Chapter 48:
Final Battle(part 8): Full Power Battle
Am I dying? Is this... What it's like?
Naruto could not move or see anything.
This can't happen... I have to protect Sasuke... I have to escape this dimension and get back to Konoha. So many people are relying on me!
Shut up, you goddamn baby.
A familiar voice growled into Naruto's ears.
You...who were you again? Can't remember...
Everything was vanishing from his mind, all the memories of everything that had ever happened in his life. The world faded to black.
I won't let it end here. You will not die.
Jastin threw Naruto's body onto the ground. "Finally, one down. You are next." He stared into Sasuke's enraged Sharingan. The red visor glowed. SUCCESS RATIO FOR VICTORY: 98%. "And as weak as ever."
"How... Are we gonna escape now?" Sasuke dropped the God Katana then grabbed his forehead and leaned forward. "You...fuck!" The curse mark began to spread over his body. "I needed to accomplish so much... SO MUCH!" The marks combined and turned orange. Hard bone-leather like substance formed on his shins and both wrists. The wrapped right arm bandage ripped apart, the deep gash on his shoulder vanished as his skin turned gray.
"Interesting. You seem stronger than before..." Jastin smiled, overconfident, but for good reason. His visor brimmed again. SUCCESS RATIO FOR VICTORY: 75.6%. His smile dropped. "I will not allow you to grow stronger."
Sasuke smirked. "I don't need to get stronger." The third state was successful as well as there was no sign of his wound from here. "NOW! DIE!" Sasuke vanished, although in reality he simply moved at speeds similar to sound.
"What incredible speed." Jastin turned and created a shield, blocking Sasuke's right kick. "Not quite fast enough."
Jastin was thrown forward by a force from behind him, falling right through Sasuke. "What? An... Afterimage!" He straightened up. The real Sasuke glared at Jastin, standing across from him with his leg raised.
"I'm much more than fast enough, got it?" He vanished again. Drop kicked Jastin's shoulder, disappeared again, then slammed his fist into his face. Jastin blasted him back only for a second as he vanished. A barrage of punches and kicks blew him back, he quickly recovered and glanced around.
"Where...?" Jastin's head and eyes darted from left to right. Sasuke punched Jastin's stomach then disappeared. Reappearing , then kneeing the back of his head, jumping in front of Jastin as he fell forward and raised his leg into the air, hitting his chin, thrashing him back into the ground.
Sasuke's eyes spun and he put his leg down. "Susano'o." He whispered. A large purple aura covered him, enlarging each second, slowly forming into a torso.
"You are no match for me." Jastin swiftly got up and blasted Sasuke with a force wave. The torso grew a shielded arm, which ran to his protection, blocking the attack. Then another arm along with head began to shape.
"You won't win. You will be killed by me... Because You killed me..." Sasuke glanced at Naruto. "You killed the only way out..." His brow scrunched as he turned to Jastin. "And you killed Naruto, who I was going to slaughter!"
The aura had become the upper torso of a person, it's right arm equipped with a shield-bow, and the left with inumerous arrows that doubled as blades. The face and body were completely cloaked, although the entire deity was see through, Sasuke still visible.
"I have not seen the Susano'o in a long time... Truly this brings back memories." Jastin still had an overconfident assurance of his own victory.
The spector raised the blade into the sky and dropped it's arm onto Jastin, who protected himself with an overhead wall. Sasuke quickly weaved six hand signs together. "Fire style: Fireball Jutsu!" A ball of flames shot out of the Susano'o's torso and hit Jastin from the side, causing him to drop the wall. The blade swung down and smashed into the ground next to him.
"Missed, Uchiha!" Jastin shot into the deity's stomach, facing both palms towards Sasuke. "Now! Block this!" A swirl of wind blinded them as they both bounced back. "How?"
"Idiot. I won't be done in from that." Sasuke held his hand out then raised it. "Shoot him!" The Susano'o laid the blade onto the shield and pulled the string on it, using the blade as an arrow.
The Susano'o released the large arrow, sending it flying at Jastin. "Pathetic move." It ripped through the air only to stop, inches before impact. "Thank you for giving me this opportunity!" The large purple arrow flipped over, pointing back at Sasuke.
"Damn." Sasuke whispered. The arrow shot at it's former owner, crashing into the Susano'o's arm shield, forming a bright light as a reaction. "I... I can't see!" He rubbed his eyes.
With Sasuke temporarily distracted from the counterattack, Jastin zoomed into him, past the Susano'o and grabbed his neck. "Finally! ...I assume that you cannot fight back from this distance!" Jastin squeezed tight. The Susano'o crouched over and vanished.
"Heh..." A small laugh zipped out of Sasuke's mouth. "So you've fought the Susano'o before?"
"Yes... A fight with a man from the Uchiha. It was nearly a year ago, while I was gathering information. I barely managed to beat him, he was incredibly strong on a whole other level."
Sasuke began to cough. "His...name?"
"I'm not sure. He constantly used a scythe in our battle... Now allow me to kill you." Jastin squeezed with all his strength.
Sasuke put his left and right hands onto Jastin's outstretched right arm. A loud clank, then the sound of metal crunching rang out. Sasuke put his feet onto Jastin's stomach then pushed off, still holding his arm, ripping it off. He backflipped onto the ground as he jumped off, pulling the hand off his neck. "Third state... Gives me an enormous increase in speed and power, at the simple cost of not being able to fly."
Jastin stood in awe, looking down at the elbow tear with wires popping out. "My arm... Again?"
Sasuke wiggled the dead hand around before chucking into the large bottomless crater. "Heh heh... I knew that you couldn't feel because your apparently mechanical, so I crushed your wrist until I was confident enough that it would rip off."
A giant wind blasted at Sasuke, who blocked with his arms. It ripped apart his clothes and completely decimated his shirt and drew blood all over his gray skin. Jastin held his hand out, releasing the constant Shīrudo that Sasuke could barely stand up against.
"Damn... I...can't escape..." Sasuke's skin was being sliced up by the second. "Don't you have a fucking limit?" He yelled.
"Limit? No. I no longer require to save my energy because it is limitless!" Jastin chuckled. "This will teach you to rip my arm o—"
"Stop!" A voice caught both of their attention. "This is my fight. Leave Sasuke out of it." Naruto, no longer covered with the cloak or the white robe, slowly walked towards both of them, directly between them. "What do you say?" Naruto confidently smiled. "Fight me, one on one."
