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  From the moment he saw Danzo, Tobirama's keen eyes, ever vigint, noticed something off about the man's appearance. His gaze narrowed, fog on the empty socket where he knew Shisui Uchiha's Sharingan was supposed to be.

  "Danzo," Tobirama's voice cut through the silence. He asked with a sharp and demanding tone. "Where is Shisui Uchiha's eye?" He asked again. 'Did you give it to one of your Root ninjas to safeguard it or did something else happen?'

  Danzo stiffened, his expression darkening as he was forced to ret the events that had transpired just before Hiruzen's arrival. "It was taken… by a man who called himself 'Dragon.'"

  Hiruzen's eyes widened slightly. "Dragon? Who is he? What happened, Danzo?"

  The one eyed ninja sighed, his defeat was evident in his voice as he reted the attack. "He appeared out of nowhere and came straight for Shisui's eye."

  The Hokage's eyes widened. "Wait! Then does he know about-"

  Danzo nodded. "He knows about Shisui's Mangekyo powers. He said he had pns with the Kotoamatsukami."

  At that moment Hiruzen recalled the dead bodies he and his men discovered. "Wheered the building I came across several dead Root ninjas. I'm assuming that's his work."

  The former Root ander nodded. "He infiltrated this base with such precision and power that even my most skilled men couldn't stop him. He cut through them like they were nothing. He moved as if he had knowledge of our operations. Like he kly where to strike."

  Tobirama's face remained impassive, though a spark of i lit in his eyes. "Describe him."

  Danzo ched his fists, recalling the enter. "He wore a dark green cloak, and a mask in the design of a Dragon, his face, chakra signature and st were hidden and he wasn't ordinary. His strength… it felt like something I haven't entered before. He could use multiple chakra natures and he moved with the fluidity of a seasoned front line warrior a had the precision of an assassin. His teiques were fwless, and his objective was clear. He was after Shisui's Sharingan and something more."

  "What else did he take?" Hiruzen asked, his voice edged with .

  Danzo's jaw tightened as he tinued. "He didn't stop at Shisui's eye. He took my right arm. It was embedded with Sharingan. During my fight with him, I had already used three of them for Izanagi. Seven were left… but now they're gone."

  "Sharingan arm? What are you talking about?" Hiruzeioned while the Sed Hokage merely stayed silent.

  Danzo closed his eyes and sighed. He felt regret at the thought of someone else being at the cost of his hard work and even more at the fact that it could be used against the Leaf vilge.

  'Instead to escape, I should have fought him and used the Reverse Four seal and killed him with me. At least then I could have died with some dignity.'

  "Danzo…" Tobirama called his name and it woke the Root leader from his trahat right arm—it was no ordinary limb, was it? What exactly had you doo it?"

  Hiruzen's attention was immediately drawn to the question, his own curiosity piqued. Though he had always known Danzo to be secretive, the extent of what he had hidden had not been fully revealed until now. He then remembered what his spy had said about Danzo's secret meeting with Orochimaru.

  Danzo sighed, knowing there was no point in hiding the truth any longer. He looked betweewo Hokage with the expression nation. "The arm… it wasn't just a prosthetic. It was a tool, a on I had created with the help of Orochimaru's researd the DNA of the First Hokage."

  Tobirama's eyes narrowed dangerously, his tone immediately harsh. "You tampered with my brother's DNA? After all the warnings and precautio in pce?"

  Danzo didn't flinder Tobirama's intense gaze and tinued. "Yes. I khe potential risks, but I believed the power it could grant was worth it. I had the arm impnted with cells from the First Hokage, which allowed me to wield the Wood Release, though not to the same extent as Lord Hashirama himself."

  Hiruzen looked deeply troubled, his brow furrowed in . "Danzo, you were pying with forces you didn't fully uand. Lord First's cells… they're too dangerous to be used lightly…" He recalled the reports of his spy. "So that was what you did with Orochimaru that day."

  "Yes." Danzo nodded, aowledging the truth in Hiruzen's words. "I was aware of the risks. But that's not all. The arm wasn't just infused with Hashirama's cells. I also embedded it with multiple Sharingan."

  Tobirama's expression shifted from ao a mix of shod disbelief. "Sharingan? You impnted Uchiha eyes into your arm? To use Izanagi?"

  Danzo's voice was steady as he gave his expnation. "The Yin chakra of the Sharingan helped me trol the Yang chakra of those powerful cells and their chakra in turn helped me use Izanagi for longer periods. The Sharingan in the arm allowed me to cast the forbidden teique multiple times, effectively rewritiy to escape death or alter the oute of a battle. I believed it was a necessary measure to protect the vilge from threats it wasn't prepared to face."

  Hiruzen's eyes widened with shock. "Izanagi… You were using it as a tool, at the cost of the Sharingan itself?"

  Danzo nodded, a bitter expression crossing his face. "Each use of Izanagi would cause the Sharingan to go blind and bee useless, but the arm was equipped with 10 eyes, allowing for multiple uses. It was a failsafe, a st resort."

  Tobirama's tone was harsh and ced with disapproval. "You've taken forbidden teiques, bihem with dangerous experiments, and turned your body into a on… You've crossed lihat should never have been crossed, Danzo."

  The old man didn't argue. He khere was no defense for what he had done. "I did what I thought was necessary to protect the vilge from the shadows, to deal with threats that couldn't be hahrough ventional means."

  "How about now? With the loss of Shisui Uchiha's Sharingan and that arm, do you still believe the vilge would be safe?" Tobirama growled in anger.

