Jiraiya and his two 'students' made their way back to Kaimu without much incident, even with having gone through the same samurai village as on their way to find Tsunade. Taking note of their dirty and battle clothes with a crucial look, the samurai guard on duty let them travel through the city.

When they had reached Kaimugakure, Naruto and Hinata had to push out another two hundred clones to continue the growth. Jiraiya left them at the front of the Shell's gates, and said he had some business to take care of. That was two days ago, and their mission had only lasted for little over a week.

Now Naruto sat behind a trimmed oak desk, with his feet propped up, leaning back in his black, comfortable Kage chair, bolted onto the sleek, wooden floor. He was very comfortable. This was basically the first time he had been in the room.

Windows lined the curved walls. Every which way he looked, he could see out to the village. On the roof of this room was the battlements, and below was the rest of the tower. The only ways in the room were from above, or in a trapdoor hidden in the floor and one that was in plain view. The plain view trapdoor was currently open, and Naruto could see the first few rungs of a ladder from his chair. The room was really large, considering it was the circumference of the whole tower. Over to one side of the room were more desks, where Hinata's clones sat and did work. Guarding the trapdoor below were more of his clones. On the roof were more clones of both of them as well.

Naruto laughed, thinking that half the population of Kaimu was clones. The village really was one of nobodies!

He sighed, looking up at the roof, letting the laugh go. His gaze fell down for the thousandth time at the tiny cube, an inch long at all sides, sat before him. Naruto knew it would work, but had never considered how to reverse it and bring the captured person out. He supposed he would have to reverse the process.

But that was not how his chakra affinity worked: it was negative chakra. Meant for turning things to nothing, by putting them in other universes, or, for that matter, anti-universes. He would need the opposite of this chakra type to reverse the effects.

And he didn't think such a thing was possible, let alone that kind of chakra even existing.

With another heavy sigh, he dropped his feet off the desk. Naruto had been brewing on this problem since he had gotten back to the village but progress in releasing Tsunade was still slow going and frustrating.

His plans had initially been, if he succeeded in doing the jutsu, it would only need to disrupt the chakra holding the person in the other universe by putting a burst into the cube. He hadn't succeeded, so another theory had been that the chakra would just wear away, and she would suddenly pop back into existence. Naruto then had Hinata to look at it with her Byakugan but she said the chakra looked like it was holding strong, and she didn't think it would wear off.

Naruto closed his eyes, thinking about the jutsu. Concepts of other dimensions, universes, anti-dimensions, and anti-universes ran through his head. He could never go into another dimension or universe, just between them. And by going, he didn't mean literally "going" there. He meant using his chakra to put things there, or taking them from there. Then he had wrapped his mind around anti-universes and anti-dimensions. That was a thought that kind of scared him, because, what if those places affected matter from their opposites? That would mean that Tsunade could be in big trouble, or worse, dead.

Since they were in fact the opposite of a universe or dimension, that would make them very small. Note the small cube.

That was what made him believe she was in an anti-universe. If it was an anti-dimension, he wouldn't be able to touch the cube with his bear hands, without using his chakra or gloves, but he reached out and poked the cold cube with a bare finger. He was able to touch it. That could only mean it was another universe, brought into this universe. After all, though an anti-dimension was an opposite of a regular dimension, the rules still applied.

Another thing disturbed Naruto. The theory was that the universe was growing, and that would mean that the universe in the cube was shrinking. So what would happen when a piece of this universe was put into the anti-universe?

Naruto's eyes suddenly went wide. Tsunade could be in very real danger.


Hinata was in the dojo of the Outer Core, the first building built in this layer of the village. She had spent the better part of the day there already, going through the exercises of Jyuuken. Though she had grown to loathe her family, her body was built for this taijutsu.

When she had first received half of the Kyuubi, she had trouble containing and controlling her chakra. Jyuuken was impossible for the first few months, forcing her to train her muscles a bit more to compensate for her lack of chakra control. Since that was all over and her chakra control had been attained once more two years ago, her style was quick, her moves perfect.

