"Uhh...What the hell happened" groaned a 13-year-old boy lying on ground. He had blond spiky hair with three whisker marks on each cheek, wearing a hideous bright orange and blue jumpsuit and Konoha forehead protector on his forehead. This was Naruto Uzumaki, Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi No Kitsune, the strongest of all existing Bijuus and son of Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki, though he didn't know about them at all. He tried getting on his feet but fell on his butt. He looks around and sees himself inside what looked like a giant sewer.
"What the hell is this place?" he thought out loud.
He gripped his head in pain as it lasted for a few seconds. He then finally stood up and looked around the sewer. He then walked into the passageway. After walking for a few minutes, he ended up in front of a giant gate which looked like a cage with a piece of paper in kanji for 'Seal' on it.
"So, my jailor has finally decided to show himself after 13 years. How wonderful." he heard a loud booming voice, with a bit of sarcasm in it, which startled him.
Naruto looked up and saw that behind those bars were a pair of red eyes with black vertical slits looking down at him. He then saw them come closer towards him due to which he was also able to see the being's face. It was that of a fox with black fur around its eyes which stretched up to its ears. Its body covered in red-orange fur. But the most evident feature were the nine long tails that were swaying at the very end of the cell. Naruto went wide eyed when he recognised who it was, as he now knew that it had to be 'HIM'.
"K...Kyuubi." Naruto stammered with the fear he felt.
"Where are we? And what happened?"
"Why don't you tell me where we are?" asked Kyuubi.
"Um...in a giant sewer with a cage in which you are trapped. Wait, is this the seal?"
"Correct mortal, it seems like you aren't a complete idiot after all. Yes, we are inside the seal that your precious Yondaime Hokage trapped me in. And as for what happened, let me remind you. Orochimaru."
When he said that, Naruto's eyes shot up wide as he remembered what happened.
**Flashback**
"Hmm," the Grass shinobi mused quietly, Naruto in her grasp. "It seems the Kyuubi brat is still alive." She then opened his orange jacket and rolled up his shirt. The Grass kunoichi was amused at what she saw, on the boy's stomach was an intricate seal on the boy's stomach, "So this is the seal."
The Kusagakure kunoichi moved her right hand behind herself, a mini purple fire lighting up on each fingertip. Naruto thrashed in her grasp, trying desperately to free himself. The ninja's amazingly long tongue, however, would not relinquish him from its grasp.
"Hey!" he shouted, wriggling as much as the foreign appendage would allow. "Let me...go!"
The super powerful Grass ninja, who was actually Orochimaru in disguise, thrust his flaming fingers into Naruto's unprotected abdomen, crying, "Gogyō Fūin!"
Naruto's face contorted into a silent scream as the Snake Sennin's agile digits dug into his stomach, clenching around the soft flesh. The red bled from his irises as the Kyuubi's chakra disappeared, returning his eyes to their natural blue. His canine teeth shrunk to their original size and his nails were once again blunt and soft. Then, without warning, the blonde boy slumped, unconscious.
As the Grass Kunoichi tossed him into the depth of the abyss, all Naruto heard was a scream.
**Flashback End**
"Ahh now I remember. That god damn snake. When I find him, I'll make sure that he pays for what he did!" yelled an enraged Naruto. "Wait but how did I get here?"
"That even I don't know. Looks like when you were hit with the 'Gogyō Fūin' you got dragged into the seal unknowingly." said the Kyuubi.
"No! I brought him here." they both heard a voice say it rather cheerfully.
They both looked around and finally saw who was really non-human like. A body made out of pure energy and one can see the energy emitting out of him. He was about 6'7" tall and looked completely inhuman. The body was composed entirely of pure purple energy with some bit energy seeming like stars shining in the sky. He had shining white eyes, but if one was to see carefully, they were actually silver, and a white 'V' mark on his forehead. (1)
Behind him were a few more people. These people were The Shodaime Hokage Hashirama Senju and his wife Mito Uzumaki, Nidaime Hokage Tobirama Senju, Yondaime Hokage Minato Namikaze and his wife Kushina Uzumaki, Madara Uchiha, Hagoromo Otsutsuki and his brother Hamura Otsutsuki.
