Gaian Visions
Summary: When does Science overshadow morality? When does necessity drive it? In a future where energy is everything a chain of events has begun to unfold that will change the world forever. A young teen with revolutionist ideas will come to realize that he has become a part of something greater than himself. Based off of the song of the same name.
Parings: NaruxSassu (major) NaruXGaara (minor) NaruxKiba NaruxSaku NaruxTen (super minor)
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto (if I did then I would have shown Sasuke paying the guy who caused their 'accidental' kiss), or Gaian Visions the song.
Rating: M for cursing, smoking, violence, and of course lemons.
This chapter is dedicated to the memory of Katie Richards.
Prologue Forgotten Forests
When the earth was forged in the crucible of the big bang, it was a lifeless shell of a planet where nothing could survive. It wasn't until Gaia, goddess of the earth, came from the deepest reaches of the cosmos and filled the earth with her life supporting energy. Soon forests and vast oceans covered the planet and single celled organisms began to develop into fish, and the fish became reptiles that first stepped foot into the vast forests that Gaia had created. For the next several millennia, there was peace. Until, the reptiles had begun to become hostile towards one another. Soon they began to kill each other and anything that got in the way. Gaia saw this as a threat to the planet that she created, and used her powers to kill the tyrannical reptiles thus giving rise to a new a new species. Homosapien. Gaia would grow to regret giving humans dominance. She began to fear that this would become a threat and that she would have to do to the humans what she did to the reptiles. This fear was further justified as time went on. Humans creating products that where destroying the planet; cutting down forests, creating holes in the ozone, dumping toxic waste into the waters that Gaia herself created. Soon the humans could no longer find energy from the fossils of the forgotten reptiles; so they began to harvest the energy deep in the earth that kept it alive. Soon vast cities spread over the land, leaving the forests to be forgotten. It is in one of these cities that a chain of events that could lead to the destruction of the human race has begun.
Ch. 1 Desicration.
December 31st, AD 2099
It was New Years Eve in the great city of Konaha, the most technologically advanced city ever made. It was founded as a research station in response to the world energy crisis. Fossil Fuels where used up by 2091. The world needed a new energy source that was bountiful and easy to obtain. So the task of finding a new energy source was given to the Uchiha cooperation, the company that was responsible for every technological advancement in the past 25 years. In response the companies founder, Mandara Uchiha, had a city built; a city that was entirely self sufficient and populated entirely by the top researchers of the time. By the next year, a new energy source was found; an energy that followed through the earth and was found to heal dying cells in both plants and animals. This new energy was dubbed Gaian energy, after the Greek goddess of the earth. Little did the discoverers of this energy know, their discovery would come at a price.
As the rest of Konaha ushered in the new year, a blonde researcher was standing in the number 81 transporter en route to the northwest Gaian reactor in order to a routine check. His mind however, was not on his work. He was worried about his son, who had just been born a few months earlier. The blonde knew that he could trust his friend Iruka; nevertheless, he still worried about his son. His wife had died in labor so it was just him and his son. Being one of the lead researchers, he could be called in to check on a reactor or aid his co-workers at any time; so he asked his friend Iruka to look after his son when he was away. At first Iruka was called in from his apartment in the southeast sector, but eventually he just moved in with his friend and his son in their home.
The car came to a halt at the entrance to the northwest Gaian reactor and the researcher stepped out. He put his ID in the scanner and put his eye to the peephole for the retina scan. Then he put in the key code for the northwest reactor and then the door opened with a 'whoosh'.
'Man, there's way too much stuff to remember with this job. I mean sure I got perfect scores on my school placement tests but that doesn't mean that I remember things well,' the twenty-one year old thought as he walked to the meters and recorded the values the holo-screen that was built into his radiation suit. He then walked over to a pipe and opened the removable hatch and put a gage into the flow of green energy that was coming directly from the reactor.
'That's strange,' he thought as the meter was fluctuating wildly. 'The energy is unstable, but the pressure and temperature are nominal,'
The researcher then got up to walk out the door when he saw something through the glass window. It was a person. The researcher then opened the door to the reactor and ran in.
"Hey Orochimaru! I thought that you had tonight off!" he exclaimed at the man standing in front of the large structure of the reactor. He was pale with long dark hair and the creepiest yellow eyes.
He merely chuckled before saying "Indeed I do, but my evening plans involve being here,"
"What?" the researcher asked.
"I seek the power of the gods. And tonight, I shall take the first step forward," Orochimaru said he pressed a button.
A loud explosion that shook the entire reactor was heard.
"What the hell did you do Orochimaru?!" the researcher demanded.
"Oh nothing. I just destroyed the coolant tanks," Orochimaru chuckled.
