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Chapter 6 - Chapter 06

Thirty minutes passed too quickly for Naruko who was enjoying the happy feelings she could feel within Menma as she softly cooed and spoke to him in the Spectra native language. While she was enjoying her new son, her orders to prepare the transfer of an entire planet and its moon through a Ceph wormhole were going smoothly despite needing just thirty minutes.

Not caring anymore about keeping their existence a secret, the energy/cloaking barrier around Outer Heaven had been dropped to allow the ship to move within eight thousand miles of the planet to launch dozens of five mile tall spires across its surface. These spires were spread out with equal distance from each other, some landing in the ocean while others on the land masses. One village was unfortunate enough to be at the coordinates needed for a spire and was promptly crushed.

Of course, as expected, the inhabitants of the planet were freaking the hell out, panicking and mobilizing whatever military powers they could as a glowing ship was seemingly attacking them as glowing gold spires fell from it and onto their world. While understandable, they really didn't understand just how much shit they were in. Admittedly, Naruko would have been nervous too had she been just forty years ago again and witnessed a continent-sized ship seemingly made out of light and crystal dropping massive spikes onto her world.

Naruko's attention was taken off Menma when Jeane Arc, the helmsmen of Outer Heaven, begin maneuvering the ship to where its stern was facing the planet.

"We are now in position for towing, my Queen," the golden blonde haired and eyed Spectra announced.

Screens of reports from ground crews stationed at each spire were popping up in front of them giving confirmations on their respective spire's functionality.

"Very well, thank you, Jeane. Karin, please make arrangements for me to speak to these meta-humans in their tongue. I will grace them with a brief message. It's the least I can do after causing this mess."

The XO chuckled along with half the bridge crew and nodded while waving her hand. "A shuttle has been sent to each major and minor village that will play your message over a phone system. The spire stations do not have enough shuttles to spare to send to every single habitation on the planet and it would also be unnecessary. Still, the major population centers should disseminate the message throughout the lands given enough time."

Naruko nodded in understanding and simply waited as the energy for one of the largest wormholes ever made was built up.

"Okay, the shuttles are situated. They have obviously drawn the attention of the population. No pressure, my Queen. Oh, while we're doing this, since you did make a promise to Kyuubi to make Menma into the strongest warrior on the planet, it would probably be in your best interest if you bent the truth a little and not reveal that you caused this mess." This was said with a teasing smirk which was returned with a glare.

"Very well, let's put their fears to rest."

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(In Kami's realm 'Heaven') 

In Heaven, there were white buildings that have never dirtied lined alongside streets made of gold and angels floated to and fro, greeting each other with smiles while most conversations eventually ended up talking about the old days of when they were alive. The areas not paved with gold or infrastructure were fields of soft, fluffy clouds or green fields with beautiful lakes. These people knew nothing but peace with a hint of longing for the family they left in the realm of the living.

The majority of the inhabitants were shinobi of moral decency, a rarity considering the ninja world they lived in that was filled with deception, subterfuge, assassinations, and war. Majority of these ninja had died young, either becoming a genin or chunin. However, there were still several who were well renowned.

In one large area were the homes of the deceased Senju and Uzumaki clans. Having been close friends in life, their bond never broke even in death and so they moved themselves to be around close and distant family. It is here we can even see Senju Hashirama, the Shodaime Hokage, and his wife, Uzumaki Mito, laughing as they talk amongst their fellow deceased loved-ones.

Off a little ways, one Uzumaki Kushina was sniffling and filled with emotions as she began telling her formerly deceased clansmen the crazy story of the last moments of her life, how she was saved (somewhat) by an alien queen who looked startlingly human and was powerful enough to beat back a Uchiha Madara phony with just a yell, and stared down both the Kyuubi and Shinigami before brokering a deal with them after adopting Menma.

It's not an important fact that the women of the Uzumaki clan outnumbered the males 10-1 and they were all smoking hot red-haired babes. Totally irrelevant.

She had the clan enraptured by the detail of her story, such detail that had dissuaded any nay-sayers who couldn't believe Kushina. While they knew Kushina had her quirks, even this was beyond her scope of eccentricity. Heavens (cuz saying He** in Heaven would be bad), giving up your body to be consumed by an alien queen to give her your memories and Uzumaki genome to aid her in raising Menma? Yeah, even a drunk Senju couldn't come up with that story if they tried. Plus, Kushina had died after just giving birth and was still mourning… you do not make any mother, an Uzumaki no less, angry under those circumstances.

