Konoha: Start from untying the caged bird

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Danzo let out a few cold laughs, muttering to himself, "As long as you're alive, I can't become Hokage... can I?"

"Very accurate."

Whether you become Hokage prematurely as you are now, or officially take over as Hokage as originally planned, you are someone I must eradicate—a cancerous growth afflicting Konoha.

Upon hearing Hyuga Yuzuru's words, Danzo's eyes flashed with anger and resentment: "You would never understand, I did this for Konoha..."

He hadn't finished speaking.

A hand had pierced his heart.

But then Hyuga Yuzuru appeared beside him, and with a calm expression, he quickly dodged away: "Come on... I don't have time to listen to dead men."

"Hehe... Hahahaha!"

Danzo burst into wild laughter.

Even with his heart pierced, he merely turned his head stiffly, staring intently at Hyuga Yuzuru with that one eye: "It's alright, as long as I kill you, I can come back to life..."

His pierced heart was gradually patched up by countless threads of flesh and blood, which blurred and became indistinct. At the same time, his flesh and blood swelled up strangely and deformedly, and the bandages wrapped around his body were torn apart by his bulging body.

Soon, what appeared before Hinata Yuzuru was a monster over three meters tall, with terrifying black flesh all over its body.

Danzo's head seemed disproportionately large on his massive body, but his face was filled with nothing but mad killing intent. His two arms, raised high, were now a mix of black, red, and white, and several Sharingan eyes seemed to be transported by flesh and blood and landed on his face. In an instant, he had eight eyes on his face.

Beneath his original two eyes, three Sharingan eyes now shone, their gazes filled with hatred as they stared intently at Hyuga Yuzuru.

"Ugh, that's disgusting."

The moment Hyuga Yuzuru finished speaking, multiple jets of blood erupted from Danzo's body—truly like fountains of blood, shooting high into the sky before crashing back to the ground. Obito, standing nearby, was covered in blood.

"Such immense power... But, right now, I..."

"You won't die!"

Danzo let out a frenzied roar, and his huge arm suddenly split into six. The six arms simultaneously formed hand seals and used three completely different wind-style ninjutsu at the same time.

"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"

"Wind Release: Wind Blade!"

"Wind Release: Tornado!"

First, a gust of wind swept across Hyuga Yuzuru's face, followed by sharp wind blades. A small tornado suddenly appeared on the ground and wrapped around Hyuga Yuzuru's legs, only making him squint slightly.

"Has your IQ decreased after becoming like this?"

With just a slight exertion of his legs, he vanished from the spot.

Five Flying Thunder God kunai shot out from five different directions, while Hyuga Yuzuru's main body rushed straight towards Danzo, his Raikiri flashing with golden light.

Danzo roared furiously, and his flesh and blood seemed to come alive as several tentacles extended from his body. He neither dodged nor avoided the terrifying Lightning Blade.

Hinata Yuzuru's figure suddenly disappeared.

But Raikiri's voice rang out shrilly in Danzo's ears. Danzo looked to his left, and Hyuga Yuzuru's figure flashed by in an instant. The next moment, he felt a tremendous force tearing through him from his right rear.

Flying Thunder God!

Danzo's massive body was almost cleaved in two by the Lightning Blade, sending him flying backwards. Trees flew everywhere, but Hyuga Yuzuru did not pursue him. Instead, he stomped his foot on the ground, creating an exaggerated crack that spread towards Obito in the distance. With a scream, a black and white figure was shattered from the ground.

Hyuga Yuzuru narrowed his eyes, a blue light flashing within them. He chuckled coldly twice, then ignored him and charged towards Danzo.

Black Zetsu, as if granted a pardon, tumbled and crawled towards Obito. Obito merely glanced at him listlessly, but the next moment, Black Zetsu suddenly grabbed him and pulled him close.

The black Zetsu surged into his body like putty, and Obito let out a few muffled groans. The parts of his face that had been modified by White Zetsu turned black.

"call..."

Black Zetsu only let out a long sigh of relief after taking over Obito's body, but the sigh lasted only a moment before a sharp blade of light struck his neck.

If Black Zetsu hadn't hastily and inexperiencedly used Kamui, which belonged to Obito, he would probably have had his head severed by a single blow.

Izumi Uchiha stood with her sword drawn, her Mangekyou Sharingan slowly spinning, staring at Obito Uchiha before her. Her voice was filled with undisguised hatred: "Controlled? It's alright..."

"If I kill you too, Obito Uchiha will die anyway!"

