The Death Of The Last Vagrant Shinobi

The era of shinobi is over. Despite their futile efforts, shinobi have fallen, by the members of god clan, Ōtsutsuki.

The main perpetrator and the master behind the scenes was the Ōtsutsuki prince, Isshiki Ōtsutsuki, the person who successfully took over the body of Kawaki, after his previous host Jigen couldn't survive the power he wielded.

Unfortunately, Naruto and Sasuke couldn't stop him from overtaking Kawaki and ended up having to fight him.

As Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha were the strongest shinobi in the entire world, they were naturally able to rival Isshiki Ōtsutsuki's strength. However, even after they teamed up, they were at a slight disadvantage.

Sasuke Uchiha, whose hand was missing after he battled Naruto in the past, had a mayor handicap which stopped him from using the full potential of his power and Naruto, who was like a foster father for Kawaki, couldn't bring himself to use his full power in fear that he would hurt Kawaki's body and precisely this turned out to be the biggest mistake, as Isshiki managed to capture Naruto and severely injure Sasuke's leg, causing him a permanent injury that couldn't be healed even by the fifth Hokage Tsunade, leaving him unable to operate as a ninja.

After he managed to kidnap Naruto, the last living member of the Kara group, Isshiki Ōtsutsuki wasn't seen for the next two years.

Ninjas from all villages sent out search parties, yet no one could locate the Seventh Hokage. It was as if he turned into ash and disappeared.

Time has passed and finally, on Boruto's 18th birthday, fear and panic were stricken into the hearts of all shinobi around the world.

Ōtsutsuki clan began their invasion. They sent five envoys to every village and massacred and destroyed everything in their path.

After two years, Isshiki finally managed to extract the nine-tailed fox from its host Naruto and killed Naruto afterward. As Naruto was extremely weakened after the extraction, he couldn't defend himself from Isshiki's terrifying power and succumbed to his injuries.

As Isshiki collected all remaining tailed beasts over the years, only the nine tails, Kurama was remaining. Afterward, he resurrected the ten tailed beast and harvested its power. All of the tailed beasts were integrated into his body, making them forever disappear from the planet.

However, the biggest problem was, that there was still another ten tails, which was discovered by Sasuke a few years ago, but now that Naruto had disappeared for good and Sasuke was injured, they couldn't deal with it.

Unfortunately for them, Isshiki summoned the second ten tails inside of the crowded village and massacred the villagers. The ten tails set off 25 tailed beast bombs at the same time, 99% of the shinobi, or rather, people in the village have perished.

Isshiki's first step was a complete annihilation of all five main villages, together with other smaller towns, but mentioning them would be pointless as they didn't even have enough forces to resist the Ōtsutsuki invasion.

The second step consisted of killing the remaining mortals of the world and taking the essence of the world.

While everyone from other villages died.

There were still two groups of hidden leaf shinobi who have survived the slaughter.

The first group consisted of Boruto, Sarada, Sumire, Mirai, Hanabi, and Kakashi.

The members of the second group were people who were out of the village at the time, scouting for Naruto and his whereabouts, Sai, Yamato, Kabuto, Mitsuki, and Orochimaru.

Just as the first group made their decision to leave their village behind and escape, Kakashi spotted his childhood rival, and a friend, Guy, whose legs were paralyzed after the fourth great ninja war. The fight against Madara Uchiha was too taxing and as a result, he could never walk again.

The surprising thing was the fact that he was actually holding his own against two Ōtsutsuki clan members while only being able to use his bare fists. Unable to leave him there, Kakashi joined the battle and told others to run away.

The group reluctantly agreed and left.

As their communication cut off a few minutes after, Boruto has guessed that they have also fallen in battle.

The five of them were on the run for more than three years.

At the time, there was nothing but fear and anguish on their minds.

Two years in, they lost contact with the second group, meaning that most likely, they were the only remaining humans alive on the planet. The fear for their future and lives, pushed them forward to fight harder than ever.

