Hey guys, another chapter up!
Before we get onto it, here is the timeline: Current Year 772, seven months before Ultear's death, six months after she met Gildarts and Four months after she took in Lyon. You may notice that Ultear is younger in this fic and she was taken in earlier, why? Because I like it like that, it's kinda convenient.
And about the timeskip, sorry but after some thinking… I want to enjoy this period of the time before I get to Canon, too many things to happen and too many things to skip. So for those that are hoping to reach canon time and bla bla bla… I'm sorry, really am, but since I'm focusing on character development, I don't want to skip directly to the time in which they are already grown up.
He had finally arrived, after leaving his clones in Ur's house and making sure that he had memorized the map, he flashed through the Land of Isvan in his top speed in search of the institute. It didn't take him much longer than thirty minutes for him to find it due to a few wrong turns, but nonetheless he had finally found the place.
Right now he was in a mountain with a very good distance away from the Bureau. The magical institute was but a small crescent shaped spot in the horizon, yet for him it was as if he was inside of it. Ah the wonders of his eyes, a shame that the world was so full of the floating particles of Ethernano, that it was getting in the way of his vision,
And now that he had found the place, he wasn't sure what he should feel to it. The more that he analyzed it from the inside out, the more he came to the conclusion that it wasn't the good place that Ur had told him it was, and the more he examined it, the more compelled he felt to bring the moon or another satellite crashing down on it.
From the distance that he was situated he couldn't focus well on their energy signatures due to the interference of the Ethernano in the air obstructing his senses and his vision. However even with a few dozen kilometers separating him and its surface, he could still see the rooms clearly and roughly identify its containers and its residents.
Inside of it he could tell that there were three children. He couldn't identify them clearly, but he could tell that they were one boy and two girls of around five years old. Ur's child was a girl, so there was a small chance that one of the two was her. Not that he would ignore the other two if they weren't. It was strange really, why would such a big place hold only three children and a bunch of people using masks and coats?
But first he would have to confirm what was really happening in there, so making an all-too familiar 'T' shaped hand-sign just for the sake of nostalgia, a clone shimmered into existence next to him.
The clone didn't need to receive any orders from him. It was an extension of his will and his chakra, and thus it knew what he wanted to do and what needed to be done. Nodding to its creator, the Truth-Seeking Balls from the original hovered to the clone, and stayed with it.
Then Naruto opened a portal in front of him and went inside of it, he had things to sort out while the clone did its job. While they were fragile and any 'fatal' hit would dispel, they were still capable of vanquishing a small army, much more if he left them with the TSB. If worse came to worse and one dispelled, then he would be alerted and he could just teleport to it.
'Naruto' waited for his creator to disappear before settling his gaze once more on the tower, his orders were simple and he would have most pleasure in following them.
Jumping down the mountain's top, he started a slow jog down its vertical surface, defying the laws of physics as his feet would seemingly glue to the large mountain. It didn't take long for his jog to turn into a full sprint. His speed picked up by each step that he took until he had long passed the sound barrier and his body turning into a white blur.
As he ran towards the moon-shaped building, a thick veil of wind chakra covered him and created a 'cyclone' effect behind, bringing up dust and dirt from the path. Normally that jutsu was something just for show, but with the amount of speed that he was running and the amount of wind chakra that he was using, it didn't take long for the small trail of dust to become a raging storm behind him.
To the people of the tower that were watching the event, all that they saw was a gigantic wave of dust coming towards it at insane speeds, the scientists hardly had time to close all the doors before the wave overtook them and slammed straight into the tower like a tsunami.
'Naruto' took the opportunity of the dust and quickly entered the establishment and grabbed one of the workers by his mask, his hand glowing with a silver color as his chakra invaded the man's mind. A little bit harsh, but he didn't care a single bit, from all that he saw outside, the place was no hospital, the front was a fake, now he just needed to know how bad the situation was for him to decide what to do with them.
Finding what he wanted inside of the man, one of the black orbs floating behind of him expanded into a flat platform and engulfed the man entirely, his body turning into nothing but ash the second that the substance came in contact with him, the process was so fast that not even blood came out, the man just ceased to exist.
Not a single bit of remorse in his eyes as he ended the man's existence. In that brief moment that he had surged his chakra through his mind, he had seen the man's entire life, a technique that he had created using the fundamentals chakra that he had learned from the sage and that he had discovered during the war. By linking his chakra with another person's spirit, he could link himself with the area of which held his memories and reveal them to himself, much like the human path.
