The giant wooden hand swung itself down at Sutōkā like a meteor falling from the sky, but the boy managed to evade the surprise attack at the last second with a burst of speed. He reappeared some distance away from the hand with Breach and Naruto in his arms, still staring at it in terror.
"No way..! Breach, what did you do?!" Sutō questioned his partner.
The hand retracted back into the portal and gripped the edges of it with its fingers, then started to forces it open wider, the portal got bigger and bigger until it was as big as a football field, the size whatever this thing on the other side of it wanted. Two arms then emerged from the portal and gripped the earth, then pulled itself up out of the spacial breach.
The creature turned out to be some kind of giant wooden statue. It had multiple eyes, razor sharp fangs and giant wooden spikes on its back. The creature roared a mighty roar upon its emergence; its voice shaking the very earth itself as it stepped out of the portal.
The thundering roar caught the attention of Ghost, Boruto, Naoto and Hibiki, making them turn their heads and gasp from fear and shock.
"What the hell is that thing?!" Naoto exclaimed.
Ghost was however in more panic than the other, for she knew what that creature was.
'It can't be..! Sutō!' She mentally exclaimed.
The monster continued to roar into the heavens, asserting its dominance across the land. Sutōkā just stared at the beast, sweat dripping from his face and his breathing erratic. He had not felt fear like this since his days as Champa's slave.
"How is this possible?! Why the hell is the Gedo Statue here?!" He exclaimed.
*cough* *cough*
The teen looked down and noticed that Naruto was coming to. He set both him and Breach down so he could tend to them.
"Naruto! Are you ok?" He asked.
"Do I look ok, brat..?" Said Kurama, still in control of the Hokage's body.
'Wait... That voice...'
The fox in Human flesh sat himself up, still out of breath and pretty pale.
"Shit... The Gedo Statue drained a massive amount of Naruto's Tailed Beast Chakra, including my own... I can barely lift his head." Groaned Nine Tails.
He tried to move, but only to almost collapse again if Sutōkā hadn't caught him.
"Whoa! Take it easy, Kurama! You're too drained." Ryukki urged.
"Take it easy?! With the situation were in?! You can't be- Wait, how do you know I'm in control of Naruto, and my name?" The Kyuubi asked.
"Can't talk, right now I gotta find a way to stop the Gedo Statue before-"
Suddenly, the statue's jaw tore open and it roared even louder, the eyes started bleeding and it began to thrash around wildly like it was having a seizure.
"...it starts turning into the Ten Tails... Oh boy..." Ryukki finished.
"Ryukki!"
Igneel appeared with an injured Gen in his arms, resting the Soul Reaper beside the Hokage. Gen had a bandage wrap covering his eyes since Sutōkā practically destroyed them with his last attack. The other wounds were patched up as well.
"Start talking and fast! What is that?!" The Dragon King questioned..
"The Gedo Statue. It's the empty husk of the Ten Tails, the most powerful Tailed Beast... and it's also the body of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki."
Igneel's eyes went wide from shock. That's Kaguya, the Rabbit Goddess and mother of all Chakra?! This was not looking well for anyone.
Kurama was quite as surprised to find out that this child knew so much about the Gedo Statue. Then again, he knew the fox's real name, so that was already enough to know that Sutōkā had quite a bit of knowledge on things.
"It's thrashing around like that because is sucked up a huge amount of Naruto's Tailed Beast Chakra and now the statue's beginning to revert back to its original form, the Ten Tails." Sutō continued to explain.
"That doesn't sound good." Igneel commented.
"Only, how the heck did that thing get back to this world? Naruto and Sasuke sealed it in an alternate space all those years ago."
"I think I know..."
Sutōkā, Kurama and Igneel turned to Breach, who had just regained her senses.
"I, um... I may, or may not have stumbled upon the statue during inter-dimensional travel and thought "Oh my, this statue would fit perfectly in my kingdom!" and released it from its bindings..."
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"BREACH!" They all shouted.
"You releases the Gedo Statue because you thought it would look good in your little happy land?!" Sutōkā yelled.
"In my defense, how was I suppose to know that it would come to life!" Breach replied.
"Ugh, we'll talk about this later back at HQ. Right now, we've got big problems, and they're soon to get worse!"
The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path rampaged throughout the area, smashing anything that stood in its way as it begin both its reign and transformation back into Ten Tails.
Over in a trench, Naoto, Boruto, Hibiki and Ghost we're forced into hiding from the monster's emergence. Strong as they were, they stood little chance against something like that. Kurogane peeked his head out to get a look at their situation, and it wasn't good.
"Man, that thing does not stop. It's been thrashing around like crazy for and it doesn't even look tired. How are we suppose to fight that?" The vampiric teen wondered.
"Don't ask me, my dad's the one who fought that thing way back in the day, and he barely made it out alive." Boruto replied.
Naoto retreated back into the trench to avoid being seen by the monster, then turned his gaze to Ghost.
"Hey, Ripto. You got any ideas, being a big bad God Slayer and all?" He asked.
She scoffed.
"Yeah, I do. Just remember that this is a temporary truce until we beat that thing, Alucards' dog." She coldly replied.
"Fine. What's the plan?" Naoto asked.
"Quite simple, cut off its head before the transformation is complete. That will kill it." Ghost explained.
"How?! We can't get anywhere near that thing!" Hibiki questioned.
Ghost was about to say something when a red swirl opened up in space behind the reptilian. Breach, Sutōkā, Naruto, Igneel and Genryusai all came out of it together, then it closed behind them.
"That is where I come in, my dear." Breach said.
"Nat!"
Sutō rushed past Breach and hugged Natalia tightly. He separated himself from her and held her shoulders firmly.
"You ok? When the statue emerged from Breach's portal I thought it..." Ryukki dares not say.
Ghost gently touched the teen's forehead with hers.
"I'm ok, comrade. Don't worry" She hushed.
"Dad! Are you alright?!" Boruto asked his father.
"It's me in control right now, kid. Don't worry, your father's safe. He's just a little out of it." Replied Kurama to Naruto's son.
He reassuringly placed a hand on Boruto's shoulder to calm the boy's nerves.
"O-ok... Th-thanks Uncle." The boy said.
Igneel saw this action and it made him feel strange inside, like there were butterflies in his stomach. It was the bond between family. It reminded him of his own family, and memories quickly filled his mind.
Many years ago*
Within the deepest parts of a forest, a small child was seen drawing in the ground with a stick. It looked like he was trying to write something in the dirt. The child had spiky pink hair, some raggedy shorts, no shirt and a white checkered scarf around his neck.
"There. All done." Said the boy.
Then, a thundering sound was heard behind him, as if something crashed down from the heavens above. The boy didn't even jump at the sound somehow and turned around quickly, and what he saw was something truly phenomenal.
In front of him now was a gigantic red reptilian creature with wings, a beast that would frighten even the Dinosaurs, a Dragon.
It's scales were red like fire, had a cream colored underbelly, two red horns atop its head, golden eyes and sat on its legs for support with its arms crossed. The great beast stared at the boy with its mighty glance and it quickly cracked as smile.
"Natsu!" It greeted with a deep monstrous voice.
Any normal person would have run in horror, but the child only smiled brightly at this beasts arrival.
"Hey Dad!" Replied little Natsu.
The Dragon, Igneel, lowered his head to get a look at what his foster son was doing.
"Hmm? What are you up to, kiddo?" He asked.
"Remember how you said I should work on my literature skills more? I've been writing words in the sand to help." Natsu replied.
The Dragon looked down at the boy's writing and sweat dropped. He wasn't lying about what he was doing, but he sure was failing at it.
Natsu had written the words 'Beer', 'Crap', 'Ass' and 'Fuck' in the dirt, and messed up on the grammar.
He spelled beer with an 'A' in it, crap with a 'K', Ass with three 'S's, and Fuck without the 'C'. Note that Natsu was still only just learning these basic skills like any other child so he wasn't very good yet.
"Hehe. So what do you think?" Natsu proudly asked.
