CHAPTER 14: Beyond Expectations...!?
-Flashback-
"…"
Sasuke groggily opened his eyes. As far as he could remember, he should be at the Konoha General Hospital, currently undergoing a medical operation of having a new left arm being installed to the same missing limb that was destroyed by his final clash with Naruto at the end of the previous Shinobi War…
…he should be…
"…This place… is…"
That's right. He knew this place. This is the same ethereal space where he met Otsutsuki Hagoromo, known under the title of the Sage of the Six Paths during the time that he was almost killed by Madara near the end of the 4th Shinobi World War… the very same place where Rikudo Sennin bestowed him a fragment of Otsutsuki Indra's Six Paths power, allowing him to awaken his Rinnegan…
"…so despite acting tough, I still ended up losing consciousness. How pathetic of me." Sasuke sighed. Yet he didn't let his guard down. Because right now, he can sense another presence within the same ethereal space he's currently in…
"So you have noticed my presence… the remnant of my consciousness… within this space…" The voice from the said presence echoed.
And with a sound of a foot stepping on top of the water's surface, the ripple created by the said movement allowed Sasuke to figure out the current location of the voice's owner…
Not that he didn't know who that person was, because Sasuke was well too familiar with that voice right now after fighting against him during the previous War…
"So you really did have a fragment of consciousness embedded on those cells where this new left arm was cultivated from…" Sasuke said as he glared at the man who was now standing in front of him.
The said man… with long, spiky black hair, samurai-styled plated armors around his body, and a pair of powerful Sharingan looking seriously towards him…
"…Uchiha Madara…"
-Flashback End-
Sasuke then stood with Naruto as his Rinnegan portal disappeared behind them, with Sakura still performing medical ninjutsu into Sasuke's new, black-colored left arm.
"Looks like everything went well," Naruto gave a smirk to Sasuke. He recently just dispelled his Ashura Chakra Mode due to the earlier failed attempt to defeat Moryo. "Though by the looks of it, I can see that you've seen better days."
Naruto had said so due to Sasuke's current physical appearance. He had large, visible eyebags under both his eyes, his breathing was still visibly rugged, and while he can still feel Sasuke's full power, it seemed like his body wasn't in perfect condition yet to fight properly.
"I've told him to take it easy after the operation. But right after he felt that the left arm was successfully installed and capable of moving similar to how a left arm should be, he immediately detached all the medical cords attached to his left arm, cast his Rinnegan space-time jutsu, then teleported right here." Sakura said in a complaining tone.
"That's Sasuke for you." Naruto grinned towards Sakura. "Though, are you really sure you can fight in your current condition right now, Sasuke?"
"I can fight as I used to. All we have to do is to beat down Moryo, then using the Sun and the Crescent Seal melded with the power of the Priestess, destroy that thing's existence for good and permanently stop his never-ending revival cycle." Sasuke said as lightly raised his new left arm, revealing the same Crescent Seal on its palm, the very same seal that Hagoromo had given to him as part of a jutsu to seal Otsutsuki Kaguya to end of the previous War.
Naruto then looked towards the Sun Seal he had in the palm of his right hand. At that moment, the two of them sensed that their respective Six Paths-empowered seals resonated with each other.
Sasuke then gave a small glance towards Shion who was still in her angelic form levitating right behind Naruto, then gave a small nod to her, his usual way of showing acknowledgment to a person he just met. Shion then returned the gesture with the same nod and a small smile.
'So this… is Uchiha Sasuke…' Shion muttered within herself. She also knew of him due to her keeping track of the important events of Naruto's life these past few years. That's why when Naruto mentioned his name earlier during his arrival just earlier, she already knew that this person is Naruto's friend who defected Konoha. But after many hardships and battles against each other, Naruto was able to reach him, made him return to the Village, and now was fighting side-by-side together with him.
"What if that person needed to do something that he must do no matter what!? It might look like you were not part of his priorities, but what if he also can't prioritize anything else unless he was able to accomplish this important thing that he must do?! Ain't that a bit too selfish on your part?!"
