We waited a few days before starting the plan to take Danzo down after that. During that time I stocked up on supplies in a very public manner so that when I actually started my mission it didn’t seem suspicious. If anything Danzo would see me preparing and once my mission was announced think it was only natural that I was told before it was made public so I could prepare. This was not something unusual either as the third Hokage did similar with his own students so my sensei doing the same was in line with what he knew.-
Hell it was a publicly known fact that Jiraiya was regularly out of the village gathering intelligence under the third Hokages orders. Once he learnt the details of my mission the old bastard definitely wouldn’t fail to figure out the political benefits it would give my sensei even if I didn’t actually get much done. The trick then became whether he would allow me to complete some of my mission before he made a move against me or if he’d act immediately. I had plans in place for both outcomes, especially if he personally made a move rather than sent his minion after me.-
The third Hokage had made it clear in the list of the mans criminal actions that Danzo possesses at least one of the eyes of Shisui Uchiha whose mangekyou ability was a sort of brainwashing genjutsu called [kotoamatsukami]. I was willing to bet my arm that was the sharingan he had in his right eye socket. This meant that if he personally showed up I needed to keep him from using that eye which was fairly easy to be honest. The moment his chakra moves towards that eye I was going to flicker away immediately.-
Perhaps before he fell into his current condition he’d be able to withstand chasing me at my full speed but now? His body was likely to collapse if he even attempted it and I even had the plan to have Akasha with me at all times so that even if he tried using a barrier to keep me in place she could just teleport me away. My sensei had already made it clear to me that spacetime ninjutsu like that were pretty much impossible to stop without another spacetime ninjutsu of which Danzo had no talent in.-
To be fair though few people WERE talented in the stuff and even in that rare case even fewer knew about that talent much less made techniques for or against it. Even if he somehow had such a thing it wasn’t something that could be casually deployed but would definitely take serious preparation to set up. This meant unless I foolishly walked into a trap that I would definitely sense it wasn’t going to happen. Still I doubted that Danzo would personally act given his cowardly nature and current health.-
The man acted tough but he didn’t like to risk himself unless he was confident of victory and against me I can guarantee that confidence didn’t exist, not in his current condition anyways. If anything his current condition meant he was even less likely to personally act as he was likely making preparations for his impending death or more likely than not seeking a way to survive. He wouldn’t find it of course as I had personally confirmed that his body was screwed with no chance of recovery. That did remind me of that weird body swapping technique that Orochimaru apparently used now that would probably save him but at a heavy cost.-
Stuffing your soul into someone elses body that already had a soul in it was a foul deed and came with far more downsides than upsides. For starters your yin yang ratios would get all sorts of messed up and leave you horribly vulnerable to genjutsu or other yin related jutsu. Second none of your chakra or muscle memory goes with you because that isn’t your original body. Third was that the body would start to rapidly decay as it fought against your soul meaning you’d need to regularly swap bodies or find one durable enough not to break down.-
I might be wrong but I simply don’t think the man would be willing to accept these downsides. Anyways once I got my mission alongside a few dozen other shinobi to cleanse the land of fire of all criminal elements we found the game was on. The other shinobi were added by my sensei because she realized that even without the distraction it would prove for Danzo this was a solid political move that would build confidence in her ability as Hokage. Due to this she made it into a large spectacle that I and the other shinobi involved in left the village at the same time.-
I wasted no time at all separating from the rest of the shinobi at top speeds to shake off any followers. This whole gambit wouldn’t work if I made it seem like I was allowing people to tail me easily. Besides that I didn’t want any of these other shinobi to get caught in the crossfire because they were trying to be friendly and team up with me. This was a legitimate concern as unlike before when I was just the disciple of the disciple of the third Hokage and only known for my medical prowess. –
Now I was the disciple of the fifth Hokage, a powerful iryonin, beast master and powerful in my own right as well. Naturally many people would want to cozy up to me since I was now very politically important within the village. Thankfully no one was going to take it hard if I left them behind as my solitary personality was well known by this point. That said I could sense that some did try to tail me but I was so good at flickering by this point that I easily left after images behind. Normal shinobi even at the Jonin level had no chance of keeping up with me when I went all out like I was now.-
‘Let the game begin.’ i thought with a smirk as I sensed the tailing shinobi give up trying to match my speed.
‘Multishadow clone jutsu!’ I thought as dozens of shadow clones poofed into existence.
They all nodded and took off in different directions which will make tracking me a nightmare. Shadow clones left behind scent, footprints and even chakra signatures identical to the users so this made finding me in short order a VERY difficult process.-
These shadow clones also had another purpose that was beneficial, bandit extermination. Each of these clones were for better or worse me with a limited chakra and health pool. This meant they had my senses, strength and to a lesser degree durability. In other words just like I could run for days without tiring they could also do that and so this let me cover a much wider area to exterminate bandits in a shorter time frame.