"Thanks, didn't know if I could hold on much longer." Naoto thanked Naruto for letting him in.
"It's alright. Why didn't you go in through the front?" Naruto asked.
"I tried, but some fatass wouldn't let me in!" Naoto explained.
'Choji' Naruto thought.
"Anyway, I came here to talk about your son." Naoto said.
Naruto pulled out a chair for Kurogane. They both sat down and started to talk.
"Not trying to sound like a dick, but is your kid like a professional asshole or what?" Naoto asked jokingly.
"Sorry about him, Boruto's a little... prickly." Naruto apologized.
"It's fine. He told me that you two don't see eye to eye, right?" Naoto asked.
Naruto looked down at his desk.
"Yeah. I don't really come home that much due to work, but I miss them so much every day I'm not with them." He spoke.
"Then why become the village leader if you can't see your family because if it?" Naoto asked.
"Being Hokage has been my dream ever since I was a kid. My father, Minato Namikaze was the Fourth Hokage. That guy was my hero, and I wanted to be a great Hokage, just like him." Naruto explained.
Uzumaki frowned from saying his father'd name.
"He died when I was born, though." He told Kurogane.
"Oh... I'm real sorry." Natsu gave his condolences.
"It's ok. I always loved looking up to my heros, that's why I made becoming like my dad my dream. Now I'm the strongest Hokage of them all. It took a lot of time, but I made it." Naruto continued.
"Wow. Heck of a dream, pal. I guess Boruto just doesn't understand?" Naoto guessed.
"Yeah, but he's young. I'm sure that, given time, he'd understand." Naruto replied.
Naoto smiled. He then saw a pictured of Naruto and Boruto together. They both looked so happy.
"That was when he first entered the Ninja Academy." Naruto said.
"Can I tell you something?"Naoto asked.
"What's up?" Naruto replied.
Naoto hesitated for a moment but found the courage to tell him.
"When I was talking to your son, he told me that you don't see him as your son anymore." He finally choked out.
Naruto was in complete shock from what he said.
"He thinks that?!" He questioned, standing up from his chair.
Naoto nodded his head. The orange Hokage sat back down.
"I can't believe it..." Naruto said in astonishment.
"No way that's true from what I've seen and heard from, Naruto." Naoto said.
"Yeah... I can understand if Boruto thinks that, but he's my family. I would never do that to him. He means the world to me." Naruto said.
He stood up and looked at a picture of the village over the door.
"And it's not just Boruto."
Naoto looked at the Hokage.
"Hinata, Himawari, everyone in the whole village means life to me. I honestly wouldn't know what to do if I lost them." Naruto spoke.
He looked at the pictures of all the previous Hokage before him. Hashirama Senjun, Tobirama Senjun, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Minato Namikaze, Tsunade Senjun, and Kakashi Hatake. He smiled at the sight of them.
"I see the entire village as my family." He finished.
Naoto was in complete awe. He had never met someone who cared about both his family and his people so much. It made him smile.
"Is that so?"
Naruto and Naoto turned around and saw Boruto in the window, pissed as usual.
"Boruto? What are you-"
"If you family mean so damn much to you then why send a Shadow Clone instead of putting your work on hold for one lousy night and coming to your own daughter's birthday?!" Boruto yelled.
"That's what I said, kit." Kurama chuckled.
"Shut up, Kurama!" Naruto mumbled to Kurama.
"Boruto, I'm so sorry. I understand that you're mad at me for breaking the promise I made you but-"
"But what?! You have too much work?! That's what you always say, and every time I come here, all these stacks of paper are the same size they've always been. I bet you don't even do anything in here but sit at your desk with your feet up and act like the king of the world!" Boruto yelled in anger.
"Now THAT would be the best. Right, Naruto?" Kurama laughed.
"Don't make me come in there!" Naruto mumbled again.
Naruto walked over to his son and tried to put his hand on his shoulder in an attempt to comfort him.
"Boruto-"
"Don't "Boruto" me!" Boruto interrupted and swatted his hand away.
"It was Himawari, your own daughter's birthday! She just wanted you to be there and you can't even do that?!" He yelled.
"Boruto, being Hokage isn't easy, in know, but you know that the whole village depends on me. I thought you understood that." Naruto spoke carefully, not wanting to hurt his son's feelings.
"And the Hokage's kids are supposed to play along with not having their dad or mom around?! You should know!" Boruto yelled.