'I really am so silly…' Shion muttered to herself as she remembered a certain part of Naruto's ramblings from earlier. 'Naruto was doing his best trying to bring his friend back to his Village, yet all I did was complain about him being this and that… I can't believe how stupid I am…'
Sakura, on the other hand, can't help but feel amazed while looking at Shion's current angelic form despite her continuously applying medical Ninjutsu in the area where Sasuke's new limb was attached.
"You look different, Shion…" Sakura said with a smile to the Priestess.
"Yes, Sakura. It's been a while." Shion returned the greeting with a smile. "While you look more womanly now than before, it seemed like you also gained some unfeminine muscle mass on your arms."
Sakura felt a vein bulging from her forehead comically, remembering how Shion also used to talk to her in the past.
The two successors of the Six Paths then looked towards their opposition, Moryo, with Naruto having a confident smirk while Sasuke had his usual stern expression.
"You're going down, Moryo." Naruto said.
"Time to end this…" Sasuke muttered right after.
"Uchiha Sasuke… and Uzumaki Naruto…" Moryo, still within Shin's body as his host, gritted his teeth in frustration. "I can feel it… with those two's current power… together with Shion's divine power… they have full capability to destroy my entire existence!"
"Then we should move now… of else…"
And before the creature with Sharingan capable of space-time jutsu could even finish his statement, he felt an incoming Hiraishin kunai dashing sharply towards him.
The creature immediately dodged away from the kunai's track, essentially creating a distance between him and Moryo in the process. As the kunai that was dodged continued its track away, Naruto appeared thru Hiraishin, grabbed that same Hiraishin kunai mid-air, then threw it back towards the creature that was still airborne due to the earlier dodge.
And due to being airborne with physical capabilities below the likes of an ordinary Shinobi, he cannot out-maneuver the incoming kunai this time except by using his space-time jutsu to warp himself away out of contact. As he was about to use his space-time jutsu to warp away, he found himself being teleported to where Sasuke previously was, implying the sudden use of Amenotejikara, swapping the two of them away from their previous location and essentially canceling his already casted space-time jutsu.
And before he could comprehend what just happened, he saw an incoming fist right in front of him. And it was too late for him to recast his space-time jutsu to escape…
"No more escape for you! SHANNAARROOOO!"
In the instance that Sakura's fist hit him, the creature shattered grotesquely, sending parts of his destroyed Sharingan eyes and flesh in multiple directions.
"Damn it! He's gone!" Moryo cursed as his loyal creature that could only be the key for him to escape his current predicament being destroyed right in front of his eyes. After all, all those movements that just happened have been executed by the Uzumaki and the Uchiha in mere seconds.
However…
"Do you really have the leisure to worry about that?" Sasuke, who just previously used the Amenotejikara that not only teleported the deceased creature away from him, but also allowed the Uchiha to close their distance to him instantaneously at the same time, grabbed the Hiraishin kunai aimed previously towards the creature, sharply threw it towards Moryo, then also suddenly attacked the demon with a forward thrust from his sword.
Naruto reappeared before the Hiraishin kunai that Sasuke threw towards Moryo, then together with Sasuke, attempted to attack Moryo with his Konoha Chakra Blade.
Moryo blocked Sasuke's sword with his makeshift metallic arm while grabbing Naruto's wrist that was holding the Konoha Chakra Blade. The impact from the contact created a massive gust of wind around them.
"Damn you… Kaguya's descendants!"
In that instance, as the three of them struggled for control, since Moryo was still being hosted by Shin's body, both of Shin's Mangekyou Sharingan began to pulse violently, making both Mangekyou eyes to start bleeding.
Sasuke then flipped himself, then attacked Moryo with a 360-degree roundhouse kick. Moryo was able to block it, but the impact sent him hurling backwards.
Moryo then punched the ground, summoning smaller, chakra-based dragonheads yet with similar power to the large ones that he used earlier. Some of the dragonheads moved directly towards Sasuke while the ones who didn't do so, charged a beam on their mouths with power rivaling that of Bijuu Dama.
