” Under the emergency aid of the two Senju, Danzo’s breathing finally stabilized.
Opening his eyes, the first thing Danzo saw was Tobirama Senju’s reassuring face.
He blinked in confusion before confirming that he hadn’t died on the spot.
His HP sat at 12 points.
He had roughly three or four days left in this time period.
Enough.
He closed his eyes to clear his head, then slowly sat upright with Tobirama Senju’s support.
This body was now terrifyingly emaciated, like a withered branch about to die, ready to snap with the slightest exertion.
“Tobirama-sensei…” He drew a deeper breath to speak, only to break into an immediate cough.
Refusing Tobirama’s offer of further treatment, he managed to regulate his breathing and sat up straight in a proper seiza posture.
“Please…
please listen carefully to the discovery I have made…” “Someone is deliberately orchestrating the destruction of both the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan.” “Monkey…
Hiruzen Sarutobi was merely an instigator driven by greed.” Seeing him naturally use a fond nickname for his strayed friend before casually switching back to a cold, formal name, Tobirama felt a pang of pity.
Still, he sat down across from him, adopting an attentive posture.
Hashirama Senju glanced at the silently brooding Madara Uchiha, then at Izuna Uchiha, who had also sat down to listen.
He decided to hear out what Danzo knew first.
“In the Uchiha Clan’s Naka Shrine, there is a stone tablet inscribed with text that only the Uchiha Clan’s Sharingan can decipher,” Danzo chose this opening topic to capture all four men’s attention at once, having already prepared a justification for how he obtained this secret.
“Kagami…
once took me to see it.
He told me that when he awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan, he would read even more of it.” Noticing the confusion of the two Uchiha, Tobirama Senju helpfully chimed in, “Kagami Uchiha was also one of my students.” Danzo continued.
Because he was spinning such a tale to deceive four of his “elders,” a faint blush of embarrassment crept onto his cheeks.
“The first time I saw it, there were only six lines of bizarre symbols.
Kagami used his Sharingan to pull me into a Genjutsu so I could decipher a little bit.
It said something about gods dividing the world into Yin and Yang to preserve stability…
I didn’t really understand what it meant back then…” Pausing for a second, Danzo added a few details to make his story more convincing.
“After all, back then Kagami snuck me past the Uchiha patrols to look at it secretly.
The illusion he created with his Sharingan was so pretty that I just ended up playing around.
I didn’t memorize much of the detailed text.” Hashirama Senju: …
Tobirama Senju: …
Madara Uchiha: …
Izuna Uchiha: …
Wait a minute, you said *what*?
Kagami Uchiha snuck you in to see the Uchiha Clan’s secret stone tablet?
And you went inside Kagami Uchiha’s Genjutsu to *play*?
And Kagami Uchiha’s Genjutsu was *pretty*?
Looking at Danzo—whose cheeks were blushing from weaving his lies—all four men simultaneously misconstrued the situation and gasped in shock.
Tobirama Senju knew how rigid and serious this student normally was.
At this moment, he couldn’t help asking to confirm, “You saw it inside Kagami’s Genjutsu?” Danzo nodded.
As if remembering something fond, his expression softened.
“At first, Kagami told me what he could see.
I wanted to see it too, so I asked him to help me.” “He told me to look into his Sharingan, and I entered his Genjutsu world.
Inside, I could see an exact duplicate of the tablet, but I could actually read the text.” “Once I finished reading it, I lost interest, played around in the Genjutsu world for a bit, and then stopped.” Izuna Uchiha was utterly shocked.
“You wanted to see it so he just helped you?
He told you to look into his Sharingan and you actually looked?!” Danzo looked at him as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
“Of course.
That was Kagami.” An Uchiha recognized by Tobirama Senju had to be a super positive and wholesome guy, right?
Hashirama, Madara, and Izuna looked at Danzo—whose face was filled with nostalgia and gentle fondness, completely oblivious to how dangerous his position had been back then—and then turned simultaneously to glare at Tobirama.
Tobirama Senju…
your…
your student is…
*both* of your students are…