AN: I've had this plot idea rolling around in my brain for weeks now and I needed to express it. After reading multiple works on FanFiction, I have decided to publish this fic here. This isn't the first time I have written a story but this is my first time publishing on FanFiction. I plan for this story to be "Complete". That means I also plan on at least semi-regular updates, hopefully once every 1-2 weeks depending on the length and difficulty of the chapter. With no further waiting here is the pilot chapter of Death vs Maelstrom.

"Speech"

"Thoughts"

Chapter One: Rebirth

Naruto and Sasuke had been struggling to defeat Kaguya so they had agreed to use a sealing matrix he had designed to pull the bijuu from Kaguya into Naruto using his portions of their chakras like a magnet. However it relied on using the power that Naruto and Sasuke had received from the Rikudou Sennin. As they activated the seal it ripped not only the bijuu from Kaguya but Indra's power from Sasuke. The influx of such a large amount of chakra in such a short amount of time caused a reaction with the power of Indra's and Ashura's marks. While the power of the bijuu was attempting to flow into Naruto's seal, the power of indra was attempting to flow into Naruto himself. The mark began to pull the bijuus' chakras into him and the last thing he remembered before passing out was blinding pain and the pained yells of the bijuu.

When he next awoke he heard a chair scrape to his left and heard Sasuke grumbling.

"Hn. Dobe cant even manage to do a sealing without knocking himself out."

Naruto felt his temper flare and immediately shot up. "Shut up Teme!" He growled as he opened his eyes before looking around. He quickly deduced he was in the Konaha hospital. He noticed Sasuke sitting to his left next to Sakura and Kakashi. Satisfied that his team was okay he attempted to open his link to Kurama only to find nothing. No Kurama, In fact all of the bijuu were gone. As he came back to reality panicked he noticed that His team members looked nervous and worried. He feared the answer more than he ever thought possible but he asked his question anyway, "What happened to the bijuu?"

Sakura looked away and Kakashi sighed. "No please tell me they're okay. Tell me they're just waiting outside the village!," he desperately thought not wanting this horrible feeling in his gut to be right.

Sasuke met his desperate gaze and told him the news that he asked for but didn't want to hear, "The sealing went wrong Naruto. The seal was too strong it puled not only bijuu into you but Indra's power as well. Something happened and... Just look." He handed Naruto a mirror. Naruto looked back into his eyes, his red eyes, the eyes of the juubi. As horror began to dawn on him he felt his chakra and then he felt everyone else's. "Why was everyone's chakra so hard to feel?" He thought. Then it hit him, theirs was hard to feel because it was small, and his reserves were enourmous, beyond enourmous in fact. "No," he said aloud, "this isn't real."

His team exchanged worried glances before Kakashi finally spoke up, "It is real Naruto. You are the juubi now."

-Roughly 4,000 years later-

Naruto awoke with a jolt when he felt the plane touch down. He was back in Japan. It had been around 500 years since he was here last. He had left on a Portuguese merchant vessel sometime in the 1500's, he wasn't exactly sure time stopped having meaaning to him after Hinata had died. As the plane taxied into the airport he heard the flight attendant giving the usual end of flight speech but he didn't pay attention he just wanted to get to his new apartment and start writing again. He had a deadline coming up for his new book Icha Icha: Life Sentence. The book was about a woman framed for murder and imprisoned where she falls in love with her cell mate who is only has a year sentence. Of course they find themselves in erotic situations quite often. Naruto giggled perversely as he waited in line hashing out the final plot details in his head and the woman behind him gave him a scathing glare which he completely ignored. When he reached the Immigrations counter he handed the officer his passport.

"Uzumaki Naruto huh? Who names their kid fishcake?" The officer stupidly said out loud before Naruto loudly corrected him.

"It means Maelstrom Dammit!"

"Yeah yeah, I get it. No need to yell. How was your trip to the U.K.?" The man asked before stamping his passport and examining his papers.

"It was fine, thanks." He said curtly before he took his papers back from the man's outstretched hand and getting the all clear walked out of the airport. After leaving the airport he hopped on the bus that would take him to the hotel down the road from his apartment. He went to the land lord and grabbed his keys before taking the elevator up to the penthouse suite. As he stepped in he canceled the henge keeping his eyes blue before pulling a scroll out of his bag and unsealing his clothes which he put away and his manuscript material for his next book before moving to the living room and opening his laptop. He checked the time it was just after noon and he had quite awhile to work before making dinner. As he finished typing the last chapter his stomach loudly protested its lack of food.

"Yeah yeah, food, I know." He said out loud before going to the kitchen and switching on the small T.V. On the counter and starting dinner. As soon as the program began talking about someone called Kira he sighed. He knew criminals around the world were dying but not how. He initially assumed it was a government plot or large organization. As the program was interrupted he glanced up from the stir fry he just dumped on his plate and began paying attention. When he saw Lind L. Taylor die after confronting Kira he was floored, and after watching the real L confront Kira he was certain of one thing.

"Goddammit! What was that power? Whoever this Kira is he obviously has a God complex. I guess I know what my occupation while I'm living here is going to be." His mind was whirling and as he finished his meal his thoughts were on L and Kira. "Looks like I'm breaking out my resumee and joining the police force. Kira needs to be stopped." He thought glumly before turning his T.V. Off. Naruto was really getting tired of people with God complexes.

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