hello again! chapter 3 is on the way! i want to thank those who have read my stories so far, now enjoy and review if you can!

CHAPTER 3: RADIANT LIKE WELCOME

It had been June's dream to be an astronaut, just like Danny's, but unlike June's who has been on several dimensions on her homeworld, Danny had actually left his world once…while shooting down a ghost possessed satellite he said, but nothing they had seen or dreamed could compare to what was in front of them.

The vast, colorful, star struck, filled of wonders universe, the sight was enough to keep naruto, the hyperactive ninja he is quiet, marveling on the sight only granted to a few once in their lifetime, that and the fact his still unofficial girlfriend was on his lap, enjoying the sight, while purring on his neck, ruffling is hair slightly kinda had a calming effect on the kyuubi jailer.

Danny was marveled at the sight, using his bracelet for taking video pictures of the vast cosmos.

The bracelet of Protegra was a one of a kind device, designed by Danny's mother, whose blueprints she found somewhere and were stolen by the GIW while they seized their home once, using the energy of the user to create a quantum based shield that in theory could expand at the whim of the user, also equip with several extra attachments such a communicator, a video camera with a ridiculous memory output of 50GB, the equivalent of tucker's computer, it also had a GPS/motion detector/radar/sonar like map, along with a small analyzer, but the main function had always been for protection.

Of course no human wearing the bracelet would be able to create a large shield like Danny, after all no human know has a secondary energy source that interacts so closely with the mater-radiation quantum requirements particles such as ecto-energy.

Before his escape both his mom and jazz had been able to steal back the bracelet, and when Danny escaped to fentom labs, identity revealed an all, his mother gave him the bracelet, with and extra attachment, an empty circuit like cube on the bottom of the bracelet, that according to her, worked to enhance the bracelet capabilities, so far Danny had found none of the chips require for this enhancement, but as he knew his mother well enough, he knew she had spread the chips, a 'just in case'

For June, this cosmos like view was breathtaking, she had long forgotten her dream, after all she could never leave orchid until a new Te xuan ze was elected to succeed her, and now that she was away of that, she felt like crying…

This was exactly what she did…

Danny noticed this of course, and so naruto, who looked at June in concern, "hey June, what's up?" naruto asked, making his unofficial GF look at him oddly.

"uh…nothing guys" June said as she dried her tears away, "is just…is just that when I was ten I had the dream of becoming and astronaut, to reach the stars, to reach where no other woman has reached before…but…"

"What you told us…the barrier, the thing that kept you in your home…right?" June nodded at Danny's question, "I was devastated, all nights I would stare at the stars, knowing I would never reach them…and now…when I nearly gave up on my dream, here I am, sitting on a space ship with a ghost/human hybrid for pilot and two ninjas for crewmembers, life surely knows how to be weird"

"Yeah…" Danny muttered as he turned off the camera of his bracelet, and looked at the gummi ship map, "so…how much until radiant garden captain fentom" June said with a mocking tone, "ha-ha…I don't know, maybe a short of 100 kilometers, if the huge planet there isn't any indication" Danny said as he pointed at the huge blue planet with green like lands, gushing with life, making the four gap in amazement.

"Is…is so beautiful" hinata whispered as she stared at radiant garden, in all its glory, and in one of the land masses a lot of lights could be seen at the far.

"That's our goal people, so buckle up because we are entering the atmosphere" Danny said in delight as the gummi ship entered radiant garden atmosphere.


"so…you failed" the akatsuki leader said to his two subordinates, both back in shinobi lands, and looking if they were used as meat for the grinder.

"Hai" was the unanimous reply of kisame an itachi, "leader, it's obvious those two lost their edge, let me and sasori deal with the brat" a boy with long blond hair tied on a ponytail and covering his left eye spoke, bearing the headband of the stone village.

"No…itachi and kisame were caught off guard, and we still need to rest, we captured seven of the nine, after what happened" the leader said as he motioned to the devastated rain village.

"yeah…it is odd to know that those black things could cause so much damage" the blond replied, "indeed, the one tail and nine tails are unaccounted, surely outside this world, for it we will move to others world, looking for both the jailers, and make sure none escape, we are close to our goal, I will not allow that this…keybearer mess with my plans, anyone who defies Pein will die…"


"Okay guys we are landing" Danny stated as occupants of the newly baptized 'shooting star' steeled for the landing.

"Okay why are you steeling for a rough landing?" Danny asked annoyed at the group, "uh…ninjas, we don't fly, we dash and jump" naruto said, a nodding hinata with him agreeing, "well…I don't know how good you are at landing, piloting in outer space is one thing, but landing is another" June said with a small blush on her cheeks, she hated to admit it, but she was scare that in the landing they would crash.

"…" Danny just stared at them, a scowl on his face, "now I'm offended" he said as the console of the ship began to 'beep' and a red button began to shine, Danny pressed that button, ignoring his new friend's pleas.

"Control tower to gummi ship, please identify you and ship name"

Danny sighed as he pressed the button again, "This is Danny fentom, pilot of the gummi ship 'shooting star' requesting permission to land"

"Control tower to 'shooting star', you got to permission to land, landing bay 5 is cleared for landing, please watch traffic of landing bay 4 and 6, over"

"'shooting star' to control tower, thanks, over and out" Danny said as she pressed the button, cutting transmission with the control tower, leaving a surprise group, "the hell was that!?" June asked.

"What? My mom kinda drill me some mandatory procedures in concern to landing, what I did something wrong?"

"Well…that was odd, I didn't know you knew how to do that? I mean…"

"I get it June I'm amazing" June pouted at Danny's proclamation, but then grew serious, "yo naruto, do you have any familiars or something?"

