Chapter 21: Mirage part 2

BOOOM!!!

a loud exploding sound rang out in front of him along with the stones and debris flying everywhere, a deep Gash appeared on the surface of the ground, tearing through now fallen trees. This goes to show just how much force was within that attack.

Haaa

Haaa

Haaa

After defending the attack, Haru was out of breath due to the amount of Chakra he infused into the Fan.

Within the Debris and dust, a silhouette was struggling to stand up. This was Yold'r.

His armor could barely hang on. And his right hand which held his sword was trembling while his left arm was gone along with a bleeding sword mark on his chest.

The sword blade was now chipped when he tried to defend his own attack at the last minute.

At this time, He suddenly shook his body with a Grunt, and the Armor slowly fell to the ground. After that he tore a piece of his shirt and tied up his left hand to stop the bleeding.

[To think you could reflect my attack, infused with the QI of the depraved...…..ha... hahaha] Feeling as if all his life time work had been in vain, he began to give a sadistic laugh. Haru, who was standing far-off frowned. He had began to feel a strong dangerous sensation from the Echoes of Yold'rs laughter, this was the sensation he had never felt before since He came to this world.

"Haaa.. they have finally moved him back to the home, no I can die without regrets." Yold'r looked at heavy Breathing Haru, and gave a bitter laugh. "I didn't expect that he could actually defend against Blood wave. I guess that since I failed to kill him, this result is quite unexpected...now I have to use that."

with this thought , Yold'r raised his huge heavy sword with his right hand, as it continued to tremble. all the blood in his body started to flow towards this huge sword. Then he hit the ground with this sword, and a huge Spider webbed crack suddenly appeared on the ground, and several the Sky turned dark as lightning streaked across the Sky.

[I call upon thee Lord Thorok, Feast upon my flesh and Rise from Thy Throne... Take My Blood and fuel thy anger... Smite My enemies and take my soul. this I pray of thee.]

Hearing Yoldr's words , Haru opened his eyes wide in Shock before he took a deep breathe to calm down.

"Panicking won't help you solve your problems, Haru" His Father's voice rang in his ears, This was something his father had once told him when he was 13, right before he was taken into a theater for an operation, so he summoned up courage and prepared for the worst as he thought of possible solutions.

Soon a huge lightning bolt suddenly appeared in the Sky. And this Bolt changed into a 60 meter Fist that blotted up the Sky which then proceeded to fall directly upon Haru.

"Not good." Seeing this, his pupils shrunk as he pushed Chakra into his eyes once more. Under his Magekyo Sharingan, the speed of this bolt slowed down but he still couldn't react in time, so the lightning attack struck!.

Crackle!!!....

"Dong!" A loud sound of explosion rang out, that huge lightning fist struck upon a voilet dome like shield and bounced off to the surface of the earth and directly created wide scorched crater, Destroying everything within the Area.

Firmly standing within the dome, was a surprised looking Haru as he looked at the notification screen in front of him.

{Ding... Life threatening situation detected...}

{ Conditions 121 Met..}

{Hidden perk... Eliya's Shield unlocked}

{Eliya's Shield Activated... }

{Successfully defended against <THOROK'S SMITE>}

{Eliya's Shield on Cooldown... 41Days}

Discarding the Notification, He looked at his surrounding and he couldn't help but swallow hard. Soon he noticed Yoldr's Sword floating in the Air, So he stretched out his hand in a grabbing Motion and it began floating towards him.

not too long after Haru and the huge sword came into contact with each other.

a deafening roar suddenly sounded out of a thin air. And when this deafening roar suddenly sounded out, the surrounding suddenly disappeared without a trace. And when that deafening roaring sound disappeared.

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HARU'S POV

I was pulled into some kind of sub dimensional space after touching the sword. I cursed softly as the surrounding changed, I was now sitting in a dark enclosed room as I could feel it's shape through my senses... something that started ever since I got glimpse of Madara's memories.

I was relatively certain of what was what and where things were. and to my surprise, it felt like My Room back on Earth at the age of 14 years old. even now I was even sitting on my old wheel chair.

Just as I was wondering what was going on, I heard the door open across the hall. There was a brief shuffle of movement, then I heard my own door open.

Shocked!!could not describe how I felt at this point.

"Hey Baby. the Power's out"

I almost instinctively gave a smartass answer to this asinine question like I always did , but ultimately decided it wasn't worth it as tears welled up in my eyes just from hearing her voice once again.

"Yeah, seems like it. You forgot the flashlight, didn't you?"

In the near pitch darkness, I felt and heard Mother move farther into my room more than I watched her.

"funfun wrong!. I have one here.. see?" Mother teased while turning on the Flashlight. Things she always did to Cheer me up, She knew how much I hated being stuck in the Dark. being immobile and alone can drive you crazy as the minutes counted.

"So did you miss me?...wait I know what you just thought..." She continued in an excited manner, before proceeding to mimic my Voice with a light giggle.