Naruto's eyes widened at what Boruto said.
"Oh yeah, I know Gramps was Hokage too, and he wasn't even around! So your lucky as hell that you never got to experience they "joy" of having a Hokage for a father!" He spat.
Something swelled up in Naruto when he heard that. It was bubbling, boiling and rising up in him. It was anger. Boruto just said that Naruto was lucky that he didn't have his father around?!
*Flashback*
A young Naruto was walking the streets of the village alone and sad. He didn't have parents, siblings or even any friends for that matter. He was all alone.
He saw a family walking from afar. A wife, husband and son. The boy fell over and scrapped his knee, causing him to cry. The mother kneeled down and gave the boy a hug to calm him. He soon stopped crying and the father took out a piece of tissue paper to clean the wound and stop the slight bleeding.
Naruto started to cry a little from seeing this. A loving family. Something he longed for.
*Present*
What Boruto just said was crossing the fucking line!
"YOU OLD BASTARD, I HATE YOU!"
*SMACK*
Naruto swatted his hand across Boruto's face hard, leaving a red mark on the boy's left cheek. He then grabbed Boruto by the shirt and slammed him up against the wall, looking him straight in the eyes. Naruto's eyes full of anger and for some reason, they went from blue to red and slitted like a fox.
"YOU DON'T EVER SAY THAT TO ME AGAIN, YOU GOT IT?!" Naruto roarded.
Boruto was frightened, he'd never seen his father like this before.
"You don't have any idea what my life was like when I was a kid without my parents around! All over the people here looked at me with hate or with fear, I had no brothers or sisters, no other family to turn to, and I couldn't make any friends! That's why I wanted to be Hokage, so people would accept me or at least not hate me! Then I met Iruka Sensei, Kakashi Sensei, Pervy Sage and Octo-pops and I was happy because they helped make me stronger, but just when things were looking up a gang of lunatics called the Akasuki came after me so I had to train even harder than I did before, and even then, people STILL saw me as a BEAST! I had nothing before all that, SO YOU HAVE NO FUCKING WRITE TO SAY THAT, YOU UNGRATEFUL, STICK UP THE ASS LITTLE BRAT!" He roared.
"Hey! Naruto, cool it!" Naoto pleaded as he pulled Naruto away.
He dropped Boruto on the ground and was being held back by Naoto. Naruto soon cooled down and realized what he had just done. He hit his own son! Boruto didn't say a word. He just sat there with his hand covering the red mark and tears streaming down his face.
"Boruto, I..."
"Get away from me!"
Boruto ran out the window he came in.
"Boruto, wait! Come back!" Naruto called but to no avail.
Boruto leaped from building to building as he rushed home. Naruto just stared out the window in complete shame.
"What have I done..?"
Naoto placed a hand on his shoulder.
"It was an accident. I know you didn't mean to." He said.
Naruto didn't respond.
Moments later...
Naruto was packing up his things to go home. He owed his son a huge apology. As he finished putting everything he needed into his bag, a scroll came flying into the room and bonked Naoto on the head.
"OWW!" Naoto cried.
Naruto grabbed the scroll before it his the ground.
"What's this?" He wondered.
"A gift from Kaguya's palace." A voice said.
A man walked into the room.
"Sasuke!" Naruto exclaimed.
Sasuke waved hello to the orange Hokage. He then noticed Naoto on the floor, rubbing his head.
"Who's the kid?" He asked.
"Oh yeah, this is Naoto. I met him not to long ago. Naoto, this is Sasuke Uchiha." Naruto said.
"Hi." Naoto greeted.
Sasuke waved.
Greeting over with, Naruto opened the scroll and found that it was written in a strange language. It was a complete unknown.
"I've never seen symbols like this before." Naruto said.
"I couldn't even read it with my Rinnegan." Sasuke added.
"Well, looks like I'm not going home..." Naruto sighed.
Naoto looked at the scroll and got a little surprised. He had seen those letters before.
"Hey! That's an Ars Magus formula!" He stated.
Naruto and Sasuke look at Naoto.
"You've seen this before, kid?" Sasuke asked.
"Yes... Kind of..." Naoto answered.
"What do you mean, 'kind of'?" Naruto questioned.
Naoto rubbed the back of his head with his hand.
"Uh, hehe... How do I put this in a way you can undersrand..?" He thrice to think.
"Your from another world, aren't you?" Sasuke asked.
Naoto turned to Sasuke.
