Naruto Battle! Naruto vs. Danzo

A solid rebuttal. This is going to be a fierce debate :-) But let us be sure to be friendly, since we are both such fans of the show. I accept your contentions about the potential efficacy of the mind-control dojutsu and Naruto's susceptibility to it, but we must keep in mind that Naruto has some friends who are quite powerful genjutsuists. Now that Jiraiya is dead, Naruto is the primary student of the toad sages, and as he has already summoned them into battle against Pain, I think it safe to assume that he would do so against Danzo as well. The sages can also summon some powerful allies, so this aspect of Naruto's abilities alone is quite powerful. As far as we know, Danzo only had one beast to summon, and it wasn't very helpful. Toad sage oil would easily overwhelm Danzo's creature. I want to clarify, before I go further, that I am assuming Naruto knows he will be battling Danzo. I think if he did not, which is admittedly more Danzo's style, there would not even really be a fight because Danzo could just preempt a battle by mind-control Naruto by surprise, and he would be unable to summon or go into sage mode at all. That would be more of an assassination, and since this debate is about a fight between them I have to assume that Naruto would have some foreknowledge and be able to react. Consequently, I am also assuming that he will have prepared similarly to his battle with Pain, where he had shadow clones sitting in safety, collecting sage chakra, but since you have already mentioned such a possibility, perhaps you are assuming this as well. This also allows that Danzo will have the sharingan arm unlocked, so it's fair to assume they both are prepared. I think we both want the hypothetical fight to be interesting, so we should allow each character to work with their full might. Now, in addition to the toad sages being able to help Naruto out of a genjutsu (or to prevent it entirely, since I cannot imagine Danzo could perform the mind-control dojutsu and fight several other opponents simultaneously), I have to contend that the rasenshuriken is far from Naruto's only lethal attack. We can clearly see in the battle with Pain that Naruto's melee prowess is elevated to the level of lethality without even having any weapons, as he kills several of the Pains with melee or with oudama rasengan. In one instance he is able to kill a Pain without even touching him, by striking him only with sage chakra. And remember that each of Pain's bodies was re-enforced with a nearly indestructible metal. As for Danzo's intentions of becoming the perfect counter to Naruto, this does not mean that he can just easily dominate him. A regular ninja would have to be highly specialized to even have a chance at standing their ground against a Jinchuriki. Remember, Danzo was kind of lame before he underwent all that elective surgery, and there are negative side-effects from some of it too. He has to maintain focus just to keep Hashirama Senju's cells from taking over his body, and will only use the wood-style jutsu in a pinch. When he does use it, or when he uses Izanagi, it is a massive drain on his chakra. Also, the wood-style jutsu is not a very fast technique, so although he may be able to use it to suppress the Kyubi, I think he would be hard-pressed to actually find an opening to do so. We haven't gotten to see what Naruto can do in his sage mode-fox fusion, but he must be insanely fast and strong, and probably would not be still long enough to get caught in a sealing jutsu. Sasuke had trouble keeping up with Naruto when only one tail had emerged, and although Sasuke's sharingan at the time was weaker than Danzo's for this fight, Naruto is now much more advanced as well. Even Pain thought he was ridiculously fast. Lastly for this round, I think Danzo would probably be pressed to use Izanagi constantly just to keep from being slaughtered by Naruto's sage mode, much less his sage mode-fox fusion. Naruto wouldn't just be standing around during sage mode because he knows it is time-limited, so he would be on the offensive and would force Danzo to use Izanagi since nothing else he has can counter Naruto in that state. And as we saw with Sasuke, Danzo wouldn't have time to quickly switch it off and on. With three clones, Naruto would have up to 15 minutes of sage mode, compared to Danzo's maximum 11 minutes of Izanagi. And that's assuming he destroys Shisui's eye to maintain it as well. After that, Danzo doesn't really have anything strong enough for fighting Naruto in his remaining minutes of sage mode. Naruto could finish him with a rasenshuriken and Danzo would be unable to dodge it because he would have no more sharingans to allow him a quick enough reaction. The range of Naruto's technique would allow him to avoid the four seals jutsu as well.