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"I really like you Kushina," I said as I walked towards her and gave her a hug. "I always feel at home when I'm around you…even when you irritate me. You're like the closest thing to a mother that I've ever had and for that, I want to thank you."

Her body froze as she slowly reciprocated my hug. "Why are you…"

"I'm just telling you now before I piss you off," I said wryly.

"Yoru…there is nothing you could do that would make me actually mad."

I chuckled. "Ehh, we'll see."

She separated from me and furrowed her brows as she looked up at my face. "What the hell are you planning on doing?"

"As I said…something that will annoy you greatly."

Before she could react, my eyes glowed as I used two fingers to jab at the weak point on her neck. With her defenses being lax, she was unable to stop the invasion of my chakra in time before her body suddenly slumped as she fell asleep.

"Make that one of many things…"

I carried her back to her room and opened the door to see Naruto standing on the bed and rubbing his eyes groggily.

I placed Kushina down and covered her body with blankets.

"Mommy…" Naruto said as he gazed at Kushina's unconscious form.

"She's fine," I said as I patted his head. "She's just a little tired."

He crawled to her side and lay down next to her.

I looked him in the eye. "Take care of your mom and your big sis, alright kiddo?"

Naruto looked at her before looking at me with a serious gaze that on him only looked adorable. "Hn!" He said with a nod.

I stuck out my pinkie. "You gotta promise."

There was no hesitation as he wrapped his pinkie around mine and shook. "I'll always protect mommy and big sister Mito!"

I smiled and rubbed his head. "I don't doubt you will…get some sleep," I said as I turned around to leave. "And try to contain your mom's wrath tomorrow morning…"

I left and closed the door behind me.

With that, I exited the home and stealthily left the village before my gaze sharpened. I didn't use a henge this time as I put on my Anbu gear. Since I had still done missions for them, my gear had been upgraded along with my growing size.

I donned my grey flak jacket on top of my dark sleeveless undershirt before slipping on my black gloves that reached above my elbow. I attached the metal arm guards to my arms and pulled up the excess cloth of my undershirt to cover the lower portion of my face up to my nose.

Engraved on my right shoulder was the Natural Healing seal I had developed all those years ago.

On my left deltoid was the signature Konoha Anbu tattoo that resembled a red flame.

That made four tattoos total including the snake summoning tattoo on my right wrist and the Cursed Tongue Seal on my well…tongue.

"Am I getting addicted to these things…? Hopefully I'm not encouraging Mito to get them."

At that thought, I focused on the Amenotokotachi signal I had kept on Obito and followed it.

"You ready girl?"

hisss

I dashed into the forest and traversed towards my destination.

The only reason I had not bothered to contact Obito directly in these past few years was that I hadn't had any confidence in beating him as long as he could phase through my attacks. I had spent most of my time creating Space Lock for the very purpose of the evening the playing field. I had hoped to be able to enjoy trashing people during the chunin exams before I went off to deal with him, but his sudden appearance had made it evident that I couldn't wait any longer.

My eyes narrowed. "He's really here…" I thought as I gazed at the two statues depicting Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju. Upon Madara's head, Obito stood there silently with what a gunbai on his back. The weapon was a wide fan with tomoe on it and had a long handle with bandages wrapped around the base. At its end, it had a long chain attached to it, at the other end of which was a sickle.

I paused for a moment and whispered to Levia who was in my shirt, "Take these and hide. You know what to do." I said as I pulled out the four ice rods from my Inventory. Levia looked at me somewhat worried before she nodded and swallowed them. She then slithered out of my clothing and burrowed underground.

After watching her disappear, I narrowed my eyes and entered my ID before appearing on the Madara statue.

Dense amounts of energy coalesced within my palm as a fiercely screeching, powerfully spinning, blue ball of chakra formed on the palms of my hands.

I exited my ID.

Rasenshuriken!

The attack blasted Obito in the back, however, the reaction I expected did not occur.

The force of the attack threw him forward, but the war fan on his back deflected the attack away, causing it to explode in a massive blue orb of energy in the opposite distance.

Obito flipped in midair before he landed on the Hashirama Statue's fingertip. "That wasn't a pleasant greeting."

I glanced at him stoically and jumped down onto the tips of Madara's fingers. "…It would have sent you off pretty nicely though."

Obito removed his mask before tossing it aside. He grabbed the handle of his war fan and unsheathed it from his back before staring me down with a smile.

"Let's get on with this dance, shall we?"

-Yoru: Gamer-

Obito and Yoru stared at each other from across the fingertips of the two great statues, their hair waving in the wind…

Then they moved.

With a single hand seal, Obito expelled a great orange stream of fire towards Yoru, who responded by expelling an equally tremendous torrent of white flames. The attacks collided with monstrous intensity, the heat of which caused the air to visibly distort while their luminosity shone so lustrously that it lay visible in the night sky for kilometers away.

