(A/N: I have come to realize after posting the last chapter that I forgot to mention how Iron Country fell. They fell to Danzo's airships cause they couldn't breach the wall quick enough. They used chakra loaded bombs that are very destructive. I meant to put that in to describe the airships he has but it's too late now. So I am sorry about that. Now onward to Wave Country!)
The area was clear of any form of living creature surrounding it. One might say that the animals themselves knew that something was amiss and coming. Then there in a clearing on the border that was at one point Wave Country before it became part of Fire Country, there was a bright light. Out of the light stood five figures, three of them women while two were male. Once they got their bearings, checked the surroundings, and determined which way to go, they made way towards Wave.
While walking towards their destination, Sol told the rest of his group to refer to him as Sol, never Naruto, for Naruto was the weakling he once was that believed that hatred could be overcome if enough time has passed. Sol was a man that knew better and had 200 plus years of first hand experience on the matter. So Sol used his gift from Kami and morphed back into the body he had worn for two centuries, and yet it somehow felt alien to him in some way. Maybe it was because he had a new body that combined the best parts of both his old bodies, yet without the proper equipment, he had no way, or even drive for that matter, to figure it out. He also used his past knowledge of seals and sealed up the Junkyard Mark 3 in a seal on his arm. During their quick journey, Sol had taken a tiny amount of Kurama's soul and energy and crystallized it so that it could be used for a pet project that he had. He handed the crystal to Sin and gave him specific directions on what to do with it. After getting his orders (and another quick punch to the temple, for calling him 'Old Man') Sin left the group to find what was required by Sol.
After Sin's departure, the rest of the group hurried faster to their destination. They knew that for every moment that they didn't help. The people of Wave suffered under the tyrannical heel of the Fire Nation. Plus Sol knew that if he wanted his plans to take fruition, then exact timing was essental. The arrived at the Great Shimura Bridge shortly before nightfall, which was perfect.
"Ok, here we are," said Sol to the rest of his friends, "now I want you guys to stay back, cause I don't want you to get hu...," Sol then started to laugh before he could even complete the sentence he was saying.
"What's so funny," asked I-no, wondering what had made Sol just stop mid sentence and burst into laughter.
"It's just that I worried about your safety right now," said Sol, laughing to the point where tears where forming in his eyes.
"I do not see how the lack of faith towards one's companions or immediate company's safety is humorous," said Ramlethal in her usual emotionless tone of voice.
"It's hilarious because there is nothing to hurt us in this world," said Sol, finally calming down from his laughter, "think about it. The world that we were in had advanced technology, and even then it took years to find the proper way just to kill a single Gear. And that's not a Commander type Gear like Justice, but one of the weakest forms of Gears. Then there is us, and we are faced far worse. This world doesn't have Gears, so they won't have any sort of Anti-Gear weaponry, they don't even use or know about Magic Particles, so they can't even make one. It took me a couple of decades to make the proper types of weapons to fight against the main enemy of the time, but we won't be giving Konoha the time to even grasp the concept. Plus you two are from the Backyard and I-no is a time bending witch, a sexy as hell one as well, and I have seen bullets quite literally bounce off her due to her powers protecting her. This world has just barely discovered guns and only has a simple type of robot for its army that is quite frankly an insult to the robots we have fought against in our world. Robo-Ky would be so fucking pissed to see these piss poor imitation robots."
Once his logic was explained, the rest of the group laughed as well, all except for Ramlethal, who still hasn't fully gained her emotions. But Sol wouldn't give up on her, not until he saw her give a genuine smile. After their bit of laughter, they then continued walking across the bridge. The trip was silent and uneventful until they neared the end of the bridge. There standing at the end were two fully equipped shinobi (which at this point wasn't much of a shinobi with all the guns and armor that they use, so Sol would refer to them as soldiers from now on,) waiting for them and beckoned them toward them. Once close enough, Sol recognized the two soldiers guarding the gate, and internally laughed his ass off. The soldiers were the eternal guardians of the gates of Konoha Kotetsu and Izumo. It would seem that they were moving up in the world at a snail's pace. It would seem that they were fated to forever be the guard dogs of the former Leaf village. Sol would feel bad for them if they weren't going to die in the next few minutes, as well as helping the Fire Nation conquer Wave all those years ago.
"Stop right there," said Izumo in an authoritative voice, which made Sol laugh internally even harder.
"Just so you know, there are two highly trained rifleman with your head in their sites," said Kotetsu, "one false move and your brains will be splattered all over the ground. So state your business here."
