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"I'll live by my own Nindo."
- Naruto at Haku's grave.
"You and me... we're much alike... Does it hurt?"
"The loneliness,"
- Naruto and Gaara.
"I'll bring Sasuke back! It's a promise of a lifetime!"
- Naruto to Sakura.
"Naruto has this strange power... Anyone he meets, he brings the best out of them."
- Kakashi to Chiyo.
"Come to think of it... Wasn't your dream to become Hokage?"
"Can someone who can't even save one of their friends become hokage?"
- Sasuke and Naruto.
"Naruto! The council fears your uncontrolled powers of the Kyuubi!"
- Tsunade to Naruto.
"Forbidden Technique! Sands of Time!
- The Fifth Hokage
A New World
Chapter 1
Forever sealed in time, Naruto slumbered undisturbed, non-existence to the world, and the millions of people in it.
Time passes that days turns to weeks, weeks into months, month to years, and years into centuries. The day of ninjas passes, chakra was almost non-existence, and the settlements of villages changed into towns, and those towns changed into cities. The once proud ninja nation disappeared, and in their place was the technological advances of the human race.
But as the years passes, the powers that sealed Naruto in his eternal slumber faded, and until one day, the stone embrace that covered Naruto chipped, and shattered.
His vision remained blurred.
The floor felt strange under his touch.
Cold... and hard. Nothing jagged pricked at him. The surface was smooth and made from stone.
He could smell blood... and sulfur? He couldn't make sense of what was happening. Where was he?
His vision cleared a little, and he noticed shards of rocks around him. As if recently, the stone wasn't there before.
"Where am I?" He croaked out.
His muscle was so stiff that he couldn't move in the correct manner. Naruto placed both palms on the floor and he pushed himself into a sitting position.
This is extremely hard!
Once sitting, he viewed his surroundings. On the entrance door, a sign read in kanji; Kururugi Shrine.
The shrine was different, he noted. The shrine felt... deserted. Like there wasn't a person inside for ages.
Why am I in a shrine? What happened?
Naruto was at a loss. He couldn't remember what happened the last few days. He remembered Orochimaru and Sasuke at the sound base, and returning to Konoha, but he didn't remember what happened after.
He sighed and barely stood up, and the sweat down his face didn't help on how easy this was.
"Welcome to the damned life of Uzumaki Naruto," he couldn't help but chuckle at his situation.
Here he was, the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi, the boy that learned the technique Rasengan in a month, the boy that face Orochimaru and lived, and yet, he couldn't stand up on his own two feet without sweating.
Sometimes, he hated his life.
Naruto was glad that Ero-Sennin didn't see him like this. He could have laughed at Naruto's misfortune. He ignored everything and took a step forward.
The floor collided with his face.
"Ouch," Naruto muttered.
He managed to reach the entrance and left the shrine. Outside, the fresh oxygen entered his lungs, and he frowned when he viewed the most magnificent thing in his life. Some sort of city was in the distance, slightly above the hill, but Naruto could make it out. Large black clouds could been seen escaping into the air, and the blood and sulfur could be smelt in that direction.
The city has suffered an attack, Naruto thought.
The city was beautiful, with its large skyscrapers, and dozens of smaller houses scattered around the center. Naruto wondered what the city looked like before the attack.
Naruto was at a loss at the sight, but he needed to find out where he was, and what happened to him.
He decided the city was his best bet.
Naruto was glad that he managed to regain some of his loss muscle strength within a few hours of walking. Naruto's prisoner was finally pulling its weight around and helped with its regeneration powers to speed up his muscle problems. Naruto could walk thirty minutes without straining himself now.
He wondered if there was a problem with his chakra reserves. Would his chakra reserve diminish after a long period of inactive use? He was scared to tap into his chakra to find out the outcome. He couldn't handle the possibility of having no chakra after training extremely hard for the purpose of returning Sasuke to Konoha.
But the Kyuubi's regeneration powers remained.
The blond thought it was a sign, or at least a positive outcome.
Naruto sighed, and stopped walking.
He closed his eyes, and the noise of the forest increased. The chilly cold air pushed him, and the moon's shine cut into the thick roof of leaves. He concentrated, searching for that warm of chakra, and after a moment that warm spread around him. Naruto grinned when he opened his eyes.
He has chakra.
Naruto sensed danger all of a sudden. He dodged and carefully hidden himself in the trees when one large... Mecha? tried to squish him into pancakes.
Wow! The creature was huge, and beautiful. The thing looked like the giant robot from one of his Manga at home. The robot looked human in structure, and some sort of weapon was in its hands.
A voice escaped from the machine, but Naruto couldn't make out the langauge.
