Naruto God of The Shinobi

CHAPTER 35

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Chapter Thirty-Five

Time restarted for Naruto when the form of his mother spoke.

"Naruto-kun," she greeted kindly. She even sounded like remembered, before her madness ripped the loving nature and replaced it with a hunger for dominance. Before she ceased being the woman who raised him through his childhood.

But like a giant warning bell, her altered central eye told Naruto that the person before him wasn't his mother, merely wearing the appearance of the woman he remembered.

The woman descended through the air, coming to halt hovering above the ground by a few centimetres, within arms-reach of Naruto. The form of his mother raised a hand towards his cheek but Naruto took a few steps backward. He knew not how this was happening and wasn't willing to let someone wearing the face of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki touch him, he doubted he'd let the actual person do it.

A flash of annoyance passed across the face of his mother as she dropped her hand, then her expression became one of amusement.

"You don't still think we're fighting, do you, Naruto-kun?" She questioned.

"What are you?" Naruto responded, not bothering to answer the woman's question, instead deciding to focus his senses on the person before him. The being with his mother's face shook her head, her amused expression still showing.

"Naruto-kun, its Kaa-san," she told him freely.

Naruto's expression didn't changed, and he was about to demand an answer before the woman, having seen his unchanging expression, continued.

"The day you supposedly 'killed' me, I was in the middle of restoring our family back to what it was. I was going to end the fight that split us apart and return us to what we were before. A family that loved each other." Naruto was now far more wary than he was before.

Initially, Naruto had seen this as some sort of trick by the Jūbi to fool him, make him lower his guard. Naruto's own senses told him that the person before him was made up entirely of chakra. No soul, no flesh, just pure chakra.

The knowledge, however, threw that theory off. The Ten-Tails couldn't know what this woman was spouting, it required information that it couldn't have obtained anywhere.

"You told me to leave when I first got there," Naruto said warily, attempting to fish for information that the being before him seemed to freely give out. "When I questioned what you were doing, you became aggressive then attacked."

The amused expression on the face of the person dipped, showing guilt.

"I was unstable at that point, Naruto," she said, attempting to explain Naruto's mother's actions. "It was an incredibly risky thing that I was doing and your interference could have ruined it."

"And what were you doing?" Naruto prodded, keeping his eyes firmly on the person opposite him, his body tense.

"I was..." The face of his mother gained an annoyed expression on her face as the person paused. "Get rid of that mask, Naruto, I want to talk to my son." Naruto did so, wanting to keep this person talking, removing the illusions that covered his face to show his white hair, eyes and youthful face. When the expression on the being's face didn't change, Naruto revealed his horns. "Good," the chakra entity said before continuing, "As I was saying, I was in the middle of transferring my chakra into the husk of the Jūbi."

Naruto frowned at that, the pieces were beginning to come together but that still didn't explain what he was talking too.

"What did that accomplish?" He asked, "What good did that do?"