Naruto (r)evolution

Kingdark: This is the sequel to the 'prequel' but this is actually the first and primary story. I don't know at this point if there will be a sequel to it or not. The prequel simply went over the perks and powers that Naruto chose and why. He goes over them and tells in his own words why he chose them. It also doubles as a way to explain just what things he chose. The prequel can be ignored if you wish, but I would advise you to read it because I'll be referencing to the prequel regularly and I won't be going into too much detail again as to why he made the choices that he did. He already did that so it wouldn't make any sense to go over it again.

Now, if you are curious what a 'cyoa' actually, is then I'll explain it very briefly. CYOA is short for 'create your own adventure. It's a book that lets you make choices. It would say, if you choose option A go to page ten if you choose option B go to page five. That lets you make your own choices and lets you customise the story yourself. That's the 'vanilla' version. CYOA as I am using it is different. I 'told' Naruto which powers he could purchase etc. Then he'll have those powers available to him and he needs to then find a way to accomplish his objective.

Final note: If you are curious about the character sheet, look at the bottom of the prequel. I've included it there.

Extended summary:
Seventh Hokage, Uzumaki Naruto dies in a last stand while defending his village from technologically advanced invaders. Naruto is told that there exist a number of greater threats that would make even the combined might of Akatsuki, Madara, Kaguya plus even those foreign invaders look like a toddler throwing a tantrum. Naruto is then informed that through sheer circumstances alone, Naruto is one out of three people that would be given a chance to stop this greater threat in its tracks. The choices that Naruto would be offered would be all the 'help' that Naruto would be getting.

Note: As I wrote this chapter, I realized that referring to Naruto as the right gender would be highly confusing. I either continue to refer to him as a him no matter which gender he actually is, or I call a duck a duck and just refer to him as he is. If he is a boy, he's a boy and if he's a she then I'll refer to her as a girl. Naruto's personal dialogue will still be referring to himself as a boy. Just think of Ranma 1/2 . Ranma is a boy but he is a girl often enough and most characters refer to him as either a girl or as Ranko. That being said… If I make a mistake, let me know or ignore it please?
Thank you.

Enjoy the story

Naruto (r) Evolution
00 You have made your choice and now you have to deal with the consequences… Literally 00

First world: Marvel

Fake-Hiruzen smacked himself in the face and groaned. "I really am getting older if I'm making stupid mistakes like this." He muttered to himself. He had known full well what options Naruto could take and dare he say it, what options Naruto would take before he actually took them. Hiruzen had studied Naruto a lot after all and while he hadn't been completely accurate, he had still been mostly right and that had to count for something right?

Anyway, Hiruzen had overlooked one, no two things that he should've prepared for in advance. The first thing he had overlooked was about the history of Naruto himself, Kurama when he shows up and of course the company he would inherit. Now, if it had been a smaller company, then he could slip it in more easily, but a multi-billion company just doesn't appear out of nowhere. It needed to have history. Although…

"Why couldn't Naruto start off with 'just' a multi-million company instead? It would solve a lot of immediate problems and Naruto has plenty in his arsenal to make it successful on his own." Hiruzen nodded to himself. Yes, that was what he would do.

Now that this problem was solved, he could move on to the more urgent one. He had forgotten to tell Naruto that he actually had a mission he was supposed to complete. It didn't matter that Naruto was only one of a handful of 'champions and that they didn't have that much of a choice in picking him in the first place, Hiruzen and Hiruzen's allies needed something in return for their efforts. Not wanted but needed something in return. It had something to do with balance, you receive something, you give something. Hiruzen couldn't wake up Naruto again before he arrived in a world of Marvel. But he could sneak in an indestructible message until naruto had read and acknowledged it…

Yes. Hiruzen decided. It was a bit unusual since it denied Naruto any way of asking for clarifications. Well, it wasn't like Hiruzen could do something about it. Naruto had used up all his points so it wasn't as if he could sneak a small addition into what he would get already. The only thing that Hiruzen could do was meddle a little and arrange for Naruto to meet one of his future team mates a bit earlier than anticipated. Hiruzen grinned widely and imitated that cliché'd yellow skinned character he had stumbled on once.

