A/N: Heeeellllllloooooooo everyone! Ninjarokusai is BACK! Hahaha, hows it going? Anyways, here with a new story! Now, before the end of my last story, A Lost Soul, I put up a poll to see what kind of Naruto and what other crossover you all wanted to see. I think I had about a total of around sixty or so votes, and 49 said Mortal Kombat! 49 out of 60! That's a LOT!

SSSooooooo….here you go! However, this story will be a little different. I want to get this out there now, so all of the little pansies who are anal about the canon being different in someone's story and saying that's not correct or whatever, listen up: YOU ARE NOW BEING WARNED, THIS STORY WILL ONLY PARTIALLY FOLLOW THE CANON! There, did you get that? for the most part, the naruto verse will be as it already is, and will not be writing about the canon. If a writer wants to write the canon, its already been done, just watch the show. im trying to create something new here, and using MOST of the canon as a basis, as do many other authors.

Also, even though this is a crossover, it will be listed as a naruto story, for the fact that it will gain more readers overall.

In this story, it is a naruto and mortal kombat crossover, with a high possibility of a few other crossovers, but minor bits of them, such as characters.

Also, a very, very, very important note. Guys, Im really trying to increase my income, I mean its bad guys. I am trying to sell my art, either art that I create of my own imagination or by request. Please, help support me, either purchase my art or make a request for it to be done. the best way to contact me is via social media, namely Instagram, devild1990. All of my art is posted on there.

Help me out, and tell me a story you want created, and I do my best to make it for you!

Without further ado, here is the newest story from yours truly!

What Happens Now?

Chapter 1

Severe Changes

Naruto stood atop the Hokage Monument, facing the village. It was very late at night, and the weather was a little colder, due to it being the winter time. There was a light blanket of snow over the village, and the snow continued to fall over Konohagakure. There was a lot on the mind of the young shinobi this night. A lot that really bothered him.

Down to the very core.

He was really debating on whether or not to leave his home village.

But what was his motivation for debating this life changing decision?

This had been his home all of his life.

But what was a home?

For most, they would say that a home is a place to feel safe, to come to at the end of a hard day and spend time with their families.

Others would say that home is where the heart is.

Naruto did not feel this for Konoha at all.

In fact, he could honestly admit to himself that the main reason why he had stayed and protected the Leaf was from a sense of duty. Drilled into his head as a child by the third Hokage, then by Iruka, then by Kakashi and Jiraiya afterwards. What was this ideal that was drilled not only into his head, but all of the other shinobi and kunoichi of the village?

The Will of Fire.

The willingness and obligation for the ninja of the village to protect and, if necessary, to lay down their lives for the greater good of the village. For their home.

Now, everything he had known was in question.

Everyone he knew was either dead or gone from his life in some way.

After the war had ended, Sasuke was executed for his crimes against not only the Leaf, but also against multiple other nations. He was a global criminal, to say the least, that committed numerous crimes throughout all of the nations. However, due to his help in the war, and aside from naruto, playing a crucial role in the defeat of Kaguya, he was given three days to reunite with his friends and enjoy life. that was his reward for his help in the war, but that did not erase all of the crimes, did not bring all the people he had killed back to life. also, because of his help, instead of having a public execution like a lowly criminal, he was to be put to sleep with a poison that worked quickly, and was fortunately painless.

Sasuke had asked naruto to be there at his side at his execution. Minutes before he received the poison, he received something he never expected.

(Flashback: Two Years Ago, minutes before the execution)

"Naruto," Sasuke called out.

Naruto, with tears in his eyes, looked up at his friend with a teary smile.

"Yeah, Sasuke?"

"Thanks. Dobe," the Uchiha said with a smile. "Before this is all over, I want to give you something…"

He reached over to the counter and pulled out a small jar with some liquid in it, and Naruto saw something he didn't expect at all.

An eyeball with the Rinnegan pattern.

"This is my Rinnegan eye," Sasuke said. "I had it removed the other day with Tsunade replacing said eye. This is my greatest accomplishment as a shinobi, and I want you to have it. I already have talked to Tsunade about it, and you are to have this put in your head in three days time. In order to activate the Rinnegan, all you have to is channel chakra to it. If you don't, it will look like a normal eye. Please, carry out my legacy. This is my gift to you, its all I have left."

Naruto reached out and grabbed the container with his best friend's eye in it and said, "Thank you, teme. But, are you sure about this?"

