Hello everyone! I know that a lot of you are hoping that I updated A Loving Heart, A Body of Steel. I know, I'm one of them. But sadly, the 18k+ words chapter that I have is stuck within my laptop without any backups, which is now at a service centre due to a broken mainboard. And when I contacted them, they said that the earliest the laptop can finish is by next week, and then my finals are closing in. Due to being swamped in a massive amount of work and the idea for this story was stuck in my head, I decided to write the prologue chapter down and see what kind of reception that I'm going to get. Also, there will be some spoilers to the future plot of A Loving Heart, A Body of Steel due to the fact that the Naruto from this story came from the end of A Loving Heart, A Body of Steel. But some of you may have already expected what will happen in my story before they even read this one, so, good for you guys! Anyway, have this new story of mine, and please enjoy!
EDITED 28/08/2013: Changed a 'him' to 'her' when Naruto was talking about affairs... stupid mistake.
PROLOGUE CHAPTER
-CHAPTER START-
It is more than 300 years after the war that was named 'The War that Changes All', or more formally known as the Fourth Shinobi World War and Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto was elected as the First Emperor of the Elemental Nations. Now, he was walking in his castle towards his throne for his daily audience for his advisors and his subjects who would like to meet him at the place which was previously known as Konohagakure. Nowadays, the area around the castle is a huge city, fortified to its utmost with stone, wood and seals, yet never deterring the citizens of the Imperial City of The Leaf from living in peace and harmony, knowing that their Emperor, who was there since their birth and still is during their death, will do everything in his utmost power to keep the peace within the entire nations. The Shinobi system is no more, and under His Highness' rule, the Shinobi are turned into armies, entire armies of highly trained, skilled warriors, with an entire platoon capable of destroying entire cities within their ranks. Yet, these army men serve the people, and were trained extensively to use their powers only to protect, and not to destroy.
Naruto, now reaching his 325th year of living, is being escorted by his first daughter, the nine tailed kitsune Uzumaki-Namikaze Kushina and his first (and nowadays, only) wife, the eleven tailed Uzumaki-Namikaze Kurumi towards his throne. Kushina, now 319 years old and just recently gained her ninth tail is her dad's governor at what was previously called Earth Country, was walking with his dad while giving him reports of the current status of her country, and flicking her tails around while wearing the Royal Family's garb, which consists of a white inner shirt and a blue, long sleeved jacket with gold buttons and black combat pants with thigh high combat boots and a golden lanyard on her shoulder with the other end tied on her breast pocket, with a small cape covering her butt. Except in this case, the cape was actually bothering her golden furred, white tipped tails from moving properly (AN: think FMA's military uniform with black pants and gold lanyard).
"...So, Earth Country's populace are well, though we might need some extra food from Rice. Baby boom's coming dad, and the current food stocks are not really going to last long if more kids popped out. Also, we might-" her report is interrupted by the sight of his dad lifting his hand up to stop her, before she heard him said. "I know you just got that tail. You really don't have to display it like that you know. I know the butt-cape was bugging you. In fact, that's why they're there. People know us enough to know that we're kitsune hanyou, and you don't have to show them that."
"Aww dad, you're no fun. I was just trying to show you it... wait, what's that?" her talk was interrupted again by the sudden appearance of an green coloured oval... thing that suddenly appeared out of nowhere in front of her dad. Kurumi, feeling curious, looked at the oval thing, before saying. "I did not detect any presence from it, nor any chakra or whatever. It's really weird though, and didn't look like an assassination attempt, seeing that it didn't do anything to us as of yet." They had tens upon tens of assassination attempts on them every year, no matter how many times it fails. It even became a sort of inside joke for the palace guards that the emperor and his family didn't need guards, and that the guards are actually more for the people within the castle itself instead of the Emperor and his family (which, unknown to them, are absolutely right).
"Then let's just ignore it and go around it." Being an emperor for years taught Naruto patience and the capability to think more logically, and he deduced that since the oval didn't do anything to anyone, it's better to just avoid it. But suddenly, as he was about to move around the oval, it caught him off guard and sucked him in a flash of light before disappearing. Kurumi and Kushina were too shocked to respond to this event, and their mouths are gaping. A while later, their brains rebooted, and the first thing that Kurumi said is "...Did dad just get kidnapped...?"
-BREAK-
A couple of minutes ago...
