Naruto: Sasuke Uchiha Returns from Soul Society

Yincheng pointed to the wound on his chest, "If you are cut by Tsukishima's sword once, your past will be changed, but if you are cut in the same place again, it will return to its original state."

"This is a 'script' we specially prepared to fool you! Hahahaha!"

"Tsk." Tsukishima wiped the blood off his knife and said calmly, "The reason I slashed him was because his acting was so bad. If I hadn't made it look realistic, I probably wouldn't have been able to fool you."

"Nonsense!" Yin Cheng raised his head in dissatisfaction and retorted, "Wasn't my acting good just now? That tragic sense of selflessness for his comrades was absolutely perfect, wasn't it?"

"Is that so?" Tsukishima sneered. "After you were hit, you immediately called Ichigo 'Kurosaki.' Such an obvious flaw, how dare you call it perfect."

"Tch." Yin Cheng curled his lip in disdain. "No matter what, the fruit is ripe."

"Give me your Fullbring!"

Ichigo let out a heart-wrenching scream as the white, bony shell representing the power of Fullbring was completely stripped away and pierced into Ginjo's body along the blade of Ginjo's sword.

"Oh! Here it comes!"

Yincheng felt the immense power surging into his body, and a look of ecstasy appeared on his face. "This power is truly wonderful!"

As the last bit of strength was drained, Ginjo drew his sword.

Ichigo's body collapsed limply to the ground, his eyes vacant, and the Substitute Shinigami badge fell from his hand.

The sky was overcast, and fine rain began to fall, pattering against his lifeless face.

Is it over...?

Ichigo lay on the ground, the cold mud seeping into his body through his clothes.

The strength I finally regained...

I thought that with this power, we could protect everyone again.

result......

In the end, is it still impossible to do anything?

Even this last hope was a bait offered by someone else, meant to push him completely into the abyss at this moment.

"Waaaaah... Waaaaah..." Ichigo collapsed to his knees, head bowed, sobbing in despair, "Aaaaaahh ...

"Did you cry?" Tsukishima looked at the scene with cold eyes. "How pitiful."

"Let him cry his heart out." Yincheng shouldered his greatsword, turned around, and prepared to leave. "Anyway, he has lost his power, and we probably won't see each other again."

The rain was getting heavier and heavier.

In Ichigo's inner world, a raging flood surged forth, completely engulfing him.

Cold, suffocating, desperate.

He was bound by invisible chains, sinking little by little into the unfathomable darkness.

That's it...

give up.

already......

There is no hope left.

He closed his eyes, preparing to face his final demise.

But then a somewhat familiar voice came to my ears. I couldn't remember who it was, but the voice gradually became clearer.

"Is that all you've got? You half-baked Grim Reaper..."

Upon hearing the word "Grim Reaper," Ichigo opened his eyes, and memories of Rukia began to flash through his mind.

"Let me be a Grim Reaper a little longer. I want to become stronger, stronger every day, to protect innocent people from Hollows."

"I want to become stronger! I'll defeat those guys!"

"Otherwise, I won't have the face to see my mom..."

He looked up and, through the blurry rain, saw Yincheng's figure.

"Give it back to me..."

Ichigo struggled to his feet from the mud and stood up unsteadily.

"Give me back my power!!!"

Ginjo, who was about to leave, stopped and looked back at Ichigo with some surprise.

"Kurosaki, it's all thanks to me that you were able to possess the power of Fullbring."

Yincheng shook his head. "Isn't it good to just go back to square one?"

"Besides, because we were once friends, I'm not killing you now. You should be thanking me."

“If we don’t return the power to you…” Tsukishima added coldly from the side, “what can you possibly do?”

"I don't know..." Ichigo gritted his teeth, "but I absolutely cannot give up!"

"Give me back my power!!!"

Seeing this, Kisuke Urahara, who had been hiding behind Ichigo, lowered the brim of his hat.

"It seems it's time for Miss Kuchiki to make her appearance."

Rukia, unable to contain herself any longer, ripped open the invisibility veil.

She charged straight at Ichigo, wielding a blue lightsaber.

"Ichigo! Catch!"

However, just as the lightsaber was about to pierce Ichigo's body, a slender hand reached out from the side and firmly grasped the lightsaber.

Rukia was shocked and turned around abruptly, "Sasuke?! What are you doing?!"

"We don't need this kind of thing."

Sasuke casually tossed Rukia aside, his gaze complex as he looked down at Ichigo, who was struggling in despair.

“Using trust to betray someone is a tactic that only the weak would enjoy.”

He looked at Silver City and Moon Island, his disgust undisguised.

This feeling of being betrayed by someone you trusted...

It's disgusting as always.

Since Ichigo possesses a fragment of the Soul King, as well as the power of a Quincy and a Hollow...

Then let's make it even more thorough.

Sasuke raised his right hand, and the primordial annihilation power belonging to the Shinigami erupted within him.

Countless blue spiritual particles gathered in his palm, instantly condensing into a long sword that radiated a dazzling light.

"Got it, half-baked."

Sasuke let out a low shout and plunged his Spirit Blade into Ichigo's chest!

"Ugh—!!!"

Ichigo froze, struggling to turn his head.

Amidst the pouring rain, he saw Kisuke Urahara, and he saw his father.

“Dad, Urahara-san…” Ichigo’s tears mingled with the rain as they streamed down his face. “Even you, your memories have been altered?”

"Idiot, it wasn't me," Kurosaki Isshin replied irritably.

"Look closely, Mr. Kurosaki," Urahara Kisuke's voice came. "You should be able to see who's holding the knife now, right?"

Ichigo was taken aback by what he heard, and his gaze slowly moved upwards along the light blade that had pierced his body.

At the end of that light was a man with long silver eyes and golden eyes.

Although his appearance had changed drastically, Ichigo immediately recognized him by the indifferent expression on his face and that familiar, punchable aura.

Ichigo's lips twitched slightly: "...Sasuke?"

"Hmph." Sasuke looked at him, a faint smile playing on his lips. "If you're awake, stand up straight and stop making a fool of yourself!"

The moment he finished speaking, his spiritual pressure rapidly poured into the spiritual blade.

"Boom—!!!"

The sky and earth changed color, and thunder roared.

The violent spiritual pressure centered on Sasuke formed a huge vortex, from which a blue beam of light burst forth, shooting straight into the sky and tearing apart the originally gloomy clouds.

Lightning crackled and storm raged in the vortex below, engulfing everything around and obscuring everyone's view.

"What...what kind of power is this?!"

Silver City and Moon Island's expressions changed drastically, and they had no choice but to raise their weapons to resist this terrifying weather.

As the light faded and the storm subsided, Ichigo Kurosaki's figure reappeared.

He was surrounded by tangible blue spiritual flames and wore a clean and crisp black trench coat with a flowing hem.

A high-density black sphere of spiritual particles floats in his left palm, while his right hand holds a huge, simply designed, jet-black longbow.

The blue patterns representing the Quincy's power faintly appeared on his skin.

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“…Sasuke.” Ichigo turned around, his lips moving slightly.

"It's been a while since I've seen you. You don't seem to have made any progress at all, you idiot."

Sasuke looked at him, his words still merciless, "How dare you wail here like this? It's utterly shameful."

"I...I didn't!"

Ichigo instinctively retorted, but recalling his own pathetic state of lying in the mud, crying in despair, his voice weakened. He could only awkwardly scratch his cheek and mutter, "Well, there was no other way..."

"Anyone would break down in that situation, right?"

"And..." He looked into Sasuke's unfamiliar eyes, his voice lowering, "Thank you."

"Save it."