The Uchiha Clan's Sun

Meanwhile, the sounds of fierce fighting could be heard inside the Hokage Building. It seems that Homura Mitokado, who was not on the rooftop, was also engaged in a fierce battle inside the Hokage Building!

Chapter 274 It's nothing more than a little hardship!

Danzo Shimura's Root ninjas lost a large number of elites not long ago and have not yet recovered. Most of the ones he brought now were Chunin, no match for Hiruzen Sarutobi and his men!

Although Koharu was wearing a kimono, her movements were anything but slow. Chakra scalpels were gathered in her hands, and every flash could take the life of a Root ninja!

In a short time, most of the dozens of Root ninjas brought by Shimura Danzo were lost!

"boom!"

"The Art of Chaos with a Hundred Weapons!"

A Root ninja's body smashed through the ceiling and flew to the top of the Hokage Building. Before anyone could react, two storage scrolls suddenly unfolded beneath the Root ninja's body, and all sorts of ninja tools flew out of the scrolls and shot off in all directions!

In that instant, more than a dozen Root ninjas were pierced by various ninja tools and died on the spot!

The next moment, Homura Mitokado, dressed in a combat suit and carrying various summoning scrolls of different sizes, jumped out of the hole in the rooftop and landed next to Hiruzen Sarutobi and Koharu Utatane, his movements extremely swift and agile.

"Tsk tsk, these old guys are really hiding their true abilities! They all look so old and frail!"

Upon witnessing this scene, Uchiha Jin, who was not far away, couldn't help but sigh in amazement.

Not to mention Hiruzen Sarutobi, Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado are usually slow and sometimes even need canes to walk, giving off a weak and frail feeling. But when they actually fight, they are no less capable than Hiruzen Sarutobi!

Nara Shikaku, hearing Uchiha Jin's remark, explained, "Don't underestimate Elder Utatane and Elder Mitomon just because they usually do clerical work. You should know that in their youth, their intelligence and combat prowess were no less than those of the Third Hokage and Elder Shimura!"

"At their peak, they were only one title away from the Third Hokage!"

Uchiha Jin's eyes flickered slightly upon hearing this. He had indeed underestimated Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado before!

Looking back now, in the official Naruto setting book "Jin no Sho," Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado are indeed described as having "the same strength and wisdom as the Third Hokage!"

Furthermore, in the manga version of the Nine-Tails' rampage, it was only through the combined efforts of Hiruzen Sarutobi, Homura Mitokado, and Koharu Utatane that the Nine-Tails was stopped!

Therefore, even if Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado cannot unleash their peak strength, they will not be much worse than before. At least they will be much stronger than the average Jonin!

Uchiha Jin looked at Shimura Danzo, who was still standing still and had not moved, and a few doubts arose in his heart.

Is he really that confident?

"Summoning Technique, Ape Demon King!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi bit his finger and summoned the Monkey King. He then used the Monkey King's transformed Vajra Staff to smash the last Root ninja into a pile of minced meat!

"Danzo, surrender! You've already lost!"

Seeing this, Mitomon Homura pointed a strange kunai at the expressionless Shimura Danzo and shouted loudly.

"Lost?" Shimura Danzo cracked his neck and began unwrapping the bandages on his right hand, saying calmly, "We just dealt with some trash who came to exhaust your strength. How did you get the idea that this battle was over?"

"Danzo, are you really going to go down this dark path? It's not too late to turn back now!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi frowned, unconsciously increasing the pressure on his Vajra Staff as he pondered what trump card Danzo Shimura had that made him so calm and collected!

"I was merely punishing evil and eliminating wickedness, why should I turn back? It's you three who killed village ninjas without cause, adding insult to injury, so surrender now!"

Shimura Danzo spoke with righteous indignation, which sent a chill down the spines of Sarutobi Hiruzen and the other two!

"Hmph! Manipulated Weapons - Rapid Fire!"

Mitomon Homura snorted coldly and threw a summoning scroll directly towards where Shimura Danzo was!

The summoning scroll unfurled, and countless shurikens and kunai shot toward the location of Shimura Danzo!

Faced with this overwhelming attack, Shimura Danzo didn't even raise his head, continuing to unwrap the bandages on his body.

The next moment, the air around Shimura Danzo seemed to distort, and the ninja tools that were shot at him strangely deviated from their direction, avoiding Shimura Danzo's location!

Seeing this, a complex emotion flashed in Mitokado Homura's eyes, followed by a deep sense of resentment!

"Heh, Yan, you seem to have forgotten that you've never beaten me even once since you were a child! My Wind Release ninjutsu is the perfect counter to your Tool Manipulation ninjutsu. I am your nemesis!"

Seeing this, Shimura Danzo felt a little smug and mocked Mitomon Homura.

Mitokado Homura's strength was indeed formidable. According to the Second Hokage Tobirama Senju's assessment, Mitokado Homura was the only one among his companions who possessed the talent to learn space-time ninjutsu!