Over in a distant dimension, a short, 5 foot tall sixteen year old pink haired, flatter than a washboard girl wearing white shirt, black skirt with a black cape with a maroon inner lining held together with a spherical locket with a pentagram on it, was currently standing in the middle of a courtyard while being watched and/or being laughed at by her peers at the Tristain Academy of Magic, the most prestigious magic academy within Tristain in the land of Halkeginia. The problem is, the girl, or more oftentimes known as Louise the Zero, her full name being Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Vallière, is a failure at casting magic. Her theoretical studies of magic are flawlessly perfect, yet in practice, all that her spells did, no matter how much effort she did or how perfectly she waved her wand and chanted the spell, her spells just tend to explode massively, causing mass hysterical reactions from both the lecturers and the students initially, but now it becomes a sort of inside joke within the walls of the Academy that she is a zero, due to her zero percent chance of successes in spell casting. Right now, she was ignoring the jeers of her peers while concentrating her mind on the task of summoning a familiar using the 'Summon Familiar' spell.
"You won't succeed, Zero!"
"She'll blow us all up!"
"You won't summon anything!"
Ignoring their cries of her eventual failure, she gets even more determined to summon something grand, something that boggles minds and can take the smirk of that Zerbst's face after her salamander familiar's summoning! Urgh! Even thinking of her, a Vallière's sworn enemy brings her blood to boil. But most importantly, it is to show that she is not a Zero and that she can cast magic as well as everyone, and can prove to her family that she is not a failure. With all the hope she has in her heart, she starts to chant her 'Summon Familiar' spell loudly, to bring confidence to herself and also to counter all the insults being thrown her way.
"I beg of you!"
"I beg you!"
"My slave who lives somewhere in the universe!"
"No matter where you are!"
"Oh sacred, beautiful and strong familiar spirit!"
"Please!"
"I desire and here I plead from my heart!"
"Please do not fail! PLEASE!"
"Answer to my guidance!"
And with that, she waved her wand in front of her, before a bright light emitted from the tip of her wand and everything exploded.
-BREAK-
Upon being pulled into the glowing green oval, Naruto felt like he was in a Hiraishin, except this time, it felt even weirder than his Hiraishin, though the sensations are similar. Then, he felt that he touched hard ground, and immediately wore his armour, which remains sealed within a series of seals throughout his body. The armour, a golden coloured, intricately carved armour was made using a special combination of chakra conductive alloys that allows for maximum fighting capability with it, and is forged by his own hand using the fires that he created himself using his purified youki, causing it to become tougher and better than any other armour in history. The armour has a carving of a winged skull at its chest area, while the left arm is covered with a huge, red coloured gauntlet that acts as both an offensive weapon and a pseudo-shield, with its left pauldron having the insignia of the Uzumaki-Namikaze clan and the right having the kanji for 'Emperor'. The entire armour is gold in colour and is lined with massive seals that can improve it even more, like chakra absorption seal, strengthening seals, self-repair seals and a lot of other seals. He created the armour after he was hit by an assassination attempt during his 131st reign with a special seal bullet from a gun. The seal was specially made to interact with his chakra it before absorbing it and blowing it up, and combine that with his Chakra Armour, he lost nearly ¾ of his torso, but due to his own healing and his wife's quick treatment, he recovered after a week, and decided to make that armour, which he dubbed the Terminator Armour, as one of his uniforms. Also, the hunchback design of the armour prevents any attacks, either sneak or not, from the back from getting through to him, and provides ultimate protection to him. Also, the sight of a golden armoured hanyou giant like him on the battlefield or the throne room is a massive intimidation and awe factor towards his enemies or his subjects. The armour is moved using a combination of puppetry ninjutsu and seals which detects his movement via a seal at the back of his neck that takes in neural input and the network of seals within the armour pulls it via chakra strings attached to it and causes it to move together with him.
Whilst that, his right hand immediately unseals Masaki, now reforged into a 5'6" long broadsword that he named Kuroken that he wields one handed and coloured black all over, with the only difference between it and a normal broadsword is that it's coloured black completely, but when he supplies it with his purified youki, it burns with a golden flame which has been dubbed 'The Purging Flames of the Emperor' due to its effectiveness at utterly destroying any enemies that he encounters.
He then realised that he was surrounded by white smoke, with a weird residue of power that he felt around him. "Must've been from the smoke." He then prepares his sword in a blocking position, the flames ready to burn all that it touches with his left arm ready to block any attacks and flexes his massive amounts of chakra, ready to unleash his jutsus to counter any enemy attack. But when the smoke clears, he saw that he was surrounded by a bunch of kids with an old man in front of them holding a staff that was pointing towards him. "No way any assassin that attacks me be this young. They barely have more chakra than a civilian!" the weirdest part of his current view is that the kids are all looking at him in awe, and the animals "What the hell was that weird eye-thing?" was actually prostrating at him, for some reason. "Maybe it's the purified youki." But most importantly, was the short, pink haired girl standing in front of him, while looking at his face in barely concealed awe.
