Speedrunning Naruto to the Top

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"Recovered already? As expected from the legendary ninja of the Warring States Era—your composure is truly formidable."

Watching Uchiha Madara steady his mood and reform the Sword of Nunoboko, Izayoi drew the golden sphere in his hand back into his body and, half-praising, half-teasing, continued to speak.

Madara gave no reply. After re-stitching his body, he unleashed all four Limbo clones at Izayoi.

Four invisible slashes howled toward Izayoi again.

This time Madara kept his distance, having already spotted the weakness of Izayoi's personal dōjutsu.

Like the Outer Path's Puppet Technique of the Rinnegan or the Chakra Orbs of the Tenseigan, Izayoi's art seemed able to absorb only energy-type attacks; physical blows—or the shadow-realm strikes of Limbo—could not be devoured.

So Madara let his Limbo clones do the work.

Seeing Madara pinpoint Miketsu's flaw so quickly, Izayoi only smiled meaningfully.

"Found the weakness of Miketsu in a single exchange? Too bad you're still a step late—the last piece of the puzzle is mine now.

"Next, I'll show you the gulf between bloodline and talent!"

He back-flitted through the air, raised a black shield to block the unseen slashes, and at the same time opened his palm.

Marble-sized golden spheres flew out one after another—the latest version of Chakra Magatama born from his Rinne-Tenseigan.

Pouring more chakra into them, Izayoi swelled the orbs until they ballooned in size. The moment his lips curled upward, he dispelled the black shield and barked:

"Eighty … Gods Vacuum Attack!"

Dazzling gold light ripped the night apart, illuminating the entire region.

Madara's eyes widened as gigantic golden fists—each a condensed beam of light—roared toward him.

On reflex he raised his sword, but seasoned instinct screamed at him to stop. He liquefied his Truth-Seeking Balls, forming a huge black sphere around himself, while all four Limbo clones interposed before him, hurling Six Paths techniques into the oncoming golden tsunami.

The residual invisible slashes were already shredded by the light.

Yet the single-element Six Paths arts were like eggs hurled at boulders. The instant they touched, they were blasted apart.

Undeterred, the four clones charged, brandishing their Sword of Nunoboko.

The formless Divine Sword of the God Path met the golden fists and barely halted their advance—but could not disperse them.

After only seconds of stalemate, every spear snapped and the clones were engulfed.

No technique is perfect, not even those of the Ōtsutsuki gods. Bloodline Limits (Kekkei Mōra) are the same.

The Sword of Nunoboko—one of Kaguya's greatest trump cards—has flaws, and Limbo clones, mere projections of Madara, lack the will and resolve of a true body. Lasting even a few seconds against Izayoi's Vacuum Attack was already commendable.

Golden fists shattered the spears; the clones vanished.

Forced into a cooldown, Madara could not summon Limbo again until the timer reset—but they had bought him a chance to counter.

Encased within the black sphere, Madara shot backward.

The ground below thundered and split like an abyss; tree-thick branches the size of mountains burst upward, thrashing like titanic pythons at the golden fists.

By comparison, the fists now seemed tiny—yet when the branch met fist, the lumber exploded like detonated cliffs.

The fists, somewhat weakened, still pursued and swallowed the black sphere.

One by one they queued as though guided by tracking systems, striking the orb in turn to ensure every blow landed.

The sphere—nine Truth-Seeking Balls fused together—was battered like a billiard ball, flung leagues away by each hit.

At last it cracked.

Just then, a blinding white beam erupted from inside, expanding into a wall of light that collided with the remaining fists.

Pure white met gold; the latter faded as though erased from paper.

The shattered black orb separated back into Truth-Seeking Balls that floated around Madara, who still clutched a Sword of Nunoboko—

—and coughed blood.

A gigantic, transparent pillar of white light roared in from behind, engulfing him.

Strangely, his body did not fly forward; instead it writhed within the beam, bones snapping audibly as severe internal damage made blood spill from his lips.

—Ten seconds earlier—

After blasting Madara away with the Vacuum Attack, Izayoi created twelve more golden spheres, opened a black portal with Moray Anabasis, and tossed them in.

The moment Madara's battered orb stopped, a hair-thin, undetectable fissure opened behind him. The twelve spheres slipped out, spun into a golden wheel, and collapsed into an air cannon that swallowed him whole.

