Absolute Justice in Naruto

Danzo's pupils suddenly shrank.

Uchiha Chizumi moved too fast. The searing heat coming off the magma‑covered arm now only inches away made Danzo's eyes burn and his face feel scalded.

A thick smell of sulfur rushed straight into his nostrils, and his instinctive sense of danger—of death closing in—grew stronger by the second.

If that touches me…

I'll die!

Danzo threw dignity aside and lurched backward in a clumsy scramble, practically donkey‑rolling several times before he finally dodged the blow.

"Danzo-sama!!!"

A Root shinobi's cry made Danzo realize he still hadn't gotten clear.

"Hss—!"

A stab of pain shot through his left ear, forcing a sharp intake of breath. He could actually smell cooked, burned meat.

His hand flew to the ear—only to find it gone.

Looking up in alarm, he saw Uchiha Chizumi break through the encirclement, tap a foot on the ground, and vault high into the air.

The magma‑flowing right arm suddenly began to swell before everyone's eyes, as though an active volcano were building terrifying power.

"Kid—get back."

The Anbu assigned to watch the jinchūriki couldn't ignore the scene any longer. With the fastest speed of his life he scooped Naruto up and sprinted away from the danger zone.

Izumi's panicked eyes instantly flushed scarlet. Sensing mortal danger, she awakened the Sharingan she had first unlocked at age five after seeing her father killed by the Nine‑Tails.

It was, again, a three‑tomoe Sharingan (as in Itachi Shinden / the original TV arc).

The spinning tomoe drained her chakra in a flash, turning her small face chalk‑white, yet it unleashed an unprecedented surge of ocular power.

She used that power solely to evade.

Izumi trusted that Chizumi‑senpai would not tell her to back off for no reason—so she chose to believe in him.

Below, the two Root operatives moved in perfect sync, forming seals.

"Water Style: Wild Water Wave!" × 2

Twin torrents roared upward toward Uchiha Chizumi.

"Lava Release: Great Eruption."

Chizumi's arm—now swollen bigger than his entire body—smashed downward.

Chakra‑formed magma erupted like a volcano, forming an impossibly huge molten fist that plummeted straight toward the ground.

BOOOOM!

The violent clash of Lava and Water Release sent scalding steam billowing, filling the air with acrid, poisonous fumes.

Chizumi's Lava Release resembled Iwagakure's Roshi's in form—both were magma‑type kekkei genkai—but Chizumi's had a trait Roshi lacked: the raw, explosive force of a volcanic eruption.

Before the stunned eyes of the two Root shinobi, the gigantic lava fist vaporized the water technique and kept grinding downward.

"Protect Danzo-sama!"

BOOM!

One Root ninja yanked Danzo aside in time; the other was half a beat slow. When the molten fist slammed into the earth, splashing lava drenched half his body.

"AAAAAAH!!!"

The shinobi's shriek drew every gaze.

Half his body looked as though it had been erased.

Where the lava hit him, his flesh was literally on fire.

A massive crater yawned in the street,

like a pool of molten rock belching heat.

"So this is… the Uchiha prodigy with dual blood‑line limits, who rose to fame in the Third Great Ninja War—his reputation almost matching Uchiha Shisui's… the Lava Beast, Uchiha Chizumi?"

The Anbu holding Naruto coughed violently from the sulfur fumes; cold sweat soaked his back.

Thank goodness… he had sensibly avoided fighting that man from the start.

Otherwise—he doubted he could have escaped intact.

"U! Chi! Ha! Chi! Zumi!"

Danzo's aged face turned so dark it seemed ready to drip ink.

One hand clamped the bandages over his face, veins bulging on the back of his hand.

Danzo did not fear Uchiha Chizumi. In his eyes, this inherently evil Uchiha brat was just an up‑and‑coming kid who had barely left the nest.

He was merely hesitating over whether to reveal his hidden Sharingan here in public.

Damn it…

If only he'd brought more Root guards today, there'd be no need to hesitate.

Chizumi landed on magma hot enough to vaporize flesh, utterly unharmed. Drops of molten rock slid from him, burning one smoking pit after another into the ground.

…

"Hm?"

Far away in the Hokage Tower, Hiruzen Sarutobi suddenly sensed commotion outside.

As he turned, a messenger pigeon flew in.

Hiruzen's eyes sharpened.

He knew that pigeon well—it belonged to the Anbu watching over Naruto.

"Hokage-sama! Hokage-sama!"

The pigeon spoke in a shrill human voice: "Bad news! Uchiha Chizumi and Shimura Danzo are fighting! The jinchūriki Uzumaki Naruto's been caught up in it too!"

Hiruzen sprang to his feet.

"Danzo!"

His face went steel‑gray. He ground his teeth. "Didn't I just tell him not to provoke that boy Chizumi?"

Knowing Danzo, the old man had undoubtedly started it.

Danzo had always despised the Uchiha; once he ran into the active Chizumi in the village…

there was no telling what extreme thing he'd do.

Yet—

When Hiruzen recalled Chizumi's unwavering sense of justice, his almost‑perfect case‑solving record, and those eyes that seemed to pierce everyone… he hesitated for a heartbeat.

No—!

He shook the thought away. What mattered now was stopping the clash immediately.

Otherwise the area‑of‑effect of that Lava Release was no joke.

He vividly remembered the boy's terrifying feats in the Third Great Ninja War.

That lava, with power like a volcanic blast—one of the most dangerous forces in the shinobi world.

"Take me there!"

He ordered the pigeon, then barked: "Kakashi!"

Whoosh!

A figure flickered into view before him.

"Lead three Anbu squads and follow me to end this fight—now!"

"Yes, Hokage-sama."

Kakashi nodded.

…

Elsewhere—

Splurt!

The glowing, magma‑red arm pierced a second Root shinobi's chest as though through paper.

A razor‑sharp wind tore in right after, slicing the corpse clean in two.

Blood never even reached Chizumi; the heat vaporized it instantly.

The Wind Style: Wind Cutter, sharp enough to shear steel, still carved a ten‑plus‑centimeter gash in Chizumi's chest—but magma surged in and filled the wound at once.

"Just what is his 'Lava Release'…?"

Danzo's face was grim to the extreme. Chizumi's technique was starting to remind him uncannily of the Hōzuki clan's Hydrification Jutsu.

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