-BREAK-
Louise was coughing wildly after her failed attempt at the 'Summon Familiar' spell. She was already falling into the deep pits of despair within her mind before a massive wave of power unknown to all of them rushed forward from the smoke cloud before it clears, and Mr. Colbert was in front of the rest of her peers, his staff prepared to unleash hell-almost literally-towards who or whatever that Miss Vallière summoned, only to see the smoke clearing, and a sight unlike any other greeted his eyes. A man, no, a giant wearing huge golden armour with a sword burning with golden flames unlike any flames that he has ever encountered during his service as the Flame Snake with Tristain's army and was radiating an aura of pure power, power so strong that his battle instincts, hidden for so long within the peace of Tristain's Academy of Magic, called for him to run! Run and don't look back! This giant is too powerful! Get away! He will eat you for breakfast and use your bones as toothpicks! Yet despite his battle instincts calling him to run away, he held them back in order to protect his students, those same students that he loved so much. The only one that he would be unable to protect was definitely Louise herself, for she was standing right in front of the giant, and was tilting her head to see the giant's face, though she only got a faceful of armour.
Louise herself was looking at the giant's face, her 5' height barely reaching his chest plate. The sheer power that this godlike being radiates in front of her causes her to lose all inhibitions and even felt like kneeling towards this being, but held back using her not-inconsiderable willpower inherited from her mother. The animals and recently summoned familiars all around her has already bowed to this man, and some of the students even fainted with froths in their mouths, the sheer radiance that this man, no, god, exuded was too much for them to handle. Even Louise herself was speechless.
Watching all this happening around him, Naruto just sighed before snubbing his sword's flames with nary a thought and resealed his armour again, revealing his blue royal uniform and held back his immense power, changing him back from a near godlike being into a regular emperor. "I guess that that still happens when people saw me in that getup while releasing my powers. These people didn't look harmless, at least as of yet. Time for some communication."
"Excuse me for asking this, but where am I, and who are all of you?"
Everyone, who has recovered from the ordeal of feeling his massive power and started to talk normally after calming their rapidly beating hearts. But suddenly, this giant in front of them decided to speak, and whatever that he speaks was extremely weird to all of them, and they have absolutely no idea on what he is talking. Feeling confused, Louise decided to talk to the man. "What are you talking? I do not understand you."
Naruto was also confused by the language that these people are talking. It doesn't sound like any language that he has heard, though that's probably because the entire Elemental Nations just sticks to one language only, Japanese. But even so, these people are talking in a very weird language with a slang that he cannot perceive.
Louise, seeing the man's confusion, figured out that this would be the best moment to complete the 'Summon Familiar' ritual, and made a gesture that beckons the man towards her, even though she knew that one wrong move, and this man will break her like sticks. Seeing her gesture and the nervous sweat pouring from her face, Naruto bent down, placed his palm (which, coincidentally, was as large as her head) on her long, flowing pink hair looked her in the eye before asking, "How may I help you little one?" her response shocked him, though years of politicking enables him to hide his shock. She suddenly kissed him on the lips. It's not a loving, forced or rough kiss, it was more like a 'let's get this shit over with' kind of kiss.
And after that, she left while arguing at her teacher while Naruto was still left in confusion at what just happened, before suddenly, a burning pain was felt from the back of his left hand, but being someone who has lived through wars, participated and led a number of them and trained to exhaustion (if possible) every day, it felt like a minor annoyance to him, though he knows that other people would suffer massively from it. After a while, the pain subsides and disappears as fast as it appears, and looking at the back of his palm, he saw a series of weird runes of a language, whether seal related or not he didn't know, etched on the back side of his palm. He then kept looking towards the pink haired girl, whom he somehow figured out must be related to whatever shit he's in.
-BREAK-
Louise was fuming. Scratch that, she was BEYOND pissed! She knows that her familiar was extremely powerful; the effect of whatever that went through all of them just now has forged itself to the back of her head, yet now, he speaks in a language that she cannot understand at all! And not just that, he patted her head just now! Granted, she liked that, never being petted on her head before, but it annoys her! And now she has no idea what to do! Everybody was still awed by the presence of this golden giant god, who somehow managed to hide both his armour and sword all at once without even moving! And now he is looking at her, either trying to judge her, or trying to ask her what's going to happen now! She then ran towards Mr. Colbert who was still pointing his staff towards the giant, beads of sweat pouring of his face.
"Mr. Colbert! I have finished the summoning ritual! That means he's my familiar now right?" Louise asked.
Colbert, who was still debating whether he should stay or run was jolted out of his mental discussion by Louise's question, before he stammered out, "W-w-what? Oh, yeah. The familiar ritual. Well, I think that it is done, though you must show me his familiar runes first before I can let you all go." And with that, Colbert's decision was forcefully made, and he stepped slowly towards the still kneeling giant.
