Chapter 84

Title: Three Months

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Shun's POV

Events of the Three months.

Days after Shun's battle with Jashin, Gaara had his tailed beast extracted from him leading to his momentary death before he was awoken.

Grandma Chiyo didn't have to sacrifice her life force to have him resurrected, however, Naruto was still able to make her see the possibility for change in the world.

Coupled with that, unlike the original timeline, Sasori and Deidara both met their unfortunate end, Sasori at Chiyo's and Sakura's hand, Deidara at Kakashi's hand.

Deidara was a genius, granted, but Kakashi was a genius with a Cheat, so his death wasn't much of a surprise to me.

After that, there wasn't much to observe as my clone didn't see any need in that. Sasuke and his team of four Journeyed the world doing absolutely nothing but looking for trouble wherever they went.

They became notorious amongst rogue nin as Bounty Hunters. This was a squad of four absolutely strong Kage level individuals.

Yup, Sasuke's chakra had already gone above the 50k chakra unit despite not awakening the Mangekyou Sharingan. Just with his base chakra, he was already strong enough in terms of chakra.

Jūgo was a walking nuke, Suigestu a cheat and Kimimaro an even bigger cheat.

Kimimaro without his illness ailing him was capable of using his Kekkei Genkai to its fullest extent. He was way up there in both attack and defense and although speed wasn't his forte, he still wasn't at a disadvantage when met with individuals with swift movements.

An example was during their momentary clash with Hiruko, the one and only nigh-perfect Shinobi in the world. Yup, you heard that right. Not even Orochimaru had reached his level, but I don't blame him.

Orochimaru is after immortality while Hiruko was after being a Perfect Shinobi.

Hiruko, with the help of the special knowledge he'd gotten on gene splicing had been able to integrate the genes of various individuals with Kekkei Genkai. He hadn't been able to get any Dojutsu though. If he did, he'd probably be the next me.

Similar to the original timeline, he had managed to acquire the Steel, Storm, Swift and Dark Release.

However, different from the original timeline, he didn't result in any form of ritual and was focused on pure human biology.

This was evident due to his older body structure.

Anyways, Team Hebi had managed to catch his ire and we're sent packing after a brief clash.

Despite chakra levels, experience was something very vital to survival in this world and Hiruko had that in his abundance.

He was capable of potent physical attack and absolute defense due to his steel release. Impervious to chakra attacks due to his Dark release. Speed wasn't a shortcoming due to his swift release and chakra attack capable of altering the weather didn't help their case.

In short, Hiruko beat up their asses despite Team Hebi cheat levels.

Another thing of note was that Naruto and Sakura didn't go looking for Sasuke like obsessed fools and we're rather focused on getting stronger.

Naruto however was quickly given the rank of Chunin after his mission in Sunagakure due to numerous accolades from the higher ups of Suna.

He went on some missions with the teams in the village such as going to the land of demons to help in Shion's Demon debacle.

Naruto managed to get another crush during the mission in the person of Shion. The Uzumaki was one real piece of candy with his clothes and headband off.

Note to myself: Gotta make him wear them less.

All these were well and good...that was until Jiraiya, like the restless mothafuck** he was, decided to go check out the organization that Itachi was working for.

He had managed to keep in contact with the guy after my exposé on him and the Uchiha affair. Normally, this should've changed the plot by a lot since Itachi had already told him that the 'leader' of the organization had the Rinnegan.

That was a mistake on so many levels as Jiraiya only knew one person who ever had the Rinnegan, and to his knowledge, said person was dead.

He had managed to keep his curiosity in check since he wanted to make sure that Naruto was strong enough to handle anything thrown at him in the long run, but with Naruto safe and strong enough he left to sate his curiosity.

And where did that end him? At the bottom of the mother fucking river. I mean, loving someone probably wasn't good enough for him to settle down at the ripe old age or 50+ and give birth to some super hybrid with Senjutsu affinity and Senju bloodline.

No... The guy thought he was strong enough to go against someone with the major forces of nature on his side...

Don't get me wrong, Jiraiya was strong. Stronger than his original counterpart in my book, but so was Nagato.

However, the look of betrayal on his face when he found that all three children were alive was truly heartbreaking, but being a Shinobi, and a stupid one at that, he opted to fight first and talk later, which got him in his current predicament.

Nagato wasn't as hateful as he was in the original, after all, he hadn't lost anyone particularly close to him. Ria was the only one he had lost, coupled with their subordinates who died under Hanzo's scheme.

His drive was the fact that things like that would keep on happening if the Shinobi world didn't have one supreme ruler.

Apparently, Jiraiya disagreed and...

As for me..?

It seemed like I wasn't the only one keeping an eye on the pure blooded humans capable of going against the Mutated ones.

(PS: By mutated, I mean those with Kekkei Genkai. Their abilities come from variations of the Otsutsuki tree hence their mutation.)

Ishikki was also lying in wait and was quick to dispatch my clone as soon as he found that it wasn't strong enough to contend against him.

