179. Izanagi-No-Mikoto

"Orochimaru did what?" Tsunade was shocked at his teammate's actions. 

Sora internally sighed in relief as Tsunade's attention was shifted. 

"Yeah, luckily the seal I made to counter it worked" Sora started telling her about his encounter with Orochimaru first.

"I am surprised that you were able to injure him fatally once" Tsunade knew Orochimaru well, next only to her perverted teammate and her sensei. 

So, his abilities and capabilities were known to her. 

"Yeah, I know right, I am just that awesome" Sora said while smirking. 

Tsunade just looked at him with a deadpan. 

She was holding his palm still, such that he was hanging from her arm. 

"Aren't you too small?" Tsunade suddenly said. 

"I am nearly 8 years only, what did you expect my size to be?" It was Sora's turn to deadpan. 

Even though Tsunade knew that, sometimes she forgot that fact due to Sora's demeanour and his achievements. 

"Yeah, I forgot you still are ba rat" Tsunade threw him on the sofa. 

The brat did a manoeuvre in the air and lay down on the sofa just like a certain Nara would. 

"Anyway, give me the mission briefing," She asked. 

Sora promptly did, while telling her about how he was messing around in the capital. 

"Who was that bow guy?" Sora asked her after explaining the full encounter. 

"He goes by Ryota, He is one of the 5 Loyal Guards of the daimyo other than the fire guardians, he should be at mid-top of Elite Jounin level, no wonder you felt endangered" 

"Makes sense, but I would definitely defeat him if we fought again," Sora said lazily. 

"There's even one S-rank among them" Tsunade suddenly said. 

"It's just an S-rank," Sora said while shaking his head, like talking about the weather or something. 

"You really have gotten arrogant over fighting Orochimaru, but I could understand your reasoning, you are now considered S-rank" Tsunade really thought it would take him one more year at least to reach this level. 

But to this level already surprised her. 

"Maybe I have to educate you about S-ranks" Tsunade suddenly said. 

"Baa-chan, you are not just an S-rank, you are a Kage, that's cheating," Sora said while shaking his hands indicating to not come closer. 

"Kages are considered S-ranks too you know, I am just a S-rank after all" She smirked. 

"Tch, Fine, I was just joking, I even take genins seriously," Sora said smoothly. 

"Hmm, Is that so?" She didn't believe him completely but did know that unlike other Uzumaki she knew, this one had self-preservation skills. 

Sora actually did take genins seriously, due to him being a kid, he had to fight with chakra enhancements, so taking them lightly could just be his downfall. 

Plus, in Land of Whirlpools, he lost to a genin, so he had to naturally take them seriously. 

Sora quickly told her about other mission details before leaving. 

He directly went to the training ground in which Hanabi trains. 

Like usual, he side-stepped a vacuum shell coming at him. 

He engaged with the familiar Hyuga in taijutsu.

"I completed your mission" 

"Oh, did you beat him?" 

"Yup"

"How strong is he now?" She curiously asked. 

"Elite Jounin level" His answer shocked her. 

"Same as my father?" 

"Yeah, but he would definitely lose as he is new in that level, Elite Jounin level is very big compared to previous levels," Sora said. 

It might not seem that clear from seeing Sora's growth, but the gap between a newly minted Elite Jounin and an S-rank was very huge. 

An S-rank could easily kill multiple Elite Jounins unless the latter has skills to counter the former. 

The gap between a Jounin and Elite Jounin Level is similar to the gap between a genin and a Jounin, to an Elite Jounin, Jounins are just cabbages to be massacred.

"Damn, Tell me about his new techniques" She urged him to give her more details. 

"He could already do 128 Palms and even created a new variant of it" Sora said and started describing the vacuum palm version of the move. 

Hanabi was impressed by this. 

"It seems I really have to up my training before he leaves me in the dust" With that Hanabi went back to her training. 

