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Title: Darkest Night Hidden in The Leaf (14)

“You cannot get summoned if she also has to summon Shizan and Kassha.”

A looks up calmly, his arms sprawled over the wide couch as the almost ethereal, mist-clad scenery of Kumogakure expands beyond his office’s windows. His expression remains stoic as he hears Dodai’s concerns.

“Being part Senju and Uzumaki—Shizan, and Kassha have tremendous chakra reserves. But their reserves fall short of Yugito, who’s born with an astonishing chakra reserve since her birth.” The Raikage looks at the ceiling. “But if she and Nibi’s reserves are spent summoning the rest of the invasion force, she won’t be able to summon me. Summoning B isn’t even close to her full power.”

“Killer B can be transported to Konoha using the Heavenly Transmission Jutsu, but that will allow the enemies to understand its strength and weaknesses.”

“They probably already know,” A contemplates. “Similar to how we know of other village’s secrets. Why else do you think we recalled the civilians back into the village? But our spies in other countries sent the news that other Shinobi Villages have done the same. Why would they do that if not for the realization that the information of their civilian clan members is leaked?”

“Then why continue with this invasion?” Dodai sighs softly, massaging his head. With their information line so confounded, it made no sense to take such risks. Even if Raikage’s son is captured, their ability to use him will be limited. First, A and his son aren’t powerful due to training and genetics alone. They consumed various herbs and other medicines from an early age to promote rapid physical growth. Second, A’s strength comes from researching as many jutsus that assist in battles. Many of these jutsus are known only to him!

The Raikage narrows his eyes.

“Read this.” He leans forward to grab the scroll on the cushion beside him and tosses it toward Dodai. It doesn’t take long for Dodai to mutter under his breath.

“Information on the team leader of the Konoha’s barrier’s squad Detection Team?”

“Danzo Shimura executed his elder brother. The lack of repercussions to Danzo’s Root even after Danzo’s crimes have come to light dissatisfied this shinobi,” A punctuates. “That is how I will arrive in Konoha. That man will be my way inside Konoha without raising any alarm.”

“Onoki will not be pleased,” Dodai thins his lips.

“I will start by dealing with Yata Uchiha,” The Raikage moves beyond Onoki’s topic. “That man and other Uchiha Clansmen became too troublesome.”

“That is why we sent for the Chinoike Clan,” counters Dodai.

“That clan alone isn’t good enough. The Uchiha Clan drove them out once before in the warring era, and the Hyuga Clansmen are a direct counter to Chinoike’s Clan’s strongest ability.”

“Dodai, whoever is behind the sudden release of confidential information clearly favors the weakening of Konoha. We will lose good men in this pursuit, but that is exactly why we have a time limit to our invasion for Yugito to catch her breath and summon others back on time and let B indicate the end of the raid if things get troublesome on your end with Nosuke, Shiza, Killer, and you dealing with Kyubi’s Jinchuriki. Meanwhile, I will try to kill Yata and steal his eyes. If the information we received is indeed faithful, Yata has commissioned the Senju Legacy Guardian to create a seal similar to the Caged Bird Seal. Part of the reason is to allow Hiruzen to isolate the Hyuga Clan. The other part is to safeguard the Uchiha Clan.”

“Why don’t we try and bring the Hyuga Clan?” Dodai muses. “It may take some time, but it would cost us fewer men than this raid.”

“We don’t need clans with rigid cultures,” Raikage scoffs roughly under his breath. “All we need is to timely capture a few of their members from the main family, that’s all.”

Dodai nods as A dismisses him. “Prepare for the raid. I know you have doubts about the mysterious party orchestrating all this, but you and I are powerful enough to weather such foes.”

“As you wish. Have a safe journey to Konoha, Lord Raikage.” Dodai bows slightly, but by the time he looks up, the veritable hill of muscle that is the Third Raikage is no longer on his couch.

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‘Did Konoha already unseal my son’s consciousness seal and find someone to train in the [Lightning Cloak]? The user’s physical strength would also leave my offspring in the dust. Konoha doesn’t have the same medicines to prepare a body of that kind. And finally, the user’s body was miniaturized. A member of the Akimichi Clan?’ A narrows his eyes, several thoughts firing off in his brain as a visible cloak of blue chakra produces crackling lightning around his body.

There are only a few shinobi around him after the shockwave bursting from the point where the unknown assailant hit A, clearing out the gory streets only to repaint the contents on the nearby walls and shinobi left standing.