As they fought for their lives and were on the brink of death day after day, they developed friendship and compassion towards each other.

However, it didn't take long for that to develop into something even more special.

Their hearts slowly began to rely on the only man in the group. Boruto. Eventually their relationship finally blossomed. Women in the group began to rely on Boruto and slowly but surely fell in love with him.

The kunoichi girls finally felt a different emotion other than fear of death these past few years. They felt love.

Boruto also ended up loving all four of his women, he showered them with love and tried to protect them the best he could but unfortunately, five years later, the only remaining shinobi in this Vagrant group were Boruto Uzumaki and Sarada Uchiha.

One night in a dark cave, surrounded by a rock formation, Sarada laid on top of Boruto, stroking his bare chest.

Looking at his handsome, scarred face, Sarada couldn't help but ask.

"Boruto...how long do you think we will survive for? Can we...win against them with our strength?"

Boruto looked into her beautiful black eyes and stroked her long raven black hair. Over the years, Sarada turned into beauty and he was glad he met her.

"You are asking me the same question every night... I just... Don't know how to answer you... I always thought that we can fight back, that we can fight the oppression, but after losing Sumire, Hanabi, and Mirai... I..." he closed his eyes and let out small tears.

After a few seconds, Boruto reopened his eyes and continued.

"I am sorry... I just...Can't promise you what I am unable to do...We are... I am too weak...We can die at any time. Today, tomorrow, a week later. The planet is already dying due to the Ōtsutsuki interference of harvesting the God's fruit. It won't take long for it to completely rot and even if they left our planet alone, we would still die due to hunger."

After he said that, silence enveloped the room.

A few seconds later, Sarada faintly smiled and hugged him.

"...I understand, Boruto...Let's treasure these moments...I love you."

"... I love you too"

Both of them kissed each other lovingly and went to sleep.

'... And sorry for not being able to give you a better future...If only...we didn't have to deal with Ōtsutsuki... Everything would be peaceful... We would start a family...Live a happy life.' Boruto lamented as he closed his eyes but deep down, he was boiling with rage.

***

The following morning they woke up to the noise of the rock formation being broken by someone.

*Crack!*

*Crack!*

*Crack!*

"Hahaha! We finally meet again! Do you have any idea how long it took? Boruto Uzumaki. You just keep on running away. After I harvested the eyes of your mother, sister, and your lover, I still need the last pair, so come to your owner you little ape."

Prince Isshiki Ōtsutsuki appeared before them with his giant horn, stretching above his forehead. That horn was the source of his power and if someone managed to break it, he would lose everything, however, Boruto already tried doing that in the past, but fighting the third strongest Ōtsutsuki with only five members, resulted in Hanabi's and Mirai's death.

Of the group of five, only Boruto and Sarada were Kage level. Other girls were Jounin level at most and were sadly... killed immediately. They stood no chance against him and even with their great teamwork, Isshiki found gaps in their formations and took their lives.

This was precisely why only Boruto and Sarada managed to survive this long.

Because no one was holding anyone back and since they were the former team 7. Their teamwork was superb and they could always come up with strategies to either defend themselves from Ōtsutsuki or to flee from them.

"Sarada! Quickly! Grab onto me, we are leaving with Hiraishin!"

As usual, Boruto wanted to use the space jutsu of the fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze to quickly retreat from the cave.

After his father Naruto had been kidnapped, Boruto was taught by Sasuke but that still wasn't enough for him. He went into the secret vault of their village and looked up all forbidden scrolls. After two years, he managed to master most of them and he stored the rest into his ERing.

ERing was essentially a special Ninja tool crafted by their village's best scientist, capable of storing inanimate objects. The space inside was 10 cubic meters big, so he was naturally able to store a lot of things.

Sarada nodded and quickly dashed towards him. She grabbed onto him and said.

"Let's go!"

However, today was not their lucky day.

Boruto activated his instant teleportation but it didn't work.

"What's wrong?" Sarada asked.

Boruto didn't reply but looked at Isshiki. Seeing him grinning from ear to ear, he had a bad premonition.

