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AU ending to the 4th war
Starts during New Moon Chapter 10
Instead of going to the meadow, Bella decides to try riding the bike on her own.
BAMF Naruto so there
A lot of the first chapter is world creation so there isn't much plot but it's necessary for the rest of the story.
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Naruto lazed about on the slab of stone, feeling the rare sunlight warming his hide. Sure, La Push wasn't normally sunny, but ,whenever it wasn't rainy, Naruto allowed himself the liberty of blowing a small hole through the clouds so the sunlight could warm his boulder.
As he his head rested on his front limbs, Naruto let himself reminisce about the past. It had been so long since the fourth shinobi world war. So long that he'd watched the world itself move. So long that he no longer really felt himself to truly be a part of humanity.
Near the end of the war, during the tug of war with Obito for the tailed beasts, Obito was able to split his attention long enough to launch off a single attack, but that attack was all he needed as it was able to kill Sakura. The death of Sakura broke Naruto's concentration long enough for him to lose the struggle. Naruto and B, along with their respective Bijuu, were sucked into Obito and into the Demonic Statue. Despite his conviction, it wasn't enough as Naruto found himself melding with the consciousnesses of all the Bijuu and Jinchuuriki. No longer simply naruto, he watched as Obito beat down Sasuke and killed Sasuke, ending the last of 2nd generation Sannin. Naruto regained hope when Sasuke seemingly came back to life with one of his eyes turning into a Rinnegan as he then proceeded to call the Demonic Statue out of Obito before killing the man just before Kakashi could stop him.
For a moment, the war seemed to have been won, but everything seemed to go to hell when one of the Zetsu took the Rinnengan still in Obito's eye socket and used the life force of the few remaining white zetsu to truly revive Madara. For a while, it looked like Sasuke would still be able to off Madara and succeed in ending the war as Madara had been revived without eyes, but Madara was able to create a lull in the battle and use it to implant Obito's, originally Madara's, rinnegan into himself and seal the Demonic statue within himself, once more leaving the Shinobi army at a disadvantage.
Madara quickly subdued Sasuke and performed the infinite Tsukuyomi before freezing as the latest twist in a long line of twists occurred. Behind Madara stood the black Zetsu with it's arm impaled through the Uchiha.
As Kaguya once more revealed herself onto the mortal plane, the small spark, inside her near infinite chakra, that was once known as Naruto watched as the eternal genjutsu spread throughout the world. It watched and tried to fight it's way out. It tried do something to end the root of evil that it was a part of. By itself it would have never have achieved anything, so it reached out. First it let itself connect to the dormant sparks waking them up. Seeing what Naruto intended, the Jinchuuriki connected to the small fragments of their Bijuu that they could still access and provided Naruto with just enough chakra to carry out the next step of his plan.
It took days, but slowly, Naruto used tiny tendrils to connect to the Divine tree, and through it to the thousands of people that were now a part of it. None of the now connected people had any chakra to lend Naruto, but they did have plenty of will as they each realized that they were living inside a lie. They sent their defiance and strength of self to Naruto. With the will of Humanity behind it, the node that was once Naruto forced itself to be acknowledged by the vast amount of chakra that was under the control of Kaguya and tore it from her grasp. Kaguya fought back, but was helpless against the onslaught of the collective force of humanity. Naruto's presence toppled that of the Rabbit goddess, and what was once Kaguya became Naruto.
Quickly, after coming to consciousness, Naruto had ended the Infinite Tsukuyomi, removing the remaining Biju and B from himself so they could once more be themselves. People rejoiced at the end of the war, happy that everything was over and that they had escaped. The celebration came to soon though as Naruto had forgotten about Black Zetsu.
Seeing that Kaguya had fallen, Kuro had quickly moved to the still recovering Sasuke and slowly took over his body. Before anyone realized it, Zetsu, masquerading as Sasuke used his Rinnegan to seal the 1 through 9 tails within himself before attacking Naruto.
