Shinobi Gods of the Ocean

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Chapter 1: The Myth of Naruto Uzumaki

"All right! Let's get this Five Kage Summit started - ttebayo!" Naruto shouted after walking into the meeting room. The Summit was currently taking place in Konohagakure, the Village Hidden in the Leaves. All the other Kage were present, the current Kazekage, Mizukage, Tsuchikage, Raikage, and, of course, Hokage. For Naruto, his dreams of becoming the Hokage had finally come to pass and now he was here at his first Kage Summit.

He had missed his initial ceremony to become Hokage a few days ago due to some unforeseen circumstances, but now he was going to act like the Hokage he was and lead the shinobi world in the current peace and into a further prosperous future.

"The first event on the agenda is the continued peace and prosperity of the Hidden Villages" the Kazekage Gaara started, getting the summit into gear. "All the villages both in the Shinobi Union and outside it have been prosperous since the Fourth Great Ninja War including my village, Sunagakure. I wish to thank you all for willingly sharing all technological advances with one another. Are there any problems anyone would like to discuss?"

No one spoke out so, with a nod, Gaara continued. "Then we will move on to the next topic proposed by Kirigakure. Kirigakure has proposed that we form as a Joint Ninja Force and send out detachments of ninja oversees to make contact with the outside world."

Here the Mizukage took over. "As all of you know, there are many more lands beyond the borders of the Elemental Countries. The Land of Snow has informed us of the island off the north of their lands, uncharted territories but populated with people. The Land of Water has also noted the existence of islands further off from the known world. We have never tried to establish contact due to the distance to said continent and continuous wars. But with peace ruling, we were able to send some people and were surprised to find people on that land as well."

"Thus" the Raikage joined in "you want us to join you in your quest to some far off land? I'm against the idea. I'd rather have my people here enjoying the peace then going to who-knows-where."

As the debate continued, Naruto thought about the options that were presented before him. On one hand, there was the idea of exploring new territory. The shinobi nations could find many new ideas and riches overseas and would probably prosper even more. On the other hand, this could attract unwanted attention, disrupting the peace that had just settled in. Naruto had to think hard (something that he knew the Hokage position would make him do a lot (which bothered him in no small amount)) before he decided where he stood.

By then, the villages were split in their decision. Kirigakure and Sunagakure were for the expedition as this would further the prosperity of the Shinobi World. Kumogakure and Iwagakure were against the expedition as they wanted to focus all resources on the current state of affairs.

"Well" Naruto stated "I know we want to keep raising our own countries. But it's also true that the peace is making people restless. Maybe we should take volunteers to go out onto these joint ventures. Then, we can acquire more resources and communications with the outside world, building up our prosperity, while not damaging the restoration and growth of our respective villages."

All the Kages listened intently to what Naruto had to say, which made him a bit nervous. But when he finished giving his thoughts, the other Kages accepted his plan and decided to make it happen.

The rest of the meeting and the next resulting few weeks were fairly boring, which was a bit of a letdown for Naruto who had hoped being Hokage meant work would be fun. Turned out going to meetings and paperwork were the majority of his time and he got to spend even less time with his family. The joint ventures overseas were going pretty well though and it was a little spark of joy in his dull life to read those reports on foreign lands and foreign people.

A few years went by in relative peace with the exception of the attacks here or there. The kidnapping attempts by Shin Uchiha, the attacks by Momoshiki and Kinshiki, and an assortment of other problems had caused the blonde some headaches but, after finishing the headache-inducing paperwork following said events, Naruto had noticed one big thing he was lacking in. This was that Naruto had become stagnant in the peacetime. So, Naruto had gone back to studying and training.

However, Naruto was always too busy so he had to have shadow clones do whatever research and training there was in his place. This lasted a few years until Shikamaru asked him one day in a bored manner why Naruto didn't let shadow clones do the paperwork. It was a very Nara thing to say, but, after absorbing what Shikamaru had said, Naruto figured that being able to not do paperwork was worth it. Shikamaru was okay with it too since the work got done.

So, Naruto had devoted more of his time to research and training. With the free flow of technology and information, along with the ability to create ungodly numbers of shadow clones, Naruto was able to progress rather quickly.

Within a couple years, Naruto had become even more powerful then most shinobi could imagine. This didn't come as too big a surprise to the blond. In the course of four to five years he had gone from an academy graduate to gaining enough power to beat Madara. With the newfound freedom due to his clones doing the paperwork and the freedom of information within the Shinobi Villages, Naruto was able to gather a lot of information on everything from jutsu to geography to anatomy.

After about ten years of this, Naruto got bored and decided to work on his chakra control in his free time. It took an exponential amount of time every time he went to the next step in chakra control, but he kept at it. Soon enough, Naruto had managed to control his massive chakra to an almost perfect control, although it was still far from perfect.

