The same thing always applies: a major event on the battlefield can't be kept secret for long. It will quickly reach the Five Great Villages, then spread across the entire shinobi world.
Unless it's a low-level genin one-on-one that nobody cares about.
Of course, two particular Konoha genin are the exception.
But the moment a fight involves jōnin-level combat, there will inevitably be scouts and Anbu watching from the shadows—because this is the clash of true all-rounders.
Gojo Yoru's battle with Han was exactly that kind of clash, and Han even managed to "get one over" on him.
If Yoru hadn't had intangibility, he would already be dead.
To repay that humiliation, Yoru decisively released both Yin Seals and unleashed his strongest ultimate—specifically to deny Iwagakure any chance to send reinforcements or use Reverse Summoning.
Every trump-card combatant is part of a village's foundation.
Lose one, and it's a catastrophic hit—like Sunagakure losing Ebizō, or Chiyo's son and daughter-in-law.
And a Jinchūriki, to a shinobi village, is even more "foundational," on the same tier as a Kage.
In terms of strategic deterrence, unless you're talking about the absolute pinnacle of Kage-tier, even most Kage can't compare to a Jinchūriki.
A Jinchūriki's death is a world-class headline.
Once Han entered the battlefield, it wasn't just Konoha and Iwa "monitoring" him—other villages watching from afar had effectively put "cameras" on him too.
Those "cameras" might have been Byakugan long-range sight, Yamanaka mind-spirit possession riding inside animals, shared vision with birds, intelligent summons capable of reporting what they saw, even mind-reading interpretations… and so on.
In this world, bizarre methods are everywhere.
Most importantly: those "cameras" fully recorded the process of Yoru killing Han.
A Jinchūriki's distinctive chakra, and the fact that Han's two halves were erased into nothingness one after another—none of that can be faked.
So even if Iwagakure wanted to hide it, they simply couldn't.
Likewise, many hidden "eyes" also witnessed Yoru taking Ōnoki's Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World head-on and remaining completely unharmed.
Ōnoki understood that Han's death couldn't be concealed. Losing a Jinchūriki might invite the Land of Lightning's greed. So he forced down his grief and immediately used Han's death—and his own reputation—to push a narrative that would drag all of the shinobi world's attention onto Konoha and Gojo Yoru.
And so—
The news that Gojo Yoru possesses a Space-Time bloodline, capable of converting chakra into a space-time nature transformation, and that the black-and-white "laser" wasn't Storm Release: Black Lightning at all but rather Space-Time Release—hit the shinobi world like a storm.
Later historical records would call that moment:
"The Birth of the Strongest Bloodline."
So that's why, while his peers were still in ninja school, Gojo Yoru at eleven had already mastered the super-S-rank Flying Thunder God—something nobody in Konoha could learn after the Second Hokage—not because he merely had "space-time talent," but because he could convert chakra into space-time itself.
For him, learning Flying Thunder God was as easy as eating and drinking.
So that's why, in his first world-shaking battle, that black "meteor" could sever the salamander's tail and prevent the First Poison of the Shinobi World from returning to the summoning realm—not because the meteor was "absurdly fast," but because it was a space-time technique with the power to interfere with space.
If not for Hanzō's unparalleled movement—able to carry his summon through Water Body Flicker—his salamander wouldn't have just lost a tail. It would have died on the spot.
So that's why Yoru could bury so many Flying Thunder God marks right under the noses of fifty-five Sand shinobi—his perfect chakra-hiding wasn't some secret art at all. It was him merging into space itself, making his very "existence" vanish.
His noiseless movement, and even surviving Dust Release unscathed, were the same principle.
And his so-called "Storm Release: Black Lightning," the reason it left no lightning traces and produced no dust or flying debris—wasn't because Black Lightning plus Storm Release created some annihilating laser.
It was because his Space-Time Release was like Dust Release: a rule-like power that erased matter.
The difference was:
Dust Release breaks matter down into atoms.