"Excellent!" Hiruzen said gleefully while rubbing his hands. He followed that up by a dramatic snap of the fingers.

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First world: Marvel

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New York city…

One moment everything was as normal as it gets in New York city. The busy traffic. The crowds. The constant crimes. The seedy neighbourhoods. It was just a normal, boring February afternoon. It was a day where you could step outside and simply enjoy the firs rays of sunshine. Everything was going well as per normal and there wasn't even the tiniest clue that things were about to get… Rough.

None of New York's citizens could have predicted that the weather was going to turn so freaky that not even the New Yorkers were able to just shrug it off immediately. Considering that they had to deal with an real life alien invasion just a few short months ago THAT was saying something.

It took only a few seconds for the weather to change from 'pleasant' to 'oh my god we are all going to die' scary. It was a storm that appeared literally out of nowhere. Or if you wanted to be precise, a storm that appeared at the exact same time when Hiruzen focussed the barest minimum of his power in order to fulfil his side of their bargain. Large black clouds rolled over New York, bringing with them torrents of rain, hail and large amounts of snow all at the same time. You could literally cross the street and go from snowstorm to rainstorm. Naturally, no storm could exist without a good number of lightning and thunder. Since the weather came apparently out of nowhere it caught the people of New York completely off guard. It didn't take long for the people of New York to scramble though and hundreds of them sought shelter in nearby buildings and if that wasn't an option they ran into the underground subway stations that were designed to -if you forgive the pun- to weather anything from snow storms to rain storms to anything in between.

Ever since that alien invasion, the authorities had designed several emergency procedures that had taught the New Yorkers what they should do if something weird enough happened that couldn't be dealt with by Spiderman, the avengers or any of the other super powered beings in the city. New York was after all one of the busiest places I n the world when it came to superheroes appearances not to mention that it held more secrets then anyone could guess at, including but not limited to abandoned subway tunnels that are converted into bases by super villains or even remnants from the American civil war that the government wanted to keep undiscovered.

This time, the bad weather did not announce the arrival of another alien invasion nor was it a prelude of some super villain attempting to take New York hostage. The one responsible for the freak storm was actually benign and was attempting to get his business over with as soon as possible. Thirty minutes later, the storm vanished as abruptly as it had come, leaving behind snow, ice and a huge amount of water everywhere.

The freak storm was news worthy for media stations all over the world but when no alien invasion appeared nor did a new supervillain make their introduction, the storm was just dismissed as a genuine freak storm.

X
Minutes after the freak storm ceased to exist…
South Brother island, New York.
X

Naruto groaned as he slowly returned to consciousness again. "What the hell just hit me?" He muttered to himself. Naruto's eyes snapped open because he did not sound like himself. It was around that time that the memories hit him, reminding him about the decisions he made and making him feel that perhaps he had been just a tad hasty… He didn't let that information panic him though. The first thing he did was pull himself on his feet and do an immediate pat down. He realized immediately that he could no longer call himself a boy because if anything, having two real breasts of flesh and blood was proof enough that he was no longer a boy.

Momentarily deciding to put that issue aside, he continued to pat himself down to do a complete inventory check. He had all the standard equipment that a typical Jounin ninja had on him. Plenty of kunai, shuriken, explosion tags, a couple of chakra pills and other odds and ends that a typical Jounin had on him most of the time. Naruto was at least glad to see that he was also wearing the standard Jounin uniform which gave him a measure of comfort and security at least. Now that he knew that he was well equipped and well protected, Naruto created two dozen clones that he send out in every direction for scouting purposes. He needed to know where he was after all.

Once the initial twelve had left, he created another six clones. Six would hide themselves in the bushes to act as an early warning system for when the local AnBu came to investigate.

