Kaguya stood in a clearing on Konoha's Back Mountain, her white robes fluttering gently in the night breeze.
Naruto and Sasuke stood before her. Genya leaned nearby, watching Kaguya with his hands in his pockets.
Kaguya held out her hand, and chakra surged from her palm toward the two of them.
The Progenitor of Chakra's power was vast and boundless, engulfing Naruto and Sasuke like an endless ocean.
Their bodies trembled, not from pain, but because that power was too immense, exceeding the limits of what they could contain.
Inside Naruto, the Nine-Tails opened his eyes, that white light reflected in his pupils.
Deep within him, Asura's chakra awakened, like a seed that had slept for a thousand years finally greeting spring.
Inside Sasuke, Indra's chakra awakened too, its yin answering the yang of Asura's power from afar.
At that moment, the two sons of the Sage of Six Paths finally awakened fully, utterly, and irreversibly.
The light dimmed.
Naruto opened his eyes. They had taken on Six Paths Sage Mode.
There were no pupils, only concentric patterns like halos around the sun.
He felt the immense power within him, almost overflowing.
Sasuke stood beside him, his Mangekyō Sharingan having transformed directly into a Six-Tomoe Rinnegan.
It was even more profound than Pain's pair.
Genya looked at them.
"Not bad."
Naruto looked down at his hands and clenched his fists, feeling the power surging from his fingertips.
"Genya, how strong am I now?"
Genya thought for a moment.
"Probably... a little stronger than a genin."
Naruto smiled.
"Then that's enough. I'm a genin anyway."
Kaguya stood nearby, watching the two boys, something flickering faintly in her eyes.
She remembered long ago, remembered Hagoromo and Hamura, remembered those two children standing before her just like this, using the power she had