that happened, Yamato nearly got touched by Torune who continued to pursue him. The broken wood pillar crashed against the bridge, making a loud noise that disguised Sasori's loud movements. The human puppet appeared in front of Danzo and slashed his body nearly in half with the five blades equipped on the right pole attached to the back of its hips.

"Another one..." Shi noticed another Sharingan closing as Danzo's corpse fell into the bridge's floor.

"It's no use." Danzo informed as he appeared back on top of the pillar where his bodyguards were fighting earlier. Suigetsu had made his way towards that same pillar and was already aiming for Danzo's blind spot, when he suddenly stopped.

"Hey, Suigetsu! Why did you stop?" Ao shouted as he kicked Fu away. Then, with his Byakugan, Ao noticed the chakra surrounding Suigetsu's body. "A seal? Shit!"

"He must have done it back then!" Darui thought as he remembered Danzo grabbing Suigetsu by the throat. Both Jounin from Kumo and Kiri jumped towards Danzo to slash him with their weapons, but the Root leader countered by kicking Darui away and slamming his right elbow into Ao's sternum. Immediately after, Danzo performed the ram hand seal.

"Release."

"To use taijutsu, he must be conserving chakra for something big...Wow! Akatsuchi throw me away now!" Kurotsuchi suddenly ordered.

"There is no one who can reach me in time. I'll finish off these three quickly and then restart my jutsu." Danzo thought as he prepared his wind scimitar-like weapon. Then, a loud noise came from behind him. That's what allowed Danzo to notice Jugo who was moving full speed ahead thanks to his jet boosters and avoid the fatal blow. Still, the axe appendage on Jugo's forearm made a cut on Danzo's left arm. As Jugo took the paralyzed Suigetsu away, Kurotsuchi appeared in the air and launched half a dozen kunais that got stuck on Danzo's right arm. Danzo's eyes widened and then an explosion occured.

"Did she get him?" Temari asked, just before Kurotsuchi landed by her side. "Did it work?"

"N-no..." The frustrated and surprised Kurotsuchi mumbled, with a drop of sweat slowly rolling down her face. "This guy..."

"Can't be...That was a Wood Style!" Yamato thought as the smoke cleared. Indeed, the right sleeve of Danzo's shirt had been ripped off, showing a semi-destructed wooden shield that was formed from his arm. "So that's why a non-Uchiha was able to control so many Sharingans. Shodai's chakra and life force is really amazing...Damn it! When he sent Sai to Orochimaru...that wasn't the first time they had made a contact. Only him could give Danzo Shodai's powers."

"That's it! He can die! That amount of explosives would be enough to kill him if he hadn't raised a defense!" Shi concluded and came out of his hiding place. "That's the real Danzo! You can kill him now!"

"Sensor...I guess he's on me, but it's too late." Danzo thought as he performed the same trio of hand seals he did on the start of the battle. At the same time, Shi noticed something.

"Wood Style: Branching Forest" After getting away from Torune once again, Yamato climbed the pillar and thrusted a wood tendril spear that stabbed Danzo in the torso.

"Whatever he did changed his chakra a bit. It was some sort of jutsu!" Shi thought with his mouth wide open. "Oh no! This is bad!"

"It really didn't work." The shinobi group heard before blood was spilled through the air.

"AKATSUCHI!" Kurotsuchi screeched as she saw her brother falling on his knees. Even though Kankuro still moved Karasu in front of him, Danzo's wind scimitar cut through it and still reached the large Iwa-nin, slightly slicing him across the chest. Temari rushed and swung her opened fan horizontally, with the wind chakra covering it allowing her to decapitate Danzo. It was useless though, as Danzo appeared some meters away once again. "DANZO!"

"Wait, Kurotsuchi!" Kankuro called but the Iwa kunoichi charged towards Danzo who was preparing a new wind sword.

"You're full of openings, young girl." Danzo waved his sword but failed to hit his opponent, who was suddenly pulled back by some sort of strings. As Kankuro held Kurotsuchi like a puppet, Temari attacked with her fan.

"Wind against wind is a bit tougher, isn't it old man?" Temari folded her fan and did a overhead motion to slam it against Danzo's skull, with the latter doing nothing to protect himself. "Oh, shit!"

"Wind Style: Vacuum Grand Sphere" Danzo reappeared from Temari's left side and unleashed a large wind sphere that exploded on Temari and blasted her away.

"Temari!" Kankuro shouted as he sent Kuroari to capture her in its torso, so she wouldn't fell out of the bridge.

"Water Style: Water Whip" The weapon made of water chakra wrapped Danzo's left arm, allowing Ao to cut it off with his kama. That Danzo disappeared and the real one grabbed the whip, pulling it and its creator along, before slicing his abdomen with a simple kunai.

"Damn it! We're losing! C'mon Shi, calm down and think!" The frightned Shi tried to focus as he was seeing his comrades falling one by one. He also saw another Sharingan closing. "It's not like Madara's jutsu, things don't pass by him. The one that is struck disappears and the real one comes back. It's not a clone though, because there's only one source of chakra. It's not genjutsu, since everyone's chakra is flowing normally. Plus, whatever it is, it has to do with those eyes."

