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Chapter 203: Madara Found Out About Sealing VRMMO
KAGUYA POV
From the moment Kaguya was sealed away in darkness, she never imagined her days would turn out like this.
Each morning, a flow of visitors came to the Raiken house. Uzumaki shinobi stopped by out of politeness after learning that the Kaguya Otsutsuki was their great-great-great-grandmother.
They did this because they had already lost an elder after another village attacked them, so Kaguya's addition brought them some happiness. They finally have other elders in their clan.
While Uchiha clan members arrived to meet the legend, Uchiha Madara, they also wanted to see the infamous Three Tomoe Sharingan on Kaguya's forehead. The former Hyuga branch members, now free from any clan name, came because they wanted to see the woman whose blood explained so much of what they had inherited.
She found out that being visited by all her descendants is a very happy thing.
For a thousand years, she would wake up a few times until she lost count and would fall asleep because of the seal that exhausted her body.
Now, she sat in gardens and sitting rooms, surrounded by her own descendants. Although their blood had been diluted, they carried parts of her in their chakra, their eyes, and their body cells. None of them looked at her the way people from 1000 years ago did. Instead, they looked at her the way people look at family.
Children, especially, had no hesitation around her. Itsuki visited her often, still asking questions without any filter. Several young Uzumaki and Uchiha children started following her whenever she came, curious about the woman everyone called Kaguya-sama and not bothered by the history tied to her name.
But Amame, still just 3 years old, had become Kaguya's clear favorite.
Amame had no idea who Kaguya was, or anything about seals or ancient wars. She just saw a woman with soft white hair and reached for her whenever she was close, babbling half-formed words and asking to be picked up.
"Gaga," Amame said one afternoon, tugging at the edge of Kaguya's sleeve.
"That is not my name," Kaguya said, though she was already lifting the girl into her lap without any real resistance.
"Gaga," Amame repeated, not caring about being accurate, and patted Kaguya's cheek with her small hand.
Kaguya looked down at the child in her arms, feeling something settle in her chest that a century of guilt had never let her feel until now.
'This,' she thought, watching Amame try to grab a strand of her hair, 'is what I almost erased to end suffering. A child who does not know enough of the world to fear it yet.'
She held Amame a little closer and let the girl continue pulling gently at her hair without complaint.
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MADARA POV
Madara was bored. He had agreed to deal with Isshiki first, but now he was bored.
He did not feel this way often. He'd spent most of his life in the shadows, planning to fight or dominate the world. But after his whereabouts were revealed and he finally knew his dream was fake, his days felt incredibly boring. fell into wanting to fight. Every part of his body wanted a real challenge, to test the strength Raiken had given him against someone who could push him back.
But he knew that the time was not right because, given any time, they would face other Otsutsuki Clan.
So he wandered around, and Raiken would follow him everywhere.
During one of these aimless walks through the Uzumaki compound, he saw Itsuki standing outside a small building he had never noticed before. Itsuki adjusted straps on some device, then stepped inside and closed the door behind him.
Madara had actually heard about this before, from old reports White Zetsu gathered while spying on the village years ago. It was something about a sealed training space, a technology that let someone train inside a controlled illusion without any of the risks of a real fight. He had not thought much of it then, dismissing it as just another one of Raiken's inventions.
Now, standing here and watching the door Itsuki had gone through, Madara felt his curiosity grow.
He found Raiken later that day and asked him directly.
"What exactly is that device Itsuki uses?" said Madara.
Raiken looked up from his work, clearly pleased to be asked about something he enjoyed explaining.
"Sealing VRMMO," Raiken said. "It's a fuinjutsu device that creates a fully immersive training environment. Inside, you can fight at full power and use any technique, no matter how destructive, against opponents I've programmed with real combat data. Nothing outside the seal is harmed."
"Wait a minute," Madara pointed his hand up. "You have a device that can make me use full power?"
"Correct," replied Raiken.
"My Full power and even Rinegan?" he repeated. "Without damage to the surroundings or even to me."
"You are right," Raiken said. "Nothing gets destroyed except what's inside the simulation. You could level a whole mountain range in there and nothing outside the seal would be affected. That's how Itsuki has been training against opponents far above his level without any real risk to himself or the village."
Something in Madara's chest, the part of him that had spent decades holding back his full power out of necessity or caution, stirred with an interest he had not felt in a long time. Madara wanted to use the device and fight Raiken.
Raiken smiled, the particular smile he wore when something unfolded exactly the way he had hoped.
"Do you think it is possible for us to have a quick spar inside that Sealing VRMMO?" asked Madara.
"Yeah, we can use 100% of our power without being scared of accidentally killing each other," replied Raiken.
"So why are we waiting here? Let's go have a spar with me," invited Madara
"I was wondering when you would ask," he said. "Come. Let me show you how it works."
Madara and Raiken went to the Sealing VRMMO location. Some people saw them and asked what they wanted to do.
After hearing that they would spar with each other, the event became bigger, and other clans were also interested in knowing how much stronger Raiken had become and whether he even defeat Madara.