Warning: I do not own RWBY, that belongs to Oum & Rooster Teeth. Nor Naruto that is shonen and his creator.


"... Ooohhh sweet brothers what happened ..." Naruto's slowly opened his eyes before shutting them off quickly. Only after a few more minutes did he opened them again. It was a sewer ... his mindscape, he snapped up and look around. He saw the Kyuubi seal all intact.

And the Kyuubi watching him.

"Ozma, it is good to see you awake" the kyuubi greeted

"K-Kyuubi? Argh, Gods my head feels like it is about to explode. Still confused why we are here? I ... thought we were somewhere else?" he asked

"You were, your first incarnation explained to you about Salem and then you were knocked out. After that the first Ozma sent you back here" the Kyuubi explained.

And as if someone took a sledgehammer the memories of that talk came back in full force, as well as what happened next. All the memories of Ozma were forced upon him at once. He looked around for Ozpin and even tried mentally calling out for the man, no response, he was actually gone just another piece of his memories. Then he noticed what the kyuubi said.

Not wizardling ... just Ozma.

"So you have finally noticed it haven't you. Your first incarnation warned you what would happen, thousands of years worth of memories went to you. You have been unconscious for awhile now" it answered.

"... How long has passed in the real world?"

"A few hours, maybe two to three" the kyuubi answered "However, there is something I want to ask about you Ozma, it is something that has been on mind since we went through that. I asked your first self this question but I feel appropriate to ask you ... why, why do you keep protecting these humans?"

"I ... I ..."

Everything vanished as naruto feld his own mind, closing any communication with the kyuubi.


Naruto awoke back into the real world. He left his cane on the desk as he opened a portal. Stepping in it he was back in his room. The sun was still there but was beginning to come down, he opened the door and began walking.

He wondered through through konoha with no real destination, not that he wanted to be with anyone at the moment. Not with all that has been explained to him.

All his work ... it was lie, all the tales he told to so many was a lie to trick to fight in a war they did not even understand. And yet, if he did not then mankind would have fallen long ago to Salem's forces. He groaned as he clutched his head, all those memories were on the edge of his mind just waiting for the moment to come forward.

What else could he even do?

"What kind of mess did I create?" he whispered to himself. Looking up he saw he was in one of the training grounds, and from the looks of it there was nobody here. He went to the nearest post, placing his back on it he slowly side down.

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"Um ... are you ... ok there?" asked a familiar voice.

"Hinata! What are you doing here, I thought you were still in the hospital?" Naruto was confused to see the Hyūga heiress here. He was sure that she was still healing from those wounds from neji?

"Ah um, the doctors said that I was able to leave ... a while ago, they said that um I could go as long as I don't um do anything serious" said Hinata "... Um ... So, why are you ... um, here?"

"Oh ... just in my own thoughts, some stuff just came up and I needed some time alone" he explained.

"Ah, d-do you want to speak on it, um, you don't need to—"

"No no, I don't mind" he said, he motioned hinata to sit down with him "Well, today has been a real hectic day for me. I uh ... learned some stuff that I really did not want to know and now I am just trying to process it."

"What ... was it?" she asked.

"It was, stuff that I really did not want to know. Or well, there is someone that is really dangerous and I need to stop her ... but I can't beat her. No matter what I do I can't seem to stop her at all. Before I thought I had the chance, but now I don't really know" Naruto explained.

"Why do you um want to stop this lady?" Hinata asked.

"Why? Because ... because it's kinda of my fault, well in a way it is but not at the same time and I am the only one that could have stopped" Naruto explained.

"Why can't you get help ... if she is so powerful why don't you get the hokage's help?" Hinata never saw her crush look so distraught, he looked so lost and confused.

"That really isn't an option, at least not her, she has hurt a lot of people and I don't want more to get hurt because of her. Not only that ... but I am scared of trusting others" he said the last part softly. Hinata looked at him, Naruto Uzumaki scared? That was like calling the sun green or something absurd. The heiress found it hard to believe but yet the face naruto had was telling otherwise.

Naruto continued on "My ... mentor and his mentors before him told others about her and they always reacted badly. They all tried to explain but so many just pointed at them like it was their fault, it wasn't at all! I—They tried to do everything they could, they were not perfect beings, they were still human. Sometime those same people abandon them or tried to betray them, they never fared any better.

