Dojutsu: Yachihoko

"Game?"

Hearing this, the Nameless Uchiha Girl's eyes filled with intense hatred. "You think all of this—everything I have—is a game?!"

What Uchiha Sōgetsu had seemingly said without thinking had struck right at the girl's sore spot.

Extreme rage and hatred intertwined, burning like fierce flames as they continuously ravaged the girl's already shattered heart.

The girl's inner world had long since become riddled with holes and utterly broken.

"What I mean is—"

Before Uchiha Sōgetsu could finish, he was interrupted.

Rat—Rabbit—Dog!

Wind Style: Vacuum Sphere!

The girl formed hand seals with incredible speed, so fast that even the Sharingan could not see them clearly.

Almost instantly, Chakra bullets spewed from the girl's mouth, carving vacuum-like trails through the air.

At such close range, Uchiha Sōgetsu could only barely avoid the vital areas.

Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!

His left shoulder, right abdomen, and calf were pierced through by Chakra bullets, leaving thumb-sized holes behind.

But at the cost of such grievous injuries, Uchiha Sōgetsu successfully closed in on the girl. His fist, covered in fine dragon scales, concentrated Chakra into a single point and struck.

Though compared to Tsunade's orthodox Monster Strength Fist, this was merely a crude imitation.

Still, there was no denying its immense destructive power!

Boom!

A sound like colliding steel suddenly tore through the air.

The shockwave unleashed by the collision of the two Chakra forces blew away rubble within dozens of meters, while ravines spread outward beneath their feet.

Blood-red Chakra condensed around the girl, taking on a nearly tangible form resembling a human skeleton.

After both eyes awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, extreme emotions would unleash the Uchiha Clan's ultimate technique: Susanoo!

"Susanoo, huh?" Uchiha Sōgetsu showed no surprise at the sight of that blood-red skeleton.

"Shut up!"

The girl's hatred drove Susanoo to grow, and its skeletal arm swept directly toward him.

Bang!

A vast expanse of ruined stone was crushed beneath Susanoo.

Uchiha Sōgetsu leaped into the air and evaded the sweeping strike. Looking at the enormous palm print in the ruins below, he could not help but marvel at the power worthy of being called the "God of Destruction in Battle." Even Susanoo in its initial form possessed destructive force no jōnin could contend with.

Outstanding defense and formidable destructive power.

From those two traits alone, Susanoo was enough to be called a perfect ninjutsu that combined offense and defense.

Especially for Uchiha Sōgetsu, with his current methods, there was almost no ninjutsu capable of breaking Susanoo's defenses.

"The Spectator Pathway is still too weak in its early stages." After putting some distance between them, Uchiha Sōgetsu found the current situation somewhat troublesome and frowned slightly. "It seems that if I want to decide the outcome, I can only get close and use that thing."

As he pondered, the Nameless Uchiha Girl clenched her fists, and her Chakra boiled.

"Aaaah!!!"

Driven by hatred, Susanoo grew further.

From its original form of partial bones, it became a complete humanoid figure. As if reflecting the girl's painful heart, it crouched on all fours like a beast.

The blood-red Chakra radiated an incomparably sinister aura.

Roar!!!

With a furious roar, the beast-like Susanoo gathered violent Chakra in its mouth.

"Now!"

Noticing this, Uchiha Sōgetsu did not retreat. Instead, he charged straight toward her.

"Die!!!"

Boom!

The continuously compressed Chakra shot out like a cannonball.

As it blasted through the air, even the space around Uchiha Sōgetsu briefly became a vacuum.

The terrifying roar rumbled like thunder as blood-red Chakra dyed the void crimson. After a moment of visual blindness, world-destroying energy burst forth, tearing out a flood-like flash of light that carried billowing currents of air and directly carved a vacuum passage through the atmosphere!

Uchiha Sōgetsu, suspended in midair with no room to dodge, was swallowed by the crimson torrent.

Rumble...

Smoke and dust covered the sky and sun. The forest was directly plowed into a ravine, and towering ancient trees burned.

Scorching heat filled the air as the beast-like Susanoo threw back its head and howled. The burning blood-red Chakra seemed to vent the boundless fury in the girl's heart.

Susanoo slowly faded away. The girl swayed weakly as if drained of strength, nearly collapsing to the ground.

"No, it's not over yet."

Her hatred had not diminished even a bit. "Uchiha ninja... I will destroy everything!"

But just then.

A calm voice sounded behind the girl.

"Getting close to you really took quite a bit of effort."

The girl's pupils contracted. She spun around sharply, only to see Uchiha Sōgetsu standing there completely unharmed. Her eyes widened in disbelief. "Impossible... I clearly hit you!"

It was not Genjutsu!

And it could not possibly have been the Substitution Technique!

Before her Mangekyō, every movement this boy made had been perfectly clear!

"To get close to you, I had to use up an important life-saving item," Uchiha Sōgetsu said.

The reason he had appeared here intact was because he had used the Moon Paper Figure. This item could take one lethal injury in the user's place.

"Though anger can make Susanoo grow, all you did was vent your anger meaninglessly," Uchiha Sōgetsu continued. "Your hatred is certainly admirable, but your Chakra should not be enough to support using that a second time, right?"

It was precisely because he had targeted this weakness that he had not hesitated to use the Moon Paper Figure just to get close to the girl.

"You're not qualified to lecture me!!!"

Uchiha Sōgetsu's repeatedly provocative words constantly stimulated her fragile nerves, finally causing her to go berserk.

The girl's hatred reached its peak, and the surging Chakra was like a violently burning blaze. "You think you can defeat me just because I no longer have Susanoo?!"

Tsukuyomi!

The Mangekyō Sharingan, reflecting her hatred, unleashed its unique Dojutsu.

In an instant, Uchiha Sōgetsu was dragged into the spiritual world created by the girl without any resistance.

Rain fell in a fine drizzle beneath the blood-red sky.

A full moon hung high overhead. Countless corpses were piled into mountains, and weapons scattered everywhere looked like a forest of blades from afar.

"I'll make you taste the ultimate pain!"

The girl stood barefoot atop a mountain of corpses, her black hair whipping wildly in the wind. The pinwheel Mangekyō spinning rapidly in her eyes was reflected in the full moon above. "Let me show you my Mangekyō's other ability—the power feared by the Uchiha Clan!"

Buzz.

The full moon hanging high in the blood-red sky reflected the pinwheel-like Mangekyō.

In an instant, an eerie purple moonlight poured down like an inverted river from the heavens. The rushing moonlight flowed like mercury, spreading into every corner of the Tsukuyomi Space.

Uchiha Sōgetsu could not escape it either, and was bathed in that purple moonlight.

"This is my Dojutsu—Yachihoko!"

The girl clenched her slender fingers into a fist, her gaze icy. "Anything touched by my Chakra will be branded with Yachihoko, and anything marked will be completely subject to my control."

"I see." Uchiha Sōgetsu showed a trace of understanding. "When Tsunade repaired the seal, she came into contact with your Chakra, and you took that opportunity to use your Dojutsu to mark her, correct?"

"That's right, but don't worry."

The girl sneered. "Very soon, you'll be completely under my control just like that woman!"

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