Is This Your Dojutsu?

Uchiha Genmei was very pleased with the changes to his Susanoo.

Its compressed, form-fitting armor

had not only increased its defensive power nearly tenfold.

Its speed and attack power had also received a tremendous boost.

His current, almost playful manner

was proof enough!

The trio's coordination was certainly impressive, but he was handling them with ease.

"Hm?" He felt Uchiha Kagami shift beneath him and voiced his surprise.

Green light flared around Uchiha Kagami as dark, sinister chakra gathered.

"Susanoo?" Uchiha Genmei furrowed his brow, leaped aside, and watched Uchiha Kagami's transformation with interest.

In an instant,

a towering green giant appeared on the battlefield! It gripped a Seven-Branched Sword and roared at the sky!

Seeing this from afar, Uchiha Baru put away his ninja tools and formed a hand seal.

He shouted, "Looks like we'll have to give it everything we've got... Susanoo!"

Chakra rapidly took form,

and a deep blue giant rose up beside them!

Facing

the two giants closing in from either side,

the boy wore a cruel smile.

He murmured,

"Warm-up's over. Now let's get down to a real fight!"

A tremendous amount of Golden Divine Aura coiled around his hand, extending into a Divine Sword of Steel.

It was the Tsumugari Great Blade!

The imperious boy,

clad in divine armor, wielding a divine sword, and carrying a Gourd at his waist, had a sacred Magatama curling out from his back to form a ring!

The boy, with his red eyes and golden body,

looked like a god!

Kagami and Baru said nothing,

only keeping their Mangekyo Sharingan fixed on every detail of the boy before them.

"Terrifying..." Uchiha Baru murmured gravely.

His expression tightened, and the giant gripped its halberd, readying itself to attack!

"Lord Kagami, attack!"

Uchiha Kagami shouted. The green giant swung the Seven-Branched Sword in its hand, unleashing a slash that seemed to split heaven and earth!

The deep blue giant followed, sweeping its halberd in a mighty strike that came down with the force of a mountain!

Faced with two attacks that could cleave through anything, the divine boy looked vicious.

He shouted,

"Tsumugari Great Blade, Kusanagi Sword! Let the art of taking on a thousand foes alone be shown here!"

He flashed forward, and his swordlight illuminated the world! Its peerless radiance carried a brutal force that would grind his opponents to dust!

In an instant,

a strike powerful enough to destroy the world wiped out the two converging attacks.

Then it swept toward the two giants with overwhelming force!

"How is this possible?!" Uchiha Kagami stared at what lay before him, unable to believe it was real.

But Uchiha Baru, forced to face reality, let out a desperate cry.

"You've got to be kidding me!"

BOOM!

The swordlight drove the two giants into the earth, its ferocious slash keeping them from breaking free!

Meanwhile, Uchiha Setsuna had long since retreated to the side, unable to take part in a battle of this caliber.

He turned with difficulty, a blade protruding from his chest.

His one remaining Sharingan

looked at the handsome face.

He spat out a mouthful of blood

and spoke hoarsely:

"Damn... My great ambition... This is..."

Genmei pulled out the blade, kicked Uchiha Setsuna to the ground, and watched as he struggled to move.

Then he drove the blade deep into his palm!

Uchiha Setsuna laboriously raised his head. His uninjured left hand trembled as he lifted it, reaching for the cold, merciless boy before him.

"You... little... brat..." Blood pouring from his mouth, he could barely speak.

"Your life ends here."

Uchiha Genmei said it calmly, while Uchiha Setsuna still tried to say something.

A flash of steel gleamed, and his words were cut short as his head was severed from his body.

The boy looked up at the two shattered giants as they slowly pulled themselves back together.

He sneered.

"Clinging to life!"

Uchiha Baru, exhausted and battered, turned to the elder beside him and said calmly,

"Lord Kagami, I'm going to use the Tsukuyomi in my left eye. When he shows an opening, use your dojutsu!"

He clenched his fist, took a deep breath, then continued, "Otherwise, we'll both be meeting our end today."

Uchiha Kagami silently nodded.

At this point, the only way to turn things around was to rely on his own dojutsu.

Blood tears streamed from Baru's eyes as a savage red light shone from them.

[Dojutsu: Tsukuyomi!]

A surge of ocular power

rushed toward the boy, who looked like both a god and a demon!

"This ocular power?! Tsukuyomi?"

Uchiha Genmei didn't dodge. He'd been eager to see how powerful Tsukuyomi was!

In an instant,

when he came to, he was already bound to a wooden post.

He looked around. It was no different from the Tsukuyomi Itachi had used in the original story.

He lowered his head,

looking at the weary Uchiha Baru before him.

He spoke with some disappointment.

"This is Tsukuyomi? That's it?"

"That's it? I control time in this space. You'll experience endless torment here!"

Hearing the contempt in Uchiha Genmei's voice, Uchiha Baru replied in a fury.

He grabbed a sword and was about to

stab the loathsome enemy before him.

The world spun around him.

He staggered, then looked on in horror as he realized the person bound to the wooden post

was himself!

He stared at the boy standing before him in disbelief.

Then he asked,

"What happened? What did you do?! Genmei!!!"

"Baru, nothing much. A battle between genjutsu eyes is just a battle of ocular power."

Uchiha Genmei calmly answered his question.

He watched the dejected, despairing Uchiha Baru before him with interest

and continued explaining:

"And my ocular power is greater than yours."

His hand rose and fell,

and a tortured scream echoed through the genjutsu space!

In reality,

after using Tsukuyomi, Uchiha Baru's Susanoo automatically dissipated within seconds, and he collapsed to the ground, eyes rolled back.

Uchiha Kagami, who had been fighting alongside him, ignored the fallen Uchiha Naka and activated his own dojutsu.

Blood tears streamed from both eyes.

He threw everything he had into this final gamble!

[Dojutsu: Daikokuten!]

A wave of sinister darkness surged toward Uchiha Genmei!

[Dojutsu: Benzaiten]

A flash of red light passed over him, as if some power had been bestowed upon him!

The dark curse closed in, but before it could touch Uchiha Genmei, the Golden Divine Aura around his divine armor wore it away completely.

Seeing this,

he couldn't believe it!

How could this be?!

That was his invincible dojutsu!

A dojutsu capable of consuming his opponent's lifespan!

He could only use it three times in his life. Once against an enemy, once to save Danzo.

And now, this was his last use!

Why had the Golden Divine Aura, with a single sweep, erased the curse after it reached the armor formed from Susanoo?!

Uchiha Genmei had only just emerged from the Tsukuyomi Space. He looked at the dojutsu being worn away by the Golden Divine Aura

and sneered.

"You have no idea what a fully unleashed Susanoo can do."

He scoffed inwardly.

Anyone who knew the truth would understand: whether or not the Mangekyo was Eternal, once Susanoo was fully unleashed,

it could become a true guardian deity.

As long as the attack wasn't a space-time dojutsu,

it could even defend against the Rinne Sharingan's

Infinite Tsukuyomi light, let alone a cursed black light like yours, from someone at the Mangekyo level.

Uchiha Genmei raised his divine sword

and pointed it at the wretched man across from him,

who still refused to accept reality.

"Get into position, steel your nerves, and don't let your guard down for even a moment!"

An oppressive air of arrogance spread from him. He leaped into the air, and the divine sword in his hand unleashed a slash that seemed to warp space itself.

Something unexpected happened!

His slash passed right beside Uchiha Kagami without so much as grazing him.

"Oh?"

"Is this your dojutsu?"