Author's note: Hi people, this is my first attempt at writing a story, ever and I'm really excited to do it. This story is probably going to feature a godlike-Naruto and some bad clichés but bear with me. Constructive criticism is needed and flames are appreciated moreso. Hope you like it.

"speech"

'thought'

"demonic or very noteworthy"

Some techniques will be in Japanese and some will be in English depending on their popularity. (I can't honestly have characters screaming spiralling sphere). If it's an original jutsu it'll be in English.

Chapter 1: Exposition

Pain.

Agonizing and mind-numbing pain was all he felt from the moment he regained the dregs of consciousness. His body felt like it was on fire and his mind felt like the source of said fire. Groaning heavily and trying to move his hands to his throbbing head he could feel his muscles and body revolting against every movement.

"About damn time you woke up brat." A disembodied voice grumbled to him within the confines of his own mentality. The man, unsurprised by this oddity just continued to groan, still in too much pain to form thoughts coherently.

Feeling a slight tug at his consciousness, the man decided to let the force pull him in his own subconscious and woke up in a giant sewer like place with dim lights and ankle-deep water all around. In front of him was a huge metallic gate with bars as thick as humans and a massive tag in the middle with the Kanji for 'Seal' on it. Behind the giant cage was an enormous presence which made the Titanic cage feel insignificant.

The man, with spiky blonde hair and blue eyes with three prominent whisker marks on his face, looked into the cell's darkness. A moment later a pair of massive eyes opened to meet his gaze.

"Kurama" The man started bluntly," how am I not dead? The last thing I remember was fighting that freak Madara before I lost consciousness, and a fainted ninja is ALWAYS a dead ninja, especially in a high stakes fight like that".

"I'm as lost as you. The mad stunt you pulled with taking in the other bijuu's chakra knocked me out and that's the last thing I remember." The eyes replied with a powerful but tired voice." But that's not the reason I pulled you in right now. It's obvious we're in a safe space wherever you are because you've been out for a long time and not attacked,so while your physical body gets in gear, I'll explain the biggest problems we have."

"Out for a long time? How did that happen? I don't ever get knocked out for more than a few hours!" the man exclaimed in mild shock. He just couldn't stay down, that was his thing. For him to be knocked out for considerable time was a concerning thing. Whatever hit him, hit him very, very hard. His shut down body was only the second proof of that.

"3 days. You've been out for a complete 3 days, give or take a few hours."

"WHAT?!" THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE" he cried out. It was impossible according to him. He had bounced back from life threatening injuries in hours. Obviously not back into perfect health, but enough to at least wake up and stay conscious. Being out for 3 days was tantamount to him growing a second head for him. An idea simply inconceivable.

"I told you, I had to explain things. Important things. You weren't out for 3 days because of whatever hit you. You recovered from that within the day. A bit longer than your previous miraculous recoveries, but still not bad. The reason you'd been out for 3 whole days was because of me. Well, partly because you did cause the problem in the first place" the presence explained to him. An audible sigh followed the explanation and the presence moved forward, into the dim light and into view of the blond for the first time since the conversation began.

An enormous fox with black fur and 10 lazily swinging tails behind him walked forward and lied down next to the gate facing his human container. The man in question could only look back in shock and terrified wide eyes as he tried to make sense of what was in front of him.

"Y-You have 10 tails" he said dumbly.

"Why yes I do. Thank you for noticing" the beast replied sarcastically.

"1..2..3..4...10... yeah there's 10 alright but... How? That shouldn't be possible! You're known as the Kyuubi! The Nine-tails! It's your title for a reason!. You can't just go around growing extra tails. What the hell!" he screamed back in frustration and utter confusion.

"Just sit down, shut up and listen. This is part of the reason why I brought you here to discuss things." the black furred beast replied and the man shut up and sat down next to the cage door, looking as confused as ever.

"When the other captured Bijuu gave you their chakra to help you fight Madara, their intentions had been to just give us a boost in power and push us over the edge to finally match the overpowered hack eye wielding nut. What they didn't take into account was the reaction that the chakra had upon coming into contact with me. All the chakra had initially just been stored inside you, but upon sensing my presence, they were drawn to and absorbed by me. The influx of chakra literally knocked me out." the beast took a pause and looked at his container who was intently listening to him with an understanding expression etched upon his face.

" When I woke up next you were fighting Madara and my fur went from orange to black, and I had an extra tail. In essence, instead of being a divided part of the juubi, I am now a part-juubi myself. Not as powerful as him but leagues above the other Bijuu, including my old self. The reason why you were knocked out far longer was this exact change. Your Chakra coils were meant to handle the Kyuubi's power, not Juubi's. I had to extend them to their limits, wait until your body healed up and then extend them again and again until your body could handle the strain of channeling my chakra again, at which point your consciousness finally returned and your body healed enough to function. You still need to replenish your body with food and water but that can wait now."

