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Disclaimer~ All canon characters are owned by their respective creators, Masashi Kishimoto and Eiichiro Oda!

The pain was nearly unbearable, searing through his entire body and making his head pound abominably. He couldn't feel his limbs beyond the agony or even truly think, the sensation was all-encompassing. Thunderous voices rang in his ears and made them ache terribly, though he could only just make out what they were saying.

"Keep focusing! The rip has already closed! If we stay in here too long then Naru-chan won't make the trip and we'll disappear! Who knows where we'll reappear!" a hurried voice buzzed.

Another roared back, "I know, Chomei! I just finished the conversion process! I'm going as fast as I can without killing him myself!"

"Fuck! Kurama, time is passing us by! The energy drainage is immense without everyone helping!" a grainy third voice screeched.

Kurama responded angrily, "I only need to regenerate his legs now, I'm almost done!"

"Hurry! Please!" several voices pleaded simultaneously.

Everything went silent after that, the voices fading as he fell into unconsciousness. The following nightmares were far worse than any pain he'd ever experienced.

Waking up was a long and difficult thing to do. It was made even harder when someone, namely Naruto, felt like they'd had the crap beaten out of them not too long ago.

The blond groaned as he came to, feeling sore and more than a little exhausted, "Anyone catch the name of the woman who hit me?"

He painfully sat up and looked around, taking in the environment surrounding him.

"Where the hell am I?"

Trees towered above him, leaves fluttering and falling in the wind. Sunlight peeked through tree boughs and was scattered by the dancing branches. The air was clean, untouched by the corruption of man. A myriad of scents floated by on a breeze, and tickled his sensitive nose. The foliage was dense, so thick it obscured vision. All of it reminded Naruto of a lighter, more pure version of the Forest of Death. The sounds of animals could be heard, but there were no screams of agony to accompany them. A sense of peace reigned instead of terror, leaving him with a feeling of relaxation.

It couldn't be the Forest of Death though. The forest had been destroyed in Pein's attack on Konoha and there was no way new trees could have grown so tall in the short months between said attack and the war against Obito, Madara and Kaguya. There were only three possible people that could have perhaps grown them with chakra, but all were improbable. Captain Yamato was one, but the older man had neither the time nor the energy to do so. Hashirama was even more capable, but wasn't likely because the former Hokage hadn't left the battlefield since he'd arrived. The last option was Kaguya, but since when would she lower herself to provide cover for her enemies?

"Kaguya!" Naruto gasped in realization.

He'd hit her! Naruto had actually landed a hit on that witch of a woman! It had taken the lives of his friends and countless other shinobi, but he'd done It! So why was he god-knows-where?

Peeling himself up off the ground, he began shuffling around the area in hopes of finding a clue as to where he was. After some trudging around and generally feeling dead on his feet, Naruto stopped at a rather wide stream. He bent down next to the clear water and scooped some into his hands before drinking it. The cool liquid soothed his parched throat as it went down.

Feeling a bit better, he gazed at the water's surface only to receive one of the biggest shocks of his life.

The reflection that normally greeted him was gone, replaced with a not so familiar yet still familiar face. Instead of the human with tan skin and "whiskered" cheeks there was a fox with blond fur and actual whiskers. Two triangular ears with scarlet tips sat on the top of his head, twitching slightly because of the wind breezing passed the white inner hairs. His eyes, though still the same color, we're now slitted very much like they were in his Kyubi Mode. His face being vulpine in appearance, he bore a slim snout with a sharp nose. Opening aforementioned snout revealed a set of even sharper pearly white teeth.

Now, with mounting shock, Naruto examined the rest of his body. His legs had changed, folding at two joints instead of only at the knee and ending in large paws where his feet had once been. Thankfully, his arms and hands seemed to be very much the same despite being covered with thick layer of fur and sporting pointed claws respectively. The icing on the cake, however, was the addition of the nine extra appendages attached to his lower spine.

In a panic, Naruto tried to reach Kurama. Getting no answer, he attempted to calm himself and enter his subconscious. Darkness and rippling water greeted him after barely succeeding.

"Kurama!" he called out before noticing the tailed beast and his siblings.

That's right, he'd won the tug-of-war between himself and the Rabbit Goddess... He was the jinchuuriki for all of them now... He'd have to think on that later...

Kurama was laying down, fatigue evident in his frame. His breathing was heavy and he didn't seem like he'd wake up anytime soon. The same could be said for his siblings. It was rather worrying to see, especially since Shukaku, Matatabi, and Isobu were nearly see-through.

Hearing his shout, Kurama opened a tired eye. His siblings still dead to the world.

The blond ran up to his partner, stumbling slightly, and stopped in front of him, "Kurama, what happened? B-both after I hit Kaguya and to you guys, I mean..."

"After you hit Kaguya, the sheer power behind your attack split the veil of reality. It opened a portal that sucked you in, knocking you out in the process," the large fox recounted lethargically.

Continuing, he said, "It takes a tremendous amount of energy to pass through the Veil. All of my siblings and I were needed to open a portal back into reality from the In-Between."

"Are you all going to be okay?" Naruto worried, eyeing the three that were fading in and out of sight.

Kurama sighed, "We should be with a sufficient amount of time, though those three -and maybe Son Goku- will need more time than the rest of us."

The smaller fox nodded, "That's good..."

He paused, feeling slightly awkward now that the shock and worry had finally faded, "Err... Kurama?

"Yes?"

"Why do I look like you?"

His question fell on deaf ears as a loud snoring met his own.

"Kurama! You jerk!"

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