I will never succumb to hatred.

I will break free from the chains of hatred.

I am not like you.

I will never be like you.

I am not your weapon.

I will not be manipulated.

I am..........

Uchiha Sora!

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3rd POV.

Sora finally knew the truth behind Madara's schemes.......

Sora: A world that is composed of perfect humans........

Sora: It's a beautiful ideal.........

Sora: But.........

Sora: That means........

Sora: No one will be allowed to make mistakes.......one must always be right........

Sora: But.......

Sora: There are things that are considered "right" by others, but in reality it is "wrong."

Sora: Then, there are also things that are considered as "wrong" by others, but in reality, it is "right."

Sora: In a world where no one can even really define what is right and wrong........

Sora: My mother once told me that light and darkness support each other.

Sora: Too much light and too much darkness can be bad for one's eyesight.

Sora: While it is true that too much evil is not ideal.........and good must be the only thing that must exist in this world........

Sora: In the end, good can also be corrupted and turn to evil. Evil can also turn to good.

Sora: In fact, my mother even once told me and nii-san.......

Sora: "Sometimes, we may do something that bends our moral principles. But, we sometimes need to sacrifice those principles, for the sake of the greater good."

Sora: That, is what I did.

Sora: I sacrificed my moral principles during that day, when I killed their parents.

Sora: ...........

Sora: Not only did I kill their parents, I also lied to them.

Sora: All because if they knew the truth, what will they do? What action will they take?

Sora: Will they still seek vengeance against me? I don't know.

Sora: Because, on that day, I only fulfilled what I had to do........

Sora: If I left things there on that day.......

Sora: I can only fear that it will become worse, and that is much more horrible than what I did.........

Sora: Or so I think but........

Sora: *sigh*

Sora: But still......

Sora: I can't allow this. I won't be a tool for evil.

Sora: I have to find a way..........

Sora: As much as possible, I don't want to use Kotoamatsukami for this, I have to prove that his ideals are wrong.

Sora: I don't want to use an illusion just to prove my point.

Sora slowly opened his eyes and he deactivated his Sharingan.

He rose from lying down and went towards the elder Uchiha who is watching over the horizon.

Sora: Hey gramps, can I ask you something?

Madara: Yes, what is it?

Sora: Do you think that there are some demons who didn't want to become a demon and yet, they suffered cruel and painful deaths?

Madara: What brought this on?

Sora: Nothing, I'm just wondering.

Sora: Because, since I became a Demon Slayer soon after the Uchiha Downfall, and since I encountered a lot of demons.........

Sora: I noticed that some of the demons that I was about to kill are either scared or sad.

Sora: Scared of not being able to repent for the sins they committed as a human and after becoming a demon.

Sora: Sadness because of wanting to be free of being a demon, and yet a cruel and painful death is waiting for them.

Sora: Also, Oyakata-sama told me that demons were also once humans.

Sora: I was conflicted because, I am killing demons who used to be human.

Sora: But then I also realized, that it's a matter of retaining their humanity or not.

Sora: Most of the demons I executed with my nichirin sword, are already twisted even before becoming a demon.

Sora: Some of them, are in despair before being a demon, and......

Sora: In fact, I also met a demon who was able to get out of Muzan's control.

Madara: .........

Madara: A demon, who was able to break free of Muzan's control?

Sora: Yes. But she's finding a way to kill Muzan.

Madara: To kill Muzan? Do you know what that means?

Sora: If Muzan dies, all the demons will be eradicated.

Madara: Yes.

Madara: But my goal is total annihilation of demons, either under Muzan's control or not.

Sora: ...........

Madara: And then, my next goal, the perfect world.

Sora: The perfect world, huh?

Madara: Why? Do you have some doubts about it?

Sora: Yes, and from what I can see.......

Sora: The fact that is somehow beautiful.........

Sora: Will it really solve all the problems in the world?

Madara: ............

Madara: It seems like you have yet to realize......

Sora: I'm sorry, but I already realized, and I already know what you're scheming of.

Sora activates his Sharingan and Madara knew at that moment, that Sora is planning to defy him. Madara stood up, walked past the young Uchiha and.......

He only smirked......

Madara: I see.

Madara: It seems like the Curse of Hatred doesn't have any effect on you.

Sora: .........

Sora: You told me, that the Sharingan is the eye that can see the heart.......

Madara: Hmph.

Madara: Yes, I did taught you that. But......

Madara activates his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.

Madara: You haven't clearly saw what lies beyond the darkness.

Madara: In the end, you're still nothing but a child.

Sora: Tch. I already expected this won't be easy.

Madara: Hm, I guess this would be, your final lesson.

Madara: A duel between two Uchihas, a duel between two Sharingans.

Madara: Let's see how much you can hold your own against me.

Madara: Susanoo!

Madara manifests his humanoid Susanoo with four arms wielding each blades.

Sora gets on his stance and activates his Sharingan, he doesn't want to waste his energy immediately.

Sora: I have to end this fight quickly. The Susanoo's armor is impenetrable..........

Sora: If that's the case, then......!

Sora activates his Mangekyo Sharingan and he dons the Susanoo armor with the naginata.

Madara: Oh? Making the Susanoo's armor his own.......and manifesting a weapon.

Madara: It seems like, I cannot underestimate my descendant.

Madara began to attack by using the long reach of his four Susanoo blades, while Sora evades them or parries them.

Sora stayed on defense, until, he disappeared.

Madara: !?

Madara: Where?

Until Madara found himself being surrounded by crows.

Sora: I rule everything here.

Madara: !?

Madara: Genjutsu!?

Madara: Then! Genjutsu reversal!

Madara tried to dispel the genjutsu but......knowing that Sora used his strongest genjutsu, Kotoamatsukami, he has no way out.

