CHAPTER 15

Power Of The Prism Sharingan

Mizuki, the man who had the upper hand in this prolonged battle was now second guessing himself about his strength. He looked over at the young raven that was standing in front of him with hatred burning in her blue coal eyes. How was he suppose to fight against her now that the Sharingan had been revived? And what secrets lie within the new Sharingan that he was seeing for the first time?

Nariko stood where she was and noticed how Mizuki was staring at her. She smirked in satisfaction when she saw what was clearly visible in the man's eyes: fear. The so-called proud shinobi was now afraid of her? He should be afraid of her, because he had pushed her to the limit by talking ill about her Dad. Now that this particular dojutsu was released, there was going to be bloodshed and someone was definitely going to die. It was six years ago when she last used this Sharingan and she was going to kill Mizuki with it.

Shaking away the fear, Mizuki summoned the flame sword and gripped it tightly. "You're badly injured, Sharingan Princess. Tell me. Can you honestly fight me with your full strength like that?" Mizuki chided in amusement and the young Uchiha glared at him as she took a step closer to him. He knows that Nariko's injuries were not completely healed from the jutsu that he witnessed earlier, but he wasn't going to let his guard down because of it.

"Never judge by a person's appearance, Mizuki..." Nariko warned him. "It will get you killed..."

Mizuki stifled a small, sinister laugh from the girl's answer. "Well, I can't argue with you there. Now that your true power has finally come out, neither one of us will have to hold back!"

From the distance, Nariko slipped her hand inside the left side of her white bandana and she slowly pulled out the two red hair clips that were adorned in her hair. Gazing at it a little bit, she cracked a small smile, "Fumi..." and she clutched it in her hand with determination.

"Mizuki, I'm going to say this...one time. That tree behind you..." She pointed to the battered tree that had suffered from losing its bark and several scratches to it. To be quite honest, she felt sorry for the tree to have to go through such brutality and force. "...will be your final resting place once I kill you..."

The man just laughed at her. In his mind, she was still being crazy and almost suicidal about her foolish attempts of bringing about peace in the world and her hopes of defeating him were even more foolish. "Do you seriously think you can take me down just because you'll healed yourself a little bit and changed your outfit? Ha!"

Nariko stretched her hands out in front of her and she clamped them down together tightly. A red light shined through her fingertips as she slowly opened her hands. As she moved her hand upwards, the light extends and forms into two long slender beams. Then, she grabbed them by opposite ends and they turn into a pair of short swords or in her case, a pair of kodachi swords that shined brightly in the sunlight. "Let's do this..."

The two warriors prepared themselves for a brutal clash as the harsh air currents and leaves swirled around them. Mizuki stared at her and Nariko glared at him. Fearing of making a mistake, neither shinobi could make a move. It was the perfect stalemate. Their footing was set permanently on the ground, eyes narrowed as they waited for the perfect moment to start this deadly battle against steel. Well, more like fire against steel for Mizuki since his sword was made of actual fire.

In a instant, the two shinobi charged forward with their swords in front of them, war cries escaping their lips as their swords clash with a loud clang of crushing force. Their feet buried themselves into the Earth below them while the blades of their sword rattled against each other in a attempt to break the other's defenses.

"Not bad. You may be hurt but you still got some strength left in you..."

Nariko struggled against him and grounded her teeth in frustration. "S...Shut up!"

She parried his flame sword, breaking his defenses as she descended away from him to give her some distance between them. Nariko goes for it again, but this time she uses her the kodachi in her right hand. She leaped into the air, doing a twisting layout with her body as she brought down her sword to slice through his head. But as luck would have it, he protected himself against her with his sword. Nariko then does a front flip and she landed behind him, ready to strike him with the kodachi in her left hand. She dashed ahead to attempt another attack Mizuki, but he sees her and quickly counter by attacking her, however Nariko was quick enough to protect herself against him by using her kodachis as a shield.

Mizuki smirked. "I'm glad, Sharingan Princess. It seems that your injuries haven't slowed you down at all!" As he said that, his sword ignited with intense flames and Nariko's eyes widen in fear. Unable to get away fast enough, she took a diagonal slash across her chest and the double stinging sensation of being cut and burned caused her to stumble a bit.

'How is he doing that...?'

"Katon: Boushikadou!" [火遁:紡績渦(Fire Release: Spinning Vortex)]

Mizuki plunged his forward and the flames surrounding molten blade created a tornado of flames, spinning in devastating speeds.

"A sword made from from pure chakra at a supernatural level..." Nariko analyzed as she noticed the huge column of swirling flames hurdling towards her. "I've never seen anything like it before...until now..."

The flame column spiraled even faster towards and she did several different hand signs in rapid succession, ending with the sign of the tiger. Nariko activated her Sharingan and a clear whirlpool of chakra swirled from her eyes, creating a triangular-barrier with a polished, flat surface.

"Sanryoukyou Sharingan!" [三稜鏡写輪眼(Prism Sharingan)]

The second the flame column touched the barrier, Nariko was pushing it back, hoping that draining its power will make it falter and disappeared on its own, but that was proven to be even more difficult than she had anticipated it to be. The power behind his technique was extremely powerful, too powerful for any normal human being to be able control even with excellent chakra control. Her eyes strained to get rid of the flame column, but with a little more effort and perseverance, she was able to reflect the power back at Mizuki, which he dodged quickly after witnessing her power behind the Prism Sharingan.

