Naruto: Born Evil?

The orange-red glow dissipated.

The Yamata no Orochi was completely sealed by Itachi's Totsuka Blade, and its massive body vanished without a trace.

Itachi let out a breath of relief. Taking advantage of the moment before his mind was fully controlled, his eyes swept across the ground below, still wary that Orochimaru might have some escape trick hidden up his sleeve.

Back during the Third Great Ninja War…

On the battlefield…

Orochimaru's ability to escape from desperate situations was more famous than his strength itself.

Throughout the war, enemy village ninja had repeatedly claimed to have surrounded and killed Orochimaru. Yet days later, rumors and tales of Orochimaru would continue to echo across the ninja world. That alone showed how powerful his survival abilities were.

But this time, Itachi was overthinking it.

Orochimaru never imagined he would lose. So he hadn't prepared any backup plan—not even the technique of turning his body into a small snake to flee.

Itachi found no sign of Orochimaru's escape route. He looked up at the advancing dark-red Susanoo.

Boom—

The earth trembled.

Inside the dark-red Susanoo, Uchiha Yu looked down at Itachi with indifference. At this stage, Orochimaru did matter to him—after all, one of the Kamui Mangekyō Sharingan was still in Orochimaru's possession.

But despite Orochimaru being sealed, Yu didn't seem to care much. There were far too many ways to bring Orochimaru back to life. And if he killed Itachi, he could just retrieve the Kamui Mangekyō anyway.

Back when the plan was made, Orochimaru had volunteered to intercept Itachi.

Orochimaru had longed for Itachi's body—

To an insane degree.

Yu had already considered this outcome. The scene of Orochimaru being sealed by Itachi had always been a likely possibility. Now, it had simply arrived a little earlier than expected.

Rumble—

The ground ceased its trembling.

When the dark-red, fully manifested Susanoo reached Itachi's orange-red Susanoo, it towered over it.

Yu looked down on the immobilized Itachi.

He already had a solution in mind for dealing with the sealed Orochimaru. Just as Orochimaru had been sealed, he could be released the same way.

And Yu would sell that as an enormous favor to Orochimaru.

"…"

Yu gave Itachi's orange-red Susanoo a sidelong glance, disgust flashing in his eyes.

To him, this guy wasn't even worth speaking to.

"…"

Itachi's face was grim. He raised his head to meet Yu's gaze.

His Susanoo had dimmed to the limit, as though the third-stage Karasu Tengu armor might collapse at any moment.

And in height comparison, his Susanoo was laughable—barely reaching the knees of Yu's complete-body Susanoo.

The fully manifested dark-red Susanoo stood face to face with Itachi's third-stage orange-red Susanoo.

It was like an adult confronting a child.

Swish—

The dark-red Susanoo retracted the chakra longsword held in its left hand back into the left wing's skeletal frame. Then it gripped the right chakra longsword with both hands, blade angled downward, lifting it high, aiming to drive it into the head of Itachi's Susanoo.

Suddenly, space twisted.

Yu sneered—completely unfazed.

Boom—

As the dark-red chakra blade came down, Itachi and his Susanoo vanished from the spot.

The sword pierced into the ground, gouging a massive crater and sending cracks spiderwebbing outward.

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Kamui Dimension.

"Huff—huff—"

The mental control of the Yasakani Magatama was cut off by the dimension itself, giving Itachi a moment to breathe. He fell to one knee, coughed up blood, but didn't release his Susanoo.

He looked up with difficulty and saw a giant serpent head nearby, as well as the mysterious masked man standing ahead, keeping a cautious distance from him.

Itachi was surprised that the man had intervened to save him.

"Can you still fight?" the masked man—Obito—asked in a deep voice.

"As long as the residual marking of his dōjutsu technique inside me can be cleared… I can still fight," Itachi replied, slowly getting to his feet, adjusting his internal state.

"I'm also skilled in using Yin Release to create genjutsu and manipulate others' minds," Obito said.

"But I'll need your cooperation.

I'm going to apply a layer of mental control within your consciousness. If his ocular power tries to take control again, I'll interfere mentally.

You'll need to split off some Yin-chakra to resist it. Together, that should cancel out his control."

"Make your decision quickly.

I'm nowhere near full strength, and this dimension can't hold both you and your Susanoo for long."

As he spoke, the Mangekyō Sharingan within Obito's mask began to spin.

Itachi nodded.

He agreed to the plan.

Obito's Mangekyō Sharingan met Itachi's gaze directly, infusing Yin Release chakra to overwrite the spiritual imprint of the Yasakani Magatama embedded in Itachi's mind.

Obito added:

"If this doesn't work, you'll have to deactivate Susanoo. I'll bring you into the Valley of Judgment.

The Konoha Northwestern Border Forces are almost here. If we go anywhere too crowded with ninja, we're just asking to die."