Naruto, seeing the man coming his way, was surprised at the sheer guard this man was placing in front of him. In order to placate the man a bit, and thinking that being peaceful at first in this weird place would do him a lot of good, he lifted both hands to show his empty palm, a general sign of peace. Though against him, even empty handed, he was sure that he can tear this guy apart in seconds, he really meant peace between the two of them. Especially if he's going to get stuck here for a long time. But then, the man moved so fast it seems to him that he Hiraishin to him, before grabbing his left hand and observing the runes on it. He just lets the man, who was now having a thoughtful expression on his face, study those runes, considering that he, even as a seal master, was unable to make heads or tails of the damn thing. After a while, he let his hand go before going back to the pink haired girl.
By now, Colbert was thinking of any familiar runes that he had seen, and realized that none of them fits the runes on the giant's hand, which confuses him. Then, he said to Louise, "Alright Louise, it seems that he has the familiar runes on him, though his runes are a very strange one, if what I know about familiar runes to be true. I will study it later, but for now," and he turned towards all the students, "Alright! You all are dismissed! Make sure to make a powerful bond towards your familiar, for they will help you immensely in the future! Remember to gather here again tomorrow, same time to mingle about with you familiars!" And with that, all the students left, still not saying anything due to the sheer feelings that the Zero's familiar managed to rouse in them.
-BREAK-
Naruto saw that all the students are leaving in silence, maybe due to his presence just now which causes him to sigh internally. "These kids must've never felt something like my presence before. This is gonna suck." But then, the pink haired girl was gesturing him to follow her, which he promptly did, towards a tall tower in the middle of the place before climbing up a spiral staircase, with any people around him just staring at him in his royal garb (which didn't look too royal, which was the point) while avoiding him, seeing that he is about the same size as the stairways themselves, with Louise in front of him.
A while later, they reached a room, presumably Louise's, which didn't have too much room for him actually, with the bed placed close to the window, the drawer in front of the bed and a vanity mirror beside it. Other than that and a study table beside the bed, there isn't much in the room, but with one look Naruto knows that the bed is a high quality one, and it will most probably be unable to support his 671kg weight. Suddenly, the girl spun around after closing the door behind them before starting to throw a tantrum while making lots of hand gestures and pointing every which way and speaking in a language that he didn't understand. "Hold on lady, stop that! It's annoying, and it's not like I understand you either!"
Once again, Louise was angry. Her familiar didn't even understand what she was saying! What use is a powerful familiar if he can't understand whatever she's saying! "Where are you from actually!? Why can't you not understand me!? If not because of what you did out there, everyone must've been laughing at me like a madman! Once again, I proved that I'm a zero!" looking closely at her familiar, she realized that he was talking to her with his weird language. In her mind, she blew up and decides to say 'fuck it! Doesn't matter if this guy's a god, I'll shut him up!' And with that, she took out her wand before screaming "SILEEEENCE!" and casting a spell, before once again, the spell blew up in their face.
Naruto was about to stop her tantrum using brute force when the girl suddenly took out a wooden stick and points it at him. Thinking that it wouldn't do any harm, he ignored it until he… blew up. Though the weird thing is that he didn't feel any pain from the action, not even a sting. Though he is now covered in smoke. Using his wind chakra to blow away the smoke, he then asked her, "What was that about? You tried to blow me up!"
Louise was suddenly startled by hearing the voice of the man in a language that she understood. "You… can speak Halkeginian now?"
"Hey, I can understand you! What the hell was that just now?"
"That spell was meant to silence you! But instead, it made you able to understand what I say, while making me understand what you say! It was supposed to be a silence spell!"
"Okay, so now that we can talk properly, what about if both of us introduce ourselves first?"
"I think that's fine. I am Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Vallière, third daughter in the Vallière family and daughter of Karin Désirée de la Vallière. Who are you? And what is that weird power?"
"Whoa, slow down. In order of questions, I am Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto, 325 years old, First Emperor of the Elemental Nations, First Kitsune Lord, and twelve tailed kitsune hanyou, Hero of the Fourth Shinobi War, the Destroyer of Enemies, the Caretaker of Nations and the Immortal Emperor. For the next question, that was my unlocked chakra, or basically my powers. Now it's my turn. Where is this? What does these runes meant? What was that stick just now?"
At all this, Louise was shocked. No, shocked was too weak a word to describe her feelings. In front of her is an Emperor! A powerful one too! And is 325 years old, a war hero, and a VERY powerful being! Though a lot of his explanations still confuses her. Where's the Elemental Nations? What's a kitsune? Why did he have 12 tails? Where's the tails anyway? What's a shinobi? And immortal? That really takes the cake, eats it, shits it out and throws it on her face. At his questions, she held back her questions and answered him. "This is the country of Tristain within the continent of Halkeginia, and this is the Tristain Academy of Magic, the best institution of magic in this country, and those runes on your hand shows that you are my familiar that I summoned just now using the 'Summon Familiar' spell. The stick, as you called it, is a wand, meant to be used as a focal point for spell casting. Now answer my questions. Where's the Elemental Nations? What's a kitsune? 12 tails? What do you mean by that? Where's the tails anyway? What's a shinobi?"
