"Uchiha... Fugaku!"
The roar forced from the deepest recesses of his chest no longer sounded human. It was more like the final howl of a wounded, dying beast.
Sasuke's chakra erupted uncontrollably amid his unbearable anguish and fury, forming a ring of violent air that sent the clutter in the room rattling.
He made no hand seals and took no time to gather power. As that roar, laden with blood and tears, escaped him, his right hand simply tightened around his kunai.
Then a power he had never experienced, yet felt as though he had been born with, surged from his Sharingan.
Pitch-black, fathomless flames, carrying an eerie aura that promised to burn all things to ash, instantly coiled around the cold metal.
This was Sasuke Uchiha's newly awakened dōjutsu, forged from rage and despair!
The kunai became a streak of black light and plunged straight into Uchiha Fugaku's chest.
Uchiha Fugaku had no time to dodge or defend himself. He merely lowered his head, slowly and with great difficulty, to look at his heart.
The kunai had pierced it. No blood sprayed out, for the terrifying black flames had instantly scorched and charred the edges of the wound, sealing it shut.
But the black flames themselves had already begun spreading like the vilest of curses, racing through his blood vessels and chakra pathways into every part of his body, devouring all life wherever they passed.
"Urgh... hhh..."
Fugaku let out a muffled whimper, his Mangekyō Sharingan losing focus amid the agony and rapid loss of vitality.
He staggered back two steps, as though all strength had been drained from his body in an instant, then collapsed to the floor with a thud. Slumped against the cold wall, he exhaled searing, agonized breaths.
The Mangekyō Sharingan in Sasuke's eyes spun