The blond looked at the massive beast and could already feel the difference between his last meeting with the being and now. It was staggering how much difference an extra tail could make and how strong the gigantic fox had been before, and how stronger it had grown since. The amount of power radiating from him was chaotic and uncontrolled, much like the beast was looking.

"Wait does this mean my chakra reserves have grown again?!" the man asked suddenly.

The beast nodded at him and grinned at his deflated reaction. He knew he'd have to master all his chakra control back again and would need to train a lot more just to get back to where he was. The extra chakra was good but he barely had need for any more chakra than he had, which was much more than Kage-level reserves. The extra Chakra would only massively fuck up his control as the sudden surge in reserves would not allow for much control.

"You'll have to start with tree walking again brat." The beast said and almost laughed at his containers murderous glare.

"Wait. You said that's part of the reason why you brought me here. What's the other thing?" the man asked.

The beast in question actually looked like he was debating whether he should talk or not before donning a fuck-it expression and continued "Well brat, the next bit is actually even more crazier than me growing an extra tail from my ass so I just want to confirm it before telling you."

The man was once again, beyond confused as to what could be stranger than that but decided to humour the beast." And what exactly do you need to confirm this piece of news?"

"Simple. Just try to get back to the battlefield for the 4th war" the 10 tails replied with a poorly hidden grin. He felt his consciousness pulling him back and a gentle wave of the paw of the beast sent him back to his significantly less aching body.

Naruto Uzumaki woke up in his body and groaned once more as the pain made itself known. Sighing , Naruto knew he had to go back one way or another. If Madara had taken him out it was a good bet the war was either almost or completely over. All his friends were killed. The entirety of the rookie Gen, his teachers and even the people he met during the war, almost every single of them was killed. The Edo Tensei resurrections were much too powerful and when Madara finally showed up, he went on a mad butchering spree with his beyond overpowered techniques. The war was already lost long before Naruto went ahead to face Madara but no one was ready to give up and wanted to fight till their last breaths. He was sure even if he showed up now he would be on the side of an alliance the size of a minor village or less.

Focusing once again on the present and his current situation he decided to figure out where he was. He was in a deeply forested area with no clear signs of civilization. He was sure he was in a faraway place as he had not been discovered by anyone in 3 days. He wondered why no animals had tried to eat him." Some tried but a little Killing Intent from my part sent them scurrying away faster than you would think possible. It was the only highlight of the last few days" came the laughing voice of the 10 tails within him eliciting a sweat drop from the blond.

Feeling a little bit of pain in his body he decided to ignore it and try to find the nearest human to know where he ended up. Deciding to walk a little to get his muscles to stop screaming bloody murder at every step he began walking in a random direction to find anything but trees.

After a few minutes of walking he came across a tree larger than any of the surrounding trees and going to through the canopy. Wanting to get a bird's eye view to know where he would go he ran up to the tree to climb it...And promptly blasted himself back on the second step upwards and was sent flying back into another tree, the large having a big chunk blown off and creaking slowly before falling.

"SON OF A BITCH THAT HURT" he screamed and nursed his head before remembering about his chakra control situation. Grumbling something about tails and asses he decided that it would be crucial to get his control to somewhat useable levels before trying to locate the battlefield. He won't do any good fighting if he couldn't even control his chakra. Looking at all the trees around him he almost felt sorry for them before rushing to another smaller one and trying to run up.

"SHITSHITSHITSHITSHIT WHOAAAAA" thump "Ow".

The forest had lost a good many trees to odd shaped holes and marks that day, and a certain blond had discovered he could scream for much longer than he thought possible.

After losing 2-3 hours at the training exercise that was the most basic ninja skill, he could finally walk up a tree with active concentration. It was far from perfect but it was all he could do. He tried to use shadow clones but ended up making 200 instead of 20 intended and had instead sent off most of them to find marks of civilization.

The clones had all popped after various discoveries such as abandoned bandit camps and some lone huts around the forest but one of them had spotted a tiny village about an hour or two away from him. Dispelling some more clones and leaving about 75 clones to continue practicing tree walking, he first went to a nearby lake to create some clones ( just 60 instead of the intended 8) he set them to water walking. The clones looked at him pleadingly but to no avail as they all went ahead to drown or hobble into the water with varying degrees of success.

Deciding to start running if he wanted to get to the town before sundown, he leapt off and began his short run. Throughout his way he couldn't stop feeling odd. He felt very wrong for some reason. It was like the world itself felt foreign to him. Everything around him was normal but felt off to him. He was wary the entire time and was paranoid during the entire trip.