The scene recalled Might Guy's Evening Elephant hitting single-eyed Madara in canon—but the power was on another plane entirely. Evening Elephant merely made Madara spit blood; Izayoi's strike left Six-Paths-Mode, double-Rinnegan Madara heavily wounded.

For two years Izayoi had not only awaited his Rinne-Tenseigan's evolution; he had trained his Sage Body as well.

As a transmigrator who knew the plot, he dared allow Madara to become the Ten-Tails jinchūriki and reclaim the Eight- and Nine-Tails only because he possessed the confidence to handle Perfect Six-Paths Madara:

Transcendent Aptitude (Multi-Color) + Kekkei Mōra/ Rinne-Tenseigan (Multi-Color) + Sage Body (Multi-Color)—that was Izayoi's trump card.

Although Tensonari, his other ocular art, lacked direct offensive power, both it and Miketsu were Kekkei Mōra-class dōjutsu, on par with Infinite Tsukuyomi. With that eye he had effortlessly viewed scenes a millennium past, gaining a thorough grasp of Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's strength.

Transcendent Aptitude and the Rinne-Tenseigan let him discern the principle behind the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack: unlike Yomotsu Hirasaka or All-Killing Ash Bones, Vacuum Attack is a taijutsu-type Kekkei Mōra. Two requirements suffice:

1. Primal chakra from the God-Tree fruit—the purest, most extreme chakra.

2. Perfect chakra control.

Izayoi possessed neither at first. Rather than spend points to upgrade his already red-tier chakra control, he chose to enhance Flight instead—because he was proud.

He would craft his own Vacuum Attack—his own Evening Elephant.

Though his Ōtsutsuki bloodline (Multi-Color) granted him immense chakra, it still lacked the fruit's purity. But that was all right—he could take what he needed. The Ten-Tails jinchūriki and the chakra fruit share the same origin; Kaguya could wield those abilities through Madara's body precisely because of that.

Izayoi needed only a fraction of Ten-Tails chakra. Miketsu would devour it, metabolizing the "nutrients" into his own power.

Already, new bloodline-limit entries had appeared on his status panel—Lava Release, Steam Release, Kurama's good-and-evil perception, and more—plus a purple-tier Regeneration trait that even Sage Body and Wood Release's no-seal healing had not unlocked. Once that reached (Multi-Color), he too could regenerate from losing half his body.

Ten-Tails chakra and Six Paths power are wondrous indeed; even Obito, after dying, used Kamui to return from the Pure Land and pass his Sharingan to Kakashi because he had once been its vessel.

Just as Izayoi said: the Ten-Tails chakra was the final puzzle piece.

With his chakra essence elevated, only control remained—and he could have upgraded it now, yet chose another path: using the creative power of Chakra Magatama to manufacture the Vacuum Attack.

It worked. Like Hagoromo's Sword of Nunoboko, Chakra Magatama's creative power was absurd. With bold ideas and sufficient ability, it could build or destroy worlds.

Because of Sage Body (Multi-Color), Izayoi's Vacuum Attack and the air cannon were not merely Kekkei Mōra—they were also Six-Paths Senjutsu. Every one of his 130 trillion cells contained natural energy; any chakra he drew forth was sage chakra—perfectly suited to harm a Ten-Tails jinchūriki.

Having struck true and pinned Madara, Izayoi slipped through a Yomotsu Hirasaka rift above him, clapped his hands, and sprayed new golden spheres. They circled into strings of beads, swelled, spun at high speed, and became golden wheels that all transformed into pillars of light, crashing down upon Madara.

In a single move Izayoi combined the Vacuum Attack with an "Evening Elephant", blending internal and external devastation. Ensnared, Madara could neither shield with Truth-Seeking Orbs nor self-detonate them; he could only watch the countless pillars descend.

Boom—

Light engulfed him and drove straight into the earth. From afar, it looked like a colossal golden lightning bolt striking the land. The quake and blast felt as though they rippled across the entire continent; surrounding great nations could hear it.

Alas, only Zetsu, the unconscious Edo-Tensei army, and the well-hidden Ōtsutsuki Isshiki were left to witness the scene.

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