Gojo Yoru's Space-Time Release erases space itself—spatial annihilation.
If this had been Yoru's debut—his very first rise to fame—then even if many saw it with their own eyes, the great powers would have dismissed it as Ōnoki going mad from losing a Jinchūriki, shamelessly smearing Konoha with nonsense.
After all, the shinobi world is packed with weird derivative techniques, secret arts, and bloodlines. Who's to say Yoru's "unharmed" state wasn't some other ability? Why slap the "space-time bloodline" label on him?
Everyone knows "space-time" exists. Everyone's touched it in some way.
Storage scrolls involve space-time. Summoning involves space-time. Heavenly Transfer involves space-time. Even Flying Thunder God and Edo Tensei involve space-time.
But all of those are support-type applications.
Attack-type space-time power? That should be impossible.
A bloodline that converts chakra into a space-time nature transformation? Even more impossible.
If such a bloodline truly existed, it would be a miracle that turns "impossible" into reality.
A person holding that miracle would be… unbeatable.
In front of that, what are Mangekyō Sharingan and Wood Release worth?
Only the mythical Rinnegan—Six Paths Sage eyes used to create the moon, "first of the three great dōjutsu," which many claim doesn't even exist—might compare.
It sounds like lunatic slander.
And if the one spreading it weren't Ōnoki—wielder of Bloodline Elimination, a Kage-tier peak, one of the strongest beings alive—he would have been laughed out of the world.
But—
This wasn't Gojo Yoru's first time shaking the world.
Before this, he'd already become famous again and again.
In the war that would later be called the Second Shinobi World War, he was already the brightest star.
His debut made history: the first man in decades to injure the salamander—an explosive super-rookie.
He had already killed enemy commanders and instantly slaughtered fifty-four high-level enemies.
He could match the "demi-god" in speed, and had even defeated that demi-god—earning the title "Shinobi World's #1 Godspeed."
In just two years, he set the fastest promotion record in history, became the youngest trump-card combatant of the Five Great Villages, and was unanimously seen as a future "peak of the shinobi world" once he reached adulthood.
And his toolkit over those two years was absurd.
Beyond Flying Thunder God and the Yin Seal, most of his methods were self-created jutsu or signature extensions:
the ghost-silent Shunshin that made no sound and left no chakra trace,
earth-phasing plus chakra-hiding and Lightning chakra vitalization,
the one-time black meteor that snapped the salamander's tail,
the unsealed Rasengan that Jiraiya used to defeat many enemies,
Black Lightning with a completely different property from the Third Raikage,
the Chidori series that made Rain shinobi tremble,
and the laser line that defeated the demi-god, believed to be a Black Lightning + Storm Release hybrid—
While other kids at twelve were still in school (or had just graduated) and couldn't even reliably cast a C-rank elemental jutsu, Gojo Yoru already had S-rank and super-S-rank secrets, plus a whole arsenal of A-rank techniques and extensions—maybe even secret arts and a synthesized bloodline.
His talent was already universally recognized as comparable to the Second Hokage.
His jutsu intel was memorized by every competent chūnin and jōnin leader.
So when Ōnoki—shamelessly enough—sacrificed a Jinchūriki and his own reputation to spring a "cognitive trap" on Yoru, and then broadcast the new truth to the world…
Many people instantly understood.
Plenty had previously suspected Yoru possessed some stealth ability similar to the Second Tsuchikage's "Dustless Bewildering Cover," which explained the chakra vanishing.
Now, "chakra converted into space-time nature transformation," "body merging into space," and everything snapped neatly into place.
Experts familiar with Black Lightning and Storm Release finally resolved their contradictions too.
Those abilities have fixed properties. Even combined, they shouldn't produce a laser that erases everything.
And neither should lack any lightning trace.
Yoru's attacks made sense only if they weren't Black Lightning or Storm Release at all—but a higher-tier "rule power," spatial annihilation, like Dust Release but more terrifying.
