So, I'm back…kind of more like I ended dup doing some writing while trying to keep my mind of things, now I won't go on and on about all the shit that was going on in my life, long story short life fucking sucks and depression is a BITCH.
As for Maelstrom Mash I'm going to Rewrite the first chapter at some point fix up all the problems people pointed out to me and flesh it out a bit more
But consider Maelstrom Mash! On a situational hiatus being totally honest I rushed from conception to posting and had very little over all thought out, inversely I've been kicking around this kingdom hearts idea for about a year or so now, but ultimately that combined with my previously mentioned life issues pretty much insured that fic was almost DOA, but I haven't given up on it yet! So don't be too worried.
That all being said on the paring all I'll say is it's a harem and I'm going to try and keep it as small as possible as in under 10 girls
I won't give away who is and isn't in the harem DON'T SUGGEST ANYONE! If you want to suggest something suggest a world additionally, I'll say just because a character shows up doesn't mean they're world or even other character's form it will.
I don't own any of the Ips involved in this FANFICTION and sense this is obviously transformative fair sue applies and I won't give any other disclaimers.
Enjoy the fic
Seems even a loser like him wasn't invulnerable to the follies of pride…
Believing a goddess would just LET them seal here even when they had her cornered
In the span of a single heartbeat the following occurred.
Sakura had been the first one to go, one minute she was there the next she had faded to pitch black dust as Kaguya struck her in the chest with some kind of ray of pure darkness. Naruto, Sasuke and Kakashi had been shocked despite their abilities and speed of perception they were unable to react, and that shock cost them.
Kakashi followed as Kaguya showed what kind of monster she was by making something like a shadow clone silently and without even a flare of chakra right behind him and repeating the same ray of darkness technique she'd used to kill Sakura, the technique seemed to cost the clone all the chakra it had but it was enough Sasuke had snapped out of his shock and began to move as Naruto turned furious towards Kaguya, the fraction, of a fraction, of a fraction of a quintillionth of a nano second that Sasuke and out sped Naruto by would cost him.
Zetsu had proved they had all seriously underestimated him a thin speed of light slash of pure mass Naruto dodged it Sasuke who was mid charge didn't, cut in half at the waist his left arm from below the elbow was also caught in it a mortal wound even with Naruto's creation of all things they didn't have close to the time they needed for that kind of damage to be healed even if Sakura had still been alive to help reattach what he'd lost left floating in the white void they had found themselves in.
No, Kaguya had proved she was far, far faster and stronger than they had thought whatever rust she had on her had been shaken off with the threat of immediate, likely permanent this time, defeat.
Then proving they truly didn't even have time to think anymore, Kaguya used the same technique she had on Kakashi and Sakura a pillar of dark surging right at Naruto and for him everything seemed to be moving in slow motion then suddenly he was no longer staring unavoidable death in the face.
Sasuke had used Amenotejikara to swap places with him with what little life and chakra he had left.
Naruto had snapped he wasn't sure how he did what he'd done next in the fleeting phantasmal second Kaguya and Zetsu were caught off guard by Sasuke's uncharacteristic selfless act of sacrifice. but Naruto had done it, he'd once again done something impossible with defeat practically assured, he'd managed to do something that totally turned the tide.
He'd ripped the bijuu right out of Kaguya awakening his mother's chakra chains from his grief and unleashing them straight into the shocked Kaguya's form and found himself tugging on something like a monstrous tree root… the body of the juubi, the gedou mazou he realized.
As the lingering chakra of the Akatsuki, the jinchuuriki and the bijuu that somehow gave it some shred of autonomy flooded into him bit by bit.
Kaguya had however not become suddenly helpless, she reacted breaking from her now utterly horrified stunned state and severed the root Naruto had a grip on at the base where it connected to her, her form rippled as it reabsorbed wat little was still emerging form her, now panting she glared at the blond human and the stunned bijuu behind him slowly getting ready to fight she was in danger now.
between the boy and the bijuu her enemies were once again on equal footing with her especially with his power to remove the shell of the juubi from her, she had no way to reabsorb the bijuu he wouldn't counter especially with over HALF her power now gone, the playing field was now level…except for one last card she had up her sleeve she remembered.
Naruto for his part felt the chunk of the Juubi rush into his body, it of course threw him off the pure destructive impulse of darkness entering his otherwise balanced chakra made his control waver for the briefest of seconds, his six path's sage mode flickered as the Yin half of Kurama was somehow forced out of him by the mass of Shinju cells that was now desperately trying to consume the bijuu half inside him and additional bijuu chakra gifted to him.
