Kotoamatsukami!
The Mangekyou dojutsu of Uchiha Shisui. Officially recognized as the ability to directly invade a target's mind without their awareness and rewrite their will.
The eye canonically described as "transforming anyone the user sees into a puppet," the most powerful genjutsu eye in existence.
Sasuke was not particularly impressed by claims of the so-called most powerful genjutsu, or the idea that it was impossible to defend against.
Plenty of abilities had been called absolute, unbreakable, or unavoidable in the original story, only for someone to come along and break them anyway.
That said, thinking all of that was one thing.
Actually treating Danzo's Kotoamatsukami as harmless just because Sasuke now had the Eternal Mangekyou would simply mean he was being genuinely foolish.
In the original timeline, Itachi had been confident enough to leave a counter to Sasuke's Eternal Mangekyou buried inside Naruto.
That level of confidence meant Itachi had been very sure of what he was doing.
Danzo's Kotoamatsukami and Itachi's Kotoamatsukami might differ in duration, much as fans had theorized: the right eye controlling targets briefly with a short cooldown, the left eye controlling targets permanently with a long cooldown.
But in a situation like this, even a few seconds of losing control would mean Danzo killed him.
So the moment Sasuke saw Danzo's body reflexively begin forming seals, he didn't hesitate for a single instant. He simply took Shisui's eye first and dealt with everything else afterward.
Besides, possessing this one Mangekyou eye meant Sasuke now had, in a sense, an answer to Itachi's Kotoamatsukami as well.
To any observer, Sasuke's strike had looked swift and overwhelming. But in order to protect Shisui's eye, he had deliberately held back much of the violet lightning's power near the end. His only goal had been to take Danzo's right eye. Killing him outright was secondary.
After all, compared to a dojutsu as impossible to guard against as Kotoamatsukami, Izanagi's ability to rewrite reality was a manageable problem.
Otherwise, Danzo wouldn't have had time to form a single seal before Sasuke's lightning tore him apart. But then Shisui's eye would have been destroyed in the same instant.
"Who are you?"
After reforming, Danzo's expression was ugly. When he registered the hollow void where his right eye had been, his face went dark as still water.
Izanagi, the moment it activated, recorded the user's current state with the Sharingan.
Even reacting as fast as he had under the attacker's relentless assault, Danzo had only managed to trigger Izanagi in the instant after his right eye was taken.
If it had been even one second later, that eye would have been returned to his socket regardless of the attacker's success.
Looking at the "Yamanaka Fu" before him, Danzo said in a low, flat voice. "Did Orochimaru send you?"
Danzo knew the figure in front of him was not his subordinate, but someone using a Transformation Technique.
There were others in the world who possessed the Sharingan beyond himself and Orochimaru. But given the circumstances, only Orochimaru would arrange something like this.
"Orochimaru isn't in any position to give me orders, Lord Danzo."
Sasuke looked at Danzo's ugly expression with quiet amusement. "Didn't you say you and the Uchiha clan were the closest of allies? Bound by deep and mutual loyalty?"
As he spoke, Sasuke slowly released the Transformation Technique, letting his true face emerge.
"So then, as a descendant of the Uchiha, I've come personally to send this old friend of theirs down to meet them in the afterlife. Heh heh."
The boy's lips pulled into a wide grin, showing perfectly white teeth. There was nothing warm about the expression at all. It radiated a bone-deep killing intent, as though the very air around him had gone cold.
"You..."
Seeing Sasuke's true face, Danzo felt a deep shock run through him. His eyes narrowed.
"How do you know? You..."
Before he could finish, something clicked in his mind. He let the thought settle, and his expression returned to its blank, emotionless state. A cold sound came from him.
"So. When you encountered the traitor Itachi at the Hidden Waterfall Village, he told you everything."
"I had thought he would bear every accusation alone. Become a hero within Konoha's darkness. I never expected he would tell you everything after all, and make himself a traitor to the village."
At that, Danzo's face had returned fully to its composed, unreadable calm. His voice was entirely even. "I don't know what that traitor told you to bring you this much trouble to assassinate me."
"But I will tell you this. Compared to me, your brother is the one you should truly hate. He was the one who personally killed your parents. He was the one who personally cut down those defenseless Uchiha women and children."
"Konoha did not kill a single Uchiha. We gave them all a proper burial. The real target of your revenge should be Uchiha Itachi, not me, and not Konoha."
Danzo's voice dropped into something low and deliberately compelling.
"Leave now. Everything that happened here today, I am willing to forget entirely."
With his right eye's Kotoamatsukami gone and Sasuke having already demonstrated his abilities, and with the title of Fifth Hokage within reach, Danzo had no desire to fight this young hothead to the death.
The best outcome was to redirect the boy's hatred toward Itachi. Let dogs fight dogs.
Of course, afterward, Danzo would use every method at his disposal to have the boy killed.
"Revenge? Ha ha ha ha ha!"
