Naruto and Sasuke were struggling to hold off the two Otsutsuki, while Otsutsuki Bushiki, sealed within Six Paths: Chibaku Tensei, was also trying to break free. The situation was dire, with no hope in sight.
Time ticked by. Chinatsu herself had no idea where she was. She could not feel her body, and only a faint, hazy sliver of consciousness remained, drifting with the current.
Who am I?
Where am I?
What am I doing?
She could feel nothing, yet at the same time, she could sense everything. Vast amounts of information poured in without end, from trivial happenings within the villages to a view of the land from high above.
It felt so comfortable, so comfortable that Chinatsu wanted to stay like this forever, to truly close her eyes and surrender to that warm embrace...
[Is that all you've got?!!!]
Suddenly, a voice both familiar and unfamiliar rang out from somewhere, restoring a tiny shred of awareness to Chinatsu just as she was about to fall asleep.
Whose... voice is that?
So noisy...
If Chinatsu had been lying in bed, this would have been the moment she rolled over, pulled up the covers, and buried her head beneath her pillow.
"Is that all you've got?! Weren't you boasting to me earlier that you would definitely succeed?! Wake up this instant!!!"
Just as Chinatsu was about to fall "asleep" again, that familiar yet unfamiliar voice rang out once more. This time, its shout finally jolted her hazy consciousness fully awake.
Chinatsu opened her eyes, and a trace of sensation gradually returned to the body she had been unable to feel.
"I... this is awful... I almost underwent reverse assimilation. After all that bragging I did earlier... this is so embarrassing!!!"
Chinatsu pressed a hand to her forehead and gritted her