"Uhh... Well... It's close, but no cigar." Igneel replied.
"What?! Aw, c'mon! How far off could I have been?!" Natsu questioned.
The Dragon was tempted to lie and say "not much" to make the boy feel better, but it was probably best to stay honest.
"Pretty far. Also, we should discuss your language later." Igneel answered and referred to the swear words that the boy wrote.
"Alright, I'll start over. Just watch, it's gonna be so good, it'll blow you away!"
With that said, Natsu erased his failed work and started from scratch again. Watching his foster son work made Igneel smile. It's true what they say, they grow up fast.
Present*
'Natsu...' Iggy thought.
"Hey, I don't mean to break up a family moment, but we kinda got a big problem to worry about." Naoto pointed out.
"The kid's right. We can't let the Gedo Statue transform back into Ten Tails. Hey squid, we're gonna need Sasuke, so can you bring him back from wherever you sent him?" Kurama said to Breach.
Alva nodded her head in agreement. She opened up a red swirl in space and peered into it.
"Now, let's see where I- EEP!"
A spray of bullets flew out from the swirl and Breach just barely managed to avoid them, same with everyone else.
"The heck was that?!" Sutōkā exclaimed.
The group them heard shouting coming out from the swirl.
"HOLD THE LINE! DON'T LET THEM THROUGH!"
"That Sasuke?" Naoto wondered.
Then, a man jumped through the swirl and shocked everyone. The man was wearing some kind of space age armor, had only one arm, wore a concealing helmet and cloak and had a large pistol in his remaining hand.
The man looked at the group and recognized them. He bolstered his gun and removed his helmet, revealing to be Sasuke.
"How long was I gone?!" He asked frantically.
"Not... that long... What happened to you?" Sutōkā asked.
"Well, to put in shortly, I ended up fighting in an intergalactic war against a dark and evil organization for the universe's last remaining energy source. That good enough for you?"
"Umm... Ok..."
The group then explained to Sasuke the situation. The Gedo Statue has been freed and it consumed a massive amount of Naruto's Tailed Beast Chakra and was turning back into Ten Tails.
"Oh... Well, we're in a pickle. Aren't we?" Sasuke said.
"And Ms. Sushi here put Naruto under some kind of hypnosis and I can't wake him up, so I'm in control of his body for now. That, and the fact that we've both lost too much Chakra to the statue so we can't help fight." Kurama added.
"Don't worry, Nine Tails. We just have to come up with a plan." Sasuke assured.
"Then I recommend that we hurry. That creature is transforming more and more with each passing second." Hibiki pointed out.
He was right. The Gedo Statue was now on its arms and legs and it's eyes were melding together into one. Small lumps started to appear on its backside and the spikes on its back began merging into what looked like a plant bulb. Time was running thin.
"Damn, he's right." Uchiha cursed.
"What happens when that thing turns back into this Ten Tails thing?" Naoto asked Sasuke.
"Then the world ends."
And just like that, the teen vampire went white.
"Not just that..."
Then he turned to Sutōkā.
"There's more..?" Naoto questioned in a frightened tone.
"It will turn into the Divine Tree and cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi, which will hypnotize the whole planet and suck off the inhabitants Chakra, until it's enough for 'her' to come back." Ryukki explained.
"Her?" Hibiki questioned.
Sutō turned to Ghost with a look that said. "Should I?". She nodded her head. It was time to tell them the truth, so he took a deep breath.
"Kaguya Ōtsutsuki... My sister."
Both Sasuke and Kurama gasped and went wide eyed.
"W-what..?!" Uchiha stuttered.
"That witch is your sister?!" Exclaimed Kurama.
The black haired boy nodded.
"But then how are you still so young, and aren't Ōtsutsuki Clan members suppose to be albino?!" Sasuke questioned.
"I took after my mother. I'm only half Ōtsutsuki."
Mentioning his mother made Sutōkā's heart ache.
"Kaguya's father came to this Earth before she acquired her Chakra powers, and he met a young woman named Reina Sun. They fell in love and eventually I was born."
He still remembers his early memories with his family. All those dinners together, all the hardships, the times they went to visit Kaguya. It was nostalgic.
"Kaguya told me that she couldn't have been happier when she first held me in her arms when I was a baby. We all lived in her village together... Until..." Sutō stopped talking.
The next part hurt too much to say. How Champa destroyed his family, how Kaguya was forced to eat that Chakra fruit, Vados cursing him with eternal youth... The rape...
"Easy, Sutō." Ghost comforted the boy with a claw on his shoulder.
"I'm ok. Thanks." He replied to her.
"Ryukki... I don't know if this is gonna mean anything, but... I'm... sorry. I didn't know." Igneel said, feeling bad.
"It means a lot, actually." Sutō replied.
"Touchy feelings aside, how do we deal with Ten Tails?" Kurama reminded them of the situation.
"Don't you mean the Gedo Statue? We still have time before... Nnnno..."
Ryukki peeped his head over the trench a bit and went white seeing that the Gedo Statue's transformation was already nearly complete.
'Oh no, I did it again!' He thought, sliding back into the trench.
"Damnit, we spent so much time talking that we didn't even notice that it's already transformed!" Sutōkā cursed.
"What do you mean "we"? You're the one who kept yapping! We could have killed that thing hours ago!" Naoto argued.
"Wait, you people spent this whole time, where you could have cut off the statue's head, just sitting here talking?!" Sasuke exclaimed.
"I am terribly sorry, Sutōkā has a bad habit of wasting people's time." Breach apologized.
She wasn't wrong. Ryukki would get so into explaining things to people that he once wasted an entire afternoon away, talking about squirrels!
"Alright! Alright! I get it! New plan, Breach is gonna send all you guys into a pocket dimension where you'll be safe. Ghost and I will stay here and fight." Sutō explained.
"What?! You're gonna fight that thing by yourselves?!" Boruto questioned.
"Don't worry, child. We're use to dealing with this stuff. We can handle that monster." Ghost assured.
"Wait, you guys are gonna need Naruto and me with you. We're the only ones who can seal the Ten Tails away again." Sasuke argued.
"Who said we were gonna seal it?"
Sutōkā's left arm started glowing red.
"We're gonna kill it."
"What?! Surely you're joking, right?! You think you can kill the Ten Tails?!" Kurama objected in disbelief.
"They can..."
Those words came from Gen, who had regained consciousness after his beating.
"I loath to admit it, but if anyone here can stop the Jūbi, it's those two..." The Soul Reaper softly said.
"Hey, take it easy." Urged Igneel, holding his lover close.
Then, a massive roar thundered throughout the area. Sutōkā peeped out of the trench and saw that the Gedo Statue's transformation was complete. It was now five times the size it was before, had a single gigantic red eye with both ripple and comma patterns it it, depicting that this eye was the fabled Rinne Sharingan, along with a gigantic and disfigured mouth with hundreds of sedated fangs the size of buildings, and ten colossal tails waving in the air.
The Ten Tails stood on all fours and howled into the sky, blowing away the clouds in the sky and revealing the moon. Sutō gasped in response to seeing the moon because he knew what the Ten Tails was planning. It was going to use the Infinite Tsukuyomi?! Now?! 'She' must be pretty hasty this time.
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"Fuck! Breach, get everyone out of here!" Ryukki ordered.
"Of course."
The octopus opened a red swirl and gripped her tendrils around the Sasuke, Igneel, Genryusai, Boruto, Sasuke, Naruto, Hibiki and Naoto, then started pulling them into the swirl.
"Hey, wait! We can't just leave them! We gotta do something!" Boruto objected.
"They will be fine, child. You can trust my companions." Breach assured.
"Like hell we can!"
While mere inches away from the portal, Sasuke pulled out his katana and threw it like a spear into the wall of the trench, then grabbed Naruto's arm and activated his Rinnegan. The two instantly switched places with the sword and were freed from Breach's grip.
"Damn" Breach cursed.
"Kurogane, Kohaku, keep Boruto safe!" Kurama ordered the two.
They both nodded before disappearing into the swirl.