Sweating, Hinata decided to stop the training, feeling that she couldn't learn much more from Jyuuken. She had seen the rotation technique from a few of her family members when they trained. She was pretty good at it now but she rarely ever used it. Who needed to protect themselves when they weren't a part of this dimension?

Hinata had been thinking about this other chakra type, and wondered if it had any side effects. She had traveled between dimensions hundreds of times, and her lung capacity had improved tenfold. Naruto had once commented her on it in an awkward way that had horrified her at first, but she laughed later on at his distress. She smiled as she looked back on the memory.


Hinata appeared from nowhere, falling to her knees as she gasped for breathe. She heard a faint ping when she appeared. She looked up, gulping in breathes. Naruto was standing there with a grin in front of her.

"Twenty minutes! Very nice, Hinata-chan!" Naruto crowed, giving her his best smile. She could only smile back, still gasping for breathe, but starting to breathe regular once more.

"I... ran around... like you... told me to... the whole time!" She managed to gasp out between breathes, causing Naruto's eyebrows to shoot up.

"The whole time?" Naruto asked, blinking. She nodded.

Through the years of honing the Jyuuken, the Hyuuga clan had adapted quickly to the speed and agility needed to use it. This gave her a higher than normal lung capacity, but twenty minutes without breathing, while running around was just unheard of. Hinata could feel a slight headache at the end and had decided to stop. Her lungs had been burning, and she was afraid of passing out from lack of oxygen.

She also suspected that during the years when the first ninja came about, they had been weak and their bodies not disciplined. After generations of change and adaption, all ninjas had bodies of steel, which kind of scared the civilians in the world. Evolution and Natural Selection, Hinata thought. It gave her a grin knowing who held the real power in the world.

"Wow, with you able to hold your breathe for so long... and stay active. Jeez, Hinata-chan, you're like a whale or something!" Naruto cried out, looking at Hinata with awe.

Hinata on the other hand, looked mortified. "I'm... like a whale?"

Her face went pale, and her eyes were wide. She suddenly forgot the burning lungs and the hurting head. She felt separated from herself, and a moment of nausea swept over her. She had always been critical of her own body...

"NO!!" Naruto yelled out, in shock. He immediately began waving his arms in the air, and tried to explain what he meant. Whales had large lung capacities, he said, and they could stay active for hours without surfacing for fresh air. Hinata's moment of nausea passed, and she looked at her friend try to explain himself. She giggled, and couldn't stop laughing for ten minutes while Naruto worked himself into a long rant about how he didn't mean for it to come out that way.


She brushed some strands of hair out of her face as she hadn't bothered to put it up today. The light kimono she was wearing was designed for ease of use and wide motion for training. Her hands still donned the gauntlets, and her feet were bare. Though she was comfortable in this setting, she wished she had something to train on, or someone.

Hinata's eyes went wide when she got an idea. With a seal, five clones appeared in a circle around her. She grinned maniacally, "Don't go easy on me!"

She launched herself at a clone directly in front of her, taking it out with four Jyuuken jabs to the abdomen. She fell through the smoke onto her hands, throwing her legs up and catching two clones under the chin with the balls of her feet. Three down she thought; while she was still surrounded with smoke, the last two clones rushed in at both her front and back.

She was now fully erect, standing vertically on her hands. She bent her elbows, and sprung at one clone, wrapping her ankles around it's neck. The original Hinata then twisted herself in midair, sending the clone into the last one. After the clone's smoke cleared, she stood triumphantly, with her fists on her waist. One more seal, and ten clones now appeared. With a smirk, she continued her freestyle Jyuuken brawl.


Naruto was now close to banging his head on the desk. The cube was proving to be a worthy adversary, and he was having a hard time to figure it out. A Hinata clone the original had made before heading to the dojo was standing in front of his desk, wearing a white kimono and gauntlets. She nodded as he ranted.

