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Already beginning of the chapter

Currently flying over the skies heading towards the Kingdom of Uruk was a woman with fair skin, brown hair tied in pigtails, and her slim figure made her look very feminine. Her garments are not many, as expected of the people of Ancient Mesopotamia.

She wears a cloth top over her chest and what appears to be the lower part of female underwear covering her groin, leaving her stomach, back, and legs exposed all the time. Although she doesn't seem to mind.

As for accessories, she wears a garment covering half of her right arm, another one covering her leg from thigh to foot, and a small crown on her head.

Riding her An Gal Tā Kigal Shē: Venus's Fire that Shakes Mountains, she was heading to see a certain king/queen to address some issues that had arisen in the past few days due to some anomaly according to the gods that needed to be resolved so as not to affect the balance of power between gods and humans.

Although she herself knew that few things could be a problem for the gods, they had become paranoid since the birth of the king/queen of Uruk, thinking that their end would come at the hands of this person. While this was not far from the truth, it wouldn't happen in a short time, although they were annoying with this, it didn't take away the fact that she herself was a goddess and had to see for herself, so it would be better to clarify things so they would stop bothering her.

Although she now just shook her head to put those thoughts aside and continue her way, seeing that not far ahead was the Kingdom of Uruk. Now all she had to pass was the forest in front of her, one that she didn't have much knowledge about, but from what little she knew, she knew that it was the nurturing place, so to speak, of one of her greatest past mistakes.

Starting to fly over the forest, she slowed down, seeing that it was no longer necessary to go fast, so she would go at a slower pace to rest.

Hovering a few meters ahead of the forest, she could see with a quick glance down that she had already crossed a quarter of the forest, so it wouldn't take long for her to cross it completely to reach her destination. However, she had to suddenly stop her flight towards the Kingdom of Uruk as she felt something strange beneath her starting to make the forest's nature stir and fill with an energy she didn't recognize.

Starting to descend to the ground at such an unknown event, she wanted to investigate what it was because rarely something like this happened, so moving out of curiosity, she began to walk towards where she felt the greatest concentration of this strange energy.

After walking around for about ten minutes, she saw how this strange energy affected the forest in a way that was too positive, seeing in paths how the trees seemed to move with joy as they were nourished by the energy, and seeing how the plants on the ground grew relatively fast for her surprise, given that she only knew someone who could do such a thing, but seeing it with her own eyes doubted that person would be here, so whoever was doing all this could undoubtedly be curious or dangerous.

But now that she stopped seeing how this energy affected the environment, she saw that she was now in front of a temple that she recognized perfectly, causing her discomfort again because the temple that was now in front of her and emanating with intensity the strange energy was the temple of Uruk where Shamhat served as a sacred prostitute.

She didn't know much about her other than that Anu, fearing that Enkidu would remain a beast, prepared Shamhat for him, being the little she knew. But leaving that aside for a moment, she began to walk to the door, standing in front of it, she stretched out her hand, sliding the door to see what was inside the temple, and what she saw was something she didn't expect.

For in the center of the temple stood a man surely coming out of his adolescence with blond hair, something strange to see since she only knew one person with that characteristic, a slender but well-built body, surely prepared for battle, and the singular thing that seemed like a whirlpool in his stomach.

Leaving the man's characteristics in front of her, she could tell that he was the owner of that strange energy, so approaching him to analyze him better, she was now by his side, seeing that on his face were some strange marks. So, driven by curiosity, she stretched out her hand to touch them, but she couldn't advance more than a meter when suddenly the blond man turned in her direction, opening his eyes, making her step back and fall to the ground due to the sudden movement.

She saw how the man looked at her with his eyes constantly changing from deep blue to a yellow with a vertical line as pupils with orange outlines appearing and disappearing at the same moment, and his strange marks becoming more aggressive.

Faced with such a thing, she quickly got up to move away from the man who now sat taking his face with sweat running down his face, whispering things she didn't understand, so she waited a few seconds for the strange man to stop saying nonsensical things and notice her presence, earning herself a strange look from him.

She wanted to speak, noticing that the environment had calmed down, but she couldn't because the man had stood up from where he was, looking at her with a raised eyebrow, speaking.

Naruto: Well, I don't know who the hell you are, but I ask why were you spying on me? Are you some kind of pervert who enjoys watching people sleep?

Faced with such words from the stranger in front of her, she wanted to reply to deny such things. She was none of those things; she was Ishtar, the goddess of beauty, good harvests, war, lust, discord, and fertility in Mesopotamian, Sumerian, or Babylonian mythology, as well as one of the many mother goddesses whose power derives from Mother Earth.

The deity of Venus who rules over good harvests, bringing prosperity to people, and also a goddess who rules over war and destruction as a great deity who, among the deities, received many rights and authorities from the gods.

A fanciful deity who is free and uncontrolled, famous for having numerous lovers. It is said that she made advances with all her energy to those she liked, regardless of whether they were humans or other deities, and also that she had many lovers, regardless of whether they were from the domain of men or the domain of gods.

So being reduced to a pervert with strange fetishes was an insult to her pride to be called that by a stranger, especially since the man in front of her said such words when he was only wearing pants, leaving the upper part of his chest uncovered, clearly showing his well-toned abdomen, surely from training for battles.

Stopping abruptly before something came out of her mouth, she realized that her thoughts were flowing freely, giving her indecent images of the subject in front of her, so taking her head, she began to shake it to get those images out of her mind.

For his part, Naruto, seeing how the woman in front of him acted, dropped a sweat drop from his forehead due to the strange behavior the woman had acquired a few seconds after his question, giving him the impression that the woman was out of her mind, and if so, he hoped she wasn't like that strange guy his friend Shikamaru had told him about.

If he remembered correctly what Shikamaru had told him, the strange guy harmed himself to face his opponents, so he hoped the woman wasn't as crazy as that guy.

And that's the end of the chapter.