A/N: Seems like people liked the first chapter; good to know. Also, everyone seems to really want me to change it so Naruto gets with Tsunade. I'll think about it. Also yeah, I do my research! :D So there's gonna be shit in here like predator aliens that were introduced in Omniverse; that's what Crustacaedozer was, the predator of Pyronites, but I changed the stupid name – Crabdozer – to something that sounds at least a little bit intelligent. Throwin' in some Latin in there; bitches love Latin.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Ben 10
"Human/alien speech"
'Human/alien thought'
"Jutsu/Celestialsapien 'motion'/Demon speech"
'Demon thought'
Let's begin.
Naruto was currently swinging around Konoha, a pair of yellow tails swaying behind him and black circles around his eyes with lines branching back to darken the shells of his ears. The tails proved prehensile and let him swing on almost anything as portals opened in his path, teleporting him here and there as he made his way to Training Field 7, Tsunade informing him that he was required to spar alongside Sakura against a shinobi of her choosing to estimate the authenticity of his theorized strength.
Upon touching down and absorbing his features, Naruto looked over Sakura from behind, as she didn't notice his arrival. Tsunade informed him that Sakura learned under her, and it shows in Sakura's stance; alert but confident. She wore black gloves, elbow pads, a skirt over her bicycle shorts, and shin-high shinobi boots.
He tapped her shoulder to get her attention. "Hey Sakura-chan." He greeted.
She spun around, eager to meet the person who helped her see the light. "Naruto!" She greeted exuberantly, almost tackling the blonde as she hugged him.
Frozen with shock, Naruto was unable to return the hug, but Sakura didn't mind. She retrieved her arms from around his shoulders and stepped back to look him over, smiling brightly as she crossed her arms behind her back. "Wh-what was that for?" He asked, confused.
Blushing slightly at her forwardness, she rubbed the back of her head much like Naruto used to do. "I wanted to thank you for everything you've done. When Sasuke returned to the village, I went to greet him and tell him how happy I was that he returned, but he snapped at me and said he hated you for returning him to the village. After Hokage-sama sealed his chakra, he showed his true colors and made me realize how stupid I was to love him for all those years. And while I'm not ready to return your years of affection, I hope you can give me a second chance to be your friend." She meekly explained.
Smiling softly, Naruto nodded and engulfed her in a hug to return hers from before. "I'd like that, Sakura-chan. While I'm happy to hear that you've stopped chasing him, I wish it was under better circumstances." Naruto himself explained, alluding to her reaction to Sasuke's violent return.
Nodding sadly but in agreement, Sakura attempted to change the topic. "So, where have you been for three years? Tsunade-sama mentioned you were away on training but nothing else." She asked.
Not seeing anything wrong with informing her on his work with Merlin, as she would find out anyway during this spar, Naruto sat down with her and explained about Merlin picking him up after his clash with Sasuke and the subsequent procedure to inject him with the DNA of every alien species out there. After that, he explained about completing his end of Merlin's bargain and brought up his journey to the western countries, to a place called 'America,' where he soundly trounced the subject of Merlin's brother, Azmuth, Ben Tennyson and co. But after that, he struck an alliance with them in the Plumbers – vaguely explaining the extraterrestrial police force – and would call on them for help or answer their calls. He neglected to mention his quick visit with Sasuke, but unfortunately, mentioning his surviving the DNA process meant he had to explain how.
Thus he explained his situation with the Kyuubi. He was surprised to find that she took it in stride, saying it explained many things about him in the past. Happy that someone didn't hate him for his burden, Naruto thanked her for her open-mindedness. Before they could continue conversing, Kakashi arrived on the scene, reading his trademark Icha Icha.
"Ah, Sakura-chan, good to see you again. And Naruto, Tsunade-sama mentioned that you were away with a friend for training, and I can see you received some major benefits. As she explained, I am here to test you both as shinobi of Konoha. Naruto, while I know you've been promoted to Chuunin, this is still required, especially when Hokage-sama mentioned your strange 'abilities.' I don't know the specifics, but a good fight is always a great chance to show off, so let's begin." He began, pocketing his book and shuffling inside the same pouch, taking out a pair of familiar objects. "To win this, you must take these bells from me." He dangled those damnable childhood things in front of his lone eye, mentally relishing their annoyed expressions.
Naruto's eye twitched as he felt the Appoplexian rage bubble to the surface at the sight of those fucking things, complete with momentary muscular build up and odd hand-blades. Pushing it down, he merely frowned, determination bursting to life in his eyes. "We're gonna beat your ass, Kakashi-sensei!" He thrust his fist forward, the nano-machine suit pulling back to leave his fingers bare, the flesh melting away to leave bone, one finger disappearing, before a spear of bone shot from his wrist.
Eye widening in shock, Kakashi was barely able to dodge the weapon, only to curse when Sakura took the opportunity to close the distance between, fist raised. While Kakashi didn't know about Naruto's new powers, he definitely knew what Sakura was doing, so he replaced himself with the very spear Naruto shot at him, buried in a tree on the other side of the field, saving himself from what was going to happen.
'HOLY FUCK!' Naruto mentally swore, eyes wide in shock and horror as the area around Sakura's fist exploded with chunks of earth. He was forced to dodge his own allies attacks, flipping this way and that, until he just decided to avoid everything, jumping high up, and staying there. His lower body was now garbed in what appeared to be baggy pants, the pattern moving like some type of visual illusion, a grey-and-black background with red slashes moving around the material, tucked into brown boots with curled tips like elf shoes.
