Death of our hero - 47

┏ Jugo POV ┓

It's been a while since I have followed Naruto-sama to Konoha. Life has been pretty good; I have made many friends, though many of them are younger than me.

Currently, I am walking toward Naruto-sama's favorite ramen shop with my best friend, Kiba.

Though we initially started off on the wrong foot, we got our differences aside after finding out about our shared interest in dogs(mostly animals).

" Bro, my sister, seemed too interested in you, and she keeps nagging me…can you meet here or something. I would hate to call you brother-in-law, but she is scary, and I don't want to get on her bad side." Kiba said while signing. Don't get him wrong, he doesn't like his best friends dating his sister, but he is more scared of her, if he didn't do what she said.

" *Sigh* Kiba… I know she got interested in me when I visited your house…but she is not my type. Believe me, I think she is a wonderful girl, but it's just that she is…um…too wild?" I explained to him as nicely as I could.

Kiba's big sister Hana is definitely hot, but she is not my type.

" Don't worry, and I wasn't offended. Everyone in our clan is like that. At first, she told me that you were a wussy. But she saw our fight where you turned…beastly…like you actually growled, and supposedly that turned on her…forget it, it still feels weird the way she described you. I will figure something out." Kiba said.

I was curious about the way she described me, but I kept my mouth shut, looking at Kiba's face twist with displeasure. A person with her personality probably used some profound words to describe me in passion with no shame.

" Welcome to Ichiraku. What do you like to eat?" a sweet voice captured my interest.

I turned and looked at the beautiful girl. She was a slender girl with long, dark brown hair, large black eyes, and fair skin. She wears a white robe with folded sleeves, a dark blue apron with ribbon ties at the top, and a bright white bandanna. A perfect way to describe her is she looked like a next-door neighbor with a sweet personality.

I was knocked out by Kiba, who elbowed me. After realizing I was staring at her, I couldn't help but blush in embarrassment.

" *Ahem* I want…you *Ahem* your special…give me today's special…, please." I wish I could dig a hole and hide right now for embarrassing myself like that.

Kiba started laughing at my embarrassment, and the girl held back her laugh, but she gave me a beautiful smile.

She then nodded and asked Kiba, who was still laughing his a*s off.

After she left, Kiba turned toward me with a teasing look. So I rolled my eyes and said, "What?"

Kiba shrugged off and said, "Nothing. But, for your information, her name is Ayame, and she is the daughter of the owner's restaurant." He still had a slight smile on his face, which annoyed me more.

After eating our food, I was waiting outside, and it looked like they were closing the shop early. Kiba, who also saw the shop was closing, decided to escape, saying, "Good luck."

I turned around and saw Ayame walking outside, closing the shop. Making up my mind, I went toward her.

" Hi, my name is Jugo. Nice to meet you."

…

┏ 3rd POV ┓

Kiba, who had just ditched his friend, was walking back to his home. While on the way, he saw Choji and Ino going towards Ichiraku.

Kiba then decided to go and talk to them. As he went closer, he yelled.

" YO! Choji and Ino, are you heading towards Ichiraku?"

Choji looked toward Kiba and waved his hand, while Ino rolled her eyes with annoyance and sighed.

" Hey Kiba, yes, we are heading out to Ichiraku. Wanna join?" Choji offered.

While Choji was talking, Kiba wasn't paying attention at all. No, he was staring at Ino.

" ~Hey Ino, you became more beautiful since I saw you last… Wanna hand out?" Kiba said.

" Hell no, you smell like dog sh*t. I am already interested in someone, so stop annoying me." Ino angrily replied.

Kiba shrugged off her comments and said, "Your lose…and Choji, where is Shikamaru? I always thought you would hang out together."

Kiba doesn't care that Ino rejected him AGAIN. He will just move on to someone else. From how he behaves, it looks like he does this pretty common.

Choji scratched his head, thinking for a while, and said, "Well… I haven't really seen him…and I rarely hang out with him nowadays… He either hangs out with Naruto and with his group or disappears somewhere." He didn't realize that his voice ended deeper and cracked a little at the end.

Sadly, it looks like Choji and Shikamaru friendship is ending soon. Naruto considers Shikarmaru his best friend and always spends time with him, unlike in the canon, so, since they are still kids, it's easy to change your interest and friend circle.

In reality, Shikamaru didn't abandon Choji or anything, he was just pretty busy with Root's work, and most of his free time, he plays Shoji with his father and Naruto or trains to keep up with Root's mission.

Currently, he got really interested in Root currency Gold Coins with an increased chakra amount, so he is doing missions regularly whenever he is free and while also takes breaks sometimes. I mean, it's pretty easy to get hooked on; it's like a drug, and whenever you absorb it feels like taking drugs, feeling high/ getting stronger.

Of course, it is not that bad, and this case is similar to bodybuilders since they always think it's not enough and constantly push themselves to get more buff,

Coming back to Kiba, when he heard what Choji said, he patted Choji's shoulder and said, "It happens, friends change… So what were you saying, Choji?"

Choji shook his head, thinking, 'He never changes' and said, "Oh, I said that we are going to Ichiraku and asked if you wanted to join."

Kiba then replied, "Ichiraku is already closed. I just came by, and did you want to know something about Jugo?"

Almost all the members of Konoha 11 met Jugo since he is pretty popular with his buff and good-looking body. Moreover, he always walks around with Naruto sometimes.

When Kiba said the word "secret," Ino's ears perked up. She was a gossip queen when she was in the academy, and it looks like she still has some of her habits from the academy.

"Come on, spit it out!"

…

⇝ At Naruto.

While Naruto was signing papers, he suddenly felt something poking his mind, and this has been happening since he became Jinchuriki of Rabbit Goddess.