"I couldn't be more positive, dobe," Sasuke confirmed. "If you did not exist, I wouldn't be giving this to anyone else. You are the only I trust with this. you are the only one who never gave up on me. You are the one who saved me from my own darkness. Although, I am about to pay for it all, I am paying for it this way because of your help. I thank you…my friend."

Naruto and Sasuke gave each other a quick hug. Sasuke patted Naruto on his back a couple of times and said to him one last time, "Thank you Naruto, for everything. Take care of Sakura for me."

Sasuke then turned and looked at the two doctors that were there with them. He walked over to the table and laid down. The doctors took out two small vials, one had a green liquid, the other a yellow liquid. On doctor put both contents into a single, larger vial and shook it up nice and hard. After about a minute or so, the liquid had turned a dark red color.

By themselves, each vial was virtually harmless. However, when mixed together, the chemical reaction not only changed its color completely, it also made for the most effective and painless poison known to the elemental nations.

The doctor who had the vial held it to the other doctor, who had a syringe in his hand. He penetrated the top of the vial and extracted most of the poison. The other doctor threw the other useless vial in the garbage and then rolled up Sasuke's sleeve and prepped his arm.

The whole process was incredibly difficult for Naruto to watch. After all of his efforts, his friend was about to die, and there wasn't a damn thing he could do about it.

"See on the other side, dobe," Sasuke told his friend with a smile.

Naruto forced a smile and said, "Yeah, see ya later teme. Thanks for coming back to us."

Sasuke shook his head a little and said, "No, thank you for bringing me back. I'll be watching over you."

That was when the doctor injected the most lethal poison in the world into his arm. After about thirty seconds or so, Sasuke began to be very sleepy.

Sasuke groggily held up two fingers and poked Naruto in the forehead lightly and said, "Later dobe."

With that, his eyes closed, fell on the bed.

Sasuke Uchiha was dead.

Naruto cried right on the spot for at least a good ten minutes. The two doctors honestly felt incredibly sorry for him, but there was nothing that they could do for either one of them. they simply packed up what little gear they had and left to give the blonde shinobi some space.

(Present)

However, it was Sakura's reaction to everything that had really hurt him just as much as Sasuke's death, if not more so.

(Flashback)

Naruto was walking out of the hospital, and found that Sakura was on the bench, face in her hands and judging by the wetness on the cement around her feet, she had been crying for some time. Sakura had known what was going to happen the whole time, but it was still very hard for her to come to grips with it.

"Sakura, -" Naruto began, but then was shocked at what happened next.

Sakura looked up immediately at him, here eyes all puffy and red from crying so hard and so long. She grit her teeth and then charged at him and punched him in the face incredibly hard.

Naruto flew back into the wall of the hospital. He spit up blood and looked up just in time to dodge another plummeting fist of the pink haired woman. She grabbed his shirt and yelled out at him.

"Its…its all your fault…" Sakura cried and growled at him.

"What are you talking about Sakura?" Naruto asked his teammate.

"YOU COULD HAVE SAVED HIM! YOU SHOULD HAVE KEPT YOUR PROMISE TO ME!" She yelled at him.

"What are you talk-"

"YOU CANT EVEN KEEP A SINGLE FUCKING PROMISE, NARUTO! WHY DO YOU EVEN EXIST?! NO ONE HAD EVER FUCKING LIKED YOU, NARUTO! WE ONLY TOLERATED YOU BECAUSE WE NEEDED YOU! YOU – ARE – A – USELESS – FUCKING – DEMON! OF COURSE DEMONS WONT KEEP THEIR PROMISES, THEIR FUCKING DEMONS! YOU WANTED SASUKE DEAD, DIDN'T YOU?!"

"Wha…what are you talking about, Sakura?!" Naruto stammered out. he couldn't believe that one of the most important people in his life was saying things like this to him!

"YOOUUUU…WORHTLESS, DISGUSTING, DEMONIC, LITTLE PIG! YOU WANTED SASUKE DEAD SO THAT YOU COULD HAVE M, DIDN'T YOU!? GET RID OF THE COMPETITION! WELL GUESS WHAT, NARUTO, PART OF THAT'S ACCCOMPLISHED, MY SASUKE-KUN IS DEAD BECAUSE OF YOU! I WISH THE NINE TAILS KILLED YOU WHEN YOU WERE A BABY! IN FACE, I WISH THAT YOUR MOTHER DIED WITH THE REST OF THE DAMNED UZUMAKI CLAN! IT WAS KONOHA THAT WILLINGLY IGNORED THEIR PLEA FOR HELP ANYWAY!"