Unfortunately, Mitokado Homura went astray. Instead of learning the Flying Thunder God Technique, he insisted on studying tool manipulation ninjutsu, wasting his hard-won talent!

It's not that tool manipulation ninjutsu is bad, it's just that without some powerful special ninja tools, there's really not much room for improvement in tool manipulation ninjutsu!

"That was before, now it's three against one! And you used to lose to Hiruzen all the time, didn't you!"

Mitokado Homura took out a summoning scroll with the character 'thunder' written on its cover, formed a hand seal with one hand, and summoned a treasure weapon that shimmered with lightning!

This is the personal sword of the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, the Thunder God Sword with boundless lightning power!

The Thunder God Sword did not belong to Homura Mitokado; he had just taken it from a storage room in the Hokage Building.

"Today, I'll use my teacher's sword to teach you a lesson!"

Mitomon Homura held a sword in one hand and a summoning scroll in the other, his gaze gradually becoming sharp!

"Then give it a try!"

Danzo Shimura ripped off the bandages on his body, revealing his pale right arm, which was inlaid with five three-tomoe Sharingan eyes!

"?!!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi and the other two were all shocked by what they saw; Danzo Shimura's arm was simply too disgusting!

Of course, if it were just disgusting, that would be fine, but Hiruzen Sarutobi and the other two could tell at a glance that Danzo Shimura's arm possessed at least the power of both the Senju and Uchiha clans!

"Danzo, you have fallen into the demonic path! Now that your appearance has been exposed, there is no place for you in the village!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi frowned, looking angry at his son's lack of ambition.

Upon hearing this, Shimura Danzo chuckled dismissively and said, "Hiruzen, you're getting old! Your brain has become sluggish! You should know that history is written by the victors, and there's nothing they won't do if there's enough profit to be made!"

"Once you are all dead, I will be in charge of the entire village!"

"Human experimentation is nothing more than a few trials and tribulations!"

"Enough talk, let's fight!"

Chapter 275 The Correct Use of Izanagi: Self-Destructing Infantry! (Two-in-One!)

"Wind Release: Shuriken!"

Danzo Shimura imbued the shuriken with a high concentration of wind-style chakra and threw it at Hiruzen Sarutobi and the other two.

As the shuriken spun at high speed, it created a transparent wind blade around its edge, emitting a chilling buzzing sound!

"careful!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi shouted a warning and dodged two wind-style shuriken that were coming at him.

Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado both easily dodged the Wind Release shuriken attack.

A direct attack like this, without any cover, is very difficult to hit the enemy. Hiruzen Sarutobi's earlier warning was not referring to these wind shuriken, but to Danzo Shimura's strange arm!

Danzo Shimura's strange arm looked terrifying, and they had to proceed with caution until they figured out its abilities.

"I'll lead the attack, you cover me!"

As he spoke, Mitokado Homura charged toward Shimura Danzo, wielding the Thunder God's Sword!

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Koharu Utatane reacted in perfect unison. Hiruzen Sarutobi quickly formed hand seals and unleashed a blazing fire dragon that attacked Danzo Shimura!

"Fire Release·Dragon Fire Technique!"

Koharu Utatane rushed out right after Homura Mitokado, maintaining a distance that was neither too close nor too far from him, ensuring that she could support Homura Mitokado immediately without becoming Danzo Shimura's primary target!

As a medical ninja, Koharu Utatane's strengths do not lie in offensive tactics; her mission is to provide support and rescue.

"Wind Escape·Vacuum Jade!"

Faced with the rapidly approaching fire dragon, Shimura Danzo spewed out a high-pressure wind ball from his mouth, instantly scattering the fire dragon that rushed in front of him and sending it swirling back with scorching flames!

Although fire style is the strongest of wind style among the five elemental ninjutsu, and hurricanes can fuel fire, when the power of wind style surpasses that of fire style, a strong hurricane can also disperse the flames, causing the fire style to swirl back and enhance the power of wind style!

However, although Shimura Danzo's Wind Release was somewhat stronger than Sarutobi Hiruzen's Fire Release, the difference was still limited. After the hurricane dispersed the fire dragon, it also consumed most of its power, and it began to dissipate not far away.

"Thunder Slash!"

Just then, Mitomon Homura rushed forward, his Thunder God Sword cutting through the raging wind and fire with streaks of lightning, and slashing down at Shimura Danzo!

Shimura Danzo snorted and dodged Mitomon Homura's attack with a backward leap. At the same time, he took out a kunai from his ninja tool bag, opened his mouth and attached a ball of wind-style chakra to the kunai, forming a wind sword!

"Wind Release·Vacuum Blade!"

With a weapon in hand, Shimura Danzo immediately stomped the ground and instead of retreating, advanced to meet Mitokado Homura, who was wielding the Thunder God Sword!

