"Heh heh… hahahahaha!"
Watching it happen—and confirming his lifelong wish had finally come true—Mui burst into wild laughter.
Even though his life force had already hit zero, he forced himself to cling to one last breath and refuse to die.
"The Box of Ultimate Bliss is finally open…!
Die with me, Uchiha Yorin!!"
Yorin looked at him like he was watching an idiot.
Mui was going to die in the next instant anyway, so Yorin decided to speed things up—let this guy see with his own eyes that the "trump card" he'd bet everything on was nothing in front of him.
So:
Susanoo: Takemikazuchi Mode—activated.
Triple three-tomoe gold-and-silver yin–yang Sharingan—activated.
No Mangekyō—but the power of three yin–yang three-tomoe eyes had already far surpassed an ordinary Mangekyō.
Compared to the earliest version of Susanoo: Takemikazuchi, Yorin's current incarnation was on a completely different level—both in presence and destructive pressure.
It dwarfed the Box itself.
The moment the box opened, the sealed monster "Satori" began swelling at insane speed. Tentacles multiplied like weeds, as if it were about to remake the ninja world into some Cthulhu nightmare.
And then—next second—
Yorin flew in and elbowed it across the field, blasting a fountain of blood sky-high.
"GAAAO?!"
It screamed. Then it screamed more.
Yorin didn't stop at one elbow. He pinned it down and beat the living hell out of it—hammering it with blow after blow, layering super-Kage-class techniques on top like a storm. The monster got worked.
Satori felt utterly miserable.
It had just broken free and hadn't even eaten anyone yet—then a bigger, scarier monster elbowed it away and curb-stomped it so hard it couldn't even stand back up.
This was bullying. Straight-up bullying.
The outside world is too scary… Mom, I wanna go home.
I don't want to be unsealed—I want to stay in the box forever!
Thinking that, Satori actually started crying.
Yorin didn't care. He kept beating it until he was satisfied it truly couldn't rise anymore—then he turned back and gave Mui a dry little "heh."
Mui: "What the hell?!"
An overwhelming absurdity hit Mui like a truck.
What was this? Why was the thing they sacrificed their lives to revive such a trash-tier loser?
Where was the "world-changing" miracle? The "invincible power" that was supposed to conquer everything?
Why did it look like a pathetic little runt in front of Uchiha Yorin?
So what had all those deaths been for?
Did that mean Kusagakure had become the biggest clown show in history?
Yorin: "You were clowns. What else did you think?"
Kusagakure's tragedy didn't earn even a shred of pity from him. Their misery was self-inflicted—every last piece of it.
This horrifying ending suited their crimes perfectly.
"What the hell…"
That was Mui's final line. Then his life finally ended.
Yorin immediately stopped paying attention to him and looked at the trembling monster.
"Are you going to crawl back in yourself, or do I beat you again and stuff you in?"
Satori didn't speak, but the frantic flailing of its tentacles made its meaning crystal clear:
I'll go in myself! I'll go in myself! Please don't hit me again!!
Since the thing apparently could revive—annoying, like a tailed beast—the best solution was to seal it and throw it somewhere unreachable… like the deep ocean, just like the original timeline.
But first, the seal needed reinforcement.
Perfect timing: the Five-Village Coalition had plenty of top-tier experts on site.
Because Kusagakure had already self-destructed, the coalition—after assembling for so long—had basically achieved nothing worth bragging about. People weren't exactly enthusiastic about "beating Kusagakure," but walking away with zero results would be embarrassing.
So when Yorin told them to strengthen the box's seal, everyone—"hey, any progress is progress"—started piling on heavy-duty sealing arts. The already-terrifying seal went from strong to absurdly strong.
Inside the box, Satori sensed the changes and felt despair deepen.
It had been secretly hoping to "outlive Yorin" and someday break out again after he died, claiming the world for itself.
Now? With that many seals stacked, even super-Kage power probably couldn't crack it.
