Naruto: Tales of Ashihara
Kakumei – Arc 1: The Consumer of Worlds
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Chapter 44 - Battle of Titans
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On the desolate surface of a dying world that Momoshiki Otsutsuki drained of all its life and power hundreds of years ago, he stands enclosed in a 400 meters tall gorilla statue heating in lava and red fire. In front of his Saruiwa, Naruto and Sasuke combined their power to unleash Rikudo Iso – Biju Susanoo, the combination of both their large scale avatars, firmly holding a sword, ready for a colossal fight.
Hesitatingly but strongly, the giant armored fox attacks first. It steps forward and tries to slice the gorilla in half by aiming for its shoulder first. But the ape, free of all doubts, carefully kneels down to avoid the blade and grabs the ankles of the Biju with his long primate arms. Holding them tightly, he turns around and throws the armored demon over his shoulders, sending him fly away and violently crash in the hills many kilometers away.
Sasuke and Naruto slowly get back up and in fight pose.
"Okay… More careful, and less hesitating then." says the Uchiha to the Hokage.
The giant ape stands up and slowly walks to them. The fox keeps his distances and analyzes the opponent's behavior. This statue really behaves as it looks. Its proportionnal strength, agility and manners have everything from those of an actual gorilla. And this, Momoshiki uses it correctly to his advantage.
As the monkey comes up to them, the golden fox raises his sword, tempt and provoke his opponent with his weapon.
Ameno Habaya
In response, Momoshiki creates a giant red chakra spear, up to the gorilla's scale, and shows it off to the enemy. Naruto and Sasuke quickly gaze at each other with the most serious looks on their faces, and then turn back to see the enemy spinning his ethereal weapon around. Saruiwa suddenly stops moving the staff and holds it still toward the ninja duo. It steps forward to them and swings its blade, aiming for under the fox's arm, where he sees an opening in its armor. Kurama rotates and translates his sword and blocks the red weapon before it reaches a dangerous angle.
The ape slides its spear up along the blade and reaches the hilt. It pushes forth to force the arms of the fox up. To avoid being put in a defenseless position, Kurama lets the sword go with his left hand and only the right one is pushed up. Momoshiki now brings his spear back to him and stabs forward to pierce through the body and armor of his opponent, but a second two-edged sword appears in the free hand of the fox and he throws it down in time to deviate the spear, Striking from above with his blade, he sends the monkey's weapon to the ground.
While the ape has his two arms on the spear that is held down by the sword in his left hand, Kurama brings his left arm, that had been lifted up, down with its blade and aims for the gorilla's arm. The sword slices through the stone monster's left elbow and cuts off his limb, forcing to let go off his weapon. The Biju now raises one feet and pushes it against the magma monster's abdomen to repulse him. The ape flies back and lands on his butt a few hundreds of meters behind.
Feeling at advantage, Kurama now lifts his two swords up above his head and crosses their blades. He jumps to the Saruiwa and tries to strike him with his two weapons from above. But Momoshiki creates a new chakra tool, a circular battle shield this time, that he holds above his head and shoulders to block the crossed swords. They collide with the shield, and once again, their slashing movement splits the sky. The clouds are separated in three pieces now. The soil also breaks in three parts. The middle part, on which the ape is on his knees, crawls down between the two others and causes the gorilla to almost lose grip.
Kurama pushes stronger with the swords and tries to press its own shield against the opponent, but the magma gorilla suddenly pushes with all his strength on his legs to rapidly stand up. At the same time, he pushes his shield up with his arm and forces the fox to lift his blades again and let go off them.
Disarmed and defenseless, Naruto reacts fast and efficiently. As the Susanoo's swords are sent fluttering to behind them, Kurama raises one of his nine tails and catches on one of the sword's handle. With this tail, he swings the weapon to under his right arm and hits the enemy off guard. The two-edged blade strikes above the monster's left leg and slices through its whole body, bisecting him.
With 2 more tails following, he slaps giant ape away to the left and pushes both its halves a village distance away.
Momoshiki, who did not see this clever use of the fox's tails coming, has now his ape colossus missing half its body and an arm. But, even though unsettled by the enemy's combativity, he's not much bothered. He suddenly stitches all the Saruiwaparts back together, with the same jutsu he used to bring it together in the first place, and pushes Kurama back with his hands. Naruto stares at it, disappointed as he falls back. Sasuke makes angry noises.