"What?" was all both Kyuubi and Naruto could say. They kept looking at them until Kyuubi saw Madara.
"MADARA! COME HERE SO I COULD RIP YOU OFF TO SHREDS AND MAKE YOU PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO ME!" shouted Kyuubi in extreme rage while trying to use his claws to get to him.
"Kyuubi, where are we?" asked Madara.
"It looks like we are inside a seal which is currently holding him." said Mito.
"The Eight Trigrams Seal." said Minato, "The one which I used to seal him inside our son."
"But how did we get here? And who is that boy?" asked Hashirama pointing towards Naruto.
They all saw Naruto but Minato and Kushina were the first to react as they shouted "Son!" and ran towards him enveloping him in a huge hug.
"Hello Naruto, my name is Minato Namikaze but you might know me as the Yondaime Hokage, your father. And this is your mother Kushina Uzumaki Namikaze."
"Wha-but-what-how?" said a completely confused Naruto.
"Wait father? Is that you? And Uncle Hamura? But how, YOU BOTH DIED!" exclaimed Kyuubi.
"Even we don't know how we're here Kurama. By the way nice to see you again after a long time. You've grown up." said Hagoromo and Hamura nodded in agreement.
"Hehe and you haven't changed at all old man." said Kyuubi A.K.A Kurama chuckling a bit.
"As much as I would love to see you all up with each other, I believe we're on a time limit so can we make this quick?" asked the unknown man.
"First tell us who are you?" asked Kurama.
"Aww you forgot who I am. I'm sad Kura-sama." he said in a mock hurt tone.
"You insol- wait what did you just call me?" asked Kurama while thinking'Why does it sound so familiar, unless..'
"Oh, did you really forget who I am Kura-Sama, I feel really sad right now." he said before sighing and then said, "it's me, Zeno."
'Zeno..zeno...zeno...wait,' he thought before he suddenly went wide eyed and said," ZENO-SAMA?! IS IT REALLY YOU?! WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU FOR ALL THIS TIME?!"
"Look everyone, all your questions will be answered. But for now, you better wake up Naruto." said the man now identified to be Zeno, "And remember, when you get to the tower, immediately go to Hiruzen and tell him that Orochimaru gave the Curse Mark to the Sasuke. Also tell him that you were given the Gogyō Fūin and ask him to remove it immediately'."
"Umm ok, but really what is happening? And who are you? And how are they here? I'm so confused." said Naruto.
"I'll explain everything Naruto but not now, I'll tell you everything you need to know after you get to the tower. But remember to tell Hiruzen what I told you to tell him. And also, you might not remember of how you got to the tower." said Zeno with an amused smile.
"Wait wha-" said Naruto before he was cut off and a bright light fell upon him.
Outside the seal, Sakura along with Team Ten and Team Nine, minus Lee because he had already crashed the floor, were fighting off Orochimaru's men. These were Zaku Abumi, Dosu Kinuta and Kin Tsuchi, also known as Team Dosu. Despite being overwhelmed in numbers, they weren't being overpowered by them. They were easily able defend themselves off against them. Of course, Teams' Nine and Ten weren't going all out but still.
"Huh, is that it? I kinda expected something more from you all." said Zaku.
"Whatever Zaku, we are here to kill the Uchiha so let's just get this over with." said Kin rolling her eyes.
"Kin's right, our mission is to kill him, not waste time with them." said the leader of the team, Dosu.
"Ugh fine, I'll just-" Zaku was cut off as suddenly a bright light fell from the sky in between Team Dosu and the others.
The light was so bright that various people throughout the Forest of Death were able to catch a glimpse of it.
"What is that?" asked a Sunagakure nin. This was Kankuro Subaku, the 2nd child of the Yondaime Kazekage and a member of Team Suna.
"I don't know." said a girl. This was Temari Subaku, the eldest child and daughter of the Yondaime Kazekage, and like Kankuro, a member of Team Suna.