"As if I'd let you!" Naruto then sharply threw his Hiraishin kunai towards Moryo's dragonheads, then performed Kunai Kage Bunshin jutsu. And with the sudden increase of the number of kunais mid-air, Naruto then flashed on each kunais, one at a time, then on each flash, slashed the dragonheads with his Konoha Chakra Blade. And after successfully slashing the dragonheads, Naruto then performed a single hand seal…
"Bunshin Bakufuda (Clone Serial Explosion)!" The kunai clones exploded at the same time, vaporizing the remains of the already slashed dragonheads.
Once again, Naruto dashed towards Moryo's retreating form with a much faster speed than before. Landing right below the demon, Naruto attempted a rising kick against Moryo.
However, Moryo attempted a simultaneous exchange with a downward right hook, with his fist clad with potent black chakra. But before the simultaneous impact occurred between the two of them, Moryo ended up hitting the thin air, as Naruto suddenly disappeared in front of him.
And much to his surprise, it was Sasuke who suddenly appeared right below the demon, once again implying the Amenotejikara swap between Naruto and Sasuke this time, with Sasuke positioning himself away from the downward right hook of Moryo while also in the proper position to perform a massive upward kick that hit him directly on the chin. The impact made Shin/Moryo's head jolt upwards while sending its entire body high above, hurling in the air.
And even before Moryo could maneuver himself mid-air, Naruto appeared right above him, his right arm charged with Chakra similar to what he did against Otsutsuki Toneri, then gave a massive right punch to Shin/Moryo's face. The impact created a booming sound that broke the sound barriers around them, while the force of the punch sent Moryo flying towards the nearest mountain.
And before Moryo could land on the mountain, Sasuke appeared before him, then once again violently attacked Moryo with a chakra-enhanced kick, sending the demon back to Naruto.
But this time, Naruto gave a massive downward kick towards Moryo, sending him back to the ground with another massive, earth-shaking impact.
And from above, Naruto and Sasuke then dashed simultaneously towards the epicenter where Moryo landed, with Naruto's right hand once again clad with Chakra like before, and Sasuke did the same with his new left arm.
"Don't get too conceited!" Moryo roared as multiple gigantic dragonhead avatars with their fangs directly bared towards the incoming duo.
But at the moment of contact, the Uzumaki and the Uchiha shattered the dragonhead avatars easily without losing their respective attack's momentum, and were now about to hit Shin/Moryo with their combined attacks…
"…!"
"…!"
But before they could even land their massive attack, Naruto and Sasuke immediately stopped their attacks, with Sasuke immediately enveloping himself with his purple-colored Chakra while Naruto also enveloped himself with his Ashura Chakra Mode, then distanced themselves away from Moryo's location.
Naruto landed beside Shion, who was still charging power for her to use at the right moment to seal Moryo once he was weakened by Naruto and Sasuke's barrage of attacks, while the Uchiha landed right beside Sakura, who immediately cast her medical Ninjutsu into Sasuke. The Uchiha was panting visibly due to him still not being in the proper condition to perform massive physical attacks, yet he was pushing himself hard to assist the group in destroying Moryo.
"Why did you stop your attacks?" Sakura asked her two teammates. "If you continued, I bet Moryo will be severely weakened that he won't be able to fight back anymore, and that will be enough to purge him down with Shion's power combined with your Six Paths' power!"
"No…" Naruto narrowed his eyes. "If we continue our attacks, we'll fall right into a trap…"
"A trap…?" Shion asked this time.
"…" Sasuke also dangerously narrowed his eyes. "You noticed it too, right, Naruto? That weird mark… that seal on Shin's own chin. That wasn't on him during the last time we fought against him."
"I have noticed it before but didn't pay any attention to it since I thought that was just a part of his transformation, except now. And as just like you have observed, as we continued to beat him down, the markings from his chin were also expanding little by little." Naruto said in conjunction with Sasuke's observation. "It's as if… his body was slowly being invaded by something."
"This… is not good…!" Shin/Moryo jumped out of the crater where he just landed after a series of attacks from the two Shinobi, then stood on the nearest surface with a pained expression. But the pain was seemingly not just from Naruto and Sasuke's barrage of attacks… it was… from entirely something else… "These eyes... kept pulsing… the Kāma's, kept spreading all over Shin's body… I need my real body… or else… Otsutsuki Kaguya will…"
"…Otsutsuki Kaguya?!"
