"Sasuke…"
Hiruzen Sarutobi still wanted to sit down and talk. Stabilize him first—there would be plenty of chances later to pull Sasuke back into the political arena he was so familiar with… and then quietly eliminate him!
Jiraiya shook his head at Hiruzen. "Don't waste your breath. He can't hear a thing."
If Sasuke were capable of communication, Jiraiya would've already sat him down and talked his ear off with reason.
"Old man, face reality. I don't know all the grudges between the Uchiha and the village, but it's clear Sasuke won't stop easily. What we should be doing now isn't trying to defeat him—it's saving people. Have you even looked at what's become of the village?"
Half of Konoha was already buried beneath sand. The other half had been leveled by Tailed Beast Bombs. Jiraiya glanced around— even the shelters and bunkers had been obliterated. Civilians were dying in droves. Konoha couldn't afford this kind of loss.
Hiruzen sighed deeply. Jiraiya had a point. But as Hokage, all he could do now was fight to the bitter end. Seeing that Sasuke truly couldn't hear them, he extended Enma—his staff transformed from the Monkey King—and swung it in a wide arc toward Sasuke.
Sasuke didn't dodge.
Thick mist surged from his body, forming a long blade that clashed directly with the Adamantine Staff.
A pained roar echoed out.
Enma, transformed into the staff, couldn't withstand the corrosive mist. In an instant, it reverted to its original form.
Unshaken, Sasuke began forming another Tailed Beast Bomb. At the same time, Konoha's remaining shinobi, spurred into action by Hiruzen's attack, began charging at him en masse.
Mist and sand spread together, and the Konoha shinobi found themselves at a dead end. Amid this chaos, Sasuke completely ignored the surrounding foot soldiers. All his attacks were aimed squarely at Danzo.
To Danzo, watching Sasuke close in, it felt as though the god of death had come to reap his soul.
Not even a dozen Sharingan could withstand that level of firepower.
Danzo, to his credit, didn't beg or plead. He probably understood all too well that no matter what he did, Sasuke would never spare him.
Sasuke advanced slowly but steadily, each step like a tolling bell heralding Danzo's demise.
He raised a hand. A chain of mist shot out and wrapped around Danzo, who'd tried to flee. The arm studded with Sharingan instantly decayed into pus. Danzo dropped to his knees and coughed up a massive mouthful of blood.
"How… how did it come to this…?" Danzo looked up at Sasuke, who loomed high above him, disbelief and denial filling his gaze.
In his vision, he was supposed to return to the Konoha leadership as a hero who ended the chaos. After Hiruzen stepped down, he would become the Fifth Hokage. He would strengthen Konoha's military, unify the shinobi world, and bring peace just like the Sage of Six Paths.
Shimura Danzo was meant to become a legend.
So why…
"I'm a hero! I'm the Hokage!" Danzo howled, his voice teetering on madness.
He struggled to tear open his robes, revealing the dark seal etched into his chest—the Reverse Four Symbols Seal!
"Come die with me!" Blood exploded from Danzo's body, weaving into lines that enveloped everything within a hundred meters—Sasuke and Shukaku included.
Sasuke didn't retreat. He simply stood there, staring coldly at Danzo's last desperate gambit.
"That look… Are you looking down on me!?" Danzo spat up black blood. The Reverse Four Symbols Seal was a self-sacrificial jutsu meant to take everything around it down with the user. It was Danzo's final trump card. He wanted to see terror, rage, disbelief on Sasuke's face.
But instead...
Sasuke looked like he was watching a clown's last pathetic performance.
"Ahhh! Damn Uchiha!" Danzo shrieked, hoarse with fury. "You're just a filthy rat that survived because I was merciful! What right do you have to look at me like that!?"
...
"I can't hear what Danzo's yelling," Sasuke muttered flatly, unmoved. "But I'm pretty sure it's nothing worth listening to."
The seal covered him completely, yet he stood firm. Even in that final moment, his eyes held the same detached, animal-like contempt.
"The Reverse Four Symbols Seal? That's your ace? To die together with me? You really don't live up to the name 'Konoha's Darkness.'"
Boom!
The seal collapsed silently as the corrosive mist consumed it from within.
"In your final moments," Sasuke said, finally allowing his hearing to return, "I'll be merciful and grant you one truth."
He looked Danzo dead in the eyes and declared:
"You, Shimura Danzo, will never become Hokage. Not in this life. Not in the next."
The next instant, a mass of squirming mist surged forward and devoured Danzo's dying body.
Hiruzen gave everything he had to try to save Danzo, but it was far too late.
"From this day forward," Sasuke's voice thundered across the battlefield, "Konoha… will cease to exist!"
His voice echoed like a divine judgment.
Danzo's body was torn apart, as was the beast beneath him and the earth itself. The darkness that had entrenched itself in Konoha for decades was finally shattered.
Hiruzen roared in grief and fury at the sight, but he couldn't even stand. All he could do was lie on the ground and tremble in impotent rage.
But the real nightmare… was only beginning.
Sasuke's plan to destroy Konoha wasn't just about physical destruction. He meant to erase the village—conceptually.
From somewhere unknown, the Daimyō of the Land of Fire appeared, wearing ceremonial hunting robes. He floated into the air and stood beside Sasuke, then took out an imperial decree.
"As the supreme leader of the Land of Fire," he proclaimed, "I hereby abolish the shinobi village system effective immediately."
Silence. Utter, choking silence.
The Daimyō ignored the stunned faces and continued reading out Konoha's crimes—treason, deception, overreach, arrogance, cruelty, crimes against humanity and society… one hundred charges in total.
And judging by the content, most of the accusations were legitimate. When Konoha was a legal military institution, its actions were justified. But once that legitimacy was revoked… they were crimes.
Then, the Daimyō announced that Uchiha Sasuke, hero of the battle to purge Konoha's rebellious elements, would be awarded the title of Shogun, granted full control of the military, and allowed to pass this title to his descendants.
"The Daimyō must be under a genjutsu!" Hiruzen cried out, unable to accept what he was hearing. The remaining Konoha shinobi thought the same—desperate for some rational explanation.
"Sarutobi Hiruzen. Jiraiya. Are you two trying to rebel?" the Daimyō asked coldly. "Drop your weapons. Submit to the authority of the nation. That is your only path forward. Otherwise…"
He released a burst of crushing pressure—no less overwhelming than a Tailed Beast.
He didn't need to prove he wasn't under genjutsu.
He only needed to show his fist.
Hiruzen felt his entire body go numb.
So, while Konoha was busy tearing itself apart with infighting, the Daimyō had already amassed power this terrifying?
It was beyond belief.
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