What the hell… is this… bizarre… ultimate move…
Naruto Uzumaki!!!!!
The young prodigies of the Uchiha clan have completely lost their minds!!
Naruto's Sexy Technique alone was already an overwhelming challenge for them.
And he…
Still…
At a time like this…
Right here…
In front of that Ōtsutsuki… Kaguya…
What kind of absurd "unexpectedness" is this supposed to be?!
And why was the final line—"Reverse Harem Technique?"—spoken in his own voice?! Why?!!
No.
Obito Uchiha thought, I swear I heard Kakashi's voice just now?! Why?! Am I hallucinating?!
Out of the corner of my eye, I even thought I saw white hair and silver hair!
That brat Naruto… who did he even use as reference?!
That idiot Kakashi?! The Second Hokage?! Kabuto Yakushi? Kimimaro?!
And that red-haired one… don't tell me that was Sasori or Gaara?!
And the blue-haired and green-haired ones…
At this moment, pure-hearted souls like Obito Uchiha, Itachi Uchiha, Shisui, and Child Sasuke had completely crashed mentally, their brains frozen and unable to process reality.
Inside Naruto Uzumaki's mind, joining Obito and other outstanding Uchiha youths in groundhog-style screaming were:
"Naruto Uzumaki!! I, Tekka Uchiha, hereby declare you the most unpredictable ninja in existence!!"
"I, a Uchiha, have lived my entire life with pride—never once did I imagine selling my looks on the battlefield!!"
"So shameful!!"
"I wasn't even this mortified back when I went on missions to Nekobaa's place as a kid!!"
The battlefield, once tense to the point of suffocation, completely collapsed under the impact of Naruto Uzumaki's 'heroic deed,' plunging straight into chaos.
...
At that very moment—
"BOOM——!!!"
No one expected Naruto to suddenly attack!
Black Zetsu's earlier words—"It's useless! You can't even touch Mother's power!"—instantly became a joke.
Naruto's punch landed solidly, sending the Rabbit Goddess flying backward more than ten meters!!
"It worked?!!!"
Young Itachi Uchiha: …
The poor kid was utterly stunned.
His still-immature ninja way had just taken another massive blow.
Life is born. Life dies. Life is filled with all kinds of unexpected turns…
Naruto said,
"I don't care if you're the progenitor of chakra or some all-powerful god! This is a move you've never seen before, right?! You say the ninja world is a script you wrote! But you've never even seen the Sexy Technique—so how could you possibly understand everything we've created?!"
The words were simple, yet they instantly freed the Uchiha from their fear of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and the despair of their clan being dominated.
Shisui Uchiha's eyes lit up.
As expected of the Child of Prophecy—clear-headed and awake.
Young Itachi Uchiha thought,
Naruto Uzumaki… Having a 'friend' like this must be Sasuke's good fortune.
At that moment, even Fugaku Uchiha and the others felt their admiration for Naruto renewed.
After dispelling the Sexy Technique, Naruto Uzumaki stood tall and glared at Black Zetsu and Kaguya.
"This is the true history of us ninja!! You bastards!!"
Rebellious Obito: …
Adult Obito scratched his cheek, thinking that line was probably unnecessary.
The history of the ninja world really had nothing to do with the Sexy Technique.
No—Reverse Harem Technique.
Damn it. Seriously… I think I even saw that girl Sakura faint just now!!
If Rin were here… would she be affected by this kind of ninjutsu too?!
Sometimes, once a thought takes root in your mind, there's just no shaking it...
"Now! Naruto!!!"
Sasuke Uchiha seized the moment, urging Naruto to use the power the Rikudō Sennin had given them to seal Kaguya Ōtsutsuki!
Shisui Uchiha: What did that Kakashi with Obito say back then again? Naruto's the No. 1 most unpredictable ninja. Who knows—maybe he really will save the world with the Sexy Technique?!
One Uchiha thought triggered another, their minds running wild like untamed horses, spiraling completely out of control.
Unfortunately, things didn't go the way they hoped.
The Sexy Technique did succeed in throwing Kaguya off for a moment, but they still underestimated her strength.
At the last possible second, she shifted the space of the entire area, trapping Naruto and Sasuke Uchiha inside solid, unyielding ice!!
Naruto finally broke free, but Sasuke Uchiha was thrown into another dimension by Kaguya. With the two of them separated, they couldn't join forces to seal her.
The situation in the Four-Way Battle only grew more complicated.
This wasn't just about personal grudges anymore.
And across all of humanity, aside from the four Hokage resurrected by the Edo Tensei Reincarnation Technique—still wandering the battlefield in a daze—only Obito Uchiha and the four members of Team 7, the teacher and his students, remained.