"no…I'm a orphan, no mom, no dad, no nothing, not even aunts of grandfathers…thanks for the painful memory by the way" naruto responded, making Danny sigh, "sorry dude, I didn't mean to, but right now in our hangar, there are people…with the same logo of the headband metal you and hinata wear, right there" Danny said, pointing to a group of people…and a set of familiar clothes and headbands…

"Oh crud" naruto answered as he began to panic, "let me guess…rough goodbye?" June smirked as naruto paled, "I…uh…um…I kinda…made thunders rain on them…he-he"

"Oh…well that explains their angry faces" Danny said, "by the way how you saw them, you don't have some telescope or bionic eye"

"Nah, the ship has a camera with zoom, nice for surveying damages" Danny said with a smirk, "dude turn back, I don't wanna go down there" naruto said, pale as a sheet of paper.

"listen naruto, sooner or later you have to confront your demons…in the most literal way speaking, but…you can't run away of things, sooner or later they find you" Danny said.

"This time it was sooner, just my luck…and to boot this didn't happen when the moron of my emo friend got away, no mystical journey, no weird friends, no love confessions, just he and showing an electrical charge hand onto my chest!" naruto snapped, arms crossed and pouting, "twice!"

"…okay, that is odd…" Danny said as he finally entered landing bay 5, and avoided the people there, and the fact the seven grown ups there were ready to dash at the first sight of naruto.

"naruto, Danny" June began, "first sign of them attacking, we retaliate" she said simply, shocking hinata, she had seen what they did to two S-class criminals, kami knew what they might do to geninn and jouninn that are not even ready to face the powers the three wielded.

She just hoped they didn't screw up by attacking naruto.


"I'm going to gut him!" kiba screamed as he was on his family jutsu mode, the four legged technique, which made him more feral, enhanced his strength and speed, not to mention that his nails and fangs grew sharper.

"Kiba! This is not the time for stupid revenges!" kurenai snapped as she saw the gummi ship approaching them, so far she had been impressing by what was she had seen, but kinda hurt by what had happened.

Turned out that after naruto had made thunders rain on them, they woke up in konoha, just to witness a few hours later how a group of dark creatures advance to their homes, overwhelming the village in sheer numbers, they by sheer luck were saved by a bigger version…like one hundred times over big gummi ship, along with a couple of dozens of ships, that carry them all, along with the people of sand, rock, cloud, mist and waterfall.

sure there was bad blood among those people, more with people of mist that loathed bloodline users, of course the little incident with the wave of dark creatures later know as heartless was enough to join them, and form a temporal alliance…that and the fact that only tsunade, the gondaime hokage (fifth fire shadow) gaara the newly selected kazekage (wind shadow) and the raikage (lighting shadow) a man that had replaced the former raikage that ordered the kidnap of hinata years ago, of course he is brass, loud, and like all kages know so far of their world, has a perk that…makes them unique.

Tsunade perk is gambling and drinking, gaara is…well his lack of sleep and inner demon, and his is the fact he always goes shirtless, with huge weights around his forearms and weights on his arms, exercising.

Because of them being the only three leaders of villages alive and who were not dumb enough to fight head on this creatures of nightmare, that left the other villages under their command, while they remained in radiant garden, until the heartless were eradicated of their world.

"They are there" jiraiya replied, making tsunade sigh, "Of course, hinata and naruto are unaccounted, by the way, does she really ended up with your clothes ino?" tsunade asked, "well duh…I still have her clothes!" the blond mind walker replied, "please don't remind me ino, the memory of Lee's jumpsuit in me will hunt me for eternity" neji said with a shudder, "oh come on my youthful friend! It was not that bad! You enjoyed the burning fires of youth!" Lee replied, "…yes, it burned, a lot" neji replied as the gummi ship soared up them, landing right in the middle of the hangar.

"Okay, shikamaru, you restrain him with your shadow while I claw his heart out!" kiba replied, "troublesome guy, knowing naruto, he will go out in a very flashy way that will not allow me to use my shadow possession" shikamaru replied as he stared at kiba, "and what with you and this sudden hate for naruto anyway?" chouji asked, both shikamaru and chouji were back on his former clothes, much to the licking of the duo.

"Kyuubi killed my father, that's enough reason for me to get even against him" kiba said, making chouji sigh, "Kiba, he has like the unlimited power of kyuubi at his disposal, he is nearly to immortal, if the fact he got two chidori on his chest were any proof, and oh yeah, he can make and army of himself and knows a technique of the fourth hokage, what chances you got against him, none!" tenten snapped, seeing how the gummi ship cockpit opened, and hinata emerged of it, along with a boy dress in black, and a strange light around them, then looked back at the ship.

"Oh for the love of frostbite! Naruto stop being a chicken and get your butt down here!" the boy snapped, making the ninja group go wide, they were right, naruto was there.

"No! There is no way I go there! Especially with those resented guys! Kami knows what granny will do to me! And sakura! Not to mention kakashi-sensei! He will do the thousand years of pain on me again…with a pole!!" kakashi actually paled at that, he is not that resented with naruto, sure the lighting got him twitching for a good hour, but the fact he took four jouninn alone was enough to make him proud, yet a little piss, he is a freaking jouninn, he should have seen that coming.

"A thousand years of…what the hell are you talking about? I barely know the people you speak off dude, just get off the ship, steel up, face things like a man and then when is all over you can laugh at it later, it will be a funny memory!" the dark haired boy said.

"Danny is right naruto, please come down, I promise nothing will happen to you" hinata had spoken, referring to the dark haired boy as Danny, "...no!"

"GET OUT OF THE SHIP!!" another voice made all tremble, well not tsunade, since she used that tone of voice all times, "no June, I will not go! And you can't make me!"

"ALRIGTH THAT DOES IT, ON THE COUNT OF THEN YOU GET OUT OF THE SHIP OR I PUNCH YOU OUT, ONE!"

"Pleaseeee! They hate my guts, all for the freaking furball!" that actually struck a cord on the new generation, specially to the jouninn, who felt guilty after having mad faces and waiting for naruto to actually restrain him.

"AND I GAVE A COCONUT ABOUT IT! NINE!"

"But June…wait did you say nine?"

"TEN!"

BAMM!

"OUCH MY FACE!"

CRACK!!

"MY BEAUTIFUL FACE!"

BAMM!

