"Dad, Mom?"
Inside Konohagakure, Naruto stared blankly at the two people in front of him.
To be honest, he was actually scared too.
But he was already a competent ninja now, able to stay calm and observant.
"Their presence is completely identical to Dad and Mom's presence inside my body."
Noticing this, Naruto seemed to realize something.
However—
"Gen and the others all said that those sealed by the Dead Demon Consuming Seal cannot be summoned with Impure World Reincarnation, so this—"
Naruto was filled with doubt, but after these two finished absorbing the chakra memories, they also opened their eyes.
"Naruto."
Namikaze Minato showed a faint smile, and Naruto instantly felt that familiar feeling return to him.
Only this time, it wasn't inside his body, but truly, in the outside world!
"Naruto."
Uzumaki Kushina also smiled; she reached out and touched Naruto's face.
"I've wanted to do this for a long time. I can finally touch you."
Even though this was Impure World Reincarnation and the sensation wasn't as clear as that of a living person, it was still enough for Kushina!
Although this was essentially their first time meeting, the chakra was originally theirs, and those memories had filled in everything.
"Mom..."
Naruto pressed his lips together. This feeling was extraordinarily wonderful, but he was also incomparably confused inside.
"Dad, what exactly is going on? You guys..."
"It's a little complicated to explain, but in short, Gen saved us."
Namikaze Minato rubbed the back of his own head, but after thinking for a moment, he still began to explain seriously.
"He discovered the secret of the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, so..."
The Namikaze couple began to roughly explain what had happened—such as how Kitagawa Gen had discovered the secret of the Dead Demon Consuming Seal through the records of the Uzumaki Clan.
Afterwards, he rescued Namikaze Minato's soul, and in the end, he summoned them together with some other people who were difficult to summon.
"That guy..."
Although it sounded simple when said like that, Naruto of course understood how difficult it all was.
He had truly never expected that Kitagawa Gen had silently done so much.
Suddenly, he felt as if he owed that guy Kitagawa Gen far too much!
'He was the first one to acknowledge me; he was the one who became my first friend; he was the one who found Dad and Mom's chakra; and now it's him again...'
Looking at the parents in front of him, they were no longer in that former chakra state.
Instead, they were in a form he could truly touch, truly feel.
Even if it was Impure World Reincarnation, he was still extremely happy!
[Bang—]
However, just when Naruto was at his most moved, Kushina suddenly smashed a punch down on his head!
"Owww! That hurts, that hurts, that hurts!"
Clutching his head, Naruto looked at his mom with a face full of confusion.
"What is it now...?"
"Back when I was inside your body, I couldn't feel anything at all when I hit you."
Kushina ignored the stunned look from Namikaze Minato at the side. She kneaded her fist, and the red hair behind her began to dance.
"But now we can properly talk about how you secretly took Gen's 'Make-Out Paradise' back then!"
"..."
"Naruto, I really didn't expect you to turn out like this."
"..."
"This time, I definitely have to give you a proper lesson!"
...
Under the moonlight, Kakashi sat together with his old man, Hatake Sakumo.
After the father and son had met, Kakashi had been telling his own story, while Hatake Sakumo was responsible for listening.
"I really didn't expect that so many things would actually happen after I died."
Only when the story was finished did Hatake Sakumo finally speak with some emotion.
"It's just... I'm very sorry that all these years have made you live such a hard life. I—"
"You don't have to be like that. Although the past was very hard, I've come through it now."
Kakashi shook his head. Looking at his father, he suddenly smiled.
"Actually, I used to feel a bit puzzled as well—why Dad, who was praised as the White Fang of the Leaf..."
"Why would a hero like you choose to interrupt a mission in order to rescue a comrade, and in the end violate such an important rule of the village?"
Speaking up to this point, Kakashi lifted his head and looked toward the sky.
The silver moon hung high; the moonlight spilled over the two of them, making everything seem especially ethereal.
Kakashi's mood also seemed to empty out at this moment, and the smile on his face became even clearer.
"After all, if you hadn't done that, you wouldn't have been blamed by anyone, and you wouldn't have forced yourself into a desperate corner."
"Back then I was very unwilling to accept it, but now it seems I've come to understand a lot."
"I once met Obito. He made me understand many things, although right now he..."
"After that, I met Gen again. Even though he can be unreliable sometimes, he also made me understand many, many things."
"As for everything else—whether it was about the village or about how things were back then—I don't want to think too much about it. I only know..."
While speaking, he turned his head to look at his old man, and the eye exposed outside curved into a crescent as he smiled.
