The Last of Naruto
I do not own Last of us or Naruto, that respect goes to Naughty Dog and Kishimoto respectively
I have recently re-edited this chapter only making minor changes. real edit = 1
Chapter 1 New World
Naruto woke from the sounds of clicking and groaning in the distance, groaning himself he shakily stood up and opened his eyes to inspect his new surroundings. Confused he looked for something that bore some semblance of normality to his old life, but to no avail. Lost and confused he summarised his situation in all but one word.
"Shit"
He just lost the war against Madara. He lost his family, his friends and to top it off Kurama was extracted from him forcefully a second time while the corpses of his loved ones surrounded him.
Looking at him with dead eyes as if mocking him of his failure.
His failure to keep his promise to protect everyone.
At first he wasn't close to Kurama, so much so that their relationship can be compared to that of an ant and a boot, Naruto being the ant. However throughout the war they have come to be as close as brothers. But that no longer mattered anymore, Kurama was gone as well as everyone he cherished.
Just the thought brought tears to his eyes.
He failed them.
He failed all of them.
What was the purpose of going on?
No, he wouldn't let it end here. Not without a fight, he would make do with his new life in this world and if he died in the process, he would die accomplishing something... he would not die a failure.
From what he could deduce he was pretty sure he wasn't in the same world or at the very least the same time. This was evident from his quick inspection of the surroundings.
He looked around from the tall building he was perched to find even more taller buildings higher than the hokage tower littering the landscape.
The architecture of the place was unique, incomparable to the Elemental Nations and consisted of glass, metal and brick. The only structures comparable to the designs were those of Amegakure however they had pipes drawn out of the buildings and still could not compare to the beautiful architecture of this place and continued to stretch beyond the horizon.
Although the beauty of the designs looked better than Amegakure he noticed they were in shambles, some of the windows were broken and there were holes in the buildings. Most of all there were plants ranging from weeds to flowers growing out of random areas of the constructs. Some buildings were even collapsed on each other, more littered with broken glass, and the lower buildings were even boarded up with planks.
Naruto looked further down and noticed metal canisters of some kind with wheels. Confused he looked around further and even noticed 'people' walking around, the first thing he thought was either the people of this world were lazy as hell (like me) and sucked at maintenance or had a different preferences to design.
After inspecting the surroundings a bit more he decided to inspect himself and his personal storage scroll sealed in his arm. He wanted to look at what weapons remained, rations, water and most of all ramen.
Taking out a polished kunai he noticed how much heavier it was and how greater in size it was to what he had remembered then he looked further to his hands noticing how small they appeared to be. Slowly he brought himself to look into the reflection.
He blinked and blinked again then let out a loud gasp as he noticed his features. He was younger, a lot younger around 5 or 6 if he was to estimate and for the better of him he didn't know why? Looking back he tried to find a direct reason as to why but eventually chalked it up to an effect of dimension travel.
Another feature he noticed clearly was that most of his clothes were gone, burnt away as if they never existed. Deciding not to run around butt naked he got out some wire and tied up what remained of his oversized underwear creating a makeshift belt, he needed to get new clothes, especially some which fitted him.
Naruto then went further on to inspect his emergency scroll and saw the horrid condition it was in. It was likely only going to survive a couple more sealing's before it broke down and was useless, he needed a new sealing scroll. Deciding to move on he checked his supplies before he would confront the locals, just as a precaution.
He began counting and found he had around 50 kunai, 8 explosive notes, some steel wire 50 food pills, 20 blood pills some bandages, clothing, 10 litres of water in 8 canteens and best of all 5 bowls of hot Ichiraku's ramen and 20 instant cup ramen. He then went on to inspect his condition. He was still injured, but they were slowly healing. He knew some scars would remain but he saw it as a reminder of his failure to protect everyone and a desire not to fail ever again. He also managed to find his Konoha headband which he stored last minute, deciding to honour Konoha his fallen home he tied it around his head. He noticed it was quite large in comparison to him, but he didn't mind it was to him a memory of his lost past.
Naruto continued to contemplate how he could still be healing, albeit slowly after losing Kurama and again he chalked it up to the side effects of once being a Jinchuriki and a current Uzumaki clan member. In addition he also noticed his chakra reserves, how low they were and how easily maxed out they had become... to put it simply he had less than what he usually did. Understandable he guessed with the loss of Kurama and all, but on the bright side he could still make a few shadow clones and do a few jutsu before tiring out. He could no longer keep spamming clones, but it was a start, besides greater control meant possibilities for new jutsu.
