Maritime battlefield.
The moment the two giants collided, the sea surface within a radius of 100 meters suddenly sank, forming a huge bowl-shaped depression.
The concave edge churned up a ring-shaped giant wave tens of meters high, the crest of which condensed into tiny ice crystals under the moonlight.
This is a regional low-temperature phenomenon caused by Chakra conflict.
The exposed reefs on the seabed burst open under the pressure, and the shattered fragments were crushed into dust by the raging Chakra storm before they could even fall.
A large number of stunned sea fish floated to the surface, only to be evaporated into a foul-smelling blood mist in the blink of an eye.
Uchiha Izumi's Susanoo staggered backward, its crimson Chakra Cloak shattered, leaving only half a skeleton struggling to hold it up.
Bloody tears streamed from her eyes, and her vision began to blur.
Through her crimson vision, she saw that the dark red Susanoo opposite her, though also covered in wounds, remained as steady as a rock.
The light of the Yata Mirror is recombinating, and the sealing power of the Totsuka Blade is gradually recovering.
"Oh..."
Uchiha Izumi suddenly laughed, a laugh tinged with sorrow, "As expected... of someone hailed as Uchiha genius capable of surpassing Shisui..."
They also activated their Mangekyō Sharingan and temporarily sealed away the opponent's two divine artifacts.
But he was still no match for him.
Her Susanoo rose, splashing up towering waves.
Although her Chakra was almost depleted, her eyes were clearer than ever before.
"Itachi, do you know?" Uchiha Izumi said with a smile, "I used to... really like you."
Uchiha Itachi's Susanoo paused slightly.
"I love you when you practiced Shuriken with me at the training ground, I love you when you secretly brought me three-colored dumplings..."
Blood trickled from the corner of Uchiha Izumi's mouth, yet she continued to smile.
"But now I realize that the person I liked... was always the Uchiha Itachi I had imagined."
"The real you... is much colder than I imagined."
Uchiha Izumi's Susanoo turned increasingly blood red, its crimson Chakra like a burning flame of life, blooming with its final brilliance on the sea surface.
"So..."
"Let us bury this false memory, along with the Uchiha surname..., in this sea."
" Dōjutsu: Life-Burning Crimson Bow!"
He burned his own life force and eye power, materializing his protective will into arrows of causality.
Those targeted by the Dōjutsu will suffer a crushing blow on a life level; the arrows possess the inherent characteristics of absolute accuracy and irreversibility.
With her current vitality, she can at most fire three complete arrows.
Witnessing the massacre of his people, his extreme obsession with protecting them clashed with his impulse to destroy himself, thus awakening him.
At the cost of annihilating her own existence, it echoes her determination to burn her remaining body in order to ignite a prairie fire.
Uchiha Izumi's Susanoo changed drastically.
Crimson armor covered his entire body like lava, and tattered fiery wings spread from his back, like a candle flame about to burn out, yet still stubbornly burning its last light.
Her right arm transformed into a massive Chakra longbow— the Unburnt, its bowstring formed from boiling blood, and its arrows from her burning life force and eye power.
"This arrow..." Quan's voice drifted on the sea breeze, "Will pave a path to survival for the children."
Uchiha Itachi's pupils suddenly contracted.
He saw Izumi's Susanoo split into two phantoms, one arrow aimed at him, and the other turning towards the ninja forces on the shore.
"First Arrow - Ashen Bone!"
The moment the bowstring trembled, the entire sea suddenly boiled.
As the arrow left the bowstring, Quan's right arm began to carbonize from the fingertips, and charred fragments drifted away in the wind.
The arrow split into two trails in mid-air:
A wave transformed into a colossal surge, crashing towards the shore with overwhelming force.
Hyuga, Akimichi, and other elite ninja clans could even Hand Seals for defense, they were swallowed up by the waves containing Amaterasu's black flames.
The giant wave, undiminished in its momentum, propelled the Uchiha Clan's ships like arrows shot from a bow towards the open sea.
The other arrow was aimed directly at Uchiha Itachi.
