Marrow Cleansing
Shizune still rushed over, but when she realized that the two were quite far apart, she looked puzzled.
Did they fight again?
Huh? Why is Naruto sitting on the ground? Could it be that Lord Tsunade broke his leg? Even if Lord Tsunade, she shouldn't have hit him so hard.
Tsunade stood there calmly, surrounded by a circular space that had been leveled, with trees and grass all gone and the ground shattered.
Sunlight streamed down from directly above the forest, creating a huge ball of light among the three people.
"Um... Lord Tsunade." Shizune glanced at Naruto, then at Tsunade, and asked hesitantly, "Are you alright? What's going on?"
"It's nothing." Tsunade crossed her arms and slowly walked towards Shizune. "It's dawn, let's go, we still have things to do."
"Oh, okay." Shizune looked confused, glancing at Naruto every now and then. "Lord Tsunade, what about Naruto? What will happen to him? Will he stay with us or..."
"Of course he's going back to the village, what does it have to do with us!" Tsunade and continued walking past Shizune.
Shizune stood in the middle, watching Tsunade walk away, then glanced at Naruto sitting there with his head down. She was worried that he might have been knocked senseless, but she also had to go after Tsunade.
"Naruto?"
"Hmm." He looked up and replied, his expression revealing little emotion, but he wasn't bruised and battered as one might expect. "I'm fine."
Without hesitation, Shizune turned and chased after Tsunade.
After a while, Naruto slowly stood up, unharmed. He stared in the direction Tsunade had gone, then walked away in the opposite direction.
The wind howled behind me, and the scenery rushed past me rapidly.
Whether Tsunade will contact him again is not very important; no one can give a definite answer.
In short, the Shinobi World isn't that big. As long as he doesn't deliberately hide, it's not a huge problem for Naruto; it's just a matter of coordinates.
There are seven or eight foolish things in the world, and life is only a few short decades.
The next day.
Naruto was pondering whether to ask Yakumo Kurama to get him the entire Illusionary Realm game machine. Konohagakure's entertainment was far too scarce, and he wasn't the only one with nothing better to do.
"Go out and have some fun, Naruto." Choji stood downstairs at his house and waved to him.
Lush green leaves cast dappled golden sunlight onto the stone pavement. A large, fat man lay across the ground, blocking a ray of sunlight, casting a shadow over a roadside bench.
"Are you crazy, Choji? What time is it?" Naruto stood by the window, looking utterly exasperated, still in his pajamas. He'd rushed back to the village last night and hadn't slept well at all.
Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, he jumped off the building.
"Do you know you don't have any neighbors around?" Choji couldn't help but complain. "404 Konohagakure Street, how did you choose such an auspicious place to live?"
"What do you know? This place is cheap. Besides, what business is it of yours where I stay?" Naruto was still wearing his summer pajamas covered in monkey prints. He scratched his fluffy hair, his face hidden in the shadows.
"I really envy you, you're married but you still act like you're single," Choji suddenly remarked.
Naruto looked up at the sky and remained silent for a while.
"You've got plenty of free time, Choji. You came all this way just to mock me?"
Although they're married, the awkward thing is that his house isn't big enough. Enjoying the blessings of multiple wives doesn't necessarily mean having a house for multiple wives, but that's not a problem.
The main reasons were that the Yamanaka Clan family and the Hinata couldn't bear to part with their child, and Naruto simply didn't have time to deal with trivial matters. Due to the war, they were almost all living single lives.
The child is being cared for solely by the two fathers-in-law, and moving in together all at once would be chaotic, so we've put it on hold. We'll discuss living together again once the new house is built.
So much so that even though someone is already married and has kids, they still look single. Choji is similar; the older brother doesn't laugh at the younger brother, and the two are just close friends.
"No, I hadn't seen you for a few days, so I came to check on you," Choji said.
"Come on."
Naruto, unsure what to do in two or three days, casually mentioned something unusual in the Land of Lightning. Black Zetsu's actions were becoming increasingly obvious, and he was hardly trying to hide anything anymore.
They are just waiting to gather Nine Tailed Beasts so they can try to revive Kaguya Otsutsuki once again.
The scale of the operation caused widespread panic among the Five Great Shinobi Villages. A storm was brewing, though the signs were not yet obvious; at least, ordinary ninjas were unaware of it.
However, for someone like Naruto who's just trying to take advantage of the chaos, it's not necessarily a bad thing. He had some premonition about Black Zetsu's destructive power, which allowed him to profit from the situation.
To be precise, they should be his people, jokingly referred to as the Uzumaki Ten Maidens. Strictly speaking, they should be Evil God follower, occupying a position roughly in the middle ranks of the Shinobi World. If a war were to break out, they would almost certainly be on the path to seizing power.
For example, Yugito, or Kurotsuchi, and at worst, there's Hydrangea, a socially awkward person who's always around.
Thinking about it carefully, he actually has quite a bit of free time. Besides going home regularly, he can choose to hang out with Choji, and the two of them can go out and have fun whenever they have nothing to do.
They either eat and drink, stroll around, play games at the arcade, or simply sit and chat.
"Games? Doesn't Konohagakure have them? What's the difference?" Choji sat on the Hokage Rock, squinting his small eyes with a puzzled look. "Besides, what kind of game is Genjutsu Game?"
"I can tell you're a country bumpkin who's never played any good games. You'll see soon enough." Naruto stood up, clapped his hands, and glanced at the fiery red sunset.
The entire village was shrouded in the setting sun, with only a faint afterglow visible.
He stood atop the Hokage Rock, with the First to Sixth Hokage beneath his feet. He had never met the first two, but he had close ties with all the others, and had even touched the Fifth Hokage's.
What Konohagakure is to him now is no longer important. Everything has almost become what he wanted; now he just needs to wait.
He'll wait for an opportunity to take Kaguya. The Nine-Tails- Nine-Tails isn't important; the dog and the fox won't die. The Otsutsuki Clan has its own destiny; his only mission now is to transform the Shinobi World into a prison.
All the Otsutsuki Immortals who came from the sky fell into the ground one by one and were crushed into soil. No one can change the structure of the ninja world unless ninjas disappear completely.
When the strength of ninjas on Earth expands to a terrifying level, a gap is needed. Naruto knows what this gap is; in fantasy novels, it's called Ascension.
However, within the ninja system, only the Otsutsuki Clan is allowed to freely leave the planet. But in essence, they still haven't escaped the realm of ninjas.
After the Bloodline Limit expanded, the blood of the Otsutsuki completely replaced human blood, eliminating impurities and allowing flesh and blood to Ascension. This was the path Kabuto originally chose, but unfortunately, he took the wrong path.
There's no way forward in the Shinobi World, and ninjas can't possibly follow the dead end of evolving into Otsutsuki. Unless there are enough Otsutsuki to use as materials to modify the ninja's physique.
In a sense, it's called "Marrow Cleansing".