"Are you sure you don't want a prosthetic, Sasuke? Naruto got one and he seems to love it."
"I have committed many sins with that hand, Sakura. It was with that hand that I tried to kill Naruto. I don't think I am worthy of another hand nor do I want one. To get another would be to forget the sins made by my previous one and to act like everything I did never happened, and I do not want that, Sakura," Sasuke nobly replied.
What was going on inside his mind, however?
'HELL YES, I WANT ANOTHER ARM! IF THE OPERATION WAS BEING DONE BY ANYONE ELSE I'D GO FOR IT TOO. I DON'T EVEN CARE THAT I'D BE HAVING SOME DISGUSTING SENJU GENES IN ME, THEN. AT LEAST I'D BE ABLE TO MAYBE UNLOCK A SECOND RINNE-SHARINGAN.'
"Rinnegan!" came a response to his thoughts from far away.
Some clone of Naruto probably yelled that. Some of them were heavily against him calling it a Rinne-Sharingan and claimed only Kaguya's was a Rinne-Sharingan and his was just a weird, mutated as shit Rinnegan. She never even performed Sharingan techniques, for Amaterasu's sake! The closest technique she had was the Infinite Tsukuyomi, which barely shared ANYTHING with the Tsukuyomi. He'd know, he had gone through hours of watching his brother yell "Git gud!" and other stuff at him—like, what the fuck was a "Wi-Fi" or a "Lag"?—at him when he used the Tsukuyomi on him the first time and then even worse stuff the second time.
Also that speech about having tried to kill his best friend with that arm causing him to not want to get a prosthetic? Yeah—nah, he knew Naruto was definitely gonna end up being a clone at the end, anyway. He had zero regrets there.
So he made up some bullshit just so he could try and stay somewhat far away from her.
"Are you sure you have to leave?"
… Yes, he made even more bullshit to try and stay even further away from her for even longer periods of time than ever before.
"I must, Sakura. To atone for my sins, I must do it."
To atone for his sins his ass, he was just planning on Rinne-Sharingan-ing—"Rinnegan!"—to some other dimension the second he got out of her eyesight.
He wasn't going to be alone, however. He had found out that Naruto's clones were just about everywhere these days. Whether his direct clones or clones of clones of clones. They were starting to get a very big clone family tree at this point. The point was that he wouldn't be surprised if he found a Naruto clone in a dimension only he was supposed to be able to access with his Rinne—He looked left, then right, then continued the thought—Sharingan.
"Mutated as fuck Rinnegan!"
One of these days he would figure out a way to figure out how they knew he was thinking it.
He knew the original sure as hell didn't have the ability.
Then again, the original had been in a coma for several years, now.
Absolutely no one in the know knew how the clones had initially survived when they couldn't survive on biomass or—later on—senjutsu. It was kept a secret from the public, anyways.
How would one go about telling them that the Shinobi Alliance Army DIDN'T come back miraculously with zero casualties but rather all the ones that died were replaced with Naruto clones?
If he had to guess, he'd say 1 in every 6 people was probably a clone by now.
.
.
.
That was a lot of Gama-chans out there.
They liked to clone with their own version of the wallet when it came time to clone again.
He wished he could escape.
He wished so badly.
Not even other dimensions were safe.
WHY WERE SOME OF THE CLONES DISGUISING THEMSELVES AS ANIMALS THESE DAYS!?
He really hoped they hadn't begun to combine with the ants as well. Then there would truly be no escaping them, not even in the wilderness.
He wondered how amusing it would have been if the current clone, that believed itself to be the original, popped during the attachment of the Senju arm it was offered. Would have been something.
Then again, that may have prompted Sakura to use her Screech/Shriek Release, and no one wanted that.
If only she had bothered using it against Kaguya.
All she did was blush and go blank-eyed at the Reverse Harem Jutsu that Naruto had used.
Maybe it was for the best, though. He—hell, no one would have survived that when she had her Strength of a Hundred Seal activated. It was bad enough when used with the seal passively there on her forehead.
The Harunos must have secretly developed the Screech/Shriek Release over dozens of generations for it to be as strong as it was.
Obviously for their inhuman, cannibalistic desires of course.
