"Keeping relationships separate", After hearing that sentence, both Otsutsuki Hagoromo and Otsutsuki Hamura couldn't help clenching their fists.
If the two of them together still weren't no match for Aoba, they really would have punched him.
The brothers both took deep breaths to calm themselves down, while also wondering how Aoba had managed to do this.
Logically speaking, the two of them hadn't known each other for very long.
Aoba's reputation in the ninja world was obvious to everyone, so there was no need to think too much about him.
'But that woman... although she is a bit absent-minded, is she really that easy to fool?'
The brothers couldn't figure it out no matter how much they thought about it.
Still, they were both old men over a thousand years old after all. Their self-control was pretty good, and they quickly suppressed their tempers.
Mainly because the two of them really had no right to interfere in this matter.
It just felt strange somehow.
The relationships were way too messy.
"Sigh~ Take me to Naruto and Sasuke. Let them obtain the power that belongs to them sooner. That way there'll be some protection sooner too," Otsutsuki Hagoromo pulled himself out of his emotions and started talking about business.
"No problem."
Aoba smiled and put his hand on Otsutsuki Hagoromo's shoulder. But then he thought of something else and paused before asking, "Right, if you personally undo the seal, then there shouldn't be any need for the Tailed Beasts anymore, right?"
In the original story, Otsutsuki Kaguya coming out couldn't really count as breaking the seal. It was more that Uchiha Madara fused with the Ten-Tails and then got filled with chakra before directly reviving her.
The nature of it was still different.
Now that Otsutsuki Hagoromo was the one undoing the seal, this step shouldn't be necessary anymore, right?
"Mhm! It won't be needed."
Otsutsuki Hagoromo nodded.
The seal had originally been set up by him and Hamura, so naturally they also had methods to undo it.
"But since you brought this up, I still have to advise you not to let her fuse with the Tailed Beasts."
"The Ten-Tails born after the Tailed Beasts combine, its power affects a person's personality, and it's very easy for it to go out of control. That's also why I split its chakra into nine parts back then."
Otsutsuki Hagoromo said seriously, "If she merges with it, the tragedy from back then may repeat itself."
"Mhm…"
Aoba didn't argue with that point. After all, inside the sealing space, Otsutsuki Kaguya had been quite peaceful and didn't seem like some final villain at all.
'But...'
"Speaking of which, do you know the reason Kaguya did those things back then?", Aoba asked the two of them.
"The reason?"
The Otsutsuki brothers both froze for a moment, then answered, "To take back and monopolize chakra, then use genjutsu to control everyone and rule through dictatorship?"
"That's about half right," Aoba nodded.
Otsutsuki Kaguya really had wanted to reclaim chakra, but saying she wanted dictatorial rule was giving her intelligence a bit too much credit.
Still, the daimyos in the ninja world generally weren't very smart or capable, and with Otsutsuki Kaguya being so silent and refusing to explain anything, it was normal for Otsutsuki Hagoromo to suspect something like that.
"Half right? Could there be another reason?"
Both Otsutsuki Hagoromo and Otsutsuki Hamura looked stunned. They naturally understood the meaning behind his words.
"Mhm! This involves Kaguya's identity. You could say she has her own difficulties. It's better to wait until she comes out and let her explain it to you herself."
"Identity?"
The brothers did know that Otsutsuki Kaguya had actually come from outside the ninja world.
Back then, this hadn't really been a secret.
Otherwise she wouldn't have been called the Rabbit Goddess.
After all, not only was chakra itself something that didn't even exist before her arrival, but she also had an immortal body. She clearly wasn't from this world.
Even he and Hamura, her sons, didn't have that kind of power. They could only use special methods to keep their souls from disappearing.
But that was all they knew.
They knew nothing else.
Otsutsuki Kaguya had never told them about her identity or background.
But unexpectedly, something even her own sons didn't know she actually told Aoba.
'How long has the two of them even known each other?'
'Why does this suddenly feel so irritating?'
Still, seeing that Aoba didn't plan to explain it now, although they were curious, the brothers tactfully didn't ask further questions.
"Alright, then I'll take you to Naruto and Sasuke."
Seeing that, Aoba spoke to Otsutsuki Hagoromo while sensing Naruto and Sasuke's locations in the ninja world.
With his current sensing abilities, detecting Flying Thunder God marks from the moon all the way to the ninja world wasn't difficult for him at all.
"Let's go."
Otsutsuki Hagoromo nodded too.
Aoba stopped lingering around. His figure flashed, and he disappeared from the spot together with Otsutsuki Hagoromo.
———
When they appeared again, they were already inside a training ground covered by a barrier on the outskirts of Konoha.
At that moment, an intense battle was happening inside the training ground.
One figure wrapped in streams of air and another wrapped in lightning were constantly clashing in the sky.
It was clearly Naruto and Sasuke.
Training and sparring with each other had long become part of their daily routine.
It was just that their sparring was a bit unusual. Without the barrier, the surrounding area probably would have been plowed apart by the two of them.
"Aoba!"
The two in the middle of fighting naturally quickly noticed the suddenly appearing Aoba and Otsutsuki Hagoromo.
They both stopped at once.
Naruto, who still had the Eight Gates open, flashed forward and directly appeared in front of them.
"Ugh!"
But just after Naruto steadied himself, he grabbed his stomach and bent over slightly. Even the chakra around him became unstable for an instant.
"What's wrong?"
Aoba asked in confusion.
"Mm... seems like that big fox suddenly started making trouble."
Naruto scratched his head, not understanding what was happening.
"The Nine-Tails…"
Aoba glanced at the old man beside him and immediately understood.
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