"Not good!" Ayato said and tried to stand up but at that exact moment, a great power surge reigned the area mixed with the gravi-sheath's gravitational power,made him fall to one knee.
Although gravity is restraining him down, Ayato was still able to look at the source of this power.
Irene, continuously sucking blood from her sister.
Ayato again tried to stand up but his effort was futile as the gravity that's been holding him and his partner down got stronger. He tried to once again stand up, and in some sort of luck, Ayato was able to barely stand up.
He willed his legs to step forward but it won't follow his order. He tried again and again but to no avail. Looking at this, it's no different from when he was on his knees.
Ayato got frustrated.
'Is this how it ends? Unable to do anything but just stand helplessly?' Ayato thought, frustration getting the better of him.
'If I can't even save a friend then how can I expect to protect Julis?! Am I so weak that I can't even stop Irene?!'
Ayato again tried to step forward but alas, he can't move even an inch.
'Move!' Ayato thought, anger kicking in.
Frustration first evolved into Anger then became Hate. Not at Irene but at himself. For not being able to do anything, he started hating himself, his hate reached great heights,
that was until everything went black.
Darkness. It was all Ayato could see. Everything was engulfed in darkness but then a single light flickered into life and another one, and another one, and so on.
On closer inspection, this light is fire in reality and after a few seconds, coming to the conclusion that no more fire would light up, Ayato looked around.
Stone walls with a fan like symbol adorning every corner. This symbol looks like two separated bodies of one fan, a smaller part colored red on top and another part with what looks like the handle of the fan is painted in white.
Roaming his eyes a bit more, he saw a wide rectangle table with five chairs on each side of the longer part and one throne like chair in the middle
"Where am I?" Ayato said looking around trying to figure out something that might tell where he is.
"You are nowhere, yet at the same time everywhere" A voice said behind him.
Ayato instantly faced where the voice came from and jumped back. Looking at the person who spoke, he can only described him in one word,
Intimidating.
Ayato inspected the man in front of him. A tall man with long spiky dark hair, with onyx colored eyes, wearing a red armor, covering his back, chest, and shoulders. The clothing inside the armor looks like a black long sleeve that's made not to restrict movement. Looking down, the man is wearing black pants that stopped at his knees, Ayato expected to see skin after the pants but nothing, it was covered in a white object that looks like bandage covering the parts that the pants doesn't reached up to his feet.
Ayato looked at the man in the eyes and asked "Who are you?"
"I am Uchiha Madara" The now named Madara said, then he closed his eyes, after a second, he opened them back again, and the onyx colored eyes that was supposed to be there was replaced with red eyes with a black pupil in the middle, with three dots surrounding it, in an evenly spaced manner, that made a rotation and came to a halt.
This surprised Ayato and made him gasped.
"Y-your eyes!" Ayato blurted out in shock.
Madara remained silent. After a few minutes, he answered,
"Its called the Sharingan."
"Sharingan?" Ayato asked confused.
"It's an eye technique available only for those with Uchiha blood. The Sharingan comes with a few abilities, 'Prediction' 'Photographic Memory' 'Slow Movement' and 'Illusions'." Madara said, looking at Ayato with his sharingan spinning as if acknowledging the information.
"What? I don't understand. Uchiha? Eye technique? Illusions?"
"As you can see from the walls, those are the symbol of the Uchiha Clan. We Uchiha specializes in fire techniques and Illusion."
As Madara said that, Ayato looked once again at the wall, now knowing that it's a crest of the Uchiha Clan.
"Wait. You said fire techniques and Illusions, what does that mean?"
"Its as I said, we can control fire and create mirage. By shaping our chakra to the form of a flame, we are able to create fire, stronger than normal because of our natural affinity towards fire, and Illusions, we can show you Illusions, in just an eye contact and it can also be casted in a wide area, affecting not just one person."
"You said stronger than normal, does that mean there are more like you? What re you anyways?" Ayato asked, rather rudely.
Madara paid no heed to such attitude and merely replied,
"We are ninjas. By the usage of chakra, we can control the elements and create things that seems impossible. Yes, there are more, we are not the only clan, other clans specializes in other things but we are all ninjas. For example, I who have a strong fire affinity would use a fire technique and another ninja uses the same fire technique but he doesn't have an affinity for fire, mine would overpower his. Although we specializes also in Illusion, doesn't mean other's can't use it, we are just better at Illusions than them making it stronger."