That last bit of information caught him off guard. "What…What did you just say, Sakura?"

"AAWWWW…WITTLE BABY NAWUTO DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT HIS WITTLE FAMIWY? YES, YOU LITTLE SHIT! THE UZUMAKI CLAN WAS TOO DANGEROUS FOR ANYONE, SO WHEN THE UZUMAKI CLAN SENT PLEAS FOR HELP TO KONOHA, KONOHA WAS IN ON THE INVASION WITH THE OTHER VILLAGES, AND DELIBERATLEY DID NOT ARRIVE IN TIME! THE FILES ARE IN THE HOKAGE'S ARCHIVES! IVE SEEN THEM! I WISH YOU RMOTHER WAS DEAD BEFORE YOU WERE BORN, THAT WAY MY SASUKE-KUN, SOMEONE WHO IS WORTHY OF ME, WOULD STILL BE HERE!"

Sakura picked him up off of the ground and threw him across the hospital grounds and yelled at him one final time before storming off.

"YOU PATHETIC LITTLE PIECE OF SHIT, DON'T YOU EVER TALK TO ME EVER AGAIN!"

With that said, she stormed off, leaving a shocked and completely heartbroken Naruto behind.

(Present)

Naruto remembered that like it was only moments ago. The woman he had a crush on for a good chunk of his life had literally broken his heart, even after he had basically sacrificed his spot with her for Sasuke. Didn't she remember the promise he made to her, and that he eventually delivered on it? Didn't she remember all of the times that he had saved her from certain death? So many questions still rang through his head regarding that final incident between them, but he still never understood why she really did that. He was still dealing with that heartache.

Also, what contributed to his overall demeanor was the fact that, unfortunately, Sakura was not lying when it came to the cause of Uzushiogakure's destruction and Konoha's role in it.

(Flashback: in the Hokage's office, day after the Sasuke's death)

Naruto really didn't want to believe it, but something inside of him was really nagging at his conscience. Something wasn't right. Everything that Sakura said was pretty much the opposite of what he was told before, at least Konoha's role in it, that they were unable to make it in time due to it being so far away.

Was that a lie?

The Hokage's Archives would reveal the truth once and for all.

Thank goodness he had all but mastered the use of the Shadow Clone technique, it was really helping out in this case. A Kage Bunshin was actually within the archives at the moment, while the original was in his apartment meditating. The shadow clone had used the henge technique and transformed into a mouse to get into the archives, and then had transformed into its original clone self once it was inside. It looked around and had seen walls and walls with scrolls rolled up and filling up every nook and cranny of the walls.

It was a real of endless knowledge.

It took a while, but eventually, the clone was indeed able to find a scroll pertaining to the end of the Land of Whirlpool. The clone read the part that it was looking for:

This is the Private Scroll of Hiruzen Sarutobi, Third Hokage of Konohagakure.

As everyone knows, being Hokage is an incredibly difficult job. However, not everyone understands the level of difficulty it comes with. Sometimes, one is presented with two choices, and both are evil and dangerous, and one must pick the lesser of the two evils.

The Uzumaki Clan in the Land of Whirlpool is a force to be reckoned with, that is for sure. I was contacted a few days ago not only by the Raikage, but also the Tsuchikage, Mizukage, and four other Kages of four different smaller villages. Each and every one of them offered me a choice of two options:

First, to aid them in the destruction of Uzushiogakure, in fear of their power being to great for anyone to control, or:

Second, ignore any pleas for help we may or may not receive from said village.

If I were to refuse either one of these options, they would all attack Konoha next. Konoha is the strongest of all of the villages, that is common knowledge, however, even an elephant can be taken down by a pack of wolves. Konoha would not stand a chance against seven different ninja villages. In order to protect the people of my village, I had to make one of the most difficult choices I have ever had to make:

I chose to ignore the cries for help from our allies.

I however did send out a few platoons of my own ninja to aid them, but purposefully two days late, too latefor them to reach Uzu in time. At least I can wipe away some of the stain of dishonor from the name of Konoha, but, as I said, in order to protect my people, others must die.

I am truly sorry for this act, but it must be done.

Uzumaki clan members, please forgive me.

Hiruzen Sarutobi,

Third Hokage of Konohagakure

The clone, teary eyed, made a copy of the scroll, put the copy back in the spot in the wall, then took it with him back to the original.

