Sorry for taking so long, but I went on vacation during February and didn't write anything so I started this on Monday and I feel it's ready now, it's the final chapter and I hope you like it.
I suggest you re-read the previous chapter in hope this one makes more sense
Chapter 13
The next day came and for the Kumo ninjas that returned from the mist it wasn't a good one but they didn't know it was about to get worse because when they first arrived into their home village they saw a Uchiha fan symbol instead of the emblem of the lightning country
The ninjas gathered at some distance from the main gate to their village to elaborate a plan because it seems the place had been invaded by some kind of Uchiha force but with the clan massacred it was hard to figure the real name behind all of that so some of the survivor jounins took charge of the situation and formed three groups with the first two charging at the main gates and the third one going quickly to the inside of the village to find the responsible for this who probably would be in A's office
The problem was when they saw a lot of ninjas camping outside of the village most of them didn't wear any headband but some of the Jounin recognized an Iwa ninja so then they started talking with them to find something even more disturbing they were around two thousand and were practically all the remaining shinobi from the once proud village of Iwagakure because Uchiha Madara just came with four ninjas from Akatsuki and demanded a meeting with the Tsuchikage, obviously they didn't follow his orders and the ANBU tried to subdue him but he quickly killed them, then came more ninjas and he killed anyone who faced him so when the Tsuchikage Kitsuchi came to the man he just told him "Surrender your troops to me and you'll be able to live…fail to do this and you die right here"
Obviously he felt insulted and fought the man but he neutralized all his techniques and then grabbed his head with a hand and killed him in the middle of the village, most of the ninjas tried to avenge him but with the help of the Akatsuki ninjas they massacred most of the Iwa troops until there were about two thousand that were out of the village at the moment or very far away to get in the fight and we were forced to obey or die
The Kumo ninjas thought they would be receiving the same offer because they could see a man in Akatsuki robes getting close to them "Hello, my name is Madara Uchiha and I would like to make a proposal to all of you" said the legendary ninja making all of them watching him in awe because most of them knew this man from books and legend but to see him alive was quite shocking
By the end of that day Madara had gotten himself a large army but with all the fights he didn't have so many ninjas meaning Konoha had still greater numbers because he gathered around five or six thousand men against the ten or twelve thousand ninjas Konoha had on its ranks
And the worst of all was the Hokage himself, Madara had learned a lot about Naruto because the young Uzumaki was very famous across the world, his elemental mastery, his keen mind and on top of all his unstoppable power. But at least he respected the man because he also a firm believer than the army commander should fight in the front lines and not hide behind his troops so despite the numbers the fight between them would decide the fate of the world; the Akatsuki ninja he had on his side were a valuable help but even if they were very powerful Naruto and himself were on a different level with Obito and Nagato paying the ultimate price for not seeing this
The legendary Uchiha saw a pair of Sharingan eyes on the jinchuuriki but he also used the wood style meaning he had the same powers as him, the peak of the Senju's and Uchiha's bloodlines
His only chance was to beat him in hand to hand combat with the Mangekyou Sharingan because he was young and if his sources were true the Uchiha clan was reduced to two members so there shouldn't be so much information about the Sharingan's deepest secrets
And with that in mind the powerful and intrepid Madara spent his time making strategies to outmaneuver the Kyubi's jinchuuriki and take control over the whole world
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What Madara didn't even suspect was a little piece of information because while he killed any Iwagakure ninja he saw, some of them were trying to figure some plan to get away with their lives but one of them was smart enough to see past the hatred and grudges and used a little summon lizard to deliver a letter to the Hokage
To Naruto Uzumaki, Hokage of Konohagakure no Sato
I'm a no name ninja from Iwagakure but this is a very important piece of information, Madara Uchiha took over our village killing at least eight tenths of its ninja and his next destiny is the cloud village so prepare to face a mixed army lead by the remaining Akatsuki ninjas and Madara himself
I hope you prevail
When Naruto saw this he called immediately to his closest counselors meaning Jiraiya, Tsunade, Itachi and Hinata
After those ninja read the letter all the looks were focused on the blond because he had to decide what to do and with a cocky grin he said "The five of us will be going for Kumo right now" stated Naruto asking Itachi to call Sai to move by air
"What about the village?" asked Jiraiya a little worried for Konoha's safety
"Shikaku can be in charge for a while and most of the dangerous ninja in the world will be on the battle field" answered Naruto calling an ANBU to tell the Jounin commander about this development
All of them realized the threat was serious so that was the only possible option, despite endangering Konoha with the absence of their most powerful ninja Madara and the rest of the Akatsuki were in the most wanted list so the only option was to go and catch them