After about twenty years into being the Hokage, Naruto discovered an interesting fact. After reaching about the physical age of 30, he had started to regress. Now, he looked like his former 25 year old self. The medical ninja (especially Tsunade) thought this was a crazy revelation and had no idea what was happening. Even Orochimaru didn't know what to do (although the snake was pretty jealous). The Kyubi claimed he had no knowledge of why this was happening either, though he did think it may be related to Naruto's regenerative abilities.

Secretly, Naruto feared he might regress all the way to his preteen form or maybe even into oblivion. Luckily, it wasn't too significant of a problem as, around the physical age of 18, he stopped regressing. Boruto would often joke that he was now older than his father. Through all this, he continued to train.

After about fifty years of being Hokage, Naruto, staying at age 18, began to wonder if he was immortal. There was a good chance that he was still age 70 or so despite looking 18, but also a chance that he was truly immortal.

The reports for the joint ventures overseas were continuing to be successes. The shinobi world became more and more prosperous as they soon found out that their continent was just another island in a series of hundreds if not thousands of other islands scattered around the world. Rare riches from around the world were brought to the shinobi nations, not just precious jewels but also knowledge and technology. They also found a giant landmass that seemed to reach into the skies and spanned for a great distance. May speculated that it crossed the entire planet. It was named the "Red Line" due to the red colored rock it was made of.

After around 80 years of being Hokage, Naruto finally stepped down and let someone else take the title. Seeing all of his friends passing away hurt him, so Naruto left the shinobi world and went across the seas in search of a new adventure.

"Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me." Naruto sang to himself as he rowed a small boat across the water. After a great deal of time, Naruto had finally managed to convince the Shinobi Nations that he didn't need armed escorts or a team of ANBU and that he just wanted to sail out alone. It had taken another big chunk of time to convince everyone he didn't want the largest military ship in the world or an armored air balloon but just a simple little rowboat.

So there he was sailing out into the open blue towards who knew where all by himself. Oh, and with the Kyubi of course. The Nine Tails refused to leave Naruto even when they had learned an extraction method to remove biju without killing the jinchuriki. The Kyubi had said that Naruto would probably end up killing himself without him, immortal or not. So, the Kyubi was in along for the ride.

As he continued to row his boat to nowhere, Naruto saw seagulls flying around. And where there were seagulls, there was bound to be land. He was rewarded soon enough when he spotted an island.

This island seemed to be full of life and had very large trees dotted around the landscape, ones that stood almost as tall as the Juubi. As he approached closer, he saw many different animals roaming around the jungles and beaches. What really stunned him were the size of said animals. Some of the animals, like a lion and a gorilla, looked like they were at least 50 feet tall!

Naruto picked up the pace so as to reach the island faster. Upon arriving, he pulled up his boat onto the beach and went to go explore the little island.

After a few hours of searching, Naruto was a disappointed to find that the island was completely uninhabited. The animals on the island had tried to attack him earlier too but a good dose of killing intent managed to convey who the top predator really was and the animals backed off. Seeing as how there wasn't much to do, Naruto placed a Hiraishin marker on the island (a technique he had acquired during his training) and left on his boat.

The next few years went by fairly smoothly. Nothing major happened back in the shinobi nations so Naruto was allowed to roam free. Within this time, Naruto managed to visit at least a hundred islands (he had lost count) and seen various plants, animals, and human civilizations. Like his father, Naruto decided to tag with Hiraishin seals basically everywhere he went across the world. Naruto always also had a seal on his person which allowed him to trade messages with the shinobi nations in case any problems came up.

In one of these reports from the shinobi nations he found out that one shinobi named Magellan had actually managed to circle the world, confirming that it was indeed round. Magellan had gone through a lot of hardships having to travel along the Grand Line, the strip of water at the equator which circled the world. After travelling the world for three years, Magellan and his crew came back to the shinobi world as some of the most powerful shinobi to ever exist.

Magellan and crew had decided to protect the shinobi world and take over the joint ventures to send people around the world. The shinobi nations had welcomed them with open arms and now more and more people were being trained from the shinobi nations to go out and explore the world.

Naruto was content with how the shinobi world was operating and saw a bit of Hashirama in Magellan, trying to unite people, build up on people, and spark a will of fire into them. So, Naruto just went on exploring the world at his own content and leisure.

After around fifty years, Naruto could say confidently that he had explored every single nook and cranny of the world and acquired all the knowledge in it. So, after saying his goodbyes to the shinobi world and everyone else he met along his trip, Naruto made a Kamui and left for another dimension.