"Dad! Uncles!" Boruto cried before he himself vanished as well.
The swirl then vanished into thin air, leaving Kurama and Sasuke to fight with Ghost and Sutōkā.
"Didn't I just say to let us handle this?" Sutō repeated.
"Neither of us were ones to follow orders."
Sasuke went over to where the swirl was and picked up his sword. It fell on the ground when he used his spacial displacement.
"Besides, you're gonna need all the help you can get." He finished.
"Yeah, and I still have beef with that thing from back during the last Great Ninja War! Got a problem with that?" Kurama growled.
The teen glared at the two and eventually caved with a sigh.
"Save the chitchat for after we kill this thing."
The four of them stood side by side and readied them selves. Ten Tail roared into the sky and then turned its gaze to its opponents; its eye staring into their very beings.
Sutō stepped forward and took a deep breath before he started shouting.
"HEY, KAGUYA! YOU CAN HEAR ME, RIGHT?! DON'T PRETEND YOU CAN'T!
The gigantic Tailed Beast moves its gaze more to Ryukki, staring at him with its huge eye.
"IT'S ME, SUTŌKĀ! YOUR BROTHER!"
It growled at the boy deeply in response.
"COME ON OUT OF THAT MONSTER AND FIGHT ME FACE TO FACE!"
"What do you think you're doing, kid?! You trying to get us killed or something?!" Kurama barked.
"COME ON! SHOW YOURSELF!"
'That idiot! Why is he egging on Kaguya like this?!' Sasuke thought.
Suddenly, a small bump appeared dead in the center of Ten Tails' eye and was growing quickly. Then, something just phased through the bump while leaving no damage done to the beast's eyes.
It was a rather tall woman with pale white skin and hair and brown horns atop her head, a long white robe with black markings similar to the comma patterning on the Sharingan, as well as what looked like a third eye on her forehead that was closed shut. The woman opened her eyes, which were all white as well. She hovered high above the ground and looked down at the four who stood in her way. Quickly after the woman's emerging, Ten Tail began to close its eye and rested down on the ground, falling into slumber.
"Kaguya..." Growled Kurama.
"What happened to Ten Tails? Why did it fall asleep?" Ghost asked the fox.
"Kaguya is the Ten Tails itself, my best guess is that she merely created an avatar for herself to roam freely and transferred a large portion of Ten Tails' Chakra to it, causing it to fall asleep from exhaustion." Kyuubi tried to explain.
Sutō just stared at the woman floating in the air in disbelief. That is Kaguya? She looked completely different from when he was a child, the horns and third eye for instance. Ryukki could only imagine what that god forsaken Chakra Fruit did to her, physically and mentally.
"Sister..."
"Who dares call out to me?" The woman asked.
Sutōkā snapped out of his thoughts and replied.
"Kaguya, do you remember me?"
Ōtsutsuki focused her gaze on the teen below her. Her eye began to dilate and strain all while veins spread across her face. The Byakugan, the last of the three Ocular Jutsu. Originally a power for only the Ōtsutsuki clan, it was eventually passed down to the Hyuga clan by Kaguya's other son, Homura. This ability let's one not only amplify their field of view, but it also lets one see the entire Chakra network of a living being.
She slowly descended down to Sutōkā until she was at least two feet from the ground and stared at the boy, while Sutō did the same.
"Strange... I do not sense any Chakra coming from you. I have not seen someone like you since the age before my sons created the Ninshu, the Shinobi creed. What is your name, boy?" Kaguya questioned.
"You already know it..." Sutō replied.
"I do?"
The Paradox member tightened his fist in nervousness and found it hard to talk. He was scared, scared like when he was Champa's slave, but he couldn't afford to give into fear. He had to come to terms with his past. Finally, he spoke up.
"My name is Sutōkā Ōtsutsuki. I'm your little brother, Kaguya."
The woman widened her eyes out of surprise from what she heard.
"My...brother..?" She questioned.
"That's right, Kaguya. It's me, Sutō. I'm still here." Sutōkā answered.
Slowly, Ryukki approached his elder sister with his hands away from his weapon.
"Hey, what are you doing, kid?! Get away from her!" Sasuke said, raising his voice.
"I mean, you remember my name, right?" The teen asked.
"I... I had a half brother of that name... He died long ago..." Kaguya replied.
"Well, I'm not dead, Sister. I'm right here and you're not dreaming. I survived what happened."
He approached the god-like being ever so closed with his arms exposed to show that he wasn't a threat. Sutōkā thought that perhaps he could reason with Kaguya and get her to stand down without a struggle. It may have been a foolish idea, but she is still his family, and he honestly didn't want to hurt her unless he had no choice. Ghost knew what the boy was doing and was starting to look scared for the boy.
'Sutōkā. I know what you're trying to do, comrade. Be careful.' She thought.
"I just want you to know that I'm sorry I wasn't there to help you. I can't even begin to understand what you've been thro-"
With one thrust of her arm, Kaguya impaled her brother straight through his chest, dead center. Blood bursted out from the other side and splattered onto the earth, painting the ground red. Everyone went wide eyed and their jaws dropped from shock.
Sutō just stood where he was, wide eyed as well. He coughed up his blood and felt his legs going limp, and within his field of vision was the angry face of the violent Rabbit Goddess.
"Your lies fall on deaf ears, deceiver. My brother perished long ago."
Kaguya pulled back her arm out of her brother and Sutōkā fell forwards to the ground, falling almost agonizingly slow.
"SUTŌ!" Ghost cried.
"You bitch!" Sasuke cursed.
However, as Ryukki was falling, he managed to smash his right leg into the ground and regain his footing. He then looked up at Kaguya and pushed his leg of the ground with immense force. Ryukki leaped up at his sister and his invisible force manage to slice through Kaguya's robe, leaving a large tear in it. This left Kaguya stunned because no one should have survived an impalement like that.
'What?! Impossible!' She thought.
"I didn't want it to come to this!" Ryukki shouted.
Ōtsutsuki managed to teleport away before Sutōkā could slash her again. She appeared high in the air above Ryukki and wiped the blood off her arm.
Sutō finally collapsed onto one knee from his injury. Ghost and Sasuke went over to the boy and helped him up.
"Are you alright?" Ghost asked worriedly.
She got a nod saying yes, even though he clearly wasn't ok.
"What were you thinking with that mushy crap?" Sasuke questioned.
"I don't know... I thought I could reach out to her... Guess I was wrong..." Sutōkā replied in pain.
"Give it a rest, brat! Mother would never fall for such cheap tricks!"
A new voice filled their ears, sound sharp and aggressive. Everyone looked up at Kaguya and saw that there was something hiding in her sleeve. It was two yellow dots and a large toothy grin.
"Black Zetsu!" Sasuke grunted.
"Been a while, Sasuke, and Naruto. Or is it Nine Tails? I can tell because of your eyes. What happened to the brat? Did you decide to take him over after all, mutt?" Laughed the toothy blob.
Kurama merely growled at the creature.
Black Zetsu was the manifestation of Kaguya's will. He is a formless being comprised of darkness and can latch himself onto people to restrain their movements. Back then, he was attached to the missing half of his white counterpart, made from the Gedo Statue, now he clings onto Kaguya as her hidden weapon. Last time Naruto saw Black Zetsu, he tossed him into Kaguya's prison out of anger.
"Aww, look at that, the fox is mad. Isn't that adorable." Zetsu laughed.
"Shut you mouth, you freakin' blob! You've given all of us enough lip!" The fox shouted.
"Oh, I'm shaking! What ever are we going to do against a giant fox who's host is now a decrepit old man?" Black Zetsu sarcastically said.
"How about you come down here and-"
Kurama then felt something snap inside Naruto's body all of a sudden. He felt a white hot rage bubbling up in him, like a raging fire. Without warning or even control of the body he was using, Kurama lunges at Kaguya with a Massive Rasengan. She blocked it with one hand of course.
"Nine Tails, what are you doing?!" Sasuke shouted.
