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Danzo

Ryuu landed on a bridge, opposite Danzo who had stopped when Madara appeared in front of him. Sasuke landed beside Ryuu and Karin and Jugo landed behind them.

"As much as I appreciate the assist, Madara, you had better leave before I kill you," Ryuu warned.

"Now that would be impressive," Madara chuckled darkly. "Very well, I'll be watching."

Danzo turned toward the four that had been chasing him across miles since leaving the Land of Iron. Madara vanished in a swirling vortex centered on his exposed Sharingan. At the same time, Ryuu activated his Mangekyo Sharningan, lighting Danzo up with Amaterasu. Danzo shrieked in pain for a moment before the Amaterasu went out, leaving nothing behind.

"What the..." Ryuu trailed off before spinning, slashing with his tanto.

Danzo, suddenly behind him, leapt skyward, avoiding the tanto. He landed a distance from them, cocking his head sideways.

"That's the White Light Chakra Saber," Danzo noted. "So you did lose your own against Pein. Interesting."

"You'll think so," Ryuu snarled turning toward him. "Ready Sasuke?"

"Ready," Sasuke nodded as they both began to make hand seals. "Fire Style, Giant Fireball Jutsu!"

"Fire Style, Dragon Flame Bomb!" Ryuu shouted, the two fire jutsus blasting the ground below Danzo, just before he leapt put of the smoke, his black robe destroyed.

He landed on a pillar off to one side and stood, watching them with Shisui's Sharingan.

"Impressive," Danzo admitted. "You two are truly a serious threat. I'll have to stop holding back."

Danzo held out his right arm, which had three golden shackles that sealed something along it. He released all three and then pulled the bandages off, revealing an arm as pale as Ryuu's own with a face on his shoulder. The arm had ten Sharingan along it, one of which was a milky white and closed a moment later.

"What the hell are you?" Sasuke growled.

"You implanted Hashirama's cells into yourself along with the Sharingan of our slaughtered clan," Ryuu guessed. "You bastard. I'll kill you."

"I have only become what you are," Danzo stated.

"No," Ryuu growled extending several wooden spikes along his arm. "You've become an abomination."

He broke the spikes off and began to hurl them at Danzo. Danzo dodged three before a sword slipped out of his left sleeve and he began to slash the spikes aside. Finally, Ryuu stopped, having spread them around the bridge. He made the Ram Seal and he and Sasuke leapt skyward. Danzo did the same just as wood spikes exploded up from the ones Ryuu threw. One managed to drive itself through Danzo's foot before Danzo managed to get clear. When he landed, Ryuu began to make hand seals.

"Wood Style, Wood Dragon Jutsu!" Ryuu growled.

A Wooden Dragon grew put of each ball of spikes, more than twenty in total, and all turned toward Danzo.

"Shit," Danzo gasped as the dragons began to spray wooden spikes at him.

They began to rain down around him and he began to swipe his sword through the cloud of spikes fast enough to deflect them all. Finally, it ended with only two out of two thousand having found their mark. One was sticking out of Danzo's left thigh and the another was in his left forearm. Ryuu grinned, making the Ram Seal and spikes shot out of both, skewering everything except his head and right arm. A moment later, Danzo faded, as though he was an illusion, and reappeared in the distance.

"Impossible," Sasuke blinked. "He's alive?"

"Sasuke, you're up," Ryuu stated. "Have at him."

"Scare you off already did he?" Sasuke grinned stepping forward.

"Hell no," Ryuu grinned. "I just figured you'd want a turn. Next I'm going to use my top three abilities."

"I'd better get my turn in then," Sasuke smirked. "Let's go Danzo."

Sasuke sprinted forward and drew his chokuto, slashing at Danzo who was almost fully healed. Danzo blocked it, his minor burns from their Fire Style Jutsus flaring for a moment before he shoved Sasuke's sword back and began to slash at him. Sasuke blocked all of Danzo's slashes before kicking Danzo backward. He fired a Fire Style Jutsu at Danzo but Danzo leapt into the air over it and fired a barrage of compressed cylinders of air Sasuke. Sasuke activated his Mangekyo Sharingan and formed the upper body of a Susanoo skeleton. His was purple with a pair of small horns on its skull, glowing yellow eyes, and what looked like screws in its joints. Danzo's jutsu smashed against the Susanoo and the Susanoo grabbed him, lifting him into the air. Sasuke closed his fist and the Susanoo did the same, the liquified Danzo spraying out through the fingers. A moment later, Danzo appeared behind Sasuke. Sasuke turned toward him just as a massive elephant of some kind appeared behind him. It began to inhale, pulling Sasuke in as his Susanoo faded. After a second, Danzo exhaled a stream of pressurized wind as well, blowing Sasuke toward it. Sasuke managed to reform his Susanoo and catch himself then exhaled a fireball that grew in power from Danzo's Wind Style jutsu, passing into the elephant instantly and making it shout in pain and go on a rampage. After a moment, it disappeared and Sasuke turned around as Danzo's sword drove itself through his abdomen.

