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"Regular text or speech"

"Jutsu"

"Bijuu, Shinju, or Black Zetsu talking"

'Thoughts'

Just to tell you where it is placed

Hideout

"SHINJU!"

Naruto roared in pure unadulterated hatred. If it wasn't for the Shinju none of this would have happened. There would be no Zetsu. There would be no Infinite Tsukuyomi. There would be no Akatsuki. There would be no Fourth Great Shinobi War. Tsunade and Sakura wouldn't have died. They could have saved Sasuke. It was a row of dominos and Shinju was the first one to fall over that knocked over the rest.

No more.

This had gone on for long enough.

It was time to end, with either the defeat of the Shinju or his death.

He restrained himself. Being one of only two people that could resist God for over 3 years taught him to control himself better than anyone could even fathom.

Today he would prepare and tomorrow he would finish it, there would be no retreat.

First things first. Sleep.

The toll of the years hit him.

The suppressed emotions. The stress. The worry. The pain. The fatigue. The sadness. The grief. Everything.

It hit him like the water behind a massive dam. He let it hit him. He let it wash him into the realm of sweet nothingness.

The Next Day

This was it. He felt anxious, but at the same time he felt happy. Either way, after today it would all be over. For better for worse.

Unsealing his blade, he checked everything else to make sure that he was ready. His blade was on that he first laid eyes on over 6 years ago, on his first mission outside of his village. Kubikiribocho.

It was actually the second blade he started using. The first being Samehada. He thought that with the Chakra stealing abilities of the blade he might have had a edge on the Shinju. Unfortunately when he managed to steal a small fraction of the Chakra for the Shinju that blade grew to large to use. Then the Shinju, in a rare show of emotion, roared in fury at have its Chakra stolen and disintegrated the blade.

He then started using Kubikiribocho because it was the only blade capable of handling the amount of Chakra he ran through it. The metal of the blade was second to none. Sasuke stuck to the Kusanagi that he stole from Orochimaru. Naruto thought about using a smaller blade like Sasuke but decided that it required too much finesses for his style of fighting.

As he approached the area where the Shinju would doubtlessly approach to fight him he sent out a clone to start the sealing process. Luckily he had most of the seal set up, just on several different stone plates that he needed to connect and run chakra through. Then it would be over. The Shinju would be sealed into him and it would be over. Either that or he would fail and all of the struggles would be for nothing.

No pressure.

One Hour Later

Naruto sat there waiting. His anxiety reaching unimaginable heights. At this point he wouldn't be surprised if he started going bald from stress. Suddenly a overwhelming aura entered the area. Only one being could possibly do something like this.

Shinju.

"About time you showed up." Naruto called out, hoping to stall for as much time he could grant his clones.

"Does it matter when I show up to deal with an germ such as yourself? You will fall regardless, time is merely a minor annoyance to one such as myself." The Shinju replied in a genderless monotone, but somehow it managed to project an aura of superiority and smugness with just the tone of its voice. It pissed Naruto off like nothing else.

"If I'm just an insect, then why am I still alive? Are you, the almighty Shinju, too pathetic to deal with a simple germ?" Naruto prodded.

"Hardly. You are nothing but a small annoyance that I decided to keep around out of curiosity." The Shinju answered. Naruto was at a loss, the Shinju never entertained any question either Naruto nor Sasuke asked in the past hoping to stall.

"What do you mean?"

"Must I spell it out? I kept you and the other male alive to see if you would be able to stop me. Kaguya managed to stop me, well half of me considering the fact that she was wielding the other half, back during what I consider my infant stages. Then when her own spawn defeated her and half of my power was once again let loose, I again lost, this time to her spawn. Back then I was nothing but a mass of energy that barely contained intelligents to hold conservation, which Kaguya exploited to get me to gift her with half of my power. But like all things I have evolved. I suppose I can count the fact that the spawn of Kaguya gave my power to the being that inhabit this world as a hidden blessing. Through them I gained knowledge. I simply desired to see if there was any hope of you and the other male defeating me. Both of you have surpasses Kaguya and her spawn on your own, but even together you were nothing to me. Now you are at the strongest you will ever reach. It is time to see if you can stop me before I reach ultimate power." The Shinju ranted in its monotone.

"...You kept me and Sasuke around to see if we going prove to be a challenge to you? ...You bastard... You killed almost all of the life on this planet and you're talking about it likes its a game... What the hell do you mean by ultimate power?" Naruto asked, struggling to hold in his rage at the reasoning of the Shinju and at the same time scared at what the Shinju was implying.

"I possess the highest concentration of power and intelligence anywhere in the entire universe. Unfortunately, I don't posses all the power and intelligence. In order to remedy that I shall absorb the the entire and assimilate it. When I am done with that I shall move to another universe and repeat the process. There will be no end to my growth. I shall become the God of all that has existed, all that currently exists, and all that will exist." The Shinju stated.

Naruto froze. He was no longer fighting for himself, Sasuke, everyone that died fighting, everyone that believed in him, and everyone still alive.

No.

He was fighting for... everyone.

There was no other way to put it. If he lost then everything would be over for everyone. Nothing would matter for anyone. If he lost Shinju would absorb this universe before moving the the next and repeating. Nothing would be able to stop him after the first domino fell.

Just thinking about it made him feel insignificant. He was ready to end it all so it would be over. So he could rest. He should be ready to end it so no one would have to suffer and watch everything they knew and loved disappear as they were force to hopelessly watch. He should be ready to end it so no one would suffer what he did. He closed his eyes and took in a deep breath.

He gripped his blade, readying himself to draw it.

"So, thats how it is?"

He flexed his legs, readying himself to charge or dodge.

"I'm sorry but you won't be able to reach that dream of yours."

He gathered and focused his chakra, readying himself to either push it to his limbs or send out a jutsu.

"I'm really sorry, honestly I am. But I don't exactly believe what you're saying is even remotely sane."

He opened his showing the cursed eyes of Itachi Uchiha, the cursed eyes used by Sasuke Uchiha, the cursed eyes blessed by the Rikudou Sennin himself.

"That means that I will put you down like the mad dog you are! IT ENDS HERE SHINJU!"

He charged, the hope of everything in existence behind him.

Here is a chapter. Time to look into my book of excuses as to why it takes me so long to write a chapter. My excuses are... *drumroll* ...I was studying for some big tests, I have a social life and I am lazy. Anyway, its Spring Break! So I plan on updating two or three more times. Take that with a grain of salt. Now for a short overview of the chapter.

Naruto is going to confront the Shinju. He didn't charge in when Sasuke died because three years of guerrilla warfare against a insurmountable opponent teaches you not to be rash or reckless. He spent the day resting and now he is confronting the Shinju. During the conversation he started to stall the Shinju he found out somethings that he would have never imagined before. The Shinju plans to absorb everything in the universe, then move universes and repeat in an attempt to reach ultimate power. Naruto realizing that this fight was bigger than the fate of his world. It would decide the fate of his and every single other universe. Now it is going to fight the Shinju and end it all, but will he win? Find out next time. Later!