Zetsu got a closer look at Naruto's face. His eyes were back to their normal blue and a look of fury was spread all across his face. Naruto was back!
"OLD MAN?! I'M ONLY IN MY THIRTIES!" He screamed.
"THAT WOKE HIM UP?!" Kurama exclaimed from inside Naruto
"Whoa, I didn't see that coming." Sutō commented.
"Well, he was know as the Number one, Unpredictable, Hyperactive, Knucklehead Ninja back in the day. Figures it would take something completely random to set him off." Sasuke explained.
Kaguya used a gravitational attack to repel Naruto forward and away from her, sending him crashing to the ground below. He got right back up like nothing happened and walked over to his allies.
"Damn! What the heck is going on here, Sasuke?! What's Kaguya doing here?!" He asked his friend.
"It's a long story. That Breach thing you were fighting apparently had the Gedo Statue in her possesion without knowing what it was. It sucked up your Tailed Beast Chakra and that's how we ended up in this mess." Sasuke explained.
"Breach? Hold on..."
Soon enough, memories started flooding into Uzumaki's mind and he quickly started to make sense of them. There was one however he didn't exactly find pleasant, and he went white.
"Dear God, I remember... That tentacle in my mouth..! Why is it always my mouth?! And she squirted something down my throat! GAH!"
"Can we worry about that later, idiot! We have bigger problems!" Ghost pointed out.
She was right, Kaguya was a larger objective now, one that they need to make sure is felt with.
"Let me just ask. Are Boruto and everyone else ok?" Naruto questioned Natalia.
She nodded her head yes. That put the Shinobi at ease a bit. Now he doesn't need to hold back.
"Breach took them into her space for their own safety. Don't worry, she won't try to keep them. They don't interest her." Ghost explained.
"Thank you." Naruto replied.
Over with Ōtsutsuki, she was staring at Naruto and Sasuke; eyes full of anger and hatred.
"Ashura..! Indra..!"
"Calm yourself, Mother. They're not the same brats they were years ago. They have gotten stronger, so be on your guard." Black Zetsu warned.
Knowing full well who he was dealing with, Naruto made some hand signs and was instantly enveloped in a bright, golden aura. His whisker marks became thicker and his eyes turned red and slitted like a fox. Nine Tails Chakra Mode right off the bat.
"I still don't know what exactly is going on, but I'm not gonna let that witch destroy everything again! Come on, Sasuke! Let's get her!" Naruto said bravely.
"You got it." Sasuke replied, twirling his sword.
The two Shinobi dashed towards Kaguya with tremendous speed, zooming right past Ghost and the injured Sutōkā.
"No..! Get back, she's mine..!" Sutō tried shouting.
"Stop! You need to rest!" Ghost insisted.
"I can't..! She's my sister, my responsibility..! I have to be the one!"
All Natalia could feel was pity for Sutōkā. She had never seen him so obsessed and desperate before. It kinda scared her to see him like this.
As both Naruto and Sasuke charged at Kaguya, the woman began to radiate with a light blue aura, building up her energy so she could hold nothing back.
"This time, you will not get in my way. All Chakra in this planet belongs to me!"
With that, Ōtsutsuki flew towards the Shinobi, Byakugan active. Naruto and Sasuke both disappeared in bursts of speed once they were within close enough range of Kaguya. The goddess didn't even bother to look around for them because she knew where they would reappear. The duo did so behind her and were about to strike with two giant fists, Naruto's made of pure golden Chakra while Sasuke's was a giant purple skeleton arm from his Susano'o.
However, Kaguya saw this coming and she quickly unleashed a powerful shockwave around her like nothing, blowing the Ninjas away. They both recovered on the ground and decided to try something else. Naruto zoomed towards her using his Chakra Mode's incredible speed and unleashed rapid strikes on the goddess.
"TAILED BEAST FLASH BULLET!"
Too bad this creature had the reflexes she needed to catch Uzumaki by the throat, stopping him in his tracks. Naruto was now trapped in the grasp of Kaguya, unable to break free. Normally, any other person who got caught by the bad guy would panic, but Naruto just grinned.
"Hehe... Not bad, Kaguya, but I know your weakness!" He said confidently.
"Excuse me?" Kaguya questioned.
The Hokage made a hand sign.
"SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!"
Multiple clones appeared in proofs of smoke in front of Kaguya and were also making hand signs.
"And now, hehe... SEXY REVERSE HAREM JUTSU!"
In seconds, Naruto and all his clones bursted into smoke and, once cleared, revealed numerous gorgeous looking men right in front of Kaguya, leaving her in complete shock.
"Hey there, baby." They all flirted.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!" Ghost and Sutōkā both screamed in astonishment from the ground.
Ōtsutsuki was at a complete loss for words. She couldn't look away from the sight in front of her, their perfect faces, chiseled muscles, shining hair. It was like paradise.
"Uh, uh... I-uh..." Was all she could force out.
'Oh man... Powerful or not, she's pathetic...' Naruto thought.
And while the goddess was lost in the sight of the harem, Sasuke his in the background of the men with his shirt off to go with the illusion, and making sure he was showing his right side to ensure that Kaguya wouldn't identify him because his missing left limb.
He drew his sword and it ignited with black fire, then gave it a great swing.
"Inferno Style: FLAME CONTROL JUMPING!"
Sasuke fired a slash of burning black flames, tearing through the harem clones and then hitting Kaguya. The explosion from the attack forced the Rabbit Goddess back and made her release Naruto from her grip. Both Naruto and Sasuke landed safely on the ground.
"I can not believe that pervy Jutsu of yours worked on her again..." Sasuke said while putting his shirt back on, and feeling humiliated by the fact that he had to hide within the harem clones.
"Just proof that I'm just that good." Naruto cockily replied.
"Mother, how could you fall for that trick a second time?!" Black Zetsu yelled.
"Hey! I am a woman, I HAD to watch that!" Kaguya defended.
"Well... That was out of the blue. We're sure the Hokage is straight, right?" Ghost commented.
"I think Naruto's junk has permanently burned into my brain." Sutō said, closing and opening his eyes.
But back on track. Kaguya retaliated against the recent attack by firing a spray of strange bone-like projectiles from her sleeves at the two Shinobi; the objects flying at high speeds.
"ALL-KILLING ASH BONES!"
"Sasuke, don't let those hit you! They kill you instantly if they do! Remember what it did to Obito?!" Naruto reminded his friend from their last battle with Ōtsutsuki.
"I know!" Sasuke replied.
They both moved out of the way from the spray of bones raining down on them; Naruto using the speed of his Chakra Mode while Sasuke defended with the Susano'o's rib cage. Uchiha flung his katana at Kaguya while she was still spraying those bones and once it got close enough, like mere inches away from her body, Sasuke used his Rinnegan to switch places with his sword and thrusted his electrified hand towards her.
"CHIDORI!"
However, Kaguya used her extremely long hair to grab hold of Sasuke's hand before he could reach her. It wrapped around Sasuke's wrist and tossed him back down to earth. Naruto summoned a clone to catch his friend while the real Hokage was using the energy arms of his form to gather large amounts of Chakra and wind in his hands. They both formed to spinning shuriken of wind which he Immediately threw at his foe.
"DOUBLE RASENSHURIKEN!"
Kaguya merely waved her arm and the two shuriken got blown away like nothing. She was just as monstrous as ever.
'Damnit!' Uzumaki cursed.
"My turn."
The madwoman tightened her fist and narrowed her eyes.
"Crap! Sasuke, get ready!"
"EIGHTY GODS VACUUM FIST!"
Kaguya then unleashed a storm of punches from fists made of pure energy at the duo. Naruto managed to put up a defense by creating an energy avatar of Kurama's giant head around him, while Sasuke used his Susano'o rib cage. The energy fist began to pour down on the two like a heavy rain storm, pulverizing even the earth itself with their tremendous power.
Everything that got hit by these punches was pulverized into dust like nothing, hell even the ground was shaking from the impact of each punch. Ghost managed to keep the injured Sutōkā safe by using her Slip Shadow Drive to phase them both through the attacks for as long as she could, but her Drive had its limits, and she couldn't keep it going for very long.
