'Void Anomaly Detected! Data analysis initiated.'
'Unknown star chart detected! Spatial module upgrading!'
'Chakra conversion function upgrading. Consciousness extension function upgrading.'
'Analysis target: Void Anomaly — a separated fragnt of Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's will.
This entity has been endowed with partial essence of a top-tier lifeform and possesses energy-based self-awareness.
Permission updated: Uzumaki Naruto — Level 9 World Sovereign.
Current data completeness: 40%. Please complete data as soon as possible.'
Inside a castle within the Moon's inner space, Naruto sat in a chair, expressionless, examining a glass jar held in his left hand. Inside were two strange eyeballs.
'Foreign energy detected. Choose whether to absorb.'
'Foreign energy detected. Choose whether to absorb.'
"Hm? That's a bit disappointing," Naruto muttered.
He wasn't particularly let down. In canon, Black Zetsu had never shown much real combat power anyway—he had even been counter-controlled after possessing Obito. Getting this much was already a decent gain, and that star chart alone was extrely valuable.
Naruto shifted his gaze.
A basin-sized mass of black fluid floated in midair, constantly morphing into different shapes. He raised his right hand; a fist-sized orb of light ford in his palm. In the next instant, chakra visibly stread out of the black fluid like drifting smoke.
"At least you didn't waste those thousand years," Naruto said with mild approval.
"You recovered all your chakra with incomplete Yin–Yang Release in this short ti."
"Bastard! Who are you really?!"
A furious, unwilling voice echoed out. The black fluid stopped changing shape, first sprouting a mouth full of sharp white teeth, then opening two orange-yellow eyes. It looked like a living sli.
"Heh. Even if I told you, what then?" Naruto sneered.
"Planning to give a final villain monologue?"
The sli lunged at him—
—and was caught effortlessly in Naruto's hand.
Its eyes and mouth slid to one side of its body, fury blazing in its gaze. But in the next instant, that fury turned into pure terror.
"No! What is this?!"
"You're devouring my origin!"
"That's impossible! You—You're another mber of the Ōtsutsuki main family!"
"Mother!!!"
After that distorted scream, the castle fell silent.
By the Seashore
Near the ocean, the Nine Tailed Beasts stood in a circle, arranged by the number of their tails.
"Gyūki, Naruto doesn't owe you anything," Kokuō said, lifting his long neck impatiently.
"All of us owe Naruto. Do you understand?"
"It's true," Matatabi agreed, her body wreathed in blue chakra flas.
"Naruto freed us from our shackles and even used Yin–Yang Release to revive Yugito and Killer B. Asking him to send B back to Kumogakure is going too far."
"Even if he did, it wouldn't matter," another beast added.
"You've already been to the Mirror World. You know what Naruto plans to do. The shinobi world is destined to stand against him—and they'll never be his match."
"And he promised to free us completely from the fate of being re chakra constructs."
Son Gokū, Saiken, and Chōi all spoke in turn.
Shukaku rolled his eyes and glanced at Kurama. Kurama was half-lidded, staring at Gyūki with open mockery, a dangerous glint in his eyes.
Isobu poked his head out. "Naruto isn't like those humans. You'd better give up that unrealistic idea early. Even his parents—"
"Isobu."
Kurama cut him off coldly, then spoke slowly:
"Gyūki, you already know everything about Naruto. If you still insist on returning to Kumogakure with that off-key singer, then hand over the portion of the old man's power you carry."
"I'll have Naruto send you both back."
"Of course," Kurama added flatly,
"he'll erase your mories. And don't forget—even if that guy goes back, he'll still end up as Naruto's puppet."
"Why bother saying so much!" Shukaku shouted, pointing a claw at Gyūki.
"If Naruto hadn't saved you, the Demonic Statue would've swallowed you already!"
"Uh… I was just saying it casually," Gyūki muttered.
He curled his tails around himself, rolling into a giant ball of flesh.
"Hmph! Copying Chōi now?" Kurama snorted, then turned and ran off into the distance.
The other beasts paused, glanced at the balled-up Gyūki, then looked at Chōi.
Bzzzz~
Chōi squird under their stares and flapped into the air.
Before long, the other beasts also left. The shore was left with only Gyūki, still curled into a ball.
After so ti, his tails loosened. He shook his head and plunged straight into the sea.
Elsewhere
'Warning! Unknown will detected. Imdiate erasure recomnded. Data analysis initiated.'
Naruto stood before a mirror, staring at the Rinnegan in his eye sockets. His facial features felt strangely mismatched. The sli-like form that Black Zetsu had taken was gone without a trace.
'Sustainable top-tier foreign energy detected. Absorb imdiately.'
'Sustainable top-tier foreign energy detected. Absorb imdiately.'
"Better summon the Ten-Tails' husk first," Naruto said.
He muted the system prompts and sent a ssage to the Mirror World. With a flicker, he vanished.
In the next mont, he stood on a vast grassland. Kurama sat upright behind him.
"Are you all ready?" Naruto turned back, smiling up at him.
"Heh. Mostly," Kurama grinned back.
"Though a certain idiot was still hesitating."
"And these eyes don't suit you."
Naruto imdiately understood who Kurama ant.
Earlier, Naruto had used Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion to give the Raikage a warning. He had then brought the two stone satellites down into an uninhabited region, stripped Black Zetsu out and sealed him with Truth-Seeking Orbs, transferred everyone else into his own dinsional space, and returned to the Moon through a portal built with the Tenseigan.
Nagato and Konan had already been drained of chakra and died along the way. Naruto took the Rinnegan and let them return fully to dust. After that, he separated Matatabi and Gyūki from their Jinchūriki.
What surprised him was that Gyūki seed to prefer remaining inside Killer B.
Rumble—
The ground trembled as the massive bodies of the other tailed beasts ca into view.
Bzzzz~
Chōi landed lightly.
Gah—
Isobu rolled in next, transford into a tire-like form.
Soon, the remaining beasts arrived one by one. To Naruto's surprise, Shukaku was the third to arrive.
All nine tailed beasts surrounded Naruto.
"Gyūki," Naruto asked calmly, "Kurama says you were still hesitating?"
"Not anymore," Gyūki shook his head.
"I was being too self-centered before."
"Good."
Naruto swept his gaze across them all.
"Next, I will summon the Ten-Tails' husk and divide it evenly using Yin–Yang Release. Each of you will use the Ten-Tails' body as a vessel and beco true, independent lifeforms."
The tailed beasts instinctively backed away, creating a wide clearing.
Naruto stepped forward and slamd one hand onto the ground. Pitch-black formula markings spread instantly.
"Summoning Jutsu!"
BOOM!
Smoke erupted.
A colossal humanoid body sat cross-legged upon the earth—its wrists bound by massive black chains, its head wrapped in thick bandages, jagged tree-trunk-like spikes protruding from its back.
The Ten-Tails' husk.
"It begins," Naruto said softly.
He raised his hand. Nine black magatama flew from his palm, swelling as they spun through the air. After circling once, they passed effortlessly into the Demonic Statue's body.
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