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Third Person POV
North.
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Ciri was once again in darkness after the encounter with the goddess of her world, but she couldn't even stop to think when she felt her own chaos manifesting itself.
A light soon consumed her vision in the next moment. She blinked a few times, trying to see her surroundings, which had changed. She was no longer in the middle of darkness or space.
She realized she was on a mountain. Her attention went to the sky, there were several constellations shining, and she knew most of them, but she also noticed the absence of stars and there were others she had never seen before, yet it was still the same sky.
The sky of her world. And the sky said everything, she was in the past.
And soon she lowered her head, since what truly caught her attention on that starry night was the valley below, where she could see countless flames burning houses clustered together in the middle of the valley. This was supposed to be a secret place, since it was an area surrounded by mountains.
That was how the Uchiha clan lived, hidden from the rest of the world, no king or institution knew about them, until even the founders of the witcher schools discovered them and reported it to the other continent.
She first checked her own body. It seemed perfectly normal. She looked back and saw a green portal still standing like a beacon atop that mountain, which was bad, until it finally began to fade away completely.
Now she was on her own, observing that place, and Ciri sensed presences rapidly approaching.
"We're getting there. A sorcerer must have arrived!" a voice said.
Meanwhile, she saw the figures of two men moving through the trees, exactly the way Madara moved, approaching her location to eliminate any witness.
"So these are the shinobi... they are much slower compared to him, these are nothing..." she couldn't help but think, observing them with her arms crossed.
The green portal immediately caught the attention of the shinobi fighting against the Uchiha clan, and since they thought it would be a sorcerer, it should be easy to silently get rid of him, so they ran to see if the sorcerer was still there after the portal had closed.
Ciri prepared herself, she summoned Zireael even 300 years before the sword was created, as soon as she saw the shinobi advancing in her direction.
The first one didn't even have time to react when, suddenly, a flash appeared in front of him. Ciri used instant teleportation, something capable of even breaking a shinobi's instincts.
The space-time ability was so dangerous that even the ninjas were caught by surprise before they could react.
And she didn't possess only teleportation. She also had skills and training. She wasn't facing anyone like her husband. Quite the opposite, those ninjas reacted far more slowly, if they reacted at all, than what she was used to when fighting Madara.
The man's companion looked on in shock as he saw his colleague not even have time to react before Ciri effortlessly tore his head off.
"What?!" He immediately stopped on top of a tree and quickly began making several hand seals, spitting fire with a basic jutsu, but Ciri had already appeared behind him, swinging her sword as she cut off his head.
Ciri watched the flames fading away on the same man as the two dead bodies fell to the ground. Her eyes turned once more toward the cluster of Japanese houses in the middle of the valley.
She was in the middle of a war.
Her body glowed as she teleported directly onto one of the rooftops. The moment she appeared, the sounds muffled by silence exploded around her.
There were people screaming at one another while trying to flee. It wasn't only those two shinobi who had come to face her. There were dozens of them spread throughout the clan.
She observed in silence. The situation was chaotic. She saw men, women, and even children being killed constantly.
How could she ignore that so easily?
'Don't you have to get Madara's parents out of here? This isn't something you should interfere with. You can't change the past, Ciri...' Ciri told herself, filled with rage, while her sword began to tremble.
She hated the idea of doing nothing to help others.
But what else could she do? She couldn't change the past.
'At the very least, I'll take as many of them with me as possible,' Ciri muttered angrily.
She had already been spotted when other men wearing dark clothes and masks appeared.
Ciri took a step forward and shot ahead like a falling star. They couldn't even react to the speed of her flight as she surged forward in a flash, different from teleportation, while both heads were removed.
She crouched down and picked up one of the dead men's cloaks, using her powers to restore the part cut by the sword, returning the cloak's time to before it had been sliced.
She put on the cloak and pulled up the hood, while her green eyes glowed beneath it.
She was alone there. She needed to act alone.
'For Madara...' she thought before teleporting.
She didn't know where Madara's parents were, but she immediately entered the battlefield and began cutting down all the shinobi and other mercenaries who were killing powerless men and women — merely low-ranking members, practically civilians.
She caught glimpses of Sharingans everywhere, there were dozens of Uchiha clan members with their Sharingan activated, fighting against the enemy forces.