“L-Lord Third?!” The Kumo Jonin behind A gasps in shock before retreating quickly and clearing the battlefield as the Raikage settles his gaze on Yata, whose chakra nature experiences a significant shift in intensity.

Ominous dark-indigo chakra surrounds Yata, whose Sharingan whirls into a prominent straight shuriken pattern. A trickle of blood flows down from the corner of his right eye as he, too, stares at the Raikage quietly. His sharp gaze is unwilling to ignore a single twitch of A’s body while the indigo chakra forms a ghoulish phantom of a terrifying skull and ribcage around Yata.

“One of the most famous abilities of the Mangekyo Sharingan—The Susanoo. Yata Uchiha, are you aware I created this Lightning Cloak in an attempt to wield the same power as Madara Uchiha?”

“Well, you clearly failed,” Yata strains a smile and half-shrugs. The corner of his eyes briefly twitches as he feels Mikoto near them and hides discreetly after sensing their intense chakra reactions. Although, Yata would want Mikoto to leave this location as soon as possible.

“I changed my objective once Madara was defeated for good by Hashirama Senju.”

“Are you a wood-style user?” Yata inclines his head.

“No.”

“Well, you failed in that, too,” The Uchiha Patriarch shrugs again. But words fail to excite the Third Raikage as he chooses to observe Yata’s Susanoo.

‘That’s a Susanoo?’ Mikoto stares at her father from a distance, wisely choosing to stay behind instead of being a burden. Kiri, too, stares at the legendary Uchiha Jutsu with a complicated look—His teammates wouldn’t have died if he could use such a jutsu.

‘Susanoo, the one who protects, is a Jutsu that awakens from every Mangekyo Sharingan user, fusing offense and defense in one,’ Mikoto’s sharingan continues to try and understand the use of this chakra. Chakra, by itself, needs another force to let it impact the material world. The Rasengan needs a concentrated spiral force, Kushina’s Chakra Cloak needs a specific nature change of yin-yang and much more! Mikoto believes the Susanoo loosely falls under the category of yin-yang nature release, instinctively giving chakra a translucent physical manifestation.

‘But I can’t study it. It’s the same for Kushina’s Chakra Cloak and the Raikage’s Lightning Cloak,’ Mikoto furrows her brows. In theory, the Sharingan should copy most of the jutsu at sight, so what makes these physically augmenting jutsus any different?

‘It’s the same for other elemental kekkei genkais, too,’ Mikoto clicks her tongue internally. As long as the chakra has an undefined shift of nature from more than one nature release, the Sharingan cannot copy it due to the inability of the eye to peer through the composition of the chakra down to the ratio of the Kekkei Genkai.

‘But father’s Susanoo is so dark,’ Mikoto observes calmly, recalling one of the well-known ‘myths’ surrounding the jutsu.

“The Susanoo adopts the same color of chakra and inherent emotion when the Mangekyo awakens,” A hums aloud. “You must have suffered quite a bit to feel so emotionless and helpless when your Magekyo awakened.”

Yata tosses his broken sword aside and smiles. “Why don’t you look in my eyes? You can have a chance to understand it, too.”

A’s eyeballs suddenly match Yata’s gaze before his body disappears in a flash of lightning, his outstretched arm failing to smash the nearby Fugaku’s head in as a gentle drape of deep-red chakra flashes around the stoic youth. Yata looks at Fugaku, whose sharingan rotates and connects into three-pointed curved stars with three dots between them.

A disappears once again, landing on a ledge as red skeletal arm tears into the empty space where the bandana-wearing Kage stood a fraction of a second ago.

“I wasn’t aware of another Mangekyo user,” A scoffs. “Intriguing. Fugaku Uchiha, right?”

Fugaku stares at the threatening Kage before issuing orders to the other stunned Uchihas.

“Get out of here, now! Deal with—”

A moves again, a burst of black flames catching the ledge where he once stood as Yata clicks his tongue.

“—Other enemies!” Fugaku finishes as the two shinobi tack stock of the lone Kage.

“What are those black flames?” A questions calmly.

“You’re a researcher, no? Touch them and find it out for yourself,” Yata fails to answer straight back-to-back.

“Amusing.” A replies. The green kanji pattern of lightning on his right shoulder buzzes with wisps of black as the Raikage flashes around, not stopping for the gazes of the two Magekyo users to catch him lacking even once until a coat of pitch-black lightning sparkles around him, turning him into a menacing beast as a strained growl vibrates from his throat. “Assess the properties of my jutsu, will you?”

Fugaku finalizes a ghoulish phantom of deep red chakra around himself, too, biting back a scowl at the Raikage’s speed.

