Naruto: An Informant from the Uchiha

The dark Root headquarters was now drenched in blood, decapitated heads rolling across the floor.

Splat!

Ku's foot stepped into the flowing blood, splashing crimson everywhere. The squad assigned to guard this place had been completely annihilated.

Uzumaki Ku sheathed his blade and continued deeper inside.

Boom...

A sudden rumble made Ku look up. The stone wall before him parted into a door, and three people in white medical garb stepped out.

The one in front looked at Ku and asked, "Who would dare invade this place? Has the intruder been handled?"

From beneath his cloak, Ku slightly raised his head. "The intruder… you're talking about me?"

Shlick!

Before the words had even finished, the three of them were slashed across the throat, blood spurting into the air.

Ku ignored their fallen bodies and entered the laboratory hidden behind the stone wall.

But what he saw inside made his brows furrow deeply, veins bulging as he gripped his sword tightly.

"Uchiha... Hika…"

Back in his childhood, after moving with his mother to the Uchiha district, the clan didn't outright reject them, but they certainly didn't welcome them either.

Still, they didn't suffer long. The couple who ran the local pancake shop were very kind to both him and Izumi.

The reason? Their son, Uchiha Hika.

The man and woman had no ninja talent themselves, but named their child after an ancestor, hoping he'd grow up to be strong.

Uchiha Hika hadn't let them down. He graduated early during wartime, and at just eleven, awakened his dual-tomoe Sharingan.

But…

Ku remembered the shop owner once talking to him. His son had died in battle, and not even his body was returned.

The photo he showed Ku back then… bore some resemblance to the grown-up version of Yun.

'Was it all… for the Sharingan?'

Ku stared at the grotesque creature floating in the tank, its body swollen and misshapen with tumors, but its face still barely recognizable. It was the same young boy who once smiled brightly in that family photo.

Tap tap…

The sound of a cane striking stone echoed behind him. Ku didn't turn around.

Rustle rustle!

Shadows flickered. Root operatives had once again surrounded him.

"Beautiful, isn't it?"

Before Ku could answer, Danzo continued:

"The three-tomoe Sharingan is not the end. Uchiha Madara's eyes were different from the rest."

"The power of the Mangekyō, the chakra-made giant, Susanoo. Just like Konoha needs the Senju's Wood Release, it also needs the Uchiha's Sharingan."

Danzo glanced at the monster in the tank and sighed in disappointment. "At first, under my guidance, this Uchiha prodigy's Sharingan evolved. But it stopped at just three tomoe."

"I had someone he bonded with killed after over a year of cultivation, and Uchiha Hika was once called a genius. But it seems three tomoe was his ceiling."

He then looked at his bandaged right arm. "For various reasons, I later thought maybe Hashirama's cells could awaken that power. But..."

He trailed off.

Ku understood what Danzo left unsaid. It was true that Hashirama's cells could amplify Sharingan abilities. But Hika's body couldn't handle them. His Sharingan remained stuck at three tomoe, not Mangekyō.

"Danzo… you know why I'm here, don't you?"

Danzo narrowed his eyes. "Killing me won't change anything for the Uzumaki. Your clan always intermarried with the Senju. And you, Uzumaki Ku… now wield the power of Wood Release. If you were to gain Mangekyō Sharingan as well, with my help, restoring Uzushiogakure wouldn't be impossible."

"If I become Hokage, your clan will rise again as one of the great powers of the shinobi world. You could even become the new daimyo of the Land of Whirlpools."

'A new daimyo...?'

Looking at Hika, whose body was now hideously bloated and dying in the tank, Ku closed his eyes.

When he opened them again, his Mangekyō spun rapidly.

"This power you speak of… is this what you mean?!"

In a flash, Ku vanished.

Even though Danzo retreated instantly, it was as if he ran straight into the sword himself; Ku's blade pierced through his chest from behind.

Danzo turned his head with difficulty, staring at the eyes beneath Ku's cloak. "Mangekyō… Sharingan?!"

Ku said nothing. He slashed across Danzo's chest, splitting him from the heart outward.

Yet in the next moment, the corpse disappeared.

Nearby, Danzo reappeared. "Just as I suspected… your body can harmonize both Senju and Uchiha powers. A perfect vessel. I'll be taking it."

Bam!

Danzo struck the ground with his cane, and the previously still Root ninjas leapt into action.

"Four Violet Flames Formation!"

Purple flames formed a square barrier around them all.

Clang!

Ku casually blocked a melee attacker's strike, then instantly vanished and reappeared, impaling the enemy through the chest.

He glanced around.

'Four Violet Flames Formation? It can't block Flying Thunder God, so what's the point?'

He threw six Flying Thunder God kunai in two waves. But before they could lock onto their targets, Root ninjas knocked them away, right into the barrier's flames.

'Targeted...'

In the distance, Danzo slowly unwrapped the bandages from his arm. His long-hidden right eye opened, too.

'So he's already used Izanagi once… Three left? Compared to the timeline I remember, he must have obtained these during the war, since the Uchiha Massacre never happened.'

'One eye from Hika… who else did he harvest from?'

"Uzumaki Ku…"

Danzo spoke coldly. "With Flying Thunder God disrupted, and your Wood Release underdeveloped, you can't kill me. I'm the only one who can help your clan."

Ku dodged a wind blade. His Mangekyō spun again.

'Underdeveloped?'

'It's been over a year, you think my Wood Release is just for squashing bugs?'

Clap!

He formed the Snake hand seal.

"Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence!"

In an instant, colossal trees erupted like giant serpents, filling the entire space.

Splurt splurt splurt…

Massive branches skewered enemy after enemy. Soon, bodies hung from the towering trees.

"Aaaaaahh!!"

Screams echoed throughout the chamber. In a single technique, over 80% of the Root shinobi were wiped out.

But even so, Danzo didn't show fear. On the contrary, his eyes burned with hunger.

"This… this is the power of Wood Release! Combined with Mangekyō Sharingan… with this, I could unify the entire shinobi world!"

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