Lost and Restored

As night fell, the streets became much quieter. In the sky, a crescent moon hung high before disappearing into the clouds.

A black crow landed on the wall, tilting its head as if it was looking for something. As it flapped its wings and flew up, black feathers fell down in groups of two or three.

In the dark room, a figure stood in front of the window. Half of his body was hidden in the darkness, and one shadowy eye was staring outside.

The smell in the room was a bit strange, like something was rotting in the dark all year round.

After walking up a flight of stairs, Tobi met those half-closed eyes. This was the Anbu of Konoha, and the Anbu was directly under the Hokage and took orders from him.

But the Anbu that brought him here was, to be more precise, the "root" among the Anbu.

"Heh." Danzo knocked the crutch in his hand heavily and said coldly, "You are really a distinguished guest. Can ordinary people not touch you?"

There was no guard in the empty space, only Danzo. But Uchiha Tobi knew very well that the person in front of him did not seem to intend to let him leave.

Tsuna came forward as the Hokage and refuted Danzo's order, but after hearing about some of his deeds, Tobi came forward on his own initiative.

The time for the two-day appointment with Sasuke has come, and the silence so far is not enough to convince other ninja villages.

In the past two days, with the help of Gangshou, Fei has found out a lot of things. The dusty scrolls were opened again, and in the archives, he saw a lot of sealed forbidden techniques.

But at a quick glance, the scrolls of forbidden techniques were all signed by Tobirama Senju.

Thinking of Sasuke's words, Tobi decided to start with Danzo. The man in front of him, who claimed to be Konoha, was the real murderer who directly led to the extinction of the Uchiha clan.

"Ten years ago, the Uchiha clan was exterminated. Was it really because of Uchiha Itachi?" Uchiha Tobi said, "Or was it because the Uchiha clan decided to rebel, and Uchiha Itachi did this for Konoha?"

"Who are you and where did you find this information?"

The tone of the person in front of him became dangerous, but they still maintained a certain distance between them.

The light in the room was dim. The boy was wearing a wooden fox mask, an ANBU outfit, and his fluffy white hair was tied behind his head.

The boy put one hand on his mask, and Danzo pulled the bandage on his wrist with the other, as if they were planning to act at the same time.

A flickering flame suddenly appeared, as if someone had lit a torch. Another sound of footsteps approached slowly, and the flickering flame was getting closer and closer.

It was another man in ANBU uniform. His smiling fox face looked a little funny, but the fire he brought illuminated the space.

Danzo stared wide-eyed at the young man who had taken off his mask. The long-lost feeling made him dazed for a moment, and a name came out of his mouth involuntarily.

"teacher?!"

The face illuminated by the fire had a cold expression, and scarlet eyes looked at him steadily, followed by a sentence that sounded like judgment: "Danzo, I handed Konoha over to you, and this is what you did."

According to the information, it can be easily found that the third generation Sarutobi Hiruzen was a student of the second generation Senju Tobirama, and Danzo was a contemporary of Sarutobi Hiruzen and was also one of Tobirama's students.

Looking at that shocked face, Tobi was very aware of his own killing power, so he asked in a cold voice: "Was the annihilation of the Uchiha clan really a last resort? Was there really no other choice at the time?"

The questioning made Danzo tighten his grip on the cane. He was suspicious of the person in front of him, but he knew that the person in front of him was Tobirama Senju.

Apart from his appearance, Chakra would not lie. But because of this, his firm belief began to waver.

"No, teacher, you don't know the situation at that time." Danzo retorted, "The evil Uchiha will shake the foundation of Konoha sooner or later. Even without Uchiha Itachi, they can't stay."

"I have always followed my teacher's instructions and have done it for Konoha! Even though I am not the Hokage, I have always done my best over the years. The only thing you cannot question is this teacher."

After hearing this, Uchiha Tobi frowned, took a few steps forward, and sighed: "It seems that you haven't realized that this is the only thing you did wrong?"

For Konoha, what a great excuse. But how much of it is due to selfishness, or excessive bias?

Tobi didn't dare to think about it too much. He couldn't refute Danzo's contribution to Konoha, but that didn't mean he could do anything without any bottom line under the banner of doing good for Konoha.

It's time to pull out the rotten roots hidden deep under the leaves.

It seemed that the disappointed and cold expression stimulated Danzo. He suddenly pulled off the bandage on his face and said excitedly: "Everything I do is for Konoha. Whatever Hiruzen was unwilling to do, I did it by myself!"

"Although I don't know who used what forbidden technique to disturb your sleep, teacher." Danzo said with a cruel expression, "But even if it was you, teacher, I would not let you do anything that threatens Konoha."

The bandage slipped off, revealing the red Sharingan on the fierce face. The pattern in the Sharingan rotated, but then black flames emerged.

Danzo quickly removed the seal on his right hand, and the protrusion of his arm was exposed to the air. The twisted gaps opened up, revealing the Sharingan underneath.

There is a magical technique called Izanagi, which can distort the facts at the cost of blinding one of the Sharingan.

He had heard Uchiha Itachi introduce this jutsu before he came here, so he was not surprised that the person who should have been burned by fire was standing in front of him intact the next second.

