Whoosh!
Just as the Kusanagi Sword on Danzo's hand was about to slice through Sasuke's neck by an inch, Sasuke closed his eyes.
It wasn't that Sasuke had given up. Rather, his mind flashed back to all the moments with Naruto.
Naruto had never called him a waste, and he had always helped Sasuke with everything he had. Now, with Naruto gone, how could Sasuke fall on this path of revenge?
Moreover, he knew Danzo, with so many Sharingan implanted in his body, must have the blood of the Uchiha Clan tainting his hands.
If Sasuke didn't kill Danzo, how could he face Naruto in the afterlife? How could he meet the souls of his fallen clan members?
With these thoughts burning in his chest, Sasuke erupted with overwhelming energy.
A purple mist shot out from his body, crashing straight into Danzo.
Danzo's pupil trembled as he was knocked back, flying several meters away.
In the next instant, a massive skeleton appeared from the purple mist. The gaps in its bones were filled with veins that fully covered it.
As the purple light illuminated the bones, a layer of violet skin emerged over the skeleton, forming an armored warrior.
When Sasuke opened his eyes, his black pupils now displayed the crimson six-pointed pattern of the Mangekyo Sharingan.
"Aaahhh!!!"
Sasuke clenched his fists and let out a heart-wrenching roar.
The dark seals on his body, which had previously bound him, continued to fade away at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Sasuke regained his mobility and turned to look at Danzo, who was flying backwards.
Danzo was even more shocked, "I didn't expect you to break free from the cursed seal. So this is the power of the Susanoo? It's completely different from before!"
"Hiss!"
Danzo winced, clutching his injured arm. He quickly used Wind Release to accelerate his retreat, putting more distance between himself and Sasuke.
'Is this still the brat who left Konoha? His Chakra is completely different from before.'
Danzo couldn't believe the change in Sasuke's power.
Sasuke remained silent, his Susanoo now fully manifested, with only its half-formed armored warrior standing tall.
The massive warrior's left hand gripped a violet-colored bow that materialized out of thin air. Susanoo's right hand pulled back on the bowstring, and a long arrow, glowing with purple energy, was drawn and aimed.
"Crack!"
Just as Danzo landed on the ground, the long arrow shot toward him with blinding speed.
'He aimed my landing spot? I won't have time to form hand seals!'
Danzo narrowed his eye, a look of resignation crossing his face.
Immediately afterwards, the back of his clothes tore open as the arrow slammed into the spot where he had just been standing.
Boom!
The force of the impact kicked up another cloud of dust.
When the smoke cleared, Danzo was nowhere to be found.
To Sasuke's surprise, he saw that Danzo's greyish-white right arm was lodged in a large tree.
'That tree hadn't been there before… it must have been formed by some of Danzo's Ninjutsu.'
'Thanks to it, he had narrowly avoided death.'
Staring at the purple arrow lodged deep in the tree, Danzo muttered, "I barely made it. At least I managed to deflect the arrow's path."
Sasuke squinted his eyes, using his Sharingan to analyze the situation. He could see that Danzo's Chakra had significantly decreased after creating the tree.
However, Sasuke couldn't understand why Danzo had gone to such lengths to dodge the Susanoo's attack.
'Up until now, Danzo had always relied on his strange immortality to face attacks head-on, never trying to evade.'
'Something wasn't right!'
Suddenly, Sasuke remembered the hand seals Danzo had performed when he had immobilized him earlier.
'Was that when Danzo had used the strange immortality?'
'So that's it! If he hadn't spent his Chakra to create the tree to block the arrow, he would have surely been killed.'
'So, if I acted now, I will definitely be able to kill Danzo!'
With this realization, Sasuke quickly drew his bow again, determined to finish what he had started.
'Has it been discovered? But it's already too late.'
Danzo pulled back his right hand that was fused with the tree and swiftly formed a series of hand seals.
Just as the purple arrow was about to reach him, Danzo completed his hand seals.
Boom!
The arrow hit the ground with a thunderous impact, sending dust flying everywhere.
'I wonder if I made it in time.'
Sasuke muttered, breathing heavily. His eyes were already tinged with bloodshot veins. Using Susanoo was incredibly draining on both his Chakra and his vision, and now that he had to use Susanoo's special abilities, his physical strength was quickly waning.
As the dust began to settle, Sasuke saw Danzo's body had been struck by the arrow. He was about to smile in relief, but then… Danzo's figure vanished from the point where the arrow had pierced him and reappeared just under three meters away, completely unharmed.
"Dammit!"
Sasuke clenched his teeth in frustration but quickly reminded himself to stay calm.
The true power of the Sharingan lay in observation, in detecting the enemy's weaknesses and exploiting them to deliver a lethal strike.
Watching Danzo looking down at his Sharingan, Sasuke discovered that there were a total of ten Sharingan on Danzo's arms, and three of them were closed at this moment.
''No, there is another one that is gradually closing.'
'So that's how it is!' Sasuke realized, 'His immortality must be intricately connected to the Sharingan on his arms.'
'Not only that, his Chakra began to weaken again at a very fast speed.'
'It seems that it is not that easy to perform this immortality secret technique, so he had just released the secret technique in order to preserve the Chakra for a longer battle.'
Just as he was thinking this, Sasuke suddenly spat out a large mouthful of blood.
'Chance!'
Danzo narrowed his eye and quickly closed the distance between them.
Sasuke had no choice but to call upon Susanoo again, firing a purple arrow at Danzo in desperation.
Whoosh!
The arrow found its mark, piercing Danzo in the center of his chest. Blood splattered out of his mouth, indicating a fatal wound.
However, in the blink of an eye, Danzo appeared several meters away from his 'corpse', his wounds fully healed.
His clothes were also completely intact.
'It didn't make sense… how could his clothes be perfectly restored while his body healed?'
'This immortality technique of his wasn't just about being unkillable. There was something else at play here.'
Sasuke had a strange feeling, a sense of déjà vu, as if he had seen this kind of ability before. But Danzo's relentless attack didn't give Sasuke any time to think.
"Summoning Technique!"
Danzo quickly formed another series of hand seals.
Bang!
The ground erupted in a burst of white smoke, followed by the sound of a monstrous elephant trumpeting. As the smoke dissipated, a massive orange elephant, towering over thirty meters in height, appeared out of thin air.
Its gigantic tusks glistened, and its massive mouth opened wide, sucking in the surrounding air with incredible force.
The wind pressure from the elephant's breath was so intense that even Sasuke, within the protection of Susanoo, felt his body trembling as though it might be lifted off the ground.
His Susanoo, however, had both hands dug deep into the earth. Sasuke was grateful that he was only using a half-formed Susanoo, otherwise the force of the wind would have been far too great and could have dragged them both into the elephant's maw.
"Damn monster!"
Sasuke gritted his teeth, his hatred growing. He really wanted to tear this beast to pieces.
But Sasuke was mistaken, as this wasn't an elephant.
It was actually Baku, a creature from legend.