(Anyway, the pairing poll is up, someone brought up the pairing choices, and I'm debating to change the poll to add several more choices. However, I don't really want to do another Ruby x Naruto fic (because if I put her I can almost assure you, for whatever reason, it'll be a slaughter.) Plus, I got Silent Moon, which will get updated with three chapters this weekend, maybe. But, welcome to my current pet project, something that I've had planned for writing for a couple of weeks. Hopefully you like it, if you don't, well I'll learn from it.
So, the pairing choices are listed as Habanero (Pyrrha x Naruto), Sunshine (Naruto x Yang), Snowstorm (Weiss x Naruto.), and last but currently in the lead Yin-Yang (Naruto x Blake…which I've never done, surprisingly…huh…) So, like someone said, Silent Moon, and Son of the demoness are my focus.
Not because they garner a lot of favorites, followers, etc. but, simply put it that they're easier to write because of the uniqueness to them. I know this message is a bit longer than what I usually do, but I wanted to make it to also thank you guys.
The ones that log everyday to read Fanfiction, the ones that inspire me like Rio, Silverad, Pyro, Kerberos, and a few others. I cannot thank them enough, go read their stuff, because they're great reads. As I type this, while I should be getting a nap before work, I decided that time is ever flowing and so is my writing.
Thank you all, seriously, from the bottom of my heart.
-Blazeraptor54.
P.s: Let me know in the reviews if you want me to reupload the poll with other characters. If not, poll will close in two weeks, take care!)
Just added Nora (poll is located on my profile, just click my name peeps.)
Orange thunder (Nora x Naruto )
Added note: I cannot accept guest review votes, no offense but they'll compromise the process. Hope you all understand.
(This message will be ereased in 2 weeks time.)
Naruto, for the better part, was drugged like crazy. This was much better stuff than normally what was used in Konoha, it took almost all the pain away, save for the pressure of his bones shifting as Kurama healed them.
His eyes fluttered open as he noted that he was on sort of a ventilator, not to help to breathe, but to provide him with a sort of gas that was keeping him out of pain. Taking a moment, his breathing fogging the mask up, he looked about.
He expected to see Shizune's name, Tsunade's, perhaps even Sakura's on the nurse's charts. Nope, he saw someone with a weird name, Heather Peach, which was weird since they weren't using the old dialect descriptions for their names.
It'd be like him calling himself Orange Whirlpool, a badass name, but a weird one nonetheless.
"Hello, looks like you're awake," the peach colored hair of a woman caught Naruto's eye.
She walked over to him, "Dr. Pine was just in, your surgery went well."
"Surgery?" Naruto mused in his head as he looked at her, confused.
She then put her hand over her mouth, "that's right you came in passed out. You were rescued from a town that fell to those vile creatures of Grimm, well you're in a much safer town now. My name is Heather, but you can call me Nurse Peach if you wish, we just got done a couple hours ago repairing some internal bleed."
Naruto looked down and noticed several stitches across his stomach, had he been that damaged?
"Anyway, probably going to hurt, but I'm going to take you off the gas now so that you can adjust. Your semblance, sir, is frankly doing an amazing job at healing your body. The internal damage just came from nerves we found fried, repaired them, and such." She said as she reached over, "here we go."
Naruto took a deep breath of fresh air, breathing hard a little, "oh wow…"
"That's the good stuff, ain't it, it is not narcotic, so you won't be hankering for more anytime soon. I believe there are people here to see you," Heather walked over to the door, "sirs you may come in now."
The blonde's eyes lightened up, expecting Sasuke and Kakashi to come walking through, he chuckled a little bit. Closing his eyes, he smiled as he heard footsteps with his weird ears. They were very sensitive, but that was fine, he could work with that.
"Kakashi-sensei, Sasuke, I made it back in one piece!" Naruto announced as he opened his eyes to see not Sasuke or Kakashi, but the two from earlier in the town.
Qrow and Taiyang looked at one another, with Qrow coughing a little bit, "um are they are your next of kin or something?"
"Oh, um, hi…" Naruto waved his hand as he looked at them and spoke, "so sorry…was expecting someone else."
"No biggie, you've been out for a day," Taiyang tells him as he walked to his bedside.
