I apologize for my grammar, the truth is . . . I was drinking while writing this chapter as everyone can see . . . . it was chaotic, haha. I made some corrections, hopefully it's better now.

Also, I added a little small scene to the chapter.

Here's the second chapter of the story. I do apologize if the chapter seems to be a . . . bit boring, but I wanted to explain as to how he ended up in Fairy Tail, what has he been doing after he left the guild.

Other than that, I hope you guys enjoy the chapter.

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His Pain & Lament

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Naruto's dream/P.O.V

"What do you mean Ero-sennin is dead!" I demanded as my hands were slammed onto the table, startling everyone around me, but that didn't matter as my eyes were glaring angrily at the being in front of me, a green toad with white hair styled in somewhat of a mohawk, very thick eyebrows and a small goatee, wearing a high-collared cape.

Pa just sighed tiredly as he closed his eyes and lowered his head;

"Naruto-chan . . . I'm afraid that that's not all I've to tell you . . ." spoke the toad as he opened his eyes and looked at me directly, "Konoha . . . is no more."

Everything suddenly stopped moving around me as the news hit me. I couldn't believe it. The village was destroyed and I didn't do a thing to prevent it. My legs were shaking so bad that I had to drop to my knees while still holding onto the table as my I lowered my head between my arms, my shoulders shaking as I tried my best to hold back the tears, refusing to cry in front of everyone.

I could feel the chakra of the Nine Tails slowly coursing through as my anger rose, alternating my looks as they took a wilder look. Then surprisingly, I managed to get shoulders stop shaking and slowly I lifted my head, meeting the elder's gaze, causing the amphibian to flinch when looked at me in the eyes;

"Who did it?" I questioned/growled in a cold voice, but the elder didn't answer right away, causing my anger to rise even more, "WHO!"

"It was Pain, the God of Akatzuki," answered Pa.

My grasp on the table became even tighter that the table itself gave away as it shattered in his hands, causing the toad to jump off onto the ground.

"There's more grave news I'm afraid," I heard him say, "The true leader of Akatzuki has revealed himself, claiming himself to be Uchiha Madara, declaring war on the rest of the nations with already having captured seven of the nine tailed beasts!"

Silence ensued within the guild as I could feel everyone's eyes were focused on me.

"What will you do now, Naruto?" I heard the master say, but I dint turn around to address him.I began to take deep breaths once again as I could feel my anger growing to higher levels along with the power of the Kyuubi flooding me, trying to vanish it right away. Luckily it worked, as I could feel it's chakra receding till it completely disappeared. Once I had regained his composure, I slowly stood up to my feet while turning towards the toad;

"Pa . . . take me back to our world," I told Pa, shocking everyone within the guild, hell even that asshole Laxus looked shocked, but I ignored them, I only had one thing in mind, "If those bastards want the Nine Tails so bad, I'll bring the battle to them."

"Naruto! Have you gone mad!" shouted Pa, "Jiraiya-chan was hard pressed against Pain, even in sage mode and ended up being killed! I will not break Jiraiya-chan's promise to protect you!"

"And while you and everyone else keeps hiding me, many people are losing their lives to these fuckers!" I shouted back, "I'm sick and fucking tired of everyone treating me as if I'm weak! Tsunade thought it was best for me to hide and look what happened, Konoha is gone and I didn't do a fucking thing to stop it!" then calmly I spoke once more, "Pa, I know Ero-sennin was going to start my training in senjutsu and if I'm to have a chance of stopping them, I'm going to need all the training I can get."

"We'll go with you and fight alongside you, Naruto!" shouted Natsu as he pumped his fist into the air with a blue flying taking cat hovering above him;

"AYE!"

"Anyone who messes with a member of our family, messes with the whole guild of Fairy Tail," declared Gray as he lost his clothes . . . again.

"It's the man's job to look out for his comrades!" followed Elfman

Then everyone in the guild shouted their support.

At this point, I could feel the guilt building of what I planned to do, but it had to be done. As much as they wanted to help me, I will not involve them in the chaos that is the shinobi world.