Yoru abruptly launched off the statue and outstretched his right hand as he pierced through the flaming attack. The surging flames were absorbed by the Dark Release mark on his palm until Yoru promptly reached the attack's source and stared down at the wide-eyed Obito before mercilessly smashing his mouth shut. The force of Yoru's explosively surging forward momentum caused Obito's body to crash through multiple layers of the statue, the structure trembling as a result as fractures spread throughout.

His gaze portraying intense fury, Yoru burst out the other end of the statue and smashed Obito's face into the valley wall. He flew upwards with a burst of speed, mercilessly dragging Obito's face through the solid stone causing debris the splinter out of along the way.

The Uchiha's face warped with rage.

Right before Yoru reached the summit of the valley, Obito slammed his fist against its wall, thick roots furiously erupting in response. The powerful wooden appendages slammed into Yoru and crashed his body into the opposite valley wall.

His gunbai and sickle in hand, Obito dashed across the tree roots that were acting like a bridge between the two valley ends. He raised his sickle before in a flicker, Obito arrived in front of Yoru who was pinned against the canyon wall by the roots.

He mercilessly brought his weapon down towards Yoru's head.

Yoru immediately accessed his Inventory inside his mouth and spit out a kunai that jet past Obito's cheek, a small thin line of blood spurting from his face.

Amenotokotachi!

Just as the bladed weapon was a hair's breadth from cracking his cranium, in a flash, Yoru switched spatial positions with the kunai and appeared behind Obito.

A grand flaming ball formed above his palm in a bursting pulsating fashion.

Scorch Style: Great Steaming Explosive Blast!

Yoru brought down his arm.

The blazing ball of energy crashed into Obito's body, the Uchiha's forward attack momentum preventing him from reacting to the attack. He was blasted into the lake of the valley floor below before the energy from the blast erupted violently.

In an instant, the lake water below was completely vaporized.

The waterfall continued to drip.

Yoru landed on the solid earth that used to contain water as he peered through the steam that obscured his view-

A gale of wind abruptly dispersed the steam.

Obito returned his gunbai to its resting position by his side, a cyan-blue ethereal rib cage surrounding his body.

Yoru's gaze remained impassive.

He took a step forward-

Swift Release-

And blurred.

x3!

The ground beneath Yoru caved beneath his feet as he burst forward with explosive force.

In an instant, he was right above Obito's Susanoo rib cage, his fist cocked back and his gaze steeled.

Chakra built up in his fists.

Immense wind pressure visibly gathered on Yoru's fist as he brought it down.

Obito's pupils constricted and he quickly released more chakra and braced for the impact, his Susanoo now formed into a half skeleton.

They collided.

With colossal force, Yoru released the gathered chakra on impact with the Susanoo, instantly smacking it into the ground and shattering its bony structure. Obito's eyes widened from the incredible force of the impact as his back wrecked the ground below. His body cratered the earth and caused cracks to spread from his back's point of impact to the ground. The valley trembled and cracks ran up the walls of the Valley of the End causing huge chunks of debris to crash into the now bare ground below.

Yoru's hand reached down past the shattered ethereal skeletal ribs as he grabbed Obito's downed form by the scruff of his shirt. Yoru's forehead gleamed with a silver metallic hue before he bashed it against Obito's face, causing blood to spurt out.

"Why?" Yoru asked placidly as he looked down at Obito with slightly furrowed brows. "No matter how much I think about it, I cannot understand why you turned out this way."

A short, barely visible, burst of steam accompanied Obito's closing wounds as he grinned. "Don't tell you're showing emotion…you toaster?"

Yoru's brows twitched.

A sickle in grasp, Obito ferociously swung his arm upward, the blade gleaming in the moonlight.

Yoru reacted immediately and moved to halt the advancement of the attack with his Steel Release coated hands, however, the blade's sharpness surpassed his expectation. The sound of metal sliding against metal reverberated against the valley walls as the scythe tore into Yoru's palm, his eyes marginally widened, fresh blood flowing down the blade.

Using this moment, Obito repulsed himself by kicking off of Yoru's chest, tearing the shirt that was in Yoru's grasp. In the same movement, with his hand firmly clasped around the chain, Obito yanked, the blade slicing through Yoru's fingers. Simultaneously, Obito made a single hand seal and shot out a scorching orb from his mouth while sequentially swinging his gunbai at the attack, utilizing a spinning momentum to augment the tempest that blew forward and excited the ball of flame resulting in its expansion.

Every movement happened successively in a synchronized flowing motion.

The flaming orb encompassed Yoru's view as it approached to consume him.

Yoru shot out his uninjured right arm.

Flesh and fire made intimate contact as Yoru sought to absorb the energy of the devastating fire with his Dark Release. The sheer magnitude of the impact caused his body to slide back, but he quickly gained ground as the earth gave way like dough under his heavy steps and caused his feet to sink within-

"!"

A chain attached sickle shot out from the fire.

