180. An Unforgettable Memory

Sasuke took a deep breath. 

"My ability allows me to go back into time" Kakashi was expecting something along the lines of prophecy-related abilities, but was taken aback when he heard the outrageous ability. 

"What are the side effects?" Kakashi didn't believe that this ability would come without that. 

"When I activate it, I feel a lot of pain, which is directly proportional to how long I went back" 

Kakashi's eyes widened. 

"Does that pain have any long-lasting effect on your body or on your chakra?" 

"None that I noticed till now" Sasuke answered honestly. 

"I see" Kakashi stroked his chin. 

But suddenly his eyes widened. 

"What's the limit of how much you can go back in time?" Kakashi suddenly asked. 

"Why do you think there's a limit?" Sasuke instead asked. 

"If there was none, you would have definitely gone back to the time Uchiha Massacre happened"

"..." Sasuke had indeed thought about doing this. 

"Currently, it's one week" 

"Currently?" 

"It does seem to be increasing with each attempt, I also felt my spiritual component increasing" 

"Interesting, I think your Yin increase is probably due to the life experience you are accumulating, but I might be wrong" Kakashi proposed a hypothesis. 

"Wait... This is a broken ability" Kakashi suddenly said. 

"Do you realize that now?" Sasuke deadpanned.

"No, I mean, you technically could have memories of your future self and your allies while coming back in time and giving them that data and methods they took to achieve that while that being personalized and steps where they could have reduced the time taken and so on" Kakashi's words left Sasuke dumbstruck.

'Wait... Can't I attack Itachi countless times now with this ability' Sasuke suddenly had a dangerous thought. 

"You would have a lot of mental trauma if you go that path, I would recommend you to accumulate strength enough to easily defeat him" 

'Did he read my mind?' Sasuke looked at his supposedly sensei who was reading his book. 

"No" 

"I feel deja vu" Sasuke said.

"Anyway, about Sora's death..." Kakashi decided to provoke that topic. 

He was really shocked that Sora fought the reanimated Kazekage and defeated him, but Sasuke mentioning his death really made him think about how things would have gone bad in that encounter. 

Sasuke took a deep breath again. 

That memory might not be as horrendous as the night of the massacre, but it was unpleasant nonetheless. 

Before Kakashi could say anything, Sasuke spoke.

"It started with Sora losing one of his arms in the battle, his first mistake" Kakashi started regretting a bit asking about this incident. 

He really felt uncomfortable when a 6-year-old lost his arm. 

"He had luckily created a shadow clone just as he lost consciousness, and that clone injected a liquid that dulls one's senses while letting them not feel any pain, and woke up the main body

After that, Sora created a shadow clone and some chase happened till, he decided to seal the kage head on, however, that was his second mistake which led him to have a hole in his chest and die" Sasuke said all that in one breath. 

His face was hardened. 

"However, there was a shadow clone with one hand present on the scene, protecting the fifth Hokage - who had hemophobia" 'I wonder if that would have happened in the first place if she didn't have that, however, due to Naruto's crazy move, she was somehow able to overcame it' 

"Anyway, Sora had already created a safe measure in case he died, and sealed the Kazekage with his remaining clone" Sasuke sighed.

"That does sound like Sora, despite his goofy demeanour, he isn't arrogant per se" Kakashi chimed in. 

"yeah, anyway, the shadow clone didn't dispel yet, it did feel that he was losing control over his chakra" 

Kakashi was shocked about such a phenomenon. 

"He created a seal to collect all the blood and remains of his body together and burned it with that jutsu he copied from me... without a Sharingan" Sasuke chuckled at the end. 

Kakashi sucked in a large amount of air. 

"So... that body Sora had gotten a memory of from another time, was it him burning his real body?" Kakashi asked him with a hardened face. 

Sasuke nodded.

Kakashi didn't want to think about how bizarre this sounded, both about the burning part and the shadow clone's memory going to another time itself. 

"Oh, I almost forgot, Do you want to know Sora's last words which his main body said before dying?" Kakashi almost wanted to say no on instinct. 

But, for some reason, he felt that this would give him a deeper understanding of who Sora is. 

"Actually, I forgot that we are in a genjutsu, I could show you the scene directly" Sasuke couldn't forget that instance, it had a deeper impact on his memory. 

He wouldn't have forgotten that memory even without sharingan.

The surroundings of the illusion world changed. 

Kakashi's breath stopped as he looked at the red-head with a lance made of golden sand piercing him through the place where his heart was supposed to be. 

"It was fun till it lasted... If I had another 100 lives, I think I would choose to live like this again every single time, I regret nothing!" The Sora in the illusion said before falling to the ground lifelessly. 

Despite Kakashi not being on the scene, he felt rage. 

Sora might not be his disciple or pupil, he had watched the boy since he was 5 due to his curiosity and the Third Hokage's orders.

Kakashi immediately took hold of his emotions. 

He had seen the worst and lost many of his loved ones over time, so he was not as affected as Sasuke. 

"I understand why this has a long-lasting impact on you" Kakashi briefly said. 

FLASHBACK END

After who knows how long, the pain for Sasuke ended and he fell face to face with Kakashi. 

He instantly put him in a genjutsu with the sharingan.

"What's the date?" He asked the silver-haired man. 

"4-XX-XXX" 

"It's within my calculations, are we going to execute that?" Sasuke asked while tossing the scroll to Kakashi. 

"Yeah, once you have regained your vision," Kakashi said while looking at Sasuke's eye which was completely white. 

"I also feel unable to focus with my second eye," Sasuke said while frowning. 

It seems he might have to wait for a few days before what they are going to do. 

"You look like a hyuga like this" Kakashi joked. 

Sasuke only gave him a Uchiha-stare. 

"Anyway, how much did you progress?" Kakashi asked. 

"80 per cent of our original plan for me," Sasuke said.

"What about me?" 

"120 per cent of our original plan for you" Sasuke said while looking at the man incredibly. 

They had actually made a training plan which was very difficult and it would be a victory if they were able to get around 75 percent. 

So, it always shocked him when Kakashi went beyond that. 

He was suspicious that Kakashi was making a relatively easy plan for himself, while it was hard for him, so in recent times, he had taken on the job of making training plans. 

The result only shocked him as the numbers for Kakashi increased even more, indicating that he was actually going hard on himself. 

"It seems I was lucky" Kakashi shrugged. 

"I wonder about that" 

"You should sometimes train with Guy, He has to actually actively change his training plan, due to the latter not being able to keep up with his youth" Kakashi shook his head. 

"I am really excited about training with him now that you have hyped it up" Sasuke honestly said. 

At this point, Kakashi had become the most trustworthy person to Sasuke. 

Both of them knew each other abilities and made plans according to that. 

Genjutsu world shattered.

Kakashi started decoding the info he got from his future self while Sasuke started recuperating.

He encodes information due to using analogies and examples which are a bit too personal. 

A few days passed. 

Kakashi nodded at Sasuke and flickered away. 

After a few minutes, Sasuke followed after him. 

Suddenly, A barrier materialized around Sasuke, capturing him. 

Kakashi could be seen outside the barrier weaving hand seals. 

"Curse Seal- Release" Lines of Text appeared on Sasuke going towards his cursed mark. 

Just as this happened, Orochimaru materialised above Sasuke's head and his hands went for Sasuke's eyes.

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A/n- I had to write 5 chapters today T-T, 3 of this fic and 2 of my new fic, I am tired as hell. 

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