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Naruto wasn't having a great week.

First, his student quit, a student who he had high hopes for overall. Sure she was very lacking in many areas, and she was practically talentless... the girl had zero talent, but she was a hard worker and would achieve whatever she set her mind on through sheer hard work. He didn't care if his students had talent, skill, or ability.

It was a teacher's job to give those to a student.

Second, the Otsutsuki.

'Himawari better still be alive when I get back.' Naruto floated towards Earth at a high speed.

His little output of too much chakra had led a duo of Otsutsuki right to this Universe, they had sensed powerful chakra. The Dimensional Gap served as a great outlet for his chakra, but when he used too much chakra and shrank the Dimensional Gap, that made the outlet for his chakra smaller and thus made it easier for the Otsutsuki to sense this Universe's location. Usually, a slip up here or there was not a problem.

Bad luck though.

This time, a pair of Otsutsuki had been only 1 Universe away from him when his chakra surged, which meant that they were close enough to easily sense him.

He had spent the last 3 days fighting them, and what sucked was that they weren't Side-Clan Otsutsuki, they were Main-Clan Otsutsuki. They were powerful Otsutsuki older than he himself was, who had absorbed and stolen the power of multiple universes each. Not to mention, as Main clan members, they worked as a pair and when the 'child' was in danger the 'parent' would give their soul to them to eat. The transfer of power would multiply their power greatly, making them a severe challenge.

Naruto landed on the top of his mountain and powered down.

He could use chakra without attracting them, but if Naruto allowed his power to surge outside of his body or just out of control for even a second, then that would attract them.

Naruto's clothes were in tatters.

His left arm was heavily damaged, to the point that his muscle and bone was visible.

His legs both had horrible burns on them.

His chest had a hole blasted through his right lung, and blood flowed out of his mouth freely because of that unfortunate injury, and he was walking with a nasty limp because of the broken bones in his legs.

"... Those who were... horribly strong... damn, wish Sasuke was here. Taking these bastards on myself, without my teammate... not counting you Tailed Beasts in me of course..." Naruto bonked himself on the head, since he wasn't completely alone. The Otsutsuki worked in pairs when they were higher ranked, and because of that he had been fighting two monsters all by himself.

He had spent the first 2 days fighting the two of them as a pair.

He had spent the 3rd day fighting the Super Otsutsuki, who was the fused version of when the Child ate the Parent. If he had Sasuke with him, he could have taken both of them, Super form or not, down in maybe 10 minutes at the most. Well, fighting these two had been horrible more so because they were just a really bad match up for him. These two Otsutsuki had abilities that were tailor made to defeating him.

Countless planets had been destroyed by the battle.

"Uuuuuuh... the Midget Dragon is here." Naruto complained under his breath when he saw familiar tiny footsteps leading up to the temple, small footsteps in the dirt that could only belong to one tiny person. "Great, this week gets better... that midget timed this so..." Naruto sighed and walked towards where she would be waiting for him.

Himawari's chakra was still here.

Good, his daughter hadn't killed herself, he was afraid that anytime he left her alone for too long, she would do just that.

"Oh, Papa! You're back sooner than I thought! I thought you would be fighting them all week!" Himawari came into the hallway when she heard his footsteps, a cheerful smile on her face as she rushed to his side. She helped him take his jacket off, since she was going to repair it for him during her usual free time. She was going to wash the blood and gore off of it as well. "How did it go?" Himawari asked him with a smile on her face.

Naruto smiled and rubbed the top of her head.

"Well, two more Otsutsuki are dead now... uuuh, they really got me good though. Give Papa a few minutes to heal himself." Naruto focused his chakra into his wounds, speeding up his own natural recovery rate even more. The wounds all over his body steamed as the broken bones, burns, and holes in his body started to heal. He had been in this condition for awhile now, but he wanted to save healing himself for when he was back home.

That way, he could continue to fight without worrying so much about anything else, healing during battle was dangerous. It was usually safer to heal all non-life threatening injuries after battle.

It sucked and it hurt, but sadly none of these horrible wounds was life-threatening for one Uzumaki Naruto.

Very few injuries could be considered life threatening for him.

"Uzumaki Naruto."

Ophis.

The natural Human-Shaped Dragon, the Dragon God of Infinite, born in the Dimensional Gap.

The Annoying Midget Dragon.

"Midget Dragon, if this is about your Gap, then sorry, didn't mean to make your home smaller. Seriously though, how long do you plan on staring at me this time?" Naruto asked the smaller being as it...

