Their tacticians, both in the past and now, have developed a myriad of plans on how to deal with the rabbit goddess herself, covering as many scenarios as possible.

Some are nudging and annoying the villages into banding together, so the travellers can take advantage of the fighting force if things get out of hand, and to prepare the world for the hard battle that comes if the travellers fail.

Meanwhile, others are tasked with preparing the battlefield they're going to use in their fight against Kaguya. Concealing the planned location with seals, laying down traps they're going to use, flattening the environment there and hollowing out the earth in select pockets.

They know they only have one shot, everything has to be as favourable for them as possible. As a fail safe, they also set up the seal they had previously travelled with, half an hour out and underground.

In addition to that, the Uzu traveller paints a small seal high up against the side of Kakashi's ribs, lines stretching up his torso to leech across his neck, wrapping around his eye in a swirling vortex. With a certain pulse of chakra, the seal activates and his eye is ripped out and thrown through time.

It costs the activator's soul to push through that time barrier instead of the chakra collected from over several months that the large seal takes. After all, Kakashi can't wear that much chakra on him, and time travel has a price to be paid.

Every traveller is taught how to send the eye backwards if they happen to be the last person standing.

So Kakashi has been getting a lot of dumb jokes where a traveller pretends to dive for the seal and Kakashi instinctively panics because he doesn't want to lose his eye (for like the fifteenth time at this point.)

When Kaguya descends, her clothes flowing in the breeze, she opens her eyes to a clean, artificial clearing.

It's empty except for the Uzu traveller, the woman wearing nothing but a pair of shorts, red hair tied back into a tight bun. Every inch of her bare skin is painted in stark black ink.

The Uzu holds the ox hand sign and she smirks.

A massive, golden seal yawns open above Kaguya, lines and swirls strikingly crisp and clean. Another is torn open underneath the floating goddess. The seals flare brighter and they spin in slow, heavy turns, the writing bleeding out and back into new adjustments as the Uzu modifies it on the fly.

The seals abruptly, violently, slam together, casting out a shockwave big enough to tear up the ground, bend the trees back, and split the clouds to create a perfectly circular portal of open blue sky above.

After it begins to settle, Kakashi peeks out from behind a tree.

Kaguya teleports back into existence, at the far side of the clearing, her clothes torn and the ends of her hair sliced clean off.

"Well, plan A didn't work," Yuwaku grumbles, the Taki brushing off her beautifully designed but still practical battle clothes to dislodge the dust and debris.

The Iwa battle maniac shrugs. "Time for B through Z then."

Because a well known fact is that if you throw enough jutsu at something, it'll eventually die.

So plan B is burn it with fire.

In unison, every second traveller is throwing kunai attached with wires in an extensively trained pattern across the area, creating a giant metal net they bring down on her, only for Sakumo to set off a powerful lightning jutsu through the net. The electricity visibly hits her and brings her to the earth, but it is still not enough.

She is already readying her next attack when suddenly the earth beneath her crumbles away, opening to a pool of oil, and tree roots span across the top of the pit courtesy of Hashirama, who flings down an incendiary tag attached to a kunai.

The resulting blast is beautiful and probably would have killed them all if not for the earth walls, though even those crumble at the edges and turn dry and cracked. Just to be sure, some of them add water to the oil.

Terrifying geysirs of fire shoot into the air but Kaguya seems to be unimpressed by it all, effortlessly waving away the spitting oil, even if she is notably covered in soot.

It might be time to give her a bath.

But before that, Yahiko and Shukaku mobilise a great wave of sand from underground to trap her and simultaneously end the fiery hazard. The Uzu traveller is adding her seal to it when the sand dome explodes. They are not surprised that this didn't work.

On to the next. The crazy Kiri woman and Isobu have developed magnificent teamwork while in Uzu, what with them regularly flooding one island or another. So they double team her with a massive wave managing to encase her in a big bubble of water, followed by another wave mixed with cement. It encases her, and Tobirama and Kakashi join in to help rip out the water from it to solidify the sphere.

A sealing matrix spans over the whole area, but before it settles, a hole is blasted into the cement and she flies out. Her creepy hair is extending and trying to catch the travellers. They push chakra into the seals on their stomachs and instantly teleport back to one of the many support seals littering the area.

Kakashi, due to his size and speed, is one of the few who don't get caught and manages to get close enough to hurl shrapnel tags at her before teleporting back as well, just in time to avoid the resulting explosion. Kaguya heals quickly enough but the poison coated on the jagged metal barbs gives her a mild itch it seems.

During the brief break between scheduled attacks, while the ones on-call move around to get into position for the next plan, the other travellers lurch forward. Kaguya dodges an exploding spear and unleashes a shockwave from her eyes that the travellers have well accounted for, Yahiko and Shukaku launching them all upwards to avoid it, though the sand pillars are reduced to dust.

Kaguya looks pissed off.

The travellers have spent nearly a fucking decade (and a whole shitton of corpses) planning how to kill Kaguya, so their anger has simmered and condensed into something a whole lot more like obsession.

They are not losing this fight.