"No!"
As the crimson dragon roared, even space itself began to distort. This left the Sage of Six Paths with a look of terror, and Six Paths Obito, facing Otsutsuki Kaguya, filled with dread.
"This is bad!"
If something happened to the Sage of Six Paths, there was no way he could handle these two alone. Just as Obito was about to use Kamui, Kaguya snorted coldly and shot a bone spike at him.
All-Killing Ash Bones!
"Sage of Six Paths!"
Facing Kaguya's attack, Obito hurriedly dodged, barely able to look after himself.
But just as he was still worried about the Sage of Six Paths, a surge of energy suddenly erupted from within him. In an instant, his figure vanished from the spot, causing Kaguya's attack to miss.
When Obito reappeared, his pupils contracted in shock and fear.
"No!"
Obito had appeared directly in front of the Sage of Six Paths—or rather, the Sage was using Obito as a human shield.
"Obito! I cannot die yet. If I die, the entire shinobi world will plunge into disaster. This is all for the shinobi world!"
Roaring, the Sage reminded Obito that all his power was a gift from him. The distorted space made escape impossible.
But summoning Obito to his side was still within his power.
With the crimson dragon's roar, an explosive force shook the entire space.
Boom!
The boundless desert was gouged by a deep ravine from the attack. In the distance, amid the thunderous roar, Six Paths Obito's despairing screams echoed.
As the smoke cleared, the terrifying heat from the attack crystallized the surrounding desert.
The harsh breathing of a survivor echoed across the silent desert.
In the ruined pit, the Sage of Six Paths still bore an expression of lingering terror, gasping for breath.
"Al-almost... I was almost killed!"
His lower body had been blasted away, but it was quickly regenerating under the power of the Six Paths. Obito, who had shielded him, had lost his lower body entirely.
"S-Sage of Six Paths, you…"
Only half a body left, Obito stared in disbelief at the Sage, who had used him as a shield at the last moment.
This blow had been so powerful, that it exhausted all the Six Paths' power within him.
Now, the Six Paths' power was visibly draining from Obito, revealing an ugly, lifeless face with white hair.
"Useless!"
Seeing Obito lose his value, the Sage looked at him with some irritation.
"For the shinobi world, dying in my place is your honor."
Now that Obito had lost his value, the Sage didn't even glance at him, instead looking grimly at Shirou and Kaguya in the distance.
"That power is indeed terrifying. It could even kill a Sage in one blow. But now, I can see clearly—you've almost used up all your stored chakra. You can't unleash that move again."
The Sage of Six Paths roared, seemingly angered that he was almost kicked to death, even finding his own fear humiliating.
In the distance, Shirou panted as the Six Paths' power rapidly healed his body.
"How cold-blooded. Just now he was your comrade, and in the next instant, a meat shield."
Shirou's mocking smile echoed. The technique had heavily taxed his body, but thanks to his constitution, he was recovering quickly.
If it had been the Sage or Kaguya, their bodies couldn't have handled the overload, and recovery would have been impossible in a short time.
"That was just a test of my taijutsu—seems like it was a success. Even though I can't use that move again for now, it's still two against one."
Shirou's mocking grin lingered. Kaguya, beside him, looked on in shock at the destruction caused.
"With that level of destructive power, even Otsutsuki Isshiki would probably be killed!"
At this moment, Kaguya, godlike in strength, was stunned—her mouth slightly open, but there was more joy than fear.
It seemed she had glimpsed the power to face the future Otsutsuki.
"One against two!?"
The Sage of Six Paths lifted his head, looking at Shirou and Kaguya in the distance, a smile on his lips.
Shirou frowned. Did he have another trick up his sleeve?
"Father, now's the time! Destroy Hagoromo!"
With Black Zetsu's excited shout, Shirou's expression hardened as he transformed into lightning and charged at the Sage.
"I'll send you on your way now!"
Shirou's ultimate speed closed the distance, but just as he reached the Sage, he saw a strange smile appear on his face.
"Uchiha Shirou, do you think you've won?"
Not good!
A wave of unease rose in Shirou's heart. Sure enough, a familiar voice echoed from the distance.
Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!
"Six Paths Grandpa! Uzumaki Naruto is here!"
At that moment, Naruto from another world leaped onto the scene, unleashing countless shadow clones.
Seeing Naruto, the Sage burst out laughing:
"Uchiha Shirou, since you knew I wandered between two worlds, did you think I'd have no backup? Naruto has inherited Asura's will!"
It turned out that when things changed in the other world, the Sage had noticed something was off and secretly contacted the isolated and outcast Naruto.
He told Naruto the truth of the shinobi world's disaster and passed on the Six Paths' power to him.
Now, knowing the truth, Naruto glared at Shirou and roared:
"Uchiha Shirou, you liar! You released Kaguya—this world's disaster—and your ambitions, I, Uzumaki Naruto, will never accept!
I'll team up with the Six Paths Grandpa to stop you. I, Naruto, will win everyone's recognition again!"
Naruto's passionate shout brought a wave of disgust to Shirou.
He hadn't expected this Naruto to make a comeback.
"I'll stop you no matter what!"
With countless Narutos shouting, determination burned in the real Naruto's eyes.