Nodding to himself that at least he wouldn't be caught off guard too easily, Naruto did a second more thorough pat down that resulted him in finding a bunch of papers, a wallet, a number of cards as well as a letter that seemed to scream I AM IMPORTANT to him. Deciding that he might as well read the letter, he opened it and read it. Then he read it a second and a third time just to be sure it was real.

Naruto and Kurama,

I sort of forgot to tell you that you have a mission you need to complete in order to 'pay' for the services I provided you. Actually, you'll have several missions that will tie into each other as you visit other worlds. You'll eventually make the connection what the real long term goal is but that's for you to figure out. I realized far too late that I gave you the impression that you didn't have a choice.

You did. Have a choice to accept as you did or refuse and join your friends in the pure world. Free will is extremely important to beings on an even bigger power scale as myself and the only reason I'm still around after that fuckup is because I genuinely forgot. Otherwise I would be well… A worse fate as your human idea of hell and let's keep it at that.

It is for that very reason (that I forgot to tell you had an actual choice) that you are even reading this letter in the first place or why I'm even allowed to write it at all! Normally, I wouldn't be allowed to contact you after making our deal. I'm sure that you already realized that though but if you hadn't realized it then you do now.

Okay, so your current mission is actually rather difficult and long term at the same time. You are in a world of Marvel where things are on the edge of anarchy. People who you would classify as 'first generation bloodline holders are threatened with being forced to register themselves with or without a tattoo. If that isn't bad enough already, this world you are in could do a re-enactment of the Mizugakure civil war and this time it would be on a global (worldwide) scale. It's not just bloodline holders that are being threatened like that, but also people who try to make the world a better place by using their abilities to catch criminals but they do so behind a mask. There will eventually be attempts to force these people to reveal their identities either publicly or to a certain organization. I'm sure you can make your conclusions on how much of a good idea that is.

Your job is to make sure that people know that there is another faction out there they could ally with -yours- that won't tolerate any of that nonsense. You'll have a lot of work to do if you want to be able to do that though. Actually, that's just one option but you are entirely free how to handle it as long as the end result is that these bloodline holders are not being persecuted. It doesn't have to be perfect but I'm positive you are capable of finding a middle ground.

I already mentioned this briefly but this won't be the only mission that you'll get. Don't worry about any future missions though, I'll get in touch with you to tell you what your mission is going to be, because I couldn't predict what world you will visit next since that is entirely YOUR choice. Free will and all that!

I'm reminding you that when you figure out how to access the maze that you are allowed to bring friends with you. But remember that if the maze is dangerous for you, it will be outright suicidal for anybody else if they can't take care of themselves! Take that however you wish.

Last but not least, because of my fuck-up I was… Instructed to grant you an additional perk or minor power. You won't be allowed to choose it yourself but… Think of it as something that will activate -COULD activate- when you're in really big trouble. Don't count on it happening if you try to manipulate it because that will get yourself killed.

Sincerely,
Hiruzen

"ARGH!" Naruto growled. He punched a random nearby tree with a chakra enhanced fist, punching through straight through it and making it groan in protest but thankfully, it wasn't damaged enough to make it come crashing down.

Naruto was left breathing harshly, both because he had tired him out punching that tree and because that anger attack had caught him completely off guard.

"I think I need to keep a tighter control on my emotions if I want to keep myself from doing something stupid." Naruto said to himself quietly.

"I can deal with the implications of that letter on a later date." Naruto decided. He stuffed the letter back in his pouch and moved on to investigate the rest of the papers he had.

"Let's see, besides that letter, I have two passports for me and Kurama, a wallet with what seems to be the local currency, more paperwork in what appears to be two different languages, my own and I have to assume the local one…"

"Aside from the passports, a wallet with money and the paperwork identifying myself It also includes what appears to be credit cards of some kind. Maybe a way to pay for larger purchases?" Naruto reasoned out loud.

"It also appears that both passports have an address attached to them so I can only guess that it means I'm supposed to go there. I wonder why Hiruzen couldn't just drop me off in the right location."