Well, as she this time.

Ophis was rarely locked into a single form, she had spent 600 years as an old man once, but it seemed that she was particularly fond of the form of a beautiful young girl. Moon-like pale skin and a super petite frame, grey silvers that had little light to them, and a general lolita theme about her.

"Can you put on an actual shirt, all you've got covering your nipples is tape."

"No, because it arouses and annoys you."

"Of course it does." Naruto just sighed in annoyance as she showed her emotions in the most sly of ways. Ophis had emotions and desires, just like anyone else, but it was very hard to read it on her face. When Ophis had seen a picture of Hinata, his late-wife, she had transformed into a Hinata clone for 200 years... just to arouse him and get under his skin. She tried more adult forms, male, female, anything she could to try and get a rise out of him. "So, you're sticking with this form then?" Naruto asked her as he sat down.

Her form really was pleasing to the eye, black hair was like his late-wife, and her younger looking body was just mature enough in the hips and waist to show adultness, but the petiteness of her body gave off the innocence of childhood at the same time. This time, Ophis had spent a lot of time creating the perfect body for pissing him off.

The body had the perfect level of adult charm that it could subconsciously arouse a person and attract men.

At the same time, the body had an annoying level of childness that made you feel shitty for being attracted to the adult charm her body had.

"Until you Kill Great Red, grant me a Child, and become mine then I, will not stop harrassing you. I am this world's strongest-"

"Only, you're really not... Trihexa and Great Red are equal to you in strength... and you're nowhere close to Melvazoa, Resetoras, Regalzerva, or Seraselbes... you're not even half as strong as Melvazoa, who is stronger than you AND Great Red combined at full strength. In this Universe, you aren't even in the Top 5 true strongest." Naruto reminded her of her place in the pecking order.

"You killed Melvazoa-"

"Incorrect, it was a member of the Otsutsuki who killed Melvazoa, ate his soul and stole his power... I just killed Garushiki who absorbed him. I try to keep my hands out of this world's problems... people won't grow if I interfere with everything. Kids gotta learn, I just help people when they seek me out for guidance." Naruto smiled to himself at the end of his little speech. This world had humans, which he appreciated, though it took a long time for this world to get them.

"You protect people from these Otsutsuki."

"The Otsutsuki are from where I've from, I think, so I can't let my world's problems come here and destroy this Universe. I'll die before this Universe becomes Otsutsiki fodder." Naruto stated his firm stance on this issue.

Ophis just stared at him.

"Hypnocrite... your students affect this world."

"My students came to me seeking guidance, and I just taught them how to better control their own powers. Anyway, more important than that, I still love my wife... she might be dead, but I'm still not quite yet over her." Naruto rejected Ophis patiently, and with a smile on his face.

147,000 years.

That was how long Ophis had been after him, and why she was so annoying to him. It was why he was so patient with her as well, because of her dedication to attaining both silence and inner peace that she so lacked.

Himawari bit her lip with some annoyance at his words.

'Mama's dead... she's been dead for so long. Just move on and find new happiness already... stop suffering already Papa. Ophis is a dragon, she won't ever age... she's stronger than any other woman on this world... she can be by your side forever.' Himawari glared at her father from behind him.

Her Father was amazing.

Her Father was a monster.

How MILLIONS of years since Hinata had died, his late wife, Naruto had never once forgotten about her. He had never dated another woman, he had never sought out the touch of a woman. He stayed loyal to his late wife, and never fell to temptation. She wanted to speak up so many times and demand that he chose happiness for himself, for once.

"As surely as your existance will destroy my home, I, will make you mine." Ophis knew that one day, the Dimensional Gap would be gone forever.

Naruto's very existance was slowly but surely destroying the Dimensional Gap, and that meant that eventually, she would lose her home.

"Well... I am a Shinobi, and a-"

"Shinobi is one who endures." Himawari finished for him.

Her father's favorite words to teach.

To endure.

To never give up.

No matter how many millions of years passed by, her father was the amazing, loving, monster of a man who had the willpower to never give up, to always endure, after all this time. It was why she could never leave him, why she needed to stay alive for him. She, his daughter, was all he had left. She couldn't be selfish and allow him to become lonely once more, to be forced to endure all his suffering as he protected this world... by himself.

One day, she would find a way to do it though.

She wanted to find him somebody who could truly stand by his side.

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