Naruto: Help Madara rejuvenate and launch a counterattack on Konoha

The instant Danzo threw the Third Hokage away, Liao Wu arrived swiftly, his cat claws easily piercing Danzo's chest and crushing his heart.

The current Danzo no longer has Shin's arm; he has incorporated Hashirama's cells and a Sharingan, and with Izanagi, he has ten minutes of invincibility.

Danzo's last remaining Sharingan had previously activated Izanagi, allowing him to escape from the mouth of the White Scale Serpent.

In other words, the current Danzo is his original form; his heart was crushed by Ryogoku, and he is already dead.

Liao Wu's rage subsided somewhat, and he said to Danzo with pity, "Danzo, it's time for your old-fashioned ship to leave the stage!"

"Yes... I should leave now..."

Danzo could feel his life slipping away rapidly, and that no one could save him anymore.

But Danzo did not show any signs of anger or frustration; instead, he smiled slightly.

"Uchiha Ryougo, I've got you!"

Danzo grabbed the claw that was piercing through Ryo's chest with one arm, and then shouted at Ryo, "Uchiha Ryo, die with me!"

"The Inner Four Symbols Seal!"

Suddenly, black Four Symbols Mantra patterns appeared on Danzo's body, and a large amount of black threads shot out from his chest.

The Inner Four Symbols Seal is an S-rank forbidden technique developed by Root based on the Uzumaki family's Four Symbols Seal.

This technique is based on the Taoist concept of "the four elements generating each other." It uses a technique engraved in the practitioner's body to forcibly seal objects within a radius of hundreds of meters into the corpse.

In the original story, Danzo attempted to use this technique to seal Sasuke and Obito when he was dying, but it failed because the range of the technique was predicted in advance.

In the end, only one bridge could be sealed, but it still had some effect; at least Danzo sealed Shisui's eyes.

If Obito were to obtain Shisui's Kotoamatsukami, it would be a devastating blow to the Allied Shinobi Forces!

Looking at the cursed mark on Danzo's body, Liao Wu suddenly realized, "So that's it! You've been waiting for me to get close to you all along!"

Liao Wu's expression did not show any panic upon seeing the Inner Four Symbols Seal; he simply watched Danzo's final struggle calmly.

The Inner Four Symbols Seal requires the sealing patterns to be drawn on the body beforehand; it is a ninjutsu that sacrifices the caster himself.

This indicates that Danzo had already drawn the patterns of the Inner Four Symbols Seal on his body before he came to participate in the battle.

This procedure is very likely designed for people with freckles.

The current Danzo is not the Danzo who did many foolish things in the original story.

In the original story, he orchestrated the massacre of the Uchiha clan, stole Shisui's Mangekyou Sharingan, forced Itachi to slaughter his own clan, and even had Root infiltrate the navy to spread rumors that Naruto was the reincarnation of the Demon Fox...

If something bad happens in the Naruto world and the culprit can't be found, just pin it on Danzo.

Anyway, he's just a scapegoat!

However, Danzo has not done any of this yet. So far, the most controversial thing he has done is to join forces with Hanzo to massacre Akatsuki.

Besides that, he had been working hard to eliminate Madara, a major problem for the Uchiha clan.

Why? Why didn't this guy show any sign of panic?

Danzo looked at Ryogoku with a puzzled expression.

Even if Madara were to fall victim to the Inner Four Symbols Seal, he would be completely sealed in another dimension.

Could it be his eye technique that stops time?

But he just used it on Tobirama-sensei, so his eye technique should still be on cooldown.

Yes, Liao Wu's time stop is still cooling down.

Because all of this happened in the blink of an eye, Ryougo kicked Tobirama away, and then pierced Danzo's heart within seconds.

When Danzo activated the Four Symbols Seal, the timing of his attack coincided perfectly with the cooldown period after Liao Wu released the Time Stop.

Although Danzo didn't know how long Liao Wu's time stop cooldown would last, he used all his power to unleash the Inner Four Symbols Seal.

All of this is still within the time stop cooldown period.

But it was too slow. It wasn't that Danzo was too slow, but rather that everything around him was too slow in the face of the superhuman reflexes of the demon cat Ryou.

He seemed to have entered a still world, where everything slowed down, including the eruption of the Four Symbols Seal in Danzo's mantle.

Liao Wu grabbed Danzo with his claws and flung him into the sky before the Inner Four Symbols Seal could be unleashed.

A black four-symbol symbol burst forth in the sky, followed by a black sphere that rapidly expanded into a giant black sphere.

Danzo is sealed in the air!

"...It failed..."

Danzo was somewhat unwilling, but he also became calm. He had long guessed that all his efforts would be in vain.

Because the gap between him and Liao Wu was simply too great.

Even without relying on time-stopping, Liao Wu can still evade the Four Symbols Seal with his superhuman reflexes.

The weak can only defeat the strong by seizing that moment of carelessness.

However, Heaven was not on Danzo's side.

In his final moments, Danzo saw the Third Hokage rushing towards him.

"Danzo—"

"Hiruzen!"

When Danzo saw the Third Hokage's somewhat aged face, he suddenly had a fleeting vision of the Third Hokage in his youth.

He also saw his own youthful reflection in the other person's eyes.

Looking at the past is far more insightful than looking at the future.

Danzo saw his own childhood filled with dreams of becoming Hokage. If Tobirama hadn't died, how wonderful it would have been if he and Hiruzen wouldn't have developed a rift because of their relationship as Hokage!

Danzo's gaze gradually became unfocused.

Scenes from the past flooded my mind: my youth, studying ninjutsu at the Konoha Academy with the Third Hokage, Koharu, En, Kagami, Torifu, and others.

Together we gazed upon the village's prosperity, and we once shared the same ideals and aspirations to protect the village.

Later, when Hiruzen became Hokage, Danzo, working underground as his dark side, eliminated everything the Third Hokage couldn't bring himself to do.

Because of their different personalities and different ways of doing things, they gradually drifted apart.

Danzo did not understand the Third Hokage's weakness, such as his previous negotiations with Sunagakure and Iwagakure.

Konoha has already won, and the Third Hokage wants to end the war as soon as possible without any compensation.

Because Konoha has bled dry!

But Danzo believed that all the sacrifices were worthwhile. If the war didn't severely cripple the enemy, they would become rabid dogs and bite back after they recovered.

Despite their differing political views, they both observe each other and protect the village left behind by Hashirama and Tobirama in their own ways.

"Hiruzen, this time... I've finally caught up with you!"

Danzo recalled the time when Tobirama had asked them to step forward and make sacrifices to cover for him, but Danzo was a step too slow back then.

This time, he finally caught up with Sarutobi and walked ahead of him.

"Hiruzen, you are Konoha bathed in sunlight, while I am... Root hidden in the darkness!"

"Without me, you'll have to bear the darkness all by yourself!"

With a loud bang, a massive black shockwave from the Inner Four Symbols exploded, sealing everything within a radius of several hundred meters around Danzo inside his corpse.

Danzo, the Hokage's assistant from Konoha, has been killed in action!