Naruto nodded to himself and then took off in a random direction. His clones still hadn't reported back either by dismissing themselves or by giving him a verbal report. Right now, he wanted to find a lake or a puddle or anything that could give him a better idea how he looked at the moment.

Naruto paused mid step and decided that no, he didn't mind being dropped off here. This way he could do some scouting around and get a lay of the land so to speak. As he resume walking, his clones moving with him, he was hit by the memories of several of his clones. Apparently he was on an island of some kind and-

When the memories of his clones hit him, Naruto could barely belief what the memories told him. So he started running because he had to see that for himself. When he reached the beach side a few seconds later, he could only stare at the opposite of the bay. He had thought that his clones were attempting to play a prank on him but unless he was under a ridiculous genjutsu, he was definitely staring at a huge industry centre. Bigger as Konoha and several cities combined.

Naruto guessed that the industry he was looking at could probably give work to hundreds if not tens of thousands of people in total. That meant that the local population was HUGE!

"Really, I have to wonder how the local AnBu keeps order. Or when they let their population breed like bunnies, because really, unless that city has a large amounts of clans in them, it would be impossible to keep order!"

It never occurred to Naruto that things like clans, AnBu or even a government like his own couldn't exist here.

Looking at the sky, Naruto realized that it was getting dark. It was getting colder too.

"I need to cross the bay as soon as it gets dark enough and find myself a place to sleep." Naruto thought to himself. It was getting colder at a rapid rate and even though his uniform was designed to keep him warm as much as possible it definitely wasn't rated for winter temperatures.

Still, he couldn't cross the bay right now, there was far too much traffic. Although…

"I suppose I could use the Kirigakure no Jutsu to hide myself crossing the bay. But if the mist was local only and only lasted for a few minutes at best, I'm sure that the local AnBu won't take long to get on my tail. I can't have that. I don't want to fight them either."

It suddenly occurred to Naruto that it was entirely possible that this body couldn't cross the water in the first place.

"Perhaps I should first test my tree walking and go from there." Naruto thought with a frown.

"If I can't then it just means I have to put in a few hours of intensive chakra control training. If I create enough clones I could probably get myself ready in two days tops. Still…

Naruto realized that he only had enough supplies to last him a day or two at most. Sure, he could build himself an underground bunker to keep the cold out and to hide himself for the night but…

"Actually… Could I avoid using water walking and just go underground?"

Putting that to the test, Naruto walked back further onto the island again to get away from the beach side and then he immediately dug a tunnel using the earth release: tunnelling technique he had been taught by Kurotsuchi of Iwa during the fourth shinobi world war. It created stable tunnels but also relied a lot on the condition of the dirt, sand and the make-up of the ground. It would harder by several magnitudes to make a tunnel of any kind in say the desert or a beach then it would be in a location where the ground was more solid.

The first few minutes, everything went alright but once he got deep enough, the moisture in the ground itself became too much and the chakra cost to keep the technique stable began to increase rapidly.

Naruto decided that it was better to abort now that he still could instead of going through with it and risk being buried alive.

"Digging a tunnel under the water isn't going to work then." Naruto realized. "Then that leaves crossing the water as the only alternative. But first… I need to see how skilled this body is compared to what I was used to. First I'll try to use the tree climbing chakra control exercise and if that goes smoothly, I can check if I stay afloat on a puddle and if that goes okay, I can test it on the water itself." Now that he had a plan, Naruto promptly followed it up by doing it. There was no point in delaying and he needed to know how 'in shape' he was sooner rather than later.

Finding a random tree that was tall and thick enough took a bit of searching but eventually he found one that suited his purposes if only barely. Still, he didn't need a Fire-Country-Tree Giant, just a tree that was solid enough for him to test it out on.

A few moments later, Naruto was pleased to realize that he only needed a bit of practice as a refresher course rather than having to master it from scratch.