"NOT IN THE FACE, I'M AN ACTOR AND GIRLS DIG MY FACE!!"

BOOM!!

The next thing the present see after those screaming and painful punches is a flying naruto that landed right on the feet of Danny and hinata, and then a smirking girl with black hair and a magenta stripe in it.

"…yo…what happen to the other numbers?" naruto asked as he stood up, rather groggy but he stood up nevertheless, "sorry, I suck at math, I think I should have mention that before" the girl know as June said with a smirk, as she then held her hands on the cockpit edge, and then pushed herself up, doing a somersault and then landing with ease, then stretching up, "oh yeah! Man that felt good!" she said as she then dusted naruto.

"see…wasn't that hard to get out" she said, "easy you to say, your not the punching bag of two emotional mess up woman and target practice for the rest of the village" naruto replied.

BAMM!!

The next thing he knows is that his head in impale on the metal floor, thanks to sakura and tsunade fists, "emotional mess up woman?!" tsunade began, "punching bag? Naruto-baka! I don't use you as punching bag and I don't have an emotion disorder!" sakura replied, noticing that the group were staring them oddly, including the two newcomers.

"…he-he" both woman blushed as they rubbed the back of their heads, a habit they had without knowing picked of naruto itself, (really, prolonged exposure to naruto can and will cause that)

"Ouch! Sakura, granny! I can't come into a room without my head getting impale on the ground by you two?" naruto snapped as he pried himself of the hole his head made.

"Well if you acted a little seriously then you wouldn't end up with your head on the ground!" tsunade snapped, "Ahem!" the busty gondaime snapped her attention to the duo of newcomers, and the light that turned to be a miniature girl with wings, which freaked sakura and tsunade.

"You must be 'granny' he refers so much" Danny said, making imaginary quotes for 'granny' which made tsunade angry, "…are you sure she is old? I mean she is roughly twenty-five, I think she could pass as your mom…or hot sister" Danny said, making tsunade smirk, flattery was never un-welcome, especially to her.

"Danny, she is ancient!" naruto replied, "baka! You should be honored that such a smart boy is actually comparing me as your hot sister, which could be true" tsunade said with a smirk, "…great you gave her more to go on!" Danny smiled as he padded naruto on the back, "you ninjas are weird…but who am I to judge, I'm a freaking ghost hybrid!" Danny said as he floated to the ship, closing the cockpit, and leaving a gapping group of ninjas.

Soon the rest arrived, and to naruto surprise, kiba looked feral, like in their fight in the exams, but walked normal…like shikamaru…

"Shikamaru, why are you holding him up?" naruto asked, "Because he wants to carve your heart out?" shikamaru asked in sarcasm, "he and half of the village, trust me on that"

"Naruto…" neji began, "save it…wait a minute?" naruto said as he turned to the ninja group, "how did you ended up here?"

"I can answer that" the trio turned around, seeing behind them an old man, with a long beard, blue robes with a blue pointy hat and small glasses, "my name is Merlin, you must be the one who found yen Sid magindex, he is actually pleased to know that his book was not lost…but he is kinda mad for someone who has no magical blood relation using it" Merlin spoke.

"Great…another guy to add into my 'hate my guts' list" naruto replied bitterly, "now don't be downcast naruto, these are hard times for all of us, and some of us are on the edge of a breakdown, trust me, yen Sid is a stern mentor, a good one, but stern, now follow me, I'll tell you what happened" Merlin motioned to the group to follow him.

"By the way, bloom…" so said fairy stopped, and stared at the elder, "your friends are fine, they send 'hi' and wait for us in the headquarters" bloom beamed with happiness at that, and flew around the large group.

"Let me guess, the tower was your home" June said, making June nod, "better to loose a replaceable home rather your only life" she replied, making bloom nod.

"Why I got the feeling this tale won't be pretty" hinata muttered to naruto, "Because it won't" naruto replied, squeezing hinata's hand, and how right they were.


"Target located, awaiting orders command"

"command here huntress, the secondary targets have been raised to main targets status, collateral damage acceptable, elimination of targets Juniper Lee, Danny fentom and naruto uzumaki is priority, capture of the secondary target hinata hyuuga is mandatory for mission success"

"Understood, targets currently accompanied by a group of ninjas, requesting restrain lifting on heavy weapons usage"

"restrain remains, we only want those three dead and the girl captured, retrieval of weapons of the trio critical, but usage of heavy weaponry is unacceptable, only light weaponry, attack at any moment"

"Understood command, huntress out"

She had waited for a long time for this, the chance of revenge, or getting even, of ruining his life, like he ruined hers, he was going to pay.

Not only because he hid his secret of many, not because he faked to be her friend, no…was he going to pay because he is a monster, like the two people with him.

They didn't deserve to live, nor to anything else, and she was going to make sure they didn't made it to the WPO HQ.

That was something she was good at, or her name stopped being Valerie grey.


the huge group walked, the trio noticed several things, one was the obvious fact where the ninja in general were staying, a huge canyon that Merlin refer as the '1000 canyon' a place where roughly six months ago, sora had fought against one thousands heartless alone, and won.

It was there where June saw how big sora really was in terms of charisma, he had a whole legacy behind him, a legacy she had to live up to, a true hero, selfless, ready to lay his own life on the line, with a big heart and huge dreams, a simple kid that before was roughly of naruto's age and height, and before they arrive was a myth itself, with a sigh June tried to convince herself that she might be able to live up for his own legacy…

"The keyblade war must start anew"

But the damn voice of the elders still rung on her ears, the keyblade war, the darkness she was suppose to give in…

"No no! Come on June head in the game, you can do this! I'm not going to let some incorporeal voices mess with me! I got a mission, and a duty…and besides…" she thought as she glanced at Danny and naruto, "we might have spend so little time together, but they are so good friends…as long as they are around…I have to fear nothing! Bring it on elders! Bring anything you got!"

