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Resurrection
Finally, the light began to dim, the moon not shining quite so brightly. Ryuu stood, narrowing his eyes as he looked up at the moon, and at Madara, floating in front of it. The light continued to dim until it finally vanished completely. Then, Sasuke let his Susanoo fade. Ryuu sighed in relief, Tobi enclosing his head again, more out of habit than anything, and Naruto looked around.
"Looks like the light didn't effect that black one either," Naruto said.
"We should figure out how to undo the genjutsu completely," Ryuu said. "One at a time would be a pain."
Sasuke nodded in agreement, looking up at the moon.
"I won't let you do that," Black Zetsu stated, still encasing Obito's corpse. "The only thing left to do is to kill you."
"Which I, the savior of the world, shall do," Madara stated, crashing down in front of Black Zetsu.
"Madara," Sasuke snarled.
"That eye on his forehead," Sakura breathed, referring to a red Rinnegan with nine tomoe in a vertical slit eye socket
"Be careful," Sasuke warned. "We're surrounded on all sides by four of his shadows."
"I know that," Naruto growled.
"I won't allow you to go any further," Madara stated. "I have just ended the cycle of pain. I have freed humankind from their suffering, pain, and their futility."
"But all this, is just a lie!" Naruto shouted.
"Naruto, you're the one who's interfering with everyone's happiness," Madara stated. "Just look around. All fighting between Shinobi has ceased. I've transformed Hell into Heaven. I've finally corrected Hashirama's mistake."
"You call this Heaven?" Ryuu snapped. "You call living a lie Heaven? Dreams of happiness aren't the same as actually being happy! You can dream you have everything you ever wanted, but in the end you're still what you were before! The only way this world will be happy is to kill you and end this jutsu!"
Just then, Black Zetsu's hand burst out of Madara's chest. Everyone stared in shock as Madara froze completely, and Black Zetsu looked over his shoulder at Ryuu.
"Is this what you wanted Ryuu?" Black Zetsu asked. "Now Madara will die. And the world will be reborn by the Rabbit Goddess."
"Rabbit Goddess?" Ryuu blinked.
"Kaguya Otsutsuki," Sasuke snarled. "The true Ten-tailed Beast. She is the first to have chakra and fused with the tree to become the Ten-tails when she found out her sons had Chakra of their own."
"How can you say that you, unlike Obito, are completely able to take advantage of others, without being controlled yourself?" Black Zetsu asked Madara. "My dear Madara, you have been in a phantom dream yourself. One that I concocted."
"What...are you saying?" Madara growled. "I created you. You are my will incarnate."
"Wrong again," Black Zetsu said. "My will is Kaguya's."
"What's going on?" Naruto asked.
"They're having a falling out this late in the game?" Kakashi asked.
"No," Sasuke said. "He just mentioned Kaguya."
"Sounds like he was created by her, then fooled Madara into thinking Madara created him so he could manipulate Madara," Ryuu stated.
Suddenly, Madara began to scream in pain as black veins began to spread across his body from Black Zetsu's hand. His chakra began to spike as well, growing more and more powerful by the second.
"What's with this guy?" Naruto demanded. "His chakra's ridiculous."
"All of the shadows that had surrounded us have disappeared," Sasuke stated.
Chakra suddenly began to explode out of the ground around them in massive columns. Ryuu looked down, seeing one coming and formed his Susanoo, using it to get everyone out of the way as another column exploded out of the ground where they had been. He released his Susanoo when they landed and they watched as the chakra began to curve down, flowing into Madara.
"Jesus!" Ryuu swore. "He's absorbing chakra from everyone stuck in the tree. All over the world!"
Suddenly, Madara began to swell. His body bloated further and further, swelling up until Black Zetsu was standing on him.
"He's going to explode!" Naruto shouted.
"No," Ryuu growled. "With a chakra even stronger than the Ten-tails, it's far worse than some bomb. Me and Sasuke could probably use our Susanoo to withstand that. I think he's transforming."
"Stop him!" Sasuke shouted. "Now!"
Sasuke formed a sword out of his chidori and charged, Naruto following with a black rod formed from one of his black spheres. Just as the two leapt into the air, Madara's hair shot up like tentacles, catching both and holding them in the air.
"Just like two moths flying to the flame," Black Zetsu sneered. "I'm going to absorb all the chakra out of the two of you right now."
"Shit!" Naruto growled, trying to break free. "Sasuke! If we don't stop him now, he'll absorb all the chakra from everyone else and they'll all die!"
"No one is going to die," Black Zetsu promised. "Even when Kaguya previously enacted the Infinite Tsukuyomi on the populace, she kept them alive and preserved. In order to form them into her soldiers."
"Form?" Sasuke blinked. "What do you mean?"
"You seem to be denser than Itachi," Black Zetsu said, slowly melting off of Obito onto Madara's now hideously bloated form. "How can one use ordinary people in combat?"
"You mean..." Kakashi breathed.
"They all turned into White Zetsus," Ryuu gasped. "So then..."
"All that's left of the people under the previous Infinite Tsukuyomi," Black Zetsu said. "That's what the White Zetsus are. They transformed ever so slowly over time."
"Are you saying that everyone is going to turn into those white things?" Naruto demanded.
"What are you saying Black Zetsu?" Madara spoke up, no longer screaming. "The Infinite Tsukuyomi is an Uchiha Jutsu. One that brings eternal peace to the world."
"Shut up Madara," Ryuu snapped. "You've been manipulated your whole life. All jutsu, no matter from which clan, comes from Kaguya Otsutsuki, the first chakra user. If you can do it, you can assume she did too."
"But, the Sage of the Six Paths carved it into the stone tablet!" Madara argued.
"My dear Madara," Black Zetsu laughed. "I have been around for eons longer than you. Since finding that tablet left by Hagoromo, I've had a lot of time to make revisions. The Infinite Tsukuyomi is not a jutsu to create peaceful dreams. It is a jutsu created to collect massive amounts of chakra from individuals trapped within it. You acted merely according to my, or should I say, Kaguya's will on that."
"For what purpose?" Madara demanded.
"To resurrect Kaguya," Ryuu realized. "The chakra is meant to return the Ten-tails within him to its true self as Kaguya!"
"That's correct," Black Zetsu confirmed. "Just as you used Obito as a pawn, you were also merely a pawn, Madara."
Suddenly, Madara bulged violently a lot more, then, just as he was ready to explode, he began to shrink, the black substance that Black Zetsu had spread over Madara spreading to cover him completely, except for his hair. Then, finally, the black turned white, leaving a very large woman with a pair of horns jutting up from her hair, long white hair like Madara's only much, much longer, pale white skin, the same red Rinnegan Madara had had in her forehead, and a large white robe with black tomoe around the enormous cuffs and six in a line down the front. Kaguya slowly opened her eyes and Ryuu swallowed hard, staring into her Byakugan.
"Oh boy," Ryuu breathed. "We're in trouble."
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