When Sai arrived he was a little surprised to see all the high ninjas in Konoha gathered in one place, when they told him they needed to arrive to the cloud village as soon as possible he quickly did as told and created three big ink-birds letting them ride them in pairs. During the night travel they were doing different stuff, Naruto was meditating to gather natural energy and talk to the Kyubi 'Kurama, any thoughts on the fight with Madara?' asked the blond Hokage to his nine-tailed friend "Well for starters it's an advantage you don't use my power otherwise he might gain control you through me" started assessing the facts that surrounded the fight "It seems Madara has the rinnegan so you'll have to be extra careful but his powers shouldn't be something new after fighting Nagato" added remembering the previous fight with the rinnegan wielder "I'll help you with the best of my ability but the key to defeat that man resides within yourself" said the giant fox bumping his fist with Naruto's mental representation
'I've overcome any challenge there had been on my way…there is nothing more powerful than a man driven by his precious people and the will no never give up' stated Naruto with a very bright smile
Itachi was behind Naruto for his strategic role, he would always watch his back because he was his most valued friend and his Hokage so he would protect him even at the cost of his life, meanwhile Hinata was flying with Sai because she was a long range specialist and Sai was the only left flying on an ink-bird after the rest joined the battle with both remaining sanin on the last bird, Jiraiya was channeling all the nature energy he could gather and with Naruto so near it was easier, he was like a beacon for natural energy and he could grab some of it, he didn't care other would see his sage mode, usually special techniques were used in secret as a last resort to avoid enemies creating counter moves to them but after today there would be no more enemies in the world, they would have won and that wasn't the best of all
With no enemies finally there would be peace
When they were nearing Kumo Naruto and the other five ninjas from Konoha could see Madara and a little army behind him, all of them looked ready for battle so probably they would have been expecting them or at least somebody had detected them, it didn't matter surprise factor or not, the most important battle was between Naruto and Madara, the others would just make sure nobody interfered with them making any of them to lose the fight at the hands of an outsider
"Ninjas from Iwa or Kumo, if you leave in this moment you'll be spared, Madara can´t focus on you right now!" stated Naruto shouting while he jumped from the Ink bird with his most trusted allies behind him, Madara was on the other side with the four remaining Akatsuki members Sasori, Deidara, Kakuzu and Hidan so all the ninjas from Konoha had an enemy to fight
Naruto just stood there looking carefully at Madara while the Uchiha smirked and the four ninjas with him attacked their leaf's counterparts, Hidan went for Hinata, Kakuzu with Jiraiya, Sasori attacked Tsunade and Deidara aimed for Itachi with a great desire for revenge, all of them were separated and begun their own fights
"You seem to have confidence in your chances against me" said Madara with an annoying smirk on his face "Well, you were dead a long time but I'm quite powerful so that shouldn't be a surprise, you are not the most powerful from your era…but if you think about the first you never were" answered Naruto making the man angry
The Uchiha charged at Naruto at high speeds but the blond just turned on his Sharingan and blocked his punch, both of them started to exchange blows with the Sharingan active and Madara was quite surprised because the Hokage showed experience fighting against the Sharingan because he was able to anticipate to the Sharingan's anticipations, every time the opponent threw a hit, his Sharingan would tell him how to dodge it but the most powerful Uchihas were able to anticipate that answer and forcing him to do something else, this brat was clearly on his same level of mastery over the Sharingan
Madara quickly got frustrated so tried to use his gunbai (the fan) to attack Naruto, he was aware any fire he did would be controlled and redirected by the blond but it was still a powerful weapon so the jinchuuriki used a set of tonfas that seemed to be hidden on his clothes to block his attacks, the Hokage tried to add some lightning chakra but the preta path from the rinnegan was able to protect him from that. The Uchiha was getting annoyed from that fight because none of them was able to get the upper hand, he was a little stronger but the blond was faster and with both of them using the Sharingan that would take them nowhere but in a little moment of thinking he realized something…he was getting cold
Naruto was trying to lower the temperature in the fighting place a few degrees, he was doing it while they fought and incredibly it didn't affect his focus, when Madara realized this fact he was already seeing his breath due to the cold temperature "What are you trying to do?" asked Madara who didn't understand the reason behind this, maybe the blond didn't want to worry from his fire release techniques or he had some plan with his allies "Hidden Mist technique" muttered Naruto trying to cover his initial move, if the Uchiha found the reason behind that cold so soon it would have no effect so he just used a very cold mist to take away his sight but Madara was an experienced ninja who fought practically all his life so he knew how to move inside the mist and what senses to follow while Naruto on the other hand had to ask the Kyubi to direct him or use the sage mode but it was too soon for that
