"Kabuto… what have you done to yourself…" Orochimaru looked at Kabuto, with a hint of complex emotions in his eyes.
"You… you are alive…" Kabuto was taken aback. He didn't know.
"... I just… want to inherit your will… Orochimaru-sama…" Kabuto looked down. He knew from Orochimaru's gaze, that Orochimaru didn't agree to whatever he was doing.
"I appreciate you looking up to me, Kabuto. But each of us has our own path… I am already on mine. But you are not me."
"Orochimaru-sama…"
"Let's stop all this nonsense."
"... I understand…"
"And we have a huge problem…" Orochimaru looked up at the fighting megazords, and their eventual loss. A huge tree grew from the ground, and a flower wanted to bloom.
The Kages were notified so they could help. And they had been watching the fight between the Gods going.
They had no way at all.
Orochimaru looked in a certain direction, to where the isolated island Tsuyu was staying.
Tsuyu, are you really going to just watch… Orochimaru felt a little jealous. He wanted to just watch and do nothing if he had enough strength to do that. He would rather learn all the jutsu in the world than get involved in whatever bullshit was going on now. Though… a part of him never wanted the whole world to get destroyed.
Woods grew from the divine tree, sucking chakra's from the dead corpses or living shinobi still around. The flower is blooming by the second.
It felt like hope was lost.
Is this truly the end…? Tsunade looked up at the moon that started to have a Sharingan reflected on them.
Kabuto clasped his hands, and immediately sent all Edo Tensei towards Obito's direction.
Orochimaru hummed. But he thought it would be useless.
The Kages decide to join the fray seeing the Edo Tensei of late Kage.
"Naruto…" Sakura shed tears as he tried to keep his heart beating.
Sasuke also shed tears seeing him dying.
"Sakura… Sasuke… Kakashi-sensei… I am sorry…" Naruto managed to mutter weakly.
"Shut up… you are not dying… you… you are not leaving us… not again…" Sakura's tears fell on Naruto's cheek.
Just then Kabuto appeared. With a clasp of hand, a coffin appeared from the ground.
Silver and Gold brothers!
Orochimaru stood next to Kabuto, looking at Naruto with a complicated expression. Maybe it was because he was Tsuyu's brother so he decided to save him.
"With their 9 tails chakra still inside them, Naruto could live." Orochimaru explained.
"Orochimaru… you are alive…" Sasuke looked at him with a complicated expression.
"Hnhnhn… what a fine, good body, Sasuke-kun…" Orochimaru licked his lips seeing Sasuke's grown up figure.
Sasuke shivered and hid behind Karin and Sakura. The two women look fierce at Orochimaru, as if he were a great enemy. They probably thought Orochimaru wanted Sasuke's body that way, not as in switching body way.
Orochimaru ignored their gazes and used fuinjutsu to seal the 9 tails chakra in Silver and Gold brother into Naruto, letting him live.
"Really… her own brother was about to die and she really didn't want to appear…"
Everyone gasped at Orochimaru's words.
"She? You mean…"
"Tsuyu was in fact, alive." Kabuto supported the notion.
"What? Then… where was she?"
"Enjoying her vacation… She was tired. Her own brother killed her. I understand why she refuses to bother anymore."
"Tsu-chan… alive…" Naruto shed tears knowing them.
"But she won't be able to… do whatever if Obito succeeds…"
"I doubt that… She's powerful enough to ignore him…" But Orochimaru didn't think she would let her friends die just like that and watch… maybe.
***
Tsuyu was arguing with old man Sage of Six Paths at the moment.
"And why would I care? Let them have some dreams." Tsuyu just ignored the floating old man, looking at the moon turning red somehow.
"... Tsuyu. Don't you care about your brother, your comrades and friends in Konoha?"
"..."
"Even in your coldness, I saw kindness and love. I had watched you from afar, Tsuyu. I had once thought you were close to my own mother. But I learned I had misunderstood a lot, both you and her. And perhaps seeing you made me understand her too… that at least, she had loved her own sons truly." Hagoromo had some regret, recalling the memories.
"She had once ruled the world with benevolence, people called her the Rabbit Goddess. But due to betrayals… She turned into a tyrant. You resembled her very much… She made human sacrifices to gain more power, she lost them, and became greedy for more… even turning against her own sons to take my brother's and my chakra."
"Your mother…" Tsuyu frowned. Mother of Sage of Six Paths. This old immortal grandpa was already immortal.
"Kaguya Otsutsuki… progenitor of all chakra. From what I know, my mother was not from this world. If she appeared, even you won't be able to stop it. No one could kill her, she would want to take back all the chakra in this world, even yours, and she could only be sealed…"
"Hah… I knew it. Aliens… wow. First it's magic soldiers, now it's fucking aliens invasions."
"What's an alien…" Hagoromo was confused at the term.
"Nothing. Go on… what do you mean 'if she appeared'… I thought you already sealed her." When Tsuyu heard that even she couldn't kill Kaguya, she was already panicking slightly inside.
***
The infinite Tsukiyomi was partially launched, creating a genjutsu that was able to influence the Land of Fire first. Trees grew as chakras from millions were taken away slowly.
The flowers bloom more and more.
The others protected by Sasuke's Susanoo look in despair.
"... Tsu-chan…" Naruto looked in despair.
She won't help… because I killed her… I hurt her… a lot.
Tears shed from Naruto. I am sorry Tsu-chan.
Naruto took a step out of Susanoo…
"Naruto…!" Sasuke was surprised, but he let him be. Maybe, Naruto just wanted to dream. The perfect world.
