Chapter 111: The Infinity Stones

He couldn't believe it, Nurarihyon actually existed in this world! Well, he's not the same as in the anime, but he looks and speaks the same. You can clearly see confidence, but not arrogance, oozing from his very figure. He was strong, the clone concluded. In his current form, he could probably take on the four of them with a little bit of difficulty. Remember, he has 10 percent of Hikaru's physical strength and all of his creator's chakra. But even then, all major deities use mana and not some other type of energy like chakra.

All of the deities surrounding them shook in fear as they saw him suddenly appearing, except for the four major deities.

Nurarihyon floated near him and bowed with his fist cupped, then said, "No, we are not your enemies, Chosen Immortal. It would've been quite an honor if we could meet your real form, sadly we couldn't." He met his eyes and smiled brightly.

The hundreds of yokais down them were wide eyed when they saw their leader bowing to someone. The Lord Of Pandemonium never bows, not even in front of the highest of gods. Yet he bowed to this nobody? What is happening?

The clone raised an eyebrow, and said, "Then why did you not kill her instead? All of our problems would've been solved if you had just killed her."

Nurarihyon shook his head, and said, "It's not that we don't want to, it's just that it is against the rules. I'm sure the Chosen Immortal knows the rules of the gods. We can't kill fellow deities, or we would be hunted and executed by the Chief God who governs us all. But as our apologies, Shinigami here would revive the mortals those Otsutsuki's killed. And Kami would heal the people that were injured by them, too."

The clone narrowed his eyes, trying to detect any lies on Nurarihyon's face. He found no lies, and said, "Then, why didn't you all intervene before things got so out of hand? Don't tell me you were discussing some kind of deal with that goddess, did you?"

Nurarihyon kept his composure, he already expected for the Chosen Immortal to be smart. But the other gods sweated, knowing for a fact that they were just about to accept the offer that Amaterasu made for them.

"We were quite busy when they invaded, so we couldn't detect them much, much earlier. If we did, we would have driven them off before a lot of mortals died. But as compensation for our severe tardiness, we would like to give you this." He extended his hand and suddenly, two glowing stones appeared on top of his hand, levitating. Their colors were blue and green.

The clone raised his eyebrow again, surprised to feel a huge amount of power coming from those two stones. He then asked, "And these things are?"

"Two of the six infinity stones of this universe. We usually don't give them to others, but this is a special case. These two can bend space and time itself. The blue stone is the space stone and the green stone is the time stone. So, would you like to accept our compensation?"

The clone knew that this was a bribe, and this is a bribe that he cannot refuse. Well, technically, he can, but he won't. These two stones are important to have more control over space and time. The original will surely love these stones.

The clone accepted the two stones, and put them inside his storage ring, then asked, "You said that there are six stones in this universe, right?"

The Lord of Pandemonium put on a smile and replied, "Yes, I did."

"Then, do these stones exist in my universe?" The clone asked curiously.

"Absolutely, since these stones exist in every universe within the multiverse. But finding them is pretty difficult. No, REALLY difficult. The universe is vass and it is always expanding, so finding the six stones is like trying to find a grain of rice in a planet made of sand." Nurarihyon answered.

Hikaru nodded. And now, he realized that there is nothing to do here anymore. This world is no longer in trouble, and all of the people killed by those damnable Otsutsuki's are going to be revived by the literal God of Death. And he is sure that they have collected more than enough Otsutsuki members, and it is now time to go home and tell Boruto that his home is safe.

"Hm, I'm grateful for the information. We will now go back to our universe. But if I hear that you guys did not follow your promises, I will personally destroy all of you, even if going against Deus' rules." The clone warned, before disappearing in a flash of blue.

The deities took a deep sigh of relief as they saw the Chosen Immortal leave. Truly, how stressful those powerful beings are. In just the presence of a mere clone, they started shaking their legs like scared chihuahuas in front of a lion.

Nurarihyon took a sigh of relief, and turned around to his fellow major deities, and said, "Now, who said that I suck at negotiating?" He then erupted in a fit of laughter as he looked at them with disdain jokingly.

Shinigami looked away, "Tch."

Kami just raised her hands like she was giving up, and said, "Brother really never changes."

Yami shook her head, as if disappointed at a child, "How immature, we barely escaped with our lives there."

At that, everyone nodded grimly. While there are rules that limit the actions of every deity that exists, those rules don't apply to the Chosen Immortal, and at the same time, deities aren't allowed to hurt the Chosen Immortal or anyone close to them.

And there is a reason why they can't hurt and apply those rules to the Chosen Immortal, because when one arrogant deity killed the lover of the second Chosen Immortal, Kiran killed that deity brutally. One of the Chief Gods caught a whiff of this information, and tried justifying his actions by the rule book. And he tried killing the second Chosen Immortal along with a bunch of his friends.

The day that happened, was the day the second Chosen Immortal invaded the palace of gods and slaughtered millions upon millions of deities. The only one who was able to stop him was the first Chosen Immortal, Zain. But Zain is no more, the kind and benevolent Zain has already lost his mind many years ago.

That's why, pissing off the third Chosen Immortal means death to them. Not only will that give Kiran justification to slaughter all of the deities that exist today, but that will also incur the wrath of the third Chosen Immortal, making the race of deities doomed.

