[Naruto] Saga of Tanya the Kunoichi

Danzo sat in his office within secret underground Root HQ, taking the report from the hand of his subordinate kneeling on one knee on the ground, Kaito.

"Kaito, what do you think about her?", Danzo asked as he read the contents from Tanya's squad captain; a planted Root member in the ANBU that Hiruzen wasn't even aware of. Or perhaps he did, but he couldn't control them anyway.

'Yes, Danzo-sama. She completed the mentality training all at once; as if she had done it before'. 

Danzo frowned slightly; after all, even for him, if you had to do something like killing or cutting the flesh of a living person for the first time while you were just 10 years old - there's no way it can be as simply as what's reported here. The mentality training is not supposed to be completed in a single day.

"Has she shown any form of pleasure while she's at it?". Danzo didn't mind if Tanya had a little loose screw; as long as her will and mind was still acting for the good of village. And Danzo was more than willing to give Tanya a channel to let her pour her twisted desires healthily. A lot of such people had always been recruited into the Intelligence Department in a certain subdivision.

'No, Danzo-sama. Her state was normal throughout the entire procedure. From my observation, her view is akin to seeing a laboratory animal dissected for study. She is a curious learner and often asks for feedback. She listens well to commands and had the drive to improve'.

Danzo nodded in satisfaction with Tsuyu's character - perhaps she was closer to Orochimaru in personality. Unfortunately for Danzo; Tsuyu cannot work under Root blatantly as Danzo's authority over the ANBU was stripped for the most part. But Danzo had a far better plan for Tsuyu than just working as an undercover agent or the like.

What Danzo wanted was a true weapon that could lead Konoha to its previous glory. Hiruzen was a fool to not want to develop Tsuyu, and by extension Naruto (not that Danzo has any hope for him seeing a subpar performance over the years), who was already able to control the 9 tails power. Hiruzen should have seen it with his own eyes, but always with his soft approaches and indecisions! The same way he let Orochimaru, his students get away and defect. 

Danzo would have respected Hiruzen if only he could have truly done what he advocated - which he didn't. Putting that aside, Danzo personally has never felt that much contempt for Orochimaru because his interest does not harm Konoha at first. 

Hiruzen was foolish not to see that, either. Orochimaru simply desires to learn all Jutsu - and for that also desires immortality to have all the time for it.

Instead of supporting his endeavor and having his expertise, knowledge, and even developing Jutsu like Tobirama did and helping to raise Konoha's place and power, the foolish Hiruzen only sees the few deaths of random nameless people used by him in his pursuit and caused Orochimaru to defect - also adding a potential very dangerous threat to Konoha. Truly, what an idiot! 

Danzo and Hiruzen both had seen all 3 shinobi wars. Ten thousands of deaths, corpses are like random trash you can pick up on the battlefield. They even knew Tobirama conducted human experiments as well, using enemy shinobi, but what is the difference? 

All lives are equally precious; each of those lives had family, friends, and those precious to them behind the shinobi mask they doned, aren't they? What makes it morally more reasonable to do human experimentation on them than to do it on the random guy Orochimaru picked? 

Danzo, too, had his humanity - that's why he understood humanity and feelings and were a master at manipulation. Though he had buried that humanity deep inside him, for Konoha's sake.

Who's right or wrong was simply a matter of perspective. The enemy shinobi thought they were fighting for their country and that they were the good guys. It's hypocritical to be okay with using the enemy's body but not our own. What are a few dozen compared to that? Konoha would have benefited countless times more than those meager sacrifices.

And even when Hiruzen decided to chastise Orochimaru for it, he let him escape just like that and created a very scary enemy!

Danzo shook that thought away, not wanting to think about the indecisive old friend of his that only made his old blood boil. 

In Danzo's mind, he already had a plan for Tsuyu. While certainly Tsuyu can be utilised very well for Root's most unspeakable works, he had a grander plan.

The main point was for her to completely master the 9-tails power - and with it, Konoha would gain its strength once more. He had brought this plan up the moment the pair of jinchurikis were born. The two siblings should have been trained and conditioned early on to have them utilise the power contained in them earlier. But his suggestions fell onto deft ears!

