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  A Few Minutes Ago.

  The Root headquarters which was typically shrouded in silence, echoed with the arm of an unpreted attack. On one side an unknown enemy infiltrated the base and escaped with items of immense value. Oher side the Hokage of the vilge had unched a secret attad was eliminating an unstable factor.

  Danzo escaped from the unknown masked enemy and was making his way through the dark halls while clutg the bleeding stump where his right arm once was. He gritted his teeth in anger and pain as he recalled the losses he suffered.

  'Not only was Shisui's Mangekyo stolen but he also mao take my arm. That bastard.'

  Blood seeped through his bandages as he moved, fnked by seven of his most trusted Root operatives. Suddenly the team sensed a Root ninja ing to their location. They were o and were on guard against everyone. But when they saw who had arrived they immediately let the ninja heir ander.

  It was one of the rare medijas trained by the Foundation. "Do you have it, Kui?" Asked Danzo impatiently.

  "Yes lord Danzo. I barely mao escape before Anbu raided the b but I have it." The new Root ninja appeared with a scroll in his hand. He ope and a pale arm appeared from the scroll.

  "Quickly. We don't have time to waste." Danzo ordered and removed the bao his right shoulder.

  The medija quickly began attag the arm to Danzo's stump.

  'So this is what Shigaraki was able to create with the samples from my arm. Too bad he couldn't recreate the Sharingan.' Danzo thought to himself as he looked at the prosthetic created by his stist from the samples taken from his Sharingan wielding arm.

  The medic shinobi did an excellent job at quickly attag the arm to Danzo and transferring a rge amount of his own chakra to the old ninja. By the time Kui pleted his work he was unsteady and sooo the side unscious.

  Danzo took one look at the root ninja and ordered the others to move. "We don't have time to waste."

  With most of his strength and chakra returned, Danzo moved much faster through the halls with his men surrounding him. As he neared a rge chamber at the end of the hall a warning suddenly came from one of his men.

  "Lord Danzo!" A warning which stopped the old man in his tracks.

  Danzo's eyes narrowed as he and the Root ninjas slowly stepped into a vast chamber within the underground base.

  Across the room stood Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Third Hokage, apanied by three Anbu operatives, their animal masks cealing their identities.

  Hiruzen was surprised by Danzo's state. 'Based on his appeara seems he's already gohrough a fight. But with who?'

  Just as Hiruzen was scrutinizing Danzo, the old war hawk was doing the same. 'It seems he's e here prepared for battle. After all these years, is this how it ends between us?'

  Shing!

  The sound of bdes being drawn on both sides could be heard.

  Danzo looked at Hiruzen and remembered the days when they were young, wheraiogether, when they fought together and ter in life when he saw the Sed Hokage pass the mao his friend and rival. Finally his eyes sharpened and he made a resolute decision. "So it's e to this huh Hiruzen."

  "Yes."

  Even when Danzo heard that determined reply he could still see a spark of hesitatiret in the Hokage's eyes. 'Hiruzen, if yoing to do something, do it boldly.'

  "Danzo-"

  Just before the old kage could say anything else Danzo made it easy for him. "There's no need for any more words Hiruzen." The Root ander knew his rade best and khings had reached a point of urn. "Let's settle this."

  Hiruzen uood the meaning of Danzo's words and internally gathered his chakra. "So be it."

  The tension was thick, the air became charged with the promise of violence. All ninjas teheir muscles and gathered their chakra. The ground uhe feet of the Hokage and the Root ander cracked and small rock particles floated in the air.

  The Anbu and Root felt the true presend power of the two veteran ninjas pressing down on them.

  'This much chakra. They're not pying around. It looks like this is going to be a life or death battle.' The Root ninjas tensed as they gazed at the power of the Hokage.

  'So Danzo still has this much power? I suppose it shouldn't e as a surprise. He's the man who peted for the position of Hokage.' The three Anbu were outnumbered but they were unafraid.

  Without another word, the two old friends turned foes unched into battle. Hiruzen moved first, f rapid hand seals.

  'Earth style - Raging Mud River.'

  The floor beh Danzo and his men instantly turned into a fast flowing river of mud. The one-eyed ninja and his Root ninjas instantly jumped to safety.

  Danzo nded on the ceiling with three others near him while the other four jumped and stuck to the walls.

  Immediately the three Anbu standing near Hokage got to work. The one wearing a mask with a Hawk painted on quickly weaved seals for a ninjutsu.

  'Earth style - Earth Dragon bomb.'

  The target of the jutsu was not Danzo but his men. Specifically the four on the wall. While the Root ninjas were evading or blog the jutsu, the other two Anbu made their move.

  The Anbu shinobi with the mask of stern weaved several seals while the one wearing the tiger mask took out multiple shuriken and threw with speed and precision. He immediately went through a couple of seals and blew out a powerful current of air that increased the speed ahality of the shurikens by multiple folds.

