Chapter 7

A/N: Oh Jeez I don't even know how you guys even put up with me. I don't even deserve any readers or reviews with the way I am unable to stay consistent with uploading chapters. With school, and technical issues, writer's block and being obsessed with Pokemon Go, time just flew by so fast that it's been two months since I uploaded a chapter. Please forgive me and continue to put up with me, especially with the way I write, you know all the cliff hangers I write. So I tried to explain as much as possible in this chapter to clear up some things but not too much so that there isn't any mystery. So please read and continue to review, if you haven't already given up on me at least.

"Who could've possibly summoned such a gigantic creature?" Sasuke asked.

"It had to have been a boss summon, there's no way something that big couldn't be a boss summon." Naruto said.

"What are you guys talking about? Sure it was strange, but we should be happy that we beat it." Gray said. The two shinobi proceeded to give them a quick explanation on what summoning animals were and what they meant to shinobi. Everything from the summoning contract to the variety of summons that you could own at once. They made sure not to show either of them (especially Natsu) the hand signs of the technique considering what they had to do because of Natsu's carelessness. And they were NOT about to go on a wild goose chase to find him if he ever got himself teleported to some far away secluded land.

"Well at least with the Leviathan out of the way we can have smooth sailing to our destination." Naruto said with a content smile. Sasuke hauled Gray's unconscious body over his shoulder and made his way towards the ship.

"Hey Natsu..." Naruto said in a deep serious tone. Natsu looked at him, his eyes being covered by his blonde hair.

"Did you see the way the ship flew? That was like the coolest thing ever y'know!" Naruto asked excitedly as he acted out the flying ship as best as he could.

"I know right! I've gotta ask her to teach me that trick!" Natsu said with glimmering stars in his eyes. They followed Sasuke and climbed up the rope ladder to the deck of the ship. Erza met them at the top of the rope ladder with a rather impressed smile.

"That was an incredible show of strength, it's no wonder the Council is concerned about you." She said and Naruto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.

"Well, you know..." He said bashfully, then he looked around and saw that there a few people missing.

"Where's Lilian?" Naruto asked

"Kotetsu is taking care of her in the girls room. Moving the ship in her condition took more of a toll on her than she thought. And Gray?" Erza answered as she turned to Sasuke who carrying his lifeless body.

"Just exhaustion. Even with a power boost from Naruto that's all he could manage." Sasuke said analytically as he walked to the men's quarters.

"That's still an impressive feat don't you think?" Erza asked and Sasuke smirked, replying with his usual grunt.

"How much longer until we get to where we need to go?" Naruto asked.

"Not much longer, maybe another two or three days. You pull up the anchor. Natsu, you unfurl the sails. I'll turn the ship to port and get us on the right course." Erza ordered as the psuedo-captain of the ship. To which Naruto and Natsu responded in a salute and a firm "Yes ma'am!"
They immediately got to work and thus they were back on track to the islands to the south. Nothing too eventful happened along the course of the day. Gray had woken up from his nap to hear Erza scolding Natsu about not stealing food from others, only to calmly go back sleep.

"I don't have the energy to deal with that right now..."

The next morning, everyone woke up, more so the group from Fairy Tail since Lilian was still recovering. Erza was first to step out on deck and her eyes widened at the view, or what lack there of. The entire ship and the sea was engulfed in a thick mist. One could barely see out in front of them in this mist.

"There wasn't a cloud in sight yesterday, why is here such a drastic change?" Erza asked herself out loud as she put her hand on her forehead to act as a visor for her eyes. Nothing but mist in sight. The door creaked open behind her and it was Kotetsu who came through yawning.
He smiled and said, "We're finally in our island's climate and in no time flat."

"Is it like this all year round?" Erza asked and he nodded.

"Woah look at all this fog! I haven't been in fog like this since the Sea Route of Silence." Naruto said as he and Sasuke came out of the men's quarters.

"So is it just a straight shot to the island now?" Sasuke asked and Kotetsu nodded.

"We would arrive by morning." He said as he went inside the galley to prepare breakfast for everyone.

"How's Gray?" Erza asked.

"He's just being lazy. And what about Lili?" Naruto answered.

"She's doing just fine, she should be ready to take off her bandages tomorrow night." Erza said with a smile and Naruto grinned.

"That's great, I've been waiting to see what she's been hiding under there." He said.