The third member of the team didn't say anything but just seemed to glare at the direction the light was coming from. This was Gaara Subaku. The youngest child of the Yondaime Kazekage and a member of Team Suna. But more importantly, he was the Jinchuriki of the Ichibi no Tanuki, namely Shukaku. Speaking of the tanuki, he was able to sense and see the light too through Gaara's eyesight and looked a bit excited.
'So, he has finally arrived after all this time. Hehe, this will be fun.' Shukaku thought while smirking and then went to sleep.
Kiba, Hinata and Shino had to cover their eyes as the strange light nearly blinded them as it came out of nowhere.
"What is that?!" exclaimed Kiba, with Akamaru cowering in his hood. "Hinata, can you tell?"
"I'm trying..." Hinata said as she activated her Byakugan, but had to close her eyes. "The light...it's too intense."
Shino tries using his beetles, but they didn't want to go anywhere near the direction of where the light was coming from. "Whatever it is, even my bugs are intimidated by it."
The light stayed there for a few moments before someone walked out of it with his eyes closed. Everyone saw it was none other than the hyperactive ninja of Konoha, Naruto Uzumaki. But there was something clearly different about him. After the light died down, they saw him in a completely different form.
His body was covered in some form of blue and silver aura and the usual blond hair was now metallic silver. He opened his eyes they were no longer cerulean blue but pure silvery white. His physical appearance also changed as well. He went form 4'8 to 5'2 feet. He right now wore a teal shirt which looked destroyed and teal pants. He also wore a red belt with a gold buckle with kanji for 'All' on it. (2)
His muscles, along with his abs even though slightly, were visible due to the destroyed looking shirt. He kept a calm, yet also, a serious look on his face.
"Naruto?" asked Sakura as she saw her teammate, who was lying unconscious a few minutes ago, in completely different form.
He didn't say anything as looked at his hands and squeezed them a couple of times. It unnerved everyone (except Team Dosu) as they knew that Naruto, of ALL people, was NEVER silent.
"Is that Naruto? He looks completely different now." Choji said as he knew Naruto quite well and was sure as hell that something wasn't right about him, except for his appearance.
Shikamaru sighed and said, "Troublesome, well at least he is okay now."
Ino didn't say anything but kept staring at Naruto as she saw that the energy coming out of him was completely different from chakra. It was more powerful than chakra but at the same time it was really calm. Neji tried to look at him with his Byakugan, but it backfired as Naruto's chakra was like a literal flowing river of very bright stars and when he looked at it, he got blinded for a few moments before it went normal. Tenten wasn't able to sense it like them, but she knew that it was really powerful and she felt it surround her.
'Something isn't right about him' thought Dosu as he kept looking at him with a critical gaze.
Zaku didn't appear cautious at all as he just smirked and raised his hand at the group of Leaf Ninja. "Ha! Well looks loke another worm has come squirming into our business. I think it's time I wipe out all these pests at once!"
"Zaku, NO! There's something different about him." Dosu exclaimed to try and stop his teammate.
"Like I care! Zankūha!" Zaku exclaimed as he was about to unleash his jutsu.
Time seemed to slow down as Naruto's head rose up to look towards Zaku before he could unleash his jutsu. He took a single step forward and as soon as it touched the ground, he was instantly in front of Zaku. Before he could even react, Naruto grabbed his arms and pushed them up, resulting in the sonic attack to be shot up in the air, blowing away parts of the trees and the leaves.
Everybody stared wide eyed in shock at the speed Naruto moved.
"WHAT?!" exclaimed Zaku in dismay.
"He was...he was there one moment...and then gone the next." Choji muttered in disbelief.
"I didn't even see him move." Shikamaru said, just as shocked.
"Is that really...Naruto?" muttered Sakura in disbelief.
"It's like he just teleported if front of him." said Ino.
Neji didn't say anything but internally he was seething, 'He's even faster than Lee without his weights. But how?! And what was that chakra? It was bright enough to make me blind had I not moved away in time.'
