Author's Notes: Hello my friends. Here's my own version of Naruto the Bloodedge. I originally adopted it from Haseo55 a year ago, but never got to it, but here it is. I've got the story planned, and Ragna will be different from his usual self due to being Naruto. Look forward to it, just as I'm looking forward to Chrono Phantasma.

Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance, Fantasy

Warnings: Violence, Strong Language, Sexual Content

Tags: Badass/Smart/Intelligent/Powerful Naruto/Ragna, Uzumakicest, Alive Minato and Kushina, slight Minato Bashing, Konoha Bashing, Lime/Lemons

Pairings: Naruto/Ragna x Harem

From BlazBlue: Kuro (FemBlackBeast), Celica, Noel, Rachel, Taokaka, Litchi, Nu-13, Tsubaki, Makoto, Platinum, Lambda-11, Kokonoe, Bullet

From Naruto: Yoko (FemJuubi), Naruko, Narumi, Hinata, Hisana, Satsuki, Ino, Kyoko, Sakuya, Akira, Tenten, Temari, Anko, Kurenai, Yugao, Hana, Shizune, Haku, Gaia (FemGaara), Temari, Kin, Tayuya, Karin, Yugito, Samui, Sasame, Yakumo, Shion, Shizuka, Mei, Konan, Kushina

Universe: Animeverse/Gameverse

Series: Uzumaki's Payback

Disclaimers: I do not own Naruto, BlazBlue, Devil May Cry, or any other crossover that might appear.

Credit goes to VFSNAKE for letting me borrow a part from the first chapter of his Naruto x Dragonball Z story, Naruto of the Saiyans. Plus, some of the fight scene are based off the fight scenes in the Blazblue Perfect True Ending video.

Now Presenting: Naruto the Bloodedge of Six Paths

Prologue: To the Next Possibility

(Cathedral, AD2199/12/31)

"This is odd… Sneaking around aside, I can't feel anyone's presence here… Normally the soldiers would be surrounding me by now, plus, there was no Anti-Beast Barrier. Is this a trap- Whoa!

A sword made of ice suddenly embedded itself near a pillar.

…What the? An ice sword…? *gasp* *growl* JIN!" screamed a feminine voice that echoed throughout the cathedral in the empty Novus Orbis Librarium (NOL) Branch of the 13th Hierarchical City: Kagutsuchi.

The owner of the voice was a young female with white spiky hair and heterochromia with her left eye being green and her right being red, and wears a vibrant red sleeved jacket with two long thin tails hanging from the back, a v-cut black shirt that show her cleavage with three red belts, a pair of black gloves with a red shell on the backs of the hands with the right arm and hand being prosthetic and storing the Azure Grimoire, a pair of short shorts, steel-toed black boots that reach to her thighs, and a sword named Blood-Scythe strapped to her back.

She is the Shinigami, Ragna the Bloodedge, a wanted criminal with a large bounty on her head for destroying several NOL branches in various Hierarchical Cities.

(A/N: Yes, Ragna is a female in this. Keep an open mind readers)

The one she's standing across from is a slender young man with short, stylish blond hair, green eyes, and wearing the NOL major uniform with a black turtleneck and leggings under a white Japanese-style garment, white gloves, military boots, a "jolting sapphire" colored jacket with a red lining and very long, detached sleeves, and sheathed katana that is actually Nox Nyctores – Mucro Algesco: Yukianesa, on the side of his hip.

He is Kisaragi Jin, a Major and 4th Thaumaturgist Squadron Commander of the NOL.

He is also Ragna's little brother.

But in this case, family doesn't mean squat, as Ragna grabbed her blade and leapt at Jin, who calmly took out his katana.

The Blood-Scythe sword clashed with the Yukianesa katana as Jin blocked each of Ragna's strikes, making a clashing sound before they were caught in a deadlock and jumped back, releasing it.

"What the hell are you doing here?!" Ragna snarled.

"Come on! Is that any way to greet someone?" Jin asked tauntingly, "Hahaha, looks like you haven't changed at all, because you're as reckless as always. Although I have to admit, I'm a bit relived."

"Who cares about that! It's got nothing to do with- No matter, I've got a whole of other questions that you need to answer, and if you don't comply, well…" Ragna cracked her knuckles threateningly.

"Whoa there nee-san, you're askin' for quite a bit." Jin said, putting his hands up, "I have to say though…there's enough money on your head to buy out a small country. A whole lot of vigilantes looking for 'Ragna the Bloodedge'."