At that point, the capable and the powerful—special-talent jōnin, full all-rounders, and the upper leadership of every faction—fell into a collective silence.
Including…
Konoha's own side.
"Ōrochimaru… so this is the secret you kept refusing to say—this is why you were so certain Yoru could become the next Shinobi God?"
On the White Fang front, Jiraiya stared at Ōrochimaru, eyes wide with shock.
Tsunade and Hatake Sakumo also looked at him, desperate for confirmation.
Seeing their expressions, Ōrochimaru's mouth curled into a crooked grin he could no longer suppress—his mood utterly ecstatic.
Yes. That's the face.
He'd been waiting for this moment for a long time.
He even regretted that Hiruzen, Danzō, and the Konoha elder faction weren't here.
If this were an elite jōnin council session with every high-level figure present… what a magnificent sight that would be.
Ōrochimaru didn't know what it had felt like for Hiruzen to become Hokage, but he was sure that even inheriting the Fourth would not compare to how good this felt.
On the surface, though, he simply smiled.
"So now you understand why I refused to reveal it."
Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Sakumo could no longer hide their shock. They stood there, dumbstruck.
After a long silence, Tsunade finally murmured:
"No wonder Lady Katsuyu called him a 'new shinobi miracle'… A space-time bloodline… the shinobi world actually has something like that? Yin-Yang plus Five Elements—seven transformations—what kind of nature could form space-time? Or… is space-time itself an eighth, brand-new nature that was born with Yoru, which is why it's called a miracle?"
Her voice grew rare and uncertain.
"If Yoru can really convert chakra into a space-time nature… then he could turn all kinds of jutsu into Space-Time Release the way he develops jutsu… no—he's already doing that. No wonder his ultimate techniques are so terrifying. Compared to that, can my grandfather's Wood Release even be called a 'shinobi miracle'?"
Sakumo sighed softly.
"Perhaps we've witnessed the birth of the strongest bloodline limit."
Jiraiya, meanwhile, grew even more convinced the Great Toad Sage must have gotten the prophecy wrong—or pulled the wrong person in by mistake.
For everyone else, space-time was "external" and "borrowed."
The only truly personal way they'd ever handled it was Reverse Summoning.
Only a genius like the Second Hokage had ever grasped a thread of invisible space-time power and forged Flying Thunder God.
And even that—just redirecting Summoning's principle onto oneself—made Tobirama "fastest shinobi alive," and made Gojo Yoru "#1 Godspeed."
To trump-card combatants and Kage alike, space-time was power from a higher dimension.
Now the world had produced someone who could convert chakra into that higher-dimensional nature transformation—
Ōrochimaru hadn't exaggerated. Katsuyu hadn't been wrong.
Gojo Yoru truly was the future Shinobi God, the shinobi world's miracle.
If only his chakra reserves weren't still too small to rival Tailed Beast Bomb-scale deterrence, he might already be that new god.
Even so, he was already among the strongest alive.
And if his "merging into space" was a passive ability…
Maybe "among" could be removed.
Even Dust Release—"eliminating all bloodlines"—couldn't harm him.
Jiraiya couldn't imagine what could.
No matter the opponent, Gojo Yoru stood on the ground of innate, unbreakable advantage.
Worse: once merged into space, his chakra vanished completely. No sensing, no barrier, nothing could find him.
To be targeted by someone like that—
How is that different from being hunted by death itself?
Ōnoki would be losing sleep for a long time.
Even when he did sleep, he'd likely wake screaming.
"…So that's how you killed my little brother."
On the Sand front, Chiyo's face was ashen.
She finally understood why that endlessly reproduced photo looked so "wrong."
Her brother—and those fifty-four elites—had indeed died in an unnatural way.
But the truth was even more hopeless than she'd feared.
So hopeless that she could no longer see a path to revenge.
Just like Hanzō, Chiyo's fighting spirit collapsed in that instant.