Isshiki knew that Boruto was confused so he gave him a quick explanation.

"It's pointless, human boy...Your instant travel won't work here. I have taken precautions. This time...you won't be able to run."

"Precautions? What are you talking about?" Boruto was on edge, if they couldn't escape from this cave, then it might become their burial ground.

Isshiki stroked his horn and laughed heartily.

"Ah, it's nothing really...You've been running like a rat for the past three years and frankly, I've had enough. Two days ago, I found you in this cave but I didn't attack immediately so you wouldn't run away. I set up a barrier that would close off any teleportation ability, aren't I amazing?"

'Two days ago and I didn't even notice? Damn it! He managed to escape my senses even though I was being so thorough and careful?!' Boruto was getting more and more worried. Both Sarada and him were already exhausted from the constant fights but the same couldn't be said about Isshiki.

All he needed to do, was to eat an energy pill or a chakra pill and he was completely rejuvenated. Ōtsutsuki were too strong. They had a lot of terrifying abilities and this was only one of them.

If he wanted to, he could have just sealed away his space Jutsu and blow this whole cave up with a beast bomb but he was greedy for Boruto's eyes so he couldn't afford to just kill them. He needed to make sure his eyes were still usable.

'A little bit more and I can finally obtain the eyes of that brat!'

"Well then...Shall we get started?" Isshiki waved his hand and a medium-sized ball of energy shot out of his hand.

"Damn it! Sarada!"

"I am on it!" Sarada quickly did a series of hand seals and spit a sea of crimson flames.

"Katon: Gōka Mekkyaku!!"

Sarada's sea of flames completely consumed Isshiki's fireball and continued on towards his body.

"Small trick..." Isshiki put his right hand in front of him, showing countless golden rinnegans all over his arm. The moment the flames were about to touch him, the space distorted and the flames were sucked into another dimension.

Seeing this Sarada frowned.

'It won't be easy.'

Isshiki grinned and said.

"Although you have managed to disable my absorption ability two years ago, I still have many more cards up my sleeves!"

"Oh yeah? But we won't go down that easy either!" Boruto said while gnashing his teeth and preparing Rasengan in his left hand.

He rushed towards Isshiki while holding the ball of energy in his hands.

"Hmph, don't you think it's demeaning for you to use that weak of a jutsu against me?" Isshiki raised his hand once again, in order to send the attack to another dimension but before he could, Boruto disappeared from his field of view.

"What?! How could he still teleport?!"

He reappeared behind him and touched his shoulder. Right after that, he struck his back with the rasengan.

"Aargh!"

Isshiki flew into a nearby wall, creating a big crater.

"No jutsu is weak as long as you can master it. I would use other jutsus but seeing that we are trapped in this cave, I don't wish to bury myself with you. Also, you only sealed my escape route, I can still teleport inside the cave."

*Puff*

*Puff*

*Puff*

Boruto made three clones and slowly walked up to him together with them. All of them made a Rasengan on their hands and shouted

"Rasengan Barrage!"

*Hong*

Ear-deafening explosion sound resounded, and the ceiling suddenly shook violently. Boruto could sense small cracks forming one after another, and under the shockwaves of the Rasengan Barrage, explosion gave rise to smoke and dust which instantly spread all over the entire cave.

"*Cough* *Cough* Boruto! Are you alright?!" Sarada had trouble seeing and breathing as her vision was clouded by the smoke.

"I am fine, don't worry," Boruto replied and took a look at the place he bombarded with his clones. As the dust settled, Boruto could see that Isshiki had completely disappeared.

"Sarada! Be on guard! Isshiki is definitely still inside of the cave!"

"Right!"

Boruto sent clones to scout out the interior of the cave. After ten minutes, all of them returned but they found nothing.

"Do you think we are safe? Did he leave?" Sarada asked with a hint of worry.

