"You still dare to chicken out?!" Many angry female voice echoes in Izuna's ears, frightening him.
Ahem…
Izuna clears his throat and extends his hand towards Tsunade.
"Tsunade Senju, the Lady Hokage. Will you marry me?"
Ah…
A pin-drop silence spreads across the already silent world. Every shinobi, be it from Konoha or any other nation, stares silently at Izuna with their mouth agape.
Tsunade calmly glances at Izuna. The corner of her lips slowly turns into a grin. However, she extends her hand towards Izuna.
"It's happening!" Kushina, Aiko, and the other ladies silently cheer for Izuna.
However, Tsunade's hand crosses Izuna's extended hand and moves towards his face. She clenches her palm in a fist.
'Shit! I had it coming.' Izuna closes his eyes and drops any thought of defense.
'I deserve it!'
A few seconds pass by, the expected fist doesn't make contact with his face.
'What happened? Did ascending to Godhood give me a thick face?' Izuna touches his face and slowly opens one eye.
"BAKA!"
Tsunade grabs Izuna's neck with her hand and pulls him closer to her chest. She hugs him in between her mountains and tears overflow from her eyes.
"I… I have been waiting for you to say that for so long. I knew that our relationship was a forbidden one. We aren't even from the same generation and I am even several decades older than you. You are already a married man with a family and kids… and… perhaps I shouldn't have such indecent thoughts towards my students. But… but… you… you… you have long stolen my heart. Now… I can't even think about love for someone else.
I was conflicted over my emotions for several years. I even mistook them for an obsession of my heart and even shut down my feelings, discarding them as my fantasies. But… but these past few years and this war… made me realize my true feelings. And now, I can't get over it." Tsunade breaks down in tears.
"Tsuna!" Hashirama raises his hand, but Mito pats his shoulder and shakes her head.
Tsunade separates Izuna from her hug and grabs his collar with both hands. She stares into his eyes with tears on her face.
"You have to take responsibility! You have to take responsibility for all the emotional distress you caused me. You have to take responsibility for my heart and the feelings inside it. And… and I won't let go of you forever. Even if I die, I will become a ghost and haunt you." Tsunade also confesses her feelings.
"No!" Izuna opens his mouth.
The expression of everyone around him changes. A murderous aura rises from Hashirama's body. Cracks appear on the surrounding ground. However, Mito holds him back.
"Let me go, Mito! I want to break this kid's bones. Tsuna… she… she!"
"Let me finish first!" Mito shakes her head.
"No! Not even death will do us part!" Izuna stares into Tsunade's eyes.
"Is that a promise?" Tsunade mumbles.
"No, promises are too fragile and break easily." Izuna shakes his head.
"It's an oath. An oath from the bottom of my heart!" Izuna's clear eyes glimmers.
"An Oath of a god!" Seiryū mumbles as he notices the change in the surroundings.
Cough… cough…
Madara coughs slightly to remind the couple of the other's presence.
AH!
Tsunade and Izuna quickly separate from each other with a red face. However, Izuna clasps her waist in his left hand.
"Mei!" He beckons Mei.
Mei walks toward him along with the kids with a shy expression. Izuna wraps his right hand around Mei's waist and pulls her closer.
The two kids jump on his shoulder.
"Hehe… See, I have enough space to shoulder even more responsibilities!" Izuna cracks a dad joke.
"…"
The audience rolls their eyes.
BAM…
Two fists plunge into his stomach, making him bend forward a little. Mei and Tsunade glare at him with a smile, which is not a smile.
"I was joking! Just joking!" Sweat trickles down Izuna's forehead.
'I didn't make a mistake. Definitely not! As a man, I have to accept everything that comes my way.' Izuna puffs into his chest and stands straight.
Madara turns to Hashirama. At this moment, Hashirama's eyes also meet the latter.
"Looks like this is how we reconcile our differences."
"From a foe to friend to back to being a foe and now relatives. Life sure is full of twists." Madara sighs.
"Hashirama, is this the future you envisioned?"
