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Lightning looked at her Cypher counterpart with shock. She felt the other one's power…unbelievable. She felt like she was a mere ant looking up at a giant that towered over humans in fairy tales. The difference between a regular counterpart and a Cypher counterpart was something to believe in. Something much more powerful than the Maker walking in human form, right in front of her was stopping her. The question is why is her Cypher counterpart stopping her from ending a potential threat to countless lives?

"I have my reasons some that are irresponsible. But Cypher Naruto must not be stopped…yet." Cypher Lightning told her as Lightning shook her head. "Why? Why when he might kill thousands, if not millions of lives in the future!" she reprimanded as Cypher Lightning held her hand up. "Those lives will help open up the chaos and consume the world, but unlike the way your familiar of it, it needs the 'important people' to die and spread the chaos faster into this world. It is all to slow down the process of the Beast's rebirth." Cypher Lightning told her. "…The Beast?" she asked as her Cypher counterpart nodded her head.

"The embodiment of humanity's dark desires, unlike All the World's Evil that he has told you about, this one will cause humanity to face judgment, both living and the dead. Depending on your way of living, you get either salvation or damnation when you die, without your consent." She explained as Lightning did not like the sound of it. "Then why cause the chaos to burst into this world then?" she asked as Cypher Lightning sighed in sadness. "Because once the chaos is unleashed, there can be no new life, and no births. It goes without saying; the Tailed Beasts cannot be revived if they were slain if both worlds are one." She replied as Lightning was putting things together.

"Wait…the Ten-Tails is the Beast?" she realized as her Cypher counterpart nodded her head. "A fragment that was gathering power to reform into the complete thing, but due to a past incident, the Tailed Beasts were created to make sure the monster's rebirth was impossible in this altered history."

"…But what about Nione and his plan with Naruto's inevitable death?" Lightning demanded as her Cypher counterpart smirked. "That's where I come in. I'll help limit the damages to the entire space-time continuum with the other Cyphers. It will be taxing, but it will be until his rebirth." She told her as she crossed her arms. "But…There is one problem with Cypher Naruto that makes him too dangerous; it's his lack of compassion and love." Cypher Lightning told Lightning as she raised an eyebrow. It was still odd talking with herself.

"What's that got to do with this?" she asked as Cypher Lightning look like she was suffering a migraine as she pinched the bridge of her nose. "Cypher Naruto has been in battle pretty much since the day he was born. He doesn't know how to truly be kind, loving, or polite. He makes it all an act due to not having that emotion of empathy-compassion. He needs to be taught that, and that's where the two of us come in."

Now Lightning did not like the sound of this. "How so?" she asked as her counterpart smiled. "I am also a Cypher, and at the same time you, we bot made the impossible possible in our battles. What I am going to do is…seal myself into you." She explained, surprising Lightning with what she said.

"I see, though I had expected much from a viper like you Kabuto, when I acquired my new eyes, I saw that tunnel you created with your jutsu as you made your escape that day; cunning to the very end." Naruto commented as Kabuto chuckled. "Well what could you expect from a student of a Cypher?" he asked as Naruto immediately narrowed his eyes. "I know you, Cypher Naruto, were the prize creation that Orochimaru had created in a previous life." He explained, gaining a surprised expression from Kimimaro who looked at the new leader of Sound, "And how he wished to see your growth. I guess seeing how dangerous you were, even if stripped of most of your power and forced to take in new ones, went beyond his expectations. You also inherited his hunger for knowledge that was forbidden in many ways to have the Daedric Prince Hermaeus Mora as an ally. I too, seek that knowledge, and pledge my loyalty to you." Kabuto told him as he bowed his head in respect.

"You are a seeker of knowledge as well…fine. But I don't want any double-crossing or your soul is mine to feast upon." Naruto warned him as Kabuto chuckled. "I could also provide you with some information that I picked up while you were beginning to move in." he added, gaining Naruto's curiosity. "I found a strange place in the Mountains' Graveyard. A lair belonging to the Akatsuki," he added, making Naruto raise an eyebrow. "I see…I'll have to look into that after I've taken care of my business with the Mizukage." Naruto replied calmly. "You seek to create a revolution against the ninja system itself yes?" Kabuto asked as Naruto narrowed his eyes dangerously, knowing that Kabuto is very dangerous and useful at the same time.

