If Naruto couldn't agree with it, and couldn't accept any kind of brutality, then he had to prepare for the worst.
That possibility wasn't out of the question.
Even before Hagoromo and Hamura joined forces to seal away their mother, Kaguya Otsutsuki, Hagoromo had still been passionately pleading for his mother to give humanity another chance. He believed that "love between people" and "mutual understanding" could restore true peace and tranquility to the world.
Asura had later upheld his father's beliefs and ideals as well.
He thought that "as long as there was love," every conflict could truly be resolved.
Naruto scoffed at such beliefs and ideals. Humanity was greedy, and human desire was endless. People didn't fear having too little; they feared others having more. In a world like this, especially one with all kinds of factions and nations, could mutual understanding and love really resolve every conflict?
That was just something you told children!
But the most frightening thing was that the Sage of Six Paths, the most powerful person in the world, had always held on to this belief. It wasn't that he was wrong; it was just far too unrealistic. Of course, anything was possible, but even a one-in-a-hundred-thousand chance counted as a possibility. Still, could something with odds like that ever really happen?
Naruto didn't want to be a naïve idealist.
He only wanted to be practical!
So, after several thousand years,
what kind of ideas did this Sage of Six Paths, who could clearly influence the balance of the Shinobi World, hold?
That mattered greatly to Naruto.
He had to make different judgments based on the Sage's beliefs.
But Naruto couldn't seek out the Sage of Six Paths himself. He wasn't sure whether the Sage in this life would come looking for him, or