Chapter 10

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Goten and Trunks frowned at his father as they materialized just outside the Namikaze household. Goku was oblivious to these frowns as his eyes were still closed, when he opened them he either didn't notice said frowns or ignored them. "Okay, Vegeta and I agreed the two of you need stop," Goku paused focusing, "what did Vegeta say, oh yeah. He said you need to stop going through your flings of the week. So we both felt Naruto's world would be ideal for you two to find girlfriends that you'll actually stay with longer than a week or two. So go and find a girlfriend," Goku stated before using his instant transmission and vanishing.

Trunks groaned looking at his long time best friend, "I knew this was going to happen, dad's been grumbling about it for almost a year."

Goten shrugged, "Well could be a lot worse but do you know why we were thrown into Naruto's world for this?"

"Well, dad explained to me before dragging me over to your place, that reason we haven't found any girls we like is that, our Saiyan blood wants strong women, even gave examples, my mom's brains, your mom being a fighter which I am not going to lie Goten makes your mom hhooottt! Then ya got Videl and the fact she's been training since she was Gohan's age, then 18 don't know why my future self, hates her but she's hot to," Trunks explained.

Goten being the more naïve of the two, "So really smart or really strong I got it," the youngest Son began using his passive scan of the surrounding area to determine if there were any girls that matched in the strength department. "Wow can you feel that, most of the girls in this village are leagues better than the girls we've met in school."

Trunks did his own passive scan and frowned slightly, "Yeah," he continued scanning and the more he scanned the more his interest was piqued. "Wow that is a lot," letting lose a sneer that would make his father proud glancing at his best friend. "Looks like we got some browsing to do, Goten."

The younger saiyan snickered, "True," he glanced at the capsule Trunks was given, "Isn't Minato in the village right now, maybe we can ask him where the nearest bank is so we can exchange those gold ingots your mom gave you into some spending money, then we can partake in browsing."

"Right, let's go," the two demi-saiyans took heading for the Hokage tower.

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Goten was currently flying over a large forest, unlike Trunks who settled on looking for the preferable needle in the haystack, Goku's youngest left the confines of the Hidden Leaf to explore the surrounding countryside. After all he decided to go out and find the strongest girl around his age, he had scanned the entire Hidden Leaf and found several girls in his range but most were well into their twenties and thirties, one did strike his fancy that was in her early twenties but she was a tad on the sadistic side, threats of feeding his junk to her snakes kind of put him off. And no other girls really drew his attention, Ino reminded him a little too much of his mother only without any of her good traits. Sakura and Hinata both were completely devoted to Naruto, so they were out. He sensed a potential candidate but had also sensed Trunks heading in that direction, so he balked focusing on higher power levels outside the village. He found one that was really high almost on par with Naruto's mom when he spotted her though he notice she was older than him by a lot regardless of the illusion she was showing, so her candidacy was flushed.

With a deep sigh the demi-saiyan hovered eyes closed stretching out his senses as high and as far as they could go. What he found was both awesome and concerning at the same time, two other power levels overlapped the more feminine one he felt, hers was the highest he felt outside of Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata, who had told him and Trunks could only mean one thing. "Jinchuuriki," he whispered aloud. Not wasting another second ignited his aura and flew at high speed toward those three power levels.

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Fu the Jinchuuriki of the Seven Tailed Stag Beetle, Chomei was currently battling two men in black cloaks with red clouds printed on them, and she was losing. Gasping heavily trying to stem the bleeding from holes the loud mouth of the two had given her. She couldn't understand it, at first how it was possible until she saw the pentagram underneath the man. She grimaced at the metallic taste in her mouth. Great, internal injuries, she dropped to her knees could almost feel her two assailants stocking toward her, she knew almost instantly the moment they got to her she would be knocked out and not wake up again. Trying to fight off going unconscious looking up her eyes widen at what was approaching her attackers from behind.