"I'm not bringing any of you guys with me," I commented with seriousness, causing everyone to stop their cheering, looking at me with disbelief. Then I saw Mirajane, pissed off as hell as she marched towards me and grabbed me by the scruff of my jacket;

"Are you an idiot! You'll be killed! Is that what you're looking for!" she shouted at me, but I managed to maintain my composure;

"This fight is personal Mirajane, I will not involve others in this war," I said emotionlessly, I could see the hurt flash in her eyes, but it quickly went away as it was replaced with anger as she growled with her fist cocked back, but the Majorov stopped her;

"Stop at once Mirajane!" ordered the master, causing the silver haired girl to look at her master;

"But Master Makarov –"

"Naruto has already made his choice and we must respect it," said the master with authority

Mirajane looked at her master with wide eyes before she shut them, refusing to shed tears in front of everyone as she shoved me back and walked back to her spot, next to her brother's side.

"Are you positive about this Naruto-chan?" I heard asked Pa, hoping that I would change my mind, but my mind was already made up as I nodded my head. Reluctantly, Pa jumped onto his shoulder and got ready to perform a reverse summon . . . until HER voice reached my ears, almost destroying any resolve I had about leaving;

"So that's it, you're just going to leave us like that," stated Erza as she as she approached me, my heart breaking as I saw her with a face devoid of any emotion, but the hurt was clearly visible in her eyes, "Did anything we did together mean anything to you!" but I didn't reply back, hurting her even more as she slapped hard across the face . . .

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Eye lids were shot open, revealing ocean blue eyes as they adjusted to the light that was shining down upon his face. A twenty year old Naruto Namikaze groggily sat up on his bed, rubbing his eyes as he tried to get rid of his drowsiness. But in reality, he was trying to shake off the dream he just had;

"It's that time of year already," thought the blonde somberly, not needing a calendar to tell him what day it was, since the day of his birth, October ten has been a day he had come to despise, even come to hate after what happened on his birthday three years ago. His eyes flashing with pain as he thought of her;

"Erza . . ."

Every year – before, during or after october tenth – he would feel empty on the inside. He would go around through the war ridden lands of the shinobi nations in search of battle, in hopes of relinquishing the feeling he felt, but deep down he knew that wasn't impossible, not after he had abandoned everyone back in Fairy Tail, after he had abandoned the Queen of the Fairies.

Staring out onto the sunrise, he could not help but remember back to where it all started;

~ ' ~ Flashback ~ ' ~

It had been a week after Naruto had confronted the Immortals of Akatuziki and managed to kill Kakuzu with his new jutsu. However, the news of the Akatzuki majority number of tail beasts was unnerving, and now, standing in front of the Godaime Hokage, Tsunade Senju with Jiraiya beside her, with a sour look on his face as she had told him what she and Jiraiya, along with the shinobi council, had decided to prevent the Akatzuki to prevent the Kyuubi;

"Tell me you're kidding ba-chan!" growled Naruto as he glared at the Hokage, but the Hokage just sat there with a stone expression on her face;

"I'm not joking brat, it has been decided that you're going to be sent into hiding with the toads while we deal with the Akatzuki," debriefed Tsunade without argument

"That's bullshit!" shouted Naruto, but a slam of her first onto the desk stopped any other outbursts he might've had;

"Kami's sake, open your eyes Naruto!" shouted the Hokage back, "This isn't some fairy tale, this is reality! They are after you because of the Kyuubi and they will not stop at nothing in order to get it! Or did you forget what they did to your friend Gaara back in the sand village! You're not strong enough to face them, damn it!"

Naruto just stared at his mother-figure with shocked eyes, not believing what he just heard.

The toad sage tried to defuse the tension as he approached the blonde;

"Naruto, it is true that we are sending you with the toads in order to hide you," admitted Jiraiya, "But there's another motive as to why Tsunade and I want to send you there."

"And what would this reason be, Jiraiya-sensei?" asked a very calmly blonde

Both knew right away that when Naruto was very calm, it only meant that he was extremely mad.

"I talked to the toad elders and both have agreed in teaching you senjutsu," the blonde grew confuse at the announcement.

