Gojo stepped forward, hands casually buried in his pockets, his voice ringing sharp and clear through the fractured silence.
"Let's end this." And then, he shattered the rules.
Red and Blue surged, spiraling within the folds of Infinity, compressing tighter, denser, until the unstable fusion birthed something far more lethal. The moment they merged, an eruption of violent purple energy howled outward, the earth beneath Gojo crumbling into ash as space itself distorted under the pressure.
Sasuke's Mangekyō Sharingan flared, his pupils contracting in disbelief.
"You insane bastard…"
He could see it. The raw strain coiling through Gojo's body, the Reverse Cursed Technique burning at full throttle, patching flesh and bone just to keep him standing. The air around him detonated with every step, but beneath the madness, Sasuke recognized the terrifying truth.
This wasn't recklessness.
This was evolution. Gojo was shattering his own limits, doing what had never been done before. Hollow Purple was pushed into Infinity, willingly trading Infinity's perfect defense for pure, overwhelming offense, turning his body into a living singularity. Normally, with the Six Eyes alone, Gojo was untouchable in close combat. His perception bordered on divine, allowing him to dismantle most opponents before they even moved.
But Sasuke was different. The Sharingan didn't just perceive, it adapted. Evolved. Countered. And it had already begun.
Gojo turned toward him, that sharp frown curving into a wild, feral grin. His Six Eyes gleamed like celestial stars, bright enough to blind. Slowly, he raised two fingers, the air splitting open as raw, coiled energy surged between them.
Sasuke braced.
A moment later, the void screamed. A dense, glowing sphere of purple annihilation burst into existence, tearing through the seams of reality as it rocketed toward him, the signature technique: Hollow Purple.
Everything in its path evaporated. Earth. Sky. Space itself.
The Susano'o erupted around Sasuke in an instant, the monstrous warrior coalescing into existence, its colossal arm stretching outward in defiance. The titanic hand closed around the oncoming Hollow Purple, but the attack didn't stop. It devoured. It advanced. Bit by bit, the fingers of the Susano'o began to dissolve.
Sasuke gritted his teeth, his right eye flaring with black flame.
"Amaterasu."
The cursed flames wrapped around the Susano'o's fingers, forming an obsidian gauntlet of ever-burning fire. The moment the two forces clashed, the air fractured, the endless flame against a singularity. For an instant, they deadlocked. And then chaos.
A violent detonation of purple and black swallowed the world. Shockwaves shredded the landscape, black flames devoured the remnants, and for a moment, the battlefield was reduced to a war-torn abyss of destruction and void. But neither fighter had fallen.
From the dissipating smoke, Sasuke's Susano'o reformed, stronger, sleeker, more refined. Another skeletal arm manifested from the other side of the rib cage. He had adapted. The Susano'o glistened with sharper edges, its form more efficient, more precise.
And Gojo stood there too, cracks still knitting themselves closed, the glow of his Six Eyes deepening. His body wasn't just holding on, it was evolving, his cursed energy output growing exponentially. With every exchange, with every clash, he was pushing above and beyong what is possible.
The world blinked, Gojo reappeared behind him, hand already laced with a compressed hollow Purple. A single touch would erase flesh and bone alike. Sasuke's blade swung up, sparks flying as metal met cursed energy mid-strike, repelling the blow.
But Gojo's smirk only deepened. His form blurred once more, teleporting just out of range, his fingers already weaving the shape of another hollow Purple.
A sphere of compressed destruction screamed forward, its passage warping reality into a violet blur. Sasuke's Mangekyō flared. With a sharp breath, he utilized all the cursed energy he could muster, coating his skeletal Susano'o in an armour of Hellish flames. The Hollow Purple crashed into it, the cursed technique eating away at the construct with horrifying ease.
Sasuke's brow tightened as cracks splintered through the ribs, but before the sphere could reach him, he forced his cursed energy outward. His Susano'o evolved, bones expanding. A large head materialized, bringing with it, two massive swords that he coated with Amaterasu's flames. The half-complete Susano'o roared into existence. The power behind it dwarfed the fragile cage from moments before.
Two evolutions. Just like that, the Susano'o had undergone drastic changes compared to what it was at the beginning of the battle. All at the cost of blindness within his own two eyes. Sasuke could feel it.
The Hollow Purple detonated against the new form, but the Susano'o endured. Sasuke lunged forward, the Susano'o's giant hand gripping its blade and cleaving through the space Gojo occupied.
But the blow met nothing but air.
Gojo's body flickered out of existence, teleporting to safety just above Sasuke's blind spot. The air distorted as he appeared mid-leap, striking down with another Hollow Purple. But the Susano'o twisted, its armored shoulder crashing upward like a spiked wall, forcing Gojo to teleport again.
It was a dance of teleportation versus prediction, movement versus counter-movement.
Gojo couldn't match the brute force of the half-complete Susano'o, not head-on, but he didn't need to. His attacks were calculated, precise, warping space at every opportunity to test Sasuke's reflexes. Each teleportation was a heartbeat away from a killing blow, if Sasuke hesitated even once, it would be over.
But Sasuke didn't hesitate. He adjusted to Gojo's rhythm, learning with each exchange. The Mangekyō sharpened its predictions, the Susano'o's swings growing faster, narrower, locking Gojo into a box of diminishing options.
Gojo exhaled slowly, a rare flicker of amusement in his voice. "You've gotten sharper mate."
Sasuke didn't reply. His answer came in the form of another strike, the Susano'o's blade slicing downward with a force that split the ground for miles. Gojo vanished again, teleporting high into the air, hands raised.