And when it heard Yorin planned to dump it into the deep sea, it gave up completely and started whispering lies to itself:
"…Staying in the box isn't so bad. At least no terrifying giant will beat me up in here."
…
And with that, Kusagakure's incident ended.
Like Takigakure, Kusagakure's history as a hidden village was over.
Unlike Takigakure, this ending was grotesquely brutal—borderline insane.
Thousands of Kusagakure shinobi, plus even more civilians, died in the disaster.
The death count rivaled a mid-sized battle from the Great Ninja Wars—except this was happening in what everyone thought was a "peace era."
The news detonated across the world. People were shocked, terrified. Some Takigakure survivors even felt grateful—they'd dodged a bullet.
And more than anything, people gained a visceral new understanding of Yorin's power, boldness, and danger:
This man isn't someone you can provoke.
This man really will wipe out your entire existence.
Officially, the Five-Village Coalition told the world, "Kusagakure lost its mind and destroyed itself."
On the surface, people nodded along—"Ohhh, I see, I see."
But inside, most were thinking: Who are you trying to fool?
Kusagakure wiped itself out? They're that brain-dead?
That's how conspiracy theories are born—because reality sometimes gets so ridiculous it feels fake.
Even if Yorin is absurdly strong, he can't just Infinite Tsukuyomi the entire world and "upgrade" everyone's brains… right?
…Wait. Actually, maybe he can.
…
Yorin shoved that thought aside.
Anyway, he still needed Infinite Tsukuyomi later to rescue Kaguya—so yeah, he might end up "upgrading" everyone's brains after all.
But forget that for now.
Bottom line: Kusagakure's case ended, and the fallout was a mixed bag.
This world had plenty of people who were afraid of force but unmoved by kindness.
Talk-no-jutsu is only effective if it's backed by super-Kage—or Six Paths—level power. Otherwise you can talk until your mouth bleeds and nobody listens.
Before this, even with Yorin's strength, there were still people who tried to weaponize morality against Konoha and Uchiha.
"You're the good guy."
"I'm weak, so I'm right."
"If you're so righteous, kill me! Let the whole world see what kind of 'hero' you really are!"
It's like a toad—you can't say it actually hurts you, but it's disgusting and it clings to you.
After Kusagakure, that kind of behavior dropped off fast.
People were here to survive, not to die for a stunt.
…
Yorin: "Next, we'll crank out a few movies, some animation, maybe a TV drama—lock in the narrative and define Kusagakure officially. That should do it."
Media—propaganda and narrative control—was still god-tier.
So long as he flooded the market with the "correct" story, most people's memories would get nailed down. Sure, conspiracy nuts would still exist later, but they'd never become the mainstream.
…
And so, with different thoughts in their heads, the Five-Village Coalition went home after a battle that was all thunder and no rain.
Kusagakure's destruction became the hottest topic for a while, then faded as new stories replaced it.
Because people still had lives to live. They couldn't stay trapped in the past forever.
Yorin was the same.
After returning to Konoha and taking a short breather, he moved on to other work.
Alongside being Konoha's Shadow Advisor, the head of Ninshū, and Akatsuki's "second leader," he'd also picked up a new job:
Training a female apprentice.
Thankfully, Karin was a good kid—smart, with decent talent. In canon, Karin ended up the way she did mostly because Kusagakure treated her like trash.
In name she was a Kusagakure kunoichi—really she was a public blood bag.
Kusagakure kept her on a leash and never taught her anything real. She wasted away until she fled with Orochimaru, and even then, Orochimaru's focus had shifted to Sasuke, so Karin didn't get the attention she needed.
Yet even so, she still developed powerful sensing abilities thanks to her chakra reserves—pretty impressive.
So really, her only "flaw" was being a bit of a fangirl.
And honestly… fangirling over the "number one pretty boy" of the ninja world is kind of understandable.
Yorin's two "good boys" even had a division of labor for romance drama:
Sasuke handles the mainline plot. Naruto handles the movie arcs.
Because romance and emotional beats are part of the genre, too.
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