The robot did something unexpected, and pointed the weapon in its hands at Naruto's hiding spot. How? Naruto didn't know, but he didn't want to find out what the weapon did, and he executed the shadow clone technique.
The ground around Naruto exploded with holes. Naruto realized the robot was firing metal at him, sort of like Sasuke's fireball technique, but at a much faster rate of speed. He ordered his clones to move in different directions to confuse the robot, and the original moved in different direction too.
Naruto acknowledged that the robot was confused, and it was a perfect time for a counter attack. He moved around the forest until he was behind the confused robot and created a clone. A blue spiraling ball formed in the original's hands.
The clone disappeared, trails of smoke lingered before disputing into the air, and the original Naruto leaped towards the robot.
"Rasengan!" Naruto shouted.
A large boom echoed throughout the forest, and the robot exploded into peices. Debris fell around the blond, almost like rain, but the metal stopped seconds later.
Naruto gazed at the remains of the destroyed robot. Many emotions fought for dominance within himself; anger at the council, curiosity of the mechanics behind the robot, but especially fear of of the unknown. He knew nothing of this world - nothing that could help him know which direction Konoha was, or how long he was sealed in the forbidden technique. The last important thing was his friends.
All of his friends... One, who he worked hard to obtain through blood and tears have perished in time.
Naruto felt warm tears running down his face. Sakura-chan, Kakashi-sensei, Ero-Sennin, Oba-chan, Iruka-sensei, and all of his friends, he was never going to see them again.
It was the council fault.
It was their fault for him landing in this situation.
The council forced Tsunade to use the forbidden technique on him!
Red chakra bubbled around Naruto, his eyes turned crimson and slitted, his blond hair spiked, his whiskers redefined, and it all went unnoticed to him. To caught up in his emotions to notice the state he was in.
The council has never listens to the Hokage's orders!
"No! No! NO!" Naruto screamed. The red chakra exploded around him in an explosion, destroying the surrounding trees in a haze, and the two observers happened to be nearby to feel the blood-lust of the malevolent chakra.
Naruto's surrounding remained a burned scourge mark, a testament of the kyuubi's destructive powers.
The last thing he saw before he passed out was the forest floor. The ground coliding with Naruto's body.
Lelouch vi Britannia's appearance was a mess. His clothing ripped to sheds from the attack on Tokyo, his black silky hair mixed with dirt and leaves, and his childish face was covered in dirt. His father left him as a political tool in Japan, and his father left Nunnally alone! It was his father's fault that mother was assassinated in a well guarded palace.
"I swear Suzaku, I will one day obliterate Britannia," Lelouch proclaimed.
Suzaku watched Lelouch with a sad smile.
Lelouch's attention shifted to a Glasgow knightmare landing in the forest.
"Lelouch... Why is a knightmare here? I thought Japan has surrendered already..."
Without warning, the Glasgow explored into bits and pieces, and Lelouch's point of view. That wasn't an attack from an outside source. Why did that Glasgow explode?
"Wow! Did you see that?" Suzaku questioned.
Lelouch nodded.
Lelouch avoided a branch from blocking his path by swirling around it. He was having a terrible time traveling through the forest. There was too many branches that stopped his movement, but whenever he looked at Suzaku, he looked fine avoiding the branches.
"Lelouch, I don't think we should go that way..." Lelouch noted Suzaku's trembling voice.
He ignored Suzaku and continued walking his path.
This was just one step to destroying Britannia. To prove his commitment of his goal. To make a world where Nunnally could live peacefully.
But it was also a commitment of the day of his father's death
He clinched his hands into a fist.
An explosion occurred again, but unlike the last explosion, this explosion send an eerie feeling down the spines of both boys. It felt like someone was suffocating them. It only lasted for a second, but for both Lelouch and Suzaku, it felt like an eternity.
"What... What was that?" Suzaku fell on his behind. He never felt something this evil before.
"I-I don't know..." Lelouch heard his own voice tremble.
"Co-Come on Lelouch, let's return!"
Lelouch nodded and turned his back to the source of the explosion. An image of Nunnally appeared in his mind, his mother, and his father.
"N-no..."
"Lelouch! T-This is insane! Did you feel that? I certainly did!"
He ignored Suzaku and continued walking towards the source of the explosion. Every step felt like he was entering the boogeyman's lair.
"Le-Lelouch! Come on! I don't want to do this..." Suzaku said.
"Then leave," Lelouch shot back. Unlike Suzaku, he was planning on completing his commitment.
Lelouch noticed the trees thinned and the sunlight shinned brightly. As he neared, he was blinded from the sun for a moment before his vision returned.
