Into the Depths

Normal speech / thoughts

Abyssal speech/ thoughts

Tailed – Beast speech/ thoughts

AN: Congrats to those who correctly guessed the identity of the Abyssal who saved Naruto, and for those still guessing than stop cause you're about to find out. Also to the reviewer that called themselves critics, my other stories are getting new chapters as soon as I finish them, which hopefully won't be too long. Also the first part wasn't a flashback it was a telling of events as they happened, not sure if that's what you were implying.

My schedule… Don't ask….

Disclaimer: I don't own anything. Don't say I do. I already did my time.

Chapter 1: Welcome to the Abyss.

Chapter start!

Naruto groaned as he woke up, body sore and his legs felt as if they were held in casts. The now awake blonde opened his eyes, only for darkness to greet him. He stared out what he thought was a circular window that was high up in the wall, and only what-to him- was a black sky with no moon, or stars out. As his eyes became more adjusted to the dark, Naruto saw that he was placed in a rather odd room. It looked like it might be an operating room but, from what his limited vision could show him, the equipment seemed a bit too futuristic. Now, Naruto didn't see much equipment whenever he was in the hospital in Konohagakure, but he was certain that they were a lot bulkier, and had wires with blinking lights! There was an I.V. tube attached to his right arm that went to some machine that was just a screen with what he guessed were his vitals displayed, his heart beat represented by a blue line that went up and down in a stable rhythm.

"The hell am I?" Naruto asked out loud, his throat dry. He wondered how long it's been since he lost consciousness. His question was answered a few seconds after he uttered it.

"Seven miles below the surface of the ocean." Spoke a sensual, feminine voice from his left. Naruto whipped his head towards the source, surprised that someone was there. He could make out her outline, but the black prevented him from seeing her in detail. She sounded mature, and familiar. Wait, did she just say-

"Seven what below what!?" Naruto exclaimed, unsure if he heard correctly. He heard an amused giggle that sounded MUCH more suggestive then it should've been.

"You heard me right." The unknown woman stated. Naruto could see her shift her body around, he could tell she sat on a chair, and heard a few bones pop. She must've stayed with him. Naruto made a note to thank her for the courtesy. Huh, never needed to that before.

"You're seven miles below the surface of the ocean." Repeated the woman, emphasis added to the words that Naruto thought he misheard. Her eyes had perfect vision in the dark, a trait all members of her kind possessed, but they were currently closed because she didn't want to freak out her prize. She wasn't sure if there were people with glowing eyes on the surface. She scowled, a look that did not belong on her beautiful face, but she couldn't help it. The disdain she felt at the cruel injustice that was done to her species. That monster turned their home into a prison for the past thousand years.

"How the hell is that possible!?" Naruto suddenly exploded, the monitor showed his heart rate had risen drastically. The women frowned, but supposed that his reaction was understandable given that the current breed of humanity relied more on chakra than technology like they used to. Naruto's next shout would've made her faceplant had she not been sitting down.

"I can see out the window, Ya know! It's night out!" Naruto said matter-of-factly, the odd sound of the woman's voice flew over his head. It sounded like she was speaking through water, yet was able to be clearly heard.

"I understand your reasoning, but you really are at the bottom of the ocean; the Marianas Trench to be specific." The woman knew that the name wouldn't be familiar to him. Humans haven't bothered to explore the oceans except for trade routes. At least, she hoped that's how it still was. Their way of monitoring the surface had ceased functioning ,save for the sensors that would detect Naruto, around 500 years ago, the humans used wooden boats that moved by wind, or oars according to the last report. She prayed that they hadn't begun to revert back to their old ways of getting around, the ways that used oil, and destroyed the surface while the ocean was poisoned by their activities, by them dumping their waste into the depths.

"Prove it." Naruto spoke suddenly, his words snapped the woman out of her thoughts. She almost opened her eyes to give him a quizzical glance but she managed to refrain from the action.

"Prove it?" She repeated, unsure of what else to say, not used to her word being questioned. She was in the Hime-class of her species after all, and that meant she was never questioned unless by an equal, or the rare superior.

