Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 374 Danzo understood that he was finished.

Let's rewind a few days:

After confirming with his subordinates the basic logic that they must launch a counterattack or they would surely be killed by Yua, Shimura Danzo began to prepare to find an opportunity.

Danzo Shimura knew that this time, he and the people on the opposing side were forces abandoned by their own villages.

This greatly displeased Danzo.

In his view, he deserved all the benefits he had received from You Ya over the years and all the money he received at the end of each year.

Why?

Because Yuya became the Hokage.

In Danzo's mind, the position of Hokage should have been his.

You can call him obsessed, you can say his ideas are extreme, you can say he's mentally challenged, but that's just how he thinks.

In his view, since he withdrew from the Hokage competition with Yua thirty years ago, Yua should owe him a debt of gratitude.

And the benefits that Youya has given him over the years are what he deserves.

His thinking was indeed very extreme, especially after he saw that You Ya's position was becoming more and more secure.

The fact that Yua hadn't killed a ninja clan head even once in all these years only fueled his arrogance—

Of course, to be fair, Yua wouldn't target a ninja clan leader unless they committed a serious offense. Konoha is already short-handed, and one ninja clan leader is worth hundreds or even thousands of people. In the initial corruption case involving the Sarutobi clan, Yua didn't punish the then-clan leader because, frankly, such things are perfectly normal. Unless something is truly heinous and forces the people to the brink of starvation, Yua simply doesn't bother with it.

In Shimura Danzo's view, if Yua were to attack him, it would cause resentment among all the clan leaders of Konoha.

So, when he was organizing the civil service exam in Youya, he caused trouble by having someone from his family take the exam.

However, since Danzo at least followed the rules this time, Yua didn't mind having some members of the Shimura clan help him with the work.

It doesn't matter who we use anyway.

As long as you can complete the mission, Yuya genuinely doesn't mind using members of the ninja clan.

It's just a pity that if Danzo had been willing to continue playing within Yua's rules and with Yua, Yua would never have forced him to his death.

Having come this far, You Ya feels he has done everything he could.

After the agreement was reached, Shimura Danzo naturally did not report to his superiors in the Konoha Ninja Army that they were planning a counterattack.

Danzo knew that even if he didn't report this fact, he might get hit by his own cannonballs when he launched an attack.

But if he reports it, then it's not a possibility, it's a certainty.

Danzo was able to understand this point.

So, the next day, without notifying the Konoha ninja army, he led more than two hundred men and charged toward the front lines.

He had a good plan: as long as he could take this position, he would have a reason to get Youya to send him back.

After all, he will be a hero of Konoha in the future.

And at that time he will be "injured", "seriously injured"!

Even if Youya wanted a seriously injured hero to die, he couldn't openly express that intention.

At that point, Yuya will have no choice but to grit his teeth and send him back to Konoha.

Danzo Shimura had beautiful ideas, but reality was far from what he envisioned.

He led his men into battle, and things went smoothly at first.

That bastard Raikage actually lost over five hundred men on this position.

Are there really so many people in Kumogakure who are dissatisfied with him?!

In reality, after the Raikage's actions, Kumogakure experienced two economic crises. Naturally, almost every family in Kumogakure was affected because of the Raikage.

Their families will inevitably suffer losses; the only difference is the extent of those losses.

Therefore, there are actually a lot of people who hate the Raikage.

Of course, the Raikage knew this too; he was just pulling out a few particularly outspoken individuals.

Konoha only has one particularly arrogant Danzo, but Kumogakure has several.

The Raikage only lost three men to the front lines this time, which is honestly considered a lenient decision.

Although Danzo's side had fewer people, he took advantage of the fact that the Raikage's men were just getting light and were most tired when he launched a sneak attack.

Believe it or not, at the beginning, they really did sweep through the enemy lines and take down dozens of their members.

Afterwards, Raikage's men realized what was happening, and a battle involving hundreds of people broke out.

The two sides exchanged various ninjutsu in the middle of the battlefield. The various lightning release techniques of the Hidden Cloud Village clashed with the various ninjutsu of the Leaf Village, creating scenes of lightning.

The final result was that Danzo killed all the ninjas on the Raikage's position and took the position in half a day. The price he paid was that only thirteen of his men remained.

Moreover, everyone was seriously injured and their chakra was completely depleted.

But Danzo laughed.

On this battlefield where hundreds had died, Danzo laughed heartily:

"Hahaha! Yuya! Did you see that?! This is my power! You want to kill me? I won't let you succeed!"

A mad light gleamed in Shimura Danzo's eyes.

This time, he will be a hero of Konoha. He wants Yuya to personally escort him back. After he returns, he will recruit soldiers and secretly accumulate strength, and then, when the crucial moment arrives...

"boom!"

An explosion occurred not far away.

Danzo's expression suddenly changed, and he looked at the person beside him and asked, "What time is it?!"

A ninja wearing a Konoha headband looked panicked and pulled out his watch, then said to Danzo in despair, "11:50."

Danzo's eyes immediately turned blood red.

He angrily raised his head, glaring at the sky: "Youya! I curse your ancestors..."

"BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!!!"

A violent explosion engulfed Danzo's location.

……

Ultimately, Yua played out Danzo's last battle before his death.

Yes, it was played.

Danzo Shimura's thinking was still stuck in the traditional ninja fighting style.

However, the equipment that Yuya used this time, although it did not yet meet the threshold of modern warfare, was certainly ready with some things such as reconnaissance drones and satellite detection.

Without these, the cannons wouldn't be able to hit their targets accurately.

Even members of the Hyuga clan cannot cross the forest to see what is happening four or five kilometers away.

Therefore, in Danzo's view, his actions were extremely secretive, and he had already planned everything out:

He launched a surprise attack at dawn, and if he could end the battle before the bombing at 1 p.m., he would survive.

However, to his utter surprise, all his actions were captured on camera by a reconnaissance drone 500 meters high, and satellites in the sky were also able to pinpoint his location.

Finally, when Danzo finished the battle and realized he could hear cannon fire even before midnight, he knew he was finished...

(End of this chapter)