After the Fourth Great Ninja War ended, Naruto and Sasuke faced their second decisive battle at the Valley of the End.
What Sasuke wanted to do was actually extremely similar to Lelouch vi Britannia.
He planned to draw the hatred of the entire Ninja World onto himself, then cut through the darkness and blood feuds that had endured for a thousand years in one stroke. As long as everyone treated him as their common enemy, they naturally would no longer keep slaughtering one another.
Naruto had seen this idea in another anime.
That protagonist had been Lelouch.
After losing control of his power, he had personally killed the imperial sister he loved most, and completely descended into madness. Later, under the persuasion of his friend Suzaku Kururugi, the two of them devised the Zero Requiem together.
Put simply, it meant ruling the entire world through force.
Lelouch used tyranny to suppress every nation, concentrating all the resentment left behind by war onto himself alone. He intended to bear all the world's hatred with methods darker than darkness itself, then create an anonymous hero named "Zero" to erase him with his own hands.
Lelouch's codename had been Zero, which was why the plan was called the Zero Requiem.
Once Lelouch died, the hatred in people's hearts would have somewhere to be released. After all that pain, the world finally welcomed true peace.
After Sasuke sealed Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, he developed the same idea.
He would kill the Five Kage, use absolute force to subdue the Ninja World, and bear everyone's hatred alone. Whether punishment or judgment was needed, he would personally carry it out, then use his own strength to solve every problem the Ninja World encountered.
He wanted to become the sole ruler, using his own flames to burn away the