Sora also went to Training Ground 96 to continue his training. 

***

Location- ???

Time- Nearly 3 years since Naruto left the village. 

Two figures could be seen standing and looking at each other. 

One figure moved his headband above his eyes and a pupil less could be seen. 

However, in the next instant, some words appeared on his eye and a red eye with three tomoe could be seen. 

"Maa Maa, it's been a while since I had unsealed this" The figure said and put the other figure in a genjutsu. 

For both of them, the surroundings changed. 

They were now in a genjutsu world. 

"So, give me all the information" The other figure asked. 

"You really need to learn to be patient, this techniques are going to make myself really stronger" the silver-haired individual said while giving him a scroll. 

"Do you really need to encrypt this?" The scroll disappeared from other party's hand. 

This was technically a genjutsu world, so all the information was taken by the receiver. 

"If you want to learn my techniques, won't it be better to just learn it from me directly?" The other party retorted. 

These two were none other than Kakashi and Sasuke. 

"Tch, anyway, I will leave first" Sasuke said and his three tomoe Sharigan started rotating till they changed into a new pattern. 

Mangekyou!

Sasuke had awakened this when he witnessed Sora dying. 

"It really feels weird every time I see this happening" Kakashi said while nonchantly reading his book. 

'Izanagi-no-Mikoto' 

Sasuke felt his surroundings disappear. 

The familiar soul-wrenching pain came. 

'Uhh, this really feels bad every time I feel it, does it gets worse with each use?' Sasuke wondered while enduring the pain. 

Sasuke's both eyes had this ability, which allows him to use Izanagi at will, but at a large-scale, such that he could rewrite the reality on himself and go back in time. 

The longer the time jump is, more the pain would be while doing that. 

So would be the temporary blindness it gives to the User- in one or both eyes depending on that. 

Also, due to this ability, Sasuke won't get blind as every time he uses this ability, he is back to a version who hadn't. 

However, due to the pain, Sasuke can't spam it. 

Along with having to live the life himself, Kakashi was worried about the mental issues it could cause, especially to a person who already have mental issues

One time Sasuke had to go into a coma for 2 weeks due to the pain. 

After that, with several experiments, they had deduced that amount which he could travel back in time depends on his yin and currently Sasuke could travel back few months, stark contrast to less than an hour on his first use. 

Sasuke could vividly remember telling Kakashi about his Mangekyou 2 months in their training trip. 

FLASHBACK-no JUTSU: 

"Kakashi" Sasuke said attracting his attention. 

"Yes?" Kakashi's eyes widened as he looked at a kaleidoscopic pattern in his pupil's eyes. 

He on instinct looked away. 

However, Kakashi was already put in a genjutsu.

"Don't break it, I am afraid that other's might be able to hear what I am going to say" 

Kakashi was wary, but relaxed when he noticed that he could break the genjutsu unlike Tsukyomi.

Last time he saw a Mangekyou, he was sent into a coma for who knows how long. 

"Wait, what? When? How?" Kakashi suddenly asked barrage of questions. 

"I wanted to tell you for a while, but I awakened it during the mission to retrieve the Fifth Hokage" 

"Oh, Does anybody else knows?" 

"Apart from us, no" 

"How did you get it? I thought it requires intense emotional experience to do that?" Kakashi know a bit about Mangekyou due to getting information from the Third previously. 

"I witnessed Sora's death" 

"..." 

Kakashi was speechless. 

He was about to ask him to clarify when his eyes widened. 

"That day, when Sora said that he received memory of one of his clone... that's related to this?" Kakashi remembered Sasuke's unusual actions and had asked the latter, but Sasuke hadn't gave him a concrete knowledge. 

Sasuke clenched his fist, remembering the scene which made him awaken his eyes in the first place. 

His eyes become redder. 

"It's fine if you don't want to talk about it" Even though Kakashi was curious, he won't force Sasuke to remember the scene. 

***

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