"Good, Hiruzen. I appoint you as the Hokage of Konohagakure. All of you will support Hiruzen from now on," Tobirama said.

  To say everyone was shocked would be an uatement. Hiruzen quickly responded, "No, Sensei! Your life is much more important. If I am not suffit, Kagami and I will both try to stall for some time."

  "Even if all six of you try, the most you could stall is 1 or 2 mihey will not stop at anything before killing me, and even if I reach back to the vilge, we will have to face a very fierce battle against them. The ce of losing many jonin ae jonin is very high. That will weaken Konoha to the point that we may lose the war. Only I prevent that oute. That's why my previous order is final. Hiruzen, go bad stabilize Konoha. You are now responsible for the safety of our vilge," Tobirama said, pg his hand on Hiruzen's shoulder and giving a nod to Kagami, signaling that he knew Kagami was also ready to give his life.

  With heavy hearts, everyone made their way back to Konoha. Everyone was sad about the firmed death of Tobirama, but the person who was most distraught was Danzo, stantly cursing himself for not raising his hand at that time.

  The memory ged, and Danzo and the others pleted many missions. Kagami became Hiruzen's right-hand man along with Danzo, but Danzo knew Hiruzen trusted Kagami more since he was the only other person nomio be a sacrifice.

  Slowly, Danzo became more and more jealous of the duo. The war ended, and Konoha emerged victorious. Hiruzen had done a very good job, and everything was going well. Danzo and his team kept doing various missions. With Hiruzen being the Hokage, they got the ce to learn many new jutsu. The person who beed most from this, after Hiruzen, was Kagami.

  With his Sharingan, things were easy fami. bined with his talent, he was being a very important resource for Konoha.

  The memory showed Danzo and Kagami on a mission. It was an S-rank mission to uncover Kumogakure's schemes against Konoha. Unfortunately, they were discovered by an enemy and had to flee. They were chased by a group of jonin and an almost Kage-rank ninja.

  By then, both Danzo and Kagami were also pseudo-Kage level ninja (almost Kage level), so they decided to front the enemies. After a brutal fight, both Kagami and Danzo emerged victorious, but not without a price. Both were badly injured, with Kagami in worse dition. He had to fight the Kage-rank ninja along with three jonin, which was not easy. If not for his Sharingan and amaziion speed, he would have surely died.

  Kagami simply asked Danzo to heal the injuries on his back. Then, everyo a stroion of doubt, and Hiruzen had a very bad feeling.

  'No, Danzo, you surely didn't do that,' Hiruzen thought.

  But the memory tinued, and he saw what he feared most. Danzo took out his sword and directly impaled Kagami's heart.

  With a fused face, Kagami turned and tried to remove asu from Danzo, only to find he was not under any illusion.

  "Why?" was the only question Kagami asked.

  "Yoing soft, Kagami. We could have killed them before and been doh it, but you decided to follow orders, and we nearly lost our lives. Don't worry, I will use your eyes for the vilge," Danzo said, as if he had do for the vilge's sake.

  Everyone was shocked by what happened . Kagami smiled and said, "Tell my son his father loved him, and make sure he grows up well." He pced his hand on Danzo's shoulder.

  With immense guilt for killing his friend, Danzo returo the vilge with Kagami's eyes in ste, g that Kagami had died during the mission and he had to flee.

  After that, he tried to impnt Kagami's eyes, only to find it impractical. They ed too much chakra, and he couldn't turn them off like Kagami could. From then oarted experimenting on Sharingan. Since he couldn't lose Kagami's eyes, he began experimenting on the eyes of other Uchihas.

  Everyone could feel a deep killing i in the air, and they khe only person capable of releasing such dense killing i was Hiruzen. Knowing the reason for his friend's death, his anger was reag a level even he didn't knoossible.

  Hiruzen's intense killing i overshadowed Fugaku's, though he too was releasing a siderable amount.

  The heads sitting in the office felt their scalps tingle, with cold sweat running down their backs. Koharu had to leave the room, as she was incapable of handling that amount of bloodlust.

  Inoichi also felt it and waited for a while to see if anyone wanted him to stop, but receiving no such order, he tinued.

  The memories became increasingly cruel, from kidnapping young civilian children to various vilge shinobi. They also discovered some bases with livi subjects, including Konoha shinobi. Everyone was fuming with rage by now.

  It was difficult to determine who was angrier, Hiruzen aku. Danzo had harmed the Uchiha uch that even a war might have been less dangerous than this.

  Uchiha ninja, with or without Sharingan, were kidnapped by Danzo and subjected to mental and physical torture to see how they awakened and evolved their Sharingan. For years, he had been doing this along with experimenting on others as well.

  Muura's relief, memories reted to him didn't surface, because Danzo never cared about them at all.

  After reviewing most of the memories, everyone removed their hands from Inoichi's shoulders.

  Fugaku turo Hiruzen with red eyes, not because of the Sharingan, but because of blood, and said, "Lord Third, please use the Yamanaka 's jutsu to find the bases you want. After today, we Uchiha need Danzo... alive."

  Homura, uo read the room, asked, "And what will you do if we provide you with his body? I know what he did was wrong, and he will be punished by the vilge."

  Fugaku closed his eyes and then opehem again with his Sharingan active. The typical three-tomoe pattern of his Sharingan morphed into a mesmerizing and fearsome design.

  His Mangekyo Sharingan unfurled like a blooming flower of darkness. Three thick, bck lines emerged from the deep crimson of his iris, extending outward in perfect symmetry. These lines curved elegantly, creating the illusion of motion, as if they were alive, swirling around the tral point of his gaze. Each line looped bawards, f a triad of sharp, bde-like shapes that verged at the ter, remi of a lethal shuriken poised to strike.

  'Mangekyo Sharingan,' everyohought after seeing those eyes. These eyes were proof that the ninja before them was already at Kage level.

  "If we don't get Danzo alive, then the Uchiha d Konoha will have nothing to do with each other from tomorrow," Fugaku said, fog his killing i on Homura. Homura nearly passed out from the iy, but Hiruzen shielded him at the st moment.

  "I will send him to the Uchiha pound after getting the location of all the Root headquarters," Hiruzen said, showing the posure of a leader even though he was just as angry as anyone else present.

  Fugaku finally calmed down aivated his Sharingan, then bowed slightly. "The Uchiha will fully support ANBU in capturing all of the Root ninja."

  "We will too," every other head joined with Fugaku, as Shikaku had already briefed them about Danzo's memories, suffitly inf them of the reason for such high levels of killing i.

  Hiruzen nodded and turo Inoichi. "Extract the location of EVERY Root base from his mind."

  "But don't harm his mind. He should be perfectly saer this," Fugaku added.

  Inoiodded and got to work. No one had any thought of returning to their pounds.

  'Today is going to be a long day,' Shikaku thought.