"Yeah, prove to me that I'm in this Mary-Anna Trench at the bottom of the sea." Naruto confirmed what he stated.

"Marianas Trench. Marianas." Corrected the woman in the near pitch-black room. That was something else Naruto brought up. He'd rather see who he was talking with, and see his surroundings. Naruto had some bad memories that involved dark rooms, very bad memories.

"The lights?" The woman responded when he asked for the lights to be turned on, a tinge of apprehension crept into her voice. There were three very good reasons why she did NOT want the lights on. The primary one was that her base was so low on power, so little remained that when their sensors did pick up the power held with Naruto, her allies immediately found the nearest person to undertake this vital assignment where the object hadn't even been analyzed, it was an all or nothing, truthfully last-ditch effort at survival. Which brought her to the other two reasons. Naruto himself.

She knew that he had never seen one of her kind. They had been forgotten by humanity, as had technology. This undoubtedly meant that humans had once more become superstitious to an immense degree, and would see her species as abominations to be destroyed, or as unholy creatures. She had no idea how he, the last hope for her, and potentially her entire species would react towards them, hence why she kept her glowing, blood-red eyes closed while they talked. But the third reason was more from her own concern about Naruto in general.

He had lost his arm. A piece of himself that from what little they knew about this new breed of humans, was irreplaceable expect by the most extreme methods. That however, was not the true problem, once they had power again, her comrades could easily design a prosthetic that not only performed leagues better than the original, but also allowed him to use charka through artificial chakra pathways, and points that would let his chakra flow in them at the same level as the real thing, if not better. No, the lost limb itself was not the issue, it was how her potential Admiral would respond to the loss. True, he was apparently trained to be a warrior if that I.D. was anything to go by, but all of her fellows could tell he was the purest kind of greenhorn there was; Minimal training, zero experience, and no combat instinct. He was, in a way, still just a civilian, and a child at that!

"Such a loss could cripple him mentally. I can't allow that!" Naruto was to be the new leader of her race, the Abyssals! His mentality was to be harder than diamond, resistant to all types of fracture. For now, the lights would remain off.

"I'm sorry, but for reasons that are my own, I can not allow for the lights to be switched on." She spoke in a "Don't argue." Kind of tone. Naruto however, insisted.

"C'mon, turn the damn lights on so I can see." Naruto demanded, a bit frustrated. He heard the woman across from him sigh.

"I can already tell this isn't working. Perhaps I should just…" The woman considered her situation, and options. She could continue this conversation, and get nowhere with her potential Admiral, or she could throw caution to the…? What was it again? Wind! Throw caution to the wind, get down to the important matter, and expose herself to him. She gave another one of her giggles that sounded way more suggestive than it should have. While he was unconscious, the woman didn't hesitate to view Naruto's body, despite scans that showed slight malnutrition, his physic seemed quite fine to her!

"I'll give him a few years to mature. Then I'll really expose myself to him! Her mind made up, the Abyssal opened her eyes, the luminescent orbs shined a bloody red that silenced Naruto. Her eyes were slitted, and predatory yet were set in a stare that could only be described in one way: sexy. Naruto gulped, and felt like he was being watched by a shark that had the intent to eat him, just not the way he would think. The boy shifted around uncomfortably in the bed when he saw the eyes rise as the mysterious woman stood up. She began to walk, her heels clicked on the metal floor, towards Naruto, her seductive eyes locked with Naruto's as she reached his bed. Naruto tensed when he felt fingers delicately trail up the upper side of his leg, through the sheet over him, and continued up his body until the tips were underneath his jaw. Gently, the woman tilted Naruto's head up, which showed him that she towered over the blonde in the bed.

"Holy crap! She's like six feet tall!" Naruto mentally exclaimed, his eyes still locked with hers. They stayed like that for a few moments, tension suddenly felt by both the human, and Abyssal. Naruto didn't know this but his bed was in the center of a wall, near a light switch that the woman had her hand on. She removed her hand from underneath Naruto's jaw, but not before she caressed the side of his face closest to the hand she had on him. Naruto heard her clear her throat. Then she spoke in a very serious tone, the seductive undertone completely lost.