The Illusians, capable of levitation, teleportation, and soul manipulation, currently had Naruto's thanks.
"The more I see it, the more terrifying you become in my eyes, Sakura-chan." Kakashi commented from his position, previous Icha Icha nowhere in sight.
Sakura merely giggled and gave Kakashi a peace sign.
"I take it this is Baa-chan's work?" Naruto asked from his position in the air, drawing awed looks from both of them.
Sakura, already sort of knowing beforehand this would happen, got out of her shock and nodded. "Yep! Two days after Sasuke came back, I went to Hokage-sama and asked her to teach me. It took a bit of begging, and a lot of compromise and promises, but she took me in, and now she's announced I'm officially a capable medic-nin. She even taught me her enhanced strength technique, and she says I'm making good progress in it." Sakura explained cheerily.
Naruto's eyes widened again. 'This is only good progress?! Well, I remember what Baa-chan as able to do back when we went to get her and had to fight Orochimaru, so I guess it's to be expected this isn't the extent of what she'll be able to do. Oh I hope she's also outgrown punching me... I may be hard to kill thanks to all these alien powers, but I don't wanna test it!' Naruto lamented his future, before putting it to the wayside and dropping back to the earth, his legs changing back, before he pulled off his Plumber Badge, willing it to form into a familiar giant cleaver, the Kubikiribouchou, the guard an elongated angular hourglass, and the blade and handle black and green, respectively.
"...This is going to end with a lot of questions, isn't it?" Kakashi asked flatly.
"Probably. Now then.." Naruto started, before leaping at Kakashi at speeds he didn't expect the blonde to be able to achieve, thus leaving himself open for the slash that bisected him from shoulder to hip... only to go up in smoke. "Kage Bunshin? That's my thing!" Naruto complained, before he found himself surrounded by five Kakashi's; instead of looking slightly fearful, he smirked. "Only five? That's right, I forgot; I'm really the only one who can overuse it, right?" Bringing his hands together in the familiar cross-shaped seal, 19 Naruto's appeared beside the original, outnumbering the Kakashi's 4 to 1. Sakura took that moment to appear by her comrades side, back-to-back, smirking with him at the nervous Kakashi's around them.
Momentarily frowning at a thought, Naruto's eyes turned pure yellow, a black marking forming from his hairline and sweeping down, thin at the top, crossing his eyes, and widening to engulfing his entire jaw, as he looked at the five Kakashi's. Unfortunately finding he was correct, Naruto discreetly whispered to Sakura, the pinkette's green eyes widening momentarily, before flickering towards an empty spot on the field, and nodding minutely.
Reverting his face and eyes, Naruto suddenly smirked, giving the signal for his clones to attack Kakashi's, kneeling low and allowing Sakura to jump onto the flat of his blade. "Don't think you can hide, Kakashi-sensei!" He announced, spinning on his heel and launching Sakura towards the center of the field, her fist ablaze with chakra.
"SHANNARO!" Sakura yelled at the same time Kakashi's invisibility technique fell, the silver-haired Jounin jumping away again, this time using chakra channeled through his legs to get himself high enough to escape the results of Sakura's attack. Unfortunately, it left him open for a giant turtle shell to slam into him, knocking him right out of the air.
'Tetsudinians: the less awesome Geochelone Aerio.' Naruto mentally remarked as the Tetsudinian shell, black with green spiral carvings, shrunk into his back, and he jumped away from the groaning Kakashi with a smirk on his face.
"Ow... what the hell hit me?" Kakashi asked pitifully.
"The shell of a giant, bipedal tortoise that can't really do anything else but be a meat-shield?" Naruto answered faux questioningly.
"...You got the bells, didn't you?" Kakashi asked, brushing that odd answer off for now.
"Yep!" Naruto responded, holding them up to eye level, a cheering Sakura skipping towards him.
"Congratulations... you pass... I hurt everywhere." Kakashi commented, not moving from his spot on the ground.
"Bah, don't be such a whiner; Sakura-chan can patch you up, right?" Naruto asked, turning towards the pinkette, who nodded and smiled, kneeling down and holding her glowing hands over Kakashi's torso... then his head. Then his extremities. Wow, Naruto really messed him up.
"How'd you know none of them were me?" Kakashi asked once he was healed enough to sit up.
"The eyes of a Mentivel can see heat signatures; clones don't give them off since they're made of chakra." Naruto explained, to a flat stare.
"...Mentivel?" Kakashi questioned.
"Alien."
"...And the shell?"
"Alien."
"And the bone?"
"Alien."
"...Can you start from the beginning?" Kakashi asked impossibly-more flatly.
Chuckling and nodding, Naruto got to business and explained what happened at the Valley of the End, just like he did with Sakura. Kakashi was shocked to learn about life on other planets, and this Merlin taking Naruto in for this procedure. He was also surprised to learn about civilization outside of the Elemental Nations, and that they were technically on a separate plane to the rest of the planet.
"Naruto... why can't things were be simple when you're involved?" Kakashi asked exasperatedly.
"Because simple is boring." Naruto responded simply with a large grin.
"Of course you'd say that." The Jounin responded flatly. "But anyway, with this test passed, you are officially sanctioned to take up missions for Konoha, and this also means that the Konoha 11 are all Chuunin, and that includes the rookies from three years ago; the fastest cases of rising to Chuunin, outside of extenuating circumstances..." Kakashi explained, looking the other way for a bit.