"That's a hell lot of questions, but no prob. Well, the Elemental Nations are where I am from, and from what your face says, it seems that I am really, REALLY far away from home. A kitsune is, to put it simply, a demon fox. The tails are an indicator of our powers, with the more tails we have, the more powerful we are, and they are hidden until I change into my hanyou form – oh yeah, hanyou means half demon – or my full demon form. Though you won't want me to change into my full demon form here, I am as tall as hills in that form. A shinobi… now that's hard. Shinobi, to put it simply, are a bunch of men or women who trains themselves to use chakra to perform supernatural acts, but that's the general knowledge. Actually, shinobi are masters of stealth, capable of slipping inside an entire enemy base to assassinate a target, sabotage them or other things. In other words, they are super powered contract assassins loyal to a side, which means mostly their own side."
Hearing this explanation, Louise was horrified. She just summoned a half demon lord, whatever that is, and is the leader to an entire army of assassins! Which means he is a murderer, a demonic entity? The Church will cleanse her for this!
Feeling her distress, Naruto audibly sighed and pats her head again. "Don't worry about anything. I may be a quasi-demonic entity, but I won't do something like eating you for summoning me or taking your soul. I am still partly human, and I won't like anyone doing that to me either. Besides, most people say that my full demon form – as long as I change my size – looks really cute. My wives even used me as their cuddle pillow when they sleep. And about the shinobi part, if you're going to accuse me of being a murderer, an assassin, then I won't deny it. I've done my share of killing and murdering. Heck, I even ate my victims sometimes! But as long as you didn't do anything to draw my anger, and I'm a very patient person after my 300 plus years of living, I won't do anything to you. No worries."
Hearing him say that makes Louise felt less worried, though a part of her still says that summoning a demon is a bad idea. Nevertheless, this is what she has summoned, so she has to handle it as best as she can. But before she can say anything, Naruto spoke again. "So, you said that these runes shows that I am you familiar eh? So what does a familiar actually do?"
Hearing this, Louise immediately went into her 'teaching mode', and started explaining to Naruto the tasks of a familiar. "A familiar's task is to protect its master when he or she is casting a spell, while also being able to help their master to gather regents for potions or to act as their eyes and ears when their master requires it."
"So I'm your familiar eh? So then, I, Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto, accepts Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Vallière as my master, and will help her in any ordeal that she may encounter. And so shall it be, until the contract was broken."
And with that, Naruto accepts Louise, who has moved from her original position to sit on her bedside, as his master, though one thing still puzzles Louise, and she intends to ask him of it. "You seem awfully calm on the fact that you are now my familiar and the fact that you are in a different world now. Why is that?"
Naruto chuckled, before answering her. "Well, in my world, I am considered as the foremost expert in space-time ninjutsu – ninjutsu are ninja, or shinobi skills – and I am sure that given enough time, I can create portal from here to my home world, no problems. Besides, my wife will also do her best to pull me back, no problem. About the familiar thing, I just went my entire life being a follower until my 18th year, where I was chosen as the Lord, and I have been ruling ever since then. It'll be good to remember the feeling of being a follower again, though my people back home will definitely be worried about me. But I know that they can handle it. My wife is there after all, and she's older than I am, and definitely more experienced than I am, for sure."
Hearing his explanations, Louise breathed out a sigh of relief. Angering a half-demon emperor is an extremely bad idea after all. And when she looked outside the window, she realized that it's dark. It seems that their talk was a very long talk after all. "So, I think we are good for now. Can you go out first? I need to change." She figured out pretty quickly that trying to whip this half-demon emperor, as what she would do normally, would be hazardous to her health, no matter what he says of it.
"No problem. I'll be outside." And with that, Naruto walked out of the room, leaving Louise to change into her pyjamas. He was keeping vigil over Louise's door when a busty redhead with her boobs almost popping out of her academy uniform followed by a blue haired short girl who was reading a book passed in front of him, with the busty redhead stopping immediately in front of him while watching him like a piece of meat. "You look really good. So you are Zero's familiar eh?" she purred out, while trying to place her boobs on Naruto's muscular chest.
"I think you're one of the people who are scared of me this evening. Why are you flirting with me now?"
At that, Kirche just giggled, before getting even closer to Naruto, before saying. "I like powerful men, you know. And yours, are beyond this world. Anything that powerful should be… shared, and must not be kept for one person."
