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"You're causing a ruckus, it's disturbing my daughters sleep", Sasuke appeared with a pair of sunglasses on his face as stared at the giant susanoo.
"Hmph, so you only came because of that, pathetic"
"If calling me pathetic for having a life, then, what does that make you?", Madara glared at Sasuke, just as he was about to attack, he paused, he saw a purple glow coming from Sasuke's eyes.
"You, have you awakened the rinnegan?, but you're so young, impossible!".
Madara felt his rage increasing after hearing this and he thought to himself, [did this little bastard cheat or something, it took me twenty years to achieve those eyes!.]
He knew what this brat before him was trying to hide under those sunglasses, those eyes are extremely difficult to close willingly when opened, it's practically impossible to revert to normal eyes.
"You cocky little bastard!", Madara could use both the rinnegan and eternal mangekyō, but switching between them, left him feeling incredibly weak afterward.
""Brat! I'm choosing you for my first dance!"
His blue Susanoo swung its enormous sword without warning, the chakra blade tearing through the air toward Sasuke—and the village behind him. It was a straightforward attack, meant to cleave the insolent imp in two.
Sasuke's eyes narrowed, "Not a chance", muttering something under his breath, Sasuke vanished.
Madara disappeared at almost the exact same moment, the next instant, both appeared far from the village, above the open ocean.
Madara's Susanoo brought its massive sword down.
BOOOOM!
The blade struck the ocean with such force that an enormous wall of water erupted on both sides, the sea itself was cleaved apart.
For several moments, a massive trench stretched across the water, the ocean temporarily divided by the sheer force of Madara's attack.
Madara stared across the newly formed gap after seeing a new location, "m…", his Sharingan tracked Sasuke carefully.
"Teleportion?"
Sasuke stood several dozen meters away, his cloak whipping violently in the wind as seawater crashed around him.
Madara's grin widened, "So that's what you're relying on", Sasuke's hand tightened around his sword.
"I don't need to explain my abilities to you"
"Hah!"
Madara laughed at the remark, "Still got that attitude, you brat..", the Susanoo raised its sword again, "But teleportation won't save you forever"
Sasuke's eyes stayed locked onto Madara and nothing else, "Then try catching me then", for a moment, Madara's expression became genuinely interested.
"Oh?..", his blue Susanoo leaned forward, "a cat and mouse game, now that's more like it", the chakra warrior raised its enormous blade.
"Come, Junior!..", Madara's Sharingan spun, "Show me exactly how far you've come", Sasuke like a well behaved child, vanished.
Madara's grin returned, "Found you.", the Susanoo twisted violently, bringing its sword around in a sweeping arc.
Sasuke reappeared behind Madara's position and immediately sensed something wrong, the Susanoo's blade had already changed direction.
Sasuke's eyes widened, "Damn it!", he raised his sword just as the gigantic chakra blade came crashing toward him.
BOOOOOOM!
The impact sent a shockwave racing across the ocean once more, Madara seeing this, laughed from within his Susanoo.
"Teleportation is impressive…", is Sharingan locked onto Sasuke, "But you still have to decide where you're going right?, it also appears you need a medium for the teleporting."
Sasuke landed on the surface of the ocean and slid backward several meters, his blade already destroyed.
That bored expression irritated Madara more than anything else, "You're awfully quiet."
Sasuke slowly raised his sword, "I'm thinking."
"Thinking?..", Madara laughed, clearly finding it a little funny, "While fighting me?"
"Yes, about what to feed my daughter later", Sasuke's eyes shifted toward the enormous Susanoo.
Madara's smile disappeared, for half a second, there was silence, then he laughed mockingly, "Hahahaha!..", Madara burst into full on laughter, "You've got some nerve!"
His Susanoo raised both swords, "Then watch closely, brat...", he enormous warrior crossed its blades, "Because I'm about to make you use every last bit of that brain of your's"
The swords descended and Sasuke vanished, the blades slammed into the ocean a tremendous explosion of water rose into the sky.
Madara immediately turned, "There.", Sasuke appeared on his left and his Susanoo's elbow swung.