"Like you and Itachi?" Naruto asked dryly, receiving a nod.
"...Yeah." Kakashi relented lowly.
"So, are we going to do a mission today?" Naruto asked excitedly.
"Eh, probably not. I might need to take today to mope about how my cute little students actually beat me." Kakashi responded nonchalantly, making a show of appearing despondent.
'He's just being lazy.' Both Chuunin translated with blank stares.
"Fine, whatever. I need to get back to Tsunade-sensei for today's training." Sakura spoke in turn, leaving the field in a huff once she cleared Kakashi of his injuries.
Chuckling at her reaction, Naruto turned to Kakashi. "Hey sensei... wanna go have lunch? I wanna catch up." He asked with a small smile.
Smiling behind his mask, Kakashi got up from the ground, wincing slightly when he realized Sakura purposely left a bit of the pain, probably to spite him for his laziness, but he'd manage. "Sure Naruto. That sounds nice." He responded, walking in step with the blonde, before sweatdropping at a thought. "But... can it not be Ichiraku's?" He asked.
"What?! I've been gone for over a thousand years-" "It's been three." "-the hell I'm not taking this opportunity to have Ichiraku's!" Naruto responded belligerently.
"...Fine, fine, we'll have Ichiraku's. As long as you explain this 'thousand years' nonsense." Kakashi bargained/relented.
"Well, Merlin-oji-san had this machine room thing that slowed time; I needed it to learn about my abilities and the jutsu he gave me." Naruto answered as they stepped through the fields' entrance.
"Oh? Merlin-san had jutsu? How?" Kakashi asked quizzically.
"While I was unconscious from the procedure, he sent this cube thing out into the Elemental Nations to record every jutsu he could find for me to learn." The blonde responded, using his hands to attempt to form a cube.
"And... how many was that?" Kakashi asked, knowing the answer to the time he felt/saw some sort of light on him. It raised all sorts of security hell in the village when literally every other shinobi experienced the same thing; they thought it was sort of enemy reconnaissance.
Sweatdropping at what he was going to say, and the hell it might raise, Naruto hesitantly answered. "...All of them."
"...Huh?"
"Merlin-oji-san said he had it scan every shinobi in the Elemental Nations, as well as scrolls for techniques no one knew." Naruto elaborated flatly.
"So... you know... every jutsu? From Iwa and Suna to Kiri, if there's a technique, you know it?" Kakashi asked for clarification, slowly breaking out into a cold sweat.
"...Yeah. From D to S rank, I know 'em all. I also feel like I mastered them to a good degree, but of course there's always someone else that has probably perfected them; probably the people who created them." Naruto commented.
"...Simple is boring, huh? Naruto, if I didn't have it already, I just know you'd be giving me grey hairs." Kakashi commented after a while, hanging his head in defeat.
"Yeah... So, about that ramen?" Naruto asked, completely throwing the previous subject out the window, to the relief of both of them.
"Sure, sure." Kakashi relented with a chuckle, happy to just forget that massive headache. "So, what's the deal with your weapon? And the new outfit?" He asked, still a bit curious about everything Naruto got up to.
"Merlin-oji-san explained they were really tiny machines linked to my brain to create whatever I want, and this is pretty much the default form, combined with my Chuunin vest. The weapon automatically changes to fit whatever alien form I take, but it doesn't really work for two aliens." Naruto explained, plucking his Plumber Badge from his waist. "And since my trip to America, this also functions as a communicator for my friends over there in case they need help or if I do." He added, swiping his thumb across it softly.
"Well, some help from new allies would be nice, but it would be a pain to have you disappear on us, especially if something happens where we need you." Kakashi pointed out.
"Actually, it'd be fine. Thanks to my Lempuroital ability, I can be there and back whenever I want; I can open portals to wherever I want, as long as I've been there before. And if I'm there and you guys need me..." Naruto started, reaching into his pocket and taking out an object Kakashi hadn't seen in over 15 years. "...just put chakra into this and I'll be alerted to your help. I can also create duplicates, like my Kage Bunshin only better, in case I can't personally come to help; it doesn't cut my power or anything, so it's okay and why are you making that face?" Naruto ended up asking when Kakashi just stared at the tri-pointed kunai, standing in the middle of the road.
"N-Naruto... y-you know the... s-so you know about...?" Kakashi half-asked, too shocked to really complete sentences.
Naruto's face took a somber tone as he thought back to when he found out about his parents. "Yeah... I know..." He answered simply, pulling Kakashi aside to explain the whole thing.
After breaking through the Kyuubi's - Kurama - abrasive 'I want to kill you and everything else' personality, Naruto forged a partnership with the bijuu, and thus began training in using his chakra, to both strengthen their bond, and gain strength, coming to terms with the power he once hated. Naruto had mastered six tails, but in training with the seventh, his concentration slipped, and he dove right into the eighth, quickly losing control, no matter Kurama's attempts to reel his own power back to not kill his first human friend. When that happened, apparently a failsafe the Yondaime left activated, and a chakra-projection of the man appeared to reinforce the seal, also having a heart-to-heart with Naruto about his sorrow at not being there, and the villages' idiocy once Naruto explained that part.
After Naruto punched him, of course.
Namikaze Minato took it with a smile, saying he deserved it, and proceeded to just chat with Naruto about his life, before his chakra faded away. Much like Kakashi, Minato expressed great shock at this alien business, but accepted it as a message that Naruto would be capable of great things.
