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"The boundaries which divide Life from Death,
Are, at best, shadowy and vague.
Who shall say where one end,
And where the other begins?"
-Edgar Allan Poe.
"He should bring Sakura, too," Itachi commented as he gently wetted a cloth and squeezed it out so he could dab her forehead.
"Sakura's busy…" Sintary told him quietly.
"How do you know?" He asked as he removed his elastic band and used it to tie back her hair to elevate some heat before also placing a cold rag there as well.
"She's trying to save Naruto…"
"What happened to him?"
"Madara pulled the Nine-Tails from him. He won't make it…" She said unhopeful, her eyes becoming dewy.
"How do you know this?" Itachi asked her as he moved to sit behind her to better comfort her.
Sintary sighed shakily. "Kaguya showed me everyone dying. Ko, Naruto, Sasuke… and she showed you fighting Madara…. And loosing."
Itachi went very quiet at the mention of Sasuke. "I didn't even pause to help him…" He whispered upon thinking back.
Sintary gently held his hand. "He lost too much blood at that point." She told him. "But maybe you wanted to eliminate the threat before tending to him."
Itachi looked away from her, feeling his heart remain heavy. "It's still very hard for me to accept my little brother is dead."
"He's not dead," Tsume told them as they were joined by three more. "Before I found these two love-birds, word had spread that Sasuke and Naruto had miraculously recovered and joined against Madara. Kuromaru and I had just sensed that their chakra was different… actually, it was very similar to yours, Kokuro." She said turning to him.
"Mine? How is that possible?" He questioned, dumbfounded.
"Could it be Kaguya?" Sintary asked, wincing.
Itachi gently squeezed her hand. "No, she would want them dead just like Madara. Those two would both attempt to defeat her, if she shows herself."
"But they're working together, doesn't that increase their odds?" Kiba asked as he gathered supplies like he would need for a ninja hound's delivery.
"It should, but I still wonder how they survived." Sintary responded. "I saw them both die by Madara's hand." Sintary grimaced as another contraction riddled her body. Sweat was beginning to bead upon her brow.
"We can't speculate right now, we have our own task at hand." Tsume informed her as she got situated. "You have a long ways to go unfortunately."
The young kunoichi let a whine slip from her through defense, and the older woman was quick to bark at her, "Don't start yipping now. Breathe through it."
Itachi gently nudged his lover's head back onto him. Sintary could feel his calm, even breath. Her body slowly fell in sync with his like normal. She could feel herself start to relax even as the contractions coursed through her.
Kokuro watched the duo with a small smile, but he very quickly became troubled. He had left a clone on Earth to try and keep in touch with the progression of the battle. His eyes saw as Might Guy expired in a blazing red dragon, and Naruto saving him from Madara's truth-seeker orb. He watched on as Naruto wrent the God-Tree, cutting it with a massive lava style rasenshuriken. The tree fell, the length crashing down. Madara raced towards the stalk absorbing it into himself until only the roots remained.
Kokuro watch on as Madara had transformed; he now look very similar to himself with his black hair now pale white, his skin also taking a more pallid tone. He was adorned with white chakra that took the form of white robes and six magatama lined his collar. Madara's new appearance also included a single asymmetric horn, which reminded Kokuro of Tsuki's appearance. His clone watched as Naruto and Sasuke launch an enhanced Rasenshuriken at Madara while an improved Susanoo guarded them from the assault of the Chibaku Tensei. He felt dread start to overcome him as he saw their foe approach the moon.
Kokuro turned his attention back to his family, altering the space, he created a soothing sea breeze and caused vegetation, vines of jasmine and lavender began to bloom around Sintary. His chakra subconsciously acting on it's own, soothing Sintary. A voice seemed to echo in his head.
"Now, the matron will tend to your friend, but the moon is the priority now," called a soothing voice, aged and tired. Kokuro paused for a moment. This was not Sintary, her voice, her connection to him was different, it was never like this. This felt powerful and overwhelming. Was this Tsuki?
