Naruto fell into the darkness. He was in an endless pit of shadows, and he couldn't feel anything. Kuruma's voice echoed to him, but Naruto couldn't come close to comprehend what he was saying. "Kurama what did you say-" as soon as he started to speak, he felt a throbbing pain in his stomach.

He tried moving around, but he couldn't. He was immobilized, almost like he was tied down. He was wrapped in some sort of shadow; it was slowly engulfing him in fear. He couldn't feel his heart. He tried his best, but whenever he focused, all he could feel was an empty hole. Something shook his arm, waking him up from the madness and the limbo he was trapped in. A familiar voice called his name.

The shadows that surrounded him faded, and his eyes slowly opened to see a blinding light. The contrast was so different than the black nothingness he had seen before, he had to close his eyes again in order to adjust to the light.

"Naruto!" The familiar, green-haired boy was the first thing Naruto saw as he opened his eyes for the second time.

"Deku?" Naruto whispered; his voice weak.

Deku turned around and motioned to someone else in the room. "He woke up!"

Naruto focused his vision to see two men chatting in the corner of what looked to be some sort of hospital room.

"Well," a man said. "Look who finally decided to wake up." Naruto's eyes went wide and, despite the pain, he propped himself up. The man had white, pointy hair that was supported by a ninja headband. He wore a Konoha ninja uniform and held an Icha Icha book in his left pocket.

"Kakashi Sensei?" Naruto noticed that he had a cord attached to his arm which was connected to a bag full of some type of fluid. He was dressed in a plain, white t-shirt and baggy pants. He could feel something on his lower stomach. It felt like paper.

"It's a sealing formula," Kakashi whispered in Naruto's ear. "Nine Tails was getting a little restless." With his weakened state, Naruto couldn't even sense Kakashi move over to him, forget when he quickly moved back to the corner of the room. Naruto envied how Kakashi could still effortlessly move, while Naruto was stuck in a bed, engulfed by pain.

Deku stood close to Naruto's bed. He suspiciously asked, "So you know him? He was telling the truth?" Naruto could tell that Deku was skeptical about Kakashi. He honestly couldn't blame him; Naruto was still confused about the whole thing himself.

"Hmm?" Naruto repeated Deku's question in his head. "Oh yeah, that's my sensei." Naruto turned his head to look at Kakashi. "Kakashi Sensei," He began. "Where in the world are we?" What happened? Is everyone else okay? What about the-"

Kakashi cut Naruto's barrage of questions. "Whoa, whoa, slow down. I'll explain everything but first, I need you to calm down."

"You need to take it easy," said the man that was standing with Kakashi when Naruto had woken up. The man had short, black hair and wore a tan overcoat and a matching hat. "The name's Tsukauchi Naomasa, nice to meet you." The man stuck out his hand to Naruto. Slowly, Naruto shook his hand.

Naruto turned to Deku, who was trying to calm Naruto down. "I carried you to the police station, along with the amulet. I didn't know what to do, so I went to Mr. Tsukauchi to get help. He was with Mr. Kakashi, who ran over to you when I brought you in. He told me that he knew who you were, and we all brought you here. You been in a coma since you touched that amulet…"

"Wait," Naruto began. "A coma? How long have I-"

"Four days," Deku answered Naruto's question before he could even ask. "Don't worry, it hasn't been that long." Naruto pondered to himself, wondering if anyone else that he knew was in this strange place, and if they were doing better than he was.

"So, Kakashi Sensei, where are we?" Naruto looked at the laid-back man who seemed to be having trouble with coming up with what to say.

"Actually," Naomasa added. "I'd like to know as well. Clearly you both aren't from around here, and you don't seem like you know much about any of our technology."

Kakashi let out a big sigh. "Alright, well, you may want to sit down for this." Deku and Naomasa sat down at the two seats that lined the side wall, while Kakashi leaned against the wall right next to the door. "I'm going to need you to pay close attention, especially you two. He signaled to Deku and Naomasa, and they both nodded.

"Okay then," Kakashi started. Naruto wanted to yell out to Kakashi, to tell him to hurry up and get on with it. He didn't however, when Kakashi lifted his headband, revealing his Sharingan. Deku and Naomasa, unaware of what was about to happen, were overcome with fear.

Kakashi made eye contact with each one of the three sitting in the room, sending them all to a universe of his creation.

The four arrived in a war zone. Thousands of white, identical men fought thousand of diverse shinobi. There was fighting, there was pain, and there was death. So much death. "W-where are we?" Deku asked, trembling in fear.

"What is this?" Naomasa asked. He was completely terrified. After all, he was only a policeman. Naruto flinched when he saw the war again. Flashbacks appeared in his head, like what happened to Neji and Bushy Brow Sensei.

"Right now," Kakashi started. "We're all in one of my Genjutsu's. This is a collage of memories from where we're from. I figured I should at least explain to you what our world is like at this moment, in order to give you some background knowledge."

Naomasa and Deku had so many questions. "Your world?" Naomasa repeated. "What do you mean by that?"

"I'll get to that later. We don't have much time right now." Kakashi knew that his Sharingan wouldn't hold up for very long; he had to hurry.

Suddenly one of the white men attacked Deku, causing him to flinch. The white monster, however, simply faded through Deku and attacked the shinobi behind him.

"Remember," Kakashi said. "This is just a bunch of memories, so nothing here can hurt you." This let Deku and Naomasa relax a bit. Deku noticed Naruto watching a shiny, black-haired teen fight off a hoard of the white monsters. Naruto seemed worried but angry at the same time.

"Are you okay?" Deku asked Naruto. He was about to walk over to comfort him, but Kakashi had already walked up to Naruto and rested a hand on his shoulder.

"Don't worry," Kakashi said to Naruto as they both watched the shinobi battle. "I'm sure they're all right. After all, they are all capable shinobi."

Naruto looked up at Kakashi. "Right. Yeah, your right."