(A/N: This chapter will help you visualize how far Naruto's world has fallen... Also just letting you know, if I do revive Rin in the future, she won't be in Naruto's harem. I have someone else in mind for her...)
Two friends, separated by tragedy have finally come together once again with the help of the gods themselves.
"Kurama, you oversized Fuzzball, it's good to see you again after all these years," said Sol, "how have things been for you since I've been gone?"
"Not much," said Kurama. "other than merging with the other half of my energy, all I have really done is seen how warped the world has become. I have seen the world through the eyes of the biju. I have learned a lot in the 9 years you have been gone."
"Doesn't sound like you did much since I've been gone if that's all you did while I was gone."
"Well I'm sorry that not everybody can travel through dimensions and become godlike creatures capable of destroying entire cities easily."
"You can do that now! You can easily destroy villages. And without having to go through the painful process of becoming a Gear."
Kurama would have had more to say, but Kami stopped them before they could continue their conversation.
"Now that you are reacquainted with your former biju, who will act as your limiter from here on out, now it is time to show you how the world you have left is suffering from Danzo's rule."
"How bad has Konoha become in my absence? It can't be too bad could it?"
"Konoha no longer exists... it has become too powerful and expanded itself to engulf more than half the Elemental Continent. It is now known as the Fire Nation, with Danzo claiming to be the emperor of said Nation."
"Well it would seem that my work is cut out for me if this is the case. Of course Danzo made himself fucking Emperor, the man has an ego capable of achieving a gravitational pull if it ever manifested into a physical object. I'm sure I am not going to like what I'm about to witness am I? Go ahead and show me what has happened, so I will know just how pissed off I need to be as well as who to kill first once I return to my world."
And once more with a wave of his hand, the golden strands attached themselves to the group, showing them through memories how far his world had fallen in the last 9 years...
(9 years ago)
As time has proven from histories past, the world doesn't take kindly to those who betray as well as kill their hero or heroes, no matter the time period or dimension. Within a few short months of Naruto's initial imprisonment, the world was in an outrage upon hearing that the hero of so many people was imprisoned on false, trumped up charges. Each country had their own reasons for hating Konoha at this point. Wave country hated them due to Naruto being their hero in the past and freeing them from the tyrannical rule of Gato during his mission to Wave years ago. Spring Country to its entirety was upset due to the princess being good friends with Naruto after he saved her life and brought her out of her depression, as well as Naruto being a hero to her people as well for defeating their former tyrannical ruler Doto. Iwa wasn't infuriated because Naruto was imprisoned, they were pissed due to finding out that Naruto was the son of their sworn enemy Minato Namikaze and that they had not been able to kill off his bloodline personally. The boy's father had slain a large portion of their troops during the Third Shinobi War, and they have never forgiven him for doing so. Mist village was indifferent to the whole situation, for they were still weak due to the Civil war that they suffered through and stayed out of the conflict that was beginning to brew in the world in an attempt to try to recuperate their losses and bring the numbers of their troops to higher levels. Suna had cut off all ties to Konoha when they heard what happened, and when Naruto's best friend Gaara heard about what they had done to him, he went into a rage that he had never felt before even when he was psychotic due to the biju that was once sealed in him. Gaara went on from there to threaten Konoha by telling them personally that they were forever barred from ever entering his country, or else he would personally kill every ninja that set foot in Wind Country with his sand and bury their body so deep, that no one would be able to ever recover the body.
This hurt Konoha financially, for there were no new missions coming in for them. And without a constant flow of missions, their economy took a massive turn for the worse. Yet Danzo kept a sound mind and planned around this, for he knew that a situation like this could occur and had made plans to negate it entirely. With the power of the Sharingan that he had implanted in his head, he set subliminal messages towards the Fire Daimyo over the course of the next few months while visiting him to address the sudden loss of all allies at once to keep the village well funded, as well as writing a new will in his spare time. The new will that was written had his family abdicate the throne and offered the position of Daimyo to the Hokage of Konoha, giving them complete control of Fire Country. It took some time for the messages to finally set into the Fire Daimyo's mind and take root, and the moment that the papers were leagalized in a way that they couldn't be disputed, Danzo had the Daimyo, as well as his entire family assassinated in secret. This way, there would be no one of immediate royal blood to dispute either his claim to the throne or even what he had done to acquire it in the first place. He also thought ahead and made sure to have his nin leave false evidence of other villages to make it appear to be a foreign political assassination so that he could claim to be justified in attacking the other countries without anyone trying to voice against it. Within just a year of Naruto's death, the decline of the Elemental continent had begun, and it would only continue to degrade under his tyrannical rule...