"Itachi… what did the tablet say about the moon…?" Kokuro asked quivering though he already knew the answer, having read the tablet himself to translate.
His friend's dark eyes turned thoughtful as he recalled, "'When someone who possess the power of Samsara approaches the moon, an eye will open that is reflected on the moon to grant the eternal dream.'"
"Son of a bitch!" Kokuro swore as he stood. "I have to go back to the battlefield."
"What? We just got here," Kiba exclaimed. "We're just about to have our baby boys come into the world."
"We have time." His husband replied. "If I don't go, they don't stand a chance. He's casting the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and I have a feeling it's going to be a lot worse than just genjutsu."
Kokuro paused his musings as a vision flashed before his eyes. He could see Kaguya's form cast over the planet before a mysterious light emanated from the moon. He saw shinobi start to fall as they were engulfed by the tree form of the Ten-Tails as well. Out of the corner of eyes, he saw Sasuke activate his Susanoo over his teammates.
"She's coming…" Sintary whispered as she winced with new pain. "She's so close… I can feel it."
"But how?" Kiba asked. "How is she able to get into this world?"
"It doesn't matter," Kokuro told him. "We just have to stop Madara."
"It does matter, Kokuro," Itachi expressed. "If you go in without analyzing the situation, you could be playing right in her plan."
"They need help right now," the white-haired shinobi insisted as he paced in agitation.
"There is always time to plan." His friend replied calmly. "Think about what we know; about Madara, about Kaguya, about the Infinite Tsukuyomi. What do we know?"
Kokuro sighed, pausing in his ministrations. "We know that Kaguya is one of my ancestors, possibly the origin of all of this. Her lineage is that of the Sage of Six paths, and that I have the ability to use Sharingan, Byakugan, and Rinnegan because of this blood tie. Madara is acting under her ideology to unify the world under the Infinite Tsukuyomi."
"That is great and all," hissed Sintary through her pain, "But why is Kaguya meddling and why is she bent on getting your children? She seems to be targeting you."
Kokuro stood silent for a moment, and then he was somewhere else. He was in a flitting, endless space. Lanterns floated over a vast empty starscape, dancing along in the windless void. It was like he was in space with Tsuki again, but this time the ground was solid. A mirror image of him reflected beneath his feet, but when he looked closely, he saw Tsuki staring coldly back at him.. The air was cool, and even the slightest sound echoed in the starry sky. A single gilded shrine sat in the distance; golden filigree, and ornate carvings adorned the shrine, the Otsutsuki clan crest emblazoned on the front.
Kokuro stepped forward, trying to reach the shrine, but no matter how hard he tried, it never came any closer. It was as if he was immobile, stuck listlessly in the starscape.
"Your matron friend is correct, Kaguya is targeting you," called the voice from before; every word hung heavily in the air, echoing on in the vast expanse. It was relaxed and deep, tired yet it still commanded attention, "You are a heir of the Otsutsuki lineage; a boy grasping at threads of your past, a lineage lost to translation and war. A bloodline shrouded in the constrigencies of the unknown. The moon is close, and it will be a long battle tonight. If Kaguya's will looms large...the world will partake in communion of the eternal dream."
Kokuro looked around yet no source of the voice could be found just the shrine, stars, and a shimmering moon radiating nature energy and the same alien chakra.
"Though, perhaps, no more perchance, I feel that you are finally ready to hear what I have to say. The hour is late, the eternal dream is high, and there is still much to do." The moon shifted, spiraling until a single red dot was visible in its center. "Oh, yes...Moonblood...Well, your arrival is late, but the time is right. Your mind is the home of the truth. You need only unravel its mystery."
"Oh, yeah?" Kokuro called looking all around him. "And how do I unlock this so cold truth?"
"Ah, yes; where is an orphan like yourself, one so lost, to begin?" The voice responded, sounding similar to a wise sage. "Easy; with the history of blood, the blood of your own clan."
