Sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing.
All five senses, completely controlled.
A power like this!!
It was simply monstrous!
Danzo couldn't believe what he was hearing, but the reality unfolding before him forced him to accept it. Even with his Sharingan, he was still being toyed with.
If I could wield such an ability for myself…
The position of Hokage would surely be within his grasp.
Greed flashed in Danzo's eyes.
It had come to this. He had no choice but to use the power of that eye!
Kotoamatsukami, the ultimate genjutsu of Shisui's eye. It could subtly alter a target's will without them ever noticing. However, the jutsu had an incredibly long cooldown period, often requiring more than a decade to use again. That was why Danzo had never used it.
But now was the perfect time!
Before he used it, however, he had to ensure Naruto's real body was in front of him.
Danzo's mind raced, searching for a strategy as he taunted him with words.
"Is hiding behind Kyoka Suigetsu all you can do?"
"Hiding?" Naruto laughed with disdain. "Remember, you are the one who is about to die."
"Hado Number 78: Zangerin."
Moving with a speed Danzo couldn't possibly follow, Naruto appeared behind him.
Several blinding flashes of light erupted from his blade, slicing Danzo in half.
"It's useless! In the face of my Izanagi, your attacks are meaningless!!" Danzo cackled madly as his body reformed. Another Sharingan on his arm closed its eye forever.
"The death throes of the weak are truly grating. I've grown tired of this." Using Shunpo, Naruto dodged Danzo's wind-style attack, bringing Kyoka Suigetsu down from above.
"It's no use. You're strong, but I have the Sharingan—Ghk!" To Danzo's astonishment, his right arm was cleanly severed.
Izanagi hadn't activated at all.
"Impossible! My jutsu? My Sharingan!" Danzo clutched at the stump of his arm, the pain excruciating. Disbelief and terror intertwined in his heart, reaching their peak. The old man practically collapsed, screaming hysterically. All the dignity of Root's leader was gone, replaced by the desperate thrashing of a dying man.
"That's not your Sharingan. It belongs to the Uchiha," Naruto said, pointing at Danzo's severed arm with a mocking tone. "See? This is the consequence of stealing a Kekkei Genkai. They are rejecting you."
"When you forcibly merge powers from different sources into your body, the only outcome is to be devoured by them."
To Danzo's horror, the Sharingan on his arm began to squirm. Countless tiny hands sprouted from the eyes, reaching for his face. In his mind's eye, he saw the ghosts of the Uchiha he had wronged. Shisui, who had loved Konoha so deeply. Kagami, who had been like a brother to him…
"Stay away from me!" Danzo broke down completely, collapsing to the ground.
The small hands sprouting from the Sharingan grew mouths. They swarmed over Danzo's face, gnawing at him.
"Aaaahhhh!" Danzo shrieked in agony.
Soon, the only sounds in the space were the quiet chewing and Danzo's occasional muffled groans. His tongue was eaten away, and he lost the ability to speak. His body trembled weakly, drained to its absolute limit. His pupils were wide with terror, the feeling of his face being devoured driving him to despair.
He stared at Naruto, his eyes seeming to plead for release.
But soon, his eyes, too, were completely consumed.
When silence finally fell, Danzo was no longer breathing.
His face was perfectly intact, and the Sharingan on his arm were unchanged. But his expression was one of pure, unadulterated terror.
Kyoka Suigetsu had not only controlled his five senses, but it had also taken control of the Sharingan themselves. Paired with the genjutsu, it had forced Danzo to witness his deepest fear: the backlash of the Sharingan.
Until the very end, the eye he had reserved for Izanagi remained unresponsive.
Because even the Mangekyo Sharingan had been played for a fool.
For Danzo, a death like this was the most fitting end.
"Farewell, Lord Danzo."
"And now, the Konoha Crush Plan 2.0 officially begins."
A strange smile spread across Naruto's face.
"Bakudo Number 77: Tenteikura." A surge of Reiatsu, far exceeding that of a captain, erupted from Naruto's body, weaving a series of intricate patterns in the air. Soon, a massive net formed of pure Reiatsu materialized in the sky above.
At the same time, Shion and the others received the message Naruto had sent.
"The plan has begun!!!"
"Nine-Tails, the freedom you've wanted is here." Naruto pulled a potion from his robes, formed a hand seal, and directly released the seal.
"Hahaha! I'm finally going to be free! Konoha, you will suffer my wrath!" Inside the seal space, the Nine-Tails laughed maniacally. The entire space began to crumble and disintegrate.