Mizuki swung his sword multiple attacks at her, igniting flying blades of fire towards her. Nariko dodged a majority of them, but not even she would be to evade that many at one time and because of that, she took a few hits that made stumble to the ground. The only thing that kept her from falling completely was the fact that she drove both her swords into the ground at the very last second. Her body was smoky from the smoldering heat from his attacks, but she was all right nonetheless.

"How do you like the powers behind the Flame Sword? I'm sure that being cut and burned at the same time is a very unpleasant feeling for you."

"You're right. This is the first time I've experienced that kind of pain..." Nariko was struggling to keep herself from losing consciousness again. "The powers of the intense flames are impressive, but the wounds it created were not as strong as I thought. And I now know your secret. The secret behind your Flame Sword..."

Mizuki tilted his head to the side from the young girl's claim. "Oh?" He was interested to see if the girl really did know the secret behind it. "Enlighten me why don't you?"

"The heat that's generated from the sword and being able to ignite massive flames by sheer will power alone is a feat that most shinobi cannot do without proper training and synchronicity. However in your case, you must have a huge amount of chakra in order to do this...and something inside of your body is helping you reserve that power! That chakra sword is the key to your power!"

"Well done, Sharingan Princess. Your powers of observations are spot on. You are the first person to even come close to truly understand the power behind this sword. But you've barely scratched the surface of it."

"What do you mean by that?"

"As you said before, this is no ordinary chakra sword and that this weapon is at supernatural levels, but the reason for that is because that this sword was created from gathered ashes that was embedded with fire element chakra..."

She raised a curved eyebrow. This was confusing to her as she tried to figure out what he was trying to say. 'What is he talking about? Ashes with fire chakra? Where would he get that from? Unless...'

"I see you're trying to figure how that is possible. Then I shall tell you the secret. The ashes that were forged to make this sword...belong to the bones of fallen shinobi who lost their lives from the horrible tragedy 10 years ago..."

Nariko's eyes shrank slightly in disgust and horror as she covered her mouth to keep herself from becoming sick and emptying her stomach from this new but grotesque information. 'The ashes...belonged to human beings...?'

"The next secret behind the sword is how the flames ignite on their own accord. When a shinobi dies, their chakra lingers on and buries itself deep within their bones. That power doubles if the user has the same element as the ashes, making it more powerful and even more fatal..."

"You're..." Nariko seethed. "You're using a weapon made from human ashes to kill humans beings with it? You're even willing to go that far for the sake of power and killing Naruto? People like you make me sick..."

'She's deduced the secret of the Flame Sword by just seeing it once. She is truly a prodigy in the making...' Mizuki smirked at the young raven. It amused him that her voice was filled with so much venom and malice towards him. This excited him in more ways than he could ever imagine. "And in turn, I also know the secret behind your Prism Sharingan..."

Shocked coal eyes were instantly locked on him, her muscles stiffening. "Is that right...?"

Mizuki nodded, his sinister smirk growing even wider. "The way your Sharingan works is that the person has the ability to use its power to reflect attacks back at your opponents, but it's not as simple as that. In term of optics, prisms are used to disperse light, that is, to break light up into its spectral components. This dispersion occurs because the angle of refraction is dependent on the refractive index of a certain material which in turn is slightly dependent on the wavelength of light that travels through it. This means that different wavelengths of light will travel at different speeds, with longer wavelengths being refracted less than shorter wavelengths."

Nariko held her ground, waiting for Mizuki to finish his hypothesis.

"In your case, the Prism Sharingan works differently when it comes to different types of chakra and various attacks, especially since chakra is represented by different colors. The diamond-shaped prism in your eyes are used to erase the attacks that comes in contact with the mirror like shield. Since fire is represented by the color red, which is the first color on the spectrum scale, the wavelengths are at the highest peak of speeds and power. When the fire from my sword clashed with the shield, it was proven to be rather difficult for you as it took you a long time to repel the attack..."

"Tch...!" Nariko was on her feet again, ready to attack him as she pulled the swords out from the ground. 'Damn it...! He's smarter than me. I'll give him that...!'

"What's the matter? I thought you said you were going to kill me." Mizuki said, furthering agitating the young kunoichi. "Or were they just empty words in the heat of the moment?"

Nariko growled in aggravation as the quiet fury from within her was beginning to break. Anymore and she will lose all the ability to fight logically against Mizuki. If that was to happen, then she would surely lose and he would be claimed as the victor of this battle. She couldn't that to happen, because too much was on the line. Hell, her own life was on the line in this drawn out battle. 'I can't let him distract me! I have to figure out how to get through his defenses. All I need is one shot. The minute he lets down his guard, I'll hit him with that jutsu...'

Mizuki sucked his teeth in vexation. 'This is harder than I thought. Her mind and will power is strong for a female. I need to make her really lose her sense of logic if I want to use that jutsu against her. It's the only shot I have if I want to kill her...'

With blinding speeds, Nariko and Mizuki charged at each other at full speed and they collided against each other in a blinding flash of light as the battle rages on...

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The next special chapter of Changing Fate is:
Hot Spring Madness!

Miyuki and Team Taka are at the Hot Springs. Enough said...