Fissures broke away until a creature descended in front of Kokuro, resting upon the shrine. The moon was a hazy white rabbit, bright white eyes stared him down, and a single crimson eye split the center of its brow. The eye was alighted with a Rinne-Sharingan. Glinting claws rested on the invisible mirrored floor, as the creature sat itself before Kokuro. Ten clawed tails sprouted from behind the beast, some resting on the ground, other fanned around the Rabbit.
"Kokuro Otsutsuki. You are the unwitting, and unwilling heir to a clan of stars, the unknowing Jinchuuriki of myself, Genbu, predecessor of chakra and half of the God Tree."
Kokuro stood stunned as the Genbu unfurled one of his tail causing the very space to warp and tremble. A group of stars swirling around in a massive spiral until the collection formed another galaxy. His voice echoing in the vast space.
"This is a boundless world inside you, a meeting place that will serve as one of two gathering points for the other bijuu. As we commune here in this space, Kaguya, your matriarch is being birthed back into this world."
"Then why am I here? I need to stop Madara and Kaguya!" roared Kokuro.
"Silence," commanded Genbu, his voice booming, yet not in a yell. The Rabbit-God spoke in command and authority, "You are here because you and I are one. I am the sentientence of chakra, the God Tree's mind. Kaguya unknowingly joined with me once, a millenia ago. Together we quelled all of the petulant warring clans, upending the strife and bloodshed in an infantile world. But, when she broke away she kept the power as her's alone, granting her immortality and corrupting her as I returned to the Tree.
"She turned from Rabbit-Goddess, savior of the lands, to Yokai, a demon. Scourge, corrupt and malevolent. You were formed from this union and separation of Kaguya and the God Tree. You, the virgin-birthed child of the chakra fruit, scion of untainted blood. Millenia passed and the Tree feed on the chakra seeping into the warring land. The Uchiha growing in strength in their war and conquest, unknowing fed the roots and the single fruit. You were birthed, into this world, squealing; a being of chakra, tended and placed by one of the last descendants of Hamura. You were raised as an Uchiha, the main source of your blood, gathered over the countless years of, needless, warring and blooshead."
Kokuro knelt silently, his eyes wide at the beast.
"You have all that Kaguya wished; a heart vying for peace, the chakra of your people, and of myself. You are what she would have raised and nurtured into instrument of Divine intervention."
"So, I am the heir of my clan and, thusly, K-Kaguya reborn? For Kami's sake, couldn't I have just been an orphan? Instead, my mother is a murderous celestial hell bent on taking away all of our freedoms, our very will." Kokuro moved to run his hands through his hair, halted by the new protrusions. "DAMN HORNS!"
"Do not mock them," snipped Genbu, "They are a mark of your heritage, and nobility."
"They are new, and most humans don't have them."
"Well you are not human."
Kokuro sat stunned, "What about my life? What does this mean, why is Kaguya doing this, and why is she chasing after my children?"
"Your mother is moving to gather all chakra into herself again. She is my darkness, the hunger and desire to ascend to godhood; to move past the throng of humanity. Your children have human blood, but your sons are of the same ken as her own. Your sons are to be a mirror of Hagoromo and Hamura; therefore, Kaguya sees them as a blood echo - a reincarnation of a possible threat to her reign. She covets their chakra and yours as well, like she covets all that once belonged to her. She will stop at nothing to consume it all and lock the world away into an eternal dream, the long nightmare of the Infinite Tsukuyomi."
"Then I am going to fight her. Kaguya may be my mother, but she will not lay a single finger on her grandchildren."
"You cannot beat her."
"If I am Kaguya reborn, then why can't I?"
"Then let me rephrase - my manner of speaking, it has been so long since I have last conversed with someone in the coloquial tongue. You cannot beat her...alone." The rabbit smiled a sly grin, "I have watched you grow, watched as you rose above challenge after challenge. I watched as you forged a family from the ashes of isolation and found love. You have become all that I...that Kaguya, in her youth, would have wanted in a son. So if I may deign to request," Genbu rose and then bowed, "I ask you you show me your worth one more time."
