Chapter 548: Otsutsuki Kaguya's beautiful life

"Two ancestors, I will come to see you often."

Uchiha Gin held a glowing green light ball in his hands, waving goodbye to the two Otsutsuki brothers with a face full of reluctance.

*Come often? *

*This is the Pure Land; do you think this is your backyard? *

Otsutsuki Hagoromo, who couldn't wait for Uchiha Gin to leave quickly, twitched his face. Could it be that this brat really wanted to be his 'little dad'?

"If you need anything, just let me know. I might not be good at other things, but I'm always on point when it comes to visiting graves."

"I want to burn..."

"No need!"

Glaring fiercely at his younger brother beside him, Otsutsuki Hagoromo tidied up his terrible mood and spoke slowly.

"My... descendant, this light ball contains my life's learning. I hope you can use this power well and not go astray..."

When saying this, he carefully glanced at his mother standing quietly behind Uchiha Gin, and upon finding that the other party didn't reveal a warning look, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Got it, got it~"

Looking at the long-winded Sage of Six Paths, Uchiha Gin waved his hand helplessly. He now only wanted to find that Otsutsuki named Jigen as soon as possible and erase this unstable factor completely.

"If I don't go back, those guys are going to start the feast."

He had been here for so long; who knows what extreme things those girls, Hikari and the others, would do after discovering he was half-dead.

"Don't worry, the flow of time in the Pure Land is far slower than in the human world."

Otsutsuki Hagoromo shook his head, signaling Uchiha Gin not to worry. If he stayed here for a whole day, only a few minutes would have passed outside.

"Phew... that's good."

Hearing this, Uchiha Gin breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't want to wake up and see everyone eating a feast around his lying-flat body.

"Go back, and keep in mind the mission you shoulder."

Otsutsuki Hagoromo waved his hand, and a black hole full of suction appeared above Uchiha Gin's head, spiraling his consciousness in rapidly, leaving him no time to even say a goodbye.

"Finally sent him away."

Seeing Uchiha Gin's consciousness ascend to heaven, the two Otsutsuki brothers finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hmph!"

However, the next second, a cold voice rang in their ears. The two, regaining their senses, discovered in horror that their mother, who should have left with Uchiha Gin, was actually standing in place with her arms crossed, staring at them with pure white eyes, looking at them coldly.

"Plop!" *2

"Pay respects to Mother!" *2

Even though the two were already souls without bodies, they still felt a chill throughout their bodies.

They never expected that even after a thousand years of precipitation, the fear of their mother deep in their hearts would only increase.

"Only a thousand years have passed, and you two unfilial sons have become such human-not-human, ghost-not-ghost appearances."

Kaguya squinted her eyes, her gaze sweeping across the faces of her two aging sons, a bit of inexplicable complexity arising in her heart.

As creations differentiated from her own power, the Otsutsuki brothers should have possessed infinite life like pure-blooded Otsutsuki.

But after sealing her, these two unfilial sons not only didn't escape aging, but also didn't conquer death, which meant they had spread the power she had shared with them. Without the support of this origin power, they would age and die like fragile humans.

"Mother, we are different from you."

Otsutsuki Hagoromo slowly raised his head, his purple Rinnegan staring straight at his mother, who was like a nightmare, his tone very deep.

"We chose to spend the rest of our lives as humans, rather than emotionless Otsutsuki."

The Otsutsuki clan is born without emotions; their mission from birth is to become qualified 'tree-planting experts', without any extra emotions.

But the Otsutsuki brothers were different. Although they were also of Otsutsuki blood, they had lived with humans since birth, slowly being infected by the complex emotions of humans, and finally determined to become humans.

And Otsutsuki Kaguya didn't understand the inner world of the brothers. At that time, she only thought about accumulating power to deal with the Otsutsuki main family that was about to descend. The family walked toward opposition due to differences in philosophy.

"Are humans such creatures so attractive to you?"

Looking at the Otsutsuki brothers with a deep gaze, Kaguya asked softly.

Clearly, they were a family; the children she had raised with her own hands would actually draw swords against her for the sake of humble humans.

"Mother, you have never calmed down to live with humans; you don't understand what emotion is at all..."

*Emotion, huh? *

Kaguya was silenced by Otsutsuki Hagoromo's words. She had indeed only focused on manufacturing White Zetsu a thousand years ago and had never truly understood the inner world of human beings.

But now...

"Who says I don't understand?"