"Lady Chiyo, the Kazekage wishes to speak with you."
A voice sounded outside the tent.
Not long after, the scattered combat units and support units regrouped at the temporary command post.
They pulled out and returned to the border base and the Land of Wind.
Sunagakure…
was done fighting.
Because again:
Shinobi combat is combat of intelligence.
If not for Ōnoki shamelessly stepping in personally—and exploiting a cognitive trap—Gojo Yoru's ability to "merge into space" might not have been exposed until he was fully grown.
But whether the "space-time bloodline" was fully true or not, one fact could not be denied:
Gojo Yoru had demonstrated an ability that ignored attacks entirely.
And his offense was just as terrifying—Han didn't even have time to fully transform before being erased.
With his greatest secret and strongest method now exposed, Gojo Yoru would not hold back.
Continuing the war would only pile up corpses.
Unless four nations united and launched a lightning war on Konoha—forcing this space-time shinobi to be everywhere at once—there was no realistic way to break the Land of Fire's defenses.
And even if they did break Konoha…
How would they kill a space-time shinobi who could teleport across continents and melt into space?
After the war, those top officials might even become targets for his assassination.
Just as Jiraiya imagined:
For a long time to come, the leaders of every nation would struggle to sleep—waking from nightmares.
From this moment on, how to deal with Gojo Yoru became the shinobi world's greatest problem.
On the black market, Yoru's bounty had already surpassed one hundred million ryō, ranking first.
Not only because only assassination even had a chance of killing someone who could "merge into space"—
But because Yoru had shown the same potential as the First Hokage: the power to break the rules.
He was no longer "just a shinobi."
He had triggered fear in a certain "circle."
"Heh… I knew it. That brat was hiding something unknown. I just didn't expect the secret he hid… would be space-time itself—something every shinobi touches, yet treats as untouchable and divine."
In a dim underground chamber, Uchiha Madara received the news.
Far from looking frightened, he laughed.
Even wrinkled, white-haired, skeletal—barely able to stand and kept alive only by the Demonic Statue's final lifeline—his transplanted Sharingan still burned with raw battle intent.
Since the day Senju Hashirama had crushed him—no matter how his eyes evolved, no matter what tailed beast he brought, Hashirama always had another jutsu, another trump, another victory, and finally killed him—Madara had never truly regarded anyone else as worthy.
Not even Senju Tobirama.
He'd certainly never looked at anyone with this kind of hunger.
Now, Gojo Yoru was the second.
If his body allowed it, Madara would rip his Rinnegan back, march out, and fight Yoru—just to see whether the mythical Rinnegan was stronger, or whether this "miracle" space-time bloodline was more terrifying.
"Madara-sama, I saw it with my own eyes. That kid ignored Ōnoki's Dust Release." White Zetsu spoke with clear dread. "His chakra signature vanished—I thought Ōnoki killed him. But he was completely fine, and after Dust Release disappeared his chakra reappeared in my sensing. That was his real body."
"Just like Ōnoki's report says—his body merges into space."
"I strongly suspect his 'Black Lightning' isn't Lightning Release at all—it's space-time nature transformation. All his annihilating techniques use black as the base."
Madara clicked his tongue.
"Oh? Today you're suddenly good at analysis? Who was it that told me 'maybe it's really that simple, you're just overthinking'?"
"Madara-sama, you're practically dying—why are you still as petty as a kid?"
"Get lost."
Madara closed his eyes, too lazy to argue.
Watching their bickering from within the Demonic Statue, Black Zetsu felt something he hadn't felt in a thousand years:
fear.
He hadn't expected himself to misjudge anything.
More accurately—he never imagined a "lower lifeform" could touch space-time.
Without seeing it personally, he didn't believe White Zetsu, and he didn't believe Ōnoki's report.
Because Black Zetsu—more than anyone—understood how high-dimensional and terrifying space-time truly was.
