Chapter 1

The seven of them were bloody with various injuries all over their bodies. The young man that was known as Gaara was carrying something on his back, it was covered in a white sheet but there were blood stains on it. The oldest was a man who looked to be in his mid-thirties, he had short brown hair and looked like he'd recently shaven. Holding him up was a young woman with brunette hair that went to her shoulders, red lipstick, and blue eyes; her head was bleeding. The other young woman had short brown hair, and blue eyes; she wore some kind of ripped suit, she was holding up a girl who had shaggy white hair. And her eyes were pink. Then there was the little girl in the raggedy and dirty dress. "Halt!" Gaara cursed upon seeing the Konoha gate guards. The two men recognized Gaara who went missing six years ago with Naruto Uzumaki. "State your business—"

"We need medical attention obviously!" Gaara exclaimed. "My friend is bleeding out here, and I get the feeling that if he died here at the gate, I doubt that Tsunade is going to be happy when she finds out who this is; get it?" the two men nodded and a medical team came and got the group. Tsunade herself took the person who was wrapped in the cloth as per their persistent nagging. Setting the person on a bed, she took off the cloth. It was horrid to look at. This young man's body, someone had done some serious and deranged surgery on him. He was wearing the same suit the black haired girl was wearing, but his had a bit more metal pieces in the chest, ribs, arms, and leg. All of it was grafted onto his body in a single piece. The little girl that was with them didn't take well when it came to being separated from her father, she cried and kicked at the doctors until Gaara managed to calm her down.

"What kind of monster does this?" Tsunade had seen some stuff, but this looked like the sick shit that Orochimaru would do. Twisting the helmet, she slowly took it off. Immediately spiky blonde hair flowed down onto the floor and so did the helmet. The doctors stopped upon seeing the protruded whisker marks and face. "Naruto." he had a few scars on his face but aside from that, it was unmistakable; this tortured young man was the same Naruto Uzumaki who went missing six years ago with Gaara of the Sand. "Who the hell-get me everything!"

"Hokage-sama—"

"Everything damnit!" she would not be defied or questioned, not now. Hours passed as she and the other doctors were able to heal the blonde's wounds as much as they could, stitch up what couldn't be closed up by chakra, but then there was the suit. The cloth part came off easily, but the metal parts were another story. The damn thing wasn't just grafted into the blonde's skin, it was becoming part of his skin and body. "Trying to take it out will kill him." she stated. Then there was the abnormal and new organ that was inside of his body, it glowed red and blue, upon closer inspection they saw trying to take it out would kill him instantly. Naruto was stuck like this for the rest of his life, there was no denying it. The blonde was sedated and the others were still getting medical attention, Garra's wounds had healed as had the black haired young woman's own wounds. "What happened?" she was looking at Gaara. "Tell me everything." The young man chuckled a bit before calming down, something told her that this was going to be a long story.

"Let me start from the beginning, it happened when me and Naruto were sent to Wave…"

6 Years Ago – Wave

Naruto was more than excited to go back to Wave for his last mission in Konoha before going on his training trip with Jiraiya, and he wasn't alone. It was a joint mission with Suna, and his partner was none other than Gaara. His fellow Tailed Beast holder wasn't exactly the talkative type, but he wasn't a mute. "Our mission is what exactly?" the Suna shinobi asked.

"Well apparently people have been going missing over the past few weeks, and there have been some…bodies turning up around the village so we've been sent to investigate." The blonde said, the thought of seeing a mutilated dead body made him want to lose his lunch. "You're used to seeing and making bodies right?" Garra nodded 'yes'. "Seeing them, does it get any easier or do you just go numb to it all?"

"It all depends on the person, I was introduced to it at a very young age so the sight and action of death wasn't all that bad to me anymore, but I figured that death wouldn't affect you; Tsunade showed me your medical records." He stated. "Nearly being burned to death as a child and enduring various other beatings and acts of violence, you're lucky that the Kyubi's healing factor is better than the other tailed beasts because if it wasn't then you wouldn't have made it past six." Naruto could only sigh, of course she showed Gaara his medical records. "I'm surprised that you weren't as insane as I was, in fact you should've been much more messed than I was." The blonde smiled.

"Maybe, I was just more mentally prepared for it?" he stopped. "It's funny, when I found out that the Third allowed it to happen on purpose, who knows; maybe I am fucked up and this is the result." He laughed a bit as they entered Wave, not even bothering to comment on the bridge name. Instead two things happened, Naruto went to the side and let loose his lunch, and Gaara examined the body that was in front of them. Someone had viciously gutted the poor man. With something hot apparently as the skin and insides were scorched. "Kami in heaven that's rancid." It was the smell that got him to him the worst. "Is that a hook?" indeed it was. Stabbed onto the bridge was a smoking hook, picking it up and going ahead, the blonde immediately ran back and let loose more. Gaara could see why. Blood, broken bodies, intestines spilled all over the ground, and the smell was worse. Men, women, and children were sprawled out on the ground in bloody piles. Now it was Gaara's turn to lose his lunch, but now Naruto simply stared and began to take in what he was seeing. All of these people that he'd given hope to, they were dead, but maybe not all of them. Hopefully not all of them. Walking ahead through the bloody streets, Naruto had a single destination in mind, Tsunami's house. "Inari!" he slipped on a puddle of blood only to get back up again not even bothering to wipe the blood from his face. Running through the streets he saw more bodies, some bludgeoned to death while other had little holes in them. Upon reaching the home, he banged on the door in desperation. "Inari?! Tsunami?! Tazuna?!" he exclaimed silently praying that they hadn't suffered the same fate as the others. "It's me, Naruto!" all he received was silence; he laid his head on the door. "Please, if you're alive, please at least tell me; it's just me and a friend of mine." The door creaked open revealing not Tsunami or Inari, but a young girl who looked to be about his age. He could see her pink eyes and short white hair. along with the pink lipstick she had on.