The man's memories were a valuable experience for him to learn more about the world and its system, still were a lot of things to know, but at least he wouldn't be left in the dark. His memories had also played its part in helping him come into a verdict about the Bureau and the Magical Council in general.
The place was all of what he feared it to be, a place to test and experiment on children to mould them into their weapons… Disgusting… And to make it worse, some of the Council knew about it and just turned a blind eye towards what was happening.
Monsters… That was what they were. No other word could describe them better than that, taking children from their parents, lying to good people that deposited in them their trust to take care of their children, ruining childhoods and families… unacceptable… creatures like them weren't worth the air that they breath and the food that they eat. The ones that didn't have the stomach to do the job were either sent away or disposed of, so he wouldn't have to worry about who he killed or not, all of them were guilty, and none would be spared.
Planting his feet in the ground, Naruto rushed through the corridors for the Bureau evaporating every single worker that he had encountered before they could even react, his speed was nothing but a blur to their eyes, before any of them could even think of sounding an alarm they were all turned into dust.
Gone was the benevolent horned-man, he wasn't present there. To them he wasn't Naruto the hero of the world, to them he was Death. Not a sound was made as he zoomed across the building, no screams were heard, no footsteps were made, no corpse touched the floor.
The masked scientists never stood a chance, his speed was surreal. Their deaths came so fast that they never saw it coming. One second they were walking or shielding themselves from the dust, the next they were a part of the same dust that had invaded the place.
It didn't take him long to reach the top of the building and Brains office, by the time that he had arrived he had made sure that he left the minimum amount of survivors possible. He was a pacifist, a savior of a nation, but at the same time he was the strongest and most dangerous being ever born in his world. His speed was unrivaled, his reflexes were just as much as fast as his speed, his chakra was astronomical, and his eyes allowed him to see everything regardless of what was in-between.
Not even bothering to acknowledge the door separating him from it, he sent one of his TSB through it and was greeted by nobody. Not that it was a surprise that the man was absent at the moment, he knew that the moment he had seen through the first worker's memories and seeing through the structure was as easy as breathing for him.
Calmly walking inside the room, Naruto deactivated his eyes and observed the contents and frowned, the place was filled with technology, and it was vastly different from that of his world. While he was no slouch in the technology department, many things were deemed unnecessary due to the shinobi life-style. He knew about computers and television among other things, though none of those devices interested him or the majority of the shinobi populace. He learned the basics about them as to not be left in the blank, but he was no specialist, and the devices in Brain's room were completely alien to him.
That didn't mean that he couldn't take any advantage of the room, with his byakugan he could enter the man's desk and see that the man still liked to use paper to archive some of his data, so it counted for something to his advantage.
Going towards the man's work desk, one of his lovely TSB went ahead and 'cleaned' it from everything technological, leaving only papers on top of it.
Once the desk was 'clean' of the technology and once he had arrived to the desk, he casually sat on the man's chair and started opening the drawers while pulling out the folders inside of it and placing them on top of the desk, all the while making the same orb go around the room and pulverize every screen and technological related object inside. He didn't like unknown technology, as far as he knew they can be spying on him through it. So best be on the safe side and atomize them in case they can become a threat.
Placing his right leg on top of the desk and tilting himself slightly, he started to go through the folders one by one, most of them containing pictures of children with a word written vertically in red across the picture, something that he managed to deduce that meant 'deceased', additionally to the photos were a paper with incoherent words written on them. He would have to look into the world's alphabet later on with Ur.
Out of all the folders, he only found three that weren't marked dead. Pushing the other folders aside of the desk and onto the ground, he placed the three of them opened in front of him and examined them, the first one in the left was that of a golden haired boy with emerald colored eyes, next was a girl with long black hair and pitch black eyes, then was a girl with short, dark purple hair and brown eyes.
He didn't have to think twice about the second one, she was almost a chibi version of Ur. Ur's features were all across her, genetics was kind with the girl when she was born. The other two he didn't know about, but he knew that the three of them were in the tower and that he would be taking them out of the hellhole.
Closing the three folders and placing them inside of his kimono, 'Naruto' leaned back into the chair and closed his eyes to contact the original about his findings.
Once he was done he opened his eyes and glanced at the files on the floor, so many children met their end because of those monsters, so many lives that had yet to even know what life was about. It saddened him that such a thing happened, but at least he didn't come late for the three of them that remained.
Getting up from the chair, 'Naruto' made his way towards the door and activated his byakugans once again, this time focusing on finding the three children, which wasn't hard now that he was inside of the building and that most of the people that in there were now nothing but dust, so their signatures didn't interfere any longer.
