DATE RE-STARTED: January 31, 2010

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GENRE: Dimension-Travel Action/Adventure/Romance

SUMMARY: After a final attempt to turn the tides of war against an immortal Orochimaru, Naruto suddenly woke up in a Konoha where the villagers saw him as a hero but all his precious people only saw him as a spoiled brat and a nuisance. But the biggest surprised of all is that a mother he had never knew was alive, and that he also has a younger sister with a terminal illness. Can he cope with this new world before him? Can he regain the trust of his precious people once again? And would he be able to defeat the Orochimaru of this world?

CHAPTER 1

When Naruto finally opened his eyes, he was expecting to see either the gates of Heaven or the fires of Hell, but instead, he found himself in an all too familiar sewer he had visited so many times through the course of his life. He was inside his mind once more, the same dirty walls, the same low ceiling, the same murky water, the same busted pipe system.

Thinking that he might have fouled up the seal release, he started heading towards Kyuubi's cage at the very center of his mindscape. Soon enough, he found himself in front of a very huge gate at the end of the sewer. But it was different than what he remembered. For one thing, the bars seem to be rusted and weak, compared to the golden shine it used to have. There also seems to be some kind of parasitic molds that are slowly eating away the walls surrounding the cage. The only thing that looked the same is the seal that keeps the cage intact.

He walked towards the gate, which immediately shifted its shape to allow him entry. As he passed through the gate, instead of feeling the enormous chakra of the most powerful of the Tailed Beasts, he felt a twiddling presence that is barely there anymore. He looked around the endless sea of darkness but found no sign of the Kyuubi.

He was just about to call out to him when, out of nowhere, tendrils of red chakra engulfed him and held him firmly in place. Then, an unfamiliar voice was heard saying, "I have found you again, foolish mortal. You thought you could just run away and let me die in such a pitiful state, you pathetic excuse of a worm?"

Then, a red chakra slowly started to shimmer in front of him, shaping into a form of a fox that is twice as big as himself. When the form is finally complete and solid, Naruto found himself face to face with the Kyuubi no Kitsune. But there was a big difference with this demon fox compared to the one he had grown to know. This fox seems to have a lighter shade of orange fur, and instead of black, it has white fur highlighting the edge of its ears, mouth, legs and tails. Also, this fox is a bit more feminine than his Kyuubi. Also, this fox seems to be quite weak, as if its power is barely keeping it standing.

When the fox finally got a good look at him, it growled with such ferocity that made the hairs of his back stand on end. "You are not my jailer! Who are you, human? Speak now or suffer my wrath!"

Naruto smirked. He had endure his own fox ever since he got to know it and if this other fox thinks it could get him to cower in its presence then it got another thing coming. "Naruto."

"No, you are not. You may look like him, your souls may even smell the same, but you are not my vessel! Now, you will suffer for invading my cell!" This Kyuubi shouted in rage before she sprung towards him with intent to kill.

Seeing this, Naruto narrowed his eyes and immediately called forth his own mixed chakra, destroying the tendrils holding him.

The Kyuubi was so shocked at seeing a mere human totally destroyed her chakra tendrils that it stopped dead in its track, giving Naruto the chance to attack it.

Using his own pools of chakra mixed with his Kyuubi's youkai, he pinned down the other fox by the neck, totally immobilizing its use of its chakra by blocking it with his own.

"Release me, human scum! Release me!"

"SHUT UP!" Naruto shouted at the strangling fox. Putting more pressure on its neck, he ordered. "Revert to your humanoid form."

"Who are you to order me, the most feared of the Tailed Demons? Release me or I will burn your soul for all eternity, ape-rat!" The fox continued to struggle but with no avail. The human's hold on it was too strong.

"Not until you revert to your humanoid form and answer some questions. Now, revert to your human form!"

The fox tried to struggle some more, using its chakra to push him off, with no apparent success. Finally, the fox started to change. But instead of a man that Naruto was used to seeing, the fox turned into a buxom, red headed, girl of about 20 years of age. A buxom, naked, red headed girl! And with fox ears, red slitted eyes, and nine reddish fox tails.

Naruto almost had a nosebleed at the slender figure underneath him. Fortunately for him, his exposure to the naked female flesh at a young age thanks to a perverted sannin allowed him to keep better control of his raging hormones.

"Now, if you swear to answer my questions and not to attack me once I release you, I will answer all questions you will ask. Is it a deal?"

The now human fox gave her captor a death glare before finally spitting out a "Fine, human."

"Good." He then jumped off of her, giving the two of them at least five meters of space between them just in case Kyuubi decides to attack him, no matter how small a chance it has considering a demon had just given him her words. And no demon, especially powerful ones, goes back on their word.

"Who are you, human?" She asked as soon as she was on her feet.

