Naruto Battle! Naruto vs. Danzo

Okay, I'm still good with the condition that they will be fighting as they are naturally. That would put Naruto in a bad position initially, but the time required for Danzo to unlock his sharingan arm would allow him to recover. I see one big flaw in your assurance with Danzo - he cannot mind-manipulate Naruto AND control the Kyubi. Once he uses the mind-control technique, he cannot use Shisui's eye for a full day. And although we have no examples on which to base this, I'm betting it's safe to assume that if he used the eye to suppress the Kyubi, he would not then be able to use it for mind-control. Both would require a huge use of chakra and would tire the eye. He can only do one of three things with the eye: Izanagi, mind-control, or Kyubi suppression. Now, if we are assuming that Naruto has not been able to plan ahead of time, then we are also assuming that he is not in sage mode already. However, he would still have no problem summoning the toad sages and possibly Gamabunta as well. The kid was able to summon Gamabunta as one of his earliest skills, so by now I don't think it's fair to say that the feat would be a huge drain on him, and since he isn't in sage mode it wouldn't drain any of his sage chakra. But how is he going to get into sage mode (since otherwise he has no chance)? Well, since he is so fond of the mass kage bunshin, I see no reason that he wouldn't just start with a huge clone army, like he usually does, and make sure that several of the clones "get lost" during the confusion and begin gathering sage chakra. it would not take them long to do so, as Naruto already displayed that he could gather enough sage chakra, in just a few minutes, to go into sage mode against the final Pain. Also, he certainly could have sage-fox fusion for this battle because his final confrontation with Pain was when he first displayed it. He elected not to fight, but he was definitely capable of it by that time. If Naruto sends several clones off to meditate, he would now be limited to two additional clones for battle, and would have to resist Danzo for several minutes with only his clones and the toad sages (although saying "only" the toad sages is kind of laughable since they and Jiraiya were able to take on the six Paths of Pain). However, at this early stage of the fight, Danzo would not be using the mind-control technique in case he needed to have some influence over the Kyubi later, and he would still be unlocking the sharingan arm, which would be very difficult during battle, as he needed several minutes completely undistracted to unlock it before. I'd say we could probably cancel the sage-mode gathering time with the time required for Danzo to unlock his arm. In this case, Naruto has his full 15 minutes of sage mode, and it's really only fair to say that Danzo has 10 minutes of Izanagi, not 11 because he wouldn't waste Shisui's eye on Izanagi in case he needed to suppress the Kyubi. Here's how I think it would go: Naruto summons the toad sages and does a mass kage bunshin. Danzo summons Baku and the two destroy the clones, with Baku taking up the slack so Danzo can begin unlocking the sharingan arm. Several minutes of battle go on with all of them locked in a stalemate, by which time the arm is unlocked and Naruto can go into sage mode. Naruto presses the offensive, forcing Danzo to constantly maintain Izanagi (which the toads would figure out and clue Naruto into). Sage mode outlasts Izanagi and Danzo is forced to use Shisui's eye for either mind-control (which the toads can disrupt) or Izanagi, which only gives him 1 more minute of it. I don't even think Naruto would have to go into sage-fox fusion, but if he did Danzo would have to use Shisui's eye for that and would not be able to use it for Izanagi or mind-control. That would leave Naruto with the "regular old" sage mode that allowed him to defeat the rinnegan, and Danzo with no defenses. Game, set, match. Frankly, I was very disappointed by Danzo. He spends so much of the series being a shadowy politicist, who is supposed to be ultra powerful, but then he dies almost as soon as he emerges from the shadows, to a Sasuke who is not only worn out from battling 5 Kages, but who can't even summon the ultimate form of Susanoo yet. All his moves seem to be geared toward being able to have one super-powered battle for ten minutes, after which he reverts to being pretty ordinary, except for having wind-nature chakra. By several accounts, Naruto is more powerful than Sasuke when the latter kills Danzo, and Sasuke not only enters the fight exhausted, but finishes with enough energy to still engage Kakashi in battle, and to summon the ultimate Susanoo for the first time. I was hoping Danzo would prove to be a more formidable adversary, but the old guy just couldn't cut the mustard. Naruto would have rocked his world. I thank you for an excellent debate. I thought about accepting your debate on Kisame and Guy, but that one wouldn't even be close. Kisame was able to pretty easily defeat the eight-tails. Guy wouldn't have a chance even if he unlocked all eight-gates because he only has close-range attacks, which would just feed Kisame more chakra (of course, it might be a little closer if the battle took place when Kisame didn't have his sword). Give me some that are more closely matched and I'll be happy to "what if" debate you again. Peace.