"Not likely. He was indeed hurt from my attack just now but he can regenerate immediately. Be careful. He might be still lurking around and waiting for the best opportunity to strike. We aren't in the clear yet!" Boruto turned his head towards the exit of the cave and said. "It looks like he used some kind of powerful seal. I will check it out to see whether I can break it. Come with me, it's not wise to split up."

Sarada agreed and went towards the exit with him.

'I placed a Hiraishin mark on him before I hit him with my Rasengan but it seems like he noticed and removed it. What a drag...' Boruto thought.

He tried breaking the seal but even after twenty minutes, he wasn't successful.

"Damn it! It just doesn't break..."

Sarada looked at the barrier and had a quick thought.

"How about I use my Mangek-"

"Forget about it."

Boruto raised his voice and interrupted her immediately.

"It's not worth going blind for. You already used it twice to save us and you can barely see anything. I don't want you to go blind. I will get us out of here."

Seeing his concern, Sarada felt deeply touched and turned off her Sharingan as it took too much chakra to maintain. Constantly maintaining Sharingan takes its toll and she already had it on for more than 35 minutes.

And at this time, a boulder suddenly flipped over, then the soil burst out. After that Isshiki jumped out from inside catching Sarada of guard and grabbing her arm.

When the Rasengan Barrage was just about to land, Isshiki had used his special ability to hide in the wall, waiting for the perfect chance to deal fatal damage.

"Got you."

He twisted Sarada's arm and she howled in pain.

"Sarada!" Boruto jumped towards Isshiki but he immediately hid into the wall again.

Sarada's arm was twisted beyond repair and it was hard to look at it. The bone was sticking out and a part of her flesh was torn apart. The worst part was, that she never practiced medical ninjutsu of her mom so she had no way of healing this kind of injury.

"I..*Huff* am okay...*Huff* don't worry about me..."

Boruto could tell that she was obviously feeling too much pain but didn't want him to worry.

He quickly took the last recovery pill out of his ERing and handed it to her.

This pill was manufactured by scientists from his village. As long as the user didn't lose a limb, it could heal most things.

Seeing the medicine, Sarada widened her eyes and couldn't help but shed a tear. Due to her fault, she was critically injured and Boruto had to use a life-saving medicine on her.

'I am...useless...I am dragging him down, just like the other girls did. After their death, I had such a disgusting thought. I wondered whether it's going to be easier for us to survive after they died. But I am no different.'

She looked at her twisted arm and thought. 'My strongest jutsu comes from my Mangekyou Sharingan, but if I were to use that I would...'

As Sarada was being consumed by her dark thoughts, Boruto lightly slapped her, making her recover from her stupor.

"Give me your hand! I need to fix it. It will hurt a bit."

"But Boruto, I-"

He didn't listen to her and tried to fix her hand. Once again, blood-curdling screams of Sarada echoed throughout the cave. It really pained his heart but he had to do it or else the medicine wouldn't work.

"There, now take it and watch in amazement."

The full of sweat Sarada reluctantly took the pill and her bluish arm regained its color and slowly recovered all damage it received.

After she stood firmly, and slightly calmed down her breath, she activated her Sharingan again and looked at the walls in hopes of finding Isshiki but it resulted in failure, as Sharingan cannot see through walls.

Even though Sharingan can perceive the flow and molding of chakra within a person's body, she still couldn't locate where Isshiki was hiding.

At this point, both Sarada and Boruto already guessed that if Isshiki didn't want their eyes, they would be long dead without the Hiraishin. He just didn't want damaged goods.

"I will get back to deciphering the barrier. Just give me some time and tell me if you see something." He left his back wide open for Sarada because he trusted her the most, not noticing a different glint in her eyes.

Sarada took out her katana from her scabbard and crept up behind him.

She desperately tried to warn him but she couldn't utter a single word.

She stopped right behind him and pierced him from behind.

*Puchi*

The blood dripped down his chest as his heart was stabbed.

Boruto looked behind him in disbelief as he couldn't understand what just happened to him.

"But why...*Cough*...Sarada..."

He coughed up blood and looked into her crimson-red eyes.