"Tsk! It's pointless." he says. "This thing is held together by the gravitational pull of a Chibaku Tensei. We need to destroy the source of the attraction to get rid of him."
"So we need to beat him up until we find where it is located?" asks Naruto.
"Let's just keep damaging him." answers the Rinnegan user. "I may be able to discern a pattern in the statue's reparation and guess where it's located."
Sasuke raises his hand, clenches his fist, and throws it down. The meteor he built earlier with Chibaku Tensei comes falling from kilometers above them and aims straight for Momoshiki's titan. The giant meteor, compared to the gorilla, is about the size of a space hopper balloon. Seeing the projectile come to him, the ape expells large clouds of fire out of the lava streams covering his body. The flaming clouds shape into multiple fire pheasants like the one Momoshiki threw at Naruto in Konoha, but way bigger (around 50 meters each).
All these fire birds together fly and crash in Sasuke's meteor to destroy it before it lands. It takes a dozen of them before the meteor is completely destroyed, but they do manage to stop it from landing on the ape titan. Momoshiki created 20 of these pheasants, so the 8 remaining birds head to Kurama instead. Naruto sees them coming and decides its his turn to make a move. The armored fox raises his hand and quickly gathers chakra spinning in a shuriken orb.
Suiton – Cho Shabondama Rasenshuriken
He throws an enormous water shuriken orb that flies through the air and passes through all eight of the pheasants, completely extinguishing them. The shuriken bursts forth and heads to the gorilla now.
Amaterasu
To make sure the water isn't just downplayed by magma in the gorilla's body, Sasuke upgrades Naruto's jutsu by lighting it on black fire. As Sasuke expected, Momoshiki doesn't absorb the jutsu, despite the menace it represents. It crashes into the monkey's head and completely blows up its portrait, making him fall over. However, the titan reconstitutes its body again. A bit disappointed, Naruto looks at Sasuke.
"This means at least that his actual body has to be with the Chibaku Tensei's source." he says.
"And there's only one area left that could hold the whole together…" adds Sasuke. "Its chest."
Kurama gets on all fours and crawls over to the gorilla. As he gets closer, the ape doesn't move, unable to go as fast as the fox. In his rush, the Biju Susanoo is slowed down and stopped by wooden pillars with dog heads at their tips that emerge from the soil and bind his paws. The dog heads bite on Kurama's arms and hold him still. More wooden tentacles and dogs emerge from the ground and immobilize the fox's many tails. Held down like this, Naruto senses something odd.
"Kurama, these things are spreading chakra inside of us from their canines." he says to his Biju.
"Bakuton again!" yells Kurama, from the mouth of the Biju Modo so Sasuke hears it too.
"Shit! He's turning our armor into a giant bomb!" yells Naruto.
Sasuke nods his head, calmly, exactly knowing how to send this attempt right back at Momoshiki's face in the most violent possible way. He lets Naruto pointlessly try to break free for a moment, just so the explosive chakra has its time to spread. When he sees the chakra flow stop, Sasuke hurries to widely open his left eye.
Ameno Tejikara
In a massive effort, the Uchiha switches, not only him, but Naruto, Kurama and the whole Susanoo's armor with the even taller magma titan. Momoshiki and his stone armor is now the one held down by the wood and bathing in his own detonating Bakuton energy. Kurama uses his nine tails pressing against the ground to propel himself up and away from the ape. Naruto senses the flow of frustration and anger that comes from inside the ape. Unable to contain its own self, the bomb detonates, and causes a massive, blinding and deafening blast.
Naruto and Sasuke, despite getting away as quick as possible, are still reached by the blast as soon as it starts and blown away, to the higher atmosphere. The ape's explosion causes a cataclysm even bigger than the Sentandama from earlier. It digs a crater in the planet that greatly surpasses the simple size of a continent. Seen from space, the planet now looks like a crescent moon.
Propelled away by the explosion, the Susanoo's armor partially breaks. To stabilize themselves in the air and stabilize their flight, Sasuke only now unleashes the two wings of his armor in Kurama's back. By flapping them, the Biju Susanoo manages to fly still, many hundreds of kilometers up in the sky. From there they watch down at the giant mushroom head caused by the explosion. Sasuke can't see anything, due to the distance and mist. Naruto, however, can feel a tiny life energy down there.
"He's still alive, somehow." he says to his friend. "I feel him."
