Tsunade no longer had any intention of holding back. Even Danzo would tremble beneath her iron fists now. If not for Izanagi, Danzo would have already been crushed long ago.
Facing a relentless Tsunade, Danzo poured every ounce of strength into countering her assault. Wind Release techniques clashed with bursts of Wood Release, shredding the earth beneath them. Beads of sweat the size of raindrops trickled down his forehead.
Tsunade's power was overwhelming — greater than ever before. Danzo's expression twisted with unease. After all these years, her strength hadn't waned in the slightest; it had only grown.
If not for his arsenal of forbidden Ninjutsu, he would've been flattened by Tsunade already. Worse still, he could feel his Chakra reserves plummeting.
While Izanagi could twist death into illusion, it couldn't restore the Chakra burned to fuel it.
Danzo's eyes flickered sharply. The situation was turning against him — fast. He began to consider retreat.
With a gravelly voice, he called out, "Tsunade, I'll admit defeat this time. How about we talk? The Hokage's seat — I'll hand it back to you."
Tsunade's golden eyes narrowed coldly. "Danzo, do you think I don't see through you? If I agreed, you'd strike the moment my guard was down. You'd never stop scheming."
Danzo's face darkened, veins bulging on his temple. "Since you won't give me a way out—then let's die together!"
Driven to the edge, he roared and released the restraints on his body. The Wood Release surged violently, branches bursting from the ground like serpents.
Tsunade's pupils contracted. "Danzo! You're burning your life force!"
The stolen vitality of Hashirama's cells blazed within him, amplifying his power exponentially. But Danzo no longer cared about the consequences. Even if he survived, the backlash would destroy him. The might of Hashirama's cells was never meant to be wielded so recklessly.
Suddenly, a kunai whistled through the air, slicing between the two combatants and embedding itself in the ground before Danzo.
Danzo blinked. The kunai's sudden appearance puzzled him — had someone interfered? Or was it stray crossfire from another battle? He couldn't tell.
Still, no one noticed the faint, knowing glint in his eye.
A short distance away, Shisui flashed Naruto an "OK" sign. Naruto grinned.
Sasuke raised an eyebrow. "What did you do?"
Danzo hadn't seen it, but Sasuke had — Shisui had shifted positions and thrown that kunai deliberately.
Naruto smirked. "You'll find out soon enough."
He didn't explain further. He wanted to let the prank play out.
From the sidelines, Zabuza whistled lowly as he watched Tsunade's barrage. "What a terrifying woman. Whoever marries her... poor bastard."
The battle's outcome was all but decided. Empowered by her immense Chakra and the surging bloodline of the Senju, Tsunade's strikes shattered the ground, forcing Danzo to retreat again and again.
Yet, when Danzo's desperation peaked, Tsunade's expression hardened. She knew better than anyone — never underestimate a man's final struggle.
Under the shadow of death, the will to survive can birth monstrous strength.
"Wood Release: Tree Root Burial!"
Massive roots erupted from beneath the battlefield, twisting like serpents to ensnare Tsunade. Danzo couldn't perform the advanced forms of Wood Release, but even his crude imitation was deadly in the right hands.
Tsunade crossed her arms, her Chakra flaring violently.
"Mighty Strength: Heavenly Foot of Pain!"
Her heel crashed down like divine punishment. The roots shattered under her blow, the shockwave tearing through the earth.
Her blood sang with adrenaline, her Chakra roared. The thrill of battle drove her forward — pushing her martial power and resolve to even greater heights.
"Damn it!!"
Staring at the unyielding Tsunade, Danzo's expression twisted. He glanced down at the two remaining Sharingan embedded in his arm and drew in a deep breath. His eyes grew feral.
Activating another Sharingan, Danzo launched himself at Tsunade once more!
Dozens of Wind Release: Vacuum Blades tore through the air, shredding everything in their path.
Tsunade met them head-on, her fist blazing with Chakra. She smashed through the storm of wind blades in a single blow, scattering the technique like paper in a hurricane.
"Hahaha! Now this—this is exhilarating!!"
The rush of power surging through her blood and Chakra made her heart race. Every strike rattled the earth and echoed through her bones. The sensation of raw, unrestrained combat thrilled her to the core.
In the past, Tsunade's strength had been tremendous—but her body hadn't been this resilient. Now, with her refined control and monstrous vitality, even destructive Ninjutsu barely scratched her.
Watching his Wind Release dissipate into nothing, Danzo felt a chill run through his spine. Her physical power—it was on par with that brute, the Raikage!
Since when did Konoha possess such terrifying body-strengthening methods?!
"Mighty Fist: Raging Lightning!!"
Tsunade's Chakra exploded outward, manifesting as a spectral, bull-shaped aura formed of blood and lightning-like energy. The sheer force it radiated shook the very ground.
Danzo's face twisted in horror. "Izanagi!"
But as he tried to invoke it again, searing pain lanced through his right eye. He clutched at his face, staggering.
"No—impossible!!"
Looking down at his arm, his heart dropped. The Sharingan embedded there were gone. The only one left—the one in his eye—had already activated.
And that eye… was Shisui Uchiha's Mangekyō Sharingan.
Danzo froze for an instant. Then rage and despair flooded his chest. A Mangekyō—wasted, burned away by a Genjutsu he hadn't even realized he was under!
He suddenly remembered that stray kunai from earlier.
That damned kunai... I was caught in a Genjutsu?!
Tsunade frowned at his sudden outburst, confused at first. But when she saw one of his eyes shut and blood seep down his cheek, she understood instantly.
"You reap what you sow, Danzo," she said coldly.
What Tsunade didn't know was that Danzo's pain wasn't from his arm. The nerves there were mostly numb, preconditioned to endure agony. But his eye—his last Sharingan—had been caught off guard, its pain searing through his mind and soul.
Worse still, it wasn't just physical pain. The anguish of losing Shisui's Mangekyō—the eye of Kotoamatsukami, the most powerful Genjutsu known—was a wound to his very pride.
Danzo's killing intent flared violently. "You've forced my hand!"
The air grew cold.
"Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique!!!"
Tsunade's face blanched. "Oh no!!"
She hadn't expected Danzo to have inscribed such a deadly seal onto his own body.
The Reverse Four Symbols Seal—an S-rank forbidden Fuinjutsu of mutual destruction. Once activated, it would draw everything within range into Danzo's body before annihilating itself.
Danzo had chosen to drag her down with him.
In the distance, Naruto's expression hardened. He was about to charge in when he suddenly sensed a distortion in space.
A masked figure appeared beside Danzo—Obito Uchiha.
In an instant, Obito's hand shot out, pulling Danzo into his Kamui. If he'd arrived even half a second later, the explosion would have consumed them both.
Tsunade barely had time to process it before Obito froze. His instincts screamed—danger!
He glanced up and saw a massive Wind Release: Rasenshuriken hurtling toward him. Without hesitation, he phased out, vanishing into the Kamui Dimension with Danzo just as the Rasenshuriken passed.
The jutsu missed and struck the Hokage Monument, slicing clean through the stone face of the Third Hokage.
Naruto blinked, raising both hands defensively. "That—uh—it wasn't on purpose! I swear!"
For a long moment, everyone was speechless.
From Danzo's desperate self-destruction to the masked man's sudden intervention, then Naruto's accidental "assist" — it all happened in the blink of an eye.
Even Tsunade, who had been at the center of it all, was left momentarily dumbfounded by the sheer chaos of what had just unfolded.
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