"Haha… Madara… our era is long gone. The future rests in the hands of our descendants. We had our share of struggles and they will have theirs. However, this is how life works. We are shinobis. We persevere and move forward." Hashirama chuckles and walks towards Madara.
He supports Madara to stand up.
"You are right! Our era is long gone! So, as the ghosts of the past, we shall leave the future to the next generation. Also, I owe you something."
Madara makes a hand seal.
Hmm…
Hashirama is slightly startled. However, he recognizes the hand seal as the seal of reconciliation.
"You are right! You do owe me one!" Hashirama also reciprocates the gesture with his own seal of reconciliation.
"From now on, we are relatives!"
Kazumi and Mito silently stand behind the two and glance at each other. Behind them, Tsunade and Izuna's parents also look at each other with a smile.
The couple walks towards their elders to take their blessing.
"Onee-san, I am so happy for you?" Tears stream down from Nawaki's soul.
'A soul is crying in happiness!' Seiryū is startled to see this phenomenon.
It's common for souls to cry in pain and suffering. The Soul tears are a very important ingredient for several forging and fuinjutsu formations. However, the tears of happiness are a different rarity altogether.
Seiryū even holds his urge to collect them on the spot.
Izuna and Tsunade turn towards each other with a solemn face.
"With heavens, earth, my family, and the Almighty GOD as a witness, I take a vow to take Tsunade Senju, the woman I love as my wife." Izuna takes a solemn vow.
'Almighty GOD?!' A few questions arise in Seiryū's mind.
'Isn't he a God himself? And also, he hates all three Supreme Gods and even their incarnations with a passion. So, who is the Almighty GOD in his vow?' However, before Seiryū can think further, a strange power influences him and makes him forget the matter.
"With heavens, earth, my family, and the Almighty GOD as a witness, I take a vow to take Izuna Uchiha, the man I love as my husband." Tsunade also repeats after Izuna.
Of course, the Almighty GOD in Izuna's vow is the GOD who reincarnated him in the Shinobi world. Only, he is considered a true GOD in Izuna's mind.
The rest of the people clap to congratulate them.
"The Fourth Shinobi War is over with the victory of the Allied Shinobi force!" Izuna declares.
"The war is over, but the world!"
Everyone's expression changes at the thought of the loss they suffered. The sweet taste of victory turns sour from the mourning of the sacrifice everyone made.
"This war!"
Several shinobi sighs with grief, sorrow, pain, loss, and various other grim emotions.
Sigh…
The few Kages and commander sigh, unable to find words to calm the emotions of their people. The culprit of this incident is in front of them, but they don't have the heart to take revenge, especially on a dying man.
Hmm…
Izuna notices the fluctuating emotions of the people in front of him.
He nods at Tsunade and Mei and hands over Tatsuya and Kanna to them.
Izuna walks in front of the group with several emotions in his heart.
'These feelings and emotions of fear, agony, distress, hatred, grief, sorrow, pain, rage, and even guilt.' As a God, he can see the hearts of mortals in front of him.
Yes, mortals! After his ascension to godhood, his existence has changed. He is now a higher form of life compared to the rest.
Now, he can witness more things than others. But this power also dulls the feelings and emotions in his heart.
'Now I have to embrace it. After all, even I was a lowly, powerless mortal once. How can I allow this bit of power to cloud my mind and judgment?'
"Everyone!" Izuna speaks, drawing everyone's attention.
"This isn't the end of everything!"
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"Everyone, this isn't the end of everything!"
Izuna's words draw everyone's attention. The shinobi bury the grief in their heart and listen to the words of the 'Hero' who saved the world from tragedy.
Even though the said 'Hero' has a questionable identity, being the grandson of the villain who initiated the war and claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in this war. Numerous conflicting emotions linger in the hearts of these shinobi.
Izuna witnesses their emotions and sighs in his heart.
"I have to clear Grandfather's name. He wasn't the true mastermind of this war. The real mastermind is someone else."
Izuna opens his palm and releases a video image of Madara's conversation with Black Zetsu.