Sasuke looks around, at the red and black raging thunder. Simply eager to finish his opponent off, he raises the Biju Susanoo's hand and connects his chakra to the ocean sized thunder storm. He controls the weather to form 3 red thunder dragons at once that he sends all together crashing in the area precisely where Naruto senses life.
Akai Kirin
The three massive thunderbolts go crashing all together at once where Momoshiki should be lying, waiting for his death. From where they are, they couldn't precisely see the bolts land in the massive dust cloud. And now they didn't hear them strike either. Waiting for the sound, Naruto and Sasuke stand still in the sky, flapping their wings to avoid being caught in the storm.
Takami Musubi
Out of the continent sized dust cloud, before they hear the sound of the thunder strikes, they are surprised by 2 of the red Kirin that Sasuke threw, coming back to them. Seeing them break out of the dust too late, they can't react in time and are struck by both of the thunder dragons. The strike completely annihilates half of the Susanoo, shatters half of Kurama's tails and breaks the wings that kept them flying.
As a result, they are caught in the storm and sent fluttering uncontrollably through the endless radiation cloud. After a very long crash through the alien clouds, their broken chakra ship lands head first on a piece of the planet, floating around, detached from the rest. Naruto and Sasuke are both knocked out by the violent landing, and their combined armor completely wears off, leaving them alone and unconscious on this flying island.
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A long time later, Sasuke lies, back to the dirty ground. He lost his cape and his empty sleeve was ripped off his coat in the crash. Still passed out, he hears a far away voice call his name. It comes closer, closer, closer, until he recognizes it. It's Naruto. He suddenly opens his eyes, remembering what was happening before he landed there. Hurt and confused, he looks around, hardly, to find his friend. Out of the dust and debris, he sees him jump out and run to him, finding him thanks to his chakra. He comes to sit next to his friend.
"Sasuke! Are you ok?" he asks, also shaken by this experience.
"I… am…" he answers. "I'm almost out of chakra. How is this bastard still alive?…"
"I can sense him." answers Naruto "He's on this… floating island too, looking for us."
Sasuke closes his eyes and tries to sense Momoshiki too. He manages to feel a weakened chakra roaming on this same island indeed. He closes his eyes and looks at Naruto.
"He lost his armor. It's time to finish this." he says, determined. "Listen, Naruto, the only reason he could absorb and send back my last jutsu is because I foolishly did it by myself, without your power. I figured it out. There IS a limit to his absorption of your Sage energy."
"Great! So how do we finish it?" asks Naruto, tired and eager.
"Yesterday… I think…" explains Sasuke. "I found out how to kill one of them."
"You mean… To kill a member of his clan?" asks Naruto, surprised.
He looks around and senes the horizon to ake he'll have the time he need to explain before going on.
"It's not just a clan. It's a whole species different from humans. They are actually chakra beings, like the Biju, but with way more condensed chakra that is mostly natural energy. So, as for your Kyubi, hurting them, destroying them, would only leave their chakra to disperse and eventually get back together, leaving them unharmed after only a few hours or days."
"That's faster than for Kurama." says Naruto. "It would take him about a month or so to fully return."
"Yes, but unlike your fox, a complete destruction would actually end them for good." gladly says Sasuke. "There is a thing, a biologic phenomena in them that holds the connection between their souls and shapes. And that's their hearts."
"… That's why you told me to aim for the chest earlier, before Kinshiki walked in… Wait did your just use plural on hearts."
" I did. They have two hearts in their chest, one on each side of their ribs. These two organs have a differetn purpose to their anatomy, but it doesn't matter right now. What matters is that, as long as they have their two hearts, their chakra will contantly be able to reshape their body and their soul won't be separated from it. If we destroy both their hearts, they won't be able to use natural energy or to regenerate other injuries until these organs are healed."
"But so they can still regenerate even with both hearts gone?"
"Yes, but during the 10 or so minutes in which they'll be heartless, the only thing left to keep them alive is their mind. If I behead him, or destroy his brain in this time lap, he'll be defeated."
Naruto stop a moment to think. He wonders about all the Otsutsuki he met until now and how they ended.
"If this is real… Why didn't the Rikudo Gramps know about it?" he asks. "We could have gotten Kaguya easier that way…"
"Stop messing around." answers the Uchiha. "Kaguya was different. She was really immortal. It may not look like it. But the nature of her transformation is what Momoshiki seeks to reach… The Rikudo-Sennin surely knew about his own anatomy, but there was no purpose in telling us back then."