"What's it to you?" Ragna asked, seeing a look of insanity on her brother's face.

"Ahh, but don't worry. I won't let anyone else touch you…You're all mine."

"You always did have a creepy sister-complex, little brother." Ragna grumbled, shaking her head before raising her Blood-Scythe, "Looks like you'll need punishment. CARNAGE SCISSORS!"

Ragna performed a dashing sword strike, followed up by slashing the ground upwards, releasing two spikes of dark energy, but Jin slashed through the attacks with his katana and laughed.

"Ahaha! Yes, that's it…I'd almost forgotten this feeling…To think that we'd meet like this again…that I'd have the chance to 'kill' you again!"

"Damn you." Ragna said angrily, "I will never forgive you!"

"Hehehe…Enough nostalgia…Let's kill each other…nee-san!"

"Screw you! DEAD SPIKE!" Ragna roared, unleashing a wave of dark energy in the form of the Black Beast's head.

"You're so stupid, nee-san." Jin said as he stabbed the ground with his sword, utilizing the power of his manipulation of ice to entrap the attack in a cage of ice called Arctic Dungeon.

Ragna jumped back, "What the?!"

"Yukianesa's power, experience it first hand!" Jin said as he sheathed his sword, making the ice cage shatter and dispelling the Dead Spike attack as he takes the NOL prayer pose.

"In the name of Kisaragi…"

Jin struck, stabbing Ragna with nine quick circular freezing quickdraw slashes before settling in a Battojutsu stance.

"SETSUBA…"

In the moment Jin disappeared, with almost a hundred slash marks appearing all over Ragna, making her cry out and fall to the ground as Jin reappeared.

"GENHIEIGEKI!" he finished, sheathing his blade.

"Why you little…" Ragna growled in pain.

"Let me finish you now, and end your misery!" Jin cried in joy as he materialized multiple ice sword projectiles and fired at a downed Ragna.

But Ragna was playing possum and rolled away to dodge the projectiles. Jin growled and used his "ice car" attack, but Ragna activated her distortion drive.

"INFERNO DIVIDER OF THE BLACK BEAST!" Ragna shouted, catching Jin with a sword slash uppercut infused with dark energy, now making him cry out in pain.

A few punches and an ax kick in midair later, Ragna activated her distortion drive in finish Jin.

"Take this you son of a bitch!" Ragna roared, using an overhead slash infused with dark energy to finished Jin, who tried to block with an ice shield, but it was useless as he was sent flying into a pillar.

"Hurgh…gah…" Jin moaned

"This s over yet Jin. I'm not gonna finish you off just yet. I still have questions that only you can answer. But, I got bigger fish to fry right now, so how about you just stay there and we'll continue this chat later." Ragna assured him, and then took the nearby elevator down under the NOL Branch.

If she stayed longer, she would've noticed a redhead girl who just arrived to the empty NOL Branch.

(The Gate, 2199AD/12/31)

"At last, you're here. This brings back memories, Dark One."

Ragna finally arrived at the Gate housing the Cauldron, but frowned when she notices someone else near there, and shivered from the pressure coming from the white-clad figure.

The figure has long bright blue hair is tied at the mane, a completely white, two horned helmet with no features or visor, appearing to have no face at all, and wearing semi-heavy white armor and a muscular body suit with a large collar and the traditional hakuma present, ballooning pants common in samurai, and his armored sections feature fully functional crimson eyes with slit pupils. Set on his back his a nodachi that is Nox Nyctores – Interfectum Malus: Ookami.

"Huh? At last? Who the hell are you and what are you talking about?" Ragna asked, confused, finding it scary that the armored samurai has no face at all and shook a bit.

"I'm not talking to you." The armored samurai said.

Ragna's eyebrows twitched as she folded her arms over her impressive bust to steady herself, "Then who the hell are you talking to? Yourself? Man, you know what, who cares. I don't have the time or patience to deal with you or whatever shit you got going on. Now get outta my way, or I'm gonna rip you little mask off and shove it where the sun don't shine."

"Then why don't you draw your sword?" the armored samurai asked.

Ragna raised an eyebrow, "You want me too?"

But the armored samurai caught her bluff, "Aaahh, yes, now that is fear, Ragna the Bloodedge. The creature that sleeps within you…it can sense my power, and it is afraid."

"What did you say asshole?" Ragna snapped while trying and failing miserably to stop her shaking.

