Fallout

Chapter 1

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Disclaimer: I do not own in any way shape or form the game(s) Fallout or the anime Naruto

Fallout-(noun)- Radioactive particles that are carried into the atmosphere after a nuclear explosion or accident and gradually fall back as dust or in precipitation.

• figurative the adverse side effects or results of a situation : almost as dramatic as the financial scale of the mess is the growing political fallout.

• [usu. with adj. ] airborne substances resulting from an industrial process or accident : acid fallout from power stations

Tsunade stared at the page of her dictionary intently, just as she had done each day of each year. Fallout... that word brought dread, anger, and sadness into her heart but at the same time, she found it hard not to at least see the word once a day. That word had become a taboo around her, one that sparked unknown changes in her. One day it could cause her to cry, another day she'll go off in rage.

Not many knew why but those who did wouldn't tell, not out of fear but of the unspoken oath that they all shared.

The small light on her desk flickered, causing the room to blink in and out of darkness. With a sad sigh, she closed her book and tapped the retched thing, making it burn brightly once again.

"It's been seven years since then Tsunade-sama"

The busty blonde didn't even turn her head as both her apprentices walked in. "Yeah... and a few more weeks will make it the eighth..." she spoke softly.

"Tsunade-sama... you should turn the lights on... it's bad to sit in the dark reading with that little light."

Tsunade winced as the lights flickered on, bathing the whole room in rich light. Her office had seen better days... it was a windowless metal box with all sorts of equipment that were once the dreams of scientists. Her desk was made of smooth polished steel, just like the floors and chairs. Even with all the amazing technology that she and her 'village' had acquired, she still longed to return to how things used to be.

Her two apprentices looked at her with soft eyes filled with pity, both knew and shared her pain when it came to the past... especially him. Sakura sat down with Shizune in front of the Hokage, each with reminiscent eyes.

"It's hard to believe how much things have changed in eight years." Shizune spoke.

Sakura cracked a smile, "Imagine how surprised he'd be to know what we wear." she said making the other two smile.

"Brat would probably demand that it be changed from blue to orange." Tsunade replied adjusting the clothing she wore.

The three smiled and shared a laugh. After a while her two apprentices left to do their jobs around the 'village'.

The village wasn't a village at all. Seven years ago, a band of power hungry fools tried to use the statue used to unseal the tailed beasts and harness the power. But without all nine, the power slowly became unstable and ended up exploding, wiping Ame off the map. The explosion was so great that remnants of the demon chakra slowly started falling all over the elemental nations, causing sickness, mutations, and even death.

However, Konoha had many secure underground tunnel and with the 'acquired' technology from both Iron and Spring/Snow country. The ones who believed her were able to seal themselves off from the demonic radiation and live off the stored provisions until they were able to find new ways to grow food and get pure water.

Not many knew it but the only reason they were able to get ready and flee before the winds brought the radiation to fire country was because of Naruto. The child who was banished for failing his mission to being a traitor back but saw them worthy of a chance at survival. The one she loved... maybe as something more than a son... the fact that she was the one to banish him made it even more painful

She couldn't get his final visit out of her head, he just waltz in, beat half the ninja meeting in her office and told them that the demonic dust was approaching, warning that it would arrive in a week or so due to slow winds and to escape underground if they wished to service the fallout. If it wasn't for her recognizing his voice she would've never knew it was him.

He was hiding a lot of pain and emotion that day, but he had shown that he was still the fun loving blonde she loved.

That was all seven years ago. He had to be 18 or 19 by now.

New Konoha thrived and continues to do so, even having to live underground barely dampened their mood. Out of the hundreds that lived in the old village, only a fraction listened and followed her, most were ninja, doctors, and other loyal townsfolk who had met her in person before, so they had plenty of workers. When metal's like iron started running low, they mined further back to not only get ore but to gain more space.

But seven years underground made them yearn for sunlight and wide open spaces so she was waiting to get word from her recon teams that set out to see how safe it was. The first four man team had returned a member short, reporting that he had drank water from the river and had died shortly after. Their story was strange and if it wasn't for the next team confirming it, she would've had them mentally evaluated.

Blackened, scribbled up trees. Sandy dunes took over areas where grass once grew. Small rivers dried up while larger ones were seeping into the ground.

