Scene: The Heart of the Multiverse – Sanctum of Stories
Ben stands atop a floating book-shaped platform. The air around him warps—paragraphs unravel mid-sentence, and logic flickers like a glitchy game screen.
Opposite him: Glitch—an entity without continuity.
Its body is a constantly shifting mess of misdrawn panels, fan rewrite fragments, and corrupted canon quotes.
"You made this world perfect, Void Prince," it hisses, voice skipping like a broken audio file.
"You rewrote every forgotten story.
But I… am every story you couldn't fix."
The Glitch's Power – Error Manifestation
It attacks with plot inconsistencies:
Naruto's Kurama suddenly vanishes.
Sasuke's Rinnegan reverses to Sharingan, then vanishes entirely.
Sakura forgets chakra control.
Ben watches in horror as parts of his multiverse destabilize. Characters flicker, arcs collapse, relationships undo.
"He's targeting contradictions," Amara shouts.
"Feeding off narrative imperfections."
Glitch laughs.
"Perfection is fragile.
Stories need conflict.
I am the anti-resolution."
Ben's Counter – The Void Library
Ben taps into the Void Library, pulling lore from every AU, crossover, one-shot, and fanon arc ever written.
He hurls:
The Fusion Technique of Uchiha Senju, from a discarded Naruto MMO.
The Tailed Beast Resonance Armor, from a fanfiction where Minato raised Naruto.
A Redemption Rewrite Field, powered by positive reviews left on old, abandoned fics.
Glitch stumbles—but begins to mutate.
"You're still playing by structure.
I was never written to follow rules."
Phase Shift – Glitch Absorbs the Plot Hole
The multiverse trembles.
Glitch opens a tear behind itself—The Grand Plot Hole, a realm of deleted scenes and abandoned storylines.
From it emerge fragments:
Rin, in a world where she became the Jinchūriki.
A version of Kakashi who turned rogue after the Third War.
Sasuke, who never left the village—but became Hokage too soon.
These unstable echoes swarm, latching onto characters Ben saved.
"You can't fix them all," Glitch growls.
"Because the more you rewrite, the more contradictions are born!"
Ben's Revelation – Flawed Stories Matter
Ben finally understands.
"You're not my enemy…
You're the inevitable result of caring too much."
He floats upward, spreading the pages of the Narrative Core.
"Stories don't need to be perfect.
They need to be true to themselves."
He rewrites the rules—not to remove Glitch, but to acknowledge him.
Ben creates a new role:
"You're not a villain. You're the Editor of Imperfection.
You'll remind us not to overwrite what makes stories human."
Glitch Reborn – From Error to Essence
Glitch shudders… and stabilizes.
His form becomes clearer—less corrupted, more grounded. His voice calms.
"I… still don't belong."
Ben: "None of us do. That's why we write."
Glitch bows… then vanishes into the pages.
But his essence remains—in every inconsistency, reminding the multiverse to embrace flaws.
Cliffhanger – A Ripple in Reality
As Ben regains control of the multiverse, a new ripple spreads through the Narrative Core.
One name flickers through the pages… a name never supposed to exist in Naruto:
"Ryunosuke Uzumaki – The Hidden Rewrite."
A lost sibling? A fan-insert? A meta-writer? No one remembers writing him. Not even Ben.
Amara looks up.
"This wasn't your doing… was it?"
Ben shakes his head.
"No. This… this is something else."
[CHAPTER END | NEXT: Chapter 57 – Ryunosuke, the Missing Rewrite]