"It is the center of darkness and the source of all evil." The armored samurai explained as he unsheathed Ookami and settled into his fighting stance, "Your very existence is the world's worst nightmare. Only your death can put an end to this nightmare. It is time for the eternal wanderer to meet her demise. Long story short, I was waiting for you there, to settle things once and for all."

"Seriously? So I'm a nightmare? According to who? And what's this about settling things once and for all? Geh, no matter. I'm gettin' real tired of listening to your nonsense. Why don't you drop the so-called hero crap, so we can get this over with?" Ragna said, pointing her sword at him.

"Fine then. I am the white void. I am the cold steel. I am the just sword. With blade in hand shall I reap the sins of this world, and cleanse it in the fires of destruction! I am Hakumen! The end has come!" the now revealed Hakumen chanted, now unleashing his power as Ragna's eyes widened in shock.

"Hakumen of the Six Heroes?! Ah crap!" Ragna thought in panic, but got into her fighting stance, now ignoring her fear, "Just try it if you can, you masked bastard!"

A few seconds later, Ragna was still standing in front of Hakumen, trembling.

"What wrong Dark One?" Hakumen asked, "Your legs are trembling."

"Oh yeah?"

Ragna finally charged, intent on ending the fight quickly, but was instead thrown around like a ragdoll thank to Hakumen's Drive, Zanshin. She tried to attack again, but got two kicks for her trouble, sending her back.

"Don't disappoint me." Hakumen demanded as Ragna kipped back up.

"I'll show you disappointing!" Ragna shouted, "CARNAGE…"

Ragna rushed in with her Distortion Drive attack, but before just as she thought she hit the second part of her attack, Hakumen erected a large version of his Drive Zanshin for his Distortion Drive counterattack.

"Too slow Dark One! EMPTY SKY FORM…"

When Ragna's attack hit Hakumen's Zanshin, Hakumen stuck with a Battojutsu attack.

"YUKIKAZE!"

"Gah!"

Ragna fell to her knees, crutching her wound.

"Damn it! Gotta stop the bleeding." she moaned before dodging Hakumen's Zantetsu attack, "Whoa!"

"What's wrong?" Hakumen snapped as he pointed his sword at Ragna, frustrated, "Why won't you fight for real- Wha?"

Hakumen fell to his knee, crutching his chest as a magic circle appeared around him.

"A casual interruption?" Hakumen growled, "How dare you interrupt me, Grimalkin!"

Then, he suddenly disappeared from Ragna's sight.

"That was too close." Ragna muttered as she used an ars magus spell to heal herself, "Had the fight continued, I would've have to use the Azure Grimoire. He was pretty tough, as expected of a member of the Six Heroes. But man, I've wasted too much time with him."

But then, the area started to shake violently.

"Well…fuck…" Ragna moaned as she witnessed the Gate opening, revealing the light that is the Cauldron.

(Sheol Gate, 2199AD/12/31)

"Tch. You gotta be kidding me…I guess I was too late."

Flying from the Cauldron and landing in front of Ragna is a young girl with sunken red eyes and long silver hair tied into a braid held together by a single blade, and wears a bright jumpsuit and a long flowing cape with red-colored tape seals attached to the end, and an eyepatch over her right eye that is her own Azure Grimoire.

She is the 13th Boundary Interface Prime Field Device Murakumo Unit, Nu.

"Loading…loading…loading…loading…complete…"

"Done booting up your body? What a pain in the ass." Ragna muttered as Nu's soulless eye came to life upon seeing Ragna, and her face lit up with joy

"Ahh! It's Ragna-chan!" Nu squealed, "Long time no see! What is this…the fourth time, right?"

"Technically third." Ragna's eyes twitched as she corrected Nu.

"Awww…looks like somebody's in a bad mood." Nu teased as she danced around Ragna "Are you mad 'cause we couldn't talk the last few times? It's all right, 'cause I've got a body that can move and talk now, see?"

Ragna rolled her eyes, "Good for you."

"Or perhaps, prefer it went the same way as last time?" Nu asked, "You…you remember how you hurt me before? You attacked so suddenly. It really hurt a lot. My blood sprayed out because I bled a whole bunch, really!" Nu said, her tone never changing, "But, you know…"

"Know what?" Ragna asked.

"It felt good didn't it, when my body so close when we're together. And you were smiling."

"Right~" Ragna said as she finished healing the worst of her injuries, but Nu finally notices.

"Ah! Ragna-chan, you were injured! Are you OK? Who did that to you?" she demanded, her face expressing her worry.