Naruto, seeing that Sasuke was no longer himself, had grabbed hold of him and transported the two of them to one of the dimensions Kaguya had created long ago. They fought for months on end. Naruto's new existence as a god and Sasuke's absorbed Bijuu allowing them to far surpass the limits of even the Sage of the Six Paths. Eventually, even the combined chakra of the 9 bijuu ran dry as Sasuke threw more and more into bigger and more devastating jutsu he created by merging his unparalleled lightning release with the equally devastating natures of the subjugated Bijuu. Finally defeating him without ending his life, Naruto tried to separate Sasuke from Black Zetsu but found that, at some point, Sasuke had already overcome Kuro, meaning that Sasuke himself had chosen that he wanted to take the power of Naruto.
At this point, Naruto was faced with a decision, to allow Sasuke to live, or to kill him. Naruto really didn't want to kill Sasuke, but with the power of the 9 bijuu sealed within him and kept there by the power of his now Rinne Sharingan, something even Naruto couldn't break apparently, Sasuke was too dangerous to allow to roam the Elemental Nations. Seeing no better option, Naruto allowed himself to absorb Sasuke, hoping that the Uchiha would reform over time so Naruto could allow him to be recreated.
As the last vestige of Sasuke was absorbed within himself, Naruto allowed a second for the chakra to settle within him before feeling himself being attacked from within.
Black Zetsu had foreseen his loss and allowed Sasuke to overcome him, biding his time. Once he was within Naruto, Zetsu reconnected with Kaguya, who was still present, and allowed himself to once more become a part of her. Zetsu had been created purely out of Kaguya's will and, as he returned to her, a bolstered ex-Rabbit Goddess attacked Naruto from within, trying to regain control of the power Shinju.
Without the rest of humanity behind him, Naruto only had his own will and the wills of the 9 Bijuu within him to fight back against the ancient will of Kaguya. For nearly a hundred years, the two fought within the six dimensions. Naruto repeatedly tried to travel to the human realm but, everytime he tried, Kaguya interfered with his control enough to land him in some other dimension.
Near the end of the hundred years during a small break, made possible because both he and Kaguya knew when the other was going to attack, Naruto finally discovered another aspect of himself known as Ashura. When they assailed each other the next time, Naruto was able to bring the weight of his numerous reincarnations to bear and was able to subdue Kaguya. Knowing that she would forever be a risk if she was allowed to be a part of him, Naruto disgorged her from within himself, leaving her what she was before she became a part of the Shinju.
Kaguya was still around the level that Madara had been during his original life, but was nothing compared to the might under Naruto's control. Naruto quickly made an expansive Truth Seeking Ball and, before she could gather any nature chakra in her new body, threw it at Kaguya. Naruto watched as the Bōchō Gudōdama anihilated Kaguya before it complete erased the mountainous dimension they were in as well, deeming that the loss of one dimension was worth the end of Kaguya.
As the last of the dimension was erased, Naruto felt himself being forced to leave and chose to use his Amenominaka to travel back to earth, wanting to see how much the world changed in the last 100 years, hoping that events of the Fourth Shinobi War and absence of the Tailed beasts had lead to peace.
As he materialized back on Earth, the first thing that had caught his attention was that it was hot. Much hotter that it had any right to be. Looking around, he hadn't been worried to see a land filled with lava, merely assuming he had teleported into a field of volcanoes. He had flown straight up, attempting to gain his bearing, but only becoming more concerned the higher he got. Eventually, he was no longer even in orbit and was able to see that the part of Earth that was visible to him was just a mass of volcanoes.
In denial, he had rationalized that he was probably just on the wrong side of the earth and flew at the speed of light to see the other side. Two seconds later, he was on the exact opposite side of the earth and it wasn't any better. Naruto spun around, thousand of miles away from earth, trying to understand what was going on. coming back to face the earth, he realized that he hadn't seen the moon.
Naruto shot around the planet, wondering if he had somehow missed it, before coming to stop above a portion of the earth that was deformed. coming back in from space, he hovered a couple miles above the deformation looking around to see that it stretched into the distance. The dark fumes that now covered the planet made it hard to see what the deformation actually was, so he gathered chakra within his lungs, nearly a tenth of what he used to have but nearly nothing to him now, and blew it out, converting it to wind as it passed through his mouth.
