Scene: The Battlefield, Frozen in Silence
The war halts.
Final Rewrite drifts slowly, eyes closed, humming the melody of oblivion.
The book in its hand glows faintly—Ben's page now blank.
There is no body.
No remains.
No memories.
Not even a name.
Naruto blinks.
He lowers his blade.
"What… what were we doing?"
A chill runs down his spine. A piece of him feels hollow.
The girl stumbles beside him, eyes wide, trembling.
"Where… is he?"
Naruto turns to her, confused.
"Who?"
The World Without Ben
Across the multiverse, the effects ripple.
The gods who once feared the Riftbearer… forget why they ever did.
The enemies he defeated rise again, emboldened.
The victories he earned revert to ruins.
The Riftbound Halo shatters.
Naruto kneels as the weight of the Endbringers surrounds him.
Even his soul aches, though he doesn't know why.
The girl reaches into her chest—and screams.
"No. I won't forget him! I won't!"
A single tear, glowing violet, falls from her eye and lands on the ground.
The earth shudders.
The Memory Seed
Where the tear touches, a flower blooms.
Not a real one.
A memory.
Faint. Fragile. Flickering.
A moment of laughter.
A whisper:
"You're more than a fragment."
She gasps.
"I remember."
Final Rewrite freezes, eyes narrowing.
"That's… impossible."
The girl clutches the flower of memory and throws it into the air.
It explodes in a burst of Riftlight—
And Naruto gasps.
Suddenly, an image flashes behind his eyes:
A boy. Laughing. Fighting. Protecting.
"Ben…"
The name returns.
Naruto vs Final Rewrite
Naruto roars, chakra flaring like a sunburst.
"You tried to erase him?
Then you'll have to erase me too!"
He charges, each step cracking the rules of reality.
His blade is no longer steel—it's made of memories reforged.
His attacks distort the script of fate itself.
Final Rewrite fights back with paradoxes, plot holes, and redacted time—but Naruto improvises, reacting like no written character ever could.
The battlefield becomes a hurricane of unbound narrative.
And from the chaos—Naruto's voice cuts through.
"BEN!
WHEREVER YOU ARE—COME BACK!"
Inside the Void
Ben drifts in a colorless nothing.
He feels… peaceful.
Detached.
No pain. No purpose.
Just stillness.
But then—
A voice.
"Ben…"
He turns.
The girl's tear.
Naruto's scream.
A memory—shredded, stitched, saved.
His fingers twitch.
His eyes blink.
And slowly, a pulse beats through the void.
A single word appears in the blank book Final Rewrite holds.
Ben.
The Resurrection of the Riftbearer
The flower of memory glows brighter.
Final Rewrite tries to tear the page again—
But the book refuses.
Ben's name returns.
His soul reforms.
First a whisper.
Then a shadow.
Then a body.
Ben opens his eyes inside the void and grins.
"Nice try."
He slams his fist into the nothingness—
And rebuilds himself from narrative fragments.
Final Rewrite panics.
"You can't come back! You're not canon!"
Ben floats above the battlefield again, halo reforged.
"I'm the glitch that rewrote the script."
He opens both palms—
And tears Final Rewrite's book in half.
Cliffhanger – The Endbringers React
The other six Endbringers awaken fully, now sensing what just happened.
Oblivion rises.
Collapse unfurls.
Forsaken Love begins to cry tears that melt dimensions.
Naruto rushes to Ben.
"You good?"
Ben cracks his neck, eyes blazing.
"I was erased from reality.
I feel fantastic."
They turn as the sky rips open.
Seven Endbringers. Two warriors.
And a girl with a flower made of memory.
Ben smiles.
"Let's finish the story our way."
[CHAPTER END | NEXT: The Final Rebellion – Breaking the End of All Things]