AN: So I'm posting this chapter now so that I can put the final chapter out on Christmas day/25th of December, also its because with these two chapters they're small so it seems wrong to hold off another two months until the story finishes when these last to parts are as short as they are. So yeah the final chapter will be out in a few days.

'Why must fights feel like an eternity has passed when they are fought' The deranged unstable Uchiha thought to herself as she dodged out of the way of a kick that was aimed for her mid-section causing her to flip backward out of it. She had been matched by the blonde in front of her and she found it infuriating despite starting the quarrel in the first place, she hadn't realized that the girl had managed to attain the ascended Sharingan, though it wasn't like hers in that its state prevented blindness so she was trying to force her supposed niece into blindness from overusing her abilities. Her eyes were half-lidded as she watched the taller but younger girl in front of her angrily attack while the boy with blue hair was with the stumped mother, the parent and child made her scowl thinking back to her parents or what was left of the memories as hazy as they were.

The battle had gone on for ten minutes and either side had yet to use their Mangekyou abilities though Kazumi was unaware of them, to begin with, Chimon was torn between wanting to leave with his Mother and staying around to help his sister.

Kasumi's eyes watched the pair that her niece was protecting as her chains whipped out and caught the younger blonde girls right arm, as it did her grip tightened before she poured chakra into the chains and threw herself back pulling the chain so hard and heavily that it twisted and tore at the younger girls skin and bone. With a loud squelching and crack that resounded in the area, the arm was torn off at the elbow earning an ear-shattering scream and wail from the pain, Kasumi watched as the daughter of her brother collapsed screaming and as the brother ran across to her and tried to help her.

Her chain whipped out again, this time intended for the boy, but it was met by splashing water as he sunk into the water they were stood on, she cackled a laugh as it still hit the girl crying in pain from the loss of her arm, the boy reappeared with a look of pure shock that made her cackle turn into bellowing laughter at the idiocy displayed by the boy letting his sister have the left side of her face rearranged and slashed up by the Kunai and chain as she pulled them back towards herself.

The crimson liquid was pooling in the water and creating a large red patch underneath them, Chimon grabbed his paling sister and began to drag her to where their mother was laying still unconscious. He was hoping upon any deity that might help him that their supposed Aunt would continue to just watch as he tried his best to help patch up and cover the stump of flesh, nerves, and bone that was left on his sisters' right arm. He felt worse and worse as he slowly watched his older sister pale more and more until she fell unconscious from blood loss and he began telling himself mentally that this was all his fault and that he could've prevented this from happening if he'd only been stronger, eventually he managed to at least cover up the stump using a torn off bit of the sleeve.

When he turned to face the deranged woman making his life a hell she was standing idly on the water biting her lip as she watched the pain he was going through, her onyx eyes seemed to glint with delight and joy at seeing his world shattered around him. The chains she held were sunken into the water as she stood in front of him, Chimon exerting all the anger he could possibly muster threw his form towards her with a guttural raw.

"RAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!" his voice echoed out and deafening as it was, cut short as his right foot planted itself into the dark-haired woman's sternum throwing her across the area into a tree and right through it into another, with a loud crack and pained gasp the tree fell and the woman he had kicked began standing.

Kasumi coughed blood onto the dirt beneath her all the while her body shook and trembled as she tried to drag herself up into a kneeling position, her vision was dazed and fuzzy while she stumbled forward tripping onto her shoulder and face. Chimon watched her with his teeth clenched and his expression was nothing but an angry dark scowl, his gaze followed her as she stumbled and stood with her breathing becoming heavier and covered in her own blood, bits, and pieces of tree bark around her having caused a few cuts all over her.

Her Sharingan was still flaring that same unnatural pattern that he couldn't understand as she looked at him, he gave her no more time to recover and shot forward again this time rushing hand seals for a Jutsu, an enormous water dragon snaked up out of the lake as he did so and flew towards her, she dodged out of the way barely and came back at him with the same Jutsu. Slowly as they continued a back and forth her movements were mirroring his, Chimon felt so stupid for forgetting about such a basic feature of the Sharingan seeing as his sister used it on him all the time.

He was just glad she hadn't used genjutsu on him… "Release!" he announced finding himself back fifteen minutes earlier as he was about to fire off the water dragon at the Uchiha in front of him.

"Finally free." She laughed at him. "You aren't good." Her words were robotic and simple like statements rather than sentences. "You are already dead."