Four hundred years passed in relative peace. Magellan, the shinobi who had first travelled around the world, created a jutsu to make oneself immortal. While the jutsu itself was banned, Magellan was allowed to use it, making him the third ninja in history to gain immortality. With Magellan leading the newfound world government and Orochimaru (who managed to reach immortality by body hopping) leading the world in all fields of science, the shinobi nations and the rest of the world quickly prospered. Inventions were made from trains to rockets, from radios to genetic manipulation. The world prospered under the peace. The shinobi nations, under so long a peace, became weaker and weaker until the land was composed of 99.9 percent civilians. But that wasn't a problem because everything was peaceful.

But over time, Magellan became greedy. He started to gather more and more power for himself, first abolishing the ninja villages and lands to create a United Shinobi Nation. Here, he reigned as president and placed all remaining shinobi under his rule. He then started to assert his dominance across the world, quickly forming a Republic. With the entire world under him, Magellan became more and more irresponsible and used his immense power for ill will.

While all this was happening, nobody contacted Naruto Uzumaki. This was because the blonde had gone to other dimensions in Kaguya's realm and studied and practiced there with the Kyubi the new information he had gotten and completely forgot that the seal for communications only worked within a dimension. So, when Naruto came to visit the shinobi world after 400 years, he was surprised to see how much everything had changed. Not only was the technology and culture a completely new form of information for him, but the republic under Magellan was fascinating.

So, under a disguise, Naruto sought out all the world had to offer while he had been gone. It took around five hours (since he had already placed tags around the world and had billions of shadow clones to call upon) for Naruto to learn about everything and he was bothered by what Magellan had done. Sure the world was prospering, but evil had also managed to make its way into the world. Slavery existed in certain parts of the world, along with nobles who were related to Magellan hurting people for their own pleasure. There was much suffering across the world and Naruto was going to stop it.

It was easy to find Magellan, the man's chakra signature was ginormous, rivalling even Naruto's chakra capacity. Upon meeting Magellan, Naruto found that the man had done the unspeakable. Magellan had managed to seal every single biju that Naruto had freed except the Kyubi and, with the help of Orochimaru, managed to acquire nearly every kekkai genkai in the world. Magellan told Naruto that he wanted the Kyubi and the body of the Juubi from the blonde to which Naruto replied that Magellan needed to step down and leave this world.

Magellan had grown in his pride too much and refused to give up everything he had worked so hard for. So, Naruto had to forcibly teleport Magellan and himself to another dimension where the two dueled for whose will of fire was stronger. It was an epic battle which tore the dimension apart, destroying the universe into nothing more than stardust. Parts of their battle were thrown into other dimensions as well, destroying entire planets in their destructive battle. Upon one of Magellan's chakra absorption techniques, the elemental countries and the whole world where they came from was affected and all chakra ceased to exist in their world. In the end, Naruto achieved victory but had spent all his energy. To protect the biju from ever being harassed again, Naruto absorbed all the biju (with their consent) and used what little power he had to form a moon around his body while he went into deep sleep to regenerate his body.

Roughly eight hundred years passed in Naruto's home dimension while the blonde had to heal. Without Magellan around, the world had become stagnant in their technology and many could say that they were degrading. Without chakra, people still lived in relative comfort even though the world had gone stagnant. Orochimaru went into hiding when he found he no longer wielded chakra, using new scientific procedures he had been working on to try to enhance his life duration. Naruto and Magellan faded into history, then legend, then myth.

The Republic lived on as the World Government, which was corrupt due to Magellan's long rule. The World Government created the Marines to protect the world, the Founders (composed of Magellan's children) to oversee the world, and the World Government to delegate the world. Later, the Founders passed away and became the Tenryuubito, also known as the World Nobles or the Celestial Dragons, who continued their duty of overseeing the world, but in a negative way.

After 800 years passed, Naruto finally woke up from his deep sleep. He found that the biju had all also gone to deep sleep and yet to wake up. So, although his chakra capacity was still pretty low, Naruto decided he would go back to his own dimension and check out the shinobi world, silently hoping everything had become good while he was away.

Before he went back home, Naruto checked back up on the Juubi and was glad the giant skeleton was still right where he had left it, in a moon far away from any and all life. So, with that, he went back to his dimension to see what had become of it.

Hi everyone so this idea has been roaming around my head for a while now and I decided I'd write it into a story. I only write when I'm really bored which isn't too often so I won't be updating regularly. Thanks for reading this story though!

The title does say "Shinobi Gods" which is plural, meaning that there will be more than just Naruto being a shinobi. Also, Naruto has been badly wounded from his transdimensional fight 800 years ago so he won't be at full strength. For now, he's at about the power level he was when he was a fresh academy graduate (which was still quite powerful is used effectively).

The biju are all asleep after being thoroughly abused by Magellan and will require time to heal before they can awake and support Naruto. I'm currently planning to start with the one tail Shukaku and head up from there in order of tails. Let me know what you guys think.

Thanks for the support and see you all next chapter!