The Cracked Moon

The Cracked Moon: "The moon split open!!"

The strange sight of the moon in the night sky plunged the entire Ninja World into tremendous panic.

Naruto, who was temporarily staying at Sasuke's house, saw it too. He dragged Sasuke, who had still been lying inside the house, straight outside and rushed all the way back to the Fourth Hokage's residence.

Bang, bang, bang! "Big Brother Gigue! This is bad!! The moon split open!!"

As Naruto pounded hard on the courtyard gate, he shouted inside. Sasuke said from beside him, "Why not just jump in?"

"That'd be too rude. Big Brother Gigue has womenfolk in the house..."

Sasuke rolled his eyes at that and said, "Idiot! So pounding on the door like crazy in the middle of the night is polite?"

"..."

While Sasuke and Naruto were bickering, the main gate creaked open. The two turned their heads at the same time and saw a lump of pitch-black matter writhing up from the ground, transforming into a black humanoid creature. It was Black Zetsu.

Black Zetsu lowered his head and looked at Naruto and Sasuke, these two little brats. He already knew the two of them were the hosts of the reincarnated chakra of Asura and Indra, but to him now, Asura and Indra were nothing. Even if the brothers Hagoromo and Hamura crawled out of their graves, he would not care in the slightest.

The only one he cared about was his "mother."

As for these two fellows who had disturbed the courtyard's peace, Black Zetsu naturally had no pleasant expression for them. With his already pitch-black face darkening further, he snapped irritably, "Hey, can you two brats keep it down? Don't you know this is Saint Gigue's residence? So what if the moon split? If Saint Gigue gets angry,