As they advanced further into the '1000 canyon' naruto noticed other things…

"Hey…" he began, "if you all got here just yesterday or today…or whatever the time was…how you were able to construct this so fast!" he said as he motioned to the hundreds of houses and streets inside the canyon.

"Well…we kinda got help, like it or not, we have to side with other ninjas, including those of rock, that hate our guts for the war" tsunade said as she stared as the combined business where people of all the villages worked, some with some friction due to where they came from, but still worked.

"I…don't know what to say…all this in one day?" Danny asked, "trust me kid, we have all kind of jutsus for anything, including making houses, it was easier of course with rock ninjas…the few they remain, they were so prideful that they would stand against the heartless…only civilians, geninn and a handful of chuninn and jouninn who had families and cared more for their families came, the rest…fought…and lost" tsunade said.

"And perv sage?" naruto asked, "here and there, you know him, now that there is a huge village around, and a huge public bathhouse, guess what he is doing brat?" tsunade said with a smirk, "not even in another world? What if he causes a…a…world incident?" naruto asked, "I'll deal with that…for now first let's eat" tsunade said as she motioned the group to a huge edification that emanated a familiar smell to the blond and hinata.

"Ramen…"

"Cinnamon buns…" both ninjas said in a zombie like manner, making the rest look at them, and then gap at the four growls of stomachs, coming of Danny, June, naruto and hinata.

"Let's get in before they die of starvation" kurenai said, motioning the four to enter, which they did in a blink.

Not five minutes later, the huge group, Merlin included was seated on a huge table, waiting for the waitress.

"So…as we wait, what did you did before coming here?" kakashi asked, soon he would regret that, because he, as any other jouninn was surprised by what they three had done while in another world.

The run-in with itachi and kisame was not some stroll in the park, kakashi, asuma and kurenai were witness of that, they had fought against the duo, nearly lost, if it wasn't for gai…and the fact they were looking for naruto in that moment, the mere fact a bunch of teens and pre-teenager had fought and survived, not to mention defeated the duo was something great, of course they had also tell them about the Tsukuyomi of itachi, and what they did next.

"YOU DID WHAT?" kakashi asked, making the group cringe at his tone of voice, "I said we beat itachi on his own mind, what's the deal?" naruto asked, "the deal? The deal is that I got to endure a hell of a time with that mess up uchiha while he stabbed me in the kidney for seventy-two hours who turned to be more that a freaking life! And you tell me that a girl, a boy who is half death and the dead last endure it, and defeated itachi in his own world?" kakashi asked.

"Yeah, pretty much that it" Danny said, "I…I don't believe it!"

"well it has some sense, I mean naruto status as jailer affects both his mind and body, they can trap him on a genjutsu, but they can't mess with his mind beyond, they would have to deal with his mind defenses, and kyuubi presence, as for Juniper, is like she just needs some minutes to get use to the mind assault and counter it, as for Danny…well he is part ghost, and only ghost artifacts can affect him…of course we have never met a ghost…neither believe they existed…but right now all I believe is just mess up" kurenai replied, looking oddly at the trio.

"For once the furball works for me..."

"naruto, you got unlimited power on your hands…yet you loathed it…how you cope with it everyday" shino asked, for the first time asking something related with kyuubi and naruto, "dunno…I just hate the furball, he hates me…there is nothing to deal with, as long he doesn't mess more with my life…but that is already impossible" naruto replied, seeing a girl approach them with a notepad.

"Finally the waitress" he added as Danny turned to see the waitress, just to his eyes widen, because in front of him was a girl with auburn hair, aquamarine like eyes, dress in a black sweater with aquamarine pants, equally staring at him oddly.

"Jazz?"

"Danny! What are you doing here?"

"That's what I want to ask you! Last time I saw you and mom and dad you were beating the crap out of some GIW! How did you ended up here?"

"Uh…Danny?" June began, making Danny turn at her, "make like if we don't know her, and we don't, and introduce us to her!"

"Oh yeah…guys she is my sister jazz fentom, my older, annoying and sometimes clumsy sister" he said, "I am not clumsy Danny!"

"…you trapped me in my own thermos, made lame draws of ghosts I have already on my computer, with lame names, and oh yeah, you blew dad's ecto-skeleton!"

"That was and accident, I was trying to help, and it was you who suggested blowing the suit!"

"Because you were being use by my arch-nemesis"

"Like if I didn't knew who he was"

"You didn't know!"

"Oh shut up both of you!" naruto snapped, making both fentom to zip it, "eh…so what are you doing here again?"

"(Sigh)…is going to be a long story bro, trust me"

"At this point…I think I can take on anything"


Valerie is by far a girl with thin patience, that's a fact, back in amity she could barely contain her anger every time she fought Danny's alter ego, phantom, and such patience began to run thinner every time he escaped of her, barely shooting at her, only dodging and flying.

Before the incident with the meteor she was getting in some terms with phantom, after all he had a small sister, and shared a common enemy, vlad.

But after the meteor, and the attack of the GIW where he was force to fight with all, there she saw two things, one, Danny was not the clumsy and loser guy out of shape, he knew how to fight, he wasn't clumsy and he was in better shape that most teenagers of his age, and two, he was by far more powerful that any ghost she had encountered, and he has been holding up on her, all the time.

That mere thought brought her to that point, to the point where she had it with Danny's lies, he could have destroy her any time, to eliminate her, but he didn't, and she considered that and insult to her skills.

As her helmet visor zoomed more to the group, in the restaurant, she noticed another thing, Danny's sister was there, which only meant one thing…

Looking beyond, she saw the outlines of Paulina, dash and Kwan, surely Sam and tucker not far behind, if they were there, then it meant that his family was here too, and so…'him'

That thing that Danny was unable to defeat, the very embodiment of Danny's dark side, the very being that caused Danny desperation and fear…

She just needed to find it and eliminate it, and then take his power to her, just like the fable chasers, the only reason the GIW and HAM existed was by their legend, and she would become one…


"Alright ramen!" naruto shouted as he dug on his food, inhaling the food at an alarming pace, "please keep hands and legs away of the blonde's mouth" bloom said with a giggle as she munched the sweet treat of June's, pie.