He realized it was all Uchiha Shirou's plot. If Shirou had never come to his world, he wouldn't have been isolated, the Third Hokage's clan wouldn't have been destroyed, and Konohamaru wouldn't have died.
All because of Uchiha Shirou's ambition.
Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!
In an instant, the space was filled with countless clones of the Sage and Naruto.
"Uchiha Shirou, it's not two against one anymore!"
The Sage shouted, using clones to confuse the enemy—part of his and Naruto's battle plan.
"Father, be careful! Hagoromo and Naruto's target is Mother!"
Black Zetsu cried in alarm, suddenly realizing something.
Shirou unleashed a terrifying lightning that obliterated countless clones.
But taking advantage of the chaos, even Kaguya, fast as she was, got trapped in the Sage and Naruto's tactics.
With countless clones as cover, the Sage and Naruto raised their yin-yang seal hands, shouting as they aimed to seal Kaguya.
The two had already appeared in the sky, hands raised, ready to seal Kaguya.
Boom!
"We did it!"
Just as they were about to touch Kaguya, the Sage looked excited; with Kaguya sealed, Uchiha Shirou would be nothing.
Luckily, he had a backup plan, or he would have lost this time.
"Six Paths Grandpa, we did it!"
Seal!
As the power of yin-yang struck Kaguya, Naruto cheered.
But the Sage's face suddenly twisted in horror.
"No! You're not Mother!"
As their hands landed and the seal activated, smoke cleared to reveal—it was Black Zetsu.
"Ahahaha, Hagoromo, did you forget? Your enemies aren't just Father and Mother, but me too! This is what you get for ignoring and looking down on me!"
Even as the seal took effect, Black Zetsu laughed maniacally in revenge.
"Hagoromo! Because of you, I suffered a thousand years of loneliness, hiding in the shadows, unable to be loved! I'll make you suffer as I did!"
Black Zetsu's wild laughter echoed. Though he was sealed, his plan had worked.
Everyone had ignored Black Zetsu. No one expected, in the Amenominaka, that he would use transformation jutsu to set a trap for the Sage.
"Naruto, run!"
"Grandpa!"
"Too late!"
At that moment, Kaguya and Shirou reappeared, their voices icy as they unleashed a fatal jutsu.
Six Paths: Chibaku Tensei!
Shirou and Kaguya joined hands, and in an instant, the space began to collapse.
"Haha! Hagoromo, this time you won't escape! I'll be rescued by Mother and Father, but you—enjoy endless darkness sealed away!"
Black Zetsu's crazed laughter echoed as a terrifying suction surrounded him. Hidden in his palm was a concentrated black sphere—the core of Chibaku Tensei.
No one expected Black Zetsu to hold the Chibaku Tensei sphere conjured by Shirou and Kaguya, just waiting for the trigger.
"No! Impossible!"
The Sage finally panicked. The whole space shook as the endless desert was sucked upward.
He and Naruto, trying to seal Black Zetsu within such close range, couldn't escape the suction targeting them both.
Let alone, there was another terrifying pull—this was their sealing jutsu.
So, this time, there were two seals—one for Black Zetsu, and one for the Sage himself.
"Mother!"
Under the terrifying gravity, endless sand fused and crystallized.
The Sage, desperate, found the space so unstable that even space-time ninjutsu was useless. He could only look helplessly at Kaguya in the distance.
"I was wrong! Mother, no!"
He knew his fate—once sealed, his energy would be drained, just like when he and Hamura sealed Kaguya and extracted the Ten Tails.
Those with the power to change the world fear most to lose it—so the Sage was truly terrified.
"Wrong?"
Seeing the Sage beg in terror, Kaguya was silent, while Shirou sneered.
"You're not sorry for what you did, you're just afraid to die!"
As Shirou's cold voice echoed, endless dunes were sucked into the sky, forming a massive sphere.
Inside the sphere, Naruto roared in anger, not giving up, constantly using shadow clones and Rasengan.
"Six Paths Grandpa, don't give up! We can do this!"
Naruto's stubbornness would never quit unless beaten to death.
"Haha, Hagoromo, all the reincarnations of Indra and Asura, just your tools to fight Mother for a thousand years…"
Black Zetsu ranted, venting a millennium's resentment, while the Sage, seeing his mother's cold indifference, grew ruthless.
"Uchiha Shirou, you've won this world, but I haven't lost—I have another world!"
At the last moment, the Sage clapped his hands and shouted:
"Naruto! The hope of the shinobi world is in your hands. My will shall join you, protecting this world together!"
With a thunderous boom, the Sage shouted, abandoning his body, and transferring his will into Naruto.
"Six Paths Grandpa!"
Naruto, in tears, watched as the Sage sacrificed himself to protect him.
"Go, Naruto!"
As a space-time rift opened, Naruto escaped as Chibaku Tensei completed the seal, unwilling but forced to flee.
Seeing this, Shirou sneered.
"Abandoning your body, hiding your soul in Naruto, and escaping to another world—truly a rat hiding in the dark."
Two shinobi worlds—clearly, the Sage and Naruto had escaped to another world.
This world, the Sage had lost all control.
In the Amenominaka, as Shirou and Kaguya broke the Chibaku Tensei seal together, the sealed body of the Sage and Black Zetsu were revealed.