The screen/shriek would obviously damage the inner ear of the person/prey it was being used on, ruining their balance so that they couldn't run away, damning them to a fate worse than any he could imagine.
Those sick bastards.
He would take them down, he truly would if he could, but not even he was man enough to face such monsters. Naruto had been and look where that put him? Blown to the heavens where he, then, literally blew himself up to avoid having to meet a Haruno again.
He somehow survived.
But, then, of course he did. His balls of indestructible steel must have saved him. He couldn't have balls any lower for having confronted Sakura that day.
He hoped to one day make the Harunos pay for what they did to him and what they have done to others over the years. His efforts produced no results. Partially because of his fear of them and… actually, yeah, that was it; His fears of them.
The Harunos must have also bred in a way to produce pink hair in their line in an effort to make their spawns look weak and innocent.
He had seen it enough in nature. The most beautiful/colourful of things often attracted others, and then the others were killed.
Karin with her red hair was similar.
Thankfully, she did not possess the same bloodline as Sakura. She came close with her squealing, though.
It was a shame he hadn't managed to take her down during that battle where Danzo helped him take her down.
The old man knew it would take the both of them to even have a chance at taking her down. Sadly, she survived, Danzo died.
Some of the blame on Danzo's death may have been something that could be pinned on him.
He couldn't help himself! Once Danzo revealed all those Sharingans, there was enough red on his person for Sasuke to mistake him for Karin or a clone of her from the corner of his eyes.
The fact that he went for insta-kill techniques instead of checking if it was Karin first was not his fault.
Besides, all of the Danzo's that died were clones. Had to be, no reason why he was alive after all of that. His Sharingans had almost all closed, though, after he killed a few of the clones; must have gotten some dust into all of them. That was probably a VERY annoying issue with that many eyes.
By then, the amount of red on Danzo had lessened but Sasuke had gone into a rage, thinking any movement was Karin's, somehow missing her barely living body on the floor and instead aiming for any movement he saw.
Predictably, it was all from Danzo.
If there was one thing Sasuke could say, it was how much he respected the man. Even when dying, he had a seal on his body that would blow him up/seal him along with the person/stuff near him.
Of course, the man had definitely planned to use it against Karin, when he put it on himself, instead of Sasuke.
It was just his misfortune that Sasuke messed up that plan, and Sasuke had never forgiven himself for the great man's death.
He also never got to ask why he had all those Sharingans in his arm.
Meh, there was probably a good reason if they were in the arm of a respectable man like him.
Deciding to leave before the cannibal that was supposed to be his teammate tried to stop him with some… extreme measures, he walked out—
And was immediately stopped by the Eternal Chūnin Guards.
Odd… since when did they start doing their jobs?
"Halt," one said.
"You may not just leave the village at your own convenience without submitting the proper paperwork or having previous authorization, no matter how cool it looks to walk out like that."
Narrowing his eyes at them, he decided to confirm his suspicions by putting a Chidori through one of their chests.
"Kotetsu, no!"
Huh… apparently they weren't Naruto clones playing a prank on him.
Looking suspiciously at the one trying to get revenge by attacking him, he wondered if he could get away with killing him under the same excuse of having believed it to be a Naruto clone?
Although, if he wasn't a clone and he killed the second dude, then they would most likely be replaced by Naruto clones. Could he really live with himself, knowing that he helped contribute to their increase in numbers?
Sighing, he wished for a method to fix this situation and, like magic, the Rinne-Sharingan—"Rinnegan!"—responded.
Ignoring the cat that had just 'corrected' him, he went forth with the knowledge the divine eye gave him. This "King of Hell" seemed like an interesting thing to summon.
But first—
"I am out of chakra."
He really did seem to run out quite fast these days. It was ridiculous. He suspected Sakura. Then again, he seemed to think that just about everything was her fault these days—which it definitely was. He just couldn't find proof.
Punching the still-airborne ninja attacking him away, he walked towards the cat—that he now knew to be a Naruto clone—and the 'cat', seemingly sensing his intent, bolted.
Sighing, he knew this was about to be a throwback to his days catching Tora. The good part was that, at least, Sakura wasn't here in this particular chase. The bad part was that the Naruto clone had probably learned a good thing or two from Tora.
