51st Year, Konoha.
At the edge of the village, in an underground base of the Root, Shimura Danzo is sitting on a chair with a cane in his hand, thinking about something.
'One week has already passed since I have transmigrated to this world...'
Suddenly a man dressed in a black ninja costume and a mask on his face appeared in front of Danzo and kneeled down.
"Lord Danzo! The messengers from Kumogakure are already on their way, they should arrive in Konoha tomorrow."
When Danzo heard this, his eyes flashed.
"I see. You go back."
"Yes, Lord Danzo!"
With a salute the Root ninja disappeared instantly.
The room was quiet again and Danzo thought about the upcoming plot.
'The Kumo-messengers will appear to sign a peace-agreement with Konoha, but in reality they want to kidnap Hyuga Hinata during her third birthday. After Hyuga Hiashi killed them and stopped their plot, Kumogakure made trouble and denied all accusations. Not only that, they asked for the corpse of the killer, but got scammed with the corpse of Hiashi's twin brother instead...This is a perfect opportunity!'
To be honest, at first Danzo wasn't really happy with the body he got. After all Danzo during this period is already old and not that strong either. His strength is almost impossible to move forward, which basically means that he will never have the chance to participate in the later battles, not to mention things like dominating the world, but thankfully he got the usual benefit almost every transmigrator gets.
[Character Collapse System]
The system functions are very easy to understand, as long as he makes the plot characters do things that they normally never would do, he will get a chance to pick an item in the system list, that gets refreshed once every week.
'Open the weekly list'
With a thought, a panel appeared in Danzo's mind.
[Weekly item list:
- Fuwa fuwa no mi (no weaknesses)
- Intermediate self-healing
- Low-level hypnosis]
Originally there were five items, but Danzo was granted two opportunities to pick as a novice-benefit.
'I really had good luck...'
Danzo looked at his right arm, that was originally completely bandaged and with one thought the arm turned into burning red magma.
That was one of his picks, the Logia Devil fruit magu magu no mi. Owned by Navy Fleet Admiral Akainu, it has one of the best attack powers among the devil fruit abilities and the basic elementalization ability of Logia.
Danzo has already tested this power, he is completely immune to all physical and ninjutsu attacks, the only things that can harm him are illusions and sealing jutsu.
The other choice he made is the physique of a Vice-Admiral from the One Piece world. Don't underestimate a Vice-Admiral, although they are not the top-powerhouses of their world, they are still in the upper echelon and the physiques of One Piece are much stronger than anyone in the Ninja World. Although the system adjusted the devil fruit ability, so that it can consume chakra instead of physical strength like in One Piece, but Danzo still chose this body and he didn't regret it.
The feeling of old age he had before has completely disappeared, his body is full of strength and even his face appears much younger.
If he told someone, who doesn't know him that he is thirty years old, they would believe it easily.
But there is still a big problem, that Danzo has to face, because of the past actions of the original body.
He is too unpopular.
Almost everyone who knows him in Konoha dislikes him very much, except Sarutobi.
'The only way, I can reverse my bad reputation is war. Only if I use my newfound strength to become something like a war hero and save Konoha from collapse, can I have the chance to become Hokage.
Of course, Sarutobi has to die too.'
Thats why he thinks the upcoming Hyuga Affair is his best chance. If he brutally kills all Kumo messengers, will Raikage accept this?
Impossible, Raikage is different from Sarutobi, he is a well known reckless man, it is impossible for such a person to be weak.
'Although the system is just level one for now and the upper limit of the items are just super kage level, but if I can get a few Devil Fruits for my subordinates then it should be enough for now.'
Until the fourth ninja world war, the normal kage level ninja were already the strongest in the world on the brightside.
'Let's try to collapse some characters before the war oficially starts.'
Raising his arm slightly, Danzo spoke.
"Go call Shisui here."
"Yes Lord Danzo!"
After a quick answer from the dark, the sound disappeared again.
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Half an hour later.
A young man with curly hair and handsome face was kneeling on one knee in front of Danzo.
"Shisui, you have already awakened Mangekyo Sharingan, right?"
When Shisui heard this question his face changed drastically and he looked at Danzo with surprise, but still obediently answered.
"Yes, Sir. I awakened it some time ago, when my friend died."
When Shisui mentioned this matter, he looked slightly sad. Danzo on the other hand, fell into deep thought.
'Sure enough, he already has it. That's good news.'
The original Danzo would have fear, suspicion and greed, if he knew about this, but now he doesn't care that much.
Danzo knows that Shisui is extremely loyal and obedient, even when the original Danzo tried to kill him in the original plot, he never thought of revenge or anything, but still did his best for Konoha.
'Although his choice is mentally retarded, but for me its very good.'
"Very good, Shisui. Your talent is one of the best in the world. I know that Mangekyo Sharingan has special abilities, except for Susanoo. You don't need to tell me what your abilites are, but I will use your strength more often in the future. Be prepared."
Shisui, who originally planned to confess his abilities was astonished when he heard Danzo's words.
'Lord Danzo is completely different today. What happened?'
"Shisui, I won't talk much nonsense. I will give you a chance to completely resolve all conflicts between the village and the Uchiha clan. The question is, if you are determined enough to do as I say."