"Senjutsu? What in the blue hell is that?" asked Naruto

"Senjutsu refers to a specialized field of techniques that allows the user to sense and then gather the natural energy around a person. A senjutsu practitioner can then learn to draw the energy of nature inside of him or her and blend it with their own chakra, adding a new dimension of power to the sage's chakra, resulting in the creation of "senjutsu chakra". This chakra cannot be seen by anyone other than those who have been trained in senjutsu," Naruto's eyes widen at this information, "This new chakra enables the user to enter an empowered state called Sage Mode, which can then drastically increase the strength of all ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu."

"And you want me to learn that?" asked an astonished Naruto, only to receive a silent nod from the sage.

Jiraiya was about to talk, until a quake was felt through the village. The three of them rushed towards the window only to find a huge cloud of smoke coming from the northern wall.

Naruto heard rushing footsteps coming from the hallway, heading their way as a jonin rushed through;

"Lady Hokage! We are being attacked by a member of the Akatzuki!"

Both Sannin's eyes widen in shock, but Naruto's face was one of anger;

"No way in hell I'm going to run away!" growled the blonde as he tried to rush towards the door and meet the threat, but he didn't make as he didn't see the coming strike to back of his head.

"Forgive me Naruto," muttered Tsunade with a solemn look. Then her gaze shifted towards the toad sage, giving her a silent nod.

"Why . . . baa-chan . . ." groaned Naruto as he struggled to stay conscious.

Jiraiya approached the semi-unconscious blonde and pulled out a paint brush, quickly drawing the seal for reverse summoning, since he couldn't take Naruto himself due to him staying with the slug princess to battle the enemy. After the drawn seal was done, Jiraiya took a few steps back and quickly began to make hand signs as he began to mold his chakra. Unfortunately for him, the Hokage tower was targeted for an attack, as it hit directly where the Hokage's office was in, causing the toad sage to mess up on the hand sequence and activate the seal as it began to glow.

Naruto's last image before darkness took him was the look of both sannins having a look of horror in their faces as they both reached out for him, in an attempt to save him.

Slowly, opening his eyes, he could see through his blurry vision that he was in a place he didn't recognized with many people surrounding him, but what had his attention as his vision had readjusted was a red head girl with brown eyes and her hair tied in a ponytail, looking at him with concern and curiosity;

"Beautiful," muttered the blonde before he passed out again.

~ ' ~ End Flashback ~ ' ~

Naruto chuckled at the memory of what happened after. Despite being unconscious, Erza had still bashed his skull into the ground, as she was not used to someone calling her that, since most of the guild had some sort of fear due to her strictness. At first, the two would clash from their disagreements, but then, he got a real close look at her. He saw the hidden pain, the loneliness she felt within her.

For six months, the blonde was in Earthland and couldn't help but feel that he was in heaven.

During those six months, Naruto got to know most of the members in the guild and without question; they accepted him as their own, even if Natsu's constant challenges were a bit annoying, but he wouldn't change it for the world. It was alien to him at the beginning, since his sixteen years of life, he had known nothing but hate and scorn from the people of Konoha, and yet, in a single day, he had found the acceptance of others. It was so surreal until Master Makorov had explained it him that almost every member in the guild has had a trouble past and found a place to call their nakama and place to call home.

Those six months seemed like a dream. He could be himself, he wasn't scorned or hated for being alive, and he didn't have to worry about nothing in general. He was free.

However, during that time, Erza slowly lowered her walls as she began to trust him little by little. At first they could be seen in the bar in the guild hall conversing or outside sparring one another. Then it went to both of them going to missions together, to finally being seeing together, inseparable at the guild or around the town of Magnolia, either hugging or holding hands.

When he was around Erza, all the years of hell he lived were instantly washed away. With every kiss, every hug, every touch he got from her made him feel like he mattered. Sure the guild made him feel like home, but with Erza, it was different. She made him feel like he mattered to her only. The blonde then remembered how nervous he was when he wanted to tell Titania of how he felt towards her, but due to how his life was, he didn't want to be hurt. Thankfully, the old guild master assured him that she wouldn't turn him down and right he was when right after telling her, the red haired girl hugged him fiercely and kissed him with passion. That night had been magical to him, his mind already made up concerning himself and his scarlet girl.