And so the chase began.
He didn't seem to so much as run or jump but rather he flickered over to where the cat was running. Using a Chidori Senbon, he hoped to manage to paralyse it, not destroy/pop it. Thankfully, these super aware clones were more durable than normal ones. Not thankfully, some of them had changed so much from the original Naruto over the years or were the descendants of so many clones that one couldn't expect them to behave even remotely similarly, besides their all-shared love of toads.
So, was it surprising when the cat also flickered away? No.
Was it surprising that it flickered away faster than the speed of the lightning Senbon being sent at it? Somewhat, yes.
Eyes widening, he watched as the cat literally outran some parts of the Chidori Senbon Jutsu.
He would not have even seen the encounter if it weren't for his Rinne—
"Rinnegan."
Staring murderously at the cat, he replied, "I hadn't even finished thinking about it. I was gonna think of Rinnegan!"
"Nya, no you weren't. You were gonna think 'Rinne-Sharingan'."
That was it, he was gonna make it suffer.
Kakashi would get a lot of paperwork that day for the damages dealt to the village.
He would force Sasuke to do every single page of it.
They would both also find out just how much having a divine eye, even if it was only one eye, like the Rinnegan helped with paperwork.
It made Kakashi mourn for his lost Sharingan. Maybe that could have helped him with paperwork, too.
Sasuke would leave the village with the disturbing knowledge that the man, after a good time spent thinking on how much Döjutsus could help with paperwork, decided to think about how to procure—read "steal without anyone finding out or not doing it illegally"—a Byakugan.
Kakashi had listed a lot of reasons for why it had to be that eye, growing more and more firm with the logic behind why it had to be that eye before declaring that he would take no less than that eye.
Sasuke would have taken offense at his eyes not interesting the man in the later parts of the conversation, but he was just too eager to not be targeted by the Hokage.
In the end, it had taken a full turn from paperwork to looking through hot spring walls or clothes until the man seemed to have an epiphany that shook him. All Sasuke got after that was him frothing and talking about therapists, which was odd as the first thing Kakashi had done when he became Hokage was to make it illegal to be a therapist.
The populace thought that the Yamanaka clan would rebel.
They didn't.
Sasuke could just smell the influence of Naruto clones in that event. A hint was just how much Kakashi was smiling when he publicly announced that there would no longer be any therapists in the village. Seriously, the grin was so wide that he could clearly see the outline through his mask. Both eyes doing eye-smiles made it worse.
Kakashi had officially beaten Gai when it came to wide grins/smiles and the number of smiles possible from one body, apparently.
The smiles foretold that Kakashi knew something no one else did.
Sasuke never bothered to find out what it was because he never wanted to know the statistics behind JUST how many people were actually clones.
They gave him a bad vibe. The only ones he could tolerate were the ones that thought they were the original. They were incredibly durable, too, probably because they inherited most of the original's indestructible balls of steel.
He liked to think of them as legacies of the original, in a way.
It also helped that he had proof of the fact that the more unique clones had inherited a weaker version of the original's indestructible balls of steel.
How?
Well…
(Flashback)
Kaguya's All-killing Ash Bone was flying towards Naruto. This was bad, if he got hit, then they would have to wait a few minutes before another clone that viewed itself to be the original spawned or showed itself.
They didn't have that much time, plus, who knows what would happen to the sun mark on his hand if he dispelled?
Nevermind the fact that the clone had managed to trick the Sage of Six Paths of all people into thinking that he was the original Naruto.
There was only one thing Sasuke could do in this situation.
He hoped his Rinne-Sharingan—
"Rinnegan!" God. Fucking. Damn it!
Why was he 'correcting' his thoughts when he was close to dying/popping!?
He hoped his… EYE would help in the situation.
And it did. He got knowledge of the perfect technique to use. It was like the Substitution Jutsu but on steroids.
Orochimaru's steroids. Trust him, he would know.
He knew the perfect person to use it on. He would substitute Sakura with Naruto-clone.
He quickly found that, in the time it would take to look at Sakura to mark her, the bone would have reached Naruto.
So it was a morose Sasuke that came up with another idea.
He looked at where Naruto's balls would be and marked them and the place he would get hit.