"Huh?! How did?!"
"When I first felt your Chakra, I new it wasn't of a Shinobi's, not to mention the cloths that you ware and the fact that you didn't know what the Hokage was... Plus I saw you fall out of the sky into that chicken coup." The Uchiha answered.
Naoto didn't know what to say.
"Wait! Were you spying on me the whole time?!" He screamed.
Sasuke remained silent, which meant yes. Naoto couldn't believe it, he WAS spying on him. Talk about an invasion of privacy.
"Seriously?! That's awesome! You're like, from another dimension or something?!" Naruto asked in excitement. Looks like that lovable knucklehead inside of him really DOES still exist.
"It's a little more complicated than that." Naoto replied.
They were confused.
"What do you mean?" Naruto asked.
"I'm from a different timeline... in a different dimension." He finally choked out.
Now Naruto was completely overwhelmed with questions. So many questions that his tiny brain was overloading and he dropped to the floor, mouth foaming. Naoto was a little concerned about Naruto but Sasuke confirmed that he'll be fine.
"Huh?" Naruto went.
"How are you from a different timeline in a different dimension?" Sasuke questioned.
"It's a long and confusing as hell story." Naoto answered.
(Got that right)
"I came to the future of my world to look for a friend of mine. Only insted of finding her, I ended up in the middle of a plot to destroy the world..." Naoto explained.
"So... the usual crap, then?" Naruto guessed.
"Pretty much." Naoto replied.
"So let me get this straight, you came from the past of your world to look for your friend but ending up fighting to save your whole world from Armageddon?" Sasuke attempted to wrap all this around his head.
Naoto nodded.
"Oh ok." Uchiha said.
"You guys are taking this surprisingly well." Naoto said in slight surprise.
"That's cuz we deal with stuff like this all the time!" Naruto laughed.
"Really?!" Naoto questioned.
Naruto nodded his head.
"Speaking of otherworldly brings, I was attacked by a strange creature while trying to recover this scroll." Sasuke told Naruto.
"You were?" He asked
"Yes. It was a purple and white creature with a tail. It didn't seem to be after the scroll though." Sasuke replied.
"What did it want?" Naruto asked.
"Not sure, but there was another one there as well." Sasuke answered, then looked at Naruto.
"He asked where you are, Naruto." He told Uzumaki.
Naruto frowned. Perfect... another bad guy who wants to kill him. Things never change. Then, someone came rushing into the room.
"Wonderful..." Naruto sarcastically said.
"Naoto, you said that you know about the writing on this scroll?" Sasuke asked.
"Yeah, a little bit. I learned a lot from my world's future, so I should be able to read it." Naoto replied.
Sasuke handed Naoto the scroll with the formula on it and took a look at it. He recognized some of it but most was written in a language that looked almost alien. He tried to read the parts he could understand.
"When all things return to the Azure, the counterpart is born. This counterpart will steal the what has returned to the Azure and all will end with nothingness instead of beginning a new. Such is the way of Satan. Insanity, Pride, Desire, War, Nothingness, Bloodlust and Ambition; these are what fuels this counterpart and leads the path to the world that Satan oh so Kong's for. A world of Hell. This is Destruction, Death, Evil, Darkness, Hatred and Selfishness all taken form. This is... Crimson."
Naoto closed the scroll when he finished reading, a little creeped out by what he just read.
"Whoa, That was... pretty dark." Naruto gulped.
"Yeah..." Sasuke replied, creeped out as well.
"Crimson... what the hell is that?" Naoto wondered.
There was complete silence in the room for a little while until...
"Naruto!" A voiced cried.
All three of them jumped from the voice and turned towards the door. It was just Shikamaru, Naruto's advisor.
"Shikamaru? What's wrong?" Naruto asked.
Shikamaru was panting from running all the way to the Hokage mansion. He wasn't as young as he use to be.
"Your house... its been attacked!"
"!"
Moments later, Naruto, Sasuke, Shikamaru and Naoto were rushing back to the Uzumaki residence. Naruto was sweating buckets, his heart was racing and thousands of horrible thought were flying through his mind.
"Hinata! Boruto! Himawari!" He cried as he ran into the entrance of the house.
He stopped dead in his tracks and felt his heard shattered into pieces.