  They targeted one of the Root ninjas who escaped from the earth dragon and was away from his teammates.

  In seds the targeted Root ninja was riddled with shuriken ao the floor dead.

  Danzo, who was standing upside down on the ceiling, watched the whole se and narrowed his eyes.

  "Genjutsu." Suddenly one of the Root ninjas near him spoke. "Hawk distracted and separated him with his Earth style jutsu while S him in a reality distortiosu, while Tiger attacked. To him the shurikens might not have existed or he might not have been aware that he was utack." The root ninja gave a quick expnation and Danzo sneered.

  'Teamwork huh. It seems they were handpicked by Hiruzen and had special training. They're looking to end this quickly. This is going to be tricky.'

  "Pair up ahose Anbu busy." Danzo gave the order ahrough several hand seals. Immediately the root ninjas went for the three masked Anbu.

  Hiruzen, seeing the enemy ing, spoke quickly. "Remember. It's not two against o's six against three."

  The Anbu ninjas nodded and moved like the wind. They froheir enemies in the middle of the room while Danzo attacked Hiruzen with multiple vacuum bullets.

  Hiruzen swiftly dodged to the side while Danzo kept spitting out several fast air bullets. The Hokage immediately went through a seal and a stone pilr appeared in front of him defleg multiple attacks from Danzo.

  The very sed when Danzo stopped to take his breath Hiruzen rushed from behind the pilr. He took out a shuriken and flung it at his enemy and quickly made a couple of seals.

  'Ninja art - Shuriken Shadow e jutsu.'

  One shuriken became several and was quickly heading for Danzo. The one-eyed old ninja took out a kunai and i with wind chakra extending its cutting power and range.

  Even with his vision halved, Danzo expertly cut through all the deadly flying ons ing at him. But just as he destroyed the st flying star the Hokage was on him and the kage had a small current of electricity cirg around his right hand.

  'Lightning style - Paralysis point.'

  Hiruzen's jutsu made tact. His right arm touched Danzo's shoulder and a powerful electric current spread to the old ninja's entire body, paralyzing him.

  "Grr…!" Danzo grunted for a moment and focused on his chakra nature. He immediately charged the wind nature chakra throughout his body. He swiftly tered the lightning jutsu a oack.

  Hiruzen dodged the deadly attacks from the kunai while parrying and defleg several strong punches aimed for his ned heart.

  Suddenly Danzo saw another Hiruzen ing from behind the stone pilr. His eyes moved to the one near him. 'Just as I suspected. He had a shadow e attack me while waiting to move in on an opening.'

  The Hokage figure fighting Danzo suddenly grabbed onto his arms holding the Root ander in pce while the sed Hiruzen immediately went through several seals for another jutsu.

  'Is he going to use his fire style jutsu?' Danzo gathered his wind chakra and began preparing defensive measures.

  But uedly the sed Hiruzen suddenly jumped away from the two while the man holding firm to Danzo turo mud.

  Danzo was taken aback by that move. 'Why is he-'

  Before he could plete his thought he saw several paper bombs appearing in the chest of the mud e and his eyes widened.

  "HO-" BOOM!

  An explosion rocked the chamber making the other ninjas retreat to the side.

  Hiruzen, who was safe from the explosion, watched the dust and smoke with caution. A few seds ter he sensed movement and was on guard. Suddenly from the smoke came three shuriken enhanced with wind chakra flying straight at him.

  Hiruzen kneeled and immediately went through a few seals and pced his hands on the ground. 'Earth style - Mud wall jutsu.'

  Just as the defense wall sprang up, Danzo's spiraling wind shurikens came and it cut through the wall like a hot khrough butter. But the defesu did its job ahe user safe from harm.

  Hiruzen stood and looked ahead. The smoke had cleared and he saw Danzo with small burns on his skin and charred clothes but he didn't suffer a mortal injury.

  Danzo stood and took several deep breaths as he looked at his rival. 'His battle senses are as sharp as ever.'

  The one-eyed man took a step forward as he felt the powerful healing chakra of the first Hokage's cells w on him. He needed a few moments and Danzo decided to stall for time no matter how short it might be.

  "It wasn't a shadow e that hit me with that Lightning jutsu. It was you. Your e appeared just when I seemed to be at a disadvao fool me and take me off guard and then you used substitution with that mud e that had paper bombs." Danzo's tone revealed nothing as he looked at the old kage.

  Hiruzen nodded as he took a step forward as well. "Yes, and you created a Wind style defense barrier at the st sed and saved yourself. But I have to say, you've disappointed me Danzo."

  The leader of the Root frowned when he heard that.

  "You would never have fallen for such a simple tacti the olden days. Your skills and intuition have dulled."

  Hiruzen's words struck a nerve in Danzo. His eyes narrowed and he ched his fists. "We'll see about that."

  Danzo bit his thumb and drew a seal on his palm.

