Naruto: Becoming Stronger by Pampering Your Sister

He took a small step, and the space in front of him automatically cracked open. When he reappeared, he was already in the territory of the Land of Fire.

"Neji, that's great! I knew you weren't dead. I came here as soon as I sensed the massive amount of chakra that suddenly appeared here."

Neji slowly made his way through the woods, and soon Tobirama Senju and Minato appeared before him. They had been searching for Neji for the past few days, practically mobilizing the entire ninja world. Seeing Neji safe and sound, a weight was finally lifted from their hearts.

"Tobirama, Minato, I...I'm leaving...no, what time is it now?"

Neji stood before the two with lifeless eyes. After carefully considering his words, he stammered out a question.

"You've been missing for a whole week. The Ninja World War started on the fifth day after you disappeared, and we've been looking for you all this time."

"I see. So the Fourth Shinobi World War has broken out after all," Neji said listlessly.

"Huh? Neji, what's wrong?"

"No, it's nothing, let's go back."

Neji's listless and strange appearance aroused the suspicion of the two, but after exchanging a glance, they did not ask any further questions. Minato placed his hands on Tobirama and Neji's shoulders, and with a slight flash of golden light, the three of them disappeared from the spot.

"Everyone, look who's back."

In Konoha, in the Hokage's office, Tobirama had just appeared when he pulled Neji out from behind him, his serious face full of smiles.

"Neji!!"

When Neji appeared before the Kage, everyone was startled. Mei Terumi, Konan, and the others excitedly rushed into Neji's arms, but Neji just smiled, patted them on the back, and walked away alone.

Listless, dejected...

"What's wrong? He doesn't seem as agitated as we expected..."

Neji's lifeless demeanor surprised all the Kage, who had no idea what had happened.

Ignoring them, Neji was lying on the roof of the Hokage Building, staring blankly at the sky, completely unsure whether he should be happy or sad.

Returning here again and seeing the people he cares about once more, he was undoubtedly very happy, but the thought of Kaguya raising the children alone for more than ten years and the children's lives without a father made his heart ache.

Looking at the sky, his gaze seemed to see through everything, and when he saw the lonely woman who had been sealed on the moon for thousands of years, his face darkened even more.

"Haha, are you just sitting here spacing out by yourself? Then I'll join you too."

Jiraiya had somehow climbed onto the roof of the Hokage Building, laughing heartily as he lay down next to Neji, gulping down a jug of sake. This overly familiar style was truly in line with Jiraiya's personality.

Looking at Jiraiya, with whom he didn't have much interaction, Neji didn't know why, perhaps because Jiraiya was very optimistic, Neji asked the question that was bothering him in the form of a story.

Neji thought this optimist would offer some advice, but when he turned to ask Jiraiya, he found Jiraiya frozen in shock.

Okay, he underestimated Jiraiya's intelligence. Judging from the situation, Jiraiya must know that he is the protagonist. His jaw is about to dislocate and he looks dazed, just like someone who failed to master Sage Mode.

"Ugh, boring." Neji sighed softly, stood up, and walked towards the edge of the roof.

"Neji, although I don't know what you've been through, I think you could try to find the Great Toad Sage." Just as Neji was about to leave, Jiraiya suddenly realized something and quickly spoke up.

"The Great Toad Sage?" Neji turned to look at the distant sky, a glint of light flashing in his eyes.

The Great Toad Sage appeared in this world before the Divine Tree descended upon the ninja world. In the original work, he always paid attention to the Divine Tree and Kaguya. Asking him might yield some results.

"Okay, I'll go then."

Just as Jiraiya was about to ask Neji if he wanted him to take him there, Neji had already opened Yomotsu Hirasaka and disappeared from there.

Upon seeing this, Jiraiya's jaw dropped again, and he returned to his previous dazed expression.

Chapter 225 Kaguya and the Children

Mount Myōboku, Shikkotsu Forest, and Ryūchi Cave are the three great places in the ninja world where Sage Mode is passed down, and the concentration of natural energy there is unparalleled.

Having absorbed the natural energy from the Grell Stone, he easily sensed the locations of these three places. In addition, of the three great Sage Mode heritage sites, only Mount Myōboku had not signed a summoning contract with him, so Neji quickly arrived here.