Sarada couldn't speak but only silently cried. Seeing her cry, he knew that it wasn't of her own will.

'Is she under genjutsu even though she has Sharingan? Just how powerful is his illusion?'

Nearby wall opened up, revealing the grinning Isshiki.

"At last, your Tenseigan will be mine!"

As Boruto was struggling on the floor, he used the last bit of his power to ask.

"Just how...did this happen?"

Isshiki stepped forward towards Sarada and said.

"Oh don't worry...I will tell you exactly! As I am such a benevolent being!"

He caressed her cheek much to the protest of Boruto and then punched her with a lot of power behind it.

Sarada's body was sent flying into a nearby wall and she hit her head, causing her to bleed and fall unconscious.

Isshiki revealed a sadistic smile and licked his lips. He walked towards the fallen Boruto and pat him on the head.

"Now...now...now...now... I shall tell you how the great me, managed to fool the world's strongest remaining shinobi! Hahaha!"

Most members of the Ōtsutsuki clan were arrogant and cocky by nature, but Isshiki was even worse. He always wanted to be the center of attention and wanted everyone to know how much better he was than them.

"My dear Boruto of the Uzumaki branch, dying to his beloved woman. Oh...how much does this betrayal hurt? Tell me. I want to feel your emotions... I am hungry..." He licked his lips and looked at him in anticipation but Boruto ignored him and simply stared at Sarada while hoping that she was still alive.

Luckily when she attacked him just now, she missed the heart by only a few millimeters but that still didn't mean he was saved yet. He was bleeding internally and even though he was still alive and conscious at this rate, it wouldn't take long for him to pass out for good.

"I see...I see...you are ignoring me, aren't you? Good. Very good." He used an energy pill in his pocket and activated the shadow strangle jutsu of the Nara family. Afterward, he walked towards Sarada and picked her up by her hair.

"Bastard! Get... your hands off! Shadow clone jutsu!"

Boruto struggled to get up but could only barely crouch while stabilizing himself with his hand. His injuries and the fact that he was being controlled by a shadow strangle jutsu made him unable to move from his spot.

*Puff*

*Puff*

*Puff*

"Look at you! Finally giving me attention! Good boy! But I am afraid it's too late. Hehe." Isshiki instantly destroyed all of the clones with a single wave of his hand and then bashed Sarada's head into the wall.

"You fucker...let her go...please...I am the one you want...just don't hurt her anymore..." Boruto struggled with all his might. Blood flowed from his wound but even that wasn't enough to escape from Isshiki's grasp.

'Boruto...think...think...how to escape this situation...I can't use Hiraishin because I am being restrained and even if I could use it, it would be pointless as that seal is still working. I also can't activate my sage mode without concentrating... Is it really... the end?'

Isshiki threw Sarada on the ground and slowly walked towards Boruto.

"Let me tell you how easily I managed to beat you! After you injured me with that blue ball, I hid and waited. Once I saw that your lover over here turned off those weak eyes of hers, I immediately broke her arm. I gathered some blood from my wound and spilled it into her injury. That's how I was able to control her easily! Aren't I simply brilliant? Tell me? Mortal boy?"

Boruto clenched his teeth in rage. This person killed everyone from the village, his family, lovers and he was still powerless to fight him.

'Just what was I doing this entire time? I am already stronger than my father and my mentor. Yet I still cannot beat Isshiki. While it's true that in this cave I can't bring out even half of my power, but he should be in the same shoes as me because he wants to make sure my eyes are not damaged. Moreover, he is only the third strongest. There is still the leader of the Ōtsutsuki clan and his wife whose strength is too unimaginable and unattainable for me.'

"What's wrong mortal boy? Cat got your tongue? It seems like I need to make you speak again!" Once again, Isshiki grabbed Sarada, this time by her throat, and lifted her up.

"W-What are you doing? Stop...Please..." The feeling of dread overcome him. He didn't want to watch another one of his loved ones to die.