"Ghost, stop! You're gonna tire yourself out if you keep phasing! Let me use my defense!" Sutō urged.
"No..! I can do this..!" Ghost insisted.
'Damn, you're too stubborn sometimes!'
Ryukki then looked over at where his sister was flying. He felt completely worthless right now, unable to do anything.
'Kaguya...' He mentally whimpered.
With Naruto, his avatar head was beginning to dissipate quickly. He couldn't hold Ōtsutsuki off much longer. What he had to do was stop this attack all together.
"Come on, Naruto! Think! How am I gonna get to her like this?!" Uzumaki said to himself.
Then, he came up with an idea, floating candle and everything... but then the wax dropped onto his head.
"Ow! Isn't it suppose to be a lightbulb?!"
So the Hokage made a hand sign used his Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu, bit he didn't summon his clones near himself. Instead, the Ninja conjures them right behind Kaguya, with Rasengans in their hands and ready to strike.
"TAKE THIS!" They all screamed.
However, Kaguya merely widened her eyes and she unleashed a powerful shockwave from her body, blowing away and destroying the clones. She didn't even bother to turn around when she attacked.
"Damnit! I was hoping she would stop this attack to handle my clones!" Naruto grunted.
Over with Sasuke, his spectral rib cage was beginning to crack and break from the rapid punches, showing that he can't hold out much longer, so he made a call and widened his right eye.
"SUSANO'O!"
Within seconds, the rib cage began to expand into a large purple skeletal creature and it quickly started to grow flesh and muscle.
Once it was fully skinned, the creature was then incased in purple armor, resembling something from an ancient Japanese mural. This was Sasuke's Susano'o, the third and strongest Jutsu of the Mangekyō Sharingan. It's an avatar of pure energy that works to both protect Sasuke and deal massive damage to his opponents.
The avatar conjured a bow in its hands and pulled back the string, summoning an energy arrow within the weapon. Sasuke then used his Amaterasu to ignite the arrow with black flames to double its power.
"Try my Inferno Style: SUSANO'O FLAME CONTROL! BURN OUT!"
The arrow was fired, flying towards Ōtsutsuki at breathtaking speeds. However, that was as useless as Naruto's assault as Kaguya merely opened a portal into another dimension and the arrow flew right into it, disappearing forever, all while Kaguya was continuing her Vacuum Fist attack.
"Are you kidding?!" Sasuke exclaimed.
"Give it a rest, brats! Mother has seen all your little tricks last time we fought! She can easily counter all of them now!" Black Zetsu laughed.
"Shit! What do we do?!" Naruto cursed.
Back with the other duo, Ghost was getting more and more drained from using her Drive to protect her and Sutō from the Vacuum Fists. She had clearly run out of Seither, which fuels the Drive, and was now feeding off her life energy to sustain itself.
"Ghost, you can't keep going! Just let me go and escape! Please!" Ryukki begged.
Ghost merely smiled warmly at him.
"We're partners, comrade. Never leave your partner behind. Remember?"
That was the last thing she said before she got struck by one of Kaguya's fists. The attack struck her lower back area, right above her legs. Natalia could feel pain of the attack as it tore her spine from the waist below. Her legs instantly went numb and she began to collapse.
Sutō witnessed this as the world around him moved agonizingly slow. He saw Ghost's eye roll up into the back of her head, starting to pass out from the pain, he saw Naruto and Sasuke getting bombarded by Kaguya's attack, and he saw his former sister at the summit of it all... smiling like a monster.
Finally, the boy felt something burn out of control inside him, like a wild fire. Finally... he snapped.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!"
In an instant, all sound was rendered silent, not even the wind itself was heard, and all of Kaguya's Vacuum Fist strikes were completely nullified, as for Naruto and Sasuke's avatars as well. The three of them then felt sheer agonizing pain course through all their bodies; massive amounts of blood spewing out from huge cuts on each of their shoulders. However, that was only the smallest detail of the phenomenon, for a mountain in the great distance was completely erased into nothingness, like as if God himself took it away.
Naruto wondered what just happened, but his thoughts went dark as he passed right out from the amount of blood lost from his body, collapsing to the ground, as well as Sasuke.
Kaguya descended to the earth due to her injury. She didn't pass out, but she was in quite a bit of pain.
"Mother, are you alright?!" Asked Black Zetsu.
"Curses! What was that just now?" Ōtsutsuki wondered.
"Let me shed some light on that for you."
Kaguya turned to her right and saw Sutōkā walking towards her, sheathed sword in hand. His injury from earlier had already healed somehow and he was radiating blood red flames from his left arm.
"That was one of my most powerful attacks. It's a endless onslaught of sword slashes that move at twice the speed of lightning, spreading out to a twenty kilometer radius. However, they're completely uncontrolled and they end up carving through anything and everything within that area of distance. I call it my Holocaust Slash." The teen explained.
So that was what that was? Intriguing...
Kaguya's wind quickly healed itself and she began to levitate again.
"I see. That explains a bit, boy. However, how exactly did you perform such a Jutsu with the injury you-"
She then noticed that Ryukki's wound was completely healed, leaving not even a single scar behind.
"What? How is your-"
"Magic is quite a useful power. Heck of a lot more than Chakra ever was." Sutōkā interrupted.
"What? Did that brat just say "Magic"? Like, abracadabra hocus-pocus?" Black Zetsu questioned.
"What are you talking about boy? Explain you-"
"Trust me, Magic is very real, and it's on my side."
"Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but you truly bel-"
"You hurt my best friend, Kaguya! That I cannot abide, so I'm gonna finish what I started!"
"Would you please let me speak?!"
The boy gripped his sword's holy with his right hand tightly and shot a death stare at Ōtsutsuki.
"Why should I? Because the only thing you're gonna be saying..."
He disappeared in a burst of speed and reappeared right in front of Kaguya, face to face.
"...are pleas for mercy!"
The Rabbit Goddess suddenly found herself unable to move, like something was wrapped around her back and ensnaring her. She turned her head, but there was nothing there.
"What on earth?!"
"SPIDER SLASH!"
In an instant, Kaguya was impaled eight times in the back by Sutō's invisible force; blood spewing from the nasty wounds. She didn't even flinch from the attack though, due to her thousand year experience of dealing with pain, so she knew how to take it.
Kaguya merely opened up a portal in space and slipped right through it to escape from Sutōkā grasp. The teen kept his eyes peeled for where she might resurface. He pulled something out from a pack strapped to his hip and readied himself.
The goddess reappeared high above Ryukki, about to fire her instant kill attack.
"ALL-KILLING ASH-"
However, before Kaguya could fire her attack, a kunai and chain struck her chest, digging its way into her body and interrupting her.
"What?" She said.
The kunai wasn't like a normal one in this world. It was made of a different metal, had a glowing orange light across the blade and the chain was more like a type of cable.
It came from Sutōkā, and it was the thing he pulled out from his pack.
"SCORPION SLASH! GET OVER HERE, BITCH!"
With a mighty tug, Sutōkā pulled Kaguya back to earth from the heavens above. She tried flying away, but the pull was too strong even for her. Ryukki clearly had tremendous physical strength if he can force Kaguya to the Ground like this, like that pink banshee who fought beside Naruto and Sasuke the last time they fought.
"And now..."
Once she was in range, Sutō unleashed hell on her.
"BUSTER SLASH!"
He struck the goddess' chest with a full force power attack, cracking the earth beneath him from the amount of force put into it, and even after that, she still didn't even flinch.
Kaguya grabbed Ryukki by the hair and tossed him into the sky, then used her portal creating power to warp to a higher point than him. She followed up with another assault of her instant kill Jutsu.
"ALL-KILLING ASH BONES!"
She fired multiple bones at a time to finished her opponent off. Sutō however, recovered quick and his strange defense sliced through the projectiles in his ascending path. He followed that up be swinging his rope dart around himself to built up momentum.
Once he was the same altitude as his sister, Sutō swung his dart at her and it sliced her right arm clean off.