Sasuke pressed a hand to his forehead and burst into sudden, genuine laughter.
"Ha ha ha, why does everyone assume I want revenge? Ha ha ha ha, it's genuinely hilarious."
"Bonds. Clan. Hatred. None of it means anything to me. I'm not here to kill you out of revenge."
"You're in my way. And you have something I need, Danzo."
As he spoke, the three-tomoe pattern in Sasuke's eyes shifted abruptly into the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan. Strange and beautiful. A suffocating killing intent condensed around him, as though the air itself had frozen.
"Those eyes of yours..."
At first glance, Danzo had taken the boy's Sharingan for a Mangekyou. But the pattern within, two entirely different designs that somehow melded together into something whole, told him this was no ordinary Mangekyou.
It was what the Second Hokage had once mentioned to him in passing, the same as what Uchiha Madara had possessed.
The Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.
"So it was you that night!"
The unshakeable Danzo's composure finally broke. Disbelief flooded his eyes.
On the night the Uchiha clan was wiped out, his subordinates had reported that Uchiha Mikoto's and Uchiha Fugaku's Sharingan had vanished without explanation.
At the time he had assumed Itachi had taken them. Itachi had probably assumed the same thing about him.
Neither of them had imagined that a third party had been present that night alongside all of them.
And that third party had been Uchiha Sasuke. Eight years old.
The three-tomoe Sharingan he had just seen, that would have been Uchiha Mikoto's, formerly a Uchiha jonin.
The other Mangekyou belonged to the clan head, Uchiha Fugaku.
Danzo had not known Fugaku possessed the Mangekyou. But the pattern in the boy's eyes, so unlike any other Mangekyou he had seen, confirmed it.
"Heh heh heh." The shock passed. Danzo did not show anger. He smiled instead, his eyes fixing on Sasuke with open contempt.
"Just as my teacher said. The Uchiha are an evil clan by nature. Desecrating your own parents' bodies while their warmth had not yet left them. Only someone from the Uchiha would do something like that. Heh heh. A truly wicked bloodline."
In response to the contempt, Sasuke gave a slight smile. "Do you know why I've kept talking to you for this long?"
Danzo's eyes narrowed slightly. He said nothing. He was careful not to look directly at the boy's eyes, keeping his gaze just off to the side. The psychological impact of Sasuke's genjutsu was still with him.
And now that he knew those eyes were the Eternal Mangekyou, Danzo was even less willing to be careless.
"Because I was waiting for your Izanagi's duration to run out. Fool."
The moment the words left his mouth, the sinister violet lightning erupted around Sasuke again. He became a bolt of pure electricity hurling toward Danzo.
Beyond Shisui's eye, Danzo still had ten three-tomoe Sharingan embedded along his arm. After the one just used, nine remained.
The instant Danzo had reformed, he had immediately reactivated Izanagi. His Izanagi's effective duration was sixty seconds. For that one minute, Danzo was effectively invincible.
But Izanagi required hand seals. It was not a passive technique but an active one that demanded three seals to form.
How does he know!?
Another shock ran through Danzo. The sixty-second duration was something only he himself knew. Even Orochimaru, who had modified his arm, had no knowledge of this detail.
Don't look at that strange lightning!
Danzo leaped backward, evading Sasuke's attack, and deliberately turned his head away, refusing to look at the sinister violet current crackling around the boy.
That lightning carried a disorienting and slowing effect. It was subtle, but in a fight to the death, even the smallest delay meant death.
At the same time, Danzo's hands moved rapidly through seals, preparing to release another Izanagi.
Whoosh!
The instant Danzo turned his head, a sword wreathed in endless violet-thundering light filled his entire field of vision, seemingly from nowhere. He had only just completed the second seal.
When did...
Danzo's mind lurched. The moment he caught sight of that sinister violet lightning, his focus had slipped for a fraction of a second.
What Danzo had no way of knowing was that while Sasuke had been exchanging words with him, he had quietly used the Kagutsuchi and the Futsu no Mitama Sword to position them in two separate directions, roughly twenty meters behind Danzo, one to the left and one to the right.
Once Sasuke launched his attack, no matter which way Danzo turned, he would face a strike. One would only cost him one life. The other would cost him everything.
Crack!
A tremendous sound of bone snapping and flesh tearing rang out. Blood poured in a torrent.
In the instant Danzo's focus broke, Sasuke tore his right arm away with brutal, direct force.
This is bad!
The violent pain snapped Danzo back. He moved to retaliate, but the sinister violet lightning erupting from Sasuke had already begun spreading from the stump of his arm across his entire body.
The paralysis of the lightning, combined with the slowing effect unique to the violet current's genjutsu properties. This time, Danzo was not merely losing focus.
His mind had stopped functioning entirely.
Crack!
The Futsu no Mitama Sword came streaking in and drove straight through Danzo's chest, leaving nothing behind but a dark, empty void.
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