Naruto: My grandmother is Kaguya

It had wrung so, so many tears from him. Though sometimes he hated Naruto for failing to stand up for himself and Sasuke for his arrogance...

These two had, after all, accompanied him through his youth.

When he saw these two who understood and cherished each other fight to the death at the end of Naruto, his feelings had truly been too complicated to put into words.

"Huh? What is it?" Hearing Otsutsuki call him, Naruto answered instinctively, then looked at the boy in confusion.

He could feel this boy's goodwill toward him. He could feel it very clearly.

Because of his experiences growing up, as long as he calmed himself, he could always distinguish how those around him felt about him and treated him.

It was an intuition formed from enduring all those years of insults and humiliation.

So he treasured the person before him. This boy bore him no ill will, just like Sasuke, who bore him absolutely no ill will.

That truly excited him.

Sitting below, Sasuke also watched Otsutsuki Toneri in silence, wanting to hear what this clean-cut boy would say to him.

"Be my opponents! I really want to fight you!" Otsutsuki Toneri smiled softly, but his voice reached both of them clearly.

Yes, be my opponents, Crown Prince, Uchiha Sasuke.

In this life, you two are the ones I want to fight most, after all~

Otsutsuki Toneri wore a faint, sincere smile. Whether it was the peerless warlord Madara Uchiha or Momoshiki Otsutsuki...

They were strong, extremely strong, perhaps not even weaker than Naruto and Sasuke at their absolute peak.

The two at their absolute peak.

Naruto had absorbed the vast majority of the entire continent's natural energy-his Six Paths Kurama form!

And Sasuke, whose Ultimate Susanoo had absorbed the chakra of the Nine Tailed Beasts, using his Perfect Susanoo as a vessel in place of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path!

That was when the two had truly been at their peak!

That was when the two had been at their strongest!

And the ones Otsutsuki Toneri wanted to fight most were precisely Naruto and Sasuke. It could count as a wish of his, neither particularly big nor small~

Hearing this, Naruto and Sasuke both froze.

"Boring!" Sasuke turned his head away disdainfully and lowered it again. An opponent and rival? He did not need one!

All he wanted now was to become stronger, then find that man and avenge his clan!

"Huh? You mean... you want to become my rival?" When Naruto came back to his senses, even his gaze trembled slightly, and his eyes began to sting.

A powerful emotion surged within him-the feeling of being moved by someone's recognition.

Otsutsuki Toneri smiled without answering and slowly walked toward Naruto, the Rinnegan in his palm flickering faintly.

"You..."

Naruto was about to say something when he suddenly saw an eye, a scarlet eye with mysterious black rings inside it!

After entrancing Naruto with genjutsu, Otsutsuki Toneri entered the depths of Naruto's consciousness.

An enormous gate stood in the gloomy surroundings, and imprisoned behind it was the strongest of the Nine Tailed Beasts, the Nine-Tails!

"Kid? Who are you?" Enormous, slit-pupiled eyes opened, and a hoarse male voice emerged from the Nine-Tails' mouth as his nine enormous fox tails thrashed wildly.

The Nine-Tails studied the boy who had suddenly appeared through the gap in the gate. For some reason, he kept feeling an unsettling presence about this boy.

"Otsutsuki Toneri. Nine-Tails, I've long heard of you." Otsutsuki Toneri smiled softly, curiously examining this sealed, strongest Tailed Beast.

Yes, the strongest Tailed Beast!

Strictly speaking, the Ten-Tails was not actually a Tailed Beast. He was a manifestation of the God Tree, to whom the concept of a Tailed Beast did not apply.

Later, after Kaguya Ōtsutsuki was sealed, Hagoromo Otsutsuki sealed most of the Ten-Tails' chakra within himself for the sake of the continent, becoming the first Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.

The Ten-Tails' husk, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, was taken to the moon and guarded by Hamura Otsutsuki.

Hagoromo Otsutsuki was not immortal, and before his death, he split the Ten-Tails Chakra into nine portions, forming the Nine Tailed Beasts.

So there was nothing wrong with calling the Nine-Tails the strongest Tailed Beast.

"Otsutsuki? What's your relationship with the old Sage of Six Paths?" At this, the Nine-Tails immediately slammed against the gate in excitement, his slit-pupiled eyes fixed on Otsutsuki Toneri.

Otsutsuki was Hagoromo Otsutsuki's surname, and strictly speaking, Hagoromo Otsutsuki was the father of all Nine Tailed Beasts!

Though he called him the old Sage of Six Paths...

Deep down, the Nine-Tails actually held Hagoromo Otsutsuki in great respect.

"The Sage of Six Paths? If I had to put it into words, I suppose he could count as my great-uncle?" Otsutsuki Toneri thought for a moment before answering the Nine-Tails.

There were far too many generations between them, and Otsutsuki Toneri could not even be bothered to work it out.

(Watching Naruto back then really wrung so many tears from Shiguang... Naruto and Sasuke's battles brought tears every single time, especially their final battle...)

Chapter 19: Nine-Tails! I need your help! Fourth update!

"I see. You're a descendant of the old Sage of Six Paths' younger brother, then?" The Nine-Tails fell silent briefly at this, then tilted his head as he looked at Otsutsuki Toneri and spoke.

Hagoromo Otsutsuki had once told them about Hamura Otsutsuki's existence, so he understood what Otsutsuki Toneri meant by great-uncle.

"Then why have you come to see me? And you're actually blind?" The Nine-Tails lay down and asked curiously as he looked at Otsutsuki Toneri.

