Chapter 95 – Yujiro: Witness My Raijin Susanoo — Youth Edition!
Uchiha Yujiro, fully intending to beat Kakuzu into paste, opened the fight with his real power.
Lightning crackled around him, wild and dazzling—
a walking thunderstorm shaped like a man.
Kakuzu didn't respond.
He simply released more Earth Grudge Fear masks, one after another, silently declaring his intent.
And just like that—
the battle erupted in an instant.
Yujiro's strength had long stabilized at quasi–Super Kage level,
a realm where few in the shinobi world could stand eye to eye with him.
Kakuzu, however—
was one of those extremely rare exceptions.
Earth Grudge Fear, a forbidden art said to unlock the absolute ceiling of human potential, was something even Yujiro approached with caution.
Anyone capable of mastering it
was, naturally, a monster of talent.
Sure—he was ugly.
But Akatsuki needed useful people, not pretty ones.
If he was handed over to Nagato, Nagato would probably die from happiness.
But—
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"One last question, Kakuzu.
Apart from money…
is there anything left in your heart?"
Yujiro's voice was calm.
"I remember that in your youth, you were a man of loyalty—
a believer in ideals.
What about now?"
Kakuzu replied with the emotionless tone of a dead man:
"Loyalty. Ideals.
Outdated garbage."
"Now, I live only for money."
Yujiro sighed.
"I see.
Then we have nothing to discuss.
What a pity.
With a burst of speed, Yujiro launched himself forward.
At the same moment, Kakuzu leapt back.
Two of his masks opened wide—
Wind Mask + Fire Mask Combo
The two grotesque, fur-coated heads merged into a single giant monstrosity.
Both heads expelled ninjutsu simultaneously:
Wind Release · Pressure Damage
Fire Release · Scorching Head
Merging together into the advanced, devastating composite jutsu—
Scorching Wind Chaos Wave!
A massive inferno exploded outward,
carrying a hurricane of heat, shockwaves, and detonations.
A wall of annihilating fire surged across the battlefield,
ripping the earth open,
shattering boulders,
hurling hundred-foot trees skyward
before incinerating them in midair.
It wasn't on the level of Jiraiya's Sage Art: Goemon—
but it wasn't far behind, either.
Despite pretending otherwise,
Kakuzu had immediately used
his strongest finishing attack.
Ninja these days truly had no sense of sportsmanship.
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"Yujiro!!"
The three-woman harem squad panicked.
Wide-area destruction was Yujiro's worst matchup—
he had neither large AoE attacks nor super-armor jutsu.
He couldn't simply counterblast like Jiraiya,
nor crush the technique from the inside like Naruto had with Rasenshuriken.
Generally, Yujiro relied on
speed, precision, and assassination tactics.
That's how he beat Nagato earlier.
So the girls imagined his next move:
Dodge with Body Flicker →
Circle behind Kakuzu →
Use supreme speed and lightning armor to blitz him down.
That had always been Yujiro's style.
And Yujiro was about to do exactly that—
But… something changed.
For the first time ever,
he felt a new, terrifying power blossoming inside him.
A surge of vitality.
A pure, radiant force.
A feeling like his entire chakra system had been reforged from gold.
The Senju Physique.
Yang Release.
A power awakened by completing his "Tsunade's Love" mission.
Yujiro's lips curled upward.
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"Well… since I've got a brand new toy…"
"Let's try something a little more… flashy."
Until now, Yang Release in Yujiro's body had simply nourished him—silently boosting his attributes in the background.
But after awakening the Senju Physique, that same Yang Release power caused a complete rebirth.
And this rebirth didn't just make him faster, stronger, or tougher—
it fused directly with his Sharingan.
The ocular power that normally required the awakening of the Mangekyō Sharingan
blossomed early.
And the fruit of that awakening was—
Susanoo.
One of the most iconic Mangekyō abilities.
One of the strongest defensive techniques in the shinobi world.
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But Yujiro's Susanoo was different.
The standard Susanoo manifests as a gigantic armored warrior—
a towering mecha-like humanoid.
Yujiro's version was smaller, compact, tighter.
Instead of forming an external titan, his Lightning Armor transformed, merging directly with Susanoo.
A sheath of black-purple, blood-red chakra wrapped around his body like a demonic exoskeleton.
A perfect fusion:
Lightning Cloak · Susanoo Form.
This Black Thunder Susanoo Armor granted something Yujiro had always lacked:
Defense.
The fatal flaw of most ninjas—
the glass-cannon weakness—
was now gone.
Yujiro could finally shed the label of "fragile DPS" forever.
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Yujiro: "Heh… hehehe… HAHAHAHAHA!"
He could feel it—
his power skyrocketing, surging, detonating inside him.
No more evasive footwork.
No more cautious circling.
A real man fights head-on!
"Watch me use my Raijin Susanoo and Thunder-Fire Blades
to blast every last one of your masks into orbit!!"
Kakuzu:
"?!?!?!"
Before the stunned eyes of everyone present—
Uchiha Yujiro, wrapped in demonic thunder armor,
charged straight into Kakuzu's ultimate composite jutsu—
and cut the entire Scorching Wind Chaos Wave in half.
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Kakuzu: "What… is that?!"
Seeing the black-purple Susanoo armor,
Kakuzu felt a deep, primal dread.
His instincts screamed at him to run.
After all—
the bounty on Yujiro's head at the exchange center
was barely worth that of an ordinary jōnin.
Definitely not worth dying over.
But he also knew:
Running now = becoming a stationary target.
And Yujiro, with his terrifying new speed,
would cut him down before he took three steps.
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"Fine. I've hit iron—but I can still reverse the board!"
The immortal warrior steadied himself,
formed several seals,
and summoned the remaining three Earth Grudge Fear masks.
He was going to swarm this Uchiha.
Even if Yujiro had overwhelming power—
Kakuzu's endurance and multiple hearts might still carry him through.
But the very next second—
Yujiro shattered that fantasy.
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Dual blades flashed.
Five-Fold Output · Chidori Blade
Five-Fold Output · Chakra Flame Sword
Both swords pierced straight through two Earth Grudge Fear bodies.
Normally, this was meaningless—
the masks were made of living threads.
Cutting them in half wouldn't kill them.
But Yujiro's blades had pierced the hearts inside.
And that—
was Kakuzu's one true weakness.