So it came down to this not with a bang but with a whimper to Naruto Uzumaki this was probably the best way to go out. Sure in the old days he would have wanted to have died on a battle field defending his village and friends with everything he had. But in this new age of peace there were no enemies to be fought. No battles to be won no it was calm safe secure no better way to leave this world then knowing they'd be safe that she would be safe.

In a hospital bed an old retired Hokage slowly turned his head to see his sleeping granddaughter sitting in a chair having fallen asleep from reading a very old story to him his favorite story, the story by his master. Naruto knew he'd be seeing that old pervert soon, as he would Grandpa Third, his father, his mother, and even Obito. Naruto at the ripe young age of a hundred and nine felt his time closing in on him.

Any moment now he'd fall asleep, his final sleep he had lived such a fulfilling life and now he was about to receive his eternal reward for a life time of fighting for what he believed in for his own dogma not anyone else's.

Turning his head to his left he looked out of his hospital room window to see his own reflection. Instead of a golden spiky haired brat looking back he saw a tried old man with long sliver hair and a wrinkly mug that looked like you could store money in. he laughed at his old face right before he tried again to contact the only friend who was about to outlive him.

"Kurama?" he asked in the depths of his mind. "It's not too late I could let you out right now, you can merge with your other self. I can sense he's close it would be real easy for you to become whole again."

"No" was the fox's replay.

"So you really want to go down with a sinking ship?" Naruto asked.

"I once said if you die I die, if it really is only a part of me I don't want you to go to the Pure World by your self. I'm with to the end."

"Stupid fox"

"Lousy human"

Naruto started chuckling awaking the sleeping angel sitting beside him.

"Grandpa?" a little golden haired girl in an orange summer dress said as she rubbed her eyes.

"Oh Haru did grandpa wake you?" Naruto asked. "Go back to sleep little one I feel I'll be going soon."

"No! Grandpa I don't want you to go who'll play with me, who'll tell me stories and, who'll help me draw graffiti on the old Hokage monument?"

….Naruto never thought her that some things are just genetic.

"I'm sorry Haru but I…..I…." Naruto's vison started to blur his eye lids started to become heavy so the old man closed his eye for one final time.

"Haru….tell you mother….and your uncle…..that I will always watch over them….I…love…." but he never got to finish the numerous machines he was hooked up to started to go off. A team of nurses and a few doctors raced in the room prying a crying girl off a fallen hero. They tried desperately to revive him under the orders of Haru's mother the Ninth Hokage that her father the legendary Seventh wasn't to die on this day, but sadly it was out of their control.

Naruto felt something drift out of his body and was able to see again.

He was floating rising up in the air until he touched the ceiling until he passed through it. He was lifted higher and phased passing several rooms then the roof until he saw the night sky. Naruto was able to turn himself around so he could see the village on last time.

He smiled at how much it had changed how the world had changed he was glad that this plant was in capable hands. He looked back at the Hokage monument to look at one final face. It wans't his or Kakashi's or even his father's no he was looking at the ninth face the face of Himawari Uzumaki.

"Protect them Hinawari protect them with all you got and then use a little more after that.

He was in the clouds now soon he would be there the final resting place for all souls the Pure World a short time there and his chakra would be reincarnated helping the next decedent of Ashura protect the world and all of her creatures. Yes any second know any second…wait was he in outer space?

Naruto Uzumaki looked around and saw he was in the stars looking down at the planet….was this supposed to happen.

But everything faded again finally now he was going to the Pure World now he was…..

AWAKE!

Naruto woke up and bolted off the ground he wobbled a bit before he reached his arm out and used a tree to support himself. Looking up he saw he was in a forest, a forest he knew his clock had been punched out so where was he now was he in the Pure World?

Naruto attempted to walk but fell to his knees looking at his hands he notice something his right arm it was different, it was normal again and shorter?

Naruto looked down to see for some reason the only piece of clothing he was wearing was a loincloth, a loincloth with small stubby legs coming out of them. To his side he saw a small puddle.

Looking back in his reflection was not an old man but a young brat. Like maybe eight or nine years old, was this normal?

He remembered Obito turned back into a kid when he went off to the great behind so regressing was normal right?

Was this normal Naruto slammed his hand into a tree to see what would happen. His hand got scratched and he bleed a little…..this was real….he was a kid again.

"DAMN IT! You idiot!" he screamed out to the morning sky pointing at something out there. "YOU reincarnated me, or de aged me or some stupid manga plot shit to me didn't you, didn't you Kami why I wanted to go to the Pure World I wanted to retire and see Hinata again I'm too old for this answer me!"

His yelling to the skies had been heard but not by kami.

"I think I heard something over here!" a group of teenage delinquent types dressed in Earth Kingdom clothing came into the small clearing Naruto was in. The reborn old man ignored them as he continued to shake his fist into the sky.

"Well, well, well what do we have here?" the leader of the delinquents said as he held onto a katana sword over his shoulder. "Did a little baby get lost from his momma" he said in mocking voice.

"Hey bro it looks like this brats been picked clean I don't think he can pay the toll" one of the flunkies said.

"Your right you hear that brat this is our forest." The leader formed a stance and levitated a bolder over to his side and shot it landing right next to Naruto who was still unresponsive.

"If you want to get out of here alive you better fork over something worth….." the punk leader never got to finish as Naruto had closed the gap between them as he jumped and landed a right hook into his face sending him flying backwards and smashing into a tree all in the course of three seconds.

"Big BRO!" The remaining teenage punks screamed as they saw their fallen leader knocked the fuck out by a small child.

Slowly turning their heads back to said kid they saw him pick up their leaders sword and snap it in halfas he said "Katana's are for pussies"

The kid then cracked his knuckles as a dark shadow was cast under his eyes looking deeper they saw a red demon like illumination coming form were his pupils were. "You little shit heads are eighty years too early to tell me to do anything" he said in a low gravelly voice.

"Who…who do you think you are you little ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh" a second punk was punched in the gut by Naruto followed by the tiny power house grabbing the punk's arm and braking it over his knee.

The other looked on as terror as the punk teenager had been carrying a kanabo, which had now fallen into Naruto's hands. The old man slammed the club onto the ground breaking the land apart before slinging the club over his shoulders.

"Guess what boys I'm pissed no I'm beyond pissed so until I found out what the fuck happened to me I'm going to hurt you I'm going to hurt you until I've broken ever bone in your bodies and them I'm going to eat one of you!" he said with a giant slasher like smile.

Naruto used the kanabo to point over to a fat punk. "It'll properly be you but guess what else first one to scream gets a prize!"

"What's the prize" a terrified punk asked.

"Why they get to die first!" Naruto jumped up into the sky using the sun to cover himself in blind light as he slung the club behind himself and used to momentum to strike the ground as he landed warping the whole area like a pebble making waves in still water.

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki. I'm a hundred and nine years old but somehow I've turned back into a child. I'm not the hero of this story, and I'm not it's villain. I'm the retired old guy who isn't going to save the world but enjoy it let these punk kids of this planet have the glory I don't care I'll just be around to fuck shit up!"