"Are they are treating you nicely up here, given, you know?" Taiyang looked Naruto's ears, his Faunus ones that is, "if anyone's been rude don't be afraid to let us know, kid."
"Huh, why would anyone do that?" Naruto questions as he laid back into the pillow, hissing slightly, "ah my legs."
"We got witnesses saying that you fought off several Grimm, even killing a Cyclops by yourself. Now, being honest, are you White Fang?" Qrow questioned Naruto, but then received a look from Taiyang, "I'm just saying someone trained this kid to fight."
"Yeah, I was trained by my teacher, Kakashi-sensei. Then there was Jiraiya-Erosenin, and don't even get me started with Mount Myoboku with old frog gramps. Hey, do you think you could let Konoha know that I'm back, I'm pretty sure they're trying to rebuild from the war we just had, Ten-Tails and all." Naruto speaks without realizing that the duo was looking at each other as if he the kid had grown a second head.
Qrow took a deep breath, "he got knocked the fuck out at some point, hard."
"Qrow!" Taiyang almost yelled in reply, "that's not nice to say."
"Well, I'm just saying this kid just said there was a war recently, and last I checked I never got called up for it."
"Neither did I."
"So, see, he's clearly not all there."
Naruto looked at them, "Kurama, you there?"
"Of course, I was just getting takeout from Ichiraku."
"Wait, you can do that?"
"That was the dumbest statement you've made yet, dumbass."
"It was called sarcasm, asshole."
"Know what's funny?"
"What?"
Naruto suddenly felt Kurama stop healing, his eyes bulged out as they turned white from the pain, he bit his lip to keep from screaming out. He hit the bed silently on the side not presented to the people in front of him, his right eye twitched violently.
"Okay, okay, you're not an asshole!"
"Better, see, torturing is fun."
"Yeah, for you, for me I still have broken legs."
"I like to call that leverage."
"Har-har, you're hilarious."
"Okay, kid," Taiyang got Naruto's attention.
Taking a deep breath Taiyang then spoke clearly, "do you have a family?"
"Well, what counts as family, both my parents are dead. I have Sasuke, he's sort of my adoptive brother, and there's Iruka like my adoptive father. Hey, speaking of which, what country is this? Snow, Fire, Mists, Earth, or is this place like a cold place near Lightning?" Naruto questioned as he looked at Taiyang, who was just staring at the kid, and then watched as the man looked at Qrow.
"Knocked the fuck out," Qrow mouthed to Taiyang, "see?"
"Okay, um, kid. Look, we don't know what you're talking about. Did you mean, um, Mistral? No, there are no towns in that country with the names he's given, Vacuo, down south? There's a couple of towns there with that name, but not all of them, and is Konoha a small hamlet or something?" Taiyang tried to reason with Naruto's answers with a question, "kid?"
"W-what, pfft, no. The Elemental Countries. Fire, Stone, Lightning, Wind, and Mists. Then there's like a few dozen smaller countries, Land of Rice, Land of Tea, Land of Storms, Demons, you know! Um, aha, got it! You're all from The Kingdom of Gele, how's Temujin?! Temujin knows me, just got to him, Naruto Uzumaki. He'll remember my name, seriously, t-that's it right?" Naruto was getting nervous at the end with his question, "I…I mean this is The Kingdom of Gele…right?"
"Um, Qrow, can you go contact Ozpin?"
"Uh, yeah, sure…"
"Thanks."
Taiyang looked at Naruto, "look, Naruto, right?"
"Naruto, yeah, that's right." Naruto said as he straightened himself up, "what's your name?"
"Taiyang, Taiyang Xiao-Long, do you know what day it is?"
"Um, no actually, I don't."
"Okay, well today is October Twelfth."
"Oh, really, wow!"
Naruto rubbed the back of his head, accidentally pulling the wires a little bit but managed to adjust himself, "I turned seventeen just a couple days ago."
Taiyang looked very surprised, "that's definitely not a concussion, amnesia? No, because then he'd be remembering actual things that happened before a blank slate, damn…what's going on. First the mysterious booms, then the Grimm coming toward the town, something is seriously up with this kid."
