Naruto: I, who fooled the ninja world, was hailed as a savior.

Chapter 378 This Third Hokage is probably completely finished.
No! wrong!

After a moment of shock, a question suddenly popped into Hiruzen Sarutobi's mind.

Danzo had already used the "Caged Bird Seal" to control Hyuga Kumokawa, hadn't he?

Otherwise, given his personality, how could he have gone to such lengths to help Hyuga Kumokawa become Hokage?

What does this matter now? Why is Hyuga Kumokawa able to ignore the "Caged Bird Seal" and kill Danzo without any scruples?
How did Danzo end up looking like this, neither human nor ghost? Was it simply because the experiment went out of control?
Just as his mind was in complete chaos, trying to untangle this tangled mess.

"Advisor Hiruzen!" Hyuga Kumokawa's icy voice rang out, interrupting his thoughts, "Why aren't you moving aside?"

“During your reign, Shimura Danzo and his subordinates repeatedly rebelled, assassinated and eliminated dissidents. Every single one of these acts was supported by irrefutable evidence, but you always chose to condone them!”

"By now……"

Hyuga Kumokawa's gaze was sharp, as if it could pierce through Sarutobi Hiruzen's heart: "Do you still intend to protect this guy who trampled on the lives of his comrades for your own selfish reasons?"

“If that’s the case, I absolutely disagree!” he said, emphasizing each word. “I will never let anyone who attempts to threaten my comrade’s life get away with it!”

Upon hearing Hyuga Kumokawa's question, Sarutobi Hiruzen's breath hitched, but he still forced himself to remain calm and composed: "Fifth Hokage! There must be more to this than meets the eye!"

"Even if Danzo has committed countless crimes, he should at least be sealed away first, interrogated, and the truth should be uncovered. He shouldn't be killed on the spot..."

However, before he could finish speaking, Hinata Kumokawa seemed to sense something, his eyes suddenly narrowed, and his aura exploded.

"Final warning," he suddenly raised his voice, "Get out of the way immediately!"

hum! !

A massive surge of chakra erupted from his body, instantly covering his entire body in a shimmering, deep blue chakra cloak!
Two black chakra beads appeared behind him, indicating that he had entered the [Tenseigan Chakra Mode]!
This power brings not only a sacred aura but also a suffocating sense of oppression!
However, Hyuga Kumokawa's sudden and extreme actions only fueled Hiruzen Sarutobi's growing doubts.

Even the onlookers could see Hyuga Kumokawa's urgency.

What happened? Could it be...?

"Wait! Yunchuan!" Hiruzen Sarutobi shouted under the pressure, "Why are you so determined to kill Danzo immediately? Is there something between you and him...?"

But this time, Hinata Kumokawa didn't give him any more chances.

"Stubborn!"

Hinata Kumokawa's blade slashed horizontally, sweeping out an arc comparable to a crescent moon, which bloomed into a crescent moon under the bright moonlight.

A highly refined wind blade, as thin as a cicada's wing, shot out, tearing through the air with a piercing shriek, and slashed horizontally towards Shimura Danzo below!

Its momentum was so fierce and its range so wide that it completely disregarded Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was blocking its way!
"This guy really is trying to silence me!" Hiruzen Sarutobi's expression changed as he felt the undisguised, chilling killing intent emanating from him.

He gritted his teeth, disregarding everything else, and used the Instantaneous Movement Technique, his figure blurring instantly and disappearing from the spot.

呲!
The wind blade grazed past the afterimage left by Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Wherever it went, the menacing black forest was cleanly cut horizontally, and the upper parts of the trees slowly slid down along the smooth cut surface!
Danzo's deformed body, which had merged with the tree, was easily cut in half at the waist!

However, the next moment, everyone who witnessed this scene, including Hiruzen Sarutobi who had just regained his footing in the distance, suddenly became extremely astonished.

There was no blood splattering from the cut of Danzo, which had been cut in half, nor were any internal organs scattered. Instead, the cut surface revealed the wood grain.

The upper and lower body sections quickly lost their vitality, turning into two lifeless wooden figures.

Is this... Wood Release: Wood Clone Technique?!
In the final battle at the Valley of the End, Hashirama Senju used this ninjutsu to deceive Madara Uchiha, who possessed the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, and delivered the final blow.

Even Madara Uchiha couldn't see through the clone technique, so who among the Konoha people present could possibly decipher it?
In that instant, everyone suddenly realized why Hyuga Kumokawa had acted so hastily earlier; he must have sensed something unusual about Danzo.

But it was...

Everyone instinctively looked at Hiruzen Sarutobi, their eyes and expressions gradually changing.

"Hmph! Want to escape?"

Hinata Kumokawa's eyes flickered slightly at first, then his face turned gloomy, he snorted coldly, and his eyes shone with a dazzling light.

In an instant, an invisible yet powerful sense swept across the entire area, centered on him!
Every ninja below clearly felt a terrifying sense of being watched, as if they were seen through from the inside out, with all their secrets exposed.

This gaze pierced through layers of ruins, through twisted trees, and through the earth.

Hinata Kumokawa suddenly turned his head, his gaze fixed on a certain direction.

In his vision, a deeply hidden chakra was frantically fleeing like a stray dog.