Hiruzen even snatched Kinoe - the Wood Release user that Danzo had cultivated with hard work and as a result of those 'inhumane' experiments ironically - but instead of using such an opportunity to cultivate the jinchuriki pair, that old fool did absolutely nothing!

Look at other hidden villages. They all had powerful Jinchuriki that could use their bijuus power. Only Konoha have them like mere decoration pieces. Frankly, even if they don't have 9 tails, nothing changes in terms of Konoha's power now. 

Konoha wouldn't have to fear nor bow down to any other Nations if Tsuyu and Naruto were properly cultivated as the greatest weapon. 

It's also why he leaked Naruto's status as the jinchuriki. To unite the village was just a side effect. His true intention was to make Naruto easily manipulated by him, and eventually, Danzo planned to reach out and have the jinchuriki under him and train him up.

However, that plan for Naruto was difficult to accomplish because Hiruzen would stop any attempt of Danzo to even approach him. As for Tsuyu, she was observed to be too mentally and emotionally stable for normal manipulation, so she was excused from useless methods, and he was only biding his time to get to Tsuyu later - which he is already close to accomplishing now. 

Hiruzen was aware of Danzo's intention and already warned him against making any contact with the jinchurikis, so Danzo couldn't do anything about it that brazenly.

But now it's different. He had a channel to have Tsuyu under him without Hiruzen even realising. His planted seeds bore fruit luckily, and Tsuyu had both talent and character for it, and he was confident he could achieve what Hiruzen was afraid to do.

As for the second part of his plan, he wanted to control the village decision-making because he truly despised Hiruzen's cowardly methods. And time and time again, Hiruzen only caused his desire to become the Hokage to grow stronger and stronger - perhaps to the point of obsession. He truly believed only he could lead Konoha. Having Tsuyu's support would be beneficial to him in the long run.

In his honest feelings, he did not think his old age was suited for the Hokage position - and before Minato's recruitment as Hokage, he supported Orochimaru because Orochimaru had always supported Danzo's methods, and Danzo himself almost saw Orochimaru as the second coming of Tobirama. 

Alas, he had no one under him suited for the position anymore, so he had to become the Hokage himself to make Konoha as to what he envisioned. His obsession for power stemmed from various failures of Konoha itself, truly. If anyone else were in his shoes, seeing incompetent people ruining everything time and time again, even they would be obsessed with obtaining the power to do everything by themselves. 

It's Hiruzen's failure that created the evil of Danzo. Unfortunately, no one will ever get it.

Danzo's anger session now shifted onto the matter of Orochimaru; who was now residing in Akatsuki. It also meant the organisation most likely helped with Orochimaru experiments now, and in exchange Orochimaru would exchange his knowledge and expertise to them.

Hiruzen might think Akatsuki was just a mere mercenary organisation, but he's dead wrong. Danzo could see how this organisation's end goal was seemingly trying to ruin the already-established system of the hidden villages. As for how, Danzo's initial guess was they would try to establish their force; similar to a hidden village; that would take in incomes and even syphone power towards their side. The group was an unstable factor that could even escalate wars and drag Konoha into it if worse came to worst. 

Danzo would have wanted to exterminate Akatsuki as early as possible, but he had to consider making Orochimaru a real threat to Konoha - he truly never had any grudge against him. The thing was, Danzo understood Orochimaru only wants to learn jutsu and gain eternal life. None of it has anything to do with destroying or harming Konoha.

If he provoked Orochimaru now, he was afraid the possibility would come true. Danzo gritted his teeth just thinking about it. Foolish Hiruzen! What a fool! Why weren't there any smart people who could see how he was never suited for the Hokage!?

Danzo crumpled the report he was reading subconsciously, feeling his blood boiling. 

Danzo took a deep breath, calming his state of mind just as quickly as his anger came. 

He suppose he could make contact with Tsuyu now to proceed with his plans and improve his mood.

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