Both Sharingan wielders were fighting again trying to get the upper hand but none of them had any success, physically they were matched due to their respective speed and strength, so it was Madara the first one to get out of patience and cast the full form of Susanoo dissipating the mist "Are you done warming up?" asked the blond with a grin on his face before using exactly the same technique but the Uchiha patriarch would find a difference between both spirits, Naruto's had the Yata's mirror and the Totsuka's sword 'that is dangerous…just one hit and I'm done' thought Madara watching the weapons of his opponent spirit
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Deidara was using his first level of explosives on Itachi, some insects and little birds were exploding but the Uchiha was able to see the chakra so he easily dodged all the attacks infuriating his blond foe, the Root leader was just assessing his opponent because he had limited himself to dodge and block his attacks with the help of his red eyes
Suddenly Itachi charged towards his opponent who was surprised when another Itachi came from behind and stabbed him in the heart but then Deidara got paler and Itachi had to ran leaving his clone behind to protect himself from the explosive clay clone that turned the Sharingan wielder in a crew of crows
The original bomber came out flying on a white dragon that started throwing fast bombs at the Uchiha who was more a physical fighter so he was forced to activate his Mangekyou Sharingan to keep the level of the fight, the root leader started using the Amaterasu to destroy the bombs before they got near him and to threaten Deidara who was forced to use decoys and shield himself with his clay to avoid the black flames that were quickly around him, the blonde missing ninja had trained himself to be able of using large scale explosions and to break genjutsus but he didn't expect that move
The mad bomber was in a tight spot because his dragon was burning so thinking quickly Deidara flew towards Itachi because the fire would probably be hurt with the fire so he just took a direct approach, forcing Itachi to stop his technique and dodge the giant chakra construct, being released from the pressure for a second he started attacking again and used a large clay-made bird to fly in circles around the Uchiha throwing level one explosives to him
Itachi dissipated in some crows that flew towards Deidara, the Akatsuki ignored them to find the Uchiha's position but he was surprised when he felt his chakra flare and then his clothes exploded revealing the exploding tags the crows put there. After that move he saw under Deidara's robe to see another mouth, bigger than the ones on his hands 'this could be dangerous' thought the Uchiha
When Itachi charged towards Deidara, the blond begun to scream like a crazy person and took a big piece of clay and put it on his chest's mouth "Enjoy your last moments loser!" shouted the missing ninja before his whole body inflated before exploding but this time there wasn't any explosion because that move released a molecular level attack
But when he was returning to his original size, he saw a pair or red giant orbs on the sky and realized he was tied to a tree, without any of his arms and without his clay to make more explosions "What did you do to me bastard!" shouted the blond who didn't know what was happening "I took your arms and your clay…and used a barbaric seal my predecessor placed on his men" explained Itachi with a calm voice
Deidara cursed because after his first exchange with Itachi he trained his eyes, especially the right one to be able of breaking and dispelling the illusions the Uchiha clan used in case he could put the murdered of his clan in place but it was useless in the end, what Deidara didn't know was Itachi's Sharingan had evolved because now he has Shisui's Sharingan and it gave him an additional power to his genjutsus and the ability to cast the incredible Kotoamatsukami with each eye once a year
Without any other options Deidara had only one move available and that was a suicidal attack so he laughed loudly and took one of his teeth with his tongue revealing a last piece of clay "Sucker! Art is an e-" and in that moment he was completely paralyzed and unable to move or mold any chakra while black lines filled his skin 'too predictable' thought Itachi looking at the effect of Danzou's cursed seal that was triggered by the intention of saying the word explosion
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Hinata was fighting against Hidan and while the Hyuga was one of the youngest ninjas from the group besides Sai who just carried them, she was also the weakest one but it wasn't an insult or something like that because all the rest of the team was filled by S-rank ninjas so it was just her place but what she didn't know was about Hidan and his poor physical skills in comparison with the other members of Akatsuki
Fortunately Hinata was a good taijutsu expert and her Byakugan let her see all Hidan's movements and dodge them without any wound so the Jashinist was getting frustrated, Hidan was just swinging the scythe around like a madman, the only problem to Hinata was Hidan's toughness because despite the devastating Juuken strikes she had landed, his opponent was still standing as if he didn't felt them
"Is that all you can do?" asked Hidan trying to irritate Hinata "just some light taps on the belly and you expect me to be defeated for that?" asked again with a darker voice, the Hyuga girl knew he was provoking her but she was trying to find a way to defeat him because most of his style relied on the Juuken…al but what Naruto taught him