'In the academy, he wasn't even able to create a simple Bunshin, but now, just what are you' thought Tenten.
Zaku tried to bring his arm back, but Naruto held on tightly. "Hey, let me go!"
Naruto didn't respond as he let go of Zaku's arms, only to deliver a spin kick, sending him crashing into a tree. Zaku gasped in pain before he collapsed onto the ground.
Kin growled in anger before bringing out her senbon needles. "Take this!" she exclaimed as she threw her senbon needles at the former blonde. Naruto just stood there as the needles came closer, before tilting his head to avoid then.
"Is that so?! Well then, how about this?!" she exclaimed as she proceeded to throw a bunch of senbon at him, who still just moved his body slightly to avoid getting hit. His eyes soon soon landed on Dosu, who continued to stare in shock by the display of power. Naruto then started to slowly walk towards Dosu, while still avoiding the senbon without any trouble.
Kin took that as a sign of disrespect and grabbed a kunai from her pouch. "Don't ignore me!" as she charged right at him with her weapon pointed at his head. Naruto didn't even cast her a glance as he raised his fist when she got in range and delivered a punch to her cheek, sending her flying and crashing to the ground.
"Whoa..." everyone said out loud.
Naruto continued to stare hard at Dosu, who started to sweat, but still raised up his gauntlet. "Alright then, come on!" Naruto charged at him with great speed, but faltered slightly when Zaku jumped in front of Dosu, confusing him, "Zaku?"
"DAMN YOU!" Zaku exclaimed while enraged. He fired another sonic blast attack at Naruto, but he just pushed on through, though he did seem to slow down. "You can't keep this pace forever!"
Naruto continued his slow pace, moving through the attack; giving Dosu an idea.
"Zaku, just hold him there!" Dosu ordered.
"Whatever you do, you better do it fast!" Zaku exclaimed as he continued to pour his attack, but the sonic attack, but the silver haired boy just kept walking and he could feel his chakra running low. "I'm not sure how long I can hold it!"
Dosu brought out his kunai and hit the gauntlet with it, creating a very loud slanging sound. The sound waves from the gauntlet came out in waves as Dosu used his chakra to maneuver it right towards Naruto.
'I don't care how fast he is, there's no way he's...' Dosu started to think as he waited for Naruto to keel over from the intense sound he was producing. It was then, in a split second, Naruto seemed to disappear from from both Sound Ninja's perspective, with Zaku still firing his sonic attack. Dosu was confused at first, but then he felt a presence behind him...
...and turned to see Naruto standing right behind him, back-to-back.
'...faster than the speed of sound?!'
Dosu looked back and saw that his sound wave technique ended up hitting Zaku instead.
"AAAAHHHHHH!" Zaku screamed as he held his ears in pain, ending up cancelling his sonic blast. He fell over, with his ears slightly bleeding, but was still conscious. "Dosu...who's side...are you on!?"
Dosu looked in shock by the speed that Naruto displayed. He created a strong enough sound wave to kill a normal person, though he knew Zaku would survive. As Sound ninja's, they've trained to withstand even the harshest of sounds, though Zaku would still have a headache when he fully recovered.
Dosu turned back to Naruto, who then proceeded to deliver a punch straight to his gut. Dosu coughed out some spit, along with a bit of blood, and was sent flying. He crashed into a tree before falling straight to the ground, alive and still conscious.
Everyone who witnessed this display of power were in complete shock and awe, Naruto was never one to have such skill and power before, but now he was on a completely different level.
"He just...he just wiped them out." Choji said in shock.
"I don't think they lasted more than five minutes." Shikamaru said in shock as well.
"What was that power?" Ino muttered, while Sakura remained silent, but she too was just surprised by the skills Naruto just displayed.
"Is that really the knucklehead we met before?" Tenten asked.
"Yes...he is." answered Neji.
Naruto then looked at Sakura and walked towards her.
"Naruto..." Sakura started speaking as she saw him walk towards her "are you okay?"