Sora: Now, begone.

A flash of light suddenly appeared as Madara's Susanoo instantly breaks and the elder Uchiha was consumed by the light.

Madara: AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

However, in reality, Madara was lying face flat on the ground, while Sora is standing tall, looking down upon Madara.

Once the genjutsu's duration expired, Madara was brought back to reality, being significantly weakened by Sora's Dojutsu.

Madara: It seems like......*cough*........

Madara: You managed to hone your abilities to it's highest peak.......

Sora: You know, sometimes, ghosts from the past, should know how to shut up.

Sora prepares to deliver the final blow, as Madara slowly stands up but he can't due to his old age, and the fact that it took a lot of him when he activated his Susanoo during this fight, and when he used Tsukiyomi to Shinobu and Sora earlier.

Madara: Ha......haha.....hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Madara: It seems like I was wrong. The curse is slowly making it's way to you.

Sora: ........

Madara surprisingly managed to stand up, and picked up his staff and drew his black nichirin blade.

Madara: That's it......

Madara: That's it..........

Madara: Slowly but surely........

Madara: The hatred will consume you.

Madara: Or if not, then.......

Madara: I'll just force it to you.

Madara's eyes became sinister and even with a frail body of an old man.......

He managed to manifest a Susanoo.

A humanoid Susanoo that is dark blue in color, with four arms.

Sora: ...........

Sora: The second stage of Susanoo, huh.........

Madara who is inside his Susanoo, levitating, is looking down upon his descendant.

Madara: Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this world. The longer you live, the more you realize that in this reality, only pain, suffering, and futility exist.

Madara: Listen, whenever you look upon this world, there is light and there will be shadows to be found as well.

Madara: Yet you my descendant......you are blind.....

Madara: Blinded by one thing......

Sora: .........

Madara: Do you know what blinds you?

Madara: Even with fine eyes such as yours, it is because of that blindness that you never understood this world, and embrace hatred.

Sora: Blind, huh?

Sora: You know, for an old man like you.

Sora also began to manifest his Susanoo.

(A/N: Yes, his Armored Susanoo is Itachi, but imagine it in a light blue color.)

A susanoo that is clad in armor, and is wielding a flame-shaped shield.

Sora: You're kinda stupid. Living that long made you forget some things.

Madara: .........

Sora: The blindness you speak of........

Sora: Do you know why I never bore the Curse of Hatred?

Sora: It's because deep within my heart........there is someone.......

Sora: That is really precious to me.

Sora: So, you know......

Sora: When someone learns how to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.

Sora: After all, these two, love and hatred are both sides of the same coin.

Sora: I don't know how, but you're the one who is blind. Your hatred blinded you.

Sora: And your ideal of creating a perfect world?

Sora: Screw that and how ironic. Because you will do everything, even kill people who are actually innocent for this new world you're talking about.

Madara: Hmph.

Madara: Love, is only a word that holds no true meaning.

Madara: Love is not necessary, power is the only true necessity upon this cruel world, in order to create a perfect new world.

Madara: People really can't show their true feelings to each other.

Sora took a deep breath.

Sora: All right, I'm done.

Sora: I'm done with this. I have to put you to sleep. For relics like you, relics from the past, should just learn to shut up, and do not interfere with the present!

Sora, through his Susanoo manifests a gourd and there comes out an ethereal blade.

While Madara's Susanoo wields curvy swords on each arm and proceeds to attack Sora, but.......

Sora knew that Susanoo's defense is impenetrable, but.......

His weapon, his Susanoo's weapon.........

He went and stabbed Madara's Susanoo, and surprisingly, it pierced through and even harmed Madara himself, to which the elderly Uchiha found shocking.

Madara: H-How......the Susanoo's defense, is absolute.

Sora: Yeah, it is absolute, but, it seems like, I got an absolute blade as well.......

Sora: Totsuka no Tsurugi.

Madara: .......!?

Madara: I can't move......! My susanoo's crumbling apart..........!?

Sora: I will seal you, in a genjutsu, a world of drunken dreams.......for all eternity.

Sora: Your hatred may be born out of love........

Sora: But.......

Sora: Love mixed with hatred, will never really get along.

Sora's susanoo pulls the liquid sword towards the gourd, along with Madara's body as it disintegrates.

Madara: Hashirama.......Izuna......

Madara: Where did I go wrong........?

The battle is over, it wasn't really long, but if Sora didn't finish it earlier, he wouldn't be able to last.

Once everything is settled, Sora sat on a rock while taking breaths.

Sora: *sigh*

Sora: I used my Susanoo too much........

Sora: ........

Sora: But still........

Sora: Despite all of that......

Sora: Thank you for everything, Uchiha Madara.

Sora: And now.......

Sora: I guess it's time for me to travel, and kill demons along the way, and even investigate upon Muzan's whereabouts.

Sora: If only I had my crow with me. But, since I was exiled........

Sora: None of that matters now.

Sora then began to pack up his things, and his sword, and set off, to a long journey.

And then, years passed...........

Fate was once again, began to turn.

Sora overcame his hatred.......but.......

His hatred upon demons, will just grow stronger.

Yet his reason will still be intact.

Meanwhile, at the Ubuyashiki Estate, sitting at the veranda, a man who wears a black kimono, with a white haori with flames on it's lower part, the half of his upper face like being rotten, blind, yet possess a soothing voice that calms even the most troubled souls........

A kasugai crow approached the said man, and reported a very crucial information.......

Crow: We finally found Uchiha Sora, wearing a blue haori, scarf, and medium length black hair that is braided.

The man, named Ubuyashiki Kagaya, the Leader of the Demon Slayer Corps, smiled.....

Kagaya: At last, after several years........

Kagaya: We finally found you......

Kagaya: Sora.