Sasuke disappeared once more, the attack missing him by a few meters, then Sasuke appeared above Madara and shouted, "Amaterasu!"
Black flames erupted across the Susanoo's shoulder, seeing the black flames, Madara's eyes narrowed in disdain, "Annoying."
The blue chakra construct violently shook its arm, attempting to dislodge the flames, Sasuke didn't wait for a second, his hand extended and he shouted again, "Enton!."
The black flames gathered into a series of spikes and shot toward Madara inside the Susanoo.
Madara's Susanoo raised its sword, the flames struck the blade and spread across it, Madara looked at them for a moment.
"You're trying to restrict my movements, foolish boy!.", Sasuke said nothing to this, he just kept jumping around like a monkey.
Madara suddenly grinned, "Good...", the Susanoo swung, "but will run out of chakra first, we'll just have to see, won't we!".
Sasuke teleported away, each attack grew faster, Madara wasn't simply swinging wildly anymore, he was studying Sasuke.
Every time Sasuke disappeared, Madara watched the movement of his eyes, his shoulders, even the slight shift in his chakra.
Then he suddenly yelled, "There!", the Susanoo thrust its sword forward, Sasuke appeared directly in its path, his eyes widened slightly.
He teleported again, the blade missed him by inches and Madara's grin became savage, "predictable!"
Sasuke reappeared several dozen meters away, breathing heavily, Madara pointed his Hinata sword at him, "You don't choose your destination randomly."
Sasuke remained silent.
"You have rules, just like that white haired demon...", Madara's Sharingan spun faster, as he continued to speak, "You've got to establish a connection first. Or perhaps you need to see the destination."
Sasuke's expression remained unchanged, Madara chuckled, as commented on Sasuke's weird teleporting, "Either way…", His Susanoo lowered its stance, "I've figured it out."
Sasuke's eyes narrowed, his sunglasses showing his purple rinnegan under them, "Have you now, then show me?"
Madara and susanoo suddenly disappeared, it only left an afterimage and Sasuke's eyes widened after it left his vision.
[That thing can move that quickly?.], the blue Susanoo appeared directly behind him.
"Got you!", the sword swung, but Sasuke vanished, Madara's sword sliced through empty air, a moment later, Sasuke appeared high above the ocean.
Madara looked around and finally found him, "you dodged it again.", Sasuke looked up at him, "You're predictable too, with these eyes, I can see everything."
Madara's smile faded, Sasuke raised one hand, lightning began gathering around him and the sky darkened, clouds quickly gathered overhead.
Madara looked upward, "What are you doing?, a party trick?", Sasuke's voice remained completely calm as he yelled his signature move, "Kirín!."
Lightning descended, the ocean flashed white and Madara immediately raised his Susanoo.
KRAKOOOOOM!
The lightning struck, the blue Susanoo was engulfed, both in the lightning and black flames, Madara's chakra construct shook violently.
For the first time, Sasuke saw Madara stagger back slightly, the enormous warrior remained standing.
Smoke drifted around its armor, with visible cracks, Madara's breathing became heavier.
"You…", Madara looked around at his own Susanoo, "You were actually cracked my armour."
"It appears so"
Madara laughed quietly, "You really are full of surprises, aren't you", Sasuke landed back onto the ocean.
"You're stronger than me."
Madara's eyes narrowed and he finished Sasuke's words for him, "But you're running out of strength aren't you?", Sasuke didn't, but it was enough for Madara to understand.
"And you're still fighting?"
"Correct..."
Sasuke raised his kunai, "That's why I only need to win.", Madara stared at him, then his grin returned as he responded, "That's the spirit brat."
His Susanoo began to crackle with chakra, "Then let's finish this!", he blue warrior raised both swords.
Sasuke lowered his stance and neither moved, for several seconds, the ocean was completely still, then they disappeared simultaneously.
BOOM!
The Susanoo's sword clashed with Sasuke's Susanoo, as it materialized at a rapid pace, he two continued exchanging attacks at incredible speed.
Sasuke noticed something, though he felt angry about it, he didn't complain, he had gotten used to feeling looked down on now.