"I'm going to turn on the lights. When I do, you and I are going to have very important things to discuss." She told Naruto, immediately after she uttered those words, the lights were flicked on, and now Naruto could see her unobstructed. What happened next, and how Naruto responded to her body would decide the fate of her species!

"Show me that I was right! Please accept me!"

Naruto's eyes turned into saucers when he saw what the woman looked like. Her pale, almost white skin was flawless, and contrasted nicely with her long, lustrous black hair. Both her wrists had two black, chainless shackles on them, and she wore an upper-thigh length, solid black, sleeveless dress that was cut low to show off her bountiful bust, and the six horizontal slash-like marks just above her breasts. Her body was a curvy hourglass with wide hips, and mile-long legs that anything with a pulse would lust after. None of these however, drew Naruto in as much as her face. The first thing he saw was her full lips, and sharp jawline, followed by her seductively predatory eyes, now enhanced by thick, lush lashes, though he saw no eyebrows. Then he saw the two short, black-tipped horns that grew from her for head that had three bangs of her silky hair falling from them, two long ones that framed her face, and a shorter one in the middle. Somehow those horns added to her appearance, and gave her that exotic touch that drove people insane with lust.

All in all, if Naruto was the judge of the most gorgeous woman in the world, the one in front of him would have no competition.

Speaking of said woman, she too observed him, but for any hostile, or negative signs, to which none were found much to her internal relief, and joy. Still, she knew not to assume. While she had never seen a male before, she knew that her body was something to be desired, if the desires convey by certain comrades were to be taken seriously, which they usually were. Too be sure, she needed to re-break the ice.

"Are you… Afraid of me?" She asked Naruto, her voice snapped under the spell that she unknowingly cast on him. Quickly he shook his head in the negative before he blurted out something that immediately caused blood to rush to his cheeks.

"You're too beautiful to be scary!" Naruto clamped his mouth shut, and looked down when the woman's mouth opened in surprise, as her eyes opened more, and the slit-pupil widened. He saw her pallor hands, nails painted black, leave her sides, and move towards him, specifically his head. Automatically, Naruto screwed his eyes shut, and braced for a hit, but instead of pain, he felt soft finger tips slowly trace circles on his cheeks. The boy opened his cerulean eyes, and saw the woman stare at him with a partially open smile filled with happiness, and her eyes were wet with tears. She was bent at the waist, and had moved closer to Naruto, the top of her abundant cleavage shamelessly exposed as she gently pulled his face into those large, soft watermelons, his lower face buried in her breasts, and her hands went to the back of his head. Naruto's face was scarlet as she cradled him in that position, his body leaned towards her's, and her cheek affectionately stroked the top of his spikey hair.

"You haven't the slightest idea how much that means to me!" Naruto heard her say, voice cracked with emotion, like he just made her deepest dreams come true. He didn't know but he did make one come true, and she was confident that he would fulfill the rest but, first she had to share with him the secrets of the past, her species, and then give him a choice that would change everything. In the Abyss, and on the surface. First however, she had to stop cuddling him. Then she needed to prove he was in the Abyss. After those where done she would begin to tell him everything. She planned on tackling the subject of his lost limb while she explained Abyssals to him.

Finally, Naruto was released from his prison, and he took large gulps of air to celebrate it, though her hands were still on his face. She turned his head towards the wall, specifically a window, and told him to "Watch."

Soon, an angler fish, with a bioluminescent bulb tipped "lure" swam past. The woman felt that sight would end all doubt in Naruto's mind that he was where she told him. The look of realization that dawned on Naruto's young face confirmed her hunch. He knew that things were serious now.

"Naruto…" Her voice grabbed his attention. She let go of his face, which disappointed Naruto for some reason, and sat down in a different chair that was next to the bed as opposed to the other so that she was at his level. Her voice serious once more, she chose now to tell him what she was.

"I'm not human. My kind call ourselves the Shinkaisei-kan or, Abyssal Fleet. I am a member of the Hime-class Abyssals, and am known as Battleship-Hime Symbiotic."

