After running for about a two miles, I reach a cliff and stop at the edge. I spot a small canyon with a cave opening down below. I jump down and make my way toward the cave and enter it. Inside, it becomes very dark. About some five yards in I see tree branches made into torches to light the way. I turn a corner of the cave and halt. My eyes widen in shock at the number of bodies strewn on the cave floor. I glance around and study them, noticing their village headbands.

'These are shinobi,' I think. 'They must've been sent to investigate the attacks too.'

"Mmm. A surprise visitor," I hear a voice from the darkness. "I'm surprised you've even dared to set foot into this cave."

"Let's cut to the chase. Who are you?" I blatantly ask.

"Hn. You're awfully bold talking like that."

"I can talk however the hell I want to someone who's hurt innocent people."

"Must I teach you a lesson? You don't know who you're speaking to with such a harsh tone."

"Then come out from hiding, you coward."

I sense a chakra ball being formed. One is launched at me and I backflip to dodge it. Three more are sent flying at me and I easily avert them. I hold my hand in front of my mouth and breathe out a huge fireball in the direction of where the chakra balls came from. A huge explosion goes off and I make a break for the exit of the cave. Once outside, I wait some yards away from the entrance.

"You don't seem like the previous humans I drained chakra from," a voice echoes from inside the cave. "Their chakra was weak."

Once he steps out into the sunlight, I can see it's the same being I saw in Ryo's memory. He has greyish-blue unkempt short, spiky hair in a ponytail. Brown horns grow from the back of his head and wrap around to his forehead, with a small gap in-between them. He wears a long-sleeved, light-colored suit with a sectioned apron over it with a sash. I also observe that he carries a small gourd strapped to his back. His hand summons an even larger black chakra ball three times the size of his head. The ball shoots fast in my direction, but I leap to the side and it hits the side of the small canyon.

"Answer my questions," I demand. "Who are you?"

In a blink of an eye, he appears right in front of me.

"Let's see if you're worthy of finding out," he smirks.

He attempts to kick me on my right side, but I foresee it with my sharingan. I block it with my knee, grab him by the shoulders, and hurl him hard into the canyon wall at high speed. His body collides into the canyon, causing an avalanche of rock to bury him.

'He's not done,' I watch carefully.

The man flies through the pile of rocks and stays afloat high in the air. His white clothing is even more damaged.

"I'd like to find out how you obtained that left eye of yours," he calls out.

"Like I'd actually tell you anything," I say.

"Hn," he smirks.

He forms two giant chakra balls in his hands and hurls them at me. I take this chance to use my rinne-sharingan to switch him in my place. His back is now facing the incoming chakra balls he hurled. I watch as I fall through the air upright, the chakra balls exploding on impact. I land on the ground some yards away from the dent in the rocky surface as the black smoke slowly clears.

"Clever move," he's impressed as his silhouette appears in the smoke. " But you see...you and I have the same eye," he reveals a red rinne-sharingan that's the same as mine. "You have very special eyes...How fascinating."

"I'm not here to entertain you," I remark. "Tell me who you are and what you want."

"I am Urashiki Otsutsuki. And I am merely entertaining myself."

I grimace at his response.

"I am of the Ōtsutsuki clan," he continues. "I was just passing by your planet, curious of the beings here...it seems that there is much more to explore here than I expected."

"You're just about done with your explorations," I quickly perform some hand signs.

I summon red flaming chakra chains from underneath Urashiki, wrapping around his body and immobilizing him. I activate the sealing in the chains. Knowing that he could break through the seal, I appear in front of him and gaze into his eyes with my mangekyō sharingan and attempt to see his memories. Before I can do so, he manages to break free of the chains by brute force. He attempts to shoot a chakra ball at me at close proximity, but I use kamui to send it to another dimension. We then commence hand-to-hand combat as he activates his byakugan. Our speed matches perfectly as we block blow after blow. He throws a punch at me but I grab his arms to immobilize him, and then blow a fireball at him. This sends him flying back hundreds of feet. He barely manages to catch himself and stands.

"I'd like to research you a little more," he smiles as he creates a flexible fishing rod out of red chakra.

'The rod,' I recall seeing in Ryo's memory. 'I can't let it touch me no matter what. I can't afford him taking my chakra for intel.'

He hurls the extendable chakra thread and it rapidly heads to me. With my sharingan, I easily avert it, jumping high into the air, twisting and turning to avoid it.

"Let's see you handle this many!" Urashiki shouts as he swings his rod again.

Suddenly a barrage of hooks extend at me in high speeds. I continue to swiftly dodge them, even jumping into a nearby lake. I perform hand signs and summon dozens of water dragons to stop the chakra hooks. They can still pass through.

'They can penetrate through things,' I observe while speeding on water. 'And that gourd...thats where he stores the chakra.'

I think for a moment and come up with an idea. The hooks catch up to me and that's when I use my rinne-sharingan to open a portal for the hooks to go into. The portal leads to an opening at Urashiki's back, causing the hooks to pierce him instead. At that exact moment, I swap my katana with the gourd on his back. I quickly open the gourd and absorb the chakra that's stored inside, replenishing and adding on to my own. I then use my rinne-sharingan again to repulse force in his hand wielding the rod so that the rod can extract his own chakra with the barrage of hooks hitting him from the portal at his back. Urashiki sees this and grimaces, seeing as a good amount of his chakra has been pulled. I open another portal to have the hook appear in front of me, allowing me to absorb all of it.

"I'd advise you to leave now," I feel my chakra reserve sky rocket.

I summon my fully formed Susano'o which towers over the lake, causing waves of water to splash uncontrollably with the amount of chakra radiating. Urashiki grits his teeth with a sweat drop rolling down the side of his face as Susano'o aims an arrow at him.

"You've peaked my interest more than I initially thought, but's my time to depart...for now," Urashiki opens a portal and retracts his chakra thread and rod, then retrieving his gourd. "It's been fun."

Before the portal vanishes, I recall my katana with an attractive force to my hand. I deactivate Susano'o and calm my chakra down.

"That guy was no joke..." I mutter, still processing who Urashiki is and where he might've come from.