"Ao-senpai!" Chojuro shouted as he forced himself forward. The hammer-shaped Hiramekarei crushed Danzo but another one appeared behind the young shinobi. He was prepared though and changed the chakra's shape into a buzzsaw, before turning to slice Danzo in half. Knowing the next one would attack from behind as well, Chojuro turned but found that he couldn't move his arms. He looked back and saw that Danzo had used the Water Whip created by Ao earlier to wrap his arms together. Another large wind shpere was exhaled, blasting Chojuro away.

"Kill!" Jugo screeched as he used another enhanced punch to knock away Danzo. His killing instincts were brief, perharps because of the seal placed on him by Sasuke, or perhaps because of his right hand being taken away by Danzo's wind sword. A slice through the chest knocked him back to the bridge's floor. By then, another Sharingan closed.

"Danzo's chakra has been plummeting everytime one of those eyes closes. It must be pretty risky to him...That's why he canceled the jutsu earlier! He needed to conserve his chakra!" Shi concluded, but he still didn't knew what that jutsu was. "The only answer I can find is him reversing time, but time is always related to space. Each time he's "killed" he reappears on a different place, so there's no way he's doing such a thing. Oh man, the only thing I can think of is genjutsu, but our chakras are...chakras..."

"Wood Style: Four Pillars Prison Jutsu" Yamato formed a wood cage around Fu and Torune and once again rushed towards his own Kage. "If there's some connection between his jutsu and the Sharingans, then it should be over when all of them close. Can we hold on until then?"

"It was his chakra that changed, so he must have placed himself under a genjutsu!" That was Shi's final conclusion, as a absurd as it sounded to him. "For a moment, it's like he makes his injuries a dream and his well-being a reality. It's like it controls the space between reality and illusion. That would be the most powerful genjutsu ever! And like all great jutsus, it carries great risks...The eyes that closed, didn't open anymore. Having all those Sharingans, allows him to continuously use that jutsu. If he was a normal Uchiha, he would only be able to use it twice. It may be exactly that!"

"Kankuro-san!" Darui shouted as he saw Kankuro crashing against the hard shield of his own puppet Sanshouo, after being blasted by one of Danzo's Vacuum Grand Spheres.

"Damn it! He have to hold on until all his eyes close!" Yamato remembered. Another one closed by then. "There's four left."

"If I'm right one closes each 60 seconds. We'll have to hold on four more minutes." Darui told to his partners, while his face was covered in sweat. Kurotsuchi, who was shaking in anger, suddenly screamed and charged towards their opponent. "Wait, Kurotsuchi-san!"

"Stop! He won't even need to use his Sharingans if you charge like that!" Yamato shouted but she didn't listen.

"What is this?" Shi turned to the pillar parallel to the one he was hiding behind, as he felt a new presence. "He must be waiting for a chance! I'll give it to him!"

"DANZO!" Kurotsuchi shouted as she tried to stab a kunai on his face, only to fall on her knees after being delivered a hard punch to the gut. Danzo then reformed his wind weapon and attempted to kill her, but Darui intervened in time, pushing her out of the way and receiving a quite deep gash on his left shoulder as a result.

"Shit! Wood Style...!" To Yamato's great shock, Danzo appeared in front of him and lifted him by his throat.

"Thinking only about the way I avoid your moves was your mistake. I defeated the three of you, who are the strongest here, without needing Izanagi. I only needed a simple Body Flicker to reach you, didn't I?" Danzo released his opponent who was binded by the Hokage's seal. As he was about to recreate the wind scimitar, Shi appeared near Danzo with the same simple Body Flicker and performed the ram seal. "I forgot about this one. It doesn't matter, since Izanagi is still in effect."

"Release!" Shi shouted as he touched Danzo's forehead, much to the latter's shock. With the genjutsu dispelled, Shi prepared a new attack but was sent flying away with a powerful backfist.

"Shit! I wasn't expecting...What?" Danzo couldn't believe as he saw the samurai with a beard and bandages around his head charging towards him with his sword in hand, while still showing the signs of his last battle. "I don't have time to..."

"Say goodbye to the eyes you stole, Danzo!" The battered Mifune shouted as he waved his katana. Blood was spilled into the air, as it was the rotten arm filled with red eyeballs. Danzo's weapon was no more.

Yup, I rushed the Danzo fight. I really want to move forward...

Cookies (!) for the first one to find out which fight I inspired myself in to write the part where Danzo starts to eliminate his opponents one by one...

Next Chapter: The One in Control

-Nawirama13

-NawiramaWikia-

1. Jutsu:

1.1. Sealing Jutsu: Restraining Seal - the seal that Danzo used in this chapter against both Suigetsu and Yamato and in the manga against Sasuke. Danzo grabs his opponent by the throat and places a time-delayed seal. After the set time passes, black marking will envelop the enemy's body, restraining his movements.

2. Characters:

2.1 Kurotsuchi's family - Akatsuchi is the younger of four siblings. Kurotsuchi is the second youngest. In time, the two older brothers will be revealed.

-Nawirama13