With one of Irons newest inventions, a contraption called a GUN, people were murdering others for their own survival. It was basically a free for all out there, Any town made from the ruins had to be protected from monsters created by the radiation, Raiders who would steal and torture people for fun, and slavers who would kidnap men and women to make slaves by using slave seals similar to the Hyuuga clan's caged bird seal. But worst of all was the big green monsters called super mutants, one of her recon teams had reported that they were kidnapping humans to mutilate and then eat.

However, none of the reports directly mentioned her favorite blonde . but they found a single ray of hope in the form of a radio signal called GNR that broadcasted news on what was happening around the wasteland that was once called Fire country. The host, a man named three-dog, had mentioned a blonde haired blue-eyed man who wandered the wastelands. That alone lifted her sprits and made her more determined to find him. Most of the council were now powerless against her so if she could find him, he could return and take her place as the Hokage.

Hey wastlanders... this is your friendly neighborhood disk jockey. What's a disk? Hell if I know, but I'ma keep on talking anyway...

Dirty men and women dressed in improvised armor and clothing stood around drinking and listening to the radio. Dust, dirt, grime, and blood covered many of them while they laughed and joked around, uncaring of the mutilated bodies nailed to the walls or hanging from large hooks. All of them had weapons at their hips, ranging from kitchen knives to guns. Some girls danced on poles in their underwear wearing seductive smiles and grins on their faces while the men drooled over them.

We've received reports on increased sightings of raiders near evergreen hills, smart moneys on them having some sort of base their or something. So avoid the area if you value your life

They roared in pride and laughter as the radio mentioned them. Evergreen mills was their place, you had to be a raider to enter or risk being shot on sight or captured and tortured to death. The only ones who could get in without being a raider was caravan owners who sold them food and supplies under a contract saying that as long as they weren't harmed by them, the caravan would be allowed to leave unharmed. unless they tried anything of course. If traders tried to cheat them, The perpetrator was killed, contract or not.

Lock your doors and barricade your windows kiddies, the Villain of the Wastes is coming to town. Reports say that he was sighted leaving the wastelands of rice country and entering our own barren wasteland. If you see him and are able to recognize him, do not antagonize him, the rumors of his power are not to be tested if you don't want to end up like sound...

A dark-skinned man dressed in a red suit hummed and swirled a glass wine in his hand while listening to the radio with two women standing around armed with large collars around their necks signifying that they were slaves. Both females had pink sun dresses on and a blank look on their face, each were ready to protect the man and die if need be.

And now some music...

Far away in another settlement stood a older man wearing a knee length leather duster and a cowboy hat. He also had dark brown skin but carried a more powerful weapon in his back called an assault rifle. His graying beard twitched and moved as the breeze passed his face while he made his way down a small road to a small noodle stand. Sitting down he ordered and while he waited for his noodles to be retrieved, he glanced back at a large polished black stone that's insides glowed softly and sighed.

The borders between rice and fire country was nothing but large dunes of sand, poisonous mountains of white sun baked sand and dust which were actually rad. (Radiation) particles. The scorpions that lived there were mutated so a point where they had grown well over three feet long and at least one foot tall. So large that they were renamed rad scorpions.

A loud scratchy cry echoed as one of said creatures slammed into a rock and shook violently as it snapped its pincers together and waved it's stinger threateningly at it's prey turned predator atop a dune.

A long coat tail fluttered behind the figure as it's pricing gaze met the creatures own. The man's upper body was fully hidden under the large trench coat but his lower body was shown. He wore dark blue combat pants with bandages around the right thigh, and metal kneepads on both knees. His boots were faded and stained with died and wet blood as well as dust and dirt. Around his waist was a small saw-off double barrel that differed from any others made in the past eight years. His face was half hidden under a mask that covered the bottom part of his face, a pair of black goggles with red lenses over his eyes and a hood over his face. He was all dressed up and prepared for a dust storm at anytime.

The man didn't move as the large scorpion quickly scurried towards him with its stinger poised but as it neared he calmly reached to his side.

BOOM

The Rad scorpion's front claw exploded into a shower of gore as it's whole body was sent flipping around, back down the sandy hill it was climbing.