She told Naruto everything over the next several hours. She left no detail out that related to the subjects. She start at what occurred over one thousand years ago when the Abyssals first revealed their existence to a chakraless, but much more technologically advanced humanity. The goal was simple, show humans that they weren't the only ones on the Earth. The pollution spawned from human technology was killing the Earth, and the Abyssals could no longer hold their silence, they appeared to an warship because they didn't want civilians involved, but the Abyssals frightful appearance caused the ship to open fire, and gave them no choice but to sink the ship. The survivors were rescued by an unknown means as the Abyssals fled, horrified at what they knew they started.

War. War between the Surface and the Abyss. Humanity had developed something akin to Abyssals that they called Kanmusu, humanoid versions of ships that fought in a war prior to the current one with the Abyss. The war raged for years, both sides suffered lose, and ground was gained, and taken in an almost endless cycle. That is until he arrived. Naruto had stayed silent throughout the entire explanation, he was interested in what she spoke of. But, he had to break his silence and interrupt her.

"The Sage?!" Naruto gasped in surprise.

"The Sage of the Six Paths ended it?!"

The Battleship-Hime nodded her head. Fury became the quickly dominant emotion she felt as she continued, anger cracked her voice, and her pupils thinned to nonexistence.

The Sage used his great power to devastate both sides of the conflict, humanity's nations brought to ruin along with a vast majority of the population, and he completely wiped out all advanced forms of technology. He then set his sights on the Abyssals, and condemned them to be unable to break the waters surface, the Tailed-Beasts were created as a means to enforce this, but it was never needed as the Sage had literal made the entire Abyssal species unable to breach the oceans surface unless a specific requirement was met. The Battleship-Hime informed Naruto that she would inform him of that requirement after she had finished with the rest. He wisely nodded, not wanting to risk her wrath.

She resumed by informing Naruto that the Sage had actually known that technology was the cause of the pollution that started the war, but he chose to completely sever humanity's need for it by wiping from the memories of the surviving humans, and he gave them chakra with the intent for humans to rely on the power it gave them, to which they did, evident by the world Naruto lived. The Sage ensured that humanity would never need the level of technology that they had in the past, but he damned the Abyssals to being trapped in the depths, where eventually they would dwindle, and slowly die off from their primary resource gathers, the destroyers and submarines, being erased along with the factories that made them deactivated until his requirement was filled.

"He said that it was in the best interest of mankind that we cease to exist, so that technology never threatens the planet again…" Finished the Battleship-Hime, her fist clenched, and her sharp, shark-like teeth were bared. She wanted to punch something! Anything! She instead exploded into a rant, and paced back and forth, arms moved in all directions.

"He treated us like we were the problem! We came in peace! It was those fucking sailors that fired, and then it was humanity that pursed us!" Raged the princess of the deep.

"It's not our fault some of us look scary, that's just how we're made! Damn that old fool! Damn him!"

Naruto was once more wise to keep silent as the female vented. He understood what her species went through, judgement based on what you are instead of who you are. The people of Konoha pounded that lesson into him.

"It's weird. I feel more comfortable around her than I do other humans. Almost as comfortable as when I'm with the old man or the Ichirakus." Naruto mused. It was true. Despite the happy face he wore, inside he felt like he was walking on eggshells, that the slightest wrong move would trigger the people to beat him more than they already did. He could relate to her, and the Abyssals more than he could to his own species.

"And it's not enough that he banned us from breaking the waters surface- which was a bullshit move- he created monsters that'll annihilate us if we make contact with humans without completing that stupid requirement!" Growled the Battleship-Hime, her pacing ceased with a huff. She remembered that Naruto was present, and that brought her temper down a few degrees.

"Sorry. This is just something that gets every Abyssal fired up. You should see a Wo-class when they talk about this." She bowed her head in an apologetic manner. She let her emotions get the better of her in front of her – hopefully – future Admiral.

Before Naruto could respond, his companion revealed the requirement to their freedom.

