Cypher Naruto leapt back from the sudden attack, looking up to see the one responsible for it. Brown hair and twin tails, blue eyes, wielding a familiar staff known as Raising Heart, Cypher Nanoha Takamachi stared down with him with sad eyes. "So, another Heavenly King seeks to stop me? Ichigo Kurosaki tried-and failed. What make you think that you can stop me?" he demanded. "Naruto-san, I know we weren't friends when you were first crowned as a fellow Heavenly King, but I believed you were capable of great things. So why did you destroy your home and the people within it?" Nanoha asked.

"Home? Home is where the heart is Nanoha, and I destroyed Konoha for its betrayal to my clan. They butchered them like animals Nanoha-LIKE ANIMALS!" Naruto snarled, pure hatred in his voice as his iris turned black and his pupils slit red, looking demonic in appearance as his voice began to alter. "My own godfather sold me out to the Wicked Gods because I refused my supposed calling as a shinobi-a child soldier for a village of overglorified mercinaries when I joined the Knights of Camelot. He deliberately hid the fact the plague was in one of Nione's bio-engineering labs, causing many brave people...Sasuke, Sakura and even Kuzunoha-san to sacrifice themselves to stop its release. I was forced to become a source of humanity's evil by Deus, causing Naruto Uzumaki from other worlds and timelines to be hunted and tortured by the citizens of Konoha and in turn make them into the monsters they didn't want to become. While you were busy playing hero against my mother and ignoring your fellow King's crisis, billions of innocent lives-their extiguished souls are on your hands!" Naruto sneered as Nanoha's horrified expression.

She didn't know her fellow Heavenly King suffered this badly, nor the fact now that in the Multiverse, the person known as -Naruto Uzumaki- is now a calamity killing billions of people in each possible world and timeline. He was right, she could have investigated this crisis earlier and prevented this, but Kushina was a major threat to the Cyphers in her insanity. "Tell me Nanoha, was it worth fighting against my mother while innocent lives were being purged by the second in another world where even your normal counterparts live, as they fail to stop the Naruto inhabiting those worlds?" he had asked as Nanoha gripped Raising Heart in her hand.

Despite not knowing him, he knew of her in great detail. He was pushing her buttons, working on her own helplessness and guilt and she knew it. He was truthful to the point it hurts, she could almost feel the pain of losing close friends and loved ones to corrupted versions of Naruto in the Multiverse from her counterparts. "Why are you still here? You had your revenge, why kill and destroy more?" she asked, cautiously readying her staff. "I am betrayal. My heart was stolen from me, and turned against my will as the source of all evils in the world made me into a monster you people feared. All because of the Dark Prophecy Jiraiya unwittingly set in motion in his vain attempt of preventing it."

Now Nanoha recalled that prophecy well; a dark prophecy of the Cyphers they thought would never come to pass.

/Verse 1\

The unending flow of time shall be altered, two Cypher Souls shall be bound as one. Greatness awaits as a new era shall rise. But it shall not last for a betrayal so deep will corrupt the soul, in turn destroying the heart as a monster of no remorse shall rise. The Fallen King shall bring forth an end to all hope in a spiralling bloodbath.-Lucina, Forseer of Future Pasts

She had read that verse so many times, unsure if it was just a tale to scare rookie Cyphers into behaving or a real warning. But when Naruto Uzumaki, the ones who've inherited the role as Child of Prophecy are alarming in their nature. She recollected there must be a proper balance when there are paths in the prophecies...In one timeline Canon Naruto saved the world and brought peace, but the other role was unfulfilled and forgotten. "Nione..." she breathed out in realization.

Reports of the Genesis Devourer's experimentations with Canon Naruto's blood to create a living weapon of destruction and succeeded when one of his Homonculus became Cypher and had been dealt a bad hand with life, it can create the very one whom can end the world.

"My mother is dead, my father killed, my sister suffering from inhumane experimentations before dying...but Boruto and Himawari's death were the last straws. Especially when Jiraiya murdered my children in front of me." Naruto spoke, his voice colder than a stone in winter, and eyes with a hatred so deep it was like witnessing hell on earth. "No parent should ever have to bury their own child..." Nanoha didn't know what to say, such emotional pain destroys the heart, makes people do things they never would do before. Naruto...Naruto was completely without a heart.

Groans echoed the area as Fallen Narutos from failed worlds and timelines gathered towards their Cypher counterpart, holding up canisters with light emitting from them.

[Master, sensing countless souls in canisters!] Raising Heart warned her as Nanoha backed up as Naruto smiled darkly. "My loyal comrades who've lost it all like I have brought me tribute. Human souls aren't that valuable as they were when gods reigned them like the sheep they are-So their quality must be made up with quantity." Nanoha didn't like the implications, and she knew he was a Noble Cypher, earning the privelege of Soul Devouring by the Wheel of Fate. "Naruto, don't do this, your family wouldn't want you to become a monster!" she begged him as Naruto gave her a glare. "Don't you dare speak for them! You don't know them like I did, and I know my mother would approve of me bringing justice towards you Cyphers for turning your back on us!" he snarled before grinning sinisterly.

"Revenge is best delivered cold, since you took on my mother, I thought you might know the pain of losing your first parents as well." he told her as the other Narutos opened their canisters, as billions upon billions of souls were devoured by Cypher Naruto as he began to glow and grow. Nanoha realized the implications, her first parents...her original human parents back in the world she orignally came from before she became a Cypher were...

The shadow towered over her as smoke surrounded her. "So ends the human race across many worlds." it spoke as Nanoha looked around. "The future is built upon the past...But your kind shall never see it." She saw a single eye staring at her, twice the size of an adult as she felt cold sweat drip down her face. "Your mother and father...are dead, tiny one." the nightmare before her confirmed as it raised its head. Nanoha raised her staff and began chanting an aria of her strongest spell as the beast laughed at her foolish attempt to stop him. And now it is your turn..." the dragon spoke, slowly opening its massive maw, "...to DIE!"

"...Starlight Breaker!" Nanoha roared out with fear and anger as a bright light consumed them both.


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