Why?

Looking at Ai, Danzō felt some pity that the Strongest Raikage would never be able to show his full potential, but it did not stop him from sticking a kunai into his heart and throat.

The Raikage's son made sickening noises for several seconds before his eyes lost the light of life and the Seal of His Own Curse dissipated.

- AAAAAAA! - Unexpectedly, Danzo heard a furious scream behind him.

As soon as he turned around, Danzō saw the Raikage rushing towards him.

*BOOM!*

Ai blow whose strength was dozens of times greater than that of the son of the Raikage fell on Danzō, taking his body dozens of meters outside of Kumogakure.

Danzo literally felt his organs turn into a bloody mess, and his head began to spin due to lack of blood. Seeing the mountain peaks getting further and further away from him, Danzō felt an incomprehensible peace.

"Well, I should be happy anyway that I managed to live a second life..."

And when Danzo was already preparing to hit the Pure World, something sharply picked him up, and a voice, barely audible due to the ringing in his ears, told him something:

- B..say! B... it!

"Bite?"

At the same time, he felt that someone forcibly opened his mouth and forcibly shoved a... human hand into it?

With the last of his strength, Danzō clenched his jaw and bit through the tender skin from which blood flowed.

HEAT!

Danzo felt his whole body literally burning from the inside! But at the same time, clarity of mind and strength gradually returned to him. Finally, he opened his eyes to see his savior.

- Higane? - Danzo said hoarsely and very surprised.

- Shut up, fool! Shut up if you want to live! - she screamed at him.

Ignoring Higan's screams, Danzō noticed a slight wetness around her eyes.

"Is... she really worried about me that much?"

While deep in thought, Danzō rested his head comfortably on the lap of this beautiful woman from the Uzumaki Clan and, much to his delight, met no resistance from the other side.

Only now he was able to notice that he was on some kind of huge eagle, which, apparently, was a summoning animal.

"I didn't seem to throw any ring into the mouth of the volcano? And I don't know any Gandalfs... Oh well."

Relaxing after this little joke, Danzō couldn't help but think about what was going on.

"Weird, I thought she was just interested in me... And my attractiveness is clearly not on Sasuke's level..."

Danzō has taken an interest in a mystery named Hagane.

- Where... are we flying? - through force said Danzo.

- I told you, shut up! .. We're flying home to Konoha. - Higane said with a somewhat strange intonation.

After a short pause, Danzō asked:

- Why?

Higane looked at him menacingly, but realizing that he was not going to obey her, she made a helpless expression and asked again:

- Why what?

- ...Why did you save me? - Danzo directly asked the question he was interested in.

Higan showed a slight fury on her face and lightly slapped Danzō on the cheek.

*Clap*

- Fool.