"I'm alright Sakura" Naruto spoke, for the first time ever since waking up, in a calm voice. "Are you guys ok?"
"We're alright, but Lee got injured while trying to save me." answered Sakura as the turned to face Lee lying on the ground unconscious.
Naruto looked at him and instantly appeared in front of him crouching on one knee and his right hand over Lee's chest. He then took a deep breath and said, "Heal." As soon as he said it, his hand began to glow and green aura surrounded Lee's body, eventually healing him completely.
Lee then began to stir as he looked up to see Naruto. "What...who are you? And where are those Sound Ninja's?"
"Believe it or not, Naruto took care of them" Lee heard Tenten's voice speak.
"Really," Lee said in surprise, "but how? And where is he? And who is this guy?" Lee asked the latter while pointing at Naruto, who just smiled a bit and then looked at Tenten and asked, "Do you guys have both the scrolls?"
"Yeah, we do." Answered Tenten.
"And what about you guys?" he asked looking at Team 10.
"We do as well." Replied Shikamaru.
Naruto then stood up and turned towards Sakura. "Do you still have the scroll?" he asked her.
"Yeah, I do" said Sakura, while searching her pouch and finally showing the Heaven Scroll.
"Then all we need is..." began Naruto as he turned his gaze towards Dosu and immediately appeared in front of him, "...the Earth Scroll" he finished while moving out his hand in front of him.
Dosu pulled out his team's Earth Scroll and gave it to him and fell unconscious.
Naruto then started walking back to the group when he suddenly sensed some evil chakra behind them. He then disappeared and reappeared behind Sasuke; who was covered in black flame-like patterns covering his body and half his face, with his Sharingan active and emitting a dark miasma of purple chakra, and chopped him in his neck knocking him out and making him fall unconscious leading to the evil power recede back.
"Naruto! Why did you do that?!" Sakura screamed at Naruto only to be shut up by a glare with a bit of Killing Intent aimed at her.
"We don't have much time Sakura" said Naruto in a serious tone. "There are some things which are beyond your understanding so don't try to poke in between them. We have to get out of this forest. Now!"
Naruto then raised his hand as it began to glow before making a vertical slicing motion which created a like a white slit in front of him. He then snapped his fingers which caused the slit to enlarge and change its shape to that of an open door, which lead straight to the inside of the tower.
Everybody's jaw dropped to the ground at the sight as Naruto did something rather impossible. Creating a...portal with his barehand by, what seemed like, cutting in the air.
"This leads straight into the tower. Everybody get going. And as for why I'm helping you, it's because we are shinobi from the same village so it'll be better if I help you all get to the tower instead of killing you all and taking your scrolls and heads with me." said Naruto in a tone which meant he was serious with a bit of amusement.
Everyone was taken aback by what Naruto said. Neji activated his Byakugan, while making sure not to look at him because he didn't want to end up blind, again, and said," Are you threatening us?"
"No, son of Hizashi Hyuuga. It's an order which you must follow if you don't want to die here by the hands of creeps like them." Answered Naruto aiming at the unconscious Sound Ninja.
Neji's eyes widened when he heard his father's name. "How do you know his name commoner?! Speak now!" yelled an enraged Neji.
"Your father once saved my life. I'll tell you more after we get to the tower, not here. Lee, please pick Sasuke up. We gotta get out of here quick." said Naruto.
Neji calmed down and deactivated his Byakugan. Lee listened to Naruto and picked Sasuke up on his shoulder. Everybody, a bit reluctantly, then walked through the portal and appeared right inside the tower. When everybody got there, the portal closed itself and disappeared completely. After looking around for a few seconds, Lee asked, "So, what do we so now?"
"We're inside the tower, there's nowhere else to go in here, we all have both the scrolls we needed; the only option left, we open them." answered Naruto in a matter-of-fact way.
Everyone stared at him in disbelief. Sakura wanted to bonk him in the head, along with Ino as they didn't want to fail the exams and their precious 'Sasuke-kun', but soon realised that he was right which was odd considering the fact that he said something which actually made sense.