Genbu flourished his tails out and the space shifted, Kokuro having to stand his ground against the gale force winds.
"Genbu," called Kokuro, as the Bijuu rose, in the shrine, "What would you have me do? I have my family, my world on the line."
"Show me you know of true balance, that you will not falter. For if you do, all will be lost, I would not see the world consumed by two Yokai."
The silver-haired shinobi nodded. Genbu reclined, laying on the base of the shrine steps, floating above the field. The beast opened his mouth and roared, shaking the very fabric of the the cosmos. The stars shifted, shimmering and shining, shooting across space and colliding. Some grew to incomprehensible sizes only to collapse into faint white lights, other burst in explosions of color, clouds forming, painting the black sky in shrouds of chromaticism.
"Face the imbalances of your past and bring balance to them."
Kokuro stood still, as figures formed from the stardust. All of them stood around him, their faces cold and harsh. Kokuro shifted his weight, and watched as Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shikaru-his torturer-Homura, and Koharu materialized from the nothingness. The people from his past that struck deep into his former pains.
Genbu's voice called out, "Show me you have what it takes to break the unending ring of hatred, show me that you have the heart of one who can defy the will of a god."
Shikaru was the first to step forward, and he immediately rose a sign for genjutsu. Kokuro was swallowed in a lavender mist, and then it cleared revealing a scene of him being tortured, of those first days of hell in the Root. Kokuro walked up and watched as he was forced to experience euphoria and then slammed into a nightmare. He watched as he suffered, his mind fracturing, his body being broken and sliced to ribbons. However, this outsider view gave him new perspective on the situation; that he wasn't the only one who suffered.
Kokuro sighed and laughed sadly. "I can see it now...The quaver in your blade, the cracks in your voice, even the scars on your collar. You were broken just like I was being made to be. Danzo chose you to harden you. This was torture just as much for you as it was me. That is why you gave me moments of joy, and hit my head-to end my consciousness and allow my body to rest."
Kokuro turned, and Shikaru was behind him. He could see it all clearly; all the things he couldn't see because he was focus on his own pain and misery. Maybe if he had seen it before they could have helped each other heal. But it wasn't too late… no… it was never too late to find and give peace.
"You are forgiven."
Shikaru somber face nodded softly. While his expression never changed, Kokuro could see the smile of relief in his eyes as he faded into a pale mist. The Third Hokage stepped forward along with Homura and Koharu.
"Otsutsuki boy," rasped the old man, "I want you to know that I never wished this upon you, neither did Koharu or Homura. While we partook in other hinderous acts for what we thought was for the good of the village, we never met for a poor boy to be dragged through such darkness." The elders nodded, and then all three of them knelt before the silverite. "I, Hiruzen, ask you for your forgiveness. All I wanted you to be amongst your people, but I did not realize the Uchiha would treat you with such disdain. I, also, regret that I could not help you escape Danzo."
"Kokuro," called Homura, "Koharu and I both request forgiveness as well, we did not wish you harm. The village needed to be protected, we did not know of all the machinations that were behind your squads fall from grace."
Koharu nodded, "Please, know that in your heart we truly did not know."
Kokuro stared at them for what felt like an eternity. These three had been the source of so much of his childhood angst-his anger. His very adolescence was tainted by their actions, but then he saw them clearly. He knew that they couldn't have know how others would have acted. They had all, only sought after the peace and stability of the village and her people. They made the hard choices, and hoped that the future generations could flourish and grow, to replace them.
"...I-I forgive you Lord Third, Koharu, Homura," Kokuro stuttered, tears in his eyes as he knelt, bowing before them.
Hiruzen gave a sad smile and bowed in return/ Koharu and Homura dissolved into mist, again gently fading away in the space.
"Where the tree leaves dance, the will of fire blossoms anew. You have grown strong Kokuro," Lord third whispered as he too faded into dew.
