Once more does she take a moment of silence to claim her being, perusing her vast memory for any Otsutsuki that may have heard of her, spoke of her specifically, but she comes short. Not empty – though. “My being is not well known, as well known as you yourself upon first discovering me. Though, the entity that once was is always felt in inklings in the energy reserves if one is strong enough to peer between everything and nothing. If you are curious – that is so rare an occurrence it is nonexistent…” It was a very long and vague answer. Something she realizes after another moment of silence. Everything about her really was thought over, but considerations of others for details to better understand was always after the fact these days. It isn’t at all often she is spoken to.
“They do not know of me, no. Not even the late Kaguya was aware of me, even at my death. Perhaps at one time she did have a concept of my mother’s predecessors who interacted with the tree, but nothing substantial to seek out. I would be given enough reason to suspect, that if they did hear of me specifically, they would not find it lightly-put. I am quite protective of this planet, my home before this new life, so if world domination was plotted once more whilst in my presence – it will never come to fruition.”
It was a promise, a certainty. Even while they speak, the deity can feel the Otsutsuki meander not just outside of Earth’s atmosphere, but hiding away on the green planet. Sure, the humans who have located them and fought the few who came out of hiding were one thing, but if at all something out of human hands were brewing, it would be stopped. Mostly because humans are not ready to face the despot, they never have been even before this reincarnation. If they have humans capable of stopping a few Otsutsuki, it will be passed… For now.
“I should give my apologies, I have never been one to interact with humans, as I quite despise them. Nothing more than curiosities nowadays in their actions, but it lingers. Communication skills are the only asset I do not harbor in great scale.”
“Maybe it’s... probably for the better. I mean, those Otsutsuki bozos aren’t exactly the best guys around, and they probably would’ve attacked you, or... worse.” Sakura admittedly made a face at the prospect in some meager attempt at deflecting from the grim possibility of the Otsutsuki starting some new world war, but it made her wonder: would Hagoromo come around again to save their skins if it came to that? If Sasuke and Naruto weren’t strong enough to face such a threat? Such knowledge rattled the kunoichi to her bones, because she wasn’t about to pretend she had what it took to take down some conquering alien hellbent on making her world a barren wasteland. “And if I’m honest, the two people who could probably stand up to such a threat might not have what it takes any longer. I’d like to think I could stand alongside and fight with them, but... I don’t know. We had some pretty divine intervention the last time around...”
It was undoubtedly a troubling thought, but she wasn’t about to be presumptuous about something she, in reality, knew very little about. They had been searching for years for threats such as these, only for more Seijin to appear as if from thin air. It felt like all of humanity was living within a diorama and these cosmic beings were temperamental children ready to rise up and smash their way through all the cardboard and plastic as if it were nothing, and they’d just avoided the worst of it on sheer, dumb luck. But, whatever it could be called, at least they’d avoided the worst of it the first time around.
“Well, I guess I can’t really blame you. I mean, humans are pretty capable of some awful stuff, but... there’s a lot of good there, too. You can find people capable of doing things they might never have, probably aren’t cut out to do, but they do it, anyways. Or, there’s just those who live day by day, and maybe they don’t seem like they do much, but they’re kind to everyone they can’t be. And maybe this will seem totally pointless, but if you’re so dead-set on protecting this planet, you might as well stop being stubborn and learn a thing or two about its inhabitants.”
Back-sassing a cosmic entity, however depowered or overpowered she was, probably wasn’t the best idea, but Sakura did it with folded arms and un unflinching stare all the same. Sure, maybe she was in over her head, but it didn’t mean she was a coward.
“Apology accepted. Say, maybe you’ll make a friend with an ~abhorrent~ human, yet!”
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