Naruto was brought out of his inspection as he noticed the people below him rushing into the building he remained perched on.
The way they were running and groaning was unsettling and they were getting loader and loader.
They were approaching him...
Naruto was worried, how would he explain how he got here? What does he do? Should he run or should he confront them now after all he needed the basic information like where he was and what he could do to earn his keep. Additionally he could always lie, wait a minute do they even speak the same language? He decided to wait and find out and what better way than to do so face to face.
Naruto began to prepare himself and put away his small storage scroll in anticipation of their arrival.
There was load knocking on the roof door before it burst open and in poured people (take a guess which kind), however they were not the kind of people Naruto would like to be familiarise himself with.
They were dirty, most moving erratically and some were even screaming and groaning.
Others had blood in their mouth, on their face and they were all running, running towards him.
These people looked sick and that put him on edge, sure he was in a different world and was lucky to come across an average human but these people REALLY put him on edge.
'Damn' Naruto thought, he already had enough shit on his plate 'oh well'.
He signalled them for him to speak but they just kept running towards him with their mouths open, some screaming, most groaning as if hoping to bite a chunk of his flesh.
Like a tiger to a deer.
Predator to prey.
"Stop, let me explain" Naruto said hoping to explain his predicament, even if it was going to be a lie. He knew outright saying he dimension travelled was stupid but a well thought up lie never hurt anyone.
These 'people', however didn't get the message and didn't stop. Deciding to dodge instead of the old fashioned one two, he utilised the sun-shin technique carefully making sure not to be trapped by them. This continued on for a minute till he noticed a new presence of another person on the rooftop or rather, 'creature'.
This 'creature' was different from the humans currently chasing him. Its head was not shaped out as a face; in fact it was shaped horridly with weird fungal like plates growing in his head and out and worst of all,
It was clicking.
Naruto was stunned for a moment, from his analysis of the 'creatures' that were chasing him he noticed they had some semblance of humanity, the good old 2 arms, 2 legs, a head and torso with the only major difference being their erratic behaviour. But upon looking at the newcomer who he decided to dub as clicker he noticed something was wrong that being the top of his head along with its eyes were missing and instead replaced by fungal like plates on its head. To top it all off it was clicking.
He then pieced things together.
A run down city that looks like it can house thousands of people yet was quite barren.
The growth of wildlife sporadically in man-made structures
Weird 'people' or 'creatures' chasing him.
He could only think something was wrong and deciding not to stick around and hoping to find somewhere quiet to piece the situation together, Naruto took off jumping off the 50 story building and running along the exterior sticking to it like glue to paper.
He hoped to find a quiet place to plan his next course of action.
After a minute of running down he landed at the bottom of the building. Taking a few seconds to recollect himself he looked around. Now he definitely knew something was wrong, he could not see the bottom before, but close up he could definitely see problems.
Some areas were barricaded and completely blocked off by small walls and barbed wire
Others were littered with large cylinders on wheels and had a large metal stick pointing out from the top, he didn't know what they were used for but looking at them made him uneasy.
Finally the other issue is he could see bodies and blood, although not littered everywhere like a battlefield it was enough to identify a horrific struggle with holes everywhere and strange metal sticks being held by the dead.
Clearly this world had problems of its own.
Deciding to be resourceful Naruto went up to one of the corpses dressed in green and decided to loot it, but not before kicking the corpse to make sure it wasn't alive... Hey it helps to be play safe just in case it was some trap, wouldn't want to find out the hard way when he was in the middle of looting.
Being as quick as possible he looted the body taking the large metal stick, a small hand held metal weapon, a map, a knife, some round stuff with a pin and other metal canisters that held small cylindrical and metallic objects. inspecting the large metal stick he accidentally pulled the trigger, 'BANG, BANG, BANG', three small bullet shot out at shot the glass off one of the buildings shattering it, it fell to the ground and there was a loud crash which seemed to echo throughout the city.
There was long pregnant pause in which Naruto was also part of, stunned at what just happened after all it was a shinobi's rule to be stealthy.
Suddenly there was a flurry of footsteps followed by groans and clicking. Seeing that this was not the time to idle by Naruto picked up the weapon again and continued to loot another body only having enough time to take its backpack.
He was going to experiment with the weapon later, now he needed to leave
However due to his moments of hesitation it cost him as a creature that was close by took a bite at his left arm.