In a dimly lit room, a small black haired child sat on her cartoonish snake bed while looking at the red dots adorning the black floor. Ultear hadn't been capable of sleeping since the previous night due to the experiments that they had done on her. Her body would hurt and her head would ache whenever she tried to sleep, so she settled for staring at the ground.
Times like those were often there in the Bureau, Ultear always used those sleepless nights to think about her mother. It was slightly depressing for her to think about it, the mean people had told her that her mother left her there with them, but she couldn't believe what they were telling her. The hope to see her mommy was the only thing keeping her going, if she lost that, then she would go insane.
As she started at the ground, she noticed how a shadow of the window was casting itself on the center of the floor, it was already another day. Her concentration was such that she hardly noticed the time pass by and the few screams in the distance, as well as the very slight tremor that hit the building. Shifting her big brown eyes towards the wall where 'they' would normally appear, she waited fearfully for them to arrive, it was around the time of which they would bring her breakfast, and even if they were bringing food, albeit bad one, she still hated to interact with them or take anything that they gave.
But she needed food. She needed to stay alive if she were to ever meet her mommy again.
Looking back towards the ground she saw that the shadow that the upper window created had moved considerably from its previous position in the center of the room. her stomach started to grumble and she held onto it in pain, soon various thoughts started to come into her mind, maybe they had given up in her and were going to let her die, maybe it was another of their twisted tests.
As her mind started to think of the possible reasons as to why they were taking so long, something broke her out of her thought process. A whisper, a hardly inaudible whisper on the depths of her mind, yet she heard it loud and clear.
Struggling to get up from her bed, she started to look around her room in an attempt to find where the voice was coming from, but she couldn't find any sign of it.
Going back to her bed, she heard it once again, for a second the child thought that she was going insane or that it was another of their experiments, but it was the first time she had heard the voice in her life and she knew that it wasn't of any of the doctors that took 'care' of her. It also was very calming, just from hearing it she was already feeling better.
Sitting back on her bed, she returned her gaze upon the wall, this time a certain amount of anxiety on her eyes as if waiting for someone to walk out of it
However, whatever it was that was coming to her, it didn't seem like using the wall. Instead, a black portal opened itself soundlessly from behind her bed and a tall white, horned man with whiskers came out from it with three bento boxes in his hands and a small sad smile on his face, Ultear none the wiser of his presence.
Closing the portal behind him as the Truth-Seeking Balls joined him, Naruto took his time to analyze the girl and see the similarities between her and Ur. He didn't need the byakugan to know that she was Ur's daughter. The moment that he had found the Bureau was the moment that he had detected her, her energy signature was so much like that of her mother that it was scary.
A frown came into his face as he examined her conditions. He didn't need the byakugan to see that she wasn't treated nicely there, the signs of bad nutrition, abuse and sore muscles.
Slowly and silently walking towards her bed, Naruto carefully sat next to her with the bentos in his lap, his presence completely blending with the surroundings while she was still none the wiser of his presence in the room.
Following the girl's gaze towards the wall, he inwardly chuckled. It was time for him to introduce himself.
''Waiting for something, little ms?''
The little girl scrambled away to the other side of the bed in surprise and held up her blanket to protect her from the newcomer.
Naruto's eyes softened as he saw her look, he always had a soft spot for children and seeing the look in her eyes felt like a chidori straight through his chest. ''You don't have to be afraid, little princess. The name's Naruto, could you grace me with yours?''
He said with a small smile and a gentle, fatherly tone that he would use to calm his children when they were her age.
It seemed to work a bit as she seemed to calm down slightly and lower her protective blanket a bit.
''Ultear…'' the small girl mumbled under her breath while gazing at his horns and whiskers.
'Ul-tear…'
''Ur certainly knows how to pick a nice name eh?''
Now that certainly caught her interest, he knew her mommy?
''Momma? You know momma?'' She asked, lowering the blanket down, her previous freight now replaced with curiosity.
Naruto nodded slightly towards her and patted the spot next to him, ''Indeed I do, she is the reason I came here.''
''Momma sent you here for me?'' She asked, still not moving from her spot, her large round eyes filling themselves with hope at the prospect of her mother wanting to see her.
However much to her dismay, Naruto shook his head in a 'no' gesture. ''She didn't send me here…''
Seeing the way that her eyes dropped and how she got sad, Naruto quickly continued. ''She didn't send me because she doesn't know that you are here… the mean people lied to her and told her that you were gone, so she doesn't know that you are here, but she misses you very much, and I know for sure that she will love being with you again.''