Hopefully that didn't send him in pieces across the space-time continuum.
And then?
'Amenotejikara!'
He flipped instantly.
Sasuke didn't mean that he flipped fast or anything like that. He meant that Naruto LITERALLY instantly changed places/angles/positions. This was probably the "time" aspect of the space-time technique.
And then the bone hit his balls.
The bone BOUNCED OFF!
Partially inherited indestructible balls, indeed.
"NOOOOOOO!"
Maybe he spoke too soon.
Looking at Naruto, he couldn't tell if that yell was because of physical pain or the fact that the bone, unfortunately, bounced in just the right way to stab into Obito.
Well, that was unfortunate.
The dude should have turned intangible. Then again, he couldn't have accounted for Naruto's clone's balls being THAT tough.
Looking at Kaguya's shocked eyes Sasuke only wished he could have taken the opportunity to attack her in some way, but the only technique he could use under the intense gravitational pull would be Amaterasu. That wouldn't work due to her chakra-absorbing abilities.
Damn!
He wished he could have switched her with Naruto. Would have been amusing for to see herself get boned by her own technique.
Frowning, he realized how dirty that unintentionally sounded.
Then again, maybe she did need a good boning.
No one would ever know which meaning of the sentence Sasuke meant in his head.
It was a shame, though, that the mother of all chakra—as far as they knew—didn't die to her own overpowered killing technique. Would have been very ironic.
'Amaterasu!'
What? She looked shocked enough that she may not even realize she was being burnt.
It was definitely worth the try.
Eyes widening, he realized she ACTUALLY wasn't realising. THAT was how shocked she was that her All Killing Ash-bone Jutsu bounced off of Naruto instead of killing him painfully, starting with his balls.
As he watched her slowly get burned, he felt something in him. Something he last felt when he escaped Konoha to get some distance from Sakura and went to Orochimaru. He felt hope.
Did he dare to hope even more?
"Mother! Snap out of it!"
Of.
Fucking.
Course.
Of course, he shouldn't have dared to hope. Why, oh why, did he even bother hoping in this shitty, Sakura and Karin growing world?
'Amaterasu!'
Maybe he could burn Black Zetsu before he went on?
"Mot—AAAAH!"
SUCCESS!
And then the black flames on Kaguya went out.
Not success...
Was it too much to hope that this was normal for Amaterasu flames once every million times used?
As Kaguya moved, he cursed in his mind. His… uncle? Black Zetsu was sorta his spiritual uncle. He'll just stick with calling him by his name.
Black Zetsu had managed to snap Kaguya out of her state of shock.
"Hah! Mother will destroy you now!"
And he was already back to taunting and making fun of them. If there was anything one could say about the all-black creature, it was that it was persistent and recovered incredibly fast.
And Naruto was too busy… either taking care of his balls or Obito. It was kinda hard to tell from this angle, as the blond had gotten very close to Obito.
Deciding that maybe looking at what the blond was doing may have been worth ignoring Kaguya, thus allowing her to be able to attack them from behind, he went close to them—an action made very hard to do by this dimension's gravitational force on him.
Instantly he felt very worried for Obito. The blood left his face as he saw what Naruto was holding.
Naruto was holding a green toad toy with a plus on it.
It was never good when Naruto held the green toad toy with a plus on it.
(Flashback End)
In the end, Kaguya's technique wasn't what killed Obito, it was what the Naruto clone did that brought down the man. They all made sure not to mention that to it, though, and made sure to assure it that it helped a lot in keeping him alive.
It wouldn't do to have a guilt-ridden Naruto-clone in that fight.
Now that he was leaving the village he passed by a funeral for the guy he had killed. Considering that a Naruto clone hadn't replaced him yet, he decided he'd use that King of Hell thing to bring the guy back. He was a ninja, he definitely went to hell.
.
.
.
Even though just about everyone went to the Pure World or, in rare cases, the Shinigami's stomach.
Come to think of it, how DID one go to hell? He knew of literally no one that was there. Was it just called hell but was, in actuality, just another spiritual realm only accessible to the Rinne—to people with eyes like his?
Deciding that the philosophical—religious?—debate could be done later when he had significant distance between Sakura and Karin, he decided on bringing the man back.
Before he paused.