'This is the ability of a God!'
A God can perfectly recall any moment that happened in the past.
'Though I can't show the scenes of battle with Shutendōji since he is a higher level being than me and I can't influence his past.'
A massive image of Madara's conversation with Zetsu appears in the sky of Donut Island.
The expression of shinobis changes rapidly from shock, and anger, to disbelief, and doubt.
They turn toward Izuna with a skeptical gaze. And even a few directly question him.
"Is this some kind of genjutsu? Are you trying to brainwash us or are you trying to manipulate our memories to clear your grandfather's name?"
Several voices of discontent echo among the crowd. The expression of various Kages and commanders turns ugly. They already have information about the otherworldly aliens who are planning to invade their world from outside.
However, the bottom rung and elite tier shinobis are still unaware of the situation, leading to so many discontent voices.
Izuna calmly glances at their reaction and nods.
"I know several of you don't trust me, much less my source of information. However, I can prove it to you right now!"
Izuna extends his hands. Nine orbs appear in his palm. He releases them and the orb flies away, morphing into nine massive-tailed beasts.
"These are…"
The expression of shinobis changes at the appearance of the Tailed beasts.
"Kurama, you are alive?" Naruto waves at Kurama.
"I was never dead, you brat!" Kurama rolls his eyes.
"Did you miss me?"
"My other half was with you, so no!" Kurama waves his hand in dismissal.
"Ah, man! You are hurting my feelings!"
Next, Izuna glances at a corner of the sky and speaks.
"Why don't you show yourself, old man? You can't hide the truth from them for long. One day or another, they have to confront it."
"You are right! The truth can't be hidden anymore."
Suddenly, a massive Fuinjutsu circle appears on the island.
Swoosh…
The soul body of Hagoromo appears in the center of the Tailed Beasts. His otherworldly appearance with his horns frightens a few shinobis.
"That look… he looks similar to Obito and Madara!"
A few shinobis, including the Kages and commander, stare at Hagoromo in shock.
"He is the legendary Sage of Six Paths, the founder of the Ninshū, the peaceful form of chakra." Izuna introduces Hagoromo to everyone.
"The legendary Sage of Six Paths!" Several murmurs and whispers echo among the shinobis.
"The legend is real!" A few shinobi exclaim.
"Look at his eyes! They are… they are… Rinnegan!"
"It's really him!"
"Father!" The Nine-tailed beast bows to Hagoromo with respect.
"So, the myth that the Sage of Six Path created the Nine-tailed beasts is true!" Several shinobis gasp in shock.
The appearance of the Sage of Six Paths gave an enormous shock to everyone, even Madara and Hashirama. The former Kages also show his respect in the form of a bow.
"Old geezer, it's you!" Naruto points a finger toward the Sage of Six Paths.
"Brat, look how respectful everyone is to me. It's only you who is different!" Hagoromo smiled and glance at Izuna.
"Well, I am just built different!" Izuna shrugs his shoulder.
"And Naruto too!" He chuckled.
Hagoromo sighs and glances at everyone around him.
"Yes, what he told is the truth? I left a tablet of prophecy for the future generation which was later passed down as the 'Uchiha Stone tablet'. However, the Black Zetsu tempered its content and manipulated Madara accordingly to fulfill his goal. He not only manipulated Madara to wage war; even the previous warring era was started by him. The constant chaos and conflicts were Black Zetsu's creation. All these years, my soul could only helplessly watch him wreak havoc in the world, unable to do anything about it." Hagoromo sighs and waves the Six Paths Wand in his hand.
Several scenes of Black Zetsu starting war and conflicts appear one after another. The numerous scenes of war open the eyes of the shinobi and direct their hatred towards the Black Zetsu.
"Black Zetsu is dead! I killed him to avenge the fallen shinobis." Izuna clenches his fists to show his resolve.
"That bastard! He… he…" Several cries of agony and grief echo throughout the island.
"My grandfather is also a victim of Black Zetsu. He plotted against my grandfather, attempted to murder my grandmother, and even manipulated the heart of my grandfather to turn him against the world." Izuna relays the scenes of Black Zetsu's plot.