She gathered her resolve and attacked Hidan with a pair of water whips, she moved with more speed and grace than Hidan who just looked for a way to wound her and make her bleed but Hinata was able to figure the danger of that weapon and took it out of the way grabbing it with the whip while the other hold Hidan by the neck, she even tried to choke him but after doing it for ten minutes she realized his rants about being immortal were probably true
Hidan suddenly surprised Hinata when the girl released the hold of the water whip so he quickly grabbed a short retractile spear from his robe and stabbed Hinata in her leg, making her scream from the pain and getting some bleed but she reacted kicking the weapon with the other leg ruining Hidan's plans "You're a troublesome bitch…I'll enjoy seeing you die" stated Hidan charging at Hinata. The girl was surprised because at first she used some defensive forms of the Juuken but they were ineffective against the immortal Akatsuki who almost took a bite of her arm
The Hyuga was getting worried about the weird moves his opponent was doing so she decided to stop him, if she couldn't kill him she would tie or disable him from the fight so after dodging a punch to her face she used the water prison technique to trap him and then took a special kunai with a seal on it "You deserve something special after this sensei" mumbled to herself before stabbing the kunai on the water and this got completely frozen
She looked at Naruto and saw him and Madara using the full form of Susanoo 'Be careful' prayed in silence watching the battle between two of the most powerful ninja in the whole history
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Jiraiya had Ma and Pa on his shoulders so when Kakuzu tried to use his elemental ninjutsu he was completely obliterated by the sage techniques losing a hearth and revealing his technique, Ma had felt five different chakras coming from him so after watching how he –released- some kind of masked creatures the three of them figured out his technique
The famous bounty hunter was angry because he had seen Hashirama's sage mode but he didn't think there would be more people with the same ability so when he realized Jiraiya's face showed that marks he realized the dangerous of his situation, the lost heart had been the fire mask so he had to find a way to win this fight without access to that element
The toad sage used the swamp of the underworld and with the natural energy it was a very dangerous trap but he was able to step on one of the black creatures and used his earth affinity to get away, but the assault didn't end there because Pa shot a jet of water towards him hitting him on the head while Ma trapped one of the black creatures with her tongue, Kakuzu launched a collaboration attack with the water and lightning elements to release the wind creature but Jiraiya raised an earth wall and Fukasaku used a wind jutsu forcing him to evade and dispel the joint technique
When Jiraiya looked around Kakuzu was nowhere in sight but Ma had already destroyed the creature she had caught with her tongue, the other toad focused on his surroundings to find the enemy and spotted him within Jiraiya's swamp using an earth technique "Jiraiya-chan burn him!" shouted the ancient toad throwing some oil to the mud to ignite the flames and destroy the Akatsuki once for all, so when they had finished their job Pa told them to watch Naruto's fight because it was something out of this world…probably this was in a level even higher than Madara and Hashirama's fight at the valley of the end because this Madara had a chakra's supply equivalent to many tailed beasts while Naruto kind of had the powers of Hashirama, Tobirama and even Sarutobi with all the techniques he knew
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On the other fight between a sanin and a member of the Akatsuki, Tsunade was fighting Sasori who had never engaged Tsunade in combat but she knew a lot about her from her grandma's stories about the previous wars so he knew what to expect when the legendary medic shattered the first two puppets he summoned into hundreds of tiny pieces of wood
Sasori then realized Hiruko wasn't going to be a good way to protect himself because with Tsunade's strength would probably destroy Hiruko and his current body so he had to leave and expose himself "So this is your true form…you really got obsessed with puppets" said the blond woman with a scowl "It's not the puppets that I treasure so much…it's their everlasting life" replied the master puppeteer before attacking Tsunade with the iron sand but he wasn't going to let the blonde rest there because if there was something he had developed nicely was the ability to multitask so he attacked with the iron sand while he had the puppet of the third Kazekage three meters behind his body and shot some fire from his hands directly to the place where he was cornering the legendary medic that gave so much problems to her grandma
On the other hand, said sanin was having a hard time because she didn't want to use all her tricks so soon but the attack with the sand was too wide so she had a hard time avoiding it while the flames were pretty fast so with Sasori making one move and keeping some resources for the next one, she was forced to fight two or three moves ahead and used her monstrous strength to shatter and lift the earth using it as a shield from Sasori's attacks