At Mount Myōboku, the toads stared at Neji, who had suddenly appeared through space, their eyes filled with curiosity. To reach Mount Myōboku, one had to find a guide or sign a summoning contract with one of the toads. This was the first time they had ever seen someone arrive at this place in such a cross-dimensional way.

Neji glanced around and then disappeared into Yomotsu Hirasaka once more, arriving at the Great Toad Sage's residence.

Sensing Neji's arrival, an old toad wearing a doctoral cap, who had been dozing in his seat, slightly opened his eyes, looked at Neji with a knowing look, and said slowly, "A long time ago I had a dream."

Neji knew this was the Great Toad Sage's prophetic ability, so he didn't disturb him and listened quietly from the side.

"I dreamt that someone with extremely strong eyesight came to me and asked me about some things from the past."

"boring."

He had expected something earth-shattering, but all he heard was this news, and his face darkened: "So the Great Toad Immortal also likes to play pranks?"

“Haha…” Unlike Neji’s somber face, the Great Toad Sage chuckled softly, pushed the memory stone in front of him toward Neji, and said calmly, “So much time has passed that I’ve almost forgotten, but this memory stone will tell you everything you want.”

In Neji's eyes, the images in the memory stone began to rotate, playing back everything that had happened after he left.

……

Still in the shrine of the Land of Ancestors, not long after Neji left, Kaguya gave birth to two babies. In order not to affect the future, namely Neji's birth, Kaguya named them Otsutsuki Hagoromo and Otsutsuki Hamura.

These two children are naturally more powerful than ordinary people, even without using chakra.

They were born with a pair of horns. Hagoromo and Hamura both inherited their parents' Byakugan, but compared to Hamura, Hagoromo inherited Neji and Kaguya's Sage Body.

The two children often gathered together to talk about their father. Their mother said that their father was a very powerful person, but their mother would never tell them who their father was.

However, even Kaguya rarely spends time with the two children. Hagoromo and Hamura spend less time with Kaguya than they eat each day. Most of the time, Kaguya stands silently under the Divine Tree, leaving the responsibility of taking care of the two children to Aino.

In other words, if the two wanted to find Kaguya, going to the Divine Tree would undoubtedly be the fastest way.

One day, while Kaguya was away, Hagoromo and Hamura used illusion magic to control Aino, hoping to get news about Neji from her. However, Kaguya returned just then and, worried that this would affect Neji's birth, she severely reprimanded Hagoromo and Hamura.

After being reprimanded by Kaguya, Hagoromo's pent-up resentment and confusion towards Neji finally erupted. After saying some disrespectful things about Neji, Kaguya, unable to tolerate her son insulting Neji, subconsciously hit him.

However, this only made matters worse for Hagoromo, who was already dissatisfied with Neji. He couldn't understand why his mother was so protective of his father, who was clearly a bastard who had abandoned his wife and children and disappeared somewhere.

He unintentionally arrived at the place where Neji fought the Shinigami. After hearing his mother say that the series of interconnected mountain ranges were all done by his father with a casual wave of his hand, the uncontrollable anger in his heart finally amplified his emotions to the extreme, and his Byakugan directly transformed into the three-tomoe Sharingan.

Why would a father with such immense power leave his mother and her two children? This was something young Hagoromo couldn't comprehend.

Time passed quickly. Under the tutelage of Kaguya, the progenitor of chakra, the two intelligent and talented children soon reached the Six Paths level. Hagoromo even awakened the Rinnegan under certain circumstances, although he was still somewhat inferior to the Jashin and Shinigami.

Before long, the two children were able to become independent. Not to mention Hamura, the older one, Hagoromo, even found a girlfriend named Haori, a girl who looked very pleasant.

However, things changed during this period. In the past few days, Kaguya acted out of character, staying home and focusing solely on fulfilling her responsibilities as a mother. She constantly reminded her two brothers of certain taboos, such as the Box of Elysium and the Grim Reaper Mask.

At the same time, she also taught the two brothers an extremely powerful sealing technique that uses eye power to perform—Six Paths: Planetary Devastation!

The two brothers didn't understand why their mother did this, but they were still happy to be able to spend a lot of time with her.

Until one day, Kaguya took her two children on a long journey, far away from the Divine Tree.

"Hagoromo, Hamura... use the Six Paths: Planetary Devastation to seal me."

Kaguya's sudden words startled the two brothers. No one could understand the pain a mother feels when she asks to be sealed away by her own son.

