Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto it belongs to Kishimoto.

I'm a huge science fiction and comic book fan and this came from the idea a friend and I was talking about where we put up Naruto characters against various aliens from other works of fiction. So in this Naruto is critically injured by Sasuke at the Valley of the End, as he is dying he is rescued by an alien being three years later he's back on Earth and in the Leaf Village. How will his friends react to a Naruto that has seen the stars and why has he returned? Please read and review.

Chapter 1

When Kakashi looked back on it things didn't make a lot of sense. When he got to the Valley of the End he had found Sasuke, who was alone but there was a lot of blood there and Kakashi and Pakkun could both smell that it was Naruto's.

Kakashi knew that if someone lost that much blood they most likely wouldn't survive. So he had taken Sasuke back to the village and gathered some volunteers to look for a body, Kakashi knew full well that some of the ninja had volunteered hoping he was dead, but still the more eyes the better. They thought his body must have washed downstream but they couldn't find it. After two weeks of looking they returned.

Sasuke was put under protective custody and it was revealed that the reason he hadn't left after he had stuck a second Chidori into Naruto was because Naruto had pulled off one last trick to. Using the 9 tails acidic Chakra he had seriously damaged Sasuke's left leg making it impossible for him to walk with it.

Of course after some medical ninja worked on it they made it to where Sasuke could walk, although he would limp without a specially made leg brace.

The Villagers celebrated the death of the 'Demon', but not publically as they did not want to get a taste of the Hokage's wrath, but if you looked you could see that they were celebrating something and it didn't take a genius to find out what. The council even told the truth about the fact that Naruto was a Jinchuriki. Turning many who were too young to know the secret against Naruto and see his death as a good thing for the village.

Naruto's friends took it hard however. Sakura refused to live in the same house as her parents who were now badmouthing her teammate near constantly and had actually moved into Naruto's old apartment. Although even three years later she refuses to be around Sasuke or even go on the same mission, it's probably safe to say that the crush was, well, crushed she also hadn't talked to her parents in that time. Shikamaru just shut himself off and refused to interact with people until Ino took him somewhere alone one day and talked to him. Shikamaru even said that he would become Hokage if Naruto couldn't. The rest of the retrieval team regurly met up, sometimes they would talk and sometimes they wouldn't do anything. Hinata probably changed the most, although with Kakashi's knowledge of Psychology he should have seen this coming. When people grieve they tend to either draw themselves inwards or let that grief turn into anger and lash out at those around them.

That's what happened to Hinata. She was a girl who had a personality where she kept things to herself so when she couldn't hold this grief in anymore she became angrier and crueler to the retrieval team and Sakura.

It amazed Kakashi that one death could change people so much.

And Sasuke?

He was pardoned by the council, who worded it as though Sasuke had done nothing wrong.

As for the Jounin, Kakashi refused to train Sasuke after his 'trial' because of his actions and everyday for the last three years, when Kakashi was in the village Sasuke would track him down and demand that Kakashi train him to master the Sharingan since it was nearly impossible to use it to its fullest extent without someone with the knowledge to show you. All Kakashi ever said to this when Sasuke brought it up along with his 'I must kill my brother' crap was "Good luck with that".

Kurenei was training Sakura and Hinata in the art of Genjutsu, seperatly of course as Hinata would pick fights with Sakura at every chance.

Asuma had began to teach Shikamaru everything he knew along with Shikaku who was teaching him strategy.

Gai was pretty much the same. The only way you could tell he was affected at all was that for the first week after Naruto's death had been made known he had rarely said the word 'youth'. For Lee it was a month.

Tsunadae would get drunk and randomly destroy things. Jiraiya never left her side during those months.

It had even become a bit of a ritual that every month on the anniversary of Naruto's death everyone would go to Ichiraku's and just sit around and do whatever.

That's where they were today.

The day everything changed.

Everyone except team Kurenei and Sasuke were at Ichiraku's. Kurenei and her team were away on a mission and Sasuke was never invited and if he was smart he'd stay away. Lee had left not long earlier having forgotten to turn his report from his last mission in. so nobody would have paid any attention when he came back in.

"G-Gai sensei?"

The green clad Jounin turned around and gave his student one of his classic smiles although it quickly vanished when he saw the worried look on Lee's face.

"What is it Lee?" his serious tone caused everyone to look at Lee.

"Do you believe in Aliens?"

Gai smiled at the question.

'I don't know what this has to do with Lee being worried but at least it isn't serious'

"No Lee I do not, and I believe that even if they did exist it would be impossible for them to travel between the vastness of space, no matter how youthful they may be!" Gai said in his usual manner. Lee let out a relieved sigh.

"That is good for a moment there I was worried that the flying ship above the Village was an alien invasion force and we were all going to die soon." Lee said in a cheery voice.

Everyone stopped eating, even the Ichiraku's stopped making Ramen and just looked at Lee slack jawed.

"I'm sorry Lee could you repeat that?" Sakura asked. Without the smile leaving his face Lee said.

"I was worried that the flying ship in the air was aliens, but since Gai sensei said that it is impossible for them to be aliens then they cannot be"

Quicker than most ninja could react everyone, including Ayame, were outside the stand looking into the sky. And there just as lee described it was something that looked like it could have come out of one of Sakura's Science Fiction books (which she would never admit to owning out of fear of appearing all geeky).

In the sky was a large ship of some kind. However instead of looking like a normal ship this one appeared like if you had turned a ship upside down. It had what appeared to be 5 rocket like propulsions on the back and you could see that there was some kind of glass like material at the top but it was too far to even hope to see into. It was black with orange stripes and lining.

Behind them Lee was happily humming the Emperial march theme from Star Wars.

"Kakashi Sensei?"

"Yes Sakura"

"What is that?"

"I have absolutely no idea"

LATER AT THE CENTER OF KONOHA

It had been nearly an hour since the strange object had appeared and currently Tsunadae, the elders and Danzo were arguing over what to do.

Tsunadae wanted to wait and see what this thing did next.

The elders wanted to try making contact.

Danzo wanted to shoot it out of the sky.

Both Tsunadae and the Elders shot that idea down because if this really was an alien vessel from an advanced race they doubted anything they had would dent it and they weren't going to throw the first punch.

It went back and forth a while until the large ship opened up making everyone go tense and quiet as a smaller ship came out.

This one was probably large enough to fit 3-4 people by the looks of it and had an egg shape. Curiously enough as most ninja noticed the ship had a large blue spiral painted on it identical to their red spirals on their uniforms.

As the ship landed in front of the Hokage and assembled ninja they all unconsciously held their breaths as the ship opened up.

They all waited to see what kind of creature would come out. Would it have tentacles or would it be some slimey creature. Maybe it would be like something they had never seen before.

"Hey everybody!" a happy voice called out.

Everyone was quiet as they looked at the figure with blond hair and blue eyes and familiar whisker marks.

All at once multiple voices shouted the same thing.

"NARUTO!?"

All right this is my first time trying to put a sci-fi twist like this on Naruto. I hope I did it well.

why do you think Naruto has returned?

In this story Naruto will kind of be like a combination of Captain America, Star Lord, Green Lantern and Daredevil. If you want to find out what happened to Naruto after VotE and why he's back, I'll reveal all next chapter if you want me to continue.

Please review and thank you for reading and have a nice day!