The master puppeteer was getting frustrated because he had been unable to reach her so he just started to put the body of the Kazekage ahead of his to make the sand faster because of the magnetic properties of his ability, the closer he was of the sand, the faster it moved. This change of tactic forced Tsunade to make some quick hand signs to summon a medium size slug "May I offer some assistance princess Tsunade?" asked the summon to the blonde who was not looking so princess-ish at the moment "I need for you to throw some acid at that black puppet and then do your trick with the controller" said the woman in a low voice to not let the red haired ninja hear her plan
Sasori was worried when a summon appeared but he tried to get some sand around the puppet of the third Kazekage and it paid off because suddenly the slug appeared behind the ground throwing some acid to the kage's corpse but fortunately he was able to react and make half of a sand dome to protect him and It was able to preserve his upper body what was enough to keep controlling the poisoned iron sand and to avoid another of that ambushes he shot the slug with the flamethrower to make her disappear in a poof of smoke but Tsunade was still in the fight and she almost kicked him while he was dealing with the summon, Sasori was able to move back at the last minute to avoid the titanic stomp the blonde gave to the ground
After that attempt from Tsunade, Sasori kept pushing her with the iron sand in conjunction with the flames with no success because the blonde was able to decipher his patterns so each attack was easier to avoid than the previous one and in the end that let her get closer to the Akatsuki, with each attack he threw Tsunade was getting a step closer, just bit from bit to not make him notice and suddenly after the sand attack he was going to attack her with the flames but both of his arms suddenly fallen to the ground and he faced Tsunade's fist coming directly so he used his last resource, the secret red technique and summoned one hundred of his puppets so Tsunade fist impacted the first three before he was able to jump back and release the other ninety and more puppets to the fight
The problem was his body was still falling piece by piece from an unknown cause because he didn't know that the summoned slug had the skill to turn herself into millions of microscopic pieces and invade somebody and destroy him with tiny amounts of acid that ended destroying his body weather it was human or not; this forced Sasori to –switch- bodies and leave his –original- body and he commanded all puppets to attack Tsunade who was smiling because he finally showed his final move and now he was allowed to be reckless, she activated the seal on her forehead and start punching puppets all around until there was no one standing, because no matter how many times she was stabbed, wounded or cut, she healed instantly and kept fighting her way through Sasori's toys until after some minutes there was not even one left "That was a good way to vent some stress...the only downside is I can't do this again with him dead…" said to herself the legendary medic stopping his special technique to rest and watch the main fight from the sidelines
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Naruto was fighting Madara, both were clashing the spirit swords of both Susanoo but the two of them knew that Naruto's Susanoo had a more dangerous sword because it only required one hit to end Madara once for all. The blond Hokage gave himself a moment to look around and smile when he realized his sensor skills due to the sage mode told him the truth, all his ninjas had won their fights and were in good shape "All your men lost Madara…it seems you're the only thing standing between me and world peace" stated the jinchuuriki to the Uchiha patriarch who was quite frustrated to reply immediately
The Uchiha wasn't feeling well because he was unable to end Naruto and he didn't have the strong body of a Senju or the healing properties of senjutsu to keep his body in shape because Susanoo put a serious strain on anyone's body so it wasn't supposed to be a jutsu for a sword fight, you just used it to kill your enemy fast or protect yourself from a dangerous technique
He tries to surround his spirit soldier with the black flames of the amaterasu but the blond just closed his fist and all of them died, making him wonder about the full extent of his mastery over the elements so he was getting out of options, to the point his mind went to the past…when he and Hashirama met on a river in the time of the clan wars, when they became friends and founded the village that Naruto ruled and protected…he remembered when his brother died and the first time the Uchihas turned their back on him…somehow he was feeling his life-spark getting slower with every passing minute, he felt himself coughing blood and so cold that a really heavy sleep was taking him over
Naruto saw Madara's Susanoo crack and then fall and just then he realized he had won, the cold air he was making around them was probably on thirty degrees below zero so without the ability to protect himself from elemental attacks or sage mode to strengthen his body, Madara's lung cells collapsed and that meant his heart couldn't pump oxygen to the rest of his body "Good bye Madara" said Naruto before stabbing him with the Totsuka swords in his last moments to let him enjoy a happy illusion instead of a painful death by oxygen deprivation
When he dissipated the technique, all the rest of ninjas around there knew he had won, the first to come at his side were the ones he brought from Konoha who hugged him and congratulated him on finishing the only dangerous criminal remaining in the world, Hinata was the only who realized there was something wrong with him because he was unresponsive and then he fainted
