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It was daytime.

No, it was nighttime, or it should be nighttime since Naruto did not remember going to waking from his sleep, or falling asleep for that matter. Nobody really remembered the act of falling asleep, but you would always know when you were waking up. He didn't feel like he was dreaming either, or at least he had never had such a vivid dream that he felt like he was standing somewhere so solidly.

It was beautiful.

He couldn't smell the scent of death or decay, the world itself seemed to be only filled with a never-ending sense of life. He felt strong, and at home in this place. Naruto had never once in his life felt as if he belonged more than he did here and now. The gentle, strong sunshine that shone against his skin felt like spring, but it had the smell of summer to the air. He couldn't see, in any direction no matter how far he looked, any signs of human life or civilization.

*Crunch*

That was wrong, he could see a person walking.

She was a beauty, but she was androgynous in appearance, with blond hair flecked in gold as if it were covered in gold dust. Her hair was kept tightly in a braided bun behind her head, with only a single hair standing up in the front of her head out of place. Her face was hard for him to see clearly, it was like he had a mental block that just prevented him from seeing her face, but she had green eyes.

"I see... if you've come here, the it seems your heart is at peace. Uzumaki Naruto, Son of Maelstroms, care to sit down and speak for a bit?"

Her words were soothing.

The way she spoke was formal, and he always hated when people talked that way. Yet, for some reason this woman speaking to him, the very act of this person speaking to him put his heart at such deep ease. The land that surrounded them put his body and mind at ease, but this woman put his heart at ease with the mere action of speaking to him. She walked away from him towards a small lake, and around the lake several ethereal fairies seemed to just float around. They spoke words he didn't understand.

No, he understood them.

"It comes home."
"Our Mix-Blooded Kin has returned."

"Okay..." Naruto followed the woman, and as she sat down and let her feet soak in the water of the lake, she gestured next to herself. He sat down next to her, and he narrowed his eyes to try and see her face.

He couldn't recognize her face.

She reached out and touched his cheeks.

"... A shame, all I could ever give you was your name, and these scars on your cheeks." She spoke with gentleness and shame in her voice. Her fingers gently touched the grooves in his face that were impossible for a normal person to tell the differences in skin quality. The scars on his cheeks had been a part of him his entire life, they were in all pictures of him that existed. His baby pictures had them.

Naruto felt no anger.

He felt no happiness either.

"What?" Naruto asked, since he felt like he heard something that should make him feel emotion, but he didn't know what emotion he should feel. He was so disconnected from his emotions, and felt almost nothing but peace of heart and mind at the moment. "My name and scars?" Naruto reached up and touched his own cheek when the woman stopped touching his face.

He couldn't see her facial features, but she put her hand up against her mouth, and hummed in thought.

"You can't see my face right now... can you?"

"No... I can't." Naruto couldn't help but mistake the sadness and sorrow in her voice when she asked him that question. It seemed like the very act of her asking the question was enough to cause her emotional pain, and she gripped her fist for a moment, before she relaxed it. "... You gave me my name... are you my mother?" Naruto asked the woman.

"I am not your mother, but I was quite close to her, and we do share a bond. I've always wanted to speak with you, but with your mother's death... I was unable to stay in the living realm much longer... nor could stand the thought of never seeing you grow up. It's quite complicated to explain actually... but this land has a deep connection to the Uzumaki... funny that I too hold a connection to this land." The woman spoke as she gazed upwards at the sky. She reached out and grabbed the top of Naruto's hand.

He felt no desire to pull away from her, and he felt no distrust towards even a single word that she said either.

"This isn't a dream... is this place real?" Naruto asked, since he had no clue what to think right now.

His mind was hazy.

"Well, this is a dream, but this is also very real as well. At least, this is real for me and you... this is a land that no beast with wisdom may ever enter. Very few exceptions to this rule exist. Those who... well, you have a very deep connection to this land's magic. You could say, you exist, therefor, this place gifts you love." The woman spoke with a feeling of confusion at her own words, as if she spoke from the heart and not from any learned knowledge. She knew the right answer, without any telling her.

This land was a mystery.

"So... I came from here?" Naruto asked as he looked around.

Not a bad place to come from.

"This is a land without death, a land of life eternal, not unlike the Lord's Heaven. The dead have life, and the living can't ever die. I died many years ago, but right now I feel warmth in my veins... and you, who have never died, are here with me. You both came from here, are still here, and don't come from here." The woman spoke as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"That doesn't make sense... that's a contradiction."

"Yes, like a clan of brute savages who are the most loving, intelligent people alive. Those who are ruled by their emotions, but have control over their hearts. This land has such strong magical power, that any human, and even supernatural creatures, would burst into flames from the inside out just by breathing here... so why are we able to breath here?" The woman asked Naruto the complicated question.