Danzo set his sight on controlling Spring Country before anything else. He wanted the land for its abundance of greater technology such as the Chakra armor, airships, as well as trains. He was sure that if he could conquer the country, he would be able to find even better tech hidden away from the world, lost to time. But Danzo had plans to revive that tech and use it to cement his rule in this continent, ensure a powerful defense to the beginning of his conquest of the rest of the world. He had planned to just simply take it over by invading it, but he knew that his nin would be at a major disadvantage due to neither being prepared to fight such a large country with minimal losses as well as not knowing the general layout of the country. Since he couldn't conquer it that way, he had to plan for months to come up with the perfect plan to get the Spring Daimyo alone. This posed a problem due to her utter hatred for the Leaf village and refused to go anywhere near it. So he had small groups of his nin sneak into her country, and while there they killed off various guards and took their places discreetly. Like a slow acting infection, they took over the country from the inside without the Daimyo's knowledge. Once the pieces were in place, they held her in her palace against her will until Danzo arrived. Once he arrived, he once again used the Sharingan to force a Daimyo to submit to his will. This time he had her country annexed via forced political marriage. If that wasn't bad enough, she was forced to become married to Uchiha Sasuke (recently returned to the village) of all people to help keep the peace between the two countries. While she was only his wife in title alone, it was just an elaborate ruse to control everything without the people uprising against him if he tried to take the country any other way. While she was officially married to him, she was just locked away in a specially made cell to keep her away from the public. The gods themselves had been at least kind enough to make Sasuke not attracted to her in any form, but just wanted her for her power, so she was never taken against her will. Once everything had been solidified and their power absolute, the Leaf nin moved in and began to excavate the country for both its resources as well as its hidden caches of lost technology. Spring had fallen due to the corruption of politics...
Speaking of Sasuke, he had returned to the Leaf after helping them acquire the Biju sealed by the Akatsuki. Sasuke had wanted revenge against the Leaf after he was told by his dying brother about the truth of his family's failed rebellion years ago, yet over time he came to see and realized that the Leaf was getting too powerful for even him to take on with his small band of companions. So when he weighed his options in his mind, he chose his own self preservation over sticking with the Akatsuki. He sent a message to Konoha with the location of their main base in Ame and their plans for the future. Danzo sent a message back telling him to stick with the group and keep him up to date with their progress in collecting the Biju. During the time that Konoha was secretly taking control of Spring Country from within, the Akatsuki had finally completed their goals and had extracted all bijuu except for the Kyuubi, which they knew they would have to collect after it reappeared in eight more years. Shortly after they aquired the latest one from Killer Bee of Kumo, they themselves were attacked by Danzo's most Elite Root nin. They killed all the members of the Akatsuki except for two members, Sasuke as well as a red haired young women who had felt that something was wrong and trusting her instincts, had left the group a few days before, never to return to Ame...
