"Halt! Who goes there?" One of two samurai blocked a small, metallic gate that was elegantly designed built into a mountain pass that led to valley protect on all sides by the mountain, samurai and shinobi.
And within this valley was a massive prairie. A prairie that was made as a reserve for the more cooperative bijuu to live out their lives freely and not in danger of a war like the Fourth would ever occur again. Of course there was always the chance they could rebel but Son Goku was doing a good job in keeping the peace.
Of course Shukaku had to be sealed away again, back into Gaara. There was no way anyone, not even the bijuu, wanted that lunatic set free. He always seemed to be insane, from what the other eight would say, and only listened to their father and since the Sage of Six Paths was no longer around...
It was just better off without him around.
"Really?" Naruto raised his eyebrow at the samurai that confronted him, giving the other a brief look that reflected what he had just said, before twitching his left eyebrow. "I just left here a few days ago... How in the hell do you not know that?"
The samurai that was blocking Naruto's path looked towards his partner, seeing if he knew anything about this, and it seemed he didn't so he turned back to the ninja clad in a strange mix of what seemed to be a neon orange and brown ANBU gear, except without the standard ninjato, with the Shinobi symbol on his headband. "I am sorry sir but not just anyway can come here. Only high ranking officials or those with the proper status may be allowed in."
"Proper status? Seriously, that's why you are keeping me, a jinchuuriki that just happened to have left this place not even a week ago, out of the sanctuary." Naruto responded in an annoyed tone while keeping just enough control of his arms so he didn't reach over there and slap the idiot.
Serious, did Mifune just let anyone join the Samurai ranks now? Wasn't there some sort of intelligence test to keep the retards out?
The two samurai nervously looked at each other for a moment before the other that hadn't impeded Naruto on his way to the sanctuary stepped forward to help his partner out. "I am terribly sorry sir but you have to get permission from our commanders and show them proof you are what you say."
Naruto's hand twitched for his pouch, an action that thankfully went unnoticed by the two samurai, and under a barely veil control he spoke. "I've already have done that just last week. I came here, left before I reminded I left something I needed with Matatabi. So I'm going back there one way or another to get what I need and there isn't a damn thing you can do to stop because if I can beat Kagami and six of Bijuu when they were possessed I can surely as hell beat two idiot samurai!"
Okay, he lost control there at the end and nearly went ballistic. He was just thankful he didn't revert to chakra form and wail on the two before they let him back in.
Seriously, why did he of all people have to be checked going in? He was Uzumaki Naruto, known vessel of the Nine Tails, and the hero of the Fourth Great Shinobi War. Out of all people he should be one of the most recognizable, outside of maybe the Kages, and be let into the Bijuu Sanctuary after only a light check-up.
It wasn't like anyone could truly pose as him. They would have to find a way to mimic Kurama and that just wasn't going to happen.
The samurai guards were now on edge and there hands had reached for their katanas and were ready to draw incase the situation went beyond reach. Honestly neither felt their chances were good if they were truly dealing with a jinchuuriki, as their was only three since six bijuu were within the sanctum, and prayed they could solve this diplomatically.
And that was something Naruto was running thin on. He was suppose to be one of the few allowed in without any real qualms so how did these two not get the message? "One last time you two... Let me through and I will willingly allow the check-up and prove who I am. Otherwise I'm just going to be the crap out the two of you and go in anyways."
"Naruto... Stop antagonizing my men." Mifune's voice echoed from behind the gate before it slowly opened and the leader of the Land of Iron stood before him, standing with two of his most trusted samurai. "Stand down. He is who he says and is allowed to access the sanctum as he pleases."
"However..." The leader of the samurai continued after a short intermission as his gaze focused entirely on the sage. "I must ask why are you here again so soon. You only left a few days ago after checking on how they're settling in this place. There must be a reason for it."
"Research on a new technique and it seems I need the help of a specific bijuu." Naruto answered honestly without actually telling Mifune what he was truly there for. "I was having a discussion with Kurama about the practicality of it and he seemed to agree with me however he informed me that the Two Tails had more information about it and I should address her."
"And undress her!" Kurama's voice echoed in his head, remembering the images of his vessel having some fun with Nibi. "God that woman is gorgeous. How did I never notice that before?"
'Too busy going around and destroying things and then becoming the Uchiha's little bitch.' Naruto responded with a mental grin, knowing the onslaught that was about to begin.