"SCORPION STINGER SLASH!"
Blood spewed from the wound like a fountain, and she STILL didn't flinch, so the boy threw the dart again and it pierced right through her body; the blade digging into a boulder back on the ground. The teen then pulled the cable back with great strength, yanking the boulder from the ground and smashing it into Kaguya. It shattered upon hitting Ōtsutsuki leaving a dust cloud where she flew.
Sutō landed on the ground and retracted his rope dart. He looked up at the cloud and saw his sister diving down out of it, so he readied his defenses.
"EIGHTY GODS VACUUM FIST!"
"FLURRY SLASH!"
Kaguya's barrage of spectral punches and Sutōkā's relentless slashes clash with each other, shaking the earth as they unleashed blow after blow. Neither of them let up with their brutal assaults and continued to match blow for blow. Luckily, since Kaguya was missing an arm, her barrage wasn't as powerful as before, giving Ryukki an edge in this.
"What's wrong, Sister? Getting tired?" Sutō snickered.
"Don't mock me, boy!"
With a widening of her eyes, Kaguya emitted a powerful shockwave and blew Sutō away. He managed to recover, but not quickly enough to notice that the surroundings around him had totally changed. He was now somehow on top of a giant glacier.
Kaguya was there as well and had her severed arm in her grasp.
"The hell is this?" The boy wondered.
"Oh, no one told you, Mr. Know it all? Mother can also pull people into alternate dimensions whenever she pleases, and this one will be your final resting place!" Laughed Zetsu.
Without warning, the goddess zoomed towards Sutōkā, armed with a bone blade that grew out from her palm. Sutō tossed his rope dart at Kaguya to stop her, but she avoided it with ease and then swung her bone at the bow. Ryukki's mysterious defense protected him from the slash by knocking Kaguya's arm away.
She flew backwards and fired the bone at Sutō instead. It got sliced in half by the defense. This was getting annoying.
'How is he doing that?' Kaguya thought.
The boy retracted his rope dart and threw it at his former sister again, but she caught it with her bare hand mere inches away from her face.
"You honestly believe such a foolish trick will work on me again, child?"
He chuckled in response. Suddenly, the rope began to crackle with electricity.
"No, but this will. SCORPION POISON SLASH!"
The rope dart then lit up with electricity, sending it coursing through Kaguya's body. She remained unaffected by the pain and didn't even thrash around like someone being electrocuted. A monster indeed.
"Mother, listen to me." Called Black Zetsu.
Kaguya turned her eyes towards the sleeve that held her will incarnate.
"I have a theory on that odd defense of the boy's. Get me in close and perhaps I can see what it really is."
She nodded her head in compliance and released the dart. Kaguya opened a portal and vanished into it.
"Damn, she could be anywhere..." Sutōkā cursed.
He paid close attention to his surrounding to make sure he notices even the tiniest phenomenon for his sister. Then, a small portal opened up behind him and Kaguya's arm reached out from it, but not without alerting the teen and allowing him to defend with his strange power.
"Really? Sneak attack? Nice try, Sister, but you can't touch me-"
In that brief instant, Black Zetsu lunged our from Kaguya's sleeve and latched onto Sutō.
Black Zetsu has the ability to spring onto people and immobilize them thanks to his formless body.
He stopped Sutōkā defense dead in its tracks, finally revealing the truth about his power. That "absolute defense" that Sutōkā uses was not an invisible force, or even a barrier.
It was just his sword!
The blade was unsheathed and exposed for the world to see. It's color was blood red with a guard that was shaped like a star, the crest of the Ōtsutsuki clan.
"W-what?!" Ryukki exclaimed.
"Aaaahahahahaha! I knew it! You're defense is nothing but a lie!" Laughed Zetsu.
Sutō tried moving his arm, but the blob's hold was too strong.
"There was never any invisible force protecting you, you were just drawing your sword so fast that it was invisible to the human eye!"
The teen grunted. Looks like the jig was up.
"While I admit, that is highly impressive, it's worthless against mother now that she knows about it!" Zetsu finished.
"Yeah, you're right." Sutō chuckled with his eyes closed.
Suddenly, the teen started to move his right arm with ease despite Black Zetsu's hold, leaving the blob in shock.
"What the hell?! You couldn't move your arm at all a few seconds ago!" He pointed out.
"My slash attacks alone are nowhere near enough to beat you, Big Sister."
Then, the boy's left arm started emitting blood red flames.
"However, they're not my only weapons."
And with a swing of his right arm, Sutōkā broke Zetsu's hold, causing Kaguya to retract her arm back into the portal. She reappeared some distance away, rubbing her right wrist.
"That's not possible! My hold is unbreakable!" Black Zetsu stated.
Ryukki rose his left arm up in the air and clenched a fist.
"Sadly, if you were a Destroyer, a Kai, or anything affiliated with Grand Zeno, this would be over much more quickly, Sis. Ah well, at least this way I can really test my metal with a powerful enemy who's abilities don't get negated."
Soon, the arm was completely consumed by red fire and Sutō's eye opened; his right eye now glowing gold.
"Restriction 777 released, temporal distortion field online! Burning Red, ACTIVATE!"
In that instance Sutōkā said "Activate", the sky went red and he was engulfed in the crimson flame that cloaked his arm. The flames quickly died out and Sutō's form changed completely.
He now dawned a pitch black, mid-evil style armor with a red cape hanging from the back (picture it like the Ebony Armor from Skyrim), his right eye's sclera had become a brilliant gold with a red pupil, and his sword had transformed into a double edge nodatchi with two blades on both ends of the hilt.
Kaguya was stunned by the boy's sudden transformation, unable to find words to describe what she witnessed.
'What is that form he has taken?' She thought.
"That armor, like the armor of those warriors from the western continent. I should have figured that this brat was a Knight and not a Shinobi from his fighting style!" Zetsu exclaimed.
Kaguya snapped out of her thoughts and refocused on her opponent.
"What power is that boy! I demand an answer!" She commanded.
Ryukki twirled his sword a bit before answering her.
"This is the Armor of the Feudal's Bane, and I dawn it when I fully activate the Crimson Grimoire, the small red gem in my left hand."
"Crimson... Grimoire? I have never heard of such a tool." Kaguya replied.
"Well, just know that this little thing is going to be your undoing!"
In a flash, Sutō struck Kaguya in the chest with his great blade, and this time she cried in pain. The blade was cloaked in a black energy that coursed through Kaguya's body as she was slashed across the chest.
"Mother!" Zetsu cried.
"Pain?! Impossible! I am a goddess!" Kaguya exclaimed.
"And that's why you felt it this time. Oh, and it's only gonna get worse, because that was just a taste of my Feudal God Slayer Magic!"
Ryukki then smashed his foot into Kaguya's gut and sent her flying. Kaguya recovered and was astounded by the drastic increase in the boy's power.
"What strength... Unfathomable..." She muttered.
"Not done yet!" Sutō declared.
He tossed his blade into the air and put his arms together, then they were cloaked in black energy and it shaped into a crossbow.
"FEUDAL GOD'S CROSSBOW!"
He fired a bolt of black energy at high speed. Kaguya foresaw this and countered by firing an Ash Bone, intercepting mid way. The single bolt blew up in an explosion that looked like it was from an RPG, making a huge cloud of smoke.
Ryukki charged through the smoke and zoomed towards his sister with his double sided blade, which lit up with energy.
"FEUDAL GOD'S SWORD!"
Ōtsutsuki sprouted Kong bones from her palms to use as blades so she could counter the incoming attack, however Ryukki's next move proved them useless.
"BUSTER SLASH!"
With a mighty swing, Sutō shattered the bones Kaguya grew and sliced her palms up, spewing blood from the wounds. He was about to slash her again but she used her power to teleport the two of them to another dimension again. This time they were plummeting from the sky.
Sutōkā almost went into a rolling fall but thankfully straightened himself out and dove down towards his sister. Kaguya fired her Ash Bones again consecutively at the boy, but he cut through them all with his double-bladed sword. He went into a nose dive and zoomed towards his sister; eyes full of murderous intent.