Once the statue containing the sealed biju was secured within the walls of the Leaf, Danzo had his head of newly formed Project Overlord project begin his work making new Jinchuriki for them. The head's name, Kabuto. Some time after Sasuke had killed Orochimaru, Danzo had sent out his Root to find and recruit him. Kabuto accepted the offer immediately so that he could continue his former master's work. With the help of Tsunade as well as Jiraiya to a lesser extent, they accomplished so much in a few years time. With Tsunade's medical knowledge as well as Kabuto's, they found a way to use concentrated amounts of all eight of the biju's limitless energy and make pills that helped cure even some of the most severely fatal wounds. They would give their nin a temporary healing factor ro save their lives. With Jiraiya's knowledge of seals, they made eight new Jinchuriki, each had multiple fail safes in place to ensure loyalty to the Leaf. There were four seals on them, one being a dead man switch so they could be killed if there was even a trace of disobedience. The second was a modified version of the Cage Bird Seal which only Danzo could use to force them into submission at all times. The third was a tracker seal, so that they could be found anywhere in the Elemental Continent if on the off chance that they were somehow captured by the enemy. The fourth seal was Jiraiya's pride and joy, for it was the greatest seal of his own design, and what it did was genius. If ever came a time where the Jinchuriki was slain, the last seal would activate and transport the biju back towards the statue in Konoha so they could seal it once more into another person. While the one tailed to seven tailed biju were sealed into nameless Root nin, the eight tailed biju was sealed within Sasuke. With its power, he became far stronger than before, but unlike Naruto with his biju, the Leaf villagers still loved Sasuke. It didn't matter that he was now what they hated most, they just said that he took the demons power for himself instead of the demon taking control of his body. Fucking hypocrites, the whole lot of them...
During the time that the Leaf village was ransacking Spring Country, Sasuke along with the rest of the Jinchuuriki were sent to destroy Suna. They were unprepared for the combined might of eight different Jinchuuriki at once. While the defenses held up against their constant barrage, over the course of the next few days the defenses started to crack. A day later, they broke through the outer line. When Sasuke and the others entered, they were surprised to see no one in the village other than Gaara to stand against him. When asked where everyone had gone, he simply replied that they went somewhere safe. Sasuke just laughed at him and told him that nowhere was safe from them. That the Leaf village would find them and exterminate them without mercy. He then proceeded to attack Gaara. The battle was hard fought as well as lengthy, and Gaara held his own against their combined might. Without having to worry about civilian casualties or property damage, Gaara was able to fight at full power using both the environment as well as his surroundings to his advantage. To Sasuke's complete shock, Gaara was able to eliminate all the Jinchuriki except him. He would have had a greater challenge if Danzo hadn't placed the biju into emotionless nin, for Jinchriki need emotions to use their full power, so their power had been extremely nerfed and couldn't call upon their full power. After killing off the rest of the Jinchuuriki, Gaara was tired and severely low on chakra. Sasuke used this to his advantage and used a eight tail energy infused Chidori to strike Gaara through the heart, killing him painfully before setting his body on fire with a fire jutsu. Suna had fallen, but with only the death of their Kazekage, who sacrificed himself to ensure his family as well as the people who trusted him to ensure their safety would survive to see another day...
Far away from the Hidden Sand village, Gaara's older sister Temari stopped in her tracks and broke into tears with no one in there large group from Suna stopping to help except her brother Kankuro. She cried for the loss of both her home as well as her little brother as her only remaining family member embraced her in a loving hug to help ease her pain...
Shortly after the fall of Suna, Danzo's troops had made an amazing discovery. They found the blueprints as well as a working model of robotic soldier of a war from long ago. These robots were simple in appearance, looking like nothing more than steel mannequins with five fingers on each hand as well as two optical sensors that looked like eyes with a dark red glow to them when activated. Danzo ordered them to be mass produced along with various other tech he took. Along with the robot schematics he found blueprints to numerous guns of different variety. They ranged from simple pistols, to high powered sniper rifles. Danzo was incredibly joyful at this discovery, for with these weapons, the advanced airships, his newly progressing army of robotic soldiers as well as the more improved versions of the chakra armor from Spring, his dream of global domination was becoming more of a reality everyday. But before he put all of his eggs into this new basket, he knew he needed to test his new weapons, so he had a small group of fully armed (guns and armor) Root nin as well as a small squad of robotic soldier, who were outfitted with typical nin outfits including headgear to hide their lack of facial features set out to test their capabilities. He sent them to attack Taki and wipe them out. Their attack was merciless and without warning. Within hours, the village was in flames, and the roads were littered with the bodies of both their nin as well as innocent civilians. The attack took only a measly three hours, and the Leaf left no survivors, not even the children were spared nor the elderly. All lives were met with metal either via blade or bullet. The end results had left Danzo with a sinister smirk upon his face when he received the full report. Taki had fallen, burned to the ground with no one to warn the world of the horrors that awaited it...