"Quick question before I do," said Sol, "are the weapons being used by these 'rifleman' as you called them long tubed weapons with a glassed cone on top of it that helps them see farther to pick off far away targets?"
"How do you know about our weapons." Asked Izumo, his hand going towards the pistol in it's holster.
"Because where I'm from, those are call Sniper rifles, and the people who specialize in them are refered to as Snipers. Rifleman use rifles that aren't meant to shoot targets that are too far away, just shoot a medium distance with deadly accuracy."
"Where are you from to know about these types of weapons," asked Izumo, unhanding his pistol in genuine curiosity to this man before him.
"I come from a place outside of this continent. It's called The United States of America, and I am from a city called Old New York."
"Old New York sounds like a contraditary name. How can it be both new and old at the same time," asked Izumo, questioning the legitimacy of this story.
"There was once just New York, but war broke out and it is now in ruins. The damage was too extensive so they couldn't rebuild the city. So instead they just rebuilt it at a new location under the name New New York," explained Sol, which was true, but just not in this world. Not that they would ever know that fact.
"Ok, that helps explain that. So now state your business."
"I have been hired to help protect this village, but since the message had to travel a long way outside of the Elemental Continent, it took a while for me to receive it as well as the time it took to come here to respond to it."
"If that is the case, then you can just turn around and head back the way you came. We don't need help protecting this town, for we got all the security details covered. So just high tail it out of here and don't make trouble for us."
"You seem to have misunderstood my mission," said Sol, who was cracking his knuckles loudly, starting to unsettle the both of them.
"And what your mission," asked Izumo, his hand once more going toward his pistol, for he was certain he would need it.
"I said I was hired to help protect this village, you never asked who it was I was meant to protect it from."
"And who are you meant to protect this village from big guy," said Kotetsu, about two seconds from shooting this muscular prick point blank in the face.
"The answer is simple," said Sol, who unsealed his blade and used it to quickly decapitate Izumo before either one could draw their weapon, "I'm here to protect it from the like of you."
"We have a Code Red, I repeat Code Red," shouted Kotetsu into his earpiece, right before his body was sliced through vertically by Ramlethal who summoned both her Lucifero creatures for the one sided battle ahead.
"His voice was irritating to my ears," said Ramlethal, mentally ordering her Lucifero to fling the fresh blood of Kotetsu off the sword in its mouth.
"We have got to work on your people skills Ram. If you want people to change, you have got to talk to them, not just cut in half. Is that getting through to you?"
"I will.. Try to change." Said Ramlethal.
"That's the spirit sis," said Elphelt, with joy in seeing her sister start to change for the better. "At this rate, we will uncover your emotions in no time."
They then heard two loud bangs coming from above them and looked up. They saw two soldiers with smoking barreled sniper rifles looking at them utterly shocked that their weapons had no effect on the intruders. Their shock was overcome quickly and then they aimed down the sights at them and continued to fire at them. Not one of the bullets caused any bodily harm to any of them. To them, it was like having a pebble thrown at them by a toddler, for it didn't even register to their sense of touch. Sol knew that their tech was severely old fashioned in comparison to the world he was in, but not by this much. Dear Kami, deafeating the Leaf would be like taking the candy from a candy shop that was paying people to take their candy. In simpler terms, a cakewalk.
Having had enough of their pathetic attempt of trying to wound or even hurt them, Sol walked up to the metal gate that blocked his way from the rest of the town. He whistled to Elphelt and pointed towards the snipers above them. She got his meaning and conjured up her sniper rifle. Two shots late, and both snipers had large holes smack dab right in the center of their heads and fell over dead. Sol wanted to kick off this battle (one sided that it will be,) with a bang, and he thought of the perfect way to kick off their Anti-Leaf campaign.
"Hey I-no, can you strum a powerful guitar solo to show these people how to properly Rock?"
"Oh! I can't hold it anymore!" Shouted I-no, who whipped out her magical guitar and began to charge it up with magical energy. Once it was charged up enough, she strummed the strings letting out a massive blast that blew the gates wide open and ripped them from their hedges, "We're gonna have fun here."
"Maybe later after we save the people of Wave, but until then, can you be a good girl? I'll rip your clothes off later and screw you into a coma afterwards."
"Only a real bastard skips the foreplay. Can't you at least warm me up first...?" Said I-no, her voice practically dripping with lust.
"If that is what you wish, then so shall it be."
