Swirl… Swoosh…
Suddenly, a portal opens a few meters from Naruto and Sasuke. The duo immediately gets into a combat stance.
Naruto extends his palm and creates a Rasenshuriken.
"Sage Art: Gravity Rasengan,"
Naruto wields the Truth-seeking orb in his palm. He infuses a large amount of chakra in the Truth-seeking Orb. He creates an Earth Release Rasenshuriken and infuses the Six Paths Sage chakra into it.
Shoom…
The Rasenshuriken turns pitch black like a black hole after the infusion of the Six Paths Chakra.
"Release,"
Naruto fires the Rasenshuriken towards the portal.
As soon as Madara steps out of the portal, he is greeted with one of Naruto's most powerful attacks.
"THIS POWER!"
Madara immediately raises his Truth-Seeking Staff to protect himself.
"Gravity Collapse,"
Naruto clenches both of his fists.
BOOM…
A powerful explosion reverberates in the surroundings. The pitch-black Rasengan explodes and collapses on itself, creating an extremely powerful suction force, mimicking a fraction of a real Black Hole's power.
The strong gravitational force grinds Madara's body and pulls him towards itself while spaghettifying him.
GUH…
Madara pukes a mouthful of blood as Naruto's attack catches him unprepared.
"I can't absorb this attack!" Madara senses the Senjutsu chakra in the attack.
"In that case…"
Shiing…
The pupil of Madara's left eye flickers with light.
Suddenly, the space around Madara constricts. The massive black hole in front of him slowly reverts to its previous Rasengan form.
Whoosh…
Madara immediately escapes from the range of the Rasengan.
"Banish!"
Madara clenches his palms together. An invisible force acts upon the black Rasengan, pulling it into an unknown dimension.
Naruto's Gravity Rasengan vanishes from the Shinobi world.
Haah…
Madara retreats and takes a deep breath.
"That caught me off guard!"
He regains his calm expression and glances at Naruto and Sasuke, who are also scrutinizing him.
"What was that attack?" Naruto grits his teeth.
Sasuke calmly analyzes Madara's previous action.
"There were fluctuations in space and Time. Madara's first technique was a form of time reversal. He reversed the time of your attack to a few seconds before its explosion and then used a Space type technique to banish it to another separate dimension."
Sasuke observes the series of actions with his left eye.
"If my observation is correct, he was able to reverse the time of your attack by approximately seven seconds."
Sizzle… Sizzle…
White smoke rises from Madara's body and heals his wounds, restoring him to his peak condition.
"And if my guess is correct, he can only reverse time for the inanimate objects. Or else he could have reverted his body to its previous state."
Sasuke explains the details of his analysis to Naruto.
Hmm…
Madara notices the change in Naruto and Sasuke.
Shoom…
A golden-orange cloak envelops Naruto. Nine Magatama markings appear on his back with the mark of Rinne-Sharingan above the Magatama markings. Cross marks appear in Naruto's eyes, a sign of awakening Sage's eyes.
Shua… Shua… Shua…
Nine Truth-Seeking orbs manifest beside him. Naruto stretches his arm and morphs two of the Truth-seeking orbs into staffs.
'How interesting! One has awakened the Six Paths Senjutsu, and the other awakened a mutated Rinnegan in his left eye, huh?'
"However, I possess both these powers!"
Madara clasps his hand and makes a Ram hand seal.
"This is the ultimate battle! My powers versus yours…"
"Sage Art: Shadow Style Thunder Blast,"
After infusing a large amount of chakra, Madara extends his palms and fires a powerful blast of purple lightning towards the duo.
Naruto raises his truth-seeking staff to block the attack.
"Let me handle it!"
Shiing…
A glimmer flashes across Sasuke's left eye.
'Dimensional Shift,'
SHUA…
The lightning blast, which was on the verge of reaching Naruto and Sasuke, suddenly shifts directions, flashes past them, and wreaks havoc across the ground.
'What was that?'
Madara's eyes constrict.
'How did he deflect my attack? Is it a spatial manipulation? … I sensed some changes in the surrounding space. Or is it an ability to divert any attack that comes across his way?"
Madara analyzes Sasuke's abilities.
Sasuke raises his left palm and infuses a large amount of chakra and nature energy into it. A purple lightning blade manifests in his hand.
Shiing…
A gleam flashes across Sasuke's eye and in the next instant he disappears from his position.
"Sasuke's gone?!" Madara quickly raises his guard.
