Hello everyone, I am starting a new story so tell me how this is as we progress. I do not own anything. Nothing at all. Nope.

Warnings: Fem. Naruto

Prologue:

Darkness.

That was all Naruto could see. That was all she could really feel. It was strange, you don't think you could feel darkness until you actually experience this unfortunate ordeal. It feels like a numbness, like nothing…like you're just there really. Naruto didn't know what to expect when the darkness came for her. Would she finally be with her parents? Her friends? Would Kurama come with her? She didn't know what she would do if he suddenly disappeared from her life. As annoying as the fox was, Naruto came to see Kurama as a sibling…..not that she would ever tell him that.

Then there was light. Beautiful warm breathtaking light that wrapped around her bloodied body, almost like those hugs she longed for as a child. She felt the light heal, the blood slip off of her as if it were sand instead of sticky liquid, bruises lighten to nothing, broken bones snap into place with no pain, and her seal reform. Naruto was brand new, the only thing the light couldn't heal was the emotional and mental pain she had to go through. That was permanent.

"Kit." Came a gruff voice and Naruto nearly cried in relief. Kurama didn't leave her. She wasn't alone. "Kit. Stop your annoying and depressing emotions, I can feel them from the back of your mind."

'Well that relief was short lived.' Naruto thought grumpily. "Oi you over-sized kitten do you know where we are?"

"Why you little! Listen here you hairless monkey I may be the most powerful of the Bijuu but even I can't tell where a place is by just darkness. Ever think of that? No of course not. You know why? I'll tell you why it's because your observation skills are about as good as rocks that's why." Kurama ranted in his cage, occasionally throwing a few more insults just to be sure Naruto got the point she had damaged his pride severely.

'Note to self, never call the stupid fox an over-sized kitten again.' Naruto sighed.

"Kit something is wrong with that light." Naruto tilted her head to the side confused. "It's gathering energy, somewhere around the center. And it's trying to mute the connection between us."

"Wha?! What do you mean! I thought we were dead and now something else is trying to kill us?!" Naruto waited for a response but received none. "Kura-chan?!"

"No need to be alarmed child, Kurama just went to take a small nap while you and I talk." Naruto was startled and turned around to see an old man in white robes.

"Who are you?! If you think you can take him from me than you are sadly mistaken like so many others before you old man!" Naruto shouted.

The old man just smiled gently his eyes full of warm affection. "I'm glad to see someone finally taking care of my son. It's been so long of him just wandering around alone with no one but his siblings."

Naruto felt a shard of ice pierce her heart in realization. It spread through her vein like an icy fire, like fear. This man was the nine tailed fox's father. That would make him the Sage of Six Paths. Kurama had told him of his father once before, and even the all powerful nine tailed fox's description didn't live up to the power rolling off of the man before her. This Legendary man.

"What can I do for you Sage-sama?" Naruto mustered up every ounce of respect she had throughout her hard life and poured it into those words. This man while he had created the chakra beasts, which in turn had taken her parents away from her, and caused the village to scorn her for so long…had given her Kura-chan her Nii-san.

The Sage chuckled "Oh my child you have given me far more than I could have ever hoped for. You have united my children together once more, you don't know what peace that gives to a father's mind. For so long I had hoped and waited for the child of the prophesy to appear, then my dear you appeared, like a shinning beacon of hope to us all."

Naruto was confused. "I don't understand Sage-sama, if I were the child of the prophesy then I would have done a better job. There would have been less casualties out on the battlefields. I would have been able to save my loved ones. But I wasn't able to Sage-sama…..and I wonder what could you possibly want with me now that the war is over?"

Sadness and nostalgia could be seen plain as day on the old man's face before he seemed to muster the strength to speak. " Naruto I know life has not been kind to you…..and you wish to see your loved ones. Unfortunately you are needed in another dimension where it is slowly ascending to chaos. You my dear must be the child of the prophesy once more in order to put a stop to this."

Anger was Naruto's first reaction. Then sorrow. Another world? Another family? Could she handle the heartbreak? Could she be strong? Can she stand and fight once more?

"Before you make your decision my dear I want you to think on this. Millions of people need your help. The world is ascending to darkness. It needs a leader Naruto….they need you." The old Sage spoke solemnly.

Naruto now knew her answer. "I'll do it Sage-sama."

The old man brightened "Good! Now to go to this new dimension, you need to be reborn, so if-"

"Hold on a sec old man. I have certain conditions about being reborn." Naruto interrupted angrily.