Sasuke grinned and exploded into a flock of crows. Danzo spun as the real Sasuke formed his Susanoo, which formed a sword out of chakra and stabbed Danzo with it. Danzo's body faded and a pair of shuriken flew out of the dust the attack had kicked up. Sasuke leaned backward under it, seeing a Vacuum Blade around the shuriken, extending their range to about two and a half feet wide. Sasuke slipped his chokuto into the hole in one shuriken and spun, using it to knock the first shuriken away then threw it at Danzo, who he could just barely see through the dust. When the blade parted the dust, however, it was simply a shadow. Sasuke spun, leaping into the air as more Vacuum Bullets like the cylinders before shot out of the dust at him, barely missing. Sasuke landed and spun, using the same Wind Style Jutsu Danzo had tried to throw him to the elephant with to blow the dust away. Once clear, he spun, barely blocking a stab from Danzo. Just as Danzo began to slow, Sasuke streamed Lightning Chakra along his blade and severed the blade of Danzo's sword before moving to stab Danzo.

Danzo spun, shoving Sasuke's arms aside and drawing a kunai, stabbing at Sasuke. Sasuke leapt back, holding his chokuto in front of himself. He sprinted forward, slashing at Danzo but just as he did, a seal spread over his body from the point on his arm Danzo had made contact with. Danzo smirked and took Sasuke's sword. He smirked and raised it over his head.

"You're a failure Sasuke," Danzo stated. "The greatest mistake Itachi ever made. He should have let you die."

Danzo swung the sword downward but it impacted with Sasuke's now complete Susanoo and flying away as the seal faded. Danzo leapt away from Sasuke as his Susanoo formed a ball of purple chakra and a bow on its left arm. The sphere of chakra formed an arrow and Sasuke swung around, firing it at Danzo. Danzo swore as the arrow impacted with his stomach and tore completely through before fading. Danzo faded, reappearing on the ground sprinting forward. Sasuke aimed and fired a second arrow but at the last second, Ryuu's Genjutsu creature slashed it aside, saving Danzo but making him stop.

"Save your energy and vision Sasuke," Ryuu said, dropping to the ground and crossing his arms. "It's my turn."

"Have you figured out his jutsu?" Sasuke asked.

"A while ago," Ryuu nodded. "It's Izanagi. In exchange for an eye going blind, he can negate anything negative for himself while leaving his attacks as reality. All we have to do is kill him four more times."

Sasuke nodded and Ryuu's creature spun, slashing at Danzo. Danzo leapt away from the creature's sword looking toward Ryuu.

"Is this your Susanoo?" Danzo growled. "No. This is different."

"You should pay more attention Danzo," Ryuu smirked.

Danzo looked to the creature to see that it was grinning wickedly. He spun around in mid air just as a second creature impaled him with its Amaterasu Sword, his body burning away. A moment later, he was standing behind Ryuu as the two creatures faded. Just as he jabbed a kunai at Ryuu, Ryuu vanished. Then, he was in front of Danzo, flickering. A second on appeared directly behind Danzo. A Third was on the hand rail behind Danzo and the last of the four was beside the first. Danzo stepped forward and his leg spun into the air. His eyes widened as they did and blood began to fly out of him everywhere. When Ryuu finally stopped, he had used his tanto to skin Danzo alive, leaving his skin lying on the ground in strips as Danzo's skeleton, still wrapped in muscle, fell to the ground. It all faded and Danzo appeared in the distance, forming hand seals. He exhaled a cloud of Vacuum Bullets at Ryuu and Ryuu opened his Fifth Inner Gate, flashing toward Danzo. Danzo shouted in surprise, throwing a punch at Ryuu only for Ryuu to easily step past it and punch him so hard his torso was blasted into paste. Then, Ryuu spun, heel connecting with the side of Danzo's head with the same effect but much more destructive, also blasting the bridge below them into rubble. Ryuu jumped backward, closing the gate and landing beside Sasuke, healing himself. Danzo appeared across from them, gasping for breath and clutching his chest.

"We do good work," Ryuu whispered, smirking. "Alright, I'm going to get what's mine."

Ryuu activated his right Mangekyo Sharingan, wincing in pain as he activated the power he had yet to use once but that had still gotten him in more trouble than he had earned. Danzo watched them for a couple of moments before his right eye, Shisui's Sharingan, twitched, tired from overuse so soon after using Kotoamatsukami. Danzo growled in frustration, holding a hand over it.

"Eye tired Danzo?" Ryuu grinned. "Careful, use it much more and it'll go blind."

"That so?" Danzo growled. "Let's take care of that then, shall we?"