There he saw the bodies of Hinata and Himawari lying lifeless on the living room floor. They were both stabbed by kunai and had their throats slit so deep, it almost severed their heads from their bodies. Naruto got down on his knees and felt something uncomfortable gurgle in his stomach. He threw up vomit from the sight of his dead family, then a fresh wave of tear came streaming down from his face. He roared into the heaven and cursed himself for not being with them that night to protect them from what ever happened.
"It's my fault! If I had just come home! They would..!" Naruto grieved.
"Naruto..." Naoto said in pity.
"You're gonna pay forms this!"
An enraged voice was heard from upstairs. It was Boruto! He's alive!
"Boruto! BORUTO!" Naruto called to his son as he ran upstairs.
"Let me go!" Boruto yelled.
The gang made it to Boruto's room and Naoto busted the door open to find Boruto ties up and muffled. He was in the arms of a strange man in an orange cloak, holding a sword.
"Boruto! What are you doing to him?!" Naruto road as he charged.
The man jumped out the window and landed on a building.
"Give us his holiness if you ever want to see your son again." He said as he ran off.
"Get back here!" Naruto shouted as he went after him.
Naoto, Sasuke and Shikamaru followed.
"Shikamaru, can you stop him?" Sasuke asked.
"No good! Not enough light for me to cast a shadow!" Shikamaru replied.
Sasuke grunted in disappointment. Shikamaru's Shadow Possession Jutsu would have really come in handy. He drew his sword and threw it at the kidnaper. He dodged with easy and laughed a little.
"Missed." He mocked.
Sasuke's left eye then started to glow. His location was then switched with his sword. It was his Rinnegan's power of teleporting. He then charged his hand with electricity and thrusted his arm forward.
"CHIDORI!"
The kidnaper blocked his attaack with his sword and used a burst of speed to travel to a far building.
"Very impressive, boy. I wasn't expecting to encounter someone with a Rinnegan." The kidnaper complimented.
Sasuke only glared at the figure.
"However, it will not be enough because I am blessed by his holiness' presence, so you cannot stop me." He said.
"Then how about me!"
Naruto charged at the man with a large shuriken in his hand. The kidnaper only chuckled.
"Please!" He laughed.
He snapped his fingers and at least 20 men with orange cloaks appeared out of no where.
"Crap! Look out, Naruto!" Naoto exclaimed.
Naruto put the shuriken on his back and made some hand signs.
"SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!"
Ten clones of Naruto appeared and clashed with at least two kidnapers each. That was enough for Naruto to get the one that had Boruto.
"Give me back my son!" He demanded.
Naruto the summoned a clone and made it swirls it's hands around his right hand. A ball of energy then appeared in his hand and the clone disappeared.
"Give us his holiness!" The man demanded back.
The kidnaper used his free hand to create a small purple ball highly concentrated Chakra. Sasuke noticed that attack and new what it was immediately.
'No way! That's..!' He shouted in his head.
"RASENGAN!"
"SUPER MINI TAILED BEAST BOMB!"
The two orbs collided and generated a giant shockwave which caused immense damage to the building roofs around them. After, they both jumped away from each other due to coming to a stalemate. Naruto shook his hand in pain, he hasn't used that attack in a while so he wasn't use to it anymore.
"Impressive, now I see why you are the strongest of the Hokage, Lord Seventh." The kidnaper said.
"Naruto, you felt that too, right?" Kurama asked.
"I sure did." Naruto replied.
"These people contain my Chakra!" Kurama stated.
"You are right, my lord." The kidnaper said.
Kurama's eyes widened from hearing the voice.
"What?! He can hear me?!" He exclaimed.
"Of course we can, your holiness. We possess your Chakra, so we are able to communicate with you, even within your prison." The kidnaper answered.
The kidnaper pulled out a kunai with his free arm and charged at Naruto.
"Worry not, your grace. We will free you from your prison and you will reign supreme over all!" He shouted.
Naruto pulled out two kunai from his pockets and went into a stance to defend. However, something came rocketing up from the house that the kidnaper was standing on.
"WHAT DA FUCK IS GOING ON UP HERE?! I'M TRYING TO DO SOMETHING!" A woman screamed.
This woman landed a monstrous uppercut to the kidnaper's jaw and he was sent rocketing high into the sky. He then disappeared in a cloud of smoke along with Boruto. It was a substitute.
"Damn! So close to getting him back!" Naruto cursed.
"Wanna start explaining, Naruto?!" The woman growled.
"Huh? HUH?!"
