emptyness after entertainment

In a cave a few kilometers deeper than the place he went to sleep in, Matsuo slowly opened his eyes.

He stood up from his tungsten thrown, he was drowzy and half-asleep. He said to the open air "System! Challenge; give the system an appropriate donation! Reward; two one-time-use tickets that will deal with my sleeping problem!"

[Accepted, processing...]

Matsuo didn't even look at the cost, lucidity was more important. He put one of the two tickets in his inventory and the other he quickly ripped up, desperate not to fall asleep. Matsuo had imagined them as 'a ticket that once you rip it will fix my specific problem at this moment for a week.'

The shadow clones will understand what I want, he cracked his neck and looked around. There was a tungsten table with a book on it, Matsuo picked it up quickly.

It was a record of the past events while he was asleep, the chunin event went well. Hiruzen died like a good pawn, and Matsuo participated talking about how he was freeing konoha of the communist party. There was even a recording, Matsuo's clone was really a good clone. Unsure if using a shadow clone for that would make his condition worse, so he made a fuinjutsu book of power recording.

The big battle between Sasuke and Naruto happened, the clone used Xenomorphs to knock both of them out and steal their blood and a few of every one of their cells except 'the private cells', even Matsuo has limits.

The shadow clone had created a clone of Matsuo also making sure the clone knew he was a clone, he was filled up with a bit of Ashura and Indara chakra, but... It didn't awaken a rinnegan. Probably the fact that I didn't have mangekyo or eternal mangekyo. And Naruto has been training with the loser sage born under some star that changes destiny called Jiraiya.

It was a shame that the great invasion couldn't be experienced by Matsuo personally, but his clone did well. The quest line ended too, beautifully ending in a great friendship and a reunion of Abyss and Aether. It was extremely corny, but at least the clones had the mind not to get taken over with talk-no-jutsu but natural and luck-based factors.

They even left behind a book that is only readable for the 'pure eye' or whatever Boruto has, if another reads it, it will just be a randomized mix of lines with no meaning.

That rinnegan test clone was also turned into a mindless pawn btw, his appearance was changed to fit his inferior being and became a filler vilain that quickly died in a great glacier losing all his cells.

There were a few new jutsu created and there was a recording of Madara's journey, he seemed to have joined the akatsuki for a bit before leaving.

Matsuo enjoyed his first few experiences with the simulator, the confusion on his face was priceless when you consider who was making them. This was Madara, the person who called the 5 kage children! Quote; 'What adult would go full force when fighting mere children?'- Madara Uchiha right before edo tensei was released.

A being that was cool without even trying, a man deserving of the explanation of how he does things being 'Well, it's Madara.'

Let's recollect old memories shall we?

Back one year ago Madara entered his home and quickly picked up some random mission about escorting someone, doesn't really matter.

All that matters is that during the mission Madara saw the timer only having an hour left and put chakra into it to speed it up till it finished. He took about half an hour off with all his chakra, he had a 'Should've expected that' face.

One bandit attack later and Madara went back to his cart, he opened the book and saw it. A single line of text saying 'Start?' The answer in Madara's inclination was 'yes' so yea it was.

It opened with a top down view of the veteran of before, it slowly turned into a zoomed out third person.

He was on a battle field, he jumped out of the way of a an explosion just in the nick of time. That attack was aimed at someone a few dozen meters away from him, this wasn't what he signed up for! That's what it said on his face at least.

Although it seemed like his wounds were healing faster than they should, he was running all over. he did sommersaults and flips galor, at some point he threw a knife into the smoke of an explosion after which he ran into it.

The sound of a knife entering a body and a collapsing body sounded out, the veteran ran out of the smoke with a bloody knife and a new bloody sword at his hip that he didn't have previously.

Suddenly someone else ran out of the mist with a sword, the man slashed with his sword with a downwards trajectory. The veteran quickly used his knife to slide past and unsheathed his sword to quickly slice of his head.

The man tried to block but was fainted out and got stabbed in the head with a thrown knife, it was taken out and another somersault was used to avoid an explosion, though this time he wasn't lucky enough that he was going to fall on his feet. To avoid this even more dangerous situation the veteran, ignoring his armor's disapproval rolled into a run again.

He ran by a corpse and picked up a shield, he put it to the side a moment later. a steel tipped poisoned arrow pierced through the shield, getting stuck. The veteran took out the arrow and threw it in his bag, after he threw his knife at the shooter. Of which he quickly ran out to snatch his new higher quality dagger! And his old trash knife was left behind like the below average shit it was.

He again avoided an explosion, right after an arrow went for his head, he stopped this life threat with his bare arm. It was thankfully not poisoned, so he could just take it out and only have to worry about blood loss.

He threw the dagger through the smoke, but he heard the clash of metal against metal. Then an arrow shot into his back from behind, this time with poison.