Black Zetsu remained calm, showing no intention of lingering here, but if he wanted to run away... he would be underestimating Uchiha Izumi at this moment.

Uchiha Izumi's Sharingan spun violently. Black Zetsu groaned and was actually thrown out of the Kamui dimension. The next slash struck his side, leaving a large part of his waist bleeding profusely, leaving only a scream.

"Illusion magic...I can use that too..."

Uchiha Izumi's eyes were filled with only cold, brutal killing intent. He drew his sword and attacked again. Black Zetsu's mind was in chaos, and he could no longer use Obito's Sharingan. He could only dodge and fight back with his body.

Hyuga Yuzuru withdrew his gaze and curled the corners of his mouth. At that moment, Danzo, not far away, roared wildly again and charged towards him. This speed had exceeded the limits of an ordinary ninja. His flesh and blood were deformed and mutated. His running posture was as if many fleshy tentacles were carrying his body.

"How ugly... Danzo."

Hyuga Yuzuru clasped his hands together, and the ground cracked open, from which several giant vines grew. Then, countless ice spikes appeared in the air, piercing towards Danzo. Danzo remained unmoved, struggling to break free from the vines' restraints while muttering incoherently something about killing Hyuga Yuzuru.

Without the Thousand Hands cells, the quality of Wood Release is still too low.

but...

Hinata Yuzuru stretched out his hand, interlaced his fingers, and snapped them.

Danzo lowered his head in confusion, only to find that the vines had already grown into his flesh and blood, constantly absorbing nutrients from his body and growing wildly.

Just as Hinata Yuzuru snapped his fingers, his body was frozen in place by vines and unable to move, while ice spikes pierced through his head.

Danzo's body suddenly appeared in another place.

One of the Sharingan eyes on his face closed permanently.

"Your so-called immortality seems to be nothing but a joke—if your head is instantly frozen to dust by an ice release technique, you'll still die, won't you?"

Hyuga Yuzuru's words clearly enraged Danzo even more. Danzo's intelligence was rapidly declining, and he let out a frantic roar: "I will not die! Never!"

I'm going to kill you!

"Kill him a thousand times!"

"That's not enough!"

Wow.

You're not planning to change your name to Aatrox, are you?

Hinata Yuzuru chuckled softly, and his body disappeared from the spot once again.

Then, several golden, flashing figures appeared beside Danzo.

At first, Hyuga Yuzuru's figure could still be seen, but in the end, only increasingly dense golden chakra remained in the air, shimmering like streaks of golden light, swaying in the air like ribbons of light.

Surrounded by golden light, Danzo could only emit miserable and furious cries, but even though his huge body was twisted beyond recognition, he could not harm Hyuga Yuzuru in the slightest.

"kill!!!"

Perhaps it was because the pain had reached its extreme.

Danzo let out a final, furious roar, before his voice was swallowed by flesh and blood.

His entire body, even his head, was merged into that huge, indescribable pool of flesh and blood.

What's even more surprising is that a dazzling golden light is now shimmering within that mangled mass of flesh.

Under Hyuga Yuzuru's relentless attacks, the amount of flesh and blood decreased, but gradually, it gradually returned to human form, shimmering with golden light, and transformed into the appearance of Hyuga Yuzuru.

Of course, the several Sharingan eyes on his face, which were originally grotesque, and those eyes that should have been blue, were now just gaping holes filled with blood and gore.

"I want..."

"become..."

"Naruto..."

The monster murmured, its flesh and blood constantly being shattered and stitched back together by Hyuga Yuzuru. The Sharingan on its cheeks became fewer and fewer until finally, only the last two Sharingan appeared in the empty eye sockets.

"You're not thinking of... becoming me and then becoming Hokage, are you?"

Hinata Yuzuru stopped what he was doing with a look of disgust on his face, and took a breath.

The relentless onslaught he had just endured was not entirely easy or insignificant for him.

The opponent's flesh and blood healed at a terrifyingly fast speed. If Hyuga Yuzuru hadn't had enough destructive power, even if the opponent tucked his head into his stomach, he could still use his Byakugan to pinpoint the approximate location and completely pulverize him. Otherwise, even if he punched a dozen holes in the opponent's head, as long as he didn't completely crush him, he wouldn't be able to 'kill' him.

What's even more outrageous is that even with such an immortal body, Danzo can still revive using his Sharingan—if he were to face a different opponent, he could wear them down to death even if he had to fight them head-on.

