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Chapter 1 : From Above
After the Fourth Great Shinobi War the Elemental Nations had started into a new age of peace that strived to move past their history of hatred and misery.
To help insure that this peace would keep, the kage of the five great nations would meet regularly to help each other recuperate from the losses from the war that scarred the world and to deal with potential threats from other forces. Each kage would typically bring the same escort with them every time.
With the Hokage came Kakashi, Shikamaru, and her surrogate grandson, Naruto. Traveling with the Kazekage was his two siblings, some of the only people he truly trusted with his life. Those who went with the Tsuchikage was his granddaughter Kurotsuchi and his bodyguard Akatsuchi. In the company of the Mizukage was one of the seven swordsmen of the mist Chōjūrō and bodyguard Ao. Accompanying the Raikage were his brother Killer B and his right hand man Darui.
"What kind of threat did the Sage of Six Paths warn you two about?" Asked the Hokage.
"We're not entirely sure of what exactly it is that he said would come here to this planet. To be honest I don't think he really knew what was coming." replied Sasuke, who after receiving the warning went straight back to the Leaf village to his brother in reincarnation to deal with this new possible threat.
"If the Sage felt it necessary to contact the both of you that means that this threat could be on the level of disaster of Kaguya, how troublesome" commented Shikamaru in a lazy tone.
"Which is why we had to warn the kages. We have to be sure that we're ready for whenever this unknown force arrives here" Stated Naruto, unusually serious. Even with both Sasuke and his new powers, along with the rest of team seven, Kaguya was no easy fight and if the Sage was so concerned as to contact them then he'd take it serious as to not lose any more of his precious people.
"Did the Sage give any indication as to when they might arrive, Handsome?" asked Mei winking in the direction of both of the reincarnations.
"Unfortunately he didn't" replied Sasuke ignoring the mumbling next to him from a flushed Naruto saying that she was taking to him.
"However he did say that from what he saw that they come in many forms" said Naruto back to a serious tone
"While that does add to our information, our knowledge on this species is still incredibly small. If we're not carful this can be disastrous later" replied a frustrated A. After the war he, like most of the other villages, hoped that there wouldn't be any major conflicts for a very long time.
"Regardless of the level of this threat we'll deal with this like we did Madara and his army, together as the shinobi alliance" confidently said Ónoki with the other kages agreeing.
The doors busted open as a nameless ninja rushed in screaming "Lord Kages! There are strange flying objects coming from the sky!"
"It seems as we didn't have much time to prepare, but at least we will have questions answered." mumbled Kakashi as He and the other Shinobi quickly exited the room to face an unknown force.
Upon exiting the building, the group of shinobi saw two circular ships and a red ship oval like flying towards the ground a few miles away. Rushing to meet up with these ships the ninjas busted out in a full sprint.
The group approached the grounds where the ships landed in a triangle formation. The smooth surface of the closest ship slide open to make a door way where a blue silhouette stood.
As the blue figure walked out of the ship she yelled back "Get out here you miserable excuses of gems!"
The doors to the other ships opened as dozens of figures of varying sizes and colors exited the ships in a hurry to not further anger their commanding officer.
Glaring at the other gems she started to yell "Remember this colony is for our glorious Diamond. I won't have any of you messing this up or else I'll shatter you myself, understand?" With all the gems responding with a thunderous yes.
As some of the Bismuths started to go back to the ship in order to get the supplies, the group of shinobi finally arrived grabbing the attention of all the gems in the clearing.
"As the kage of this world we ask what are you and what is your purpose for coming here?" Asked A, hoping for some form of
"Disgusting, there is an infestation of organic life deal with it rubies." Ordered the agate while looking visibly disgusted .
"An infestation lady? This is our world, now we'll ask again, what are you?" Asked Naruto
"Is there a species of organic life that doesn't speak gibberish? Now why do I still see these insects? Didn't I say to deal with them?" Angrily asked the Agate glaring at the group of seven rubies.
As the rubies charged each summoning a weapon from their gems Naruto sighed "I was hoping they'd be a peaceful race"
Putting his hand on Naruto's shoulder Kakashi said "We all were hoping the same."
