Chapter 69.4- One Thousand Hands

I completed the journey under the guise of Danzo Shimura and stopped outside the hospital, staring at the building. Azula remained there. She had seemed initially accepting of my offers but since then., I’d noticed a hesitance on her part. A hesitance that gave me a bad feeling about hr loyalties Ordinarily, I would keep her in place as a possible future resource but using her to get rid of a threat to my rule was worth it. Especially considering the plan I was coming up with.

I snuck into the hospital using the body of the Clan head, even as I knew that the anbu would most assuredly notice a thing or two. My hope was just that they would hold off on intervening until it was too late. And so I moved forward with the plan, sneaking into her room and releasing the guards outside from the duty for the night. Considering I’d stepped down to chunin guards for situations like this rather sending them to war instead of the anbu. Even a single anbu member with anything above middling competence would be more useful in a war than a three man squad of chunin. Around the Yonbi jincuriki there were countless seals. So many that anyone less than a seal master would have had a terrible time even just tying to puzzle out what all of them did.

A bunch of them were just tracking seals, a few designed to monitor her state and keep her unconscious, making her chakra lay dormant, to preventing her from using ninjutsu with the most of them designed give me consistent reports on changes that happened to her. Those seals were sounding the alarm now. A shame, she would have given some information on Iwa’s training methods and their unique cocktail of drugs and whatnot for making their shinobi so damn big.

A single hand seal ensured that a genjutsu took hold of the Yonbi jinchuriki, taking her even further into Morpheus’ realm and then Danzo was moving. Where he had used a secret entrance avoided by high level shinobi to enter the hospital, he used a different one to leave. One that I was not even all that familiar with which was interesting. I just knew it existed thanks to my Byakugan, but beyond that there was little I had on it. I didn’t know where it led even, but I didn’t need to.

Soc I evacuated myself and the girl the second I stepped out of the immediate view of anyone who might have been watching, I used the flying raijin to return to Danzo’s house.

“Wake up, Jinchuriki’ I called, slapping her across the face with Danzo’s appearance layered over my own. I had to do this right. The iwa Jinchuriki was goin g to be the one to kill ‘Danzo’, and then I was going to let her escape— temporal.

“Wha?— what? Who are you?”

“I am Danzo Shiimura, and you are going to be my weapon.” I said grandely, enjoying playing the role.