NOVEL NEXT Second Chance? [ORIGIN UNIVERSE]
When I woke up, I found myself floating in the space… Where the hell am I? Is this a dream or did I finally kick the bucket? Is this the afterlife? I continued to ask myself, but then all of a sudden I realized that I wasn’t floating. It just felt like I was floating, but I was basically, hanging in the same place.
Did the planet explode or something while I was sleeping? No! That’s ridiculous!! I would have died long ago if that happened… Then this must be a dream, right? I tried to move and realized that I could do that, but then I froze when I finally noticed my hand and the clothes I was wearing.
I don’t remember being this pale… It was pitch black around me, but I could still see everything clearly. This dream is weird as fuck! Well, for the time being, I decided to ignore the lightning conditions and resume inspecting myself. After all, the dream would have been a lot more weirder if I couldn’t see anything even though it was my own dream.
Clicking my tongue, I raised my hand in front of my face so that I could inspect it better… While my hand was unnaturally pale, it was completely blemish-free. However, what drew my attention more than anything was my nails. My nails were long and black… Was I some sort of alien in the dream?
I finally raised both of my hands and touched my face… Even though I did not have a mirror, I could tell that I was beautiful as fuck. I slowly lowered my hands to my bosom and felt myself. Yes, those are some nice pair of tits. From now on, I want all of my dreams to be like this! You hear me brain?!
Then I decided to inspect my hair and all of a sudden my hand brushed across something hard... Wait! Is that? Why the hell do I have a horn? Why the hell do my horns feel more like handles rather than horns? I screamed inside my mind hoping that I wasn’t inside a kinky dream! Well, if this is really a dream, then I should kick back and enjoy, after all, I can’t do that in the real world.
I decided to wait for something to happen, but nothing was happening, so I decided to inspect the kimono I was wearing. The kimono was really nice… Probably the best thing I have ever worn. Wait! I can feel the kimono on my skin?!
This dream is way more detailed than I thought… Are dreams always this detailed?
Maybe they are, considering humans barely remember anything from their dreams. I shrugged and simply decided to go with the flow and continue inspecting the kimono. However, my eyes grew wide when I noticed the tomoe running down by the centre and the edges of the kimono… Wait, doesn’t this feel familiar?
I touched my head and inspected my horns before pulling my hair in front of me and the grimace on my face only increased when I saw my hair. With trembling hands, I touched my forehead and there it was… I would have paled if I wasn’t already pale as fuck. All excitement left me and my whole body started to tremble as I started to sob…
Why? Why is this happening to me?
I screamed, but no sound came out of my mind. It took me a couple of minutes, but I finally started to calm down. Why the hell was I here? Why me? I started to ask myself and recall everything before I woke up here. The last thing I remember before waking up in this place… I think I was arguing with someone… Yes, the argument!!
~~Flashback~~
‘I am just saying that Kaguya was an evil bitch!’ I typed furiously while glaring at the screen in front of me. I was having a heated argument with someone in the comment section of Archive of Everyone. I just wanted to post my own thoughts about the main antagonist of the story before calling it a day, but I wasn’t expecting my comment to catch the attention of a toxic reader.
I just finished reading a fanfiction based on Naruto Fandom and just like most other fanfiction, Kaguya Otsutsuki was never freed as the MC of the story was able to defeat the Obito and Madara before they could gather all the tailed beast and completely reawaken the Juubi. The story wasn’t the best out there, but it was still better than most of the fanfiction out there.
However, the story ended with the MC feeling pity for Kaguya Otsutsuki as he believed that the woman was simply dealt a bad hand in life while wondering if he could have changed her for good…
While I liked everything else in the story, I did not like the MC feeling pity for Kaguya. After all, the woman was an evil bitch. She did horrible things to the people of her kingdom and she wanted to resume what she was doing after she was revived by Black Zetsu. How could anyone feel bad for the woman?
“So… Who kicked your puppy?” Someone asked from beside me.
I turned around to glare at the person sitting beside me before my features softened. “Just some dumb little shit on the net” I answered with a smile.
“Is that so?” The person beside me asked before snatching my phone away from me. The person ignored my indignant protest as the person continued to scroll through the comment section. “Janet, everything in the world is not black and white. Sometimes, circumstances could force people to do a lot of horrible stuff” The person explained and I wanted to protest, but I didn’t want to argue with her.
“I know, but I still don’t like her” I mumbled under my breath and she ruffled my hair. “She could have done things differently instead of letting her fear control her, you know” I still tried to explain my reasons to her.
However, Riley simply smiled sadly at me. “Sometimes, the option is out of our hands” Riley said sadly as she looked over at the city.
