(Dimension 999)
In the world where Issei currently lived (Dimension 999), better known as the dimension governed by the god of the bible in the past, a certain suicidal man picked up another kid aside from Naruto from the streets.
"Heeeh~ so your name is Karin-kun. Well, do you want to go back to your world?"
"If- if that's not going to trouble you then— please!" The redhead girl bowed deeply.
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(Dimension 392)
The Land of Tea is a small country near the Land of Fire.
They're famous for their… well, tea?
You could at least spot tea houses wherever you are in the land of tea so…
But anyway!
Azusa took out her smartphone and pressed the screen a few times.
After a while, a new phone materialize in light particles before it fully manifested and dropped onto Azusa's hand. "This is the Phone with the 1.15.0 patch, we should be giving this to that Jiraiya guy stated in the mission." She said.
"Wasn't that the item exchange feature? Who even gave you the phon— never mind, I think I know who…" The little detective stated.
"Huh? Who did it-ttebayo?" Naruto voiced his thoughts.
"Rimuru-san of course, who else…? After I joined the group, I magically find 50 pieces of evidence and the culprit on almost every case I encountered, via『Thought Acceleration』 that she gave me out of the blue… Now that I think about it, Makoto-san also does that kind of thing sometimes…" With a distant look on his face, the detective explained.
"Um… ah, it must be tough on your common sense." The witch of immortality gave her condolences while our whiskered Main character got even more confused.
"Yeah well, at least they gave me a way to change my body back. Even though it only lasted for a few days." He ended.
"Anyway, we should probably get going now… I'd like to see how this world operates."
Just as they are about to go,
BZZZT* BZZZT* BZZZT*
DING DING DING*
PIPIPIPIPIPI*
Their smartphones… all three of them, rang.
It was a group call, and was initiated by (again) an account named "Chaos Dragon".
In the end, Azusa and Shinichi decided to not pick it up, rather, they let Naruto do it and set it on speaker.
[Hey there~!] That familiar voice was, of course, Makoto the suicidal man himself.
Suddenly came a voice Naruto doesn't recognize,
[Makoto? What's up? It's been quite a while since you used the group call feature] The voice is in a low baritone.
Naruto lifted an eyebrow on his face before the man from the other side continues, [I'm currently busy with my job. Can this wait?].
Then a familiar voice came in, [What are you up to this time…? You understand what's coming for you if you disrupt my schedule do you?]. Yes, that was the angry calligrapher, Seishuu Handa.
And finally came a voice of a young girl, [A-ano, I'm currently doing a job with my guild party so, KYAH!!] It sounds like she's fighting someone.
[『Sky Dragon's Wing Attack!!!』] Followed by an attack declaration.
[Ara-mā? Was I disrupting your work? Well, I guess I'll just get to the point; we made a branch of our agency in Naruto-kun's world. It resides in the land of tea~, just try to find a 4 story apartment similar to the ones in Issei-kun's world, okay? Well then, Ja ne~] BEEP*
Only at that very moment do the whole chat members' think align: "HUH!??"
Disregarding the beeping sound from Naruto's phone, a notification came in from the "Chaos Dragon" himself.
DING*
[Chaos Dragon: @Nine-tailedboy @ShrunkenDetective @Immortalwitch, turn around for a second okay? ] The suicidal guy typed these words inside the chat room.
They were confused at first, but somehow they decided to comply… but even so, once again their common sense was crushed into pieces.
Behind them… Specifically, between the Japanese style of tea houses, stood a tall 4-story building, modeled the same way it was in the world where their base was supposed to be.
It's almost like some god just "CtrlC CtrlV"ed the agency into that world.
They could even see Makoto waving his right hand through the window with a refreshed smile, also… there's seishuu-san beside him, dropping his jaw down as he's inspecting the scenery outside the building.
The suicidal guy surely loves it when he successfully makes others skeptical.
"That's… that's the agency dattebayo…" Naruto's gaping at the view, he put up a skeptical face while sweat ran through his forehead.
""Naruto-kun"" suddenly both Azusa and the child-like Shinichi called.
"Huh?" (Naruto)
"We'll say this to you in advance… don't worry about it." (Azusa Shinichi)
"Huh!??" (Naruto)
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"This building connects to the other branch too, you know? Everyone's world now acquires one agency and you'd be able to travel freely without having to wait for a quest anymore! Of course, only if you had gone to that dimension at least once~ which is a bit sad of Sei-kun…" The suicidal man explained all of this nonchalantly while stirring his tea with a spoon.