From the information his mother left him, this was the realm of the Ōtsutsuki. Even Truth-Seeking Orbs and ultimate dōjutsu could only barely touch it, in fixed and limited ways—not freely develop it.
And now, a being who wasn't the descendant of Asura or Indra, not even an Ōtsutsuki mixed-blood—some "crawler" gnawing the scraps left after the God Tree fell—could convert chakra into space-time nature, freely develop space-time techniques, and do things even his mother couldn't?
Impossible.
Black Zetsu refused to believe it.
And because he refused, he hated Gojo Yoru.
Whether the "space-time bloodline" was truly what it sounded like or merely a space-melding secret art or Flying Thunder God extension, the outcome was the same:
Gojo Yoru was now the greatest obstacle to the plan.
And by terrible coincidence, Yoru's current weakness was sensing—meaning he was vulnerable to assassination.
And in the shinobi world…
Black Zetsu was the greatest assassin of all.
He was a Yin-Yang Release creation. He carried high-dimensional masking by nature. He didn't even need the Mayfly Technique—no one could detect him, not even Hagoromo and Hamura.
If he possessed someone, the "will of the chakra progenitor" inside him could control any body, forcing suicide or killing them with Wood Release.
Black Zetsu wanted to kill Yoru.
But he didn't dare.
Even Ōnoki's perfect trap couldn't kill him. Yoru's "merge into space" must be extremely fast. And Black Zetsu didn't know whether that intangibility was active or passive.
If assassination failed, Black Zetsu would be exposed—and then he would be on Yoru's kill list.
After hiding for a thousand years and finally producing the shinobi world's second Rinnegan, Black Zetsu could not afford to step out of the shadows unless Infinite Tsukuyomi succeeded.
As long as he remained hidden and the Asura–Indra cycle continued, even if the second Rinnegan was lost, he could still create a third—just at the cost of waiting longer.
If this generation failed, he could reclaim Nagato's eyes, sink into the abyss, and wait for Yoru to die of old age.
So Black Zetsu suppressed his killing intent, abandoned the reckless plan, and returned to patient hibernation.
He didn't realize that this caution made him miss his best chance.
"Not Black Lightning and Storm Release… but space-time?"
In Kumogakure, the Third Raikage read the report, focusing on something entirely different from everyone else.
"So that means his black-and-white 'unbreakable' slash isn't Lightning or Storm nature coating at all… but space-time nature?"
"Then which is stronger—his space-time slash… or the side effects of Heavenly Transfer? Can it break my strongest shield?"
"And that 'vanishing into space'… it's even more ridiculous than my shield."
"That's a different kind of strongest shield and strongest spear. Konoha… truly is a cradle of geniuses."
Only now did the Third Raikage truly write Gojo Yoru's name into his mind.
Before this, no matter how often Yoru shook the world, the Raikage hadn't cared.
More precisely, he looked down on all Lightning users—Gojo Yoru, even Konoha's White Fang.
As a Kage-tier pinnacle, he believed he was the strongest Lightning user alive, and Lightning had reached its absolute ceiling in him.
If your Lightning couldn't match his spear, it couldn't break his shield.
In the shinobi world there were only three things believed able to harm him:
Ōnoki's Dust Release, Hanzō's salamander poison, and Uzumaki sealing arts—one reason he supported wiping out Uzushiogakure.
Even Konoha's Third Hokage wasn't someone he respected.
Now, Gojo Yoru became the third person he considered a true "opponent."
Like Madara, the Third Raikage's eyes burned with war.
He wanted to know which "shield and spear" was stronger.
Whose speed was faster—Yoru's ghost-silent step and Flying Thunder God, or his own Lightning Chakra Mode?
"Danzo-sama. Since the Iwa front has withdrawn, I'll be taking my leave."
On the Danzo front, Gojo Yoru formally asked Danzo for dismissal.
Just like Sunagakure, Ōnoki didn't gather an army to avenge his Jinchūriki.
He withdrew decisively—because continuing would only stack corpses.