Rushing forward the kage guard's started to engage in a fight. Outnumbering the rubies, the shinobis quickly poofed four of the rubies making the others back up.
"Come on rubies lets fuse." Said a ruby with her gem on the back of her right hand. The other rubies escaped their fights to fuse with the other two rubies, one with her gem on her chest and the other on her left leg.
The shinobis looked upon the fusion in surprise and confusion. Speaking up Shikamaru said "This technique would logically give them a stronger form. We should try and keep them from moving so that they can't use that newfound strength."
Deciding to take the suggestion Kurotsuchi used her quicklime technique. Seeing the jutsu Ao used one of his water jutsu to solidify the slime.
With the now giant red figure stuck Naruto rushed forward with a odama rasengan with a clone, hitting her on the gem destroying it. With one of the rubies shattered the other two were forced out of the fusion which left opened to be attacked by Sasuke who switched with Naruto's clone before the clone could disappeared.
Narrowing her eyes, the Agate thought to herself how these insects are quite different from the other pests she had seen in her time conquering planets for her Diamond.
"Truly those gems were horrid examples of soldiers, Bismuths stop what you're all doing and do what they couldn't" ordered the leading gem
Transforming their hands into hammers or blades, the bismuths went forward with their order and attacked the group of ninjas. Trying to block one of the bladed bismuth with a kunai Kakashi was forced back a bit after the bismuth stretched her bladed arm in an attempt to take his head.
Jumping back further Kakashi, deciding to take a different approach, quickly flashed though several hand signs to use the lightning tracking beast fang. The jutsu sprung forward hitting the bismuth, shocking her while leaving her unable to move as Kakashi leapt forward with a kunai infused with lightning chakra and stabbed her forcing her to recede back into her gem.
Yelling out to his sensei Naruto tried to warn Kakashi that a bismuth was about to hit him with a hammer hand. Looking to where the attack was coming from Kakashi was only able to put his arms in front of his chest. The hit had launched Kakashi into a tree while breaking both of his arms.
Moving to get his sensei so that he could bring him to Tsunade. The bismuth that had attacked Kakashi got in Naruto's way, stopping him from getting any further.
"Leave this planet before any more of your people die or get hurt" Demanded Naruto pulling out a kunai
Not caring about his threat the bismuth moved forward using her hammer hand to strike from above. Dodging to the right Naruto lounges forward with his kunai sinking it into her right arm.
Recoiling back the bismuth pulled out the weapon and was kicked back by a clone. Landing on her feet she started swinging her uninjured hand managing to take down a few clones before one of them kicked her into the air. Jumping into the air above the bismuth Naruto slammed his foot down onto her face slamming her back down to the ground poofing her.
As Naruto got Kakashi back to Tsunade the others had managed to finish off the other gems leaving the agate by herself. Knowing that she was the last gem she decided to retreat onto a ship for the time being and report this to her diamond.
Unable to resist saying something the Agates final words rang in each of the shinobi's ears. "For a pack of organic life you stopped a small gem operation and for that savor in that pride. Know this though, this planet no longer belongs to you. Your species is not welcome on my Diamond's new colony, so enjoy your miserable lives for now." With that the door to her ship closed as started to fly away.
Shaking those words from his head for the time being, Shikamaru started walking towards one of the ruby gems. Shikamaru pondered aloud "Strange after killing them they leave behind some strange gem. Perhaps this is where their powers originate from? Like an external chakra system."
"We should seal them away so we can study them later. We might be able to learn how to harness this power." Said A picking one up himself.
"It could be extremely dangerous, they have technology far more advanced than our own. Without technology like theirs it might not be possible." Stated Mei unsure if they could do such a thing.
"All the more reason to try to understand their power. Who knows how much more there are out there beyond our world. We need to match their fire power." Replied Ōnoki
"They were hardly a threat, we kage didn't even have to step in. However, we should try and understand our enemies better" Tsunade said putting in her own thoughts. While she didn't think to highly of them so far she wasn't going to put others into danger because of that.