"With that stunt she pulled with the ship, I'm expecting some kind of rinnegan." Sasuke commented.

"Well, we'll find out tomorrow but for now. Let's eat!" Naruto said as he stormed into the galley. Suddenly another door burst open and Natsu ran out screaming, "Did someone just say let's eat?!" He ran into the galley in a similar fashion as Naruto. Erza could've help but chuckle at their actions.

"Thpey're like two peas in pod." She said.

"Yeah they're both idiots." Sasuke said as he leaned over the railing staring off into the mist.

"You and Gray aren't that far off from each other either." Erza chuckled as she leaned over the railing to state out into the mist as well. Sasuke watched her from the corner of his eye as her beautiful, one-of-a-kind scarlet red hair swayed in the wind. He continued to wordlessly stare in an aloof manner for a few more silent moments until she decided to break this silence.

"Can I ask you something?" Erza asked nervously as her expression became more or less downcast. Sasuke went back to watching what little amount of ocean there was and responded with a grunt.

"When you said that my eyes were the same as his, what do you mean by that?" (A/N: I changed that line to his because I realized that it was mistake on the initial post.)
He thought back to when his duel with her over about two weeks ago. He had her at his mercy with little trouble and as he took in the look in her eyes he thought.

"I was talking about my elder brother. As far as what I mean, I can't answer that." He answered indifferently. Erza took this as a sign that he wouldn't expand on the subject and just left it alone for now. Their journey was close to being over and who knows what kind of dangers would be ahead of them. She had to focus on the task at hand, she thought. "Just because the Leviathan is gone doesn't mean that we're 100% safe."

...

The next day, the shore was finally within site.
"Land Ho!" Natsu and Happy both cheered loudly, jumping in celebration.

"I can't wait to finally set foot on land. Feels like we've been out here forever." Gray said.

"Returning home after a long mission is the best." Lilian said trying to feel as much of the cool mist as possible.

"Today's also the day you can take your bandages off milady." Kotetsu said smiling.

"Yeah we'll finally get to see what you're hiding under there since you never take them off." Naruto said and Lili giggled.

"Don't worry you'll see soon enough." She said.

"Well it's not like she's supposed to take them off." Erza said.

"I just want to see what she has to do with the Otsutsuki." Sasuke said.

"Oh I almost forgot about that. Where are we going after this anyway?" Naruto asked.

"I thought we could relax for a while before that but I don't think Sasuke can wait any longer." Lilian said.

"Who knows what could be happening in the Leaf right now. We are shinobi, disaster can strike at anytime." Sasuke said as the ship finally reached the dock. Gray lowered the anchor while Izumo and Kotetsu tied up the sails. The rest of the group hopped off of the ship while Erza stayed behind to help the blind princess off the ship.

Lilian's eyes were covered by her hair and smile had just a touch of sadness to it. And with a low voice she said,
"I don't think you'll have to worry about the Leaf Village..."

Sasuke turned to her, hearing her mumble something.

"What did you say?" He asked.

"How could all of you boys be so inconsiderate to just ignore a blind princess that needs help?!" Erza interrupted the potential unstable situation that answering that question could possibly lead to. Cueing the arguments between Natsu and Gray about who is at fault for leaving the girl by herself.

Meanwhile, a crowd of people began to gather up around the dock and from the look of it their interest was in the boat that they had arrived in. They saw Erza who giving a piggyback ride to Lilian in order to come down the rope ladder. Erza would've just jumped under normal circumstances but she didn't want to risk it with Lilian on her back. Once they noticed Lilian's distinctively colored hair the crowd erupted into cheers.

"Lilian-sama has returned!" They began to rush toowards the young girl but was stopped in their tracks when Naruto and Sasuke slid in their way.

"Hold on now, we can't let you all just surround her, the injured need peace and quiet on order to recover." Naruto said.

"You mean Lilian-sama is injured?!" One citizen questioned.

"What have you done to Lilian-sama, you fiends!" Another shouted angrily.

"Hey we didn't do anything to her, we made sure she got back here safe and sound y'know!" Naruto exclaimed.

"Wait. Isn't that the legends themselves, Naruto and Sasuke?!" One villager questioned and everyone took a good look at them. Once they realized that it was exactly who they thought they were, they erupted into even louder cheering than ever before.