Tsunade was the medic ninja so she examined him without finding anything wrong with the blond so she stated it was the stress of the combat against Madara and the planning before that, but Hinata was able to see his chakra network and knew there was something wrong…or maybe not wrong but different…although she decided to not tell anyone before discussing it with the blond
In the lightning country all the people was celebrating Madara's death and the end of the Akatsuki, the criminal ninja association had taken thousands of lives in the world, leaving places like the wind, earth and lightning country with less than a thousand of ninjas each one in contrast with the previous ten or twenty thousand soldiers they had, but despite all the great losses the enemy was dead and everybody was in the mood to party so the celebrations were worldwide spread when the news about Madara's death were known in the entire world
Sai took all of the Konoha's ninjas back to the leaf while Tsunade and Hinata took care of Naruto, the white haired pervert informed the village about the news while Itachi had the ROOT ANBU keep the order and try to get some intel of the rest of hidden villages for Naruto when he woke up
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"What's happening?" asked Naruto who had fainted to appear before the Kyubi in the mindscape
"You defeated Madara, who had the power of my eight brothers within him…by killing him you released all of them into nature so now it's taking me" explained the nine tailed fox to his long time jailor
"Am I going to die then?" asked the blond with some doubt on his voice because despite the fact he had been ready to die saving the world, he didn't want to die after being able to stop Madara and the Akatsuki who tormented his life so much "No kid…actually you will not die…ever" told him Kurama making him get confused "eh…could you…you know, elaborate on that?" asked Naruto who had felt some changes within his body and powers but he didn't understood any of it
"Kid…you were always in sync with nature…but with your lineage, after facing incredible odds willing to die to protect others, you awakened the rinnegan which on itself is able to give you an affinity towards all the elements…even light and shadow or life so that made a change within you…I don't know how but you have been chosen as the keeper of nature and balance so when I leave your body I'll meet my brothers in the other life to never return because you'll fulfill that place, you are nature's herald so you'll have eternal life and end your days as a ninja, when that happens you'll have even more power from nature but you'll not be able to use ninja abilities like most of them…you were able to make peace in this world, now you have to maintain it…not just between the ninja villages but between humans and nature itself" explained very clearly the powerful being
Naruto thought for some minutes about it, he realized what would be his new role in the whole world and he was ready to embrace it but there was something he felt he would miss, an eternal life probably meant an eternal time of solitude but the Kyubi was able to feel his emotions as usual and spoke "You were able to die if that meant protecting the world from Madara and that willingness to sacrifice is not something light…you'll not be alone…your mate will take care of your future" explained Kurama making Naruto wonder what he meant because he didn't said Hinata was going to share his lifespan so probably Hinata wasn't going to be there for him
"Thanks for everything Kurama…I wouldn't have achieved any of this without your help…" said the blond with a sad smile on his face when he felt himself getting out of the mindscape
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Four days later Naruto woke up like a new person, he realized he had the rinnegan but he couldn't use normal ninjutsu, instead he had even more power with the elements and felt like he had the sage mode activated the whole time, he could feel and gather the natural energy even in movement or while sleeping, what gave him an incredible power boost
He didn't have all the powers Nagato displayed with the rinnegan but his bond with nature let him summon animals, and feel life to the point he was confident on his ability to manipulate it (give it or take it), he remembered Kurama's words because when he woke up the fox had departed but he didn't tell that to anybody
With the time passed when he was resting he got some letters from the other feudal lords from the countries which villages had been attacked by Madara or the Akatsuki, in the end all said the same, with so little ninjas they couldn't afford a whole ninja village with all the cost it involved so they asked him to make them some kind of castle or temple like he did on Suna's desert and that gave Naruto a very good idea to fulfill his new role in the world
His first destiny was Sunagakure, he went to them to explain some things and make them a new house, he destroyed the structure he did with some help previously and then he concentrated on the desert for twenty minutes, before slamming his hands on the ground and a very large bulding emerged from the ground, it was made from solid rock and was built with four cylindrical towers joined together with a lower cylindrical structure, all of this over a sand dune
This new place would be called the wind temple, and to protect them he went into the deepest place in the desert to use a large amount of natural energy to make a seal large enough to surround the whole temple but after glowing three times it vanished "This temple will be protected by the very same desert every time some person with chakra comes here with evil intentions" explained the blond to the head of the temple appointed by the feudal lord