Naruto screamed and countered the creature with a kunai through its head then beheading it.
He stumbled back from the pain and he was losing blood fast. He needed to treatment as soon as possible so collecting his gear he jumped up the opposite building and started running up.
A short while later Naruto can be seen running up the building opposite to his prior place of refuge and decided to rest there for a moment. He looked around to find the top almost completely barren save a few empty cans of food and a tent which he would scavenge later.
He decided to make the rooftop safer by destroying the only entrance before cleaning his wound.
Naruto steadily opened the door with kunai in hand and eventually realised the reasoning of its bareness. The stairs leading up to the rooftop was destroyed, or rather completely missing.
He seriously doubted that the creatures can make it up since he deduced from the ones below they were incapable of utilising chakra and so far he hasn't seen any flying.
Naruto doubted they were zombies; they weren't lumbering so instead he dubbed them as infected, especially since he could feel his immune system destroying what remained of the fungal infection; however the thought that some could potentially fly scared him.
He had no idea what to do.
So instead of taking the risk and settling on the rooftop, he needed to find somewhere high above with a roof over his head.
He couldn't make any conclusions till he knew more of the situation, for now he will clean and bandage his wound.
It took around 3 hours till Naruto found a building suitable for a camp-out. It had a roof, was far above ground and had only an entrance through a broken window, the downside was it had a few bodies littered around the place and he would remove them though some were eerily floating face down at the Olympic sized swimming pool. It was going to be annoying cleaning the bodies, but he was sure a shadow clone dumping them out the window would do the job, good old shadow clones... losing that ability completely would have sucked.
The machine that brought people up, a lift from what he read of the sign was broken. He didn't know how he could read it; he just did and chalked it up to another side effect of dimension travelling.
He'd look over it later.
As a precaution Naruto decided to cut the wires of the lift to make sure it stayed down, permanently.
In addition he destroyed the emergency staircase. Initially he saw an infected clicker in the staircase but using a paper bomb tied to a kunai he launched the kunai at the infected and closed the door, then 'BOOM' no more infected or staircase.
For now his hideout was secure and tomorrow morning he would go further to fortify it while a shadow clone or two would explore the city. As the original he had to keep himself safe after all until he found out more about his situation.
Naruto decided to barricade the open window and set traps that would not only alert him, but temporarily halt any incoming infected. Usually this would take a while to complete the task, but with the aid of an additional 2 shadow clones he was able to secure his place of refuge in 3 hours. Additionally Naruto was able to find temporary clothing in the form of a child's blue spandex swimsuit. He shuddered for a second remembering Lee and Guy who were no doubt proud of him right now in taking the next step forward as an empowered 'youth'. Naruto was momentarily conflicted over leaving his secured wired underwear, but he needed to do this so he put on the unique all covering spandex swimsuit and found it rather loose.
It was now night and Naruto had a small fire going in metal bucket he found and burnt what scraps of wood he could find while using the 2 clones to read magazines and books he found scattered around. He took this time to think over his situation while eating what remained of final stash of Ichiraku's ramen.
He was depressed and his current situation didn't help. Eating seemed to help and made him feel, better. Guess he now understood why Choji wouldn't stop eating.
Naruto continued to think of the death of his friends, their lifeless eyes staring onto him in hope he would come around and save them.
However that was not the case and Kurama ended up being extracted from him a second time losing his lifelong partner once again.
Sakura, Hinata, Sasuke, all died last to buy him time to make a plan, all for naught.
Naruto began to slowly shed tears.
Then he finds himself in a new world with limited chakra.
No way home
No idea what's going on?
His home lost in defeat
And most of all surrounded by infected lunatics out for his blood.
Life was shitty for Naruto and he had no reason to keep going, yet he would not give in so easily. Doing so would mean all the sacrifices of his friends would be meaningless and would desecrate their memory.
So he would continue to fight on.
Wiping away his tears Naruto pressed on with hope and a desire to make good with what was left of his life, he was a kid so there was an opportunity to start over.
Tonight he would rest.
Tomorrow was a start of a new journey and he won't go down easy.
Current supply:
M4 assault rifle = 10 bullets
9mm pistol = 20 bullets
Tent
49 kunai
7 explosive notes
some steel wire
50 food pills
20 blood pills
some bandages,
10 liters of water in 8 cantines
0 bowls of hot ichiraku's ramen
20 instant cup ramen.