Time slowed down in his view.

Yoru pivoted his body 90 degrees, sliding his right foot back across the ground.

The blade flew merely millimeters past his face, short strands of his hair sheared from the armament.

Just as the sickle whistled by, Obito pulled back the chain, propelling it backward, the weapon's crescent blade poised to decapitate.

Yoru snagged the tool's handle from mid-air and utilized Magnet Release on the chain to careen Obito towards him.

"Predictable," Obito stated as he smashed down on Yoru with the edge of his gunbai.

Yoru raised the sickle with his free hand to negate the impact, but his body was sent crashing back first into the ground, sinking beneath it as if it were clay.

Using the sickle in his single working hand, Yoru pushed back against the weight of Obito's gunbai as the weapon pushed down against the sickle.

Its honed blade threatened to slit Yoru's throat.

His two hands on the gunbai's handle, Obito strained to push the arched blade of the sickle down into Yoru.

Obito expression of assuredness fueled his bulging arms to exert more pressure below.

Yoru's body began to sink deeper into the ground, fracturing it further.

They were deadlocked.

Yoru looked up at Obito lightly, uncaring of the severity of the situation he was in. "They treated you as family." He stated softly.

Obito's expression staggered for the briefest of moments.

Utilizing this instant, Yoru's now healed left fist suddenly connected intimately with Obito's jaw.

Obito's head whipped back with a snap as he was catapulted across the bare landscape of the vaporized lake and bounced through it like a skidding pebble.

Yoru flashed…

Swift Release!

And abruptly appeared in front of him.

"Minato was like a father to you."

Yoru sank his steel release knuckles into Obito's throat, the Uchiha's eyes widening in pain as he coughed harshly, before his body was brutally thrashed against the valley wall.

Yoru's body blurred once more.

Swift Release!

"Kushina like a mother."

Yoru grabbed both sides of Obito's face before he rammed his knee into the Uchiha's nose, shattering it mercilessly and sending his body barreling into the air. At the same instant, Yoru leaped off the ground and materialized in front of Obito once more.

The Uchiha's gaze was disoriented as his eyes rolled to the back of his head.

"Kakashi." Yoru began as he grasped Obito's face in midair with his right palm. "A brother."

It was as if a million paper bombs erupted at once as an all-consuming eruption of heat and energy burst from Yoru's palm as he utilized explosion release. The fire expunged from Yoru's hand was concentrated in the likeness of a blowtorch as it scorched Obito's face beyond recognition.

After a moment, he stopped.

Smoke discharged from Obito's near completely burnt off skull.

"You betrayed them all."

Yoru released his grip, Obito's body flimsily collapsing to the ground.

Yoru looked at Obito's corpse unemotionally before he began saying, "But you know who you would have hurt the most if they found out what you had become?" Yoru asked as turned around at the same moment that Obito's "corpse" dissipated like an illusion. "Rin."

Instantly, the atmosphere coagulated.

"Shut up," Obito said calmly…too calmly as he gazed at Yoru with such intensity that his eyes almost seemed to penetrate through him. "You…don't get to say her name."

Yoru's expression stiffened.

He heard his heart beat in his chest.

He felt it.

A horrifying aura descended upon Yoru as both Obito's Mangekyou Sharingan gleamed eerily in the full moon's light.

Yoru could feel the malevolent feelings within Obito's energy twist and swirl around him…

Before they burst.

The earth quaked as massive volumes of darkish cyan-blue energy coalesced around Obito's form.

A gargantuan 100-meter colossal avatar of energy actualized, the sheer energy from its formation catalyzing the ruination of the valley as large fissures expanded throughout its walls.

Obito's body rose towards the center of the bipedal ethereal armored warrior as he glanced down at Yoru.

Yoru looked up, his countenance grim, as he realized that both Obito's eyes were still well and fine despite him having no doubt used one to cheat death. "What the hell is happening…?"

A chill emanated from Obito's gaze as he commanded his full humanoid Armored Susanoo to raise up high the blade of aura it held. The mere action generated tempestuous winds so grand, that Yoru's body inevitably slid back as the avatar began to elevate its sword. The power from its ascent caused the clouds above split in two before the chakra sword reached its apex.

It was like time became static.

Obito's malevolent glacial gaze peered down below at his target who appeared merely as an ant from his dominant vantage position.

Before he brought it down.

With a quiet sigh, Yoru looked up and witnessed the air beneath the blade distort as it descended with indomitable power.

Time seemed to slow down in his view as Yoru closed his eyes-

"You…"

And Sage Yoru opened them.

"Scum."

With a crash, the Susanoo sword blasted the ground the area where Yoru was in, the raw energy from the blade slicing up the valley in two right down the middle.

No form of joy was evident on Obito's face as he looked up ahead of him to witness Yoru floating in the air indifferently, his gaze level with Obito's own.

