Naruto: Sasuke Uchiha Returns from Soul Society

Two swords, of the same origin yet different in nature, clashed violently in the center of the blood-red street, the sparks illuminating the equally cold faces of the two men in shifting light.

The brilliance of lightning and fire suddenly scattered across the blood-red world.

But in just one clash, Sasuke was already at a disadvantage.

Seemingly due to the evolution from the Hogyoku, Indra's power was more violent and more refined than before.

"Too slow! Too weak!"

Indra laughed wildly, forcing Sasuke back with a single strike, then retaliated with a black crescent moon blade. "Your blade is filled with hesitation! Filled with confusion! How dare you, with blades like yours, wield me?!"

Sasuke sidestepped, his expression growing increasingly serious.

"Don't you understand?!"

Indra closed in again, his black flame blade falling. "Here, I am the rule!"

After another violent collision, Sasuke was forced to stagger backward.

"You think you've defeated me? No, you've only temporarily suppressed me!"

Indra pressed on relentlessly, his attacks growing increasingly ferocious, his voice growing ever more manic: "Hatred will not disappear; it will only slumber! And then, in your most painful and desperate moments, it will devour you once more!"

After forcing Sasuke back with another heavy slash, the tip of his blade pointed at the ground, his eyes flashing with a crazed light.

"Just like now!!!"

He let out a roar, and the black flames of "Indra" in his hand surged, with several pillars of black flame shooting into the sky and biting down on Sasuke!

"Naruo Burning Flame Flower!"

Sasuke's pupils suddenly contracted, knowing that he couldn't delay any longer.

Faced with the overwhelming aura of destruction, he no longer chose to dodge.

Sasuke whispered, and a completely different power suddenly erupted from his body.

"Swastika, Heavenly Law Thunder Punishment, Jian Yu Lei Gai!"

Dressed in jet-black hunting robes, he descended once more in a godlike manner.

Looking at the encircling sea of ​​fire, Sasuke's eyes remained calm; he simply raised his right hand, which had transformed into a blade of lightning.

Just as the pillar of black flames was about to engulf him, he swung his right hand forward horizontally.

"Om-"

A crescent-shaped, silvery-white spatial rift appeared out of thin air in front of him.

The moment the black flame pillar touched the crack, it was silently decomposed, crumbling into countless sparks that dissipated into this blood-red world.

"What?!" Indra's pupils contracted sharply, and his maniacal laughter stopped abruptly.

Why do you think this is your world?

Sasuke walked forward step by step, and with each step, the blood beneath his feet faded, and the red moon in the sky gradually became clearer.

You're wrong.

"This is my heart, and I am the only master here."

He looked at Indra, who was frozen in shock, and a cold smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

“I’ve already said it,” Sasuke’s authoritative voice rang out, “You are a tool, and I am the king.”

"Your Majesty has the right to decide how the tools are used."

He raised his head, his Sharingan eyes, pure black as they were, indifferently looking down at the figure. "I can also decide when to sheath you again."

"Now, go back to where you belong."

The moment the words left his mouth, Sasuke's figure appeared in front of "Indra".

Before Indra could even react, a hand crackling with lightning gripped his throat and lifted high into the air.

"Uh... let... let me go..."

Indra struggled frantically, wildly slashing at Sasuke's chest with his black flame sword.

But the moment the blade touched the black hunting robe, it was completely blocked by the flowing silver-white divine patterns.

"Quiet down."

Sasuke's voice was cold, and his five fingers slowly tightened.

Indra's body began to crumble inch by inch in the face of that absolute power, turning into black and red specks of light.

"no no......"

Indra's eyes were filled with resentment as he looked at Sasuke and let out a final roar.

"You can't kill me. As long as you harbor hatred, I will never..."

"Of course I can't kill you."

Sasuke calmly interrupted him, "You're right, in a way, you are indeed me."

He watched the figure about to disappear, a trace of calm in his eyes.

"But remember, from today onwards, I am the one holding the reins."

With this final declaration, Indra's body shattered completely, turning into a rain of black and red light that eventually swept back and poured into the black longsword at Sasuke's waist.

The entire blood-red world shattered with a deafening roar.

............

In the real world, on an endless sea of ​​sand.

The dark red spiritual pressure that erupted from Sasuke's body reached its peak, then collapsed inward without warning, returning entirely to his body.

The half of the broken mask on the right side of his face peeled away inch by inch, like a sand sculpture weathered by the elements, and disappeared in the wind.

He slowly opened his eyes, the madness and violence in them completely gone.

Everything seemed to have returned to calm.

"..."

Sasuke did not get up immediately. Instead, he raised his hand and grasped the Hogyoku, which had returned to calm.

But then he suddenly noticed a tiny black pattern on the palm of that hand.

It was swaying eerily.

what is this?

Sasuke sensed a strange power within it, like...

The "Indra" that just appeared in my inner world?!

Just then, a warm feeling welled up in his heart, and Sasuke instantly understood the meaning of the flower.

After a moment, he slowly raised his head and gripped the long, black sword at his waist with his other hand.

"Om-"

The blade emitted a soft hum, as if in response, or perhaps in submission.

That will that had always existed became docile at this moment.

Immediately afterwards, a completely new stream of information surged into his mind from the hilt of the knife.

An ancient and obscure incantation then appeared.

At the end of hatred, the world is reduced to deathly silence.

【Arrancar Indra】

This sudden change caused Sasuke's pupils to twitch slightly. He looked at the "Indra" in his hand with a look of astonishment on his face.

So... I've learned its true name after its Bankai?

But something feels off about this name, "The Broken Face"?

This is more of a description of a state than a true declaration of liberation.

and......

The promised materialization of his Zanpakuto didn't happen, and he can't do that now either.

Sasuke could clearly feel that although the "Indra" in his hand was more closely connected to him, it did not give him the same sense of unity as the "Takemikazuchi".

All of this seemed to be quite different from my common knowledge about Bankai.

What exactly happened?

"Sasuke-sama!"

An anxious voice came from not far away, interrupting Sasuke's thoughts.

Harribel's figure stopped beside Sasuke.

Are you alright?

She asked cautiously, still feeling a chill run down her spine from the sudden surge of power she had just witnessed, even from a great distance.

Sasuke raised his head and gently shook his head at Harribel.

"It's alright."

However, just as Halibel was about to say something more, the words suddenly caught in her throat.

Her gaze was fixed on Sasuke's eyes.

"Sasuke-sama..."

Herribel's voice was filled with confusion and shock, "Your eyes..."

In her eyes, Sasuke always had three separate tomoe in his eye sockets, which she always thought were some kind of unique power. Now, this is...

Is it a new form?

"My eyes?"

Sasuke frowned slightly upon hearing this.

He had indeed felt a stinging pain in his eyes earlier, but the sensation was fleeting, and he thought it was just a hallucination from excessive mental exertion.