Chapter 114: Awesome Fight! The Pursuit Force is Annihilated
[Danzō asks you where your Chakra Enhanced Strength came from and what your relationship is with Tsunade. You respond with a smile that you can answer his questions, but he must answer yours. Danzō agrees. He is very interested in you; you have exceeded his expectations time and time again.]
[You tell him that you are a survivor of the Senju clan, and that you are the man who will soon marry Tsunade and revive the clan. Danzō scoffs at your answer. He doesn't believe you have any real relationship with Tsunade; he knows her current situation very well.]
[You, in turn, ask him why he has targeted you again and again. If it were a matter of clan honor, it shouldn't have reached the point of wanting him dead. If it was because you sided with Sarutobi Hiruzen, then Danzō should have had no reason to come after you once Hiruzen himself became suspicious of you.]
[Danzō's answer is very much in his style: he felt you were suspicious, so he had to capture you and take you back to Root to find out everything. If you had no secrets, he would naturally release you afterward. But if you couldn't withstand the investigation, then as the Root that protects Konoha, he naturally had to kill you.]
Makoto shook his head slightly at this answer. He felt Danzō had only told him half the story. The real reason was probably a combination of things: first, he had damaged the Shimura clan's reputation; then, he had sided with Hiruzen; and finally, his rapid rise had aroused Danzō's suspicion. And now, he was probably just itching to dissect him and find out everything. Things were always changing, and Danzō's attitude towards him was also changing. That was only natural.
The only constant was that he, who had a great secret, and Danzō were naturally incapable of coexisting peacefully. Their conflict was unavoidable. Either he left Konoha, or Danzō killed him. The possibility of them coexisting peacefully was about as likely as Orochimaru surrendering on his knees to the Third Hokage during the Chūnin Exams with his reanimated First and Second Hokage.
Since that was the case, what more was there to say? Let's fight!
[You unleash your Chakra Enhanced Strength and attack Danzō. He seems old and slow, unable to react, and is sent flying. The Root ninja, however, do not panic, as if they have great confidence in his strength. You want to press forward to finish the job, but you find you can no longer move.]
[Danzō gets up slowly. The moment you hit him, he placed the Self-Cursing Seal on you. This is one of the best ways to deal with fast taijutsu users. Many have already died to this move.]
[He wipes the blood from the corner of his mouth, takes out a kunai, blows his chakra onto the blade, and activates Wind Style: Vacuum Blade. He walks towards you step by step, spouting trash talk, expressing his disappointment in you.]
[Anko, barely able to stand, wants to save you, but is captured by Root ninja. At this moment, she hates her own powerlessness. If only she had trained more diligently.]
[Just as the Vacuum Blade is about to decapitate you, the curse mark on your body breaks apart. Having released your Yin Seal, your strength explodes by more than ten times. You once again send Danzō flying with a single punch, smashing him into the Root ninja surrounding Anko.]
[You use a Body Flicker to appear at Anko's side and help her up. At the same time, you return Danzō's trash talk, telling him you just wanted to test the strength of his curse mark, and it seems it was nothing special.]
The real Makoto nodded to himself. That jutsu was indeed a minor problem. But if Sasuke's Susanoo could break free from it, there was no reason his own released Yin Seal couldn't.
Now the real fight would begin. Could his Yin Seal stand up to Danzō's Izanagi?
[Under Danzō's orders, the Root ninja launch a long-range assault on you. Unflustered, you unseal your scrolls, taking out hundreds upon hundreds of Fragmentation Kunai. You and Anko throw them, and the two of you quickly gain the upper hand.]
[The kunai only need a spark of chakra to detonate, while the Root ninja still have to perform hand seals. Although the kunai can barely harm them, they force them to consume their chakra rapidly.]
[Danzō is forced to act again. Wind Style: Great Vacuum Sphere, like a rocket, blasts towards you and Anko. He wants to use this move to stop your endless supply of Fragmentation Kunai. But you do not dodge, and even begin to excitedly perform your own jutsu.]
The real Makoto's eyes also lit up. He rarely had a chance to use elemental jutsu, leaving him feeling like he had all this knowledge with no outlet. Now, this seemed to be the perfect opportunity to vent.
