"Four-Limb Binding Seal!"
Even before the raging wind fully dissipated, a sharp shout rang out.
It was a sealing technique—one capable of suppressing an opponent's limbs and chakra flow.
Fū and Torune struck from both sides, their palms pressing against Yuan's shoulders.
Chains of black sealing script crawled out from their arms, racing across Yuan's body like writhing serpents.
But just as the seal was about to complete, the characters covering Yuan suddenly… stopped.
The frontmost runes flickered—
then ignited, glowing like burning fuse-lines.
In the next heartbeat—
Ssshhh—BOOM!
The entire seal unraveled in a cascade of collapsing chains.
Yuan flexed both arms and released a violent shockwave of raw physical force.
Fū and Torune were blasted away, vomiting blood as they tumbled across the ground.
"What—!"
Danzō's eye narrowed sharply.
This man… he was no ordinary Cloud shinobi.
Was it time to use that?
For someone to forcibly interrupt a sealing technique… it was unheard of.
Even tailed beasts could be trapped if careless—yet this youth broke through it by brute force.
Yuan glared at Danzō, killing intent boiling.
"Old dog—your turn!"
In truth, chills still lingered in his chest.
For a moment, the seal's suppression had genuinely disrupted his chakra flow—one more second and he might've been immobilized completely.
A razor-like gust tore forward as Yuan flickered out of sight—
—and appeared before Danzō, a lightning-wreathed hand chopping down.
Lightning Murder Slash!
(雷虐水平)
Even without the Sharingan activated, Yuan's spiritual prowess granted his eyes an uncanny clarity—
sharp enough to rival a fully matured three-tomoe Sharingan.
Combined with his battles against the Third Raikage and Killer B, he had grasped multiple Cloud-style combat techniques.
Trees behind Danzō sheared apart—
their trunks sliding cleanly before collapsing with thunderous crashes.
Danzō himself was hurled dozens of meters, carving a deep gouge through the earth as he skidded.
Yuan watched him fall limp.
"He's dead. No doubt."
He'd clearly seen Danzō's chest split open, his internal organs exposed.
There was no surviving that.
Then Yuan's brows knitted.
So this is Izanagi—the Forbidden Jutsu that rewrites reality itself.
So Danzō has mastered it.
Before his eyes, Danzō's corpse blurred—
and vanished.
A heartbeat later, Yuan flickered away just as a blade lunged through where he'd stood.
Danzō stood there, mid-stab.
What incredible reaction speed!
Danzō was shaken—he hadn't expected Yuan to evade Izanagi's resurrection strike.
His killing intent spiked.
"This makes you even more dangerous. You must die."
Yuan touched his back; blood stained his fingers.
He had dodged—but Izanagi's instantaneous revival left his spiritual senses just one beat behind.
A shallow cut still formed across his back.
Feigning shock, Yuan narrowed his eyes.
"That technique… I clearly killed you. What was that?"
Seeing Yuan's "fear," Danzō smirked with arrogant satisfaction.
"Ignorant Cloud rat.
Konoha's forbidden techniques are far beyond what your crude village can fathom."
Internally, Yuan sneered.
Old dog—you're using a forbidden jutsu from my Uchiha clan.
What he truly wanted now was to know—
How many Sharingan were hidden under Danzō's bandages?
Fū and Torune reappeared before Danzō, kneeling despite their trembling bodies.
"D-Danzō-sama… forgive our failure."
Their injuries were severe—Yuan's earlier shockwave had rattled their organs and crushed muscle.
Danzō unwound the bandages covering his right eye.
"You are not at fault.
Go—stall him."
"Yes!"
They blurred forward, forming a two-pronged assault.
Earth Release: Rupturing Palm!
Fire Release: Great Fire Stream!
Their jutsu swallowed Yuan in a burst of smoke and flame.
When the haze cleared, Yuan stood wreathed in lightning, unharmed.
He smirked at Danzō.
"Is that it? Against my Lightning Chakra Mode, this feels like being scratched by kittens."
Danzō's lone exposed eye gleamed blood-red.
Yuan's eyes widened in genuine surprise this time.
"A Sharingan—
A three-tomoe… and with incredibly potent ocular power."
This wasn't an ordinary eye.
Its chakra depth, its killing intent—this was the eye of a powerful Uchiha.
One whose eye had been polished for years.
Three-tomoe eyes were not to be underestimated.
The Mangekyō was rare—legendary even within the Uchiha.
But the three-tomoe Sharingan was the pinnacle of a normal awakening, each stage representing a massive leap in power.
A fully-trained three-tomoe could even exert control over tailed beasts.
Where did Danzō get this eye…?
Danzō's hands blurred through seals.
Wind howled as a gale spun toward his fingertips, forming a whirling wind blade.
As expected of Tobirama's student—his Wind Release mastery was frightening.
Yuan narrowed his gaze slightly.
A flicker of movement.
He thrust out his right hand, lightning dancing around his palm—
CLANG!
He caught a blade aimed at his neck.
Torune had struck from above.
With a twist of his wrist, Yuan shattered the blade into fragments, sending Torune crashing back again.
But Fū's follow-up arrived immediately—
Earth Release: Rock Spike Impale!
Four stone lances shot up from the ground around Yuan, piercing into him from four directions—
—or rather, attempting to.
They failed to pierce even his skin.
But they did restrain him momentarily.
Danzō's killing intent surged.
Strong. Too strong. This Cloud shinobi must die!
Danzō slashed forward—
the compressed wind blade screaming through the air toward Yuan.
Yuan tensed, lightning bursting outward—
BOOM!!
The stone spikes shattered explosively.
He caught the spinning wind blade in his bare hand—
and crushed it like brittle glass.
At that moment, Danzō flashed forward, astonishingly fast.
Before Yuan's eyes, the three-tomoe Sharingan spun violently.
And then—
Black flames ignited across Yuan's torso.
Amaterasu.
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