Finally reaching the small town, it was a good bit past noon and the town was almost empty. It was not that large either, probably about 2-3 clan compounds put together in area. He quickly looked around and decided to eat first to replenish his broken body. He had no hurry to go die against Madara. It was cynically funny what losing hope could do to a person, but it was to be expected when you saw everyone you know being butchered without a second glance their way by the perpetrators. He entered a small shack-like place where he could smell food cooking and found himself in a small Restaurant that was empty save for a lone person behind the counter, cooking something.

When the person finally noticed Naruto entering he was surprised and quickly offered him a seat." Ah sorry I didn't see you there earlier. We don't normally get customers this time of the day." The man apologized.

"it's no problem mister. Just get me something to eat as soon as you can, I'm starving." Naruto said nonchalantly as he sat down and waited.

"Say mister" Naruto began," can you tell me where war is taking place?"

"War?" the man looked at Naruto strangely," There's no war going on. The last war that happened was the 3rd shinobi world war, which ended around 15 to 16 years ago" he said with a thoughtful expression trying to remember the exact number of years.

Naruto meanwhile was dumbstruck. His eyes as wide as could be and his mind coming to a screeching halt. It took all his years as a ninja to not scream loud enough to wake the dead. The Juubi within him sighed loudly. "Yes. This was the second thing I thought was happening. I couldn't confirm it but I thought we were in the past." Naruto still couldn't believe what was happening and was brought out of his stupor by a plate of food being kept in front of him, with the man being confused by his current state. He quietly ate his food with still wide eyes and a completely dumbstruck face, quietly paid and walked away in a daze.

It was only after he was a good distance in the forest near the village when the village was graced by the loudest and most disturbing scream – WWHHAAATTTTTT TTTHHEEEE FFFUUUUCCCCCKKKKKK

The whole village unanimously paused, processed, and then proceeded to agree to forever forget this specific experience.

The source of the village-wide trauma himself was wheezing from his battlecry when he was pulled into his subconscious for the second time.

"Are you done giving everyone in a 10 mile radius mental as well as ear trauma?" the newly ascended Bijuu asked.

"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN WERE IN THE PAST WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS, THIS IS BULLSHIT I DON'T BELIEVE YOU THIS IS AN ELABORATE PRANK-" the blond was still hysterical.

" Brat. Shut up"

"THAT MEANS THAT I'LL MEET MY DOUBLE AND WE'LL EXPLODE AND THE UNIVERSE WILL FUCK UP AND THEN IT WILL END AND I WON'T REMEMBER-"

"Brat, SHUT UP"

"AND THEN THE REAPER WILL COME FOR MY SOUL BUT MY SOUL WILL BE OUT OF HIS DOMAIN AND I'LL BE STUCK AS A FORMLESS BODILESS HORROR-"

"CAN YOU SHUT THE FU- wait what? What the fuck brat"

Wheeeeeeze

Naruto looked up at him with still wide eyes and a face about to start another hysterical rant before a strong pulse of chakra from Kurama knocked him on his ass and shut him up

"Now listen up and listen good. I know this is weird but did you honestly think it impossible in the world where you can summon the fucking God of death to fit a cataclysm bigger than a mountain into a tattoo on a baby? Calm your ass down and take a moment to think it through. You lost. Everyone died. I'm starting to think that bright white light you got hit with wasn't Madara but something else that flung you back in time. It would explain why you had been out for much longer, and why the world seems foreign to you." The former kyuubi explained with a leer.

He was right. He did lose. Everyone he knew had died and it was nothing short of divine intervention that he was getting a second chance to make things right.

But his friends... His teachers... Everyone he knew.. They were gone." They aren't gone brat. You're back in time, they're here again. You have a chance to save them."

"No." A barely audible whisper.

"What?"

"I said no. They aren't here. I failed my world. They're all dead. Everyone here is different. They aren't the ones I vowed to protect. I have already failed my promise to myself." He said with an almost crying tone.

"Naruto. Listen. You want to sit down and mope and waste this second chance we've got, go ahead and do it, but before that just release me from this seal because I formed a partnership with a knucklehead that didn't give up, not to a loser." The majestic beast declared harshly.

Naruto looked up to him with hopeless eyes and looked down again. He sighed. "I guess you're right."

"Damn right I am"

"So. What do we do? Do we dismantle akatsuki ourselves? I'm pretty sure I can pick apart most of them now." Naruto began with a little curiosity.

"As fun as that would be, in your current state even a decent chuunin could take you down" the Juubi deadpanned.

"What? Oh. Right." He dumbly replied. His chakra control was beyond abysmal. He couldn't form any of his jutsu and apart from his kyuubi-no Juubi chakra mode he had nothing.