"okay Danny, it happened roughly and hour after you fought…you-know-who and lost, after you vanished in that freak portal and 'he' got swallowed by darkness itself, a huge ship came, oddly similar to a toy, but big, way too big, a guy there called Leon began to call for the citizens, telling that our world…was about to be consumed by the darkness, without hesitation and knowing and seeing what had happened to you, the majority boarded the ship, including our fathers and Danielle, Sam and tucker were still in disbelieve, so we have to force them in, but vlad and Valerie, along with the GIW stay behind, and actually tried to shoot the ship down, they failed of course…next thing we know…is that our world is history" jazz said in a whisper, making all go gloomy.

"…oh" Danny whispered as he found his hamburger not eatable, "uh…did that happened to our world too?" naruto asked, "no…those things were attacking ninja villages in a pattern, not like many here have mention, messy, jumping at everything alive, they attacked only ninja villages, the evacuation was only for villages under imminent attack…to boot sound village wasn't attacked, so we know who attacked us" tsunade stated, "orochimaru" naruto hissed, narrowing his eyes and snapping his chopsticks, "yes naruto…it was even reported that rock village attack was leaded by sasuke"

"Dammit that emo!" naruto snarled as he slammed his fists on the table, "I knew something was wrong with his brain, but actually getting along with that hebi-teme, dammit him!"

"Relax naruto, sooner or later we have to go to your world, and you can get agro on every single thing you see, okay?" June assured, making naruto sigh, "okay June…okay" naruto stated as he calmed down.

"Okay Merlin, anything else we have to know now, like why the GIW and HAM are after us?" Danny asked to the elder mage, "that I do not know I did hear that a week ago some people of some worlds formed an alliance, something called the 'front' beyond that you should ask Leon" Merlin said.

"Leon?" the trio asked, "the leader of the WPO, he has been in this since the very beginning, when sora first met him, after the battle with organization XIII, Leon saw the need to form a united force against the likes of them, and since maleficent took the organization castle for herself and disappeared right after that, she alone is a menace to many people, she caused too much destruction until sora came and stopped her twice" Merlin said, seeing that the group had finished their meals.

"Well…we better go to Leon now, he doesn't like to people to be late"


Valerie saw in glee how the group began to leave the restaurant, going straight to the WPO HQ, it was no secret where it was, after all you have to be blind to not see the huge castle in the middle of the valley, home of the WPO and of course of the radiant garden princess, kairi and her unofficial bodyguard riku.

The castle itself had been in remodeling for quite a while, adding new things such a sturdier towers and hidden water pipes, and taking another like the huge heartless emblem that was once in the front of the castle.

Valerie knew alright about the heartless, she had seen in holograms and videos what those things could do, and what were the few things that could destroy them, magic, quantum energy based weapons and the keyblade.

With a steeled resolve, she began to sprint at them, her advantage position above them was about to be blown, she knew it, it was just a matter of time before those ninjas felt her presence, or some loose rock fell, alerting them.

With that knowledge she sprinted faster, jumping on a ledge, a black and red jet sled materializing on her feet, along with her light weapons, a simple carbine with three rotating cannons, the jet sled engine roared in life, as she flew at them, and in a flash she was in their way, weapon drawn and aimed at them.

"Hello ghost, ready to die?"

Danny eyes were wide in surprise, this was something he didn't expected, not even in a long run, Valerie coming at them, falling and cutting their way, aiming at them, ready to fight at them.

"Are you suicidal or what?" Danny snapped as his shield came to life, a scowl on his face along with his green neon eyes, glaring at her.

"What? No hellos? Or hugs? I'm hurt Danny" Valerie mocked as she kept her aim at them, "don't push it grey" Danny hissed as he advance at her.

"Okay weird girl in weird costume, what you want?" naruto snapped as he pulled his kunai and advance alongside Danny, "this is my fight naruto, step aside"

"The hell I am! Don't know about you, but if a poser comes aiming a weapon at my friends then I have to step in, besides I'm kinda frustrated after our conversation, I want to blow some steam, and that armor is begging me to rip it apart for the purpose" naruto said with a fox like smirk.

"Good, I'll deal with both of you at OFFF!" Valerie didn't know when, or why, but her entire body soon was flying away, her jet sled following its user, to prevent a hurtful fall.

"I'm starting to loose patience with these people" June snapped as her right hand was still curled in a fist, standing where Valerie once was.

"guys go ahead, we will deal with the girl" June commanded as kingdom protector flashed in her hands, "the hell we are!" ino screamed, she might not know June well enough as naruto, but whoever moves that fast must be pretty strong too, and considering things now, they needed all the allies they could get.

Ino also saw how Valerie stood up, finally having a glance at her armor, the armor was pitch black, with red glowing stripes marking the boots ending and soils, several thick red bars marked a belt, along with a glowing red triangle on her chest, heavy looking black gloves with red glowing fingertips, a demon framed looking helmet with a red visor, which was slightly cracked, along with a long black tube with red glowing ends on her hands.

"You know ghost" Valerie began, "you should keep that girl on the leash, before anything bad happens to her" she said as she aimed her weapon at the group, "no Valerie, you should keep yourself on a leash" Danny snapped as he motioned around to her, looking around, Valerie saw a group of people, all wearing the odd leaf emblem in metal plates, and a pair of men with the same lavender pupiless eyes as the purple dress girl.

"I know I might be bluffing, but I bet all I got that those guys are the elite of naruto's old home, and the moment you press the trigger they will advance at you, and beat you to a bloody pulp, also I know those pale eyed guys are strong, I know it, I saw hinata dispose of 24 soldiers with two beams of lights of her hands, and poke to submission four guys 64 times, tell me what two experience grown ups of her family are able? Or we should find out?" Danny smirked as he saw Valerie take a step back, and then sigh.

"Marks my words ghost…your four will die" with that Valerie seemed to be hit by a strange rain of yellow particles, and then vanished.