In that second of flickering confusion, he'd conjured the chakra chains inside his mindscape to pin the rampaging tendril turned Shinju Monster identical to the ogre-like creatures they'd fought previously that had killed so many of the allied shinobi.
He vaguely noticed the two halves' of Kurama merging stunning the bijuu in question even more than Naruto's ridiculous and should have been impossible feat.
Kaguya took that distraction weakened unimaginably so by the loss of all nine bijuu and one of the Juubi's ten physical tails, and a tenth of its overall remaining hodgepodge of chakra she willed Zetsu to transform and drove him into the 'ground' of the empty pocket space she'd transferred them all to.
A Massive glowing heart shaped thing was dragged out not a second later darkening where Zetsu touched it.
And looking at it Naruto could feel it was something like pure untainted natural energy but at the same time it was also something more, looking directly into the strange entity because he could FEEL it was very much alive he could see the battlefield, Konoha hell all the world trapped in the 'leaves' of the giant tree the mugen Tsukuyomi had created feel the life force and chakra of everyone, every last person in the world trapped in those leaves still alive still themselves.
Then Kaguya drove her hand into the center of the heart luminescent pink but quickly blackening blood poured from the wound flooding over the space they were in turning it pitch black.
And to Naruto's horror he saw and felt his world and its people die, watched as they all became black dust vanishing on a non-existent wind, he felt them pass onto the pure world
And Kaguya spoke for the first time since the start of the fight.
"Making me sacrifice my garden to defeat you…you miserable, arrogant primate to think a mere un-blossomed flower like you would DARE to defy me so…and that other…no matter I'll take you and what's left of him in one fell-"
her voice cut out as Zetsu shrieked
"MOTHER! YOUR BODY!" Kaguya went wide eyed as her form pulsed and then began undergoing the same decay as the heart parts of her melting then becoming dust as she screamed an unworldly pain wracking her very SOUL
Her eyes widened as realization of WHY this was happening hit her pain wracked mind.
"t-that…to think I'd blunder so-" she whispered at this point her body almost entirely an undulating mass of black goo only the right half of her face remaining her words were barely a whisper but all present heard her.
The explosion that suddenly followed the last of her body melting away into the strange black mass of undulating liquid darkness SHATTERED the space sending the bijuu flying into the infinite distance.
Naruto felt his vision swim then his consciousness faded as he plummeted like a meteorite into shifting pitch black nothing below.
"A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory... a far-off memory that's like a scattered dream... I want to line the pieces up... yours and mine."
Naruto's eyes snapped open as he greedily drew in a breath as if he hadn't breathed in hours.
Panting and gasping for breath he looked around desperately for the deep rich voice he swore he heard speak.
"Kurama did you hear-" his stamen was cut off as a furious eldritch roar answered him…that wasn't Kurama…
his eyes widened as memories of what he'd been through in the past few hours came flooding back, no…no they SLAMMED into him like a million freight trains charging a head at light speed.
"…no…no…NO!" his hands clutched at his ears as his eyes screwed shut, falling to his knees he felt sick, weightless, and just…shattered… this couldn't be real.
Bolting to his feet eye's wide and frantic, the bijuu they were with him they HAD to be here somewhere, wherever THIS was he froze…his eyes had to be playing a horrible, horrible trick on him.
Surrounding him were familiar yet alien sights painted faded grey devoid of any of their old color cracked and broken, decayed drifting in a technicolor void, it was an all too familiar sight the memorial stone and drifting in the empty void of color not far from where he was, training ground number seven.
"The young hero awoke to the shattered remains of his world, scattered around him like cherry blossoms floating on a still pond…the remains of his once proud and beloved village supporting him in the endless dream like a toad on a lily pad..."
"Whose there! what is this…ANSWER ME!" his chakra flared with his fury and with it something heavy and unfamiliar settled in his hand his fingers instinctively grasping it.
His eyes darted to his hand as the voice remained unresponsive
In it was something like the bastard offspring of a key and a sword
An orange cylindrical shaft sporting teeth in a perfect recreation of the Konoha leaf crest.
Leading to a black guard shaped like an ornate tori gate perched on a simple flat plane at the base
Inside it was the hilt his hand was gripping like a katana's a black Ito around an orange same-hada underneath with the Ito-no-itsuka being familiar red spirals
Attached at the base of the guard was a chain each link shaped like a standard four-pointed shuriken or at least the outline of a four-pointed shuriken.
A small charm was attached at the end, a familiar red circle carved like a spiral with the familiar kanji for fire raised and in black on both sides.