Hidan smirked looking down at the Jinchuuriki slinging his scythe casually on his shoulder. "About fucking time," he snorted then suddenly he felt an ungodly amount of pain before getting launched into the air. Kakuzu turned in time to see a boy no older than the jinchuuriki bringing his hand up and saw what looked like a jutsu however before he could register enough speed to perform a replacement jutsu his world lit up and he vanished from this mortal world.

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Goten quickly used his senses to determine that the one he booted into the next forest finding him surprisingly alive but currently incapacitated. He quickly ran over to the girl, "Are you alright?"

"H…How did…you…fly?" the girl asked him looking at him warily. "S…Stay…back."

"Easy, I'm not going to hurt you," Goten stated dropping to one knew pulling out a hoi-poi capsule pushing the plunger and tossing it to the ground in front of him, a second later there was an explosion of smoke revealing a first aid kit. "What's your name?"

"F…Fu," the girl said fighting to stay conscious. "P…Please…stay…away."

"Hey, if I don't help you to a point your Biju can finish healing you could still die," the demi-saiyan said gently the girl giving him a disbelieving look. "Heh, a friend of mine was a Jinchuuriki to the nine tails. Might know him, his name's Naruto Unzumaki."

"Y…You…know…Naruto-Kun?" Fu gasped watching as the dark haired gently cleaning and dressing her two major wounds.

Raising an eyebrow at the girl, "Yeah, now let's get you someplace safer that guy I booted is still pretty much alive," he gently picked her up lifting off came to a stop some 12 miles above the area, Fu looked around in awe . "Oh, I can fly because of my Ki, not completely sure how it works but I've been doing this since I was seven. Name's Goten Son by the way," he smiled faintly the pinked eyes jinchuuriki looked up at him. "Sounded like you um…, liked Naruto or something."

Fu nodded weakly, "He's shares my burden he's like a brother, met him after he finished a mission in the Hidden Waterfall village, Chomei told me he felt the foxes chakra."

"Well as far as I know it's only chakra, the fox was killed the day Naruto was born from inside his seal, by my godmother's husband," Goten explained looking around the area using his ki to help Fu accelerate her own healing. "Judging by the time frame neither; you or Naruto knew about that yet."

Fu smiled faintly, "Do you do this often, come in and literally sweep a girl off her feet?"

Goten chuckled wanting to scratch the back of his head. "Actually this is my first time, so um did I do it right?"

Fu looked down slowly feeling like she was getting stronger, "I don't know this a first for me too, but one part likes it and the other doesn't."

"Yeah I can see why, your way strong this might make you feel not so strong," Goten smiled. "Plus your way pretty."

Fu blushed, "So where are we going?"

"Um, where do you want to go, I can take you home?" the demi-saiyan asked.

Feeling a pit of lead suddenly start to well up in her stomach at the thought of going back to her lonely cabin outside the Hidden Waterfall cabin. "No, please don't take me back there it's too lonely I…I, um, take me to my brother please," her eyes shining tears at the corner of her eyes.

"Sure, Fu, won't your village miss you though?" Goten asked seeing the girl's eyes cloud with both anger and sadness.

"No, they won't they barely acknowledge me," Fu whispered.

The demi-saiyan frowned softly gently running his hand up and down her back in comfort. "Okay, let's go I'm sure Naruto's parents will be happy to see you, his mom was the previous nine-tails jinchuuriki so she'll be happy to meet you. Plus I can get to see more of you," Fu turned her head to look up at him giving him a quizzical expression causing him to blush.

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Goku, Vegeta, and Mikoto stood across from Naruto, Hinata, and Sakura two of their expressions were grim while the third was unreadable. "Now what we're about to do will no doubt be the hardest and most emotionally painful part of your Saiyan training. You've mastered 200 times gravity surprisingly faster than Vegeta had," Goku smiled faintly at the last part, this even had Vegeta smirking a bit in pride. "Naruto you've pretty much gotten everything I've taught you down, the Kamehame-ha, Spirit Bomb, Instant Transmission, even my modified version of the Instant Transmission Kamehame-ha."