~ ' ~ Flashback ~ ` ~

Naruto and Erza were sitting on the bed, their nude bodies covered by the blanket they had shared for the night, resting after expressing their love as they watched the full moon hang high in the sky through the window, their naked bodies pressing together as Erza leaned against her blonde's chest while his arms were wrapped around her waist, pulling her close towards him. Both of them not saying a word as words were not necessary at the moment.

"Naruto-kun," muttered the red head softly

"Hmm?"

"Promise me that you will never leave me," said Erza as she shifted in her position so she could look at him in the eye.

Naruto looked down at her with a surprised expression, but the his gaze softened;

"I promise Erza-chan, I'll stay with you always," said the blonde, causing her to smile brightly before she leaned back against his chest once again and rested her head on his bare shoulder, "And no matter what, I'll always come back to you."

Letting out a content sigh, she softly placed her hands on his forearms;

"Then I'll be here," she said, causing Naruto to look down at her with a raised eyebrow.

"I'll be here," she repeated as turned towards him

"Why?"

"I'll be here waiting for you," said Erza a she gazed into his blue eyes, "Every time you come back, you'll find me."

Naruto could see the love she felt for him and made his heart fill with happiness at the thought of finally finding someone to be with;

"You promise?" asked the blonde softly as Erza reached for his cheek and softly stroke it with her hand

"I promise," assured the red head as the two closed the gap and shared a kiss through the night.

~ ` ~ End Flashback ~ ` ~

Then a frown came to his lips as he reached for the cord around his neck, grasping a ring with a scarlet diamond firmly in his hand.

He had broken the promise he made to her.

A couple of days after that night, the blonde planned to propose to her . . . But reality had shattered the fairy tale as Fukasaku had finally found him. Being reminded that because of the tail beast within him. He had lost both his grandparent/parent figures, along with all those he came to consider his family. That he was never going know peace as long as he was cursed and always being sought after for the being that was sealed inside of him.

Then quickly, Naruto shook his head, trying to shake off the look of everyone's faces as they looked at him with disbelief, anger and betrayal in their eyes, but the look in her eyes was the one that hurt him the most, it was the pain in her eyes that he caused that made him wish to be dead.

Sighing, he got up his bed and walked towards his equipment, thinking of everything that has happened during these past three years as he reached out and put on his net shirt, covering the many scars he had gotten throughout the battles in these past three years.

After leaving the guild and arriving at Mt. Myobuko, Fukasaku told him of the code that Jiraiya had encoded on his back and immediately began his training in senjutsu. The training was hard and brutal but he had exceeded where Jiraiya had failed. It took him almost exactly six months to fully master senjutsu, but during his training, Fukasaku was informing him of everything that had happened during his absence in the elemental nations. Apparently after the fall of Konoha, Sasuke had turn on the snake bastard and killed him, but he didn't leave empty handed. After having killed Orochimaru, the traitorous teammate of his had freed some of the snake's prisoners and created his own little team and one thing in mind: Finding and killing his older brother, Itachi Uchiha.

The two Uchiha brothers did clash, but Sasuke came out victorious in the end due to Itachi being close to death's doors from an unknown illness and by using his Magenkyo Sharingan nymerous times. Meanwhile, the remaining kages had a meeting in some samurai village, which was when the self-proclaimed Madara Uchiha appeared and declared war on the four villages. After the remaining Uchiha recovered from the battle against his brother, Sasuke had joined Madara's organization and was sent out to hunt the eight tail's container, who was the tag-team partner of the Raikage, Killer Bee. According to toad elder, Bee had an earlier confrontation with another member, Kisame Hoshigaki, also known as the "Monster of the Hidden Mist", being able to match the container blow for blow, until the Raikage had intervened in the battle and both used their tag-team attack to kill the former member of the Kiri no Shinobigatana Shichinin Shū.

But despite with six of their members dead, it didn't seem to slow them down one bit.