When Minato faded away after they had a good cry, Naruto continued his bijuu chakra training, this time taking it much slower at the seventh tail. It fought him quite a bit, but Naruto managed it. Of course, the eighth and ninth tails proved harder, but thankfully Naruto didn't slip this time, taking absolutely no risks in the matter.
Then came the final plunge. Naruto had mastered all nine tails, yes, but he needed to perfectly synch up with Kurama on a level beyond just manipulating nine tails worth of chakra. That involved completely opening the seal, and that involved summoning Gamakichi - after having a nice chat about where he was, how he was doing, stuff like that - then asking for the toad that had the key, something Kurama mentioned he witnessed after he was sealed, through his indignant rage at that same fact. Once Gerotora appeared, and after Naruto went the great lengths to convince the skeptical bastard that he was ready, he gave Naruto the key and hightailed it out of there when he saw Naruto was about it unseal it right away.
In facing Kurama, Naruto met his mother on a separate plain of his mindscape, Kushina having left her own bit of chakra like Minato did for just such an occasion, and had his own heart-to-heart with the woman, who related to his childhood from her own life as a jinchuriki and a foreigner to Konoha.
Naruto didn't punch her; he'd freely admit to being a momma's boy.
Anyway, Kushina provided her aid against Kurama, utilizing her chakra chains against the bijuu, eventually allowing Naruto to take Kurama's chakra into himself, achieving some sort of golden chakra state when he was in perfect synchronization with Kurama.
After a tear-jerking farewell, Kushina faded from the seal, and Naruto trained in his new ability until he was accustomed to it, Kurama grumbling about his defeat the entire time, even though he also smiled when he accepted Naruto as his equal.
Kakashi might have gone completely comatose after Naruto finished his story for all the blonde knew with how frozen he was. He didn't even look like he was breathing. After several minutes of just standing there, Kakashi sighed as deeply as he could and buried his face in his hands, lamenting the headaches Naruto was causing. "Well... it's good to know you met them, at least. I was worried you'd at least hate your father for sealing the Kyuubi into you." He commented after a while.
"No, I could never hate him; I asked him that myself and he said how could he ask something of another that he wouldn't do himself? Plus, he believed I was strong enough to take the Kyuubi's hate and make myself strong, and he was right, though not in the way I think he thought." Naruto responded with a chuckle. "Anyway, after that I decided to train specifically in chakra chains, the Hiraishin, and the Rasengan, just for them." He added.
Kakashi's breath hitched at the second half of the reason Minato-sensei was considered a SS rank 'flee on sight' shinobi, before he chuckled. "I should've guessed you knew the Rasengan as well. But I guess the Hirashin's mark solves that problem from before, so I guess that'd be okay. I assume you're going to give that to Hokage-sama?" Kakashi asked with a raised brow.
"Yeah I will, but I also want to give one to you, just in case something happens to Baa-chan and she can't activate it." Naruto responded, holding the special kunai out to his sensei.
Eye widened in shock, then softening in memory at the sight of that kunai, Kakashi took it and let his fingers brush over the blade as he remembered all those days with Team Minato. 'Rin... Obito... Minato-sensei...' He closed his eye as the memory threatened to overwhelm him, before pocketing the weapon. "Thanks Naruto; I'll be sure to use it when the situation arises." He said with a nod.
"I know you will, sensei. Now how about that ramen?" Ever single-mindedly focused, Naruto got back to the 'heart of the matter', at least his hunger was concerning.
Chuckling heartily at that, Kakashi nodded again. "Fine, let's go have that ramen." He affirmed, continuing down their path from the shallow alleyway they sequestered into for their talk. He blinked when he remembered something. "Hey Naruto; what's up with those two aliens you mentioned your weapon doesn't work for?" He asked.
Blinking in surprise, Naruto took a minute to remember that he mentioned that. "Oh yeah! It doesn't work because those two can do literally anything, as long as at least two of us agree for the first." He explained.
"Agree?" Kakashi echoed for clarification.
"Yeah, with my Celestialsapien ability, I have two voices in my head that have to agree on something in order for the body to do anything. Before I came along, they were arguing about saving some species of creatures from extinction... 64 million years ago." Nartuo explained with a sweatdrop.
Kakashi sweatdropped as well. "Bit behind, aren't they? Could they even do that?" He wondered.
"Oh yeah, definitely. When I was training in the room, I accidentally wrecked the machinery that was actually supplying me with the information on the aliens, and I used its ability to turn back time to fix it. And when I got a bit too crazy during training, I actually used its power to escape dying." Naruto explained gravely, drawing a wide eye from Kakashi in pure shock and horror. That kind of power was... incomprehensible. "Juderon, my Voice of Rage and Aggression, explained that Celestialsapiens have the power to bend reality itself, and even ones that have developed six personalities, and thus the requisite power that would require such council, actually have the ability to destroy the multiverse." He added, just to get the point across.
Kakashi had gotten significantly paler as Naruto spoke, actually terrified of the power his student wielded. "Naruto... please tell me you'll never use that power unless something goes horribly bad." Kakashi begged.
Nodding gravely, Naruto agreed. "Definitely, Kakashi-sensei. I'm actually afraid of that power, so I don't use it often, if ever." He said.
Kakashi merely nodded, moving on to the next subject after that scary derailment. "A-and the other alien that can't use it?" He asked shakily.