"I see I see, Naruhodo ne…" No, Azusa doesn't Naruhodo at all.
Author's note: Naruhodo means "I understand" or "I see".
"Ah is that so, that's quite fortunate isn't it, Makoto-san?" Even Shinichi's Thought Acceleration could only be concluded that "something amazing happened".
"(Darou~) Isn't it~?" Makoto mused.
They receive a skeptical face from the whiskered blonde.
"Never mind that… Lad!" After a series of dropping his jaw at every window he has seen, Seishuu called out to Naruto.
"H-hai?" (Naruto)
"We've got another job for you." (Seishuu)
"Eh!? Job!?" (Naruto)
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It turns out, that the president herself has made a request.
An otherworlder girl was discovered in issei's world.
She seems lost and doesn't seem to understand what happened.
Until she met Makoto that is.
Yet again, Makoto takes someone in aside from Naruto.
"As for that, this is Karin. We want you to escort her back to the place she told us; Kusagakure." Seishuu stated thus.
They were introduced to a young girl with red hair, who seems to be Naruto's age and wore a school uniform of an elementary school instead of Naruto's world's traditional clothing.
"Kusagakure? …where's that?" Our whiskered blonde asks.
"It's near the land of fire, Naruto-kun." Makoto interject, "Though… you'd have to pass your home to get to Kusa, but you'll be able to go home once the issue's settled. Plus, our information broker said Jiraiya is currently at Kusa. It'll be two birds with one stone! Well, what do you say?"
Naruto pondered for a while before he says: "I don't really get it but, what you're basically saying is this girl also wants to go home right? If that's the case, then I'll help dattebayo!" With a smile, he exclaimed thus.
Makoto then turns to Azusa, "I guess I'll have to do it since Naruto-kun agreed, but don't you go into my world when I am working, Makoto." She ended with a threat: "If I get home and hear any more rumors about 'the witch of the plateau is married', I'll definitely kill you."
But in response to her scary threats, "Really!? You'd kill me~!? You hear that, Sei-kun? Azusa-chan wants to kill me~~"
"…" Sometimes, Azusa forgot he's this kind of person.
While almost sweat dropping at their antics, the child-like Shinichi says: "Barō, of course he'd say something like that… Now you'll keep thinking about this conversation for the whole trip because Makoto-san would actually do it if he wanted to…"
"GAH! DON'T SAY IT!" (Azusa)
Author's note: "Baro", Edo slang for "Bakayarou" ("damn fool"), and one of Detective Conan's catchphrases.
"Well, then it's decided. Don't worry though, I'd be going with you guys too. Even though I'd be dropping off mid-way" Makoto suddenly said.
"That's… a relief, I guess…" (Azusa)
"Before you guys go, Naruto. I'll have to tell you something…" Seishuu was the one who says this.
"What is it-ttebayo?"
"As you know, our group has the ability to jump through planets and dimensions. However, we're not the only ones…" He paused as he closed his eyes.
"huh?"
After opening his eyes once more, Seishuu says: "It was spotted 10 years ago, a group of juveniles wreaking havoc in our world. We found out they are otherworlders. Even though we have not confirmed if they have the ability suitable for dimension travel, we at least know there are groups like us in this multiverse."
"Multiverse…?" (Naruto)
"Yet, we found out about it 3 years ago… just like us, they have formed an organization even though originally, we suspect it was the interference of an otherworlder who messed with that organization. The president stated it was due to them that the timeline of the world changes dramatically." Seishuu explained.
With narrowed eyes, the littlest detective in the group voiced his thoughts: "Another inter-dimensional crossover organization huh… and their goal is…?" They waited for Seishuu-san to answer.
"They're hostile to us." On that, the trio's eyes went wide.
"The name… what's their group's name?" Finally, it was Azusa who asked. But at the hidden corner where only Shinichi's gaze fall in, Shinichi could see it clearly…
"…ROOT"
The red-headed girl smirked faintly.
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Naruto was left confused.
He gets that he now needs to help escort Karin-chan back to her home, and he does understand that we could go back to another world by simply using the door Makoto used back at the agency.
But he doesn't understand what Seishuu Handa told him before their departure: "If you meet this boy, make sure to run. Take Shinichi-kun and run away with all you've got. Left him to Azusa-san you got that?" Seishuu-san said this while giving him a photograph.