"We should split them up, having many other teams might help speed up the process. We'll also need to move their ships somewhere safe for study as well, somewhere outside of a village as to not disturb our villagers too much." Said Garra speaking his thoughts on what they should do.
"I'll have my toad summons help in transporting the ships safely" offered Naruto, wanting to further help.
"Now we just have to make up the scrolls. We'll convene in two weeks' time to share any information we uncovered." Said A.
The group of ninjas spent the next hour sealing up the gems and putting the two ships on the back of two toads who had to be bribed into helping. After finishing splitting up the gems and sealing them each group had left in their own direction to start researching their first alien species in modern time.
Leaving from the planet surface Agate flew the ship into space. Using the gravity engine, they quickly traveled through galaxies. She soon arrived to another galaxy where her diamond was overlooking another colony.
Going into a giant ship in the shape of an arm, she exits her ship and goes toward the command room. As she walks by she sees different types of gems going about their business, whatever they were intended to do.
Getting to the door to the command room she opens the door only to be immediately stopped by her diamond's pearl.
"What are you doing barraging in on your diamond like that?" Sternly asked Pearl keeping her nose up and eyes narrowed
"I need to give my report in person to our radiant diamond. Things didn't exactly go as planned." Regretfully said Agate looking a bit ashamed
Looking satisfied at another gem's failure, Pearl was about to make remark about her failure but was stopped by the voice of her diamond. "Let her get it over with Pearl. I want to hear why she's back so soon."
Walking forward Agate did the diamond salute but was still nervous in the presence of her diamond. "My glorious Yellow Diamond there were complications with the first attempt to build on your new colony."
"What could have stopped a group of gem soldiers?" Asked an unpleased Yellow Diamond looking down at the Agate.
"My Diamond there were organic life that showed strange powers and with those powers they defeated the soldiers assigned to me." Answered Agate.
"What kind of powers? Asked Yellow Diamond in confusion, never hearing about organic life ever having any kind of power.
"They could do strange things, almost gem like. They could create replicas of themselves and control types of elements." Stated Agate hoping that her diamond would understand her predicament.
With a questions filling her mind, Yellow Diamond asked "Did you get to manage to capture any evidence of these life forms?"
"No, we weren't prepared and they overwhelmed us with their unknown powers. They defeated us with little harm to themselves, shattering some and poofing the rest."
"Unfortunate that such a high potential planet is inhabited by such pests. I'll get a squad together to find an isolate location that can function as a kindergarten. As well as another squad to capture some of these lifeforms to study how they're capable of doing what you claim they can do. I'll have you go with the capture team given your experience, so stay aboard for now. You're dismissed." Claimed Yellow Diamond no longer focusing on the gem in front of her.
"Very well my Diamond" Said Agate while doing the diamond salute then scurrying off.
-Two Days Later In the Hidden Leaf Village-
A group of people stood in front of the Hokage. After the Hokage and her entourage came back she had gathered the clan heads and various other people of different scientific departments to inform them of what happened at the summit. In additions to informing them she set the different departments to work, stopping any pervious projects to start immediately on understanding the gems.
"We've studied the shards and with the help of some sensory ninjas we can tell that there is some kind of energy. However, we neither have the seals or technological knowledge to access it. We might have better luck with a still complete gem so I assigned my team to start while I came here for this meeting." A lead scientist of the project told Tsunade.
Crossing her arms, she summoned one of her anbu and told him "Get Naruto to go to the labs to participate with the others and tell him I said to use his sage mode." Knowing that she would have to tell Naruto why he would be there. With that the anbu quickly left to find the hero of Konoha.
"While we would appreciate the extra help why send him?" Asked the same lead scientist, not knowing about the powers of a sage.
"With him being a sage he is able to better sense energy in ways that surpass sensory ninjas. I'm hoping that when he's in that form he will be able to sense the energy inside the gem and understand it better." Explained Tsunade. Nodding in agreement the scientist stepped back to allow another to do their report.
"Unfortunately the same could be said about the ship. Aside from the controls being inaccessible to us, the language that these aliens use is so different that without one of them it's impossible to translate." Reported the scientist in charge of ship.