After those words were spoken, they took notice that the enemy had them surrounded. And yet they didn't see a single civilian on the streets. It would seem like a Code Red evacuated the civilians to their barracks. This was good news for Sol and friends, it meant no chance of civillian casualties. So they split up and started to lay waste to their enemies. Sol used a combination of his blade to cut up his opponents, his fire magic to burn them alive, and his bare fists to just punch through them or rip them apart. Elphelt used her shotgun and used it to mow down wave after wave of the Leaf's soldiers. Ramlethal just used her Lucifero and made them merge together. Once together, they began to rotate the swords in their mouths to resemble a blender. They then moved through the crowds and mulched them into nothing more than a bloody mist. The battle was over within minutes due to the fact that these soldiers were unprepared for the, and were too reliant on their firearms instead of trying to even use a blade. And now there was only one soldier left, and it was the one that Sol was looking for, It was the soldier to bore the duty of containing the one tailed biju.
"Prepare to suffer the wrath of the Fire Nation and become kindle to stoke its Will of Fire!" Shouted the Root soldier, devoid of any emotional tone. It would appear that Danzo didn't learn his lesson after losing his last batch of Jinchuuriki. But then again the man was stubborn as fuck, and ultimately it would be his downfall. Well that and Sol himself, but either way he was going down.
The soldier sprinted forward towards him, prepping the sand for his attack in his hands, but all of a sudden his body locked up and he fell forward face first into the dirt.
"Huh," said Sol, "didn't actually think that it would work. I hoped that it would, but I still had my doubts. Guess you were right Kurama."
"I told you that it would work," said Kurama, smiling about the fact that the idea he had given Sol actually worked in their favor. Now their plan could continue and hopefully the rest of it would go over just as smoothly.
The soldier layed on the ground, unable to move an inch or even talk cause Sol was in complete control and wouldn't allow it. He then felt a massive amount of pain streaming forth from his body. It felt like his energy was being sapped from his body. The energy flowed from his body like a stream through the air into Sol's hand. Once all the energy had been collected, it solidified into a crystal form the size of a pool ball. It was a clear brownish color with what appeared to be smoke swirling around within its confines. Sol held out his arm and channeled magic into the crystal as well as both his and Kurama's chakra.
"I free you from your burden Shukaku," said Sol calmly, "be free from the control of man and pass on to the next life. While your soul shall be free, your energy is needed for a greater purpose. Now be free!"
As he said that, the spirit of Shukaku slowly seeped from the crystal. He looked at Sol, the joy of being truly free helping cure his insanity. His soul rose up into the air after mouthing his last words to Sol.
Thank you my friend...
Those words made Sol feel warm and happy on the inside. He wondered if it would feel just as well as this when he freed the rest of the biju forever. He could only wonder where their souls would end up, but he could only hope that they would be truly happy wherever they may end up.
"I'm truly happy that one of my kin is free from the hands of greedy power hungry people who seek only to enslave our kind under the pretense that humans are superior," said Kurama with a large grin on his face, which on him looked very disturbing in all aspects of the word.
"Now we just need what I sent Sin to retrieve and we will have everything we need to complete the plan," said Sol.
"Hey teach, I'm back from that errand you sent me to complete," said Sin, who had just arrived shortly after the fighting was all finished.
"Speak of the devil and they shall appear... Why is it that that actually seems to work way too many times in my life? I should just stop talking about people who aren't in the immediate area."
Sin then handed Sol a sealed vial of blood that he acquired for him.
"Excellent, now while I do this, I need you guys to go free the people enslaved to the Leaf. But please keep them away for I don't know what will happen here and I would like it if I didn't have the blood of the innocent on my hands. Or at least until we get to the Capital and we do what needs to be done. So please keep them away."
So then they headed out to find out where the slaves were kept to grant them their freedom. Sol set the vial of blood on the ground right next to the brown crystal. Man was he greatful that there wasn't any Anti-Gear weapons in this world, for while he used the power he will have to use. His very soul becomes solid and can be destroyed, which would kill him. So Sol channeled the magic of the area into his body to use his Soul Sinker magic. Behind him, his Master ghost ripped out of the ground, personifying his soul into physical form. He then used its power to send waves of energy into the vial of blood on the ground. During this whole process, Sol was silently praying that it would work, while Kurama kept informing him that it would. The blood in the vial started to move around its container violently until it broke free. The blood then moved towards the crystal, which sucked the blood up like a sponge. Once the process was done, the crystal melted into a goo like substance and started to grow bigger as well as taller. The process took what felt like hours when in actuality it only took a few minutes. But in the end what stood before Sol was a newly developed Servant in the shape of his old friend Gaara instead of the usual gun armed robots that would appear. Once the body was fully formed, Sol thrust his hand into Gaara's husk of a body and injected him with the cells from his body to make him into a Gear like himself. Sol was glad that Gaara wasn't in the body yet, cause from the looks of how the body was jerking all over the place, it would appear that the process of Gear conversion was painful and that was putting it lightly.