Naruto look up at the moon… white light surrounded him.
***
He was just a 4 year old child. "Yatta! I found you! Hihi!"
"Nii-san! So quick…! One more time!!" Tsuyu pouted, crossing her arms.
"Hehe. Okay but I will still win-ttebayo!"
"Hmph! No, I will okay!"
As they played again, Naruto looked down, a flash of sadness in his eyes. Because he knew, this was all… a dream.
"Kids! Stop playing! Mom just made dessert!" Yellow flashed appeared so suddenly as usual.
"Dad! Okay!" Tsuyu went to Minato, she smiled sweetly, and let herself be coddled up by Minato.
Naruto almost laughed. What the hell was this dream…
That's not Tsu-chan at all…
But… maybe I had wished she was like that… a little sister that… was sweet, kind, caring for him, someone he as a brother was supposed to protect and care for. Not the opposite.
He was unable to get out of the illusion, time passed by. Naruto eventually became hero of Konoha, become Hokage, and he made all nations achieve peace, by understanding each other.
"Nii-san, you are amazing…" Tsuyu praised him as the two walked together along the streets of Konoha.
"Haha… is that so…"
"Yeah. You changed the world a lot… I could never do it like you do. You made me realise my methods… would never let all we have happen."
"..." Naruto had tears in his eyes,
But I never managed to convince her, nor did she want to change. This was all… a stupid dream.
"Nii-san, why are you crying… hey…" Tsuyu moved forward, patting his back.
"No… nothing…"
Just then, a Black Eye with red iris and 3 tomoe patterns appeared in the sky of Konoha.
"What… what is that…?" Tsuyu seemed scared, she held onto Naruto's arm tight.
"Tsu-chan…?"
The black Eye locked onto them. The eye seemingly saw through everything and as if there's a hint of emotion of being baffled in the eye.
In the black eye's reflection, an image of Tsuyu appeared, in her majestic, almost evil-godlike appearance.
Nii-san, what the hell are you dreaming about… that's me? Seriously?
"Ah… Ahahaha… um…" Naruto felt embarrassed.
"Sorry… Tsu-chan…"
Tsuyu looked down at Naruto with vicissitude. She knew this was the version of Tsuyu he had wished for.
It's fine. We couldn't get along completely… It's no one's fault.
"Yeah…" Naruto rubbed the back of his head. Tsuyu holding onto Naruto like a scared little sister was so confused. The horned, evil god-like appearance on the reflection of the large eye doesn't seem like her at all.
The Sharingans in her arms, the byakugan in right eye, the red chakra robe, she appeared more like an evil god.
You want to stay here forever?
"... no."
Is that so? I wouldn't bother you if you want to.
"Ahaha… Tsu-chan… you must have hated me…"
… I don't.
"... Tsu-chan…"
Crack, crack. The illusion cracked. Naruto looked back at the version of Tsuyu that deep down he had wished for.
"Goodbye Tsu-chan." Naruto patted the 'nice' Tsu-chan's head, before leaving the illusion.
He woke up, only to find a hundred Black Eye with Sharingan pattern was in the whole sky, looking down on Obito like a true god.
Tsuyu appeared in front of Naruto in her majestic yet evil appearance.
"Nii-san…" Her eyes contained a hint of nostalgia. Her hand moved to touch a side of Naruto's face warmly, as if caressing him.
"Tsu-"
Tsuyu gouged Naruto's Rinnegan out almost mercilessly, yet cleanly.
Everyone gasped in shock seeing what she did. Even Orochimaru gasped.
"Just let me handle him. We had more things to worry about than Madara…" Tsuyu gouged her left Sharingan, replacing it with the Rinnegan almost too swiftly. The extra sharingan was absorbed into her body.
Her left arms filled with Sharingans flickered, more Sharingans appeared outside of Tsuyu's chakra robe, appearing in black eyes with 3 tomoe patterns in red iris.
Because she was aware of Kaguya's threat, she had made preparations.
A hundred Sharingan she absorbed into herself, after he found some secret space containing lots of them. It was what Obito had kept after the massacre, and Tsuyu also added the extra Sharingan she had from the harvest of Shin Uchiha.
Orochimaru looked at Tsuyu with a complicated expression. She looked more evil than Obito right now, with a hundred eyes all over her body. Yeah okay she definitely was the most evil among all of them, and yet the sanest and the kindest somehow.
She looked at Obito who seemed scared of her at the moment.
She stretched her arm filled with Sharingans.
This Rinnegan sure is useful…
Using the Creation of All Things (COAT) and Divine chakra of faith, she did what she could.
COAT: Reincarnation of the Hundred Eyes
Her flesh turned into a blob, tearing a piece from herself with a sharingan at its core. Into a creature of an eye with wings. More of these tore away from Tsuyu's body.
A hundred creatures with Sharingan on them. Their bodies turned black from collapse release, making them harder than steel, yet lighter than air.
Obito looked at her with disgust.
She's the evil one!
"Hmph…" She swung her new grown arm, the 100 eyes creatures, each marked with Flying Raijin all positioned fast into a matrix surrounding Obito.
Fuinjutsu Kekkai: Tenrin Shinkai - Heavenly Ring Divine Realm.
Each of the Sharingan was interconnected, with fragments of her consciousness in each of them, creating a matrix that lets nothing escape her vision.
"...Tsuyu…you seemed more terrifying than before…" Orochimaru commented.
"I cannot allow risk. He's more powerful than me, physically…" Tsuyu's Divine Realm saw through his body.
Everyone seemed scared of her a little, but also relieved. As if Obito was a joke in front of her.
***