Slowly moving closer to him, Ultear sat next to him in the bed and looked at him with hope once again in her eyes, unconsciously bringing out the most powerful technique known by women and children, the Puppy Eyes Jutsu. And Naruto was hit in full force. He was always a sucker for when it came to children. ''Momma wants to see me? Will you take me to her?''
Naruto patted her head softly and gave her one of the boxes.
''Of course she does, I can see it in her eyes, you mean the world to her! How about this, I will take you to her when you finish eating, okay? Your mom is not going anywhere. Your mom will be angry at me if you get there with an empty stomach.'' He finished with 'eye smiles', Ur would never be mad at him for that on that occasion, but it was a good motivation for her to eat.
Ultear opened the box slowly and marveled at its containment, the smell of fresh food invading her nostrils. Forgetting about the 'man' next to her she eagerly took the food and 'dug' into it, manners long forgotten.
Naruto's eyes widened slightly at the comical speed of which she was eating, silently glad that he had brought extras for her. The way and speed of which she ate reminded him slightly of how he ate ramen in his younger days.
Bringing his left hand slightly upwards, Naruto coated his hand with a thin layer of Yang chakra and placed it on her shoulder, he didn't have time to completely heal her, but he could at least ease the pain until he had time to work properly.
Ultear flinched as his hand touched her shoulder but relaxed as his chakra started to do its job. It felt so warm and protective that she didn't know what to compare it to. It had a unique feeling of protectiveness and happiness that was surreal.
''Can you tell me about mommy? How is mommy like?''
''Hmm… I don't know your mom for long but… I know her long enough to know that she is a very special woman, you look a lot like her, looking at you is like seeing a cute miniature version of her, she is gentle and cares for those around her, you should see the look in her eyes when she is teaching Lyon.'' He said while taking a napkin from out of nowhere and cleaning the corners of her mouth and poking the tip of her nose affectionately.
Ultear's eyes 'sparkled' slightly at the way he spoke of her mother, and then she wrinkled her nose cutely. Then her expression turned into that of curiosity when she heard the mention of her teaching, ''Lyon?''
''Yes dear, Lyon. He's your mother's student. She teaches him magic. A good kid, a bit strange, got a few issues, but he's fine. As long as he doesn't start going around the corners brooding, then there is nothing to worry about.''
''What is 'brooding'? Mommy teaches magic?''
''Brooding is the first sign of the Uchiha disease, and yes she does. She teaches her style of Ice-Magic.''
Getting up from his spot, Naruto scooped her into his arms in a way that she sat on his right arm and held her near his chest. ''Best us get going now, close your eyes sweetheart.''
Ultear nodded and squeezed her eyes shut as told, while Naruto's third-eye opened and they vanished from the room in a streak of light.
After they had left the building, an enormous meteor cleared the sky and dropped upon the Bureau like a divine hammer, shaking the earth around the impact area and obliterating anything that remained from the structure.
(With Ur)
Ur was having a strange day, a very strange day. First she wakes up with a mild headache and a strange sensation in her gut that she is forgetting something very important.
Then when she goes to the kitchen to make breakfast, she is then greeted by two copies of the resident Alien Ninja Demon-God, one of them finishing a very appetizing breakfast for her while the other is finishing chopping some kind of meat that she was sure to belong to a dear due to the pair of antlers on a wooden desk that she didn't recall having in her house.
And that wasn't even the strangest part of her morning, after she finished eating breakfast along with Lyon, two more Narutos came out of a portal in the middle of the living room, one holding a sleeping golden haired boy and the other holding a black haired girl. When she went to question the two about why each was holding a child, they just shushed her and said to not wake the two up and that he would explain soon.
She would have questioned them about where he had found them, but she soon noticed the state that they were in and his seriousness about the issue. So she gave him her vote of trust and waited. Lyon also noticed the state of which the two were and kept his questions to himself for the time being.
After that Naruto's doppelgangers took the two children to the room and laid them on the futons that Ur and Lyon used and started to use his yang chakra to heal them. The master and pupil duo left the clones alone to do their job.
When they had gone back into the living room, the original was leaving through a portal after telling them that he would be right back and that she was to wait outside along with Lyon.
''Aw~ man! How long are we going to stay here? How am I surpass pass you if I just sit here doing nothing?'' Lyon whined as he flailed his arms dramatically and then sat on the snow next to his mentor.
Ur rolled her eyes at his obsession with surpassing her, though she was sure that he would eventually pass her, he didn't need to make it his life goal. The world was big and full of people stronger than her. However she did agree with him.
