Not Shisui Uchiha?!
Then who else could it be?!!
Sasuke Uchiha? Impossible!
Though news had recently spread that Sasuke Uchiha had killed Itachi Uchiha, this masked man had appeared 15 years ago—when Sasuke was only one or two years old.
Danzō Shimura racked his brain, but he couldn't figure out who this Uchiha really was.
"Wood Release: Revolt of Hell!"
With Obito Uchiha's next strike, the final Sharingan on Danzō Shimura's hand closed.
Surveying the corpses scattered across the ground, even the Baku—his last delaying tactic—had been swiftly defeated. Danzō could never have imagined that this one man alone would destroy Konoha's 'Root'!
Unable to activate Izanagi, he turned and fled in desperation, hoping his familiarity with the 'Root' base would give him time to escape.
So close...
Just a little more, and he could have...
He had forgotten that the masked man behind him was impervious to any physical barriers. His unique, Intangibility-enhanced dōjutsu allowed him to pass freely through any trap or seal!
Thud.
The chakra-infused black rod struck Danzō Shimura's heart once more.
One strike, one kill...
He didn't even have time to activate the Four Symbols Seal.
As his consciousness faded, the world blurred before his eyes.
He looked at the man dressed in black...
A white face, a long vertical scar slicing through his left eyelid.
Kakashi Hatake?!!!
Had he activated the Mangekyō Sharingan using Obito Uchiha's eye and his own abilities?!
How could you have been hiding in Konoha all these years!
"Hatake—"
At that moment, the masked man shifted his mask aside, revealing half a face twisted by horrific scars.
No! He wasn't Kakashi Hatake!
Danzō Shimura's pupils contracted violently, but not a single word escaped his lips!
This man was...
'Obito Uchiha...'
Normally, before Danzō Shimura's death, his Wood Release would have erupted uncontrollably, consumed by Hashirama's cells.
But perhaps because Obito Uchiha's final strike was also Wood Release, Danzō Shimura's death, though brutal, preserved that arm—like incriminating evidence—intact.
And as his breath stopped and his heart ceased beating, all of his Sharingan eyes opened simultaneously!
A dozen Sharingan eyes opened together! It was as if, in his final moments, his unwilling heart attempted to keep the deep-rooted hatred in his soul alive, forcing his eyes to open wide in anger and despair!
Anyone witnessing this scene would feel...
The souls of the Uchiha clan still clinging to Danzō Shimura, cursing him, yearning to see him die in agony.
Having helped Konoha destroy Danzō Shimura and sever the long-rotting 'Root' buried beneath the village, Obito Uchiha found his body turning a translucent milky white.
It was time to leave.
It was a shame he hadn't had the chance to test this parallel world, to see if he could seal Black Zetsu using known methods.
He only managed to glance one last time at Danzō Shimura's corpse on the ground. With his body still in control, he extended two fingers of his left hand and pressed them into the socket of Danzō's right eye.
Then, without hesitation, he gouged out the Mangekyō Sharingan that had once belonged to Shisui Uchiha.
The moment it landed in his hand, the cooldown ended, and the eye became usable once more.
Kotoamatsukami...
It was said to be the most powerful mental genjutsu, and its effects lasted—forever.
Just before returning to his original world, he pulled himself entirely into the Dōjutsu space, shoving both Young Kakashi and Young Obito Uchiha out.
Seeing the corpse of Danzō Shimura, the young Kakashi and young Obito—suddenly pushed out by the masked man—were both horrified by the arm with the Sharingan, their bodies tingling with disgust!
In this critical moment, young Obito Uchiha turned from a wise second into a wise ten! He quickly pulled out the camera Naruto had given him from his ninja pouch and snapped several consecutive shots with a 'click, click, click'!
Almost god-tier timing!
As their bodies returned to Naruto's parallel world, several photos drifted out from the exit of the camera.
The two of them picked up the photos from the ground.
This was undoubtedly the most damning evidence of Danzō secretly hoarding Sharingan eyes and persecuting the Uchiha clan!!
Exchanging a glance, they immediately rushed to Minato Namikaze and Naruto Uzumaki's room.
"Minato-sensei! Minato-sensei, have you turned in for the night?!"
Minato Namikaze opened the door in a flash, dressed in his usual Konoha ninja attire. Though he had called it a day, he remained prepared to battle this world's Obito Uchiha at any moment.
"What's happening?!" Seeing the unharmed young Obito and young Kakashi at the door, Minato Namikaze's worries eased somewhat.
The room next door belonged to the young Kakashi and Sasuke Uchiha. Hearing the commotion, they hurriedly pushed their door open.
"What is it?! Did the masked man appear?!!" Sasuke demanded urgently.
Peering past Sasuke, their eyes froze upon seeing Adult Kakashi.
Not long ago, they had been trapped in the Masked Man's Kamui's Dimension, constantly surrounded by the corpse of the Adult Kakashi.
Seeing the Adult Kakashi behind Sasuke, Obito finally exhaled in relief. His greatest fear had been that the corpse in Kamui's Dimension was this very Kakashi before him. After all, they'd lived side by side for two months. If that had truly been the case...
...he would have been devastated!
Under their gaze, Adult Kakashi looked puzzled.
"Is there something strange about me?" He touched his face—no issues, the mask was perfectly in place.
Sasuke wasn't like Naruto; he wouldn't choose to play pranks at night for no reason.
Shaking his head, Obito and young Kakashi decided the matter was too complicated. Handing the photos to Minato-sensei was more important for now.
"We'll discuss that later," Obito handed over the photos. "Minato-sensei, we've obtained evidence of Danzō Shimura persecuting the Uchiha!"
"What?!"
Minato Namikaze took the photos.