"The requirement that would have to be filled is incredibly simple, comically ironic, and a gigantic pain in the ass. We need to find someone willing to be our Admiral, trade their humanity, and become one of us." Naruto hadn't seen that coming. She told him that Admirals were used to lead the Kanmusu, the primary force used against the Abyssals so he saw what she meant by "Comically ironic". Wait, did she say…?

"Become one of us?" Naruto repeated, confused as to what she meant.

"Yes. That human must become an Abyssal." Clarified the Battleship-Hime. She decided it was time to deal with the arm situation. Hopefully he would see what the Abyssals offered him. She scooted her chair closer to the edge of Naruto's bed, grasped his right hand in her's, and moved to place her left on his shoulder, but stopped before physical contact could be made. It was or never.

"Naruto." She leaned in close, close enough to make Naruto blush lightly.

"I need you lift up your left arm."

"Can't." Naruto replied sadly, his gaze went downward, and an almost apologetic smile graced his lips. "It's gone. Zabuza's sword chopped it off when I was pinned to the section of bridge."

Naruto's eyes turned glassy as tears welled up in them yet he kept the smile.

"It was all I dreamt about. The fall, and losing my arm."

The Battleship-Hime tightened her grip on the remaining hand Naruto had, and pulled him closer to her. Her other hand held his neck as she placed his chin on her shoulder, and tightly embraced him. The feeling of this nonhuman woman's body against his broke the dam that held back not just the pain of recent events, but the anguish, and despair from the past thirteen years of being hated for a reason beyond his control. The dweller of the Abyss held onto him, let his tears flow, and the pain leave. They stayed together like that for thirty minutes. Finally Naruto's moment of emotional discharge ended, and he used his remaining hand to dry his eyes.

"Better?" Asked the princess of the depths. Naruto nodded before he sighed. He felt guilty, here her species was dying, and he was crying over his own problems. Little did he know, all of those problems were about to change.

"Naruto…" The Battleship-Hime released her grip, and stood up in front of him.

"Become our Admiral. Embrace the Abyss."

Her last words jogged Naruto's memories of before he lost consciousness. He thought he heard those same three words when that metal squid kept his blood inside his body, and circulating.

"You saved me." Naruto stated, and received a nod.

"Naruto, I wasn't out there in the location where you were sinking because I happened to be there. Our sensors picked up the energy of the beast within you." The declaration made Naruto very uneasy, and nervous. He didn't know but said beast felt the same, while Naruto would soon understand, and relax to a degree, the fox would become petrified when the next words left the Battleship-Hime's mouth.

"Our machines, and facilities are shut down because of complex seals created by the Sage that require the chakra of a Tailed-Beast to be broken, and in order our machines to resume their directives, they need to be activated by the highest class of Abyssal... the Admiral-class." Explained the Battleship-Hime, her mouth still moved as she went further.

"When that bastard old man you call the Sage of the Six Paths ended the war, he eliminated every member of the Admiral-class, which left us leaderless, and further rendered us no longer a threat. But, he didn't foresee that after his death, people would start to explore the oceans." She paused for a breath.

"The Abyssals in the days following the Sage's death sank those ships, dragged the survivors down with them, and discovered a way for us to meet the requirement to our survival despite the Sage's plan for us to go extinct." She had such a devious smirk when she said that. Naruto felt it was so wrong yet so right.

"We learned how to surgically, and genetically modify a humans body into that of an Abyssal. The reason why we didn't free ourselves was that the subjects kept dying because they lacked the chakra of that man's creations." Naruto gulped when he felt two, bioluminescent eyes on him, and the bewitching, seductive owner of those orbs stride over to him.

"We've been waiting a long time for our chance Naruto. When I brought you back, every Abyssal cried for joy, for the first time in a millennium we have hope." She had made it over to him in the early part of her sentence, and had squated down, and once more held Naruto's head in her soft, smooth hands. His face was towards her's, he could feel her hot breath on his lips as her bloody eyes pierced into his. The seductive nature of the Battleship-Hime had come out from her personal desire. Naruto knew she wanted him to be the Admiral, he didn't know her other plans for him.