It shows a boy in a black cloak modified haori, a sword hanging its scabbard on his waist, and the boy seems to be looking fiercely at something with his red eyes.
Naruto was confused…
WASN'T THAT THE BASTARD!??
That's right… the guy in that picture was the teme who gain all attention of all his girl classmates… Sasuke teme!
Author's note: teme = A Japanese word that can be simply translated to the word "bastard" as an insult.
'What's going on dattebayo…?' Naruto could not understand what it means… surely he still look at the bastard in jealousy would they meet each other again…
But knowing the fact he is actually an "executive" of the evil dimensional traveling syndicate this whole time?
Well… he was told to run, but maybe he could try to ask the bastard first.
That's why for now… "Whoaaaa! We're going pretty fast, dattebayo!" The trio plus the new girl ride a car across the border.
Of course, they met the Border Patrol team of Konoha's before that.
They were using a normal carriage at that time, and Makoto tries to play as Azusa's "husband" during the interrogation as much to Azusa's forced smile.
He told them they were going to Kusagakure and much more.
Neither Naruto nor the others knew what Makoto did, but he was somehow able to get a border crossing permit out of them.
Well, disregarding the fact some of the ninjas acted weirdly afterward, all's well that's well for them.
And finally when there doesn't seem to be any Konoha's shinobi within sight, "Azusa! Let's get a car! Quick quick!"
"…So this is why you 'bought' me a car and even teach— no, FORCED me to learn 『Inventory』" With a flat face, the witch deadpanned.
"Well yeah, what else could it be?"
Yeah, that happened.
Of course, it was not Makoto who drives the car, somehow.
"Whoa whoa, yeaah~ shinju wa— Hitori wa, dekinai~ Futar- Hm? What's wrong Azusa? Why are you driving with such disappointment on your face?" (Makoto)
"IT'S NOTHING!" The witch exclaimed.
Three kids sat in the back seat, the red-haired end up being in the middle between the blonde and little detective.
"What is this… vehicle?" Karin asks.
"Ah… I remembered Makoto-san said this world doesn't have such vehicles… well, this is called Car. Since you've at 'our' world, you should've seen it on the streets right?" Shinichi explains.
"Oaah! This feels awesome!!!" Naruto exclaimed.
Yeah, that happened.
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"This is my stop, see ya later~!" Makoto parts ways with them once they've reached the land of waves.
But before that, Makoto gave Naruto something; a piece of talisman.
It almost looks like Seishuu-san's seal.
He also gave Shinichi a… skateboard!?
"Oi! Where did you get this!" Shinichi asked.
"Great news! Our agency has now located just a few blocks from the famous Mouri Kogorou's detective agency!"
"… I really hate it when you or Rimuru-san do these kinds of things."
"Oya? Would you like this unique skill called 『Insomniac』 instead?"
"NO, I'M GOOD."
And after a few more days of sleeping and eating inside the car, they were forced to walk as they don't want to alert anyone else.
There's also the fact they can't use the car through the forests.
Well, Azusa decided to bring them for a flight.
Yes, she took Naruto and Karin up in the air while Shinichi rode his own turbo-engine skateboard.
Not that they didn't think it'll make them stand up more but at least Azusa still cast stealth magic on them.
"YOU'RE AWESOME DATTEBAYO!!!"
Well, Naruto seems to be enjoying himself…
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Kusagakure.
The place they're in doesn't really have any difference from the other villages.
As much to Shinichi's confusion as to which period this dimension takes place.
Even though they have no vehicles and no firearms can be spotted (Not that they were commonly shown in public in the first place), Shinichi's pretty confused as to how is electricity an actual thing.
"Hello there miss, such interesting clothes you're wearing there…"
"Are you looking for anything, miss?
"Please check out our store!"
Now... 'This is weird' Shinichi thought to himself.
"Y-you kids make sure Karin-chan returned safely first okay!?" Azusa was pulled away by the villagers.
"So where do you live-ttebayo, Karin-chan?" Naruto ignored the Azusa being pushed around by the crowd of villagers.
Shinichi shifted his eyes back to the red-haired girl they are currently escorting as the girl says: "It's just near there" she pointed somewhere away from the crowd.
10 minutes later...
"Hey, we've been walking in this place for quite a while, dattebayo..."
"We're almost near"
For ten minutes the kids walked around the alley, and Karin still stated they have not arrived at her house yet.
But Shinichi has other thoughts.
His hands are inside his pockets, as his glasses shine in white.