Two weeks later he was in the earth country, he was sad seeing all the empty places Madara had left after killing so many of their ninjas so he knew what he had to do, he spoke with some of the people there and made a large mountain with a castle on top of it, it had a large square base with a circular cupule on top of it, it was large enough to host twenty thousand people despite the fact that there was just two thousands of them counting the civilians plus the ninjas
Then he built a very large set of stairs to access the new earth temple before getting himself in the inside of the mountain and cast its defense, to anyone who would come there with ill reasons, the mountain would throw large rocks at him until he was dead or he left
The remaining people thanked him for his help before he looked at his new construction before leaving for the next place
After ten days of travel he arrived into the lightning country to see a similar situation than earth country so he prayed in silence for all the people dead and thanked them for giving their lives in the process to make peace, he was asked to make another temple so he did something similar to the earth country because he made a very big mountain emerge from the ground and then he built a very, very tall spiral temple, it had a sharp point which could attract some lightning bolts to protect its people and just like in earth country he got inside the mountain to cast a seal that would protect the temple
He told the remaining ninjas there the lightning temple would protect itself from any person who wanted to harm the temple or its people with a lightning storm before leaving towards water country
The water country had a functional village because despite their losses, Kirigakure still had kind of five or six thousands ninjas but the blond talked with the daimiyo to do the same temple of nature and he ended agreeing to the building because he realized the protection it brought for the future so the blond was asked to make a temple for them
Naruto went to the village and got the respect from all their people for all the help he gave to Yagura and for protecting them when Kumogakure attacked them, so he just focused for a while and got into the sea to build their temple, he did a really long bridge from the country surface with ice looking rocks that connected the land with a weird gate because it looked like a temple gate, with many pillars and a cylindrical shape, it was very little to the ninjas from Kiri were kind of curious so the blond showed them the water temple that was below the sea, it had a spiral staircase which lead to an incredible large hall and it connected with three long corridors that lead to many rooms and halls, there were even some kind of bunkers that seemed made with ice with uses for training and safety, and the place for rooms looked like a hotel, it was able to host up to eighteen thousand people so they were very happy with their new home
After showing the temple to the people of the mist, he went on the water again to make a new seal with his chakra to activate the natural protection of the temple, so after installing it he explained to them if anyone with ill intentions would come close to the bridge, the sea would raise its level and the gates would seal themselves so that person would only see sea and besides that there would be a storm with titanic tornados
At the end he talked alone with Mei who was the appointed leader of the water temple to inform her about the secret access made with a hidden tunnel connected to a cave located ninety kilometers west; it was a secret gate so only the leader could know about it
With all the people in the previous hidden in the mist village now known as the water temple happy with their new home, he left for his final destiny
When he arrived at Konoha, the people was curious because they had heard the news about all the changes he had done in the whole world remodeling all the great ninja villages so after meeting with some people of his closed circle he explained them about his new duties "After all the fights I've turned into far greater than any ninja so in these moments I have a responsibility with the world and I can't be tied to a chair or office so I'll have to leave the position of Hokage and I think the best person for the place is the man who was willing to put the village before his name and future" said Naruto and all of them looked at Itachi because he had sacrificed everything in the past for the wellbeing of Konoha
The Uchiha didn't know what so say because he wasn't expecting that, Jiraiya and Tsunade agreed with Naruto's decision and Hinata also supported him so Itachi ended accepting the new job because it would give him a chance to fix things with Sasuke and protect the village at the same time
Later that day, Naruto gathered all the Jounin of the village to inform them about his future and his decision to leave Itachi as the Hokage, at first many of them were wary of the rogue Uchiha but then he explained everything that happened with the Uchiha massacre, and then he explained them Itachi had been his best friend for his whole life and he had even gave him his Sharingan eyes when he thought it could help him so at the end of his speech practically all the ninjas realized the extent of Itachi's devotion to the leaf, Jiraiya and Tsunade also explained all the help Itachi gave them to deal with the threat of the Akatsuki so at the end of the meeting Itachi had an almost unanimous support from the ninjas in the leaf village
