Sealing Kaguya Ōtsutsuki (Part 2)

Space, third switch.

Gravity disappeared, and the grasslands disappeared.

Beneath their feet had transformed into... a churning, dark red ocean. It wasn't water, but some kind of highly corrosive liquid! A pungent, acidic odor filled the air, and poisonous steam rose from the surface!

Lava Dimension? No, it's something even more terrifying... Acid Sea Space!

"Laugh--!!!"

The moment Kakashi's Susanoo's feet touched the sea surface, the azure Chakra began to corrode! His feet melted rapidly, followed by his calves, thighs... Large amounts of white smoke billowed from the surface of the Susanoo's armor as it thinned and disappeared at a visible speed!

"Kakashi-sensei! I can't hold on any longer!" Sakura shouted from inside the control room.

Kaguya herself, in the instant of the spatial shift, had already returned to the "Original Origin Ball Space" through Yomotsu Hirasaka —her ability to open spatial channels without Hand Seals —and avoided her own All-Killing Ash Bones.

But she didn't stop.

A black portal silently opened behind Sasuke. A pale hand reached out and grabbed the back of Sasuke's neck!

"What--!?" Sasuke tried to activate Amenotejikara, but the Chakra emanating from that hand suppressed the activation of his Dōjutsu.

The next second, he was thrown into another newly opened portal.

The door closed.

Sasuke has disappeared.

"Sasuke --!!!" Naruto's eyes widened in horror as he tried to rush over, but the corrosive nature of the acid sea forced him to maintain his Chakra Cloak, hindering his movements.

Neji watched this scene with a calm expression.

"This is Kaguya's plan, to separate us and defeat us one by one." His voice was calm. "A minor problem."

"A minor problem?!" Naruto exclaimed urgently, "Sasuke has been captured!"

"With Sasuke's battle intelligence, he can protect himself without any problem." Neji said, and with a thought, three Truth-Seeking Orb flew out from behind him, transforming into an inverted protective shield that protected Kakashi's Susanoo, as well as Guy and Sakura inside, and isolated them from the corrosive acid sea.

Then he looked at Naruto, a slight smile playing on his lips:

"And... I have a plan."

"A plan?" Naruto, Kakashi, Guy, and Sakura all looked at him at the same time.

Neji didn't speak, but instead used Chakra to transmit the plan directly into everyone's minds.

After hearing the plan...

Sakura's expression turned extremely strange, as if she wanted to laugh but dared not, and finally managed to stammer out, "This... does this really work?"

Kakashi and Might Guy's lips twitched simultaneously. Kakashi's exposed eyes curved into crescent moons—an expression of utter speechlessness; Guy's mouth gaped open, and after a long pause, he managed to squeeze out, "Neji... your plan... is incredibly creative..."

Only Naruto's eyes grew brighter and brighter, and he finally nodded vigorously. "I think it's feasible! Just like I thought!"

Neji rolled his eyes inwardly. Of course, it's the same as what you thought, because this was exactly the "divine move" you came up with in the original story.

"In that case," Neji said, "Let's go find Sasuke first."

He stretched out both hands, placing his left hand on Naruto's shoulder and his right hand reaching out to grab Kakashi and the other two inside the Truth-Seeking Orb Ball shield. His Tenseigan blazed with blue light, and space began to distort and fold...

The next second, the six people disappeared into the Acid Sea Space.

Sand Sea Space.

An endless desert stretched out, golden dunes reaching to the horizon. The blazing sun hung high in the sky, the temperature so high it seemed to distort the air itself. Sasuke stood atop a dune, his Rinnegan scanning this desolate world.

He'd been thrown here for five minutes. No enemies had appeared, no attacks had come, only endless sand and intense heat. Clearly, Kaguya intended to use the environment to deplete his Chakra —maintaining Six Paths Mode and the Rinnegan would be doubly depleted in such an extreme environment.

But Sasuke didn't panic. He waited.

Waiting for that guy who always manages to create miracles.

Really--

Ripples spread across the space.

Neji, along with Naruto, Kakashi, Guy, Sakura, appeared out of thin air in front of Sasuke. The Truth-Seeking Orb Balls deployed, protecting them from the high temperature and sandstorm.

Upon seeing Neji appear, Sasuke's face showed a rare "I knew it" expression. His eyes seemed to say: It had to be you.

Neji didn't waste any words and directly used Chakra to transmit his plan to Sasuke.