His eyes tracked the Susanoo, the earlier lightning strike had done more damage than Madara wanted him to realize.
Sasuke took a slow breath, he wasn't going to overpower Madara, he couldn't, so he thought about outlasting him and Madara suddenly charged.
"STOP RUNNING!"
The Susanoo swung both swords simultaneously, Sasuke vanished from within his own Susanoo and Madara's eyes followed him.
"Behind me!", the Susanoo spun and Madara's sword came down and Sasuke teleported, then reappeared above Madara's shoulder.
"Amaterasu."
Black flames erupted once more, as it crawled along the armour of the Susanoo, Madara roared as the Susanoo's armor was engulfed, the blue chakra construct began losing stability.
"Damn you!", Madara forced more chakra into it, the Susanoo rapidly recovered as Sasuke landed back on the ocean, he was breathing heavily now from overusing his eyes and Madara noticed it.
"You're exhausted aren't you?."
"I am."
"Then why are you smiling?"
Sasuke blinked,only then did he realize there was the faintest smile on his face, "Because…", his eyes locked onto Madara.
"I figured out how I'm going to beat you."
"Then come and try."
Sasuke raised his hand to his face, going full emo mode, the black flames on Madara's Susanoo suddenly shifted and Madara's eyes widened slightly in surprise.
The flames condensed around the Susanoo's sword arm, "What?"
Sasuke's other hand moved, his Rinnegan activated then space between them warped, Madara immediately understood he was going to change positions again, "Switching positions?"
Sasuke did indeed vanish, Madara expected him to appear behind him, instead, Sasuke switched places with a fragment of Amaterasu-covered chakra that had been torn from the Susanoo during their earlier clashes.
Madara's eyes widened seeing the boy within his own personal space, Sasuke appeared directly inside the Susanoo's diamond zone, where the wielder resided.
Sasuke went for the kill, his kunai aiming for Madara's neck, all Madara did was raise his hand, as he caught Sasuke's hand.
"You…", Madara felt his own hand squeezing something soft, he knew it was a shadow clone, so he squeezed it until it disappeared, Sasuke took the opportunity to appear by his side for real this time.
From above his kunai aimed for the head, Madara looked up expressionlessly, as Sasuke brought his blade down.
Madara blocked again, not expecting for Sasuke to smile at him, "this is enough", the blue diamond on the Susanoo's head vanished, as the two appeared elsewhere, they were now on land again.
In the distance the blue Susanoo cracked, Madara's breathing became ragged, as Sasuke landed several meters away.
Both stared at one another, by now, Sasuke's reserves were also dangerously low and neither wanted to continue much anymore, Sasuke remained completely still.
The diamond mark that Madara was in slowly dissolved, as he walked out of it, for several seconds, neither spoke, finally, Madara laughed, a well behaved, genuine laugh.
Madara stepped out, breathing heavily, "You barely won this dance"
Sasuke lowered his sword, "I know.", Madara looked at him, "You were one mistake away from losing.", Sasuke nodded in response, "I know."
Madara's smile widened.
"Good."
He looked toward the distant horizon, "Because that means you actually earned it, I Madara declare you the strongest of this era!", Sasuke put away his kunai.
Madara glanced back at him, "but don't get arrogant, brat.", Sasuke's expression remained calm.
"I won't."
Madara snorted, "Good answer.", the two stood silently above the ocean as the waves slowly returned to normal.
Madara had lost, though he didn't use his own rinnegan, he had genuinely lost this dance, but for the first time, he wasn't annoyed by it.
He was amused, because he resembled his brother so much, he was actually feeling proud, [this is how I imagined him to be if that white haired demon didn't take his life.]
His eyes settled back on Sasuke again, "Next time…", Sasuke looked toward him impatiently and Madara grinned back, "I'll win."
Sasuke simply turned away, "We'll see.", Madara stared at his back, then he laughed again, "Damn arrogant brat."
He was genuinely feeling rather good, though he felt slightly exhausted from that short dance, he turned back to face the ocean, "but I still have to activate the moon's eye plan and there's no who's gonna stop me".