"What the hell!" he hurled the strange object…only for it to fly right back into his hand like a boomerang
"The Keyblade ignored it's master's shocked rejection, they always did. The aptly named Will-of-fire was held unconsciously but firmly in the young hero's hand it thrummed with the arcane power all keyblades held waiting patiently to be used for whatever purpose it's master had summoned it for"
"Fucking bastard! are you fucking with me? is this your idea of hell? Trust me buddy I've been through worse!" Naruto roared at the disembodied voice swinging his new keyblade unconsciously through the air to punctuate that point.
He glared at the object after this briefly Before turning and blinking several large shards of what was clearly mirror. Or nope the tiny ripple of something impacting it told him this was water.
But it was what was REFLECTED in the weird…water shards… that caught his attention.
"Noticing for the first time that he was garbed in something unfamiliar Our Hero stared shocked, his fingers reaching out for the fragment of what was once his worlds great sea, his touch causing ripples to dance along the otherwise stagnant existence."
Naruto ignored the voice as he took in his new outfit
a long crimson coat with a black flame motif similar to his sage coat but made of leather or something similar with a white fur collar a large silver zipper on the inside of the hem which was pulled notably closer than his old sage coat, similarly on the upper portion of the right sleeve were three smaller zippers arranged with one just above the other a short distance of red shiny leather between them.
There was also a vertical zipper on the underside of each sleeve partially unzipped with three small again pointless zippers on the top side of the sleeves near the ends.
Under his jacket he wears a black Zip up turtleneck under shirt with an oversized zipper in its center
slightly baggy black cargo like biker pants with dark crimson leather chaps that go up to his knees at the front and back but up to about his waist on the sides the chaps had large pouch like pockets four in total, two on each leg with oversized zippers, he was noticing a pattern here, and two zipped pockets under the pouch like pockets the strange legwear was framed with a belt and boots that were definitely not something he'd normally, hell none of this was something he'd wear normally except maybe the jacket.
The belt black leather, studded with silver pyramid shaped metal, the belt buckle was strange a silver metal thing shaped sort of like a hand mirror if the upper portion was in a heart shape with an upside-down dear drop shape inside it and two curved pointed lines coming from either side a the bottom the 'handle' of the mirror ended in a notable tapered half circle like shape like he said it was a weird symbol.
His new boots were first off NOT open toed further proof they were NOT shinobi clothes…as if he needed more proof of that, heavy Black combat boots with greyish silver metal plating on the toe and heal on the front shaped like a snarling stylized fox head with when he tilted his head to look at the backs stylized flame shaped plating raising the boots a bit he noticed they had the same weird symbol as his belt buckle built into the center of the top part of the soles.
He then noticed the fingerless black gloves on his hands with metal plates on the back each with the Dream Eaters Symbol on them the first shinobi like piece of clothing he had on the reminded him of Kakashi's gloves the thought of his Jounin sensei brought back a feeling of bitter sorrow.
Falling on his ass as the full weight of what had happened hit him once again.
Everyone…everyone was gone…they'd lost…he'd failed…He'd lost.
As this realization hit him his vision spun once more as he fell backwards, the shock of it driving him back into unconsciousness.
"As the hero who defies fate collapses again under the weight of his lose, his once balanced soul and mind fracture…slithering from the deep confines of his soul the darker side of our hero claws itself back into existence but…it does not stay within him…"
As the voice spoke a shadow emerged form under Naruto vaguely in his shape it crawls away towards the edge of the shard of Konoha they were upon towards the cracked but still otherwise intact memorial stone it rises as it reaches the marker of all that was lost in what turned out to be a long pointless struggle in a goddesses' game.
The silhouette of a much young Naruto took form solid three dimensional but wavering the edges of the mass of darkness undulating like the innards of a lava lamp tow eyes open solid red in the place of pupils a black symbol faintly similar to the one on the real Naruto's belt
"it's eyes bearing the mark of nightmares that which was once at peace reawakens…only knowing the suffering and loss of its true self weak it crawls from the symbol of loss of it's now forever out of reach home towards the edge of the remnant of the place where our hero once trained with his beloved team."
The creature twitched listening to the voice it followed its instructions or what seemed like instructions to the letter.
Peering into the strange distant sea of colors it watched as those colors bled to black, strange creatures bearing the same mark in its eyes upon them emerged from it staring at him. The cartoonish beings seemed almost welcoming…
"without a second thought the shade took the plunge into the Abyss of Nightmares it would grow with every loss, every rictus of pain that cut deep the heart of the hero it would grow, it would gestate, it would feed on the Nightmares awaiting it with open arms infinite in their numbers as infinite as the insecurities, fears and pains of all hearts, soon it would be born anew.."
Again, without any hesitance the creature followed the direction of the mysterious narrator falling like a lone raindrop into the sea, the ripples of its landing dancing across the surface and in the wake of those ripples nightmare gave way to technicolor dream once more…