"…whoa! So cool!" naruto screamed as he approached Danny, noticing the scowl on Danny's face, "hey Danny, what's up?"

"She is right…this is far from over!" Danny stated as his quantum shield vanished, and stared at the horizon, "this…is just starting" he added as he turned around.

"father" hinata began as she advanced to the tall man, nearly identical to neji, expect their clothes, "hinata" hiashi began, as he kneeled in front of hinata and pulled her into a hug, making such girl sigh in happiness, "you…have me worried…" those words were enough to make hinata smile in happiness.


"I have failed" Valerie growled as she looked on her feet, she was right, she had failed, because she had underestimated her enemy, but never again…

"We are aware of that, but fear not, we have a way to make aments for your failure" a voice said, making her smirk.

"When?" she simply asked.

"Tomorrow, now rest, the master blasters will aid you…or should I say the grey blasters?" the voice said with a palpable smirk.

"Yes…MY blasters"


"I see you not longer bear the headband of the leaf" hiashi pointed at naruto, who just narrowed his eyes at him, "…I left the village genius" naruto simply put it, walking away, "now that is a joy killer" June put as she went to naruto, leaving Danny alone with the group.

"Okay…mind telling me what are the consequences of his stun?" Danny asked, only to receive silence, "oh come on!" he snapped, "the cold shoulder for crying out loud, right now naruto knows something you know, so spit it out!" Danny said again.

"…he can't become hokage" tsunade simply put it, walking away to where June and naruto had left.

"…it was his dream" jiraiya added while popping in, making Danny arch and eyebrow, "since the founding of konoha, traitors were seen as the bad seed of the village, the worse of our homes, bounties were set on their heads, to silence their mouths, for the knowledge they got on them, there were also those who left but returned by will alone, these would never reach a rank higher of a chuninn, simply put it, naruto killed his own dream…for us" he added as he just walked away.

Danny just stood there, looking where June and naruto had left, and sighed, "hinata, let's go, the boss here can wait" Danny said simply as he walked towards where naruto had left, hinata not far behind him.

"He has good friends" kakashi replied as he went to another way, "kakashi-sensei where are you going? Naruto went the other way!" sakura snapped, "Well…someone has to tell Leon that a black cat cross their path, and they had to take the long route, so they will get there late" kakashi said as he walked away.

"A black…cat? Is he for real?" jazz asked, "trust me…I hear worse excuses of him" sakura simply put, in these times, she wished to have been stronger, maybe naruto would have not forsake his dream for them.

June knew that sometimes leaving a friend in need was not a good choice, no matter how vehemently he wanted it, although he didn't voice it.

June knew that deep within his heart, naruto didn't want to be alone, and sure he had left his friends, because he wanted to protect them, protect them by hurting them and making them feel he didn't want anything with them, but protect them in the end.

As June approached where naruto had left, she saw that they were now on a cave, one filled with all kinds of crystals of all colors, and on the edge of the cave was naruto, seated and looking at a panoramic view of radiant garden newly town full of ninjas and people of Danny's and naruto's worlds, and he wasn't alone.

Bloom was perched on his shoulder, and dark haired boy was behind him, a kunai in hand…


Naruto as soon as he could had left the group, he was feeling way too depress, he had totally forgot that traitors were never to reach beyond chuninn rank, he had forgotten when he met June and Danny, knowing that he might never met anyone of his homeland but hinata, but her father had to ask the tactless question that hurt him the most.

He was not longer a shinobi of the leaf; he was a deflector, not longer eligible to be jouninn, ANBU or hokage candidate, he had forsaken his dreams for his friends…

"Come on naruto cheer up!" bloom said as she perched up on naruto's shoulder, naruto didn't made any noise of acknowledge, just silence.

"Snap out of it dammit! Is not the end of your world you know?" she said again, "is not that simple bloom, my dream was to become a hokage, the very best, to be acknowledge for it, to surpass all the previous Hokage's and to prove everyone that they were wrong about me, that I wasn't…well…kyuubi"

"well is a big dream, and I know you will made it, once we free your world of those heartless, your people can go back and you can fight for your dream" at that affirmation of bloom, naruto looked at the ground and seated on the ledge of the crystal like cave.

"…oh…you left…and…"

"Yes…I can't become hokage, I'm a traitor to my home, I deflected and whatever where the reasons behind it, it doesn't change the fact I abandoned my home, I'm worse that trash, I abandoned my friends"

"Enough!" bloom snapped, making naruto shook for the scream, right at his ears, "listen buddy, yes you left, and?"

"And? AND?"

"Yes, and? Are you going to do a pity show now, just because you left and your dream seems now unreachable? NO! you keep on fighting for that dream, because is yours, and your letting it go because of a technicality, true people tried to hurt you, to kill you along with your friends, you did what was right…you did what your heart told you was right, and that matters more that the opinion of some old geezers who are too blind to see the truth…you are you" bloom pointed out, not even noticing the presence behind her and naruto.

"we just met, but I feel like we are good friends, because you are strong, not only in body, but in heart, and you are willing to do whatever it takes to keep your friends away of pain, even if it means to take that pain on yourself and forsake many things, including your dreams and hopes, it comes to show what kind of person you are…a good one" bloom said as she seated on naruto's shoulder, and smiled.

"…you know…" naruto said as he pulled the long blue cloth and his old headband, "this headband means a lot to me…because someone who saw me for who I was and acknowledge my dream gave it to me, he taught me all I know now, I always hoped that the rest would be the same like him, as time passed, I met people, both good and bad, and one of them taught me something important…" naruto said as he ripped the metallic piece of his old headband, and place it on the new cloth, the metal plate seemed to be glued then to the cloth by art of magic.

"When you protect your precious people, you become truly strong" he said with a smile, making bloom smile too, "touching…dope" naruto eyes widened as he stood up fast and faced one of the reasons he was nearly killed.

Raven black hair with onyx eyes, a blue T-shirt with a high collar, bandaged forearms, along with black gloves, cream colored shorts that made it to his knees, armored shins and blue sandals, along with dual kunai holsters tied to his right thigh, and to add a headband with a musical note on the metal plate, around his forehead.