"I am Uzumaki Namikaze Naruto, Fox-Frog Sannin of Konohagakure, Kage of the survivors of the Hidden Villages of the Shinobi Continent, and Leader of the Alliance in the war against Otogakure." He said proudly. "Now, who are you?"

"Are you blind, human? Standing before you is the most feared of all the Tailed Beasts, I am Kyuubi no Kitsune."

Naruto pondered her answer for a few minutes, thinking of how it is possible to see another Kyuubi no Kitsune in his mind. He looked at her intently for a few moments, trying to keep his eyes on her face instead of her perfectly shaped chest, slim waist, and lower regions. Then he noticed that her tails seems to be a bit transparent in some areas. "Why are you so weak?"

The fox growled a bit but answered his question nonetheless. "I am weak now because my vessel's soul decided to flee when he was attacked by a rogue ninja a month ago. When I lent him my chakra to save his pitiful life, he used that chakra to separate his soul from his body to escape rather than face his opponent. A body without a soul will soon die so I was using my chakra tendrils, spreading it throughout all plane of existence to bring his soul back to his body. I may be indifferent to death but I shall NOT die in such a pitiful manner!"

"Plane of existence? A different dimension!" Naruto thought. According to his Kyuubi, the spirit world is just another plane of existence. There even exist other realities, sort of a different dimension, which is also akin to another plane of existence. And if this Kyuubi was using its chakra tendrils as fishing lines to get the soul of another Naruto from the spirit world, it might have caught him by mistake since he has practically the same soul as his counterpart.

"How long have you been imprisoned?" he asked.

"Eleven years."

"Eleven years? Then he is still a child!"

"Yes, a child. A useless one at that! And now, I will die doing nothing because that child decides to run for it."

"Can't you just use your tendrils to catch him like you did me?"

"Not anymore. I am at my last leg. Spreading my chakra outside this cage the first time have already drained me of half my powers. And doing it again is impossible now."

"I see." Naruto thought hard about this predicament. On one hand, he could just leave and go to the spirit world where he would wait for his Kyuubi before facing Judgement. On the other hand, he could stay and live in his counterpart's place, which wouldn't be so hard since he and the other Naruto practically have similar souls. Spreading his chakra outward, he felt the entire mindscape of his counterpart begun to react to his whim. The farthest of his own chakra tendril could already feel some sense of the outside world. He knew he could wake up anytime he wanted and his counterpart's body would accept him readily as it would this world's Naruto.

He turned towards the female Kyuubi and asked, "Hey, Kitsune, tell me about your vessel."

"Why should I waste my time telling you anything, human?"

Instead of taking offense, Naruto gave her a huge grin and said, "Because I have a deal for you."

Inuzuka Rin was just finishing her rounds at the hospital when she heard a noise at the end of the dark hallway of the third floor. Stepping out of the reception desk, she went towards the noise only to find a pitiful sight of a familiar 4 years old child, with bright purple hair, bright blue eyes, and with a crutch limping towards a familiar room just down the hallway from her own.

Namikaze Naomi, daughter of the Yondaime Hokage and her Jounin-sensei during her genin days, had been suffering from a chakra disease that had killed her father five years ago. Despite looking like a very cute four years old, she is actually seven years old going eight. But her disease had halted her physical and mental growth development and would soon destroy her chakra coil system, thus killing the poor child. As of now, her disease had made her body so weak and brittle that her bones could brake even with a mere application of pressure on them. Her immune systems are almost none existent which makes her very receptable to other diseases, which is why she had spent half of her life in this hospital. And her muscles had stopped growing, making any movement for her a huge struggle.

Rin immediately went to her and kneeled in front of her as she said in a calm sweet voice, "Naomi-chan, you know you're not allowed to walk by yourself. So what are you doing walking alone at night?"

Naomi grinned at her cutely, her golden blond hair and cute blue eyes making the poor nurse almost shout 'kawaii' and hug her like a stuffed teddy bear, and said, "But, Rin-nee-chan, I just wanted to visit my Onii-chan again."

Rin managed to stop herself from sighing outwardly. She doesn't know how such a sweet little girl could have such a spoiled older brother like Namikaze Naruto. The young boy used to be so nice, but right after the death of his father, the Yondaime Hokage, he had gotten involved with the wrong sort of crowd. He became such a problem child, pulling dangerous pranks, insulting people lesser than him, and demanding what he want by telling people he should have what he want because he is the son of the Yondaime and the hero of Konoha, due to the fact that he keeps the demon fox locked up inside him. And the Council pretty much bails him out every time he gets caught, which had spoiled him even more.