Yoru suddenly looked up towards the sky as he now sensed an individual within his detection range, his gaze seemingly penetrating through the layers of clouds and into the stratosphere.

Yoru's lips twitched upwards in a half-hearted smile for a short moment before he turned back to face Obito. "No matter how many piles of scum line up in front of me…" Yoru began as colossal amounts of magnetic particle dust gathered from the blow the earth and circled around him in numerous bands. "It doesn't change the fact that you are all fundamentally worthless."

The particles merged together under Yoru's command and formed a throne on which Yoru sat and crossed his legs. "What was that saying you apparently used right before you rushed towards your supposed death?" Yoru asked in faux intrigue.

Obito's expression twisted in rage before his Susanoo wrenched a long, thick, magatama-bound ethereal string from the palms of its hands.

Yoru pointed a finger in the air. "Those who break the rules are scum…"

A minuscule pure shining dot of light, akin to a firefly, emerged on the tip of Yoru's finger.

Before it expanded.

In a big bang of energy, the 'Firefly' transformed into the sun as the shining dot exponentially enlarged to immense proportions, its diameter no less than half the Susanoo's size.

"But those who betray their comrades are worse than scum." Yoru tilted his head in amusement. "I wonder then…does that make you super scum?"

Obito gave a shout as he hurled the Yasaka Magatama, the depths of his fury evident given by how quickly it propelled towards Yoru.

The Sage's expression turned neutral and he bent his index finger down.

Noble Sun

The white, sun-like ball of energy traveled forward to meet with the magatama beads in mid-air.

And then they made contact.

As soon as the Yasaka Magatama touched the sun, time seemed to pause for a moment.

There was a flash of light…

Then an explosion.

The shockwave from the blast was so immense that Yoru quickly formed a spherical shield of chakra-enhanced metallic dust around his body to protect himself. The turbulence from the surges of wind caused cracks to form in Yoru's defenses, however, his expression remained calm as the tempestuous storm of energy halted-

"!"

Sage Yoru's eyes slowly magnified in incredulity.

It was too unexpected.

Faster than he could respond, two large black Shuriken, reminiscent of Obito's Mangekyō Sharingan, sliced through both ends of his metallic sphere shield as if it was nothing but air…

And cut off his arms.

Those weren't normal Shuriken.

"!"

An ethereal sword suddenly appeared in front of Yoru and pierced through his chest. His form plummeted downward with the sword still lodged in his body before he was pinned to the ground below, blood dribbling from his lips.

"Ouch…" Yoru thought with a grimace as Obito looked down at him from above.

Obito sunk his blade deeper, the sheer width of which threatened to bisect Yoru. "You failed to save her…even though you should have been able to."

Time seemed to become static to Yoru.

Slowly, his expression became solemn.

Not much context was needed in order for him to understand who 'her' referred to.

Thoughts, multitudinous as the stars, swirled like a hurricane inside Yoru's mind.

It was as if pieces of a giant puzzle began to come together and fit in perfectly.

And he finally understood.

"You…fool…" Yoru said as he coughed out blood. "All of this…because of a woman…"

"If that's all you have to say…" Obito stated as the grip on his Susanoo sword tightened. "Then die."

Yoru's expression became placid. "Levia."

The ground trembled and quaked as a whirlpool of metallic sand spun underneath the Susanoo, the titan's body staggering from its disproportionate position on the earth.

Obito's expression faltered from the sudden reversal of the situation before he looked down to see a ball of light shining from below the metallic sand dune…

And all he saw was a flash.

Sage Art: Storm Style: Leviathan's Breath!

A beam, as fast as light, struck the Susanoo on its sternum, the attack forcing it completely off balance and causing its gigantic body to fall backward.

As Obito tried to keep himself balanced, Levia shrunk herself and dashed towards Yoru before sinking her fangs in his neck.

In but a few moments, his limbs regrew completely.

Sage Yoru stood up and rubbed his arms and wrists testily before he glanced down at Levia. "My dear, you should get away from here…" He looked at the Susanoo that was trying to right itself. "I'm going to end it this instant."

It took a moment for Levia to understand what Yoru was saying.

Her eyes widened as she hissed in anger and worry.

Yoru looked down at her and smiled before bending down and kissing the top of her head. "Don't you worry about me…I still have one life to spare today, remember?"

Though unwilling, Levia knew that time was of the essence so she hissed once more and flew away as far as she reasonably could.

She knew that what Yoru was going to do next…would annihilate everything.

Yoru looked at Levia as she vanished off to the distance before he turned towards Obito whose Susanoo finally burst free from the pit of metallic sand.

He walked towards him.

Obito faced the approaching Yoru, his gaze severe, before he formed six black Shuriken, three in each hand, in the likeness of his Mangekyō.

Yoru's gaze became somewhat dignified as he saw them and, with his energy resonance, he realized what about them had been so dangerous.

They could cut space.