*Bzzt*

The world comes to a still for Yata and Fugaku as the black lightning surrounds the Third Raikage one second and the next second—it fills the duo’s vision to the brim as the entire section of the street bursts apart with a blast of pitch-black lightning splashing around with no mind of its own, charring enemies and allies alike with many nearby Uchihas not even needing to worry about their eyes after their death for everything about them disappears into ashes.

A narrows his eyes and watches the dust settle without losing his caution, reflexes as tense as they can be under the jolting refreshment of lightning chakra coursing through his entirety!

“You’re not used to Susanoo, are you?” Fugaku’s left eye closes with blood flowing down both his eyes. Instead of his Susanoo, which was destroyed under the sudden impact, the youth observes an indigo shield covering him with Yata standing in the distance, looking as weary as a man can get.

“And you are?” Fugaku sighs softly, regaining his breath.

“No,” Yata smiles back, blood trickling from the corner of his lips.

“There is a reason why the Uchiha don’t rule this world despite their talents,” A’s voice cuts in. His stoic look barely shifts as he watches Yata’s Susanoo with slight respect. Instead of a ribcage or a skeleton, Yata’s Indigo Susanoo wears thick-plated armor and a twin-horned helmet to hide its shadowy face, only revealing two orbs of torches for eyes.

“Why don’t you enlighten us?” Yata lets a soft breath as Fugaku promptly materializes his Susanoo under Yata’s protection.

A’s words bring the remaining Uchiha members on the empty crater to a still.

“Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan,” A observes them coldly. “None of you can match the might of Madara Uchiha. None of you possess an Eternal Magekyo Sharingan, so your powers are fleeting. You cannot match me.”

“So, you know about that, huh?” Yata thins his lips, wanting to quit the battle and return to his mattress for a good night’s sleep to relieve the strain on his eyes.

“A Mangekyo Sharingan strains the user’s eyes until they go blind. That is the sacrifice for their powers. Once they lose their light, the users of this power will forgo all the benefits of the Mangekyo Sharingan, too. But things aren’t the same with Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. When Uchiha achieves that stage, they are free from the risk of blindness, and even if they lose their eyes, they do not lose their abilities not tied to the use of their eyes—the most prominent of this example being the Susanoo. Did I miss something?”

Yata frowns harder. “Your point being?”

“That I am willing to talk despite the raid’s race against the time. Tell me the name of the individual who stopped the fatal blow planned against you, and I will make this quick. You two endured my creation—The Black Lightning Chain—did you not? You two have no chance against me.”

And the two Uchiha users are forced to accept A’s assessment to some degree until Yata’s Susanoo connects two of its shields by bringing their arms together.

The new chakra construct takes the shape of a non-folding war fan with a handle growing out from one side for the Susanoo to wield.

“That Jutsu?” Yata works his jaw. “If that’s all, you might as well turn around now.” He looks around at the charred remains of his clansmen with a baleful expression. “This isn’t a battle you win, A.” The usual casualness in Yata’s voice takes a sharp turn to a cold hiss. “And you are nothing more than a jumping monkey spouting nonsense after getting some half-assed information about things you dream of to this day.”

The half-man, armor-clad Susanoo suddenly waves its fan toward A as the Kage disappears again. Yet, a massive blast of wind rends the entire building of the Uchiha Police into rubbles as the sharp wind continues to move forward and tears into the forested region.

Before Yata’s attack even finishes, A’s body flashes beside the chest of the Susanoo, his fist smashing into the tough exterior of the chakra armor and visibly chipping Yata’s jutsu.

“Fugaku, you’re going to be a burden on this one. Take others away. I’ll stall him.” Yata whispers with a meaningful look as Fugaku recalls Mikoto’s chakra signature and nods without issuing any resistance.

He understands that he overestimated his Mangekyo by a great margin.

“And how will you grant this youth a safe passage?” A questions.

“Go,” Yata smiles at Fugaku, retracting his expansive shroud of Susanoo to leave Fugaku be. But before A could think of moving, his body still briefly as Fugaku escapes in Mikoto’s direction without looking back.

A’s expression shifts barely as he finally has to ‘dodge’ Yata’s attack instead of predicting a move and moving away before time, narrowly escaping another burst of black flames.

Speaking of black flames, the ones of the Police Building fizzled out when the last of the rubbles were consumed, giving A a good idea about how the flames function.

