Naruto: Hayate Blade

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Most of the audience hates Danzo and thinks he is a heinous bastard. This is clear to me from everyone's comments; some people think that Danzo is a hawkish leader who is using strong methods to protect Konoha's interests. And I seem to be neither of the above. I think Danzo is the source of all evil, and 90% of the tragedy in Naruto is related to him, but I don't hate him.

No matter how beautiful the fairy tale is, there must be a bad guy. As the leader of the five great ninja villages, Konoha cannot be warm and sunny in every corner, and Danzo alone takes all the blame for Konoha. Precisely because he has shouldered all the evil in the story, the good guys don't have to get their hands dirty, and the villains have a reason to wash their hands. The world is all white, but I am the only one who is black. To take the literal meaning, Danzo is the all-powerful black of Konoha Village.

Danzo was born in the Shimura clan. Shimura and Sarutobi, plus Senju and Uchiha, were the four major families that originally established Konoha Village. Danzo Shimura and Hiruzen Sarutobi were friends who grew up together. They studied under Senju Hashirama and Tobirama. Hiruzen is more like Hashirama, gentle and harmless; Danzo is more like Tobirama, decisive in killing. Together they are like the two Senju brothers, the best partners.

After the two grew up, they became the strongest of the young generation in Konoha. As the personal followers of the second generation Hokage Tobirama, they went to Kumogakure Village to negotiate peace with the enemy country. Unexpectedly, a rebellion broke out in Yunyin Village, and everyone was trapped in the enemy camp. Tobirama judged that in order to escape, one person must be left behind to hold off the enemy, but the person left behind is likely to die. Danzo was almost about to step forward. The first thought in his mind was: "Self-sacrifice is the duty of a ninja. I have already decided to die on the battlefield." He proudly looked at Hiruzen beside him, Sarutobi, are you there? How am I aware of this?

But when he really wanted to speak, he hesitated. He pinched his thigh and said, "Speak quickly." But his body couldn't stop trembling. Reason made him fear death, which finally turned into cowardice and hesitation. At this moment, Hiruzen spoke: "By Let me be the bait." Danzo's trembling stopped, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. What followed was deep shame and unwillingness. For the first time, he realized that he turned out to be a coward.

He hurriedly shouted: "I was just about to take over this mission" but it was already too late. A moment's hesitation determined the height of the two of them. Danzo could not risk his life to protect everyone like Hiruzen did, and this was exactly The key to being the Hokage who protects the village. Accordingly, Tobirama appointed Hiruzen as the new Hokage, and he stayed as bait.

This incident became a hurdle that Danzo could not overcome. He often talked about "a ninja must sacrifice himself", but when it was actually his turn, he could not do it. This was Danzo's original sin, his behavior fell far short of his ideals.

After Hiruzen took over as the Third Hokage, Danzo became the Hokage's assistant. He established the Root Organization under the authorization of the Third Hokage. He would do some things that it was not convenient for the Hokage to do. Danzo and "Gen" became Konoha's most direct and effective swords, eradicating all threats inside and outside the village with the attitude of "I would rather kill by mistake than let go". From that time on, Danzo became Black, and his Black was so that Hiruzen could remain white. Hiruzen also made his favorite disciple Orochimaru serve as Danzo's personal attendant, which shows how much he values ​​Danzo.

There has always been a hidden danger in Konoha Village, and that is the Nine-Tails sealed in the village. After the death of the first Hokage, the "Wooden Release" method of sealing the tailed beasts was lost, so Hiruzen and Danzo mobilized the entire village to launch a war against them. Hashirama's cell research wants to restore Konoha's Wood Release. However, as a large number of volunteers died in the experiment, the third generation had to call a halt, and all relevant records were sealed as black history.

But Danzo didn't give up. He didn't care how much he had to sacrifice, and he wouldn't give up until he achieved his goal. Together with Orochimaru, he secretly kidnapped babies from surrounding villages and conducted private experiments. Almost all of the more than sixty babies died, but at a cruel cost, one case actually succeeded. Danzo trained another ninja besides Hashirama who could use wood escape, Yamato.

But he didn't tell Hiruzen about Yamato's existence, maybe out of selfish motives, maybe because his behavior was inherently taboo. But later when Hiruzen discovered this Wooden ninja, he did not punish Danzo for his crime. He just led the ANBU to surround Danzo's lair three floors outside and three floors, and took the Wooden ninja under his command. Hiruzen was very tolerant of Danzo and would turn a blind eye as long as his crimes were not made known to the whole village.

