tkworld Chapter 404 Love and Hate
Chapter 404 Love and Hate
"Satsuki! Stop—!"
Shisui's exclamation was drowned out by the roar of chakra. He stared at the purple Susanoo that rose from the ground, his heart trembling violently.
Satsuki has also awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan?! She can directly summon Susanoo... This means that her eye power was not just awakened, but was awakened much earlier. Now she is just awakening the most sublime power in her eye through hatred.
It wasn't hatred that opened my eyes.
It was because of hatred that he lost control.
"boom--!!!"
The purple bone claw, carrying a murderous intent to crush everything, slashed towards Uchiha Yuzu, whose face was ashen!
"Stop—!!"
The kaleidoscope patterns in Shisui's eyes spun wildly! A red half-giant rose from behind him, and the iron fist of the red Susanoo slammed into the purple bone claw!
"Bang—!!!"
The moment the two immense forces collided, the shockwave exploded like a tsunami! The walls of the stone chamber crumbled completely amidst wailing cries, and the ceiling turned into a torrential downpour of rubble—the entire room was about to collapse!
"Everyone must be moved!!"
Naruto quickly formed hand seals! Several shadow clones appeared in the blink of an eye amidst the falling rocks, accurately grabbing the main bodies of Fugaku, Mikoto, Yuzu, and Shisui.
Flying Thunder God Technique: Mass Teleportation!
In the instant of the burst of golden light, space itself distorted.
The next instant, everyone—including the two Susanoo still locked in combat—was in a vast underground plaza.
This is the underground training ground of the [Jin] organization. The dome is as high as an underground cavern, and the ground is paved with hard black stone, enough to withstand a battle between Kage-level opponents.
"What happened?! An enemy attack?!"
"This fluctuation of eye power...it's Lord Shisui?!"
"Quickly, inform Lord Kakuzu and Lord Kisame—!"
Those members of the [Jin] organization's Anbu, who were training or passing by in the middle of the night—most of whom were Uchiha clan members who had been rescued years ago—stopped in their tracks and stared in shock at the two towering energy giants in the center of the field.
"Lord Shisui...who is he fighting?! That, that's also the Mangekyou Sharingan?!"
Zuo Yue couldn't hear these sounds at all; her world consisted only of crimson and the trembling figure with its eyes closed in the center of the crimson.
If among these so-called "resurrected" clansmen... there are also members of the hawkish faction who planned to use them to harm Naruto back then—
Then crush them all together.
Her killing intent was so palpable that it permeated the air. Driven by her will, the purple Susanoo emitted a sharp, grinding sound as its bones rubbed together, and the force in its claws increased by another three points!
Naruto stood there, his face pale beneath the mask.
He was the one who told Satsuki the truth. Now, is he the one who will stop her from taking revenge...?
The truth reopened Zuo Yue's ten-year-old wounds, and now he had to hold her bleeding hand down with his own—what was this? But he couldn't watch her fall completely into the abyss of hatred, even if it meant bearing the stigma of selfishness.
At that moment, Shisui shouted something to Satsuki.
"Wait a minute!! I know you hate that You hurt the person most important to you—but the root of all this is me! It was my own doing, it was me who forced the blame onto her! I'm the culprit—!!"
Shisui's Susanoo's arms held firmly against the purple bone claws.
"Please! I know I have no right to defend myself—but don't kill her!! I will protect her for the rest of my life! I will never let her step out of the organization—!!"
His voice was almost pleading. Growing up together, and now a decade of close companionship, even in disappointment and pain, he couldn't bear to watch Yuzu die at Zuo Yue's hands.
"Get out of here—!!"
Zuo Yue's purple Susanoo suddenly exerted its power, pushing the red giant backward several meters, carving two deep furrows in the black stone ground!
The next moment—the kaleidoscope pattern in her eyes suddenly accelerated its rotation, and a strange fluctuation of pupil power silently spread out.
