With Naruto's disappearance, Sumire watch from afar the location for a moment and vanished into the darkness.

The days' harvest had been good and she received power from thousands of civilians along with some low level academy students, low level genins and even Metal Lee.

She went back to her home and the real Sumire was unaware of what just took place. She felt tired and went to take a bath, while Naruto appeared on the last floor of the Hokage Tower.

It was where the council met, and the most important discussions took place. He took his seat at the head of the table and thought about what had just happened.

He had sensed a dark presence for a moment. He had checked the area but found no trace of the presence except people going berserk and getting mind controlled.

The berserk individuals were naturally stopped by the barriers defense system and captured, but they all lost their chakra and he was unable to sense where it went.

The culprit attacked the mental plan using darkness, instead of psychic techniques. It was similar to Nemesis and Hades, but it wasn't them.

It could also suck chakra using the mind control body and allow it to fight at full power. This led to the barrier having issues with the stronger individuals as they sucked away the chakra from the barrier's defense mechanism. Fortunately, there was anti-absorption techniques involved or there would have been more issues.

The enemy travelled in a way that was not visible to him. The enemy most likely came from the inside or the barrier would have caught it.

It is a situation that started at the same time in multiple places, with the same level of intensity. Fortunately, he had barriers in all important places and the satellite was always watching for trouble so nothing damaging took place.

This has the dirty footprints of Kara all over it. Kara, a criminal organization that nobody really knows much about but Naruto had already made some conclusions about it from the situation.

It was an organization that was related to Ishiki Otsutsuki in some manner. It was able to hide from his gaze expertly and it recruited other powerful criminals for use.

It was one of these criminals that they found the name and a rumor of its power, but nothing more.

It was involved in causing problems at national and international levels.

It gathered human resources from all places and other resources as well. People seemed to disappear in small numbers and they were never found.

They had high level of technology as well, enough to counter his tech advantage.

Why was Kara doing this and why would anyone join it?

People were joining it because no criminal could exist in the world ruled by Naruto, he would kill them and capture them like hapless sheep.

Kara promised freedom from Naruto's oppressive rule and a way to fulfill their dreams.

Kara wanted to bring back the age of chaos according to the people they had managed to speak to before their memories were erased.

From that, Naruto could tell what it meant. They didn't want the world getting too powerful, as more power meant more difficulty for Ishiki.

Chaos meant that Naruto's attention would be occupied and people would be distracted, so they would be able to move much more freely.

Chaos would allow Ishiki to take out the strongest people without getting ganged up. There was the question, why had he never attacked.

He was a Viscount, someone with the power to crush planets the size of Jupiter. Why did he never come back in the thousand years that have gone by since that day?

Why did he never contact the HQ about Kaguya's betrayal?

His refusal to share knowledge about his loss was most likely about pride since Otsutsuki had giant egos, his reputation would be destroyed if people knew that a weakling had defeated him.

It didn't matter if it was at a time of relaxation when his mind was distracted. Kaguya had used a honey trap against him and washed his back, giving her the chance to cut him down using her ash bones.

His defense was down and he was hit by something that ate away the cellular structure, so his body was cut apart and was slowly dying.

She chased him and hit him with some more attacks but he escaped to an unknown location.

He should have taken over some human and revived like normal, but it never happened. Thinking about the cause, Orochimaru made a good case.

He didn't have a good vessel, so his process was not going well.

Kaguya confirmed it that they had to find suitable vessels or the revival might make them loose their powers.

It meant that the disappearances of little kids were about finding vessels for his revival, and he wasn't revived to his full power yet.

His power wasn't stable for combat, which was why he never appeared during the war when Kaguya appeared. He was definitely strong enough to easily fight Kaguya during the war since the criminals they caught, had their powers close to Juubito's level.

He was giving them the power of Otsutsuki genes, just like how they were doing for their strongest fighters.

There were some problems about the reason for his inaction for so long. He could have taken away Naruto, Sasuke, Hashirama, Madara, Tobirama or Obito as vessels but he never took them.

Was he worried that Black Zetsu would manage to spread the message back home if he came back out or did all of them not satisfy his demand?

Kaguya was unable to answer this question and none of them had anything to add about this issue. All the people mentioned were very talented with high potentials, so it should be impossible for there to be a better vessel.

In the current era it was possible, but that was because of what Naruto had done. This led to the thought that Ishiki did want the world to go forward and produce a better vessel for him, so he didn't take over the world shakers.

Now the world level had satisfied his demand and he was starting to make trouble to disturb the pace. There was also the fact that the stronger the world, the better the fruit. The current was world was a high quality meal for someone like him. It was something that higher rank individuals enjoyed.

Making the shinju tree in the current era after using Naruto and the others fertilizers would mean that he would get the power of the whole ninja world, pushing him by two ranks.

This was all they had been able to make out from their understanding of the issues and for confirmation they would have to confront core members of this group, and not outers.

The group was trouble and Naruto wanted to pull them out before things started with the Otsutsuki clan, as the internal issue might become their early grave.