"GO FUCK YOURSELF!" The Nine Tails roared at his vessel's rip on his past. "I'll admit I fell in love with destruction and carnage pretty quickly after dad past away but I was never the Uchiha's toy to play with! I joined them on my own free will before that dick Madara came around and screwed everything up! Got it!"
'Yeah, yeah, yeah. Believe what you want.' Naruto snidely commented, making Kurama roar and go on a diatribe but unfortunately for him Naruto stopped paying attention and focused back on the real world outside.
Thankfully just in time too as it seemed Mifune had been speaking and he only just caught the tail end of what he was saying. "...kind of technique you are working on? I hardly believe that anything drastic would be necessary as it seems the world is finally at peace so it leaves me wonder... Just what are you planning?"
Glad he zoned in just in time and didn't miss something very important, Naruto came up with an excuse quickly to cover his tracks. "It's a jutsu that bends space and time, kind of like what Kagami was using but having the ability to jump further and at an accelerate rate like that of my father's Hiraishin. Kurama mention that Matatabi had the most knowledge of the bijuu on such technique I was coming to see her for research..."
"Just like you did last time?" Mifune raised his eyebrow at the blonde, which left Naruto pale as Orochimaru at the thought someone saw that event, before shaking his head. "You could have just said I'm here for what happened last time... Let him through."
Seeing the samurai stand to the side of the gates and allow him passage through, the sage blinked as he took the opportunity and walked on through. And as he did Mifune turned and called for him. "Can't wait to see you continue your sensei's legacy! We'll be waiting in anticipation!"
Naruto only looked back at them slack jawed for a moment before turning around with a twitch in his eyebrow. "Seriously! Does everyone think I'm like ero-sennin that much? I'm not going to write that kind of trash!"
"And another thing! I only did what they said because those damn eyes had the ability to possess my will! I never did anything Madara or Kagami said on my own free will! I would have killed them then gone on to do those things as they were good ideas!" Kurama roared, still on the same rant he was on when Naruto last left on him.
And that only made the blonde twitch further. "ARE YOU STILL ON ABOUT THAT? GROW A PAIR AND MOVE ON! WE GOT WORK TO DO!"
"EAT ME!"
After a few hours of arguing with Kurama about the trivial matters of his allegiance to the Uchiha and having a few conversations with Son Goku, Kokuo and Saiken, Naruto finally founds himself in the area that Matatabi had claimed as her own. The mountain's wall most northern edge.
"Damn... It has only been a few days since I've been gone and she has really made herself home." Naruto whistled seeing a giant cave that had been carved into the mountain's wall.
"She was always a freak when it came to architecture. She loved building and designing things though she always had difficulty with anything delicate thanks to the fact that she pretty much is a being of fire." Kurama stated, thoroughly impressed by the shape and the old Chinese design of the entrance to her cave and the spiraling pillars that stood on the outside.
Only being able to nod, as he knew first hand that she had difficulty with anything delicate, Naruto walked up to the cave entrance. And as soon as he did a loud feline roar echoed through the cave before a blue glow began to gleam from the cave's walls and slowly come closer to him.
A massive cat of fire soon came into view with one eye yellow, the other green and glared at the intruder in her den. "Just who thinks they can come here, wake me up, not offering me some kind of treat and thinks they get away with it! ...OH! NARUTO! I didn't think you would come back so soon!"
The blue fire that consumed the Two Tails erupted with great ferocity that scorched the walls of the cave, which Matatabi thankfully had designed yet, before the massive burst of flame began to shrink till it was a ball of flames the size of a human before it sputtered out revealing the Two Tails human form.
Wearing a ripped up blue gown that barely covered her assets, which were considerable, the Two Tails smirked as she brushed the bangs of her long blue hair from her eyes. "So Naruto-kun... What brings you back here? Are you here to ravish me once more? Shall I find a good spot? We kind of ruined that last area."
"No kidding. You didn't understand the concept of slowing down or NOT SO ROUGH!..." Naruto commented with a slight twitch before a satisfied grin as it was still all good and his sage form kept him from really getting hurt anyways. "And as much as I wish I came back for that... I'm here unfortunately on business and needed to ask you a few questions."
Matatabi snapped her fingers and meowed pathetically for a moment before placing a hand on her hip and seductively smiling at the sage. "Ah... And I so wanted Chomei to join us. Oh well let's get on with it then. What is it that you came to see me for?"