A blond teenager laid on his front, unconscious from Lelouch's perspective. Lelouch wasn't expecting a teenager to be here, the knightmare Glasgow's debris littered around him. He was expecting to see a large monster, or an enemy, but instead it was a teenager.
He noticed the teenager's black and orange jacket burned to ash, his pants barely hanging on - Lelouch guessed it was from the explosion.
"Is he the pilot of the Glasgow?" Lelouch questioned.
Or was he the source of the second explosion?
Suzaku remained silent throughout this affair.
"Naruto! Why are you sleeping?" Sakura yelled.
Naruto sheepishly grinned at his female teammate.
"Sorry, Sakura-chan. I was dreaming about something weird," he replied.
The pink-haired girl's features softened.
"Dreaming? About what?" Sakura questioned.
"Well, I was dreaming about that I was sealed into stone, and many years passed. I saw this weird machine that was tall as the hokage's monument! Of course I blew it up with my Rasengan!" Naruto gestured with his hands.
Sakura giggled.
"You always dream about something weird,' she said to Naruto.
Naruto opened his eyes, and a white ceiling entered his sight.
It was a dream...
Naruto realized he had been dreaming about Sakura. So everything that happened was real, he had blew up the machine with his Rasengan, and he was sealed into stone.
"Everything happened... My precious people..." Naruto whispered.
A nurse entered the room, and she blinked when she saw Naruto awake. She immediately left the room and came back with another woman and a younger boy and girl.
Naruto saw the younger boy walk up to him, and said something to him in another language that he couldn't understand. He ignored him and continued viewing into nothingness.
His life as a ninja was over. From the looks of things, ninja, villages, or chakra was nonexistent in this time period. Naruto noticed the lively feeling of chakra around the world disappeared. He couldn't feel it around his body anymore, or at least the elemental chakra and nature chakra.
"Leave me alone," Naruto said coldly to the younger boy.
The boy looked angry, but before he could voiced his opinion, the older women interrupted him.
"Your an eleven," she stated.
Naruto blinked in surprise. He could understand the woman clearly, and she heard him too. Naruto sat up and noticed four people in the medical room. A younger boy dressed in silk, a colourful attire, his eyes was black, and matching hair. The little girl wore a bright red dress, and a ribbon tied into her blond hair. The woman wore a dress that showed her curves to a wonderful extent, she looked exactly like the younger girl and Naruto guessed this was the little girl's mother.
"What's an eleven?" Naruto replied.
"Don't you speak Britannian," the women continued.
"Britannian?" Naruto tried sounding out the different syllable in each word. Naruto found these terms strange, and what was an Eleven and Britannian?
"What are you talking about lady?" Naruto said to the older women. She turned around and spoke to the nurse in another language. Naruto wondered what they were saying, and Naruto guessed it was about him.
"Rest here for a bit. I'll return to check up on you later," the blond women said.
Naruto nodded and watched the women shoo the bystanders outside the medical room, and the younger boy in silks looked slightly peeved at being ignored, but Naruto didn't care one bit.
He wanted to mourn for his friends, but he couldn't.
His friends didn't help him,
Sakura-chan, Kakashi-sensei, and everyone else didn't try to stop the council from executing the forbidden technique on him.
What if one of Naruto's precious people was in his situation? He would have fought thousands of ninjas to have his friend returned.
It was never good saying what if. What ifs always leads to many disappointments. He knew that first hand with Sasuke. What if this, What if that, Naruto spent his entire life saying what if.
No, Naruto would take life, and continue.
It was his nindo. His way of the ninja.
Naruto's resolved strengthened, and he would make new precious people. He will always remember his precious people from the past, but they don't exist anymore. Naruto will forever mourn for his friends, but Naruto must continue.
He was in a whole new time period. A different world that isn't entirely his own. He knew absolutely nothing about this time period, and he doesn't know the language.
So what? He'll learn the language and continue.
There was machines that moved like humans?
So what? He'll learn to pilot the machine.
"Sakura-chan... Kakashi-sensei... Ero-Sennin... Oba-chan..."
The images of his precious people appeared in his mind.
Naruto felt really tired, and his eyes started to shut. He needed more sleep to process the information of this new world. It was too much for his brain to handle the differences of this world.
Naruto opened his eyes to a dark world outside his window, and lights littered the darkness in the distance. Naruto wondered how many people lived in this village, but he couldn't count each single spec of light. There was too many, Naruto noticed.
"I see your awake," Naruto turned around and saw the nurse enter the room.
"I brought you a tray, and I'm sure your hungry," the nurse said.