Later, the Third War broke out in the ninja world. In order to enhance the root organization's wartime intelligence capabilities, Danzo came to the orphanage near Konoha Village, forcibly recalled the retired intelligence elite pharmacist Nonoyu, and established a new team in Orochimaru. On the advice of the young pharmacist Kabuto, he was recruited into the root tissue.

Kabuto and Nonoyu have made outstanding contributions to the roots and Konoha, but they have not received anything in return. Danzo has already made a plan to "die with rabbits and cook with dogs". The more information they collect, the closer they are to death. close. Danzo's approach of "eradicating potential threats as long as they are greater than their value" forced the originally kind-hearted Yakushi Kabuto to oppose Konoha, creating a major villain.

During the Third Ninja War, Danzo also did a major event that affected the fate of the ninja world. He killed Yahiko, the leader of the Rain Country Akatsuki organization. At that time, the war was coming to an end, and Konoha's last strong enemy was the Iwagakure Village. They fought in the Rain Country in the middle as a battlefield. Danzo led Gen to pretend to be rock ninjas and burned, killed and looted in the Land of Rain, hoping to intensify the conflict between the two sides. In the process, he discovered that a force called "Akatsuki" was rising here. Its members actually possessed the legendary Samsara Eye and were planning to form an alliance with Sansho Hanzo.

In the previous second ninja war, Hanzou in Amegakure Village gave Konoha a headache. Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru were unable to win. If this mysterious Akatsuki organization was added to the mix, Amago would be in trouble. Gin will pose a huge threat to Konoha, and Danzo decides to wreak havoc.

He came up with a plan and presented the corpses of civilians killed by Gen in front of Hanzo, slandering the Akatsuki organization as the murderers. Danzo: "Put away Akatsuki's high-sounding cloak, and you will find that they are just a group of thieves trying to subvert the village."

Hanzo is a suspicious person by nature. His guards change every 24 hours, and even children who approach him must be searched thoroughly. When he heard that the founder of Akatsuki was the apprentice of his former rival Jiraiya, he felt a little uneasy. Now Danzo's words seemed to confirm his suspicions. He didn't need any subtle lies to let Hanzo make the decision. Deal with Akatsuki.

Finally, under the joint ambush of Shuangzang's army, Yahiko fell and the newborn Akatsuki was destroyed. But Danzo didn't do things cleanly. Nagato relied on the power of the Rinnegan to break out and escape with Konan. As a result, he gave Konoha another sworn enemy.

Later, the war between Konoha and Iwagakure fell into a stalemate, and more and more young ninjas sacrificed their lives. In order to prevent the sacrifices from continuing to expand, the Third Hokage handed over a peace agreement to Iwagakure Village. Danzo was very dissatisfied with Hiruzen's actions. The outcome was still unclear. How could he stop the war? He instead blamed him, making the previous sacrifices in vain. Hiruzen was speechless. After all, he was the Hokage and was responsible for the results of the war. In order to give an explanation for this war that "he paid huge sacrifices but failed to win", he resigned as the Hokage.

Danzo and Hiruzen had political differences here. He couldn't stand the compromise in the village's domestic and foreign affairs, and wanted to change. At the meeting to select the next Hokage, Danzo wanted to recommend Orochimaru. Although Orochimaru was Hiruzen's apprentice, his ruthless style was consistent with Danzo.

However, Hiruzen strongly objected on the grounds that "Orochimaru was not popular among the people" and tried to ensure that the "yellow flash" Namikaze Minato, who had performed extraordinary feats during the war, would become the Hokage. Faced with Danzo's question that "Minato is too young", Hiruzen said that he would continue to guide him after abdicating.

Danzo was angered. If you come to guide the new Hokage, then Konoha won't continue to be weak. His relationship with Hiruzen began to deteriorate, so much so that the Nine-Tails Rebellion occurred and after Minato's death, Hiruzen returned to the position of Hokage. Danzo, who couldn't bear it, even planned an assassination attempt on him. However, in the face of Danzo's blatant rebellion, Hiruzen once again forgave him. His original words were: "My doctrine does not allow me to hurt more people, and this incident will not be held accountable. Where there is light, there must be darkness, and the world cannot function normally without either."

