Naruto: Sasuke Uchiha Returns from Soul Society

"Oh......"

Sasuke shook his head upon hearing this, his eyes revealing undisguised sarcasm.

Do you think this is a compliment?

Payne's raised hand suddenly stopped.

“It’s all scattered and impractical,” Sasuke commented softly. “It’s meaningless except for intimidating the weak.”

“If the next attack could be more focused, compressing all the power into one point…” His eyes sharpened, “it might actually be able to hurt me in the slightest.”

Sasuke's eyes shifted slightly, his gaze piercing through Pain.

Even the black receivers inserted into his body were now buzzing, and the transmission of chakra had become intermittent.

This attack, "Super Shinra Tensei," has exhausted all the power of the guy behind him.

“But it seems you’re no longer capable of fighting.” Sasuke raised his sword, lightning crackling on its blade. “It’s truly disappointing that an attack of this magnitude has left you so exhausted.”

"Let's stop here then."

The moment Sasuke took his first step, a sharp female voice rang out.

"Don't think about it!"

In response, a barrage of paper shurikens swept in like a torrential rain, their sharp gusts whistling through the air.

Sasuke ignored them, and a jet-black flame automatically surged from his body, instantly devouring all the incoming paper shuriken.

"You want to stop me?" Sasuke turned his head and looked coldly at the figure blocking Pain's way.

Xiao Nan floated in mid-air, her paper wings fully unfolded behind her.

"Payne bought so much time so that I could complete this technique."

"Let me show you the wrath of the apostle of God!"

"The art of origami by a god!"

In an instant, the world around Sasuke seemed to collapse.

Earth, rocks, trees...

Like paper sculptures collapsing and paper pieces flying, they entangled Sasuke, layer upon layer, completely enveloping him in a giant paper sphere.

On those seemingly ordinary white sheets of paper, the scarlet character "爆" (explode) now appeared.

They are all detonating tags.

Konan drew upon all the chakra within her body, but a hint of doubt lingered in her eyes.

The execution of this technique seems to have gone a little too smoothly.

It went so smoothly that it was almost abnormal.

Why was that speed, which even the Six Paths of Pain couldn't catch up with together, so easily trapped by me?

A thought flashed through her mind.

"Perhaps it's the effect of Payne's spell just now..."

She reassured herself that he only appeared unharmed, "He only appears unharmed; he's not actually as nonchalant as he claims."

This thought reassured her somewhat, and the murderous intent in her eyes became even more resolute.

"This is my strongest secret technique."

Xiao Nan spoke softly, her tone resolute.

"I originally prepared 600 billion explosive tags for you, intending to bury you along with the earth."

"Unfortunately, you were unwilling to enter Amegakure on your own initiative, which made most of my efforts go to waste."

"In that short period of time, I only had time to allocate 100 million copies, which is a much smaller number..."

"But this level should be enough, right?"

Bury me!

Konan let out a low shout, clenching her fist tightly and instantly activating her chakra.

But instead of an explosion, a sudden pain shot through my chest.

"......Well?"

Xiao Nan's body stiffened suddenly, and she lowered her head in a daze.

A blade tip, shimmering with a pale blue light, had somehow pierced her chest and emerged from her heart.

Blood dripped down the blade, staining the purple paper flower on her chest.

"Is this all the stuff we've been preparing since the start of the battle?"

Sasuke's slightly disappointed voice came from behind her.

"I thought you would show me something as interesting as the Rinnegan."

Konan turned her head with difficulty, catching a glimpse of Sasuke's expressionless profile out of the corner of her eye.

when......

When did he come up behind me?

Who is the person inside that paper ball?

"You realize it, don't you?"

Sasuke's voice was calm, "My abilities have long exceeded your comprehension."

He twisted the hilt of the knife in his hand, causing Xiao Nan to let out a painful groan.

"Faced with such an absolute disparity in strength, you still resort to such conventional tactics to try and kill me."

Sasuke shook his head, his tone full of contempt.

"How stupid."

"You bastard!"

Pain, who had maintained a cold and aloof demeanor until now, finally broke down. He was no longer so indifferent; he struggled and was furious, his voice trembling.

"They actually killed Konan."

"This is the price of taking action."

Sasuke responded coldly, then suddenly pulled out the "Takemikazuchi" sword from his hand.

Xiao Nan's body, having lost its support, fell helplessly from mid-air.

The countless pieces of paper, no longer sustained by chakra, reverted to ordinary white paper, scattering down like funeral paper money, covering her gradually cooling body.

"Let's meet her again in the Pure Land."

Sasuke whispered, then used Shunpo to move forward and slash at Pain.

Pain, who had remained inactive until now, finally recovered some of his chakra.

"It's truly amazing."

He raised his hands, his voice icy, "After I evolved into a god, you are the first person to push me to this point."

"But let's stop here."

Payne's palms faced each other, but he did not clasp them together.

An extremely terrifying surge of chakra rippled between his palms.

A black substance the size of a walnut gradually emerged under the compression of chakra.

It looks unremarkable, yet it seems to contain a gravitational pull that devours all light, and the surrounding space is slightly distorted by its appearance.

Payne suddenly spoke up: "Have you heard the legend of the Sage of Six Paths?"

Sasuke, who was about to strike, heard this and probably knew what Pain was going to do, so he stopped in mid-air.

According to legend, the moon was created by the Sage of Six Paths.

Without waiting for Sasuke's reply, Pain continued, "That's the technique he used."

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly threw the small black ball in his hand into the air.

The small ball hovered in mid-air, grew larger with the wind, and instantly transformed into a giant black hole.

A terrifying gravitational force erupted from the center of the black sphere, far surpassing the previous "Universal Gravity".

The earth began to crack, and countless tons of rocks, rainwater falling from the sky, and even Xiao Nan's remains were forcibly captured by this force and frantically converged towards the black sphere in the sky.

Sasuke also felt the pulling sensation, and his body involuntarily flew into the air.

But he didn't break free; he simply let gravity pull him along.

"Earth-Exploding Star..." he murmured to himself.

On the ground, Pain raised his hands high, unleashing the full power of his Rinnegan, urging the technique to take shape even faster.

Huge rock blocks gathered in layers around the black sphere, interlocking with each other.

In the blink of an eye, a huge stone sphere with a diameter of several kilometers had begun to take shape.

Sasuke's figure was also caught up in it, becoming part of the "sphere" just like the rocks.

The silvery-white body was covered by a boulder, and its face was gradually filled with small pieces of gravel.

Sasuke lowered his head expressionlessly and met Pain's gaze on the ground.

"Uchiha Sasuke!"

Payne looked at the figure that was about to be completely sealed away and raised his hands.

Feel the pain, contemplate the pain, accept the pain!

"Then, understand pain!"

"Planetary Devastation!"

As the last sentence fell, the last boulder crashed shut.

Sasuke's figure completely disappeared into the giant stone sphere.