"Sasuke" was all naruto gasped as he saw his rival and surely enemy standing there, holding a kunai on his hands, and of course June, who was standing on the cave entrance, looking at naruto, then at sasuke, and summoned kingdom protector.

"What are you doing here teme?" naruto asked, seeing how tsunade, Danny and hinata arrived too, both taking fighting stances alongside June.

"I know now" sasuke began, "the reason of that crimson chakra…monster" sasuke hissed, making naruto growl, he was pushing the wrong buttons, "I should have kill you when I had the chance back in the valley, monsters like you don't deserve to live"

"Look who's talking, the guy who grew wings out of his back and looked like hands, not to mention that he looked like an emo vampire" naruto snapped, pulling his own kunai and staring at the uchiha in the eyes.

"Orochimaru and maleficent promised me more power…if I turn you and kyuubi in heartless…now fight…and die!" sasuke screamed as he charged at naruto, this one just leaping away and landing near his friends, leaving sasuke on the ledge of the cave, and bloom who flew to naruto, and stood alongside him.

"So…it comes to this uh? Enemies to the death" naruto stated as he looked at the uchiha dead in the eyes.

"Your fall will bring me closer to defeat my brother, this time I will not hesitate in nothing; all who stands in my way will die"

"so your tomato eyes mess up brother, he didn't look so much after the beat up we gave him" June commented, making sasuke growl.

"that's right buddy, we beat your brother and his fish friend into a bloody pulp, pretty lame if you ask me, he wasn't even trying" June taunted, if naruto had told them right, sasuke true weakness was his oversize ego, something she would exploit without mercy.

"And to add teme, he was more worried about me leaving konoha that you're leaving…apparently I form part of their 'master scheme' to who knows what" naruto said with a slight fox smirk.

"Tch, maybe he held his power, weaklings like you are no match to him…or to me" sasuke hissed as his sharingan activated, making naruto go wary, "guys be careful, those eyes can track any movement before is done, so he can counter our attacks" naruto stated as he stared at Sasuke's eyes.

"You have learned dope…but are you forgetting something?" sasuke asked with a smirk, naruto eyes narrowed as he slid into a combat stance.

"I am the last uchiha, trained by orochimaru…I have grow stronger in this past week, far stronger than you or that fox can even imagine…all thanks to the darkness" naruto swore kyuubi was actually growling because of the uchiha comment, surely something of his pride as THE tailed beast.

"Besides…didn't you promise that lousy excuse of teammate that you got that you would bring me back…to her…like if I want to return to her"

"honestly…I still do…but…" naruto began as he took his headband and tied it up to his forehead, "you…a traitor, forsake all for power…you are leading a force to destroy our world…and that…that I can't allow…if I'm going to break a promise then it will be this promise, you will not return to no one…this madness ends here!" naruto snapped as he took his kunai on his left hand, and let his right hand free, open, and gathering chakra.

"Traitor? Ha! That's ludicrous, coming out of you, you who left the village, just like me!" sasuke snapped, forming hand seals at a very slow pace.

"wrong sasuke…I left out of love for them…I'll be damn to put them in harms way…unlike you who threw his home and everything his own clan worked so hard to achieve, all destroyed by two spoiled brats"

"ENOUGH!" sasuke roared as he held his left hand with his right, and orb of lightings forming on his extended palm, at the same time, naruto's right hand formed an orb of energy that seemed to be a maelstrom inside, a hurricane, tornado and whirlpool, all mixed up in the orb.

"You know nothing of me dope! I do this for the good of my clan! And when I turn you into a heartless…that hyuuga girl will be mine!" that actually had not the desired effect on naruto, who has a possessive fox on him.

It would be the most crazy thought ever, kyuubi growing attached to hinata, but he did, while in the seal, he could feel the warmth of naruto's heart, and hinata's own light, mixing on his jail, making the damp, small and dark cell a little…brighter, and he hated to admit it, but he liked the feeling, and that uchiha dared to say that!

"Naruto" the kyuubi began, if something kyuubi hated a lot more that to be in jail, was also to deal with an uchiha…

"This time...I will help!"

On the outside realm, Sasuke's sharingan like eyes caught the surge of energy, pure spiritual energy, sasuke knew chakra was a mixture of both physical and spiritual energies, not simply of one, seeing this made sasuke smirk a little, the dope was weaker than before…

Without any advice, sasuke dashed at naruto, his electric like hand leaving a sound that was like a thousand birds chirping.

At the same time naruto dashed at the uchiha, his reinforce rasengan in hand, he was so eager to see how much power a spiritual charged rasengan faired against a normal chakra fed chidori…

"CHIDORI!!"

"RASENGAN!"

BAMM!!

The two forces collided with great might, but sasuke found itself struggling to keep the chidori in par with the rasengan now overwhelming power, feeding chakra at the chidori to keep it in place, and not be struck down by the more powerful technique.

"You know something teme!" naruto began as he stared at the shocked uchiha, "let's see how your thunder fairs mine! Thunder!!"

At the stupefied face of the uchiha, bolts of electricity traveled around naruto's arm, to the rasengan, that became of a yellow/gold color, the swirls inside becoming thunders, all spinning at the same manner that the normal rasengan, with a roar naruto shoved all his weight on the rasengan, forcing Sasuke's to back down, his chidori still in hand, loosing control…

BOOM!!

The whole cave rocked on the explosion that was accompanied by thunder bolts that sprung out like nothing out of the dust.

Soon naruto leaped away, looking shocked at the display, and excited by the new power he got, "oh kami mighty! Now that's firepower!" he shouted, as he smoke settle in, showing a kneeling and hurt uchiha, his left arm was all red, and was twitching all of the sudden, and the uchiha looked angry, well angry is saying little.

"DOPE!" sasuke screamed, anger etched on his eyes, "no matter how much I train…you still are at my level! An orphan, a dead last unworthy of the power of kyuubi! Next time!" sasuke said as he somehow was consumed by green flames, leaving nothing behind.