"…what about her…?"
"I need my real body… and discard Shin's body as my host… so I can gain my true power back… and halt the Kāma's activation…!"
Shin/Moryo gritted his teeth as if trying to stop something to happen within his own body…
"Kāma?" Both Naruto and Sasuke simultaneously thought in their head.
"…or else… I'll end up… being a mere medium for Otsutsuki Kaguya's revival!"
Naruto and Sasuke gritted their teeth right after hearing what Moryo have just said. This was the most dangerous statement that they have ever heard in the past few years right after the War…
In that instance… the pulsing Mangekyou Sharingan of Shin's body began mutating… turning into a gray-colored, ripple-patterned eye that Naruto and Sasuke were so familiar with…
"His eyes… suddenly mutated into… a pair of Rinnegan?" Naruto said with a surprised expression.
"This is bad… why have I not thought about it before…" Sasuke said while glaring dangerously. "A Mangekyou Sharingan can evolve by using an additional pair of eyes from another Uchiha who had also unlocked and was also capable of entering Mangekyou. That's how Madara and I were able to evolve our eyes and use the Eternal Magekyou Sharingan…"
"However… Shin already had a Mangekyou Sharingan… and due to Moryo's influence, he ended up consuming his very own living clones, each of them also had unlocked Mangekyou Sharingan… So his own Mangekyou is bound to evolve sooner or later due to the influence of the other Mangekyous he absorbed from his clones… thus, should be allowing him to access even the tiniest part of Otsutsuki Indra's power thru those multitude amounts of Mangekyou Sharingan with him not even knowing about it…"
"Yet… Moryo also ended up absorbing the Shinju's stump… a fragment of the Ten-Tails' power. Orochimaru had mentioned before that Otsutsuki Ashura's last reincarnation, Senju Hashirama, and Shinju's Mokuton basically have the same properties. So more or less, Shin's body acquired both the appropriate ingredients for awakening the Rinnegan…"
"…the Hashirama-like power due to the Shinju's Mokuton, and the fully matured Mangekyou Sharingan with fragments of Indra's power."
"And that power was manifesting right before our very eyes…"
"…" Naruto ended up speechless upon hearing Sasuke's explanation. "Then… what about that strange marking on his chin that was also continuously spreading on his body right now?"
"I don't have any idea. But we came here to do what we always need to do." Sasuke said. "We have to stop this mutation before it's too late."
Naruto and Sasuke then nodded to each other, then…
"Shion!"
"Sakura!"
Naruto immediately pumped more of his potent Chakra while still in his Ashura Chakra Mode, once again creating the six-armed Chakra Avatar similar to Otsutsuki Ashura's, the Six Paths: Kunitsukami, complete with multiple Gudou Dama of proportionate size from the Chakra Avatar levitating behind it, with Shion together with him on its head, the girl positioned right behind him.
On the other hand, Sasuke morphed his purple-colored Chakra with Sakura behind him, transforming into Perfect Susanoo, yet further transforming into its most powerful variant thus far, a form similar to the one that he used against Naruto during their final battle during the end of the 4th War… the lightning clad Chakra Susanoo Avatar… known as the Indra Susanoo...
'So just by using his own mere Chakra reserves, he can now create a Chakra Avatar with power rivaling the three-headed Nine-Tails' avatar during our final battle, without even using any of his other modes and forms?!' Sasuke said internally, surprised once again by Naruto's current capabilities.
"Sasuke… this Susanoo…" Naruto looked towards his rival in surprise.
"Yeah… one of the new abilities that I unlocked and also can now access on a whim after the installation of this left arm… Indra Susanoo…" Sasuke replied. "But enough about it for now… I don't know what's happening to him, but we need to end this before things get worst!"
"Yeah…!"
Naruto then, once again, began creating a gigantic Wind Release: Rasenshuriken using the three right arms of his Chakra Avatar, then also cast a Bijuu Dama: Rasenshuriken on the Avatar's three left arms. Both Rasenshurikens created massive wind gusts, blowing away the entire huge forest beneath them, while also flattening the nearest mountain ranges.
