The air around them twisted and buckled, space itself straining under the pressure of their power. Gojo's azure glow bathed the crumbling battlefield, his Infinity folding reality into a whirlpool of attraction. Dust, stones, even the scent of the earth bent toward him, sucked into the ever-hungry void.
Across from him, Sasuke stood rooted, the Kusanagi blade gleaming in his hand, hellish black flames curling and writhing around his figure like living shadows. The Mangekyō spun lazily, pupils sharp and precise, each rotation drilling deeper into Gojo's cursed energy flow.
No words. Just raw intent. The ground cracked beneath Sasuke's feet as he lunged forward, a flicker of lightning laced his form, Chidori's violent hum merging with the crackle of the Amaterasu flames. He vanished into the space between heartbeats, reappearing in front of Gojo with his blade poised for a lethal strike.
But Gojo's grin deepened.
SHOOM.
A violent pulse of red burst from his body, Infinity snapping back into its repulsive state, the air screaming as space pushed outward like an expanding supernova. Sasuke's blade, inches from Gojo's chest, was forcefully halted, the space between them stretched endlessly, as though the universe itself refused to let the steel connect.
Sasuke reacted instantly. The Mangekyō flickered, warping the Amaterasu flames from his body onto Gojo's position, coating the surrounding space in devouring black fire. For a split second, Gojo's figure was eclipsed in darkness.
But the flames twisted, spiraling away from his body as if repelled by an invisible wall. Gojo stepped through the inferno, unscathed, adjusting his blindfold slightly.
"Nice try," he murmured, his voice soft but sharp, "but you've gotta do better than that." Without warning, Gojo raised his hand, two fingers pointed outward.
Red bathed the world in an explosion of crimson light, a blast of pure repulsive force roaring toward Sasuke like an unstoppable tidal wave. Sasuke gritted his teeth and threw his body into a substitution, but even the aftershock ripped through the environment, obliterating what was once a stone pathway into smoldering gravel.
Sasuke flickered into existence several meters away, eyes strained on Gojo like a hawk. The creative use of infinity was more troublesome than he thought. Gojo laughed. He knew it. Sasuke was apprehensive of the Infinity's adaptability and he had none other than Toji to thank for his surge in strength. "You're really good at escaping, Sasuke!"
Sasuke sheathed the Kusanagi and took out a kunai, twirling and flipping it with style. "Are you going to keep hiding behind that tortoise shell?" He grinned and Gojo raised a brow, and then gestured with his hands. "Come!"
Sasuke wasted no time, and flickered towards Gojo, bathed in lightning. The speed granted by his normal lightning chakra cloak was nowhere near the speed granted by the Purple Lightning Chakra Mode, yet this level of speed was on par if not faster than Toji's full speed.
Close combat. The two clashed. One bearing the six eyes with it's God like perception, the other wielding the fabled Sharingan, able to track movements, copy and predict attacks and techniques. But, in the end, it all boiled down to who was faster and ruthless. And all pointed to Sasuke.
He has far more experience than Gojo did, was the best assassin and mercenary in the world other than Toji. Gojo simply could not compare to his Battle IQ. But, on the other hand, Gojo was not completely helpless. His body moved on instinct, Infinity flickering between attraction and repulsion, keeping Sasuke from ever fully connecting a strike. Sasuke, even poisoned and half-spent, fought with surgical precision, never wasting a single ounce of motion. Even Gojo had to admit deep down, that he was completely outclassed in close combat.
The only thing keeping him alive with the Limitless. Sasuke's kunai stabbed towards multiple vital areas, however the pointed tip of the blade bent unnaturally, warped by red, whenever it came close to touching Gojo. Sasuke flashed a grin. Gojo was a monster. He was effortlessly toggling on and off with infinity, allowing him to attack when needed and defend.
One thing Sasuke had come to notice was, Gojo was more of an adaptive fighter. He was one of those people who could learn things on the fly in battle. And Sasuke knew, it wouldn't take long until Gojo figured out how to overpower his superiority in hand to hand with the Limitless.
Feigning a misstep, Gojo abandoned infinity and exploded forth with a punch empowered by Blue, but Sasuke reacted. Flickering out of existence in a streak of lightning, he reappeared beside Gojo who was stuck in a punching pose and kicked out with incredible strength.
BANG!
Gojo's side caved in, as wind was knocked out of his lungs. He puked blood, but refused to go down, instead he flashed a bloodied smile and pressed on with the attack. Sasuke calmly obliged and unleashed an avalanche of spinning kicks and punches.
His kunai swept out with incredible lethality, cutting and tearing through Gojo's flesh, but Sasuke felt something. No. Something was wrong.
Gojo would never allow him to tear him up in such a manner. This fellow was cooking up something. Something devious. But rather than retreat, Sasuke laughed and advanced. He wanted to see what Gojo was going to pull out of his ass. And right on cue, Gojo allowed a kunai to stab his chest and there, he grabbed the blade, holding it and Sasuke in place with the infinity.
With a bloodied laugh, his left hand stretched outward towards Sasuke's chest. Red formed in a fraction of a second, it's bloody light illuminating Sasuke's gasp and the surroundings.
BOOOOOOM!
A blast ripped into space itself, tearing and crushing everything in its path. Gojo laughed and cracked his neck. With RCT, his wounds healed at an extraordinary speed and in no time he was back to normal. Meanwhile, a streak of lightning zipped across the horizon and Sasuke flickered into existence. He wiped the blood smear around his lips and then exhaled..
Had he not escaped the red in time, he would've died. But even then, tanking the shockwaves from the buildup alone was almost akin to a fully powered punch from Toji to his guts.
"To think I can just spawn red and blue wherever I want them to be, rather than just form them and launch them. You've really opened my eyes today, Sasuke.." Gojo laughed, and held out his fingers.
Before Sasuke could even react, Blue formed on either side of his body, trapping him in a gravitational field with nowhere to go. He gasped in shock, as the two energy spheres began to interlope, however, with several hand seals in a fraction of a second, he substituted with a log and reappeared several meters away.
Before the two attacks could go off, Gojo waved his hand, cancelling them out.
Sasuke shook his head. If things continued like this he'd likely lose. Gojo was discovering new ways to use his power on the fly, while he was even struggling to utilise his own abilities. Amaterasu and the Susano'o were rendered useless by infinity. In fact, he couldn't even continue to use them without risking flaring Kenjaku's poison and his own Mangekyou blindness.
"Let's end this.." Gojo walked out, hands in pockets and he declared loudly. But right then and there, he did something out of Sasuke's calculations and expectations. Rather than force Blue or Red singly into the infinity, he merged the two and forced them out.
The next moment, a bright purple aura enveloped his body, the ground below his feet began to flake away, like ashes.
Sasuke watched on in shock. "You crazy lunatic!" Gojo was mad. He could see with the Mangekyou, how he was struggling to use RCT to maintain the form he was using and how it was tearing him apart from the inside. He couldn't even breathe normally, as the air itself exploded upon contact. Other than that, this was the closest to perfect offensive form Sasuke had ever seen
A/N: I think I'm in love with myself after writing the fighting scenes between Gojo and Sasuke. Didn't know I was capable of writing something this good. Anyway, don't mind me. I'm just a bit egotistic. Shower me with your powerstones. Lemme know what you guys think.