"You, you're that kid that was at the Moon Village." the girl stated opening the door fully; her gaze went around a bit before pulling Naruto inside and closing the door. "How did you get this far without being attacked?" she questioned as Inari came out of the shadows and latched onto Naruto, holding him tight; Tsunami came out as well. The woman was covered in cuts and scars.

"Attacked? What did all of this, wait, where's Tazuna?" he questioned. Tsunami couldn't speak and neither could Inari. "No."

"The old man died out there, we haven't gone outside since the slaughter started." She stated. "But to answer your second question, a group of people did this, they were deformed and insane; they appeared out of thin air." She stated. "When they appeared, they started killing people almost instantly without any warning and absolutely no discrimination as you've already seen." Someone knocked on the door.

"Gaara?"

"Yes, it's me." Hesitantly they opened the door to reveal that it was indeed the Ichibi container. "I can't find any survivors." He looked to Inari and Tsunami; then to Naruto's former enemy. "I did however find something strange, you need to see it." he stated. "They need to get out of this village." Naruto nodded in agreement, he looked to the two.

"Alright, I'm going to make twenty-five clones, they're going to take you to Konoha and I need you to tell them about what happened; alright?" Inari nodded 'no'.

"We can do it, but please be careful those 'things' might still be here." Tsunami said with worry, she kissed Naruto on the cheek; this may be the last time she would see the hero of Wave. "Goodbye." the clones were made and they were off to Konoha where they would be safe. Naruto looked to his former enemy with a confused look.

"You aren't going with them?"

"I'm a missing nin with a rather big bounty on my head, going to a Hidden Village would be stupid plus it isn't like I have anywhere else to go." She said with a shrug and a smirk. "I don't think you know, but my name is Karenbana." she said, it wasn't like they were enemies anymore. Gaara began leading them to what he wanted to show them, but their guard was up at all times. Naruto knew that now wasn't the time to slip up or else he would die for sure. Going down an alleyway, Naruto and Karenbana were wide up upon seeing what looked like a rip in the air with a whitish-blue hue. Inside was something unfamiliar. "This is just a guess but this must be how they got in."

"Maybe even how they went back to where they came from." Gaara said. "Karenbana, how many did you see?" she was silent for a few moments.

"I counted twenty-eight, but there were more." This made things worse, if there were more of these people then there was a possibility that some of them could still be in the village. Naruto's eyes went to something behind a trashcan, he picked it up.

"A heated hook." He inspected it a bit before stepping away from the mysterious phenomenon. Something kept his eyes on it, but then he began to hear something coming from it.

"Somewhere beyond the sea

somewhere waiting for me

my lover stands on golden sands

and watches the ships that go sailin'." He was repeating what he was hearing in a low tone.

"That's music." Gaara said in confusion.

"Never heard a song like that before." The girl stated.

"I like it." he kept listening at a good distance away, he was no fool. "What kind of—" the sound of a hook piercing flesh rang through their ears, Naruto looked down to see someone with a white mask on, they were holding the hook that was currently inside of his leg.

"Gotcha boy!" the man exclaimed before violently pulling Naruto onto the ground and toward the portal. Karenbana and Gaara went into action; she quickly grabbed the blonde and began to pull him back despite hurting the blonde by doing so as the hook was still in his leg. A sharp whip of sand stabbed into the man's chest causing him to exclaim in pain, blood spluttered out onto Naruto and Karenbana, but mostly Naruto. The man pulled harder and Gaara stabbed him again and again until the sand went through the man's throat, the man dropped to the ground dead but still holding onto the hook that was still in the blonde's leg. Naruto was doing his best not to scream, the hook was heated and was burning him. Carefully setting the blonde down, she looked at his leg, it was obviously hurting really bad.

"Naruto, hold still." She said only to quickly pull the hook out in a not so gently manner, Gaara held the blonde down as Karenbana began to bandage him. The wound would heal with the Kyubi's healing factor, but it was still going to hurt for a while. "I think we need to—what?" Naruto pointed to the tear, it was violently acting up.

"We need to go now!" Gaara's sand grabbed Naruto, but it was too late for the trio as the tear expanded and violently pulled them in; all they saw was darkness after that.

?

Blue eyes slowly opened to see a high ceiling, blinking a few times; he looked to his left to see light shining down into the large window. He could see large buildings, lights, fish, and a massive whale. Wait, a whale? "Naruto, you're awake." Gaara said kneeling down next to his friend.

"What happened?" he questioned struggling to sit up, he was still looking at the window. "Where are we?" Karenbana came into view; she looked to the window with a frown.

"Under the sea in some city called, Rapture." She stated. "That tear that brought us here is gone, and we're stranded here with more of those people; lots of them." she stated. "From what I saw and heard, everyone here is like this, deformed and insane; some even mutter about some drug called ADAM." She explained.

"What part of the city are we in?"

"The Welcome Center, we're hold up in the Kashmir Restaurant to be precise." She said. "In a nutshell, we're stuck in this underwater city with a shit load of insane people who'd gladly gut us for no reason." The situation at hand was bleak and none of them had a plan aside from stick together and survive; for now Rapture was going to have to be their home.

Chapter 1 End