The next day Itachi was appointed as the new Hokage with the approval of the fire daimiyo who agreed to Naruto's changes because he had done the same in all the five great ninja villages and it gave a good protection to Konoha so after his speech he asked everybody to move away from the village and the previous leader buried it to the ground leaving only the Hokage mount standing, then he raised a new mountain but not so tall as the others, it was only one thousand meters high while the earth and lightning temples were located over the four thousand meters, but this mountain was considerably wider and bigger, then he built thousands of houses, rooms and buildings with wood, he placed the fire symbol on the top of the mountain and the Hokage's faces below it, he even added Itachi's face to let the mountain show the six hokage's in Konoha's history. Finally Naruto sprouted three large trees (fifty meters wide at least) that surrounded the new fire temple with a spiral twist around the mountain and as the last detail he made a fire on top of the mountain over the fire symbol that would never extinguish because it was kept with natural energy
The ninjas were impressed because the mountain itself was able to host like thirty thousand people and the trees were very close to the main structure so with suspension bridges they could build things on them and used them
After showing it to the people and ninjas from the leaf he installed the natural defenses for the place, it had two different mechanisms because he had placed some fox totems made with wood around the country and the village so when someone dangerous approached they would throw fire (natural energy) with special properties and if that threat got close enough the three large trees would raise its roots to stab or drain the people energy
The people from the leaf thanked and cheered Naruto, wishing him luck for the future, so then Hinata joined him…she had really missed him with all the time he spent traveling around the world to build the other four temples and the last person to say good bye to them was Itachi who had another request, the Uchiha asked to end his bloodline because as long as the Sharingan existed, some of his descendants might try to hurt the world to get more power so he agreed with his life-long friend and promised he would deal with that soon enough
At the end of that day Naruto left the new fire temple with Hinata, he left to become a nature sage with new duties to the world so they went to the center of the world because he needed to make some changes, the blond was able to locate it following the natural energy that was at its peak in that place so they walked happily together until they arrived to a weird place, it was a deserted place in the middle of earth country with a real oasis, full of flowers, trees and even a little lake; all of this hidden with some mountains and dunes
When they arrived to the place, Naruto explained to Hinata what he was going to do, the first step was to end the connection between humans and natural energy, with the rinnegan he was able to add a gate in the chakra cores of the whole world to avoid anyone to be able to channel natural energy, one of the only known sages was Jiraiya and he didn't need it anymore because he was old and now there was peace, the summons were still able to bond with humans and use the senjutsu themselves but humans could no longer learn the art. The second step was build totems in the five great countries, in the fire country he made even more of the fox headed totems, in the wind country he made raccoon headed totems, in the water country he made totems with turtles or slugs heads, in the lightning country the totems had ox and cat heads and finally in the earth country the totems had horse and monkey heads; these structures would protect the people from persons with bad intentions firing elemental attacks with the element that named the country, and all this attacks would be powered with senjutsu, making them very effective
The third and final step was to feel Itachi's and Sasuke's energies to finish their bloodlines, they would be the last wielders of the Sharingan, because their descendants would be known as the dragons from the leaf because he gave them something in compensation for the lost edge and that was the mastery over fire, they would be able to use a blue fire that would resist normal fire and would be quite potent against water, making them stronger than normal ninja but not invincible
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"And that ends the main part of the story about your father" explained a young and beautiful woman with short black hair, two white Byakugan eyes and a very nice body with a now closed book
"Is all of that real?" asked a little girl with long black hair and the same eyes who got a nod from her mother "And what happened to Hinata?" questioned the girl again
"Nature gave your father a way to be happy and avoid loneliness…Hinata lived very happy with him until my mother was born and grew until adult age, then she died and my mother lived many years with him…some decades later I was born and when I turned nineteen she died passing down to me all her life force and the love for our father so there would always be a woman that loved him" explained Hisana, Hinata's granddaughter to her own child who had become ten years old that day
After all of that story, the little Hanabi fall asleep so her mother covered her and left the room so find Naruto eating some cake in the leaving room "Did she fall asleep?" asked the blond with a warm smile "Yes, she was fascinated with your story but with all the time she spent playing she got tired" explained Hisana sitting in Naruto's lap "I want to live my last years to the fullest" asked the woman to his loved one who just kissed her with passion and answered "as always your words are orders my love" said the blond before taking her bridal style and carrying her to other place
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