"I see. What is this chakra you keep mentioning then, you say by the usage of it, you can bend the elements and stuff?"
"Energy that is produced by the immeasurable amounts of cells that compromises the human body."
"Human body? Does it mean I also have this chakra?" Ayato asked, his eyes widening.
"Yes but it seems like its called 'Prana' in your time."
"In my time? What do you mean?"
"I've been long dead boy, as have been the ninjas I spoke of, nobody can use chakra anymore but it seems like Boruto's plan worked."
"Dead?! Then how am I speaking to you? And who is this Boruto?" This shocked Ayato, its not everyday that you can communicate with dead people.
"I'll show you. Tsukiyomi!"
Again for the second time, darkness once again consumed everything. Silence reigning the area, but that silence was broken when a voice spoke up,
"This is one of the Uchiha Illusions, available only to those who have attained the next level of sharingan. This is one of my strongest Illusions, I can torture you in here, show you anything for the span of 128 hours but only a second would have passed in the real world." Madara said, arms crossed at his chest.
Ayato gasped, Who knew something powerful like this exist?
"Now let me show you the world of the Shinobi!"
Ayato's surrounding then changed and there he saw everything Madara has been talking about.
"I see. Everything is clear now. There's just one thing, where is this Boruto? The only one you have adressed in a similar name was Naruto."
"Its Naruto's son. After the war, everyone thought Naruto and Sasuke sealed me but they can't, so they faked everything up about me being sealed, I've lived a quiet life near the Hidden Leaf Village, I saw how it changed and evolved, and I also saw how it ended."
Once again, the surroundings changed around Ayato, he saw the Leaf Village but it seems more advanced.
"This is the end of the shinobi Lord Seventh!"
Ayato looked at where the voice came from, on top of the Hokage tower was two person, One was a blonde haired man with what he recognized as the Hokage robe and the other person was a black haired man with what seemed like a robe hanging from his neck and a long black rod.
On closer inspection, Ayato saw that the one with the blonde hair was fell from the Hokage tower with his eyes closed.
"That's Naruto!" Ayato exclaimed stunned.
The surroundings once again changed, in front of Ayato was the Hokage Monument, but it seems on the verge of destruction, he looked closer and noticed the same two persons on the Hokage Monument, clashing with their weapons.
"Who knew you'd end up this way, Kiwaki!" The blond haired man shouted.
"I'll send you where I sent the Seventh Hokage, Boruto!"
Realization kicked in, the one at the Hokage monument was not Naruto but in fact his son, Boruto!
The now named Kiwaki, charged at Boruto which snapped Ayato out of his thoughts.
Bortuo, wielding a katana, followed Kiwaki's example, and charged forward, byakugan blazing from his other eye.
The surrounding once again changed back to where he and Madara were in the first place.
"As you have seen, Boruto have managed to defeat Kiwaki, but he was also on the verge of death, so he channeled all his chakra to some stones, strapped it to a rocket and launched it to space, he anticipated that the rocks would get separated from the rocket and one day return to earth." Madara explained, with his sharingan long been deactivated.
"I see but I still don't get one thing. How am I talking to you? Why am I even talking to you? Earlier, you said that I was nowhere yet everywhere, what do you mean?"
"I didn't showed it to you, but shortly after Boruto launched the rocket, I was also on the verge of death, because of the technique Kiwaki has which takes people's chakra, even though I was a reincarnated corpse that time, with infinite chakra, I still got drained, so before I died, I used a technique that would transfer my essence to one's mindscape, your sealed power and anger also played a key factor in triggering my technique."
"So now that you are here, what do you want?" Ayato asked suspiciously, he is talking with Uchiha Madara after all.
"I will teach you everything I know but not all at once. Now I can see that you are quite in a bind." Madara said and showed an image of where Irene is sucking his sister's blood.
"Yes. Can you help me?" Ayato asked with renewed hope.
"Channel your 'Prana' all over your body and expel it all at once. This shall break the gravitational power that's holding you down." Madara explained and disappeared in the darkness.
"Wait! How do I get ba-" Ayato never got to finish his sentence as light blinded him, after a few seconds, he saw that he's still in the same position as earlier and it doesn't even seem like a lot of time passed.
Ayato then remembered what Madara said and tried doing it. He closed his eyes and focused his prana, but he just can't seem to get it right.