The chain she had been using with the Kunai on the end was suddenly hurtling towards his head and he couldn't move, his body was sluggish and moving it was like trying to push a mountain, his vision flashed with images of his life as the Kunai was already too close for him to do anything.

her eyes opened lazily as her body convulsed with pain and her eyes gazed about seeing the same chain and kunai that maimed her flying towards her paralyzed brother, her vision bled red and she could see everything in a red hue, chakra was a bright blue as it was wrapped around the woman and her weapon, right as the Kunai was about to hit and go through her brothers skull blood seeped from her eyes using all the chakra she had left to form a beautiful pinkish five flower-patterned chakra shield in front of her brother and the Kunai hit it bouncing off into the water. Kazumi watched bleary-eyed as Chimon collapsed into the water sinking as her Aunt watched in confusion as to why his brains weren't splattered over the water and bank.

The Sharingan flaring black-haired woman looked around trying to find where Kazumi's shield had come from.

Kazumi slowly dragged herself up and tiredly wiped the blood from under her right eye, the pain that she felt in what was left of her right arm was immense and near unbelievable making her wane back and forth where she dragged herself up to face Kasumi. Both patterned blood-red eyes met for a mere second and that was all it took for entire hours of illusionary fights to happen, back and forth the two cast genjutsu on one another, eventually, they stopped and with what little chakra Kazumi had in her she prepared for one final attack as her Aunt seemed to be reaching that same point. At the very least Kazumi had cast a subtle genjutsu among the tens of them they had thrown at one another and this subtle one made it so Kasumi viewed her own chakra reserves as much more than reality.

Kazumi saw her aunt with enough left for an underpowered Jutsu, but Kasumi saw herself with enough for at least two massive Jutsu from her eyes along with another precautionary Jutsu she had set in motion. Kazumi watched the woman mirror actions, not because of the Sharingan, but because they were both exhausted and in her case, she knew that all things considered she shouldn't be standing right now let alone conscious enough for this kind of battle, but she needed to protect her family and make sure Chimon was fine as he had surfaced face up moments ago and was floating toward the shore.

She couldn't do hand seals at the moment, not with one arm, but she could try out her other ability that floated through her mind, the one she'd seen Madara do. She had enough for that as far as she could tell, she wondered why Kasumi hadn't used it but played it up to arrogance because the entire fight from the moment they arrived right up until now she hadn't seemed frightened of the prospect that she could lose and exerting an air of confidence.

An oppressive dark, negative pulsating terror-filled augur washed over the area and herself as Kazumi watched Kasumi begin to charge and form chakra around herself in that similar skeletal mass, Kazumi began to choke on the aura as it hazed her version and everything soaked in darkness. It was then that she breathed the words making the astral form project an enormous chakra construct around her – its colour was that of dawn, it was more a maiden than a warrior and it kept the aura at bay, Kazumi watched the wide-eyed confusion grow on her aunts face as the Sussano-o only formed from the waist upheld the five-petal flower shield and in its other hand was simply a lantern.

"Eos!" The words left Kazumi feeling like they were familiar, but she had never heard or read them in her life.

As she spoke the chant the Sussano-o held the lantern up into the sky and the entire valley up to a just under a mile around them was engulfed in a bright incandescent light that banished every of darkness provided by shadow and even the growing Aura of her aunts seemingly growing power, it scorched and eviscerated the area they were in ignoring her brother and mother.

When the light faded and Kazumi collapsed completely spent, out of chakra and gasping for breath as if her life depended on it more than normal, her stomach rose and fell with each passing breath, her vision while still impaired she could make out the dead form of her aunt, blurry as it was, it filled her with a hollow sense of happiness and victory knowing that the Ghost of her parents past was finally dead, even if there was lasting damage and nothing would ever be the same, but at the very least they had one another.

She felt like she could finally fall asleep and leave everything alone, her eyes began to close eyes watching the dead form-

It stood up.

The form of Kasumi stood up and Kazumi heard a gravely strangled chuckle, it was the hysterical kind that villains would do when they were truly maddened by something they had done, one of her eyes was now white.

Kasumi began to stumble towards her, she felt the most terror she'd felt in her entire life as everything came crashing down, that no matter what everyone had done it was all for nothing that there was nothing they could do to save themselves and kill Kasumi. Her eyes fluttered about as she gained what life back into her system that she could muster and-

Then everything stopped.

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