Naruto: Sasuke Uchiha Returns from Soul Society

His eyes narrowed, and the power of the Rinnegan in his palm erupted instantly!

"Ugh...!!!"

Madara and Hashirama both let out a muffled groan, their bodies convulsing violently.

On Madara's left palm, the moon mark representing "Yin power" suddenly shone with a dazzling light; while on Hashirama's right palm, the sun mark representing "Yang power" echoed the light.

The two primordial forces, under Sasuke's forceful plunder, transformed into two streams of black and white light, flowing continuously into Sasuke's body along their arms.

"This is mine..."

Madara's eyes were bloodshot. He could clearly feel that as the Yin energy was being lost, the power of his Rinnegan was rapidly declining.

Hashirama, on the other hand, appeared much calmer, with a very composed expression.

"Sasuke-kun..." Hashirama's voice grew weaker and weaker, "Since you've taken this power, then you must stop Kaguya's arrival..."

"Don't... let this world... head towards destruction..."

Sasuke nodded, increasing the force of his devouring motion.

After a few breaths.

The marks on their palms disappeared completely.

Madara and Hashirama's bodies suddenly went limp, collapsing helplessly to the ground and falling into a deep coma.

..........

In the distance, behind a giant rock.

Orochimaru leaned halfway out, gazing at the scene before him with eyes full of shock and fascination.

ended.

That earth-shattering battle has finally come to an end.

Even the legendary God of Shinobi, even the invincible Madara Uchiha, could only become a loser in front of that boy.

"Miss Yoruichi..." Orochimaru licked his lips, muttering hoarsely, "Sasuke-kun succeeded, didn't he?"

However, after waiting for a long time, he did not hear a response from the person beside him.

Orochimaru turned his head to look, somewhat puzzled.

Yoruichi stood there stiffly, her eyes wide open, staring intently in Sasuke's direction, her mouth slightly agape, her pretty face filled with helplessness.

This was an expression Orochimaru had never seen before.

Even when facing the Ten-Tails, and the combined forces of Madara and Hashirama, this woman had never shown such an obvious loss of composure.

"What's wrong, Yoruichi?" Orochimaru frowned, a sense of foreboding rising in his heart. "What did you see?"

Yoruichi's body trembled slightly as she stiffly turned her head to look at Orochimaru.

"Didn't any of you really see it?"

"What do you see?" Orochimaru was even more confused. He followed Yoruichi's gaze again.

Apart from Sasuke, Madara and Hashirama lying on the ground, there was nothing there.

"Shadow..." Yoruichi's voice was soft, but it sent a chill down Orochimaru's spine.

Just now.

The instant Sasuke placed his hands on Madara and Hashirama's heads, forcibly absorbing their Yin-Yang power.

In Yoruichi's world, things suddenly changed.

In their field of vision, the void behind Sasuke began to distort.

A massive, sky-covering phantom silently appeared, enveloping Sasuke entirely.

That's a woman.

A woman with pale skin, wearing an ancient robe, and with long hair flowing in the air like a waterfall.

She had no expression, her eyes were closed, and her face was indifferent.

Yoruichi recognized the outline.

That was the phantom she caught a glimpse of when Sasuke had just become the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki.

But this time, it was no longer a blurry afterimage.

The figure was incredibly real and immense, as if it were a true god casting his gaze upon this world from a distant shore of time and space.

Nine jet-black tomoe slowly emerged from the high-hanging blood moon.

The woman's phantom slowly opened the eye on her forehead, the red eye overlapping with the blood moon in the sky, coldly looking down at the earth.

In that instant, Yoruichi felt as if her soul was in a daze.

"Kaguya Otsutsuki".

Yoruichi uttered the name in her heart.

Although she didn't know why Orochimaru and the others couldn't see it, Yoruichi was absolutely certain that it wasn't an illusion.

The legendary goddess of the earth, the progenitor of chakra...

She is attached to Sasuke's body, or rather...

She is observing the world through Sasuke's vessel.

..........

Deep underground.

Black Zetsu, who had originally planned to lie low and escape, suddenly stopped when he sensed the aura emanating from Sasuke.

It trembled as it poked its head out of the rock strata, staring intently at Sasuke high in the sky, and uncontrollably, turbid tears welled up in its eyes.

"This feeling..."

Black Zetsu's voice became sharp and distorted, and he suddenly emerged halfway out of the ground.

"Mother! Is that you?!"

"Is it you who's coming back?!"

It originally thought the plan had completely failed.

But now, the situation has taken a dramatic turn!

Black Zetsu's mind raced, and he instantly grasped the key points.

"Yes, that must be it!"

"That brat Uchiha Sasuke, he not only gathered the chakra of all nine tailed beasts, but also became the Ten-Tails' jinchūriki..."

"More importantly, he just forcibly plundered the power from Madara and Hashirama!"

"That power is the ultimate of Yin and Yang. When all these conditions come together, when the scattered chakra is unified again and nourished by the power of the Six Paths..."

Black Zetsu trembled with excitement.

"This is equivalent to recreating Mother's chakra; it doesn't require Infinite Tsukuyomi as a medium at all..."

"Uchiha Sasuke's body itself is now the perfect cradle for Mother's resurrection!"

It stared intently at the sky, waiting for that final moment.

Waiting for the moment when that arrogant Uchiha brat is completely devoured by his mother's great will!

..........

High in the sky.

Sasuke was unaware of Black Zetsu's ecstasy underground, but he was indeed feeling terrible.

Very bad.

After absorbing the Yin and Yang energies, he thought he would have more absolute control over the power within his body.

But the fact is just the opposite.

The Ten-Tails' chakra within his body seemed to be injected with some kind of catalyst the moment those two forces were injected, and began to boil and expand wildly.

But that feeling wasn't painful.

On the contrary... it's quite comfortable.

It's like a weary traveler finally settling into a warm bed, or a drifting lone boat finally returning to harbor.

An indescribable sense of fulfillment was welling up from the depths of his soul.

"Is this... the complete power...?"

Sasuke's eyes began to glaze over. He looked up at the crimson blood moon in the sky.

The blood moon cast specks of rainbow light, exuding a deadly allure.

It was as if that was his true home, as if a voice was gently calling to him.

"Come back to me, back to... the embrace of the tree..."

Under the influence of this voice, Sasuke subconsciously opened his arms towards the moon.

"Sasuke-kun?"

Orochimaru below finally realized something was wrong; Sasuke's condition...

That's so weird.

"No!" Yoruichi shouted sharply, "He's out of control!"

Suddenly, Sasuke's body began to expand violently in mid-air without warning.

His originally slender and upright body now swelled up irregularly, like an inflated ball.

A large amount of white chakra gushed out from his pores, quickly enveloping his limbs and bones, turning him into a bloated white ball of flesh.

Sasuke's usually cold and aloof face was now somewhat distorted by the white substance.

Those eyes, however, gradually lost focus, becoming empty and lifeless.

"Mother... Mother!!!"