Naruto Shippuden 18

Sasuke could feel the power of the Five Kage from the main building and was thankful he didn't have to go in there to fight Danzo since the old fool was on the bridge separating the samurai dwelling from the snowy forest across a lake.

As he neared the bridge Sasuke could see the bandaged man simply observing the chaos he'd unleashed which began to anger him as he imagined Danzo doing the same to his clan. Sasuke moved as fast as he could and appeared on the bridge moments later before Danzo who narrowed his unwrapped eye in response.

"Danzo." Sasuke said gritting his teeth.

"Sasuke Uchiha, the last person I was expecting to meet today, it does work well with my plans." Danzo replied.

"I'm afraid you won't be harming anyone else again, today the Uchiha Clan shall be avenged!" Sasuke said

"I'm guessing Itachi told you the truth," Danzo sighed. "I always told Hiruzen we should have just had him killed along with the rest, yourself included of course."

"I already knew about that you heartless bastard," Sasuke growled. "To order the deaths of so many innocents without even a second thought, how could you do it!"

"It was quite simple really," Danzo replied calmly. "I saw the threat the Uchiha posed and I made a calculated decision and that was it. Hiruzen might have been too soft but I knew better and considering how the Hidden Leaf has turned out now it only further serves my point."

"So you admit that you were the one who ordered the extermination of my clan!" Sasuke said.

"Yes and I would do it again in a heartbeat," Danzo replied without even the slightest shred of care as Sasuke felt something begin to well up inside of him.

Danzo's eye widened in shock as he looked into the eyes of the Uchiha across from him, eyes of an Uchiha that far surpassed all of the ones he possessed including Shisui's eye.

"Impossible, how can a mere brat like you possess those eyes! The method of their creation is forbidden for the Uchiha to replicate!" Danzo said shocked.

"These eyes are the consequences of your actions Danzo and now you shall pay for taking my family from me!" Sasuke replied.

"Yes Danzo it is about time you paid the price for what you have done to our clan," another deep voice said as Madara appeared next to Sasuke with his own Sharingan glowing beneath the single hole in his mask.

"You!" Danzo said seeing Madara.

"It is time to end you Danzo for all of the crimes you've committed against the Uchiha-!" Madara responded.

"Get out of the way." Sasuke said as Madara turned around to see his hands coated in electricity merely raising a hidden eyebrow in response as he leaped off to the side.

"Do you really believe you can take me, boy?" Danzo sneered as he unwrapped the bandages covering his other eye revealing a Mangekyo Sharingan in its place.

"Oh I'm perfectly capable Danzo," Sasuke said as the lightning behind him became gradually louder. "The Mangekyo Sharingan is powerful however it is not the final stage of the Sharingan's evolution and now you will learn just why the world once feared the name Uchiha!"

Faster than Danzo's Sharingan could react he was hit in the chest by a bolt of lightning as his body jerked violently however he fought against it with all his strength as he stared down Sasuke in defiance.

"You took my clan, my family, away from me!" Sasuke said with anger.

Sasuke fired another bolt from his hands sending Danzo flying into one of the side pillars before firing another two consecutive bolts as Danzo's arms were pinned to the stone much to the old man's shock.

"My brother died because of you Danzo and I will make sure I avenge him!" Sasuke said.

"I believe … that you were the one to kill him," Danzo wheezed with a crooked grin that only served to further anger Sasuke as he fired another bolt of lightning into the man's chest.

"Look at you Danzo, can't even keep up with me despite having countless stolen Sharingan at your disposal. You make me sick!"

"You foolish brat. I will survive this…and become the leader this foolish world needs!" Danzo exclaimed in pain.

It was at that moment Sasuke realized why Naruko warned him to be wary of Danzo as the man broke free of the lightning restraints and moved to strike him with speed one of his age shouldn't possess.

Unfortunately for Danzo as Sasuke swiftly dodged and put a sword through his back. Danzo cried out in pain as he hit the ground with Sasuke's sharing eyes glaring at him.

Looking down Sasuke noticed Danzo was moving to unwrap the bandages covering his arm however Sasuke swiftly moved and sliced off said arm as Danzo cried out not in pain but in horror as his remaining arm tried to reach the severed appendage.

"Look at you," Sasuke said in disgust as his sword trailed around the man's head. "To think you were someone who once stood on the same tier as the Third Hokage only to be reduced to a disgrace. The Sharingan is not yours to control Danzo and they would never serve you like they would a true Uchiha."

Stabbing the severed arm Sasuke lifted it up to eye level before releasing a low-level Fire Jutsu to burn the arm to ash.

"NO!" Danzo screamed noticing his arm with the Sharingan eyes was destroyed.

"QUIET!" Sasuke said before he pulled out his other sword from Danzo's back. "This is the path YOU set into motion when you killed my entire clan. Congratulations you have succeeded in creating the ultimate weapon you once sought to create."

"How would you know about my goals!" Danzo choked out.

"You aren't as sly as you believe Danzo," Madara said as walk forward to examine the man with a narrowed eye. "Many were aware of you and your plans and many took steps to ensure such plans would never succeed after all it just wouldn't do for one village to possess super soldiers now would it?"

"What…" Danzo asked shocked.

"Always one thing missing, always that one step that never quite seemed to work, candidates always died just as you were on the verge of success. Your ideal soldiers were an obstacle that the Akatsuki could not afford to deal with and so it was ensured that all your attempts were met with failure." Madara said.

The sound of footsteps drew the attention of all three occupants of the bridge as their eyes darted around to try and find the newcomer.

Standing perfectly balanced on the railing of the bridge was Shinobu as she eyed the scene with a blank face. In her hands were the half-gnawed severed heads of Danzo's strongest Root Anbu. Her mouth was stained with blood as she devoured one of the heads before tossing the other one toward Danzo who had grown rather pale.

"I hope you don't mind me cutting in." Shinobu called out looking at all those beneath her.

"Shinobu!" Danzo growled as Shinobu's uncaring look shook all three occupants before her.

"I was planning on killing you Danzo. You think I didn't know about the failed attempts at getting my little sister as a pet. Anyways, I figured that you would want to be with your two most trusted ROOT operatives in your final moments so I simply retrieved them from the battlefield." Shinobu said with a grin unnerving everyone looking.

"So you too have an interest in Danzo's fate," Madara said as the two locked eyes.

Sasuke watched in fascination as the two strongest figures he'd known stared at each other for what felt like hours with neither moving so much as an inch as if some kind of unspoken war was occurring between them.

It was only when Danzo tried to move did they both suddenly turn their attention back to the scene at hand in which Shinobu summoned a sword and stabbed him through his remaining hand trapping him in place.

"It is your right to kill him Sasuke after everything he's done. Kakaka." Shinobu said with a laugh making the Uchiha flinch realizing that they were in fact in the middle of a battlefield.

"I … cannot die here! I … will survive …!" Danzo groaned out trying to rip his arm out of the sword.

"Unfortunately for you Danzo it appears that your death has indeed finally arrived however you should take solace in the fact that you forced two enemies to put aside their issues with one another to see you off. A rather noteworthy achievement is it not?" Madara asked as Danzo once again tried to free himself but to no avail.

"They're right," Sasuke said slowly as he raised his sword slowly. "The time for you to die has come Danzo. For my clan, for my parents, and for Itachi…die!"