‘The black flames work similarly to my black lightning, not exactly the same. But it’s close enough in chakra reactions. Like black lightning, I cannot sense the black flames once they are fully formed. I can only dodge these attacks based on the direction of Yata’s eyes. Does the Uchiha Clan have some relation to the specimen I found? The ones that transform into beasts after some unknown reaction due to a special enzyme?’

He frowns and looks at the dimly smiling Yata. Instead of voicing his true doubts, A questions calmly, “A Genjutsu? How?”

“Oh, you know how.” Yata doesn’t fall for the crap one bit.

Indeed.

A knows he fell into the Genjutsu by coming into physical contact with Yata’s Susanoo—another ability, perhaps.

The Raikage continues to fluctuate his charka reserves as he notices Yata’s smile broadening.

‘Wait!’ His instincts scream as he notices a pinch itching his body.

Raikage’s eyes snap wide open, finding himself lying in a crater with Yata’s war fan swinging upon him!

Raikage’s figure blitzes away once again as he steps on a nearby tree, putting more distance between himself and the suddenly enigmatic Yata.

However, the man feels a ‘pinch’ again.

His eyes snap wide open, finding his body cratered in a wall this time.

“You must be wishing you faced someone else right about now, huh?” Yata stands before him without his Susanoo.

Instead of breaking away from his confines, A chooses to accept the situation temporarily and questions.

“A Genjutsu. Is this another ability of your Mangekyo Sharingan?”

Yata’s smile widens.

“Are you a fool, a brute, a monkey, or an overconfident butcher?” Yata’s ghastly voice echoes as the world around A starts burning with pitch-black flames.

“How dare you spend time chatting with your life on the line?”

A’s eyes snap again, his right arm and leg getting consumed by flames that take no moment to get close to his chest and face!

But not moving from his spot this time around, A’s right shoulder crackles with brilliant black lightning again and suddenly merges with his body!

“Puu!” The Raikage vomits blood as not only the black flames but even his skin scorches and melts! His eyes flow down his cheeks mixed in chunks with his blood as his hollow sockets snap forward to stare at Yata with gritted jaws.

Despite all this, A does not move from his position.

“Oh? Fine, you earn the name of my first ability. It’s quite amazing seeing someone countering Amaterasu.”

“Did your tongue melt in your mouth?” The Uchiha Patriarch smiles, his Susanoo persisting around him. However, if the Raikage had his eyes, he would have seen Yata’s eyes turning slightly milky.

“Attack me…” A voices out hoarsely. “If you dare.”

“Wonderful,” Yata smirks. “I guess you figured out my second ability, too. But no rewards this time.”

He, too, does not move.

‘A motherfucking Genjutsu Arena… nature energy charged fire and lightning jutsu, and a beast of flesh surviving all of that,’ Kai’s clone stares from the distance, arriving shortly after using Dodai for all his worth.

‘Amaterasu, huh? I wonder what his second ability is called. And Fugaku’s got these goodies, too? Too bad I can’t snatch it from him. I kind of like him,’ Kai shakes his head and stares at the Third Raikage.

If it wasn’t for his senses, he would have tried to assassinate the Third Raikage right here and now. Even if Kai has enough confidence to tackle the Jutsu in his Sage Mode, he cannot risk getting caught by Jiraiya, whose working his way here as other enemies start disappearing from Konoha with plumes of smoke!

The battle is coming to an end, and he will have to straighten his story while watching Jiraiya get the chance to dismantle this juicy jutsu.

‘Not to mention, Yata is going blind. I have the Rinnegan… is it helpful in any way?’ Kai narrows his eyes.

He always loves getting a good number of objectives to work through. And his motto has always been—One step at a time.

Cataloging all his desires, Kai settles down. He’s had his fair share of fun and will soon get a Byakugan to look through.

‘If only I could have gotten those blood eyes in time, too,’ Kai shakes his head. ‘The Chinoike Clan, huh? No worries, I’ll soon live in Kumo, too. I’ll have a chance to try everything~!’

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Alternate Title: Yata Racially Profiling A Kage; Yata’s Dark Susanoo; A Mangekyo is a Sign of Helplessness; Blooming Black Lightning and Flames; A Monkey? Yata Becoming Frieza’s Apprentice; A Genjutsu Arena; Fleeing Fugaku; Amaterasu; Standing on the Edge; Fading Kage-Level Threat—Yata; Violating A; Kai Munching on Popcorns; Highly Destructive Battle; An Overconfident Butcher Vs An Annoyed Father of Two; All Part of Yata’s Keikaku!

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A/N: I am definitely alluding to the mix of nature energy in Amaterasu and Black Lightning. Don’t blame me, blame the show we all love despite the plotholes, kek.