As he finished, Obito glanced at the visibly exhausted Itachi. His reason for saving him was simple—Itachi still had value.

And Itachi understood that clearly.

However...

This man, who claimed to be 'Madara', had just admitted he wasn't at full strength—proving he couldn't match Uchiha Yu right now.

If not for Obito's unique Mangekyō Sharingan ability, they'd be dead already.

"While you're maintaining Susanoo, I can't teleport us far.

We're now at six o'clock from Uchiha Yu's position—200 meters away. Get ready!"

As Obito spoke, space twisted again, and the two returned from the Kamui dimension to the real world.

Crash——

Torrential rain poured down on them instantly.

Around them was a dark-red landscape, filled with mountainous forests.

Thunder boomed.

Lightning cracked.

Raindrops struck Obito's body, but they didn't wet his hair, mask, or blue cloak. The water passed straight through him—he had already activated intangibility the moment they emerged, sensing extreme danger.

Whoosh—

A flash of red light—

A dark-red and black chakra longsword swept horizontally toward the suddenly appeared Obito and the still-armored Itachi.

The dark-red Susanoo's blade sliced through the rain curtain, like a demonic crescent cleaving through the air.

Outside the battlefield, no one doubted that the blow from that demonic god could split mountains—or tear through falling stars.

The dark-red sword slash passed through Obito's abdomen.

His pupils widened in horror.

He looked down—to find his midsection gone.

Even though Obito's intangibility protected him from the burning chakra of the complete-body Susanoo, he still felt an overwhelming sense of danger.

"…"

Beside Obito, Itachi's pupils shrank sharply.

His Mangekyō couldn't even calculate a dodge path fast enough to avoid such a rapid strike.

Clang——

Itachi gritted his teeth, eyes wide, pushing his body's chakra reserves to the absolute limit.

His orange-red Susanoo's eye sockets burned with chakra flames as he raised both the Yata Mirror and Totsuka Blade in unison to block the slash.

RUMBLE——

The heavens echoed with deafening noise.

Yu's fully formed Susanoo brought the sword crashing down, ripping through the rain, slamming directly into the sacred shield and sword.

The impact alone—

In the next instant—

Both the Yata Mirror and Totsuka Blade cracked like shattered glass under some immense pressure—instantly destroyed.

Though Itachi and Obito had used overlapping Yin Release chakra to resist the Yasaka Magatama's spiritual control…

They still had to face the full-body Susanoo.

Itachi's pupils contracted again as he watched helplessly, his spiritual artifacts disintegrating under that one blow.

A wave of powerlessness swelled in his chest.

But he wasn't ready to give up yet.

He glared furiously with his bloodshot right eye—

Staring at Uchiha Yu seated within the crimson gem atop the head of the dark-red Susanoo.

Clang——

Blood poured from the corner of Itachi's right eye.

Amaterasu!

Space twisted again.

Across the blood-red, diamond-shaped gem, Yu could feel the intense heat rising.

Flickering black flames that would never extinguish erupted into being like a surging tide—

Ready to latch onto the jewel, and the demonic helm of Yu's complete-body Susanoo.

WHOOSH—

But Yu's Susanoo didn't stop its assault.

Its sword shattered the armor on Itachi's third-stage orange-red Susanoo in one powerful strike.

At that moment, a violent windstorm surged forth—approaching typhoon core levels in strength.

Yu's demonic Susanoo beat its wings, its massive body leaping gracefully into the sky, soaring beneath the stormy clouds.

As for Itachi's Amaterasu, cast in that single desperate instant…

Before the flames could cling to the crimson jewel, they were scattered by the gale midair.

BOOM——

The black flames of Amaterasu burst apart like fireworks, dispersing in all directions like falling stars.

"!!!"

Shizune fled with Tsunade, Ao, and Mei Terumi in different directions.

The other Uchiha all activated their Sharingan and grabbed the nearsighted Nonō, dodging the arcs of black flame as best they could.

Obito was hit by a burst of Amaterasu black fire—

But survived thanks to intangibility, avoiding the searing burn.

His eyes were full of fear.

He hadn't expected a complete-body Susanoo to have this level of explosive speed and mobility.

Obito looked at the battered Itachi beside him.

Crack—crack—crack—

"Cough…"

Itachi stood unsteadily, coughing violently, blood splashing from his lips again.

His orange-red third-stage Susanoo armor now bore a long, irreparable gash.

The Karasu Tengu armor was beginning to collapse.

But before Itachi could recover—

The demon-like Susanoo above had already gripped both blades, swooping down from the air.

Its twin dark-red chakra swords crossed in a deadly X-slash—

Itachi's pupils shrank. He gasped heavily. He had no strength left to resist.

BOOM——

The twin swords passed cleanly through.

Itachi's Susanoo was beheaded.

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