I wanted to argue, but I was stopped when someone knocked on the door. Both of us turned to look at the door and found one of the nurses standing at the door with a smile. “Come on, you two or you will be late for lunch” The nurse called out with a smile and Riley returned my phone as she stood up.
“Come on, Janet” Riley held out her hand for me and I grabbed her hand with a smile as I put my phone in my pocket. I wanted to continue the argument, but spending time with Riley was more important since time was something neither of us had. Riley and I were residents of the S. M. Nursing Home in New Jersey.
Both Riley and I were suffering from last-stage cancer just like everyone else in this place. There was nothing more that could be done for any of us except to make us feel as comfortable as possible within reason, of course. I was only 14 when I was diagnosed with cancer and after a year of painful treatment and medications, they said that there was nothing more that could be done for me.
My parents cried at first, but slowly they moved on as I wasn’t their only child… My brother was still too young to understand what was happening and form any kind of connection with him, so there was no love lost between the two of us, but I was going to miss growing up with him. Maybe, we could have formed a bond if given the chance.
The doctors gave me 8 months and that was two years ago… Riley was the same. If her doctors were to be believed, she had 3 more months to live and unlike me, she was in her late thirties and her life was filled with regrets. Maybe, that was why she treated me like her own daughter… I did not mind it, especially when it had been a year since my own mother had visited me.
After having a nice filling lunch, I returned to my room and climbed into my bed after getting changed. I picked up my phone and unlocked it, wondering if there was another comment from that toxic reader, but I was surprised to see a reply from the author himself, instead of the toxic reader on my comment.
‘I would like to see what you would do in her shoes’
I read the comment before snorting in amusement. Yeah, right! I locked my phone and decided to put it away as I closed my eyes…
~~Flashback Ends~~
That must have been it! That must have been the reason why I am here, right? I have read hundreds of fanfiction on this trope, but I was never expecting it to happen to me. Fuckkk… Now, what the hell was I supposed to do? I started to panic before I finally slapped my cheeks to calm myself. I breathed out in an attempt to calm myself… Panicking was not going to help anyone. I needed to calm down and think about my situation.
That was what Riley would have done… I quickly wiped my eyes as I felt tears prickle my eyes. Now that I was here, I wondered how Riley was going to feel. Both of us knew that someday either of us might never wake up, but I still wondered how she was going to feel. I didn’t want to leave her alone… My death was going to break her heart…
Another sob escaped my lips before I forced myself to calm down. Riley wouldn’t want me to mop around. She would have wanted me to live my life to the fullest. Maybe, that was what I should do… My last life came to an end before it could even start, so I was going to give up this second chance, but for that to happen some things needed to change.
I don’t know if it was the author who sent me here, but I was going to show him that I could do it differently… I was going to show him that Kaguya Otsutsuki could have made a difference without being an evil bitch!! My hands curled in determination, but then my vision started to twist and turn… The next moment I opened my eyes, I found myself standing in a white space.
“Your memories are quite interesting…” A cold voice rang out and I felt chills run down my spine. “However, you are pathetically naïve” The same voice said condescendingly.
I slowly turned around only to find myself standing in front of Kaguya Otsutsuki… The real Kaguya Otsutsuki. “How are you still here?” I asked in a trembling voice. Looks like the transmigration was not clean and the real owner of the body was still here, but then how could I control her body?
The woman snorted… “That was because I simply allowed you” The woman explained condescendingly before raising her hand in my direction. “Now that I have seen your memories, I don’t need you anymore. However, I must thank you, and the being responsible for sending you here, otherwise, I would have been sealed again” The woman slowly explained with a faint smile on her face.
“Wait!!” I called out, but I was already fading away and I was hoping for something to go wrong, something to happen, or the being who sent me here to appear and help me, but nothing like that happened… I opened my mouth to curse both Kaguya and the one responsible for bringing me here, but no words came out of my mind as I slowly disappeared, leaving Kaguya alone in the white space…
Kaguya simply stared at the spot the otherworlder was standing before snorting in derision. The girl thought that she would be able to take over her body, but the girl was simply delusional. However, Kaguya realized that she shouldn’t place the blame on the girl, after all, the girl didn’t attempt to take over her body on her own accord, but some other being was responsible for sending the girl her way.
To think that her world would be just a fictional story in some other world… This Universe was a much bigger place than she ever imagined. However, thanks to the girl, now she knew of her fate… Now, she needed to think of a way to change her fate. It has already been more than a thousand years since she was sealed in this place which meant that she was going to be revived soon.
