You are Uzumaki Naori, village head of Amegakure and its representative to the Shinobi Alliance. You followed in the footsteps of your mentor Konan, and in those of her former comrades in the old Akatsuki, who themselves once followed in the footsteps of another man. It’s that man’s memory, transmitted to you second-hand, that comes to mind now. In a sense you could say that you’ve become the ‘Hanzō’ to this generation’s Sannin - you may not be able to match them for power anymore, but Hanzō wasn’t just known for overwhelming raw power either.

It’s a frantic, rapid-fire brawl between Momoshiki, Naruto, and Sasuke which follows your decision to momentarily tap out. You follow every move carefully from both your perspective and Nyoka-han’s above, each attack, every taijutsu exchange, every ninjutsu right down to the last hand seal. All the while the storm builds. When you feel the time is right and that Sasuke can see you properly, you flip a hiraishin-marked kunai into the air to signal your intent.

When you’re finally in motion, it’s over in an instant.

A clever shell game with transformed clones sees Naruto emerge from what had looked like a folding shuriken, and throw a rasenshuriken which Momoshiki tries to absorb. That rasenshuriken however turns out to be Sasuke, who drops the transformation at the last instant before ramming his sword through Momoshiki’s palm.

“Damn you!” Momoshiki roars, staggering back, not even realizing that three things happen in such quick succession that even you might’ve had trouble telling which event happened first were it not your own plan you were executing.

Natural lightning strikes Umekiri’s blade and then, in the same instant, Momoshiki backs onto the blade even as the lightning is striking it - your body now being behind him. All he sees at first is the blade protruding from his chest, all he feels is the nothingness of immense power flowing through his body. Only then does he realize what happened just an instant before the lightning strike - Sasuke used his rinnegan to swap the positions of his sword and the kunai you were flipping through the air.

…

“This is why the taboo exists,” Momoshiki admits. “Breeding with lesser beings is certainly distasteful, but it also introduces unpredictable mutations. Some of these mutants may be undesirable, but on occasion…”

“One surpasses your ability to contain it.”

“Typically the answer is to use kāma to take over that individual’s body and replace them with a new copy of the Ōtsutsuki they managed to kill,” Momoshiki glares at you. “Unfortunately I have never had to resort to such a thing. Had I previously in the past, perhaps I would not be in this situation now.”

“This situation, meaning facing death.”

“Precisely.”
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