"You always seem to forget one thing. I HATE TO BE IGNORED!" with that, Isshiki applied stronger pressure on her neck and crushed it. He threw her aside and acted as if nothing happened.

"No! Sarada! I will kill you, you bastard! I will fucking annihilate you! I will kill you!" Boruto dug the ground with his broken nails and desperately tried to escape from the shadow strangle jutsu.

"Kill you...I will murder you..."

Hearing his shouts of agony, Isshiki made a delighted smile.

"YES! This is it! The emotions! I love them! It's simply amazing! This much hate is the trait of humans! Ah, It's just so sad that out of all the myriad beings I've met, only you human mortals were capable of such an emotion!" A black ball of negative energy formed right in front of Isshiki and he swallowed it.

"Delicious! Simply Amazing! Give me more!" He grabbed Sarada's lifeless body and threw it towards Boruto.

With the shrill sound of gritting teeth, Boruto managed to tear down the shadow binding his body and caught her.

Feeling seething rage stabbing the insides of his chest, Boruto roared.

"If I won't be successful in killing you in this life, I will definitely murder you and your whole clan in my next!!"

"Hooh? Big words from someone who wasn't able to protect anyone."

At this point, Isshiki just laughed heartily as he was finally about to get those legendary eyes but he didn't expect Boruto's next move.

"Oodama Rasengan." A giant Rasengan ten times it's original size appeared on the left hand of Boruto.

"The final struggle huh? I guess it doesn't matter. I can play with you for a bit longer. Those eyes are already mine."

"..." Boruto just took a kunai out of his ERing as a smile of madness was plastered on his face.

"Huh? What are you doing? STOP IT! DON'T YOU DARE!" Isshiki immediately rushed after Boruto only to be a second too late.

*Puchi*

Boruto stabbed both of his eyes with the kunai and shouted.

"Hahahah...I am a man who lost everything...Village, teachers, friends, family, and lovers. Do you think I will let you have what you wanted all this time? Losing my eyes is nothing compared to what happens next!"

Boruto's frenzied laughter echoed throughout the cave.

"You lowly insect... You ape... You dare to take what's mine!?" Isshiki was full of rage. The last time he was this angry was when Mirai disabled his ability to absorb ninjutsu. As a result he killed her brutally.

Just as he was about to kill Boruto for what he had done, Boruto did a quick series of hand seals and shouted, "Great Uzumaki Seal!"

Just as the name suggested, the Great Uzumaki seal was a specialty of Uzumaki clan members. It was the strongest sealing jutsu in the world, capable of trapping anything.

Isshiki slammed his fists into the barrier but he couldn't put even a single scratch on it.

"Let me out you dog! *Ding* *Ding* I promise I will only torture you for a while *Ding*"

"It's pointless. You already sealed off the ability to teleport from yourself and you won't be able to break this seal. Nothing is able to get in or out. We are stuck in here. Forever."

"Get me out you pile of mortal shit!"

Boruto smirked and replied, "Oh, I didn't know that the Otsutsuki clan can feel hatred. I thought it was only related to humans... and for the record, I am neither an insect, a monkey or a mortal. My human heart died when my father was kidnapped by you. My human body was torn apart the moment I found about my father's, sister's and grandfather's death. My mind gave up when I lost three of my lovers and my soul... Left me the moment Sarada died."

Boruto stood up with a great difficulty, hugging Sarada's lifeless body with his right hand and holding a giant Rasengan with his left hand.

"All that's remaining is the hate that is fueling my existence. I am not a human or a mortal, I have become a demon. This is where it all ends. Unfortunately. I wasn't strong enough to protect anything. But at least I am taking you down with me."

"Damn you!"

"No. Damn you. And you should hope that we won't meet in the afterlife or else I will make sure you disappear to the everlasting void." with that, he ignored Isshiki's last screams and hit the ceiling of the cave with his Rasengan, burying all three of them.

In his last moments, Boruto kissed Sarada's forehead and apologized.

"I am so sorry... I love you..."

*Crash*