But he didn't expect that Danzo had an arm's worth of Sharingan, which meant that he could activate Izanagi several times.

Although these Sharingans were taken from dead people, as an Uchiha, Tobi still became uncontrollably angry.

The trees rose from the ground, broke through the roof and stretched out. It seemed to be Wood Release, but it was not that complete.

Tobi naturally knew about the research that Danzo and Orochimaru had done, but he didn't expect that he would be so crazy as to transplant it on himself.

The fight was more of a contest of illusions, with sharp kunai digging deep into the ground and black crows appearing in groups.

"That's enough." Calculating the time, Uchiha Tobirama tilted his head and said, "Your eyes are already burdened enough, leave the rest to me."

The man wearing the ANBU mask took a few steps back, holding his face with one hand as he retreated into the darkness.

After taking a few deep breaths, Danzo came back to his senses, but the face that greeted him was one that made him panic.

Danzo really wanted to ask what he had done wrong, which was why he had not received recognition from his teacher, either before or now.

But at the same time as the severe pain, he vaguely remembered the teacher's teachings. But when his consciousness was blurred, he saw the black magatama pattern appearing in the scarlet eyes, and he closed his eyes again, thinking that he was hallucinating.

He thought he would devote his life to Konoha and die for Konoha, but he never thought he would die so peacefully. But when he saw the disappointment on that familiar face, he understood.

This is for atonement, for sins that even death cannot atone for.

The huge tree's roots were tangled, and its branches tightly entangled the person with his head lowered. His blood-stained fingertips snapped off the Sharingan one by one in a crisp and decisive manner.

The Mangekyō Sharingan, placed in a transparent jar, was handed to the person who had been standing nearby.

The man was a little surprised, but he still didn't refuse. Moonlight came in through the cracked ceiling, and the clouds dispersed, revealing the true face of the moon.

"If Danzo dies, it will cause a lot of trouble." Uchiha Itachi took off the mask with one hand and put it on the side of his head. "Sasuke... I'll leave it to you."

Uchiha Itachi never thought that he could survive and wear the clothes of the Anbu again. Although his vision was so blurry that he could hardly see anything clearly, he still heard the complex voice.

"Uchiha Itachi? Some time ago, it was said that he died in Sasuke's body. I didn't expect that he was saved by the second master."

Tsunayoshi had a complicated expression. She hadn't felt calm since she knew who the patient was that needed treatment.

It's not that she didn't want to save the "rebel ninja", but after she inherited the position of Hokage, she received a lot of news about the extinction of the Uchiha clan.

There was also the information about the Akatsuki organization that Uchiha Itachi secretly sent to her after he defected from the village. This made it difficult for her to look at the person in front of her who was still half-dead after treatment with her usual eyes.

The traitor Uchiha Itachi is actually the Hokage's spy. With such a big misunderstanding, what has Uchiha Itachi been carrying for so many years?

"There seems to be no other way to treat the Mangekyō Sharingan except replacing it with the eyes of a loved one." Uchiha Tobi sat on a chair with a lot of things piled in front of him, "But I found some interesting things in Konoha's laboratory."

He didn't expect that people in later generations would be so bold as to study his cells, namely Wood Release cells, after Hashirama Senju's death.

Although it is recorded that many people sacrificed their lives in the study of Wood Release, this idea gave Tobi a hint.

He tried to study the ability of Wood Release to repair the Mangekyō Sharingan, and Uchiha Itachi in front of him was the best test subject.

Using the Sharingan to precisely control the amount of energy, after many attempts, it finally worked. The eyes that were originally blurry and unable to see anything regained some of their brilliance.

Although there are side effects and the effect is only temporary, at least there has been progress.

The experiment took only a day and a half to complete. Uchiha Itachi could not help but sigh that the Second Generation was indeed a master of forbidden techniques. However, after two days of contact, he also discovered a question.

Although it is obvious that there is an uncomfortable reaction when "Senju Tobirama" uses the Sharingan, it can be seen that it is not as simple as the first time using the Sharingan.

This pair of Sharingan, it seems like he was born with it, very skilled. And when the Uchiha is mentioned, the white-haired boy's emotions fluctuate without seeming fake.

The question was not answered. Uchiha Itachi was holding the jar full of Sharingan and heard the boy in front of him sigh deeply.

"Soon." Uchiha Tobi rubbed his forehead. He was still a little uncomfortable with the burden of the Sharingan. "Soon this will be a trivial matter."

Uchiha Tobi felt a headache when he thought of the missing Hashirama Senju. However, he heard from Tsunade that Jiraiya, who had the intelligence, seemed to be returning to Konoha soon.

It is impossible to avoid war, but if Hashirama Senju is there, the situation should be like when Konoha was founded, and under the suppression of absolute strength, peace will return.

But there is one thing that Uchiha Tobi is very concerned about, and that is why the Akatsuki organization collects the tailed beasts.

The sky gradually brightened, and as the sun slowly rose, a new day arrived.

But along with it came a deafening roar and an urgent warning.

"Oh no! Uchiha Sasuke has escaped from prison!!"