Posted: 7/6/16

Revised: 7/10/16, small edit, spelling, grammar

CHAPTER 1

JAPAN

May 5, 2007 08:13 UTC

A boy is sleeping in wooded area. He stirs and his eyes slowly open. Squinting at the sudden brightness he slowly gets up looking at his surroundings, his head pounding.

"Where am I?" Naruto groaned.

Something red falls in front of his face. Grabbing it he realizes it's his hair. Confusion is seen across his face. He should have blond hair. Looking at it a genuine small crosses his face as he realizes it's his mom's red hair. Now thinking more clearly the last thing he remembers is dying after defeating Madara and Black Zetzu. Then just blackness. Feeling down his body for any marks and getting nothing there also seems to be something off but he can't quite put his finger on it. He looks closer at himself and see none of the scars he has acquired over the years as a ninja. Then he realizes that he's shorter than he remembers and feels smaller too. It seems as though his age has regressed to around ten years old. Confusing things keep piling up and it feels as though he is forgetting something important.

A loud horn noise brings him out of his thoughts. Naruto decides that he should investigate as there seems to be nothing else around. As he walks in the direction of the noise he notices that none of the trees or plants look familiar which isn't a good sign. The closer he gets the louder the sounds become. Reaching the edge of the forest Naruto sees a strange sight. Metal boxes on wheels move across a road at high speeds. Now he knows that he's not anywhere near the elemental nations. Most of the boxes are going towards a massive village in the distance. There are buildings that rise high into the sky. With his destination in mind Naruto moves back into the woods to not draw peoples eyes and begins to run across the trees. Early on he notices he can't go as fast as he used to. Making a note to begin a new workout regimen he reaches the end of the woods and beginning of the village.

Waking out of the woods and down the street he goes up to the first person he sees needing more information on this strange place.

"Escuse me where is the nearest library?" he asked.

The man looks at Naruto oddly and points behind him. "Down a few streets and on your left."

"Thank you."

Making his way towards the library his headache flairs up. It's as though his memories seem to be trying to break through and need some sort of trigger. Then it a small memory comes to him, he came here with something. Opening up his orange and black jacket he finds two things. The first is a scroll that looks like it can hold many things and the second is a piece of paper that seems to be a note. Opening it he reads.

Dear Naruto,

This is your mother and father. We know you may be confused right now as to what is going on and where you are. Well your in a different world separate from the elemental nations. After your death the Sage of the Six Paths gave you a chance at a new life in a new place. You have also been given some new abilities to help you such as Obito's eternal mangekyo sharingan. The scroll you have will explain more on them and some memories may come back. Now son, live your life for you. Have fun, make friends, and find love. We want you to have the life you never had before. Your father and I want you to know that we'll always love you no matter what and we'll see you again in the pure world.

Love,

Your parents

Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze

P.S.

I know you think my hair is beautiful and wished to have my red hair so now you have it. -mother

As he finished Naruto's eyes were streaming with tears as they hit his parents letter. This just became his most prized possession. Wiping his eyes and doing his best to calm down Naruto put both the scroll and letter back into his jacket. Trying to get a hold of himself he continues on towards the library. He finally reaches the building that says Public Library and walks in. It looks as it just opened as there is no one there except the one person at the main desk. The woman lets him in without a library card but says that he can't take any books with him. In the back of the library he decides to create a few dozen shadow clones all henged as civilians in Konoha.

The original Naruto tells them, "Ok so I need you guys to look for history, technology, and science. Try to learn as much as you can about the basics of this new world."

They all nod and separate into smaller groups and begin to look through each section. The original Naruto walks through library and takes notice of a few strange devices. Taking a closer look they seem to be technology that is like movie screens from his world that you can control. Thinking, he creates eight more henged shadow clones to sit at each device.

"Try to learn as much as you can about how use these devices. With how many there are in here they must be important."

Over the course of the day some of his shadow clones dispelled to stop all the memories hitting him at once. He continually created more to keep up the reading. This new world was strange to him. Humans don't have chakra was a huge surprise to him. Then there was the technology of this world. It's much more advanced, with planes, cars, computers, guns, T.V., and the internet. After discovering the internet and learning the basics of how to use a computer his shadow clones on the computers were able look for anything on the internet. The only problem he had was with the library staff. He had to put them under a genjutsu to keep them from noticing all his clones. Thankfully it only needed to be a weak one as he currently is horrible at them. By the end of the day Naruto felt he knew the basics of Earth.