Some tried to outwit her thinking they could bargain or even threatened her. Heh, all of them were idiots, there was nothing in the world you could offer to her that will last. She had all the time in the world to plan her actions. She had the most powerful tool of all, she could just wait for the right time to strike. Those that called out his methods failed to come up with a solution and always ended up as hypocrites, few ever realized that."

A dark part of him almost chuckled, so many called him a hypocrite or worse but none of them had any better plans. Relics? Tried using them all to no avail. Raise an army? That was a one way ticket to death. They all tried to come up with their own plans and yet alway failed to realize their own mortality. No matter what they did it would fade away and fail, in the end they just digged a quicker grave for themselves.

Some of them even had the gaul to steal the relics and using it as a bargaining tool. He learned long ago to never reveal their true inner workings, not like it mattered, in the end she just waited for them grow old before taking the relic from their frail corpse and him taking it back. Idiots, all of them. But before he could delve further into that darkness Hinata spoke.

"Then you should stop being, scared" such a simple question broke him out of his thoughts "M-Maybe you should trust people, it feels like something will do."

"Me? Why do you think of that?" he asked.

"B-Because that doesn't seem like you ... you're always so strong and you don't ever give up" she said "It's not like ... you to give up. I ... I ... I trust you Naruto, that ... that you will stop this person"

Before Naruto could reply he stopped seeing Hinata, instead in her place was someone he never thought he would see. Green hair replaced lavender hair and her bloodline was replaced with soft green eyes. Her smiled though ... it was the same, same as her.

Spring

"I ... I see, I'm sorry but I need to go uh do stuff right now" he hastily got up from his spot and quickly left the training ground, leaving Hinata confused.

xxx Elsewhere xxx

Naruto walked through the growing crowd of people, normally there should be less but since the finals were so close the tourist were starting to arrive which meant they wanted stuff to do. Meaning the nights were going to be packed.

"Why do you believe in me Hinata, even though I said I was scared you still gave me that trust. And so willingly, it's just like the"

"Hey naruto what are you doing there sulking like that?" asked a older masculine voice. He turned to see no one other then his old sensei, it was Iruka of all people. "I heard you got into the finals and you didn't even tell me. I'm hurt you know, telling your old sensei nothing like that."

"Ah, sorry Iruka sensei, must have passed my mind" he apologize, he did not expect to see him here "So um, any reason for calling out to me?"

"To get some ramen, my treat" he explained. Naruto did not argue as the man pulled him to his favorite ramen stand. A few orders later the two were slurping through their second bowls.

"I hope you have been training hard naruto, I heard your opponent was last years rookie of the year" Iurka warned.

"Mah mah, I can take him on with ease sensei" Naruto assured the man, really, neji was the last of his concerns.

"Well that and ... I saw how you were looking, it looked like you were in pain or something. Everything alright with you naruto?" THe chunin looked worried for him.

"Oh that er well ... I just been having a lot to think on and well I kinda of hit a wall" he explained "It's nothing more you should be worried about sensei"

Sadly Iruka was not buying that "You're going to need to try better than that, something is eating at you. It has been some time but I still remember the faces that you used to make. Something is eating at you isn't it? You know I am here if you want to talk about it, I won't tell anyone, a teacher's promise too."

Huh, he never thought that Iruka sensei would remember the faces that he made, man he must have made some crazy looks when he younger. But should he trust him? Then again, he already told Hinata a lot already ... screw it, he was the incarnation not Ozpin or his past forms.

"Well I learned some stuff today that I really did not expect. A lot of it was stuff I really did not want to know and now I am just trying to take it all in" he explained. A simple and quick spell made sure that no one else heard his talk with Iruka.

"And what is it? Did something happen to you?" he looked worried at the kid. Did kakashi brush him off for training or was it not going well?

"In a way something did happen. But that isn't the main problem, the problem is that I am not sure what do anymore. There is someone who I want to stop, she's a real um ... jerkwad and I can't seem to beat her. Nothing I did seems to affect her and I tried everything could do ... and nothing still" naruto explained vaguely.

"But who is this lady who is causing you problems? What's her name, maybe I can help" Naruto shook his head at that.

"Thanks sensei, but I don't ... know if I want to your help. I don't mean that I don't want it, it's just that this is my fault and I do not want others to get hurt because of me."