Naruto's face fell and his eyes bulged at the mere mention of a possibility of a threesome that he just missed out on. And there was only one response that he, and a certain Nine Tailed Fox, had to say for that.
"Oh son of a..." "BITCH!"
Nibi only smirked and swayed her hips for a moment before wincing rubbing her behind. "Sorry love but I'm not going to be able to do that for a while anyways... You were just as rough."
Grumbling under his breath at missing out on a golden opportunity, though glad that she was only teasing, Naruto forwent his normal pouting that would have usually followed and looked seriously at the nekomata. "I had a conversation with Kurama yesterday about the possibilities of time travel and eventually we decided against it before I came up with another idea..."
"Dimensional travel." Matatabi caught wind of where this was going before she humanized cat demon sighed and rubbed her temples. "And obviously Kurama led you to me knowing that I have dimensionally traveled a couple of times... And you came here to see if I could help you on your way."
Naruto had the decency to sheepishly shrug and scratch the back of his neck. "Yeah. Though I wouldn't mind if you just gave me a few pointers so I could create my own portal and..."
"No." Matatabi narrowed her off colored eyes and crossed her arms around her ample chest. "I will not teach you a damn thing about inter-dimensional travel nor will I create the portal for you."
"What?" Naruto hissed out at the demon and narrowed his eyes in a dangerous fashion. "Why the hell not? I have nothing to do here anymore other than be courted by the Five Powers and I feel like I can do some good for another world!"
The Two Tails matched his intense gaze and did not budge from her stance. "You have no idea on how dangerous it is travel between dimensions. Not only are there dimensions with beings stronger than the bijuu and possibly stronger than even Juubi the damage the portal causes such strain on the body that it is nearly lethal for even for me so what do you think it will do to a human body?"
"Every time I have transported myself to another dimension I had to take nearly a year of rest to fully recover from the blow." She continued on the dangers of traveling dimensions. "Further the one time I took Yugito to get away from it all I..."
"Wait, you took your last vessel between dimensions yet your are adamant I won't make the trip? I fought Yugito and the other vessel and beat them into the ground and you're saying I can't do the same?" Naruto immediately jumped on Matatabi when she made it clear she had traveled once with her previous vessel.
The Two Tails winced as she baited herself there and turned away for a moment to gather herself. Once she did she turned back and caught Naruto's eye and he immediately noted the look of agony on her face. "Yes, I took her to another dimension. However my chakra alone wasn't enough to protect her and she took serious damage."
"As soon as we were able to return we did so but she was never the same. She had last a quarter of her physical capacity and was never able to fully recover from it. That is why we were easily captured by those two bastards as she overestimated her strength as we were still recovering."
"And the last thing I want is to lose someone else important to me and you have indeed become vital to me." Matatabi finished with a sorrow laden voice. "You remind me so much of father and it would pain me to lose you due to something that I could have prevented..."
Naruto was silent. He was kind of shocked by the display of caring the Two Tails was showing him and he hadn't thought that their fling a few days ago had been all that meaningful. And now it was obvious that it was for her and he felt like an ass since it wasn't for him.
Too make this all worse it seemed like now it was impossible for him to travel to other dimensions without some serious side effects and he wasn't looking forward to that. "Matatabi... I'm sorry. I didn't..."
"Excuse me! Giant fox has something to say!" Kurama blurted out, ignoring his fellow bijuu's plight and his vessel's sentimental response. "I can easily elude those problems for a couple of reasons. One, my chakra is more potent and as such thicker than hers and better able to shield you."
"Two, you have your own considerable chakra reservoir and added on with natural chakra you can shield yourself from the strain from the travel. And finally three... You are an Uzumaki! They are known for their extreme luck, demon like vitality and the ability to make the impossible become reality. With those three factors you will feel very little side effects and will be mostly okay."
"If anything I'll be the one that takes the brunt of damage and you are more than capable of handling yourself. And you would still have what was left of my chakra to use afterwards anyways if things got too out of hand." Kurama finished with his explanation on why Naruto would be safe during inter-dimensional travel.
Of course while Naruto heard this he was pretty irate at the fox's response to his sister's plight. 'Kurama you jerk! Matatabi is spill her heart out and tells us why she doesn't want us to go and you are..."
