Uchiha Itachi Betrayed? Danzo: Hiruzen, You Are The Hokage!

Sorry for the impromptu hiatus, I totally, definitely, 100% did not get stabbed. On an unrelated note, my arm is getting better so I should be able to slowly continue updating, don't expect consistent updates for a while though…

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Under the spread of the Amaterasu flame.

In the original organization base, all the buildings, personnel, materials, supplies, and equipment!

All were devoured by the Amaterasu flame that spread to the entire Root base!

Everything belonging to the Root organization was burned, leaving nothing behind!

After all of this was burned, the Amaterasu flame still did not go out!

Instead, it continued to burn in the burned-out root underground base.

Until this underground base could no longer support itself, the ground above collapsed directly!

The terrifying movement spread throughout the entire Konoha Village on the spot!

"..."

Shimura Danzō looked at the huge pit below.

For a moment, he was actually a little confused.

Where is this?

Is it his root base?

It shouldn't be.

How could this happen?

However, Danzo looked around.

The surrounding scene was indeed what it looked like around his root base in the past.

Every blade of grass, every building, was indeed something that existed near the root base.

And since that was the case,

Shimura Danzō looked at the huge pit below again.

Below, there is such a large open area.

Is it his root base?

"Danzo-sama!"

Aburame Torune was also pale at this moment: "Our base is gone!"

Shimura Danzō came back to his senses from his previous state in a trance.

Looking at the flames still burning below.

The body suddenly staggered.

Almost fell down!

"..."

Shimura Danzō's breathing was a little rapid at this moment. He was supported by Aburame Torune. Looking at the burning black flames below, he felt that his eyes were black: "My roots are gone? My roots are gone!"

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

How could such a large root organization become like this!

"Seal Squad, quickly go to position!"

A familiar voice came from nearby: "Hurry up and control the fire!"

"Yes, Hokage-sama!"

The ninjas of the seal squad responded in unison.

Shimura Danzō looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen blankly.

"Danzo, what's going on?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen frowned at his old friend's strange look and asked: "What happened to you?!"

What's going on?!

Why did the roots collapse!

What did Danzo do in the root base again?!

"?!"

Danzo woke up completely when he heard this, his face flushed, and he was shaking with anger: "It has nothing to do with me!"

What does Hiruzen mean by this look?!

What's wrong with his roots? How could he have done it himself!

How could he do something in his hometown and even destroy it?

"I also want to know what happened!"

Shimura Danzō gritted his teeth and looked at the collapsed root base.

He went out to tell Orochimaru a message.

The result!

As soon as I came back!

The roots were gone!

The entire base collapsed!

"Wait! This flame?!"

Shimura Danzō looked at the actions of the seal class ninjas and his face changed: "This flame, Amaterasu, definitely Amaterasu!"

Even if it was attached to the soil, it was still burning!

We can only let those seal team members put out the fire with seals!

No doubt!

This is definitely the Amaterasu of Uchiha Itachi!

"fuck..."

Sarutobi Hiruzen's heart moved, and he stared at Danzo with burning eyes: "Danzo, tell me the truth, what are you doing?!"

Danzo, this guy!

Could it be that he has some connection with Uchiha Itachi?!

"I said, it has nothing to do with me!"

Danzo was almost mad: "I was not here before, and I just came here because of the noise! ​​How do I know why my roots were burned by the Amaterasu of Uchiha Itachi?!"

fuck!

What is going on?!

"Hokage-sama, I should be able to testify to this."

Aburame Torune said to Sarutobi Hiruzen who looked suspicious: "I and Lord Danzo were not here before... And we have no reason to destroy the Root Base."

"Yes!"

Danzo was also furious, pointing to the huge pit beside him, his arm trembling: "My Root Base is probably burned to ashes now... I don't know if anyone can escape from the bed alive!"

Thinking about it, Danzo felt his heart was about to break!

I finally saved up so much property, is it easy?

He is not the Hokage of Konoha!

It took so much effort to build up his own power in Konoha Village!

Such a big base, so many elite ninjas of the Root Organization, so many supplies, so many research materials and data...

Now they're all gone!

Burned in a fire!

"Uchiha Itachi!"

Shimura Danzō gritted his teeth, and the name popped out from his teeth: "This bastard... He actually dared to burn my Root Base?! What does he want to do?! Damn it! I'm going to kill him!"

Opposite. Sarutobi Hiruzen still didn't completely believe Danzo's words.

Now, the Root base below should have been burned to ashes.

But who knows if this was directed and acted by Danzo himself!

For example, he might have transferred the Root's personnel, materials, and information to other places before this!

