Boruto-era, classroom sky-screen time.
The new generation stared up at the abstract battle feed in silence.
"This… is how the seniors fought?"
"Why does it feel so ridiculous?"
"Sixth Hokage and Uncle Obito… are very not simple."
Within minutes, Konoha's tabloids had their headlines:
[Breaking: "Sixth Hokage Still Single—Rumor Says It's Because of… Obito?!"]
["Unspoken Past Between Sixth Hokage and Mr. Obito—You Won't Believe #3!"]
["Konoha Quakes: Sixth Hokage's… Preferences?!"]
Kakashi, pushing Guy's wheelchair, stared deadpan. "Who's writing these titles…"
[Naruto: "So, uh—how big is the Ten-Tails?"]
[Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki: "Not very big. Roughly the size of my Susanoo."]
[Sasuke: "Oh, then it's small."]
[Hagoromo: "About a thousand meters."]
[Itachi: "…P-pardon?"]
[Sarada: "A thousand-meter Susanoo? That's ancestor-tier…"]
[Kurotsuchi: "Talk later! The Ten-Tails just spawned—what now?!"]
Obito wiped the blood from his lip—Kakashi's "canteen-tray combo" still hurt—then gently pushed Kakashi out of Kamui space.
Cracks raced across the barrier.
Far off, Kurama and Gyūki swelled with chakra, both forming Tailed Beast Bombs to erase the Ten-Tails at once.
Twin suns launched.
A bloom of white—then the horizon caved in.
The viewing crowd exhaled in relief. Maybe the Demonic Statue and cocoon were… gone?
The smoke parted.
Madara sat on a rock, one hand braced on a knee, voice dripping disdain.
"Then… shall we begin?"
Something titanic unfurled—nearly a kilometer tall.
The new kids went pale.
[Sarada: "T-that's the textbook illustration—the Ten-Tails!"]
[Boruto: "It's that huge?!"]
[Zabuza Momochi: "Wild. Was Hagoromo's Susanoo really that size?"]
[Itachi: "It looks even bigger."]
[Shisui: "Be confident, Itachi. Remove 'looks'."]
[Kisame: "Even a Tailed Beast Bomb didn't scratch it?"]
[Jūzō Biwa: "TBB isn't strong. I blocked one with my sword!!!"]
[Kakashi: "How did you die?"]
[Jūzō Biwa: "Shockwave split my sword in half and then I… tripped onto it."]
[Kakashi: "…"]
Completely reborn, the Ten-Tails loomed—stone-breaking, sky-scratching, a mountain with a heartbeat.
Obito and Madara vaulted to its crown.
No speeches. Tendril-roots punched into their heads—pilot links like two shinobi co-driving a colossus.
They looked down on the world.
[Sarada: "Translation: Grandpa Madara couldn't beat Lord Seventh."]
[Denki: "He never even attacked on screen. Peak fraud energy."]
[Hashirama: "Madara, would you care to respond?"]
[Madara: "Only the weak explain themselves. I said from the start—the best is saved for last."]
[Jiraiya: "Kid's got stagecraft. I respect it."]
[Itachi: "Ten-Tails is fully awake… the next phase is dangerous."]
Obito drove the beast.
It lunged—earth buckled; dust plumes spiraled.
One palm slap and Kurama went cartwheeling.
Obito's control was vicious and precise—like he was born for puppet-mastery.
In heartbeats, Naruto and Killer B were shoved onto the back foot.
[Ōnoki: "At that scale, even moving is a jutsu. For Obito to steer it this well… talent, in its way."]
[Izuna: "He leapt from two-tomoe to Mangekyō—prodigy among prodigies."]
[Sasuke: "…Why is everyone looking at me? I was a kid with no chakra pool then."]
[Shisui: "Topic: Sharingan awakenings. Outcome: Sasuke gets ratioed."]
[Asuma: "Mirai? Is that you up there?"]
[Kurenai: "Yes, dear."]
Naruto and B pinwheeled through storm-air, reduced to shelling up and blocking.
If this stalemate held, they'd lose.
So they spat Tailed Beast Bombs like fireworks—boom, boom, boom—streaking toward the giant.
Obito's eyes cooled. He flicked a finger.
The Ten-Tails answered with one Tailed Beast Bomb.
It didn't just detonate. It scythed forward—like a horizon-length laser—tracing a line that split distant land in half.
Naruto and B curled together, forming a tortoise-shell of layered chakra.
The "laser" scraped them, detonated against their guard, and the aftershock alone punched the world to gravel.
When the smoke thinned, the camera shook; people were still clawing for breath.
[Sarada: "Terrifying… How do you fight that?"]
[Boruto: "Dad's enemies were this ridiculous?!"]
[(Young) Naruto: "Er… Obito's not at his final form yet. Later he… becomes Sage of Six Paths level."]
[Everyone: "SAGE OF SIX PATHS?!"]
The feed wavered. The Ten-Tails' pupil dilated, petals of tomoe unfurling.
On the crown, Obito's hand lifted—black receiver rods rising around him like a grove at midnight.
The air bent.
And somewhere under the roots, something older than wars began to stir…
To be continued…
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