When the woman landed on the roof. Naruto got a good look at her and started shaking in fear. She was wearing a white bath robe, had pink hair, a small mark on her forehead and was super pissed.
"S-S-S-S-Sakura! Haha... Hi... W-what's G-going on..!" Naruto trembled.
"DON'T "what's going on" ME, YOU LITTLE DOOFUS! WHAT THE HELL IS WITH ALL THE NOISE?! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT TIME OF THE MONTH IT IS FOR ME?! DO YOU?!" Sakura roared in rage.
Naruto was in complete panic, even Kurama was getting scared. Usually, Sakura has a short temper, but she's usually able to control it. Getting pissed from just a noise problem meant only one horrible and terrifying thing.
Sakura... was on here PERIOD!
That is the number one reason that, not just Naruto, but even Sasuke, when he visits, kept his distance from her. A VERY FAR distance.
"WELL?!" Wailed the pink banshee.
"Maybe if you look at that guy behind you." Naruto answered, pointing his hand at the kidnaper on the other roof.
Sakura turned around and saw the kidnaper with Boruto in his arm.
"Boruto!" Sakura exclaimed.
"That was a close one. Nice punch, student of Lady Fifth Hokage." He complimented.
He then threw a black sphere into the air which soon started to expand around the area, trapping Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura and Naoto inside with one of the mysterious Shinobi.
"However, it will not be enough to stop us. Bring us our god, and you will get your son back!" The kidnaper said as he ran off.
"DAD!" Boruto cried for help.
"No! Boruto!" Naruto yelled.
"I got this!" Said Kurogane
Naoto ran to towards the kidnaper with lightning speed, barely making it out of the black dome in time.
"What?!" The kidnaper exclaimed.
How could one boy move so quickly? Naoto zoomed towards the man with his inhuman speed. The man threw a shuriken at Naoto and it hit him in his left arm. He grunted in pain and removed the throwing star. Blood cams leaking out from the wound.
"That was a big mistake!" He shouted.
Naoto's eyes turned blood red, he grew fangs and his hair became bleach white. The blood from his wound started to glow and it was now engulfing his arm in crimson streaks.
"What in the world?! That brat is a Vampire!" The kidnaper exclaimed again.
Boruto was in complete awe. He had seen some crazy stuff in his adventures, but never this.
"N-Naoto..?" He mumbled.
"You're giving that kid back!" Naoto demanded as he charged.
"Stay away, beast of the night!" The kidnaper yelled as he threw more shuriken at Kurogane.
Naoto used his blood engulfed arm to block the shuriken and he dodged the ones he couldn't block in time. He leaped into the air and dove down towards the kidnaper, reading his fist.
"DIVINE SMASHER!"
The kidnaper jumped backwards to avoid the attack. Naoto's fist hit the roof he was standing on, the force of his attack was so great that he busted right through the roof and went crashing down into the house. He hit the floor hard, making large cracks in the floor. Naoto pulled his fist out and looked up through the ceiling.
"Damn!" He cursed.
"Who the hell are you?!" A voice yelled.
Naoto then saw a man with silver hair and wearing a mask, sitting in the bathtub... while reading a book labeled 'Make-out Tactics'.
"Uhh..." Naoto mumbled.
Shikamaru jumped down the hole to pick up Naoto. He grabbed the white haired boy and leaped back up through the hole.
"Sorry about that, Kakashi Sensei!" Shikamaru apologized as he exited Kakashi's house.
"O-Kay..? *splash* NO!" Kakashi screamed as he dropped his book in the tub.
Meanwhile...
Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura were trapped inside the black dome, fighting one of the mysterious Ninja. He was standing atop a giant white fox which he called through Summoning.
"Give up! If you want to live, Give us our god!" He demanded.
"We don't even know what you're talking about!" Naruto shouted in annoyance.
"Naruto, talking to this guys pointless." Sasuke said.
"He's right. We need to focus on beating him." Sakura said as well.
"Rrrr! I know! I know! Normal attack aren't working, so let's try the Three Way Deadlock!" Naruto said.
"Good thinking, Naruto." Sasuke complemented.
All three of them bit into their thumbs, causing a little blood to leak out from them. They then placed their hands on the ground and three black symbols appeared.
"SUMMONING JUTSU!"
A large smoke cloud poofed around the trio and three large figures appeared from the smoke. One was a huge orange toad wearing a jacket and a necklace, holding a knife and smoking a cigarette. The other was a giant purple snake, and the last one was an enormous white slug.