"Um, Taiyang, can you hand me that water over there please?" Naruto asks as he pointed toward the water pitcher.
Taiyang looked at him, "sure," he walked over and grabbed the pitcher.
He handed to Naruto, but instead of the blonde grabbing the cup next to him the teen just throws the pitcher back, chugging the water down with greed. He finished quickly, not even a few moments after he started, and with a contented sigh.
"Ahh, that's the stuff," Naruto moaned a little.
"Must've been thirsty, what are you exactly? A student, Huntsman?" Taiyang questioned as he folded his arms, "Huntsman your age isn't exactly unheard of, but they're usually broadcasted."
"Huntsman, um, don't you mean Shinobi?"
"No, I mean Huntsman, what are Shinobi?"
Naruto's eyes widened, dropping the pitcher out of his hand, he blinked before he looked around. Slowly, but surely, his breathing started to increase. He gripped the bed, breathing harder, wheezing!
"Hey, Naruto, Naruto! Nurse, Nurse!" Taiyang ran out of the room, running for the nurse.
"No, no, no…no…no…no…"
"Naruto, calm down!"
"We've gotta go, we've gotta go, Kurama we're in the Infinite Tsukuyomi!"
"No, we're not, Naruto, calm yourself!"
"How…why, where the hell are we?!"
Naruto looked at the wires, grabbing them as he ripped them off him, he then looked at the IV in his arm, yanking it out. Blood leaked from his arm before it was healed by Kurama, the Nine-Tailed Fox trying to calm his Jinchuuriki down to no avail.
Naruto had medical shorts on, that's was good, meaning he wouldn't flash anyone when he got up. Getting up he ran toward the window, opening it, and looked outside to see mysterious things. Lighted signs were not as common as they were here, but the weirdest thing was people moving inside of metal boxes!
"Oi, kid, hold up don't jump!" Qrow came running in the room, "don't you do it!"
Naruto didn't listen as he jumped up, Qrow ran over to see that the boy landed just fine, much to his shock. He then saw the blonde become a shadowy blur as he ran across the rooftops, he then heard Taiyang come in, and then he looked at his friend.
He shook his head, "Tai, um…"
"You let him jump!"
"He's living, but I must be super drunk because I could've sworn he just…vanished in speed."
"What?!"
A man with silvery hair came in, walking with his cane, "Mr. Brawen…where is this child?"
"I don't know, honestly, he flew the coup!"
"I'll track him…"
"Huh, you sure about that, Ozpin?"
Ozpin, the man with glasses smiled, "I'm quite sure."
Naruto fell to the ground, holding his legs as he made toward the snowy beaches of a shore, he looked at it. Looking all around himself, there was no way that he reached the end of it, especially since he could see a distant large island in the distance.
Shaking his head, walking around, he looked at the waves crashing against the snow.
"I don't understand, I don't understand, Kurama where are we?!"
"Naruto, I'm sure we're in The Land of Fire, but this is not the way remember it."
"No shit, I don't understand, you said that we were gone for a few days!"
"I was just being optimistic, the truth is, I didn't know!"
"Then why feed me bullshit!"
"Because, because I'm freaking out as well, my brothers and sisters!"
Naruto sat up, looking at the dark blue ocean, "I knew when I made that leap at Kaguya…"
"Naruto, you did what you had to do."
"But, if I survived and I'm here, then she's here as well!"
"We don't know that!"
"I know, but, it'll be our luck!"
"You must keep calm, freaking out and storming off in confusion won't help!"
Suddenly tears dropped from Naruto's eyes as he realized something, "Sasuke…Sakura…"
"Naruto…"
Naruto brought his knee up to himself, "they're all gone, they're all gone! Damn you, damn you Kami why didn't you just let me die!"
"You could've just let me die, why, why did you let me live!" Naruto yelled out into the ocean, "I was ready!"
Naruto started sobbing as he realized something else, "everyone we know and love, all of them…dead…"
"Naruto…"
"What is it, Kurama?"
"If this world is ours, perhaps, we are in the future?"
"Indeed," Naruto turned to his head to the soft voice, "tis a dark blue beauty."
"How, when, I made sure to run as fast as I could…"
"Your arm is still bleeding."