Thankful for the subject change, Naruto acquiesced. "Anodite. Partially because whatever weapon I could want, I can create out of mana, and partially because those powers are a bit iffy. Anodites don't have DNA, as they are purely beings of energy, so Merlin-oji-san had to take an sample, but it wasn't really a 1:1 approximation. Whenever I try to use those powers, I have to fight the personality of that Anodite to go against what it wants instead of what I do, and it's really difficult since Anodites are immortal, care-free, and capable of bending reality like Celestialsapiens, but not to that extent. I prefer to not use it altogether." He admitted with a shrug.
"...Is there any species you don't have?" Kakashi asked, just rolling with another reality-bender species.
"Slimebiote and Contemelia." Naruto responded with.
"...What and what?" Kakashi dared to ask.
"Sapient life forms that predate all creation and are tasked with collecting and dispersing DNA across existence, and fifth-dimensional beings that create and destroy entire universes for experiments that appear to you as the thing you hold closest to your heart." Naruto answered flatly.
"...Y'KNOW WHAT, I'M JUST GONNA STOP ASKING QUESTIONS!" Kakashi finally gave up.
Naruto merely chuckled as they finally happened upon Ichiraku's, deciding to turn the conversation to Kakashi talking about stuff, mostly what happened while he was gone.
(The next day)
Naruto found himself in Tsunade's office beside Sakura, Kakashi, and Temari of all people for an urgent mission.
"We've just received word that Sunagakure has been attacked. It's Akatsuki, and they took Gaara, the Kazekage." Tsunade informed them, to gasps all around, Naruto moreso than the others after hearing Gaara became Kazekage. He couldn't exactly be proud of his friend right now, considering the circumstances. "I've brought you together to head there and rescue him. I know this isn't the greatest team for such a mission, but everyone else is already out on missions in and out of the village, but I'll be sending backup when I can; I believe Team 9 will be returning shortly, so I'll probably send for them." She explained.
"Hai Hokage-sama!" Everyone responded before taking her leave, immediately dispersing to pack for such a trip.
Only ten minutes later did they meet at the West Gate.
"Okay, this isn't the time for messing around so I'll have to get us there fast; everyone get on my back!" Naruto demanded, splitting into three duplicates.
"What the hell are you talking about; how will this help us get there faster?! This will only slow us down! What're you two doing?!" Temari asked, confused as Sakura and Kakashi acquiesced.
"Temari, if Naruto says he can get us there fast, then he can get us there fast. ...Right?" Sakura asked Naruto for clarification.
"Yeah, I can fly us there while boosting for speed to cut down on time. I want to just blaze across the land, but what I'd use for that isn't good for turns so I'd probably keep hitting trees; this is the better option." The original responded as he grunted, long red arms bursting from his shoulder blades with yellow webbing from the wrists to his body, the clone holding Kakashi doing the same.
"Wh-what the hell?!" Temari started, aghast and shocked.
"Just get on!" The clone before her yelled, causing her to yelp and hesitantly listen, getting a front-row seat to the process as it formed its own extra appendages, before the three Naruto's jumped high into the air, flying southwest before their feet burst into flames, propelling them forward infinitely faster, causing the wind to nearly throw the three of them off were it not for their 'rides' grips.
"HOW THE HELL ARE YOU DOING THIS?!" Temari had to yell over the howling wind.
"SCIENCE!" The clone merely responded with.
"HOW LONG DO YOU THINK IT'LL TAKE US TO REACH SUNA AT THIS RATE COMPARED TO ON FOOT?!" The clone holding Kakashi asked before Temari could snap at its brethren.
"PROBABLY A DAY, DAY AN' A HALF AT MOST! ON FOOT, THIS'D TAKE PROBABLY MORE THAN THREE DAYS!" The Jounin responded over the wind.
(Ten hours later)
The Naruto's had to land, as they were quickly fatiguing from the constant blast of Pyronite flame, and the normal strain of using his alien powers for so long, as opposed to short bursts. Thankfully, Naruto trained this beforehand, otherwise he would have had to land everyone hour or so, monstrous stamina or not.
Touching down and letting their 'passengers' fumble off, the three blondes stumbled into a single form, the original falling on his ass. "Hah hah... Damn, I forgot what this feels like." Naruto commented between pants.
"I never thought I'd see the day where Uzumaki Naruto gets exhausted." Kakashi commented after getting his wind-ruffled hair under control, the ladies doing the same.
"Okay, does someone want to explain what the hell is going on?!" Temari demanded with a crazed look, having to spend ten hours of staring at a pair of limbs that didn't belong on a human, her own held questions slowly driving her insane.
"Like I said... science." Naruto responded with a tired grin, his breathing under control as his energy quickly replenished, but he wasn't up for another ten hour flight just yet. "Remember when Sasuke tried to defect three years ago? I'm sure Suna knows about that, and that I went after him." Naruto said, receiving a nod. "Well, after I beat him, I was taken in by an alien." He started, knowing that would bring up a question.
"Alien? What does that even mean?" Temari asked for clarification.
"A creature not of this world; hold on, I can just do a full transformation to show you." Naruto pointed out, closing his eyes to concentrate. After only a second, he began to shrink and turn grey, before he was left a three inch tall frog-like humanoid with large green eyes with bar-shaped pupils and black and white robes. "He looked like this." He pointed out, his voice not sounding stereotypically tiny and squeaky as they expected.