After nearly being trapped to death, Yoru would certainly massacre everything in his path.
And unlike the Third Raikage, Yoru had Flying Thunder God—he could escape at will. Human-wave tactics couldn't grind him down.
Ōnoki would never throw lives away without absolute certainty.
Danzo stared at Yoru, and asked the question the entire world wanted answered:
"Your 'Storm Release: Black Lightning'… is it a space-time bloodline?"
"Yes. Exactly what you all think."
Gojo Yoru glanced at Danzo with a half-smile, then admitted it openly.
This "Second Shinobi World War" ended early because of Yoru's space-time bloodline.
Unless Sasori still assassinated the Third Kazekage, and Kumogakure remained reckless enough to start multi-front wars again, the Third Shinobi World War might not even happen before the world found a way to deal with Gojo Yoru.
Even if it did, it would likely be Madara steering Kirigakure from the shadows to corrupt Obito—canon's Third War path.
Kakashi wouldn't even turn three until September.
If the butterfly effect didn't strike, Obito wouldn't fall for another nine years.
By then, Yoru would already have completed a third evolution—space-time reserves and talent both elevated again.
Even now, his only true issues were endurance and sensing.
With the war ending, he would devote himself to patching that weakness.
Once he completed the concept he'd been incubating and created a personal sensing extension technique, the only remaining "weakness" would be the small delay before entering full intangibility in normal state.
But Flying Thunder God and reaction speed already covered that gap.
Once he developed space-time teleportation without marks, even that weakness would vanish completely.
At that point, the shinobi world would become a "Jujutsu Kaisen" version of itself: Gojo Yoru as the unstoppable final boss—only the resurrection of some ancient strongest could hope to challenge him.
Yoru enjoyed Danzo's darkening expression for a moment, then teleported away.
Danzo's face didn't change much—maybe because he was trained, maybe because he was stone-faced—but inside, his world shattered.
The dream of Hokage cracked like glass.
Hiruzen + his direct student Orochimaru + Senju Tsunade + Black Flash Gojo Yoru + the Nine-Tails Jinchūriki…
Even before the space-time bloodline reveal, that combination already made Danzo feel powerless.
Now that Yoru had unveiled a "miracle" power the shinobi world had never seen, Yoru becoming Hokage was effectively inevitable.
His influence inside Konoha would skyrocket—rivaling even Tsunade's.
And because Yoru was Orochimaru's student, and because Orochimaru stood with Tsunade… Orochimaru becoming Fourth also felt "locked in."
Fourth and Fifth were basically decided.
Danzo Shimura—had no chance.
For once, his eyes held actual confusion.
If Yoru had seen that expression, he might've regretted leaving too soon.
Back in the village, Yoru had to deal with Hiruzen again.
And just as he'd done with Danzo, Yoru also admitted it openly, shocking Hiruzen speechless for a long time.
Then somehow the rumor spread—
Gojo Yoru truly possesses a space-time bloodline. He is a living miracle.
Whether every faction believed it, doubted it, planned assassination or traps… no one knew.
But inside Konoha, Yoru's already sky-high status in the top circle instantly became absurd.
To every clan, he became a piece of "sweet cake."
Space-time bloodline = bloodline limit = inheritable.
If Kushina's identity weren't already an open secret at the top, and if everyone didn't know Kushina and Yoru's relationship, the gate of the Gojo household would already have been trampled flat by clan envoys.
Just as Konoha couldn't resist the temptation of reviving Wood Release and thus secretly conducted experiments… nobody could resist the temptation of space-time.
The Gojo family might once have been rich or important, but in this generation it was essentially just a surname-bearing civilian line. Yoru didn't even have extended relatives.
But now?
Gojo Yoru alone was a clan.
Gojo Yoru alone was a noble house.
If he wanted, he could marry into countless clans and have countless heirs, and no one would object—not even Hiruzen.
That is the weight of the words:
Space-time + bloodline.
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