novelraw Chapter 557 Brother Complex
Chapter 557 Brother Complex
"What on earth happened... Sasuke, your eyes!"
Uchiha Itachi stared into Satsuki's eyes, his body leaning back slightly, a defensive posture he rarely displayed—even when facing a powerful enemy, he would never lose his composure like this.
"You are... no, you are indeed Sasuke, but this is impossible..."
Itachi Uchiha truly couldn't understand the current situation.
His first suspicion was that the person in front of him wasn't Uchiha Sasuke at all. Because it was impossible for Sasuke's Sharingan to have progressed to this level in just a few days.
The purple and red interwoven patterns, the way the tomoe slowly rotate within them—that's not the Sharingan, not even the Mangekyou Sharingan, that's… the Rinnegan.
No.
Itachi Uchiha rejected this judgment in his mind.
He had seen the Rinnegan in the Akatsuki organization. The power of those eyes was enough to make a person a god, but the feeling he got from the eyes in front of him was completely different from those Rinnegan.
If Akatsuki's Rinnegan is a bottomless lake, then Sasuke's eyes are an ocean with no end in sight.
Standing on the shore, looking at the vast expanse of water, I had no idea how deep it was, no idea what was hidden inside, and no room for even guessing.
This power was beyond his comprehension.
But... there's one thing he's certain of.
The source of that eye power, the aura of chakra, the feeling of being connected by blood—he was all too familiar with it.
That was Sasuke Uchiha's original essence, the unique chakra fluctuation of his younger brother, Sasuke Uchiha.
Itachi Uchiha's Mangekyou Sharingan was telling him an impossible truth: the person in front of him was Sasuke Uchiha himself.
However, this Sasuke was so powerful that he couldn't see through him at all.
"Are you doubting my identity, Itachi?"
Zuo Yue slowly said, "Then let me make this clear. I want to teach you a lesson simply because of your behavior of arbitrarily deciding other people's lives."
With a soft "bang," the transformation technique on Zuo Yue was dispelled.
Itachi Uchiha's eyes widened again.
The face in front of me... looks a lot like Sasuke, but it's not quite the same as Sasuke.
The curve of his cheeks was closer to another face he was extremely familiar with—Uchiha Mikoto.
The mother he killed with his own hands. This face seemed to be a blend of Sasuke and Mikoto's features, kneaded into a look he had never seen before, yet took for granted.
"...You are...Sasuke?"
Itachi Uchiha's voice was somewhat hoarse, "Sasuke from the future... no, from another world?"
His tone was uncertain; even he himself thought the deduction was too absurd, and he began to wonder if he had fallen under some kind of illusion again.
Itachi Uchiha's mind raced, a series of possibilities flashing through his head. What if Sasuke were a girl? What if the child who had always followed him around calling him "brother" wasn't a younger brother but a younger sister?
What if the mother had given birth to a daughter instead of a son? Then this girl would probably look like this when she grew up.
The connection of blood ties cannot be faked.
Uchiha Satsuki was a little unhappy. She watched Uchiha Itachi's face gradually shift from shock to contemplation, and then from contemplation to understanding, and felt a surge of annoyance.
This guy guessed it so quickly?
After all, Itachi Uchiha was a brother-complex individual with an extremely strong desire for control.
The response to Itachi Uchiha was a half-purple Susanoo.
Purple chakra surged in the night, quickly coalescing into a huge half-body outline around Zuo Yue's body.
Satsuki stood in the center of Susanoo, enveloped in that purple light, her eyes coldly fixed on Uchiha Itachi opposite her.
This is the second stage of Susanoo. Under the control of Zotsuki, the giant purple giant raised its arm, opened its palm, and a huge energy bow appeared out of thin air. The bowstring was drawn, and an arrow formed from chakra was nocked on the bow, the arrowhead aimed at Uchiha Itachi.
Uchiha Itachi looked at the purple Susanoo opposite him. He didn't have time to think and quickly activated his Mangekyou Sharingan.
A red light surged from his eyes, quickly coalescing into a red half-body Susanoo around his body, facing the purple giant opposite him.
When Itachi Uchiha activated his Mangekyou Sharingan, he felt no discomfort in his eyes at all. This long-lost feeling made him feel somewhat unaccustomed for a moment.
Itachi Uchiha's red Susanoo raised its arm, opened its palm, and a huge tomoe appeared in its palm.
"Yasaka no Magatama!"
The red magatama flew out of Susanoo's palm and spun towards Satsuki's purple Susanoo.
Zuo Yue watched the red magatama flying towards her, and gently loosened her grip.
A purple chakra arrow was released from the giant energy bow and shot straight toward the red tomoe.
"boom!"
The arrow collided with the magatama, bursting into a blinding light. The purple arrow was not blocked by the magatama—it pierced straight through the center of the red magatama like a red-hot iron needle piercing a piece of tofu, shattering the spinning magatama into fragments.
Red flame fragments scattered and flew everywhere, but before they could even hit the ground, they were blown away by the shockwaves generated by the purple arrows.
The arrow continued its trajectory without slowing down after piercing the magatama, heading straight for Itachi Uchiha's Susanoo.
The difference in power between the two sides was simply too great. The Yasaka Magatama couldn't even withstand the arrows for a moment.
Itachi quickly activated his eye technique, and red chakra surged from the ribs of Susanoo, rapidly covering his entire upper body and forming a thick layer of red armor.
Susanoo has moved from the second stage to the third stage—armor covers his entire body, greatly increasing his defensive capabilities. This is a form he has rarely needed to use in past battles.
"boom!!!"
The purple arrow slammed into Itachi Uchiha's Susanoo. The purple chakra and the red armor collided violently in mid-air, and the shockwave from the explosion spread in all directions, blowing the surrounding trees to the side and hurling layers of soil from the ground.
Itachi Uchiha's Susanoo was enveloped in purple light, and his red armor was constantly cracking in the explosions, only to be filled and repaired by new chakra.
Itachi Uchiha covered his eyes in pain.
It wasn't the pain from overusing a pupil technique, but rather the intense vibration of his Susanoo being attacked, which was transmitted directly to his eyes through the chakra connection, like a heavy punch to his eyeballs.
The third form was completely insufficient. That thick layer of red armor was utterly ineffective against Zuo Yue's attacks.
Itachi Uchiha gritted his teeth and released his hands from his eyes. He took a deep breath, and the light in his Mangekyou Sharingan intensified.
There was no other way. He had no choice but to once again unleash his eye power, pushing the output of the Mangekyou Sharingan to its absolute limit.
Crimson chakra surged wildly from his body, unstoppable like a flood bursting its banks. Susanoo began to expand under the infusion of chakra, rapidly growing its lower body from its half-body form, transforming from a few-meter-tall half-giant into a complete giant tens of meters tall.
The red armor became thicker and more exquisite, and a pair of huge wings spread out from its back. The entire Susanoo exuded a solemn and oppressive aura.
This is the complete form of Susanoo. It's a form that Itachi Uchiha almost never used.
Over the years, his terminally ill body simply could not withstand this level of ocular power consumption. Every time he tried to use the Complete Body Susanoo, it would put a huge burden on his body and even directly threaten his life.
But now, Amaterasu has suppressed all the diseases and hidden injuries in his body. His body is more relaxed than ever before, and his pupil power is more abundant than ever before. He can use the full power of these eyes without any scruples.