"What an honor to meet a living legend!" One civilian shouted.

"Legend? What are they talking abouuuuu- aaahh-!" Naruto screamed as they were about to crowd around them instead until the sound of jingling metal and someone speak.

"Okay everyone that's enough." Said a voice that sounded like a young man from the midst of the crowd. The crowd parted ways for the voice and immediately became quiet once they saw who it was. The entire crowed bowed respectfully to the young man. He seemed to be just a little older than Naruto and Sasuke. He had black hair that fell just above his shoulder with jet black eyes. He's wearing a dark blue long sleeved dress shirt tucked into black pants, sported with a black belt and a silver buckle. He wears a black coat that had fur on it in the exact same way as Lilian's coat. He carried a silver staff designed the same way as the sage of six paths.

"Lili, I can see from looking at these two that the mission was a success." He greeted with a kind smile. Lilian shook herself loose from Erza and ran towards this young man saying,

"I missed you big broth- wah!" She tripped over a loose board in the dock and within an instant, the man she was about to call big brother appeared in front of her and caught her before she fell, getting oohs and aahs from the crowd.

"Lilian-sama you must really use your walking stick..." Izumo said

"He's quick on his feet." Sasuke thought

"He's so fast!" Natsu said

"I didn't even see him move." Gray said in disbelief.

"I'd expect nothing less from him, he is our village's current leader." Kotetsu said with a smile.

"Are you alright Lili?" He asked.

"Yes, thank you, Borelle." (A/N: The first one that can guess how I named these two, you'll win a special reward. And that reward will be a sneak peak on what's to come in later parts of this story.) She answered with a smile. He helped her stand up straight again and asked,

"Your eyes are bandaged, what happened to them?" He asked and she shook her head.

"It was backlash from releasing the jutsu, I should be able to take them off today." Lili answered.

"That's good."

An angry growl erupted from Naruto's stomach, but Naruto wasn't hungry.

"Kurama what's wrong?" Naruto asked worriedly and Kurama continued to growl angrily.

"This one's chakra… It reminds me of Madara." Kurama growled.

"Really? He doesn't seem like that bad of a guy. Besides he's Lilian's older brother and she's awesome." Naruto responded.

"How naive can you be? Or do you not remember the Uchiha brat's older brother?" Kurama asked and Naruto wore a thoughtful look.

"Alright Kurama, I won't let my guard down. I promise." Naruto assured giving Kurama the classic 'good guy' thumbs up. Kurama looked at him, an annoyed expression plastered on his mug before responding, "Hmph, just make sure, because if you die I die."

"Now I'm sure all of you must be very tired from the long trip with all the sea monsters you've had to deal with. Please come with me and I'll show you where you can stay for the time being." Borelle said in a very respectful tone.

"Thanks but no thanks. We've already had this conversation on the ship. Lilian had something to show us and we want to make it quick." Sasuke said and Borelle chuckled.

"You must be talking about Lilian's destiny and what occurred when you were entrapped in that crystal. Very well then I'll show you." He said as he motioned for them to follow.

"All citizens, prepare a festival for the return of my sister." Borelle ordered and they all got right to it.

"You're pretty young to be a village leader. Or are you just older than we think you are?" Erza asked and Borelle facial expression became very serious and so did Lili's.

"You see, it wasn't until a few years ago that I became the leader of the village. Our parents, my father, who was the village leader for some time, was murdered. I will never forget the day..." He explained.

"July 7, X777. Our parents were assassinated and their eyes were brutally gouged out of their heads." Lili said as she balled up her fists in anger, trying as hard as she could to fight back the tears that were forming in her eyes.

"Wait! Did you just say July 7, X777?! That's the same day that Igneel disappeared!" Natsu exclaimed. Everyone was shocked to say the least, it wasn't everyday you hear a story about someone being mutilated.

"Could those two events somehow be connected?" Erza asked.

"No way! Igneel is a nice dragon! He would never do something like that!" Natsu exclaimed.

"I don't think a gigantic dragon could assassinate a couple and then rip their eyes out of their head." Gray said matter-of-factly.

"You said that their eyes were missing. What kind of eyes did they have, and how many people in the village possess that eye?" Sasuke asked.

"No one in the village possess Sharingan other than myself and my father. My mother had the Byakugan and her eyes were gouged out as well. The villagers suspect me because they know what it takes to unlock the full potential of the Sharingan. And as an Uchiha, you should know too." Borelle answered and Sasuke pondered.

