[Of course, as a Six Paths-level being, Obito's vitality was still very tenacious, even after all that, he still hadn't died.]
[But the most ridiculous part was that, under Naruto's "Talk-no-Jutsu," he saw the error of his ways and turned back. Not only did he voluntarily revive Naruto, he also used space-time Ninjutsu to save Sasuke. And when fighting Kaguya, he even proactively jumped in to take a blade for them, and even in death he didn't forget to leave his other Mangekyo for Kakashi to enjoy.]
[Truly, one could call it giving his all until his dying breath.]
Across the Shinobi World, many people's mouths twitched.
After fighting for so long and so many people dying, it turns out Obito was talked into turning back by Naruto at the end?!
Then what about all the things Obito did?
What was the Nine-Tails Incident supposed to be?
What about the death of the Fourth Hokage?
What was the Fourth Great Ninja War supposed to be?
So all of it was for nothing???
Someone muttered softly, "Naruto's mouth is truly even more powerful than his Ninjutsu."
The person next to them chimed in, "No kidding. Nagato was talked into suicide by him, Obito was talked into remorse by him. Who's next?"
Just then, the scene shifted to a certain space. The space was vast and boundless, but strangely, the ground appeared as a field of green prisms.
At this moment, a woman with a cold, aloof face, white horns on her head, pale skin, long white hair reaching her ankles, and wearing a loose white robe with patterns was half-kneeling on the ground.
Of course, the most shocking thing was still the pair of Byakugan in her eyes, as well as the blood-red Nine-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan on her forehead.
---
[In a certain Shinobi World timeline]
"Mother!!"
When the unfamiliar woman appeared on the screen, Black Zetsu, buried somewhere deep underground in the Shinobi World, couldn't help but reveal himself.
He emerged from the soil like a ghost drilling out from beneath the earth, his pitch-black body looking especially eerie against the ground. He looked up at the sky, both hands spread wide, as if embracing something, and let out a cry tinged with tears.
Sure enough, its plan had succeeded!
It was just that Hagoromo, Indra, and Asura, those detestable guys, had managed to seal Mother again. Otherwise, how could Naruto be the Seventh Hokage in the future.
'Bastards!'
But even knowing this information, Black Zetsu was still helpless.
First, it didn't know where the Sage of Six Paths was hiding. Second, Indra and Asura kept reincarnating through their Chakra, so even if it killed Naruto and Sasuke, they might just reincarnate into some other bodies and act again anyway. It had no way to stop them at all.
Black Zetsu couldn't help but feel a bit desperate.
"Damn you, Hagoromo…"
---
But everyone else in the various Shinobi World timelines, upon seeing Otsutsuki Kaguya in that instant, had their minds instantly crash.
They had never imagined that the Byakugan and eyes suspected to be the Sharingan and Rinnegan would appear on the same person!
Or rather, on this Otsutsuki clan member named Kaguya.
According to earlier information, shouldn't the Otsutsuki clan have the Byakugan and the Tenseigan?
No, this wasn't entirely wrong either, this person really did have the Byakugan. …But what was going on with that eye on her forehead that looked like a combination of the Sharingan and the Rinnegan?!
All across the Shinobi World, discussions rose one after another.
"Isn't that just the Uchiha's Sharingan? But it also has the patterns of the Rinnegan! What the hell is that thing?"
"Nine tomoe, Rinnegan + Sharingan? I've never seen eyes like that."
"Otsutsuki Kaguya… this woman must be the true final boss, right? Madara, Obito, and Nagato are all just her pawns...?"
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[Konoha, Year One. Outside the Village on the Cliffside]
Tobirama was incredibly excited after combining his previous speculations with the image of Ōtsutsuki Kaguya.
He flickered over to Madara and Hashirama's side. "There's no mistake! My guess was right…"
Both Madara and Hashirama looked at him with some confusion, and Tobirama quickly continued:
"Didn't I tell you guys before that Otsutsuki Hagoromo is the Sage of Six Paths?"
"And what does that have to do with this Kaguya?"
"Uh… nothing, no wait, maybe there is a connection." Tobirama spread his hands. "But what I want to talk about isn't that, but the Otsutsuki clan!"
"The Otsutsuki clan is very likely the oldest bloodline in the Shinobi World, living on the moon, and their Kekkei Genkai is Dojutsu related!
"The Byakugan, the Tenseigan, the Sharingan, the Rinnegan, according to differences in clan members' talent, they respectively correspond to two evolution paths. For example, the Sage of Six Paths had the Rinnegan, while his descendant line, Indra's line, degraded into the Sharingan, but still retained the qualification to evolve, which is why the future you and Sasuke both have the Rinnegan."
"And the Sage of Six Paths' younger brother had the Tenseigan, while his descendants degraded into the Byakugan, but also retained the hope of evolving into the Tenseigan!"
Madara narrowed his eyes, basically agreeing with Tobirama's deduction. "Then what's the deal with her?" He tilted his head toward Kaguya on the screen.
"Either she is an Otsutsuki of even higher bloodline. Or…"
"She is… the bloodline source… of the Sage of Six Paths and his brother!"
The moment those words came out, both Madara and Hashirama froze in place.
But no matter what kinds of guesses people in the various Shinobi World timelines made, the Sky Screen continued.
On the screen—
Kaguya slowly raised both hands, and two All-Killing Ash Bones gradually condensed from her palms, then shot out toward Naruto and Sasuke's bodies opposite her at a speed that seemed slow but was actually extremely fast.
For some reason, the two of them were also half-collapsed on the ground, seemingly unable to move, while somewhat farther away from them stood Kakashi and a bare-chested Obito, one on each side.
Kakashi and Obito, having sensed the danger in advance, seemed to endure tremendous oppressive force as they desperately rushed toward Naruto and Sasuke's location, intending to block the attack with their bodies.
However, because the resistance was too great, their movement speed was despairingly slow. Seeing that the All-Killing Ash Bones Kaguya had fired were about to arrive—
At that critical moment, a figure radiating a soft faint glow, as if crossing the barriers of time and space, appeared out of thin air in that space!
This figure was so familiar that both Kakashi and Obito, who were watching the screen, had their pupils suddenly contract.
She reached out her illusory hands and respectively grasped the hands that Kakashi and Obito on the screen were desperately stretching forward, giving them an invisible force and cleverly pulling them forward.
It was precisely this crucial pull that finally let Kakashi and Obito reach their positions in time, just barely getting in front of Naruto and Sasuke before the All-Killing Ash Bones struck!
---
[In a certain cave somewhere in the Shinobi World]
"Rin!!!"
Obito, who had originally only been carrying a bit of resentment, let out an almost collapsing roar the instant he saw that figure haunting his dreams.
Rin's soul had been in the Shinobi World all along?
She… she had been watching him all this time?
Then everything he had done, all of it, had Rin seen it all?
As that thought, Obito's heart felt somewhat shattered. If that was the case, what face did he have left to see Rin?
---
[In the Land of Waves, at Tazuna's house]
Kakashi was likewise shocked to the extreme.
"Rin… it really is Rin!!"
Had she been in the Shinobi World all along, watching him and Obito?
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