"Next time you are history"

All looked at the scene, and the words spoken, although tsunade was a saninn, she had never seen nothing like what happened to the rasengan.

"Dude…" June began as she helped naruto stand up, "you got mess up enemies!" she snapped, "Well…you haven't seen my friends"


"So…you say that the brat is on another world" kakuzu asked to their leader, Pein, who just nodded, looking around, "apparently he is with the keybearer, if itachi's description about the girl's weapon is true, then we are facing an enemy easily as strong as any of us…given time to train and master the weapon" Pein stated, growling for the failure of itachi and kisame, but in a way he was relieve they failed, dead they would have carried the knowledge of the keybearer and her companions away.

"so…what now lord Pein?" konan asked, making an origami crane without even flexing her fingers, just laying a piece of paper in her palms, and this one taking the shape of a crane.

"We have seven of the nine beasts, but in the current situation, gathering the nine would be fruitless, the heartless feast on destruction, yet we can use what we got, itachi, kisame" Pein began as he addressed to the two still hurt akatsuki members.

"Your mission still stands, track down naruto uzumaki, and also track down gaara of the sand, when you can, capture them both, and bring them to us" Pein commanded as he stared at the dark horizon.

"And us leader?" deidara asked, not sure to like the possible answer, "we…conquer…darkness"


"So…sasuke was here" sakura whispered as she stared at naruto, who was looking at the ground, "sorry sakura, I couldn't bring him again"

"No naruto…I think…he is beyond salvation" sakura began, surprising naruto, and every geninn and jouninn on the elevator, Danny, June and bloom listening at the conversation.

"naruto…we read one of your reports, and what you believe about the council was right, they were behind the uchiha massacre…itachi was ordered to do it, because they were planning a coup on the hokage" kakashi said, making naruto go eye wide, "no way the old monkey would had let that happen!" he snapped.

"he tried to stop it, but in the end it was the only way…a civil war between the uchiha and konoha shinobi would leave our village weak, and leave a gap of power…one many villages would want…and a fourth shinobi war would began, one worse than the last" kakashi stated, making naruto actually frown at that.

"But why he left sasuke alive then?"

"By the same reasons you didn't kill sasuke at the valley…because he was your brother…and had nothing to do…but now" kakashi trailed off.

"Apparently an heartless army was approaching konoha, sasuke on the lead, they destroyed the village…they…destroyed our home…looking for the elders, horuma, danzo and Koharu, who we couldn't extract…they were too deep within the ANBU jails that no shinobi, no matter how fast would have save them…I think sasuke knows what truly happened with his clan"

"But…that's not classified info?" June asked, making the jouninn stare at her, "yes…but as you must know, we are masters of espionage…a sound shinobi undercover must have found out, and told orochimaru, who in turn told sasuke, twisting the truth a little, by this point it doesn't matter…Sasuke's now out for your heart naruto, and Kyuubi's, and to destroy every single leaf villager or ninja, like he left here" asuma said, handing to naruto a letter, naruto unfolded that letter, and narrowed his eyes, soon Danny, June, hinata and bloom peeked, and got eye wide.

'The village will pay for my clan's death, the elders were the first, and you will all follow their fate'

"So…he is deep knee huh?" June commented, leaning on the elevator walls, crossing her arms, "yes…it has been issued to every jouninn and ANBU that he must be killed on sight, chuninn and geninn have a flee on sight order, but I'm afraid only naruto can actually stand in his way, after all…naruto has always been Sasuke's rival, it's fair it end by his hand" kurenai added.

"I'll do it…if there is no other option" naruto said, "no other option? Naruto did you finally go mental! Sasuke is dangerous, give him a chance and he will strike you down!" neji snapped.

"neji…trust me…I know how to deal with him" naruto said with his wide grin, making neji sigh, "naruto…stop faking smiles for us…what you did…was uncalled and…" ino began, only to naruto to stare at her seriously.

"Ino…what I did…I have no regrets…I did it for you all…so you could live your dreams…to live…true chuninn pay is not a bunch…but hey! Better that nothing" naruto reassured, making all sigh.

"You're pretty optimistic, considering you did betray us for selfish reasons" kiba snapped, "…when you sacrifice your dreams for your friends…you can judge me all you want, but until that zip it!" naruto snapped, narrowing his eyes at the inuzuka.

A tense silence fell over the elevator, making all who was no ninja uncomfortable, "so…" Danny began, trying to strike a conversation, "where are we going anyway?"

"to the castle Danny, this elevator works as a bridge to the castle to the town, since the gap around the castle is now filled with water…and waterfalls" bloom stated, "oh…whoa wait waterfalls!?" Danny asked surprised.

"Yeah…well inverted waterfalls…the water flows normally, when they reach the waterfalls, the remain on a constant flux, watering the surroundings of the castle with the water, you should see the gardens there…they are beautiful" bloom said as the elevator dark environment became lighter, and now the group observed that the elevator had a transparent top half, showing a breath taking view.

The castle, which was still in reparations, had around a multi colored floor, flowers, of all kind of colors, right in front of them, along with water canals, and the inverted waterfalls bloom spoke off.

"whoa…" was all June, Danny and naruto were able to say, "true…the fields here are even beautiful that those in konoha…" ino whispered, making all the ninjas go somber, "don't worry ino…once we deal with the problems here, we will recover konoha, and rebuild it…even better" naruto assured.

"How do you do it?" shino asked, making all stare at the stoic aburame, "to be so optimistic, even in such somber times"

"A little hope doesn't hurt anyone and less if it has some light" June said, making naruto and Danny smile, and making the shinobi there smile a little.

Regardless of what might occur, they still had some light on them, and as they keep that light on, hope never fades.


another chapter, another update, the last chapter is about to come, i know is rushed, but i know people like to read, and is better that way, the whole stroy so far is better read in a row, if i could i would update a whole story, but i can't, so wait for the next chapter people.

ja ne!