Shisui was about to activate Susanoo to generate armor and break free of the restraints, but his movements suddenly froze without warning.
To onlookers, he seemed to have suddenly lost all will to fight, standing frozen in place, watching helplessly as flesh and armor began to frantically climb onto the skeleton of the purple Susanoo—
"call out--!"
Black flames suddenly ignited from the void and instantly wrapped around the red Susanoo's arm!
"This is... Amaterasu?!"
Shisui seemed to snap back to reality, but he wouldn't be distracted in battle. That brief pause just now was definitely not normal, yet Shisui was completely unaware of the anomaly!
On the sidelines, Naruto's brows were furrowed beneath his mask.
The power of the Kaleidoscope reflects the obsession of the one who awakens it—Shisui wanted to stop the rebellion, so he awakened Kotoamatsukami, which can modify other people's will; Obito could not accept Rin's death, so he awakened Kamui, which allows him to escape reality.
Kazuki's kaleidoscope... bloomed because of her love for herself.
Why did Amaterasu, who symbolizes "destruction," awaken?
The answer was revealed in the next second—Shisui's red Susanoo began to disintegrate.
It wasn't that he was defeated, but rather that his strength was drained away, crumbling, fading, and vanishing from his fingertips. Shisui's face was deathly pale as he tried to rebuild his eye power, only to discover in horror—
"What happened... my eye power... has disappeared?!"
The kaleidoscope pattern in his eyes receded like the tide, returning to ordinary black eyes. It was as if the Sharingan had never existed. At the same time, the Amaterasu black flames wrapped around his arm quietly extinguished.
"Bang--!!!"
The purple Susanoo's giant arm crashed down, and Shisui, who had lost Susanoo, was violently thrown to the ground by the force, his back hitting the black stone ground with a cracking sound.
"Ugh—!"
A mouthful of blood choked him.
"Stop the water!!"
Although Uchiha Yu was blind, the movement of the air, the chaos of chakra, and Shisui's cries of pain—all these clues instantly pieced together a cruel picture in her mind.
She staggered toward the source of the sound, her steps unsteady, her hands frantically groping in the air.
She was determined to die.
Everything about her had been negated—her ninja way, her choices, even that twisted sense of "protection," all were torn apart by the very sister she wanted to protect. So, perhaps using her life to quell Satsuki's hatred was the only value she had left.
But when the sound of Shisui collapsing came, when he heard him take all the blame upon himself and scream and beg,
A fear colder than death pierced her heart.
She stumbled and rushed to Zhishui's side, her fingers trembling violently as they touched his blood-stained clothes.
"I...I understand..."
Yu's voice was choked with sobs. "I'm sorry... I know I really did something wrong... If you want to kill me... I won't resist..."
She raised her empty eye sockets, looking towards the purple Susanoo, towards the center of that surging killing intent. "Back then... it was I who twisted Shisui's will... Shisui wasn't the culprit..."
"It was all my decision!! Don't hurt Shisui...!"
This was the first time in Zuo Yue's memory that Itachi Uchiha had begged her.
But this "bow" only made her feel a deeper sense of irony and chill. "Yes..."
Satsuki's voice came from the core of Susanoo, "Back then... I begged you in the same way."
The image of that night flashed before her eyes again—she was crying and begging Itachi, shouting, "I'll trade my life for Naruto's."
"But you still plunged the knife into his body."
Each word made the killing intent of the purple Susanoo even more solid.
On the sidelines, Naruto, having witnessed Satsuki's Mangekyou Sharingan abilities, decided to stop him now.
Even if he is later blamed by Satsuki and questioned by her, "Why won't you let me even get my revenge?", he still has to stop it.
He had already burdened Zuo Yue with too many truths that she shouldn't have to bear because of his concealment. If he were to now stand by and watch her kill her own family…
Aunt Mikoto's heart will break.
As for Satsuki—after her "revenge," she will be forever trapped in the nightmare of "murdering her parents."
Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.
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