"Danzo…" A voice spoke from the shadows causing Danzo to frown.
"Who's there!" Danzo asked calmly since he couldn't have been any safer at this moment. He was inside the ROOT base surrounded by the most loyal of his puppets, he'd come here to check on the Wood Release experiments he'd restarted with his authority as the Hokage.
"It's me…" Obito said, stepping out of the darkness with his orange swirling mask on.
Danzo looked at the figure and frowned. He remembered the masked man from the night of the death of the Fourth Hokage. They had plotted that death together after all. Danzo had leaked to the masked man the location of the then Nine Tails Jinchuriki, Naruto's mother, Kushina Uzumaki in exchange for him killing Minato.
It brought back unpleasant memories, memories of a time when he was still forced to hide in the shadows like a rat.
"What do you need?" Danzo asked softly, not wanting to aggravate the masked man since he had a few guesses as to how powerful he really was if he could infiltrate his ROOT base so easily without triggering any traps or alarms.
"Remember our debt?" Obito asked softly, "The one you incurred after hiring me to kill the Fourth Hokage?"
Danzo nodded, "So you've come to collect it?"
"Haha~." Obito just laughed, "Collect? No… I'm here to make it heavier…"
"Heavier…" Danzo gripped the table nearby and curled his fingers around it tightly. But his mood was set right quickly when Obito said, "Want to get rid of the Uchiha?"
Danzo's eyes narrowed and he looked at Obito with a harsh glare.
"Speak."
"You sent Shisui Uchiha to the Daimyo to weaken the Uchiha within the village in case they rebelled."
Danzo said nothing, just grunted as if the matter were beneath him.
Obito nodded and continued, "Then I shall frame Shisui Uchiha for the killing of the Daimyo, it'll be up to you after that to erase the Uchiha after that. If you weaken them even a little bit by getting rid of Fugaku Uchiha, I can finish them off."
Danzo's eyes gleamed in the darkness. He couldn't believe the opportunity that had fallen in his lap. But he quickly controlled himself and asked Obito the burning question, "And the price?"
"I'll keep the Sharingan of all the Uchiha." Obito said with no room for negotiation.
But Danzo refuted almost immediately, "I need half the Sharingan!"
"Huh? Do you think you're going to be doing anything much? I'm handing you everything on a golden platter, what gives you the right to take so much of the loot anyway?"
Danzo narrowed his eyes and explained himself, "I would've gotten rid of Fugaku regardless of if you appeared or not. I have trapped the clans of the village by feeding their children the Jubakuchu… I have left the Uchiha alone so that everyone approaches them to save their own. Once I spot them doing so I'll have Fugaku sacrifice himself to save his family. Without him the clan will rebel and after a bit of blood in which I will use the clans of the village as meat bags against them I shall have even the Uchiha's eyes under my control. So no, I don't need any of your help. Even allowing you to lay a stake to half the claim is too much."
Obito frowned for a moment and then nodded, "I see… in that case I will relent to you half of my share. Deal?"
Danzo was silent for a few seconds before he nodded, "Don't go back on your word. I want the sharingan undamaged and I want at least a hundred three tomoe sharingan."
"Heh…" Obito nodded and stepped back into the shadows before teleporting away, he left only a few last words behind, "Expect good news by tomorrow morning."
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"Watch out!!!" Shisui shouted out loud, his body nearly teleporting towards the Daimyo as he pushed him out of harm's way.
The Daimyo went flying towards the door, smashing it open as he grunted in pain, coughing up blood as he crashed into the floor.
"Wh-" The Daimyo was about to shout at Shisui but froze when he saw a masked man stabbing the exact spot where his head had been just moments earlier.
His rebuke died in his throat as his eyes widened in surprise.
"Ho! You reacted to that… truly your speed begets the name Shisui of the body flicker." Obito muttered in the resulting silence of his actions as he looked at Shisui who was standing right before him.
Shisui's blade was drawn and had been swung through Obito's frame to behead him and slice him in two. In the seconds Shisui had seen Obito appear he'd already protected the Daimyo by tossing him into the safest location in the room, which was out of it, and attacked Obito.
Only it seemed like the blade had passed right through Obito and emerged out the other end leaving him unscathed.
"And who might you be?" Shisui asked Obito regardless of his previous knowledge about him. After all, in a shinobi fight fairness was never a given, if Shisui could save the Uchiha using an underhanded method and take Obito by surprise, then Shusui didn't have any qualms with the method.
Obito just laughed softly before speaking, "Me? I'm a Ghost!!"
"Ghost!? You don't mean!?" Shisui asked, appropriately shocked and surprised.
"Yes!! It seems you are a true Uchiha. One mention of the Ghost and you've connected the dots! Yes! I'm the Ghost of the Uchiha!! Madara Uchiha!!"
The Daimyo's heart raced hearing that name, his palms turned sweaty and his brows shook terribly.
Shisui showed the appropriate fear on his face before posing his question, "But Madara was supposed to have died… in the valley of the end!?"
"Tsk Tsk Tsk. I am still alive! And well!! My hatred of the Uchiha fuels me to stay alive until I exact my revenge!!"
Shisui's eyes widened in surprise as he mumbled the words, "Revenge…"
"But why are you doing this!? Why are you dragging the name of the Uchiha into the grave!! I will not let you do this!! I will save the Uchiha!" Shisui shouted righteously as he charged right at Obito.
Shisui started off with an overhead slash.
Obito blocked the attack and thrust his kunai forwards to stab Shisui's chest.
Shisui not one to fall so easily, parried Obito's kunai strike and used the momentum to unleash a horizontal slash!
Only, this horizontal slash was not as simple as it seemed, as the sword inched towards Obito's neck the blade caught on fire!
"Uchiha Style! Dance of the Sun Halo!" Shisui shouted out the name of the move inside his mind, a sword style born by coating the blade of his tanto in his fire nature chakra to give it a searing quality and burn away the enemy touched by it into ashes.
Obito's three tomoe sharingan spun quickly as a black ring formed connecting the tomoe, he noticed the embers of fire dancing around Shisui's sword and realised what was about to happen.
'My aim is the Daimyo!' Obito reminded himself and wasted not a second longer.
Obito activated his mangekyou sharingan's ability!
'Kamui!'
In an instant, Shisui's sword sliced through Obito's neck!
But that was only an after image! Obito's real body had already teleported behind the Damiyo!
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