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[electric shock]

[crash]

Well, it seems, that I've managed to master Sage Power.

You just might be able to take Kaguya on now.

Huh?

...A Messenger Toad?

[toad gibberish]

What was that?

What is it

Kaguya has returned, and they can't contact Hamura anymore.

Then that means,

It's safe to assume that she has seen through all of our plans.

Then the moment of confrontation has come...

[moo]

Forgive me, everyone.

I know... but doing this is really the only way that we can save this land.

This is far enough. Any closer is risky.

You should go and hide somewhere.

Ah, If you and Kaguya were to end up fighting.

...I honestly can't even begin to imagine the sheer scope of the battle that would result.

Anyway... this is for you, brother.

What is this tag?

(Gamamaru) [proud chuckle) You feel its enormous power?

...It's a treasure that's been passed down in the Land of Toads.

It's forbidden to take it outside our lands, but our lives are also on the line right now.

That tag has been infused with Sage Power.

Our ancestors sacrificed their lives to create it.

Use it when you don't have the time to replenish your Sage Power on your own.

It can only be used once, but it'll revive you even if you're close to death.

I'm in your debt.

I'll pray for your safety, brother.

I'm here, mother.

Tell me, Hagoromo, Both of you broke the law, didn't you?

You went to that forbidden peak.

Hiding it is useless. I can read all of your thoughts and your feelings.

Well, then you must be aware of why we're so angry with you now, Mother.

(Kaguya) It seems that you were in love with that young girl.

No, not just her, But with everyone! The whole land!

I loved every last one of those people.

But besides that, I also found out what you did in the past.

Tell me... why would you ever do such a terrible thing?!

Neither of you two know the truth of how dreadful they can be.

That is why I need an army.

They're soldiers? I must know... Just what exactly are you, Mother?

Where did you come from?

The place that I came here from... is far away, up in the sky...

It's a place where you two can never go.

But someday, they will come to take me back.

They have no comprehension of love. They only understand power.

But even so, you must've believed in love at some point in the past!

Hamura and I are the proof that love!

(Kaguya) But my love... also led to betrayal!

My strength.

Lady Kaguya is with- [grunts]

Aino!

And now it seems that I'm also to be betrayed by the two that I risked my life for, and shared my power with.

Mother, please! Remember the power of love!

End the Ritual of the Divine Tree!

I will not.

Please, mother!

I protected the two of you, and nurtured you all this time...

But it seems it was all for naught. We are never going to see eye to eye, Hagoromo.

And since that's the case... I'm now taking back, the power that I shared with you.

Hamura!

Mother, what have you done to Hamura?!

Hagoromo, if the love you speak of is real, then you won't be able to kill Hamura.

[grunt]

Hamura! Snap out of it!

I'm not your enemy!

Ah, So she's taken Hamura as a hostage!

(Gamamaru) If Hagoromo stays on the defense the whole time, even he will.

What's he planning to do?!

Forgive me, Hamura!

Elder... Brother...

[wretch]

[gasp] I'm... sorry...

Mother's the one who's been controlling your actions.

I messed up, didn't I?

Don't talk now. Let me heal your wound.

[chuckle] Well... I'll be damned...!

To think he'd use the Secret Treasure of the Toads like that

[gasp] My wound is completely healed! What did you do, Elder Brother?

If we make it out of this alive, just thank Gamamaru.

[crash]

Hagoromo Hamura.

(Hagoromo) Mother... I am indebted to you.

You enabled me to awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan and Rinnegan.

[distant rumbling]

What's this?

Elder Brother! Look up there!

[rumbling]

What is that...?

I can sense an enormous power.

[roaring]

(Zetsu) And that is how Hagoromo and Hamura's battle, the real battle, began against my mother

Kaguya.

Mother still possessed the power of the Divine Tree. And to protect her, it transformed into the Ten Tails.

Ten Tails isn't just the Divine Tree, it is mother herself.

It wasn't the Divine Tree's incarnation trying to reclaim its Chakra Fruit...

...but mother's will trying to take back the chakra she'd shared with her sons.

[thunderous stomps]

[explosions]

The intense fighting between my mother and the brothers continued for months.

It took a massive toll on the land around them.

And at long last, the decisive moment arrived.

Hagoromo and Hamura's powers... overcame Mother's.

[gasp]

Do it, Elder Brother!

(Hagoromo) Catastrophic Planetary Devastation!

[Ten Tails Shriek]

[crashing]

(Zetsu) Mother gathered up every ounce of energy she had left, and just before the seal took hold

...she gave birth to me.

[gasp] You mean you came out of her?!

(Zetsu) Even Hagoromo didn't know this truth.

Nor that I was working on her behalf to restore her.

[waking gasps]

(Hagoromo) I split the Ten Tails into nine souls.