These two profound words seem to be hinting to Danzo: My doctrine must be merciful, just like letting you go this time, and you can become my other side, let go and do what I didn't do. Danzo understood and said: "You are the light and I am the darkness. It has always been like this." This assassination brought the two of them back together, even tacitly, and what the pair faced next was , is the most difficult Uchiha problem.

In fact, the reason why Uchiha becomes a problem has a lot to do with Danzo. During the previous Nine-Tails Rebellion, Danzo ordered the Uchiha clan to stay away from the Nine-Tails. After the Nine-Tails Rebellion, he ordered them to move to the outskirts of the village. This move aroused the anger of the Uchiha people. As the core family that originally founded Konoha Village, they were now expelled and treated as enemies. They clearly did nothing. But Danzo's suspicion is not groundless. A similar incident occurred in the history of Konoha Village. That is, Madara Uchiha used the Sharingan to control the Nine-Tails to invade the village. In everyone's knowledge, only the power of the Sharingan was Being able to control the Kyuubi, anyone would think that Uchiha has something to do with it.

Just asking them to move to a farther place and conducting implicit surveillance without even depriving them of the powers of the police department is already relatively tolerant. The real culprit of the Nine-Tails Rebellion was indeed an Uchiha, but the "non-existent ninja" Obito who was long dead in the records.

The seeds of distrust between Konoha and Uchiha had been planted as early as the Senju period. This incident completely sprouted it and grew rapidly in the following years. Konoha felt more and more restless about Uchiha, and even the villagers felt that they were domineering; Uchiha lived up to expectations, planning a coup in every gathering. During this period, two enlightened Uchiha tribesmen tried to stop all this, namely Shisui and Itachi.

They were close friends carved from the same mold, and both joined Konoha ANBU. When Uchiha first planned a coup, Shisui reported the news to the Third Hokage and said that he had a way to prevent the coup, which was to use his Sharingan genjutsu to change the clan leader's will. But Danzo on the side believed that doing so could not eliminate the evil intentions of the entire Uchiha. Hiruzen said that as long as Shisui can buy some time, "from now on we treat the Uchiha clan well and one day we can quell their dissatisfaction."

Hiruzen and Shisui seem to have found a way to solve the problem, but once the rift occurs, it is difficult to repair. As long as Uchiha dares to rebel once, people like Danzo will no longer be able to trust them. In order to avoid future troubles, they must eradicate them. Moreover, the other gods mentioned by Shisui are also unacceptable to Danzo. If you can control your clan leader, then you can also control Hokage and me. So Danzo summoned Shisui secretly, intending to seize his Eye.

After all, Danzo was not strong enough. He made a sneak attack and was glared at by Shisui, and fell under the illusion. But Shisui was careless. He didn't expect that Danzo's right eye hidden under the bandage was actually a Sharingan. Danzo consumed this eye and activated the forbidden technique Ienagi, instantly rewriting the reality of the illusion in his body, and captured one of Shisui's eyes in a sneak attack again. The surrounding root tissue lurked in a swarm, and Shisui could only retreat.

There is no record of the origin of Danzo's previous Sharingan, but it can be seen from it that Danzo has been coveting the power of the Sharingan for a long time. He is eager to destroy the Uchiha clan and also has the selfish intention of plundering the Sharingan. Shisui, who lost one eye, could no longer use other gods to stop the rebellion, so he gave the other eye to Itachi and committed suicide. The Uchiha clan was demoralized and postponed the coup, while Itachi took over Shisui's mission and wanted to prevent the conflict between the family and the village.

Itachi became the captain of the ANBU at the age of 13 and was transferred to Danzo's command. Many viewers will wonder why Itachi is willing to help Danzo. In fact, Itachi and Danzo have similar philosophies. They both believe that "ninjas are nameless people who support peace in the dark." The most essential difference is that Itachi has what Danzo lacks. Courage, and great strength. Danzo was too weak and could only use all kinds of despicable methods, but always failed in the end.

In the following years, the Uchiha clan continued to expand its military strength, until Itachi's father finally informed him to participate in the coup, but between the family and the village, Itachi chose the village.

After Danzo heard about it, he immediately wanted to take a preemptive strike and kill the Uchiha clan. Sarutobi Hiruzen neither agreed nor stopped him. But Danzo's root organization alone could not defeat Uchiha, so he found Itachi and proposed a deal: If you can stand on Konoha's side and help kill the Uchiha clan, then your brother Sasuke will Get shelter. Itachi had no choice and accepted the condition.