"No... He's actually right. I didn't add in those factors." Matatabi interrupted Naruto's rant towards her brother, shaking her head in the process and ignoring the stunned look on Naruto face. "There is still a slight risk but that fatality of the trip is diminished considerably by those factors which gives you an edge even I didn't have. However this all revolves around Kurama's cooperation so we might be boned as there is probably something he wants."
"Damn right! Go in the back with dingus here and go at it! Until that happens I am not helping in this endeavor especially since it will be my ass on the line if it does!" The Nine Tails bellowed, wanting to see some good action before being out of it for a considerable amount of time or so it was seeming.
"Kurama you sick bastard! She's your sister! That's like incest!" Naruto yelled back at the fox, somewhat grossed out by the fact that the demon didn't seem to care that she was literally his family.
"Oh come on! Every single clan in the world practices it to keep their blood strong!" Kurama countered Naruto's weak argument and added more to seal the deal. "And anyways, we're beings of chakra! We have no blood and therefore have no blood relations. And even though we are all connected together by Juubi that doesn't mean we're sibling."
Seeing no way he could really counter that argument, or really wanting to, Naruto turned to Matatabi and blinked at her. "He's got a good point there."
"He does. He was always logical in his ideas... Just never in their execution which explains why he was the first to be sealed out of all of us." Matatabi nodded in agreement which of course inflamed Kurama further and he started cursing at the two only for it to stop immediately on a few words.
"Well let's do this." Matatabi stated before grabbing Naruto by his armor and dragging him into the back of the cave to get it over with...
Not that Naruto had any problem with that.
"Take these." Matatabi handed Naruto two massive scrolls while managing to cover her body with a blanket and not revealing an inch of skin. "While you were out I drew the seals onto those scrolls. You won't see much difference in the two however the small difference is one I labeled home will return you here without fail. The other will take you to another dimension though which I'm not sure as it is rather random."
Nodding for a moment, stretching the stiffness out of his joints, Naruto sealed away the home scroll into his body before looking puzzled. "Wait, why is it random yet you were able to make one to return home?"
"The seal has a portion that requires the insignia of that world to be placed within it and I know of this world's symbol so I was able to create a portal back. However what I did learn was that if you leave it blank is that it acts as a randomizer and will send you to any dimension that has connections to this world." Matatabi explained the creation of the return seal.
Naruto nodded in understanding. "So all I would need to return back to that world would be the symbol of that world? Alright, I might want to learn that to help start labeling the other worlds for you."
The Two Tails smiled at that and nodded in return. "That would be wonderful. During my times in the few worlds I journeyed across I was never able to label them outside of what the world looked like."
"Now... I have a few requests I would like to make of you before you go." Matatabi stated as Naruto unraveled the scroll that would send him to a new world, stopping him in the process and turning his attention back to her.
"Number one, I want you back within five years to make sure you are alright otherwise I'm just going to jump world to world until I can find you. As I said you are important to me and I damn well am not going to take it well if you die from inter-dimensional travel."
"Number two, do not reveal too much of what you are capable of until you are sure you can. Some of these worlds our powers could be considered threatening and it could cause you to be hunted before you are able to return home."
"And finally my last request... There was a world I once visited that had vampires twinkled in the sun light. If you end up in that world kill every single one of them with no remorse. They are disgrace to true vampires everywhere and the multi-verse will be much better off without them. So kill them no matter who nice and good natured they seem. They don't deserve to exist."
Up until the third request Naruto thought that they were very reasonable requests. Hell he hadn't planned on being away for more than a year really but if it took Kurama more time to recover then he would stay a little longer. And of course he was going to stay on the down low as best as he could. He didn't want to have to answer any bothersome questions...
Ignoring that Shikamaru like remark there, Naruto owlishly blinked at Matatabi for a few moment before just deciding to nod. "Alright, I will."
"Thank you... Now take care. Brother, one tail is all that is needed. The rest will be needed to shield my little sage." Matatabi smiled before informing Kyuubi just how much chakra was needed to perform the act.
However Naruto simply twitched at the very end of her statement. 'Did she just claim possession of me?'
"Consider that a good thing and leave it be..." Kurama mumbled to his jinchuuriki before taking control of his chakra, which was in Naruto's possession, and began to charge it. "Are you ready brat? I want to get this on the road already! There's loot to plunder!"
Giving the Two Tails a wave goodbye, Naruto stood at the center of the seal and mentally nodded to the fox. 'Alright, let's get this show on the road!'