"Team 7 is on the move!"
"LADY KATSUYU!"
The slug slithered at the fox and sprayed acid all over itself, the leaped up and body slammed on top of the fox, burning its flesh with its acid covered body. The fox growled in pain as it's skin was being seared.
"AODA!"
The snake emerged from the ground and clamped it's large mouth into the fox's body. The slug split apart into hundreds of smaller slugs to allow the snake to rise into the sky and throw the fox into the air.
"GAMAKICHI!"
The toad leaped into the air and slashed the fox in half with it's large knife. Blood covered both the blade and the toad as the fox died.
The man then fell to the ground and broke his leg upon impact. The trio of Ninja then jumped off their beasts and prepared a triple diving attack to finish the man.
"RASENGAN!"
"CHIDORI!"
"CHERRY BLOSSOM CLASH!"
Naruto's energy ball, Sasuke's electric jab, and Sakura's monstrous fist all came into contact with the man and created an enormous blast of energy the filled the dome with blinding white light.
Naoto and Shikamaru watched from the distance and Kurogane was in complete awe.
"Woah!" Naoto exclaimed.
"Hehe... Those three, always pushing it." Shikamaru chuckled.
As the light died down, the dome started to disappear and the man was now embedded into the ground. The three beast disappeared as the Summoning Contracts expired and Team 7 emerged from the battle field.
"Amazing..." Naoto said in awe.
He had never seen three people as powerful as them. Naruto picked up the man by the shirt looked him dead in the eye.
"Start talking! Who are you?! What do you want with me?! Where's my son?!" The Hokage demanded.
The man carefully pulled out a kunai from his back pouch.
"I die... in your name... LORD KURAMA!"
He then jabbed the kunai into the side of his neck, cutting the jugular. Blood sprayed out from his neck like a sprinkler as his pulse grew weak and he soon died.
"He killed himself. Probably to prevent us from getting info." Shikamaru said.
"Fuck!" Naruto cursed as he threw the body at the ground.
"Shikamaru, take the body to research! See what you can get out of his Chakra, NOW!" He ordered.
"Yes sir!" Shikamaru said as he took the body and disappeared.
Naruto was completely furious. He had just lost his whole family, again.
"Naruto..." Sakura softly said.
"It's ok, Sakura. I'll be ok." Naruto assured his friend.
Somehow, she knew he was lying.
"Wait. When did you get back, Sasuke?" Sakura just know realizes that her husband was here.
"Literally today. Didn't Sarada tell you?" Sasuke asked.
"No, she's staying at Lady Tsunade's tonight since I had to work late." She replied.
"Ok, but it's only 8:30. How are you home so..."
Sasuke then spots blood leaking down Sakura's leg from the unspeakable place. He then gulps and realized why she's home so early. They sent her home because they know how crazy Sakura gets when she's on her period.
"Uhh... Sakura..." Sasuke points to her bleeding... "flower".
She then looked down and noticed the blood.
"Oh! Sorry!" She apologized for the sight.
She pulled a tampon out of her picked and was about to put it in, but noticed the two guys staring.
"WELL DON'T LOOK!" She yelled.
"Aah! Not looking!"
"Of course, honey!"
Back at the Hokage mansion, Shikamaru, Kakashi and some other scientists were extracting Chakra from the body of the man to find info.
"What are they doing?" Naoto asked.
"A Ninja's body leaves all kinds of secrets behind when they die. It's true that he couldn't tell us anything when he died, but we can examine his corps to find information about who he is and where he's from." Naruto answered.
"That's... just plain weird..." Naoto sweat dropped.
"Bingo!" Shikamaru said out loud.
He had found something!
The gang all gathered around the body and found a mark in an all too familiar shape.
"Isn't that... Nine Tails' head?" Sakura questioned.
"Yep." Shikamaru replied.
Kakashi took the mark to a computer and had it analyzed. The computer cross referenced every possible source it could find and found a file from back before Naruto was even born. Kakashi opened it up.
"The Brothethood of the Nine." He said.
"Who are they?" Naruto asked.
"They're a cult of rouge Ninja who worship Nine Tails like a god." Kakashi explained.
Kurama's eyebrow rose up in curiosity.
"There are people who worship me?" He spoke.
Kurama then imagined what that would be like. He pictured himself wearing a crown, sitting in a golden thrown, surrounded by beautiful women feeding him grapes, massaging him and "blowing" him all night long. All while he had a big ass smirk on his face.