While she was finishing the story, a holy presence filled their senses, one they've come to associate whenever Kami herself showed up. All inhabitants nearby looked at the arrival of Kami with smiles but that soon turned to looks of worry and fear when they saw the creator of all life looking like a mourning Senju woman on a month long drinking binge.

The 6'2 Goddess with curves that stole hearts and broke life-long relationships was in her signature kimono, but in her disheveled state, she was a sight unforgettable. Quickly pinpointing Kushina's location, the Goddess teleported in front of Kushina, startling the woman not only by her appearance but also when said Goddess picked Kushina up by her shoulders and started shaking her like a certain talking pug (the dog from Men In Black).

The surrounding angels were stunned by the violent disposition Kami possessed but considering it was an Uzumaki being assaulted in the presence of the Uzumaki clan, it didn't take a minute for the women to start activating their unique bloodlines ranging from a variety of chakra weapons to increased strength via temper tantrum. In a flash, they dogpiled the Goddess of Creation and became a giant cloud of limbs, fists, weapons, crimson hair with the occasional gold of Kami's, tearing clothes, and biting of flesh.

Kushina had luckily been spared this when the grip of Kami had been broken by her sisters and cousins and aunts. Hell, even her own mother was currently using a chakra noose to strangle a fighting Kami who was spread out eagle-style via another's chakra chains while said Kami was sending her own energy constructs to bat away the attacking Uzumaki who were trying to capitalize on her restraint.

The surrounding angels could only watch in disbelief and somewhat hidden glee as more clothes started to tear apart, revealing lush, toned skin of many of the beautiful Uzumaki women and even Kami herself. After finally having enough, Kami let loose her power which paralyzed all of the Uzumaki clan. Shattering the chakra restraints on her, she stood up and leveled a glare at the notorious clan women before facing a sulking Kushina.

The Goddess stomped up to her and she stared down at a still crying but obviously confused Kushina. After what felt like an eternity, the silence was finally broken.

"Why?" Kami whispered that only the ones immediately around them could hear. When Kushina didn't answer soon enough, she asked it in a louder tone edged with despair. "Why? WHY? WHY ARE YOU UZUMAKI WOMEN SO MUCH TROUBLE!?"

"HEY!" the affiliated women shouted. Poor Kushina still looked confused and sniffled a few times before finally finding her voice.

"I-I don't know… k-know what you mean, Kami..."

Kami wouldn't relax though even if she would normally take it easy on a woman who just lost the chance to be with her baby after just giving birth because of a vengeance seeking psychopath in the form of her husband's allegedly dead student.

"Your child, Menma—" she instantly had Kushina's attention "—is perfectly fine. In fact, he's doing terrific with Naruko. Did you know that she is in command of a massive starship that is larger than the entire Elemental Nations? And not only that, but to protect themselves from other space traveling species, the ship is equipped with a massive projectile energy weapon longer than the Elemental Nations itself?"

Kushina was baffled and confused by the point of this line of questioning, but she did take solace in that her baby boy was being taken care of.

"And did you know that because of all the strong emotions and memories she obtained for Menma from Neblading your body, when the baby was awaken by the sun and started crying, those latent emotions of yours briefly possessed Naruko who then used that weapon to annihilate the sun with a black hole? In case you don't understand what that is, it's an anomaly in space where gravity is so massive that it collapses upon itself, creating a gravity well that sucks in everything, even LIGHT, that gets close enough to it by crushing every bit of matter down to atom-sized bits! The same black hole that is heading towards your planet.." Kami finally finished, leaving a speechless crowd.

Kushina, Hashirama, Mito, the Uzumaki clan, the Senju clan, all of the ninja who've died in the past thousands of years and earned a spot in heaven were stunned. This Naruko has a tool capable of destroying the sun… and because of Kushina giving her body to be Nebladed… Naruko slew the sun.

The dreaded sun that has mocked and haunted every shinobi's morning sleep since the dawn of man?