Naruto's frown deepened as began to wrap his left forearm in bandages, remembering his confrontation against Pein in Amegakure as soon as he had left Mt. Myobuko. The fight itself was one that was considered a battle between gods and demons. True to Fukasaku's words, Pein was one individual that was not to be taken lightly, due to one of Rinnegan's abilities was a shared field of vision through all the paths, but that didn't stop him from marching into Ame to confront Pein and begin an all-out assault as he skillfully, stealthily and mercilessly eliminated each of the paths, until the Deva path was left. The last path resulted to be difficult, even in his sennin modo as the path easily repelled off any attack he launched at him, luckily though, thanks to his kage bunshin, he was able to regain senjutsu chakra as he left them hidden within the city, gathering as they meditated only to be reversed summoned whenever he was out of chakra. But unfortunately, the path proved to be more powerful than the others as it was able to subdue him with some difficulty. As Naruto was pinned by the chakra receivers, the Deva path made a mistake of telling him of how had destroyed his home in order to draw him out, how both of the sannins with everyone else he come to consider family fought valiantly to defend their home, only to be proved futile in the end as he obliterated all of them. But what angered him the most is that Pein informed him that he was also a former student of Jiraiya and betrayed his mentor.

In his anger, the blonde tapped into the nine tail's chakra; going up to six tails as it destroy his confines.

A kyuubified Naruto proved to be too strong for the Deva path to handle, even more when a seventh tail appeared, resorting to Chibaku tensei.

Naruto sadly smiled softly as he recalls finally meeting his father, even if it was inside his mind due to him almost losing control to the Kyubi and almost ripping the seal off. The Yondaime Hokage appeared in his mind and stopped him from ripping the seal off and told him that he was his son, but also warned him about the mask wearing Akatzuki member, which Naruto already knew that it was Madara. Despite all that, he told him proud he was of him, even if he was saddened that the village, along with their sensei and loved ones were gone. Also, his father knew of the people he left behind, he knew of her. His father could feel the deep regret he felt at having to leave her behind, regret of abandoning the people he had come to consider a second family, but mostly his biggest regret was to allow his anger and despair to get the best of him, causing him to make a drastic decision that caused him to leave her behind.

"Find happiness my son and remember that no matter what, I'll always love you and believe in you."

Those were his father's last words he spoke and passed him the knowledge on how to use his signature jutsu and seals to him before he fixed the seal containing the fox and vanished.

With new vigor, Naruto resumed his fight against Pein, defeating the Deva Path and finding the real body of Pein in the tallest tower of Ame, too weak to be much of a threat to him, remembering his conversation with the dying Nagato;

~ " ~ Flashback ~ " ~

"...Do you hate me? Now that you see me before you...you want your revenge, don't you?" the redhead asked as the blond Jinchuuriki as he gasped for air.

"If you kill Nagato and get your revenge, that won't change anything. It'll only make you feel better," Konan said clearly as she stood in front of him protectively.

"You're right," Naruto nodded. "But I didn't come here to talk to you; I came here to find out how I would feel when I finally saw you in front of me."

"And?"

"I really want to kill you," growled Naruto, didn't attack however, "But I won't."

His answer surprised Nagato.

"Ero-sennin wouldn't have wanted that. You were his student, he trusted you and you betrayed him by giving up everything he stood for," began the blonde, "Jiraiya-sensei desired peace, but not through pain and fear. That kind of peace would bring nothing but more suffering and death, thus not breaking the cycle of chaos."

By then Naruto turned around to leave, but stopped shortly without looking back;

"You're right about one thing, the shinobi world is doomed to destroy itself, but I will find true peace, for as long as humanity exists there will always be fighting. A little fight now and then is good and all but too much of it can consume you."

With that, he left a shocked Nagato to his last breaths.

~ " ~ End Flashback ~ " ~

After he had left Ame, a few weeks had passed when he heard about the 'God' of Ame dying among shinobi forces that were stationed over the smaller villages.

He noticed after fighting Pein, that he felt different. He didn't feel the anger and the hate he once had after he found out of what had happened to the village along with his precious people. He now felt somewhat at peace. He didn't wish to fight to get revenge for his dead ones. No, he wanted to fight for the peace that the future generation would live in, just like ero-sennin stood for.