And golden aura burst around Naruto as he activated chakra mode and exactly one tail of chakra flowed from his feet and into the seal which in turn began to glow a bright gold and ruins spread out from the seal and made a massive array on the ground . Numerous baseball sized balls of multicolored light began to flutter from the seal wrap around Naruto while the golden aura of the seal began to flare upwards in a magnificent display as it slowly closed in onto Naruto and finally enveloped him.
And in a brilliant burst of dazzling light it was like Naruto was never there in the first place. It had worked and Naruto currently traveling to a new world.
It was in that very instant Matatabi frowned. Never once when she activated the seal had it acted like that before. Everything was normal up until the energy balls began to shower the seal array. That never once happened to her and that made her very, very nervous. Something happened but she was sure that seal had not gone wrong.
"It seems like you were right Naruto-kun... Something was calling you... Another world needs you and has brought you to it." Matatabi gazed at the spot Naruto possessed only moments before. "I just hope you will be okay there for a while... I need to tell the others about this disturbing development."
"We may be needed there too."
A/N: And that my friends is the end of chapter 2. A quick update, which I know you will be happy with, and now I can actually focus onto the crossover portion of the story though I might have a few scene shifts to return back to the Narutoverse to check on what the others are doing.
And while I'm still playing around with the small harem scenario Matatabi will part of it and as of now I'm going with Yuna. It might just stop there or I might just one other to it but no more than that. If that doesn't work it will be Naruto paired with Matatabi.
Also I might change the second filter from Suspence to Comedy as it seems more and more that the later will be more pronounced as the story goes on but I'll wait until I'm sure.
Anyways I hope you enjoyed and now for so more enjoyment, an Omake!
Omake:
"Oh god... What just hit me?" Naruto complained in a groan, laying on what seemed to be a bed and not one-hundred percent sure on what just happened or where the hell he was.
"Hey there! Are you alright?" A feminine voice called out to him before someone lightly shook him.
'Oh great... This dumb broad is yelling in my ear and I have a damn migraine.' Naruto winced in pain as her voice echoed through his head, causing his brain to rumble in agony.
"Ow would you not do that... Why are you twinkling?" He finally yelled out and stopped the woman from shaking him before opening his eyes to see a young woman, not much older than he was, with brown hair that just happened to be sparkling like the rest of her in the light coming from the window.
Blinking at his odd question, the young woman sighed in relief. "Oh good... You're alright. Edward, he's up and seems to be doing fine."
Hearing the door open he turned to see a rather dashing man, if he had to say so himself, with a rather stupid haircut, that negate his attractiveness by a few points, and walk over him with relief written on his face. "That's a relief to hear. What happened to you? You dropped out of nowhere while I was out on my midnight stroll."
Seeing him walk into the light and seeing him sparkle like the woman, Naruto simply blinked at this situation before coming up with an excuse. "Fell out of the sky... Now why are you twinkling like that?"
"Odd... I can feel you have intense energy within you but you don't know what we are?" Edward stated in confusion having sensed that this young man before him held a great deal of power. "Maybe you have amnesia for I seriously doubt that someone with the energy you radiate wouldn't know about vampires."
"Vampires? I thought they... Oh son of... Really is my luck that bad?" Naruto started out confused as from what he knew of vampires they burned to death in sun light before he finally remembered Matatabi's final request.
So withdrawing a kunai from one of his storage seals, just incase anyone had disarmed him of his pouch or he just lost it, he quickly and without hesitation slit Edward's throat. "Sorry about this... Orders from the wife."
"Edward!" Bella cried out before her throat was cut open just as Edward's.
"Again sorry... Just follow orders." Naruto apologized before wiping the kunai on the sheets. "Well... Better get rid of the evidence and burn their corpses. Who knows if they can regenerate or not?"
"Katon: Gokakyu." Naruto blew a stream of fire into the room, catching everything within it on fire, before jumping out of the window and slowly making his way away from their apartment. "Man... Why did it have to be this world? Kill vampires is all and good but I just feel kind of bad about this... They did help me."
"Oh well... People do crazy things for love." Naruto chirped and walked away from the crime scene, not hearing the cries of a young child coming from the burning house.
Omake End
Okay, that was horrible on my part and I apologize to all the Twilight fans out there. I simply hated the books out of principle due to the vampiric laws they were just trashing in the process and wanted to get some form of revenge. And there it was.
So I hope you all enjoyed the chapter and the omake, which there will be plenty more of those to come. Peace out.