In the end, they could only put up with the antics of those Chosen Immortals. For gods, dying is not really permanent but for those that don't have followers anymore, well, once they die, they will never be able to revive ever again.

(Note: To make this more "vague" I won't explain how gods are created, I will only explain that at the end of volume 1).

(Time Skip, 3 Days Later)

After finishing some things up, the 6 of them were now all ready to go home. But when they were just about to use the portal to go back to their home dimension, Naruto approached them and told them to let his wife and kids stay in their dimension for awhile, so that no harm will come to them while they are repairing the elemental nation.

They agreed, since it won't bring them any harm anyway. The now healthy Hinata and Himawari stood with them, ready to go. They have all of their stuff with them.

Naruto was unwilling to let them go, but it was necessary, since he won't know when the Otsutsuki Clan will be back again.

The people that were killed by the Otsutsuki Clan were all resurrected, even the five kages. So it won't take long to fix the elemental nation, now that they have a lot of people with them.

Sasuke just told them to take care of his daughter, since he, too, will leave her to their hands. Losing a loved one is hard, that's why he didn't want to lose another. Sakura is strong on her own, so she will be fine while staying here.

For Hikaru though, he didn't get one of the things he wanted; the ten-tailed beasts. Because they just simply drove those Otsutsuki away from this planet. He wanted to keep those tailed beasts as his pets, but it seems like he won't be able to. Well, no matter, there is always the Otsutsuki Clan in his dimension to slaughter.

The moment they stepped foot into the portal made by Sasuke, they all disappeared.

Naruto was quite sad to see his family go, but this is a must. Endangering his family is the last thing he wants to do. In that world, there are thousands of people stronger than them that are more than capable of protecting his family.

'Are you sure about this, Naruto?' Kurama asked him, worried that his host might just fall into depression.

"Yeah, they are my only family. I don't want them to get hurt any longer, especially Hinata. Though it might be interesting to see my wife and the Hinata of that dimension meet with each other. I'm sure hilarity would ensure." Naruto said with amusement.

(Back With Hikaru)

Hikaru just finished grinding for souls and items in the system, when a black portal appeared in the middle of his living room. There he saw Sasuke, Itachi, his clone, Kakashi, and Kimimaro come out of the portal. They seem to be a bit tired, especially Kakashi.

"I'm never going to another mission ever again. After this, I am retiring as a shinobi. Just send the reward money to my bank account, I'm going to take the rest I rightfully deserve." Kakashi said as he immediately left Hikaru's house just after coming out of the portal.

"Well, there he goes." Minato said, amused, "I'm also going to take a rest from shinobi work for a while, fighting those Otsutsukis really brought out the best of me. Oh, and also, here. I'm giving you back the rin-" When he took off the ring, it suddenly broke.

"Ah… whoops!" Minato scratched his head sheepishly. He forgot that once you have taken off that ring, it will break and turn to dust.

Hikaru saw what happened to the ring and facepalmed. Seriously, his father-in-law is a really foolish man. Well it doesn't matter anyway, he has thousands of those rings.

Hikaru just shook his hands at him and said, "It's alright, those rings are easy to obtain. Just give me your storage rings, and I will take care of the rest."

All of them complied and gave each of their storage rings to him. Inside those rings are thousands of Otsutsuki Clan members, and they are all suspended in time. That means, time is not moving inside the storage ring and living beings that are on the verge of death will still live inside the ring.

Hikaru raised an eyebrow when he looked at the two other individuals they brought with them. One of them looked exactly like his wife, Hinata, and the other looks like Hinata but younger and has two whisker marks on each side of her cheeks.

"And who are these two?" Hikaru asked them.

"Well, Naruto-san said that he wanted to keep his family safe by sending them here. I decided to bring them here for us to protect. I'm sure it would be easy for us to do that, at least." Itachi answered his question.

"Well, the more the merrier, I guess." Hikaru just shrugged, "But where will they live?"

"Well, I was thinking about giving them to the Hyuga Clan, if that's alright with you. I'm sure the Hyuga Clan would take the both of them in." Itachi said, after some time of thinking.

Hikaru nodded and smiled, "Well, that's that. All of you, rest for now. Tomorrow we will start the experiments with the Otsutsuki Clan, I'm just disappointed you guys didn't manage to capture their leader."

Then, his clone reported to him, "Creator, I have information and items that would certainly be useful to you."

The clone then dispelled itself, and Hikaru got the memories of his clone. Slowly, his lips started rising into a smile.

In his hands, he held two particular glowing stones. They held a great amount of energy, making Hikaru freeze for a moment before he got used to the power in the stones. The memories of the other gods telling him about the infinity stones reminded him that there are 6 more stones in this universe. They all hold enough power to obliterate an entire galaxy.

If he was any ordinary person, these stones would've obliterated him on the spot the moment he touched them, but he is more than ordinary. He is a man capable of obliterating an entire planet with a single punch with pure physical strength, he is able to compress an entire planet into a ball the size of his hand with the power of his mana alone, and not only that, he will be achieving godhood the moment he defeats that olden god, Chaortos.

With a wide smile on his face, he said: "This is certainly interesting."