The entire ninja world fell silent.
Everyone stared blankly at Uzumaki Naruto on the screen, their expressions filled with complexity.
A demon?
A smiling devil?
Or a god?
A god who stood high above, indifferent to all living beings?
"Why won't you save us? Lord Hokage, I'm your loyal fan! I admire you, I worship you—I'd go through fire and die for you! But what about you? You're just letting us die? You clearly have the power to save us!"
"Feel a natural disaster? That's too cold… too cruel! Why should such destruction come on a peaceful day?"
"Uzumaki Naruto, you liar! You said you would bring peace to the ninja world! But now disaster is destroying everything, and you're just watching! Your heart is too hard!"
"Damn it! I don't want to die! I still want to live decades, get married, have kids, and be happy!"
"Uzumaki Naruto… you're right. There's no savior. The only one who can save us is ourselves. It's just a disaster—then I'll fight it head-on!"
All kinds of reactions spread across the ninja world.
Some cursed wildly, venting their fear and madness.
Some wept silently and gave up, waiting for fate.
Some struggled desperately, preparing to survive.
Others hardened their hearts and chose to fight.
Meanwhile—
The falling debris had already entered the atmosphere.
The black cubes released by Isshiki turned into meteors as well, raining down across the world.
The sky lit up with blazing fire.
"Uzumaki Naruto, can you hear them?" Isshiki sneered.
"They're cursing you."
"You're no longer a hero—you're an executioner."
"They don't care why you didn't save them."
"They only know you could have… and didn't."
"All the deaths… all the suffering…"
"They'll blame you."
"You'll go from hero to sinner."
"The dead will haunt you."
"The living will hate you."
"You'll be condemned by everyone."
Isshiki's voice was full of malicious delight.
He wanted to break Naruto mentally.
Naruto didn't react.
Not even slightly.
His consciousness spread across the world.
He observed everyone—
Their fear, their choices, their reactions—
As if watching a show.
Stopping this disaster?
For Naruto—
It would be effortless.
Reassemble the moon?
Easy.
Remove the meteors?
Just open a spatial gap.
For him—
This apocalypse was nothing more than a trivial task.
But—
He chose not to act.
Naruto had always treated the ninja world like something fragile—
Like something that needed protection.
He created the Red Sun Society.
He guided unification step by step.
He minimized casualties.
Everything went perfectly.
Too perfectly.
And that's what bothered him.
Until now—
Watching the moon break—
Watching the disaster unfold—
He finally understood.
"Since ancient times, reform has always been written in blood."
"Without sacrifice… peace is nothing but an illusion."
In the original timeline—
Countless people died.
The Third Hokage.
Asuma.
Jiraiya.
Neji.
And many more.
Only through war and loss—
Did the world finally reach peace.
But Naruto—
Had erased that suffering.
And in doing so—
He created something fragile.
A world that had forgotten pain.
"Remember this."
"This is the true face of the ninja world."
"If you don't truly desire peace…"
"It won't last."
"Feel the pain."
"Experience despair."
"Only then will you understand how precious peace is."
"After the storm…"
"Comes the rainbow."
"Enjoy it."
Naruto spoke calmly.
Without hesitation.
Isshiki stared at him.
"You really are a monster."
Naruto smiled faintly.
"Let's go meet Ōtsutsuki Kaguya."
In an instant—
They arrived on the crumbling moon.
Ōtsutsuki Toneri stood there, stunned.
Kaguya looked confused.
"Isshiki? Why are you back?"
She wasn't afraid anymore.
She had realized—
Her power was no weaker than his.
Naruto stepped forward.
Golden light burst from his fingertips.
Chains—
Countless golden chains—
Shot toward Kaguya like dragons.
She countered with black rods—
But they shattered instantly.
Truth-Seeking Balls formed a shield—
But the chains dissolved into golden particles—
Seeping through everything.
"Huangquan Hirazaka!"
She tried to escape—
But hit an invisible barrier.
The golden fragments wrapped around her—
Reforming into chains—
Sealing her completely.
"I told you," Isshiki laughed bitterly.
"You'd end up like me."
Naruto sealed him as well.
Then—
He stood in the void.
Above the collapsing world.
Behind him—
Kaguya.
Isshiki.
Toneri.
Like prisoners.
Below—
The ninja world struggled.
The first wave of meteors descended.
"Evacuate the civilians!"
"Prepare!"
"Wind Style—slow them down!"
Ninjas launched themselves into the sky.
"Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!"
The meteors slowed—
Barely.
"Water Style: Water Dragon!"
Steam exploded.
"Earth Style: Earth Dragon Bullet!"
Finally—
A meteor struck—
With a dull boom.
The ground trembled—
Then stabilized.
They stopped it.
But more were coming.
Boom.
Boom.
Boom.
The world shook.
One-third of the world faced destruction.
Ninjas fought desperately—
Protecting the people.
Everything else—
Was abandoned.
As long as people survived—
Everything could be rebuilt.
But if they died—
Nothing mattered.
Forests burned.
Cities collapsed.
Rivers surged.
Some meteors were stopped.
Many were not.
They crashed into the earth—
Creating massive craters—
Igniting wildfires—
Reducing towns to ruins.
The ninja world—
Became a scene of devastation.
A tragedy—
So horrifying—
No one dared to look.
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