Naomi and Naruto's mother, Namikaze Kushina, had really tried to keep her son in line but she barely had time for her son since her daughter needed constant attention. And being in constant disagreement with the Council doesn't help her disposition either. There was even a rumor that the Council had demanded to dissolve the title of Hokage because the Sandaime failed to protect Konoha's hero from a rogue ninja attack last month, which had caused Naruto to go into a comma. But such rumor had never been proven true since the Sandaime is still in office.

Rin was already planning to tell Naomi that she should be in bed and just visit her brother tomorrow. But when she look at her, the little girl had initiated the PDE (Puppy Dog Eyes) attack on her, which when combined with the little girl's natural cute-factor, could be considered as a deadly weapon. And Rin just got the full blast of such a dreaded attack. "Okay, Naomi-chan. But afterwards, you'll go straight to bed, alright."

"Yey!" Naomi cheered as the nice nurse help her walk towards her older brother's room. But when they got there, both girls got the surprise of their lives. The young blond boy, who was said to never recover from his coma, was sitting by the window ledge, looking at the night stars. "Onii-chan!" Naomi squealed happily upon seeing her brother up and about.

Rin almost took a step back when the blond boy finally turned towards them. She had never seen such intensity in those blue eyes of his before, which was solely directed at the happy little girl. It is as if the nurse got caught in a blast of silent emotion radiating from the young boy.

Namikaze Naruto walks slowly towards them, his eyes never leaving his sister's face. There seems to be so much emotion dancing in his eyes at the moment. And all of them directed at his sister.

Naomi, on the other hand, who doesn't even seems to notice the conflicting emotions on his brother's eyes, merely smiled at him happily and put her arms forward, silently telling his brother to carry her, like he did before father died.

Rin pitied the little girl even more for her actions. For years now, Naomi would always do this gesture to her brother only to be neglected as if she was nothing. Her brother Naruto had never indulged Naomi in anything ever since their father died. He always said it would make him look like a sissy. But Naomi never faltered. She would do this despite getting nothing in return.

Rin was about to reprimand the little girl when the most unexpected thing happened. The boy had given his sister a genuine smile and picked her up gently in his arms, hugging her close to him as if he had just met her for the first time in his life. "Tadaima, Naomi-imouto-chan." (I'm home, my dear sister Naomi)

Naomi squealed in delight, she knew that if she keeps on trying, she would be rewarded one day. Naruto, on the other hand, savored the feeling of having a true blood relative in his arms. He never had the chance to have any true family so it wasn't a surprised to him when tears of joy started flowing down his face. Both siblings were just too happy to have each other, one after years of neglect while the other throughout his entire life, that they didn't even noticed when Rin started running heading towards the nearest telephone to contact some people.

Namikaze Kushina, a 29 years old chunin teacher at the Shinobi Academy was leaving behind a huge dust cloud as she dash towards the ninja hospital with speed that would put her late husband's Body Flicker Technique to shame. The 5'7" slim, brown haired, blue eyed kunoichi had, barely fifteen minutes ago, received a call from her friend at the hospital. If it weren't for the huge stock of paper works she had from the academy, she would have been at the hospital hours ago. And now, it seems like her son had miraculously reawakened from a coma everyone thought he would never wake from and that he seems to be bonding with his sister.

She really want to get her hopes up but it had been five years since Naruto had done any type of bonding with his sister Naomi. She had to make sure that it would be just a spur of the moment thing or it might break poor Naomi's heart.

She reached the hospital five minutes later and quickly run up towards her son's room at the third floor. She barely gave her friend Rin a wave before she rushed towards the door. When she got there, she heard something she haven't heard for a few years now. Laughter. She could see Naomi sitting on Naruto's lap, laughing as her brother was making goofy faces at her while telling her some kind of funny story. Her son was laughing too, and seems to be genuinely enjoying himself with Naomi's company, like they used to before her husband died from that chakra disease.

"Naruto-kun?" Kushina said, her voice so soft that it was almost a whisper. She just stood there, praying to all the Kami out there that this wasn't a dream.

Both children turned to her. Naomi squealed like she always does and waved at her happily. Naruto, on the other hand, seems to have a shock look on his face as he stared at her. If she didn't know any better, she would have told herself that her son had just saw her for the very first time in his entire life and was trying to imprint every little thing about her into his mind.

Then, finally, he smiled at her, a truly genuine smile, and said, "Hi there, okaa-san. Tadaima."

She couldn't stop herself anymore. She immediately went towards her children and gave her son a very tight hug that almost broke his ribs. "Oh, my darling Naruto. You're awake! Thank Kami you're back!"

"O-okaa-s-san. . . a-air." Kushina immediately loosen her hold, allowing Naruto to breathe once more. When he returned the hug, he gave her a smile.

"Family Hug!" Naomi shouted cheerfully as she joined her mom and brother in another bouts of hugs.

Rin, who was watching from the door, couldn't help but smile at the touching scene. She gave the family one last smile before quietly closing the door so they could have some privacy.

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