"Negative chakra captured her in a an anti-universe, which just so happened to be shrinking," he mused. "And due to the strange qualities and theories that surround the 'antiverse', Tsunade could be in some trouble. She is most likely in a comatose state, not conscious of her surroundings or any changes that may be affecting her." He tapped his finger on his desk beside the infuriating cube. "I can't create something from nothing, but rather create nothing from something. Between dimensions and the antiverses and anti-dimensions are my territory."

"But what can I do about these things? I can't control the other dimensions in any way; or, for that matter, any other universes. If I put something in an anti-dimension or antiverse, can I bring it back out?" He propped his feet up again, and crossed his arms, closing his eyes in thought.

"So, the opposite is my only hope. Until I'm able to decipher how to disrupt the cube with my own abilities, I need to find something that can make something of nothing. To... pull things from places." Naruto sighed. Was there even such a thing? "I can only send things away, or make things just, you know, just disappear in a sense. Destructive stuff, you know? Then I go and find I can also capture things too! How great is that? Except I have no damn clue how to bring her back!" He was talking more to himself than to the clone, and the clone jumped at his last outburst.

Rubbing at his temples, Naruto sighed. "Hinata, I need your help to figure this out..." The clone nodded, and Naruto jumped up onto the desk. He leaned in close to the close to the clone, and she blushed. "So come here, okay?" The clone looked confused for a moment, as he poked her in the head, a transparent darkness surrounded the finger. With her eyes widening in recognition, she disappeared in a puff of odorless smoke.

Naruto plopped back into his chair, and stared at the ceiling for a bit. His mind seemed to be trapped between walls. He couldn't even think of new jutsu in this state. Ever since Hinata and him had obtained the new chakra, he went on a binge. The first jutsu he made was the evaporating jutsu, or Jouchaku no Jutsu. The second had been a failure, but he had tried to enhance his punches with the new chakra. That was a big mistake, and had left his hand in a painful state for a whole week. His third jutsu had been bringing the negative chakra into a shape, and solidifying it. Hence the sword and hand jutsu they had used against Kakashi a few months ago. But he almost gave up on that one, due to the lack of control.

That was when Hinata had suggested creating material that could control it, or be a defense against it. They had stumbled on the way of making it on accident, because they were mostly stumped on how to go about creating something like that. They tried pumping the negative chakra into things like metal and clothing.

All that accomplished was destroying the materials. So, one day, they had been messing around with the chakra, and that led to the jutsu for traveling between dimensions. They had tried to wear clothes, and then pump the chakra out of their whole body, hoping it would result in the creation of the new material. They had found themselves suddenly placed in ethereal surroundings, but still in the same place. They had immediately stopped the output of chakra and were back in their own dimension. Hinata said she couldn't breathe, but Naruto hadn't noticed.

A few experiments there and back, they soon found out that pumping the chakra into materials in the 'other place' as they had called it, not knowing what it was at the time, rendered the results they had been looking for: a material that could withstand the negative chakra. Then they spent a few days theorizing about what they had been doing. Hinata had said that it was like being a ghost, not being her nor there.

That led to her thoughts about being between dimensions. That was when Naruto had made a hypothesis about anti-universes and anti-dimensions. You could put things into materials there, because there was no other places for it to stop existing, due to it not being in it's own universe. So Naruto had thought about if you tried to go further, and made the chakra more concentrated on something, you could send it to an anti-universe, or anti-dimension safely, because they wouldn't exist there, nothing could be destroyed there.

Since then, Naruto worked out his latest jutsu. The jutsu that captured Tsunade. But how could he bring things back from those places? He had no idea.

Hinata's head poked up from the open trapdoor, and he looked over at her. She quickly climbed up and took a seat on the arm of the large chair. "What's up?" she asked, looking down at him curiously. He knew she had gotten the memories of the clone he had dispersed so didn't bother explaining again.

"I think I may have been wrong about Tsunade being safe in the anti-universe. That stupid cube is dangerous, I think. We have to get her out of there soon, and I can't disrupt it with my own chakra." He looked over at her, his face full of hope that she could come up with an answer. She slowly got up, and walked around to the front of his desk. Getting off the arm of the chair and moving before the desk, she unknowingly gave her fellow Utsurokage a glimpse of what hid beneath her kimono as she leaned forward to take the cube from the desk surface. He quickly looked away blushing, thankful that she didn't seem to notice.