Naruto lifted his hand, showing the gold band he bought for both Kurumi and Hinata years ago. "Sadly, miss, I'm a married guy, and I know that she'll be mad if I were to cheat on her. Besides, I didn't even know you, and what kind of person am I if I were to have an affair with a person that I don't even know the name?"
"Oh, silly me. I am Kirche Augusta Frederica von Anhalt Zerbst, a member of the Zerbst family, sworn enemy of the Vallière family." But before she can continue her seduction attempt, the door to Louise's room opened, and out came Louise in her pink, fluffy PJs. "Familiar, you can enter- Zerbst! What are you doing with my familiar?! Get away now!"
"Pooh, you Vallière cannot even take a little joke. Anyway," she said, turning towards Naruto again, who stood beside the door now, "Would you even look at her? Better off having me as your master. That washboard does not even know how to handle a man like I do. What do you say? Sleep with me tonight?"
Louise's head almost exploded from the sheer redness of her face due to her accusations (which is all true, mind you) but Naruto just chuckled, showing no acknowledgement against Kirche's blatant moves towards him. "I cannot do that. You see, Louise here is my master, and as a good familiar, I am obliged to stay with her and guard her. It's not like I sleep anyway. So, I don't think that it's a good idea. So goodbye, Miss Kirche, and blue haired lady. See you later." And with that and Louise's incessant pulling on his arm, they both entered the room and closed the door.
"Oh pooh, that hunk is good! He didn't even react- what's wrong?" her rant on Naruto's obliviousness of her advances was cut short by the feeling of Tabitha pulling her sleeve. "Powerful. Strong. Dangerous." She said towards Kirche, who replied "I know, but that's where the fun in life is right?" at that, Tabitha didn't answer, and just left while continuing to read her book with Kirche following behind.
-BREAK-
Once inside the room, Louise sighed in relief, seeing that her familiar didn't run away to that Zerbst slut. Which brings the question: why DIDN'T he run away? But she pushed that question to the back of her mind to replace it with an even bigger question: what happened when she summoned him this evening? Which she promptly asks. "Familiar, why are you not reacting to the Zerbst's flirting? Not many can claim to do that, yet you did it without a problem." Whoops, wrong question, she whispered in her heart.
"Remember that I am an emperor. I had people flirting at me for tens of years until I'm immune to it. Plus, the memory of me and my wives always kept me grounded to earth without any problems."
"And this evening?"
"Oh, that? That was me releasing my mostly locked chakra."
"What's chakra?"
Hearing this, Naruto sighed before going into a long explanation on what chakra is. After a while, Louise, who was listening with rapt attention, was amazed by this... chakra thing. But before she can ask of it, Naruto said. "And before you start to ask, yes, you do have chakra. But sadly, it's in quantities that I can consider negligible compared to my own. Both my physical and spiritual energies are extremely high, and my chakra is so much more than a normal person, hell, even a normal ninja that yours basically felt like a piece of dirt."
"Can you show me more of what this... chakra can do?"
Naruto nodded, before performing a Rasengan within his hand. The blue glowing spiraling chakra orb of death in Naruto's palm caught her utmost attention and she reaches out to touch it, but stopped by Naruto making the ball disappear, leaving only a gust of wind.
"What are you doing?! I was trying to touch it!"
"And doing so will cause you to lose a finger. Watch." Naruto created another Rasengan before slowly placing it on the table close by, and Louise watched in abject horror as the orb that she once saw as beautiful grinds through the table like it wasn't even there, leaving a perfectly spherical hole on the table.
"You see? Touching it will definitely cause you to lose a finger, or even more if you continued. There is a good reason why I stopped you."
Looking at the destructive power that a simple chakra orb can do, Louise starts to think whether or not he would train her in chakra usage. "If I can learn this skill, I can show mother that I am not hopeless! Even though it's a different thing than magic, it might be considered as such, considering that it is extremely powerful, maybe even more powerful than magic, because it enhances physical capabilities as well! I'll order him to teach me!" "Familiar, my first order to you is for you to teach me how to use chakra! I will not have any more people looking down upon my inability to cast magic!' Louise said with conviction.
"Are you sure? My training methods will be extreme. Some might say that death is the only result from my training system. Well, either death, or glory. I will not hold back, and will train you in everything that I can. You will probably end up half dead every day. Will you still persevere?'
Louise audibly gulped, hearing the seriousness in the words that Naruto spoke. But she steeled herself before saying, "Yes, I will. I want to obtain my mother's acknowledgement, and won't stop till I do. Even if I were to die in the process, I will continue on, no doubt."
Hearing her motivation, Naruto immediately remembered Hinata, which almost caused a tear to fall from his eye. But he hid it with 300 years' experience of hiding his true motives, and starts to weave Hinata's tale towards Louise. "Master, I would like to tell you a story. A story of my second wife, good, graceful Hinata-chan."