Ciri teleported through the battlefield like a firefly flickering in several places at once. With every movement, she killed someone.
There were also people without chakra powers, just mercenaries hired to do the dirtiest work. She slaughtered everyone she could, advancing across the battlefield, until she began hearing explosions coming from the center of the clan.
Giant snakes appeared. Black creatures flew through the sky spitting elements, while a skeletal creature made of energy that she knew very well dominated the center of the battle.
A Susanoo, but purple in color.
It was nowhere near like the complete Susanoo Madara used. This one was only about ten to fifteen meters tall, while creating swords and trying to fight off its opponents.
Ciri blinked and appeared on top of one of the buildings closest to the place, observing the battlefield drowned in chaos, with bodies scattered everywhere — both Uchiha and members of the clan attacking them.
She watched an elderly man using what she assumed was the Mangekyou Sharingan. Madara had explained how his eyes worked due to Aren's birth, because the boy would need guidance in the future about his lineage. Madara wanted every possible way to teach the boy, whether through scrolls, himself, or even Ciri, after all, she was the mother.
And from what Ciri realized, the elderly man did not possess the Eternal Sharingan. She could see the man visibly growing exhausted while using his Susanoo.
There were at least eight powerful shinobi fighting him.
Ciri had never seen Madara's battles against those shinobi, but if she had to guess, they were clearly the enemies he would fight in the future, even 300 years later.
Then, suddenly, she was noticed.
Someone landed near her, opening his hand and revealing a mouth with a tongue and teeth in the palm.
"Strange... you don't have any chakra in you. That means you're not one of us!" he said.
Ciri merely pointed her sword. The man raised his hands and a white mass began coming out of the mouth in his palm, taking the shape of a bird that flew directly toward Ciri.
She saw a few seconds into the future and knew that thing would explode.
'Let's try this...' she thought and narrowed her eyes in concentration.
Ciri focused on the space where the man was standing. When the bird was struck by her sword, the thing grabbed onto the metal and began swelling, ready to explode.
The man merely laughed, expecting to see the intruder die.
But what he didn't expect was that, suddenly, he would find himself in the middle of the explosion, with the environment changing around him.
His laughter didn't even have time to end before he was hit and blown apart by his own bird, while Ciri appeared in his place, watching the explosion.
She sighed. She had tried to risk something she wasn't used to doing: switching places with an object or even a person.
She had seen Madara doing that and tried to copy it. Even though he had already said the possibilities of their powers were almost infinite, she just needed to be creative.
She was lucky Madara possessed abilities she could use as a basis through the power of his blood and replicate them with magic.
"How did you do that?" the voice came out humorless.
The rooftop was broken, but the man was still there, badly injured by the explosion.
Some of his companions stopped fighting the Susanoo to watch, surprised to see one of their own being injured like that.
"..." Ciri did not respond and merely raised her sword into a fighting stance.
She merely stepped to the side. Her cloak glowed, and she shot forward like a falling star, catching the man by surprise once again as she cut off and severed his arm.
'He managed to react in time to avoid a strike to the heart... But I removed his arm at least.' Ciri analyzed.
The man snarled at her, managing to escape by jumping backward.
These people, even if it had been a surprise attack, were skilled enough to partially react to the attack.
"Damn you..." the man shouted while still in the air.
But Ciri wasted no time. She simply turned her sword and aimed directly at the arm lying on the destroyed rooftop.
The man's eyes widened before he saw himself switching places once again.
When he realized it, he was lying exactly where his severed arm had fallen, while Ciri's sword advanced directly toward him, making it impossible to react.
She only failed to finish him because a lightning bolt flew toward her.
One of those black masks fired the electrical attack, and Ciri had to disappear from there immediately after seeing the future where she struck the fallen man, but was also hit and pierced by the lightning.
The speed of the attack was too fast for her to react normally.
She blinked and reappeared at a distance.
The one-armed ninja got up while seeing his severed hand behind the destroyed house. After all, he had been switched to the place where he and the torn-off limb had been exchanged.
"You certainly are different..." said the ninja who had lost his hand, full of irritation.
The other man — the first ninja Madara had faced after they fled Cintra 300 years into the future — appeared with a curious look.
She couldn't see his face beneath the cloak, but her abilities would intrigue anyone.
"There shouldn't be anyone capable of fighting ninjas on this continent. The question is... who are you?" he asked.