The fumes cleared away to show a white surface. Naruto realized that, at some point during his fight with Sasuke and Kaguya, the moon had impacted with the Earth. Concentrating, he used his senjutsu and tried to sense something. He delved as deep as he could to make his range encompass the entire planet. Naruto sighed as he felt nothing, not even a plant.
Naruto lowered to the surface of the grounded moon. Sitting there cross legged, he allowed himself to cry. To cry for Sakura, for Sasuke, for Neji, and for all the other lives that had been lost during the war. To cry for Tsunade, for Hinata, for B, for Kakashi, and for all the others who had died while he was fighting Sasuke and Kaguya. Finally he allowed himself to cry for himself. He had fought against the will of a literal god for a century so that he could save everyone from her tyranny, only to come back to see that his efforts were in vain as everyone had already died.
He had lain there for ages, his body no longer needing nourishment, and cried his pain and frustration away as he finally rested from the 101 year day. Eventually, as the wobbly planet completed a revolution around the still blazing sun, Naruto ceased his sobbing and stood up, noticing that his tears had created a tranquil sea upon the surface on the moon.
Naruto reached within himself and lightly 'poked' the bijuu and Sasuke, waking them up. After explaining what happened and having a short discussion, Naruto finally decided what to do.
He once more left the surface of the planet and floated a few hundred miles above it. With the unparalleled water manipulation of the Isobu and vast amount of chakra available to him, Naruto picked up the sea he had accidentally created and flung it off the moon and onto the earth. Then, with the Rinne Sharingan Sasuke had unlocked, he grabbed the moon with a gravitational pull and attempted to pull it out of the Earth, using a Chibaku Tensei to keep it in one piece. Naruto absently noted that it was smaller than it used to be, but decided that it didn't really matter before once more placing the moon in orbit. Naruto looked back at the earth, and realized that there was a huge crater in it. It was so huge that he could see into the lower mantle. Once more using Sasuke's Rinne Sharingan, Naruto grabbed onto the Earth's natural gravity and squeezed. The Earth shuddered and then began compressing into itself as it tried to reform itself into a ball under the effects of the immense gravity.
Naruto felt what the amount of chakra was channeling through the spirit of Sasuke was doing to his brother in all but blood. Naruto was about to tell Sasuke to stop as he felt the black haired boy's spirit tear under the strain of moulding the earth before Sasuke cut him off. This was how he was going to pay for his sins. Naruto tried to cut off the chakra supply, but Sasuke had a firm grip and refused to let go. Naruto could easily tear control of the chakra away from Sasuke, but doing so would also rip his soul. Naruto could only sit back and watch as his brother let himself be unmade. As the last of the Earth was pieced together, Naruto felt what was left of Sasuke's soul lighten, for probably the first time since his Itachi killed killed the Uchiha clan, and fade away.
Naruto once more cried, this time his tears being caught in the earth's gravitational pull and falling to the planet below as rain. He quickly brought himself back together, taking solace that Sasuke had at least faded happy and under his own volition.
Naruto floated down to ground, no longer littered with fissures and molten lava. He quickly sat in the crosslegged stance and held himself in the stillness that was necessary for senjutsu. Instead of gathering Nature chakra, he took his vast reserves and pumped them back into the earth. Slowly, over the course of centuries, his reserves depleted and the world refilled with the Nature chakra it had lost with the death of it's inhabitants. Naruto had planned to pump every last drop of his chakra into to Earth, but before he could commit the last of his reserves into the process, the Bijuu had shoved him out of the way and took over. Naruto watched as they let themselves dissipate. He wanted to stop them, to yell at them to let him take on the burden so that they could live on, but he only watched, respecting their obvious last wishes.
Naruto woke from his trance and began to enter Sage Mode. That the entire world was now filled with his chakra meant that he would always be in sage mode. Naruto bent to look at the small pool of water that had formed sometime the last couple thousand years while he had been replenishing the world. He focused intently and felt the microscopic organisms that were now living in it. Smiling, he delved deeper into his sensing, once more feeling the entire earth. Around the planet, he felt the millions of places where similar microscopic life now lived.