With the constant building of all of his tools of war, Danzo knew he would need more resources to continue building his weapons. So the next step of his plan was simple, he invaded Wave country. Since Wave had little to no defenses to it, he sent only a few nin to assassinate their Daimyo and annexed it into his ever growing, newly renamed Fire Nation. But unlike Taki, he did not slaughter the villagers here, he just simply enslaved it. He assigned a large group of shinobi as well as the one tailed jinchuuriki to guard the are against other villages as well as any revolting people. Danzo stopped even the thought of revolt with his newly made slave sealed collars. They were collars with a seal that made them work endlessly until the one in charge released them from their work. If they attempted to fight or even flee, the collar would shock them, shutting down their nervous system and effectively paralyzing them so they could be easily captured. Then shortly afterwards, they were publicly executed by being hung from the dallows they built for this very thing. Needless to say, it got the message across and no one attempted to go against the authority of the Leaf. They were worked every day long into the night, only allowed to stop to eat and sleep periodically, as well as use the bathroom under heavy supervision. They were made to mine minerals and metals, build a wall surrounding their town with watchtowers to keep a lookout for intruders. And to add insult to their already shattered honor, they were forced to carve statues of their new emperor Danzo and place them on the newly annointed 'Great Shimura Bridge'. Wave had fallen due to lack of warriors to defend them, and with Naruto being gone, there was no one to motivate the people to rise up against their newest tyrannical ruler...
It had been eight years since the death of Naruto, and Danzo had conquered the vast majority of the Continent. He had sent messages to each of the villages still left at this point, demanding their full unconditional surrender. The message went on to state that failure to do what was being demanded of them would result in the utter destruction of their people, just like Taki. With the new found knowledge of Konoha (now named the Capital, for it was to become the capital to his ever growing nation) completely decimating a village. While Iwa and Kumo prepared their villages for the worst possible outcomes, Mist knew they would not survive any form of massive strike against their village. So their Mizukage let the people know about the situation and had the people decide what to do. In the end, the people decided to evacuate to Kumo, so that their combined might could help them defend against Danzo's forces. So within the next few day, they packed everything they could take with them, as well as boobytrapped the village so that it would at least strike a sizable amount of damage against his army. Mist had fallen due to the ever looming threat of destruction if they stayed for they would die if they fought in a battle that they could not possibly win...
Over the course of the next year. Danzo had finally finished remaking the Capital into a fully fortified city, three times the size of what the Leaf had been in the past. Danzo's armies had been fully trained to use their new weapons, each nin was made a custom fitted suit of chakra armor, and the robotic soldiers, now know as the Legion of Steel, had been perfected through trial and error. While the initial results during the attack on Taki had been promising, those results were sorely lacking when they were used to attack Iwa. For a whole year the Legion of Steel was sent to attack Iwa, but they were constantly destroyed, but the debris from their shattered remains were always collected and studied to improve them to withstand more. The Legion were slow moving as well as not very agile, they were also incapable of dodging jutsus thrown at them, but their numbers were overwhelming. They could also use both blades as well as guns, and over the year of being constantly attacked, Iwa suffered loss after loss with no effective way to replace what was lost. After a full year of the endless siege, the enemy had finally broken through the walls of Iwa, and the slaughter had begun. Just like he had promised, Danzo ordered the slaughter of everyone in Iwa. Out of everyone to reside in the once great city of Iwa, only one person survived and escaped from the enemy. It was the Tsuchikage's granddaughter Kurotsuchi. As she ran from the seemly endless waves of what she came to know as inhuman enemies, the tears flowed from her eyes for the loss of everything dear to her. Iwa had fallen due to the destructive wave of technological advancement that they had neither the proper knowledge of what they were or even the know how on how to begin to counter it...
In 9 years, all but one village had been conquered. Danzo smirked, for now he would finally accomplish his dream soon enough. He would recall his troops for now, and prepare for the destruction of the final shred of resistance to his complete rule. Danzo looked out his window and laughed. Nothing short of an act of god himself could save Kumo. With the destruction of the village imminent, and the key to the vault he wanted to open to get what was inside was going to be fully formed in four more years. Everything was going to plan, and he was going to enjoy the quiet that came with his position after he had both Homura and Koharu executed years ago when they had the nerve to even think that they would have the same rank of power that he had in his new empire. Pitiful fools...