"Idiot!" the researcher exclaimed as he ran back into the observation room to check the gauges. Orochimaru was right. The temperature was skyrocketing and the pressure along with it. The reactor was gonna blow. No one knew the stability of Gaian energy so he assumed the worse; the whole city could be destroyed. The researcher quickly ran activated the alarm but it was too late. As the city counted down to the new year the reactor was destroyed by an earth shattering explosion right as the clock struck midnight on the new century. Following the explosion a dome of white light appeared and spread throughout the now destroyed northwest sector.
Luckily, the researcher took cover and didn't die. But he was badly wounded. He got up and walked into the apocalyptic scene that was the northwest sector. He started walking to the hospital when he remembered something.
His house was in the northwest sector.
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The researcher ran as fast as he could, trying to ignore the pain that came from his broken ribs and arm. There where cuts all over his body and he was bleeding excessively. He looked around trying to get a barring on where he was when he spotted a man with brown hair in a pony tail and a white object in his arms.
"IRUKA!" he shouted.
The man perked at his name and ran over to his injured friend.
"Kami-sama, you're alive," Iruka said.
"Yes, but what about my son?" The researcher asked.
Iruka had a look of pure grimace on his face.
"Iruka let me see my son," he demanded.
"You may not want to look," Iruka said as the researcher pulled his son from Iruka's arms. He unwrapped the blanket to find a sight that made him fall to his knees and cry.
His son, covered in blood.
"Get a hold of yourself. He's alive but just barely! We need to get to the hospital!" Iruka shouted as the young researcher was having a nervous breakdown.
"Right, let's go," the researcher said as he stood up.
Luckily they where right by the north sector, which was undamaged and where able to take a transporter to the hospital in the east sector. Once they got there, they where confronted with a scene of utter chaos: nurses running everywhere with stretchers, injured people trying to get treatment. A single blonde haired nurse was at the front desk.
"Who's next?" the nurse exclaimed.
"We are!" Iruka shouted.
"My son, he's injured," the researcher said, barely able to stand due to blood loss.
"You don't look to good yourself," she said to him before laying eyes on the small bundle in his arms shouting "WE HAVE A BABY HERE! I REPEAT A BABY!"
A dark haired woman came and took the researchers son to be treated.
"Thanks Shizune," the nurse said.
"Is it women and children first?" Iruka asked as the young researcher leaned on his best friend for support.
"Yes it is, but I can help your friend a little," the blonde said as she walked off.
"You…see the…rack on her?" the researcher joked has his breathing became heavier.
"Don't speak, conserve your energy," Iruka said.
"Here," the nurse said as she tossed Iruka some antibiotic gel to seal the wounds (1).
The nurse then took out a bag of blood and hooked up tube to the end of it. She then removed a sterilized needle form its pouch and put it at the other end of the tube.
"Roll up his sleeve," she said as Iruka did as he was told.
The nurse the inserted the needle into his arm as the blood began to flow into his body.
"There, that should replace some blood," she said
"Tsunade, the doctor needs you fast. It's that kid," a random nurse said.
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(in the OR)
The doctors had the young child hooked up to a heart monitor and had him on transfusions as they worked to keep him alive; trying to remove all of the shrapnel. Suddenly, his heart stopped.
"Damn it! Get Tsunade in here, NOW!" a silver haired doctor demanded as a nurse brought defibrillator over.
"Clear," the doctor said as he sent a reduced amount of electricity thought the boy.
"Get me 10ccs of adrenaline stat," the doctor demanded.
"Don't you give up on me kid" he injected the adrenaline into the young boy.
Thankfully, his heart started beating; but something else was happening. The boys wounds, they where healing.
"What the hell?" the silver haired doctor said through his blue surgical mask.
All of the cuts where now healed, leaving only blood. The doctors washed the blood off to find that there wasn't even a scar on his body; except for his face on which there where three whisker-like scars on each side.
"Amazing," one nurse said.
The doctors had just witnessed something that they knew to be impossible. A young boy, who was on the brink of death no more than a minuet ago, had fully healed and was now looking around curiously at unfamiliar faces.
"What is it?" Tsunade said as she came bursting in.
"Take this boy to his father," the silver haired doctor said as he picked the infant up and gave him to the blonde nurse. The young boy seemed to like Tsunade as soon as she took him into his arms as shown by the fact that he lay his head against her chest and nuzzled her.
"Will do, Dr. Hatake," Tsunade said.
"And tell him when he wakes up that I would like to talk with him. This boy isn't ordinary,"
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End chapter one of my second fic. Thanks to everyone who read this and Guitar Heroes.
The action will start next chapter. I hope for this to be as long as Guitar Heroes if not longer. Now, review my pretties!
A/N
1. In the future, antibiotic gel will also seal up wounds. It's my story and I write it the way I want to.