Ayato started screaming. He tried once again and expelled all the prana he's been gathering.
It worked. It broke the gravity that's been holding him and Julis down.
"Ayato? What's going on?" Julis asked unable to stand up.
"Most likely that's not Irene, it's the Gravi-sheath." Ayato said and picked up ser vereste that's been plunged into the ground.
"Irene! Don't confuse power with what's precious to you!"
Irene for a moment seemed to take control back, look at Ayato and tried to reach him but at the next moment, the gravi-sheath has taken control again.
The now possessed Irene drop Priscilla and charged at Ayato, with Ayato doing the same.
They met at mid air, Irene swings the gravi-sheath in hopes of beheading Ayato but he brought his ogre lux up and managed to swung the gravi-sheath away from Irene's hand,Ayato looked at where the gravi-sheath would land but that proved to be quite a mistake as Irene punched him which made him lose hold of ser veresta.
The force of the punch was quite astonishing as it sent Ayato to the wall near the gravi-sheath.
Ayato looked up still feeling dizzy from the impact but he saw Irene picking up ser veresta and pointing it at him.
'I see. Since the gravi-sheath took control of Irene, she in a way can wield ser veresta' Ayato concluded.
But then he saw the hand of Irene slowly being burnt.
'I need to knock ser veresta off her! It seems like she can't wield it without being hurt, but I have no weapon that can trade blows with ser veresta!'
Ayato looked around and noticed the gravi-sheath near him.
'Only the gravi-sheath here can fight with ser veresta but I don't know how to wield a scythe!'
It was at that moment that a scene of a man with long black hair wielding a scythe came up at his mind.
'Madara!' Ayato thought, he then looks at the gravi-sheath and he feels like as if he had been using a scythe his whole life. He picks it up using his left arm, and twirled it making most of the handle hidden behind his back.
"Are you seeing this?! They changed weapons! Irene using the ser veresta and Amagiri using the gravi-sheath!" A feminine voice said on a microphone.
The audience erupted in cheers and astonishment.
Irene swings the ser veresta in a downward slash and Ayato sidestepped the attacked, swung the gravi-sheath up then after meeting the ser veresta,spins it resulting in the ser veresta being thrown in the air.
Ayato catches it with his right hand, throws the gravi-sheath upwards.
"Amagiri Shinmei Style Intermediate Skill-
Gravity pulls the gravi-sheath back to the ground, just as it passed Ayato, he slashed the handle,separating it from the actual gravi-sheath. It hit the ground but Ayato still has a finishing move holding the ser veresta in a reverse grip,
Reverse-gouging Shell!" Ayato thrusts downward the middle of the gravi-sheath, in a last ditch attempt, the gravi-sheath released a gravitational power but it was no match for the ser veresta, which ultimately led to the destruction of the ogre lux known as gravi-sheath.
At that exact moment, Irene falls unconscious.
"Game Over!"
"Round 4 Block C, and the winners of this furious battle are Ayato Amagiri and Julis-Alexia von Riessfield!"
Ayato expected for the painful seals to restrain him once again but nothing came.
'I broke the seal. It was a strong seal but nonetheless weak in front of Uchiha Madara.' A voice said in his mind
"Madara!" Ayato shouted.
'Just think. I can hear your thoughts.'
'I see. Thanks for helping me.'
'Hn.' Was all Ayato got after thanking Madara.
"Ayato!" A familiar voice called out.
Ayato looked at the source of the voice and saw Julis, his partner.
"Are you okay? How come you're still standing? It's already past five minutes?"
Julis bombarded.
"I'm fine. I broke the seal this time, but are you okay Julis?" Ayato replied and touched Julis shoulder.
"W-what a-are you saying at this time?!" Julis reddened and looked away.
Ayato just laughed but then he started feeling dizzy, his vision got blurry and he started swaying.
"Ayato?!"
Everything then went black for Ayato, but before he drifted into unconsciousness he heard a voice in his head.
'Breaking the seal in that manner has consequences, luckily you didn't die.'
Ayato swear he saw Madara smirking in his mind.
A/N: 'Sup? Got this story in my head for a while now and had a hard time writing it down. Writing is not my forte, battle scenes at that is so hard to write but in my mind I can literally picture the battle scenes and stuff in my head crystal clear.
This can either be a one shot or it can continue, it just really depends. I've already have the plot and stuff, even future scenes.
Anyway, Later.