Over the next week he camped out at the edge what he now knows as the city of Tokyo and continued to study at the library. By the end of it he felt he had a grasp on many things of his new home. After learning he was in Japan it became important to learn about the country and its history. While his shadow clones were in the library he opened his scroll that he had and found that it was full of scrolls including the scroll of seals that he first stole before he became a genin. There were scrolls on his new abilities as well. The first one he decided to learn was his sharingan that was mentioned in the letter. He needed to learn how to use higher level genjutsu. It would help him create a legal identity and personal history since he technically doesn't exist to this world. The few weeks after his sharingan training were used to find the correct people to help him create his identities/histories including government officials and workers. Instead of creating just his own Naruto decided to make three more, two for his parents that died soon after he was born and Kakashi Hatake a family friend who became his legal guardian since he was to young to live on his own.

TOKYO, JAPAN

June 2, 2007 07:01 UTC

Currently Naruto was waking up in his new apartment. He was able to get money through his incredible luck in online gambling as it seems casinos and live gambling is against the law in Japan. All money he gets comes from his Kakashi identity as it would be weird for a little kid to be earning money. After beginning to get used to Tokyo he enrolled in a local elementary school to keep up appearances. Luckily it was a Saturday so no school today. Making a couple shadow clones to cook breakfast Naruto drags himself over to his laptop.

Mumbling to himself "Lets see, who to research next?"

Typing in "Batman and Robin" into the search bar news articles and links about the dark knight and his partner appear as he begins to do his best to read them as most are in a language called english. He's been meaning to create more shadow clones to learn it. Now that he has settled into Tokyo there he has had a sense of restlessness. Once he found out about the worlds heroes Naruto became fascinated by them and learned as much as he could about them including their allies and enemies. The one who drew his most interest was Batman from Gotham City in the United States. The man was like a ninja that didn't have any chakra. He used ninja-like weapons, taijutsu, and fear to take down criminals. His no killing rule at first seemed strange but since murder was a horrible crime in this world Batman uses his rule to separate himself from the criminals. Currently he was looking into Robin. It looks like that he was quite young close to his own current age. An idea had been forming in his head ever since his discovery of heroes. He wanted to still help people and becoming a hero would be the perfect way to do it. With the idea in his mind he decided to write down what he needs to do.

to do list

training regimen, chakra control, speed, stealth

need new weapons, kunai, shuriken, senbon, katana, chakra conducting

make combat outfit, armor, similar to an anbu but more protected, mask

study new scrolls, learn new abilities

definitely need a cool hero name

also need to learn about japanese criminal and justice system, make sure that I know how to send the bad guys to jail

This was to be his main focus for the next few months along with school and keeping money coming in. He would need it to pay for some materials he would need. Getting up from his desk and moving across the room to the table he opened his scroll up and released it's contents. The clones came over from the kitchen and set down his eggs and bacon. Nodding to them they dispersed as he started eating. From the looks of it there seemed to be at least fifty scrolls not including the scroll of seals. Many had the Uzumaki swirl on them. It seemed his mother left him tons of knowledge of the Uzumaki clan. There were a few Senju scrolls, a couple that had Namikaze written on them, and few that had Jiraiya's name on them.

Taking a breath he whispers, "Let's get started."

Over the coming months Naruto or his shadow clones would be busy at all times, training, studying, learning, or working. The day he wrote the to do list was also the day he learned about his new abilities other than the sharingan. Hashirama and Tobirama Senju gave him mokutun (wood release) and the mastery of water release respectively. His mother gave him her chakra chains which could be used for multiple things and also all the knowledge she had on the Uzumaki clan including their sealing. While he already knew his father's rasengan he was given the hiraishin seals and kunai along with scrolls about them. Good old Ero-Sennin Jiraiya gave him copies of each Icha Icha book and Tales of a Gutsy Ninja. When he opened one of Jiraiya's scrolls a massive amount of knowledge entered his mind, enough for him to pass out. When he woke up with a slight headache Naruto realized his godfather gave him all his sealing master knowledge.

Training went really well, Naruto was in even better shape than when he first became a genin. He quickly became a master of his wind chakra affinity, along with becoming a master of water release from the second hokage. The hiraishin and sharingan were the abilities that he became proficient at over the months including sharingan's kamui used for intangibility and long range teleportation. Mokudun and chakra chains were the only ones he was having trouble with as progress was slow. His hero outfit was finished. It was a black armored suit with grey lines throughout and the the kanji for Fire Shadow were in the center of its chest in dark grey. It was made to cover his entire body along with his head. Only his face would show and he would wear a Kakashi face mask, leaf headband, along with a specially made black anbu mask. The mask has dark orange face marks of a fox, one way eye holes, and a voice modulation seal. The suit and mask are covered with seals to strengthen them both from weapons, add resistance to fire, and the mask would only allow Naruto to take it off. On his back would be his new chakra conducting katana and there were seals on his arms and legs for his other weapons. All in all he thought it was perfect. The one thing that truly disappointed him was when he went into his mindscape to check on Kurama he was asleep and he couldn't wake him up. It didn't look like he was going to wake anytime soon.