Shimura Danzo
It had been a surprise. A nasty, unwelcoming, surprise to find a kid that looked just like his late teammate, Kagami.
It had hit him hard, almost making the air around him turn suffocating, but the heavy bandages over his eye (Kagami’s eye) was enough to ground him back to reality. A reality where this has to be a coincidence, a macabre conscience.
Danzo takes a big, deep, breath and entered the room. Hiruzen was handing out the new protectors to the new jounin. He smiles at Danzo and introduces him the lucky shinobi -Two boys,Uchihas.- in his grandfatherly voice.
Danzo considers the ceremony of ascension to jounin just an empty vanity but right now, he couldn’t deny the interest he had on meeting the Uchiha that wore Kagami’s face.
He listens closely and keeps his gaze on this person: Uchiha Hitomi. Who, apparently, is Kagami’s grandchild.
A grandchild that meets Danzo’s eyes with deep suspicion, and then, with a quickly hidden alarm when Dazno caught his hand into his. Not afraid, never afraid, but with an air of recognition that makes him smile.
Because those black eyes are not full of the aloofness an Uchiha recerve for strangers: for unimportant individuals who didn’t deserve their attentions. No. Those eyes are looking him (only him) with an emotion that only special people receive.
It takes his breath away for a moment.
Because...
Those are Kagami’s eyes.
Kagami’s lips.
Kagami’s smile.
Then, too soon, Kagami leaves in the company of his cousin and he has to attend more pressing matters.
Of course, Danzo tries to get the boy’s attention again in the next days, even offering him a place inside Root. But his advances are always turn down; Kagami doesn’t trust him. Doesn’t want to be near him.
Danzo’s hearth screams and the agony is almost too much to bear. Because he doesn’t want to lose this second chance. Not when this Kagami is still clean of his clan’s curse—
Still pure. Still the man Danzo had fallen in love with.
Unfortunately, it seems like Kagami remembers some of his past life because the next time they’re alone he snarls at him and treathes him with cutting his hand off if he tries to touch him again.
It’s infuriating.
Not that Danzo doesn’t understand. He deserves the rejection after what happened between them, is understandable that Kagami is a little upset about the entire ordeal. Although, as Kagami doesn’t demand his eye back, Danzo finds himself feeling hopeful.
His friend must understand.
Kagami must understand that he only did that to protect the village. And must agree that it was the right choice, as well. Danzo is sure of it. Kagami had always put the village first until that fateful day when they sensei died…
The course of loving too much, that’s what Tobirama-sensei had said. A love so strong that could twist even a pure soul like Kagami’s.
Danzo sighed,
If Kagami wanted space, he would give it to him.
He could wait until Kagami was ready to join him once again.
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But that again would not come.
Because just two months after their reunion, Kagami retired.
Danzo had been furious. He had barged in Hiruzuen’s office and demanded answers.
Danzo couldn’t believe it. The old fool had actually fallen for the stupid excuse the Uchihas had give him.
No. No. There must be a reasonable reason for him to retire as a shinobi, because Kagami would never do that. He loves the village more than anything and would not refuse it his strength to take care of two dumb children!
The Uchiha Clan must have seen what Danzo and decide that they couldn’t allow it,
He gritted his teeth.
Fuck them! Egotistical, cursed and nephasterous clan. Danzo would teach them what it meant to try and take what was his.
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He pushed for years, trying to break the Clan’s hold out of his friend. But wasn’t able to do much more than see how Kagami was turned on a filthy civilian by persons who were afraid of his power and greatness.
When he realized that Shisui was a treat to his plans, he saw red. The boy needed to go. But he wouldn’t just kill him, no, that eyes of his were too much of a treat to be not taken care off.
Kagami would understand, Danzo thought, sneering at the boy as his hand curled around the eye he had just ripped out.
Kagami had understood.
He hadn’t run away.
He had just looked at him with tears and trembling lips.
Beautiful even in his last moments.
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He is sure Kagami will be out of Konoha when the little Uchiha takes care of the rest of the putrid clan. He, himself, had signed the mission papers.
At least, that Shisui wasn’t just a disgrace. Helping Kagami to get back on his feet had been the only good thing he had done.
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He had been so sure.
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When his shadows inform him that there's another survivor apart of Itachi’s little brother, he sees red and goes to finish it himself.
What he finds, freeze him on the spot.
Kagami is curled around the child; bloodied and raged, too pale for his own good, and evidently unconscious even though his eyes were open and his hand keeping the sword raised.
He should have not been here…
No. Oh, god. W hat. What have I done ?!
No. Calm down.
He’s alive.
His shadows had said, two survivors.
Kagami was still alive.
Danzo breaks out of his panic and quickly asks for the best medics to help Kagami. Hoping, praying to any deity that he survives, because Danzo is not sure what he would do if he loses Kagami.
He’s just thinking - Not again, please.- for the eight long hours that takes the surgeons to inform him, that, yes, Kagami will survive, but he’s in a coma and they’re not sure if he will ever wake up.
He suffered a truly severe trauma , they told him, making his surviving a miracle with the state his body was when they found him.
Half of his chest gone, organs ripped out and spinal cord fractured. And that was not taking in the amount of damage his brain had suffered. Kicked, viciously.
A miracle he had survived.
A miracle he had been able to stand and walk.
But Danzo knew better than anyone how strong Kagami was. How he could defy the universe and win. Because he had done it before, saving Danzo’s life over and over.
He cried over him, letting all his emotions go before he could put himself together.
Kagami had survived.
He would wake up.
This could not be the end of it.
It wouldn’t be.
Danzo would make sure of it.