There were two reasons for his pause. One was very predictable.
Yes, he was out of chakra again.
The second? When he wanted to help the man at first, he was still alive, hovering on the brink of death. Now, though? Well… he wasn't so much hovering at the brink as he had taken a dive down it. Nothing said that his technique did anything more than basic healing. He certainly hadn't been thinking of reviving anyone when his eye gave him the knowledge of the technique he planned to use, he was thinking of healing someone, so what made him believe the technique could do anymore than basic healing?
"He died so young!" sobbed a very unremarkable woman.
The sight tugged at his heart.
Fuck it, he'd try anyways.
Knowing he'd regret this, he whispered, "The closest Naruto or Naruto clone gets a bowl of ramen from me if they help me with something."
"You called?"
There was one very disturbing fact about where the voice came from. It came from his cloak.
"Are you my cloak!" he whispered angrily.
"Is that what you need help with so that I can get some ramen?"
"No!" Suddenly, he felt eyes on him. Ah, he had yelled that…
"It's him."
"The one who killed him."
"Sasuke Uchiha, I heard he—" Tuning them out, he resumed his conversation with what might be his cloak, ignoring the horrified look he was being given by everyone and the unremarkable woman from earlier that burst into tears at the sight of him.
"Answer the question, are you or are you not my cloak?"
"Of course I ain't your cloak." Breathing out in relief, he had no air left to help him cough when the clone continued. "I am an ant on your cloak, silly. Now, can we get the ramen? I sorta gotta get it to the queen ant. She hasn't been happy with my productiveness recently…"
Deciding to just deal with this entire situation swiftly, he asked for chakra.
He would have tried to take enough to dispel it but it would just be replaced by another. After getting the chakra needed and more than needed, a LOT more than needed. Maybe he actually was subconsciously trying to pop the clone.
Going forth after failing to find where the clone was on his cloak, a thought that somewhat freaked him out, he just resolved to burn it later. Blocking the fairly unremarkable woman from earlier from slapping him, he pushed her away as she started bawling; something about had he not done enough when he killed her husband?
He kicked the lid of the casket open, staring at the dead body inside of it. Using the Mangekyō's greatest defense on its lowest form, he walked closer, ignoring all who attacked the skeleton-like armour around him in futility.
Staring at the corpse in front of him, he tried to use the technique he was given instinctive knowledge of.
A monstrous thing came out of the ground and, judging by the lack of gasps from everyone else, only he could see it.
Its Rinnegan stared at his eyes. A completely normal pair of Rinnegan. Sasuke would have judged it as lower than him except it had 2 divine-like eyes and he only had one. Life was so unfair.
Maybe he could get away with taking one of its eyes? No… that was ridiculous, Its eyeballs were way too big to fit in his eye sockets.
Commanding the thing to do whatever it was supposed to, instinctually, he watched as a tongue came out of its mouth and dragged the dead ninja into its mouth.
This time, there were many gasps. Either they could suddenly see it or just saw the body being dragged by some discernible source.
And then it ate the ninja.
That… Was it supposed to do that? He felt like it wasn't supposed to do that. Please tell him it was supposed to do that.
… It was eating the corpse, wasn't it? Well, add corpse feeding to his list of crimes.
Well shit.
Maybe he could still get away with this? The people certainly couldn't see the being he had summoned. Maybe they couldn't see what happened to the dude after he went into its mouth? Or worse case scenario, they saw EVERYTHING.
There was a reason mouths weren't transparent. And throats. And butts. An—BASICALLY ALL OF THE INSIDES OF THE HUMAN BODY WERE WAAAAY ABOVE PG-13 TO SEE!
Looking at the horrified people around him, he went with the first excuse he could come up with.
"I have to go get a carton of milk from the grocery store."
.
.
.
Well, it worked on Sakura once, and then he managed to stay away from her for 3 years because of it, maybe it would work here.
He got absolutely no response. Perfect, they must have bought it. And then he booked it, leaving behind the dual Rinnegan-eyed being behind chewing on a body.
He would be a decent way along the way out of the village before a sudden chakra drain would occur. This was it! This must have been why he was so low on chakra all the time! Forcing more chakra into the drain in an attempt to overload it, he never quite saw the King of Hell spit out a perfectly, non-Chidori'd body in response to being given a suitable amount of chakra.