(Flashback ends)
One again, it took a few minute for the pain to their brains to go down. They looked at each other to make sure they were each all right, but then all their eyes were glued to Sol, who once again had fully visible anger spewing from him.
"Darling," said Elphelt. "are you ok? Please calm down. There is no reason to be this angry dear, and it's starting to worry me."
"I have every right to be furious," said Sol through tightly clenched teeth, "and for multiple reason! My best friend in all of the Elemental Continent was killed by the biggest stain against humanity aside from Danzo from what we have seen. And to add to my fury on the matter, he is made a Jinchuuriki as well and loved all the same! When i was one, they hated my guts for it, so what make him so special for people to see past the demon within only for him? All of my friends as well as their homes were either destroyed or enslaved. My fellow Jinchuriki were all killed, and I wasn't there to help them. All this death and destruction, and I couldn't be there to help prevent it. And now my former home is on the brink of collapse. I believe I have the right to be infuriated!"
"You are just suffering from survivors guilt," said I-no, who walked over and hugged him to calm him down. She made sure to place his head right between her breasts, and just as she hoped, it calmed him down.
"You are right I-no. So now that I know what has been happening in my absence, we can fix this."
"So I take it you have a plan," said Sin, "cause if we just destroy the Capital, then we can end this all right now.
"Normally, I would agree with you kid, but I know Danzo well enough to decide against that plan of action. Danzo is the type of person who develops a chain of command that will implode upon itself if he is ever killed. He is the poster child for what a sore loser is. Knowing him, he will have ordered his troops to slaughter everyone and everything so that they couldn't enjoy any sort of victory from him."
"So what will we do then?"
"Simple. We rip his grip on the world off of it. Little by little we will remove his taint from the world, until he doesn't have the means to go on the offensive and he is stuck defending his village. Then from there, we will begin to terrorize their moral by killing off key people one by one until the insanity of the situation fully sinks in. When the village finally starts to implode in upon itself, then we will strike, wiping every shred of that accursed place off the face of the earth."
"Sounds like a good plan, so where do we start. Kumo? Cause they seem like they could use our help if they are to survive the assault that is going to be heading their way."
"No, we will begin this campaign by liberating Wave Country."
"Why wave," asked I-no, not seeing the logic in freeing them first.
"Because like I said, I know Danzo too well. He may like to think he can outthink all his opponents, but he has never faced someone like me. He is the kind of person that once he has something, he will never give it up even if he doesn't want it. So basically 'what's yours is mine and what's mine is mine' mentality. So if we liberate this country, he will try to reclaim it, and from there I have a plan that I don't want to say yet, for it would ruin the surprise."
"It is time for you to go back, but before you go back, I will grant you three requests within reason if they are within my power," said Kami.
"Three requests? Simple. I want the ability to transform into my body from the world I was just in, this way I can hide my identity until the time is right. I wasn't the power to use the memory strings that you used on us, mainly because if I tell my new life story, and let's be honest here, when I tell my new life story, it will be easier to just show them my memories. Let's be honest again, most of what I did in that world is pretty unbelievable and unless I can prove it, no one will believe me. And last but not least, since I don't have the tools or even the tech to make processing plants in this world, I would like the ability to make more Gears via magic. Can this be done?"
"So have you wished it, so shall it be."
And with that, Sol's body glowed once more imbuing ir with its newest powers and the knowledge to use them properly.
"And now it is time to go. I wish you luck on your quest."
And with a wave of his hand, they disappeared from his plane of existence and thus began their newest adventure. Danzo wanted to tempt fate by mocking the acts of gods, then Sol would give him an act of god. Konoha wouldn't know what hit them...
(A/N: and now you know how far his world has fallen. I made the robotic soldiers mainly cannon fodder due to the fact that what they will be against Sol. It take an extremely strong person to hurt Sol, that or an Anti-Gear weapon which we all know doesn't exist in the Naruto universe. So essentially, Sol is immortal in this world, and that's the way I like it. Until next chapter!)