Naruto created a dozen or so additional clones and recalled all the clones from earlier he had send in every direction and instructed them to practice the tree walking skill until it got really dark. Then, Naruto would use the experience that the clones would give him to increase his chances that he could cross the water smoothly.

"The faster I get it done, the faster I can get off this Log-forsaken rock." Naruto muttered.

Far too quickly for Naruto's liking, it had grown dark enough that he could probably risk crossing the bay without being seen. But he would have preferred to get as much time in as possible. Still, it could be barely said that he had problems with the tree walking skill so he didn't anticipate any problems with the water skill either.

Naruto dismissed all the clones except the ones he had hidden in his direct area. Even though the island was deserted and the clones weren't really needed, it was a 'just in case' security safety measure. Naruto paused for a few moments, letting the memories of the clones settle down and then he took the bull by its metaphorical horns and went straight for the water to put his water walking skills to the test. When he stayed on top of the water just like he should, Naruto took a few more steps further down so that if his control failed he would only get his ankles wet. He couldn't risk getting any wetter than that. Not with the weather being as cold as it was.

Naruto walked along the coast, making sure to not go too far, just in case and eventually he was satisfied that he wouldn't sink unexpectedly. Still, he wouldn't put his chakra control under battle conditions but the most important thing was to get across the water and then blend in with the crowd as quickly as possible.

Now that he was ready, Naruto formed the seals necessary for the Kirigakure no jutsu that would create a thick artificial mist to hide him from anyone that could see him. Since his chakra reserves were pretty deep, he allowed himself to let the mist expand to cover a large distance as well as increasing its thickness so that it was next to impossible to see him crossing the water. He wanted to make absolutely sure that he would not be seen by any of the locals.

In fact, using the Kirigakure no jutsu was sure to get the attention of the local version of AnBu if that hadn't been the case already. So he needed to get a move on and fast! Naruto paused mid-step and decided that since he was already going this far with making sure he wouldn't get wet, then he might as well go all the way. A single seal later and he was surrounded by a dozen or so additional clones. Should his chakra control falter at any time then they would be in the ideal position to keep dragging him onwards. But hopefully that wouldn't be necessary.

"Let's go." Naruto waited for the clones to surround him and then started running over the water himself. His clones were close enough and were grabbing his arms lightly. Thankfully, nothing happened and before he knew it, Naruto had crossed the water and he was now on the opposite side in the middle of an industry zone. As soon as he was back onshore, Naruto redirected the mist to his current location. While still keeping the mist up in the location where he was at. Or rather, the clones he left behind would keep the technique up. Their orders were to keep the technique up until they used up the last of their chakra reserves or until sunrise, whichever came first.

Naruto repeated his earlier actions and created several dozen clones. They moved out immediately to explore the location he was in. Their job besides exploring was to find the local version of a hotel as well as finding a room that was currently empty and more importantly, wouldn't be rented out. That meant that the room would probably need to be of the more expensive variant.

"Since you guys are still with me, you might as well stick around. Just make sure to hide yourselves. I'm going to see if I can find the residential area or something." Naruto instructed. His clones just vanished from sight since they didn't need to acknowledge his orders verbally.

Naruto kept to the shadows which wasn't too much of a challenge since there wasn't that much traffic at present. Eventually, Naruto found his way into the residential part of the city and from there it didn't take long to find several hotels.

It was around the time where he took his time to observe the city, that he got several sets of memories that informed him that his clones had found a hotel with expensive looking rooms and more importantly, empty expensive looking rooms.

It didn't take long for Naruto to find the hotel and from there it was just a matter of quickly making his way upward and then slip into the room that his clones had found.

Hotel room

"Okay listen up!" Naruto said shortly. "We don't know if this room will be rented tonight or even tomorrow morning. I need you guys to stay alert and take on a menacing body guard look. You know the unofficial kind."

His clones nodded their acknowledgement since they knew exactly what Naruto meant. They were him after all.

Naruto walked to the bed and allowed himself to finally relax. He was asleep before his head hit the pillow. As such he kind of missed the conversation his clones were making between themselves.