Then, he colluded with Uchiha Itachi and burned the Root organization to ashes!

In this way, Danzo hid his original power!

As for the future.

Danzo might even ask for funds under the pretext of rebuilding the Root Organization!

(EN:Canonically, Root was "disbanded" after the uchiha massacre and Danzo only operated it in secret with Hiruzen's tacit approval. So he couldn't ask for funds. But we'll say it didn't get disbanded in this timeline.)

If that's the case, using the funds to build a new Root Organization, plus those that were transferred away before, Danzo's power will double!

Humph!

Danzo, my old friend, has a lot of little tricks!

I have to be on guard!

"Hiruzen, what's that look in your eyes?!"

Danzo looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen's gaze at him, and was so angry that he almost vomited blood: "Do you think I'm lying to you? What I said is true! I really don't know anything! Uchiha Itachi, that guy, how do I know what kind of insane act he has committed again!"

Uchiha Itachi is a psychopath who can even kill his own parents!

Who knows what inexplicable things he can do!

"...Regarding Itachi, I just have something here."

Sarutobi Hiruzen stared at Danzo for a while, but couldn't see anything: "Call Homura and Koharu to discuss it together."

"Okay!"

Shimura Danzō nodded fiercely.

Uchiha Itachi, that Bastard!

How dare he destroy his roots!

If he doesn't kill him, he won't be able to get rid of the hatred in his heart!

Hokage's office.

Sarutobi Hiruzen, Shimura Danzō, Mitokado Homura, Utatane Koharu.

The four elders of Konoha are all here.

"You've all finished reading the report."

Sarutobi Hiruzen, holding a pipe in his mouth, said in a deep voice: "Tell me what you think."

Beside.

Shimura Danzō and the others are now a little confused.

Just now.

After they arrived at the Hokage's office.

Sarutobi Hiruzen suddenly passed them a letter.

It said that Uchiha Itachi, who is now in the Akatsuki organization, used the secret information sent back by the Ninja Crow!

The result.

When several people saw it, they were dumbfounded.

Uchiha Itachi actually said that Orochimaru found visitors from Otherworld near the dragon vein of the Wind Country?

He also said that he met Uchiha Obito from Otherworld and the First Hokage of the Impure World from Otherworld?!

These visitors from the Otherworld are very powerful!

They captured the One Tail Jinchūriki of Sunagakure and they caused Akatsuki to suffer heavy losses!

"… Nonsense!"

Shimura Danzō slammed the letter in his hand on the table and shouted angrily: "Uchiha Itachi, that bastard, actually made up such a ridiculous thing to fool us?! What does he want to do?!"

"I don't think this kind of thing from Otherworld is credible either."

Mitokado Homura also nodded and said.

"..."

Utatane Koharu frowned and said: "Uchiha Itachi, what is he going to do? If these are false, why would he make up such things?"

"Ha! Of course?!"

Shimura Danzō sneered: "It must be to confuse people!"

Hearing this, Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu looked at each other.

They also understood what had just happened.

Danzo's root organization base, for some reason, was suddenly burned to ashes by Amaterasu's flames!

Such a large root organization base was burned to ashes without leaving anything!

The ground above the root organization base collapsed under the flames of Amaterasu!

No wonder Danzo is like this now.

"… Danzo, tell me the truth."

Sarutobi Hiruzen was silent for a moment, staring into Danzo's eyes and asked: "After the Uchiha incident, are you still connected with Uchiha Itachi?!"

"?!"

Danzo was almost angry when asked this: "What connection do I have with that psychopath?! He... he used that ninja crow to pass the message back, didn't he pass it to you, Hiruzen?!"

If that bastard Uchiha Itachi still has a connection with Konoha, then he is also connected to Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Hokage!

What does it have to do with me!

"…The flame that burned down the Root Organization base was Amaterasu's flame, that should be correct."

Sarutobi Hiruzen slowly retracted his gaze and said: "And Amaterasu... is indeed Uchiha Itachi's Mangekyō eye technique. "

So the one who burned down the Root Organization base.

It should be Uchiha Itachi.

What is still uncertain is what exactly Uchiha Itachi wants to do?

While delivering news to Konoha from the Akatsuki Organization, saying that visitors from Otherworld have invaded the Ninja World.

And at the same time, he burned down Danzo's Root Base!

"Do you think there is such a possibility?"

Mitokado Homura suddenly spoke up and guessed: "The visitors from Otherworld that Uchiha Itachi said are real, and the ones who burned Danzo's roots may be those people from Otherworld?"

"Humph!"