Ciri did not use chakra, and to the ninjas that was far too intriguing.
"It doesn't matter," Ciri merely replied.
"She has quite interesting abilities. The problem is letting her remain free," the man finally said.
"She?" asked the one-armed man.
"You idiot, that's a woman. And with the way she fights, we'll have to join forces to take her down. Even I don't think I could defeat her alone," the man muttered.
They nodded and immediately advanced against her, leaving the other companions to deal with the clan patriarch, who still kept the Susanoo active to protect himself from water attacks and the giant snakes.
Ciri became engaged in an intense fight involving teleportation, switching places, and glimpses a few seconds into the future to immediately escape attacks.
She possessed temporal vision and spatial abilities. So even surrounded by those dark masks alongside the other two ninjas — one of them shaping explosive masses with his only remaining hand and the other transforming his body into black threads — she still managed the fight using her abilities.
At the same time, she knew she wouldn't be able to endure there for much longer. Leaving the two shinobi quite stunned, as she escaped attacks that should have been impossible.
She was focusing more on glimpsing possible futures than on the fight itself, because she understood that she wouldn't be able to defeat them without a good strategy, at that moment.
So she began concentrating on the timelines.
Ciri started glimpsing several possibilities with her powers.
Various paths she could follow, as each of her actions and decisions could open a new path in space-time, and she could glimpse those effects.
In some futures, she could even defeat them, but she would never find Madara's parents. That possibility she had to discard.
So with some regret, she decided to set aside any chance of saving the entire clan, while searching for Madara's parents in every future timeline.
There were countless paths.
In those futures, she moved through various houses, unable to find them amid so many people dying, she searched the entire village for any pregnant woman.
It was only in one of the futures that she finally saw them, but not inside the clan.
In that possibility, she left the clan and found some members fleeing. Further ahead, there was an injured woman and man.
The woman was consumed by terror, holding her pregnant belly, while the man, badly wounded, still kept his 2-tomoe Sharingan active as he fought against several shinobi who, although weak, were numerous.
If Ciri did not arrive in time, they would die.
And the baby in the woman's belly would die along with them.
Even if she tried to save both of them, she could not fail.
She merely sighed while escaping more and more attacks.
"Damn it... she's far too slippery!" the one-armed man snarled while watching two more of his black masks being destroyed.
Ciri stared at them as she landed in the distance.
The patriarch was beginning to lose the battle. It wouldn't take much longer before he fell.
He didn't fail to glance at her. There was respect there, even though he narrowed his eyes, not knowing what to say about that mysterious warrior who was fighting his enemies.
Ciri merely shook her head and faced the two ninjas. She advanced while raising her sword, as a flow of energy burst from the weapon. And she shot forward, catching them by surprise with her attack.
As soon as they moved away, Ciri teleported, and amidst the masks trying to hit her, she struck them one by one, destroying each of the four as if she knew exactly where every attack would be launched.
"What?!" The ninja with Kakuzu's powers looked stunned and sensed a presence behind him. He didn't even have time to react before his heart was pierced by her sword.
She knew exactly how to achieve victory by seeing every movement in her future prediction, the shinobi could only watch her simply disappearing without understanding what she had done.
"What?! Where is she?!" The one-armed ninja was speechless, still searching for her.
But Ciri didn't care.
She went directly to the forest where Madara's parents were being chased, exactly as she had seen in the future, before they were finally cornered.
She did not go directly before them.
She began blinking between the trees as she watched the squad following them.
They were nowhere near the most powerful ninjas, and Ciri continued massacring them one by one without even being noticed. By the time they realized what was happening, it was already too late.
Ciri had already killed the last one, while he stared in shock at his dead companions.
Then she blinked once again and reappeared in Madara's parents' path.
The two immediately stopped, while the man stepped forward, protecting his wife, and activated the Sharingan.
"You will not kill us!" he said, intending to fight against the person with a sword and strange powers not derived from chakra.
Ciri removed her hood.
"I'm not your enemy." She said awkwardly. "The child in her womb is my husband in the future. I'm here to help."
She blinked and realized what she had said.
'Was that really the best thing I could say to my in-laws...?!' Ciri couldn't help but panic as she realized what she had just said.
Perhaps they would think she was completely insane for saying something like that about a baby who hadn't even been born yet.
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