Chapter 24

The Two Kage were not the only ones on full alert from all sides, Naruto sensed the meteor enter the planet's range and flew towards it.

With a tap of his hand, the black ball of death reached out to consume the target and promptly erased it from existence. However, something escaped from the meteor before Naruto erased it.

It was a purple crystal that was covered by red, black and light blue colored slime that wiggled into a humanoid form. The being was dominantly red color, a light blue face, and three light blue dots on its back arranged in a triangle. There was a purple stripe running down the center of its face and a purple, crystalline organ in its chest. Its white, circular eyes were set inside rectangular, black eye sockets.

Naruto could not identify the unknown being while the creature looked at him curiously before trying to escape.

It fired a ball of psychic energy assuming that it would blast him away, but Naruto erased it with the black shield and captured the slime with his chakra hand.

Naruto felt danger from the unknown creature but couldn't understand why he did so. He didn't want to kill it since it had emotions. Naruto felt fear and apprehension emanating from the unknown being. It was lonely.

"Can you talk?" Naruto spoke into its head using the eyes and found that it didn't really have much information to form a base. It had lived most of its life surviving in space.

It was a virus that killed everything that it infected, so no living thing was an exception. Every living thing would crystallize and turn to dust afterwards.

The creature had ended planets before arriving in their solar system and through its survival it seemed to have mutated further, gaining intelligence and a large physical form.

Learning about what he was dealing with, Naruto could only think sending it away to a place where it wouldn't come into contact with a living being.

It was a virus that needed to be eliminated. However, Naruto felt bad as the creature wasn't trying to kill anyone. It had infected people on touch or even being in the general environment with other creatures.

"Don't kill me!" The creature cried out pitifully as it tried to escape desperately.

"Calm down, I won't kill you." Naruto felt bad that he had been just contemplating about killing an innocent being because of its dangerous origin. Closing the distance between them, Naruto touched the creature physically.

Just then on the microscopic level his cells were being attacked and if they hadn't been protected by Six Path's chakra, he would have crystallized while losing all strength.

His power was enough to block the infection, but it was unknown whether his body could resist it naturally.

"I will send you to a place without people, so that you don't kill others. I won't leave you alone there, as I will visit you and talk to you." Naruto had no solution and he knew it was too dangerous for others to come into contact with it.

The creature ended up teleporting from Naruto's grasp, moving few miles away from him. But, Naruto caught it instantly and sent it to one of Kaguya's dimensions.

'It seems there are other creatures out there beside us and the Otsutsuki.' Naruto thought and believed that the sudden arrival of the creature was just a coincidence. He was unaware that the barrier protecting the planet had been destroyed because of the Juubi's release from the moon.

It was not just the barrier that was impacted, even the person living on the moon as the primary defence against the threats of humanity was effected by the war.

Other than the creatures living on earth, part of the human-Otsutsuki clan had moved to the moon to form a primary defence and keep watch of the Juubi. The moon had formed with the Juubi as the core while the clan had made a small space at the surface to live peacefully.

However, the clansmen came to a disagreement like all human beings and ended up fighting each other. One side believed that they should take over the world as it was degrading and going further away from the teachings of the Sage, while the other side believed that they should stay out of it.

The war ended with total destruction, leaving a single survivor. Toneri Otsutsuki was the young man that was left with the duty of protecting the planet from foreign threats and just like all his clansmen, he had also put his eyes into the core that formed the ultimate defence.

He had been watching the planet silently but all of it changed when the Juubi appeared. Toneri was angered beyond reason at the site, as it was direct assault on him.

Before he could take action, Madara had grown in power beyond his level and left him feeling powerless. Kaguya's appearance only cemented the fact that he was not the superior being that he had imagined, and Naruto's current level only made things worse.

Seeing his importance to the world disappear and the fact that humanity had disrespected the teachings of his ancestors reach to such a point, Toneri decided to intervene personally.

With the destruction of the barrier because of the removal of the Juubi, Toneri was able to locate the eyes of Hamura Otsutsuki. Hamura was the brother of the Sage, and he also owned pair of special eyes that held his powers.

These eyes were called Tensaigan and they possessed power equal to the Rinnegan. Toneri transplanted the eyes of the Sage but found the power to be overwhelming, so he had to wait until his body could adjust to it.

With his eyes covered and his chakra going through change, Toneri had truly become blind. He couldn't use chakra to see anymore.

Nonetheless, he felt nothing for what it meant for the earth. His inaction allowed foreign species to enter and he used it a chance to adapt to his new power.

Back on earth, Hinata was sleeping peacefully after training with Naruto. She had become the Vessel of the Two Tail Beast, Matatabi, and become one of the chosen guardians.

Though the power was nothing to Naruto, it was beyond her dreams and it made her feel over the moon to see the gap lessen. She could now actually fight for him, and lower his burdens.

With high levels of motivation, Hinata talked with Matatabi to find the way to reach his level. She would not step down until it happened. Regardless, she also didn't forget to help him achieve his dream of world peace and to become the Hokage.

Dreaming of the time that she would get closer to Naruto, Hinata suddenly heard a voice.

'Byakugan Princess, a threat grows inside the moon. Hurry….' The old voice suddenly cut off, but it the job of waking her up.

'What was that?' Hinata was surprised by the sudden intrusion as she looked around. Getting of the bed and activating her Byakugan, she looked around and saw nothing unusual within 20 km's.

'Matatabi, did you hear that?'

'What? Hear what?' The giant tiger was sleeping and it was clear she heard nothing.

'I heard an old voice like this.' Hinata emulated the voice to see if her partner had heard it or not.

'You might have been dreaming, but it might actually be the truth. Let's inform Naruto about it.' Matatabi didn't recognize the voice and gave her opinion to her new partner who was the opposite of Yugito. Hinata was extremely kind and respectful, which suited Matatabi very much.

'What is on the moon?' Hinata questioned as she didn't anything beside the legends of Kaguya the moon princess and such.

'The Juubi's husk was sealed inside it and some of the Otsutsuki clan people live up there. Oh, Otsutsuki clan from the human side lives up there.' Matatabi realized that those people might be the trouble the voice was warning about.

Understanding the urgency, Hinata ran towards Naruto's home to inform him about the issue. However before she could reach Naruto, someone else interfered.

Cloaked in darkness, the tapped Hinata on the forehead and it caused a black cube to form on her skin that cut off all her chakra. Hinata was unable to even react before the assailant teleported her to the moon.

'Fight each other and make this fruit the best I ever had.' Ishiki smiled as he vanished from Konoha, leaving no trace.

Hinata finally noticed the change in her setting as she stared at an unknown lake and sky. However the unknown location wasn't the problem, it was the lack of her chakra. She couldn't use it and nor could she communicate with Matatabi.

The situation seemed dire and she felt stressed out, but it didn't mean it was over. Hinata decided to splash herself with water to cool down before exploring the region to find her way back home or a way to establish contact.

Looking at the water surface, she noticed the cube and understood that it might be the seal. Regardless, she was unable to break it and didn't have much knowledge about them.

As such, she decided to choose the most basic action. Hinata took out a kunai and decided to cut the mark. Striking a mark on her forehead and causing a deep cut, Hinata was still unable to free herself as the mark remained.

She had only managed to bring to herself and it brought Hinata much pain. It was unfortunate that she didn't have the medical supplies on hand, so she cut off a part of the dress and tied her forehead.

'I hope others are fine.' Hinata wasn't worried about herself and only thought of others as she explored the unknown world.