Fortunately...
When Madara Uchiha took back his Rinnegan from Obito Uchiha, he did one decent thing: he put the Mangekyō Sharingan he'd taken from Kakashi's eye socket back into Obito's.
After eighteen years as a one-eyed man, Obito Uchiha finally possessed a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan again.
With Sakura Haruno's chakra—released by unsealing the Strength of a Hundred Seal—they searched through Kaguya's many dimensions and finally found Sasuke Uchiha.
"Obito, thank you for helping us like this."
Hearing Fourth War Naruto thank a version of himself that was even more unforgivable, both the rebellious Obito and the Adult Obito didn't even have the courage to respond.
Just like the Obito Uchiha standing across from "them."
"Don't thank someone like me."
Naruto's voice sounded much lighter. "At least now, you don't have to wear that mask anymore."
"I was Kakashi's friend, your father's subordinate, Sasuke's clanmate. I once had the same dream of becoming Hokage as you... yet..."
Yet what had he done all these years?
Bitterness sat heavy in the hearts of the Obito from both parallel worlds. And the other Uchiha, hearing those words from a clanmate who was also an enemy, couldn't help but feel a complicated knot of emotions.
"My time is running out. At this point, I don't want to argue or make excuses. But at least I want to go ahead of you…"
"As a Konoha ninja, I'll die before you do."
After spending most of his life walking the long way around...
In the end, he still wanted Obito Uchiha to die as a ninja of Konoha.
That determination to die carried a bleak, chilling sorrow.
The Adult Obito and Young Obito, who had witnessed Jiraiya's death in another parallel world, couldn't help feeling that for the version of him in that world, this was the best possible ending.
To get Sasuke out, Obito Uchiha had pushed both his Dōjutsu and chakra too far, leaving him unable to rejoin the fight.
...
Inside Naruto's consciousness, the Uchiha could clearly sense the nine Tailed Beasts within him fighting at his side—the Child of the Prophecy, the blue-eyed youth playing with the nine Tailed Beasts, courage and hope...
Kokuō: "Unrivalled Strength!"
Son Gokū: "Flower-Fruit Mountain!"
Kurama: "Naruto, the chakra's all gathered for you."
Over there, Sasuke Uchiha's Perfect Susanoo, combined with the Rinnegan abilities he'd gained, was enough to make Kaguya feel endlessly harassed.
Black Zetsu: "No choice, Mother. Let's go to 'that' space!"
Kaguya had terrifying chakra, but almost no real combat experience. In practice, she was still following Black Zetsu's directions—like a dutiful son guiding her every move.
"Understood."
The crimson Rinnegan on her forehead suddenly widened.
In the next instant, space shifted again. A crushing gravity slammed everyone flat against the ground.
Even Kaguya herself wasn't spared!!
Just how many abilities is that woman still hiding?!
Lava Hell, Ice Hell, Desert Hell, that strange space from earlier, and now this Gravity World... Is her chakra really limitless?!
Shisui Uchiha: "In a situation like this, even I can't think of a solution. Even with the Kotoamatsukami, I doubt we could rewrite the mind of a progenitor like her."
Using Naruto Uzumaki's line of sight, Shisui Uchiha stared at the Rinnegan in Sasuke Uchiha's left eye, thinking it through...
Madara Uchiha's Rinnegan ability, Limbo: Border Jail, creates his own "shadows" to block or strike opponents.
Sasuke Uchiha's Rinnegan ability, on the other hand, seems to be a space-time dōjutsu that swaps something else with his own space-time coordinates.
If the guess was right, then Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's Rinnegan ability was exactly this: those dimensions she could control completely.
The reasoning was simple. Every time Kaguya switched spaces, the Rinnegan on her forehead widened. And she'd said it herself before—"This is my space!"—the same way Obito and Kakashi spoke about their Mangekyō Sharingan spaces.
Put it all together, and it meant one thing.
The Rinnegan is like the Mangekyō Sharingan.
It varies from person to person.
What determined each ability still wasn't clear—bloodline traits, the user's will at the time, either could be the reason.
Back then, if his own Mangekyō Sharingan had continued evolving, it was possible it could have become an even stronger Kotoamatsukami—one capable of deceiving and overriding another's will at an even higher level.
Teenage Itachi Uchiha and the slightly older Shisui Uchiha were thinking along the same lines, and Itachi Uchiha even took it a step further.
Those mission scrolls that existed in the other world... what if someone in some parallel world had obtained power that defied all common sense, and then—
Wanted to change history.
And kept forcing Sasuke and the others to cross into different parallel worlds, again and again.
If the person behind it all wasn't doing this for fun, then they had to be searching for something.
For example...
The rules of parallel worlds.