"Which leads me to believe those saps in your academy are even bigger idiots than I first thought," Vegeta growled.

"Yeah," Sakura spoke up, "I mean Naruto-kun you only needed to be shown those moves what three or four times before you got them."

"It was amazing," Hinata simply responded.

Naruto blushed at all the praise rubbing the back of his head, not use to so much. "If anyone wonders your Minato and Kushina's son this past month proves it. More proof that you learning the Shadow Clone Jutsu in three hours was not a fluke like many of the Jonin believe," Mikoto responded a faint smile on her face then glancing at her two adult companions. "Are you sure this needs to be done?"

"These three wish to explore our world after the finals, to better protect themselves from whatever unforeseen circumstance," Vegeta explained. "As Kakarot explained this will be emotionally trying however the benefit will far outweigh the downside."

"So what are we doing?" Naruto asked.

"Simple, were going to get the three of you to ascend to Super-Saiyan," Goku explained.

"Um, what does that mean exactly," Hinata asked.

"Pain of Loss, Mikoto will be using her advanced genjutsu to put you under something that hopefully transform you," the saiyan prince explained.

Mikoto looked down her eyes pained, "I'm sorry in advance about what you'll each see; the Tsukuyomi will pull from your worse fears of loss."

The three teens looked at each other quietly for a second before Naruto turned to his godmother, "Let's do this one at a time, I-I'll go first."

"No, Naruto-kun let me go first," Sakura stated gently.

Naruto glanced at her looking at her in worry, "You sure?"

"Yeah, all three of us have had painful pasts, Hinata because of her clan, you because everyone thought you were the Nine-tails, and me with the bullying and Sasuke's cruelty but I think I'll take longer," Sakura stated.

"Actually Sakura I think you'll go the fastest," Mikoto stated causing the three teens to turn to her. "This isn't about your painful past though it will make things easier for you to visualize, no this is about Pain of Loss, what you fear the most about losing. And you only have to things you fear losing above all else, your mother, Hinata, and Naruto."

Sakura suddenly started shivering, the trio mention have been her pillars without them she knew that her life would have no meaning. "I-I see," taking a deep breath. "I'm ready."

The Uchiha Matriarch smiled softly, "I admire your courage Sakura," her eyes morphed first into her Sharingan spinning wildly before morphing again into her unique Masengkyo-Sharingan, which looked demon wind shiriken which began spinning, "Tsukuyomi!"

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Sakura found herself frozen in place watching first as the preliminary match between Hinata and Neji , only this version was going terribly wrong. The red-head watched her sister wife bleeding profusely from the mouth and gasping out in pain, using her ki sensing abilities felt Hinata's ki rapidly dropping. "It is your fate to die, Lady Hinata for being weak and useless." Neji charged forward dipping under Hinata's weakened strike slamming into her heart. Sakura could almost feel Hinata's heart explode. She watched helplessly as her future sister wife dropped bonelessly to the ground, sadness and rage building.

"HINATA!" Sakura screamed tears falling.

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The scene changed to that of hidden leaf, she spotted her mother speaking jovially with Ino but Sakura could sense something hovering above the Village looking up she spotted, a strange grey and purple being arms crossed smirking cruelly at the village below. "Frieza," Sakura whispered her heart in her throat. Looking quickly to the village, "EVERYONE RUN!" no one heard her as Frieza powered up his death ball. Sakura had just a second to watch her mother and Ino laugh before the entire village erupted into a massive fireball. "MMMOOOMMM, IIINNNNOOO!" rage and despair rose Sakura clenching and unclenching her hands tears streaming down her cheeks.

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Outside the genjutsu Naruto, Hinata, Goku, Mikoto, and Vegeta all watched as Sakura was bathed in a purplish light that periodically giving off a golden aura, her hair going from her bright red hair to golden blonde, and her normally jade eyes turning teal. "Almost there," Vegeta whispered.