"… Ok… Sure, so we can stop him this way. But we're easier to kill than that." warns Naruto. "So do you have a plan?"
"Yes. Now that I know how to counter his jutsu absorbing stuff, I know exactly what we'll do." says Sasuke in a cold voice.
Naruto helps him up and listens to the details of his plan.
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On this same levitating field, Momoshiki Otsutsuki roams, slowly. He's difficultly walking, heavily injured after the planetary explosion that he just survived. He has his skin ripped off, melted and fried, leaking through his just as messed up flesh. However, his limbs, hair and internal organs were all only lightly affected by the blast. Tired and zombified, he climbs up a hill on this floating piece of land and, once at the top, presents himself in front of Naruto and Sasuke again, who are standing down this same hill. They watch up and see him as he returns, still standing.
Watching carefully, Sasuke can see the Otsutsuki's cells slowly move, repair and stick back together. Momoshiki, with a pissed off and angry look, lifts up his left hand, and raises the eye in his palm. The eyelids that covered it are burnt and unable to close.
Sentan
In this palm, he gathers a bit of the Rikudo Sage Energy that he stole by absorbing Naruto's clones in Konoha. He shapes this chakra into a bunch of cinnabar red pills.
"Do you think you achieved anything until now?" asks the god.
All at once, he gulps the pills down his throat and lets their chakra help his body. Already naturally and quickly healing his injuries with the regenerative power of his new form, he accelerates the process with the pills. In almost just a single second, all his skin, flesh, and strength is restored to a normal state. The two ninjas don't show any sign of despair. They're already resolved to win, and have their plan ready. For their opponent to be well or beaten up makes no difference to them.
Momoshiki sees them unimpressed, and shakes.
Unmeishin
He activates his Byakugan and stares at them to see the lines that tell their fate. He giggles, unsatisfied. Nothing he foresees hints at their death. His end is getting closer and closer each minute he spends fighting these apes. But for them, any defeat seems out of the question. How can this be? He asks himself. He's fought them long enough now. With the power he acquired, he is at least twice stronger as each of them. But somehow, together they rival him, they best him.
Reminding himself of what he had to do to get here, and to what end he fights, he thinks of who his true enemy is. He starts to scream in anger, raising his head to face the sky.
"AAAAAHHHH! I KNOW YOU'RE WATCHING ME! GOLDEN-EYED BRAT!" he yells. "Then look! Don't miss a glimpse! AND TELL YOUR GREAT DRAGON SAGE, I'LL COME FOR HIM NEXT! FOR HIM! FOR THE MASKED LOSER THAT FOLLOWS HIM EVERYWHERE! FOR MY MISERABLE AUNT! FOR YOU! AND THEN,… FOR SHIVA, ISSHIKI, AND ALL OF HER DAMN CELESTIAL JUDGES! I'LL KILL ALL OF YOU!"
Naruto and Sasuke see him completely lose it and go crazy, screaming to the sky like he's speaking to someone. After a few seconds, Momoshiki breathes, calms down, and walks to them as they simply stand agape. He raises his hands and opens both the eyes in his palms.
Takami Musubi
"It doesn't matter what I foresee. I'll rewrite your fate here and now." he says, now calm.
Released from his palms, an army of Naruto clones appear, all surrounded by an odd orange aura. They are the clones that he absorbed in Konoha, used as his own jutsu. Every Naruto transforms to become a clone of Momoshiki.
The real Naruto steps forward and crosses his fingers.
Tajuu Kage Bunshin
To oppose the thousand clones of Momoshiki, he makes his own troop. Standing in the middle of this field of Hokages, the original and Sasuke gaze at each other, understanding that it is time to take action. The two clone armies run forward and collide, starting an intense battle all over the floating island. Naruto and Sasuke blend in to hide from Momoshiki, and prepare.
The original Otsutsuki, on the hill, distinctively from all the clones, stands ready and fights off all the Naruto doppelgangers who reach him. Instead of absorbing them, he stabs them away and makes them disappear with black rods emerging from his hands that he graciously swings around. Sasuke, hidden among the battling ones, has Momoshiki is visual.
Amaterasu
As he's dancing with the clones, the cursed god promptly catches fire and burns in dark flames again. Not much bothered, he absorbs the jutsu and rapidly gazes through the battling crowd. In there, he finds Sasuke Uchiha, with his bleeding rinnegan. This indicates that he's almost out of chakra, which pleases Momoshiki.
