"Heh."
Ōtsutsuki Urashiki sneered coldly.
He quickly suppressed his chakra signature and moved toward the place where Yomi Hirasaka had just activated.
But when he arrived—
Nothing.
No people. No animals. No lingering chakra.
Even the spatial trace of Yomi Hirasaka had completely vanished.
"...Strange."
Urashiki narrowed his eyes. Just as he turned to leave, his pupils suddenly contracted.
"Found them!"
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Without hesitation, he activated his teleportation and shot through the rift in space.
Emerging high in the sky, Urashiki looked down—and saw three figures.
"As expected, the two pests are still buzzing around... Huh? That one is... the Nine-Tails?"
Urashiki's eyes narrowed further. If it weren't for the unmistakable chakra signature, he'd have assumed it was someone other than Naruto Uzumaki.
"I've found you."
He grinned maliciously.
From the ground, Boruto scoffed inwardly.
You're screwed. This time you're not dealing with soft-hearted Dad—but the steel-hearted Dad from another world.
"Boruto, can you help me collect his Kinkaku?"
Obito's voice rang out in Boruto's mind, perfectly timed.
Boruto: "…"
Sasuke stepped forward, voice deep and serious. "Naruto, be careful. This one's no pushover."
Before Naruto could respond, Urashiki laughed.
"Hmph. So you really did beat me here again. You're always in the way."
"No matter. I'll harvest you both later."
He turned toward Naruto. "And you... It's good to finally meet you, Uzumaki Naruto."
With that, Urashiki raised his crimson fishing rod—but the moment he lifted his arm, he froze.
What's this feeling?
Why do I suddenly feel... uneasy?
This has never happened before... Could they have laid a trap by deliberately revealing themselves?
He hesitated, slowing his movements.
"Byakugan—activate!"
Guuu...
Urashiki's eyes turned white as he activated the Byakugan.
Then he gasped.
"What... what's with your chakra?!"
His gaze snapped to Sasuke—only to find that Sasuke's chakra had fully recovered.
But what truly rattled him was what came next.
"What?!"
"You… Momoshiki?!"
"No... no, something's wrong with my power. This shouldn't be possible!"
Urashiki gritted his teeth and flung the red fishing rod—not at Naruto, but straight at Sasuke.
Whoosh—
In a flash, Sasuke vanished.
Boom. Boom.
The hook slammed into the earth, barely leaving a dent.
It wasn't even enough to scorch the soil.
"Sasuke...!"
But Sasuke only smirked. "Urashiki, you're not going to make any waves."
For the first time in this encounter, Sasuke felt that Urashiki's strength was... laughably underwhelming.
"Oh yeah?"
Urashiki sneered in return.
Suddenly, Sasuke's face fell. "Naruto!"
He turned—and saw it.
The red hook glowing with eerie light had pierced Naruto's abdomen.
"Got you!"
Urashiki laughed and yanked the line back with force.
But the moment he reeled in the hook—
Nothing.
"What...?"
Urashiki's eyes widened.
"No chakra?"
Sasuke's gaze landed on the seal etched into Naruto's lower belly—the Four Symbols Seal.
"A seal?"
Urashiki closed his eyes, then reopened them—his left eye now a brilliant blue Rinnegan.
"In that case... Let's try a different method!"
The words had barely left his mouth when—
Buzz!
Boruto, now cloaked in Karma Mode, appeared behind him in a blur of lightning.
As Urashiki finished his sentence, Boruto—now fully engaged in his enhanced Karma Mode—appeared silently behind him.
"Rasengan!"
Buzz—!
Boruto's Rasengan landed directly—only for Urashiki to dissolve into a flurry of glowing red paper cranes, fluttering apart in the air.
He reappeared an instant later—this time, behind Naruto.
With a swing of his red fishing rod, he tried to entangle Naruto with his chakra-absorbing line.
But—
Naruto was suddenly in front of him, hand gripping his throat before Urashiki could even react.
His eyes widened in disbelief. What…?
"This is wrong… too wrong!"
Rewind!
Activating the ability of his blue Rinnegan, Urashiki attempted to reverse time—jumping a few seconds into the past.
But even after rewinding—
Naruto's hand was still around his throat.
"Damn it!"
He pushed harder, forcing a full rewind with every ounce of chakra he had.
This time, he managed to return to his original position and quickly put distance between them.
Naruto stood calmly and nodded to himself. "Even without awakening the Samsara Sharingan, my current power can resist his time reversal."
Urashiki wasn't done yet.
He reached into the red fish basket strapped to his back—and hurled its contents with force.
A torrent of stolen ninjutsu techniques rained down toward Naruto.
This should be enough… I might need to retreat after this, Urashiki thought, starting to reconsider the fight.
But what happened next stunned him.
Naruto raised a single hand—and a golden Rinnegan manifested in his palm.
In the blink of an eye, every single ninjutsu was absorbed.