Shimura Danzō snorted coldly and said disdainfully: "Do you still want to say that the one who destroyed my roots may be Uchiha Itachi from Otherworld?"

"Uh... I think it's possible!"

Mitokado Homura also said a little uncertainly..

"Pah!"

Danzo directly and mercilessly sprayed: "What Otherworld? Uchiha Itachi told such a far-fetched lie, and you actually believed it? Think about it yourself, someone from Otherworld happened to come, and it happened to be Uchiha Itachi from Otherworld, and then he burned my Root base!"

"Is this more likely, or is it more likely that Uchiha Itachi himself did this?"

In Danzo's opinion.

The one who burned his own root must be Uchiha Itachi!

That guy, maybe he finally realized now that he was fooled by these people to be a tool to kill Uchiha!

Then, he destroyed his own Root to avenge himself!

Dongdong!

Sarutobi Hiruzen knocked on the table with his pipe, motioned for several people to look at him, and said:

"Danzo, there are many doubts about the two guesses you just said."

"If it was Uchiha Itachi who destroyed the Root base, why did he suddenly do this?"

"And if it is true as the letter says, that someone from Otherworld came to our ninja world, this kind of thing is a bit too absurd."

To be honest, Sarutobi Hiruzen somewhat believed in Otherworld's statement.

After all, this is too absurd...

It's so absurd that it doesn't seem to be made up!

If Uchiha Itachi really wanted to make up something to confuse people, why didn't he make up something reliable?

"How can we understand the idea of ​​that idiot Uchiha Itachi!"

Shimura Danzō sneered: "Maybe he deliberately made up a ridiculous thing to distract us and facilitate his further plot!"

"..."

Mitokado Homura was stunned and felt that this statement seemed to make some sense.

"So what is the situation now?"

Utatane Koharu looked helpless and felt that he couldn't understand it at all: "Uchiha Itachi, what is he going to do?"

As soon as he finished speaking.

The four people present were all silent.

Uchiha Itachi, this person, in their opinion, is a psychopath!

What he wants to do is hard to predict even for them.

Suddenly!

Knock!

The door of the Hokage's office was knocked.

" Hokage-sama, important information!" Anbu outside reported.

"Come in." Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo looked at each other and spoke.

Anbu came in, and handed over an information scroll.

"Hokage-sama!" Anbu said respectfully: "We got the news from the Wind Country that the Daimyo's mansion was attacked and the Daimyo's family was killed... and the murderer is suspected to be Uchiha Itachi and Kirigakure Hidden S-class rebel ninja Hoshigaki Kisame!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Sarutobi Hiruzen and others were stunned. He quickly read the information carefully. The Daimyo's mansion in the Wind Country, the Daimyo's family, and the Jōnin-level guards in the Daimyo's mansion were all killed!

According to the report of the survivors, the murderer is Uchiha Itachi. Someone saw the Sharingan, no doubt about it!

"What did I say!" Shimura Danzō slammed the table and said: "Uchiha Itachi, this bastard, is indeed problematic! He must have completely betrayed Konoha now! Hiruzen, don't hesitate, this is no longer an ordinary traitor, we must strike hard!"

He actually killed the whole family of the daimyo!

And it was the daimyo of the Wind Country, one of the five major countries!

Uchiha Itachi, that guy, has become so bold now!

"Yes, Hiruzen!"

Mitokado Homura also persuaded: "Killing the Daimyo of the Wind Country, Uchiha Itachi actually did such a crazy thing... It is estimated that it will not be long before the daimyo of the Wind Country, Sunagakure, and even the Fire Country will write to us to ask!"

Uchiha Itachi, after all, is a traitor of Konoha!

The daimyo may think that if Konoha had cleared out its own traitors earlier, wouldn't this happen?

Sarutobi Hiruzen frowned: "There are still many things that are not clear here. "

Now all these events, added together, are like a mess!

I don't know what the truth is!

"Hiruzen, what are you still hesitating about!"

Shimura Danzō slammed the table again and shouted angrily: "You are the Hokage of Konoha! The rebel ninja of Konoha caused such a big disaster outside, as the Hokage, you have to be responsible!"

"?!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen's face was black.

Danzo, this bastard!

He usually goes against me every day!

Now he remembers that he is the Hokage?!

"It just so happens that my root is gone now."

Shimura Danzō said confidently: "Hiruzen, allocate a new batch of funds to me. The root organization needs to be rebuilt. The power of the root organization is needed to hunt down Uchiha Itachi!!

"No!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen flatly refused: "Danzo, you don't need to intervene in this matter!"

The root organization has been too big to be eliminated before!

Now that the root organization is gone, can he rebuild it again?

Impossible!