Iruka looked at his student with worry. This was the first time he saw him so vulnerable like this, did he prank the wrong person or something? He knew that boy used to love doing pranks, maybe he went a bit far with one of them. Mmm, it still felt wrong he doubted naruto would ever go far as to hurt someone with his pranks. Then again, maybe it was the villagers, did someone really think they could hurt the kid? The third hokage stopped such things very quickly.

He still remembered the public executions.

Then again, people could do some very stupid things so maybe it was possible? For some reason it he felt there was more but pushed it down, the last thing he wanted to was press to hard.

"So then what is your plan then Naruto? I sure you have something" said Iruka.

Naruto shook his head "That is the problem I just learned today that there is no plan in stopping it. At least not one I know of, I just don't know who can even help me to begin with ... or worse they try to leave me again."

"So you are scared of trusting people then? Is this person that scary that you don't want to trust others, do you really think no one could help you out Naruto?" Iruka asked.

"To honest I am not sure. I have no idea if there is anyone I can trust, you know with the fox in me and all" he pointed to his gut. Iruka understood, there were few people that liked the boy thanks to his burden and even fewer that would help him at all. Trust was an issue the boy could have faced while nobody did anything, not even him.

Pushing the guilt away he focused on what he could do for him. As his old sensei he felt that he needed to do something for his student.

"Hey, if you need help then you can trust me Naruto! I may not be much but whoever that this lady is I can throw in some aid or maybe we can even go to the hokage for help" Iruka offered the boy.

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"Iruka sensei ... what would you do if you are faced with a goal that seems so far away that no matter what you do it is always just outside of your reach? When it feels like all your plans are ready to crumble and there is no one around you that you can trust ... what would you do?" He asked after a some time.

Iurka looked surprised by his question but thought on the subject. His ramen even got a bit cold from how long he was thinking on it, after a few moments he finally gave his answer.

"I would take a break. If this problem is that great then maybe you need to take a moment to step back, look at it from afar, maybe there is something that you missed or forgot. You need to calm yourself, understand everything around you before acting" Iruka answered.

That was not what he expected to hear from the man. He thought it would be the lines of trusting your comrades or whatever. But telling him outright that needed to calm himself down and take a break.

Iruka stopped existing

And in his place a pale women with white robes and blue eyes.

Winter

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The rest of the meal was done and silence as Naruto excused him soon after.

xxx Elsewhere xxx

"Huh, never thought I would see you here kakashi sensei" Naruto said. It had been less than an hour since he left Iruka and decided to go on the roofs. Right to see his own sensei drinking to himself in all places. It was a secluded place but ...

Drinking now of all times?

"Hm, oh hey naruto. You ready for the match coming up soon?" Kakashi asked, then he looked at the sake bottle naruto was staring at "Ah, so your curious about this. I like to have a nice drink before big things start, something I picked up during my hay days. Don't worry to much, it won't affect me much, so what brings you here naruto?"

"Well I was trying to get some time to think to myself" naruto answered back.

"... You want to talk to someone?" Kakashi offered another bottle that came from ... somewhere. Anywhere else he would have question this moment but after talking to both hinata and Iruka-sensei, eh, why not another one.

Kakashi pulled out a small cup and poured some sake before giving it to him. He took it in one swing and ignored the burning feeling, not a bad taste for this world's alcohol, a little on the light side but good enough for him. Kakashi looked a little amused before pouring another cup, this time warning him to drink slowly.

"So what brings my cute little student all the way here? Or is your love for me that great?" he teased.

"You're still the old and lazy sensei I know. But no, I was walking around, just thinking. Some stuff that came up and now I am not sure what to do, that and I was thinking about what Hinata and Iruka-sensei said to me" Naruto explained. "Sensei, have you ever been in a situation where you feel like you can't trust anyone even though they are willing to but trust in you ... or maybe in a problem that no matter how you looked at there was no real way of stopping it?"

"And what prompted you to ask these questions Naruto?" the man asked.

"Reasons" he answered.

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"Hm, those questions ... well naruto there is one situation that happened to me, it answers both questions. Now of course before I go on I need you to promise to never speak of this to others, technically I should not be saying this, but I think this may help you" said kakashi. Naruto nodded as the man eye turned U-shaped.

"Good, ... back in the third shinobi war we were fighting kiri. Back then kiri was beginning to grow desperate as our forces slowly began making inroads and they relayed more and more on hit & run tactics to slow us down. Eventually our spies discovered kiri's newest plots against us, they planned on using one of their bijuu as a suicide technique where the seal would be remotely released once it reached konoha. Of course the problem was that if they choose a civilian or a diplomat the plan could be prematurely discovered.

