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| - In his youth, Danzō was good friends with Hiruzen Sarutobi. However, Danzō always felt inferior to Hiruzen, harboring a desire to surpass him. Shortly after the foundation of the village, Hiruzen and Danzō sparred, while a few of their future team-mates watched. During the First Shinobi World War, Danzō, along with his team-mates: Kagami Uchiha and Torifu Akimichi, as well as Hiruzen and his team-mates: Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado, formed a squad led by the Second Hokage. At some point, the team was pursued by Kumogakure's Kinkaku Squad, realising that one of them would need to sacrifice themselves as a decoy to ensure the others' safety. Hoping to die for his companions, just as his father and grandfather had, Danzō tried to volunteer but was paralysed with fear at the prospect of dying, allowing Hiruzen to volunteer before he could compose himself. Angry that Hiruzen had once again beaten him, Danzō began to protest before the Second Hokage decided to be the decoy instead while appointing Hiruzen as his successor. With Hiruzen having beaten him to the title of Hokage, Danzō began planning to someday attain the title himself. Taking up the village's more clandestine operations — something that Hiruzen noted because of his own indulgence, he allowed Danzō to do — he created the Anbu subsidiary named Root. Within this group, Danzō himself hand-picked various young shinobi with noticeable potential to join, such as Fū Yamanaka. During the Third Shinobi World War, Danzō agreed to help Hanzō of Amegakure in order to receive help in claiming the title of Hokage, sending some of his forces to deal with Akatsuki but they were all wiped out by Nagato.In the anime, it is revealed Danzō manipulated Hanzō into joining forces with him against Akatsuki, having brought him corpses of Ame shinobi claiming they were killed by Akatsuki. In truth, they were Root members disguised as Iwa shinobi that were killed during Nagato's rampage, originally being used to disrupt a peace treaty between Konohagakure and Iwagakure in his pursuit to strengthen Konohagakure. Once the two shinobi joined forces, Danzō approached Akatsuki as an Ame shinobi named Kanzō (カンゾウ, Kanzō), informing them that Hanzō is allowing the group to make peace negotiations, which of course was a ruse concocted by the allied shinobi. He would later betray Hanzō at some point in history. During Kurama's attack on Konoha, Danzō insisted that the Uchiha Clan not be allowed to join the battle in fear that someone like Madara Uchiha would take advantage of the situation and capture the Nine-Tails. Ultimately, he convinced Hiruzen to have the Uchiha purely protect the citizens and avoid the Nine-Tails. After Kurama was stopped, Danzō was one of the elders to suspect the Uchiha clan and began a spying operation on them. With the Fourth Hokage sacrificing himself to seal away the Nine-Tails inside his son, Hiruzen humbly resumed his role as Third Hokage, much to Danzō's disdain. After which, Danzō approached a grieving young Kakashi Hatake, noting that it was Hiruzen's orders for the children, even high-ranking ninja like Kakashi, to not help battle the Nine-Tails, ultimately preventing Kakashi from possibly saving his sensei and his wife. Convincing an emotional Kakashi that Hiruzen was not best for the future of the village, Kakashi agreed to join Danzō's Root division and spy on Hiruzen for him. Later, as the Third Hokage resumed his role, Danzō, no longer able to tolerate Hiruzen's overly-passive methods, sought to dispose of him. He sent several Root members to assassinate Hiruzen. However, a smug Danzō was soon approached by Hiruzen, who revealed that Kakashi informed him of the assassination attempt. As Danzō feared for his life knowing he would be executed for this treason, Hiruzen calmly chose to spare Danzō, keeping this event a secret on the condition Danzō agreed to dedicate his life to protecting the village. Quickly recomposing himself, Danzō plainly stated that Hiruzen's naive faith and mercy would be his end one day, to which the Third solemnly admitted may be so. Later, Danzō met with Orochimaru, telling him about the recent events and insisted they not meet for a while in fear Hiruzen might realise that Danzō and Orochimaru were behind the abduction of several Konoha citizens, to which the Sannin voiced