"Kurama!"
"I felt you cut your arm on your drop, I gave them a trail, simply because I felt no ill intent."
"Still…"
Naruto watched as the wound healed almost instantly, his legs were throbbing, but they were starting to feel better. The man walked by him, taking a seat next to him, watching the waves crash down. Slowly he took a deep breath, chuckling.
"Naruto Uzumaki," the man spoke Naruto's full name, "it is truly an honor."
Naruto looked at the man, "how do you know me, I'm just now figuring out I'm not from here."
"Taiyang and Qrow told me your name, you mentioned places like The Elemental Nations and such. I just want to say," the man turned to him with a warm smile, "I understand."
"How?"
"Oh, I have my ways, but tell me something Naruto Uzumaki are you hungry?"
Naruto looked at him, "no," his stomach grumbled loudly.
The man chuckled, "that's a lie sir, it's not nice to lie to a welcoming person."
Naruto was back in the hospital, laying in the same bed, he was looking at them all as a massive amount of plates were brought in. Taiyang and Qrow looked at each other, then looked at Ozpin. The man carted the food over to Naruto, the blonde looked at the food.
"These," Naruto poked at the pudding, "are different."
"Tai, please, the door," Ozpin ordered Taiyang, the blonde shrugs and closed it.
Suddenly Ozpin formed several motions with his hand, a glyph appearing in front of him, and then a light spread across the room. Naruto's eyes widened a little bit when he recognized that chakra was being used.
"Ah, you seem to realize what I did there."
"You created a portable silence seal, that's awesome, what style?"
"Archaic."
"W-what's archaic?"
"He means very old, Naruto, please just remain calm I feel as though they are wanting to do more good than harm."
"Mr. Uzumaki, it means old, I created it in the old manner."
"How…do you…"
"Mr. Xiao-Long told me your name."
Taiyang raised his hand up, "we aren't going to hurt you, we just need to figure out why you're just talking nonsense. Ozpin here said he could track you down, frankly, I doubted my boss after reviewing street footage of your speed, but I was surprised."
"Well, I am full of other parlor tricks," Ozpin quips as he looked back at Taiyang.
"Bah," Taiyang waves him off, "sure you are."
"Anyway," Ozpin turned back toward Naruto, "despite whatever believe I can say for certain that you're very much aware of your history."
Qrow nearly choked on his alcohol, "come again?"
"Yes, young Uzumaki here is correct, these are places…but long gone through the visages of time." Ozpin told everyone as he then held out his hand, "take it."
Naruto grabbed it, with Ozpin taking a deep breath, "can you hear me in there?"
"You, how did you know?"
"I can sense your power within this one, I feel you are troubled by me."
"Considering you know Jutsu, yes, very."
"Do not be afraid of me, I am no threat to the boy, merely I am trying to investigate his claim…and they are founded."
"Where are we?"
"On an Island called Patch, a nice little hamlet, it split with the main continent fifty thousand years ago."
"How…would you know this?"
"I study history, this Jutsu you are talking about is the oldest form of Aura Manipulation we've seen."
"Aura…Manipulation?"
"The Manipulation of Life Energy."
"I see, but, do they know?"
"Qrow and Taiyang are my students, very loyal men, and you both are out of place…or rather out of time."
Ozpin backed away from Naruto, "the giant fox in you is very friendly."
Qrow and Taiyang looked at each other, shrugging while shaking their head.
"Kurama," Naruto took a deep breath before forming a hand seal, "and hang on."
Suddenly a pop of smoke came about, with a clone of Naruto standing there, perfectly healthy. Ozpin looked at the clone, smirking, and then looked at the others.
"Di-did he just magic a clone?" Qrow questioned, "I'm drunker than I realize."
"No, he did, more specifically formed one. Ah," Ozpin watched as the clones apperance became more feral, "and using it as a sort of communications."
"So, keep it blunt, what do you know of our history?" The KCNC (Kurama Controlled Naruto Clone.) asked as he looked at them, "and what happened to The Old World?"