(Present)

That was one of the hardest things Naruto had had to deal with, knowing that his "home" village was indirectly responsible for his entire family's destruction. Why was he so angry about it?

There's always another way.

The Sandaime had taken the coward's way out. didn't even try to find something else to do, some other way to protect both of the villages. Because of that, Naruto had next to no family left whatsoever.

That was hard to deal with.

He remembered that three days after Sasuke's execution, he had been called to the hospital by an ANBU, and Tsunade had indeed installed Sasuke's Rinnegan eye into him. He spent the next couple of years practicing with it, getting as best as he could with his newfound abilities.

It took a while, but he was finally successful.

He was just as good as Sasuke was with his Rinnegan, if not better. However, that didn't mean that life got better for him.

Ever since the execution of his best friend, the heartbreak from his childhood crush and teammate, and lastly the knowledge that the Leaf had in fact betrayed his REAL home village, left him with an empty, hole-filled heart. Voids were ever present within him that just couldn't seem to be filled.

He eventually began to pull away from everyone and everything, only doing missions and the like in order to survive. However, every time he went out for a mission, he pushed himself further and further, almost as if he were trying to get himself killed.

Everything regarding him had changed. His demeanor, his personality, and his clothing, everything about the blonde idiot had changed.

His hair was medium length, and still spiky (Like it was in shipudden). He wore a black, sleeveless shirt that zipped up in the front. Over that, he had a light armored chest plate that was a dark silver in color. He wore a dark blue sash over his waist, and baggy black pants. He wore dark silver greaves with dark silver armored knee pads. His arms were bare, but from the elbows down he wore dark silver gauntlets. He wore black fingerless gloves that had metal plates on the top of his hands. He wore a black mask that covered the lower half of his face, and had a lengthy katana strapped on his back. Over everything, he wore a black cloak with a hood over his head, slightly concealing his face.

The wind blew in the cool, night air, his cloak flapping in the air. On top of everything else that had transpired, the village, for the most part, had gone back to their old ways when it came to him. No longer did they try to actually hurt him, no, they weren't that stupid. Attack the one who helped defeat Kaguya? Yeah, no. instead, they just went back to glaring at him and talking about him behind his back. Due to all of this, it only further drove him to retreat from everyone and become a loner once again.

He turned away from the village, finished with his last look over everything. He had made his choice. He was going to desert the village.

He had made it outside of the gates of Konoha with no problems. However, about thirty minutes after leaving, he felt three chakra signatures that he knew quite well.

He stopped on a tree limb and waited for them to show up. Soon afterwards, Ino, Hinata, and Shikamaru stopped not far behind him.

"Naruto, what are you doing?" Shikamaru asked the blonde.

"Getting out of here," Naruto answered simply.

"Do you have a mission or something?" Hinata asked him.

"Something like that," Naruto answered.

"What do you mean?" Ino asked him. Meanwhile, she was getting ready to use her jutsu and Shikamaru was already launching his.

"Go ahead," Naruto told them. "I already know how you guys operate. Go ahead and read my mind, Ino."

Ino was slightly surprised that he already knew what she was trying to do, but didn't let that stop her for long.

"Ok, Naruto. Yamanaka Style: Mind Switch Jutsu!"

Hinata caught Ino's body as it slumped, her jutsu successful.

Ino found herself in Naruto's mind, then turned and faced what she wasn't expecting:

The Nine Tailed Fox.

"Whooaa…" Ino said, backing up a little.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE, YAMANAKA?" Kurama asked her.

"Uuuumm…trying to help him? I'm trying to see why he's trying to leave the village."

"DO YOU HONESTLY HAVE TO FIND OUT? YOU HAVE BEEN IN HIS COMPANY FOR YEARS NOW, AND YOU CANT EVEN SEE IT?"

"See what exactly?" Ino asked the Biju.

Kurama couldn't help but facepalm. "I DON'T KNOW WHY HE PUT UP WITH YOU ALL FOR SO DAMN LONG. THINK ABOUT HIS PAST, THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU HAVE SEEN HIM GO THROUGH, THINK ABOUT ALL FO THE OBSTACLES HE HAS OVERCOME. THINK ABOUT THE WAY THE ENTRIE DAMNED VILLAGE TREATED HIM EVER SINCE HE WAS AN INFANT. I KNOW EVERYTHING, IVE SEEN IT WITH MY OWN EYES. HONESTLY, I WOULD HAVE LEFT A LONG, LONG, LONG TIME AGO, IF NOT OUTRIGHT DESTROYED THE VILLAGE MYSELF IF I WERE IN HIS SHOES!"