Clasping his hands together, a giant tree appeared behind him, alongside the ghedo statue that were rising from the ground.
Madara just sat on top of the ghedo statue, as he just thought about what to do after he succeeded.
After ten minutes, he absorbed the entire ten tails into his body, his skin turned white alongside his hair, six black orbs floated behind him, as a staff appeared in his hand.
Sasuke who went back home, saw a massive tree covering the entire world, he saw people from the village being pulled into the sky, as they turned into cocoons.
"What the fu.."
In the Sajuu residence, all of Kuraiya's women had their arms spread out as they accepted to be pulled in, those without chakra just stared blankly.
"Will they really be able to have a perfect world, to me, it just sounds like they want to do something in that place", Zangya muttered under her breath, but the other's, who also didn't have chakra also thought the same thing.
And they weren't wrong, every woman with chakra wanted to see what was truly in their hearts and what they wanted to see.
Back on Madara's side, Black Zetsu crept towards Madara from behind slowly, his hand hovered towards him from and he slammed it straight into Madara's back.
A black quickly covered him up, but he still asked Black Zetsu a question, " what?, why?".
"Kek.., Keke hehehe, do I have to tell you, fine, since you're dying, why not, I was never your will, I'm Kaguya's!".
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And inside several dreams.
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On Shizuka's, she was dreaming about a life with Kuraiya, only him and her kids, there were no other side piece involved, so she got the good D for herself every night.
Time flew by rapidly for her, until she grew old and was forcibly thrown out of the tree, her chakra was too much to be drained, so the tree spat her out.
'sigh', "sixty years, I feel so old now"
Tsunade however had a dream of dominating everyone, having each woman in Kuraiya's harem act as nothing but babysitter's, as she popped out the babies all alone, just for them to take care of them.
In a way, it was her green hatting them, because in her dream, they were deeply in love with him and they couldn't even touch him, because of Tsunade's status and their low statuses.
Just before Tsunade could thoroughly enjoy their misfortune and suffering, she too was thrown out of her sack.
"Damnit, you call this a dream world, I was only there for two years!".
Kurenai simply dreamt of the same as Shizuka, a life alone without any disturbance and growing old.
"That wasn't bad, perhaps standing by his side as he became Hokage was quite fun"
(Hinata didn't enter the sack, for those that are wondering, she has her dream happening in real life, she didn't want to dream it)
Anko in her dream, dreamt of successfully having Kuraiya become a MasterChef in making the best dango he could possibly create.
As she would constantly berate his every creation, the moment she too was forcibly taken out, she felt slightly irritated.
"Damn!, I was so close in tasting the best dango of my life, I was so close!, so close!".
In Mei's dream, well, it was quite chaotic, just as she became the Mizukage, she went to Konoho and demanded in a rough voice to Tsunade.
"I'm here to marry someone!, hand him over now and we'll have our alliance!, or we can go to war".
"Who is it exactly?"
"It's your husband".
In the dream, she managed to successfully take the man back and even managed to cuckhold Tsunade right in the middle of her own office.
Mei didn't even realize that she actually liked the gaze Tsunade gave her during that process, a sadistic nature formed slightly.
When she managed to get out of the tree sack, she licked her lips and smiled, "I should try that here soon, that expression she showed in that place, I must see it here in reality".
In Konan's dream, she with everyone in the Akatsuki had won in taking control over the world.
She didn't know why, but at some point during the process, seeing the people's fear and unwillingness, then eventually robot like nature after a few years.
She came to a conclusion, that forcibly taking control with absolute strength, would lead only to no will at all, there was no happiness in those people.
[Is this truly what would've happened if we succeeded.]
She thought of Kuraiya's nature of not getting involved with other people, in their daily lives, "perhaps that is indeed the best option, 'sigh', I wonder if he's in this dream like world".
She wished she never actually saw what he was like here, after forcibly being ejected, she wept to herself silently.
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Fused Zamasu quote - my form is justice.., and my form is the world, worship me!, give praise unto me!, me!, the beautiful!, the sublime!, me the invincible!, the Almighty and divine!, all hail, Zamasu!
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