Space Lock was a barrier that prevented individuals from utilizing space-time techniques that allowed them to teleport or connect to independent spaces. This was because Yoru had never considered someone flat out cutting through space.

It seemed like he would have to make adjustments later on.

All these thoughts merely flashed through his mind in an instant.

Obito hurled the six Shuriken, his intent on dicing Yoru into seven parts made blatant.

Kamui Shuriken!

Yoru faced the approaching destructive Shuriken with a tranquil expression.

Time appeared to slow down in his sight.

Accelerated Analysis!

Yoru took a breath…

And opened his palm.

50 meters

A minuscule, nearly unnoticeable, ball of darkness formed on the palm of his right hand.

35 meters

It fed on Yoru's chakra as if it was alive, its voracious appetite allowing it to siphon Yoru until he became nearly empty. The ball only expanded to be about 25 cm before Yoru's vision began to swim as even his life force was drained.

20 meters

Circling around the pitch black orb of energy was an ash grey ring, reminiscent of a planet's own. Sage Yoru began to revert from the loss of chakra, but he remained staring at the projectiles making their way towards him.

"Sage Art: Dark Style-"

5 meters

Yoru's body became weak as the last of his life force drained from his body, his breath shortening and his heartbeat near stopping…

Before he let it go.

"Spiralling Black Hole."

His body collapsed.

The dark orb then floated in the air.

Until the shuriken made contact.

As soon as both attacks touched, the collision that Obito was expecting did not occur.

The dark orb with the ash-grey ring simply sucked in and swallowed the attacks, the energy from which catalyzed its expansion.

The dark orb grew and grew, absorbing any and every form of energy that was in the vicinity.

Thermal energy, light energy, kinetic energy, natural energy…

Chakra.

They were all absorbed.

Obito's expression changed massively as the ball of darkness consumed everything in its path, the speed and ferocity of its expansion so great that he couldn't even move to react. The Susanoo he was so reliant on was instantly broken apart into particles of energy as soon as the Spiralling Black Hole touched it…

Before it swallowed him.

And everything went dark.

From 100s of kilometers in the distance, Levia watched quietly as the now dome of dark energy spread and consumed not only the Valley of The End but also the nearby mountain ranges and natural structures surrounding it.

Nothing was safe.

The diameter of the dome slowly grew and grew after its initial burst of expansion, its reach measuring over 10s of kilometers after nearly 10 minutes.

Then it stopped.

As if reaching its maximum size, the dome of darkness merely stayed the way it was for a moment, quietly existing.

Then, a crack appeared on it, a line of white light/energy leaking from it.

Then, another crack appeared, one larger than before.

Then more cracks…

Until it burst.

All the energy culminated in the ball of darkness was released at once in a cataclysmic burst of raw energy so intense, that it instantly vaporized the numerous mountain ranges in an over a 100-kilometer radius as it spread.

The dome of bright energy could easily be seen from incredulous distances away.

Nothing could stop the tyrannical might of the all-consuming energy wave.

The aftershock of the blast fractured the landscape for a dozen kilometers more.

And then, it was silent.

…

…

…

Levia was far enough away that all she felt was a gust of wind from the attack.

When it all ended, she could see the three levels of damage that had occurred.

The third level was caused by the aftershock and it was only a few kilometers from the edge of the damage radius. Only fractured rock formations and some levels trees were the evidence of its existence.

The second level was from the wave of energy that had propagated after the black dome had cracked…and there was nothing. The entire land, over 100 kilometers in diameter, was bare.

Then the first level…It was where the Valley of the End once stood. Now, there was merely a crater, over twenty kilometers deep and wide, devoid of everything but two small human forms.

All of this, Levia saw as she speedily flew towards Yoru.

Yoru shakily stood up, his body weak from his revival, before he immediately dropped to a knee and gasped for breath.

Sage Art: Dark Style: Spiralling Black Hole

It was the name for the technique he had inadvertently created when trying to mix senjutsu chakra with a Dark Release: Rasenshuriken.

That had been a mistake.

The only saving grace was that he had tested it in his ID so there had been no damage done to the real world.

Dark Release normally allowed him to absorb the energy from attacks into the diamond mark on his right palm. However, once Natural energy was added to the mix, Dark Release would absorb all forms of energy…even his own. It was a suicide attack that took all the energy inside his body to form a ball of darkness that would consume as much energy in the surroundings as it could until it reached its maximum capacity. After which, it would just burst and release all the accumulated energy it had gathered. The amount it could hold before bursting was wholly depended on the amount of energy it had taken for it to form. Therefore, if Yoru had more chakra, the ball of death would be able to absorb much more energy before bursting, and its destructive capacity would be that much more devastating.

It wasn't a technique he planned on using often.

"Yo Levia…mind helping me out?" Yoru asked as the snake floated down in front of him.

She hissed angrily and bit his arm.

There was no energy transference from that bite.