When you look at them like this, they're actually kinda cute.

What will you do with them?

I'm going to take care of all these Tailed Beasts.

And I'll raise them to trust and to help humans.

Elder Brother, I think I'm going to stay close to Mother.

Hamura...?

When she controlled me, Mother's consciousness was present inside me.

I could feel her emotions. Mother's been afraid all the time.

In order to protect us, she only did what she thought she had to do.

It made me realize like she was just a woman, alone all by herself.

I guess I still love her, after all.

Hamura You know... you are a very kind soul.

Elder Brother, I will be in the sky always watching over the world you create.

Come visit once in a while.

We won't be that far apart.

Yes, I will. You take care.

(Zetsu) That's how the battle between my mother and the brothers ended.

I remained, but I was powerless.

That's why I went deep into the darkness where I could carefully and cautiously plan my mother's revival.

Ignorant of this, Hagoromo was raising Indra and Ashura ...

and created that Ninshu/Ninja Creed nonsense.

Time passed, and so did Hagoromo.

but not before scattering the Tailed Beasts around the world.

To revive Mother, I needed the Divine Tree and the Infinite Tsukuyomi cast by the Rinnegan.

But the Rinnegan required Hagoromo's chakra, which he passed on to Indra and Ashura.

The Tailed Beasts, needed to form Ten Tails, were scattered across the world.

To bring Mother back, it all had to be collected.

You can't imagine how long it took to do that.

First, to regain Hagoromo's chakra, I tempted Indra, who'd lost the fight over ninja creed succession.

And later, I selected Indra's descendants, the Uchiha, to be the cast of my tale...

...by meddling with and altering that rubbish Hagoromo penned, just a little bit.

You mean?!

That's right. Hagoromo's Stone Tablet. I took it upon myself to rewrite some of it,

like how Infinite Tsukuyomi was the path to save the Uchiha.

I must say, you Uchiha played your parts brilliantly.

(Sasuke) Why you-!

(Zetsu) Indra and the Uchiha... Ashura and the Senju...

I was able to set up a pattern of fighting and power-seeking.

Time after time, I'd approach the reincarnates of Indra and Ashura in each clan to attempt Rinnegan manifestation.

But it always ended in failure.

Just with that alone, a thousand years passed.

But when the reincarnates became Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju,

I came to believe that Madara could achieve it.

That was the first step towards Mother's return.

However...

Madara Uchiha lost to Hashirama Senju.

I thought that I'd have to go back to the drawing board.

But Fate did not turn her back on me.

Madara's corpse was like a treasure trove to other shinobi.

Tobirama, who'd been studying the mysteries of the Sharingan, didn't destroy Madara's body...

He hid it deep within the Leaf's mountains instead.

But Madara was no fool.

He guessed that if he lost to Hashirama in battle, Tobirama would keep his body.

So he placed a jutsu on himself.

You can invoke a time-delay spell in one's eye using the Mangekyo Sharingan.

Just like how Itachi implanted the Amaterasu in yours, Sasuke.

[gasps]

(Zetsu) Madara had installed the Izanagi in his right eye.

At the cost of that right eye, Madara rewrote reality and returned to life-

then passed off a Shadow Clone as his corpse.

He vomited up the piece of flesh he bit off Hashirama, transplanted it onto his wound...

...and finally awakened the Rinnegan and summoned the Gedo Statue.

He then cultured Hashirama's flesh using the Statue to try to prolong his life.

The White Zetsu seemed to be an incidental by-product of that...

...but actually were people from the past Infinite Tsukuyomi, whom I extracted from the Statue and made look that way.

"It is these opposites operating together that give rise to all things."

As inscribed on the Stone Tablet, Madara solidified his attachment to Hashirama.

I started implementing a plan: I made it look like I was born out of Madara,

manipulated Obito, and began collecting Tailed Beasts.

I formed the Akatsuki and steered them towards war.

To increase battle strength, I deliberately let Kabuto discover Madara's corpse.

I guided him to use it as a bargaining chip and cooperate with Obito.

As long planned, the Infinite Tsukuyomi was launched during this war...

...and by amassing a large amount of the human chakra that'd been scattered, Mother was restored.

I truly detest both of you...

Hagoromo... Hamura, my two children...

You are now mine.

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(Zetsu) My role has come to an end.

(Zetsu) You shall return with me to the almighty god that is mother.

(Naruto) The two of you on your own aren't the entirety of shinobi history!

(Naruto) And besides that, moms should be happy about their kids leaving the nest!

(Zetsu) So your teen rebellion continues...

(Naruto) Next time on Naruto Shippuden: "The No. 1 Most Unpredictable Ninja."

(Zetsu) You brats can't hope to accomplish anything.