Naruto had always been an active person, loving to travel. He longed to run around and explore this new world he had helped to create, but calmed himself down. The Nature chakra he had introduced into the world might be boosting the rate of evolution immensely, but it would still take millions of years for there to be sentient life. So he sat back down and decided to wait.
Naruto brought one of his tails up and created an unnoticeable rasengan on the end of it. With a flick of his tail, he sent the sphere into the air and reopened the hole in the cloud cover. The wait had taught Naruto about patience, and he now understood Shikamaru's obsession over being lazy.
His ears twitched as they heard the sound of an engine coming up the nearby road. Naruto relaxed his grip on his sensing range and allowed it to momentarily expand to two miles in diameter. Over the years, Naruto had found that life got boring when you knew everything that was happening around you, so he tightened his sensing range and restricted it to radius of 100 meters.
Saying that Naruto could know everything that was happening was overstatement though. As the world grew and life developed, the wavelength of the Nature chakra had changed and billions of livings things left their imprint upon it. Naruto was still permanently in Sage Mode, but his sensing range was now restricted by the amount of chakra Naruto had, somewhere slightly above that of which the kyuubi once had, and could reach a maximum of about 2-3 miles. If he was searching for one person and concentrated deeply, he could probably reach somewhere along the lines of 20-30 miles.
Naruto searched to see if it was only one person coming down the road or if it was a group. Naruto could handle one or two people seeing him as they would be written off as tall tales, but it it was a group, then they were more likely to be taken seriously.
Noting that it was a single female, whose emotions were extremely turbulent, coming down the road, Naruto decided to remain in his spot and shot another rasengan into the clouds, increasing the amount of light shining down on him. If she was going to see him, then she might as well see him as his best.
As the brilliance of the sunlight rose, it showcased Naruto in all his pride. On the boulder, an orange ten-tailed tiger the size of a white Rhino slightly smiled, enjoying it's increased warmth.
Bella came down the road on her bike, the gravel jarring her but she held on tight. She had heard the honey sweet voice of Edward at the start of her ride, but it had slowly died out as she grew more sure of herself on the bike.
Realizing that she her inner Edward wasn't going to speak up again, she decided to stop before realizing she still didn't know how to and Jacob wasn't here to help her. Easing up on the throttle, she saw a thick clump of some kind of plant and steered the slowing motorbike into it. There was still a jolt but Bella managed not to smash her head against the ground and bush was able to catch the bike and keep it from scratching.
Brushing some leaves out of her hair, Bella stood up and walked back on to the road. Edward seemed to only want to talk when Bella was doing something dangerous or risky. Now that she was more comfortable with using the bike, it seemed like Edward wasn't going to chastise her anymore. She needed something new. Jacob was apparently not talking to her anymore and without him, over the last week she had felt herself slipping back into the zombie like state she had been in following Edwards departure. She needed to hear Edward's voice in her head, and to do that, she needed to do something risky, something dangerous, something...stupid.
Looking around she saw a nearby cliff and remembered the boys who had previously been jumping from it.
5 minutes after first sensing her, Naruto lifted one of his eyelids to see who was coming to such a secluded place on their lonesome.
He saw the girl coming down the road on a dirt bike. She was pretty in a pallid sort of way. Her face looked tense as she seemed to be less focused on the road and thinking about something. Naruto watched as she seemingly made a decision and ran her bike of the road.
Inwardly Naruto shook his head. It was one thing to ride a bike alone while not knowing how to stop it, but did she really have to pick the one bush along the road that was a poison ivy bush? Naruto watched as she stood up and brushed a few leaves out of her head. Naruto kept waiting for her to turn around and see him, wanting to see what her reaction to such a large carnivore would be, but she apparently had terrible situational awareness as she didn't notice his presence. Naruto was close enough that he was able to sense her emotions go from depression to inquisitive to resolution within a matter of seconds.