He quickly gained control of himself, and looked over at her. She examined the cube, turning it over in her hand a few times. She shrugged and carefully put it back down, then tiredly fell into one of the three chairs in front of Naruto's desk. She only shrugged at him. The male Utsurokage sighed, looking back up at the ceiling.

"So, how'd your training go?" He asked, his eyes wandering back over to her. He blushed slightly as he remembered the small peek he got at the cleavage under the kimono. He quickly shook his head, and looked to her with curiosity.

"It went well, but I had to make a few clones to stay and... repair the damage." Hinata gave him a small smile, and he smiled back. They didn't have any really knowledge of being a carpenter or architectural when they started building the village. They knew only what they had read. But, when hundreds of your clones were working constantly, and you received their experience, you definitely gained a gold mine of knowledge. Their clones were practically experts in the trade now, and the buildings were becoming easier to make. When all the clones new their job, it was basically a giant jigsaw puzzle to put together. So, a little repairing was nothing in comparison.

"Any word from Sasuke's team?" Naruto asked, taking his feet off of his desk once more. Hinata only shook her head.

Suddenly, Naruto's head jerked up, as important memories popped into his head. To some extent, he had control of which clones had priority when it came to their memories. And the guards were given priority. He grinned a foxy grin, "Looks like they're here, with company." He made ten clones and barked, "Get the prisoners!"


At the front of the group stood a proud looking Uchiha Sasuke. Slightly behind him, branching out to his left and right were his comrades, Haruno Sakura and Inuzuka Kiba. They were in their usual garb. Sasuke with his tan khaki shorts and blue shirt with the Uchiha symbol emblazoned on the back. He wore white arm warmers, and the usual blue ninja sandals. Wrapped around his upper arm was a blank hitai-ate. Sakura wore a pink shirt, which trailed out behind her, and tight black shorts. Her blank hitai-ate was worn to keep her hair out of her eyes. Inuzuka Kiba wore a gray hoodie and gray pants, a kunai holster on his right leg, blank hitai-ate was on his forehead.

The rather large group which formed a sort of pyramid behind them was a mixture of a bunch of rough looking brunettes, and a smaller group of pink-haired people. Even the men had pink hair, which had made Kiba chuckle at first, before Sakura clocked him on the head. Pink hair was a dominant trait in their family, she had said. Most of her family were chuunin-level ninjas, who mostly taught students for a living. This was why Naruto had wanted the Harunos.

The Inuzuka family, however, was what Naruto really wanted. Everyone in that family were ninjas, and some of them were medical. Quite a few of them were jounin, and the rest were chuunin. It was a disgrace, Kiba had mentioned, to stay a genin forever if you were Inuzuka. Their blood was too pure and powerful for that.

Naruto, with cube in pocket, stood at the front of the Shell's gate. This gate was the tallest, thickest, and was pumped with the most chakra. Naruto had thought that there was next to nothing that could bring this wall down, and there were still two more redundant walls before you could reach the core of the village. The vast ocean protected the other side of the village, which was good. Ninjas were mostly land fighters, and rarely ever had a navy. And if a navy was had, it was mostly useless because its budget was poor. This only made Naruto's village that much stronger.

"Welcome, my new friends, to Kaimugakure, the Village Hidden in Nothing!" Naruto said proudly, opening his arms wide in emphasis that rewarded him a few nods and cheers. The Inuzukas seemed to be little uncomfortable, though. Naruto could almost sense their uncertainty.

"I have prepared large compounds for both your families in the Outer Core. I think you will be pleased. It's a perfect place to raise a family, and you are close to the Core, so it will be easy to take your family to the academy, and get to the main markets. I would have your compound in the Core itself, but the space is limited. I hope you enjoy your stay in Kaimu, and I do hope that your decision to stay is a permanent one." Naruto said, mostly looking at the Harunos, who looked a little skeptical.