Yoru sighed. "I'm sorry." He looked down and gently stroked her head. "I've made you worry."

Levia stopped and looked up at him before biting his arm once more, this time, energy flooded Yoru's veins, his chakra levels increasing and his wounds healing.

With this vital boost, Yoru stood back up and walked towards Obito before looking down at his sprawled out form.

Both his eyes were open, however, one of his eyes was now a milky white.

He had lost his sight from Izanagi.

But he was still very much alive.

He slowly turned his gaze up towards Yoru and asked, "Why…?"

Why couldn't you save her?

The unspoken words were understood.

Yoru's expression was invariable.

Everything up until now seemed like a joke…this entire conflict seemed to have stemmed from Obito's misconception that Rin had died that day.

The Four tails attack.

The council massacre.

Their fight today…

All of this could have been avoided.

And that's what pissed Yoru off even more.

So, that's why he told him. "Obito…" Yoru began, his vision somber. "Rin…she's been alive for years now. I never failed to save her…she visits your grave every day you know."

A silent wind blew between them.

Obito face seemed to have blanked for a moment, his brain processing the words he had just heard before his eyes widened.

Then…Yoru felt it.

His heart thumped with a bang and his body shook from the violent influx of emotions he could detect from Obito.

Yoru felt he couldn't even breathe from how potent they were…

Loss

Confusion

Then

Understanding

Realization

Shock

Disbelief

Despair

Yoru took a step back, his eyes trembling as Empathy allowed him to experience those emotions as if they were his own.

But more than anything, two emotions stood out, their existence so evident they seemed corporeal.

Betrayal

RAGE

"ZET…SUU!" Obito yelled out with hatred that nearly consumed his being, tears leaking out his eyes.

Yoru empathetically understood.

Whoever Zetsu was…they had driven Obito to this state.

They had betrayed him.

That being said. "I understand," Yoru said. "However, I still need to deal with another one…is he yours?" He asked as he looked up to see a man floating a couple of kilometers above.

Yoru had sensed that individual up into the second layer of the atmosphere during his time as Sage Yoru, but obviously, he hadn't been able to divert the attention necessary to deal with him.

Suddenly, Obito's eyes widened forebodingly.

His body disappeared like an illusion.

And he appeared behind Yoru.

⁉️

Yoru felt a threat to his life like he'd never felt before.

And it wasn't coming from Obito.

From up near the clouds, a man with ripple patterned purple eyes floated in the air and looked down below as if he were a god looking at mere mortals.

He uttered a word.

A word that Yoru's excellent hearing picked up and caused every cell in his body to vibrate.

"Shinrai Tensei,"

Then, another word sounded out behind him, one that he hadn't expected to hear coming from his opponent.

"Susanoo!"

Everything happened too quickly.

All Yoru felt was his body shake to its core as a repulsive force, unlike anything he had ever experienced, slammed into the Susanoo surrounding him and Obito with near-unprecedented force.

Then, as the earth shattered and the ground caved beneath…everything went dark.

Yoru took a few deep breaths and flinched a bit as his body ached from the impact. Feeling his surroundings enclosed, Yoru exerted a bit of force and pushed away some of the heaping chunks of rock covering his body.

Yoru then blinked and looked inside his nearly completely torn up shirt to see Levia poking her head from within, her injuries relatively light.

With a gentle sigh, Yoru then looked down below at Obito's body.

His eyes were wide open and this time, they were both blank white.

He had now lost both his eyes.

Then, six forms dropped down from above, surrounding Yoru and Obito.

Each of them wore a black cloak with red clouds

Each of them wore the headbands of the Hidden Rain village, their symbol crossed out horizontally on the metal plate.

Each of them had black piercings on their face and body.

Each of them had nearly identical chakra signatures.

But, more important than all of that, each of them had the same purple ripple-patterned eyeballs.

Yoru's hairs stood on end. "Akatsuki…Those eyes…have I seen or heard about them somewhere…?what are they…?"

Yoru took a step back towards Obito's downed form and made sure there was contact between his shoe and Obito's body.

Then, what appeared to be the leader of the group, a man with short spiky orange hair looked down at Obito. "What is the meaning of this?"

He didn't reply.

The man remained silent for a moment before he outstretched his hand. "Very well."

Yoru spoke up, his brows furrowed. "Who are you?"

The man regarded Yoru for a moment and explained simply. "Pain."

"!"

Besides the apparent leader, the other 5 bodies immediately rushed in towards Yoru and Obito.

Unfortunately, they were too late.

ID Create: Empty!

Yoru, Levia, and Obito's body vanished.

-Yoru: Gamer-

I took several breaths to calm my surging emotions and sat down, the quiet expanse of my ID relaxing my nerves.

I stayed like this for a while.

Then, I lifted my head up and looked at Obito.

The man's gaze was vacant.

His motionless body was sprawled out on the floor.

He was dead.

He had passed soon after I had transferred us to my ID.