At this, Louise immediately sat straighter before giving full concentration towards Naruto, knowing that such an old being would have a lot of stories. Seeing this, Naruto starts to tell the story of Hinata's life towards Louise. "My second wife, Hinata-chan, was a girl, born under a very prestigious clan known far and wide in my world with their bloodline, the Byakugan, an eye that can see through walls and also an enemy's chakra system, which when combined with their special fighting style, allows them to attack an enemy's insides instead of their outside, which earns the techniques the name Gentle Fist. But sadly, unlike her niece or her little sister, she didn't seem to have any talent at all, at least from what her father was able to tell."
Hearing this, Louise gasped, seeing the similarities between this Hinata and herself. And Naruto, ignoring her gasp, continues. "Her father trained her harshly, not being able to accept the fact that his daughter was such a weakling. But when she was aged nine, she was forced to spar for the position of heiress against her little sister, whom she never won against. It's not that she was a bad fighter, she was a prodigy, but her own kindness and gentleness causes her to hold back during spars, not wanting to injure her opponent. As usual, she lost against her sister, and that's when her father did something extremely drastic. That night, she was taken to an underground chamber, where she was branded with a certain... slave seal, which can deal her excruciating pain, even killing her if activated, and a whole host of other similarly vile functions, before beating the hell out of her and banishing her from the clan, and kicking her into the streets with no mercy."
At this, Louise was beyond shocked! Even as brutal as her mother is, she won't ever banish her own child, nor, as Naruto said, 'beating the hell out of her'! But Naruto was not over yet. "A couple days later, she was attacked by assassins from her clan, wanting to eliminate such a disgrace to her clan, once and for all. But I saved her, and after a couple of days, I decided to marry her to save her from outside threats."
Louise was once again shocked. "You married her at nine!? Are you crazy?!"
"Yup. And I am nine at that time as well. And that was the only way to save her from her original clan from attacking her. Then, I somehow, managed to... gain knowledge of the Gentle Fist's style, and used my training method on her. She was floored, literally, when I started. No chakra, no nothing. Her father did one hell of a bad job at teaching her. But after five years of my brutal but well done training regime, she managed to break open out of her cocoon of shyness, gain strength, and even become someone whom I was proud of, no matter if she's my wife or not."
"And one day, she was forced to fight against her cousin, whom she saw as her brother. Though the boy kept mocking her previous weaknesses, she never let up, and in the end, she won without even getting a hit on her, but decides to surrender, stating that..."
-FLASHBACK TO HINATA'S FIRST CHUUNIN EXAM-
"I want you to know that one's gentleness and kindness does not mean that one is weak. Take this loss to heart and bring it to the next round. Also, I don't want to fight my husband, so I'll have him break your mindset on destiny and your superiority complex. Good day, Neji-san. Remember, that the Uzumaki-Namikaze clan does not have weaklings in it, only kind people."
-END FLASHBACK-
"*chuckles* and then, he met me in a match, where he was trumped from the very beginning. After that, her clan wants to take her back in with her ex-father leading the contingent towards my clan house, but she refuses, saying that 'I am banished by your own words, and marked as a slave by yourself. Why would I want to go back to a clan that treats its own member as slaves?'. Her ex-father was enraged, and challenged her to a duel of honour. She accepted, and at the day of the duel, she smashed her dad without mercy but with no thoughts of vengeance in her mind, even showing off a new technique based on their style which she modifies, and is better than what her original clan can produce. She left her father defeated, a task which was not easy considering that he was the best fighter that his clan has. After that, she never looked back. She went ahead and become one of my Nation's best kunoichi – female ninja – that was ever produced, and gave birth to twins later, a male hanyou named Minato, and a female kitsune from birth named Mito. After living with me for more than 200 years, when she was 218 years of age, death came and took her, and before she died, she said..."
-FLASHBACK ON HINATA'S DEATHBED-
A crying Naruto was seen holding Hinata's hand beside her bed while being watched by Kurumi, Kushina, Mito, Minato and their other children. No matter what they do, it seems that this is the end of the line for her. Weakly, she grabbed Naruto's hand with her other hand, before saying. "Naru-koi... please, do not cry. I have lived a good life with you, fought beside you as equals, gave birth to our heirs, enjoyed life with you, became an Empress to a massive empire, led armies, and managed to prove to everyone from the Hyuuga clan that I am not a failure, and even helped Hanabi with changing the clan's traditions. I have no regrets in life, except that seeing me die causes you to cry. Please... don't cry." She said while wiping Naruto's tears that didn't seem to stop. This just causes Naruto to sob harder.
"Naru-koi... please remember what you did to me. You changed me for the better, from someone who was incredibly shy and weak to a person admired by an entire nation. Do not forget that you have changed everyone for the better, and that you are the pillar of my strength. It seems that my time is up, and hopefully, we'll be meeting sometime later in the Pure World... Goodbye, Naruto-koi... May our love stay strong even with my death..."