Reaching for a bottle of sake Tsunade said "I hope that the other villages are having better luck than we are."
"Granny, there was an emergency at the labs." Said Naruto as he jumped through the window.
"What happened? Are you okay?." Asked Tsunade not wanting to him hurt. Looking at him though she saw blood covering his orange jacket and dried tear marks running down his face.
Holding up one of the bismuth gem "They can come back." Stated Naruto
"From the dead?" Tsunade asked him however he just shrugged his shoulders. Demanding that he explain he started to tell her what happened in the last ten minutes.
-Ten Minutes Ago-
After the anbu had interrupted his bowl of ramen he had made a clone to start absorbing the surrounding natural energy to enter into sage mode. As he entered the labs he was unprepared for the sight in front of him. There lying on the ground covered in blood staining her white coat red was a scientist clutching her left side. Running over to her he checked her pulse only to barely find any.
In a raspy voice she told him "It... cough … came back." Watching as her eyes closed over he steeled his emotions as he created a shadow clone to take her to the hospital. Moving through the labs he heard fighting going on so he rushed into the room only to cry out in shock as he saw his teacher Iruka being cut in half by a bismuth.
He felt nature energy flow into his chakra system as he flung forward punching the bismuth into the wall poofing her. Kneeling down to bisected Iruka he broke down crying at the loss of someone so incredibly important to him. He spent a few minutes mourning the death of his teacher, but remembering his mission he put his emotions on pause until he finished it. Walking over to the gem he picked it up feeling the energy inside as something familiar.
'Kit this is'
"I know"
-Back In The Present-
The room was somber after hearing what had happened at the labs. Everyone took a moment to process what Naruto had said trying to figure out how it was even possible that those things could come back.
Speaking up Tsunade gave her grievances to Naruto understanding how he must be feeling. "I know that this kind of loss is not easy but what did you find out in your sage mode?"
"The energy inside this gemstone is the same energy I take in to go into my sage form." Replied Naruto further shocking everyone in the room. Continuing he said "They don't have a chakra system to transform it into sage chakra though."
"So there are just using the raw energy itself?" Asked Tsunade to which she got a nod from Naruto. "And they somehow channel that energy through this gem to come back?" Again getting a shrug.
"Which might explain why the shattered bits didn't reform." Said aloud the first scientist.
"I don't really understand the how of it, but all the same it's too dangerous to underestimate." Said Naruto looking at the bismuth
Stepping forward the scientist in charge of the labs asked "Why did you bring it here than? Who knows when it will reform?"
"I felt the energy inside, I knew it was dangerous to take it anywhere so I absorbed the energy until there wasn't any left." Answered Naruto
"You don't think that it could gather anymore energy?" Asked Tsunade.
"Maybe it can but it hasn't started to at least." Answered Naruto.
"Take the next few days to mourn Iruka's death. We'll deal with the rest of this for the time being." Said Tsunade
"I'm the only sage in Konoha you need me now more than ever." Naruto told Tsunade
"We'll be fine for a couple of days, we're not helpless you know. This is an order, we'll contact you when we need you again." Ordered Tsunade, only wanting him to feel better. Reluctantly Naruto nodded his head. Pulling out a spare scroll he sealed the gem inside before handing it over to Tsunade.
"Those who died will have a funeral that will be held in a few days, and again I'm sorry for your loss." Tsunade said feeling bad for her would be grandson.
Leaving the Hokage Tower Naruto went home. As he stepped through his door he felt a rush of grief. Going to the bathroom he stood in front of the mirror looking at the reflection of his headband. Remembering how he got it a few tears escaped his eyes.
"Are you going to be okay? If you need to you can talk to me about it" Offered Kurama. He knew that Naruto was strong and that he would eventually get better but he knew that losing someone important wasn't easy.
"I'm fine I just need some time." Responded Naruto not feeling up to talking to anyone. Taking off his bloody clothes he changed into his pajamas and laid down on his bed. Thinking over the day he felt emotionally exhausted and he cried himself to sleep.
Chapter End.
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