Journey of Desires

Hikari knew what those eyes meant, and understood that defeating their owner would be, if not impossible, then extremely difficult.

Silence fell on the place of their battle, Madara waited with interest to see what the girl would do, and she tried to think of what to do next.

He had never been hit directly by Amaterasu before, and area attacks would be reflected by the gravity of the Rinnegan, her Yachihoko was not infinite, gloves would hardly help in this situation.

Thoughts flashed through her head quite quickly, and she could not come up with a solution to the problem, it would have continued like this further, but at one point Madara's gaze expressed surprise.

Hikari was covered in strange distortions around herself, black particles and an effect as if from the heat of fire appeared near her, and then she simply disappeared from the place where she stood. Madar sensed her chakras already a kilometer to the east of his place, he was about to follow her, but a huge katana flew to the place where the girl stood.

A very long blade more than two meters long stuck into the ground, and a second later a man appeared next to him whom Madara had seen a little earlier. The man was very tall, had blue hair, and to Madara's surprise, he looked completely intact, even his clothes had no damage.

If this man came to fight the ghost of the Uchiha, it means one of two things, either Obito escaped or died... In any case, it means that the enemy is strong, and for Madara this fight will not be boring.

Seeing what his opponent holds in his hands, Madara put his right hand on the wrist of his left, and a moment later a huge Uchiha battle fan appeared in the white smoke, and his eyes returned to the state of Mangekyo. Since the blue-haired man wants to fight in close combat, then Madara will give such an opportunity.

Hikari appeared on a mountain from which the battlefield was visible, she immediately recognized Ban's abilities and did not panic, and therefore, having found herself in this place, she looked around and in addition to Ban and Madara standing in the distance, she noticed the trio from the Cloud village, Orochimaru, and also Naruko, who, apparently, Ban had previously transferred here, next to her.

She looked at those around her and noticed that everyone was ignoring her gaze, they were looking down where she had recently been. Realizing that she was missing something, she turned her gaze to the battlefield, and her eyes were presented with a scene of an exchange of blows.

Ban struck with his Nodachi with great force and speed, and Madara took these blows on Gunbai and reflected them without problems, their blows were becoming faster and faster with each passing moment.

Blow after blow and block after block, this continued for about ten minutes, until Ban and Madara got tired of this.

- Ha-ha-ha! You swing the iron perfectly, but if you could defeat Obito, it means you can do something much more, show me your strength... And don't disappoint!

Madara, who broke the distance a moment earlier, said these words, and then, putting his finger to his mouth without any seals or words, blew out a fireball of enormous size.

The fire hit the place where Ban stood, but Madara did not wait for the expected dodge or defensive technique, he sensed something was wrong, and at the last moment managed to shift his body a little.

Ban appeared behind him and delivered a stabbing blow straight to the heart of his opponent, but Madara, who was able to shift, avoided a fatal wound, but he also did not manage to escape unharmed.

The blade of the Nodachi passed through, it touched the left shoulder and due to the force of the blow, crushed several bones in this shoulder along its path.

Both froze for a moment, but then when Ban wanted to draw his sword, Madara delivered a quick blow directly to Nodachi, as a result, the sword broke into two parts, where forty centimeters and the handle remained in Madara's shoulder, and the remaining part of the blade fell to the ground separated from the other half.

Madara, who was wounded, immediately realized that in such a situation, continuing the battle in close combat would be very dangerous.

His Gunbai was in his left hand and after receiving a wound, it fell out of the grip and fell to the ground as a dead weight.

Ban, who let go of Nodachi, wanted to strike and continue the fight with his fists, but his blow hit the blue skeleton of Susanoo.

Although Madara is arrogant, he is not stupid and if he clearly loses to the enemy in some aspect, he will use his powers from other branches of the Shinobi path.

The blue skeleton managed to grab Ban with his hand and squeeze him in his fist, after which Madara said.

- You fought well in close combat, and your spatial-temporal ninjutsu deserves praise, but I am not Obito... Now, farewell.

The next moment, Susanoo's fist clenched and Banu broke most of the bones in his body, a disgusting squelching sound was heard and blood flowed onto the ground like a river.

Madara, who had lost interest, unclenched Susanoo's hand and turned to the side where he felt the Uchiha girl and the Kyuubi Jinchuriki, he had already taken a couple of steps towards them, and Susanoo began to grow in size, apparently with the goal of flying to his target.

But at that moment, Madara heard a hissing sound from behind, and turning around, he saw Ban, whose wounds on his body were healing before his eyes, calmly getting up.

- A-tsa-tsay... Damn, that hurts.

Although Ban's pain threshold is much lower, but with a fracture of most of the bones in the body, a person is unlikely to feel pleasant.

Madara, who saw this scene, suddenly realized something, and then said.

- So you are the person with enormous regeneration that Zetsu and Obito were talking about?

Madara, who was very arrogant, did not pay much attention to some tenacious person, and remembered this only now. In his eyes, from that moment on, Ban began to look much more interesting.

But he did not stop the growth of Susanoo, and his blue cover became larger and more complete.

Ban needed something to counter such power, and he decided that it was time to use

- Hunting Festival!

In an instant, Ban became much more pumped up, and Madara felt a strong weakness, as if someone took half of his strength, his chakra became harder to control, but these were trifles compared to how much weaker he became physically.

A mad smile of realization appeared on his face, and Susanoo entered the completed stage.

The huge blue humanoid took the katana in his hands and struck right at the place where Ban stood.

The huge blade cut through another mountain and shook the area, but did not find its target, Ban was already in the air next to the crystal in which Madara was.

One blow with his hand and this Crystal began to crack, and Madara realized how physically strong his opponent was at that moment, at this rate there would be no point in using Susanoo, the enemy is fast and strong, and this technique wastes a lot of chakra, although for Madara it is not particularly noticeable.

Having turned off Susanoo, he looked into Ban's eyes, after which his eyes again changed to Rinnegan, Ban, who wanted to deliver a new blow, at one moment received a blow to the stomach of enormous force, because of which he was thrown far down towards a small mountain river, the only thing that was incomprehensible was that Madara did not move from his place, but was able to deliver a blow.

The Uchiha went after the enemy, and when both landed on the ground, Ban was hit by several more blows, again and again new blows hit him, and Ban could not understand what was going on.

This continued until one moment, until Ban remembered the existence of Madara's technique called Limbo, and focusing his attention with the help of spatial magic, he was able to sense the clones of the Limbo technique.

And the next moment, in a rather banal way, he was able to surprise Madara, simply repeating after Hikari, he created a spike from the distorted space that was invisible to the eye, and the Limbo clone, having struck it, gradually drew in and was dispelled.

Limbo clones can only exist in the Limbo dimension, and Ban, with the help of a similar spatial cut, pulled the clone into the ordinary world, where it dispelled itself.