How could the two brothers do such a thing?

Although Kaguya rarely spends time with them, it is undeniable that she is their mother. She raised them single-handedly during the days when their father was away. Why would they help them?

The two brothers retreated together, trying to escape, but Kaguya used her eye power to imprison them and gently explained the situation to them.

"Hagoromo, Hamura, I am the guardian of the Divine Tree. When I ate the Chakra Fruit, the Divine Tree and I became one. The Divine Tree is slowly destroying this world by using the life force of this planet as nourishment, but as long as I am sealed, everything can be resolved."

Before Kaguya could convey her feelings to her two brothers, the Divine Tree, which was one with her, sensed them and the Ten-Tails appeared in the ninja world for the first time to stop Kaguya.

"Hagoromo, Hamura, do it!"

Kaguya's shouts finally brought the two children back to reality. After a fierce internal struggle, the two brothers still used Six Paths: Chibaku Tensei on Kaguya. As the earth beneath their feet slowly covered Kaguya, and with Kaguya's reluctant gaze and repeated words of advice, they finally turned into a stone ball and flew into the sky.

Having lost Kaguya's power, the Ten-Tails ceased its movements and was absorbed into Hagoromo's body, while its physical form was sealed into the moon.

Hamura, however, was worried about his mother and settled on the moon.

Chapter 226 The Aftermath of the Valley of the End: A Fated Showdown

"This is what you wanted to know." The Great Toad Sage lifted the Memory Stone from in front of Neji and slowly spoke as he looked at Neji, who was bowing his head and remaining silent.

"What do you want?"

After thinking for a long time, the Great Toad Sage decided to ask Neji for his opinion. Having lived for a thousand years, he knew Neji's terror better than anyone else. To put it bluntly, Neji's choice would completely determine the outcome of this war.

“I am a bad father, but I will try my best to make up for my mistakes. This is my choice,” Neji said without hesitation.

"I see. Then you should go back and end this war."

After the Great Toad Sage finished speaking, he continued to feign sleep, while Neji opened the Yomotsu Hirasaka and returned to Konoha.

"Neji, you're back."

Where are they?

When Neji returned to the Hokage's office, he found that all the Kage were gone. Fortunately, Mabui was still there, so Neji asked her about it.

Upon hearing this, Mabui's face turned solemn. He said, "News has come from the front. All the enemy leaders have appeared. Even the masked man we've always believed to be Uchiha Madara is now being questioned. Just recently, the Fourth Squad, which included the Kazekage and Tsuchikage, encountered Uchiha Madara, who had been resurrected using Edo Tensei..."

After listening to Mabui's account of the battle situation in one breath, Neji didn't have time to linger and immediately rushed to the battlefield.

"Hashirama? This feeling... you've been resurrected?"

In one of the battlefields, Madara stared at Hashirama, who undoubtedly possessed a flesh and blood body, and was slightly taken aback. Even a schemer like him, who had been plotting for most of his life, didn't know what was going on.

"Fine, since you've already appeared in front of me, let's have another good fight, Hashirama!" Madara roared, his eyes wide with rage, as he slammed his foot into a large rock.

"Wait a minute!" Hashirama Senju waved his hand casually and pointed to the wounded around him, saying, "There are too many people here. I need to move them out first."

Madara's restless heart was at a loss for words after encountering such a lively character as Hashirama. He could only watch with a sullen face as Hashirama moved the people who had just been knocked down by his Heavenly Meteor out one by one.

Never before had Madara felt such regret. He should have known better than to hold back and just kill Onoki and the others; then all this trouble wouldn't have happened.

"Fourth Hokage, Tobirama, you two take them to stop those people. Leave this to me." After settling the wounded one by one, Hashirama saw Madara's face gradually contorting with barely suppressed rage and hurriedly said to them.

"Um, okay."

The group said reluctantly that they were more interested in seeing what a battle between two men at the pinnacle of ninja would look like than trying to stop Obito and Jashin.

But it's best to just think about it. Remember when they fought in the Valley of the End, they even changed the terrain. It wouldn't be good if they accidentally died.

"Well, First Generation Master, good luck..."

Feeling incredibly awkward and unsure what to say, Minato scratched his head and chuckled before immediately leading the group away.

"Come on, Hashirama, let's fight!"