Slash…
The next instant, Sasuke appears in front of Madara without any warning. His left hand stabs through Madara's heart, piercing a hole through it.
Chirp… Chii…
The purple lightning spreads across Madara's entire body, immobilizing him.
Shoom…
Suddenly, a sense of immense threat overwhelms Sasuke.
SHUA…
He disappears from his location and reappears beside Naruto at his former position.
Crack… crack…
As soon as Sasuke teleports beside Naruto, the space in front of Madara at Sasuke's former location shatters like glass, engulfing everything around it.
GAH…
Madara also spits out a mouthful of blood.
"That was a close call!"
Sasuke places his left hand around his Rinnegan and observes Madara.
'This left eye… So, this is what it can do…"
The lethal wound around Madara's chest heals rapidly and even his heart recovers to its former state at an extremely fast speed.
'Teleportation? This distance… So, that's what his Rinnegan can do?'
Madara also analyzes Sasuke's peculiar abilities.
"Sasuke, just now… there was something that…"
"Yes, I saw it clearly!" Sasuke's eye follows Madara's movements.
"Just now, a shadow similar to Madara attacked me and it was also this shadow that caused the space to collapse. Tsk…"
Sasuke clicks his tongue.
"As expected, it wasn't enough to take him down."
Whoosh…
Naruto flickers behind Madara with the Truth-seeking staff. The staff almost makes contact with Madara's head.
"You shouldn't get distracted in the middle of a battle!"
Shiing…
"Limbo!"
Madara's eyes flicker and Naruto's attack gets blocked before it can reach Madara.
"He did it again!"
Naruto twists his body and dodges an invisible attack, aimed at his heart.
Haah…
Madara takes a deep breath.
"Sage Art: Storm Release: Piercing Light Fang,"
Pew…
A light-fast ray of light shoots towards Naruto.
BAM…
Naruto releases a burst of chakra from his palm and dodges the attack at the last moment while in mid-air.
"Do you think you think you can dodge it so easily?"
Swish…
Madara waves his fingers.
Swoosh…
The beam of light changes direction and targets Naruto's heart.
"Shit!"
The beam closes near Naruto's heart.
'I will be in a pinch if this hits me!'
"Banshō Ten'in,"
Shoom…
An attractive force acts upon Naruto's body and pulls him away from the beam at the very last moment.
Swish…
However, the beam also changes direction and manages to pierce through Naruto's shoulder, leaving a bullet-size hole.
Argh…
Naruto grits his teeth. White smoke rises from his body and slowly heals the wound on his shoulder.
"Thank you, Sasuke! I thought I was a goner for a second."
He turns to Madara and claps his palm to release another jutsu.
'Interesting… This brat also possesses a healing factor. Though it's not as potent as mine. Still, I can't kill him with prolonged injuries."
"It's coming again! That shadow…"
Naruto dodges a strike from Limbo, interrupting his jutsu.
Haah…
Sasuke infuses lightning chakra in his Katana and throws it towards the limbo.
Swish…
The Katana phases through the Limbo without dealing any damage.
"It's immune to physical and normal chakra attacks."
"In that case…"
Naruto clenches his fists and unleashes a strike towards the Limbo. The Limbo moves aside and dodges the strike.
Heh…
Naruto smirks.
Bang…
The next second, an invisible blow strikes the Limbo, sending it flying.
'Frog Kata,'
"Senjutsu works just fine!"
'Incredible! These brats can not only see my Limbo, but they can even dodge and deal damage to it. The battle instincts and cooperation of these two are on another level.
The Naruto brat is a bit dumb but his combat sense and reflexes are top-notch even among the few shinobis; I acknowledge. He reminds me of Hashirama. As for Sasuke, not only has he awakened the Choku-Tomoe Sharingan, but even his Rinnegan is peculiar and unique abilities different from mine. Though it might be an aspect of Rinnegan which differs from owner to owner.'
"Madara's shadow returned to his shadow. Perhaps it happens after it takes a certain amount of damage or interval."
Sasuke notices the Limbo merge with Madara.
'Hmm… he's estimating Limbo's activation interval and how to counter it. He's got a sharp intuition, calm analyzing, and judgment skills. If only he was born before Obito, then perhaps I could use him… No… there is no point reflecting on the past now. I have already delayed the plan by a lot. If I stall any further, then other unexpected variables like these two might appear again.'
"In that case…" Madara makes a Ram hand seal.
"Naruto!"
"Sasuke!"
Naruto and Sasuke glance at each other in tandem.