"He's right." said Shikamaru, "As troublesome as it is, it is the only thing to do here. And besides, the proctor said that we aren't supposed to open the scrolls until we got to the tower. But now that we're in the tower, we are allowed to open the scrolls."
Everybody peeling opened their scrolls they gathered, they stared at its contents. Several characters were written down, focused around single kanji in the center; the scrolls began to bring out smoke.
"Everyone let go! They're Summoning Scrolls!" Naruto shouted and everyone listened.
The scrolls were hurled at the floor as they rolled away from them. The smoke rose to covered them. As the smoke began to clear, few shapes could be seen within the dispersing cloud. Everyone tensed at what it could be, but were surprised to see what it was.
In front of them stood three figures. One was a tall man, with brown eyes, olive skin, short black spiky hair, and a beard. His clothing consisted of the standard Konoha ninja uniform with the sleeves rolled up half way, flak jacket, regular shinobi sandals and forehead protector. This was Jounin Asuma Sarutobi, a former member of the Twelve Guardian Ninja and the Leader of Team 10.
Another was a tall and well-muscled man. He had fair skin, strong jawline, a somewhat large nose, and black hair. He had shiny bowl-style haircut and thick eyebrows just like Lee. He wore a green jumpsuit, orange striped leg warmers, an unzipped standard Konoha flak jacket and his red forehead protector was worn around his waist like a belt. This was Jounin Might Guy, Konoha's Sublime Green Beast of Prey and Taijutsu master along with Leader of Team 9 A.K.A Team Guy.
The last person was a man of average height and build. He had brown hair that he kept in a ponytail, dark eyes and a scar that ran across the bridge of his nose. He wore the standard Konoha shinobi outfit complete with forehead protector, sandals, and flak jacket. His sleeves were also rolled up about ¼ way. This was Chunin Iruka Umino, the academy teacher who taught the Rookie 9.
"Hey guys. It's been a while, huh." said a grinning Iruka, waving in a friendly manner.
"YOSH, MY YOUTHFUL STUDENTS! CONGRATULATIONS ON MAKING IT TILL HERE!" said Guy in his 'over' enthusiastic manner.
"Well, seems like you guys were able to get here." said Asuma.
Before they can explain the purpose of the second stage, Naruto came up to them said, "Your explanations can wait. I have a matter of utmost importance in my hands right now. Where is Sandaime?"
They look at him for a moments until Iruka exclaims, "NARUTO?!" while his eyes being wide as saucers as he was sure that Naruto didn't look as that before at all. The other two looked at him in equal shock but before they can say anything else Naruto continued," I'm sorry Iruka-sensei but your lecture must wait. I'll ask again. Where is Sandaime?" said Naruto while maintaining his calm demeanour."
"Um, he's here at the tower. But what do you need him for? And what happened to him?" asked Asuma while pointing at an unconscious Sasuke who was hanging off of Lee's shoulder. Naruto looked at him and said," Orochimaru."
This immediately stiffened both Jounin and the Chunin. Asuma and Guy were the first one to come out of it and adopted a serious expression. "Iruka, take the rest to their rooms. Naruto, come with me." said Asuma as Naruto nodded. "Lee, if you don't mind, please come with us and bring Sasuke with you. Guy-sensei you might come as well" Naruto said to Lee and Guy, as they both agreed and both of them and Naruto (with a sleepy Sasuke) and Asuma shunshined away.
"So, what happened in the forest guys?" asked Iruka, finally coming out of his stupor.
And it's done. Damn that took a hell amount of time. Anyways so this is my first ever fanfic so I'll try my best to make it as good as possible. So guys plz support me in this and I'll try to bring out Chapter 2 as soon as I can. Also comment on it and tell me of any flaws so that I can improve in my writing skills.
(1) Basically, Zeno true form from Animewar.
(2) For those of you who didn't get the idea, his clothes are that of Grand Priest Goku before meeting Lagss face-to-face, but the symbol on the belt says 'All'. I thought of it cuz I thought it'll look cool.
Anyways, that's all for today!
Omni Author Out!