Kushina was looking Kami in the eyes, mouth moving but failing to produce sound. Finally, she speaks...

… and Kami's sanity shatters.

"I-it's dead? The sun's finally dead?"

Kami's jaw drops. " IS THAT ALL YOU CARE ABOUT FROM WHAT I'VE SAID!? "

Kushina turns to her mother and hugs her, crying. "It's actually gone!" Kushina's mother was still in shock though she started to come around, repeating what her daughter had said.

"It's been defeated," she whispered before looking at her gathered clan with wide eyes, tears threatening to leak from their ducts. "The sun's really dead! Kushina's emotions actually killed it!"

"WHY ARE YOU HAPPY FOR THAT!?" Kami shouted, her eyes bloodshot.

But to her horror, all of the souls around her began repeating the message to themselves and to others, each suddenly being overcome by happiness over something they shouldn't be.

"PARTY!" one shinobi yelled.

Thousands of shinobi brought out sake jars from out of nowhere despite being in Heaven where getting drunk isn't really allowed. Nor any of the other stuff that suddenly happened within a minute. The people with the jars of sake were popping the corks and holding the jars upside down, dumping the alcoholic contents upon themselves and others. Many of the kunoichi who had been 'educated' in seduction missions danced their bodies away as their wet clothes clung to their athletic forms. Ninja were shooting off ninjutsu up into the air, performing combination moves of fire and wind or lightning and earth.

Then from within a crowd, a particularly wild woman threw her top into the air which began a chain reaction of various shinobi and kunoichi suddenly losing their clothes and all inhibitions towards modesty and morality.

Kami watched with horror as her Heaven quickly devolved into a cesspool of sin and debauchery. Not three feet from her, a pair of Senju women were making out while a man poured saki over their heads.

"No, stop this!" Kami shouted in desperation for the sanctity of her paradise but her commands went unheard as a wonder bra flew through the air and landed on her head. Startled, she pulled them off and glared at the perpetrator who happened to be Kushina's mother, Uzumaki Yoshina, whom was gyrating her hips left and right while trying to get a happy but quite embarrassed Kushina to dance with her, the daughter whom was both embarrassed by her mother's actions and the breasts which were still larger than her own.

Upon the rooftops of houses lining the streets, people were using katon jutsu or torches and waving them around like lighters or cell phones at a football game's half-time concert.

It soon degraded even more when someone pulled out a… WAS THAT A BOOMBOX?! The person hit the Turbo Bass on it and soon all of Heaven was vibrating from the heavy treb and bass of the super-powered music device. People started dancing more wildly while several people started fornicating with random strangers in public of all places and the surrounding crowds did nothing to dissuade their lewd acts.

Kami was bumped to and fro by the party goers and went completely ignored in her attempts to stop their overdue victory celebration. She was shoved to her knees by some moving bodies and she finally let out sobs of despair as not only her planet was doomed but apparently her paradise has become synonymous with Mardi Gras on Bourbon Street. She could only look through teary eyes as all the madness and lunacy rampant in her kingdom before finally refocusing on a reluctant Kushina who got pulled into a dancing trio of her clansmen.

Kami's sanity snapped and her tears were replaced by blood as her anger grew to new, unforeseen levels. Kushina started this all, she justified. Yes, this all spiraled downhill because that red-haired bitch had to go and get herself killed despite it merely being part of that damnable prophecy! Yes, she would definitely get her revenge.

Kami was clearly out of her mind when she stood up and gathered energy into her hand. She didn't care what type of spell she used, as long as it hit Kushina and it hurt. Yoshina somehow made out the threatening motions Kami was performing through the blur of sake over her eyes and saw it being pointed at Kushina. With no thought as to her own soul's well-being, she shoved her way through the crowd and pushed her daughter down as Kami launched her vindictive attack.

Kushina hadn't really been in the mood for dancing, distraught by the combination of happiness at the sun's demise and sadness over her death still. Just when she started moving her body a bit to the music, she's rudely shoved down by someone. Looking up and getting ready to yell at the asshole who pushed her down, she was confused on why it was her own topless mother. She was further confused when her mother spoke something, words lost in the cheers and music, before being hit by a golden orb of energy.

Kushina watched in horror as her progenitor's body seemingly folded in on itself and disappeared altogether.

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