As Tenten walked throught the maze she notice something right away. The left wall was blue and the right was was red. It seemed no matter where she went the walls would change to remain the same always. That is till she came to a mirror wall. It had been the first one to change and when she came in front of it a mirror formed behind her and one on each side.

Naruto appeared in the 2 mirrors on each side. Tenten felt dizzy like the room moved and one Naruto said "You have invaded our mind, why have you come." together. Tenten didn't know why but she was sure these 2 who looked alike were different.

Tenten said "I have come to help you Naruto."

Both said "That name is not me, I am 2."

Tenten frowned and said "Then show me the real you."

Both said "Currently we are equal in your eyes. One mirror will show you the truth. The other is a lie. You must watch both and destroy the lies or the truth. End the end should you not die first then you will see the true us."

Just then the mirror in front of her showed a woman with red hair sitting in a hospital bed and a nurse came in holding a newborn and the woman said "Take him away. Hes nothing to me." as the nurse stopped and left the room.

Then the mirror behind her showed the same woman with red hair sitting in a hospital bed looking frail and tired and a nurse came in with a newborn in her arms and the woman said "Let me hold my son, one last time please." as the nurse handed the child to the red headed woman who rocked him a moment and kissed his head as she slowly passed away.

Tenten saw the second mirror end and she walked to the first mirror and smashed it and said "Your parents died. I know this from my father."

Both Naruto disappeared and Tenten started to walk again. After walking for what seemed like hours she saw another mirror and like before she it formed around her and this time the one on the right had a set of red cloths while the one on the left had blue cloths.

Neither said a word as a the front mirror showed the Kyuubi dying at the hands of the Yondaime who called for Kakashi to bring him his son so he could say goodbye and the back showed the Kyuubi being sealed into a blond baby and the Yondaime saying sorry son.

Tenten frowned until she remembered what she heard her dad say to jean when she pretended to sleep. She then walked to the front one and destroyed it. Again both disappeared. Tenten started to walk again when she saw 2 huge pheonix's fighting in the sky and she could see jean in the middle of each one and one screamed "hurry Cache, time is running out." as they continued to fight.

Tenten began to run at that time looking for the way through. As she ran she came to a fork in the path, One to the right and one to the left. The Naruto dressed in red appeared and said along with the one in blue but Tenten saw that this time one had throwing cards with aces on them in his hand while the other had dueces on his cards.

They both said "To proceed from here you must solve our riddle. You may ask one question to determine who is telling the truth and who is telling a lie. One of us will speak nothing but truth and one nothing but lie. Only one of these paths leads to safety. Chose the correct path to continue. Now ask your question."

Tenten leaned forward in thought and smirked and said "If you were your oposite, which path would he say leads to safety."

Both said "The right path."

Tenten nods and said "I chose the left then." as she began to run down it but she notice as she ran the walls started to play a childs life.

She watched while runnins as he was attacked and beat and then she watched as he was kidnapped, then experimented on, then feeling abandoned, and then she watched training, school, and then geonosis where his mind snapped.

That froze her as she was running and watched it and thought "my god, I thought the experimentation was bad. How did he come out of it sane...so he did snap...so thats how this maelstrom personality came to be, the one I have to stop to save naruto."

She watch the events unfold and then started to run again. She then saw as he coped with it and then watched as he grew up more and save a girl and then save the mutant world because of his kindness, returning to Konoha, killing danzo, people begining to fear him, meeting her, and she watched as she became important in his life. She felt something inside when this happened and she smiled as she saw him surrender to save her and then she watched as he killed the man who hurt her and she came to the end of the tunnel.

When she arrived she saw 2 other versions of her. All 3 of them looked exactly the same.

All 3 asked "whats going on here."

Xavier appeared in his chair and another was floating standing up and they had rings of energy shooting between them try to force domination. Xavier said "You must face yourself here Cache. This is the reason he is called echo. You must force him to do something that will reveal the real him. As long as he is like you he can't use any of his real abilities so you must find a way to fight him but hurrry. The mental battles that we are facing to keep this world from destroying itself is getting to much. Our dark halfs are fighting for dominance in us just like they are in him."

Tenten looked at the two and all 3 said "So one of you is echo and one is maelstrom. You are both the same person with different personalities so in truth I must only defeat one to defeat both. If that is so then lets begin." as she got into a taijutsu stance that the others matched perfect. She frowns and thinks "ok, I have to do something that he can't do. Reload said my mind is here also and I can control my own actions so that means that he isn't controling this, I am. How do I defeat myself when I can't harm myself...thats it." as she made a kunai appear in her hand and the other 2 did as well and tenten smirked as she turned the kunai around and stabbed herself in the arm.

As the other to did the blades plunged all the way through the arms while tentens stop after skin break.

The two slowly changed into Naruto and a huge staircase appeared raising both Naruto into the air and tenten started to run up the staircase.

As she was running her own past started to flash past her, all the sadness, loneliness, hate, and joy started to pass as she kept running. Finally she made it to the top panting heavy and she saw Reload standing beside her as a thrown rose from the ground and on each side of the thrown was a Naruto and Reload said "Good job so far but you only have about 2 minutes left so listen closely, as long as there are 2 here he will always be at war with himself you have seen his past, you have been shown the truth. You see his present and know why he is the way he is. Now you must show him his future. Now you must show him who is the real person here. Is it Echo or is it Maelstrom. Who is the one who you have came here to save."

Tenten looked stunned and she looked at both and she saw one was in red and one in blue and besides that there was no other difference she could see. She looked and saw both standing on the side of an empty thrown and thought "He is echo but he is maelstrom as well. How can I chose one when even I am not for sure which one is echo and which one is not. I came here to help Naruto but how can I he...wait a minute, I came here to help Naruto. Not echo, not maelstrom. Both are the same person. Both are personalities of the same person fighting for control of him. It can't be that simple but it makes since."

Reload looked at her and thought "here is a chance to reveal the truth to him. Only you can do it Cache because your the only one who can look underneath what is shown and reveal what is hidden."

Tenten stepped forward and said "The one I came here to save is you." as she walked foward between both Naruto's to the thrown and wrapped her arms around the air where a person should sit. Light shot out as both Naruto began to fade away and one started to appear in the center where tenten was hugging.

As he came into view tenten saw that he had his eyes closed asleep and she saw that Naruto was just like echo and maelstrom but where both were either red or blue, he was dressed in white.

Reload said after both the other 2 Naruto disappeared "Its time Cache, we have to go." as he touched her shoulder and both faded away.

Tenten opened her eyes and looked down and saw the sleeping Naruto on the bed but she noticed something different about him. She wasn't for sure what it was but he looked as if he was at peace. For the first time since she met him it looked as if he was finally at piece.

She looked over and saw Jean on her knees panting and saw the professor white as a ghost. She looked back where Reload was but found he was gone. She blinked and said "Ok, that was wierd...and tiring." as she closed her eyes and passed out.

Kakashi caught her before she fell off of the bed and said "I will take her to her room." as he carried her away.

After they were gone Rogue asked "What happened."

Xavier said "It was difficult. When we went into his mind jean and I were both forced to fight our dark halfs again. It was something I had hoped never to do again. I noticed that it seemed to be the case for Echo as well becuase there were 2 of them. The only thing I am sure of is both personalities of his have merged together. What will happen I don't know but he will need rest as do we all."

Rogue nods as they left and kissed Naruto on the head and whispers "Get well soon son."