[You rapidly form hand seals, casting Earth Style: Earth Flow Wall, pulling up a ten-meter-long, massive rock slab to block Danzō's Wind Style. Simultaneously facing the Root ninja attacking from all directions, you form different hand seals with both hands, casting Fire Style: Fire Dragon Bullet and Earth Style: Earth Dragon Bullet from your left and right respectively.]
[With the enhancement of the Yin Seal, two giant dragons with heads five meters in diameter spew cannonballs one meter wide, each smashing toward the Root ninja like a semi-truck. Even if the Root ninja successfully dodge, the exploding projectiles still inflict considerable damage.]
[Your attack is not over. You tell Anko to throw all her remaining kunai. At the same time, you use the Shuriken Shadow Clone technique. Countless Fragmentation Kunai fall like rain and then explode one after another. The shadow clones naturally don't have the real explosive power, but they are enough to confuse the judgment of the Root ninja.]
[Simultaneously, you unleash Water Style: Water Severing Wave. You spit a long-range, ultra-high-pressure straight line of water from your mouth, which forms a sharp water blade. It passes through your own earth wall and instantly cuts seven or eight Root ninja in half.]
[By the time you finish your jutsu bombardment and take a breath, more than half of the Root members are dead or injured. Even half of Danzō's own body is blackened from the explosions. But you do not let your guard down, because you know this is just him feigning weakness.]
The real Makoto took a deep breath. He had really enjoyed that. If he had possessed Lightning and Wind chakra natures, he would have hit Danzō with a Five-Element Grand Combo and then told him he was Hiruzen's disciple, and that this whole thing was a setup just to kill him. He'd like to see if Danzō would break down from that. Unfortunately, the era of five-element jutsu was almost over. After the Chūnin Exams, he would have to pursue higher-level techniques.
[Anko is shocked by your strength, but she has lost the will to fight and wants to pull you away. You want to continue testing Danzō's strength and naturally refuse. At this moment, you sense Konoha's pursuit team arriving.]
[Kurenai Yūhi and Sarutobi Asuma arrive with ten Konoha Anbu. They are shocked by the carnage at the scene and by the change in you after you released your Yin Seal. Seeing this, a plan forms in your mind. You tell Asuma that you are Tsunade's disciple and are on a mission to capture the main culprit of the Uchiha massacre, Shimura Danzō.]
[At this time, Danzō has already exposed his grafted arm and the Sharingan on it. It wasn't that he didn't want to hide it, but the pressure you put on him was too great, and he didn't dare to.]
[Asuma doesn't respond immediately, but the frown on his face shows that he is indeed suspicious of Danzō.]
Makoto was also guessing what Asuma would do. Although their relationship was unlikely to be good because of Kurenai, he still respected him. Not just because he would sacrifice himself for his students, but because he was a good man in the truest sense. In his youth, he couldn't stand the filth of Hiruzen and Danzō and had left home to join the Guardian Shinobi Twelve. Although he later had to bow to reality and reconcile with his father, he had never participated in the dark side of Konoha.
I hope this time, Asuma, you don't disappoint me.
[Danzō realizes the situation is bad and immediately gives an order, using his status as a Konoha Advisor to command Kurenai and Asuma to attack you. As for your Yin Seal, Danzō claims you are an Uzumaki survivor, here to take revenge on Konoha.]
[Soon, Kurenai's and Asuma's suspicions shift to you. After all, it seems you have no other evidence. You consider whether to reveal the Flying Thunder God Technique, and whether they would even trust you after you did. But at that moment, Kurenai speaks, demanding that you return to Konoha and confront Hiruzen.]
[Asuma also agrees with her, believing that the problem can only be resolved by getting to the bottom of it. He demands that you return, promising to guarantee your safety until everything is cleared up. However, just at that moment, a poison mist flies silently towards them.]
[It turns out that Torune, under Danzō's orders, has unleashed his secret technique, the Poison Dust Jutsu, on everyone present, including Danzō himself, spreading nano-insects that kill anyone who breathes them in.]
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