By now, Naruto had finished wrapping his right forearm, his sight stuck on the orange guild stamp on the palm of his right hand.

"I wonder if they have forgotten about me during theses last three years," mused the blonde quietly, his voice carrying the guilt he felt and pain as he stared out the window, "Erza . . . Have you forgotten me as well and moved on or am I still in your thoughts?"

Sighing, he reached out for his armor. It was a battle worn anbu armor vest that he had managed to salvage after going to the ruins of Konoha in hopes of finding any other survivals, but he found none. After finding items that were still usable, like a sword, anbu equipment, some scrolls, medicine, etc. Naruto left the ruins, not looking back once.

Then his thoughts drifted to his once brother turn traitor, his eyes hardening as he recalls his fight with his former teammate. It had been seven months after his battle with Pein and during those seven months, the blonde kept on training till he dropped from exhaustion and his body ached. He managed to learn swordsmanship from a wandering swordsman, learning a style that was supposed to have god-like speed and being able to read your opponents movement before they even make them. It only took him 3 months to learn while he practiced some of the jutsu he had gathered from the scroll of secrets (including his father's signature jutsu), that miraculously, managed to stay intact during the fall of Konoha. After parting ways with his master, Naruto had found a town where he could re-stock on supplies and re-create the special kunais needed for the Haraishin no jutsu.

After leaving the town once he got all the supplies he needed, Naruto was confronted by his former teammate in the forest with his new team, team Taka. Sasuke had one thing in mind and that was to kill Naruto, confident that Naruto was weak as he was still trying to 'save' him, but the blonde had severely surprised the Uchiha when he instantly killed two of his teammates, leaving the him and the girl of the team alive. The Uchiha was shaken at the fact that the dobe had actually killed without remorse, but thought it was a fluke and called his now deceased teammates weak, angering Naruto even more since he strongly believed in Kakashi's motto.

Once the fight began, the gap between their power was visible as day. To Naruto, Pein was a more difficult opponent that he had ever fought while Sasuke, he could telegraph most of his attacks and counter before the Uchiha even had a chance to defend himself. Of course, the Uchiha was pissed that the dobe, since he was struggling against a nobody while Naruto seemed not to be taking him seriously, asking himself why was the dobe still stronger than him so he resorted to using his Magenkyo Sharingan after having his brother's eyes implanted into him. At this, Sasuke began to boast how he was invincible since he now had a complete Magnekyo sharingan, and that he would destroy the last remnant of Konoha just like they had done to his clan. To say that Naruto was shocked was an understatement, but he didn't care since everything was in the past and moved on to live in the present. Without warning, Naruto launched one of the special kunais in the air and watched it descend on Sasuke and used to kunai kage bunshin no jutsu to create various clones of the kunai and watched them land scattered around the Uchiha. Sasuke arrogantly boasted about his aim, but Naruto's cold smirk unnerved him as he began to glow a faint yellow and in a blink of an eye, he disappeared in a yellow flash that flashed around him.

Sasuke didn't know what had happened until a few seconds later he began to feel the most incuciaring pain as he looked down and saw that his body had been severely cut. Shakingly, the Uchiha looked back only to find Naruto with his sword drawn and his back facing him.

Naruto simply muttered, "It's over."

And Sasuke fell on his back with a giant gash appearing on his chest going down to his waist diagonally as blood gushed out freely, gasping for his last breaths as he glared at the blonde hatefully.

"Damn you . . . Naruto . . ." were the Uchiha's last words before he left the world of the living. (A/N)

Karin, who was spared by Naruto, had spread the word that Konoha's Yellow Flash had been reborn.

A month later after killing the Uchiha, Naruto was confronted by Kumo's remaining container.

Killer Bee had first attacked him to evaluate him and was impressed that the son of the Yondaime Hokage was able to go toe to toe with him, but when Bee decided to use his bijuu shroud, the tables were turned against the blonde. Naruto was hard pressed, even in Sennin modo, Naruto was able to keep up somewhat with Bee.

After the fight, Bee had asked him why he hadn't used the Kyuubi's chakra, only for Naruto to answer regrettably that he could not control it.