This ability is somewhat similar to White Zetsu's "Mayfly Technique," which merges the body with the earth and vegetation, allowing for high-speed movement using the roots of underground plants, completely severing one's breath.

"Got you."

Hinata Kumokawa held nothing back, suddenly raising his right hand. The two floating chakra beads behind him transformed into two streams of light and flew into his loosely clenched hand!

hum! !

A dazzling golden light gathered in his palm, and a golden lightsaber exuding a sacred aura quickly took shape in his hand.

It's a weakened version of the [Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion].

The next moment, Hinata Kumokawa swung his arm down, and the golden lightsaber tore through the sky, slashing straight down at the locked target.

Wherever the lightsaber passed, the dense trees that blocked perception, and even the lingering smoke and dust, were completely annihilated the moment they came into contact with the golden light.

As the golden light descended, everyone saw a deformed figure, missing both arms and covered in mud, staggering and fleeing like a dog.

Sensing the presence behind him, Shimura Danzo turned around. The three tomoe in his Sharingan spun wildly, almost merging together.

What was reflected in his eyes was that golden light that filled his entire field of vision, representing death!
Golden light engulfed him.

No screaming, no struggle.

The instant he touched the golden light, Shimura Danzo's body melted away like ice and snow under the sun, silently disintegrating and dissipating into the most primordial dust.

The light dissipated.

The ground was like butter cut by a hot knife, leaving a deep and wide trench that stretched into the distance, and there was nothing in the trench.

There was deathly silence between heaven and earth.

The Konoha members, including Huang Tu and the two Yugito, all stared blankly at the empty ravine and the devastated battlefield around them.

Danzo Shimura is dead?
Danzo Shimura, who had lurked in the shadows for decades, sucking blood from Konoha for decades, and was known as the "Dark of the Ninjas," died just like that.

Danzo Shimura, who stole the power of Wood Release, Sharingan, and Byakugan and became a terrifying monster, died completely, like an insect that had been crushed.
The silence was broken by a sigh of relief after a few breaths.

Wood Release holds a very special significance for Konoha.

Everyone in Konoha grew up hearing the myth of how the First Hokage used "Wood Release" to quell the chaos and establish Konoha.

In their minds, Wood Release is almost synonymous with "invincibility".

However, tonight, they witnessed Wood Release appear in such an evil and twisted form, and was wiped out by the Fifth Hokage with even more terrifying power.

This stark contrast left everyone momentarily stunned and unable to shake off the intense impact.

but……

"It's over." The Konoha members breathed a sigh of relief. "At least, it's over... we don't have to face that kind of monster anymore..."

However, just as everyone relaxed and thought everything was settled.

boom! !

A sudden, terrifying explosion rang out from another direction!
Thick smoke, mixed with blinding flames, shot into the sky in an instant, and even from a great distance, one could feel the violent tremor!

"what happened?"

"What happened again?"

Everyone was startled by the sudden loud noise and almost instinctively turned to look in the direction from which the explosion came.

Upon seeing the direction from which the smoke was rising, the expressions of the Konoha members immediately changed.

In the distance, one can vaguely see twisted and menacing black trees bursting out of the ground and growing wildly!
That direction is...

The Uchiha clan's territory?!
But why? How is that possible?

Danzo, not already...

"It's Izanagi."

A solemn voice came from the side.

Jiraiya appeared on a tree at some point, looking solemnly in the direction of the Uchiha clan's territory. He said in a deep voice, "Izanagi is a forbidden technique of the Uchiha clan."

"At the cost of the light of one Sharingan, the damage suffered by the user within the effective time, including death, is transformed into a dream, thereby rewriting reality."

A simple sentence, yet it made everyone's throats bob and their expressions turn to astonishment.

In other words, Danzo, at the cost of his three-tomoe Sharingan, turned the reality of being "killed" by Lord Yunchuan into a dream.

Then, taking the opportunity, they fled to the Uchiha clan's territory.

However, how did Danzo obtain and master Izanagi, a forbidden technique of the Uchiha clan?

Hyuga Kumokawa turned his gaze to Sarutobi Hiruzen below, his eyes filled with undisguised coldness and anger, and said in a cold voice, "Third Hokage, look at the mess you've made!"

The next moment, Hyuga Kumokawa no longer hesitated. With a sudden flap of his pure white wings, he transformed into a streak of light and flew towards the Uchiha clan's territory.

The Konoha ninjas, realizing what was happening, immediately suppressed their shock and anger, withdrew their gazes from Hiruzen Sarutobi, and used their Body Flicker Techniques to rush towards the Uchiha clan's territory!

Only Hiruzen Sarutobi remained standing there, looking as if all his strength had been drained, his face deathly pale.

Only then did he realize what he had just done.

The other ninjas who remained in the same place included Hirotsuchi, Yugito Nii, and Kisame Hoshigaki.

The way he looked at the former Hokage at this moment had become extremely strange, even carrying a hint of barely perceptible pity.

They all realized the same thing.

If Danzo truly caused irreparable damage to the Uchiha clan...

If Hiruzen Sarutobi cannot provide a proper reason for his recent actions...

Then, this Third Hokage is probably completely finished.

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