Kaguya, who had just escaped her confinement on the moon, and the spectral souls of the Sage of Six Paths Brothers, who had arrived across the barriers of space and time, were locked in a silent confrontation heavy with history and tangled emotions.
The air seemed to freeze.
Yet a sudden voice shattered that solemn, almost suffocating atmosphere!
"Though I didn't find that bastard Isshiki..."
"Still, Kaguya, you actually broke out of the seal on your own..."
Hidden in the shadows, Naruto raised an eyebrow, his tone impossible to read as praise or sarcasm. "Looks like you're still keeping a few things from me."
He spoke casually, as though teasing an uncooperative business partner rather than facing the legendary progenitor of chakra, the Rabbit Goddess who had nearly destroyed the world.
The instant she heard Naruto's voice, the faintest ripple passed over Kaguya's expression, frozen as if by ten thousand years of ice.
The Sage of Six Paths Brothers could not locate Naruto, and braced themselves for a formidable enemy.
How was this possible? Where exactly was Naruto Uzumaki hiding?
What nearly made the dumbstruck Hagoromo and Hamura's eyes pop out of their sockets, however, was the blush visibly spreading across Kaguya's cheeks.
Seeing that blush on Kaguya's snow-pale, regal, icy face was more terrifying than watching the Ten-Tails dance the hula!
Then, under Hagoromo and Hamura's dazed gazes, Kaguya made another move that sent their minds crashing.
She turned slightly and extended a slender, pale hand from beneath her pure-white, winglike sleeve, then lifted one corner of her plain white skirt.
Then, as Hagoromo and Hamura's expressions all but cracked apart, Kaguya pulled a blond youth with a handsome, somewhat exasperated face out from beneath her skirt.
Yes, she literally pulled him out!
The youth seemed to have been