The dark red Susanoo instinctively raised the Yata Mirror, but the arrow transformed into black flames the moment it touched the mirror, bypassing the absolute defense and piercing straight into Susanoo's core!
boom--
The chest armor shattered, Uchiha Itachi groaned, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.
Even more terrifying, the black flames spread across Susanoo like a malignant tumor, and began to burn the Chakra itself.
"Second Arrow - Ashen Soul!"
Uchiha Izumi's left arm was carbonized down to her elbow, but she did not hesitate to draw the bowstring taut.
This arrow had no physical form; it was purely a mental shock.
The moment the arrow left the bowstring, half of her body exploded, blood and tears mixed with shattered lenses splattering everywhere.
Uchiha Itachi's Mangekyou Mangekyō Sharingan spun wildly, only to see the arrow split into countless fragments of memory in the void.
Under the cherry blossom trees at Naka Shrine, young Izumi tiptoed and held a three-colored dumpling to his lips.
In the sunset over the training ground, he held her hand and adjusted the angle of the Shuriken.
On the day she first Sharingan, Itachi was the first to notice her abnormality, gently placing a cool handkerchief on her burning eyelids.
Upon returning from his mission, he waited for her under the cherry blossom tree at the village entrance, oblivious to the petals falling all over his shoulders.
These fragments of memory pierced Uchiha Itachi's mind like sharp blades, forcibly suppressing his affection for Sasuke.
"This is... mine..."
Uchiha Itachi's breathing suddenly became erratic.
The warmth that had been deliberately forgotten now transformed into the sharpest blade, piercing his closed heart.
"So it turns out I..."
Uchiha Itachi's Susanoo began to disintegrate from within, "Never truly abandoned these..."
"Third Arrow - Ashen Life!"
At this point, only Uchiha Izumi's head remained, but her remaining left eye shone with a terrifying light.
With her last ounce of strength, she drew the longbow to its limit, the bowstring digging deep into her bones, the arrow imbued with all her life force.
"The wert I remember..." her voice held a hint of relief, "Farewell."
The moment the arrow left the bowstring, Uchiha Izumi's remains were completely reduced to ashes, which scattered in the sea breeze.
This arrow had no physical form, but was pure light. It tore through space, creating a crimson rift that pierced through heaven and earth!
"Perhaps... this is the ending..."
Uchiha Itachi stared blankly at the oncoming light, suddenly abandoning all defenses.
Before the words were even finished, space suddenly twisted into a vortex.
"What a waste, Itachi."
Obito Uchiha's figure tore through the void, his right hand already gripping Itachi's eyes. "I will inherit this power!"
"Ugh!"
Amid Uchiha Itachi's screams, Obito Uchiha forcibly gouged out those Mangekyō Sharingan.
In that split second, the crimson light of the third arrow was already upon them.
Obito Uchiha pushed the blind Itachi towards the arrow, then quickly entered the Kamui Dimension himself.
He had a premonition!
If it weren't for the fact that the arrow was aimed at Uchiha Itachi.
If Uchiha Izumi hadn't appeared so suddenly, she wouldn't have had time to react.
Even if one possesses Kamui, one will still die.
Wow, that's a powerful Mangekyō Sharingan! It feels just as good as Kamui's.
If he could obtain it, no one in the entire Shinobi World would be able to stop his Eye of the Moon Plan.
"Farewell, my foolish..."
His words abruptly stopped, for he saw Uchiha Itachi about to be engulfed by the arrow light, and a relieved smile appeared on his lips.
On that blood-stained face was a calmness unlike anything seen in many years.
boom--
A crimson crack pierced the heavens and earth, Uchiha Itachi's body turned to ashes along with Uchiha Izumi in the light.
Let the flames of self-immolation illuminate the path to survival; let the act of annihilation protect the future.
When everything calmed down, only a few wisps of golden ash remained, slowly drifting down from the sea.
The Uchiha Clan's ships had already disappeared beyond the horizon, propelled by the giant waves.
"To trade one's life for the chance to continue one's clan...?"
"This foolish bond..."