Danzō Shimura
Danzō Shimura is a male character who features in Naruto.
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Biography
Danzō Shimura (Japanese: 志村ダンゾウ, Hepburn: Shimura Danzō) was a male human born to the Shimura Clan of Konohagakure in the Ninja World. It was noted that his grandfather and his father had both died as shinobi in the wars that afflicted their world. Growing up as a ninja, he became a shinobi during the reign of the Hokage Tobirama Senju with Danzō growing up alongside Hiruzen Sarutobi. Hiruzen was noted for being a gifted ninja with this stirring feelings of inadequacy and jealousy in Danzō who longed to surpass his compatriot thus forming a rivalry between the pair.
After Sasuke Uchiha's betrayal and Kakashi Hatake being injured, Team Kakashi came to be severely underpowered. At the time, Danzō made arrangements to place Sai on the team seemingly to keep watch over the jinchuriki. In reality though, he had given Sai a secret assignment which was to assassinate Sasuke Uchiha. Part of this goal involved making contact with Orochimaru in order to orchestrate a ruse whereby he claimed that Danzō wanted to ally with the rogue Sanin in an effort to destroy Konoha. Ultimately, Sai came to fail in his assignment but the Root member requested to remain with Team Kakashi with Shimura allowing him to do so though warned him about the danger of emotions.
He was present in the village when it came under attack from Pain of the Akatsuki who was looking to capture Naruto Uzumaki. Such was his power that he was devastating the hidden leaf by himself resulting in Tsunade asking a messenger toad to go to Mount Myōboku and ask for Naruto's return. However, Danzō did not agree with this decision and had the toad killed before he could teleport to his destination. Despite his efforts, word came to the toads of the attack leading to Uzumaki arriving to battle Pain where he managed to defeat his opponent. The result of excessive use of her chakra to keep everyone alive led to Tsunade falling into a coma and being unable to serve as Hokage at the time. Requiring immediate leadership, the elders of the village and the ruler of the Land of Fire decided that a new Hokage needed to be selected with Danzō Shimura manoeuvring himself into the position. Thus, he came the Sixth Hokage Candidate where he looked to ensure that Naruto was confined to the village to prevent the loss of the Nine-Tails. Around this time, he received word from the hidden cloud village when the Raikage requested a meeting of all the Kage in a summit. Danzō along with two of his Root bodyguards then made their journey to the Land of Iron for the Five Kage Summit. In the meeting, the Raikage revealed that the Akatsuki had gathered most of the jinchuriki and had become a danger that needed to be hunted down. The leader of the Land of Iron suggested the five Kage's work together and form an Allied Shinobi Forces with Danzō Shimura serving as a military leader of the group until the threat of the Akatsuki was ended.
Overview
Personality and attributes
He came to gain a reputation for notoriety where he was known as the The Darkness of the Shinobi (忍の闇, Shinobi no Yami, English TV: The Shinobi of Darkness).
In his youth, he claimed a shinobi had to be prepared to die in battle. However, he felt fear when in a hopeless battle that a volunteer was asked to delay the enemy. Rather than volunteer, Danzō's cowardice could him to refuse to speak up at first.
According to him, he believed that a ninja's world lay in the darkness and should not be seen. He had a deep desire to change the ninja world and believed only he could save it. This led to his desire to become the Hokage but he noted that in the end he was unable to reach the position of leader of the hidden leaf.
It was noted that his father and grandfather had died as ninja in the conflicts in the Ninja World.
Danzō had a longstanding rivalry to his compatriot Hiruzen Sarutobi and felt a sense of envy against him. This was despite the fact that Hiruzen had seen Danzō as a comrade though Shimura had long tried to catch up to his Sarutobi. However, no matter how far he ran, he always failed in keeping up with his comrade. In his final moments, he compared Hiruzen to had soared high in the sun like a leaf whilst he himself was like the root that remain buried in darkness and not seen.
Powers and abilities
Danzō Shimura was born a human in the ninja world where he had the power to manipulate chakra to achieve a number of feats. This combined with his training led to him becoming a shinobi and a skilled warrior.
In his old age, he willingly had his body altered to improve his fighting ability with part of these experiments being made with the help of Orochimaru. This included his right arm holding cells from the first Hokage Hashirama Senju. These Hashirama Cells allowed him to control the next addition to his body which were 10 Sharingan harvested from the massacre of the Uchiha clan. These mature eyes were placed all around his right arm that initially were bandaged up and had a locked seal to protect them which needed to be unlocked. Finally, he harvested the Sharigan eye from Shisui Uchiha which was used to replace his own right eye that was bandaged up whilst it adapted to his body.
In Konohagakure, he came to be part of the hawk faction within the village that sought more aggressive and militaristic approach to matters.
He was the leader of the Root (根, Ne, English TV: Foundation) that were a branch of Konohagakure's Anbu training subdivision.
Notes
- Danzō Shimura was created by Masashi Kishimoto where he featured in the setting of Naruto.
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Appearances
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