"Nah...lemme answer that for you, 'Barely had time to, I was lost in my Anime. I couldn't leave it alone, How could I have possibly time to miss anything?"

I felt my heart tighten, hearing this sentence again as I usually used it when I was too angry at the world for my condition but despite all my comments and rude reply to her awkward/ dry jokes, She never once Scolded me. Dad would always say "There are still much better things you could be doing with that anger My Boy."

"ah! why do you look so sad, I just wanted to hear you laugh…hey What do we do?"

I sighed inwardly. Mother was amazing, I was not the brightest guy, and often looked to for faults to complain about but she would calmly explain things or figure them out for me and then tease me with her awkward jokes to lighten the mood. Don't get me wrong, I loved my parents, but sometimes I would get so angry at them for bringing me to the world and at myself for falling sick.

"Well, I have to assume somebody in the building has already called the power company, so now we just wait. There's really not much else we can do. Your Dad will be Home soon, Oh. Oh. I know...Well… Can we just hang out 'til it comes back on? It's so dark."

Again, it was hard not to respond flippantly to her stating the obvious, but it was true that there was really nothing to do until the power came back on but sit and talk. Unfortunately I was still recovering from the strong feelings of Nostalgia to bother.

"Sure, why not?." I said while looking at My Beautiful Mother, Her Long Black hair parked into a messy Bun and her Oval face with phoenix eyes held a playful smile as she made her way to the bed and sat.

"What's this all about?" I muttered to myself while observing the now illuminated Room once more and indeed, it was my Room!.

Naturally, this confused me greatly. I wondered if I was dreaming, But it feels all too real as I can clearly feel the wheel chair.

The Room suddenly became Quiet as my "Mother" quietly stared at me, and honestly it was quite unnerving as My Mom wasn't one to stay calmly at a spot.

"uhm, do you feel tired?...why don't you sleep? you need to go to work tomorrow. don't worry I'll be fine."I probed.

"No, I don't want to go back to sleep. Let's talk, Haru."

the Unnerving feeling was steadily progressing to downright freaked out. Mom was a naturally laid-back and easygoing type of person, so to have her suddenly use such a forceful and aggressive tone was very disturbing to me. Even worse, however, was her calling me "Haru". One of the only habits She stuck with even until I was 22 was calling me "Baby".

I always complained but she would always say "You will always be my Baby" so Eventually I had just given up and allowed it.

Now I was Sure that this wasn't my Mother nor was it a Dream of a memory, it was something else, could it have been the Sword?.

"Why are you calling me that, Mom?" I asked, trying to dig in more as I might be able to get a clue on what's going on.

There was a moment's silence before "her" voice responded, now in a conciliatory, decidedly more Mom-like tone, "That's what you prefer to be called, isn't it? You said so before."

I can't fully describe the thrill of horror and Anger I felt as I realized that whomever – or whatever- I was speaking to was back pedaling. I was certain now that this was not My Mother, and certain that whoever it was knew he had shown his hand a bit, and was now desperately trying to return to acting like her. The tone was good: unsure, almost apologetic. That was very much like her. The wording, however, was all wrong. And there was another problem.

"I haven't mentioned that in over a 4 months." I probed again.

Another pause.

"Oh, haven't you? Sorry. I guess I'm kind of tired. I can call you by your name, though. If you want."

I couldn't take it anymore – this wasn't My Mother, I was beyond sure of it now. I tried getting up but it felt like I was stuck and my Body couldn't move.

"This Horrible feeling again" I said as I could feel my blood Run cold. I struggled as I couldn't stand it using my Mother's image.

due to Willpower I managed to jump out from my seat and yelled "Who the hell are you?!"

I had only a second to reconsider the wisdom of choosing confrontation over retreating from this Impostor as I couldn't bear the thought of hitting my mother even after finding out it wasn't really her.

The imposter answered quickly this time and in an appropriate tone of alarm,

"W-whaddya mean?! I'm Yuki, your Mother!"

"The fuck you are! Tell me who or what you really are!"

"It's me, really! Why don't you believe me?!"

"One more time,Who the fuck are you?!"

"it's really me, Baby!"

This gave me a pause. The voice was now sounding very convincingly like my frightened and confused Mom, I was starting to feel increasingly Lost and confused at the whole situation. But still… a kind of surreal haze of disbelief hit me.

'Does this mean I Dreamt of a whole 8 years ahead?...'

immediately I thought of my legs, The wheel chair, I was standing!.

Then I looked at the mirror in the Room as it was the only thing standing to my right and saw my appearance was that of Yahiko. This was never there, so...

"Humph!... Trash!... to think I was falling for this!" I picked up the Wheel chair and Tossed it at the mirror.

CRASH!!!

{Ding... Successfully subdued Fangs of Thorok!}

I was back at the Battle site, Holding up the Giant sword with a sneer on my Face.

[ah so embarrassing, I actually almost got tricked due to fatigue...Tch I need to work on making my Sharingan permanent.] I said while tossing the sword into my inventory.

[System...you have a lot of explaining to do...]

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