The Nine-Tails' figure stood up, swelling in size. An immense amount of red chakra poured out of its body.
Naruto watched all of this quietly, a confident smile playing on his lips.
Suddenly, a red-haired figure appeared, pressing down on the hand Naruto was using to undo the seal.
"Naruto."
The newcomer was none other than Naruto's mother, Uzumaki Kushina!
Uzumaki Kushina, the previous Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails, possessed an enormous amount of chakra and was a master of sealing jutsu. She had left a failsafe within Naruto's seal. If it was ever on the verge of being released, she would appear.
"Naruto, you've grown up. You look just like your father," Kushina said in a low voice, looking at Naruto with eyes full of love.
For Kushina, her consciousness was still frozen on the night of the Nine-Tails' attack. In the blink of an eye, Naruto was already a young man. He had the same beautiful blond hair as Minato, his eyebrows were like hers, and he even carried himself in the same way.
So handsome!
And he had the same gentle, kind smile as Minato.
Kushina's heart filled with joy and longing. But she didn't dare to indulge in the feeling. There were more urgent matters at hand.
She turned to face the laughing Nine-Tails, her expression turning cold. "Nine-Tails, did you manipulate Naruto into releasing the seal?!"
The Nine-Tails crossed its arms, watching the scene with an amused expression, like a spectator enjoying a good show.
"Excuse me, but could you move? You're in the way." To Kushina's disbelief, Naruto's smile vanished, replaced by a bone-chilling coldness.
"Yeeesss~ could you please move? You're bothering us~~" the Nine-Tails mimicked in a high-pitched, sarcastic voice.
"You…" Kushina's mind went blank. She didn't know what to say.
Naruto knew the Nine-Tails' rampage had already attracted the attention of Konoha's shinobi. He had no time to waste on a so-called family reunion.
"Let go!" The Reiatsu in his body surged again, easily knocking Kushina's hand away.
"Why?"
Seeing the confusion in Kushina's eyes, Naruto chuckled softly. "Mother, Konoha has changed. And I… am not the Uzumaki Naruto you hoped for!"
Swish. The seal was completely undone. Kushina's figure gradually blurred and faded away.
Naruto watched this with a blank expression, his heart completely unmoved.
BOOM!!!
An immense pillar of red chakra shot into the sky.
Just like that night of terror all those years ago.
Every shinobi in Konoha looked up, their eyes filled with an undeniable fear and despair.
In the Hokage's Office, Tsunade and Jiraiya's expressions changed drastically.
In the Sarutobi clan compound, Hiruzen looked up, his aged face etched with horror.
The Nine-Tails… was unsealed!
Konoha was about to face an unprecedented crisis!
Near the Root headquarters, Aburame Neri looked up at the swirling red chakra above, a brilliant smile on her face.
"The Konoha Crush Plan has begun. This time, there will be plenty of material worth studying."
A steady stream of her insects emerged from the collapsing base, carrying out fragments of corpses. These were Neri's favorite research materials.
Of course, what she wanted most of all was Naruto's body~
Inside the Root base.
Naruto sealed Danzo's body into a scroll.
"Hahaha, I'm out!! This time, I'm going to have some fun!" the Nine-Tails roared, its giant form quickly smashing through the laboratory and continuing to expand.
The entire Root base was collapsing.
Falling rubble crushed the shinobi still under Kyoka Suigetsu's control, and blood quickly soaked the ground.
"Stop playing around. Drink the potion first," Naruto said, tossing the vial to the Nine-Tails.
The fox caught it and poured it directly into its mouth.
BOOM! The next moment, a violent wave of Reiatsu erupted from its body. Its already terrifying chakra began to rapidly convert into Reiatsu. If its chakra before was as vast as a mountain, it was now being compressed to a terrifying degree, finally condensing into a body of pure Reiatsu.
Its form shrank down to less than 1.6 meters tall.
It had transformed into a small boy with red hair and red clothes, his eyes looking adorably fierce. He held a red Zanpakuto and glared at Naruto.
"Hey, brat, why do I look like this?" the Nine-Tails' voice was now high-pitched and childlike.
The amusing sight of the Nine-Tails made Naruto want to laugh, but he kept a straight face. "Looks are secondary. Let's stick to the plan."
"Fine," the Nine-Tails sighed. With a powerful push of its legs, it leaped out of the Root base.
CRASH! The base suffered a second collapse, and Naruto's figure vanished along with it.