Slowly holstering the weapon at his side, the man watched as it's body twitched and pumped blood out of the mawed stump of a claw and the little holes littering it's front. Sliding down the hill he pulled his hood off allowing his messy blonde hair to bath in light and then removed the goggles and mask letting his blue eyes adjust to the light and his whisker-like scars breath in some oxygen after being covered for most of the day.

It was Naruto Uzumaki, the 19 year-old Villain of the Wastes.

Pulling out a combat knife, Naruto cut the large stinger off, which was the size of a baseball and sealed it away in one of his special pouches under his coat. Most seals were only able to carry one of two things depending on the complexity, but the ones on his pouches were able to carry as much as he wanted depending on the weight right now he had one on his thigh and one on the back of his belt that each carried 200 pounds. Not to mention the extra seven he had stored inside the one on his belt

No normal human could survive what he has. But considering he is the container of the Kyuubi-no-Kitsune or Nine-tailed fox, he gained immunity to the demonic chakra sickness or Radiation sickness as the survivors called it. After the first year of fallout, Naruto wondered around, taking what he wanted from ghost towns full of bodies of people who couldn't escape the sickness or didn't have the slight immunity that 'ghouls' did.

He still didn't know if having slight Immunity was a good thing or not but was glad that Kyuubi gave him full immunity, especially since those who used chakra, like ninjas, were more susceptible to the poisoning, meaning that ninja were nearly extinct. Ghouls were people who were exposed to massive amounts of radiation but didn't die. at first nothing was wrong but after a year their skin started peeling and now they looked like zombies from old monster movies. Another thing was that they lost the ability to reproduce but gained a form of immortality against time. They weren't immortal against bullets but were tough to kill if near a source of radiation, since it cause them to heal at a fast rate.

He had went by many towns and had found that places where it rained a lot had lower levels of airborne radiation but no pure water sources since the runoff would contaminate the rivers and steams.

He had changed over the seven years, the fun, dopy 12 year-old that cared more than he was cared for was gone, he died the day he was forced out of his home. Now all that was left was him, he cared only for himself and those who have any use to him. He had only stayed the first two years in fire country and the others were spent traveling around the wasteland nations. Taking what he wanted, killing the ones who crossed him, even doing some old jobs here and there. Most were to kill or destroy along with a few kidnapping here and there but it was enough to gain the attention of the news stations across the world who were branding him as some soulless mercenary who would do anything ranging from steal money from the homeless or rape a woman for the right price.

So far he had killed five radio hosts for spreading such bullshit but found GNR to be the the most tolerable of all since they didn't blatantly lie about him. Sure he stole, murdered, and destroyed multiple lives but he didn't do it unless he needed the caps.

Caps... it was funny to him that paper money was nearly worthless now and that a stack of around ten grand was at most worth 7 bottle caps if not less. Bottle caps were now the main currency and you couldn't by a ragged 10 mm pistol for anything less than 15 caps or a single kunai for 5. He himself had 400 on him at all times in a bag and a few thousand sealed away into a scroll.

Naruto stored away his goggles and took a deep breath of the air. He smelled smoke, smoke meant fire and fire normally meant people. He wasn't close enough to smell blood so he wasn't sure if it was raiders or a town somewhere.

Kicking the Rad scorpion for measure, Naruto walked at a leisurely pace towards the smell of smoke, not worried if it turned out to be a group of raiders. If it was indeed raiders and they attacked... the sands of the wastes would run red with blood.

Tsunade hummed happily to herself as she watched some of new Konoha's inhabitants pack their belongings and prepare to venture into the world. She had released the information on the outside world and granted anyone who wanted to leave permission to do so if they wanted to. She was planning on opening the hidden gate to allow traders or travelers to come and buy or sell.

The more adventurous civilians were packing up supplies and waiting for her to personally open the large metal door. Even some of the ninja had expressed similar feelings and were allowed to leave so long as they returned if the village was in trouble.

She herself along with a few of her ninjas were planning on adventuring and exploring the wastes. Even though it was unspoken, the group all had a similar goal, find their friend and savior, Naruto. She along with Shizune, the rookie nine (Minus Sasuke) plus team Gai and their senseis (Including Anko) were already packed and were now waiting for the gate to open.

Naruto walked towards the smell and cocked his head to the side when he came up to a large wall made of many different types of metal. The smell was definitely coming from here but the lack of that coppery sent that came with fresh and dried blood proved that it was raider free.

