Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki has been dead for a long time. Longer than anyone remembered, now he was just a legend no one believed to be true anymore.
He wasn't a god, but the power he got from his mother was godlike. However he remained just a man, and like any man with too much power they did not understand, and most importantly, power that did not belong to them in the first place, he left behind a legacy too complicated for anyone to parse cleanly. Or a freaking mess, to be blunt. The peasants and slaves that were offered a speck of chakra turned him into a sage, a savior, a father of all things. But myths lie, and you may think that Hagoromo, wherever he existed now, knew better than to believe all of this. Alas, he was convinced he had everything under control, that he was the overlord who could plan and control it all.
So when something pulled him back from his daydreaming, meaning that all his plans crumbled to dust, his limited intellect offered him only one solution: act quickly while panicking.
He traced back Indra's and Asura's last known positions in the ninja world, and it led to the last place he felt Kurama's and Shukaku's presence before they disappeared. Hamura's legacy chakra disappeared at the same time in the exact same place too. His breath became unsteady just thinking about the obvious: his mother was breaking free!
It was not his imagination either: he felt the seal weakening! The seal holding Kaguya groaned and cracked. He believed it would hold forever, but someone managed to turn the impossible into reality!
He traced it with ease, the culprit did not imagine that someone would monitor them, that in this world he was god!
The place was a cave. At its center was a boy, Elias. He was wearing the appearance of the reincarnation of his son, Asura.
The boy was sitting cross-legged, multicolored chakra curling around him; spinning viciously like a hurricane! Inside him, Hagoromo saw his sons' and his brother's legacy chakra being devoured and fusing with Shukaku's and Kurama's. At first the bastard was failing but now… he was on the brink of success!
Still panicking, Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki pulled the reckless fool's spirit to the Land of Purity! Just a millisecond after the perpetrator of this apostasy exclaimed that he succeeded, he exploded as his soul was dragged out of his body!
"Hello there!" greeted Elias, carefree.
"Fool! I will send you into oblivion and recover what you stole from me!" raged Hagoromo.
Hagoromo didn't draw a weapon as he had none. He just raised his hand and used his full force to strike at the eyesore standing in front of him!
But the expected outcome did not happen. The human in front of him was withstanding his attack and, as if it could not get worse, he felt his power being pushed back and resisted. To his horror, the dirty bug revealed itself to be a formidable adversary, with his power increasing at a tremendous rate! And very soon he felt it: the seal partially loosened itself, and the chakra of the two bijū and his family merged into a different being, the being he was facing right now, the monster he invited into his own house!
Hagoromo began to lose ground and his predicament could only worsen from now on!
There was nowhere to retreat to either. He knew he lost. He committed another mistake, he was too slow to react! Too slow to notice! Now whatever he would do, would be his last action. Now it was his last stand!
The Pure Land started to burn. He felt with pain the mindless souls accumulated through ages by him being consumed. He planned to use them to anchor himself in this land of death and amplify his power in order to attain true rebirth someday, but even that was stolen from him, by this nobody! That damn dog of a human too clever for his own good!
He used all this accumulated power, his own essence even, burning his soul origin to the last drop, not only to kill, but to erase everything with him. If he could not exist, then nothing else had the right to exist either!
Elias felt his consciousness waning, as Hagoromo turned to dust and then to nothing. Everywhere in the ninja world, civilians and ninjas witnessed the world around them turn into nothing, and with it, they were gone too.
But meanwhile, somewhere far in a distant galaxy, in a very bright and expensive-looking palace, the council of catgirls was having a very serious debate. They had to decide the actions to counter the scourge that destroyed their efforts to gain the monopoly over the catnip in the Milky Way.
"We convene under emergency protocol. The market destabilization of class-A catnip has reached critical levels. We are at 237% inflation since the last purring cycle. This cannot continue," Said Chairwoman Pawlina, tapping the table with her fancy clawed glove.
"IT'S THE FRINGE MARKETS! Lulu's been flooding the routes with low-grade fluff! It's undermining the premium imports!" Exclaimed Tsuneko.
"Allegedly. I move fast, Tsuneko. Maybe your buyers just like choices..." responded Lulu while adjusting her shades.
"The data confirms Lulu's exports have increased tenfold. But banning trade won't fix the problem. Demand is climbing galaxy-wide. Regulation must be enforced, not evaded. Besides it was all Nyanners' fault!" Added Velvet.