At the same time, Sasuke began projecting a huge lighting-based bow, then also began preparing a massive arrow created from potent lightning Chakra. And once the arrowhead was formed, Sasuke further channeled more Chakra, making the arrowhead itself alone to rival the size of the Indra Susanoo itself. This was his strongest offensive jutsu that he used against Naruto during their final battle… known as Indra's Arrow…
-Scene Change-
"…!" Kakashi, who was looking out of the Hokage Office's window, could feel the massive winds and even saw lightning strikes in the atmosphere due to the jutsus being prepared by Naruto and Sasuke despite Konoha being literally thousands and thousands of kilometers away from the Land of Demons.
"Naruto…" Sara, who's also looking outside thru the other window of the Hokage Office, muttered in concern…
-Scene Change-
Borders of the Land of Demons…
The advanced army sent by the Shinobi Alliance who were fending off Moryo's Stone Army to slow down their advances were also forced to cover themselves with various defensive jutsus due to the same massive winds and lightning strikes being created by Naruto and Sasuke's jutsus as they were on the borders of the Land of Demons, as they were only a few tens of kilometers away from the ensuing battle.
"This battle suddenly escalated beyond expectations…" Onoki muttered as he was protecting the majority of the Shinobi included in the advanced army using a massive Earth Release-based wall.
"This feels like the same as when we were fighting against the Madara and the Ten-Tails during the 4th War…" Gaara also said, as he also used a huge layer of sand on top of Onoki's Earth Release-based wall.
"…" Hinata, being included in the advanced army sent by Konoha due to her Byakugan's tracking capabilities, suddenly felt that something was wrong. It might just be her simply being a tracking specialist, or her being worried for Naruto due to the ongoing battle, but she can feel a nagging sensation that something really was about to happen…
She then immediately ran towards Gaara and Oonoki…
"Kazekage-sama, Tsuchikage-sama…" Hinata said in all sincerity, but her face filled with visible urgency.
"What is it, Hinata?" Gaara asked his friend's fiancée.
"I'm sorry, but I need to leave the frontlines and go to where Naruto-kun currently is…"
"You can't," Tsuchikage retorted. "You're a very valuable personnel in this advanced army. You will need to set aside your worries for your fiancée for now and focus on the mission at hand. Uzumaki Naruto's strength right now is in an entirely different league. And with all those power available at his disposal, he has a good shot of defeating Moryo just like he did so during the past."
"I know that what I'm asking is a bit too much… but the Chakra entrusted to me by Otsutsuki Hamura, my great ancestor… kept telling me that I need to go…" Hinata said with serious, determined expression. "So please… allow me to assist Naruto-kun on this battle…"
"…" The Tsuchikage looked towards Hinata with serious eyes. The Five Kages all knew that Hinata had acquired a fragment of Hamura's Chakra within her during the Moon Mission. And while Hinata didn't show any physical changes on her parameters and Chakra attributes after acquiring such Chakra, those Chakra was still that of the Six Paths, a Chakra from a transcended being. So if that Chakra within her was reacting as such due to the current situation, then…
"…" Gaara, on the other hand, remembered something of a similar situation from the past while looking towards Hinata's serious, determined expression. It was the same as of Naruto's when the blonde Shinobi knocked him down while attempting to stop him from trying to save Kakashi from being assimilated by Hiruko to absorb Kakashi's Sharingan…
"I'll vouch for her, Tsuchikage." Gaara said as he placed his right hand on the older man's left shoulder. "If the Chakra from the brother of the Sage of the Six Paths were telling Hinata of such, then we need Hinata to be with Naruto… as they were few current ones, including Sasuke, that have access to Six Paths' power, then all we can do is to believe in them."
"…" Oonoki once again looked towards the Byakugan Princess. Her eyes remained the same, as if she already resolved herself to help Naruto in the current situation no matter what. "Understood. Just don't let yourself get hit by those powerful winds and gusts that were being created by their ongoing battle while on your way there. That will beat the purpose of your intent."
"Thank you very much, Kazekage-sama, Tsuchikage-sama." Hinata bowed exaggeratedly, then immediately turned away. "I'll be going." Hinata then leaped away, then disappeared from the two Kage's field of vision.
"That brat got himself a good girl," Oonoki muttered as he further reinforced their defenses using his Earth Release-based barriers.
