What struck her as even stranger and made her deeply uncomfortable was this.
Why was another version of herself standing beside him?
She meant the Otohime Otsutsuki in the future timeline, who had chosen to side with Naruto and even fought fiercely against her.
The look in that other self's eyes, her bearing-everything felt alien and filled her with visceral disgust.
It was like seeing an ugly version of herself that had been corrupted and "tamed"!
"If that other me hadn't used Takami Musubi to forcibly interfere with space-time and temporarily block the passage leading to the moment of the Sixth's birth..."
Otohime gritted her teeth.
Her original plan had been to travel straight to the moment Naruto Uzumaki was born, when he was at his weakest, and kill him in his cradle. She would eliminate at the source the variable that had made her suffer so much in the future timeline and might even alter the Ōtsutsuki Clan's plans to descend upon this world.
But that "traitorous" version of herself had spent vast amounts of chakra to activate Takami Musubi, sealing the Space-Time Rift leading to that period and scrambling its precise coordinates. Forced to settle for the next best option, she had jumped at random to this relatively "safe" anchor point in time.
Naruto had already grown up, but he apparently had yet to reach the suffocating heights of his future self. And that "traitorous" version of her presumably had yet to appear or make contact with him.
"Now..."
Otohime slowly straightened. Though she looked bedraggled, a cold, resolute fire rekindled in her eyes.
She checked this timeline's approximate coordinates and energy fluctuations, confirming the general era.
"It's time to kill the still-young Sixth in this timeline and change that revolting future once and for all!"
As long