"Naruto…. Save us."

Her lips pressed against his, Naruto could feel a long, hot tongue part his lips, and invade his mouth. She dominated the kiss, her pleased moans paralyzed the younger male yet her touch sent shockwaves through his body. Soon, they parted, and the Battleship-Hime licked the side of Naruto's ear before she bit his neck softly, the flesh grazed. She stared him dead in the eye.

"What do you say… Admiral?"

-Scene change. Nami. Four years later-

After Naruto's death, the situation in Nami had taken a nosedive. Gatou had escaped from the Konoha-nin, who had fled to their home village when seafaring vessels armed with cannons arrived to assist their leader. Tazuna, and his family managed to avoid the small, fat dictator's wrath because they were taken by the same Konoha shinobi who were tasked to protect them. In a fit of anger, Gatou unleashed hell on the innocent villagers. Gatou opened the village to bandits, and gave them free reign to do whatever they desired, with whoever they desired. One such bandit currently enjoyed him self in this privilege by dragging a young man out to the water that surrounded the island, near the destroyed section of bridge, the completed part left by Gatou to remind the citizens that he was in charge, and whatever they planned that went against him would fail.

The bandit, glee in his eyes as his hands tightened around his victim's neck as he drowned, failed to notice a rather dense natural fog set in. An omen that basically meant "Get out of the ocean." He had rowed out with his target bound, and gagged, the small boat a foot away. It wouldn't have mattered, in the end, he chose the wrong day to wake up.

The bandit felt cold metal grip his leg, and both the bandit, and innocent were pulled deep down below the waves. The fog covered the area, so thick that it was impossible to see through without enhanced vision. The sounds of multiple bodies as they emerged out of the fog-covered waves was heard, accompanied by growls. A final body rose up, and multiple pairs of eyes with glows that cut through the mist that were colored red, yellow, blue, or green opened.

A seductive giggle that sounded from a particular pair of blood-red eyes occurred right when a final pair of dark – purple eyes opened from the center of the group.

CUT! CHAPTER OVER!

Sorry it took so long , but school was a nightmare. Combine that with the Winter Fair World of Tank Blitz has going on, and that I'm looking for college scholarships, I've been very busy lately. But enough about me, let's move on to some things revealed in this chapter, starting with the Sage. For whoever spoke about the Sage of the Six Paths hating technology, thank you for that idea. I also want to say that there will be no Black Zetsu, Obito, Madara, or Kaguya in this story as there's no place for them in it, the Akatsuki will just be a group who think that bringing back the ten-tails will help them bring world peace. A final thing is the Sage's requirement, I am unsure if I described it in a way that makes sense or if it's confusing to you readers. Please tell me in either reviews or P.M.s if it is a problem or not.

Off to a different topic, the poll concerning the series of one-shots!

Graf Zeppelin is in the lead. (Finally. Hope she stays there.)

Iowa's got a close second. (Probably has to do with freedom guns.)

Musashi is in third. (Dustfan calm down lol.)

Summer Harbor Princess has fourth. (Will the same thing that happened last poll occur again?)

Air Defense Hime has fifth. (Was rooting for her too.)

Heavy Cruiser Hime is in sixth (I'm a tad surprised she's this high up)

Kaga holds seventh. (So much for first fleet carrier, yeah?)

Warspite is in eighth. (Not many fans of the British warship I see.)

Central Hime has ninth. (Wasn't sure how she would do.)

Shoukaku has tenth. (Don't worry, there's still time.)

Akagi is in eleventh. (I think she eats her votes.)

Akashi is in twelfth. (Kinda expected this.)

Ta-class is thirteenth. (Same as above.)

Shimakaze is fourteenth! (I though she was popular! Guess not with you guys.)

Ka-class is last at fifthteenth. (Not much Abyssal submarine love.)

Like I said when I began this poll, whoever gets 35 votes first wins, and hopefully this'll be over soon. That's all for now, hopefully you enjoyed the chapter, and more will arrive soon. Remember to read, and review! Your opinions matter and help shape all my stories!

Later! Grey-blueflames burning out!