' *sigh* When will she stop? Did I make a mistake? I should have thought more about that plan… But instead, I let my emotions control me… TCH' Naruto thought.

"Let's get this over with." Naruto closed his eyes and entered his mindscape.

…

⇝ In Mindscape

" Why can't I access your mind?"

Naruto was suddenly hit with a question when he entered the mindscape.

Naruto looked at Kaguya, who looked frustrated and said

" What I want to know is why you are trying to access my mind? We had a deal… I have been generous by sealing inside me without any repayment, and what do you do in return?"

Kaguya grumbled, listening to Naruto, and said, "Fine… But you still haven't answered my question."

Naruto, in return, looked at her with a cold gaze and an emotionless face and disappeared.

Kaguya clearly understood what it meant, 'Mind your own business.'

…

┏ Kaguya POV ┓

' How dare he! ' I screamed with anger in my mind after he left.

I was worshiped as a goddess and treated like a queen, yet this mare inferior scattered chakra treated me like this.

I don't know why I have imprisoned myself, but the good thing is that I can finally see how the world has developed.

Initially, I thought I could easily control him when he sealed me inside him, but no matter how many times I tried, I couldn't seem to access his mind. In the end, I settled for seeing his memories, but that plan was also ruined by not being able to access them.

At least, I am no longer chained. I looked around; it was filled with grassland, trees, and even a small pond next to me. It's a hundred times better than sealed, where it's just black void everywhere. He was even kind enough to construct a small cabin.

I am sure both my sons are somehow involved in spreading chakra, which is sacred and only accessible to an Otsustuki. I can't wait to see the outside world.

…

< Timeskip – Two days later >

" My disappointment is immeasurable… How can they live like that…and all my hard work has been ruined."

Naruto had finally shown Kaguya what the Shinobi world is like. But unfortunately, Naruto, who was an as*hole, showed her the cruel life by taking her to an average bandit camp and a mission station rather than showing the peaceful life in Konoha.

The bandit camp had women caged in chains, bruises shown from the torn clothes they were wearing. The women's eyes looked hollow, with no life inside.

Naruto raised his eyebrow, listening to what she had said. He was half expecting a crazy smile or a slight smirk, looking at the cruel world it had turned into.

" Quite hypocritical of you…the Rabbit Goddess," Naruto said.

When Naruto called her by her old title, which was given to her in her era, she went stiff.

" Yes… I have researched about you. While there was no information about you other than a piece of slight news about an unknown Rabbit Goddess here and there. Fortunately, I had found the ancestor of the Hyuga clan's secret hideout, and there I was able to find all about your…deeds, such as enslaving your own believers into mindless puppets or going power-hungry and becoming a monster…so on."

Kaguya lowered her head. It was a dark period for her around that time; thinking about it now, she doesn't know why she had done half of the things she had done in her earlier years.

"This place…this earth is my precious nursery. I couldn't allow my clan to damage it… I didn't know how I became so twisted and power-hungry." Kaguya said, as her voice had gotten weaker and weaker at the end.

" *sigh* Chakra is both spiritual and physical energy; since you took chakra forcefully, you weren't strong enough to handle the resentment that it contains…the chakra fruit contained all the resentment from my theory… So it might be true that because of you eating it, your mind became twisted, or it might have been false, you have become power-hungry after the first time tasting sweetness of power."

The secret seal Naruto has added sealed all the resentment or foreign will that she doesn't know and can't control.

After hearing Naruto's explanation, Kaguya cut the connection off, leaving a genuine "thank you."

Naruto was surprised to hear her thank you; it was the first time he heard genuine emotion in her voice. So he smiled, thinking about the progress he had made. She is now one step closer to her real personality by accepting her crimes.

Naruto, after meeting with Kaguya, decided to meet with Hinata.

…

Life has been pretty busy, training with Tsunade-sama while keeping up with her other two students, Hinata and Karin.

Nowadays, she is feeling frustrated at her progress. When she had asked her sensei Kakashi, he had told me that everyone at least once in their life would feel a bottleneck, and it can only be broken in a life and death battle.

When she heard that, she unconsciously compared herself with Hinata and Karin. Thinking if they faced any bottleneck before, but how genius they are, they probably never faced one.

┏ Sakura POV ┓

[A/N: Cannon Fodder 1 = Taiho, thanks for the comment @Kabuk5.]

" Taiho, have you faced any bottleneck before?" I asked him while we were currently on a C-rank mission.

As a jounin, I can do solo, but since he was my previous teammate, and he asked or begged me, I decided to show him some face and help him.

" Ha? What is that? Can I eat it? Can it make me a Hokage? " Taiho replied and looked clueless.

After hearing his reply, I should have expected that, thinking how dumb he is and quietly whispering, "dobe."

As we were traveling, I stopped; I felt something was wrong. Then, looking at the surroundings, I yelled, "KAI."

When the Genjutsu was broken, I saw someone who I never thought I would see again.

With anger, I yelled, "SASUKE!" However, I have realized that he is currently holding Taiho by the neck in the air.

"Oh, Sakura, it seems you have really improved." Sasuke looked at me and said with a haughty tone.

" Traitor! What are you doing to him? Leave him." sensing something terrible I hurriedly said to release Taiho.

Sasuke then smirked, looking towards the person he was holding by the neck, and said, "It's been a long time since I wanna be Hokage Fodder."

I see Sasuke's right hand slowly generating lightning chakra. After hearing the birds chirping, I suddenly realized it was {Chidori}. I have seen Hinata perform that jutsu hundreds of times in various ways while practicing.

As I rushed toward Sasuke, I saw him stab Taiho with {Chidori}. Then, I stopped in my tracks and saw him throw the body toward me.

After catching the body, I heard, "HAHAHA… I have finally achieved my final form."