Kaguya then transported them to yet another dimension, this one with an active volcano. Sutō landed on a rock floating on the lava, causing the rock to shack back and forth a bit. Kaguya now has Sutōkā right where she wanted him and fired multiple Ash Bones again. Sutōkā has nowhere to run, so he had to stand his ground.
"FEUDAL GOD'S SHIELD!"
He conjured a large black shield and held it over himself, deflecting the bones before they could hit him.
"Hmph! Like a walk in the rain!" He joked.
Kaguya didn't find this amusing, so she opened a portal and vanished into it, then reappeared behind the boy with a bone sprouting from her knuckle. She thrusted it at the teen to try and impale him, only Sutō was clearly more aware of his surroundings than she thought and he spun around to grab her arm before she could reach him.
The goddess tried to free herself of his grasp, but the teen was actually overpowering her in terms of physical strength. Impossible!
Sutō quickly sheathed his sword behind his back and conjured what looked like an aetherial musket in his hand, which he pointed right in Kaguya's face.
"FEUDAL GOD'S RIFLE!"
He pulled the trigger and Kaguya got blasted in the face with a shot of pure energy. She was blown back into the portal and Sutō followed her into it, vanishing from the volcano.
Back on Earth 6, Naruto was just regaining consciousness. His eyes slowly opened and he groaned in discomfort. He sat himself up with and hand on his pounding head, trying to remember what happened before everything went black.
The wound he had received before we passed out had already healed, not even leaving a scar. Thanks to Nine Tails' Chakra, Naruto was gifted with an enhanced ability, letting him recover from serious injuries in mere seconds. Although, regenerating limbs is a different story, as seen with Naruto's right arm, which is artificial.
"Oh man... What just happened?" Uzumaki wondered.
"Well, good morning, sweetie. Would you like some coffee and eggs?" Kurama sarcastically said.
"Oh, thank you, hon. That would be pretty-"
"Wake up, okuraseru!"
"Alright, I'm up! Wait, where's Kaguya?"
The Rabbit Goddess was nowhere in sight. The Shinobi was seriously confused now.
"That wasn't a dream, was it?" Naruto asked the fox.
"Look behind you, kit."
"Look be- WHOA MY GOD!"
Naruto jumped at the sight of a slumbering Ten Tails. The Tailed Beast was completely immobile, thankfully, but was still enough to make Naruto pee himself a bit.
He then hear a huge crashing noise behind him and spun around again. He saw what looked like Sutōkā fighting Kaguya by himself, armed with a double-bladed sword and a strange suit of armor.
"That's Sutōkā over there, and he's fighting Kaguya! He needs help!" Naruto pointed out.
"I don't think he needs any, kit." Kurama replied.
Over at the fight, Kaguya smashed one of her spectral fists into Sutōkā, knocking him away. He quickly recover though and breathed in air.
"TRY MY FEUDAL GOD'S..."
"Mother, prepare yourself!" Zetsu warned.
"HOOOOOWL!"
The teen breathed a huge wave of black energy at Kaguya; the goddess getting struck by the wave and was blow away with ease. She crashed into a boulder and shattered it upon impact.
Naruto sat there in awe by Sutō's display of strength, unable to come up with words. Even Kurama was in shock from the amount of power the boy had at his disposal.
"Whoa... Incredible. Sutōkā's destroying her." Naruto gasped.
"I'm just as surprised as you, Naruto. A Human like this never existed before, not even during the era of the Sage of Six Paths." Kyuubi agreed.
"FEUDAL GOD'S SHURIKEN!"
Ryukki followed up his assault by conjuring energy shuriken and firing them at where Kaguya crash and burned. They all exploded in upon contact with the rubble, leaving only a dust cloud in the rubble's place.
"Stand, Sister! I know this isn't all the strength you can muster!" Sutōkā demanded.
Kaguya emerged from the dust cloud and flew up into the air. Her face showed nothing but rage and hatred for Sutōkā.
"You would dare scar my body with your strange Jutsu?! I am the Mother of all Chakra, and that power belongs to me!" She angrily claimed.
"This power doesn't belong to you, Kaguya. Magic doesn't belong to anyone." Sutōkā replied.
'Wait, did Sutōkā just say 'Magic'?' Naruto thought.
Ōtsutsuki rose her arms and clenched her fists.
"Then I shall claim this 'Magic' of yours, boy! FALL AT THE ONSLAUGHT OF MY FULL POWER EIGHTY GODS VACUUM FIST!"
With that, Kaguya unleashed a maelstrom of spectral punches at Sutō, with numbers and power that could level even a continent. The punches were speeding their way towards the teen, yet he just stood his ground, not even moving a muscle.
"Sutōkā! Get out of there!" Naruto shouted.
Ryukki only scoffed at Uzumaki's request. He reached for his back and pulled out what looked like a sword hilt from his under his cape, and with a click of a button, the hilt sprouted two long blades from inside the hilt on each end. It was another double-bladed sword!
He twirled the blades around a bit before pulling them back. The spectral fists were still racing towards him, but he didn't care.
"Now God Slayer Secret Art!"
All four blades lit up with black energy.
"SIX PATHS: ONE THOUSAND DIVINE CUTS!
Soon as Sutōkāswung his blades, everything went silent. The spectral punches vanished and Kaguya was holding completely still where she flew. A single drop of blood trickled out of her mouth and seconds later, her entire body spewed our blood like a volcano. She groaned in pure agony and began falling to the earth below. She crashed into the earth and left a massive crater in her wake.
This battle was over. Sutōkā retracted the blades of his swords and placed them on his back, and although he won, he sighed in disappointment. He really didn't want to kill his own sister, no matter how batty she was...
"Forgive me." He said softly.
Sutō just stood there remorsefully, quietly mourning in his heart.
Naruto was still in shock. Sutōkā beat Kaguya by himself?! It took Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi together you beat that witch and Sutō did it like nothing!
"Ugh... Naruto, what's going on?"
The Hokage noticed Sasuke in the corner of his eye, just now regaining consciousness. His wound from the Holocaust Slash was seared and burnt, which meant that Sasuke cauterized the wound with his Fire Style Jutsu.
"Sutōkā... He beat Kaguya." Naruto managed to say.
Sasuke gasped in surprise, then turned to the teen and saw him standing over the beaten Ōtsutsuki. He couldn't believe what he was seeing.
"That's not possible... How..?" He wondered.
Finally, Sutōkā turned away from Kaguya and began running over to his fallen comrade. He knelt down and picked up the injured Ghost in his arms, cradling her.
"Nat, hang on! We're gonna get you some help!" He said frantically.
Slowly, Ghosy opened her eyes just enough to see Sutōkā worried face. She lifted her arm and gently placed her claw against his face comfortingly.
"Sorry, Sutō... I couldn't protect you..." She softly whimpered.
"No, it's ok. You did everything you could to protect me, Nat. You have no idea how much that means to me."
Tears started forming in his eyes, blueing his vision. Natalia wiped a tear away with her claw and smiled at the boy.
"We just gotta get you home... The boss'll fix you..." Sutōkā cried.
"Don't cry, comrade..." Ghost cooed.
Naruto and Sasuke approached the duo slowly, weapons sheathed to avoid a fight.
"Is she..?" Naruto couldn't finish.
"Her back is broken. She's dying." Sutō answered, tightening his fist.
He carefully lowered Ghost to the ground and turned around, grabbing Naruto by his shirt and pulling the Ninja into his face.
"Why did you let that monster live?! Why didn't you kill her?! WHY?!" Sutō screamed.
There was pain and sorrow in the eyes of the boy, that much was clear. Naruto began feeling pity for Sutōkā, looking at him with a sorry expression.
"Sutō..."
"SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH, YOU JINCHURIKI SCUM! Only Natalia gets to call me that! If only you had killed Kaguya- NO! IF ONLY YOU, YOUR RED EYED SCUMBAG, THAT PINK BANSHEE, THAT MAKED PERVERT, AND YOUR STUPID PET FOX DIDN'T EXIST, THAN THE LAST WAR WOULDN'T HAVE STARTED, KAGUYA WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN FREED, AND THIS WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED! IT'S YOUR FAULT!"
The sheer rage and despair Ryukki was showing was unimaginable.
"It's your fault I had to kill my sister! It's your fault that Nat is gonna die..! It's your fault that... That... It's your fault... *sob* *sob* Your fault..."
His legs quickly lost the strength to stand and he began to collapse, but Naruto caught him, hugging the boy tightly. Uzumaki then began to speak to Sutōkā as if he were his own son.
"I know you're angry, you have every right to be, but rage isn't gonna fix anything. It will only cause more pain. Trust me, I know."
Naruto held the boy close and let him cry into his shoulder. He placed his hand on the back of his head comfortingly, whispering "it's ok" into his ear.
Sasuke watched from where he was, feeling only pity for the boy and his friend. Then, for only a second, he felt a familiar Chakra shift. He turned around and widened his eyes in horror.
There was a colossal red eye with ripples in it staring him down. It blinked once, and Uchiha screamed.
"NARUTO, RUUUUUUN!"
The blond Ninja turned to his friend, but noticed the eye too late as the sky above them darkened and a gigantic hand was plummeting down on them. The hand was feet away from smushing them like bugs, but Sutōkā pushed Naruto away, pulled out a sword from under his cape and swung it at the hand.
"FUCK OFF!"
The slash sliced the ha d clean in half from across the palm. The hand pulled away and Ten Tails was seen roaring in pain. The hand quickly regenerated however, and healed to the point where it looked like it was never even cut. The beast curled it's giant hand a few times to test its reflexes. Yep, good as new!
Sasuke was absolutely petrified, but not by Ten Tails, by Sutōkā being able to slice the Ten Tails's hand off so easily.
'How did he do that?! No normal Human is that powerful!' He mentally exclaimed.
"How is that thing moving without Kaguya?!" Sutōkā questioned, wiping his tears of his face and pulling himself together.
"Wait, what's that?" Naruto said.
"What's what?" Sutō asked.
"That big white pimple on its nose."
The three of them looked up at Ten Tails' face, in which they noticed something underneath the eye and right above the mouth, right where the nose would be on any living creature. It was a white haired woman, completely topless with a look of shear rage.
"Kaguya!" They all exclaimed.
"Damnit, why won't she stay down?!" Sutōkā cursed.
Kaguya raised her arm into the air and Ten Tails mirrored her action. The two of them seemed to be connected.
"I have grown tired of this charade! I will destroy all of you and once again Incase this world in an endless dream, and unify MY Chakra once more!"
She made Ten Tails swing it's arm down once again. Clearly they didn't learn from last time.
"Crap!" Naruto exclaimed.
Ryukki ran passed Uzumaki with his swords deployed.
"Get behind me! Keep Ghost safe!" He ordered.
With one mighty swing, Sutō slashed the giant hand about to crush them into four pieces.
"FEUDAL GOD'S CROSS SLASH!"
Ten Tails roared in pain, but the hand easily regenerated. Kaguya screamed in irritation and poured her energy into the giant Tailed Beast's mouth. She was gathering her Chakra into a single point and planned to release it all at once, in the form of a Tailed Beast's signature move.
"SUPER TAILED BEAST BOMB!"
She fired the massive energy blast; the ground all around Ten Tails shattering from the force of the blast. Sutō sheathed his blades and crossed his arms together in response.
"FEUDAL GOD'S BARRICADE!"
Multiple spectral shields appeared and covered Sutōkā like a dome. The blast zoomed its way to Ryukki, who was peaking at it through a small opening in his defenses.
'Crap, it's too big! This won't be enough!' He though.
So he shut his eyes and prepared for the worst. The blast made impact and the explosion was so massive that it rivaled the mushroom cloud that erupted over Hiroshima. The ground cracked open with large fissures, the clouds were blown away, and the earth itself was set ablaze.
Eventually the smoke cleared and instead of seeing a crater in the ground with nothing in it, Kaguya spotted what looked like a huge golden fox head sticking out of the ground. The fox had three thick whisker marks on the sides of its face like Naruto. This was the Hokage's Tailed Beast Mode, or at least a partial transformation that can be used defensively, and within it were Naruto, Sasuke, Ghost and Sutōkā, who still had his barricade up.
Sutō lowered his defenses, wondering how he could have survived an attack like that and noticed the fox avatar surrounding him.
"Kurama?" He said.
"Phew... That was a close one, ya know..." Naruto sighed in relief.
He was back in Chakra Mode, as he should be in order to create this avatar.
"Hey, didn't I say to stay back and keep Ghost safe?!" Sutōkā snapped.
"She is safe. She with Sasuke in the back."
The boy looked behind him and saw Uchiha with Natalia in his arm. That was a relief, he would admit.
"And besides, kid. There's clearly no way you can defeat her by yourself. You know that." Naruto pointed out.
"I don't care! Kaguya is MY responsibili-"
"Shit! Naruto, she's firing again, and it's a hell of a lot bigger than the last one!" Kurama interrupted.
He was right. Kaguya was already having Ten Tails charge up another Tailed Beast Bomb, and it was twice as big as before.
"Sasuke!" Naruto called you his friend.
"Got it!" Sasuke replied.
His right eye lit up with his Mangekyō Sharingan and he was surrounded in a purple aura. Within seconds, Kurama's head was encased in a spectral purple armor that looked like something from ancient Japan. When Naruto combines his Tailed Beast Mode with Sasuke's Susano'o,Kurama becomes invaded in the armor of Sasuke's warrior avatar, becoming Susano'o Clad Kurama, adding all their powers together. Normally, this move is a last resort because of its terrifying amount of power, but they can make an exception for this one.
"Naruto, this won't hold!" Sasuke pointed out.
"We have to try! We can't let Kaguya summon the Divine Tree again, or its game over!" Naruto argued.
Finally, Ōtsutsuki has Ten Tails fire. The moon sized Tailed Beast Bomb was hurled at the Shinobi and ready to deliver the final blow. Naruto was sweating. He can't die like this, not when he promised his son that he would make it back... well, Kurama promised him that anyway...
Uzumaki made a hand sign and began pouring all his Chakra into his Tailed Beast avatar to fortify its defensive power. He had to survive! He had to!
"COME ON!" He screamed.
Suddenly, he saw something zoom past the corner of his eye. Naruto got a look and saw that it was the armored Sutōkā, charging at the bomb with both his swords drawn. He bolted out of the avatar while screaming like a crazy person.
"No! Sutōkā!" Naruto cried.
"Leave this to me! GOD SLAYER SECRET ART!"
One of his double blades began glowing with a glorious golden light and the blades rapidly started glowing until they were triple their original size. Sutōkā stopped and pulled his arm back, aiming the sword at the Tailed Beast Bomb.
"SIX PATHS: BLADE OF CREATION!"
He hurled the sword at the energy bomb like a spear. Time seemed to slow at the blade flew through the air. This was the boy's last chance to win!
"Sutōkā, run! Get away!" Naruto pleaded.
"What are you doing, you idiot! Move out of the way!" Sasuke shouted.
'I won't loose. I will survive, for Natalia's sake, Naruto's, Kurama's ,my own, and yes, even you, Sister. I will triumph even if it costs me my endless life, and if not, then I'll see you in the deepest pits of Hell, Champa!' Sutōkā thought.
At that very moment he threw his mighty blade, Ghost managed to open her eyes, observing what her partner was doing.
"Su... S-Sutō..."
"KAGUYAAAAAAAAA!"
To be continued...
Next time
The battle between the Ōtsutsuki siblings comes to a close, the United Army's Advance Team is ready to move out, Hakumen and the Six Heroes venture into the woods to help cure Valkenhayn of his permanent lycanthropy transformation and Team Natsu finally manages to reach the Soul Society... after they finally managed to pry Natsu off poor Jellal.