After hearing this, Sasuke's expression... became quite interesting.

First came shock, then speechlessness, then struggle, and finally... he took a deep breath and nodded.

"... I see."

Just then, a black portal silently opened in the sky above everyone's heads.

Kaguya's figure slowly descended. Her pure white eyes swept over the six people who had regrouped below, and for the first time, a look of... confusion appeared on her perpetually indifferent face.

Why... can they get back together after separating?

Black Zetsu's voice came from her sleeve, filled with exasperation. "Mother! It seems that splitting up and defeating them won't work! Then... let's just use a forceful annihilation!"

Kaguya's gaze turned cold.

She raised her hands, and her wide sleeves fluttered even without wind. Terrifying Chakra began to gather around her, and the temperature of the space began to rise—not the natural high temperature of the Sand Sea Space, but the energy boiling caused by Chakra overload!

Neji knew he couldn't wait any longer.

"Kakashi-sensei, get them away from here!" he shouted, taking a step forward.

A burst of blue light flashed in Tenseigan! All nine Truth-Seeking Orb flew out, converging, merging, and transforming before him...

"Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!"

A massive lightsaber, entirely composed of golden Chakra, took shape in Neji's hand! The blade was over a hundred meters long, its surface shimmering with runes unique to the Tenseigan; its mere presence caused the surrounding space to crack!

Neji gripped his sword with both hands and slashed down at Kaguya in Kaguya- air!

This sword strike was devoid of any frills, possessing only pure and extreme destructive power! Wherever the sword's edge passed, space was neatly sliced open, revealing black void rifts, and the sand sea was plowed into bottomless canyons by the aftershocks!

Kaguya's pure white eyes narrowed slightly.

She abandoned the spell she was about to cast and instead... made a loose clenching motion with her hands in front of her.

"Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack"

Not one punch, not ten punches, but... eighty punches! Her ultimate Chakra surged from her palms, transforming into countless enormous, semi-transparent fist-shaped shockwaves that rained down on the incoming golden light sword!

Each punch was enough to shatter a mountain peak; eighty punches stacked together...

"Boom--!!!!!!"

The sound disappeared the instant of the collision.

No, it didn't disappear; it exceeded the frequency that the human ear could perceive. All the onlookers saw was the golden and white energies colliding, annihilating, and exploding wildly! An energy sphere with a diameter of one kilometer formed at the point of impact, and then... collapsed inward!

"Get down!" Kakashi roared, Susanoo folded its wings, shielding everyone beneath him.

The next moment--

"BOOM--!!!!!!"

A mushroom cloud shot into the sky! The sea of sand was completely overturned! Countless grains of sand were melted into glass by the high temperature, and then shattered in the shock wave! The clouds in the sky were completely cleared, revealing behind them... a blood-red moon!

As the dust settled, Neji knelt on one knee, the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion in his hand had vanished, and the nine Truth- Truth-Seeking Orb flew back behind him, their light dim. A trickle of blood escaped from the corner of his mouth—even he was not unscathed from taking a direct hit from the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack.

But he smiled.

Because of the plan, we can begin.

"Naruto," Neji whispered.

"Understood!" Naruto's eyes flashed, and he Hand Seals—

"Multi-Shadow Clone Technique!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Not hundreds, but... thousands! Countless Six Paths Mode Shadow Clone filled the field of vision, each in a defensive posture, their Chakra fluctuations completely identical, making it impossible to distinguish the original!

The smoke and dust completely dissipated.

Kaguya hovered in the air, her sleeves slightly torn, but otherwise unharmed. Her Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack perfectly blocked the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, which raised her opinion of Neji by one point—but that was all.

She raised her hand, and a black sphere began to condense in her palm.

That wasn't Truth-Seeking Orb, but something far more terrifying... Expansive Truth-Seeking Orb. Once released, it could instantly destroy this space, turning everyone within it into nothingness.

But just as she was about to release, her gaze swept downwards...

I was stunned.

Thousands of identical Naruto stood there, densely packed together.

Then, one of them—no, all of them—simultaneously Hand Seals and shouted:

"Six Paths: Reverse Harem Technique --!!!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

White smoke exploded!

When the white smoke dissipated, what appeared before Kaguya's eyes was... a dazzling array of naked, beautiful men of all types!

Blonde, black-haired, red-haired, silver-haired... sunny, cool, gentle, wild... each one has a perfect figure, with well-defined muscles, and... none of them are wearing clothes!

