Inspired By Plague of Gripes on YouTube
Call it divergence, natural deviance. Our seers see that within other realities, most in fact, Naruto Uzumaki is born alone. Even if he has other names, such Menma. His isolation is uniquely his and shapes his world, no matter what other details shifts throughout time. In our world, something changed. Tragedy struck... Tragedy that changed everything
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"Ow...wgar... what happened?" Naruto coughed. Everything hurt, he felt worse then when he fought Sasuke... "I need to get up...Pervy sage..." Slowly, Naruto managed to rise... only to fall back, weak and on agony.
Two soft arms pushed him down, holding him down. "Naruto you can't move, let me get Tsunade Sensei."
"Sakura..." His eyes finally managed to open, only to turn and vomit.
He coughed and gagged and lay in misery before finally, Tsunade stepped into the room and put her glowing hand on his head. The pain lessened as did his nausea.
"Granny,what happened... why am I so... dead..."
Tsunade turned, tears falling from her eyes. " That is because you were dead..." He gaped but was too stunned to speak. "Jiraya found you...
"Naruto wake up!" Jiraiya screamed and pounded in the boy's unmoving chest. He had been trying for several minutes to get the boy to breathe but nothing was working. "You stupid boy, breathe!"
Blue tints made thier way to Naruto's lips.
Years of training kicked in, and a toad was summoned. "Go to Tsunade, summon me there."
Not even thirty seconds passed before Jiraiya found himself in Tsunade's office.
"Jiraya what!" Panic blossomed in Tsunade's eyes before she screamed out. "Naruto!"
"He choked on Ramen." Tsunade, who had tossed herself at the blue faced boy, turned to Jiraiya confused. " He was eating ramen someone bumped into him. He turned to argue but started choking. I was gathering intel and only knew he was hurt when I heard someone screaming."
Tsunade started shaking, sobs building loudly. "He is dead, you found him too late!" Jiraiya didn't fight her punches, he stood fast as they fell into sobs. "He's all we had left... my necklace, the curse... my grand... grand..."Tsunade's tears stopped, awe filled her eyes. " Jiraya, my grandfather! He possessed an overflowing lifeforce that healed everyone! The necklace is filled with that!"
With speed only she was capable of,Tsunade summoned Shizune and Tenzo and quickly took Naruto's body to a seal chamber in the hospital. Dozens of changes were made to the sealing formula, and soon they were set to work.
Green life giving light glowed from the crystal, trapped in a noose of Naruto's hair. Hours passed as the depths of the First Hokage's power filled the boy's body. Shizune and Tsunade made quick pained work healing the damage as best they could.
"... You started convulsing... it turns out your choking was actually from ingesting too much sodium, mixed with having trained the whole day, you were dehydrated and started to overheat. ..."
Disbelief over took him. "No, that's... I couldn't have died and from something so stupid!"
"Yes you could, you are not a god Naruto! Your healing had its limits, the Kyuubi could only heal what it detected! And now it is gone!"She glared at him, angry and hurt. " You actually died Naruto, your brain suffered from total oxygen loss for hours. You are alive out if sheer luck and skill. The kyuubi was bound to your soul and it vanished entirely. Only true death, a total loss of life could have dispelled it."
That confused Naruto, he lifted his robe and gasped. The ink was gone, seared burns in the seals shape remained... but that's not what scared him... " What happened to my muscles!" Weak flabby skin stretched pale over his bones. His arms were thin and bone, and his legs the same. "What happened to me!"
Tsunade sighed, sitting on the edge of his bed. "When you died, The Kyuubi attempted to escape but failed. It was unstable and it ripped through you... the energy seared your insides though we didn't know at the time. Your chakra coils were destroyed almost entirely, the crystal regenerated them but they are reduced due to atrophy and your body no longer having the power to support them. The rasengan, summoning and shadow clones are impossible now... " She sighed, looking at his legs. "Your healing factor... it's gone. Radiation can turn off certain genes... it's a thing you get from your parents, it's why your eyes are blue and so on... anyway, radiation turns of genes which causes tumors and cancer since cells have to die but cannot anymore. The Kyuubi's radiation did the opposite and negated your healing gene. You heal like everyone else, maybe slightly better since your healing was a little more complicated then one gene or kyuubi..."Rubbing her skull, she sighed. " Kyuubi's powers and your healing is why your body was so muscled despite not training in taijutsu alot. It kept your muscles from dying... without them and without exercise, your muscles atrophied. A lot since your body was so injured..."
Still confused,Naruto focused on what little he understood. "So if I exercise..."
"Your muscles will come back, but it will take time... lucky for you, many ninjas have suffered atrophy. With special protein shakes, medical justu and rehab we can have you back in shape in a months time.. but be warned Naruto... without your healing factor, you cant push yourself so hard... you might hurt yourself worse then you are... or die."
He froze, unable to fight her words. Then he smiled. "I'll do it, then I'll save Sasuke and become Hokage! Believe it"
He never realized that unlike last time, Tsunade didn't smile at his words... mostly, she seemed annoyed...
Chapter end, tell me what you think. This is going to be so much fun... a totally different story with twists and interest that make you realize how reliant the series was on certain cliches...
Plague of Gripes inspired this as his points were spot on... Naruto was Op from start despite laziness, unintelligence and poor skills... what could he be without nepotism and blessings...
Love, Your Ninja Overlord,
Mika,SPN.