Lifting her head slightly, Kaguya's cold, beautiful face revealed a smile the brothers had never seen before.

That was a smile they had only seen on the faces of young girls in love.

"Sss..."

The two brothers gasped in unison.

"Big Brother, you're done for. You didn't give her anything practical just now; now you can't regret it even if you want to, right?"

Looking at the silly smile on his mother's mouth, Otsutsuki Hamura quietly turned his head away, his voice full of schadenfreude.

"Shut up. I remember you also sent him two women. You're no better than me."

"Huh? I call that sending? That was him picking them up by his own ability, exactly the same as when I descended to the mortal world back then."

Otsutsuki Hamura's face tightened, and he retorted with a guilty conscience.

"What are you two whispering about?"

After recalling the warm scenes of getting along with Uchiha Gin over the years in her mind, Otsutsuki Kaguya came back to her senses and found the two unfilial sons whispering to each other. Her delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly.

"Reporting to Mother, I want to report Hamura, he..."

Otsutsuki Hagoromo immediately raised his hand, preparing to use a 'misfortune-shifting' move. If he couldn't have a good time, his brother shouldn't either.

"Stop! I don't want to watch you two brothers biting each other like dogs right now. I just want to know when you are going to let me out."

Although Kaguya was out now, she wasn't completely out.

At present, she was just a consciousness clone that had slipped out from the loosened seal on the moon, possessing only the memories of the main body and less than one percent of its power.

Even though she had possessed Uchiha Gin's dōjutsu creation, Wang Liang, her power hadn't recovered much.

"This..."

Facing such a sharp question, the two brothers looked at each other, not knowing how to answer for a while.

After all, when they sealed their mother back then, the other party's mental state wasn't very good, with a momentum of wanting to destroy the world if things didn't go her way.

And the mother standing before them now not only had a clear train of thought but also had many human emotions, her words and actions infinitely tending toward normal.

"That descendant might not be a match for Isshiki, that old schemer. Only I can help him."

The reason Kaguya stayed to communicate with the two sons alone was to get these two unfilial sons to let her out, so she could help Uchiha Gin deal with Isshiki, who had escaped back then.

"Sorry, Mother. Otsutsuki Isshiki will be handled by us two brothers. You old lady should just rest for a while longer."

At least wait until they had worn out Uchiha Gin, this 'reserve little dad', before saying anything.

"Are you sure? If there is no message sent to the mother planet for a long time, a new Otsutsuki will descend."

Hearing the refusal in the brothers' words, Kaguya frowned slightly.

She knew the rules of the Otsutsuki clan well: if the hunting combination that went out didn't report their situation to the mother planet for a thousand years, the Otsutsuki mother planet would send newcomers to investigate the situation.

A thousand years ago, after devouring the chakra fruit, she had sent a message back to the mother planet, but not long after that, she was sealed by the two unfilial sons.

Now that the thousand-year deadline was approaching, if no message was sent back, a new Otsutsuki would descend.

"A new Otsutsuki..."

It was the first time the two brothers had heard their mother talk about the mother planet, and expressions of shock appeared on their faces in unison.

"That's right. I won't hide it from you; Isshiki and I were actually here to find a lost Otsutsuki."

In order to make the two unfilial sons realize the seriousness of the matter, Kaguya told the secret she had hidden deep in her heart for many years for the first time.

"Huh? Before Mother, had the Otsutsuki clan descended on this planet before?"

"That's right. That was a predecessor named Shibai."

Speaking of Otsutsuki Shibai, a look of fear flashed in Kaguya's eyes. Compared to this predecessor who had devoured countless chakra fruits, she and Isshiki were as green as two new recruits.

They had received orders from the mother planet back then to go to the planet under their feet to find the traces of Otsutsuki Shibai.

Unfortunately, plans couldn't keep up with changes. As soon as they descended, they discovered that this planet contained terrifying power, so the two decided to postpone the search task and eat their fill first.

It was also at this time that the two had a disagreement over who would be the fodder for the Ten-Tails. Kaguya backstabbed the other while Isshiki was careless, throwing him to the Ten-Tails she had brought with her.

It was just unexpected that Isshiki's divine technique was too strange, actually dragging his remnant body and running away.

Kaguya had no choice but to plant the Ten-Tails, which had only eaten half-full. Unexpectedly, the fruit produced by the half-full Ten-Tails wasn't mature, and the power contained within wasn't pure enough and was excessively violent.