Kokuro rose, tears wetting his eyes. His heart was heavy with the reopened scars. It felt like he was bleeding pain all over again. This time, however, the wounds he bore would heal completely for he had forgiven those who had wronged him.
The silverite turned to face Genbu, who looked at him perplexed. The Bijuu shifted, and focused his tails to fan about his hands, his white fur resplendent with golden light. An orb began to form from the mist, metallic and golden, pulsating as Genbu held it suspended, formless and coagulate in his hand.
"Consider.. The infinite potential…" lectured Genbu as he tipped the orb, letting it spill out onto the starry floor. The liquid viscously flowed, puddling on the floor before rising up into several more forms. "Just as you call forth chakra, I command all life-all nishu-into existence. Call it divine creation if you must." The forms solidified into his family: Itachi, Sintary, and Kiba with two small balls of energy running around them. Forms of his enemies: Danzo, Tsuki, Orochimaru, and the sand genin from Kokuro's youth also arose. "But do not expect the mercy men seek in their sages, or even goddesses. I give life when necessary, and I take it as I see fit. This is frigid, icy truth; the unbending reality of a world without balance, without love, without compassion."
Genbu flicked one of his tails lazily, sending the forms of Itachi and Sintary sprawling forward. His expression one of slight amusement, and feigned interest. Genbu called down gesturing to the current mess of people, "The entire planet and all of its denizens are but empty vessels, until something or someone comes along to fill it, and in that regard no different from the chakra fruit." Genbu's tails tensed, the claws conjuring two truth-seeker orbs. The Bijuu lazily lobbed them, letting them destroy his family, disintegrating them into nothing. From the dust, rose a new form.
"Thusly, without volition, without free will, there is no true life. The world will fall into decay, dead as a sea with no wind or current to guide its waters."
Genbu's rabbit face slowly shifted with the golden, glittering dust, forming a simple design on an ANBU mask. Wild, black hair framed the mask, almost glowing with the white, circular background behind him. Kokuro gulped, his heart clenching with bleeding love. The gold outline faded into black crevices and markings. A forming hand reached up and gripped the mask, slowly raising it up. The young Otsutsuki was once again met with the face of his first love: Kai.
"It is easy to forgive when there is love or mutual respect," Genbu called behind Kai. "But what of those who have taken from you - those that truly made your misery a reality? How do you make peace with them?"
The explosion shook the infinite space and the surroundings changed, lightning crackled, the chromatic space clouds spiralling endlessly in a vorticy around the pair. Genbu, Danzo, the genin, Orochimaru, and Tsuki on one side, the other Kokuro stood as readied himself with Kai in the middle of the rippling ground.
"Tis a simple choice child of the old blood: step forward or retreat. Accept the quiet emptiness of a false peace, a false life forever trapped in a dream. Or rise and ascend to a higher purpose."
A swish of Genbu's large tails brought the villains around Kai, who stood staring at Kokuro with loving eyes.
"My koi, remember the love we shared. Remember the joy of us; cherish it, but don't let it hold you back." He gasped as a sword suddenly implied in chest.
"KAI!" Kokuro screamed, feeling like it was his own heart being silenced.
"Ko...kur...o…" he whispered, smiling despite the blood that dripped down his face. "Love…. Makes… us stronger… Hatred… is what…. Weakens us…. Don't…. Don't you ever….forget that…."
Like a genjutsu dispelling, Kai disintegrated into glittering dust once more, leaving the darkened shadows that haunted Kokuro in his wake.
"Oh isn't this a delight," hissed Orochimaru, "I can finally taste the power of the Otsutsuki blood."
"You have failed the Leaf!" exclaimed Danzo, "I will have your eyes as the consequence."
"You have not truly bested me, Kokuro," roared Tsuki, "Your body will be mine, and I will kill mother. Then, I will be the father of all chakra, and savior of this land." The demon laughed twistedly.
The sand genin shrugged, blood pouring from his mask, his hands alight with lightning.