Naruto watched as she took off her shoes and walked to the small path that lead to a ledge beneath the cliff. Now curious, he got up from his spot and silently padded to a better vantage point. Just as he reached a good spot, Naruto turned to see that girl had reached the ledge. Naruto remembered the ledge now. The locals apparently liked to dive of it into the waters below. Naruto had tried it himself but quickly lost interest after the novelty wore off. The boys always came in a group though so that they could help if something went wrong.
Was the girl suicidal to try this herself? She was alone and, with her frail body and this being her obvious first time, Naruto couldn't see her not have issues as even the fit boys that came regularly had issues. Naruto reached out with his sensing range as she was a bit past the 100 meter mark and felt her emotions. She felt expectant and then happy as she exhaled. Naruto noted that she felt happier and more lost within herself as she slowly leaned forward. Deciding that she was suicidal, Naruto sighed in sadness.
Thousands of years ago, when he had first came across someone attempting suicide, he had stopped them, only to be cursed out. Eventually, he learned that even if he stopped them the first time, they would try again when he wasn't around and would succeed. Over time, he had created a rule for himself, when Naruto saw someone attempting suicide, he would use his senjutsu to sense them, and after determining how sure they were about it, Naruto would either let them carry out their intentions, or he would try to talk to them and see if he could help them find another way.
Naruto felt no doubts within this girl, so he simply sat there, allowing himself to be witness to her last moments. Naruto watched as she dove off, eyes closed as she drew herself within her mind. The splash she made against the water was deceptively small and Naruto prepared to leave before his still expanded senses felt more from the girl. Beneath the waves, he felt her determination and looked to see her struggling to apparently break the surface. Eyes widening as he realized that this wasn't a suicide attempt, Naruto dashed forward, seamlessly shifting forms from large carnivore to human.
With a small application of chakra, Naruto propelled himself into a shunshin and appeared nearly instantly on the ledge before diving down into the water.
Bella felt herself sinking further into the depths as darkness closed over her vision. The saltwater in her lungs burned fiercely against the soft tissues. She was glad for the air that kept running through them as if was slowly damping the pain.
Air?
Bella slowly felt herself settling back into her body. She felt the soft grass beneath her and a warmth to her left. Slowly, as they had been partially crusted over with dried salt, Bella opened her eyes to see trees and sky above her.
"Awake are you?"
Bella jolted at the completely unfamiliar voice, about to quickly rise up before a gentle hand on her shoulder slowed her down.
"Slow down there, you nearly died and I don't think you're completely back to normal just yet."
The gentle presence of the man somehow reassuring her, she heeded the words and slowly sat up, using her arms to help carry her weight. Once she felt steady, she looked to left to see a blonde haired boy sitting by a fire which had been providing the warmth she had felt earlier.
"What happened?", Bella asked, still disorientated.
"Before or after you nearly attempted suicide via cliff diving?" the boy asked.
Bella noted that a trio of thin scars adorned both of his cheeks before his question sunk in and Bella remembered her earlier stunt. Bella blushed as she realized how it could have looked like to an outsider watching her actions.
Apparently having got the reaction he wanted, the mystery boy continued talking. "I wasn't all that far away when I saw you standing on that ledge. I've seen the boys around the area do the same on earlier occasions, but when you didn't surface from your dive, I knew something was wrong so I dived in and pulled you out."
"How?", Bella asked curious and remembering her earlier experience,"When the current caught me, it couldn't get out. I didn't even know which way was up. How were you able to get the both of us out?"
Her apparently savior raised his eyebrows at the question before waving his hand to indicate his body."Incase you haven't noticed, I'm quite fit. I swim really well have been told I could probably go for the Olympics. Plus, it also helps that I can walk on water."
Bella snorted at that last bit before giving her savior a once over. He wasn't lying when he said he was fit. Bella could see the sinews of his arms and his pecs through his t-shirt. Even with it on, she could tell that he had that perfect swimmer's body Charlie always reminisced about having. Wondering where the boy's jacket was, she realized that her own was drying near the fire and looked down to see that the orange one she was wearing was probably his.
"Thanks -", She started before realizing that she didn't know his name.