that Hiruzen probably already has his suspicions. Later, Orochimaru's sinister actions was found out by the Third Hokage, forcing the Sannin to abandon Konoha. When Danzō learned of this, he knew Orochimaru would most likely go to their hideout with the Iburi clan. He sent Kinoe to inform the clan of Orochimaru's arrival. Danzō's true goal was to have Kinoe capture Orochimaru, agreeing with Hiruzen that Orochimaru was too dangerous to let go rogue. Over the years, Danzō continued to recruit new members of Root including Torune Aburame of the Aburame clan. Three years after Orochimaru escaped the village, fearing that his stolen Sharingan eye would soon go blind from its overuse, Danzō sent Kinoe to steal the Sharingan of Kakashi as a replacement. Kinoe soon returned, having chose to abandon his mission, much to Danzō's fury. Reminding the young shinobi of his duties as a Root member, Kinoe insisted that they should not attack allies to Konoha, which Danzō proclaimed that Root's only true allies is its own and exists only to protect Konoha itself. Unable to accept Danzō's cold views, Kinoe spoke out, making his feelings known. Horrified to see how much Kinoe had changed, Danzō used his Sharingan to incapacitate Kinoe, having one of his men take Kinoe to have his cursed seal activated. As Danzō arrived at the operating room, he discovered Kakashi freeing Kinoe and retreating with him. Danzō and his men soon surrounded the duo. As Kinoe was still under Danzō's command and Kakashi had trespassed on Root territory, Danzō had full authority to execute them. Before Danzō could act, the Third Hokage arrived, revealing that Kakashi was sent on his orders with a summoning request to be delivered to Danzō. No longer able to attack, Danzō faked ignorance of Hiruzen's letter and called off his men. Hiruzen then spoked to Danzō of Kinoe and his abilities. Insisting that Konoha need the Wood Release, Danzō agreed to hand over Kinoe to Hiruzen's command but chose to not remove Kinoe's cursed seal. Three years later, a potential alliance between Konoha and the Land of Woods was made. While a team was sent to exchange secret scrolls with the Wood-nin as a sign of trust, a small team of Anbu, under Danzō's command, was sent to observe under the suspicion that the Wood-nin would betray Konoha, in which case, the Anbu were ordered to kill the Wood-nin. Danzō chose Kakashi, still having high respect for his abilities, and the new recruit Danzō recommended into Anbu, Itachi Uchiha, as a two-man team for the mission. Two years later, when word reached Konoha's leadership of a planned coup d'état by the Uchiha clan, Danzō took advantage of Itachi Uchiha's pacifist tendencies and convinced him to provide him and the other elders with information of the clan's actions. Determined to protect the village in his own way, Danzō stole and implanted the right Mangekyō Sharingan of Shisui Uchiha shortly before his death. When Hiruzen decided to end the coup diplomatically, Danzō secretly met with Itachi and inveigled him into choosing to slaughter his clan by presenting him with the option of killing them and sparing his younger brother, Sasuke Uchiha or having them all killed. Itachi regretfully chose to agree to killing the Uchiha clan. Soon after performing the deed, Danzō told everyone that Itachi had done this, having grown to despise his clan and even sought greater power by stealing Shisui's eyes. While everyone else believed this fabricated story, Hiruzen saw through Danzō's lie, voicing his disgust at Danzō's actions. While trying to justify his actions by saying it was for the village, Hiruzen retorted that the Uchiha was part of the village. No longer able to trust Danzō and his underhanded ways, Hiruzen immediately removed him from the Konoha Council and ordered for the Root division to be disbanded. Afterwards, Itachi, disguised as a Root member, approached Danzō and threatened to expose Konoha's secrets to the other countries if Danzō ever harmed Sasuke. He met with Tobi around this time for as yet unknown reasons. Over the years, despite his Root division being officially disbanded, Danzō continued to keep it secretly active. Years later, a Gokage meeting was held and Sasuke Uchiha attacked. Danzō attempting to use Kotoamatsukami on Mifūne was found out by the other Kage and fled. Himself, Fū, and Torune were stopped by Madara and Sasuke. After Tobi dispatched