He hated humans because of their almost endless greed and because they treated Tailed Beasts as weapons of war.

Especially that black-haired man! Using the ocular power of his Eternal eyes, he had actually forced a contract on him and used him like a pet!

But he did not particularly dislike direct descendants of the two Otsutsuki brothers.

So his attitude toward Otsutsuki Toneri was quite friendly.

"Nine-Tails, I need your help. I need some of your chakra!" Otsutsuki Toneri chuckled, then stated his purpose without hesitation.

There was nothing to hide. Even if the Nine-Tails refused, he had ways to make him obediently hand over his chakra!

"My chakra? Kid, what are you trying to do? You have the pure bloodline of the Ōtsutsuki Clan. You don't need to covet my power." The Nine-Tails swayed his tails, looking at Otsutsuki Toneri in considerable confusion.

His chakra was extremely violent by nature, beyond what ordinary people could withstand. Although this boy belonged to the Ōtsutsuki Clan...

If he forcibly took his chakra into his body, he would probably still suffer for it.

It should not have been worth it for Otsutsuki Toneri. After all, the Ōtsutsuki Clan was naturally close to nature, and cultivating Sage Mode suited them better.

"I'm not using your chakra for combat. Nine-Tails, you should recognize this eye, shouldn't you?" Otsutsuki Toneri turned the Rinnegan in his palm toward the Nine-Tails, then spoke with a soft smile.

He had a very favorable impression of the Nine-Tails and did not begrudge taking a little time to explain things to him.

"The Rinnegan!! Kid, where did you get that Rinnegan?!" After getting a clear look at the eye, the Nine-Tails abruptly stood up, his formidable presence spilling out uncontrollably as he hurriedly asked in a shocked voice.

He finally understood why he had sensed something unsettling about Otsutsuki Toneri. This fellow actually possessed the Rinnegan!

Tailed Beasts were extremely powerful, but they were naturally and utterly countered by the Sage Eyes and Wood Release!

With the genjutsu of the Sage Eyes, it could almost be said that as long as the user was not weak, they could control them with ease.

And Wood Release could likewise beat them down effortlessly...

There had been many instances in the original story. After obtaining the Six-Tomoe Rinnegan, Sasuke could immobilize the Nine Tailed Beasts with genjutsu with nothing more than a glance!

The most unfortunate of the Tailed Beasts was none other than the Nine-Tails, the strongest Tailed Beast. First, Madara Uchiha subdued him with his Eternal eyes, ordering him around entirely like a pet.

Then Obito Uchiha controlled him with the Mangekyo to attack Konoha. He could hardly have been more unfortunate.

But was the Nine-Tails weak? He was extremely powerful! His power exceeded that of the other eight Tailed Beasts by far more than a little!

Yet he remained a plaything before the Sage Eyes, to say nothing of Hashirama Senju's Wood Release.

But the Nine-Tails could not understand why Otsutsuki Toneri had a Rinnegan, let alone one growing in his palm.

He remembered Hagoromo Otsutsuki telling them that his younger brother indeed possessed eyes no weaker than the Rinnegan, but those should have been the entirely different Tenseigan.

"Just a bloodline awakening. Nine-Tails, share some of your chakra with me. My Rinnegan needs your chakra!" Otsutsuki Toneri shook his head, then spoke to the Nine-Tails with a smile.

Yes, he needed the Nine-Tails' chakra precisely to spur his Rinnegan's evolution!

Although Kaguya Ōtsutsuki had left her ocular power and chakra within Otsutsuki Toneri's Rinnegan to nurture it...

It was too slow. Who knew how long it would take to nurture it?

So Otsutsuki Toneri planned to use Tailed Beast chakra to spur the Rinnegan's evolution!

Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan came from eating the God Tree Fruit, and the God Tree was the Ten-Tails, while the Ten-Tails was the Nine Tailed Beasts combined into one.

They shared the same root and origin to begin with. Using the Nine Tailed Beasts' chakra to nourish his Rinnegan should allow it to evolve faster!

"I see. You're quite an impressive kid. Then I'll lend you a hand!" The Nine-Tails fell silent briefly at this, gave the child a complicated look with his fox eyes, then spoke in a deep voice.

Hagoromo Otsutsuki had given him his life. Since a direct descendant of Hagoromo Otsutsuki's younger brother was asking for his help, he had no reason to refuse.

Besides...

Judging by this kid, refusing probably would not do any good...

The Rinnegan could easily control him...

So whether in terms of sentiment or reason, he actually had no grounds to refuse.

"Thank you, then, Nine-Tails." Otsutsuki Toneri did not expose this prickly male fox's desperate need to save face and thanked him very politely.

"No need. It's only right." The Nine-Tails shook his enormous fox head, then opened his huge mouth slightly, forming a fiery-red ball of chakra.

It then slowly floated over to Otsutsuki Toneri and stopped before him.

An irrepressible smile curved Otsutsuki Toneri's lips. He brought the scarlet Rinnegan before the chakra ball and slowly began absorbing its chakra.

It works!

After absorbing the Nine-Tails Chakra and feeling an unusual warmth in his Rinnegan, Otsutsuki Toneri could not help feeling delighted.

Judging by this, its evolution had definitely accelerated considerably. It might even undergo its first evolution very soon!

Looking at the delight on Otsutsuki Toneri's face, the Nine-Tails understood that he was probably very satisfied.

This fellow's future prospects were probably limitless!