For a moment, everything grew still. The cursed energy surrounding him swelled to its peak. Another sphere of annihilation formed, larger than before, the gravitational pull around it ripping stone and soil from the ground. Sasuke's Susano'o raised its arms, cursed energy hardening like tempered steel as it braced.
The Hollow Purple shot forward, erasing space itself. The Susano'o met it head-on, its blade pressing against the sphere, trying to hold it back.
The clash was cataclysmic. Purple shockwaves cracked the sky, and the earth beneath them cratered deeper with every passing second. For a moment, the world was a standstill of violet and black.
But Sasuke pushed. His Susano'o roared, the half-complete armor burning with raw cursed energy and the Amaterasu and with a violent surge, he deflected the Hollow Purple skyward, where it exploded harmlessly in the atmosphere.
Sasuke's breathing was labored now. Kenjaku's poison was eating him up from the inside. And for a moment there, his eyes blurred, a momentary instance of blindness which disappeared. . Gojo, too, looked worn, blood trailing from his lips, his chest rising and falling with effort. In his new form, even breathing was a hassle. He was using RCT to sustain his blood oxygen levels which wasn't even a good option.
Both fighters were giving it their all. But neither was finished.
Sasuke narrowed his eyes, formulating his next move. Pure strength wouldn't break Gojo, but deception might.
He blurred, splitting into multiple clones, each identical down to the chakra signature. They moved in perfect unison, circling Gojo from all sides. Even the Six Eyes faltered for an instant, unable to pick the real one from the fakes.
Gojo's expression flickered, intrigued, but unconcerned. He raised his hand, preparing another Hollow Purple to clear the field in one overwhelming strike. But that's when the real Sasuke struck. From behind, his Chidori bloomed, lightning screeching, and before Gojo could fully turn, the attack lanced forward. Sasuke couldn't even care about the pure violet destructive aura around him and pierced through his side, sliding between ribs, close to his heart.
Gojo staggered, eyes wide as the electric pulse surged through him, his mouth twisting into a sharp, pained grin. Blood spilled from the wound, painting the ground red.
"You got me…" he muttered.
But Sasuke's victory came at a price. Even wounded, Gojo's hand lifted once more, fingers trembling but steady enough, pointing right towards Sasuke's chest.
"Hollow Purple." He laughed devilishly.
The sphere burst into life once again, the distance between them too short for Sasuke to dodge. His Mangekyō flickered with one last desperate attempt to move, but it wasn't enough. The sphere launched forward, poised to erase him entirely.
But before it could strike, a blur cut through the space between them. Steel met cursed energy, disrupting the Hollow Purple mid-flight, forcing it to collapse in on itself in a violent implosion. Toji. He had watched the fight unfold with his two eyes. And had chosen to intervene now and take care of Gojo once and for all..
Gojo, swaying on his feet, met Toji's cold, sharp stare. The two said nothing. No words were necessary.
Sasuke staggered to his feet, barely conscious, glanced at his unexpected savior, coughing blood but managing a bitter smile.
"You fucker. Leave now!" Sasuke out, grabbing Toji's shirt, when he saw the devious smile that was slowly tugging at Gojo's lips.
"I said it before, didn't I? I'll kill the both of you.."
Gojos arms widened to his sides, as his stepped out of his Purple aura state like some Goddamn lunatic. Cursed energy bubbled around him for one last stand.
"Nine Ropes...
Polarised Light.."
Sasuke sensed it. Gojo was about to unleash destruction on a never before seen scale. There was nothing he could do to stop him. "Arghhhh!" With a loud cry, he summoned all the cursed energy in his core. The Susano'o roared to life around him and Toji.
"Crow and Shomyo.."
Gojo began to levitate slowly.
"Between front and back..
Hollow Purple.."
Gojo's arms spread wide, his head tilting back as an unrestrained ferocity twisted his features. And there, in that heartbeat of silence, Sasuke saw it. A Hollow Purple, colossal and seething, swelling to the size of a massive house. And then the bass dropped.
BOOOOOOOM!
Destruction erupted, not just across the battlefield, but through the entire Star Plasma Vessel Association. In an instant, it was erased from existence, as if it had never been.
Within the ribcage of the Susano'o, Toji reacted on instinct, thrusting the Inverted Spear of Heaven forward, desperate to sever the oncoming tide. But before the cursed tool could make its stand, his entire arm was devoured, erased like a speck of dust in the void.
And then, darkness.
The world was swallowed whole by Hollow Purple. The sky dimmed to an unnatural black, while waves of violet light tore through space itself. Shockwaves, like the wrath of a god, split the earth open as the roaring void devoured everything in sight
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The tires screeched as Mei slammed the brakes, the car jolting to a halt on the empty roadside. Her chest heaved, breath caught between panic and disbelief.
Far on the horizon, an enormous column of violet light split the heavens, swallowing the sky itself. The ground beneath her still trembled from the distant shockwaves.
And there he stood, tensed, arms folded and eyes fixed on the spectacle. Suguru. A faint, almost bittersweet smile tugged at the corner of his lips.
"We all thought you were dead, Mei.." he murmured without turning back, as Mei walked out of the car, seeing the destruction on the horizon. Her eyes squinted for a moment. Suguru turned towards her. "Is it true, Mei. That you betrayed us..for him.."
Mei finally cast a gaze at him. "They used me as bait, to lure him out. And then permitted my death just to spite him. You betrayed me first.." She was calm. Suguru was slumped at first, but he sighed and turned around. He knew who the "you" she was referring to was.
"Those two would kill eachother.." Suguru spoke after a bit of silence. Mei sent him a glance for a moment and then shook her head. "He better not die.."
A/N: Finito...xd