"If you're thinking you can still access my chakra mode then forget about it. You'll have to win it from me again, and this time it will be exponentially tougher" The beast said all too happily.

"Why?! That's so unfair! I already beat you!" the blond cried out.

"You beat the kyuubi brat. Do you see him anywhere?" he replied with a menacing grin

"I hate you so much right now" it was the blond's turn to deadpan.

"Anyway as it remains, I think our best course of action would be to get back the village and train there. You'll have to come up with an explanation as to why a grown man is completely off the records in konoha, but I'm sure you'll bullshit through that."

"Are you sure we should go back right now? Shouldn't we you know.. Train a little so I'm back to competent levels at least?" the blond hesitantly asked. He wasn't really ready to see the faces of everyone he had so recently lost.

"Well, I suppose we can train a little before heading back. If you're so bent on training, then let's start with the things you won't be able to do freely in the village, like Bijuu chakra training. There's a bunch of things I need to tell you. Being the 10 tails jinchuriki has its own perks." The beast said with a shit-eating grin, obviously proudful of his power.

"What kind of things?" The blond asked before excitedly shouting

"Do I get the Rinnegan?"

"Uh no"

"The truth seeking balls?"

"No"

"Absolute control over Yin-Yang release?"

"No. Ugh just shut up. Let me speak. If you were the jinchuriki of the true 10 tails like the Sage was, you might've gotten all or most of that. But I'm not the true 10 tails. From what I can feel with the changes in your body, you have affinity for the 5 basic natures, the Juubi chakra cloak which is leagues beyond the kyuubi chakra cloak, but also almost impossible to master, and a nearly superhuman base human body. There might be other things but I'm not sure about them so we'll have to figure them out as we go along" The Juubi explained. It was an educated guess but he was at least sure about everything he had just said. The other speculations had to be tested.

Naruto could only look in wonder as he took in all the information. Sure 5 basic natures wasn't as good as a Rinnegan, but he knew that if he managed to master the basic natures it would open up a lot of possibilities in terms of being a ninjutsu specialist. Likewise the stronger body and chakra cloak would help massively in taking on other powerhouses like that freak Kirabi. Man he was strong but he was CRAZY.

"Well that isn't half bad. I guess I'll make do with what I've got" the Bijuu shot an irritated look at having his powers dismissed roughly." I guess it's time to get to training."

He opened his eyes in the opening where he was and immediately got to work in reaching for the demonic chakra in his seal. Accessing just a little bit to see what the chakra did he was suddenly floored with the amount of raw power he felt coursing through him. 'What the hell is this?!'

It took all the control he had of his previous demonic chakra to not pull in more than he did. Right now he only had a black aura around him, not even a tail, and yet he felt powerful enough to take on the world.

"Careful brat. You're letting all this get to your head. You need to take this power in small increments to get your mind and body used to this" The source of said power rang out in his head. The blond nodded absently and breathed out trying to get his monumental chakra under control. This was going to be a very very long training session

It had been almost a month since Naruto had been out in the wild training. He went to the nearby town every once in a while to get the bare minimum supplies and had set up a chakra suppression field where he was training to prevent detection. That was basic fuuinjutsu that Jiraiya had taught him with promise to advance further, that he never got to fulfill. He had gotten more or less the same chakra control he had before his temporal mishap and had mastered his wind chakra manipulation. He decided to work on his wind chakra first and then fire because it is opened up a lot of potential combination techniques. He could properly manifest about 2 tails of chakra and stay stable but he found the chakra cloak to be too unstable and wildly maddening. He almost went on a berserker rage the first time he pulled enough to manifest a tail and was only stopped when the Bijuu within him knocked him out from within, pulling him in the subconscious. He decided to not push more than 2 tails and use it as an absolute last resort.

He had wondered about sage mode and his summoning contract but had figured that his name wouldn't be in the summoning contract in this world, and he wasn't so sure about trying out sage mode alone with his vastly changed chakra reserves. Sage mode was about balance, and no doubt he would have to do it all over again.

He had got down some basic wind jutsu and had decided that for fire he would head back to konoha. His body, he found out had been inherently... Upgraded... Was the only word he could find suitable. Faster, stronger more resilient and the like. It had definitely made training more rewarding. His fighting style still left much to be desired with his only style being 'Rush them with clones' but he also put it for later.

Finishing his last set of exercises for the day he sighed and popped the rest of his clones who were working on wind manipulation. He packed everything he needed and sealed his stuff before torching the grounds to remove his presence from the area with a minor fire jutsu.

With a final look towards to the town that he had gotten to know was not that far from the land of fire borders, he ran towards his destination

The village hidden in the leaves, Konohagakure.