Fū and Torune, he released Sasuke and Karin from the Kamui dimension offering Danzō as a present to Sasuke. A huge battle unfolded between the two resulting in Danzō's attempt to bring Madara and Sasuke down with Reverse Four Symbols Seal which failed, Danzō before he died crushed Shisui's eye. His body was taken by Madara. After Danzō's death several locater seals went off on some of the Foundation members one of them was Ryuga Amon, Danzō's personal medical shinobi in Root, as well as Izanagi Michi another Root member loyal to Danzō. They discovered his body during the time of the Fourth Great Shinobi War. Ryuga revived Danzō using the powerful Time Mending Technique. Once Danzō was revived they took him into hiding along with many of the jars of Sharingan they found. Still weak Danzō had Ryuga heal him and had Izanagi locate several other Foundation members so that could be brought to where he was. Ryuga being a spy for Danzō spent many years under the tutelage Orochimaru, Kabuto Yakushi, and Saito Otsutsuki, so he knew vast amounts about many experiments. Danzō wanted his body to be modified to it's limits so that he could become stronger, and take over Konoha. So he had his other members scout Orochimaru's hideouts for jutsu and scrolls that could help him achieve power. He also had Izanagi Michi scout the battlefield where the 4th Shinobi War took place, and watched the war behind the scenes. Meanwhile, Ryuga was performing experiments to modify Danzō's body as well as teaching him techniques that deal with cellular regeneration and destruction. After the war Izanagi noticed Madara Uchiha's corpse and when the Rikudo Seninin was releasing the Edo Tensei, Izanagi swept in an took Madara's body, returning to Danzō. After he returned he presented Madara's body to Danzō and Ryuga who were amazed that Izanagi was able to get something of this much value. From the training he got from Ryuga, Danzō used an advanced form of Ukon and Sakon technique which was the Parasitic Subjugation Technique, a jutsu that allowed Danzō to completely merge his cells with Madara's and override them so that he gained the abilities of an Uchiha. After Batsu,another Root Member, returned with the Hashirama Cells,they Ryuga implanted a larger amount of Hashirama Senju's cells into Danzō's right pectoral muscle. As a result a replica of Hashirama face grew there and gave Danzō, the ability to use Wood Release. Then from subjugating Madara's body a strange occurrence unfolded. Danzō right eye became a Rinnegan. Danzō felt an overabundance of chakra flowing through him and he underwent several other transformations. Believing he was now strong enough to move around he dressed as an ANBU to snuck back into Konohagakure to retrieve more jutsu one thing he stole was a Hyuga's Byakugan for reserve. Now with Uchiha blood coursing through his veins he was able to open the Naka Shrine and stole several of the Uchiha's secret techniques. He then returned to his hideout and asked Izanagi about what happened during the war. Izanagi explained to him what had happened and it angered Danzō. He believed that not only was it the Uchiha's fault but all those linked to him including the Bijū. As a result he decided to create a new organization whose goal is to eliminate the bijū i.e. jinchūriki, Senju and the surviving Uchiha specifically Sasuke Uchiha. Danzō later finds out that there is a group of Uchiha that settled down in the Land of Earth and has made them one his target's. Danzō's main goal however, is to take over the shinobi world. Danzō, knew that he would have to act from the shadows so he took on his old alias Kanzō and even developed a new disguise. He knew that after the war and the destruction of the Akatsuki that the leadership of Amegakure became vaccant, he decided take on the role of the leader of the village that acted from the shadows and also rekindled the organization the Akatsuki in his own image that hunted down the bijuu and Jinchūriki. And to use them as a distraction as he carried out his own plans. The akatsuki that he reformed was made up of shinobi many times more powerful than the last and several of his own Foundation members were put in the organization to make sure his plans were going accordingly. Later, Danzō sends a letter to Sasuke Uchiha in the hopes of killing him and taking his eyes.
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