"Byakugan…?"
Danzo stared wide-eyed at Kirito's silver eyes, his voice sharp with disbelief.
"Impossible! How could the Byakugan resist the power of the Mangekyō?!"
But in the next moment, Kirito's silver pupils began to shift once more. The pale glow contracted inward toward his irises, and at the edges of his pupils, a deep blue shimmer emerged, like the endless cosmos.
"What kind of eye technique is this?!"
Danzo's gaze trembled. A sharp pain surged from his right eye, and for the first time, he felt fear. The Mangekyō Sharingan, the pinnacle of the Uchiha clan's power, was supposed to be invincible in genjutsu. Yet here it was, countered and repelled.
Kirito slowly raised his hand.
Danzo's face twisted. He reacted instantly, retreating several meters with a sudden leap.
But Kirito didn't move to pursue. He simply raised his palm toward Danzo, and clenched his fingers into a grasping motion.
"What?!"
Danzo felt it, like an invisible giant hand had seized him, a crushing suction force pulling his body through the air.
He was pulled in, completely unable to resist. His body hurtled toward Kirito.
Danzo's heart thundered in alarm. This had all happened too fast. From capturing Kirito, to the failure of his Mangekyō, to this moment, where even a simple hand gesture seemed to distort space itself.
"Damn it… I don't have time to form a seal!"
No time. No hand signs. If he could activate Izanagi again, perhaps he could survive. But now, even that was impossible.
Kirito's fist clenched.
A simple punch with no technique. But the air howled, and the power behind it-
"BOOM!"
The earth shattered.
On the surface, the battle between Konoha and the invading Sand and Sound ninja had just ended. As the dust settled, the ground quaked violently beneath them.
Then, a deafening explosion. A burst of green light erupted from a narrow alleyway. A massive tree, its roots tearing through concrete, burst forth from the cracked street and grew at an impossible speed. Within seconds, it had become a towering colossus.
Every Konoha ninja stood in stunned silence.
A tree, rising from asphalt, and reaching the sky in seconds? That defied all natural laws.
"Oi, Kakashi… is that what I think it is?"
Bloody and exhausted, Might Guy slumped to the ground, back-to-back with his oldest friend.
Kakashi silently rose to his feet and lifted his forehead protector, revealing his Sharingan.
"…Let's go."
Elsewhere, throughout the village, shinobi were still processing the tremor when a sudden mental pulse hit their minds, a telepathic broadcast.
"Coordinates: Sector 27, southeast quadrant. All available units, converge immediately."
The voice came from Yamanaka Inoichi.
Throughout the battle, the Yamanaka clan had been working behind the scenes to coordinate Konoha's forces, relaying critical intel.
"We're going too, Kurenai!"
"You can't, Asuma! You're still injured!"
"The old man fulfilled his mission. Now it's my turn…"
Unlike the cold, detached operatives of the Root Division, the ANBU under the Hokage retained their hearts. They were still human, and after the death of the Third Hokage, they didn't fall into disarray. Instead, they rallied.
"All units, move!"
One by one, Konoha's remaining shinobi began to converge on the location. Even those who didn't know what was happening were quickly informed by Yamanaka scouts.
The first to arrive were two of Konoha's top jōnin, Hatake Kakashi and Might Guy.
"That tree… is someone fighting on top of it?" Guy shielded his eyes and squinted upward.
Kakashi looked, and his gaze instantly sharpened.
"That's Danzo… the leader of Root!"
But what stunned him more was who Danzo was fighting:
Hyuga Kirito.
And Danzo, was losing.
Kakashi's eyes narrowed. He had served in Root. He knew firsthand the pressure Danzo radiated. A ninja from the same generation as the Third, Danzo was a shadowy force, a figure of immense power recorded in Konoha's most classified archives. An elite of Kage-level strength.
And yet, he was being crushed.
"Urgh!"
Danzo's right arm was torn from the elbow down. With one hand gone, he could no longer form seals, and was now being brutalized.
At this rate, in less than a minute, Shimura Danzo, Kage-level powerhouse, would fall.
By now, more shinobi had reached the scene.
"Danzo?!"
Nara Shikaku was the first to identify him. His heart skipped a beat, but his calm returned quickly. His eyes then landed on the young man fighting Danzo, and froze.
"…Isn't that the Hyuga boy?"
"Kirito?!"
Hyuga Hiashi's voice cracked in disbelief. He turned, and his expression darkened further.
Across the tree, Asuna had a blade to her throat.
"Princess!!"
"That chakra signature,"
Yamanaka Inoichi narrowed his eyes, staring at Asuna.
"That's our clan's technique!"
"Hyuga Kirito! Stand down, or I'll kill her!"
Yamanaka Fū shouted, trying to turn the tides.
For a second, Kirito froze. His fierce assault came to an abrupt halt. Then, wordlessly, he turned around, and flicked a card from his fingers.
"Trap Card: Seal of the Hexagram"
"Wha-?!"
Fū had no time to react before a glowing six-pointed star surrounded him, locking him in place.
His body froze, completely immobilized.
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