Temari merely stared, her mouth hanging open, before her eyes rolled up and she fainted.
"...Y'know, I should've seen that coming." Naruto commented before changing back.
"Yeah... you probably should have." Kakashi responded airily, his own eyes wide with shock at seeing this alien business up close, but he was taking it slightly better. Sakura was in much the same shape, but they were both recovering.
"I guess we set up camp here." Naruto pointed out with a shrug, looking down the path as the sun was just dipping into the horizon, meaning it was 6:00 pm-ish.
"Guess so." Kakashi agreed as they all began setting up camp, Naruto moving Temari over to lean against a tree instead of being laid out in the middle of the road as they found a big-enough clearing near the road.
(Thirty minutes later)
"Ugh... what happened?" Temari groused as she finally came to, rubbing her head as she found herself against a tree. Opening her eyes, she found her temporary teammates huddled around a campfire, chatting about this and that as they ate shitty rations. "You!" She yelled, pointing an accusatory finger at Naruto.
"Ah, you're awake." Kakashi commented with an eye smile.
"We were... and you were a... how did...?" Temari tried to piece a sentence together, but there were too many things going on in her head.
"Yes, we were flying, and yes I was a little grey guy, and like I said, an alien. He was a creature from another planet, and he came to me for an experiment he devised in a bet against his brother. He wanted to create an organism that held the DNA of every creature in the galaxy, and came to me because of my Uzumaki lifeforce and the Kyuubi's healing. I agreed since he said, after I did one thing, I had free reign on the power. I did the procedure, trained in a special room he had that slowed the flow of time for over 1,000 years, and fought his brothers test subject, a kid with a device that let him do the same thing, and won. Those wings and flames were the abilities of two other aliens, and that bit I said about blazing across the land was another alien that can move insanely-fast." Naruto explained.
"...Oh Kami my head." Temari moaned in pain at the influx of information.
"We know." Sakura and Kakashi agreed with flat stares towards Naruto, who only pouted and crossed his arms childishly, getting a laugh from them.
"So... how many aliens do you have the DNA of?" Temari dared to ask.
"1,000,087. Technically one is an energy sample, since the alien species doesn't have DNA, and two I don't have are of a creature that predates all life and eats DNA so there's a problem, and a fifth-dimensional being whose DNA is probably on a level my body wouldn't be able to comprehend so forget that." Naruto responded as if it were the simplest thing.
"...Oh Kami my head."
"We know."
After helping Temari deal with her headache and clearing the camp, Naruto flew everyone towards Suna again, this time using a sort of lunar energy collecting method of the moons rays once it arose, nearly doubling the time he was able to stay aloft, moving into solar collection when the day rolled in. After another 18 hours, they dropped down for him recharge his abused 'batteries', taking an hour this time considering his usage. Thankfully they were only around seven hours away from Suna, so he wouldn't need to extend his reserves.
Upon touching down in Kaze no Kuni, Naruto quickly used his Granulsian abilities to coalesce the sand into a solid plateau so they - at least the Konoha shinobi, Temari was used to it - wouldn't be seared by their heat. He used a bit of Polar Manzadrill to keep them cool, ignoring Temari's teasing. Once he was charged up, he actually decided to use Kineceleran to get them there, since it would be a straight shot. Normally, he wouldn't be able to run on non-solid ground, but with chakra he negated that.
Of course, nobody was ready for the sudden slam of wind that hit them when they began moving at speeds even faster than when they flew. The Naruto's moved at such speeds that they all observed the Suna guards standing frozen before they finally stopped, as if time stopped while they moved. By the magic of chakra, they escaped whiplash, but the sudden stop still hurt. It also threw up a lot of sand and scared the shit out of the guards when they just appeared.
"Wh-who are you and what is your business here?! We are not open to visitors at this time!" The guard shakily stated.
"We're the Konoha contingent to aid with the Kazekage crisis." Kakashi stated once his stomach caught up with him.
The guard blinked in surprise and shock. "A-already? We only received the Hokage's response concerning you just two hours ago; how did you get here so fast?! We weren't expecting you for another two days!" The guard asked in shock.
Everyone pointed at Naruto as if he were at fault for some crime.
"Hey! I said I was going to get us here fast, and I got us her fast; don't point at me like this is bad!" Naruto yelled indignantly.
"W-well, all the same, thank you for getting here as fast as you could. I'll escort you to Baki-sama so you may receive details on the situation." The guard offered, receiving nods all around, before he escorted them to the Kazekage Tower.
Team 7 and Temari looked around, finding no real destruction despite Akatsuki's presence not days ago.
"Hey, how come there's no damage to the village? Didn't Akatsuki attack to lure Gaara out?" Naruto asked.
"Yes, but Kazekage-sama used his sand to protect his village against the enemies explosives. Unfortunately, it's believed his very efforts were what lead to him being captured, as the Akatsuki used the lull after his straining manipulations to attack." Their escort explained, an infuriated scowl on his face.
Naruto smiled softly at the sound of Gaara protecting his village; it sounded like he took his words to heart from the Chuunin Exams.
When they made it to the Kazekage's office - apparently Baki was in-acting - they got to the heart of the matter. "What happened when the Akatsuki attacked?" Kakashi asked.