"You know it's kind of strange that the Boss crashed like he did. It's only been a few hours since we arrived here and he's out like a light."

"She." A second clone corrected.

"Ha! I think that's half the reason why the boss crashed in the first place. He firmly ignored the reflection in the water when we crossed it and he pretty much ignored any other reflection as well."

"She." The same clone corrected stubbornly.

"Yhea, well, I still think of myself as a boy and so does the boy. A package does not a girl make…" The clone paused, repeating those words in his head a few times.

"Bah! You know what I mean!"

"Don't judge a package by its appearance?" The first clone offered thoughtfully.

"Don't rub yourself on the same stone twice?" The second followed up.

A second later the two clones were dispelled by force.

"God, we're weird sometimes." The clone that had done the dispelling muttered.

"Don't I know it. Still she-" POOF

'smack'

The only clone that was left smacked itself in the face. Not too hard or the boss would be left on his own. "Damn it! I don't have the chakra to create another clone that would last until morning. I'm not even sure if I could last until morning…"

The clone closed his eyes and tried to see if he could get in touch with the clones that were still on the island.

"Get your asses over here! We were acting weird again and I'm the only one left to keep the boss safe and I won't last until morning for sure! The Boss is safe so just let the mist take a life of its own. It'll disappear on its own by morning anyway!"

Thankfully, the clone sensed the acknowledgement of the clones in question and allowed itself a relieved sigh. That still didn't mean he could drop his guard though. However unlikely it was that they would be disturbed, the boss's safety was his top priority.

"I wonder what Kurama is up too. Come to think of it, he was pretty quiet until now." The clone couldn't get in touch with him though. It was one of those limits that they had discovered over the years.

The remaining clone continued to stand on guard, looking out of the window on occasion and making sure to stay on full alert. It was around ten minutes after the clone had send out its distress call that the clone heard several clicks against the window. The clone looked up immediately and realized that it had to be the reinforcements he had asked for.

The clone opened the window and allowed the clones to slip inside.

The clones immediately spread out as they entered the room, exploring it briefly before taking on easily defendable positions. Slowly, as seconds turned into minutes and minutes into hours, time went by and several hours later, the sun was rising again.

"One of you, go outside and see if the chakra powered mist is dissipating on its own. If not, suck the chakra that's in it out of it and then return to base immediately. We won't last too much longer and neither will you. If you can suck out the chakra that the Boss put into the mist, then you'll last long enough for the Boss to wake up as well as having enough chakra to increase your numbers."

"One of the clone stepped forward and slipped out immediately." The sun was rising already so it had to be quick or it could be seen by the people who were already out and about. The same clone returned about ten minutes later, being fully charged up.

"Do you want me to give you a charge or do you want me to create my own clones?" Because a Kage bunshin created Kage bunshin tended to be… Weird.

"Charge us up." The clone who had called for reinforcements decided.

It was around that time, that Naruto was waking up. "On second thought, that probably won't be needed anymore."

"I think you're right but we still have to remain alert. The boss is only waking up and we should know that we aren't very reliable after a good night of sleep."

Since that was very much the truth, the clone resumed its aborted move to charge the remaining clones up, accidentally dispelling itself when it gave up more chakra then it could spare.

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End
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It's a little bit over five thousand words, so I'm hoping the few people who follow this story enjoyed it. I've got nothing left after this though, so it'll be a while before I can figure out where to go from here. I've noticed that I need to put names on created clones because it got confusing to follow which clone did what, when and how. So if that's the case for ME, then how will it be for the reader?

Any criticism, arguments good or bad are all welcome but if you do, don't just say 'good story' but actually tell me why you think it is good or what is not-so-good for that matter. I know I'm FAR from perfect and that my writing can still be improved by a lot. My first language isn't English though, so that's my primary excuse when some of my grammar seems a bit weird. I'm basing the way I'm writing on series I've watched as well as other fanfics I've read as well as books of established authors.

Anyway, until next time!