"Yeah. He deserved at least that much after everything he's been through." Gaara said with a small smile, still keeping to himself that Naruto already had a 2nd fiancée… He's ain't the type of person to gossip about his friend, after all.
On the other hand, Hinata, after reaching a considerable amount of distance from the advanced army, began accessing the Six Paths Chakra she inherited from Hamura. In that instance, her bluish Chakra changed its hue to dark purple, enveloping her entire body similar on how it did so during the time that she destroyed the Tenseigan of the Moon with Naruto during the said mission.
"Naruto-kun, I'm on my way…" Hinata said in a worried tone… "…please be okay…" she muttered as her movement speed got augmented by accessing her own Six Paths' Chakra.
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"Shion!" Naruto gave a side glance to the Priestess as he continued preparing his massive offensive jutsu. "Let's do it, just like what we did before! Channel your power on my jutsu, so we can obliterate Moryo before he becomes something much worst!"
"…" Shion, who have already gathered the appropriate power within her while still in her angelic form, smiled towards him. However, instead of channeling her power thru Naruto's Rasenshurikens, she ended up hugging Naruto from behind, surprising the blonde.
"What are you… doing?!" Naruto lightly blushed due to the contact.
"Instead of me channeling my power in your jutsu, let me just channel my power into you instead, for you to properly channel and regulate the appropriate amount of my power needed for your jutsu."
Naruto then felt that his Ashura Chakra Mode's flickering blue Chakra got another layer of hue. The second layer was more of pinkish yellow in color, the same color as that of Shion's power, implying that the Priestess was entrusting her powers to him.
"Alright." Naruto, similar to the process of applying Senjutsu to his jutsus, added Shion's power to his Rasenshurikens.
"…" Sakura saw the intimate contact that Shion was giving towards Naruto, even making her blush. And since she's situated behind Sasuke, as both of them were situated at the forehead part of the Indra Susanoo, she then attempted to approach Sasuke's back to…
"Please no, Sakura." Sasuke said sternly, without looking back to the pinkette.
"Oh..." Sakura muttered in a comical dejected tone.
"Don't do it. It's embarrassing." Sasuke continued, still without looking, as if he's hiding his embarrassed face from his fiancée.
"Alright, Shannaroo." Sakura pouted, but still smiled, understanding that her fiancée was that kind of person.
"Uzumaki Naruto… Uchiha Sasuke…!" Moryo roared as his newly transformed Rinnegan continued to pulsate with him seemingly having no control over his host due to the spreading markings all over Shin's body originating from the mark of his chin. Even for a being as powerful as him, the current anomalies on his host's body completely froze him on the spot, making him unable to do anything once Naruto and Sasuke fired their attacks against him… "If you continue… your attack… against me… you will only end up truly reviving Kaguya…!"
"Stop blabbering!" Naruto yelled. "Kaguya will only be revived if all the Tailed Beasts were sealed within the Gedo Mazou. And that Mazou itself must transform into the Juubi, then being sealed within someone with Rinnegan, capable of harnessing the Ten Tails' power! And newsflash, I have all the Bijuus within me! So reviving Kaguya will be impossible for you!"
"I am not attempting to revive Kaguya…! My sole reason for existence… right now… was to defeat her… and reclaim the planet against the parasites known as the Otsutsukis…!" Moryo yelled back. "My once complete body fought against her before she consumed the Chakra Fruit from the Shinju… but she split my complete body in half, creating this version of me and the Priestess!"
"I ended up being the corrupted one, while Kaguya bestowed the responsibility on the other half, the Priestess to keep me in check… That's why the first Priestess performed a seal to further split my spirit and Chakra from my body… so I can't keep rebelling against Kaguya!"
"That's wrong!" Shion yelled as well. "There are various scrolls from the temple containing multiple concrete evidence that you attempted to destroy the world and recreate your Thousand Year Kingdom numerous times, and the Priestess' duty was to stop and seal your ambitions! I don't know the extent of this Kaguya person's effect in history, but that doesn't change the fact that regardless of her interference, you're an enemy of the world, and your sole purpose was to destroy this world!"