"It was very sudden; out of nowhere in the middle of the night, explosions sounded above the village, Kazekage-sama using his sand to block them. After talking with him and leaving the fight to Gaara, Kankurou reported the attacker was Deidara, an Iwa missing-nin gifted with Bakuton. He used clay sculptures as explosives and created a giant one that might have wiped the village from the map were it not for Kazekage-sama, but after that is when Deidara struck and took him away. Kankurou went after them into the desert and presumably fought Deidara's partner, as we found him on the edge of death, his destroyed puppets around him. He's been poisoned with a concoction we have no cure for... he's not going to make it..." Baki's visible eye narrowed at his own uselessness, at his inability to save his student, and the loss of another. "Before he passed out, Kankurou said Deidara's partner was Akasuna no Sasori, a missing-nin of our own that we believe to have murdered the Sandaime Kazekage just before he defected." Baki relayed what he could about the enemy.
"A poison? I can help; I trained under Tsunade-sama, and extracting poison is one of my specialties." Sakura came forth in the hopes to save someone.
"Please, do what you can." Baki agreed, happy there was some hope. He lead them to Kankurou's room in the Suna hospital, only to run into a... bump.
"The Konoha no Shiroi Kiba?! How dare you show your face here!" An aged female voice shouted once Kakashi entered the room, and a dark blur headed towards him.
A tan hand intercepted the spin kick aiming for the Jounin's face, the owner pushing the revealed elderly woman back. "Back off, Obaa-chan! This ain't the Shiroi Kiba! Have you gone blind already?!" Naruto snapped, pissed at this woman who had some sort of beef with Kakashi's father.
"Hmm?" The old woman took a closer look at Kakashi's face. "Oh my, please forgive me; just the ramblings of an old woman, kekakakakaka!" She attempted to laugh it off, no one in the room buying it for a second.
"This is one of our elders, Chiyo-baa-sama. I apologize for her actions. Now, if we could get to Kankurou?" Baki brushed over Chiyo's actions, wanting to get Kankurou help as soon as he could.
"Oh Baki-kun, you brought Konoha shinobi in to help? Have we really needed to resort to that? And what can this little girl do that I couldn't? That boy won't make it if you put him in her hands." Chiyo commented scathingly.
"Chiyo-baa-sama, Sakura-san has been trained by Tsunade-sama." Baki countered simply, knowing that would give her all she needed to know.
"Hmm? You, girl, you've been trained by that slug-girl?" Chiyo asked Sakura almost accusatorily.
"What, you got a beef with Baa-chan, too?" Naruto asked with a scowl, already not liking this lady.
"Yes, I suppose you could say I have a 'beef' with her; that little upstart thinks she's so great just because she's created a cure for every poison I could throw at her, and now she's trained her own upstart?! Hmph! And I still don't like that we brought Konoha nin in to clean up our mess; Suna business should remain Suna business, and other villages have no right to stick their noses in it!" Chiyo ranted in her old ways.
"Whether you like it or not, Konoha and Suna are allies, lady, so we're expected to come help each other! If you don't like it, you can just go fuck off; we're here to stay, so deal with it!" Naruto metaphorically butted heads with the Suna elder, to gobsmacked expressions all around.
'Oh Kami, Naruto, did you just start an international incident?' Sakura mentally lamented in horror.
Chiyo took a moment to compose herself after the verbal lashing. And instead of scowling and responding just as heatedly, she began laughing. "Kekekekekekeke, I like you boy! No one's had the guts to talk to me like that in ages! All these sycophantic councilmen seeking to appease me and Ebizou-onii-san. Tell me, what is your name?" She asked with a smile, throwing everyone off at her personality change.
"Uh... U-Uzumaki Naruto." The blonde acquiesced confusedly while Baki pulled Sakura aside to treat Kankurou.
"Ah, Uzumaki; I remember those folk. Very nice; you remind me a lot of them. Darn shame about them, though." Chiyo frowned in remembrance. Suna was Konoha's ally even back then, and thus Uzushio's, so they also felt sorrow at their destruction. "Tell me, do you know of an Uzumaki Kushina? You remind me of her the most; you even have her round face... are you her son?" She asked, tilting her head as she noticed the similarities.
"Uh, yeah, Kushina was my kaa-san!" Naruto responded, smiling at the memory of meeting his mother.
"Ah, I thought so! I liked her; she was a spunky little thing. She carried around this flaky boy, though, whose name escapes me at the moment..." Chiyo scratched her head as she tried to remember the boy's name.
Naruto and Kakashi both broke into cold sweats at the subject of the blondes father. "U-uh, must've been her teammate or something." Naruto offered lamely.
"Hmm... yes, that must be it. Now that I think about him, he looked wholly unremarkable, anyway." Chiyo commented with a shrug, causing both men to sigh in relief.
"A-amazing; you did it!" Baki's voice alerted them to the scene happening beside them. Turning, they saw Sakura - with her hair tied back in a moderately cute fashion - holding a globule of purple liquid within a sphere of green chakra, apparently having extracted the poison.
"Way to go, Sakura-chan!" Naruto cheered with a grin, drawing a bashful blush from the girl.
In any other situation, Sakura would merely say it wasn't a big deal, but of course, this was a big deal, so she merely took the praise. Depositing the poison in a vial, she rescanned Kankurou and took out the rest. "That should be all of it; he'll wake up in an hour or so, just fine. In the mean time, I'll be working on an antidote for the poison, since we're probably going after them, right?" She asked, turning to Kakashi.
"Yes, we'll be going after the Akatsuki to procure Gaara. Try and drum up that antidote as fast as you can." Kakashi advised, receiving a nod.
