Hey everyone, I've finally got this thing done! Hopefully I did a good job with it.
Enjoy!
Prologue: Where am I?
"...Where am I?..." was the first thing that came to his mind as he felt a soft breeze brush against his skin and heard rustling from the leaves above him as well as the rushing water from the creek that was only a few feet to the left of him. He slowly opened his ocean blue eyes to take a look at his surroundings. He was lying under a tree that looked positively ancient and awkward as it was bent a little farther up from the where his head had been laying and took the form of a waxing moon, because the leaves' shadow shaded his face.
He was in a green forest with many trees surrounding him with the creek flowing through the trees, its clear blue water showing either trout or salmon that swam with the current and he had to admit that they looked extremely tasty and he was feeling a bit hungry. Needless to say, he was confused with his present predicament, he did not remember ever having been to this place.
He got up to his feet, still scanning the area around him, when he suddenly felt like something was calling to him from behind him. He turned around and saw it, perched right to the side of the old tree.
It was a sword, he could clearly see that it's pommel was pitch black and it had a half a meter long hilt, wrapped with a battered grey cloth. It's guard had a dull gold color to it and was a perfect circle that had nine small orbs that circled around the hilt. The crimson scabbard was over three and a half feet, it had a small white cloth tied a little bit below the hilt and it had two small stripes of cloth sticking out of the knot.
He walked over the blade and picked it up, studying it carefully. It was highly unlikely that someone had just left their sword right beside him, as well as the even more unlikely thought that the sword had been waiting for him crossed his mind or maybe it had appeared like he had to this unfamiliar place, he didn't know. Slowly he took the blade from its sheath and studied the beautiful silver blade.
Then it hit him like a wave. He saw what seemed like an endless desert with many hills surrounding him and at the top of one of them was an all too familiar figure. The shadow a giant fox loomed over him, his back turned to the blonde, and his gigantic nine tails swishing contently as he watched the moon high above him. Slowly he turned his head so that he could look at the boy with one of his giant red eyes.
"...Naruto..." he said the boy's name calmly as he continued to look at the blonde, "...So it came down to this, eh?" a simply question, one that Naruto couldn't understand, "Listen well Naruto, when the time comes, when you've found them and are in search of more power, come find me. Only then will the two halves become one again..." with those final words Naruto was thrust back into reality.
"Kyubi..." he muttered, eyes wide in shock when the memories suddenly flooded his head, giving him a headache as the memories raged inside his head.
He was on Kumo's moving island, near the edge of the island with his friend and former jinchuriki, Gaara. He had stopped Kabuto from kidnapping Killer Bee, while he scolded mentally himself for letting down his guard that easily for deciding that the Akatsuki would never find the island again. He would've been in Killer Bee's situation right now if Bee hadn't taken and had knocked him out of the way and took the explosion for him, and Kabuto had nearly gotten away too if he hadn't stopped him.
"Well well well...it's been awhile Naruto-kun," the now snake-like man said with an insane smile as he looked down at the blonde as he stood on Deidara's clay bird, his glasses glinting, "You've seemed to have gotten stronger since last we met." he chuckled evilly, knowing full well how strong Naruto because he was able to control Nagato now thanks to him
"Kabuto..." Naruto said coldly, glaring at Orochimaru's former subordinate, "Let him go now, or you'll regret it..." he said as he went into sage mode and entered a taijutsu stance.
Kabuto laughed at that, "Oh really? Looks like someone's sure of himself," he said as he set Killer Bee down on the bird and let two large snakes come from his sleeves, "I can't kill the Hachibi or you because of Madara's plans, but I'm sure he wouldn't mind me roughing you both up a bit..." his smile turned sadistic as Deidara's hand went into his pouch.
Naruto just stared indifferently at him as his eyes turned red, his pupils turned into a cross that was a combination of his toad eyes and his slitted eyes, his hair grew longer and spikier, his whisker marks thickened, and his canines and nails grew into fangs and nail, and having red rings appear on his eyes, he had entered hybrid mode, "Let's go!" he roared as he and Gaara jumped at the pair..
He opened his eyes as he felt his headache eased up a bit, but it wasn't over. It soon returned with more of his memories flashing through his head.
The area was filled with nothing but craters with smoke coming from them. The smell of blood was heavy in the air as he and his comrade, whom he had luckily saved from Kabuto, had defeated countless shinobi wearing black clothes with the red cloud insignia that were foolish enough to challenge the two jinchuriki.
He looked at the older jinchuriki, a man that was at least twice his height, dark skin, his eyes covered by sunglasses, five of his seven swords sheathed on his back, the other two in each hand, and his newest blade, Samehada, he had it use the chakra it stole from their enemies to rejuvenate the little that they had lost in the battle.
