God

"You and your brother… You both are truly so foolish that I don't know what to say." Araki let out a sigh as he said that.

Hagoromo didn't care about these words. He was more curious about this threat that Araki spoke.

Just who was worthy enough to be called a threat by Araki at his current level of power? And why did Araki want to ascend to a god to deal with these threats?

At the very least, Hagoromo wasn't aware of anyone like that…

Noticing the confusion on Hagoromo's face, Araki decided to clarify, "You and your brother sealed your mother, I don't really care about that. I know from her memories that it all started with human's lust and greed, then Kaguya's actions in response to that human malice, and it's consequences before she ultimately felt betrayed and went batshit crazy due to the influence of the Divine Tree Shinju. But… There was something you overlooked."

"Did a question never appear in your mind about why Kaguya was creating an army of White Zetsus?" Araki asked Hagoromo quite seriously.

For the first time since their conversation started, Hagoromo's eyes widened… Indeed… This was something they completely overlooked.

He and his brother, Hamura, knew that their mother was doing wicked things and must be put down for good. But the reason still eluded the two of them…

The two took precautions in case of her revival as Hamura took the Gedo Statue to the moon. Unless someone awakened Rinnegan, it was virtually impossible to get the Gedo Statue.

And the Sage of the Six Paths spread his teachings to all the world in an attempt to create peace.

"It's quite ironic how the two of you both failed in your objectives. Anyway, you aren't aware of it, but Kaguya was a member of the Celestial Otsutsuki Clan. From what I understand, it's quite far away from this place. The only way to travel is by hopping through dimensions…"

"She came in this world to acquire the power of the Divine Tree Shinju and fight against her clan members. She wanted to have all your chakra because she was aware that even her strength was not enough to put up a fight against the members of the Otsutsuki Clan. This was her true motive behind coming to this place and fusing with the Divine Tree Shinju." Araki explained this to the Sage of Six Paths quite patiently.

"This… I had little to no idea of this." Hagoromo was truly very surprised.

"Hmm…" Araki grunted in response while turning at the black sphere which had formed after the combination of the one-tailed worth of chakra from each of the 9 Bijuus (excluding Shukaku, he gave only half a tailed worth of his chakra).

"Will this much chakra be enough for you to awaken the Rinne-Sharingan or all its abilities?" Hagoromo asked Araki, but his face told Araki that he already knew the answer.

But still, Araki decided to answer him, "Well, I am certainly hopeful about it, but I know that it's impossible to go it this way. The chakra from the Tailed Beasts is far too less… But since my body would fuse with this chakra, my body would start creating it by using the nature chakra… It would take years to completely awaken all the abilities." He remained quite indifferent as this time gap wasn't much to him.

Considering that he wasn't going to age, he had plenty of time to become stronger.

"…Is that so?" The Sage of the Six Paths slowly said.

He then started talking, "All these years, I have been saving a lot of chakra from the reincarnation of Asura and Indra… To give them this chakra in case my mother was unsealed, but you have already dealt with that. And, it appears that a greater threat is on loose."

A determined look appeared in his eyes as he said, "Senju Araki, can you tell me one last thing… What will you do after becoming God? You have stated that you won't work for peace or chaos, meaning you will slowly stop interacting with the humans altogether. Then what else do you plan to do…?"

"Well, I would lead all the people in the Senju Clan to Uzushio and spend time with my family first. Until I have seen my grandchild grow up, I guess… After that, I will take Kushina and start exploring other dimensions and remove any trace from that location so that any Otsutsuki Clan Member wouldn't come to the Elemental Nations." Araki said quite offhandedly…

"I see… That's good enough," The Sage of the Six Paths turned around and stared at the black sphere that was forming after the combination of 9 Tailed Beasts chakra.

A faint trace of chakra started to move towards this Black Sphere and combine with it.

Araki raised his brow as he asked the Sage of the Six Paths, "Are you sure about this? You can only maintain this spiritual body because of your tremendous chakra. If you give it to me, you will disappear from good…"

"It's also not as helpful to me as you might believe. From Kaguya���s memories, I estimate that I would only need 10-15 years to awaken all the abilities of Rinne-Sharingan and another 5 years to master them. I don't believe the Otsutsuki Clan would find this place before that…" Araki said with a serious voice.

However, the Sage of Six Paths didn't stop. She replied, "You may be right about that, but you must remember that you can not be careless against the Otsutsuki Clan. It was my and my brother's fault that we never considered the attack from the Otsutsuki Clan, this can be considered as my atonement."

"Don't stop me, I will only be giving you half my chakra. Since I was the previous host of Juubi and my chakra absorbed its certain properties, I am sure half of my chakra will be enough to awaken all the abilities of your Rinne-Sharingan and make your chakra even stronger."

"The rest of my chakra would be enough to maintain my existence and perhaps grant my power to someone in the future if you fall…" Hagoromo said to Araki while sending his chakra to the Black Sphere.

"Not putting all your eggs in a single basket, huh?" Araki said with a shrug, he didn't care much about the thoughts of the Sage of the Six Paths.

To him, it was just an unexpected boon, but even without it, it would have worked just fine. His plans would have been delayed by 10 or 20 years though.

Soon enough, the Sage of the Six Paths disappeared after having given half of his chakra to Araki.

The chakra combined with the Black Sphere…

Araki then stared at the Juubi's husk within his mindscape, which wasn't responding at all. Firstly, he sent a weak stream of chakra into the mouth of the Gedo Statue.

The Gedo Statue seemed to have been activated. It was about to stand up before Araki used the Black Sphere and his own chakra to suddenly crush the Gedo Statue with it…

The Gedo Statue seemingly shattered upon an impact from the combined blow. But even after it was shattered into many pieces, it still continued to exist.

Araki was already aware that destroying the Gedo Statue completely was utterly impossible. It was a work of nature…

Instead, he slowly extended the black sphere, his own chakra, and the shattered parts of the Juubi's husk.

These three components started to fuse with each other…

The process of the fusion was unexpectedly quick. Araki felt that it was most probably because of the mixture of the Sage of the Six Path's chakra. Since that chakra contained a trace of the ten-tails chakra, the ten-tails didn't put up any resistance while fusing with it.

In the real world, Araki's black hair changed to white colour, his skin became paler, and a white cloak covered his body. Ten black spheres compressed of pure powers also appeared around his body. These were truth-seeking orb…

The Tailed Beasts were startled upon seeing this chakra. They didn't think Araki would become the same existence as the Sage of the Six Paths. Even Kurama had no idea that Araki had sealed the Juubi's husk within his own body and the fact that he had absorbed Kaguya's memories.

Araki slowly opened his eyes and looked at the tailed beasts.

His Crimson Rinnegan was different from before… Three black tomoes were lined within each ripple of his Rinnegan.

"So, this is what it feels like after becoming a god," Araki said with a hint of amusement in his voice.

He added, "It's pretty bland... I guess."