Konoha Hospital.
"Hemostats, quick!"
"Get ready to suture the wound!"
A medical ninja in a white coat was sweating profusely. Even though his forehead was soaked with sweat, he did not dare to slow down the movements of his hands.
Just because the person they were healing had a special status.
The Darkness of the Shinobi, Shimura Danzo.
Logically speaking, irrelevant people were not allowed to enter an important place like the operating room.
But this time it was different.
Nearly ten people wearing masks surrounded the operating room from the inside, wearing uniforms and carrying ninja swords. They stood as cold as machines.
Under this pressure, several medical ninjas who were performing operations could not even dare to think about slacking off at all.
They were afraid that in the next second, the ninja swords of these Root members would fall on them.
"Sir...there is something I must inform you."
The leading medical ninja among the ones who performed the surgery swallowed his saliva and looked tremblingly at Danzo lying on the operating bed.
The pale light of the lamp shone on the man's injured face, making his already hideous face look even more terrifying at the moment.
"What is it?"
Danzo asked gloomily.
His left eye was seriously injured and his vision was lost completely. The Sharingan in his right socket was already used up, and even he replaces it, it normally must remain wrapped in a thick bandage and so he could not see using it.
At this moment, he could only perceive the outside world through touch, hearing and smell.
"Your left eyeball needs to be removed completely..."
There was a tremor in the medical ninja's voice.
The other medical ninjas around did not dare to even breath loudly.
Most of them, being the best medical ninjas of the current Konoha, had heard about the deeds of the man in front of them, his Root department buried deep in the ground had their hands stained with an unknown amount of blood.
Amidst the fear, they also couldn't help but feel a little curious.
What kind of terrifying enemy could hurt this man like this?
But that's not what they need to think about now.
If they could not satisfy the man in front of them, they might meet their ends.
"What do you mean by that? Are you saying that Danzo-sama is going to become blind?"
"You bastards! You can't even cure Danzo-sama, so what's the use of you guys!"
The medical ninja shivered under the pressure of the Root, but Danzo's eyeball was completely damaged, and there was no possibility of any cure.
Listening to his subordinate's shouts, although Danzo's expression did not change at all, his fingers that were gripping the bed board turned white from excessive exertion.
He was now blind.
Completely blind!
Since he lost his right eye in the war more than ten years ago, now, he had replaced it with Kagami's Sharingan and hid it with bandages, and now, he had also lost his left eye.
Although a new eye could be transplanted.
But the humiliation!
The humiliation of being played with, teased, and tortured!
It had been deeply imprinted on his body and mind.
How long has it been, how long has it been since he felt... such humiliation!
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Hokage Office.
Different from the past, the atmosphere in the Hokage Office today was unusually heavy.
In the depressed atmosphere, even the air felt like it was heavier, making Koharu and Homura unable to figure out a way to start the conversion.
"He's better than he was three years ago."
There was a hint of dryness in Hiruzen's voice.
After Mirai left, he sent Anbu to explore the battlefield, and the information he got made him palpitate.
Five of the Root members sent to battle him were jonin, and there were other five were special jonin who were proficient in sealing techniques.
Such a great force.
But it was a complete annihilation!
What frightened Hiruzen the most was…
After doing all this, there wasn't even a trace of damage on Mirai's clothes, they were completely devoid of battle traces.
It's like he did it casually.
It took no effort.
He might have been able to do this three years ago, but it would never have been so easy.
What happened in the past three years that made his strength improve tremendously?
"Hiruzen, how is Danzo doing?"
Koharu asked worriedly.
As soon as she and Homura learned about this incident, they rushed to the Hokage Office in a hurry.
They didn't yet understood Danzo's current situation.
All they knew was that he was seriously injured and was being treated at Konoha Hospital.
"His left eyeball has completely become necrotic and has no therapeutic value, so it can only be removed."
When saying this, Hiruzen's tone was quite complicated.
On the one hand, he was angry at Danzo's recklessness.
If he hadn't insisted on doing things in his own way, things would never have gotten to this point.
Danzo, now, was blind in both eyes.
One eye must remain bandaged, and now the other eye was destroyed as well.
His whole body was covered with thick bandages from the bridge of his nose upwards.
Fortunately, with the unremitting efforts of the Roots.
They found a suitable transplant source.
A certain civilian's eye matched Danzo's.
Under the guidance of Will of Fire, the civilian was deeply moved and lamented about that Danzo who dedicated his whole life to Konoha and was willing to offer his eye.
In this regard, Hiruzen could only turn a blind eye.
After all, if he didn't turn a blind eye, Danzo would have to keep his eyes close forever.
"This Mirai! He is Minato's younger brother, despite that, he actually dealt with Danzo with such a heavy hand!"
After hearing what Hiruzen said, Homura spoke angrily.
Even when Minato himself was the Hokage, he never did such excessive behavior.
Mirai's move showed that he did not take them seriously at all.
"The top priority is not Danzo's injury, but how to deal with Namikaze Mirai."
Koharu looked gloomy.
"That guy's personality is completely different from Minato's. Now that Minato and Kushina are dead, if he really snaps, it will be a big trouble."
Hiruzen held his forehead with two fingers, and pressed his temple with his index finger on the other hand.
He felt like he had a splitting headache, as if someone had inserted a chopstick into it and stirred it hard.
As soon as Mirai came back, many things went wrong.
"He always thinks that I had treated Naruto badly. But if I ask myself, I have done my best for Minato's surviving son and I have never treated him badly in terms of living expenses."
"As for Minato's legacy, the village needed to be rebuilt. If a part of his legacy is used for the village, Minato in the underworld will be happy to know that."
"I just didn't expect that he would hold a grudge against me for this."
After Hiruzen finished speaking, the three fell into silence again.
Three years ago, when Mirai was not missing, he often used Minato's power to suppress them.
The relationship between Mirai and Minato.
It's like the relationship between Danzo and Hiruzen.
The only difference was that as a biological brother, Minato was much closer to Mirai.
Dialogues such as "Hiruzen, you will regret it!" "Danzo, I am the Hokage!" did not appear between the two of them.
The door to the Hokage's Office was also not replaced so frequently.
When the news of Mirai's disappearance came, they all secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Without his difficult brother, Minato might not be their opponent in the struggle for power.
It's just, they didn't expect that the Nine-Tails would break out of its seal a few months later.
And so, Minato was gone too.
"Based on my understanding of Danzo, he may not give up after he recovers from his injury."
"Hiruzen, get ready."
"A storm is coming."
Koharu said sincerely.
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