And with that, Hinata's grip slackened, and Naruto knows that she has breathed her last. Everyone in the room then hugged him, with tears falling out of their eyes. And thus ends the life of Uzumaki-Namikaze Hinata, the second matriarch of the Uzumaki-Namikaze clan...
-END FLASHBACK-
"After that, I created a massive statue using my skills to honour her life before cremating her and burying her ashes underneath the statue. Until the day I left, the statue seems to attract animals and many flowers seem to grow at its base, a sign to her love of both animals and flowers. And such ends the story of my second wife."
Louise was sobbing by the end of the story. Hinata's life was much worse than hers was, and yet, she held strong and didn't surrender, not once! Then, she heard Naruto said. "The reason why I told you this story is that your starting condition is just a bit better than hers was. Will you rise, as she did against all odds, or will you fall and crash down, and will have no desire to go up again?"
Louise then strengthened her own convictions, before saying "I will rise! I will overcome everything! Familiar! Teach me the secrets to chakra, and help me in my journeys!"
"*chuckles* And with that command, master, I shall. But remember that it will be extremely tough, and that I will assure you that you will feel like dying at the first day. Just remember that."
All fired up, Louise was about to say something before a feeling of sleepiness overcame her mind, and she yawned massively, showing her sleepiness to the world. She then sheepishly laughed, while saying "I guess that I am sleepy now. But familiar, what do you mean when you said that your full demon form is cute and that your wives usually cuddled you during their sleep?"
"Well, see for yourself and judge it by your own ways." Naruto said, before fox ears suddenly grew out from his head, followed by his twelve tails and his body following soon after, growing furs, sitting on all fours, and finally, becoming a 4' long (from snout to end of backbone) golden colored twelve tailed fox with an Uzumaki-Namikaze clan logo at a white tuft on his chest with white tips for the tails. Seeing this, Louise's inner girly side screamed "CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTEEEE!" before grabbing him, hugging him and falling on the bed with him in her arms, before falling asleep soon after.
Naruto just chuckled in his mind "Well, I guess that happens to all of us. Now, wonder what happens to Kurumi-koi and the others back home..."
-BACK IN THE IMPERIAL CITY-
Kushina was running around the throne room, now vacated by orders of Empress Kurumi, like a headless chicken while Kurumi was sitting around like nothing happened while sipping a cup of tea. Watching this, Kushina shouted, "Mom! Why are you so calm!? Dad's missing and nobody knows where he disappeared to and the advisors are asking and the people are feeling the strange vibes and the soldiers are questioning around and the servants are surprised and worried and everybody else was worried and-" her tirade was cut short by the hand of her mother who signals her to "SHUT THE FUCK UP FOR A WHILE!" that she screams out. Watching that Kushina has calmed down, she said. "I know your dad is still alive. Our mate mark won't let one of us live if the other dies, me still here sipping tea shows that your dad is very much alive, though we did not know where. Hiraishin causes us to barely feel the seal's signature, not enough to teleport towards it, making me think that he just went through some kind of portal to another dimension. Well, we'll handle it later. For now, we need to administer a country."
"But what will happen to the people?"
"I will take over the throne for a while, and I will announce it to the populace tomorrow. Prepare the army, some people might take this time to rebel and cause chaos, so we'll need to stomp them fast."
Kushina then went away to follow her mother's orders, with Kurumi preparing her speech towards the populace of the Elemental Nations.
The next day, everyone was waiting for the announcement that will be delivered by Her Highness Uzumaki-Namikaze Kurumi in front of special genjutsu seals that acts as a huge PA system across entire continents, made using a combination of Hiraishin seal, communication seal and genjutsu seals that allows a missive to be read towards the entire population at the same time. Then, Kurumi appeared in front of her respective broadcasting seals, and lifted her hands to stop the applause.
"Thank you everyone. I am Empress Uzumaki-Namikaze Kurumi, and I am here to make a very shocking announcement. Yesterday, a supernatural event occurred towards my husband, Emperor Naruto, which causes him to be transported to another dimension theoretically. Before you start to say that he's dead, he is not, I can assure you. In his stead, I will take over leadership of the Nations as the First Empress of the Elemental Nations. All of you have no worries, I will rule the way he rules, and I will not do anything that will go against his wishes. Meanwhile, I will also try to create a method to contact him, and later a method to bring him back here, if possible, maybe together with some people from wherever he ends up in. I will do my best to rule as he did, and as always, you can refer to your own representative to bring up any issues towards me. That is all. Please continue your previous tasks." She then disconnects from the network.
And with that, the entire nation erupted in an uproar.
-CHAPTER ENDS-
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