Once the sword was finished, he gave it a welcomed thanks, which caused the sword to shake it's tip with what he guessed was appreciation, and it went back to the elder jinchuriki.
He turned to older man, gave him his trademark fox-grin and asked, "I'm ready for more training, you up for it Bee?"
Killer Bee just gave him a raised eyebrow and smirked, then going into one of his raps, "Yo man, there's always a time for the flow, but right now your jinchuriki powers, they gotta grow! So come on Na-ru-to!" the two just looked at each other, then leapt towards one another...
The scene changed to where the entire ninja alliance was in attendance as Tsunade made her way so that she could be seen atop of the Hokage Tower.
She took in a breath as she announced "From this day forth I shall step down as Hokage and become the acting Hokage for someone else, someone who has long since deserved this title," she began as everyone's' attention was on her, "He has shown true dedication to this village. He has saved this village and it's people time and time again and is still willing to throw down his life for it. He has shown to be as every bit of a leader as his father before him and he will help us defeat the Akatsuki," with one final breath she shouted, "I present to you Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto, the Rokudaime Hokage!"
At that the entire alliance was in a deafening roar of applause and cheering as Naruto himself stepped forward. He blushed a bit and scratched the back of his head as he saw his friends cheering him on and he nearly face-faulted as he saw that Killer Bee was waving a flag that said 'Go Naruto!' with an anime version of his face, Killer bee's, and some crude drawings of what he thought was Hachibi and Kyubi on it.
Naruto opened his eyes as his headache calmed down a bit again. He sat down and leaned against the tree as he thought of the memories that had just went through his head, he couldn't help but chuckle as he recalled that ridiculous flag that Bee had made.
"That's right," he thought with a smile, "I became the Hokage, and that was a hell of a job...especially with all that paperwork," he shuddered as he remembered the mounds of paper stack on his desk, "At least I was able to use my Kage Bunshins to clear it up, why nobody but me thought about that I'll never know." but another flash of memories interrupted his thoughts.
He, Bee, and Gaara were surrounded by the bodies of all the Akatsuki who were all supposed to be dead as well as the newly made body of Hidan, who's head was stitched to it, and Kabuto who had a another coffin beside him. However, none of that concerned Naruto, what he was really worried about was the young woman whose body was wrapped up by two snakes, gagged with a rag, and laid upon the ground. Her lavender eyes looked at him desperately as she struggled against her bindings, her long dark blue hair was spread around the ground.
"I'm sorry about this Naruto-kun but I've got to capture you and the Hachibi, I can't fail again or I won't be able to obtain the things I need from Madara, but Gaara however, he can just die here." Kabuto said with a sly grin as he bent down and grabbed Hinata by the hair, which sent Naruto into a rage.
"LET HER GO!" he roared as he entered his controlled jinchuriki form and the three charged the Akatsuki members.
The scene changed again to show himself kneeling down as he held Hinata in his arms, the battle ending with Kabuto retreating as all but Nagato, Sasori, Konan, Kisame, and Deidara being destroyed completely, and not revealing what was in the coffin. However, before retreating Kabuto had fatally injured Hinata, leaving a bleeding wound in her chest.
"I...I've always loved you Naruto-kun..." she whispered before she coughed, a small bit of blood dribbled from her mouth, "...Ever since I first met you...I..I always dreamed about saying that to you...but..I was too shy to say anyt-"
She was interrupted by him kissing her, her lavender eyes grew wide as she realized the love of her life was kissing her.
"I love you too Hinata-chan..." was all that he said as he gave her a sad smile. She smiled at him as she slowly closed her eyes and her breathing suddenly stop.
Naruto realized that he was crying and began wiping the tears from his eyes, but the visions didn't end there.
The sky was dark and cloudy, but on one cared about it as the giant battle raged on between the Akatsuki forces and the ninja alliance, however there were a few key characters that were just out of reach from the battle. Naruto, Killer Bee, as well as team Kakashi and the other Kages were staring face to face with Sasuke, Kabuto, Zetsu, the dead Akatsuki members, and to everyone's shock, the Rikudo Sage, who was the one that Kabuto had in the coffin.
"Sasuke!" Naruto roared as he ran at his old friend with a rasengan.
"Finally we get to see who's stronger..." Sasuke muttered as he too charged Naruto with a chidori.
Naruto stood up and walked over to the creek, he knelt before the flowing water and suddenly grabbed a fish from the creek and tossed it over to the trunk. He felt like he needed to do something as the memories still flashed through his mind.
The surrounding field was completely destroyed, showing nothing but a crater and the two sixteen year olds in it for up to a mile. He looked his old friend in the eyes as he saw the realization of what had happened reach him. They had both finished their fight with his rasengan and Sasuke's chidori piercing each other's hearts, and they both knew that there would be no surviving their wounds.
"I-It can't b-be...?" Sasuke muttered as his hand fell from Naruto's chest.