''Patience Lyon, learning how to wait is also part of your training. He must be on hi-'' She didn't get the chance to finish her sentence as the area in front of them slightly distorted and Naruto shimmered into existence in it.
Her eyes could hardly believe what she was seeing, her heart started to race and tears started to fall down her face as her black eyes met the large brown eyes of the child that the man was holding.
'I-it c-cant be…'
''m-mommy…''
Unconsciously Ur started to walk to her, her entire body shaking and her lips quivering at the sight of her supposedly dead daughter. In her mind she was in turmoil, her daughter was right there, a few meters in front of her, it was almost too good to be true, she briefly wondered if it was all an illusion or if the man was playing a very cruel trick on her.
Naruto's smile grew slightly and his large pale eyes softened as Ur came closer to him. ''It is her, Ur. This is no trick, come closer, hold her in your hands and you will know it also.'' He finished while slightly extending Ultear so that her mother could take her.
Ur hesitated at first, doubt still in her mind, but she slowly extended both of her arms.
As if an eternity passed for her, Ur's hands reached Ultear. Her heart threatened to stop as her fingers gently pressed against the girl's wet face. It was real, she could feel it. Her mind wasn't playing tricks on her, it wasn't an illusion. She was really there, her daughter was really there. She was different from the last time she had seen her, but she knew it was her, she knew it was her baby girl.
Not thinking twice, Ur swiftly but gently embraced her daughter in a hug, completely forgetting the two that were watching. ''Ultear… my baby girl… you are home…''
Ultear accepted her mother's warm embrace and returned it with equal intensity by hugging her mother with as much strength as her little arms could muster.
While the mother and daughter pair were having their moment, Naruto floated next to Lyon and joined the boy who was sitting in the snow near the house, and stayed next to him like the Sage would, hovering in the air cross-legged with the TSB floating under him.
Lyon was completely silent during the whole display, he had heard about her daughter and had seen her crying in the girl's room on a few occasions, so he didn't know how to react or what to do, and thus he did the smartest thing that he could, nothing.
After a few minutes, Ur got up from her position with Ultear in her arms. Both mother and daughter's eyes were red from crying, and both were with a huge smile on their faces.
''How?'' She asked Naruto with a shaky voice.
Naruto's smile faded slightly as he closed his eyes in thought, but in the end he opted to tell her the whole truth. ''She was in the Bureau… I suspected that there was something wrong, so I went there earlier today to see for myself. When I was there I found her and the other two kids that my clones are now healing… They lied to you about her death because they saw potential in her and wanted her for their tests.''
He couldn't bring himself to lie to her, as a parent she needs the truth about what her child went through, if it were him in her place then he would want the same thing.
Pain and guilt flashed through her eyes, Naruto was quick to notice it and continue his speech, ''It wasn't your fault, Ur. You trusted them to cure her, you did your best. Don't blame yourself over what happened, I don't blame you and Ultear doesn't blame you as well. She is here now and that is what matters… Go on, you have a lot to catch up with her. I will take over Lyon's training for today while you two have fun.''
'Thank you Naruto…' Ur thought while slowly nodding and rubbing her cheek against Ultear's. She didn't trust her voice to speak and she didn't know any words that could express what she was feeling at that moment. So she would think about that later, she had seven months to catch up with her baby girl.
''We will be back in time for lunch. Let's go Lyon, time for us to find out what type of fighting style suits ya.''
Ur nodded once again and then proceeded to go into the house with Ultear with a big smile on her face, though she halted her movements when she heard Lyon enthusiastically yell ''Yay! You will teach me that super cool technique right?''.
Her head turned around almost mechanically at the mention of that technique, her eyes sending a very clear message of 'You do that, and you will pay.' to Naruto, who just rubbed the back of his head nervously and patted Lyon's head affectionately.
''No Lyon, it is a strictly forbidden technique that you should never try to do or copy until you have proper experience and age… And I mean when you reach your twenties… yup… strictly forbidden…''
And thus they left to the usual place that Ur would train with Lyon, leaving behind a giggling mother and daughter pair. Boys would be Boys no matter the age and power that they held.
About the two extra kids that Naruto rescued, I added them because I find it hard that Ultear would be the only child in there, so I added them. They will have a significant part in the story.
What do y'all think about me making Ultear younger? Didn't want her to lose most of her childhood innocence and I want her to enjoy as much as that time with her mom instead of with those doctors. Sorry but I just don't have the heart to leave her there for more time, every time I see a photo of Ur holding Ultear I can't help but want to make that happen.
