Chapter 103: The Death of Danzo
Affirmation and negation, killing and being killed, controlling and breaking free, protecting and harming. We are always fighting so as not to lose something, or we continue to raise the butcher's knife for what has already been lost. Hatred is entangled with love and sorrow.
However, that which is deeply loved will eventually be lost. The end of the road is visible at a glance. After a hundred years, it is but a handful of dust. Having forgotten the people of the previous generation, we continue to fight. Even so, humanity continues its ugly pursuit, praying to become more beautiful.
The moment he was struck by the strongest genjutsu from the four-bladed shuriken-like Mangekyo Sharingan, Kakashi Hatake understood why Kotoamatsukami was so feared by Konoha's high command, and he understood why Danzo would go to such lengths to obtain Shisui's Sharingan.
It was as if time had stopped, and everything had returned to chaos. The heavy rain vanished, the dark clouds scattered. There was no gravity, no sunlight. Kakashi felt himself floating in the air. Even in the immense grayness, he could clearly see the face of every person in the battle, their eyes, even the subtle expressions on their faces. And he felt no sense of discord with this phenomenon, as if this was how the world was meant to be.
His consciousness detached from his body. For the first time, the boy observed his own body up close from a third-person perspective. The reflection of the Mangekyo Sharingan was mirrored in his pupils. Danzo's hand was raised in mid-air. Fugaku Uchiha's furious expression was perfectly frozen. Further away, his teacher, the Fourth Hokage, was about to press a Rasengan into the chest of an Uchiha elite. The Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, swung his Adamantine Staff, shattering a shadow clone.
Is this the effect of Kotoamatsukami?
Has my consciousness been frozen, or have my reaction nerves been stretched to infinity?
What is consciousness?
Consciousness is a neurological phenomenon in living beings, a product of the development of an individual's physiological functions to a certain stage. It is a synthesis of self-awareness and external sensation. The basis of consciousness is the individual's comprehensive possession of self-awareness, recognition of their own cognitive abilities, and recognition of their ability to exercise power.
That which is detached from the body should be the soul.
To be precise, he should be in a state of a wandering soul right now.
Kakashi suddenly had an urge to see the shape of his own soul. He came to the edge of a puddle and looked down. There was no light, yet there was a reflection. The boy clearly saw his own image being formed in a shattered, replaying manner. But what appeared from the puddle was a crow with a four-bladed shuriken Mangekyo Sharingan.
I see.
He lightly tapped the puddle with his finger, and the crow dissolved into ripples, disappearing from the boy's sight.
This world is composed of countless truths. Just when you think you understand one truth, the next one will always jump out and slap you in the face.
This is true for science, and it is true for ninjutsu.
The essence of ninjutsu is nothing more than the application of chakra: nature transformation, shape transformation, and the more special sage art chakra, including the Ryumyaku chakra. All of these can be attributed to the development of energy.
So, the form he was seeing now, was it a stress response of the Ryumyaku chakra under the influence of Kotoamatsukami, or had it triggered some kind of mechanism?
That wasn't important.
What was important was that the boy had easily found a way to return to his body and leave this situation.
He naturally returned to his body's side and observed the caster of this jutsu, Danzo, from the same perspective. "Driving his own spirit," he walked towards him step by step, slowly raising his left hand. His fingers plunged into Danzo's right eye, gouged out the Mangekyo Sharingan, and crushed it.
At that moment, the winds and clouds stirred, and the sky, like an oil painting, regained its color. Time, which had been slowed down by ten thousand times, then a thousand, then a hundred, finally returned to normal. Kakashi closed his eyes, then opened them again.
He cast a small genjutsu on his opponent. In Danzo's eyes, the boy had already become his pawn.
This was natural. No one could resist the power of Kotoamatsukami.
It was just that the Darkness of the Shinobi World found it a bit strange. Did the eyes of someone controlled by Kotoamatsukami also change to look like the eyes of someone controlled by a normal Sharingan genjutsu?
Those eyes, why?
Quickly moving away from the attack range of Fugaku Uchiha's Susanoo, the leader of Root looked back at Kakashi Hatake, who was following him like a bodyguard, and finally felt that these few Sharingan he had acquired today were worth something.
As long as he cultivated this chess piece, he would surely be able to win the position of Hokage for him.
After fleeing for several li, Danzo Shimura finally felt the side effects of using Izanagi four times in a row and the after-effects of the pain of death. Leaning against a large tree, the leader of Root panted heavily, while the chess piece that had followed him slowly approached.
"Kakashi Hatake, you go and bring the other Root members to this location. Next, we will deal with the Uchiha..."
The broken blade of the chakra tanto pierced Danzo's heart. The silver-haired boy twisted the blade, multiplying the victim's pain.
"Why... you brat... weren't... you..."
Wanting to use Shisui's eye to activate one last Izanagi, Kakashi pre-emptively tore out the Mangekyo Sharingan.
With the eye in his hand, the boy held it up for Danzo to see.
"This is your last hope and your trump card, isn't it?"
"I originally thought you would discover that I wasn't under your control. In that case, you might have had one last chance."
"But you are too arrogant. So arrogant that I can't resist killing you right now."
"Who says a broken sword can't kill a man?"
"Right, Lord Danzo?"
"The words you said to my father have become your own final words. How does that feel?"
"As for my eyes, that was just a small genjutsu. It was too easy to trap a guy who has been affected by my sound-based genjutsu for so long with an illusion of this level."
The hilt of the sword in his hand grew heavier. Before Kakashi could finish speaking, Danzo had already collapsed to the ground. The boy pulled out the broken blade, and blood spurted out.
It stained the surrounding puddle a crimson red.
Sealing the Mangekyo Sharingan in his hand along with Danzo's body into a scroll, Kakashi had no intention of destroying this legendary eye. While he wouldn't return it to its original owner, giving it to Fugaku Uchiha as a gift for the Uchiha clan joining the Land of Rain was a good idea.
An eye that had already used Kotoamatsukami once would have to wait over a decade before it could be used again.
Next, as long as he could get the Uchiha clan head out of Konoha, the power of the Akatsuki would swell to a level that the Five Great Nations could not ignore.
That foreseeable future was right before his eyes.
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