The smell of smoke and the screaming of terrified villagers brought Naruto back to consciousness. He slowly opened his eyes and they immediately widened in fear. There was a massive shadowy...thing standing over what remained of the hidden leaf village. It looked like they had been dropped just outside the village.

Is that what he became? Could a lifetime of hatred from the villagers and the death of Hinata really drive him to become that...thing?

A sudden more horrible thought came to mind. Is it possible that if things hadn't gone the way they did in my world...that that creature could have been me?

"Whoa..." Came an amazed voice from behind him. Naruto turned around and saw the other Narutos arriving in flashes of white light. The Naruto that had spoken was wearing a black and silver cloak that greatly resembled the outfit that he himself had been wearing when he fought Pain.

Before another one of the Narutos could speak, they heard a very familiar voice from right inside the village gate. "Hinata! Take Natsuko and Aniaka and get them out of here! I'll try and hold this thing here!"

A woman came running out of the front gate, she was holding two small bundles in her arms. Naruto's jaw dropped despite hearing her name spoken only a few moments ago.

"Hinata?"

The woman turned to look at him and her eyes widened in amazement. She stopped running for a moment and in that time Naruto saw a few differences between this Hinata and the one he was familiar with: This Hinata looked to be a few years older and her hair was a bit shorter but not by much. Her eyes were filled with confusion and terror.

Naruto smiled gently for a moment as she looked past him and saw the massive amount of Narutos standing behind him.

"W-What is this?!"

"Don't worry." Naruto said as he looked up at the shadowy creature. "We're here to help. Try and put some distance between you and the village.

The alternate Hinata nodded and continued running.

The mass of Narutos turned to look at the village as the voice was heard once again. "Summoning Jutsu!"

A massive cloud of smoke briefly appeared and then vanished to reveal a massive red toad with a pipe in it's mouth. The assembled versions of Narutos looked up as a massive ball of red energy appeared in the shadowy creature's mouth, it was aimed directly at Gamabunta and the figure standing on his head.

"Move!" The figure shouted urgently as the toad chief jumped out of the way and the red energy ball missed by only a few meters. Another ball of red energy began to form in the creature's mouth even as Gamabunta sent a blast of water towards the creature which easily shrugged it off.

"What is this thing?!" The toad chief shouted as he was force to jump up into the air to avoid the red energy ball which slammed into the wall behind him and took out the majority of the wall.

"I don't know! The chakra feels almost like the Nine-tailed Fox's chakra but it's different somehow! I can sense so much hatred...so much killing intent!"

Another ball of red energy was formed and was launched at the Toad chief who was barely able to dodge it. The assembled Narutos looked at each other and the one wearing the black and silver cloak grinned as he looked back at the others as a large blue ball of raw chakra energy began to form in his hand. "Before he died, the pervy sage taught me a trick. Thanks to him, I was able to use this technique to save the village from Pain."

The Naruto wearing the black and silver cloak focused more and more chakra into the rasengan and a small mist of blue energy appeared beneath the rasengan.

"Watch this."

The alternate Naruto sent a final burst of energy through his hand and a blue streak of energy shot through the air and slammed into the side of the head of the monstrous shadowy creature. The creature didn't even blink but slowly turned away from the toad chief and turned to look down at the assembled Narutos.

"Bad idea." A Naruto with violet eyes said as a massive ball of energy began to form in the creature's mouth. That same Naruto turned to look at the others. "Move! Keep out of the blast radius! Remember, this thing was able to kill Pain with one hit where he came from!"

The Narutos quickly ran and jumped into the trees that surrounded the village to try and confuse the shadowy monstrosity.

It didn't work.

The shadowy creature launched a massive ball of energy into the ground where the assembled Narutos had been standing only a moment before. A massive crater appeared in the ground. Another ball of energy appeared and was fired only to be sent flying up into the air by a blast of water from Gamabunta.

The figure looked down at the assembled Narutos and was forced to move out of the way as another ball of energy nearly hit the toad chief. "What the...? What kind of trick is this?! I can feel so many different chakra auras but they each feel almost identical to the Nine-tailed fox's chakra."

"Don't focus on that right now! We need to think of a way to stop this thing first of all!" The toad chief shouted at him as the creature roared out in rage and one it's massive tails slammed down into the ground and the resulting shock wave took out a good portion of the area that it had hit.

The creature opened it's mouth and let out a massive roar that made it seem as if the ground itself was shaking. Gamabunta shouted out in pain as the sound nearly knocked him out cold. The figure atop of Gamabunta's head was sent flying by the shock wave and landed on the ground in the midst of the ruins of the hidden leaf.

The large group of Narutos looked up at the creature which was now standing completely still. A small drop of blood dropped from it's tail.

Naruto's eyes widened and his jaw dropped as he watched more and more blood drop from the creature. Only the blood wasn't staying where it landed, instead it was quickly changing shape as more and more of it dropped from the creature. The blood began to shift and change shape until it took on a very familiar form. More and more of the blood was dripping down and more and more of it was changing shape.

The creature was completely silent and wasn't moving as the blood finally stopped flowing as the last of it took on the familiar form.

"What...What is this?" One of the other Narutos whispered as the blood forms began to shake violently and the blood surrounding them fell away. A few of the Narutos gasped in shock as they looked at what appeared to be nightmarish duplicates of themselves.

Each and everyone of the blood clones had black hair and had teeth that were similar to the Nine-tailed fox's that made the empty smiles that they had look even more frightening. Each of the clones was wearing a blood red version of the sage clothes that Naruto had worn when he had fought Pain. The clones slowly began to advance on the group of Narutos.

"What do we do?!" The Naruto with violent eyes shouted out with panic evident in his voice.

Naruto held his hand out and a blue ball of chakra began to form in his hand. His eyes were narrowed but they had a determined glint in them.

"We fight."