Sasuke Uchiha, standing beside him, immediately demanded, "Let me see!!"
Due to height differences, Kakashi could peek slightly and see the three photos in Minato-sensei's hands. Since they were consecutive shots, the differences weren't stark.
But what was unmistakably clear...
In the photo, the man lying face-up on the ground was undoubtedly Danzō Shimura. The bandage covering his right eye had been torn to shreds, and his eyeball had been gouged out from within.
Most crucially, Danzō's right arm bore a color as revolting as rotting flesh. Those densely packed crimson eyes embedded within the arm—they were the Uchiha clan's Sharingan!!
The moment Minato Namikaze and Kakashi Hatake saw the photos, their expressions could only be described as horrified and grotesque!
Sasuke couldn't contain his urgency, "What the hell is in those photos?!!"
Kakashi Hatake glanced at him, weighing his student's psychological resilience.
"I think you should brace yourself first, Sasuke."
"Brace myself?!!" Sasuke's expression darkened further. Just how bad could it be that Kakashi needed to warn him to prepare mentally?!
Standing beside Minato Namikaze, Naruto Uzumaki glanced at his father, then at Kakashi-sensei. He silently cursed that old bastard Danzō Shimura within himself, feeling indignant on Sasuke's behalf.
Only after confirming Sasuke had some mental fortitude did Minato Namikaze, at his urging, place the photograph before him and Naruto.
"!!!!"
In that instant, Sasuke's two-tomoe Sharingan eyes transformed into two three-tomoe eyes!!
Naruto noticed the change in Sasuke's eyes. Looking at the photo's contents, he could feel the shock and rage surging within his friend. That disgusting arm made him want to vomit just looking at it—let alone Sasuke. What kind of humiliating ordeal could have caused this?
The Sharingan was the pride of the Uchiha Clan, yet it had been inlaid onto such a monstrous arm.
Minato Namikaze: "It's not just the Uchiha clan. Look closely…"
He pointed to the area near Danzō Shimura's right shoulder in the photograph.
"This face... it should be the face of Hashirama-sama. Remember the wooden effigy of the First Hokage we saw in the tunnel we dug through Madara Uchiha?"
"What do you mean?!" Sasuke's rage clouded his judgment. Even simple logic couldn't break through his thoughts, his anger completely focused on that disgusting old man, Danzō Shimura!
Kakashi Hatake spoke: "I possess only Obito's Sharingan eye, and even that is incredibly difficult to control. Normally, nearly half my chakra gets automatically drained by this eye. But Danzō Shimura has at least ten Sharingan eyes just on his arm! How does he balance their power?"
Sasuke: "!!!!"
"He used the First Hokage's cells!" Naruto's face twisted with contempt. "He transplanted the First Hokage's cells into his own arm. It's like he had the First Hokage suppress the power of Sasuke's own kin!!"
The depravity of his intentions, the vileness of his purpose!
If Hashirama-sama were here again, he'd surely explode his chakra and slay Danzō with his own hands!
Sasuke clenched the photograph, his eyes blazing with fury, as though he could burn holes right through it.
But he wouldn't. He needed to keep this proof to personally destroy Danzō and his Root organization!
"Did Itachi know about this?" Sasuke asked Minato Namikaze.
"I believe he most likely didn't know…"
Recalling the mission scroll in Uchiha's possession, the top SSS-rank mission was to retrieve the Sharingan from the Uchiha Clan.
"I'll give Itachi Uchiha a copy of the photo first thing tomorrow morning."
"No! Don't wait until tomorrow! I'm going to find him right now!!"
Sasuke snatched the photo from his hand, disregarding the hour, and leaped out the window, charging straight into the nearby rogue ninja lodging!!
Moments later, Itachi Uchiha was brought before them. Rin Nohara and Sakura Haruno descended from upstairs. Seeing the photo filled them with disgust, but they also worried for both Obito and Sasuke.
On the surface, Itachi appeared far calmer than Sasuke.
But Kisame Hoshigaki, who had been by his side before departure, knew the truth. Lately, things had been unusually quiet. Most of the time, Itachi-san sat by the window, gazing at the fields across from the house. His dark eyes would even soften when he saw Zabuza and that Haku brat together.
Yet, upon seeing the photo...
Itachi activated his Sharingan.
This signaled that his good mood had vanished, replaced by pure rage and murderous intent after seeing the photograph.
Even with his Sharingan active, Itachi Uchiha still politely nodded in greeting to Minato Namikaze and Kakashi Hatake.
"May I ask first, where did this photograph come from?"
The others waited for the answers from young Obito Uchiha and young Kakashi.
Young Obito glanced at Adult Kakashi, then deliberately or not, pulled out the mission scroll from his ninja pouch.
Everyone saw the final mission on the scroll—
[Mission Rank: A-rank]
[Mission Content: Battle the Masked Man for no fewer than 15 rounds.]
[Mission Status: Completed.]
Sasuke: "When did you guys fight the masked man?!!"
"Well..." Obito checked the time, "about half an hour ago."
After traveling to another parallel world, they had returned to the same point in time as before the time travel. So, by calculation, they had only spent a little over half an hour battling the masked man within Kamui's Dimension.
Itachi studied the photograph. The man depicted, Danzō Shimura, was clearly already dead.
If this world's Danzō had perished, Konoha would not remain completely silent.
"This Danzō isn't the one from our world, is he? The bounty for an A-rank mission is… You've likely undergone another time travel journey."
Itachi analyzed rationally.
"Given your abilities, to kill Danzō Shimura—especially within his heavily booby-trapped lair—I underestimated your skills. But Danzō is no easy target."
Minato looked at his two disciples. "So..."
"The one who killed the Danzō from another world was the 'Masked Man,' correct?"