Fortunately, the girl had seen both the anime and had read the manga… Thanks to that, Kaguya now knew that she was in the anime world, rather than the manga world…
To think that she was going to be sealed again, thanks to the intervention of her son, again, it was heartbreaking and here she was, thinking about her sons, feeling bad for what she was about to do to them. Yes, she might have tried to take away their Chakra, but all the Chakra was hers to begin with. If it wasn’t for her then nobody would have possessed Chakra.
Nonetheless, Kaguya realized her mistakes… Kaguya now knew that she allowed her fears to guide her actions while her hatred for humanity was clouding her mind. Thanks to the girl now she knew that humans were never going to change… Her son decided to spread ninshu throughout the land in the hopes of bringing peace, but it only brought wars.
Yes, some of the blame could be laid on the shoulders of Zetsu, her third and most loyal son, but sometimes the humans would start fighting on their own. In the past Kaguya had come to love humanity and that was the reason she spared the humans and started to rule over them even after Tenji betrayed her, but now she knew better.
The humans were never going to change… Ruling them with an iron fist was also not going to work as she had tried doing that and the humans had started calling her a demon instead of referring to her as the Rabbit Goddess like they used to when she ended the wars and unified the empires.
Humans were greedy and abhorred the idea of anyone stronger reigning over them… Even if she could keep most of her subjects pleased, there was bound to be someone who was going to be unhappy with her rule, which meant a revolt was inevitable even if it was going to end up unsuccessful. Kaguya decided to leave them to their devices after reclaiming her Chakra from them. That was the only mercy she was willing to show them…
And as for Hagoromo and Hamura… Hamura was already gone, leaving behind a sole descendant, Toneri while Hagoromo was still hanging around waiting for her eventual revival so that he could use the current generation Ashura and Indra to seal her again. She would have loved to get to know them, but her freedom was more important to her and current-generation Ashura and Indra were humans.
They were going to hate her on sheer principle and they were going to hate her even more after she reclaimed her Chakra from them. They were not going to understand that she was doing that for their own good. They had no idea what her clan was going to do if they found this planet where humans were capable of using Chakra. Yes, she would be leaving them defenceless, but she was planning to place a barrier around this world to hide it from her clan.
She might be willing to give up on humanity, her sons and their descendants, but she wasn’t willing to give up this planet. This place was somewhat of a home to her, more than her clan could ever be… This planet could be something like a retreat to her and while she did not know how to erect a barrier yet, she was confident that she could learn it.
Unfortunately, before thinking that far, she needed to come up with a plan to prevent herself from getting sealed again. There were quite a few reasons why she was sealed again, but there were two major reasons why she was sealed again. First of all, she was reluctant to hurt the descendants of Hagoromo and her abysmal skills. If she was pitted against someone like Madara, then he would have wiped the floor with her.
And she needed to make sure not to be caught off-guard by that ridiculous Reverse Harem Jutsu… That was embarrassing as hell!
Kaguya knew that she needed to do something about her skills, but there was very little she could do at this moment. However, she could absorb the knowledge of Madara Uchiha and assimilate his skills into herself. It would feel awkward at first because of the difference in bodies, but it would have to do as she did not have any other choice. With her raw power and Madara Uchiha’s skills, she would become unstoppable.
In the meantime, she was planning to recreate some techniques like the Shadow Clone Jutsu, Rasengan, Rasenshuriken, Kirin, Lightning Cloak, all the Wood Release techniques and all the Dust Release techniques. She also wanted to replicate the Eight Gates, but neither the anime nor the manga ever delved into the details, which made it kind of impossible for her to replicate the technique.
Kaguya raised her hand and touched the slit on her forehead… Her Rinne Sharingan was closed. Right now, she did not possess enough power, but after getting revived, she would be once again strong enough to use her Rinne Sharingan. The Rinne Sharingan possessed all the powers of a Sharingan and the Rinnegan, but she never used those powers to fight Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha.
The Rinne Sharingan was probably the strongest tool she possessed, but she never used it, because she didn’t even know how she could use it. However, now that she possessed the knowledge from both the anime and the manga, she knew how to use the Rinne Sharingan except for casting Infinite Tsukiyomi.
Holding back anything would mean getting sealed again, something she wasn’t willing to repeat, which meant that she needed to use everything in her arsenal from the get-go. Kaguya left the white space and returned to the void where she was sealed for more than a thousand years. Moments later, a small ball of chakra formed in her hand before it exploded… This was going to be much harder than she thought.
She decided to start with the Rasengan since she thought it was going to be the easiest to learn, but maybe she should start with the Shadow Clone Jutsu and use the Shadow Clone Technique to master everything else… Moments later, she weaved through the hand signs, but nothing happened, making her frown.
To be honest, her hand signs were clumsy as hell… So, before anything else, Kaguya decided to practice weaving hand signs, after all, she did not have anything better to do…