After swallowing the fruit, Kaguya's body was the first to have a full-load problem. In order to reduce the burden on her body, she differentiated a part of her power and used the Yin-Yang Release to transform the differentiated power into two children—the Hagoromo and Hamura before her.

Her body was temporarily resolved, but Kaguya's spirit had problems again.

Because the immature chakra fruit contained the resentment of the local old gods that hadn't been refined, Kaguya began to become paranoid, and the violent emotions had nowhere to vent, finally leading to the tragedy of 'mother kind, son filial'.

"Mother, please give us some time. It's better to wrong you to maintain your current state for the time being."

Kaguya's words were undoubtedly a heavy bomb, blowing the two brothers who were sitting firmly on the fishing platform into a mess. But they weren't sure if their mother was lying, so they decided to investigate first before making a decision.

"Not wronged."

Not only did she not feel wronged, but she also felt that her current little life was beautiful—being fed every day, and when she was in a bad mood, she could ruffle fluffy curly hair to soothe herself. It was as happy as a fairy.

If it weren't for the threat of Isshiki and the mother planet, she would have wished for this life to continue forever. How could a chakra fruit be as fragrant as a lemon?

"Huh?"

Finding that the seriousness on her mother's face didn't appear fake, Otsutsuki Hagoromo's heart, which had already gone cold for the most part, died completely. He looked at his younger brother, who was secretly happy.

"Hamura, what are you happy about?"

"I gave him the Giant Tenseigan; what about you? A rotten dung fork? Or that pile of outdated study materials?"

"Mother, I want to report in real name!"

"Umm~~~"

The consciousness drifting outside finally returned to the main body. Uchiha Gin woke up slowly from his deep sleep. Before he could open his eyelids to appreciate the human world he had been away from for so long, he felt two evil little hands frantically pulling his precious curly hair.

*There are always treacherous people who want to harm me. *

"I want to ruffle too!"

"This is mine!"

Hearing two familiar voices fall into his ears, Uchiha Gin's dead fish eyes, which hadn't opened yet, began to roll white. He wondered who was so rebellious; it turned out to be them.

"Stop pulling; if you pull any more, I'll become bald."

Feeling that his scalp was about to be lost, Uchiha Gin opened his eyes and warned.

"Ah!"

The two women who were fighting for the right to use Uchiha Gin's curly hair froze. Looking at their teacher's teasing gaze, Uchiha Chirori, who had been red-faced from arguing with her best friend, blushed even more, quickly releasing the little hands that were pulling the curly hair and turning into obedient babies sitting on the side.

"Curly-haired baboon, you're awake!"

Looking up and seeing Senju Itama's pleasantly surprised little face, Uchiha Gin discovered that he was actually lying on the other's soft thighs. The warm touch made his heart tighten slightly.

"Are you still not letting go?"

Reaching out to knock on the black-and-white head in front of him, Uchiha Gin pretended to be nonchalant and sat up, his gaze unconsciously drifting toward the fair thighs he had just been lying on, a hint of entanglement flashing across his face.

It seems his enlightenment education was a bit of a failure. This brat didn't even know that men and women shouldn't touch, thinking it was still childhood?

"How long did I sleep?"

After smoothing out his messy curly hair, Uchiha Gin found that the audience's enthusiasm hadn't diminished. It could be seen that this exam hadn't approached its end, but was instead at its climax.

"Not many minutes. We hadn't even had time to ruffle properly..."

Senju Itama, holding her head, grumbled with dissatisfaction. Clearly, both of them had ruffled, so why did Uchiha Gin only hit her?

"A few minutes. It seems the Ancestor didn't fool me."

Uchiha Gin breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this. Feeling something strange in his palm, he subconsciously looked down, only to find that at some point, a tomoe-shaped tattoo had appeared on his palm.

"This is..."

The chakra aura radiated by the tomoe tattoo was exactly the same as the study materials given to him by the Sage of Six Paths. It seemed it was exactly what the light ball sent by Otsutsuki Hagoromo had turned into.

"Hey, I can also be considered to have experienced the latest version of the power-up in advance."

As a poor student, Uchiha Gin chose to throw the study materials aside first. Now that the exam hadn't ended, he really wanted to see if the Nine-Tails could still stand up after being split in two.

In the arena, the two women, each holding a Nine-Tails card, stood opposite each other. Uchiha Gin touched his chin, starting to consider the problem of updating and iterating.

"Since there are two Tailed Beast cards now, shouldn't I rub a new driver to adapt to them?" (End of chapter)