"..."

Kaguya's pure white eyes widened instantly.

She has lived for over a thousand years, ruled the world, given birth to children, and been sealed away; what hasn't she seen?

But this scene... I've never seen anything like it before.

Thousands of naked, handsome men posed seductively towards her, winking, blowing kisses, and some even began to perform bizarre dances...

Her mind went blank for a moment.

The Expansive Truth-Seeking Orb in his hand stopped condensing.

The brain has stopped thinking.

And at that very moment—

"Call out!"

A Kusanagi Sword pierced through the air, heading Kaguya's head! Its speed was slow, its trajectory clear, and it appeared to pose no threat whatsoever.

Kaguya didn't even look—she was still immersed in the shock of the "reverse harem."

When the Kusanagi Sword to within three meters of her head...

"Bang!"

The sword exploded, turning into white smoke. Within the smoke, a figure flashed out!

It's Neji!

In the chaos of the clash between the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion and the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack, he used the Transformation Technique to transform into the Kusanagi Sword, allowing Naruto's Shadow Clone to throw him at him!

Now, he appeared directly above Kaguya, his right leg raised high, all the Chakra in his body—the power of the Tenseigan, the energy of Senjutsu, and the physical strength of Six Paths Tier —converged in this one kick!

"Get down here!"

Neji enunciated each word clearly, then stomped his right foot hard on Kaguya's head!

"Thump--!!!"

A dull, resounding crash, like a giant bell striking! Kaguya was struck as if by a meteorite, plummeting towards the ground at an alarming speed! The air along her path was compressed into a visible white shockwave, and the ground began to cave in and crack even before impact!

"Boom--!!!!!!"

The sand sea was smashed into a giant crater hundreds of meters in diameter! Kaguya lay at the bottom of the crater, one of her horns broken off, her pure white eyes unfocused from the impact, clearly still reeling from the combined attack of "reverse harem + headshot".

At that moment, Naruto and Sasuke appeared on either side of the giant crater.

Both of them raised their hands simultaneously— Naruto's right hand and Sasuke's left hand—palms facing each other, aimed at Kaguya at the bottom of the pit.

Golden Yang Release Chakra and purple Yin Release Chakra surged from their palms, converging and merging in the air to form a giant, black-and-white Tai Chi diagram!

"Six Paths - Chibaku Tensei --!!!"

The two shouted at the same time!

The Tai Chi symbol transformed into a black gravitational core, flying above Kaguya! A terrifying suction force erupted, the earth cracked, and countless rocks and sand flew up from the ground, surging towards the core and enveloping Kaguya layer by layer!

"No... it's impossible..." Kaguya finally came to her senses and tried to struggle, but the seal of Yin-Yang Power had already been activated, and her body was firmly locked in place.

The rock thickened and thickened, forming a Taiseki sphere with a diameter of over a kilometer, suspended in mid-air. On the surface of the stone sphere, black and white sealing runes spread and tightened like chains.

The instant the stone sphere took shape, a black shadow darted out from Kaguya's sleeve, attempting to escape—it was Black Zetsu!

But Neji had been waiting for a long time.

He reached out and grabbed, activating the gravity of his Tenseigan, firmly fixing Black Zetsu in mid-air.

"Where do you want to go?" Neji asked casually, then flicked his wrist—

Black Zetsu was thrown into the air like trash toward the black core that was absorbing rocks.

"No--!!! Mother--!!!" Black Zetsu screamed in despair, but it was no use. He was sucked into the core and sealed into the ever-expanding stone sphere along with Kaguya.

The stone sphere finally took shape, its surface covered with sealing runes of Six Paths Sage Arts, and quietly floated high in the Sand Sea Space.

Silence.

Only the sound of wind and sand blowing.

Neji, Naruto, and Sasuke landed slowly. The three exchanged a glance, and in each other's eyes, they saw a sense of relief and exhaustion.

Kakashi released Susanoo and walked over with Guy and Sakura. The six of them stood at the edge of the giant crater, looking up at the Taiseki sphere in the sky that sealed the Progenitor of Chakra.

"Is it... over?" Sakura murmured, her voice trembling slightly.

"Ah, it's over," Neji said, turning to look back in the direction he had come from—though there was only endless desert there.

In his Tenseigan, the distant Shinobi World was reflected, the direction of Konoha was reflected, and... the figure that Tenten might be waiting for.

"It's time to go home."