Then he had spent another seven months with Bee as he went to master the Kyuubi's chakra and it wasn't easy for Naruto had to face the darkness in his heart, but in the end he came to embrace it as his faith in himself grew tenfold. Once he had conquered the darkness, Bee told him that he could face the Nine-tails in order to control his chakra.

The struggle against the fox was hard, so hard that he almost lost himself to the hate he had conquered . . . that is until he had an unexpected visit from his mother.

Naruto chuckled of how back then, he thought that his mother was a trick made by the fox, but he was sorely mistaken when she whacked hard in the head while shouting her own catchphrase.

~ ' ~ Flashback ~ ' ~

He and his mother spent a good amount of time talking after she helped him defeat the fox. They talked about how she meet and fell in love with his father, why she didn't like her hair so much until Minato had saved from a certain incident, causing Naruto to pout since he admitted his mom being very attractive with red hair, almost making him wish he had red hair as well. Then she told him of the events that happened the night the Nine Tails attacked the village. By the end, Naruto swore to kill Madara for everything he had taken from him.

Then his mother tried to lighten up the mood by trying to tease him of having found a girl yet, but it backfired as she saw his downed cast look;

"What's wrong socchi?" asked his mother with concern

"I did find a girl that made me feel I could on the world but . . . ." Naruto trailed off, unable to finish his sentence;

"But you left her in order to stop this war," finished Kushina for him, hitting it on the nail as she saw him nod

"Yes and the guilt I feel for doing so is at times unbearable, but I can't go back anymore," said the blonde, more downcast

"Why not?"

"Because I betrayed them, I betrayed her. A guild is a family that helps one another and I threw it back in their face by denouncing their help and coming here alone," tears began to appear in his eyes, but he refused to let them fall, "I can still see her eyes in my sleep, full of hurt and anger."

Kushina went to reach her son and pulled him into a hug, comforting as she rubbed his back softly, finally breaking the wall that held all of his guilt and pain as he began to sob;

"Why? Why is it that when I finally find happiness, it's taken from me or being forced to leave It behind!" cried Naruto on his mother's shoulder, "First you and dad, then old man Hokage, then Jiraiya and Tsunade-bachan and now Erza, why damnit!"

"There there now, it's alright," soothed his mother as she pulled from the hug and looked at him in the eye with tears in her own eyes, "Go to her once this all over."

"But how can I! She probably doesn't want to see me ever again!" cried Naruto, but his mother just gave him a reassuring smile;

"Call it mother's intuition, but they do miss you, especially her, go to her socchi, she does love you as much as you love her," said Kushina before her own eyes showed such sadness, "And I'm so sorry. We made you into the nine tail's vessel and left you with a heavy burden," unable to look at her son in the eye, "I wasn't there to raise you, I wasn't there to love you."

Naruto looked down as well with a sad smile;

"Don't apologize. I had a lot of hard times growing up as a jinhuuriki, but I never once blamed either of you," said Naruto, causing his mother to shot up and look at her son in surprise. Then Naruto looked at his mom with a smile, "Maybe I never understood what a parent's love is really like, but I never had a mom or dad to begin with, but I managed," then his smile got even brighter, "But now, I get it. I live because my parents gave their lives for me. You filled me up with love before putting the fox in me and here I am, happy and healthy," opening up his eyes with his smile never leaving him, "I'm glad I ended up being your son."

At this point, Kushina was in tears as her body slowly began to disintegrate, reaching towards her son for a last, final hug;

"Thank you for letting me be your mother, thank you for letting Minato be your father and thank you for being our son. Thank you . . . . . Thank you . . . ."

By the time she had reached him, her presence had disappeared as her chakra splashed Naruto with tears rolling down his eyes, her words still lingered on.