Spinning around he aimed his weapon at... a large wood and metal golem.

"Howdy... partner" it droned out, "Welcome... to... Demonspire"

Naruto raised an eyebrow and backed away from the Golem before leaping over the wall and onto a makeshift building made of tin and other ragged metals. Jumping back down to the ground between two buildings he looked around and whistled. This town was easily one of the most... rundown yet lively places he had been to. Then he felt it, the same feeling he got when crossing a radiated river.

'Demonic radiation?' he wondered.

"Well I'll be damned a new comer, it's been ages since I've seen another new face"

Naruto turned around and found a middle aged dark-skinned man dressed in a duster with a cowboy hat and a star on his chest. On his back was one of iron countries Assault rifles, one of the last models to be made in secret before being stolen by other countries before the fallout.

"Names Lucas Simms, Sherif of Demonspire, Mayor too... if the need arises." the man said.

Naruto looked at him for a secound, "Nice to meet you, I'm Naruto."

Lucas smiled, "Friendly and well mannered... I don't know why but I like you Naruto, as long as you keep of of trouble you can stay for as long as you like." he said with a smile.

Naruto shared the smile, "Thanks but tell me, why is the town named Demonspire?" he asked looking around.

"Well..." Lucas started with a frown, "In the center of town sits a large stone that Iwa ninjas tried to seal a few years ago when most of the Konoha ninjas disappeared. Something happened which caused all the ninjas to die but soon people found the stone and saw that it was absorbing the demonic radiation around it, so naturally people built homes around it to keep from dying. But now it's starting to overflow and I fear that it will soon flood the town with the radiation it's been absorbing for years."

Naruto hummed, before dismissing himself and walking towards the center of town, ignoring the curious glances that was thrown his way. It didn't take long before he reached it and stared in surprise as he found that it wasn't just any stone, but Konoha's KIA memorial stone. Almost all the names were scratched up and unreadable, one or two here and there but not much. The whole thing was faintly glowing and cracked, almost unnoticeable to anyone not looking for it. Beside it was an elderly man dressed in rags preaching about the power of the spire.

Naruto glanced at the man and approached the stone, ignoring the warnings to stop. He wasn't worried, one of the reasons he had so much power was that due to prolonged exposure to the demonic radiation, Kyuubi had (With the go ahead from Naruto) mutated his body so that he not only absorbed it, but could convert it into chakra or use it to heal himself much like ghouls did.

Reaching out, he touched the top of it and analyzed the power within stone before pulling away, that man Lucas was right to fear the stones power, it was so potent, so chaotic. It the stone ever did break, Demonspire would be nothing more than a ghost town filled with radiated corpses within a day.

"Child, you truly are blessed to withstand the power of Spire," The old man said in a dreamy voice. "I'm sorry where are my manners, I am Confessor Cromwell, head of the Church of Spire,"

Naruto nodded to him before smiling, "I'm Naruto, it's nice to meet you Confessor. But sadly, I have important business to take care of, can I get back to you later,"

The Confessor gave him a small smile, "Of course child, I'm here almost everyday preaching, come and talk to me anytime you wish."

Leaving the Confessor to his preaching, Naruto left the scene to find Lucas, figuring that he could made some caps for draining the stone to keep it from bursting and killing everyone around.

A few minutes later he found the sherif hanging around the front entrance, probably watching out for any trouble that may slip passed the gate. "Oi Sheriff!" he called walking up to the man until he was close enough to speak quietly enough to not be overheard by anyone else, "I took a look at that stone and it's already radiating a extremely deadly amount of radiation at least a half foot around it."

Lucas paled and gave him a horrified look. "Really? Oh no... this isn't good..." He said standing straight and pacing around. "I knew that thing was nothing but trouble..."

Naruto watched for a secound before clearing his throat, "Excuse me but if you were to drain the stone of it's build up, then you'd be able to continue living without having to worry anymore. The stone absorbed radiation during the main fallout and slowly built up the rest over time but since the weather has gotten rid of any airborne particles it has nothing left to absorb." Naruto stated making Lucas turn to him with a confused face.

"How do you know that?"

"I know a lot of things," Naruto replied with a grin.

Lucas crossed his arms, "Ok then, how do you expect us to be able to drain all that radiation without killing ourselves?" he asked with a frown.