"Never you mind." Ragna said, waving it off, "I'm fine. You should be more worried about yourself in the next few minutes."

Nu was confused, "What do you mean, Ragna-chan?"

"Just this." Ragna responded, pointing her Blood-Scythe at Nu, "They may be one in the same, but I'm here not to kill you. Destroy you is the terms I'm going for. Not because you look and sound like my little sister Saya, but because if I let you be, you're going to destroy the world, and I won't let it happen."

Nu was shocked at Ragna's declaration, "Whaa! Ragna-chan! Please don't! I finally…I finally has a body. We can finally be together, but you…you…You're so mean…"

"Oh boo hoo hoo. Cry me a river." Ragna taunted as she got into her fighting stance, "On a serious note, I always made up my mind, and there's nothing you can do to change it, so prepare yourself!"

"…Well of course. That's right. I forgot, you're the same as me." she said quietly, "You want to destroy, right? Me. Yourself. The world. You want to destroy everything, right? That's why Ragna-chan possesses power. The Azure Grimoire, a power that can do battle with the world. You want to use it, right?"

Ragna shrugged, "If I have too."

Nu just looked at Ragna with an unreadable expression before whispering…

"I see. Activating Murakumo…"

A large sword descended from above, with Ragna recognizing it as the Nox Nyctores – Lux Santus: Murakumo. It stabbed itself on the ground behind Nu before it split into different part and attached itself to Nu. Now Nu is donning a futuristic sword-themed armor that features a set of eight disembodied blades that float behind her in a wing-like formation, and a visor with a singular eye and horns at the end.

"…So that's how it is, huh?" Nu said a little menacingly, "Maybe you'll change your tune after something a little more…physical? So, how would you like it? Gentle or rough?"

"Neither thank you, because you'll have to catch me first! But if you think I'll gonna destroy the world my sister lives in, you've got another thing coming!"

"Well then, let's start! Besides, the only one that satisfy Ragna…is me! So come, so that I can finally put my arms around you!"

"All right then, me first!"

Ragna charged at Nu, jumping over the swords she sent along the sword. She then used her Drive, Sword Summoner, to attack Ragna in midair, but Ragna flipped over it and jumped off it to close the distance between her and Nu. Ragna slashed at Nu, but Nu use her Act Parcer skill to teleport, dodging Ragna's attack.

"Not done yet!" Ragna shouted as her used kicks in injunction with her sword attacks, but Nu kept using Act Parcer to dodge each strike.

"You're too slow!" Nu taunted, "But don't worry, Nu will do all the teasing!"

"Screw you!" Ragna snapped as she failed to connect her Gauntlet Hades attack.

"I intend to, so here we go!" Nu said, as she attacked with Sickle Storm, running a scythe along the ground to Ragna, who rolled out of the way and jumped over Nu's Spike Chaser attack.

"Got you!" Nu cheered, unleashed her Distortion Drive, Calamity Swords, calling down several swords from above.

Ragna jumped back to avoid them, failing to notice that Nu was leading her into a trap as the attack ended.

"Like that'll work." Ragna said, preparing to use her Dead Spike attack to distract Nu so that she could hit her with a surprise Hell's Fang to take her head off. Before she could, she noticed that her body was heavy and looked down

"A Gravity Shield?" Ragna panicked, "Since when did she-?"

With a shrill yet playful laugh, Nu unleashed her Distortion Drive, summoning three portals in front of her to attack with Legacy Edge, firing on Ragna with a barrage of swords.

Ragna screamed in pain as she was slashed, skewered, and pierced with the continuous blades that reopened some of her wounds from the other battles. When the attack ended, Ragna fell to her knees near the entrance to the Cauldron, her body racked with pain.

"Now Ragna…" Nu said as she floated towards her prey, "Let's melt together…so that we can become one…"

Nu was about use her Astral when suddenly, Ragna used the rest of her strength to quickly respond with her own.

"BLACK ONSLAUGHT!"

Ragna turned her sword into a scythe and slashed at Nu repeatedly, draining her health.

"BLACK ZAGAN…NIGHTMARE EDGE…"

Covered in darkness, Ragna thrusted forward with her sword in sealed form for the final stab to disintegrate Nu.

"DESTRUCTION!"

There was an explosion, and Ragna thought she won.

"So much for putting your arms around me-", Suddenly, Ragna's danger sense went haywire, cutting her off, "What the?!"

To her complete and utter shock, Nu was standing in front of her, battered but still alive and smiling.

