The world gained color and life once more as the movement of time restarted itself.
Kazuo himself was looking at the self-proclaimed Madara Uchiha behind the mask for a few moments. He had just proclaimed his agreement to join the Akatsuki.
"You will be contacted later on." The man spoke; his voice was clearly augmented, at least Kazuo thought so. It wasn't a clear augmentation, and he clearly sounded like a regular man however, that voice he was using was something he remembered very clearly. It was a specific voice that nobody could forget.
'I wonder how he was able to perfectly match his voice to Madaras' real one.' Kazuo thought to himself, but he quickly discarded the thoughts. The masked man was disappearing quickly before his eyes, his body transforming into fog that was quickly being scattered into thin air.
However, even that wasn't what Kazuo was currently focused on, no, it was the notifications that were appearing before his very eyes in the form of blue holographic panels.
[ Ding! ]
[ User has joined the Akatsuki ]
[ Ding! ]
[ User has declared himself an enemy of Konoha. ]
[ Ding! ]
[ This information is currently hidden from the rest of the world. Thus, some rewards will be withheld until the User is publicly acknowledged as a member.
[ Rewards Withheld : Title: Akatsuki Member, S-Rank Rogue Ninja ]
[ Ding! ]
[ The rest of the rewards are being created and will be handed to the user shortly. ]
[ Ding! ]
[ User has been given: S rank Elemental Jutsu [ Random ], Elemental Affinity of Choosing. Bloodline mission forcible completion. ]
Kazuo couldn't help himself any longer, his lips curved up quickly as a look of pure joy appeared on his face. He felt almost giddy and overwhelmed by the sight before him.
However, even that joy was quick to leave him and be replaced by something else. Something much less pleasant.
It started quickly, it was like one moment he felt fine, and in the very next second, his body was burning up from the inside, like his veins had been lit on fire and his blood had turned into molten lava. His muscles spasmed constantly as he fell to the ground, a complete trembling, shaking mess. He couldn't even scream; his throat muscles were completely useless. That was only the physical aspect, however, and something he wouldn't have really minded. No, what was truly damning was something else.
Kazuo's eyes had turned orange with a clock symbol in them. Just like they were when he was using the vision ability. However, this time, it felt different. Instead of time stopping and reversing, it was as if time had slowed. Or it might have been only his perception of time that had increased by leaps and bounds, and this caused the torture he was experiencing.
On the outside, to anyone else, Kazuo had only experienced a few seconds of pain however, to Kazuo himself? It was more than six months. Six months of being stuck in constant, ending harrowing pain worse than anything he had ever felt, and Kazuo had quite the long list of creative ways he had died in, from disembowelment all the way to pure explosions.
'Fuck… is it over?' Kazuo thought as he felt the pain disappear, it felt like a void, he didn't even dare move, his body was completely unresponsive. His chakra was in complete disarray, or what little remained of it after he had spent it almost completely.
'This is bad, I need to survive, need to quickly get medical attention, if I return to the past, I might have to do that shit again. Move. FUCKING MOVE.' Kazuo thought to himself as he released his first grunt of pain outwardly, using every part of his will to command his body however, it remained unresponsive. At most, his finger twitched slightly.
Kazuo could feel it, his limbs losing their strength gradually but surely, his vision starting to darken at the same time. Chakra deprivation was quickly setting in, and in his current state, fainting would most likely mean death.
It was at this moment that he once more heard it, after what had felt to him like six long, grueling months.
[ Ding! ]
[ User's Bloodline has been partially activated. ]
[ User has gained another ability. ]
[ Time Loop Skill has leveled up ]
[ User has gained the Eye of Time Kekke Genkai. ]
[ The Eye of Time abilities are heavily suppressed as the user's bloodline activation is still too low. ]
[ Eye of Time ( Dojutsu ) ]
[ Abilities ]
[ Time Stop ] [ Current limit: O.1 Seconds ]
[ Time Skip ] [ Locked ]
[ Time Slow ] [ Locked ]
[ Time Break ] [ Locked ]
'How the fuck is a time stop for point one seconds going to help me survive, you useless fucking system. You piece of shit!!' Kazuo thought as his head started lolling to the side and his eyelids finally fully closed.
He had fainted.
On the other side of the village, Kazuo's shadow clone had been standing guard at the root base. Making sure that the old man hadn't survived using Izanagi.
'He shouldn't be able to revive himself now, right? Has enough time passed?' Kazuo's shadow clone thought to itself before it felt it, the change in his abilities, as he quickly opened the status menu.
'What the fuck? How did my main body complete the bloodline mission?' The shadow clone thought, however, his mind was quickly snapped back into seriousness as he felt movement down below.
There it was, like a mirage or a dream, Danzo's body was being woven into reality right in front of Kazuo's eyes.
'Well, there isn't a better time than this to give this a go.' Kazuo thought as he snapped his eyes open and forced chakra towards them, the color quickly changing to a vibrant yellowish orange whilst a clock replaced his pupils.
Sending chakra to his limbs, Kazuo quickly performed a bodyflicker jutsu whilst at the same time using the time stop.
The world stopped for but 0.1 seconds. However, Kazuo had kept moving at insane speeds whilst the world had been frozen. In the end, creating a teleportation effect, one moment Kazuo had been much farther away, and in the next, he had already appeared before Danzo, who had no way to even react as his neck was cleanly sliced through with Kazuo's tanto.
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Here's the chapter. Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoyed it. Quite the fun one to write about, dojutsu. So yeah, it's broken, just like his time loop is. However, at this point, it uses a decent amount of chakra, and it's only 0.1 seconds, it still is deadly though.
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