"Hmph, I still don't think Konoha should be meddling in Suna affairs, but I'll come with you to help; I may be old, but I still have some fight in me." Chiyo 'offered.'
"Thank... you?" Naruto responded confusedly.
"Okay, we'll set out once Sakura finishes her antidote. Which direction did Kankurou go where he encountered Sasori? The environment is too arid for my hounds to track anything so we'll have to settle for that." Kakashi pointed out with a frown.
"Wait, I think I can do it." Naruto pointed out.
"Alien?" Kakashi asked with a flat tone.
"Alien." The blonde parroted with a grin.
Chiyo looked between the two and merely shrugged off the oddness of this blonde, going over and bringing them the bit of cloth Kankurou managed to get from the puppet master. "Will this suffice?" She asked.
Naruto took it and brought it to his face, the area around his nose turning orange as his nose shrank to near nonexistence, but faint signs of nostrils were visible when he took in the scent. "Yeah, I got a scent; Vulpimancers are some of the best trackers. Think of them as super Inuzuka ninken." He offered an analogy.
"Incredible, is that some new jutsu Konoha created, or a clan technique your mother left?" Chiyo asked, interested in this 'Vulpimancer' technique.
"Uh... I guess you could say it's a technique of my own creation." Naruto offered evasively, thankfully getting her to drop the subject as they waited on Sakura.
(Twenty minutes later)
With a bit of help from Chiyo, Sakura managed to create three vials of an antidote that would provide them immunity for three minutes. With that, what remained of Team 7 and Chiyo left the village, the blonde leading the way as he followed Sasori's trail, which he remarked smelled like wood, metal, and various herbs.
The scent lead the four of them east, toward Kawa no Kuni, where the sand gave way to forests. Entering a clearing, they came face-to-face with someone they would have never expected, considering the identities of Suna's attackers.
"Uchiha Itachi..." Kakashi identified with a glare.
"Hello... Naruto-kun." Itachi's blank gaze zeroed in on the jinchuriki.
Naruto was silent, merely glaring back at the man who started Sasuke on his path to darkness; he may not care about Sasuke's plight anymore, but this was the guy that started it all as far as he was concerned. Suddenly, the blonde felt a pulse in his mind, and he noticed red tribal markings began forming on his hands, a sign of one of the alien species' abilities passively activating in the face of certain stimuli.
Like an illusion.
Naruto noticed his teammates charge at Itachi and... start fighting the air. Guess he had them under genjutsu. Before he could even split himself, Itachi spoke up.
"Wait, Naruto-kun, I just want to talk." He said with that even tone that slightly pissed Naruto off.
"And why should I listen to anything you have to say? You're just an Akatsuki asshole who wants to kill me for my bijuu." Naruto responded bitterly, not revealing anything in the way of his relationship with his tenant.
"I'm not here to talk to you about the Kyuubi; I just want to talk about my brother. I understand that, because of you, he is now confined to Konoha, bereft of chakra and the Sharingan. I'm surprised you allowed it to happen, considering he is your best friend." Itachi commented airily.
"The hell he is; what kind of best friend shoves a fistful of lightning through you twice? What kind of best friend would defect from his home village for the sake of power, knowing full well he's going to some creepy fuck that wants his body? What kind of best friend is the most arrogant prick possibly in all of existence?!" Naruto pointed out with a fierce scowl.
With each rhetorical question, Itachi's neutral expression went more and more down, until he had a light scowl. 'I see... I fought to keep Sasuke alive, and they turn him into... that. No matter, as long as the result is the same, I can still achieve resolution; I'll just need to find some way to unseal Sasuke's chakra and Sharingan.' Reaching a decision, Itachi brought his hands together into a single seal. "Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!"
Naruto quickly brought his hands together at the wrists, palms forward as small spouts formed in them. "Suiton: Suiryudan no Jutsu!"
(Konoha, Hokage's Tower)
Senju Tsunade was enjoying a nice 'break' from her paperwork, taking the daily... hourly saucer of sake, without Shizune griping at her to boot.
Her serenity came crashing down as a cat-masked ANBU suddenly appeared before her, causing her to freak out and haphazardly attempt to hide the bottle away.
"Hokage-sama, urgent news: Uchiha Sasuke has disappeared from his home."
End Ch. 2
Yep, that's how I'm gonna end it! Love me a good cliffhanger...
So yeah, a couple things changed due to Naruto being all around better, like the quickness of the bell test and getting to Suna, and of course the emotional repercussions of Sasuke's attempted defection and those it affected, like Itachi, who is not that happy about Sasuke suddenly being without chakra, and thus putting his weirdly complicated suicide plan to a halt.
Now, for those of you who care, I'll be naming the aliens Naruto used powers from so you can get a grasp of them; look these up on kjmarch's deviantart page or the Ben 10 wiki for reference. I'm sorry to make you guys go hunting for this sort of stuff, but I feel it's better than the alternative, me having to explain each and every one in-story.
Teleportal
Rath
Bonehead
Joker
Creeper
Shellhead
Terraspin
Ditto
Alien X
...I guess Gwen and Verdona, since the Omnitrix doesn't have Anodite
Slimebiote
Contemelia
Jetray
Heatblast
Grey Matter
Sandbox
Arctiguana
XLR8
Wildmutt
Mindmesser
Water Hazard
And that's all of them. As always, tell me what you think.
Ja ne!