It was as if he had simply lost the will to live after realizing that we were safe.

The only reason I had been able to use the ID was due to the fact that my earlier Dark Release attack had completely uprooted (and more than likely destroyed) the ice rods that I had used to create my Space Lock barrier.

Numerous thoughts went through my mind.

I looked up at the sky. "It's almost time Levia…we'll leave soon."

She hissed somewhat sadly.

"Don't worry," I said in comfort. "We'll be back in time…we just need some time off."

I took out an empty scroll from my inventory and wrote down just about every piece of information I had gleaned from today. From Obito to those individuals from Amegakure and Akatsuki…and the name Zetsu.

I jotted them all down. I then closed the scroll before encrypting and sealing it which Fuuinjutsu. I made sure it was complex enough so that only someone with Minato and Kushina's level of expertise on the subject would be able to decipher it and unlock the scroll.

After that, I walked up to Obito's corpse and closed his eyelids. With the scroll in hand, I placed it on Obito's chest and placed his arms on top of it.

I waved my hand, conjuring a stream of flame that completely burnt off his clothing and removed any trace of battle from his form.

With that, I kneeled down and placed a hand on his body.

Mystical Healing!

All the scars of battle that had been on his form disappeared.

Mystical Healing could even heal up a rotting corpse to its previously healthy skin position, unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), the body remained dead despite looking perfectly fine.

Having healed up his scars, I then channeled Ice Release through my palms.

Ice Release: Ice Coffin

The ice slowly encased his body while I used my mental faculties to shape it in the form of a respectable coffin. Next, I fogged up the more sensitive areas of his body that were exposed through the see-through crystal coffin.

I then implanted my Amenotokotachi mark on it.

Then…

"Amenotokotachi,"

In a flash, a kunai appeared in my ID where the ice coffin had once been.

The same kunai I had stuck in Obito's grave days prior.

I think I was lost for a moment as I just stared blankly at the kunai.

I didn't know what I felt.

I felt a soft wet sensation on my cheek.

I snapped myself out of it and rubbed Levia's head. "Thank you," I said before standing up.

Levia coiled herself around my body and rested on my shoulders.

I stood still for a moment.

After, I straightened up.

"It's time."

ping!

[System Update: 100%]

Ping!

Grand Quest!

Mission: Visit The Myriad Worlds!

Reward: Excitement, Adventure, and Possibly Love!

Failure: You'll live a pretty sad and meaningless existence if you don't at least visit a few of them.

Ping!

Congratulations! You have unlocked the innate trait [Devour] by reaching [Gamer's Body] lvl Max and [Level 100]!

Devour (Active)

Absorb the essence of your defeated enemies and acquire a portion of their abilities and stats. Different entities and different forms of life utilize different forms of energy for their survival. You can take that energy.

- Absorb 1% - 10% of enemy's stats

The skill [ID: Create] has been updated. Monster Instant Dungeons are no longer available nor required.

ID: Create (Active)

ID: Create is a skill that connects you to your very own pocket dimension that you can actualize in the world and drag those in contact with you inside through [ID: Yoru]. Your [ID: Yoru] is separate from the real world but also connected to it through you. You can also form an illusion barrier that acts as a 'mirror' of the real world that you can drag people in, travel in, or hide in using [ID: Empty]. Since the illusion barrier is a mirror of the actual world when you exit it, you'll find yourself in the same area you were at in the illusion barrier in the outside world. Finally, you can now travel to other worlds using the skill [ID: Travel]

Available Dimensions:

- [ID: Empty]

- [ID: Yoru]

- [ID: Travel]

Ping!

Congratulations! After reaching level 100, you have unlocked the skill: [ID: Travel]

ID: Travel (Active):

You are connected to the numerous worlds of the Tree. [ID: Travel] also known as [Inter-Dimensional Travel] allows you to travel to new worlds and explore new places. Access the list of Worlds and choose the world you want to visit.

Worlds Visited:

- Naruto (Alternate)

- List of worlds…

- Cooldown: 3 months

Ping!

You are going through some changes in your Gamer's Body. Due to this, your body and mind have been affected.

Ping!

Gamer's Body (Passive) Lvl MAX [Puberty]

- 200% increase to HP and CP regeneration rate

- 200% Increase to HP and CP

- Resistances…

- (Puberty: Increase growth rate by 400% for a period of time. Lowers the Intensity of Gamer's Mind.)

Ping!

[Gamer's Mind] Intensity has been affected by the effects of [Puberty]!

Ping!

[Gamer's Mind] Intensity is now [50%]!

Gamer's Mind (Passive) Intensity [50%]

Allows the user to calmly and logically think things through. Allows a peaceful state of mind. Grants immunity to psychological status effects. The intensity level dictates how much Gamer's Mind influences your emotions. An intensity of 100% completely shuts off your capacity to feel emotion while an Intensity of 0% returns your emotional capability to its maximum possible state.