Even the Uzumaki clan, Senju clan, and several other clans were reduced to extinction by his schemes. Several scenes of White Zetsu, impersonating and infiltrating the camps of several shinobi nations, appear in front of the group.
"So, that's how everything happened! All these wars and conflicts. They were all set by the Black Zetsu." The fire of rage and hatred burns through the shinobis.
"You aren't the only one who fell victim to Black Zetsu's scheme. Even the mother of Shinobi, the source of all chakras, the mother of the Sage of Six Paths, Lady Kaguya, was also manipulated by him." Izuna continued.
"He even plotted against Lady Kaguya and manipulated her like Madara to turn her evil. In the end, Lord Hagoromo and his brother have to seal their mother."
Izuna relays a few more scenes of battle between Hagoromo, Hamura, and Kaguya to everyone.
With the abilities of a God, he can peek through the past, present, and even possible future trajectories of the world.
"Mother!" Even Hagoromo clenches his Six Paths Wand as he witnesses several scenes of a kind-hearted, benevolent, compassionate woman turning into a tyrant who aims to control the world.
Izuna turns towards Hagoromo.
"Old man, I will give you a little surprise. Even without my previous abilities, I was capable of it, much less now!"
Izuna claps his palm.
Whoosh…
Suddenly, the surrounding space expands by several folds. The little island becomes massive with the expansion of space.
Izuna and Hagoromo stand in the center of the new space.
"Dimensional expansion!" Minato gasps in surprise.
"Come!" Izuna opens his palm and releases nine different orbs of chakra.
Whoosh… whoosh… whoosh…
Another massive Fuinjutsu formation with a scale much larger than before appears on the ground.
The nine orbs of chakra land on the nine different nodes of the massive Fuinjutsu formation.
Rumble… Rumble…
The center of the formation trembles and the husk of the Ten-tail, Gedo statue appears.
"Kaguya fused her body with the Shinju tree to gain more power. However, that resultant fusion corrupted her even further since the Black Zetsu was the will manifestation of Shinju."
Izuna explained to Hagoromo.
"Now what's left is the body of the Shinju tree. I will separate it from Kaguya's body."
HAAH…
Izuna claps his palm. A Yin-yang circle appears beneath the Gedo Statue.
"Creation of All Things: Yin-Yang Reversal,"
Izuna slowly separates his palms. In the center of the formation, the massive Gedo statue trembles. Two different shadows, one of a massive tree and another of a woman, slowly separate from it and settle in the black and white dots of the massive Yin-yang symbol.
The massive Yin-yang seal disperses to reveal Kaguya's body.
"Mother!"
Hagoromo quickly flies beside her. Tears overflow from her eyes.
"I can't sense her soul!" He glances at Kaguya's body.
"Black Zetsu imprisoned her soul."
Two orbs fly out from Izuna's hand. The orb envelops the shadow of the Shinju tree and seals it. The second orb floats above Kaguya's body, revealing a sleeping figure similar to Kaguya.
"That's… that's mother's soul!" Hagoromo feels a connection with the sleeping soul.
"It's indeed Kaguya's soul. Her soul is currently in hibernation. Waking her up and fusing her body with her soul requires a large amount of chakra."
The Nine orbs turn into the shadows of the Tailed Beasts.
"That's…"
"They are chakra projections of the Nine-tailed beasts. I took some of their chakra, cultivated and harvested it to such an extent. These chakra projections don't have any consciousness, only the chakra nature of their original bodies." Izuna shakes his head.
"Also, the chakra of the tailed beast was originally Kaguya's to begin with. So, this chakra source will be in perfect harmony with her."
"KAI!" Izuna claps his palm and the seal over Kaguya's soul disperses.
Kaguya's soul and body overlap with each other and slowly merge.
Fwoosh… Fwoosh…
The entire chakra formation lights up and the chakra from the nine-tailed beast projection slowly enters Kaguya's body and revitalizes it.
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