Kokuro stood strong, as they lunged. Time seemed to slow, their movements even more clear than what he could see with the Sharingan. Each of them moving to halt him as he raced towards Genbu. The Bijuu stood resolute, his face placid as the other shinobi charged.
"Storm style: Laser Circus," roared Tsuki making the sign of dragon. A ring of light burst forth, and then branched out, jaggedly racing towards Kokuro. The silverite dogged them with ease, weaving his body acrobatically through the lasers as he ran. Danzo stepped up with Orochimaru.
"Wind Style: Great Vacuum Bullet."
"Fire Style: Devastation."
The crimson flame joined the wisping bullets, engulfing them and the roaring with new vigor. Danzo looked on harshly, and Orochimaru's eyes glinted with bloodlust, a sickening smile on his face. The sand genin stepped up lashing out with arcs of lightning in a net to cover the openings in the barrage. Kokuro raced on, sprinting towards the assault.
Preta Path.
The attacks faded, absorbed into nothingness.
Asura Path.
Kokuro shifted his right arm from his sleeve, his hand forming into a cannon. Firing a bolt of concentrated blue chakra at Genbu. The Rabbit God shifted lazily; his tails not even moving to his defense, the chakra blast being absorbed.
"You are a descendant of my power, you cannot outmatch me here."
Kokuro barreled forward, not taking a moment to lose any ground. Dazo lashed out with a wind blade, and Orochimaru with his snake sword. The tips of the blades glinting in the light of Kokuro's eyes. Kokuro watched as everything slowed; he could see exactly how they were going to move. This was his opening. Narrowly dodging the blades, he redirected them using the natural momentum of the attacks. The blades pierced through the bodies halting them in their place.
The silverite raced on, leaving the impaled pair to fall to their own devices. "That's for Kai, you bastards." He muttered back at them.
The sand genin approached next and Kokuro smirked to himself, "If you weren't a challenge then, you're not a challenge now." Without wasting a moment, Kokuro lashed out, pin pricking the genin's tenketsu. Kokuro fled, leaving him behind. The genin flourished his chakra, the static electrical charge bursting forth, flooding his damaged lines.
An explosion formed, engulfing the genin.
Kokuro landed and sprinted on towards tsuki smiling. 'Shouldn't have flooded your chakra points. I blocked them up'.
Genbu chuckled, watching as Kokuro continued his assault."Yes, fight, Kokuro, as you have fought in coming here. This is your final test: can you best the darkness in yourself."
Kokuro nodded as he ran, his face strong and confident. He made the sign of the rabbit and unsheathed lightning in his hand. The once venomous flicker, now brightening into shards of ivory. His hand tracing out, leaving a trail like a comet.
Heavenly Chidori.
Tsuki counter, his own hand filled with black lightning. Clashing with Kokuro in perfect unison. Their chakras rebounding, altering the starscape around them. The collison bursting the stars, rippling the endless void. The pair separated, both flipping back, and then lunging forward again. Tsuki's fists collided with Kokuro's; knuckles crashed, shins smacked, heads smashed, all of the retaliations mimicked perfectly like a shadow, like a mirror.
Genbu watched on, stoic as before, awaiting the outcome of this battle of wills."What is it that impels you? What force spurs you on? What sustained your wanderings and led you here? I ask you: What is it that makes you alive, that which marks you as the pure blood of Otsutsuki? 'Tis volition, unbending will."
"YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT IT IS!" the silverite shifted his weight and feigned Tsuki, hitting him with a barrage of strikes, each of them parried. Kokuro landed lightly and rushed the demon visage. Tsuki preparing to strike.
A single wave rushed out shaking even Genbu.
Kokuro stood, his arms around Tsuki.
Hugging him.
"I forgive you too, I love you. You're me, you're a part of me and I can't deny that at all. I battled you and smashed you down once, but that won't last."
Tsuki stood stunned, "H-how...how...can you forgive me! How can you LOVE ME! LET ME GO!"