"Dad, who broke the rules to protect everyone—I'm proud of you now!"
Hatake Sakumo stared blankly at his son. He had originally been worried about what this reunion with his son would turn into.
But unexpectedly, he ended up receiving this kind of answer, and for a moment, he couldn't recover from it.
"Thank you."
After quite a while, he finally smiled as well. He knew that in this moment, Kakashi had forgiven him.
They had finally reconciled with each other, and this had been the thing he most worried about ever since being brought back with Impure World Reincarnation.
But now it seemed that everything had already been resolved!
"All right, Kakashi, don't keep staying with this useless old man."
But at this moment, Hatake Sakumo suddenly smiled and shook his head.
"Even though I died young, if you count the years, I'm not that young anymore. And your teammates are waiting for you—don't keep her waiting too long."
"Mm."
Kakashi's gaze grew a bit complicated as he looked toward the houses below. He seemed to be able to see that brown-haired girl.
Time seemed to have sealed her in place; in the blink of an eye, she still looked exactly as she had back then.
Only, now and back then were already completely different.
...
"Uh..."
While wish-fulfillment was happening inside the Leaf, Kitagawa Gen on the Moon instead looked slightly embarrassed.
Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's reaction was even more exaggerated than expected—her entire body's chakra erupted.
Her long white hair billowed without wind, and the nine-tomoe Rinne Sharingan on her forehead had already opened, sweeping the surroundings together with her Byakugan.
'So sensitive?'
Kitagawa Gen pressed his lips together. It seemed a bit surprising that just probing with chakra had been immediately sensed by her.
And alongside the surprise, he also found it somewhat amusing—this Rabbit Goddess really had been startled badly.
'But I suppose it's not all that unexpected. After all, ever since she ambushed Isshiki, she's been constantly on guard against the arrival of the Ōtsutsuki. And I—'
Kitagawa Gen was a genuine Ōtsutsuki, and his purity had been acknowledged by Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and Ōtsutsuki Urashiki.
Therefore, even if he only arrived in chakra form, it was hard for Ōtsutsuki Kaguya not to react.
'Forget it. It's all the same anyway.'
Kitagawa Gen didn't feel like thinking about it too much. After all, when they met later she would definitely recognize him, so whether it happened sooner or later wouldn't make much difference.
While he was thinking, his chakra projection continued to solidify, and his consciousness sank in deeper and deeper.
Under Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's gaze, his chakra slowly gathered together, and in the next moment, he had already appeared before Kaguya!
"As expected, it's you."
Seeing the man before her—white-clothed, with something like dragon horns growing from his head—Kaguya's expression grew even more serious.
"So you still came in the end. It seems Hagoromo and Hamura failed as well."
"..."
This question was difficult for Kitagawa Gen to answer for the moment.
After all, he had never even met those two—at most he had only sensed Ōtsutsuki Hamura's presence.
But he didn't intend to answer that question anyway, because he also had many questions he wanted to ask.
"You care about them a lot? Speaking of which, your chakras really are quite similar."
"They are my children."
Kaguya's expression seemed to dim for a moment, and then she spoke again with a coldness full of mockery.
"I told them—they were far too naive. Believing those weak creatures, as insignificant as ants, could deal with you all... truly pathetic."
"Oh?"
Kitagawa Gen raised a brow. He had been curious for a long time about the relationship between this Rabbit Goddess and the Sage of Six Paths and his brother.
In his memory, the Sage of Six Paths and his brother had been 'won over' by the Great Toad Sage, and in the end had turned against Kaguya and sealed her for more than a thousand years.
But after she was released from the seal and saw Naruto and Sasuke, she even mixed them up for a moment and later shed tears.
'Could it be that their conflict really was a conflict of beliefs?'
Kitagawa Gen muttered this inwardly, and only then did he speak with a smile.
"Is that so? But it seems you lost. That doesn't really match the way someone who ambushed Isshiki-senpai and seized the fruit should look."
"Anything a loser says is meaningless."
Kaguya shook her head, not wanting to answer any of that—and besides, she was very curious about something else.
"How are Hagoromo and Hamura? They are also Ōtsutsuki, and our clan has rules..."
"But you didn't follow them either."
Kitagawa Gen shook his head and continued speaking in an indistinct tone.
"So, what meaning does it have for you to bring that up now?"
As soon as the words fell, Kaguya's face instantly turned even paler.
It seemed she had already begun thinking toward the worst. Tears slowly welled up at the corners of her eyes.