No, they needed a member of our shinobi forces for this to work. Someone that is low enough in the ranks that nobody would notice and could easily slip back to the village with ease. It was an ingenious plan really, had we not known konoha would be gone or it would not be what it is now. So I and a team of others began a long search to find the group in charge of this plan. Took us nearly a whole month as we combed through most of the water nation.

That was also when we realize who was the chosen host. It was one of my teammates ... my last teammate" said Kakashi.

The man sighed before taking a sip from his sake

"I could not believe that she of all people were chosen, I tried to believe otherwise but the evidence was in front of me ... I did not know what to do. Like you I was at a point where I did not have a clue on what to do next. I tried to come up with some plan to save her, but what we learned of the seal there was no real way to get if off without releasing the bijuu ... expect killing her.

We tried to come with some kind of plan and instead tried to kill all of her guards before they could use the tigger jutsu. A few days later we finally reached rin, the plan worked, well sort of. We killed the guards off and was about to get rin away, that was before our other teammate alerted to something worse. We must have forgotten something as a company of anbu had arrived to take rin back. We tried to hold off but knew unless we run we won't escape.

But rin would not move, I tried to get her too ... but she said it was useless, the company already had the trigger jutsu it was handed out days ago. We knew there was no choice, we had to kill her or they would just use someone else. I decided to do the deed" Kakashi explained.

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"Did you, do it?" Naruto was entranced by his sensei's speech, it was not something he expected to hear from the man at all. His sensei rarely talked about ... well, anything really. The man could be stubborn when he wanted to be.

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"... No, I did not ... Rin did it" He saw his students surprised look "I was about to end her life, and I couldn't. My body refused to move it closer and I did not argue with it. I didn't want to kill her, I didn't want that sin on me. I begged her to move out of the way ... she grabbed my jutsu, I saw the lighting melt her skin, and she plunged the jutsu into her own heart. It killed the bijuu and stopped kiri's plans."

"Did she saw anything to you" he asked softly.

"Yes, that she forgave me ... and that it was her choice" Kakashi spoke. Naruto could feel the emotions within the man, they were raw as guilt quickly reached and pushed it back. "After Rin's death I found it hard to be around people, all I could see was Rin and her corpse. I barely remembered her words as I shut off nearly everyone in my life. I was too scared for another death to happen at my hands. People tried to come close but I shut them all off."

"Shut them all off eh?" Naruto mused, images of a cold wooden house came to mind as he saw himself rocking back and forth in a chair. He mind was filled back then with bitter thoughts and he ignored various pleads and calls for aid. Old 'friends' begged for forgiveness but he left them to salem's games, he was done saving mankind, let the his wayward creations stew—

"—Until one day it ended" Kakashi broke his darker thoughts "Some old friends barged into my home. I tried to get them away but they all dragged me out and into the nearest restaurant to eat. And they keep doing this over and over again, slowly I tore myself out of that darkness with their help. However, that came to abrupt stop when the kyuubi attacked, a lot of those friends died that day. And I was very close to slipping back into that darkness. "

"So why didn't you?"

"Because I realized something, that darkness I was in ... I hated it, despised it with my being. So I promised myself that I would not fall back to that pit and began making friends, doing what they wanted me to do. I realized I needed to trust others or there would be nothing but darkness, I might have been scared but I never let my fears stop me" Kakashi explained.

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"I'll never let my fears stop me old man"

A girl with red pinkish hair and red eyes smiled at him

Summer

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"~sigh~ Thanks sensei, I think I nearly have what I wanted" he thanked the man and returned the bottle to him. He gave one last look to the jonin before heading to his destination. The Hokage monument.

xxx The Hokage Monument xxx

The hokage monument was one of the konoha's greatest treasures, all their hokages faces were etched into the mountain side that made the village. However, what many forget is the smaller part of it near the top of it. Near where the Shodaime head was there was a small stone pedestal with words etched into it.

Naruto was the only person here as night finally fell on the village. The moon was bright and up today, it illuminated the words in the stone. He remembered the old man showing him this place when he was younger, saying that this was a place of peace that many forgotten about. His hands touched the stone as he read the words.