"... I'm a contradiction... I come from here, am still here, and didn't come from here... I've always existed here, but I've never existed here." Naruto felt his heart's answer and just spoke it. He had the knowledge, but he didn't know where the knowledge came from.

It just felt like the right answer.

"This land's existance grants the Uzumaki immense magical power, but that magical power is incompatable with the world so the Uzumaki can not use their magical abilities themselves." The woman finally knew the answer to why it was impossible for an Uzumaki to use magical abilities themselves.

All Uzumaki drew their power from this place.

They were constantly being fed power from this place, a place of such great magic that lesser beings were unable to even exist here without having their existence wiped from all of existence itself. She finally, after wondering how Kushina was able to summon multiple servants when somebody like Azazel could never even summon one of them, was able to exist yet could never use her magic.

The world was soaked in hate and darkness.
This world was soaked in love and light.

The magic of this world was rejected by the other side, so those with it's magical powers needed to have a medium to transform and use the magic differently.

The clan of spirals, living contradictions who came out of nowhere, existed through out all of history, but never existed at all in history, were part of this place, and this place was part of them.

"So... who are you to me?" Naruto didn't know why, but as she spoke, he actually understood how much he understood, and how little he understood. He would never be able to put what he understood into words. He wanted to know what he didn't understand though, and that was why this woman's warmth and voice gave him such comfort.

"Arthur... Artoria as well you could say. I was known by another name as well, but that's a name I only went by when I was connected to your mother, when she was my Master. It's a title that you will grant to the one who you summon." Artoria spoke, and the second he got her name from her, Naruto could see her face.

His body was finally able to recognize her face for what it was, and his hands touched his own cheek bones and chin.

"Your face... I recognize it."

"While you inherited your mother's face, you inherited my colors it seems. Sorry, I really wish you could have gotten your mother's beautiful hair and skin... I don't know where your blue eyes came from though." Artoria spoke as she reached out again, and her thumb touched under his eye as her fingers ran across his hair gently. The last time she had seen him was when he was a newborn, and she couldn't really tell what all he would inherit from her.

Naruto's lip trembled.

No sadness or anger, nothing but a pure joy filled his heart as he locked eyes with a somebody who, despite being a woman, was still just as great a part of his birth as his mother had been. Naruto just reached up and grabbed her hand from his face, and looked down at it. He wasn't capable of feeling anything other than joy and calm, even if he wanted to feel something.

"You're... I have so many questions."

"Hopefully, you will have time one day to ask them. Naruto, please just let me gaze at your face for awhile. There are many things I want to tell you... and I don't know where to start. Please allow this selfish desire of mine... you're grown so much, it's hard to believe." Artoria wasn't like Naruto who wasn't capable of feeling sadness or anger in this place. Emotions flooded her, and she could only savor this feeling of her son returning to her, for however briefly it was.

She just wanted to touch him, and hold him.

She didn't want to let go of him, because this was her son. This was a boy that carried her will, her soul, and her hopes for the future. He was so special and unique to her, and she had so little time with him. His eyes were so blue, and they showed her his soul to such a horrifying degree.

"You've been hurt so badly... but you still possess the quality to become King. You've never had anyone, yet you were still such a good person at heart. I am so... so proud of you that no amount of praise could ever be enough to describe to you my feelings accurately." Artoria spoke to Naruto.

...

"I won't remember any of this... I can't keep my memories of this place, can I?" Naruto spoke with his joy fading as his body started to gain a light glow to it.

Artoria didn't know the answer, but if Naruto was saying it, then she had to believe in his instincts and that it was true.

"No... I don't believe you can."

"Then tell me... just say the words that I want to hear. I might not remember them, but I still want to hear them." Naruto's entire lower body was gone, and his upper body was half gone as well. Naruto looked Artoria in the eyes, and she nodded her head with a smile.

"Uzumaki Naruto, Son of Maelstroms... I, Artoria Pendragon your Father, love you. Hopefully, one day we can be reunited in some way... and when you die, you will come back here to me... and by that time I will have found your mother... oh... you need a gift after all these years, don't you-"

Naruto woke up.

Asia was next to him, still asleep with her arms cuddling up against him, using his arm as a pillow. Naruto reached up, and he touched his cheeks. They were wet with tears that he didn't remember shedding, over a dream that he didn't remember having. Naruto felt like a small weight in his heart was gone though, even though he didn't know what that weight was.

Stronger than ever before, he wished he could meet his Father.

Chapter End!
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Welcome to perhaps the most important Sub-plot I will be including in this story.
I wonder if anyone can figure out the importance of this.
No 10K this chapter, but we didn't get the 10K right away in Reluctant Hero or Quirky Villain either, it took a couple of chapters there too.