He only said "What a shame" In a hoarse voice before calmly dying in peace, he knew his limits. An arrow to the throat isn't something you can stop from killing you at his level, though he did take out a potion and put the poisoned arrow in it before he died.

When the two heavily armored enemies came to check if he died, they both collapsed after 20 seconds. The coughed up black blood, then died.

Everything faded to black and two choices were given 'Memory implant' or 'Library card', Madara had no clue what a 'Library card' was, and 'Memory implant' sounded fancy and mysterious.

It faded to black and the same thing as before happened, but when the veteran was about to start, he fell to the floor in shock.

His face was filled with confusion, he checked his body with his hands. He stood up, and jumped out of the way of an arrow. Without thinking, he punched out. Releasing a cone of flames reaching out three meters, not reaching the shooter few dozen meters away.

He jumped to the side and into a just exploded area, rushing at the place where the arrow originated from. He suddenly jumped forward into a parkour roll, dodging an arrow that whizzed past above him.

When he came out of the roll he punched forwards, clearing the smoke and showing an individual with leather armor being burned alive.

After the archer died, the veteran stopped and said to himself "How can I do this? I never had this ability? What are these memories?" He punched out, a small flame bursted out. He did it again, failed.

He seemed to become frustrated, he tried again 5 times, every time he failed. He seemed angry, though his eyes snapped somewhere.

In the smoke of an explosion a heavily armored person ran out, in his frustration and shock the veteran punched out. A great blaze pushed it self out, covering the enemy in a flame that turned him and all his flamible items into ash in seconds.

Though this wasn't without a cost, the veteran looked at his dominant arm. It had turned to a stump through flames, he had cut it off just in time to not fall to the same fate as the heavily armored adversary.

Suddenly three martial knights rushed past and cut him into pieces in an instant before running to another place in the battlefield, shock was written on his face.

The screen faded to black, giving statistics 'Results; Flame burst mastery: basic, 1 lowest-class mercenary, 1 third-class mercenary. Death; Lowest-class private-rank soldier saw the protagonist kill a third-class mercenary and disliked his looks and sent a trio of weak second-class mercenaries to kill him.'

The shock on Madara's face when he saw that a weak second class mercenaries could do something like that without jutsu. A new page opened up, Madara felt it and looked at the page.

It said 'Martial arts, 20 days of charging.' And a bunch of other things. Like; 'Lighting blast, 2 days of charging.' or 'Human railgun, 4 days of charging time.' and such, the two skills gifted to sasuke were there, 'hyper reaction' and 'conduit'.

Matsuo looked at the recordings of Madara and Sasuke, he was entertained for a few days. But in the end he felt... empty. There was nothing to do, my clone could create traces of my existance and interupt stuff like that.

I chose to learn the final frontier in preperation for the future, yin and yang release. I have yang down since I use a high concentration of yang with natural energy for internal energy, but yin has eluded me for a long time.

"Wait, is it me or am I being a bit too calm for being an Uchiha?" Good question "It can't be!"

He started to look through the record of what happened in the last two years, at the end it said 'After numeroustests, when it was considered safe, the main body was injected with Naruto's and Sasuke's cells'

"Wow, it must've been very safe for that to happen." He said in a dry tone "But is the curse of hatred not my problem anymore, right? If so, that's not good." He said something weird "If I don't have the curse of hatred how do I get my mangekyo?!"

Matsuo looked at a mirror he took out of his inventory and activated his sharingan fully, he had a full three tomoes, seems the loss of his mangekyo hit him hard. Or maybe it's the increase of talent? He looked at it anyways.

[...

Sharingan progression talent; 26

...]

That's a big increase, but Matsuo wondered something 'What's Sasuke's talent like?'

[Sasuke's talent is 73, your talent increased with his and Naruto's cells.]

Why does he even get this info for free? Oh, don't answer that!

Back to Matsuo, he was writing on a piece of paper he put into the inventory as an urgent annoucement 'While I'm asleep inject more Indara and Ashura cells into the main body, it increases his talent. Also start a big famine for me, plz.'

The famine was for that old mission to increase the crime rate in Konoha, he still hadn't given up hope for the Eternal mangekyo. He wondered what his magekyo ability would be, he teleported outside.

There was a day of time left, he wanted to see a great view, so he teleported to the peak of the highest mountain in the land of fire. He took out a cold beer bottle, he enjoyed the taste, and looked at how much money it would cost to wriggle my way out of the infinite tsukuyomi.

[79 trillion ryo]

Matsuo drank beer to dull the pain of being poor, if he just lived in a world with a higher value currency to the system it could cost less than 1000 dollarinos.

Matsuo went back to the dark and dreary tungsten thrown and drunk his worries away for the rest of the day, falling into a drunk sleep.

The next day he felt unbelieveably tired like before with a hazy mind, and a hangover he chose not to resist too much and just fall asleep after saying that he fell into a coma again.