Ping!

Your stat sheet has been updated due to the system update!

Ping!

Name: Yorudan

Race: Human?

Age: 14 years old

Tier: 6-C

Tier Bonus: 270% Status Effectiveness

HP: 2784699/2784699 Regen: (83540 per min)

CP: 5589000/5589000 Regen: (223560 per min)

CC: 100%

STR: 3069

VIT: 3327

DEX: 3258

INT: 3159

WIS: 3054

ENGY: 5750

Stat Total: 21617

Points: 0

Ryo: 67,355,348

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

There were a few more notifications that had to do with improvements to perks and whatnot, but one thing immediately caught my attention…aside from the fact that I was now 14.

"No levels…?"

I furrowed my brow in thought.

It seemed like I was now measured in Tiers and that my strength was measured not only by my stats but also by the Status Effectiveness bonus given to me by my tier…

It seems like I needed to pay someone a visit.

"Levia, be patient for me for a little bit." I began as I looked at her.

"I need to go see a snake."

Stat Update

Name: Yorudan

Race: Human?

Age: 11 → 14

Level: 100 → N/A

Tier: 7-B+ → 6-C

Tier Bonus: N/A → 270%

HP: 452755 → 2784699

CP: 708660 → 5589000

STR: 1606 → 3069

VIT: 1460 → 3327

DEX: 1606 → 3258

INT: 1500 → 3159

WIS: 1200 → 3054

ENGY: 1968 → 5750

Stat Total: 9340 → 21617

Points: 0

Skill Update

Absolute Resonance: lvl 1 → Lvl 53

Cooking: lvl 170 → lvl 200 [MAX]

Deconstructive Analysis: lvl 30 → Lvl 100 [MAX] (Unlocked: Absolute Analysis)

Energy Resonance: lvl 55 → Lvl 200 [MAX] (Unlocked: Absolute Resonance)

Lying: lvl 95 → lvl 100 [MAX]

Magnetic Flight: M-Hypersonic+: lvl 1 → lvl 45

Physical Conditioning: lvl 96 → lvl 100 [MAX]

Rasenshuriken: Lvl 1 → Lvl 100 [MAX]

Toxin Resistance: lvl 94 → lvl 100 [MAX]

Sage Art Dark Style: Spiralling Black Hole

Sage Art Ice Style: Absolute Zero

Sage Art Lightning Style: Limelight

Sage Art Scorch Style: Noble Sun

Sage Art Storm Style: Light Fang

Shadow Clone Jutsu: lvl 420 → lvl 800

Shunshin: lvl 155 → Lvl 200 [MAX]

Uzumaki Fuuinjutsu: lvl 94 → lvl 100 [MAX]

Wind Release: Flight: Lvl 3 → lvl 100 [MAX] (Unlocked: Wind Release: Massively Hypersonic Flight)

Wind Release: M-Hypersonic Flight: lvl 1 → lvl 100 [MAX] (Unlocked: Wind Release: M-Hypersonic+ Flight)

Wind Release: M-Hypersonic+ Flight: lvl 1 → lvl 33

Yin Affinity: lvl 45 → lvl 100 [MAX]

On another note, it's come to my attention that when I update a previous chapter or something like that, you all, for some reason, get emails about it. I never knew that was a thing and I'm sorry about that since it must feel like spam to you all. For future reference (actually, really just for today and possibly next week since I don't know what my schedule is gonna be like in a few months after my break from writing) I'm only going to post chapters on a set day which will most likely end up being Saturday. Again, I apologize for the inconvenience and what probably looked like spam to you all. My bad.

Author's Note: Who would have thought that Obito would grow up to become and act just like Madara after getting his magical eyeballs back?

Magnussen Osbourne: Yeah, the air up there is barely breathable, but as superhuman ninja who can destroy cities, mountains, and islands, I figured they would be fine up to that hight for at least the short period of time that they were there.

nekoboy13: Jugo literally becomes insane when he uses sage transformation…personality change can and does occur. I just took the concept and tried to make it more interesting. Do you know what your criticisms remind me of? CinemaSins. That's not a compliment.

coldblue2015: (1) yes, but the prerequisite is that they can cough "handle" cough his seed. I.E. it's hard for Yoru to knock someone up. Remember that entire thing about Yoru's cells being "arrogant"? It's more like they endocyte (consume) weaker cells and possibly take on their characteristics. This applies to his ahem 'reproductive' cells as well. (2) It's more exploration and to get away for a while until things calm down. (3) this chapter should answer your question.

LuluViBritania: You're right, hence the reason Obito made a jab at Nagato's mortality. Obito was covered.

TankerMDK: very good question. I'm sticking with the MCU since the comic is just way too expansive, however, I might decide to add a comic character(s)/ storylines or Marvel Movie character(s) that aren't part of the official current MCU. We'll see.

For those who are unaware, the MCU is the Marvel Cinematic Universe.