He pushed his fingers into his eye socket, gritting his teeth against the pain, and ripped the eye out, letting his hand drop to his side as he swore. Then, he blinked in confusion before shouting in annoyance and raised his now empty hand to his eye socket again. He stopped, squeezing lightly, realizing the change at the same time as Ryuu pulled out the jar he had brought that contained the same solution Itachi had acted like he panned to put Sasuke's eyes in. Danzo cursed, looking down at his hand and seeing that he had two eyes left. Just as he looked down, a Chidori Spear sprouted from his chest from behind.

"Excellent distraction Ryuu," Sasuke grinned from behind Danzo.

Danzo faded, reappearing off to one side, still missing Shisui's Sharingan.

"Confused?" Ryuu asked as Danzo held a hand over his eye. "Because you removed it, you are unable to retrieve it through your Izanagi. Now, shall we?"

He sprinted forward, creating a Vacuum Blade over his tanto. The Vacuum Blade began to glow white from the tanto it had been made over, and left a white trail. Danzo drew a kunai, forming a Vacuum Blade of his own as the two moved to stab each other. Ryuu managed to redirect Danzo's blade into a non-vital point while driving his own blade through Danzo's heart. Both coughed up blood, staggering away from each other as Danzo looked down at his Sharingan, which was now closed.

"W...what's the meaning of this!?" Danzo raged.

"You're fighting two Uchiha both armed with Mangekyo Sharingan," Ryuu snorted, right eye now kept closed to avoid damaging it after using his own Kotoamatsukami on Danzo. "We know how to wield Genjutsu as a weapon, figuratively and literally. You thought you had two Sharingan left because we wanted you to. In reality, the last ran out just after you gave me Shisui's eye. It's over Danzo. You've lost."

Ryuu healed his own stab wound and Danzo glared at him before vanishing, reappearing behind Karin. Ryuu turned, looking back at him just as his right arm shot upward and grew into a massive tree. He shouted in pain, breaking away, losing his arm completely and grabbed the fleeing Karin by the hair, pulling her back and wrapped his arm around her throat, squeezing, nearly crushing her throat.

"Ironic isn't it?" Ryuu asked as Sasuke turned around to face Karin and Danzo. "A man who has always glorified self-sacrifice takes a hostage to survive."

"I don't care about my life, as the situation might lead you to believe," Danzo stated. "But for the sake of the Leaf, I must survive, no matter what."

"Where's Jugo?" Ryuu asked looking up at the tree. "Oh, there he is."

Sasuke looked up, seeing that when Danzo's arm had grown into a tree, several of the branches had impaled Jugo through the torso, seriously wounding him and leaving him unable to assist Karin.

"Don't worry Jugo," Sasuke called. "Karin will save you. Karin, do you trust me?"

"Y-Yes, Sasuke," Karin nodded.

"Good," Sasuke nodded raising his hand and forming a Chidori. "Then don't move an inch. Ryuu...heal her."

He extended his Chidori Spear in a streak. As it reached halfway, Suigetsu appeared beside her, removing Danzo's left arm with his sword and grabbing Karin then vanishing again with the Body Flicker Technique, reappearing behind the two Uchiha with Karin in his arms. Sasuke's Chidori Spear drove itself through Danzo's chest where Karin's heart had been a split second before.

"Never mind," Sasuke smiled. "Thank you Suigetsu."

"You'd have stabbed her?" Suigetsu snarled.

"I was going to heal her," Ryuu stated. "My medical Ninjutsu is more than enough to heal a stab wound."

"But you would have risked her life just to kill Danzo?" Suigetsu growled. "Ryuu's more than fast enough to kill Danzo and save Karin at the same time."

"True," Ryuu agreed. "But we had a plan which would end in no deaths with less effort. Anyway, Sasuke, get Jugo to Karin. I'll finish Danzo."

Sasuke nodded, sprinting toward the tree as Danzo turned, beginning to stagger away, a solid trail of blood following him. Ryuu walked after him, Danzo stumbling away from him as fast as he could. Ryuu appeared in front of Danzo and shoved him backward. Danzo stumbled and fell onto his back, cursing weakly at Ryuu. Then, he shrugged his shirt off, revealing a Reverse Tetragram Seal. Black sludge began to spray out of him as the seal shot outward, hovering in the air. Then, a black sphere of chakra shot outward from Danzo, sealing anything inside it within himself permanently. When it faded, there was a massive section of the bridge that had been sealed forming a portion of a perfect sphere shape. Danzo's corpse lay at the bottom of the gap, the seal still visible on his chest.

"What happened?" Sasuke asked, walking up to the edge of the pit beside Ryuu who had easily escaped with the Body Flicker technique.

"He sealed everything inside himself," Ryuu stated. "Probably meant to catch me too."

"Shame he didn't think it through," Sasuke shrugged looking back at Karin, Jugo, and Suigetsu.

Jugo was fully healed and Karin was exhausted from doing it. Suigetsu still looked furious, but had accepted that Karin was never in any actual danger.

"Let's go you three," Sasuke called out. "We should head back to the Leaf before the other Kage decide to save him."

Suigetsu nodded and the five of them headed out seconds before a group of fifty Root ANBU appeared to save Danzo.


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