UK:GSW Chapter 358 – Jiraiya Forces Danzo Shimura to His Knees, Captures Him for…
Number Two Danzo Shimura was taken down.
And not peacefully—he fell at the hands of From Warhammer 40K's Return Kakashi Hatake, along with a furious young Jiraiya determined to beat the scum into the ground. Even using Izanagi through the Sharingan in his arm was useless.
This so-called "number one scapegoat king" of the ninja world, in all his "world-shaking wisdom," had schemed to capture Kakashi, planning to control him to obtain the genjutsu game technology and data.
To that end, he finally crawled out of the turtle-shell safety of his Root headquarters to personally "ask" Kakashi for what he wanted.
Originally, Number Two Danzo intended to have his men bring the young Kakashi to the Root base. After all, this was his lair, filled with hidden tricks—used well, even veterans like Jiraiya and Tsunade would fall here.
But Kakashi wasn't playing along. No matter if Root members came in Danzo's name or in the Hokage's name, his stance was like stone—hard and cold. He declared that he served the Hokage, and unless the Hokage herself summoned him, or someone from her trusted circle came, no one could lure him to some suspicious location.
This attitude infuriated Danzo. He fantasized about the day he became Hokage, when he would teach Kakashi who the real Hokage was.
For now, though, that had to wait.
After a few days of stewing, Danzo decided to bring a squad of Root elites, leave his safe base, and in the dead of night, go to Kakashi's home. He had them bait him with a message:
"Kakashi Hatake, do you want to know the truth about your father's suicide? If you do, come to the waterfall at Nanga River."
The Root member tossed the line and fled.
Kakashi's eyes turned cold. He instantly saw through the trap.
Frankly, the clumsy, low-level trick made him speechless. Yet despite such poor craftsmanship, in the past there were always people in the Leaf, and even outsiders, who fell for Danzo's manipulations—proof that the ninja world was a slapdash outfit.
But Kakashi had already planned to deal with Danzo, so he simply "took the bait," going alone.
When the Root ninja reported this, Danzo gave a smug "just as planned" smile.
Soon, Kakashi arrived and met Danzo, who politely began his old routine—threatening him to hand over the genjutsu game technology.
At the same time, he activated a barrier technique to seal the area.
The site was far from the village, cleared of bystanders, and, recalling his failure to contain Shisui Uchiha in the past, Danzo made sure the barrier left no escape.
Kakashi's reaction was simple: "A barrier? Good—it will keep you from escaping."
To Danzo's shock, someone from outside seized control of the barrier by taking down the barrier team. They were elite shinobi from the Hokage's faction.
Danzo realized too late he'd been trapped. He shouted accusations, claiming Hokage Tsunade was attacking a loyal Elder who had bled for the Leaf—pure villain-accuses-first rhetoric.
But Tsunade wasn't even there. The ANBU present were acting under Kakashi's orders.
And then, the young Jiraiya stepped into the barrier.
His eyes toward Danzo radiated boundless rage and icy killing intent.
Outside, the Number Two world's older Jiraiya watched his younger self, his expression complicated, filled with sighs and guilt—guilt toward the young Jiraiya, and toward Nonō Yakushi.
Yes—Nonō Yakushi.
The reason the young Jiraiya was here alongside Kakashi against Danzo was because of her—the late director of the Leaf's orphanage.
During his stay in the Number Two Leaf, the two Jiraiyas had grown close, becoming friends who shared everything except village secrets.
Being the same person, they bonded deeply through artistic exchange.
The younger Jiraiya learned from his older self the weight of words, literary art, and the accumulation of age—things no amount of information alone could grant. The older Jiraiya learned cutting-edge artistic concepts from his younger self: hypnosis, reality-swapping, coercion, invisibility—unheard-of ideas that expanded his horizons.
The younger invited the older to co-create great art in the world of genjutsu games. The older was tempted but said he had to deal with crises like the Akatsuki first.
The younger agreed—they'd form a lifelong art duo once it was over.
Then, in sharing more of themselves, the younger once showed the older the scarf given to him by the main world's Nonō Yakushi. The older asked what it was. The younger was embarrassed, which piqued the older's curiosity until the truth came out: she was an exceptional woman, fit to be a wife, but he feared he couldn't give her happiness or security.
The older, understanding all too well, urged him not to let go—especially since Nonō was a "superb woman" in the younger's own eyes.
The older then took him to see the orphanage in this world, and the Nonō here.
The orphanage itself was fine—since the Uchiha massacre years ago, the Third Hokage had taken it from Danzo's control, improving conditions. Under Tsunade, it stayed decent, though not as good as the main world's.
But this world's Nonō Yakushi was dead—killed on a mission.
The young Jiraiya was struck like by lightning, trembling with grief. The older frowned, baffled why an orphanage director would be sent on missions at all.
They investigated, quickly finding answers through Uchiha Kei, whose intel came via White Zetsu.
Danzo had manipulated events so that Kabuto Yakushi and Nonō Yakushi fought to the death, with Kabuto unknowingly killing her—then breaking down completely, to be taken by this world's Orochimaru and turned into a major villain.
The young Jiraiya's heart filled with pain and suffocating rage. Kabuto had been a bright, polite four-year-old who adored Nonō and even supported her feelings for Jiraiya.
Now, both were destroyed by Danzo.
This was unforgivable.
Thus, the young Jiraiya applied to join the operation against Danzo, even offering to resign his post as the main world's Leaf ambassador. The resignation didn't go through, but Tsunade approved the joint operation as a sign of cooperation between the two Leafs.
And so, Danzo now faced a much younger, far stronger Jiraiya, who wanted nothing more than to annihilate him.
Uchiha Kei, observing remotely through the mental network, played the classic Russian track "Подлуной" ("Under the Moon"), impressing Minato Namikaze so much he considered having Kei supply him with battle BGM in the future.
On the battlefield, Danzo and Root were crushed by the young Jiraiya and Kakashi. Before Danzo could even activate Izanagi, they seized Shisui Uchiha's Mangekyo from his right eye, leaving him only regular Sharingan in his arm.
The young Jiraiya's strength surpassed even his older self's, having mastered perfect Sage Mode. Kakashi, as a Warhammer 40K returnee, needed no further explanation.
Against them, Danzo—who struggled even against an incomplete, half-blind Sasuke—stood no chance.
Within minutes, with the BGM ending, Danzo was down—Sharingan blind, arm severed, gravely injured. Before he could use his final suicide sealing jutsu, the young Jiraiya preemptively sealed him.
Danzo was captured alive.
Though the young Jiraiya wanted to kill him on the spot, public trial took precedence, and he suppressed the urge.
Afterward, Jiraiya declared he would take leave from ambassador duties to return to the main world—clearly to seek out Nonō Yakushi.
Everyone smiled and supported him. The older Jiraiya clapped his shoulder:
"Go. Don't be like me—old, and full of regrets."
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