Right now, it was making them focus on two fronts and increasing their stress.

The stress levels of the people under him were very high already, so this was just pouring salt all over it.

Naruto had personally tried multiple times to find them and even asked for help from Amaterasu, Nemesis, Hades, Zeus, Neptune, Gaea, Hestia and Susanoo but nothing.

There was no result. Ishiki was an expert rat, and knew how to hide away from the world. If the bastard didn't come out, Naruto planned to spread his courageous tale to his people when they come knocking.

Maybe that would make him come out of his hole.

Naruto couldn't even say that the past was easier since it feels like there is always that one enemy that is like a rat.

Before there was Orochimaru and Obito, and now there is Ishiki.

Nonetheless, they needed to find the source of the problem before it went out of control and caused damage.

It was apparent that it was part of the chaos protocol of Kara.


"Sir, they are here?" Hinata stood behind him and whispered into his ears. Naruto knew they were there but gave them the chance to take in the situation like he had done.

"Has everyone understood the situation?" Naruto asked as he looked at all the people gathered from all over the world.

"Yes"

"Affirmative"

"It has to do with Kara, I suppose." Gaara muttered as he looked at Naruto while Kankuro and his wife Rangiku sat beside him.

"Yes, it most likely is related to them. Now, is there anything to add?" Naruto looked at them and saw no response. It was the same everywhere and all of them had the same conclusions. They had shared it mentally, and none of them brought up anything different.

"Lord Seventh, you were unable to trace the source. Was there any problem?" Artoria Pendragon sat beside Sai and her right hand man, Merlin.

The question she brought forth was something on everyone's mind and the implications weren't nice.

"Relax I was unable to trace the source because of its slippery nature, not because of the being having more power. I sensed it for a moment before it started making a move but then it disappeared.

From its actions, it is clear that it isn't strong or it would have directly infected the whole city. It is just one of those things related to the Otsutsuki again that manage to slip through our senses. Kaguya, do you have anything to say about it?" Naruto allayed their fears before they developed into paranoia and looked at Kaguya for advice.

Kaguya was silent for a while as she took in the situation and tried to remember things from her homeland. Anything that Ishiki would do, would have some basis in Otsutsuki culture and technology.

They were a highly developed race since some of their members had devoured the existence of planets with high technology level civilizations.

Kaguya didn't live in those heavily sci-fi sectors and preferred the natural type, but Ishiki was from that sector and preferred the advance nature of things.

Taking in the information they had been able to get from the current incident and the victims, she thought about creatures with dark natures.

The creature had corrupted them and erased it's presence from their memories.

"I do not have the knowledge on this creature and it might be a new creation. It might be his way of making new powerful servants for his goals. Or, it could be a step into creating a perfect vessel."

Her words brought them new worries as all of them thought of Ishiki as a great threat. He was aware of their strengths while they were in the shadows, only outdated information about him.

"From its steps, it feels like it is feeding on the people's chakra and is going through a growth phase. We can be sure that it will target stronger people next time. Increase the security and stop the absorption process. We will drag it out through attrition. We cannot let Ishiki think we are pawns in his game, let us show him a reason to worry about us." Naruto smiled and tapped the table, taking away the darkness with his words. Today they had not acted to track the enemy down, but the techniques to counter the enemy already exist so they could make it starve.

"We hear and we obey."

Naruto shook his head at those words and gave a small smile as all of them took their leave with his permission. It was time to act before the enemy decided to feast upon the populace.

"When do you plan to announce it?" Sasuke asked as he stood up from his seat and all the remaining individuals from Konoha looked at him.

Naruto smiled, "Soon."

"It is better to get it over with so that the system can run at full efficiency. Everyone is always looking around and waiting for the day to arrive." Shikamaru commented, as he had seen the effect such thoughts on the people. They were worried what it would entail for them, but it was better for it to arrive as they might get too stressed out before it takes place.

"Everything has its time. I am delaying it because I want the new era's wind to blow over the people. When I take the throne, the doors of the past shall close down and new changes will arrive."

"New changes? Explosive changes, I assume." Sasuke questioned

"We will discuss them soon and decide how to put them into practice. For now, let's deal with this problem now. I don't want to take the seat under such circumstances." Naruto replied calmly as he stood up and patted her Sasuke's shoulder, sending him home along with everyone else.

He had absolute power over space and could teleport people without much difficulty, unless they had the ability to resist.

With that finished, Naruto changed the setting of the barriers to emergency situation and bestowed anti-absorption seals to all the people in the cities that had been hit.

The monster was attacking only the center of power, the cities where powerful warriors gathered. It was the main ninja villages and Camelot from the other continent; it was the capital city of Artoria's Empire.

The other continent had less people and humans only covered a small amount of land. The people of the Empire were a mix of Land of fire, Land of Lighting, Land of Water and Land of Wind.

They had fought centuries before Artoria and she managed to subdue them all, and create this new empire. It had only been few years from the creation of the Empire that Naruto made his visit.

Artoria never held any delusion of grandeur and was aware of there being more powerful people since the day that she had been taken out by the Shinju tree.