To be Hokage is a difficult path

To be Hokage is to be part of a family

When mothers and sons die the eldest must take over

To be Hokage is to be the eldest sibling, you must be strong

You must never falter, you must never let anger control you

You must be resolute, you must always strive for a better future

To be hokage is to take these orders, to make them your creed

Be the wise elder sibling they need and never forget that

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"To be the elder sibling ... heh, just like you ... fall" Naruto whispered.

An image of a tanned girl with hazel eyes appeared, they were filled with wisdom and control

Fall

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Fall, Summer, Winter, Spring ... the four girls who found an old man at his lowest moment.

The wind around him rose as he felt the cool air brushed against him and for a split second heard their laughter and joy once more. Feeling something on his shoulder he grabbed it to see it was a leaf. His hands brushed against it.

"You four never needed to help me, you could have left me alone in my misery and that could have been that. But you didn't, you helped a random stranger who you had no connection with, gave him food, company, and your friendship. And when I asked why you said it was because they could. Four sisters who helped other because they could help and no other reason why" Naruto spoke.

He remember that lifetime and always chesiered them, looked back to them even when they passed from this world. Sometimes he could even feel them on his skin, their hands grabbing him and helping him to a seat. Their looks of worry and hope. How their breath felt against his body, the feeling of another person near them after so many years of isolation.

And he was just a bitter old man who tried to push them away.

And they were stubborn but noble souls who would help him.

"I think I understand what you are saying, hehe, sorry for making you have to remind me again" Naruto whispered, but he was sure that they would not mind and would probable laugh it off or at least spring would. "But you weren't the only ones, after you more and more appeared and even after the truth they still stuck to me. I warned them even some I urged them to flee ... but they never did"

He remembered Knights that kneeled before their ruler pledging their lives

Spies and assassins that killed Salem's agent to show where they stood

Farmers and peasants that raised their pitchforks and promised their crops/goods

Sages and wise folk who looked to their gods for this aid

Hunters & Huntresses giving their vows to stop Salem

He had told the whole truth before, and for every person that lost their way and let their fear control them ... their was another who was willing to lay down his/her life just to push salem back.

...

He knew his answer now, the world shifted around him once more.


Opening his eyes he saw the massive bars once more as the Kyuubi looked at him expectantly. Kurama breathed as his eyes narrowed a bit.

"Ozma, are you to answer my question or is to run away once more?"

"No, this time it is the answer and fully" he replied back.

"Hmph, very well. Then once again Ozma I will ask, why? You and I are immortals we have seen the levels that humanity has and can fall into. For many years you have defended this pitiful and disgusting species. They have betrayed you, their creator, multiple times and even sided with the one that wants to end their lives. Why do you protect them even now, after all they have done, would it not be easier to take the relics and start over?"

"Kurama, I have walked this earth far longer then any other being and that even includes you. For thousands of years I seen and been affected by events that are now long forgotten to everyone expect me. I have walk the life of peasants, knights, nobles, kings, emperors, craftsmen, soldiers, politicians, and hunters. There is no walk of life I have not been through. And in all of my studies I have learned one thing.

Mankind contains two things, an insatiable hatred that always threatens to tear everything down to feed itself. Going as far as to create more hate for the sake of hate itself. I have seen it turned noble people into monster which I was forced to put down, it give men, women, faunus, and human incredible powers but at a cost none of them truly understand" Ozma explained.

Of course mankind would have that. The kyuubi has also been here long enough to even know that, he sometimes wondered why his father would give him the ability to even sense negative emotions to begin with. Such a power was nothing more then a curse, the nuastainting sense of hatred this shinobi world brought was too much for even him.

And why a small part of him secretly thanked for being sealed, if it meant to never to sense all that hatred momentary.

"However, the second aspect of mankind is it's simple noble soul" Naruto continued "For all of the faults of mankind they always bear a simple but noble soul within each of them, every person has the right to decide whether to allow hate or love to control them."

"Oh, and what makes you think mankind has such a noble soul?"

"Simple, four girls" he stated. The immortal chuckled at the bijuu's confusion.

"A long time ago I was a bitter old man who lived in a forest in remnant, it was after a rather disastrous incarnation where almost all of inner circle betrayed me when they learned to full truth. If anything else it the was the needle that broke the camel's back, I was already at my breaking point and all it did was push me over the edge.

