Danzo Shimura is dead.
He died under the siege of the ANBU Ninja led by Kakashi Hatake.
During the struggle, although Danzo Shimura tried very hard to escape and survive,
no one present was going to give him the chance.
Even his old classmate of decades, Hiruzen Sarutobi, avoided the scene and hid in the shadows,
unable to bear watching his old friend die.
Speaking of which, this long-planned ambush was unexpectedly simple.
Shikaku Nara had painstakingly designed backup tactics and various follow-up measures for over two weeks,
but not a single one was needed.
The reason was simply that Danzo Shimura was too weak.
Shikaku Nara had used the mindset of dealing with a big boss to deal with him, but he shattered at the first touch.
Danzo Shimura's weakness lay in his psychology and his thinking.
Since the Second Great Ninja War, Danzo Shimura had never stepped onto a battlefield again.
He had always stayed in the Village stirring up trouble, or leading the Root members out to cause problems.
This caused his combat experience to decline rapidly.
When facing Minato Namikaze one-on-one, he could still use his transplanted Sharingan to catch Minato Namikaze off guard with Izanagi.
But once his trump card was revealed, he had no power to resist the ferocious ANBU Ninja.
Had it been his prime, he might have had a slim chance of survival.
In terms of thinking, having been in a high position for a long time and controlling the massive entity that was Root,
Danzo Shimura was no longer a simple Ninja.
He lived in Konoha Village more as a ruler.
No matter what he wanted to do, someone else always did it for him.
More importantly, accustomed to controlling the overall situation and plotting conspiracies behind the scenes,
Danzo Shimura had completely lost the sharp intuition a Ninja has when facing danger.
He believed that no one in Konoha Village could threaten him.
This was why Shikaku Nara's simple design was enough to lead him into a trap.
Before he had seized that large collection of eyeballs from the Uchiha Clan, the Sharingan in his possession were few and far between.
At most, he had secretly gouged out a few during the war.
This small stock even had to be shared with Orochimaru for experiments.
So in the end, he only had one Sharingan that could be implanted in his eye.
After using Izanagi, it was useless, leaving him at the mercy of others... Regardless, Danzo Shimura is dead, and Konoha has turned a new page.
The death of Danzo Shimura had roughly three major impacts.
First was the change in power within Konoha's upper echelons.
While the villagers were completely unaware, Konoha's power shifted entirely from the faction of Lord Third Hokage
to the faction of the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze.
Originally, Homura Mitokado and Utatane Koharu were somewhat resistant,
unwilling to retire so soon.
It wasn't until the Root base outside Konoha Village was opened, exposing the documents and various laboratories within,
that the two were finally forced to shut their mouths.
The things recovered from the Root base
included records and products of various human experiments and forbidden Ninjutsu research conducted over the years.
This included, but was not limited to: various experiments on Senju Hashirama cells,
various experiments on the Uchiha Clan's Sharingan,
and experiments on the Bloodline Limits and Secret Techniques of various large and small Ninja Clans in Konoha Village.
Cloning, Bloodline Limit transplantation, Bloodline Limit fusion, organ modification, and so on.
If these things were disclosed, one could imagine the massive earthquake that would hit Konoha Village.
All the Ninja Clans, large and small, would revolt!
From the Uchiha Clan and Hyuga Clan down to the Ino–Shika–Chō trio.
Whether it was a Bloodline Limit or a family's Secret Technique,
they were the foundation of a clan's existence!
Anyone who dared to covet them would face a fight to the death.
After Minato Namikaze obtained these documents, he was shocked for a long time.
Finally, in front of Shikaku Nara, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and others, he burned all the documents and laboratories.
Every trace left by Danzo Shimura in the Ninja World was completely destroyed... Second, the Village suddenly became exceptionally harmonious.
On the day before launching the offensive against Danzo Shimura,
Minato Namikaze sent people to greet all the large and small Ninja Clans in the Village.
Of course, he didn't explicitly say he was going to give that son of a bitch Danzo two stabs and mince him into meat for everyone to eat later,
but he let everyone who was informed know that something big was about to happen in the Village.
Combined with the subsequent shift in the political wind, everyone guessed that Danzo Shimura had fallen.
Though they didn't know if he was dead, Danzo Shimura's removal from power still made them overjoyed.
The Uchiha Clan aside, they had endured so much from Konoha's upper echelons.
Both Danzo Shimura and Hiruzen Sarutobi's group had targeted the Uchiha to some extent.
When the 'red-eyed' clan learned that Danzo Shimura was gone and Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others had retired,
they were ecstatic. Even the 'dead-faced' members of the Uchiha Guard Platoon patrolled the streets with smiles on their faces.
This caused the conflicts and disputes in the Village to suddenly decrease.
The Hyuga, Ino–Shika–Chō, Aburame, Inuzuka, and other Ninja Clans were also jubilant.
One must know that Danzo Shimura had fleeced these families quite a bit over the years.
Every Ninja Clan had clansmen forcibly taken by Danzo Shimura to serve as Root Ninja,
not to mention the brainwashing and the placement of curse marks.
Who could tolerate that?
They hadn't acted before only because Hiruzen Sarutobi was backing him up.
Therefore, when they learned that Danzo Shimura had been liquidated and Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others had handed over power,
they were completely submissive to Minato Namikaze, who had brought this all about.
You're handsome, so we'll listen to whatever you say!
...Third, most of the Root Ninja were incorporated into the Anbu.
Although these Root Ninja all had curse marks placed by Danzo Shimura,
specifically the Tongue Binding Curse Technique,
since the caster and beneficiary Danzo Shimura was dead, as long as they didn't mention things related to Danzo Shimura, they were no different from normal people.
Besides, if they weren't to be Ninjas, how should this group be handled?
Send them back to be villagers?
That was too unrealistic.
Not to mention that these Root Ninja still posed a risk,
in Konoha's current situation of lacking strength, it was impossible to watch their power decrease.
If they could be used, they would be used.
Aside from those who were incorporated, there was a small group of Danzo Shimura's die-hard fans
who had loyally dedicated everything to Danzo Shimura.
Even though Danzo Shimura was now dead and Minato Namikaze, as the Hokage, had pronounced all of Danzo Shimura's crimes,
they still believed their leader was innocent and was being persecuted by Minato Namikaze.
So, they found an opportunity, and about a dozen of them defected from the Village together.
Before defecting, they even tried to find an opportunity to strike at Kakashi Hatake, who had killed Danzo Shimura.
Fortunately, Kakashi Hatake had been staying at the Anbu base lately, so they didn't find a chance.
After these people defected, Minato Namikaze naturally ordered a pursuit.
But that's a story for later; what the specific outcome will be is a long-term matter... Leaving Konoha Village aside, if there were any other impacts from Danzo Shimura's death,
it would have to be for Ye Chen.
To put it simply,
he won, he won big!
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