Naruto: Child of Chakra - Chapter 128

A big crowd had gathered outside the Kazekage building, which was now renamed as Administrative Building. Shiroken was trying his best to make people forget about the whole Kazekage system. But that didn’t mean that there will never be a leader in the village. There will be a person sitting as the Chief Executive, but he will be the elected person of the village, however, Shiroken had one strong belief.

The people will get the right to vote, but sometimes people are also retarded and end up electing the most cynical person. Hence, for any candidate to officially take office, they will first have to get permission from him to even run for election. .

He knew this wasn’t really what freedom felt like but he had to do it to give the world a strong foundation, otherwise, the chances of something destructive happening would be higher.

The crowd in Sunagakure had gathered to watch the execution of Orochimaru. In the previous days, it was told to everyone that Orochimaru was the biggest and the worst villain.

He was responsible for the death of Rasa and the recent war on Konoha. Technically, Konoha lost more but because Konoha got gifts from Shiroken they didn’t care much about Orochimaru. While people of Sunagakure will always think about their Kazekage if they were not given an end to the story.

On a small stage, Orochimaru was made to stand. In front of them was a large crowd. The kids were not there though. Shiroken stood on the side and addressed the crowd.

“People, you know the crimes this man committed on the village. But he has also committed crimes against Humanity. He controlled the Wind Daimyo to divert the money to himself. That’s why this village and the whole country starved, many even died or turned cannibalistic. He experimented on little children, whom he abducted. They were usually orphans, lured by him with the promise of food and a better life.

“The majority of those kids died a painful death. Why? Because of this one man’s greed. And for such crimes, I have no mercy.” Shiroken announced.

Orochimaru, in a frightened voice, whispered, “Give me a chance, Lord Dama. I can be useful to you.”

“Do you still think you have a chance? You are standing in front of thousands of people who want to see you dead,” he replied in the same whispering voice.

“Itachi, do it,” Shiroken ordered.

Itachi silently activated his Mangekyo, “AMATERASU!”

Instantly Orochimaru’s body got covered in dark black fire. He screamed in pain as he couldn’t do anything to stop it. Not because he didn’t have a way, but because he couldn’t use Chakra anymore due to Shiroken using Natural energy to destroy his Chakra veins earlier.

“AAAAAA…”

Thankfully, only the screams could be heard as he was completely covered in a black figure, otherwise, the scenes would have been too scary for the people. In a few minutes, the body made of flesh melted down into ashes.

There was nothing left. Shiroken also made sure that he was sensing the entire area, to make sure Orochimaru had no way of somehow transferring his consciousness into another body.

The people silently watched this happen. Once done, the curtain fell and the stage was covered. The show was over they thought and left one after another. On the stage, Shiroken put all the ashes into a jar, deciding on dealing with it later. He’d rather not leave the ashes in the open for someone to find a way to revive him.

Done with this, he next went to the underground prison where Sasori was held. He had not yet apologised for what he did and was still as sadistic and crazy as before.

Chiyo tried to talk to him but he would just curse at her and tell her to go away. She just told him she was sorry that he didn’t feel loved and that turned him into this.

Shiroken allowed Sasori’s execution to be held privately, since to him, Chiyo’s loyalty meant more than the village’s satisfaction of watching him die.

He didn’t use the Amaterasu this time and instead took away all the Natural Energy from Sasori’s body. For a human, natural energy was like blood. Although natural energy exists in a very small amount, it is still one of the most important parts of the body.

Taking it all away was like stopping the human body from coexisting with nature. Nature would reject the body and the body would reject everything that was in nature, including air.

Sasori fell down almost immediately with no life remaining in his body. Shiroken then turned to Chiyo, “He better be burned, or else someone might bring him back in the future to use as a puppet.”

Chiyo nodded and wept beside her grandson, the last remaining member of her family. And now, with her, her bloodline would end.