"The Old World was destroyed a long time ago, more specifically fifty thousand years ago, you've seen the shattered moon. It was long historically debated on the cause, but mythology and fairytales say that two Gods fought on it and broke it. We call them The Brother Gods, supposedly their battle led to the end of The Old World, but humanity managed to survive and rebuild over time." Ozpin tries to explain what happened, "all that you know is gone, but how you got here is a mystery."
"Wait, if the moon broke apart, how did humans even live…and why do I have fuzzy ears on my head?"
"We found evidence of large underground shelters, underground farms, but they festered with Grimm now."
"But, that doesn't explain my fuzzy ears."
Ozpin blinked, "you mean you weren't a Faunus?"
"What is a Faunus?" Naruto questioned as he rubbed the ears on top of his head, "wait is it because I have these?"
"The Faunus are a race of sentient people with animal traits, how they came to be is unknown, and you seem not know that you are one…so something happened to you to make you come this way." Ozpin says as he chuckled a little at Naruto's wavy ears, "ticklish, aren't they?"
"Yeah," Naruto blushed and stopped, "sorry."
"Quite alright, but tell me, do you know how you came here?"
"Promise not to freak out?"
"Okay, I'm not easily surprised."
Naruto took a deep breath, "I was fighting against a Goddess called Kaguya Otsutsuki. She fought against me, Sasuke, Sakura-chan, and Kakashi-sensei. We barely put up enough fight to lower her down, and in last attempt, we tried to seal her, it failed. So, I pretty much just surrendered to fate, leaping at her, attempting to take us both out after she formed a large sphere of chakra."
"I see…" murmured Ozpin, "but tell me why you came here?"
"We don't know, Naruto passed out as we fell into a sort of black hole in the white light, next thing we knew was somehow his heartbeat started back up. Then, rather unpleasantly, we ended up falling into a nearly iced over river. I took charge in healing him, laying him there a day, and the rest is pretty up to now." Kurama said through Naruto's clone, "we are no harm to you."
Naruto's clone dispersed and sighed, "Kurama is not used to maintaining my clones chakra, so he'll disperse them easily."
"So, whoa-whoa, rewind…you're from the past?" Qrow asks as he looked at Naruto.
Naruto frowns, "not by choice…"
"Oh," Taiyang then realized, "I see…"
"Yeah, everyone I knew, and loved is dead, and I don't even know if they lived happily." Naruto frowns as he speaks, "I don't even know what to do now…"
Naruto sighed as he looked at the mirror in the room, "is there any way you can send me back?"
Ozpin frowns, "no."
Naruto closed his eyes as he buried his hands into his face, the people frowned as he started to sob, he then growls as he looked into the mirror with red eyes. Tears dropped from his eyes as he leaned back onto the pillow and shook his head.
"Kurama…"
"Yes, Naruto?"
"I don't think I can do it, being alone again, all alone this time."
"Naruto…"
"Is there a way I can free you?"
"Why?"
"I want to just, I don't know, join my friends."
"YOU WHAT?!"
"Kurama, we've won, there's nothing else we can do…now…"
"I refuse to let you commit Seppuku, you fool, listen to how you are talking!"
"Kurama, everyone, everyone we knew and loved is gone!"
"I know, Naruto, but they wouldn't want us to die here."
"It's hard to swallow, I know, being totally alone, but Mr. Uzumaki we'll do our best to make sure you integrate with our world if you wish. If not," Ozpin pushed his glasses up, "you can go into the wilderness and live out your days in peace."
"If defeated a Goddess, no bullshit, we could use you." Taiyang points out, "we're pretty much backed against Grimm."
"Mr. Xiao-Long, I believe the term is to offer him a job, not use."
"Sorry, just, it's pretty unbelievable still."
"I understand, but we're not to breathe a word of it outside of this room."
"Yes, sir."
Ozpin snapped his fingers, "Mr. Uzumaki your food will get cold, please eat."
Naruto looked at the food, sighing, he picked up a chicken breast and bit into it. Chewing, swallowing, he found it hard to believe he managed to find it pleasurable. Taking another large bite, even eating the bone much to their surprise as he chewed through it, he swallowed greedily as he moved on to the next meals.
Ozpin looked at them and then back to Naruto, "you'll be released from here in two days if you wish to seek me out Qrow will be around."