Reality and illusion

A slight swish sound could be heard in Mizuki's home, audible only to a trained dog or people beyond common hearing.

And someone with such sharp hearing was indeed present and paying attention, it was Mizuki himself, to be specific, clone Mizuki.

Looking up from his experimental table, he found original Mizuki teleporting in.

" You did it? "

Asked clone Mizuki, he and Mizuki were one mind but could be seperated when need arises.

Orginal Mizuki smiled as he sat on the bed with clone Mizuki, but curiously, they didn't re establish the connection between each other.

Preferring to talk instead.

" Yes, I did it, Kaguya is currently alone with black zetsu, it won't be long, what we have set up, will commence. "

Clone Mizuki nodded at the vague reply, because he knew exactly what original Mizuki was talking about.

This was a game, a massive plan they had constructed, it was so crucial that they didn't even care about seperating their souls, just to have a crack at this.

Clone Mizuki smirked as he asked about the details of this operation from Mizuki's side.

" Did she find out? That you are Andrew? "

Mizuki nodded as he clicked his tongue.

" Yes, I figured as much she would, when the snake sage understood something was off about us, and realised our reincarnated status, it was apparent she would sense something off as well. "

Clone Mizuki frowned, but soon assumed a calm face again, pondering he asked Mizuki.

" So you accepted? A good choice, if we had to hide such an obvious thing, it would be needlessly troublesome. None of these long lived ones are easy. "

Be it Naruto or Sasuke, Hashirama or Madara, black zetsu, could find them again and again, a reincarnation always leaves traces, this Mizuki could confirm.

At first he thought it must be the chakra signature, but neither Naruto and Hashirama, nor Madara and Sasuke have the exact same chakra.

Fundamentally, being Indra and Asura reincarnation doesn't give you the same chakra signature, this was the first step in Mizuki understanding, infront of people who know what is going on like Kaguya, black zetsu and white snake sage.

He can't hide his reincarnated status.

" Yup, I could see her confusion when she had asked who I was. I had no choice, but don't worry, our countermeasures worked. "

Smirked Mizuki, as he pointed towards his head and tapped, to which clone Mizuki smiled and pointed towards his eyes and laughed.

When Mizuki was about to tell Kaguya his name, he had stopped and hesitated for a few seconds, before saying Andrew, seeing no other choice at hand.

But Mizuki being Mizuki had seen this coming, to make sure the threat named Kaguya was appropriately dealt with, he even broke apart his soul and used the most dangerous genjutsu upon himself.

" Kotoamatsukami "

Clone Mizuki smiled and looked towards Mizuki as he asked.

" So, how does it feel? Do you really feel that you love her? "

Mizuki smiled and laughed with giddiness.

" Yup! I feel I have been in love with her for so long, it is marvelous, I truly believe, even when I don't, that she is the answer to all my problems, what I have been seeking. "

Giving a toothy smile Mizuki closed his eyes and felt this feeling inside of him, so out of his control, amazing.

Clone Mizuki thinned his lips.

" You want me to remove Kotoamatsukami from you? "

Mizuki waved his hand as he disagreed.

" No, we have done so much for what? To let her understand us, our Ninshu can take care of the connection, she needs to know we have a valid reason for approaching her. "

Laughing loudly Mizuki whispered, as if struggling to think logically about a loved one, struggling against the permanent Kotoamatsukami affecting his mind.

" She is in a terrible state, we need to tell her that she can trust us, that we aren't out to get her, she is paranoid to the core, anything less than absolute honesty will make her panic and act rashly. "

Nodded clone Mizuki, agreeing to orignal as he clicked his tongue.

" These god like beings are too difficult to talk to, we had to go so far, cutting our soul connection and restoring original thought to me, modification of your willpower to make you truly love, we even had to let original body act instead of this white zetsu body, so she doesn't sense something wrong."

Shaking his head he sighed.

" All to make sure we are genuine, this much effort better be worth it, I don't even want to restore connection with you right now, I am the backup memory, one not modified by Kotoamatsukami, if we synchronise, then who knows which willpower will prevail. "

Said clone Mizuki, as he looked tired.

Borrowing Dan's spiritualism technique from Tsunade, using white Zetsu's innate ability to copy other's perfectly by chakra and shadow clones ability to maintain a connection with orginal.

Mizuki had recreated a whole new body and cloned his soul, all this, just to make sure he can handle the threat named Kaguya.

Original Mizuki didn't care though.

" I don't care, her son's might think sealing her away is all fun and games, but when the Otsutsuki eventually attack, then they will understand what a massive mistake they have done. "

To this clone Mizuki nodded, they wanted to heal Kaguya for two very important reasons, first she is a threat which can get loose anytime, and second, sealing her away is a massive loss for her and humanity in general.

" The sage is a foolish man, so are the toads, this is a full blooded immortal Otsutsuki, one fully prepared to protect this planet, we need to only watch the scale of her actions and we have our biggest shield against the eventual crisis. "

Mizuki and clone Mizuki nodded, only an Otsutsuki can fight against an Otsutsuki, eventually earth will be overpowered, pure earthlings have limits, Kaguya doesn't.

Without someone like her on their side, who can grow stronger without limits, Mizuki would be looking at a very grim future ahead.

So he had to do everything in his power to break the game, he cannot let Kaguya be sealed forever, he had to get her out and he needs to prepare.

" This game of Ninja village's cannot go on any longer, the earth needs to unite, we need every single power we can get, our opponent is a cosmic civilization, we are only one planet. We are terribly outnumbered. "

Whispered Mizuki as clone Mizuki nodded grimly.

In later canon, it was becoming obvious, Kurama had to go nuclear just as a desperate attempt, Sasuke had to lose his eye, humans were beginning to lose.

They had to do something, and looking at Mizuki's sharp eyes, it was obvious he had taken the matter into his hands.

" I lost to cosmic activities once, I will not lose against it again, this cosmic civilization can still be stopped, and the first step is.. "

Clone Mizuki finished Mizuki's thoughts.

" Ending the era of five great Ninja village's. "

Mizuki and clone Mizuki smiled, like always, both knew, they could trust each other to fullfill their duties.

Mizuki would take care of Kaguya, Clone Mizuki would take care of the Ninja villages, nothing Mizuki had done wasn't connected to the bigger picture.

From gaining Kotoamatsukami to getting this body of white zetsu from the mist, the one who was monitoring Yagura, even his eventual rising in position and gaining authority, everything was done with his first goal in mind.

To keep on living.

Now Mizuki had achieved the first step of his plan, gaining authority, so he has started the second step of his plan, ending the era of ninja wars.

Fate was a funny thing, Hagoromo desired his Ninshu to save the world, the sage body being the one to bring world peace, his thoughts were indeed beginning to be realised, just not with his son Asura as he had intended.