~ ' ~ End Flashback ~ ' ~

After he bid farewell to his mother, Naruto resume his training in mastering the Kyuubi's chakra. It was a hard task, but in another seven months of none stop training, he managed to control the chakra up to a margin, since the Nine Tails was being uncooperative. However, he didn't had time to worry about that since the news of Madara joining the battle, after remaining behind the curtains for so long, with the statue that held the captured bijuus along with the re-animated former containers, thanks to Kabuto. It was chaos, with Kabuto forming an alliance and bringing back the dead shinobis from the past to the world of the living, the shinobi alliance was struggling to obtain victory, but thanks to one of the resurrections, Itachi, managed to break free from the control seal and sought the medic to successfully stop the Edo Tensei, giving the alliance a fighting chance as every shinobi brought back to life returned to the world of the dead. Meanwhile, Bee and Naruto were fighting the former jinhuuriki's who were in control of Madara and the bastard himself. Bee and Naruto managed to hold off the tail beasts, considering that the two contained the two most powerful of the tail beasts and that Kurama (Kyuubi) willingly accepted to help out the blonde. After witnessing that Itachi had succeeded in stopping the Edo Tensei, the two concentrated their attention on Madara.

Naruto and Bee attack with valor and strength, but with their enemy wielding both the Rinnegan and Sharingan, he proved to be a tough opponent, but not untouchable as they both had managed to land a few good hits on him but was still too strong for them. They both knew that they had to retreat, but not before they took advantage of Madara's focus on them as they sent two powerful bijudamas, bypassing their enemy as their main target was the statue, destroying along with the tail beasts but that didn't matter since they would manifest down the road again.

After ensuring that the statue was demolished, Bee used his ink to blind Madara, as said person was still in shock as his carelessness and saw his plan blow up to pieces. Once he had regained his focus, with a fury snarled, he turned his attention back to his targets, only to find them that they had retreated.

Now, after nine months after the statue was destroyed, no one had heard of Madara, but some believed that he went out to try and re-captured the tail beasts, while some thought he had gone to re-strategize his plans, but one thing was for sure, whenever he chose to re-appear, he would be back with a vengeance directed at the last two remaining jinchuurikis.

A knock on his door brought the blonde out of his thoughts as he looked towards the entrance of his room;

"Come in," Naruto announced

The door opened revealing Killer Bee coming in with a serious expression on his face;

"He's back and has called us out for a final confrontation at the Valley of the End," announced Killer Bee

Naruto nodded his head in confirmation;

"I'll meet you at the entrance, there's something I have to do first, it won't take long."

Killer Bee nodded his head and walked out of the room, leaving Naruto by himself as he looked in front of him, standing in front of his mirror, armor and gear ready for battle as he sought to finish this once and for all.

Then quickly, he made a few hand signs and slammed his hand on the ground. A puff of smoke suddenly sprouted out of nowhere and once it had dispersed, Fukasaku stood there.

"Hello Naru-chan, it's been a while," greeted the toad.

Naruto nodded his head with a small smile;

"That it has Fukasaku-sensei."

"So what you summoned me for?" asked the toad

"I want you do me a favor," replied Naruto, causing the toad to look at him with a raised eyebrow. Slowly, Naruto reached for a scroll that was resting on his bed and grabbed it, then he reached for his necklace and ripped it off his neck before he put it in a small box and gave the two items to the toad, "I want you to go back to Fairy Tail and deliver these two items to either Master Makorov or Erza," then Naruto grimaced a little, "But if you find Erza wanting to kill you, then give the items to Makorov."

"So . . . it's time," stated the toad elder, knowing what Naruto's actions meant.

"Yea . . . I don't know if I'll make it out alive, but in the scroll, everything will be explained," informed Naruto, with a sad smile, "But let her know . . . that she never left my thoughts for I still love her and that I'm sorry for being foolish in choosing this path."

Fukasaku just nodded his head silently and bowed in respect towards the warrior in front of him before he vanished in a puff of smoke.

Sighing, Naruto steeled himself before he walked out of his room with one thought in mind;

"Today . . . this war comes to an end Madara."

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Cut.

This chapter feels like it didn't bring much emotion, but it did set up for the next coming chapters.

On the A/N for the Naruto/Uchiha fight, I just felt that it wasn't as important for two reasons, one) sakura is dead, so the promise he made to her isn't valid anymore and two) Pein is far stronger opponent in my eyes than Sasuke.

Hope you guys like the chapter and I'll try to post the next chapter soon as possible.

Kyu no Ken out.