"No way, it can't be!" Ragna cried as she fell to her knees, her body succumbing to the pain, "Dammit! Why…?!"

"You know it's impossible." Nu told her, "No one can change what happened. This is destiny! You and I are meant to be together. It's a story that can't be rewritten."

"No way!" Ragna snarled as she slowly tried to get to her feet, "Only I write my own story. Not you, or destiny!"

But the next thing Ragna knew, she was bombarded from all sides by Nu's Sword Summoner Drive attacks.

"Ahhh!"

"…And we fall into each other's arms…" Nu said as she ended her attack, "Oh, this is so romantic."

"No." Ragna whispered to herself, "Is this really as far as I can go?"

Then, Nu rushed at Ragna and wrapped her arms around her, just as she summoned a sword and stabbed herself and Ragna.

"Guagh!" Ragna cried, tearing flowing out of her eyes.

"You life and my life are the same." Nu said, gently putting her hands on Ragna's tear strained face, "If I'm alive, you definitely won't die. The same goes for me too. You can't fight your feelings, Ragna. We're going to be together, no matter what…forever and always."

"Well…excuse me…if I'm not…jumping…for joy…here." Ragna moaned sarcastically, knowing that this was the end.

She knew that what she was doing was a suicide mission from learning that she was body of the Black Beast, and the Murakumo Units were the heart of it, but she countered that fact by destroying the Murakumo Units before they were released from the Cauldron. But now, thanks to the interferences by Jin and Hakumen, she was too late to stop Nu from being released. Just as she feared, Nu was too powerful and resilient for her. And now, she and Nu are going to fuse their bodies into create the Black Beast, and there's nothing she can do to stop it.

Ragna was bought back to reality when Nu kissed her on the lips and giggled, "All right, let's go destroy everything now." she said, "Destroy this whole terrible, awful excuse for a world. OK, Ragna?"

"Ha…ha…ha!" Ragna laughed, getting a crazy idea, "I have a better idea. How about I take you out of this world, and eliminate the threat of the Black Beast?"

With that, Ragna used the last of her strength to wrap her own arms around Nu and leaned back, making them fall into the Cauldron.

"Hopefully, it'll be an empty world where we'll rage around as the Black Beast." Ragna thought, smiling at Nu's surprised face.

"But Ragna-chan…" Nu piped up, revealing that she could now read Ragna's mind, "Even if we're taken to a new world, Takamagahara will act, using the NOL's Nox Nyctores – Gigant: Take-Mikazuchi to destroy everything, bring about the Calamity Trigger, and the world' time will loop via the Continuum Shift."

(A/N: I don't know how it goes, it's so confusing, so I'm making it up as I go along.)

Before Ragna could be stunned, she heard a cry from above.

"NEE-SAN!"

"Oh you got to be kidding me!" Ragna groaned, looking up to see Jin diving towards her and Nu, "You idiot! It's too late for me! Don't come any closer!"

"JIN!"

"Huh?"

As he was falling, Jin looked back to see a young woman with long red hair, blue eyes, and wearing a jolting sapphire NOL uniform dress with a white collar and a short red tie, with two separate long sleeves that have two heavy metal bands and a long red strap, white gloves, black stockings, and blue and white boots.

"What? Tsubaki?! No!"

"Looks like we won't be alone, Ragna-chan." Nu noted as Tsubaki tried to reach Jin.

"Huh. This might not be bad after all, or is that you influencing me?" Ragna asked, raising an eyebrow.

"It's pretty obvious Ragna-chan. We're fusing!" Nu said, smiling, as a bright light engulfed the area.

(Outside Kagutsuchi)

"…In the end, nothing could be change."

The speaker was a young vampire girl with pale skin, long blonde hair tied into two pigtails with black ribbons, and red eyes. She wears Gothic Lolita fashion with a frilly black gown and jacket, red ribbon bow tie, a red bat symbol design cross from the front to the back on her dress, another red cross on her shawl and bottom half, high heeled black boots with a red cross, and a red ribbon on her left ankle.

She is Rachel Alucard, the head of the Alucard vampire clan and an Observer. Accompanying her in her two familiars, Nago, a black, transmogrifying cat, and Gii, a stout, red bat.

"And today as well. That light will rain down… The spotlight of demise… a truly sorrowful light." she said sadly, as the beam from Take-Mikazuchi consumed Kagutsuchi destroying the cities and killing everyone inside.

(Unknown Location)

"The complete annihilation of the 13th Hierarchical City, Kagutsuchi, has been confirmed."