Moreover, Danzo's body also instinctively possesses the ability to learn. During brief exchanges, it continuously absorbs the chakra from the opponent's attacks, converts it into its own chakra, analyzes and understands its characteristics, and then imitates and uses it.

"If you go and level up with someone else first, you might actually cause me a lot of trouble."

Hinata Yuzuru spoke softly, his hands forming a hand seal again. But this time, his hand seal was quite unique, with his four fingers interlaced and his thumbs pointing downwards and touching each other.

"Immortal Technique: Heaven-Shattering Annihilation!"

With a low shout, countless golden swirling light waves suddenly appeared in the air.

These golden, semi-elliptical light waves tightly entwined Danzo, as if a golden bubble surrounded him. However, within the bubble, the rapidly rotating golden Sage Chakra fluctuated at a high speed, like a meat grinder or a cutting machine.

This is an original ninjutsu that incorporates some principles of the Rotation Technique. Because its range is fixed when activated, it often needs to hit the opponent when they cannot move quickly, but its power is considerable, and it is especially good at wearing down enemies with a turtle-like shell.

The chakra ball sandwiched Danzo, who bore a striking resemblance to Hyuga Yuzuru, in the middle, determined to crush him into mincemeat.

Danzo let out a barely audible, frantic scream, his entire body radiating ever brighter golden light. Hyuga Yuzuru, however, simply gazed at him calmly, his hands still in the hand seals.

It's incredible! It's gradually gotten used to the nature of my Sage Chakra, evolved resistance to my Sage Arts, and even started directly absorbing the Sage Chakra within my techniques...

Danzo really did come up with something amazing.

Faint black lines began to rise on his neck, settling before his chin, and his Sage Chakra surged dramatically.

He released his own flying bird seal, and the large amount of chakra he had stored for a long time returned to his body. The dark blue light in his eyes surged, and he quickly controlled the balance of chakra within his body. Incredibly, he directly synthesized Sage Chakra within his body.

However, even I had to be careful when I first absorbed this chakra to avoid being petrified.

Can your flesh and blood body really digest it completely?

Caught in the middle, Danzo, bathed in golden light, began to speak in a strange tone.

As if someone had grabbed their throat, their frantic roars became intermittent.

His body, which had been constantly regenerating, suddenly began to show petrified fragments. His body instinctively rejected these petrified parts, but even if he wanted to sacrifice the pawns to save the chariot, it was too late.

The Sage Chakra he absorbed carried the properties of Hyuga Yuzuru's own chakra. He himself was modified from a human due to the Life Return technique, making him unlike any other. Therefore, the nature of his Sage Chakra differed slightly from that of a normal Sage Mode user. The most significant difference was...

It will naturally absorb free natural energy from the air to replenish itself.

However, Yuzuru Hyuga's body can automatically absorb and transform natural energy.

Danzo is acceptable, but not.

"Ahhhh!"

Before his body was completely petrified.

Another Sharingan in his eyes closed forever.

Danzo appeared in another location, his body distorted and unable to even mimic Hyuga Yuzuru's form. He was neither human nor ghost, his face resembling both Danzo and Hyuga Yuzuru, but his features were constantly twisting, making him look quite eerie.

He began to repel the Sage Chakra within his body in large quantities, attempting to expel the absorbed and transformed chakra, but Hyuga Yuzuru merely smiled coldly and slightly raised his finger.

A sharp icicle pierced Danzo's head, who was unable to move.

Danzo's ferocious face looked up at the clear blue sky.

Its mouth was wide open, as if it wanted to say something venomous.

But in the end, only his head was changing—frost was constantly appearing on his head, freezing into a hard block of ice, cracking and popping.

He flailed his arms wildly, only to bump his head. Then, his head shattered like broken glass, falling to the ground with a series of cracking sounds.

Then, his body stiffened.

He then collapsed to the ground, convulsing uncontrollably.

"call..."

Hyuga Yuzuru let out a sigh of relief, but did not rush over. Instead, he formed hand seals and created a shadow clone to walk to the piece of flesh in his place.

As expected, several tentacles strangely emerged from the headless corpse, wrapping around Hyuga Yuzuru's shadow clone and attempting to drag him closer.

Hinata Yuzuru's shadow clone glanced at his own body with a look of disgust before bracing himself against the tentacles, forming hand seals, and casting a sealing jutsu.

The black sealing patterns continued to spread across Danzo's corpse until the lumps and strips of flesh were stiff and immobile. Only then did the shadow clone form hand seals again, summoning a sealing scroll to seal it inside.

Then, reluctantly, he muttered, "This thing feels so prickly and disgusting..."