And her Byakugan was filled with killing intent—she stared fixedly at Kitagawa Gen, as if she intended to etch this man into her memory.
Under her gaze, Kitagawa Gen even had a chilling illusion crawl over him!
'This woman… judging by bloodline development, she's probably far above me.'
Kitagawa Gen clicked his tongue inwardly. But he also understood—Kaguya, who had devoured the fruit, was a complete numerical monster.
Across so many Ōtsutsuki, each with their own merits and a wide variety of abilities...
It seemed only she and Isshiki had displayed such extreme oppressive force.
Although…
She was very similar to Urashiki—belonging to that 'high stats, low IQ' category.
But even so, when Sasuke and Naruto, who had stepped into the Six Paths level, faced her—under Black Zetsu's blind and chaotic commands—they still got beaten senseless.
And that wasn't even her full-power state; she hadn't completely recovered her chakra.
That alone showed just how fierce she was—and also how abysmal her actual combat proficiency could be.
Meanwhile, the other Ōtsutsuki faced Sasuke and Naruto who had lost 'ultimate Yin Release' and 'ultimate Yang Release.'
Excluding Isshiki, the others all ended up being beaten repeatedly, resulting in two deaths and one Kāma.
As for Isshiki—he pushed those two all the way into true desperation.
If not for his insufficient lifespan, and Naruto even sacrificing Kurama to activate Baryon Mode to burn his life away with him...
'Those two were doomed.'
Kaguya and Isshiki—one was the numerical ceiling, the other the combat-power ceiling.
It was just that one of them was a naive idiot, and the other was a short-lived ghost...
"Don't look at me with eyes like that."
Kitagawa Gen thought this inwardly, though his tone remained somewhat careless.
"The moment you took action, many things were already decided. Isn't that so?"
Kaguya did not speak. Her gaze remained locked tightly onto Kitagawa Gen.
"Why don't you tell me what your original plan was? The seal takes time to open anyway."
Kitagawa Gen tilted his head and asked with curiosity.
"I'm very curious about how you ended up becoming enemies with them—and even helped us."
"..."
Kaguya remained silent. No one knew how much time passed before she seemed to make some kind of decision, and only then did she speak coldly.
"The biggest difference between me and them is that I believed in myself more."
As she spoke, Kaguya's chakra flared even more, and that overwhelming power echoed throughout the entire space.
"As Ōtsutsuki, the entire universe is our pasture. I know the power of the Ōtsutsuki very well."
"Lower beings cannot possibly match us. Their final outcome is only to become part of the fruit's energy, destroyed along with their entire planet."
"And I discovered that lower beings have endless desires in their hearts, but the cruel fact of their weakness makes it impossible for them to realize those thoughts."
"So I planned to make an equivalent exchange—letting them obtain everything they desired within their own dreams."
"Power, wealth, desire, even the deepest cravings within their hearts—I could satisfy all of it."
"As for the price, I would need their bodies, their chakra. I would turn them into weapons and soldiers, and with that—"
Here, Kaguya stopped. She quietly looked at Kitagawa Gen; the answer was already obvious.
"But Hagoromo and Hamura were different. They had never interacted with your kind. They didn't understand anything about the Ōtsutsuki, so they ended up with unrealistic delusions."
"But your behavior was rather unexpected too."
Kitagawa Gen tilted his head, still smiling curiously.
"You devoured a fruit and still lost—and you even thought about making deals with lower beings. Truly interesting."
"I was once a guardian. My mission was to sacrifice myself and feed the Ten Tails."
Kaguya's tone remained as indifferent as ever, but her power gathered to its peak.
"I know what that feels like. I understand that anger and unwillingness. So I chose to trade with them instead. As for Hamura and Hagoromo—"
At this point, her gaze grew even colder, and the chakra in her body seemed to reach its limit.
Pure chakra echoed without pause, and the entire sealed space appeared to be affected.
Under the tremor of her chakra, the space twisted violently. That destructive power seemed ready to annihilate everything.
"Although it was obtained through a blessing, and although many unpleasant things happened—"
"They have always been my children!"
"You all deserve to die!"
Her voice became utterly frigid at that moment. Her white hair surged wildly with the rise of her chakra.
Her gaze was filled with killing intent—she had clearly prepared to fight to the death.
"I see..."
But Kitagawa Gen seemed to fall into thought, and after a moment, he let out a carefree smile.
"Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Ōtsutsuki Genshiki. Of course, I also have another name..."
"My name is Kitagawa Gen."
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