"We intercepted four smugglers in Zone Delta. Each vessel carried military-grade enrichment. This is no longer recreational. It's a defense risk. We have to find how to counter her!" Stated Captain Nekomi.
"Kittens are overdosing. Sanctuary Worlds are reporting tremors in litterbox stability. We need age gates, purity caps, and galactic certifications..." Said Momo with melancholy.
"Enforcement without centralized oversight is useless." Quietly added Yuki.
After Yuki's statement everyone went quiet for a moment.
"What if... we create a galactic blockchain to trace catnip origin and distribution?" Suggested Nyaomi.
"WHAT IS A BLOCK-CHAIN? IS IT LIKE A TAIL COLLAR?!" Yelled Tsuneko inquisitively.
"The claws that dig deepest are the ones you do not see. Track nothing. Become the shadow," Declared Jinx while grinning.
In the meeting room a resounding faceslap noise was heard as every other member of the assembly cringed after hearing what she said.
"Please. Enough riddles. The Lunar Clowder demands fixed tariffs and a rotational license board. Trade is vital, but chaos is not. We already have our hands full with that pink cat's wrongdoing!" said Lady Miya, trying to make the group focus back on the subject.
"We must decide. Shall we adopt Regulation P-18-NYA? It includes taxation, traceability, import limits, and quality grading." Demanded Chairwoman Pawlina.
"I vote yes, but only if Lulu loses her distribution ring in Zone Theta!" responded Tsuneko.
"Excuse me?! That zone is neutral!" Protested Lulu.
"I second Tsuneko. You're a security risk!" Added Captain Nekomi.
"You're all jealous I have the fluff everyone wants!" Protested Lulu with indignation!
"Motion: Provisional approval with conditional audits on Fringe operations!" Said Yuki, standing.
As the chamber was still resonating with the voices of the ten catgirl council members, arguing over Regulation P-18-NYA, suddenly the reinforced steel doors exploded inward with a shower of sparks and deafening noise!
Out of the smoke marched a silhouette: heels clacking, tail swaying, fur-trimmed trench coat flapping. She carried something massive, something exceedingly metal: a chrome-plated, twin-barrel Nyanko-47 heavy machine gun with pink anime stickers and the words "Meow Means WAR" etched on the side. She bared her fangs and lit a bubblegum cigar: castle deluxe edition, Catnip flavor.
"You talk, and you talk... 'bout regulation. Inflation. 'Fringe market instability'?I got your instability right here, chica!" Said the mysterious pink catgirl with anger!
BRAAAAAAAAAP! A machine gun noise echoed in the council chamber like a hymn to glory, to the monarch of the catgirl kin!
Velvet dove behind the table. Captain Nekomi was immediately shredded into fabric and sparks—her armored coat couldn't save her! Tsuneko leapt into the air but took a full spray to the tail mid-flip.
Yuki, normally impossible to hit, tried to dodge and she almost made it.
The beautiful and majestic pink catgirl stepped forward, spraying wildly the world around her with iron bullets of metallic metal of death, tearing through holograms, stats, sacred scrolls, and seventy million years of feline diplomacy!
"You think you run this galactic litterbox? Naw, babe. You forgot the claws that built this house!" She said with anger and domination!
Lulu, bless her shady heart, tried to bribe her mid-massacre:"Wait! Wait! I got 200 crates of platinum fluff! Vintage! Uncut!"
The glamorous pink catgirl didn't even blink before killing her with a punchline:"Then you can snort it in hell." Then she finished killing her with a spray of bullets!
Chairwoman Pawlina, trying to crawl away, raised a trembling paw."This is... madness..."
"No. This is meowtherfreackin' capitalism," said the pink cat while dropping a grenade shaped like a cat toy. "Say hello to my little meow!"
A loud explosion blasted everything with Pawlina into smithereens and morsels of flesh!
When the dust settled, the pink cat lady stood alone. Blood on her cat ears. Smoke curling from her gun, surrounded by the twitching remains of galactic bureaucracy.
"I didn't want it to be like this. But they took everything. My turf. My fluff. My pride."
She lit another cigar while walking towards a statue of a catgirl.With determination, she broke the statue and retrieved a device from within. The device was a box with a tiny button in it. Under the button, one could read: Reality restoration device. Limited use: Eldritch Entities.
With a grin, the very refined and noble cat lady pressed the button, and the whole world was engulfed in a white light!