  'The Baku.' Hiruzen's eyes widened as he realized what his rival was about to do and immediately he went through several seals.

  "Summoning Jutsu!"

  "Fire Style - Dragon Fme Bomb!"

  Smoke covered the area near Danzo and a giant creature appeared within it. It destroyed the ceiling due to its sheer size.

  Just theemperature of the room suddenly soared and an e light could be seen ing from Hiruzen's position. A massive torrent of fmes roared towards Danzo and his summoning creature. The heat was intehreatening to ie everything in its path.

  Danzo, who the creature, went through seals and pced a hand atop its head. A colboration ninjutsu with his summoning creature.

  "Wind style - R Hurrie."

  Two ninjutsu of opposite natures cshed into each other with ferocious force.

  Hiruzen grimaced as he already khe oute of the frontation. 'I was too te. I 't waste chakra fronting his wind style jutsu head on.'

  The Hokage cut off chakra to his jutsu and immediately moved away from his position.

  The fmes of the fire style jutsu now increased in size and power due to the wind style jutsu returo Hiruzen's position and it blew through several walls demonstrating its fearsome power.

  Danzo was keeping an eye on his foe and he immediately made a seal. The Baku located Hiruzen and began sug in a rge amount of air. The loose debris in the room immediately flew into its mouth and got crushed.

  Hiruzen gritted his teeth and held on to the floor with his chakra to avoid getting sucked in.

  Danzo swiftly made a hand seal and created a shadow e. The e jumped off and rushed towards Hiruzen's back while avoiding the attack of his own summon.

  Both the e and the real Danzo were weaving hand seals.

  Hiruzen, who was keeping a close eye on his enemy, saw through the pn. 'A pincer maneuver. He's pinned me down and will now attack from both sides.'

  "Wind Style - Vacuum Wave." The e sent a rge powerful ssh through the air and it was swiftly making its way towards the Hokage.

  "Wind style - Vacuum bullet rain." From atop the summoning creature Baku, Danzo sent dozens of bullets towards Hiruzen.

  Adrenaline rushed through the old Kage's body and his mind worked faster than it had been in a long time. In a sed he went through the best option and even thought about the several moves.

  The Hokage stopped the chakra flow to his feet and hands a go. His body immediately flew from that spot and headed towards the summoning creature Baku's mouth.

  Just as his body flew away, the spot where he stood was riddled aroyed with multiple attacks from both Danzos. Hiruzen, who was mid air, immediately went through seals that were familiar to Danzo.

  The Root ander sneered and immediately made a seal to ter the ing fire jutsu. 'The Fire Dragon jutsu. You pn to take out my Baku using my attack against me huh. You think it'll be that easy?'

  The Baku quickly stopped inhaling and suddenly began exhaling with all its might. But the couple seds interval dey between the creature's inhation aion was the opportunity Hiruzen was truly looking for.

  A shadow e immediately appeared he Hokage, grabbed and tossed his body towards the dire of Danzo's shadow e. A sed ter the shadow e was destroyed by the powerful wind created by Danzo's summon.

  "Fire style - Fire Dragon Jutsu!"

  The real Hiruzen spit out a massive fire dragon and it was headed straight for Danzo's shadow e. Before it could put up a good defe was engulfed by the fmes and turo smoke.

  Danzo, atop the massive creature, was irritated. 'He was never aiming for my summon. My e was his target the whole time.'

  "ROARR!"

  Danzo made a seal and his summoning creature rushed forward and smmed its trunk atop Hiruzen. But when it lifted the massive appendage, only a few broken rock pieces could be seen.

  "Substitution." Danzo muttered as he looked below.

  "Poof!"

  Danzo turned his head and saw a human shaped figure in the smoke that appeared near Hiruzen. 'So he's finally summoned him huh.'

  The summoning creature Monkey King Enma stood beside Hiruzen and he gazed at Danzo. "So you're finally doing it huh?" Enma asked.

  "Yes."

  "Hmph! You better not make the same mistake as before."

  Hiruzen knew what his summon was referring to. A moment of weakness when he fronted his noard student.

  Hiruzen's eyes focused as he looked up at Danzo. "Don't worry. My resolve won't weaken this time."

  "The's do this." Enma looked at his partner and nodded.

  Both Hiruzen and Danzo were ready for round two.

  Author's note;

  inally before the beginning of the root invasion arc, i wanted danzo to fight Hiruzen with his sharingan arm.

  The pn was that daichi would attack danzo and make him use three sharingan and then danzo would escape while the root held daichi back. Then Danzo would meet hiruzen and he'd have 7 sharingan remaining on his arm and they would fight.

  But with daiow taking that arm I had to e up with another way to boost danzo's

  Power. I have wao write about this frontation sihe beginning of this story. Its why.

  The root arc will be pleted in a feters and the tsunade arc will be pleted soon after.

  For anyone w why daichi didn't get special skill for wisdom 400 points, its because those skills appear at 100 points, 300 and 500.

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