"Because I am… a supreme being! I am fated… to become this planet's god! If not because… of the interference of these Otsutsukis, I would have… governed this planet for all of eternity!" Moryo muttered, his voice filled with pain due to the untrollable changes in his host's body.
"And those words sealed your fate." Naruto muttered.
"So this thing… has a first-hand encounter against Kaguya… even before the Sage of the Six Paths came to be…" Sasuke mentally noted in his head. "But either way… this thing has the power rivaling the Ten-Tails and has now awakened the Rinnegan. We can't take chances. This is not the kind of being who can be detained and interrogated. He must be dealt with right now!"
Naruto and Shion looked towards each other, with Shion still clinging into Naruto's back. With their faces close to each other, the two of them nodded, mutually agreeing to end this battle once and for all… then looked towards Sasuke…
"Let's go!"
"Let's do it!"
Naruto and Sasuke then fired their jutsus simultaneously…
"Rikudo: Chou Oodama Rasenshuriken (Six Paths: Ultra Big Ball Rasenshuriken)!"
"Rikudo: Indora no Ya (Six Paths: Indra's Arrow)!"
"Don't do it… Kaguya's bastards!"
The moment that the two jutsus landed towards Shin/Moryo, both jutsus flashed towards the sky together with their target, reaching right above the atmosphere… to ensure that the planet won't be affected by the destructive effect of their combined jutsu, then…
"RIKUDO: SHINRA TENKYO (Six Paths: Almighty Scream)!"
Both successors of the Six Paths yelled at the same time, detonating their collaboration jutsu, creating a massive chakra sphere with size surpassing even the explosion of the largest Bijuu Dama from the Juubi's last incarnation. The destructive power of the explosion continued to be amplified, to a level capable of destroying a huge part of the entire planet should the detonation didn't occur mid-air… with Shin/Moryo on its very epicenter.
The explosion created by the jutsu continued to reverberate, with shockwaves that could even be felt over the nearest countries and even on the other side of the planet.
The massive Chakra sphere began to slowly subside. However, both Naruto and Sasuke didn't let their guards down, with the Uzumaki using his advance sensory capabilities and the Uchiha glaring with his powerful eyes to observe the diminishing sphere to see what happened to Shin/Moryo after their collaborative attack.
"I can feel it, Naruto." Shion muttered to the blonde Shinobi, "Moryo's very essence, the black chakra and negative energy, has been completely neutralized and erased by my power. All that's left is his neutralized energy that is needed to be sealed. However, your very own Six Paths Yang Chakra neutralized his immortality, while Sasuke-san's Six Paths Yin Chakra erasing Moryo's own existence, making this being that can be now formerly known as Moryo, as a mere lump of huge Chakra."
"That's great!" Sakura gave a big celebratory smile upon hearing Shion's statement. "And here I thought that combining your most powerful attacks might've been an overkill… Naruto… Sasuke-kun…?"
Sakura then changed her facial reaction after she saw that Naruto and Sasuke still have very serious expressions on their faces. She then also looked towards the direction where her two teammates were also currently looking, only to see a severely damaged figure of what formerly known as the body of Shin's Uchiha falling to the ground the very moment that the Shinra Tenkyo completely disappeared…
"Now that Moryo's essence has been completely erased, his own black Chakra created from negative energies and emotions of the world has been reverted back as a plain, neutral Chakra. But still, that doesn't change the fact that this Chakra level that was residing within that Shin's broken body was still comparable to that of the Ten-Tails' level…" Naruto muttered, his eyes still glaring seriously towards their opposition's falling body.
"And with his own newly acquired Rinnegan, his Chakra including that from the Shinju's, seemed to also continue to mutate into entirely something else despite taking our combined attacks' power head-on," Sasuke also said. "The Priestess' power succeeded in neutralizing Moryo, and our Six Paths Chakra completely disintegrated his essence and existence… reverting him back to this neutral state. In all intent and purposes, we have accomplished our mission of stopping Moryo's revival cycle with him having no hopes of ever reviving again…"
"However…"
"But…"
Naruto then charged multiple gigantic Rasengans on all the six limbs of his Six Paths: Kunitsukami avatar, while Sasuke began charging Chidori clad with Amaterasu's flames on his Indra Susanoo's left hand.