Takami Musubi
To finish him off, he launches the freshly absorbed black flames as a fireball back to the caster. It flies down the hill, across the clones and hits Sasuke… who transforms back to Naruto and vanishes in a white cloud. This one was just a disguised clone, distracting him from the real one running closer.
Gakido – Kyuin
Momoshiki swallows all the clones that are too close in his hands, including his owns. Still atop the hill, not crowded anymore, he sees his real opponents being dangerously close. Naruto leaps towards him, holding aGudodama in the palm of his hand. As he gets closer, he sends 3 other Gudodamaaround the hill, and the last forward to Momoshiki as a high speed projectile.
Just like earlier, the Otsutsuki manages to catch one of the orbs in his hand, but instead of absorbing it or infusing it with his chakra, he transports it far away with a small portal that he creates in his hand. The 3 other orbs land around the hill Momoshiki is standing on and instantly turn into pillars that widen and combine together to form a large black dome, trapping only the two ninjas with the enemy and leaving all the clones outside.
Momoshiki, careful, steps forward and grasps on Naruto's forearm, avoiding the last ball that he's holding in his hand. He spins the Hokage around, slams him against the ground, then tosses him back to where he came from, toward the dome wall he just built. He now focuses back on Sasuke still running to him, and raises a hand.
Takami Musubi
He sends to Sasuke the last of the 3 red Kirin that he absorbed earlier. Coated in the Hokage's Rikudo chakra and Kurama's cloak, Sasuke makes use of this chakra to empower his jutsu.
Kuroki Chidori
Full of determination and assurance, Sasuke doesn't flinch at the raging dragon bolt coming toward him in a blitz, and powerfully slices through with his black lightning blade at immeasurable speed. Behind him, Naruto stops mid-air and heads back to the enemy again, as his clones are losing the battle against the stronger army of the enemy.
Sasuke reaches Momoshiki and tries to strike him with his still lit blade. The Otsutsuki, although impressed by the Uchiha's exploit, smiles and keeps his hand forward, ready to absorb the black lightning. Which goes just as Sasuke had planned. Behind him, Naruto turns his last Gudodama into a huge cursed Jiton – Rasengan, a super condensed orb of pure Rikudo Senjutsu.
Ameno Tejikara
At the enemy's surprise, Sasuke switches with Naruto and Momoshiki now is swallowing the cursed Rasengan instead of the lightning blade. He has no other choice than to keep going. At first, he reassures himself, considering it not too much to absorb since there is no way it contains more chakra than the whole clone army he just released. But he panicks, when he realizes that despite his absorption, the jutsu doesn't shrink.
Naruto is putting more and more chakra to make the jutsu continuous. All around the island, his clones leave the fight and return all their chakra toward the original, making his Rasengan grow faster than it is absorbed. The Jiton cursed orb expands under Momoshiki's frightened eyes.
He has no other choice but to keep absorbing it. If he lets it hit him, the Juinjutsu that it carries could stop him from healing the wound. However, if he keeps absorbing it, the overflow of Rikudo Sage power will waste his body. Out of options, he thinks of using his second hand to help. If he spreads the jutsu through two Rinnegan, he'll save time and delay his limit.
He raises his second palm, but sees Sasuke crawl out from behind the orb, with the same Rikudo lightning blade he used to slice through Kirin earlier. Since his Chidori has slit through a pure speeding lightning bolt, it has become worthy of a new name that Sasuke uses immediately.
Kuroki Raikiri
He strikes forth and stabs through Momoshiki's left palm, destroying his golden rinnegan again. Too startled to react, the Otsutsuki mistakenly lets it happen. The lightning of the Raikiri keeps crawling up his body and paralyzes him. But Sasuke does not stop there.
Raikiri Eiso
He turns hand hand blade into a sharp spear that shoots through Momoshiki's hand, piercing through his chest and destroying his left heart. Astonished, Momoshiki tries to think in panic. He can't use the eye on his forehead to help as it is unable to absorb any amount of Rikudo Chakra, and he now only has one palm eye left. But he refuses to give up so easily.
Chimatakami
He uses the eye on his forehead to open a black portal and engulf Naruto's jutsu in an attempt to get rid of it… But before it can even grow just the size of a hand, it promptly vanishes, dispelled by the counter jutsu used by another user of this same Space-Time ability.