"Oi! What happened to getting me ramen!?"
Forget getting the clone ramen, he'd be caught if he stayed in the village any longer! Deciding to Shinra Tensei the clone, Sasuke never quite realized that he was VERY inexperienced with using two paths at once. Nothing happened, his cloak did not bellow away under the force of a gravitational push. Where did the chakra go, if not to the gravitational technique? He felt the eye pulse in the unique fashion that it did when executing a technique and, yet, nothing happened.
Elsewhere, the King of Hell started glowing.
Putting more chakra into using a gravitational technique, nothing happened. He decided to just use Preta Path to absorb the clone instead, he liked this cloak anyways, so he didn't want to lose it.
What he didn't realize in his hurry was that the Preta Path didn't exactly need the user to use chakra to use it. Frowning as he now seemed to be losing even more chakra, he decided to just throw a LOT of chakra into the Path, doing something Naruto would be more likely to do rather than the chakra efficient ninja he normally was.
And that's what began the start of a technique Sasuke had no or very little knowledge of.
His mouth moved to form the name of the technique instinctually, the knowledge that normally came with a technique? It didn't come. Whether because it was an Outer Path or because he formed the technique not by wanting it but by accidentally overloading another Path technique with chakra, one may never know.
"Gedō: Rinne Tensei no Jutsu." The words were forced out of him with the force of something he could only say was near the pinnacle of unnaturalness.
"Why the hell would you use that technique!? You wanna die!? At least get me that ramen before dying!" Feeling himself weakening while listening to ant-Naruto's words, he could only acknowledge that it knew more about this technique than he did. If he were to look at himself through a mirror, he'd see the sight of the 6 tomoes in his normally covered eye disappearing one by one at a frighteningly fast speed. A personal countdown of his eye counting towards his death.
Feeling desperate, he finally managed to use the Preta Path correctly and immediately set to absorbing chakra from the ant-clone on his cloak. It was close enough to him that he could do it without having to know where it was. He knew that it was the best chance he had at surviving, as Naruto clones still tended to have more chakra than just about anything else. Some of them seemingly having LITERALLY—not figuratively—more than everything else when they used their own perversity of Ninshu to ask fellow chakra-forming clones for chakra. Indra made Ninjutsu and Asura's chakra transmigrant made whatever the fuck that was supposed to be.
"Wait, what are you doing." The fact that it was talking meant that it still had chakra in spades—probably—but it also meant he'd have to go through more of its annoying dialogue.
"Stop it."
He wouldn't.
"Don't make me get my ant friends!"
That almost made him stop. Feeling his, now, 5 tomoes going to four again, he quickly resumed with all of his concentration.
This was ridiculous! What technique took so much Yang chakra!? Why did a dōjutsu technique take so much Yang chakra!? They were mostly Yin based! Was this supposed to be some Yin-Yang joke about how this one technique balanced out all the Yin based ones all by itself!?
It was almost like it was taking his life itself to provide for the technique.
When he found himself on the floor despite having copious amounts of chakra from the clone, he realized that that may actually be true. He had chakra and was still weakening.
What kind of technique was this!? Some Rinne-Sharingan—"Rinnegan!"—kinjutsu!?
Then he realized the clone that 'corrected' his thoughts yelled from quite far away… That would mean the one on his cloak was about to dispel. You know, since it never seemed to shut up.
The second that clone popped, he was done for. He was literally just subsisting on its Yang chakra at this point. He'd try Izanagi but he literally couldn't control his chakra with how fast it was being pulled from him.
Correction, he wasn't even turning the stolen chakra into his chakra anymore, there just wasn't enough time for that. It was literally being stolen from him as he stole it from the clone. A dark part of his mind got the irony of it. That same part realized that most of his mind was dark.
And then? Well, Sasuke wasn't even sure how it happened or if it could ever be replicated by him but… the clone became the focus of the technique as it went a step further from taking the chakra WHILE he was stealing it to just taking it from the source, and then the clone started yelling in pain.
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.
.