"I can help, by exposing all of the Five Great Ninja Village's secrets to the press, their dirty laundry revealed, and of course, the cruelty of creating Jinchūriki." He added as Naruto was forced to admit that Kabuto is very impressive with his cunning. It was putting Naruto on edge; Kabuto could still kill him in combat if he's not careful, especially with his medic training and his knowledge on the human body. "What do you truly seek from all of this? Not knowledge, but your heart's true desires." Naruto asked; a hint of edge on his voice as Kimimaro was prepared to make a move at the slight movement of any hostile action.

"An identity," was the reply. One that surprised Naruto as his eyes widened. "I lived a life of amnesia, of a spy with different identities. But I never knew who I really am," He admitted as Naruto nodded his head. "I share that same desire as well…" Naruto replied, causing Kabuto to look up at him. "Because I am a clone of Naruto Uzumaki, granted the honor of being a Cypher, and living in the shadows of possibilities. I weave and create them, but can never find a place to call home or people to truly call friends or family. I travel, seeking many things that help me find that answer, yearning, hoping, to one day find a name to make me separate from the identity known as Naruto Uzumaki." Naruto confessed as Jūgo, Kimimaro, and Kabuto were left speechless by it. "But…I can take you guys along, so we can see the infinite worlds out there, and find our place to call home, and live the lives we seek, with our own selves and identity. It's a big ocean out there, because this world…is merely a puddle." He told them.

"Seal yourself into me? What kind of game are you playing?" Lightning demanded as her counterpart looked grim, "The gambling kind." She replied as she looked at Lightning. "But if we can at least get Cypher Naruto to fell empathy, compassion, then he could learn to love, and limit the killings." Cypher Lightning told her as she looked to her side. "Even we Cyphers…just get tired of killing and seek to find alternative means." She admitted as Lightning sighed, closing her eyes as she opened them again. "The question is…how we are going to teach him something like compassion?" she asked as Cypher Lightning smiled. "I picked up a few tricks dimension traveling to restore balance. I met this demon named Sesshōmaru who had a sword of healing given to him by his father to teach him compassion. Needless to say, we just need to create a gunblade with those capabilities, and the right person to spark that compassion…" Cypher Lightning trailed off as Lightning was beginning to understand.

But…

"Why do you even care for him? He's an asshole with the way he talks at times, and the way he decorates that sword Chizakura make me want to hurl at times." Lightning told her, just recalling how he wasted money on making a sword look good. "Because that sword is alive," Cypher Lightning told her, causing Lightning to look at her other like she grew a second head. "Somehow, the sword gain sentient will and became alive. It has a newborn spirit dwelling within it, born of the sacrificed blood of Sakura Haruno, and the emotions and spilt blood of Cypher Naruto, a child that no one but him can see…and the only one he can spoil." She depanned as Lightning knew the feeling of some father spoiling their daughter…wait.

"Is that spirit…his daughter?" she realized as Cypher Lightning nodded her head. "Pretty much, she doesn't have a body, so she inhabits the blade. She's the blade's source of power, bestowed with two miracles of human prayer, tempered by a Cypher and the will of the planet into a weapon of dangerous power. Hope…And Despair." She told Lightning who recalled the power Chizakura had when used on Orochimaru. The light it emanated was captivating, and terrifying at the same time. The captivating light was the human prayer of hope, warmth that made Lightning feel like the sins of the past were forgiven, and a redemption that put her at ease. But it also contained despair, it made her fear, fear for her very existence, and of Serah's when she saw the light smite Orochimaru with unbridled fury. It was a weapon like no other in this world.

If he had no mercy, no compassion, then he will deliver a world stained in blood with that weapon. Sometimes…your choices are tangled up like a bag full of snakes. She had to accept this, if she wanted to limit the casualties created by this future revolution in the making. "Very well then, what must I do?" she asked as her Cypher counterpart smiled. "This is going to hurt a bit, please bear with it." She replied as she began walking up to her counterpart.

The Story Continues in…

The Bloodline Purge Arc