The old sage raised an amused eyebrow. "Oh do tell."

"When I'm reborn the fox goes with me. Two, my powers, chakra control, skills, everything goes with me. Three, I want to look exactly the same as I do now in memory of my parents. You got that old man? Except maybe make my hair exactly like my mother's I want to remember her. Four, I want my Tou-san's Hokage coat, kunai, and his leaf headband. Five, from my mother I want her kunai and I want her swords. I also want her necklace that every Uzumaki heiress gets on their coming of age day. Six, I still want the toad contract. Seven, I still want to be related to the Uzumaki and Namikaze even if it's faint. I still want to be the daughter of Kushina and Minato. Those are my terms and conditions. Do you accept or deny?" Naruto crossed her arms giving the Sage a hard look.

The Sage just looked amused even a little devious. "Very well my dear I accept those terms, although you should be a little more specific, just incase someone gets a little…mischievous."

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Then there was darkness…again.

Naruto was seriously starting to get aggravated with the whole darkness thing. All she really wanted was a little light…and for the stupid fox to shut up.

"You met my father?! You made a deal by yourself? Now look where we are genius! In darkness AGAIN! Are you sure you didn't land yourself in hell for pissing off one too many people you stupid monkey?" Kurama demanded

Naruto felt what little patience she had snap. "ONII-CHAN IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP RIGHT NOW I WILL HIT YOU SO HARD EVERY ONE OF YOUR DEMENTED SIBLINGS WILL FEEL IT DATTEBANE!"

They both froze for two reasons. Reason number one, Naruto just called the great nine tailed demon fox, feared by all Onii-chan. Reason number two, Naruto just said Dattebane, an old verbal tick her mother used to say that was so very close to her Dattebayo. But Naruto got rid of her verbal tick months ago through stress and practice…why was it back?

"Gaki, care to explain why you felt the very need to call me Onii-chan and why you just said your mother's verbal tick?" Kurama said almost calmly. Naruto had to admit that scared her far more than his temper tantrums.

But before she could answer there was a flicker of light in there never ending Naruto was thanking the gods for. Saved by the bell never felt truer in that moment. Then the light started to get brighter and brighter. Soon it was too bright to even look at, Kurama and Naruto had to close their eyes and look away but the two of them heard a woman's voice that sounded distant but near at the same time.

"Ah look at her Iemitsu! Isn't she adorable!" A woman that neither Kurama or Naruto could see.

"She's so kawaii! Eto…I thought we were having a boy Nana dearest." A male probably the father cluelessly asked.

Naruto felt a vein in her head pop. "DO I LOOK LIKE A BOY TO YOU DATTEBANE?! I HAVE BOOBS YOU HAIRLESS DUMB MONKEY OF A HUMAN MALE! IF I EVEN CATCH YOU LOOKING AT ME WRONG I'LL BEAT YOU TO THE NEXT CENTURY TSUNADE-BAA-CHAN STYLE DATTEBANE!

Naruto got whacked over the head with one of Kurama's tails. "Although I agree with your assessment imouto it seems like you have just been born therefor you have no boobs. And your gender is now unrecognizable. Such a shame really….you would have been cuter as a fox kit." Kurama huffed in a superiorly.

Naruto opened her mouth to go off on the stupid fox but smiled slyly, was that a compliment Kura-nii-chan?"

Kurama huffed whacking her with another one of his tails but didn't deny her claim which made her feel that much more smug and giddy. They turned back to the scene to see the couple cooing at Naruto through her mind's eye, which looked a tad creepy to her since she didn't have a mind of a baby or the emotions of one.

" What should we name her Iemitsu?" Nana giddily asked cooing over Naruto and rubbing their noses together gently. Naruto could slowly feel a maternal bond forming between Nana and herself but she doesn't think Nana could ever replace her original mother.

"Ah I know we should name her Tsunayoshi!" Iemitsu announced proudly. Naruto blanched, forget it. She doesn't see herself forging a bond with such an idiot. Not when her original father gave his life for his daughter to be safe and happy. Nope. This idiot is a no go in Naruto's mind.

"Iemitsu that isn't a proper name for a girl like our daughter!" Nana scolded lightly while still holding her daughter gently in her arms.

"Then what do you want to name her my love?" Iemitsu asked in a lovestruck tone that made Naruto's eye twitch internally.

"I want to name her….Naruko…our precious Naruko." Nana murmured holding the now named Naruko close as if to protect her from all harm.

Iemitsu smiled. "Very well. Welcome to the family Naruko Sawada."