"Hehehe..." He giggled.
"Aww, dude! We share the same body and mind, why did you have to think about that?!" Naruto gagged.
Kakashi pulled up another entry on the cult.
"They were formed around the same time Obito released Nine Tails on the village. Apparently, their goal is to extract Nine Tails from Naruto and, according to them, would lead the believers to a new age of peace... through bloody murder." Kakashi explained.
"Sounds like my kind of people." Kurama joked.
Naoto didn't understand. 'Extract Nine Tails from Naruto?' That didn't make sense.
"But here's the crazy part." Kakashi continued.
He punched some keys and out popped a file on their Head Priest.
"Is that their leader?" Sasuke asked.
"Yes. Head Priestess, Aisha Uchiha." Kakashi answered.
Team 7's eyes widened.
"Uchiha?!" Sasuke exclaimed.
"Does that mean..." Sakura spoke.
Kakashi nodded.
"Their leader is an Uchiha Clan survivor." He finished.
Sasuke couldn't wrap this around his head. An Uchiha survivor who worships a Tailed Beast like a god?!
"But what do they want with Boruto?! He doesn't have the Nine Tails' Chakra in him!" Naruto questioned.
"They probably want a bargain. Boruto for this Nine Tails thing, or something." Naoto believed.
"Thing?! That little bastard! I'd rip him in half if I wasn't inside Naruto!" Kurama yelled.
"But then why?! Why did they kill Hinata and Himawari?!" Naruto yelled.
"Maybe they put up a fight, but they were to strong for them. Boruto probably wasn't home yet, so they took him as a hostage because he was now all you have left?" Kakashi said.
Naruto grunted in anger, and Kurama was starting to feel guilty. The fault was his. After Naruto and Sasuke's last battle, Kurama decided to stay with Naruto and live with his friends and new found family. The fox thought he actually protect something for once in his life, but all he did was bring more destruction.
"Naruto, I'm sorry. If I hadn't chosen to stay with you after you beat Sasuke, your family would still-"
"Don't apologize, Kurama." Naruto interrupted Kurama.
Nine Tails looked down at Naruto. Tears streaming down the Hokage's face.
"You has no idea this would happen. It's not your fault. Besides, they're not just MY family. You're part of the family too." He finished.
Kurama smiled at what Naruto said. He's glad he became friends with this kid when he did.
"Kakashi Sensei, do you know where their base is?" Naruto asked.
Kakashi pulled up a file.
"It's at a place called Kitsune Cave, between the border of the Land of Lightning and Hidden Shadow Village." He explained.
Naruto tightened his fist and started to walk out the door.
"I'm going!" He sternly said.
"Naruto, are you crazy?!" Sakura stopped him.
"They have my son! I'm going to get him back!" Naruto raised his voice.
"But If you go, you'll be giving them exactly what they want!" Sakura argued.
"What do you suppose I do?! Send a normal Ninja team?! They all possess Nine Tails' Chakra! Sending even the ANBU would only end up with casualties! I'm the only one who can deal with them.
"Charging in head on is a stupid plan, Naruto." Shikamaru said.
"Shikamaru, you're in charge of the village till I get back." He said back.
"Hell of a plan, Naruto!" Shikamaru replied happily.
"It's decided." Naruto said as he tried to walk away, but was stopped by Sakura.
"Naruto!" She argued.
He shook off her hand and looked at her with fox eyes.
"As Hokage, I order you to stand down, Sakura Uchiha!" Naruto ordered.
Sakura wanted to say something, but the Hokage's words are absolute. So she stood down.
"I'm coming with you!" Naoto said.
"No you're not!" Naruto argued.
"I'm not part of your village, so you have no power over me! Plus, if I had stayed at your house, I could have saved them. I'm partially responsible, so I have to do this." He talked back.
Naruto took a deep breath.
"Fine." He said.
With that done, Naruto Uzumaki and Naoto Kurogane set out from the Hidden Leaf Village to find the Brotherhood of the Nine and save Boruto.
"Hang on, Boruto. Dad's coming. I won't leave you, not this time, not ever again!"
Next time
Ragna boards the Thousand Sunny and finds Noel knocked out in Jimbei's hands and immediately misunderstands. What will happen? Will he be reunited with Noel? Will Zoro be able to defeat Byakuya? And will the Straw Hats be able to survive against this man with glowing purple eyes?