"Huff!"
His robes snapped in the gale. Rikusei lowered his eyelids to shield them from the swirling dust. The scroll he had been carrying over his shoulder was now held against his chest, slowly unfurling in the wind stirred up by the battle below.
Black Sealing Jutsu patterns danced across the scroll as it swayed in the breeze. The fierce wind tried to scatter the blue chakra glowing at Rikusei's fingertips, but it was all in vain.
Rikusei's gaze sharpened, and his Sharingan activated in an instant. Anticipating the scroll's path as it shifted, he sliced through the wind with his five fingers and easily passed over the three Sealing Jutsu patterns marked with the character "Nine."
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Three clouds of smoke suddenly billowed up, obscuring the round sealing tool. Rikusei suddenly felt an unfamiliar chakra surge from his aching forehead to his eye sockets, and the Tomoe began to turn quietly.
It's the Eternal Mangekyo, Rikusei murmured to himself.
He now felt as though he possessed limitless power. Everything that moved through the world seemed to slow within his eyes, until it fell still.
He raised his arm and pointed at the teapot as it began to fall. Ripples of chakra shivered faintly across its surface.
Chakra filled with all the hatred in the world, so disturbing that it made one's heart recoil, floated out of the teapot and gathered into a crimson cloud. It blotted out the sky above the Shrine.
"No way!"
The Shrine Maiden, her body wreathed in a rosy glow, smashed the Terracotta Army in front of her with a punch. Stepping onto a shattered Stone Helmet, she stared wide-eyed at the shifting crimson cloud.
The evil chakra she sensed brought her to an abrupt halt. She forced down the blood surging in