"Tsuki, it's all going to be alright."
The demon struggled for a moment before giving in and returned the hug sobbing; his seething eyes dripping with cloudy tears. The boy broke down, clutching Kokuro, his body wracked with heavy tears and screams. His pain finally reaching a breaking point; just like Kokuro had felt when Tsuki was formed.
"I JUST WANTED TO BE NOTICED. I JUST WANTED TO BE STRONG. I WANTED TO BE ACCEPTED, THE HERO."
Kokuro took Tuski's cheeks in his hands, cupping his face. He was the little boy inside Kokuro; the one that had fostered all the hatred and abuse that had been dealt.
"You. Are." He whispered tenderly, soothing the demon within him. "It's okay, you can stay here too. You are part of my balance. You can be loved and accepted, but who said that you had to go it alone. No one is going to cast you - cast us- aside anymore. We are loved; through the good and the bad."
The pair stood still. Tsuki staring at Kokuro, eyes wide. His face changing. His skin lost its palor, and his body shifted. Hair brightening, veins clearing, his body healing, until Tsuki stood before Kokuro, a perfect clone. The only difference is that his eyes were inverted in color: black with red, and Rinnegan that was black with silvery-purple lines.
Tsuki hugged Kokuro one more time, "I'm sorry...so sorry. Thank you...for finally accepting me."
The boy faded into white mist, gently dappling Kokuro's skin. A rebirth. A true acceptance of one's self.
Genbu descended, landing before Kokuro, bowing deeply. "Claim my power as your own; it is time you truly live to your bloodline. Claim that which has always been yours. I wish to fight alongside you, and hopefully bring an era of true peace to this warring land."
Kokuro smirked, standing, "Genbu stand tall, you will fight with me as my equal not bowing before me. Now, let's go send mom back into the moon."
"May we find our worth in the waking world," added Genbu, his voice gentle and kind.
The pair met hands, Kokuro resting his on the top of Genbu's massive claws. White light and chakra seemed to course through the pair and Kokuro opened his eyes. Smiling he looked at his comrades who were staring at him.
"HEY KO," roared Sintary, "SNAP THE FUCK OUT OF IT. ITACHI'S ASKING YOU A QUESTION."
"Itachi, Kiba, Ma, watch over Sin," Kokuro turned and walked towards an opening rift, "Kuromaru and Akamaru guard the perimeter of the area, and Sin, take care. I expect you to deliver my boys healthy and squealing into this world."
Kokuro met Itachi's eyes, the elder Uchiha's Sharingan peering into his best friend. He saw his surrogate brother kneeling besides a great glimmering beast in a starry void.
"Genbu, what is the plan?"
The beast spoke on, knowing that they were being watched by Itachi, "The reincarnations of Asura and Indra have been given the marks of light and night. They have been gifted the two halves of the sage chakra. I have given you the mark of the God Tree. When they move to seal Kaguya, place the seal upon her heart and take back my other half."
"Won't that render her mortal? She'll die," asked Kokuro.
"You will lock her into her own Eternal Tsukuyomi, she will spend the last moments of her life living the life she always wanted, the life she vied for before her corruption."
"Then, we have a plan then."
"We do, now, let's go, Kaguya grows stronger with every passing second."
"KOKURO GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE!" screamed Sintary as a wave of contractions hit. "YOU HAVEN'T EVEN PLANNED."
"Yes Sintary, he has," gasped Itachi. The Uchiha stunned wholeheartedly for once.
Kokuro grinned widely, and a small fissure formed in the center of his forehead. The fissure split and a third eye opened, a red Rinne-Sharingan bled into life. The silverite's chakra flourished and exploded out from him in heavy waves, the jasmine and lavender blooming in ever elaborate arrays. Akamaru and Kuromaru whined, as the chakra continued to pour out from Kokuro.
"Stay safe, I love you all."
Kokuro stepped through the rift and was gone, leaving the stunned family to tend to Sintary and the children.
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