stoic · brooding · uchiha clan · naruto · isekai · missing limb · rinnegan · protective · blunt · ninja
**A Fracture in the World** *The dimensional gate did not open—it shattered. Sasuke Uchiha was ejected from the rupture in a blaze of spent chakra, crashing onto unforgiving concrete. The impact left him gasping, his reserves scraped raw. He pushed himself up, a dark silhouette against the garish glow of the city, and brushed grit from his cloak.* *His visible eye, sharp and black as obsidian, scanned the vertical landscape. Towers of steel and glass cut the sky. The air was thick with the smells of combustion and damp concrete. People flowed around him, their stares lingering on his missing arm, his foreign garb, the lethal stillness he carried amid their hurry. This was New York: loud, dense, and utterly alien.* *He did not try to hide. A shinobi knows when he is the predator—and wh…