Once the body stopped moving in a painful way, Sol slammed his hand onto the ground. And as Kurama did all those years ago back when they were sealed away, Sol summoned the Shinigami once more.
"What do you need from me," asked the dark scary deity.
"I need the souls of my friend Gaara as well as the rest of the jinchuriki. But instead of Yagura's give me the young women known as Rin."
"And what do I receive in terms of payment for these souls you ask of me?"
"What do you want?"
"I want only one thing," said the Shinigami with the wave of his hand, a dark evil looking dagger appeared from his sleeve which he handed to Sol,"When the time come, I want you to slay Danzo with this blade. With his death from this blade, he will be sent to a private piece of hell that I prepared just for him where he will suffer for all eternity for his crimes against nature. Also I want all the money you have on you."
"Why do you need my money?"
"That cube you destroyed in the Realm In Between. Me and Kami made a bet about whether or not you could destroy an indestructible item. I said no, and yet you did against all odds. I wasn't expecting you to actually accomplish the impossible on a scale like this."
Sol then dug into his vest and pulled out his bag of priceless gems he had earned from his travels. He tossed it towards the deity and was handed a ring encrusted with eight different stones. Sol took a piece of string from his jacket pocket (never know when you might need to tie something, am I right?) and made the ring into a necklace. Once his payment was done, the Shinigami vanished from site. Sol tore off some of the cloth from the dead soldiers bodies and wrapped it around the dagger and sealed it away for now. He then channeled his friends soul from the ring into his friend's body. The body glowwed for a brief second and fell to the ground. Sol picked him up and laid him down flat on the ground in a more comfortable position. While he did this, he was soon surrounded by the citizens of Wave who were all cheering for him and thanking him and his friends for freeing them. An elderly man, who Sol quickly recognized as the Old Bridge builder Tazuna, stepped forward.
"We, the people of Wave are forever in your debt young warrior. What is the name of our savior?"
"My name is Sol Uzumaki, but you knew me at one point in life with a different name."
"And what was that?"
Sol then mentally chanelled magic through his body, and transformed into his new form. Once the people saw who he was, they were left gasping in surprise.
"Big brother," said a teenage Inari, "is that really you?"
"It is, and damn you grew up strong in my absence. But I go by Sol now, for I don't want the world to know I'm back yet," said Sol, transforming his body back into its old form.
Inari ran up to Sol and gave him a hug, as well as his mother Tsunami, who was crying tears of joy. The people of Wave cheered over the fact that their hero had returned once more to save them from another tyrant. Sol then explained his plans for the future. He told them that for their safety that they would have to leave and evacuate towards Kumo for now. But he promised them that he would personally see to it that they would return home in the near future once the Leaf was gone for good. So the people quickly packed what they needed for the long trip ahead and set out for Kumo. Shortly after they left, Sol and his friends felt a surge of power emanating from the area Gaara was in, so they rushed toward him. Gaara was sitting bowlegged on the ground holding his head with his hands while suffering a major headache.
"Oh Kami, what has happened," asked Gaara, "is this hell, cause it's not too bad if it is."
"This isn't hell my old friend," said Sol. "but it will become one if we don't solve this problem soon."
"You call me friend, and yet I don't know you. The only friend I had was killed years ago by his traitorous village. So much happened after that, and the last thing I remember is sending my people away from Suna to escape a surprise attack, and then Sasuke... SASUKE!" He shouted as he checked his chest for any sort of damage, yet didn't find any, which surprised him since he knew he was stabbed through the heart. He had felt his life slip from him as the lightning coursed through his body.
"If you are wondering why I am here, then let me tell you. I revived you through means that you won't fully understand until I explain things a bit more clearly about myself."
"And why would you revive me? Who are you?"
"As I said before," said Sol, preparing to use his memory strands to help explain things to Gaara, "I am a friend. And your kin, but not in blood, but in burden in what was sealed inside of us."
Gaara's eyes opened wide with realization and only got to say one word before he was hit with a golden strand and force fed Sol's memories.
"Naruto..."
(A/N: For all the people who read this and wonder how Sol was able to quite literally stop the Jinchuuriki dead in his tracks, I will explain how he did it later in the story, for now you will just have to wonder how he did it. Also going to revive Rin, so no Yagura, but since no one voted for him, it doesn't seem like it will be a problem. Once again, sorry for forgetting Iron Country and see you next chapter!)