"Naruto, Sasuke-kun…" Sakura felt shivers on her spine after she saw beads of sweat forming on the faces of her two teammates. If someone as powerful as them had such a facial reaction, then…
"What is this nagging feeling that things were now much worse than before?!" Sasuke said as he looked towards Naruto.
Naruto then nodded to his rival, and in that instance, the two of them fired their jutsus towards the falling body of Shin Uchiha before it hit the ground…
"KUCHIYOSE NO JUTSU (Summoning Technique)!" A voice from Shin echoed right before the attacks from the Uchiha and the Uzumaki landed on him.
Another massive explosion occurred due to the impact of both Naruto and Sasuke's jutsu towards their intended target. While not as powerful as the earlier Shinra Tenkyo, the explosion would still put a detonated Tailed Beast Ball to shame, as the impact once again reshaped the battlefield and created a massive crater that could fit an entire mountain range.
"No way…!"
"This is…!"
Both successors of the Six Paths power have their faces painted in disbelief right after they sensed what just happened right before the impact of their explosion. And after a few moments, the explosion slowly diminished… no… it was absorbed… by a gigantic living statue in the middle of the crater with its right knee kneeling on the ground. Both its hands were lightly clasped in front of his face, with the unmoving body of Shin Uchiha stationed on its palm.
"Did he just summon… the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path that was sealed on the Genesis Dimension… on the very last moment before our most current attack landed…?" Naruto said with both eyes painted in surprise.
"The Gedo Mazo… of course… he could…" Sasuke gritted his teeth. "His newly awakened Rinnegan might've established the connection, allowing him to summon the Mazo."
"But who's controlling Shin's body for him to be able to do that summoning?!" Shion immediately inquired to Naruto.
"Shin's consciousness was already gone the moment Moryo took control of his body. And Moryo also lost his control of his host the moment the Rinnegan was activated together with that strange marking spreading all over his body that originated from his chin…" Naruto answered. "And with our attacks destroying Moryo's essence… then the only one who can control that body to perform the summoning... was the very consciousness residing within the Rinnegan…"
"…and knowing what happened during the previous war… we already knew… whom that consciousness belonged to…" Sasuke said with narrowed eyes…
"Oh no…" Sakura said with her shivering right hand covering her mouth. "…If Shin Uchiha… has the Rinnegan, a fragment of Shinju's power, and a neutral Chakra comparable to that of the Juubi… then… does that mean…"
At that very moment, the unmoving body of Shin Uchiha was thrown by the Gedo Mazo directly into its mouth, completely regurgitating the fallen missing-nin into nothingness…
"What's happening? Why are you all like that?" Shion said as she can feel the building wariness and tension due to the sudden twists of events… making her affected and feel fear for their current situation…
"GGGRRROOOAAAAAAHHHH!"
The Gedo Mazo roared violently, releasing massive gusts of wind all over the area while releasing massive amounts of Chakra that shook the earth on the nearest tens of kilometers…
The Uzumaki and the Uchiha, both still on their Chakra Avatars, braced themselves due to the power of the Gedo Mazo… they wanted to attack and stop whatever might happen next… but based on the result of their most recent attack, it won't change the predicament where they currently were… since those attacks will end up being absorbed nonetheless…
"During the previous war… both I and Sasuke fought against this powerful being…" Naruto replied to Shion's previous question. "She… has a power like no other… surpassing even that of the Sage of the Six Paths…"
The Gedo Mazo began then to shrink down, slowly changing its appearance and size until it was about the same as that of a regular human…
"According to the legends, she was a being who came from the stars, came to this planet, and ate the Chakra Fruit from this planet's God Tree… allowing her to become an all-powerful being… making her the Mother of all Chakra…"
The figure's appearance now changed into that of a woman with very long, white hair. A pair of delicate horns protruded just above her forehead. She seemed like wearing a single, white-colored, miko outfit. Her complexion is very pale. Her eyes composed a pair of Byakugan. And on her forehead, a single powerful eye with power surpassing the Rinnegan… the Rinne-Sharingan…
"And her name… was Otsutsuki Kaguya…"