"I-I told you Sasuke," Naruto told him as he fell on his knees, while Naruto himself still stood, "If we fought each other, we'll both die..." he said as Sasuke closed his eyes and fell on his back.
Slowly Naruto began walking past the battered corpses of the fallen kages, knowing that they had died fighting the Akatsuki members and the Rikudo Sage, with him having to kill the Sage after he was done with the kages with a barrage of rasenshurikens. He didn't know about his team and Kabuto though, but he was sure that they were still alive, and grew sad as he knew that Bee had been taken by Zetsu to have Hachibi extracted.
But he was now concerned about finishing this war once and for all before his wound killed him. The scene then changed once more to show the Akatsuki base going up in flames as an explosion suddenly occurred and a certain blonde sent flying through the air with his comrade's body in his arms and a scream that came from the founder and leader of the Akatsuki, Madara Uchiha, himself.
"UZZUMAKKIII NARRUTTOOO!" came the bearer of the eternal mangekyo sharingan as the wound he was afflicted with made him fall to his knees, and was then engulfed by another explosion, which destroyed both the old Uchiha, Zetsu, and the Gedo Mazo statue.
The next thing Naruto knew, he was shaken awake by a young woman his own age, her hair the color of sakura blossoms, her eyes a shade of brilliant green, and was covered in injuries, the most lethal being a bleeding wound around her hip and stomach, but she ignored it as she still kept trying to keep him alive.
"Naruto wake up! Please, please wake up! I'm begging you please don't die!" she cried, tears running down her face as she was now performing medical to him. He grabbed her hands and gave her one last smile as he closed his eyes, he could no longer hear her pleadings, and smiled contently as he exhaled his last breath.
Naruto sighed as he built himself a fire and began cooking his ten fish on some sticks he had found, he knew what the memory that was coming was, and he knew that it would be the final one in this string of memories because it was the one that came to him as if he were reliving it.
He found himself within the carnage of the battle between the two forces, what remained of the ninja alliance celebrated in triumph as everyone in the battlefield was watching the Akatsuki base go up in flames, the area littered with the dead bodies of the white Zetsu army. He looked down to check on his body and found something that wasn't on him before. It was a chain, a chain that was attached to his chest, and for some reason he got the feeling he shouldn't mess with it, so he decided to look around.
He walked through the battlefield to a familiar field where he found three bodies, one's head on top of the other's chest. The one that was on the ground was a young man with spiky blonde hair, with three whisker marks on each cheek that would remind anyone of a fox, and a content smile on his face. The smile was that of someone who had never given up, someone who had finished his job and could finally rest in peace.
The second body was that of a young woman that had pink hair, her eyes closed as her head rested against the other's chest. Her face was so peaceful she could have been sleeping but her wound gave it away that she wasn't sleeping, and the third body was that of a well built man with dark skin, a smile also adorning his face, like he'd had one last victory before dying.
"Another soul, eh?" came a voice form behind him. Naruto turned around to see a lone figure approaching him, dressed in a black shihakusho, not unlike he had seen some of the samurai dressed in and a katana around his waist. He had messy light blonde hair and dark blue eyes that portrayed a calm demeanor as he walked towards Naruto.
"This is a complete disaster," the man said as he looked at the chaos that was around them, "With this many people dead, it won't be long until Hollows are drawned to here," he sighed as he drew his blade, "Don't worry about it kid, this'll be over in a moment."
Naruto immediately jumped backwards and entered a taijutsu stance, but would soon wish he wouldn't , because he suddenly felt like he had been through one of Pervy Sage's crazy training methods and he fell to one knee.
"Impressive," the man said as he walked up to the fellow blonde, his sword resting on his shoulder, "Normally newly severed souls like yourself can barely move at all at first, let alone jumping around like that."
All Naruto could say was "Say what?..."
"I'm sorry to tell you this," the man said sadly, "But your dead."
"Oh, I already knew that..." Naruto told him with a wave of his hand, nearly causing the man to face-fault, "It's kinda obvious when you see my body over there."
"...Then all I need to tell you is where you're going," the man said as he raised his sword, the butt pointed to Naruto's head, "Souls like yourself must be sent to the Soul Society, don't worry it's peaceful enough there." he said with a smile.
"Before you do can you answer my something?" Naruto asked, earning a nod from the taller blonde, "Who are you?"
The man smiled slightly as he answered the boy's question, "Urahara Kisuke, I'm a shinigami..." he told him as he pressed the pommel of the sword onto the boy's forehead. Naruto was then covered by a blinding light and disappeared.
"...So this is the Soul Society, eh," Naruto muttered to himself as he took a bite from one of the cooked fish, "Well I guess I'm stuck here...but it doesn't seem that bad."
Well there it was, my first chapter, I hoped you all like it and I'll see you next time!