"My name's Naruto," The boy said smiling back at her."And don't worry about the hoodie, I've got tons and you need it more than me right now."
"I meant about saving me as well. I really wasn't trying to kill myself.",Bella said before adding in," and my name's Bella."
"Why hello there Bella," the boy started, "Is that short for something? Anabella, Maribella, Anabel, Clarabella, Oh I know, maybe Ella?"
Bella watched as the boy began to list names. Normally Bella avoided talkative people as she herself was a quiet person, but as she spent time with this Naruto, she felt like a portion of her stress was relieved.
"It's Isabella," Bella said,"but I like being called Bella."
Naruto just smiled at her."You were named Isabella for a reason, so I think I'll call you Isabella."
Bella debated correcting him before deciding that since he saved her life, he was entitled to call her what he wished.
"So Isabella," Bella's attention was brought back to her savior as he continued to talk."Why exactly were you cliff diving on your lonesome?"
Bella didn't really want to tell him the real reason, mainly because he'd probably take her into a hospital to make sure she wasn't suffering brain damage, but she couldn't come up with a believable lie under his intense blue eyes so she decided to tell him an edited version of the truth, leaving out all mentions of the supernatural.
Despite his apparently talkative personality, Naruto listen to her story attentively and provided Bella with someone to finally tell her story too.
As she finished her story, Naruto leaned back and looked into the slowly darkening sky. "I never really had that much experience with love.", Naruto began as Bella listened, "But I can give you some tips and pointers. If your ex really did leave because he believed you weren't a part of his world then you still have a chance."
"R-really?" Bella asked, her voice shaky and desperate.
Naruto smiled at her before continuing, "Eventually, he will come back, looking to see how you are doing. Or, if not him, then some part of his life will once more overlap into yours. When that happens you'll need to grab a hold of it and follow it all the way back to him. From there it's really up to how much you can show him that no matter how dangerous it is for him to be with you, it will be much more dangerous for you to be without him."
Bella just sat and allowed Naruto's words to soak in. Above them, the clouds got dark, signifying that it was getting late.
"Come on," Naruto said, standing up and snuffing out the fire, "I'll use your bike to give you a ride back to where ever you came from."
"I can drive myself." Bella protested as she too stood up and the two made their way to the dirt road that she could see through the trees, the wind picking up as they left the shelter of the trees.
"Yes, but I can stop," Naruto replied, his smile showing that he was laughing to himself. He got onto the bike, indicating that Bella should get on behind him.
"So you saw that to huh?" Bella blushed as she remembered her makeshift parking job, getting on behind Naruto.
Naruto just chuckled and started the engine.
Naruto watched as Isabella pulled away in her truck. He had turned down her offer for a ride by saying he had parked his ride close by.
As she disappeared from view, Naruto thought about all he had learned today. Isabella herself was a normal human, but while he had been healing her, from both drowning and the poison ivy, he had felt the lingering presence of something else. It was unlike anything Naruto had felt before and so it intrigued him. When she had awoken, Naruto prompted her for her story and, after sifting through the half truths, he had deduced that whatever the non-human presence on Isabella was, it was related to her boyfriend.
Naruto debated what to do as he expanded his senses to keep a track of Isabella. He had been travelling across America for the last 300 years and before that, he had indulged his arrogant side and presented himself as the god Asura in India for a few millennia.
This was something new though. Despite how used to distancing himself from humanity he had gotten over the past few millennia, he found himself being drawn into finding out more.
As his range expanded and diluted while trying to keep track of Isabella, he felt the same unique scent he had felt on Isabella around 7 miles to the east. Focusing a bit more on it, he was able to sense that it was moving quite quickly, nearly 70 miles an hour, and that there were another group pursuing it. What's more, the pursuing scents were also different from normal humans, though in a different way.
Deciding this was more interesting than finding out where Isabella lived, Naruto focused on the two sets of presences and blurred away in a burst of speed.
AN:Hope you enjoyed. Look at my Author Page periodically for progress on this story and other stories.
PS: Before anyone asks, No, Naruto will not be with Bella.