  Shame filled Danzo to his core as he looked down.

  Hiruzen shook his head. "You've taken too many risks, Danzo. The vilge should never have to rely on such dangerous measures. We o protect the Leaf, yes, but not at the cost of our humanity, not at the cost of being the very thing we seek to protect it from." The disappoi was clear in his eyes as he spoke.

  Tobirama's voice was stern as he added, "And now that arm is in the hands of someone who may use it against us. Your as, Danzo, may have iently created a threat greater than any you sought to bat."

  Danzo's expression darkened with the weight of his mistakes. "I uand that now. I won't make any excuses."

  Hiruzen sighed deeply and rubbed his forehead thinking about the precarious situation. "What's done is done, Danzo. But now we have to deal with the sequences. We o find this 'Dragon' and stop him before he use that power you've given him against the vilge."

  Tobirama nodded in agreement. "Yes. We o make sure that the secrets of the Uchiha, the wood style, and Sharinga used t harm to the vilge. But that is sedary to finding and saving Tsunade."

  The Sed Hokage sighed and g the defeated Danzo. "Power without restraint, without uanding, only leads to destru. This was a lesson you should have learned a long time ago. Now its too te."

  The Root leader merely stayed silent as he listeo the advice of his former teacher.

  Hiruzen rubbed his as he thought about the intel his men found. "I still don't uand something. Why kill some of the Root ninjas who weren't guarding you? Who were nowhere close to here."

  It was Tobirama who answered that. "That's because he didn't just take the Sharingan. I've been trag almost all movements throughout this building after the operation began. He raided the jutsu vault and your information archive. I iigated and learned of this a few moments before ing here. I also sewo powerful fn presenear here but they both escaped before I could catch them."

  Both Danzo and Hiruzen were surprised. 'Two?'

  Tobirama's eyes flickered with a mix of and anger. "I don't know who the sean is but if this 'Dragon' is capable of such feats, targeting such specific items… Then he is no ordinary enemy. What else you tell me about him?"

  Danzo's face darkened further. "I didn't know mutil I fought him. The way he attacked, the way he moved… It was almost as if he knew Root's teiques inside and out. But there was ohing… He reized Hotaru, my sed-in-and, who I had reanimated"

  "He knew Hotaru?" Hiruzen was surprised while Tobirama was curious.

  Danzo nodded. "Yes. And the way 'Dragon' spoke to me, the familiarity he showed me… it was unnerving. Like he knew me on a personal level. And he didn't just attack to kill. He attacked with a purpose and had knowledge that only someone deeply ected to us could have."

  "This is certainly strange." Hiruzen murmured.

  "There's something else you both o know," Danzo began, causing Hiruzen and Tobirama to turn their attention ba. "During the battle with 'Dragon'... his focus wasn't o first. When we fought, at the beginning it was like I was just an annoyao him. But after he reized Hotaru… everything ged."

  Tobirama's eyes narrowed, and Hiruzen's brow furrowed with . "ged how?" Hiruzen asked.

  Danzo's expression darkened as he recalled the intense frontation. "Up until that point, 'Dragon' was effit, almost indifferent. He seemed more ied in his mission than anything else. But the moment he id eyes on Hotaru, his entire demeanor shifted. It was like something inside him snapped. He didn't just attack me… he went after me with the io torture and kill."

  Tobirama's gaze sharpened. "He reized this Hotaru? And that reition caused him to react with suger?"

  Danzo nodded slowly. "Yes. It was as if Hotaru's presenfuriated him. From that moment forward he didn't just see me as an obstacle; he saw me as a personal enemy. The battle became more vicious, more intense. He was ruthless in his assault, ae my skills, I was no match for his strength."

  Hiruzen's eyes narrowed with . "Why would this 'Dragon' have such a stroion to Hotaru? Could there be a past e?"

  Danzo hesitated and then spoke with a hint of uainty. "I'm irely sure, but during ht, I noticed something peculiar… The way he moved, the teiques he used. They were eerily familiar. I reized several taijutsu moves specific to Anbu assassination tactics."

  Tobirama's eyes widened slightly at this revetion. "Anbu teiques? Are you suggesting that 'Dragon' might have a e to the Anbu?"

  Danzo nodded grimly. "It's possible. The way he fought, the precision, the efficy—it was remi of Anbu training. But more than that, his rea to Hotaru suggests a deeper e. If he truly is or was Anbu, it might expin his knowledge of Root's operations and his expertise in assassination teiques. But why did he react sly to Hotaru… that's the mystery…"

  Hiruzen's expression darkened with the implications. "If 'Dragon' was onbu, or if he has some e to our bck ops, that would make him even more dangerous. He would have access to teiques and knowledge that could be devastating in the wrong hands. It looks like there's another unstable factor in our vilge."

  Tobirama's voice was stern as he spoke. "This man… if he has ties to the Anbu, and if he's targeting Root and its secrets, then we're dealing with someone who knows our vilge's darkest secrets. A rogue ninja hiding in our ranks. We o proceed with extreme caution."

  As the weight of the situatioled heavily on their shoulders, Danzo spoke again with some uhere's more you o know…"

  Hiruzen groaned as he realized more bad news was ing.

  Danzo tinued. "This 'Dragon'… he khings. Things that should have been impossible for him to know."

  Tobirama and Hiruzen exged ghe gravity of Danzo's words evident. "What do you mean?" Hiruzen asked cautiously.

  "He knows the truth about the Uchiha massacre."

  Danzo's words shocked Hiruzen while Tobirama raised the unknown man's threat level.

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