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Sakura tried to wipe her eyes as the burning crater that had been her village dissolved and transformed into a large lake and waterfall bookended by two large statues of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha. Standing on the head of Madara Uchiha was Sasuke and a top Hashirama was Naruto only he was not dressed as he was now but in his old kill me orange jumpsuit and he had blonde hair. Confused then the fierce battle began, Naruto leapt to the Madara throwing punch at Sasuke who dodged it, punches, dodges, kicks, blocks, kunai thrown. Sakura smiled faintly as Naruto slammed Sasuke through the surface of the lake. Landing a few yards away summoning several Shadow Clones, Sasuke broke the surface glaring coldly at Naruto. Words were spoken but to the red-head couldn't make them out. Sending all his clones at once trying to overwhelm the Uchiha but the sharingan kept said Uchiha from taking any major damage as the last clone was dispersed, quickly going through a series of handsigns, and a series of chirps were heard. That's Kakashi-sensei's Chidori, Naruto countered by summoning a Shadow Clone and quickly activated his Rasengan, the two charged at each other as soon as the two jutsu collided a bright flash followed by the two combatants flying in opposite directions, both back flipping and landing on their feet. Both growling deeply at the other Sasuke face started getting marred black markings that seem to glow menacingly, as they cascade over his body quickly blending together to give his skin a grey texture and giving him wings. Sakura shifted her gaze to Naruto who was being coated in a red malicious chakra, eyes turning into red slits, his whisker marks becoming more defined and his teeth elongating. Sasuke re-summoned his Chidori only this version looking far more evil while Naruto seemed to create a Rasengan using the chakra cloak turning it from blue to purple. The two charged at each other again the stronger attacks colliding again, only this time the backlash was ten times worse; Sasuke however was able to come out on top driving his Chidori covered fist deep into Naruto's heart. Sakura watch helplessly as both were flung back again, Sasuke rendered unconscious while Naruto slumped to surface of the water a massive hole in his chest.

Naruto weakly turned over glancing at Sasuke and smirked, "I promised Sakura-chan I'd bring you back teme," he chuckled weakly his eyes beginning to dull. "Better be good to her, she deserves it, wish it would have been me," he whispered tears up. "Better love her like I do."

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Sakura heart beat seemed to freeze, "No Naruto, I-I'm yours not his," not realizing it she ran over to him grabbing him. "You baka, I never asked you to do this!"

"S…Sorry Sakura-chan," the blonde whispered.

"Nonononono," Sakura's eyes welled up with tears. "Please stay with me, you're supposed to marry me and Hinata, become Hokage, y…you c…can't do that…if, if you're dead."

"L..Lov…" Sakura heard more than Naruto pass her eyes closed as overwhelming heart wrenching pain enveloped her.

"NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NNNNNNNNAAAAAAARRRRUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOO!" the rage at her helplessness along the sadness of it all was too much causing the damn to break. A huge explosion in her core spread out word.

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The illusion vanished mostly because Mikoto had to be held up right by Vegeta and Goku as Sakura's Super Saiyan transformation took place, her golden aura exploded across the entire training ground and upward, her head reared back in agony, her once red hair and jade green eyes became blonde and teal. The initial explosion ended Sakura slumped her head forward burying her face in her hands, sobbing.

She felt two sets of arms embrace her, "It's over Sakura-chan," her heart exploded in something else overwhelming relief. "Hinata and I are here, were safe," Naruto whispered pulling her head into his shoulder.

"Naruto-kun," Sakura whimpered sobbing into his shoulder.

"I think it would be a good idea, to give them a break," Mikoto whispered to the two Saiyans. "I don't know what was in that illusion but it was devastating to Sakura."

"Tch, fine we have until the end of the week anyway," Vegeta stated.

"Naruto, take Sakura home," Mikoto stated softly.

"Yeah," Naruto smiled a strained smile picking up his sobbing fiancée bridal style and launched into the air.

"N-Naruto-kun, maybe we can bring her mom and Ino over," Hinata stated.

Sakura smiled faintly, "That sounds really good," she sniffled.

Author's Note: Whelp it's been long overdue but I hope ya'll appreciate it.