"That's right, 'we're almost near'. Almost near to your trap isn't it, Karin-chan?"
That stopped her in her tracks.
"Eh?" (Naruto)
Karin didn't look back, but Shinichi kept spouting more words.
"It's very weird in the first place... All of your reactions to the past trip were so obvious. Even with that, Makoto-san told me that kusagakure is not in a very good shape even in this 'era of peace'." He fixed his glasses before continuing: "I don't think I want to know about those bite marks on your hands, but at least I know this much: your ulterior motive, is hazardous for us."
After Naruto's "huh!? what are guys talking about?" Karin turns around to look at the little detective with somehow a smirk of mischief.
"That's unexpected, so you've been pretty observation to my expressions this whole trip? ... what a naughty boy you are~"
"Wha— Karin-chan?" (Naruto)
"I'm older than you... Now that I think about it though... I see, so it's ROOT?" Shinichi muttered.
"Ha, so the agency is a dimensional operative after all. It looks like we look down on you a bit." Saying that, Karin brought something up to her ears.
(Karin Uzumaki, Main Ability: 『Fuinjutsu: Adamantine Attacking Chains』, ROOT member.)
A rectangular-shaped object that shines as she spoke to the object like some sort of communicator.
"Sasuke-senpai, the nine tails have been trapped." She muttered to the phone.
An unknown voice came from the device: [Good job, don't kill him]
Her left hand where she didn't hold the smartphone moved to create a half seal of hand sign and from that moment, dozens of golden chains sprouted from her back.
"Roger that" As she muttered that, the chains begin to make their way to attack.
However...
"I don't know about that..." SHZZ*
"Wha—"
Karin begins to lose strength on her knees, "What the hell!?"
At first, she thought she felt something stinging her neck.
But once the feeling disappears, she felt as if her body gave up all strength she has left.
"Stun-Gun Wristwatch." A voice arises behind Karin.
The culprit was another Shinichi who suddenly appears behind Karin.
The wristwatch he wore had its case parts open as the glass case showed a targeting screen that functioned as a scope to aim tranquilizer darts.
"O-wha-!? Shinichi!?" Naruto still not catching up it seems... He still looks back at the
"Thankfully, Makoto-san taught me a bit of genjutsu back when he was tormenting me so much." The shrunken detective said.
"What's this all about-ttebayo...? I at least know Karin-chan was about to attack us just now, but..." Naruto said.
Which Shinichi responded with: "To put it simply, she's a spy."
"Spy!?" Naruto.
They converse as they look at Karin who's trying to hold her eyes open.
'Uwa... those darts can put an elephant down to sleep you know? Makoto-san said there's a way to hold poison out by using Chakra but... for this little girl to do so? How shocking...' Shinichi thought to himself before he says: "Now that I think about it, judging by the timing this could probably be one of Makoto-san's schemes too..."
But after he muttered that,
STAB*
"Indeed, Makoto-san has probably seen through all of this." (???)
"Wha—"
"SHINICHI!!!" (Naruto)
Shinichi didn't move. Or rather, he can't.
He knows what so little his untrained shrunken body capable of, and he knows that dimension travel into a world where people with supernatural powers exist is dangerous.
This is exactly why he also hoped that it will give him something in return one day for the greater good of his own world.
So being stabbed through the heart was not really surprising for him even though he swore to come back alive.
"T-TEME! WHAT THE HECK DID YOU DO THAT FOR!?" Naruto's shoutings were the only thing he could hear before he blackout.
Shinichi dropped down to the ground, revealing another boy behind him.
The boy wore a strange black haori over his traditional male kimono and black hakama like a samurai as he hang a chokuto on his waist.
Strangely enough, his haori has an open collar around the boy's neck.
His black hair swayed and his pupils glows in red as the three tomoes around the black center spun while they stared into Naruto's soul.
"You are... you're Sasuke right!? you're that popular guy back in the academy—" Naruto's exclamation was interrupted.
THUD* "GET UP!" The boy in front of him kicked Karin who was on the ground.
"KAHK—!!"
"I told you not to underestimate them yet you deliberately show your chains without any second thought once you've been found out." With a cold look in his eyes, he stated thus.
Even though Naruto was shouting all this time, he realized it himself... He's scared.
Even though he saw the new guy just stabbed the child detective in front of him, he didn't move because his legs are trembling.
It wasn't due to Shinichi's presumed death, but because of the purple aura leaked by the new guy in front of him.
