"You can do what now?" a jonin barked, his voice cracking after what he had just heard.
"Surely, kid, you must be kidding us," another chunin whispered, eyes wide as saucers.
"By just… looking at them? Unbelievable…" a third muttered, his hand frozen mid-air, as if the very idea had paralyzed him.
The squad stared at Shota like he'd just sprouted wings and declared he was the new Kazekage. The wind howled across the dunes, but no one moved.
Goosebumps crawled up their arms. This wasn't just a jutsu. This was wrong. This was terrifying. A single glance, and a shinobi's source of power—gone. No hand signs. No warning. Just eyes.
"I call it Erasure," Shota said, calm as ever.
And that's when the real silence hit.
Erasure.
One word. One power. The ability to strip away chakra—the lifeblood of every shinobi. No ninjutsu. No genjutsu. Not even chakra-enhanced taijutsu. A punch? Sure. But no super speed. No wall-shattering force. Just a normal human, slow and weak, staring death in the face.
A jonin swallowed hard. "So… if you look at me…"
"You're done," Shota finished. "No jutsu. No speed. No strength. Just you. And me. Oh, I can still use chakra though."
The squad exchanged looks. Such an ability would shock every great village. It was an ability that the shinobi villages would go war for or would try to completely erase the ability so that no one would get hands on such an ability.
Of course, there should be weakness to the ability like when fighting multiple enemies so it was not as groundbreaking in one on multiple fights.
But Shota wasn't worried about it. Not really. He'd hidden the truth.
They thought he could only erase chakra of one person at a time. Even the elders and the Kazekage in the village believed it.
Wrong.
Anyone in his line of sight could have their chakra gone if he so willed. Their Chakra erased. All of them. At once.
And the best part? It didn't stop when he looked away.
In My Hero Academia, Aizawa's Erasure worked like this: look once, quirk gone. Blink, it ends. But until then? He could turn his head, fight someone else, even walk out the door and the effect stayed. As long as his eyes stayed open and he did not blink.
Shota had trained for this. He'd stared at walls for hours. Fought sandstorms without blinking. His eyes burned, watered, screamed but he held them open. And now? He could erase five, ten, twenty shinobi at once just by looking in their direction as long as they were in his line of sight.
And if he didn't blink?
They stayed powerless.
Until he let them go.
Or until someone cut his head off or well made him blink.
Shota smirked inside. 'They have no idea.'
He remembered Aizawa's hair floating when he used Erasure, anti-gravity field around his head. Shota's did too, just a little. Black strands lifting like they were underwater. Aizawa used it to control his binding cloth, at least that is what Shota believed.
Shota also wanted to try this anti gravity field. He wondered if he could push this part of the ability, would he be able to float or fly?
Shota almost laughed at his childish dreams. 'Fly? Me? The laziest shinobi in Suna?'
But then something clicked in him. Awakening of his quirk.
What if Erasure evolved?
In MHA, quirks awakened under stress. What would Erasure become? It was never said that Aizawa evolved his quirk.
Shota's smile froze at a thought came in his mind. 'Would I be able to completely erase chakra permanently?'
It would mean no recovery. No second chance. One look—poof. You're not a shinobi anymore. You're a farmer. A civilian. A nobody.
He chuckled, but it came out shaky. "Haha… imagine Madara with no chakra. Just a guy with a big forehead and a dream."
Then the chill hit him.
'Wait.'
'Pain. Obito. Madara. They'd love this ability.'
"Peace through power," they'd say. "They would say no more war since there is no more chakra."
They'd chain him. Force him to stare at the world. One village at a time.
'Look at Konoha. Blink. Gone. No more shinobi with chakra.'
'Look at Kiri. Blink. Gone.'
'Look at the jinchuriki. Blink. Tailed beasts fall silent.'
Shota was not sure about whether the tailed beasts would be erased since they were made of chakra but he doubted that it would work that way since they have a soul too.
Shota's hands shook though at being kidnapped by these three.
He imagined Obito's voice, calm and cold: "You're the key, Shota. The world will thank you."
"Nope," he whispered. "Nope nope nope. I just want naps and ramen. Not world peace via eye contact!"
He shook his head hard. 'Focus. Awakening's far away. If it even happens.'
He focused back on something else—Aizawa's anti-gravity. 'If I train it… I would be able to fly. I am glad that I watched the anime to know all the ins and outs of Erasure.'
He grinned. "Anime geek pays off again."
But then he groans. To fly, he would have to train his ability very hard for years.
"Why was I born so lazy?" he groaned. "Why couldn't I have Guy's 'springtime of youth'? I'd be doing 500 laps right now! 'The power of youth burns within me!'"
He imagined himself in a green jumpsuit, screaming, "DYNAMIC ENTRY!" while kicking a rock.
Then he tripped in his mind and faceplanted into sand.
"Nah," he muttered. "I'd nap after three push-ups."
One of the shinobi snapped his fingers. "Wait, you're the kid who took down the Ninjutsu Duo from Iwa!"
Shota blinked. "Oh. Yeah. That was me."
The squad leaned in.
Two B-rank Iwa shinobi. They were masters of Earth and Fire release chakra natures. They had infiltrated the Land of Wind. Shota had ambushed them.
One had smirked and slammed his hand down to use the Earth Wall Jutsu but well....nothing appeared. Shota's fireball hit him full in the face. Burned alive. Screaming. The other panicked, tried Water Dragon but nothing had happened. Shota's kunai ended it.
"I took them by surprise. I was just lucky." Shota said.
Now the squad stared.
"Well, now we know why Kazekage-sama said you were so important," a jonin said, grinning. "With you, Kurogiri Tetsu can't use his Explosion Release."
Shota rubbed his head in embarrassment "Yeah… guess so."
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