Momoshiki gasps, and assumes it has to be the making of the Uchiha. His only choice left being to keep going, he keeps sucking on the Rasengan, desperately hoping for Naruto to have mercy and stop.
He reaches his limit. No more amount of Rikudo Senjutsu can be safely absorbed by his eye. As a result, his rinnegan's vision and color fade away. The chakra he absorbed until now leaks out and crawls up his arm inside his body, completely turning his skin, flesh and vessels to stone. His own chakra flowing through the vessels burns and evaporates.
He looks horrified at his body's reaction and reluctantly stops absorbing the jutsu. But it's too late. The chakra crawled up to his shoulder and torso and transformed half of his neck and chest. Not blocked anymore, Naruto pushes forward and strikes the target. The jutsu completely destroys the inert part of his body, including his whole arm and right heart. The juinjutsu contained in the orb spreads through the impact and covers Momoshiki's bust, holding it's healing ability back.
Done, the orb completely explodes and sends the Otsutsuki, defeated, fly and fall all the way down the hill. Around them, all the confused clones of Momoshiki who were trying to get in the black dome to his rescue are forced to vanish. Naruto, who almost gave all the energy he still had, falls down, undoing the Gudodama enclosure and bringing them back to their orb shape.
Momoshiki crashes down in the ground, unable to move. Half of his body has been completely destroyed and due to the Juinjutsu, he's incapable of healing it even a tiny bit.
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Lying almost dead on the ground, All his memories flash to his mind. He was fighting for his life. His goal was to change his fate and escape the death that he foresaw for his own self. Earth was only supposed to be a step to his salute. He really thought that his death would have been from Yamitsuki or Isshiki's hand. At no point had he imagined that it could be from ninjas of Earth.
This fatal mistake alone is what brought him to this end. But he doesn't fall in despair. It isn't how he thought it would be, but he did prepare for a potential premature death. Still alive, he sees Sasuke, slide down the hill and come to stand next to him. Momoshiki stares at his eyes and watches at his reflection in the Purple Rinnegan.
Unmeishin
He reads his own fate one last time through his image in Sasuke's eye, and sees it still unchanged. So this is where he was doomed to fall since the beginning. He really just underestimated Kaguya's descendance.
"You must be thinking… How far are these humans ready to go to stop me?" says Sasuke. "You surely think that we interrupted your devilish plan and stopped you for the sake of our world. You're struggling, trying to find where you mistook… Don't get it wrong. I don't even know what you had planned. The only reason I fought, and the only reason you're brought down to this, is because you killed Kobo. All of this is just about my vengeance."
"Ha...HAHA..ha!" laughs Momoshiki, muffled. "I was prepared enough for you, Uchiha. The one whom I didn't know was so powerful, is the fox. Centuries of hunting the roots of Shinju caused me to underestimate the might it could offer… My mistake was to think that your Rinnegan was the only threat on this world. But I simply overestimated you. I didn't know you only had one… Yes, I've known about you for a looong time already. Sure, you will destroy my body and force my soul out of the living world, but it's just a matter of time before you discover how much more I've taken from you, from your family, from your life. Eventually we'll come to meet again, and you'll have to pay the price for this crime."
Sick of hearing this nonsense, Sasuke unleashes a blade of black flames and angrily stabs through the defeated god's forehead, destroying his eye and piercing though his brain. Finally in his last breath, Momoshiki stops laughing, and blankly looks to the chaotic sky. In his last moment, his thoughts go to Kinshiki… And to his mother. Centuries ago, just like his father did today, she sacrificed herself to save his life and gave him her power: the orange eyes he had since then in the palm of his hands.
All his life, he spent it denying his love, his feelings, his pain. Neglected by everyone, he ended up rejecting all the people who really cared for him. Only now, he feels regret. He never got to thank them, never got to tell them what he really thinks… He's sad but relieved. In his time of dying, his father's soul will be freed and they'll both reunite in the Pure Land. So until he returns among the living, he'll happily rejoin his mother and father in the afterlife.
He closes his eyes. The cursed seal covering his body evaporates off his skin. After a few minutes, all his remains turn to dust and vanish, carried by the wind. Sasuke watches, unwell. The Otsutsuki's last words have him lost and worried. He stumbles and lies back down on the ground, next to Momoshiki's remaining ashes. Completely out of chakra, the Biju cloak around him fades away, and he faints, falling asleep on the soil of this hell.
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End of Chapter 44 – Next Chapter: Finally Home