Naruto smirked, "With enough caps, anything is possible," he said holding up his hand and making a Rasengan.

Lucas gaped, "Oh my... a chakra user... I thought they all died out from poisoning during the main fallout."

Naruto let the sphere dissipate, "Most did... but that's not the point, I can drain the stone but I'm not a charity..."

"I see, your a professional... I shouldn't be surprised, especially in the state the world is right now. Fine if you can do what you say, you'll be greatly compensated for you troubles." the man said with a sigh.

Naruto grinned before turning on his heel and walking towards the stone.

Somehow, word of his powers had gotten out and over half the town was planning on watching and were watching as he approached.

"Do you really think he's a ninja?"

"I thought that ninjas were extent."

"Look at his clothes, I bet he's not from around here."

"Look at those muscles"

He shook his head at them but snickered at the last. Approaching the stone he saw the Confessor looking at him with a large smile and shining eyes from the side.

Ignoring the creepiness, he stood in front of it and started concentrating, opening his pathways to the foreign chakra, allowing it to mix with the kyuubi's demonic chakra. In doing so, his body had started to glow blue and give off his own human chakra, something that made everyone gaze in awe. After a secound, Naruto touched the stone with both hands and felt an ungodly rush of power.

"-And remember people of new Konoha, you will always have a place here. But before I finish, I have one last thing to say... seven, nearly eight years ago some of you cursed the child Uzumaki Naruto, those of you that continue to do so, I say shame on you. He is the reason we live, he warned us of the fallout. It was he who judged us worthy of a second chance at life, dissipate our flaws he warned us so that we may have a chance against certain death," Tsunade said in her final speech.

The citizens who didn't know that and disliked Naruto looked ashamed of themselves. The vary same person they tried their hardest to make life a living hell actually warned them about something that would've kill them.

Tsunade turned and quickly made her way to the large metal door where she destroyed the seals keeping it closed and pushed it open, causing a rush of air to flow passed her and kick up a large amount of dust just outside the door.

She then moved out of the way to where the rookies were waiting and watched as a few of the inhabitants walked out of the door.

"So..." Tsunade started, "Is everyone ready?"

They all nodded

"Ok, but before we leave I need you all to listen. The scouts also brought this back." She started, holding up a rough looking map. "Using all the gathered information I was able to get a pretty good Idea of all the important areas and have been able to pin point where they are compared to the old maps we had."

She opened the map and pointed to the corner, "This is New Konoha, but the 'wastlanders' call it Raven Rock."

Kakashi looked at the map for a secound, "But aren't we under the Hokage Mountain?"

Tsunade sighed, "Yes but it seems that the demonic chakra was highly corrosive, I should know... seeing as I had to heal Naruto after he used too much of the foxes chakra... But as a result, nearly everything was ruined, the faces corroded along with half the mountain, the trees died out and blackened, hell almost all the water is irradiated and poisonous to drink along with most of the food."

"Whoa... how did anyone survive that?" Choji asked, alarmed at the dangers of eating and drinking.

"From reports, it says that some survivors were able to build purifiers to clean enough water for themselves." Tsunade answered.

Kiba grew restless, "Well let's go already," he said making the larger Akamaru beside him bark and wag his tail in agreement but careful not to disturb the packs he agreed to carry on his back

"Yea sensei," Ino and Sakura said together before glaring at each other.

"Let's go find Naruto-kun" The said together again before glaring again, this time with lightning connecting each other.

Tsunade sighed before smiling sadly along with the other senseis, things were almost back to normal... almost.

Naruto huffed as the stone drained into him, steam raising from his shoulders. Taking a step back he saw his hand prints burned into the stone, leaving a small indention in the rock.

His arms shook, the tips of his fingers flickering from claws and back to normal. His face did the same, flickering to his demonic mode to normal. Forcing the chakra to his hand, he, along with all the shocked and scared onlookers watched as a black orb formed over his hand and solidified into a hard crystal ball the size of a softball before it poofed out of existence, into one of the many seals on his person.

The center of town was silent, not a person said a word. Naruto felt extremely tired and sank to his knees just as the first person 'whooped' for joy only to gasp with everyone else and he fell on his face. Too tired to do anything else for now.

Just a hidden file I found while going through my hard drive, depending on the responses I'll more than likely continue it.