…

Obito was confused, scared and tired. He had been on the run from Shiroken’s clones for a whole week now. Anywhere he went, the clones would appear to try to talk to him.

They told him lies, that Rin was alive. But he didn’t believe in those false words, as he himself saw her die. He had lost most of all that he had worked in these years, the Akatsuki was no more, the villages were in Shiroken’s care, the beasts were gone too, now only three were left out there.

Everything, all plans had failed. And moreover, the Zetsu had disappeared off to somewhere. He had no idea what he would do or where he’d go. Everything that Madara had planned was gone since even the Rinnegan was lost.

Orochimaru was caught, who was supposed to revive Madara if Rinnegan was lost, but even if brought back now, it would not matter since no milestones were reached.

“STOP RUNNING, KID! Talk to me.” Shiroken’s clone appeared out of nowhere… well, he came out of a tree.

Obito tiredly got up to run again, “STOP FOLLOWING ME!”

“How long will you run? You have to accept the reality someday. What you did in all these years, you must realise it was all worthless. For a single girl, you killed thousands of people.

“For a single girl, you killed innocents. For what? I have every right to directly kill you and give you a painful death. But I want to learn what your motivations are behind doing all this? What’s in it for you?” Shiroken asked him.

Obito ran and shouted, “IT WAS YOU! YOU SPOILED EVERYTHING! I am trying to bring peace to this world. With the help of all the tailed beasts, and Eye of the Moon Plan. I was supposed to stop the wars and the suffering.”

This was indeed true. He never planned to revive Madara, his plan was to conduct the whole operation himself, and Nagato was there to revive him if something were to happen to him. He believed he was using the Black Zetsu all this time and fooling him, which was Madara’s will.

Shiroken sighed, immediately realising what this whole mess was about. That Uchiha clan stone tablet had done its damage it seemed.

“Are you talking about combining all tailed beasts with the Demonic Statue, reviving the ten tails, becoming its Jinchuriki and casting the Infinite Tsukuyomi on the world?” Shiroken blurted out the whole plan.

Shocked by this, Obito stopped on his path and looked back, “H… how did you find that out? How do you know that?”

Shiroken snorted, “I’ve been alive for centuries, my parents are the tailed beasts, who have been living for longer than you can imagine. Of course, I know. And I read the stone tablet as well. It was all a lie.”

“What do you mean? It’s the Uchiha Stone tablet.” Obito argued.

Shiroken sighed, “Well, the Uchiha Stone tablet was made by Hagoromo Otsutsuki, commonly known as Sage of the Six Paths. The tailed beasts told me. Why he made it is unknown but you seriously think the Sage of the Six Paths would want the Uchiha clan to enslave the world into eternal sleep?

“And have you ever thought about this? Why would you put them to eternal sleep? That’s not really peaceful, because nobody is actually living. Why not just kill everyone if that’s your concept of peace?”

“Then… what is the meaning of the stone tablet?” Obito asked.

Shiroken chuckled, “I do not know the meaning of it, since I don’t think it is the original one. What I do know is what would happen if you completed this plan. You need a history lesson, boy, the real one.

“The end result will be the unsealing of a woman named Kaguya Otsutsuki. She was the mother of Sage. She was an alien who came from space, belonging to a species that harvests chakra fruits, the same thing that grows on a god tree.

“A God Tree seed landed on Earth from a meteorite several millennia ago. People believed that the God Tree nourishes the land and helps it thrive, while in truth, the God Tree slowly kills the land and its people, by draining natural energy from them.

“Members of the Ōtsutsuki clan travel through dimensions in search of God Trees so that they can harvest these fruits and gain their powerful chakra for themselves. So basically, you are planning to unseal an alien who in the past tried to destroy this planet, but got defeated and sealed by her son.”

This was something not written on the stone tablet. Obito fell back in shock, not due to the information but due to the realisation of how worthless his whole has been.

“B… But Madara believed in it too… he was also wrong?” Obito muttered in confusion.