Naruto's stomach rumbled in hunger. His grin faltered when he remembered his last meal. Hundreds, or thousands of years ago at Ichiraku's Ramen with Iruka-sensei.
"Thank you," Naruto said. He brought the tray to his lap, and viewed the different varieties of food. He never saw any of this food before, but it was delicious when the food went into his stomach. It wasn't Ramen, but the food was delicious.
Naruto started rouging the meal after tasting each bit of food, and stopped until he was stuffed.
"That was great!" Naruto grinned at the nurse, and the nurse giggled slightly at Naruto's messy face.
"Name's Uzumaki Naruto," he held a hand at the nurse.
The nurse looked at the gesture in a confused stare, but instead of shaking hands, she bowed.
"My name is Shinozaki Sayoko. Please to meet you Naruto-kun," Sayoko said.
Naruto nodded and removed his hand to his side. The blond wondered how long did time pass, for the language of the past to remain deeply into the future. He thanked any deity in the sky for him that the people he'd met had known his language, or everything would be awkward, and confusing.
"Excuse me, but I will summon Mistress-sama to know that you are awake," Sayoko bowed and left the room.
Naruto was left alone with his thoughts again. His thoughts revolved around his precious people, and he couldn't bare the thought of never seeing them again.
It hurt so much.
He ignored his thoughts, sat up on the bed, and looked out the window. He stood up and walked to the window for a better view. The outside was magnificence with specs of light in the far distance. The moon was clearly seen in the cloudless sky, but Naruto noticed that he couldn't see any stars.
The door opened behind him, and Naruto watched the blond women enter the room. She was with Sayoko, but the two children wasn't with her. Naruto never liked children, they were loud and annoying.
"You're finally awake, I see," the blond women said.
Naruto nodded, and grinned slightly.
"Nothing could take me out. Not even weird machine robots," Naruto said.
"Weird machine robots..? Ah, you mean a knightmare," the woman said.
"Knightmare? Is that what those robots are called?"
The women nodded.
"Don't you know that? Where were you when Britannia invaded Japan?"
Naruto scrunched up his eyebrows. There was that word again.
"Just what is a Britannia?"
The women sighed,
"Lets start with the basics. Do you remember your name?"
"Yup! Uzumaki Naruto, what's yours?" the blond said.
The women nodded,
"My name is Lily Ashford," she said.
"Do you remember what age you are?" Lily questioned.
"I'm fifteen, but I'm turning another year old in a month..." Naruto realized something. His body may be fifteen, but his mind was hundreds, or thousands of years old.
Lily nodded, and she talked to Sayoko in that other language again.
Naruto sighed when he couldn't make out what Lily and Sayoko was saying. He always hated being clueless, especially when it involved him.
"So... What is a Britannia?" Naruto said, slightly annoyed.
Lily blinked. She was deeply in her talk with Sayoko that she forgotten about Naruto.
"Ah, yes... Holy Britannian Empire is the largest superpower in the world. The Chinese Federation and Euro Universe are other superpowers that match the Holy Britannian Empire's strength, and recently the Britannian Empire conquered Japan. Japan, or area eleven is our current location," Lily answered.
Naruto knew now that Britannia was a country like Fire country, or Water country, and Japan was one of its territory. He guess the Chinese Federation and the Euro Universe was the same as Britannia.
Naruto had to learn a lot about his current situation.
"Mistress-sama! Mistress-sama!"
Lelouch noted the expression on the nurse's face. Lily Ashford stopped cuddly her daughter and looked up.
"What is it?" Milly's mother questioned.
"The boy has awakened!" Sayoko replied.
"Sorry Nunnally, but I have to see this," Lelouch said to his little sister.
Nunnally nodded, and smiled fondly at Lelouch's voice.
Lelouch followed Sayoko and Lily, and Milly followed behind him.
When he entered the room, Lelouch found the blond teenage laying on the bed. His eyes opened viewing the ceiling.
Lelouch walked up to the blond,
"Are you the pilot of that Glasgow?" Lelouch demanded. The former prince was flabbergasted when the blond teenager ignored him. No body has ignored him like that before! Lelouch gritted his teeth in angry, but before he could voice out his opinion.
The blond said something that Lelouch couldn't understand.
Then Lily interrupted him. Milly's mother changed dialect to the same as the blond. Lelouch was frustrated when he couldn't understand the language one bit.
Lily than looked to the nurse.
"Do you think he lost his memory?" She asked Sayoko.
Sayoko frown. She was an eleven too, and understand everything that happened.
"I don't know, but until we could test his memory to find problem, we have to let him rest,"
Lily nodded, and Lelouch couldn't understand what she said to the blond.
Chapter End