"What are you talking about, Nine Tails?" Ino asked.

Kurama growled in frustration and simply clapped his hands. A shimmer of light appeared and eventually formed into narutos memories being played.

"Hey, I remember all of these," Ino said. "These were his memories that everyone saw during the war when he was connected to me via mental link!"

"YOU PATHETIC LITTLE CHILD, WHAT YOU SAW WAS A VERY, VERY BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HIS LIFE, THAT DIDN'T INCLUDE EVEN A TENTH OF HIS LIFE. HERE, YOU WILL SEE MUCH, MUCH MORE…"

So for the next hour, Kurama practically shoved all of Naruto's painful memories into her head. It was an hour inside of their heads, but in reality was maybe only a few minutes. After it was done, Ino fell to her knees, doing her absolute best not to cry. It took every single ounce of her ninja training to not let her tears fall.

But they were dangerously close.

"NOW, BEFORE YOU ASK ME OR HIM WHY HE IS LEAVING, RECALL THE MEMORIES YOU HAVE JUST SEEN. RECALL ALL OF HIS EXPERIENCES AND THINK ON THEM. AFTER THAT…YOU ASK YOURSELF: WHY DIDN'T HE JUST KILL EVERYBODY? NOW GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE, IM TIRED AND WANT TO REST."

The next thing Ino Yamanaka knew, she was shoved out of Naruto's mind and back into her own. She woke up with a frightened face, looking everywhere, making sure no one or nothing unfamiliar was around them. she looked like the world's most paranoid person there ever was.

"Ino! Ino!" Hinata shook Ino a little and said to her, "What happened in there, Ino?"

"I…I…I…I…" Ino tried to get out, but couldn't for some reason.

"Ino, take a breath," Shikamaru told his own teammate. Ino took a deep breath, then finally let the tears fall, bawling like a baby in the process. She fell to her knees, putting her face in her hands as she cried and cried.

"Ino, what happened?" Shikamaru asked her.

"I saw…I saw everything, and more," Ino told them. "I don't understand…"

"You don't understand what, Ino?" Hinata asked her.

"The things I have seen in his mind…the things he has been through…Naruto, I don't understand? How could you just…just…move on like that? Didn't you ever seek revenge at all?!"

Naruto turned to face her, and he must admit, the forest looked serene in the snow. Everything was so…peaceful…

"Because I always knew there were innocents," he answered the Yamanaka. "There's always someone who is involved with said person who did me wrong, a child, a spouse. I refuse to hurt them because of a vendetta I may or may not have had against one person of that family. I learned to bury it all, bury all of the hatred and anger. However…as you saw in my memories, the events from these past years have been too much. I am done with Konoha, I am done with the Leaf. I leave you all alive because we were all once brothers and sisters in arms. No longer. Everyone from the Leaf has betrayed or hurt me in some way, way too many times. I am done, and I am out."

"What are you going to do?" Shikamaru asked his friend.

"I don't know," Naruto answered truthfully.

"What do you want?" Ino asked him.

He turned to her and said honestly, "To fill the void inside. Not that any of you would really understand what that's like."

He turned and vanished into thin air, the only evidence stating that he was even there was the fact that three of his former friends saw him.

Now the question remained in everyone's head.

What now?

…..

A/N: hows it going? This is the first chapter of my first story, so sorry if it's a little slow. Also, I plan on MAYBE incorporating a little DC characters in the story, but im not quite sure yet. This new story is still in the works, but sometimes its easier to think things through once they are started. Plus, you all have been waiting for some time as well. Anyways, if I WERE to include DC characters, who would you like to see? Im thinking Starfire, Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, and maybe a few others, I don't know just yet. Also, im going to put these two things to a vote, and the options that reach fifteen votes each wins:

Firstly, should this story be a harem, yes or no?

Secondly, if the story turns out to be one, pick a total of two DC girls and two Mortal Kombat girls to be in it.

Remember the ones to fifteen votes first wins!

Have fun guys, and please don't forget to go check out my Instagram, devild1990, and inquire about purchasing some art, or making requests! The more that happens, the more I get to write these stories for you guys, and also may even write story requests!

Well, until next time, Roku out.