Chapter 490: Kakashi's True Creation
"Your friend… he's still far, far behind you, Kakashi."
After reading it, the shop owner took a sip of tea and let out a sigh.
"Huh?"
Kakashi hadn't expected such an evaluation.
Was it really that bad?
"Kakashi, I'm only being this blunt because he's your friend."
The shop owner continued speaking.
If it were anyone else who just said, "This is my friend's work", he would have already replied, "Is this 'friend' actually just you?"
But Kakashi was an exception.
Because Kakashi already had a famous work, and the manuscript in his hands now also conflicted with his previous masterpiece.
"Look at this part. It says that the Sage of Six Paths once traveled across the ninja world, spreading chakra to every corner? And now the protagonist is going to retrace the Six Paths?"
"This completely doesn't match history."
"History?"
"Right. Didn't you write before that the Sage of Six Paths wandered the world, fought chaotic battles with people everywhere, and only then spread chakra across the entire ninja world like a star-like disease?"
"Here, it suddenly brings up that so-called 'true history' and even beautifies it."
"This makes everything the protagonist does afterward feel way too proper and serious."
The shop owner spoke very seriously.
"So that's how it is…"
Kakashi suddenly understood.
For his earlier books, although he wasn't the true original author, Kakashi had read them countless times.
So he was very familiar with the content.
It turned out the shop owner had taken the content as actual history…
That said, was the shop owner really the only one who treated the novel as history?
Kakashi felt it was probably not just him.
After all, the ninja world itself didn't have much in the way of historical records. Even if there were some, ninjas and civilians alike rarely studied academic subjects. That missing gap had been filled by novels, becoming the widely accepted memory of that era.
"Actually, boss, this protagonist isn't that proper either. The method he uses to 'spread' it is…"
Kakashi explained that Naruto's way of spreading it was "taking off."
"Damn, you should've said so earlier."
"That's more like it!"
"So the son of the Sage of Six Paths, the reincarnation of a great chaotic war figure, is preparing to make the whole ninja world take off! That makes perfect sense!"
"Yes, yes, exactly! Tell your friend to write it like that!"
The shop owner suddenly became excited.
"Alright, I understand."
Kakashi sighed.
Kakashi walked out of the publishing house and arrived at the village gate meeting spot he had agreed on with Naruto and Konohamaru. Seeing that the two of them hadn't arrived yet, he could only stand there and wait.
Since he was just waiting anyway, Kakashi thought about the plot revisions he had just discussed with the shop owner, and inspiration suddenly surged in his mind. He took out a small notebook and a pen from his pocket and began writing.
Kakashi had fallen into depravity as well.
He had originally wanted to write something serious and positive, but the shop owner had brutally exposed the harsh reality of the market in front of him.
On top of that, Kakashi was already naturally a bit repressed. With such guidance, he didn't feel much psychological burden and quickly changed direction.
The story of Ōtsutsuki Kaguya and the Sage of Six Paths had already been explained in the "Infinite Tsukuyomi" series: the Sage of Six Paths was said to be someone with furry tendencies who had conflicts with his mother.
What was the Infinite Tsukuyomi world? It had been stated from the beginning that its settings were partially connected to reality, but mostly the opposite.
In other words, the Infinite Tsukuyomi series was the easiest to challenge "authority."
Kakashi decided to fill in the lore and reconstruct the "true ninja world" story that differed from the Infinite Tsukuyomi world.
As the saying goes, "Read three hundred Tang poems, and even if you can't compose, you can recite them."
After reading so many so-called novels, Kakashi was now extremely skilled.
He felt the shop owner was right.
The Sage of Six Paths spreading chakra through chaotic battles, Naruto spreading sage chakra through "take off"—that was what made logical sense.
From this, it could be seen that if one wanted things to be logical, one could also reverse-engineer the reasoning.
And so, the story became like this.
Ōtsutsuki Kaguya was an ascetic. She was blessed by this land and its people, and gave birth to the Sage of Six Paths and his brother.
The Sage of Six Paths also grew up receiving ascetic teachings.
But because the people of this land still reproduced in traditional ways, he inevitably came into contact with such things.
Long-term abstinence caused the part of his body belonging to this land's bloodline to become extremely repressed.
Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's ascetic education backfired completely.
The Sage of Six Paths became extremely "lewd."
He would constantly use his Byakugan to peek at things he shouldn't be looking at.
In order to clean up after him, Ōtsutsuki Kaguya had no choice but to send those "victims" he harmed to the God Tree, transforming them into White Zetsu, erasing them completely.
Before this, ancient humans would only go to the God Tree when they were about to die, receiving euthanasia.
But Kaguya's actions caused fear among the ancient people, who thought she intended to make everyone die.
The Sage of Six Paths, instead of being grateful for his mother's help, took the opportunity to overthrow her rule.
Because he no longer wanted to be controlled by his mother. He didn't want to remain abstinent anymore.
So, the two brothers joined forces and sealed Ōtsutsuki Kaguya.
After sealing their mother, the repressed Sage of Six Paths was completely liberated and began indulging in endless chaos and wild battles across the land.
As a result, the ninja world developed a large number of Kekkei Genkai and Six Paths bloodlines.
The Cloud Village's Six Paths ninja tools were actually tools the Sage of Six Paths used for "romantic play." The gourd and bottle were early versions of the "bottle-gourd combo" type tools.
The Banana Palm Fan (Bashōsen) was made entirely of feathers and used for tickling. The Seven Star Sword (Shichiseiken) was even more impressive—it was used for performing the Thousand Years of Pain technique.
Why does the Raikage's clan inherit Lightning Armor techniques? Why do all Raikages have such a strong defense?
It was because their ancestors had been whipped by the Sage of Six Paths using the Golden Canopy Rope (Kōkinjō). Over time, in those chaotic battles, they developed the powerful defensive Lightning Chakra Mode.
"Ahh… so satisfying."
After writing this long passage, Kakashi felt completely refreshed and deeply satisfied.
Seeing Naruto and Konohamaru approaching in the distance, Kakashi quickly and carefully put away what he had written.
This was the first thing he had ever personally written, it was extremely precious to him.
"Kakashi-sensei, which ninja village should we go to first?"
Naruto was suffering from decision paralysis.
On the way here, he had been discussing this with Konohamaru.
But after debating for so long, they still couldn't reach a conclusion.
In the past, they would just go to the nearest one.
But now, with Flying Thunder Formation teleportation, near and far made no difference, and decision-making had become difficult.
"Then how about starting with the most difficult one?"
Kakashi made the suggestion.
(End of this chapter)