(Sasuke Uchiha, Main Ability: 『Susano'o』, ROOT's executive)
'Shinichi-san is... I should do something. But
at that time seishuu-san told me to... 'Run away'—' But then Naruto dismissed the thought immediately before he charged in with a fist.
"DAMN YOU—!"
To no avail, it was blocked before it even reaches the new assailant's face.
A purple aura solidified into a translucent ribcage and it blocked Naruto's fist effortlessly.
"We planned to capture you in dimension 999, but it seems we'll have to reschedule. Since we'll put you back into your collar right now." As the spiky black-haired boy executed his ability.
『Susano'o!』
The purple aura solidifies once more.
Sharp claws connecting to the current ribcages manifested and attacked.
SPLATTER*
It happens in just a second.
Too fast for Naruto to even understand what's going on.
He can't feel one of his legs as falls from losing balance.
Naruto loses one of his limbs to the solidified hands connecting to Sasuke's ribcage.
Thud*
"ARRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHH" Only after falling to the ground did he manage to feel the pain.
'It hurts...what.. the hell?' (Naruto)
"As we thought, the seal on your stomach changes the moment you travel through the space distortion. I expected more from the Nine-tailed fox himself."
'why... is the teme attacking...?'
"What a disappointment." (Sasuke)
'How did he do that...'
"At least we'll finally get our hands on you." (Sasuke)
'and why... is he with them, dattebayo!?'
In the midst of the hair lifting situation, a fragment of memories manifested inside Naruto's mind: "DEMON FOX!" "MONSTER!!" "The world would be a better place if you would just die in a ditch somewhere!"
'Ah... right, again, they're all saying things about how I'm a demon fox, dattebayo...' Naruto thought in silence.
'Not to mention, this huge amount of hate I'm getting again... the teme also radiated them at me.'
"You— what!?" The ROOT executive in front of him muttered in surprise.
While questions still running wild inside his head, Naruto began his transformation unconsciously.
Lights flickered around him once more and his transformation into a blinding light of red.
"ROAAAAAAAAR" The beast has fully manifested.
But there was one notable thing from his current transformation: He possesses four scarlet furry tails.
And finally, they began to clash.
BOOOM*
"GRAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHH!!!" furred hands and tails trashed here and there creating a series of dust and the showering debris.
"H-he's going berserk!?" Karin exclaimed on the sidelines.
Swiftly, the enemy countered with his chokuto.
SLASH*
Having one of your limbs being sliced off your body is a strange thing indeed,
but when you're a mindless beast wreaking havoc without care of anything in the world; You can just ignore being cut down to oblivion as your regenerative abilities don't allow you.
CLANG*
The solidified auras of purple collided with the scarlet tails and claws as if they were made out of steel.
SHRED*
And most of the time, the beast with tails was ripped apart as much to its nonchalant reaction to the fact that it only want to shred its enemy to pieces.
The child ROOT executive, however, keeps moving fast to cut down approaching claws and shard tails with both his chokutō and solidified auras.
However, just as he is about to deliver another attack on the beast's stomach...
SHIIING*
A ray of light soared brightly, it flickered when it reveals a piece of... paper? no, talisman between the transformed Naruto and Sasuke's Susanoo.
That blinding light formed particles of shining numbers as the lights obliterate their powers slowly.
Widening his eyes a little bit on the unknown object, Sasuke retreated.
The arms of his Susano'o disintegrated, slowly turning into dust particles without his own consent.
"Sasuke-senpai!!" Karin has regained her footing. "What in the world—!?"
He also noticed to no longer moving Naruto in front of him, slowly transforming back into his child state as he slump back down to the ground.
But as Sasuke shifted his attention back at the torn apart talisman full of zeros and ones, he smirked.
"I see... So you've seen this far too after all." Sasuke muttered thus, whilst ignoring the confused Karin in front of him.
Clap* Clap* Clap* "Hai~ that's enough~" A very familiar voice came from above.
When the ROOT agents looks up, they witnessed it; a man in black covered parts of his body with bandages and standing horizontally against a building.
"Hn... I should've known. The only human being who has the ability to create seals with mere numbers of ones and zeros... no, was it 'Binary code' as you called it? Either way..." Sasuke paused on his sentences as the bandaged man slowly detached from the building.
Thud* After he landed down on his two feet, Sasuke continues: "I should've known it would be you who organized this ambush, for you are still Ex-ROOT's executive after all..."
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"Makoto Yakushi."
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To be continued.