"Do you have the Mangekyō Sharingan?" He asked and Borelle activated his normal, three tomoe sharingan.. Then the sharingan shifted into a four pronged shuriken with dagger shapped blades with straight thin blades sticking out diagonally from the center.

"They're not the same as Sasuke's. Or they're not as strong as Sasuke's I should say." Erza thought as she stared right into his blood red eyes.

"Wow those are so cool! Where I can I get a pair of those?!" Natsu asked.

"I don't think you can just buy them Natsu..." Happy said, sweat dropping in embarrassment.

"Those are some pretty scary looking eyes." Gray said as he continued to stare into them.

"Don't stare at them too long, you might get caught in a genjutsu." Naruto said and Borelle's eyes bled just a tiny bit right as he was about to deactivate his eyes.

"I hope I never have to use those eyes..." Borelle groaned as he covered his eyes.

"You shouldn't. Use them too much and you'll end up like her. Forever." Sasuke said as he pointed over to Lilian.

"I know..."

They continued to walk until they were in quite a shrewd location along the outskirts of the village. There was a large shrine that resembled an ancient Buddha temple, and by the looks of the rundown stone on the buildings it was ancient.

"This building was built centuries ago, in the honor of the saviors of the world." Borelle said as they stepped up to a door that had quite an intricate seal on it. There were two small panels about the size of a normal human's hand that were connected to the seal.

"Place your hands on those two panels, the seal can only react to chakra from the six paths. No, that would be incorrect. It will only react to the chakra of Ashura and Indra." Borelle said.

Naruto and Sasuke glanced at each other for a moment and nodded. They raised their hands and placed it on the panel as was directed and suddenly orange chakra began to leak from Naruto's hand while purple chakra leaked from Sasuke's hand respectively. The chakra criss-crossed and traced the entire seal before meeting in the middle and filling in the yin-yang seal.

A bright light flashed and the sound of a door unlocking filled the air. Once the light faded, the large door began to slowly open up to a dark room. Once they stepped inside, orange and purple flames were lit on several torches within the room and shed some light on it. On the sides of the wall, there paintings of several different battles going on between different shinobi in history.

"These walls show the history of the shinobi that Ashura's and Indra's spirit has transmigrated to. Even if it hadn't been for long, at some point, Ashura and Indra saw potential in them." Borelle explained.

"Madara and the First Hokage we knew already." Sasuke said as he looked on.

"Even Pervy Sage and Orochimaru?!" Naruto asked and everyone sweatdropped except for Natsu.

"HAHAHA who ever that is probably deserves that name." Natsu laughed, wiping a tear in his eye.

"Yeah!, one time he told me he was going to look after my training, you know where he is? At the bath house spying on women bathing!" Naruto complained and Natsu nearly died of laughter.

"But get this, as revenge I knocked him into the bathhouse using one of my special jutsu. A jutsu that works on pretty much every strong opponent." He boasted and Natsu had stars in his eyes.

"Can you show us?! Please?!" Natsu pleaded and Naruto smirked devilishly as he formed the ram seal.

"Se-" Naruto started but he was interrupted with a smack on the back of the head by the hilt of Sasuke's sword. Naruto got back up in a flash and rolled up his sleeve to his bicep and threatened to beat Sasuke to a pulp.

"Pay attention you idiot. Look." The latter said as he pointed to the wall. The former relaxed and looked at the wall that his friend was pointing to. On that wall, there were remnants of all of Naruto and Sasuke's battles all the way up until the back wall. It shows the end of their battle when they were near death, both with one less arm than they came into the battle with. Both with tired smiles on their faces, battered, bruised and bloody, but they looked to be at peace.

"Wow. I had no idea that you guys fought on this level." Erza said as she was completely astonished from the paintings.

"Natsu and I fight all the time, but never to a point like this." Gray said.

"Jeez, I thought you guys were supposed to be friends. But it looks like you guys were down right trying to kill each other." Natsu said.

"It would take forever to explain exactly what happened." Sasuke said.

"How long ago did you say this place was built?" Naruto asked.

"No one knows exactly but I'd say at least a few centuries." Lilian answered.

"So you're telling me..."

"I figured as much." Sasuke sighed.