This time Shisui was really shocked. Completely resolve the conflict? That is his dream, but the more he tries, the more desperate he gets. So when he heard Danzo's words, he immediately lowered his head and said.
"Lord Danzo, I have the determination to do it. At all costs."
Danzo nodded in satisfaction.
"Good. We will do it in a simple and clean way, it is also the only way.
Me and Sarutobi forced your clan into a corner in the past few years. The Uchiha clan is really not to blame actually. Do you know the reason, we did that Shisui?"
Shisui's body trembled, even though he was mentally prepared, he never thought that Danzo would say such a thing, but he still answered after some hesitation.
"Isn't, isn't it because the Uchiha clan is too arrogant?"
When Danzo heard his answer, he couldn't help laughing. In Shisui confused eyes, he started talking.
"Arrogance? What's wrong with being arrogant? Although it's a bit annoying, but that really isn't worth mentioning at all.
No, Shisui! The reason we did that, is because we are too weak.
Do you understand?
Sarutobi is old and his strength regressed too much and I have the same problem. The truth is that we are too weak to supress the Uchiha clan with strength as a good leader should, so we started supressing the Uchiha clan with conspiracies and schemes. It's all for rights and power and has nothing to do with arrogance.
Your Uchiha clan produces one strong genius after another and that makes us afraid.
So afraid, that we were ready to completely wipe out your clan. All this just for power, isn't that ridiculous Shisui?
Remember, everything in this world depends on strength. Everything.
If you were strong enough, you could wipe out all opposition, all enemies, all obstacles in your path to your goal. The conflict between Uchiha and Konoha?
If you have strength then you can just tell them not to fight, they would never dare to fight. Do you understand, Shisui?"
Shisui was kneeling on the ground, his body trembling fiercely. His eyes have already turned into Mangekyo shape and he couldn't believe what he just heard.
All his past actions seem so ridiculous at this moment, he is just a pawn in a game for power.
Raising his head slowly, he spoke in a hoarse voice.
"Why, why are you telling me this?? What are you planning?"
Danzo chuckled and stood up.
"Follow me."
A few moments later, both of them reappeared at the back of an mountain at the edge of Konoha.
Danzo raised his arm and in the astonished eyes of Shisui it turned into magma, then Danzo swung his fist at the mountain.
Magma flew out and turned into hundreds of magma fists that flew out like meteors and impacted the mountain.
BOOOOM
The ground trembled and multiple huge explosions appeared on the mountain.
A few seconds later the noise stopped and a ruined terrain was revealed in front of them.
Turning his head to the shocked Shisui, Danzo spoke.
"I told you this, because now I have the strength to supress everyone. At least in Konoha.
Shisui, now I don't need to engage in schemes to stop the Uchiha clan. I don't need to sit in the dark like a rat anymore, I can uprightly destroy any obstacles.
So Shisui, what is your choice?
Are you willing to trust me, no, you don't need to trust me, trust my strength.
If you are willing to sincerely submit to me, then I will help you to become stronger.
I have mastered the method, to give others Kekkei Genkai. I call it Devil Fruit, although it can't be mass produced, but I can give everyone who has value and sincerity this power and you Shisui are one of my choices.
So, what do you think?"
Danzo looked at Shisui quietly, from the beginning to the end, his intention was to not only let Shisui submit to him, but also change his thinking. From a friendly pacifist, who seeks peace, to someone who thinks strength is supreme and all opposition should be destroyed. In other words, a tyrant.
Shisui was standing still with his eyes closed. Many thoughts were running through his head.
'Strength? Does this really work?'
"If you have any questions, you can just ask me Shisui."
Hesitating for a moment, Shisui spoke up.
"Lord Danzo, if I make this choice, will you harm Konoha and the Uchiha clan?"
"No on the contarary, I will strengthen them. After all our real enemies are outside of Konoha."
When Shisui heard this, he didn't hesitate anymore and knelt down.
"Lord Danzo, I am willing to follow you."
Seeing this, Danzo walked up to Shisui with a smile and patted him on the shoulder. He is not only happy because he got a strong subordinate, but also because he just got a notification from the system, that he can pick another thing from the weekly list.
"Good, then eat this. This is the devil fruit I talked about before."
A fruit with strange patterns appeared in Danzo's hand. This is the Devil fruit of the Golden Lion from One Piece. It has the ability to control the gravity of objects the user touches. It's a very useful and strategic devil fruit. Just drop an island on an enemy village, what can they do about it?
Of course it is not that easy to control such large objects. It depends on Shisui next.
Without questioning what kind of Kekkei Genkai he will get from the fruit, Shisui ate it without hesitation. This is to show, that he is sincerely submitting to Danzo.
The devil fruit was gone in a few bites and Shisui seemed to feel something and closed his eyes. Then he squatted down and touched a stone with his hand.
Then in Shisui shocked eyes the stone started to float.
Danzo watched him with a smile.
"How is it? Do you like this ability? I can tell you, that the upper limit of the devil fruit is very high, letting an island float is not a dream. But the use depends on the imagination and chakra amount of the user, so show me how far you can go Shisui. Go get familiar with the use."
As soon as he finished speaking, Danzo left instantly, he still has things to do.
Shisui on the other hand was looked at the place Danzo left and at the floating stone with awe.
'Maybe...not it will definetely work!'
Such methods gave Shisui a lot of hope for the future.