The wind blade and the lightning blade clashed together, and the power of wind and lightning overflowed. Mitomon Homura's expression suddenly changed, and he was knocked back by the tremendous force coming from his hand!

It wasn't that Shimura Danzo was particularly powerful, but rather that the power he used exceeded Mitokado Homura's expectations, catching him completely off guard!

"His strength is much greater than before. Is this also a result of human experimentation? Manipulation Tool: Super Heavenly Blade Chaos!"

Mitokado Homura stepped back, loudly relaying the information while taking out a summoning scroll and summoning various giant shuriken and kunai that shot towards Shimura Danzo!

These giant ninja tools are far superior in quality to ordinary ninja tools. After being endowed with powerful kinetic energy, their power is also much greater than that of ordinary ninja tools. They cannot be blocked by Shimura Danzo with simple wind-style chakra application as before!

Just as Shimura Danzo was about to raise his hand to form hand seals and unleash a ninjutsu, the thick Vajra Ruyi Jingu Bang, accompanied by a powerful gust of wind, was already upon him. There was no time to use ninjutsu to defend or dodge!

Even if he dodged the attack of the Vajra Ruyi Staff, he would have a hard time dodging the subsequent giant ninja tool attack!

Shimura Danzo's eyes flickered, and he slightly turned his body, placing his right hand in front of him to block!

"Wood Release: Violent Spear Tree!"

A large tree instantly extended from Shimura Danzo's right arm, blocking the Vajra Ruyi Jingu Bang and the giant ninja tool, while shooting out more than a dozen sharp branches that attacked the nearest Mitokado Homura!

Before Mitokado Homura could even be surprised that Shimura Danzo also knew Wood Release, he wielded the Thunder God Sword rapidly, slicing the attacking branches into pieces!

"Wood Release, Danzo, it seems you've been doing a lot behind my back!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi appeared beside Danzo Shimura, his Vajra Staff sweeping powerfully toward Danzo's head!

"Heh, stop lying, Hiruzen. How could I have accomplished these things without your permission!"

Danzo Shimura sneered, freeing his right hand from the tree and using the wind blade to flick upwards, deflecting Hiruzen Sarutobi's Vajra Staff!

"Hmph, I don't recall ever agreeing to do such a thing for you!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi snorted coldly, changing his stance as he continued his attack on Danzo Shimura, while secretly being shocked by Danzo's current power.

Undeniably, among his contemporaries, Shimura Danzo's physical skills were only passable, not outstanding!

In previous sparring sessions, Hiruzen Sarutobi was able to steadily suppress Danzo Shimura with his Vajra Staff!

However, at this time, Shimura Danzo's strength was much greater than before. Many attacks that he could only withstand by deflecting or dodging in the past could now be met head-on by Hiruzen Sarutobi, and he was able to fight Hiruzen Sarutobi to a standstill.

"You have indeed never explicitly promised me anything, but tacit consent is also consent! Isn't that always been the case between us?"

Shimura Danzo forced Hiruzen Sarutobi back with a single sword strike, and formed hand seals with one hand, no longer wanting to delay any longer!

Hiruzen Sarutobi was slightly out of breath. The usefulness of those 'useless' people that Danzo Shimura had mentioned was already showing, and his stamina was starting to give out!

After all, there were dozens of ninjas at the Chunin level or above. In order to deal with them quickly, Hiruzen Sarutobi also consumed a lot of chakra!

Mitokado Yan did not come to the aid immediately because she was taking the opportunity to recover her strength!

"Indeed, as the Third Hokage, I am the person primarily responsible for Konoha! No matter what problems arise in the village, I cannot shirk my responsibility!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi's gaze also turned resolute as he spoke, "It was my excessive indulgence in the past that allowed you to commit so many crimes. Killing you here today can be considered a form of atonement for those crimes!"

“I’ve said before that you’ve given Danzo too much power,” Mitokado Homura said coldly, appearing beside Hiruzen Sarutobi in a flash. “If you had listened to us earlier, this wouldn’t have happened!”

Upon hearing this, Danzo Shimura's eyes flashed with a sinister light, and he sneered, "Heh, your hypocritical appearance really disgusts this old man!"

"Didn't Hiruzen give me power so that I would do all the things he wanted to do but couldn't be done in the light of day?!"

"Now you say you've been too lenient with me... Hah, despicable!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi, holding his Vajra staff, pointed it at Danzo Shimura and said, "Further words are useless, Danzo. You should go to the Pure Land and repent to your teacher!"

"Then we'll see if you have the ability! I've come here today with the determination to die a glorious death rather than live a shameful life! Inner Four Symbols Seal!"

Danzo Shimura pulled open the front of his shirt, revealing the sealing runes that had already been engraved on his chest!

"Oh no, it's a suicidal sealing technique! Retreat!"

Upon seeing this, Hiruzen Sarutobi's pupils contracted, and he pulled Mitokado Homura, who was beside him, backward!