Cruelty to clones… He wouldn't put it past Kakashi to put that as a new crime on his info…
Would it get past his "Avatar of the Shinto Gods" title that a good part of Konoha gave him a while back? He didn't wanna stay long enough to find out.
And then, to his tomoe-less eyes, or as Naruto—or rather a clone of his—would put it, a normal-ass Rinnegan and a boring-ass deactivated Sharingan.
His eyes stung and his chakra levels were low, he had survived but at what cost?
And then something ethereal flew from the clone. He would almost be tempted to call it a soul but that was ridiculous; clones didn't have souls, everyone knew that. At least when it came to Kage Bunshin, anyways. Who knew what other kinds of clones were out there.
Sasuke would never quite find out that at the same time, the King of Hell opened its mouth and gave life back to a ninja he had killed. He would never find out that he survived a jutsu that was supposed to 100% kill its user. He would never find out how this would increase his "godlike" status with people in Konoha.
What he would know is that he just saw an uncountable number of ants come to avenge that Naruto-clone ant that he just took down.
And he may or may not have seen some Rasengans among them.
Safe to say that he bolted and he bolted hard after using the Preta Path to block and absorb whatever… ninjutsu(?) he could from the ants that had been taught how to use chakra, apparently. His eyes throbbing in pain the whole time, he felt a pain similar to when he had his original pair of Mangekyō Sharingan when he absorbed a jutsu that was from a Naruto clone ant among the ants.
He wanted to run away hard and the Rinne-Shari—"Rinnegan!"
And now he was deaf from the number of Naruto-clones in the ants that said that.
Anyways, his… eye provided him with a means to escape as he went from dimension to dimension, going as far as he could until his eyes were BOTH bleeding, which really shouldn't be happening but he didn't care.
And then he was blind from the strain of it all. Hopefully temporarily.
And just like he hoped, he could feel his vision returning. Or did he pass out and was waking up?
"Hey, you. You're finally awake. You were trying to cross the border,
right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that
thief over there."
He was in a chariot. There were more but his vision was too blurry.
"Damn you Stormcloaks. Skyr—" And he proceeded to ignore him.
It was about now that Sasuke realized that he was many, MANY dimensions away from Sakura.
Before he could enjoy this sense of happiness, however, he realized that in his final moments before leaving, he had discovered a healing technique—if he could stop the thing from eating what it was supposed to fix—with his… Rinne-Sharingan.
There was no one that yelled to correct him.
There was no Naruto clone.
There was no Naruto-clone he could take chakra from so he could get back and fix up the original Naruto, the one he respected.
No…
"NOOOO!"
His fellow chariot-members would only think he was terrified at being caught at the border.
Trying to force his Rinne-Sh—no, he lost the right to call it that when he left the original Naruto behind when he could have helped him. He didn't deserve the right to call it that OR fix his own arm.
Trying to get back to his old dimension with his "RINNEGAN", he yelled, "Let me in! LET ME INNNN!"
So, um, I once said on a fanfiction Discord server that Fanfiction authors seemed to be cursed. I would always read about how the stuff they wrote on stopped working.
I was told I was very rude on the server that day.
Well, now that I am a fanfiction author, if barely, I think I can say that we are cursed. MY phone stopped working. It was what I wrote on… This phone was so good…
I suck at typing on Laptop… Oh man… It won't even boot or safe boot.
This sucks… On the other hand, I wrote my anger into a 1.3k thing in about 40 minutes? Maybe less? There's bound to be a lot of errors as I am just sad about my phone and I suddenly have stuff going on in my life somehow.
Should I put fewer memes in these chapters? IDK.
I would love to make this note smaller but I gotta sleep and delete the stuff I wrote at the top that hint at future chapter stuff.
And to think I was gonna post the Percy Jackson x Naruto thing today. It's only at 6k and feels very unfinished, though. Put some 106 jokes in there from Hephaestus, though, if you get what I mean.
Also, I just remembered I didn't crosspost the last chapter… Oof. Also, wtf is up with Horizontal lines not directly being uploaded to FFN? I got to manually do them there again.
Also, that young "unremarkable woman"? She was a clone. I didn't get to use her as I had to speed up with this chapter, and with this I have gotten over the 30k mark. Something I did not expect to reach.
Also, on FFN now, I changed the summary a bit.
