A.N: Sorry for putting author notes at the start and ruining your immersion but I want to say something. I know that this novel is not perfect but people seriously need to stop hate-reading it. If you don't like it then drop it. No one is forcing you to read.
Negative comments affect the author in a bad way and make him lose motivation. I believe in free speech, which is why I'm against deleting other's opinions, but that's fine. From now on, I won't be reading any comments/reviews whatsoever.
Again sorry, for the Author's Notes at the start. It won't happen ever again.
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Sasuke teleported back to The Hidden Leaf Village where he fought Pain after storing Nagato's body in his inventory.
"Gluttony" Sasuke said as he devoured Nagato's Rinnegan.
[Host has received Limbo ability]
Sasuke heard the system's notification and tried to use it but had to stop since people started to notice him.
"Hey!! Sasuke is here!!" A ninja shouted as he gathered everyone's attention on Sasuke.
"Thank you, Sasuke"
"Bro I owe you one for saving me"
"Marry me please"
People started to come towards him while singing his praises and thanking for for saving them. Some Kunoichi proposed to him, while some people offered their daughters to him, which he politely refused.
"SASUKE!!" Sakura yelled as she jumped in for a hug while crying.
"What happened to you?" Sasuke said
"I thought we were going to die, so I used your seal, but you didn't come, so I thought you left us. I'm sorry for doubting you," Sakura said everything in a single breath.
Sasuke sighed and started to find Sakura annoying. He wanted her to be mature as fast as possible since he didn't want to pamper her all the time.
"It's ok," Sasuke said as he saw Tsunade walking towards him.
"As promised, you can have your thing anytime," Tsunade said as she remembered what Sasuke had demanded for saving Konoha.
"We will talk about that later," Sasuke said with a smile.
"Oye, what is up with that eye?" Shikamaru asked as everyone else also noticed Sasuke's left eye.
"Isn't that Pain's eye?"
"Don't tell me he was working with him".
"Shhh. Talk slow"
People started to gossip since his eye was almost identical to Pain's. Everyone was wondering what had happened.
Sasuke sighed as he decided to give some explanation since he didn't want people to think that he was the mastermind behind the attack.
"I killed Pain and implanted his eye in my left eye" Sasuke explained as he saw some ninjas sneaking away.
The greedy ninjas wanted to find the Rinnegan of the other three paths that didn't appear on the battlefield.
Their mentality was simple: If someone like Sasuke implanted Pain's Rinnegan in place of the infamous Sharingan, then Rinnegan would have to be better than Sharingan.
Sasuke laughed at them but he could also understand their reasons. Who doesn't want to become strong? Who doesn't want to be recognized by the whole village? Who doesn't want women throwing themselves towards them?
"Then where is your Sharingan?" Shikamaru asked which annoyed Sasuke.
"You are much more annoying than I thought." Sasuke glared at him. He really wanted to kill that annoying guy but he also respected his intelligence.
If Sasuke wasn't in front of everyone, he would have used Tsukuyomi on Shikamaru right now.
"Sasuke!!!" Ino yelled as she finally reached Sasuke.
There were so many people that were surrounding Sasuke, so he couldn't reach him with normal means, so she used her mind jutsu on a bulky ninja and paved the way.
"Are you alright?" Sasuke asked Ino with a smile which made her blush.
Her childhood feelings and crush on Sasuke had re-emerged with twice the intensity. She was happy that her love was being recognized by the whole village.
"I'm better than ever" Ino said enthusiastically.
"Sasuke-san, can you bring Naruto now?" Hinata shouted as she struggled to catch her breath. It was clear that she ran all the way here to ask about Naruto.
"Oh, I forgot about him. Wait a moment" Sasuke said as he disappeared from everyone's sight for a moment and returned with Kakashi and Naruto.
"SASUKE, you cheater!!" Naruto yelled the moment he returned to Konoha.
Naruto was very mad at Sasuke for knocking him out when he was about to fight Pain. Unfortunately, he was in a sort of Inn near the border of Konoha when he woke up, or else he would have given Sasuke a beating.
Although, Kakashi told him that it was all to protect him but Naruto didn't listen. He was adamant about returning to Konoha and ran away from the hotel room after hearing the truth from Kakashi. Since Kakashi was his protector, he had to follow Naruto to protect him.
'Thankfully, he had already marked Naruto, or else we would have had to come back on our own,' Kakashi thought as he saw Naruto quarrel with Sasuke, which made him remember the old days.
After some moments, Naruto calmed down and decided to ask about Jiraya.
"So did he say anything about Jiraya-sensei?" Naruto asked seriously.
"I forgot to ask him," Sasuke said with a dead face, which made Naruto angry.
"How could you forget something so important?" Naruto said loudly.
"Pain was weaker than I expected and died from a single strike of mine" Sasuke explained as he started to enjoy teasing Naruto.
"Like I'll believe you. Let's have a fight. I will show you my strength" Naruto said as he pointed a finger towards Sasuke.
'Poor Naruto' People thought as they could only laugh inwardly at Naruto's statement. They have seen Sasuke's strength first-hand so they know that Naruto was lost already.
"I don't mind fighting you, but without Sage Mode, you will probably lose in a single strike yet again," Sasuke said as he made Naruto remember what he did to him.
"That was a sneak attack" Naruto complained as they both kept quarreling for a while.
"That's enough, you two" Tsunade said as she silenced them both.
"It doesn't matter what happened. The truth is that we won, and that's all that matters," Kakashi said as he put a hand on Naruto's shoulder.
After that, people returned to their homes shortly while some ninjas started to calculate the damages on Tsunade's order.
"Let's have dinner together," Ino said as she invited Sasuke for dinner.
"Why not? I will also come for the dinner," Sakura said, which annoyed Ino.
'It seems like those two are rivals yet again,' Kakashi said as he saw Sasuke sigh.
"I also want to come; let's eat Ichiraku Ramen together tonight," Naruto said as he also invited himself.
In the end, Sasuke, Naruto, Sakura, Shikamaru, Ino, Choji, Kiba, and Hinata decided to eat dinner at a certain steak restaurant.
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