Naruto decided to continue, "The Academy here is rather large, and we are in need of more teachers. Any contribution you would like to make to the students of Kaimu will be much appreciated." He looked around at the crowd, and decided to prove that Hinata and himself were worthy leaders of the village. "My partner and I specialize in stealth, and have done many missions that have contributed to our knowledge of the craft. I would like to ask you now if you can detect anything around you, that may harm you." Naruto glanced around, and he could see a few seals go up, a few good noses sniff the air. After a little while, he got no response aside from a few shrugs and some shaking heads.

"Well then. Take one more look." Naruto grinned, and he disappeared in a puff of smoke. Someone whispered, "A clone?" but it was too late. The instant the clone disappeared, the crowd of Inuzukas and Harunos were matched one to one: there was a Naruto or Hinata behind each of them, holding a kunai to the back of their necks.

One Naruto said, "Do not underestimate your leaders. We are indeed worthy of the title Utsurokage." With that, each Naruto and Hinata disappeared, and the originals stood before the group, all smiles. "Shall we begin the tour?" they asked in unison, just before the crowd went into an uproar of applause.


Naruto sat behind his desk once more, exhausted from the day's work. Slowly but surely, Kaimu was gaining strength. Hinata had already went off to bed, after trying to convince him to do so as well. But no, he had to stay here. Had to think.

He was feeling powerful right now, like no one or nothing could stand in his way. This power, though he did not think so, made him arrogant. He was no fool, and he didn't believe that nobody could harm him. Nevertheless, he thought he could handle himself. Everything was going his way. He got rid of his prisoners, while simultaneously gaining a large clan of experienced ninja, and acceptable teachers for Kaimu's next generation of ninja.

Jiraiya had sealed away the chakra in the gates for the Core and Outer Core of the village, and all that was needed to do was pump some chakra into the seal for it to break, unleashing the village's full defenses. Needless to say, Naruto had five clones stationed by each seal. The Shell's defenses were always in full blast, always vigilant of an attack.

Naruto's mood was growing happier by the minute, until he looked at the cube... Which sat at his desk once more...

Like a bad omen.

Naruto clenched his eyes shut, and shook his head quickly. I'm tired, he thought, The cube being some malevolent sign of danger is just my imagination running wild. But still, he could not shake that feeling. The feeling that this cube, this black, purple shadowed cube lying on his desk, would be his undoing.

"I'll get that necklace, and I'll free you, too, Tsunade-san..." Naruto said, getting up from his desk. He grabbed the cube and slipped it into his pocket, heading off to his room. "There's gotta be someway to get you out."

As Naruto left the room, he left behind a notepad on his desk, which he had been writing on earlier.


Rules of the Multiverses and Multiple Dimensions (Theorized) For the Negative Chakra

1. Between dimensions and universes, you cannot affect the dimension or universe you are from, and they cannot affect you.

2. Though you must die in your own universe and dimension, it does not mean you are immortal between or in other dimensions/universes.

3. Though you must die in your own dimension and universe, it is possible to be affected by the universe or dimension that you are in, but did not originate from.

4. Matter sent to other dimensions and universes will not come back unless they are contained in the universe they are from. (Hence the cube.)

5. Because the antiverses and anti-dimensions are so closely packed together, it does not take much chakra to go to or send materials there.

6. Obtained by accepting your fate as being a nobody.

Rules of the Multiverses and Multiple Dimensions (A Theorized Hypothesis) For a Positive Chakra

1. It may be possible to bring things from other dimensions or universes.

2. It may be possible to make something from nothing by using a different universe or dimension.

3. May be possible to undo changes of the Negative Chakra

Other possibilities unknown, and the obtainment of this type of chakra is unknown

When he wrote this, he was desperately hoping the latter chakra type didn't exist, and at the same time that it did. The cube was starting to scare him, and he didn't know what Jiraiya may do if he learns Tsunade is trapped in some other universe forever.


A/N

Here's chapter eleven, hoped you liked it. I now have a Beta Reader, who worked diligently on making this chapter readable.

Big thanks to Djinn Crimsora.