I spent most of my life alone, and even when they came back I refused to listen to their pleas. Salem was winning and even gotten one of the relics. But I did not care at that point, she could have them if she wanted mankind was dead to me, they lost their right to existence in my eyes. I'd admit I took some level of pleasure seeing their horrified faces as mankind was pushed to the brink of extinction. So I did nothing but watch in my home

Until one day, I looked outside to see a woman meditating in front of my old tree. I was more confused to anything, I was about to tell her to leave when I saw how serne she was, it was like no matter what I did or said would not affect her ... I was a little jealous of it. But I waved it away and thought she would die in the cold. But whenever I looked back she looked fine, overtime I slowly watched her as she only left to get food and nothing else.

Then I kinda of ... fell asleep" Naruto chuckled at that. That was an embarrassing moment for him.

"But when I woke up I realized it was the beginning of spring, that women stayed there for over a whole month. Now there was another women, she was far more active then the other. She introduced herself as spring and her sister as winter. Spring had ... thanked me, for sheltering winter, yes like you I also perplexed and had no idea what she meant. Spring as an active girl and wasted no second on prodding me, I tried to get them to leave but nothing I did would make them, I even tried using my magic but those two keep coming back.

Spring looked at my old garden and began repairing it with winter. Slowly life returned to it, but I did not care but neither did I stop it. I left them alone until a few days later another girl came, this time she called herself summer and that like her sister were waiting for their last siblings. I saw them enjoy each others company and I wonder how they could have such happiness. So I prodded them for an answer, and yet when they gave it to me I found it hard to believe.

Soon after few days started to laugh and giggle, when I asked why she said it was me. She explained that why do I stay in my old home and see only through a small window when I had the ability to see the world whole. I admit her speech was much more compelling and after seeing them all just enjoy itself ... I walked to the door and opened it. Days would turn into weeks as I allowed the three girls into my home and suddenly all those dark dreary days didn't return. Instead it was filled with love and joy, things I had forgotten. But such days would come a close, we decided to have a final feast before they had to leave.

Winter prepared the table, Spring brought the crops, and Summer cooked the meals. Before we ate another voice came, it was fall the eldest of the sisters. She explained they were on a journey to meet with their siblings, she then asked who I was. I told them I was but an old man living in these forest alone for centuries, I had nothing to love and nothing to me name.

Fall laughed as she explained that I did have so much, she beconked to my garden, my home, to her sisters. She told I did already have so much" Naruto explained.

A few moments laters he took a deep breath before continuing.

"So I ask them one last question. 'Why did the four of you choose to open my eyes? To share with me your gifts? Why am I so special?' is what I asked. The four maidens looked to each on confusion before they became amused, Fall explained 'I beg your pardon sir, but we did not do these things for you because you were special. We do what we can for everyone, because we are able' is what she said to me.

I was so shocked, I even used to relic of knowledge to confirm it, these four girls did it out of the kindness of their souls and no other reason. And every years they came back to meet with me and with each year I grew strong enough to face Salem once more. They gave me something far superior then any power in all of existence.

The gave me hope

And with that hope I was once again able to stand against my first creation" Naruto explained.

"But they were not the only ones I met, over time I started to trust others and even told them of Salem, magic, and the relics. Many times I warned them of the risk of following me, I gave each and everyone one of them an educated choice in the matter and a chance to walk away safely. Yes there were those that betrayed me but for each person like that there was another willing to lay down their lives to stop Salem.

Those folks came from many different walks of life but they all promised the same. Back before the girls there others that too saw the threat of salem and wanted her stopped. At first I push them away but they always keep coming back, from kids to grandkids all of their descendants learned of my existence.

I realized that every human and fanunus had that innate noble soul, so I offered my trust and natured those noble qualities and showed others that their dark path is not predestined and they had the gift to choose their future. Salem ruled her followers with fear and temptation, I founded a brotherhood that would endure beyond my lives" Naruto explained.

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"So Kurama, the reason why I protect and aid humans all these years is simple, because humanity has a simple nobility within each soul; And as long as they held onto that simple nobility I will protect them and guide this world to a better future no matter what. Besides, what creator would I be if I abandoned my creations like that" He declared

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Seeing no answer from the beast he turned to leave.

"The Dead Demon Consuming Seal"

"Excuse me?" He turned back

"The Dead Demon Consuming Seal is a power fuinjutsu capable of summoning the God of Death. If Salem is a being of infinite life then perhaps what you need is a being of infinite death. After all, the relic explained that you could not kill Salem ... it never said anything about a God"

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"Thank you, Kurama"