"WE WERE SENT INTO THE FUTURE BY A FEW HUNDRED YEARS?!" Naruto shouted at the top of his lungs. Soon after he was crouched down with his hands on his head trembling, just completely in shock

"But wait I don't understand. If they're centuries old, and they seem to be legends and icons, how come we have never heard of them? Even if it was just a few centuries, the history of shinobi should be well known within Fiore if it's the history of our world." Erza asked.

"That's a good point, I've never even heard of these two before, but the townspeople cheered as if they were the most important people in the world." Gray commented.

"I don't get it..." Natsu and Happy said as they both scratched their head in confusion.

"Someone had made it their goal to completely erase the history of shinobi, especially Naruto and Sasuke. As of now, no one knows who did it. But ever since the end of the 4th shinobi war and the induction of ethernano and magic in the world, the pracitice of shinobi had begun to falter little by little. Now, we are the only real shinobi village left. The Village Hidden in the Mist." Borelle explained.

"Although, we aren't really The Village Hidden in the Mist, we might be in the Mist's region but this isn't directly the village you know. This is actually what used to be The Village Hidden in the Leaves." Lilian said and Naruto picked his head up slightly.

"Don't fret, your dream of becoming Hokage hasn't expired yet." Borelle reassured with a smile.

"Besides, all the things that you wanted to change when you become Hokage gave already happened. Your friends made it their priority to set your policies in order, knowing that you possibly would not return for along time." Borelle continued. Naruto's expression didn't change much but he did see what Borelle was explaining to him. He was happy that his friends wanted to help him that much but… His dream was to become Hokage, and he could become that now if he wanted to. But the Hokage doesn't mean anything if the people don't even know who you and want you in the office simply because of your legacy. It just wasn't right…

Sasuke was also feeling some lashes on his heart after hearing that he advanced centuries past his time. Even though the world has remained stable somewhat, it has interfered with the progress of his journey. Although he didn't have much with of a relationship with anyone else in the Leaf other than Sakura, Kakashi and of course Naruto, it still hit home that he wasn't returning to the same home that he could.

The two of them were quietly moping and it made it awkward for any of the Fairy Tail members to even want to speak to them.

"Naruto..." Happy called out but Natsu stopped him.

"You two can mop about it later. Right now, you have to get to work. You won't be able to find a way back to your own time, nor will you be able to defend the world from the impending threat if you spend all your time moping." Borelle said and the two picked up their heads.

"You guys remember what I told you when I first said my last name? There is a threat that is approaching and they are coming after you. If you do not prepare for them, they will crush you in an instant. These two are an even bigger threat than Kaguya herself." Lilian said.

"Who's coming for us?" Naruto asked.

"We don't have any names, but they are also members of the Otsutsuki clan. They are so dedicated to capture the both of you, they encased themselves in a crystal in the same fashion that you two were placed in. However luck is on our side. We're a few years ahead of them, we have reason to believe they will not move for another two years or so." Borelle explained.

"How exactly is it that you know this information?" Erza asked.

"This information has been passed down from Hokage to Hokage ever since a man named Kakashi Hatake was in power. How they received this information is beyond our knowledge however." Borelle answered.

"So how do you know this information is accurate if you don't know how they got it?" Gray asked.

"You have a good point, but would you rather prepare and be wrong than be unprepared and be right?" He answered and Gray had no further arguments.

"Well that's perfect, now we have a time frame to be aware of when coming back to the guild." Sasuke said.

"Yosh, I will still become Hokage. I won't give up! That's my nindo, my ninja way!"

"Still, there's something I don't understand. Why did they have to wait so long to be released from the crystal they were enclosed in?" Gray asked.

"The seal that they were entrapped in had a special requirement that needed to be reached or else they would still be in there to this day." Borelle started

"Kaguya had set that trap in place, with the confidence that the requirements of the seal could never be met. The requirement was for someone who was born with a special eye that had only been known to be aquired between the mixing of specific chakras. That eye..." Lilian explained as she began to unwrap the bandages around her eyes. Everyone focused on her eyes with the utmost attention.

"...Is the Tenseigan."

Next Chapter: Just you wait! I'll be much stronger!"

Once again for the umpteenth time I apologize for taking so long with the uploading of this chapter

Saru: Don't worry, everything will be explained about Zaidan and all other current confusions in due time so please just wait for me.