The massive explosion Urashiki had anticipated never came.
Instead, silence.
Meanwhile, Sasuke activated the complete form of Susanoo, its ethereal armor engulfing him like a war god.
Boruto had pushed himself to the brink, entering the peak of his current Karma + Ōtsutsuki fusion—channeling the raw chakra of Momoshiki.
"It's a mess... Everything's gone completely sideways..." Urashiki muttered, sweat beading his brow.
He tried time reversal again.
His vision blurred. The world rewound.
He was once more digging into the red fish basket.
But—
When he reached inside, it was empty.
All the stolen techniques were gone.
"What... No! Where are they?!"
"Dammit!!"
Desperately, Urashiki extended his hands, and the shadows beneath his feet began to slither and twist—attempting to bind Naruto using the Shadow Imitation Technique he'd stolen from Nara Shikadai.
At this moment, Sasuke was still stabilizing his Susanoo, and Boruto's transformation was still mid-process.
Naruto, however, just looked at the shadow tendrils, shook his head... and began walking toward Urashiki.
As the shadows neared Naruto's feet—they simply vanished, like smoke in the wind.
Another technique—neutralized.
"W-what?! This Uzumaki Naruto… he's not normal! If I don't escape now, it'll be too late!"
Urashiki gritted his teeth and unleashed another full-power time reversal.
Once again, Sasuke's fully formed Susanoo began to retract.
Boruto's Karma State dimmed and rewound.
Even the chakra fragment (Jin Ke La) that had just appeared in the sealed space beneath Obito retreated back inside him.
Time—outside of Naruto—was flowing backward.
Urashiki exhaled in relief.
Until—
He looked up.
And froze.
His pupils shrank as Naruto continued walking toward him… unaffected.
"You… Who are you?!"
Urashiki's voice trembled.
Everything had reversed. The world itself had wound back.
But Naruto was still advancing, step by step—completely outside Urashiki's control.
A thin layer of cold sweat was already forming on Urashiki's forehead.
The marks around his neck were becoming more pronounced.
This time reversal… only affects the world around me. Not myself…
In other words—if he was injured, the damage remained. No matter how many times he rewound time, his own body stayed hurt.
"Damn it…!"
"I don't believe this!"
Urashiki hurled out his red fishing rod once more.
This time, a black box dangled from the crimson hook.
As it hit the ground near Naruto's feet, it burst open with a billow of white smoke.
"Time Freeze!" Urashiki hissed.
This was the same forbidden technique he had once used to freeze Toneri Ōtsutsuki on the moon.
The smoke dispersed.
But what he saw left him stunned.
Naruto was still standing.
Still moving.
And picking up the black box like it was nothing.
"You're not… Uzumaki Naruto," Urashiki muttered, eyes wide. "Just what are you?"
Naruto calmly knelt, placing the black box into the center of a large blooming flower that rose silently from the earth—summoned with the power of his golden Rinnegan.
The flower gently closed and sank into the ground.
Naruto's gaze sharpened.
So this is time freeze…
He needs external tools like this box. I can do it just with my eye.
He stepped forward again.
Each step was light—but it pressed down on Urashiki's spirit like a mountain.
"Who else would I be, if not Uzumaki Naruto?"
Urashiki fell silent.
He let out a long breath. "So… there is a problem."
"This must be a parallel world."
"I felt it—just for a second—the power of the Ōtsutsuki. It brushed across me."
He stared at Naruto, trembling.
"How… how did you do that?"
Naruto shook his head.
"Ask someone more familiar with this kind of stuff."
"Who?"
"Momoshiki."
"…"
Urashiki's mouth opened slightly—but he said nothing.
After all, once a member of the Ōtsutsuki clan dies, their soul cannot enter the Pure Land.
Even the Sage of Six Paths had to construct a temporary Pure Land in the shinobi world just to appear.
The Ōtsutsuki clan was beyond that realm.
"A shame you don't belong to this world," Naruto continued, his voice almost regretful. "Your soul will return to Boruto's world."
"Otherwise… I might've asked you to deliver a message to the God ofŌtsutsuki. (T.N: Search Shibai Otsutsuki)"
Urashiki's eyes snapped open. "How do you know—?! Ah!"
His question was cut off—
Naruto had suddenly closed the distance and seized Urashiki's throat with one hand.
Then—
He activated the power of the Mori-Mori no Mi—drawing strength from deep within the earth.
Urashiki screamed.
His face flushed crimson as his chakra surged wildly out of control—unable to resist.
This crushing feeling… this suffocating pressure…
It was something he'd only ever felt when facing a higher-level Ōtsutsuki.
"You… You're an Ōtsutsuki too…"
Naruto smirked faintly.
Even without fully activating the Rinnegan—or transforming into his Ōtsutsuki form—he was starting to understand what he had become.
"Gaaahhh—!"
But in that moment—
A strange ripple passed through time and space—
A force descended into Urashiki's body.
...
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