"At this present point, the 665th Phase is now over."

"The system is now rebooting."

"The data will be sent to Takamagahara."

"The system will now proceed to Phase 666."

(A/N: I know it's Phase 725, but that's just canon.)

(A New World, A New Possibility)

It's nighttime in the Konohagakure no Sato. A village located in the Elemental Countries in the Land of Fire territory. It's a shinobi village full of civilians protected by shinobi, and has the makings of a peaceful village full of shinobi ready to put down their lives for the village. Just like it's leader, the Yondaime Hokage Namikaze Minato, the Yellow Flash.

Just now, he just finished battling the mastermind the current attack on the village, the Masked Man, Uchiha Madara, who is really Uchiha Obito in disguise. He summoned the Kyuubi no Kitsune to attack the village to fulfill his master's vengeance on the village while he battled Minato. But Minato proved why he was called the Yellow Flash, and managed to defeat his old student Obito, who he believed was dead.

Now he in a clearing with his three children who've just been born an hour ago: Naruto, Naruko, and Narumi. Despite his wife Kushina nowhere to be found after her presumed death thanks to Obito, he proceeded to summoning the Shinigami to seal the restrained fox into his children at the cost of his life.

But before he could split the fox into the soul, the yang chakra, and the yin chakra, a huge, dimension portal opened up from above, and a black shape fell out of it. Minato and the Shinigami's eyes widened comically as the black shape slammed into the huge fox and fell into baby Naruto, somehow sealing themselves into him. With no choice since all of the fox and something else was in Naruto, Minato quickly put the Shinigami's seal onto Naruto.

"Well," the Shinigami said in it's distorted voice, scratching its head, "That was interesting. Since something else was seal into your son, the contact is null and void, so I won't take your soul."

"Are…are you sure?" a surprised Minato asked.

"Very sure." the Shinigami confirmed, "Just one thing."

The Shinigami looked Minato straight in him eyes, scaring the crap out of him.

"You should count yourself lucky. Don't make me regret this, Namikaze Minato." The Shinigami said coolly, with Minato nodding his head rapidly.

"Glad we're on the same people." the Shinigami said, smiling under her mask, "Farewell, and don't call me again. We gods have paperwork too you know."

Before Shinigami took her leave, she looked back at Naruto, and sensed something about the boy's energy had suddenly changed. The Shinigami could only conclude that whatever this something was, it's not connected to Kyuubi, and not connected to this very dimension. Shinigami had always been told by the other powers above that such a contract was dangerous to have since it tore partially into the dimensional fabric, risking something from another place, from another dimension from getting through, and entering this dimension.

Now she was starting to suspect that her sisters Kami and Yami were right. Of course...they were always right when it came to matters like that since they helped Shinigami make such a contract with the mortals of this village. In the name of balance they said. Needed to be put in place to counter a Forbidden Jutsu that cheated the Shinigami out of a few of the souls in her deathly realm from staying there for an unknown amount of time.

However, the Shinigami had no plans to remove this unknown entity from the boy, as it would mean removing the seal, and freeing the idiot vixen Kyuubi again! The Shinigami didn't want that, as it had enough paperwork on her hands already just from the sealing alone, and didn't want to make things even more complicated then it already was.

Let the mortals deal with this situation and if it bit them in the ass?

Oh well. More souls for her realm.

And on that thought…

Shinigami gave a piercing gaze to Naruto, discreetly giving him her mark on his back in the form of the kanji for her title, Shinigami. Her work done, she returned to the skies above to meet with her sisters.

As for Minato, he was now holding a crying Naruto in his arms, a sorrowful expression on his face.

"Naruto my son, I know you'll be subjected to the hate of the village, but I will protect you, that's for sure. Besides, despite that darkness within you, you're destined for greatness."

Minato then heard footsteps, and looked up to see…

"Danzo? What are you doing here? Where's Sarutobi- What the?!"

Before Minato could express his shock, his mind went blank.

The Gate of Fate has been opened. Now the rest is up to you.

(A/N: Is that how it goes?)

END OF PROLOGUE

-The stage has been set for the 666th Phase. The old world's been destroyed and the Black Beast has arrived and is sealed inside little Naruto along with Kyuubi. How will our hero encounter the NOL, and will his actions finally be the trigger to break the cycle, or continue to be consumed by the endless loop?

Next time: Chapter 01 – Ragna the Bloodedge

Released: Wednesday, December 19, 2012