"So you arrived." He said, gazing at me with an indifferent expression.

"That I did. What brings you to this part of the world?" I asked back as the space around us expanded with a small flex of my Domain.

With us being underwater, although breathing wasn't an issue, communication was.

"Nothing in particular. I just thought I had found a good enough specimen to work with." He said giving the now static Jiraiya with a bit of melancholy.

"He isn't my descendant, y'know. Despite the uncanny resemblance, he isn't." I told the alien. The seal already placed on Jiraiya would keep his life force from dissipating entirely.

Despite his peculiarities, he was one character that didn't deserve to die. Yup, his death was necessary, but with me here, it wasn't going to happen.

"I know. That's the reason I was interested in him." Ishikki began. "Like you, he's pure, free from the world tree's influence, however, he wasn't able to reach the level I thought he would."

"If he had, I would've harvested him long before he courted death."

"Hm. And my clone? Why did you kill it?" I asked as I readied myself to off this guy if he did anything untoward.

I had entertained his actions for centuries now. A number of times, this man had killed humans with potential all just to find a perfect vessel.

Ishikki squinted his eyes which also shone in readiness in the case he needed to attack.

"No reason in particular. I had thought to test out your strength and see how much the gap between us was." He said and I knew immediately it was bullshit. He had the Byakugan and Tenseigan, like hell he didn't know that wasn't my main body.

"I see. And your thoughts?"

"I'm getting there." He answered and I smiled.

"It's good to have hope. I'll be waiting for you then. I would like to invite you to leave, if you don't mind that is..."

Ishikki looked at Jiraiya for a good while before raising his eyes to me and then he disappeared...or more like shrunk and made to attack me.

Damn. This feels so much like quantum tunneling. I think taking his Dojutsu for myself wouldn't be that bad...For research purposes, mind you.

General POV.

Three figures stood in an open area underneath the ocean surface...No, to the naked eye, it was two figures, one floating, the other standing.

However, anyone with a keen. Dojutsu would notice another rather tiny Presence in the space in front of Shun who wore a smirk.

Said smirk didn't last for more than a second as the rippling space in front stopped and a figure appeared a couple distance away from him.

"You managed to get away... impressive." Shun said with a serious expression. He hasn't fought Ishikki before and wasn't entirely sure if his hax would be a problem. To Shun absolute strength was the counter to all Haxes this world has to offer.

"You really are something. Even with your Chakra bottomed out, you're still able to stop me." Ishikki said casually as though he had expected it.

"Teleportation doesn't work within my domain, and neither does Dimensional tunneling." Shun replied only to frown for an instant before his face returned to normal.

"You can't possibly be thinking of shrinking me... right?" Shun asked as he felt a wave of chakra acting on his Domain.

"Within my domain, I am God. And unlike normal humans, I can't be 'stored' in your dimensions." Shun said smugly.

All Otsustsuki had their own personal dimension. Kaguya being the OG that she was, had six dimensions with only one having a major law in it - Gravity.

Ishikki however, had only one with one major law within - Time.

"I see." Ishikki replied and suddenly, Shun sidestepped and caught four chakra rods in his right hand, much to his shock.

"I believe you already know this, but only time could conquer space. Since you have a Spatial barrier around you extending to infinity, I just have to attack while contracting eternity to a single instant." Ishikki proudly intoned, citing the shock in Shun's eyes.

Dropping the rods, Shun dropped the carefree-ness he had previously and looked at Ishikki seriously.

He had just come out of a chakra draining battle against Jashin who wasn't that much of a challenge since he didn't have access to Shinjutsu, but now...this was Ishikki, a millennia age old Otsustsuki with access to Shinjutsu and experience to add.

"You have my full attention." Shun said and raised his index finger as a massive amount of chakra gathered on it, twisting and attracting everything around him until cracks began appearing in space.

'I guess copying and mastering this technique really is paying off.' Shun thought as he gazed upon the blue ball of chakra on his finger.

Pointing it at Ishikki, "[Limitless:Blue]"

Shun's Blue unlike Gojo's, was Shun amplifying the Limitless around him with chakra, producing a vacuum within his Domain where he creates a center of gravity in a specific space capable of attracting all matter within the vacuum crushing it all effortlessly akin to a black hole.

Said point of gravity could be moved effortlessly as evidenced with Shun shooting the small blue ball at Ishikki who was currently sporting a very terrified look as he felt his body being bereft of his control.

However, being the cheat level specie that he was, he was quick to force himself into his dimension, escaping the pulling effect of the mini black hole Shun shot at him.

However, before he could make a clean escape Shun appeared In Front of him with another ball, this one however, was red, and with a smile on his face he pushed the two balls together and flung it into Ishikki's dimension.

The Daikokuten. A space where Time was stagnant and other than Ishikki, nothing could move... However, with the appearance of Ishikki came the appearance of a Purple ball.

"I told you...in my domain, I am God." That was the last thing Ishikki heard before...

BOOM!