Hello my friends.

Sorry for the delay but I dont want this story to get too messed up. The 3rd world war has several unknown facts and I want to make use of it.

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Conclusion of Nami & Aftermath

Nami no Kuni

"N-Nibi..."

The voice of their captain, Uchiha Kagami, broke them out of their shock and a second later four familiar figures surrounded Mikoto and Naruto who was still unconscious.

The female Uchiha gazed over her father, Kagami, and her comrades and friends, Sakumo, Kushina and Minato standing proud and ready to face what was probably the biggest challenge of their lives up until now.

The leader was the first to speak as he saw the Senju's condition. "Miko-chan, take Naruto-san to the medical tent as the things will only get uglier from now on."

Mikoto wanted to protest because of the condition her father was in but she remembered her crush that was on her lap and immediately grabbed him and left the area after a weak nod and a 'be careful'.

"ROOOOOOOAR"

The captain Uchiha was already relaying orders to his army to stay down and recover from the last battle but as soon as he heard another roar and turned his gaze over the beast, his eyes widened as a huge amount of chakra was being gathered in front of the beast's mouth as a dark-purple sphere was getting bigger and bigger by the second and everyone could feel the ridiculous amount of malevolent chakra condensed in it.

Bijūdama!

The army started to tremble in fear as they watched in shock the now house-sized sphere being launched from its mouth and It was at that moment they knew they certainly were going to die as no doubt any of their jutsus were going to overpower or block that.

But they still were going to try...

... as proud Shinobis of Konoha.

Everyone steel their gazes and went through the same chain of hand-seals, if someone could watch they would be amazed at how synchronized they were, before slamming their hands on the ground as thousands of earth walls emerged in front of them creating several layers. They gritted their teeth and pushed whatever chakra they still had left and prayed to gods that it was enough.

"Doton: Doryūheki!"

Back to the group of 4, they watched in fascination and awe at the determination everyone was displaying.

This is the Will of Fire.

They knew this would not be enough and they were proved right as the chakra compressed sphere literally destroyed every single wall without slowing down and Kushina was about to make use of her Fūinjutsu knowledge and create the best barrier she knew when a blond-haired stepped in front of them with a weird customized Kunai placed in front of both of his open hands in the ball's direction.

"Minato... What are you doing?!"

Said man ignored the red-haired shouts as his icy blue eyes narrowed at the incoming attack already half-through their defense. His mind was racing overdrive as he contemplated his chakra levels and what he was about to do and a second later nodded to himself before speaking.

"I'll take care of it... but, my chakra will be depleted afterwards and will need sometime to recover."

Minato gave them a reassuring grin over his shoulder that made even Kagami crack a smile though, their concern was still visible as this was a life and death situation. Nevertheless, they nodded and stepped back a bit as the Namikaze started to go through his hand-seals over the kunai just as the purplish ball destroyed the last defensive layer of earth.

Hope I can teleport such massive amount of chakra... Thank god there's several of my special kunais in the ocean that I used during the clash with Sunagakure. Though I still can't use it to teleport myself, I was able to figure out a way to direct whatever It is to another location... "Jikūkan Kekkai: Hiraishin Dōrai!"

Several scrabblings and kanjis formed out of thin air in front of him and just as the sphere was about to make contact with them, everyone gasped in shock and awe as what it seemed to be a barrier-space tecnique wrapped the big compressed purplish ball and disappeared as if nothing was there, and then...

... Silence.

What seemed to be like minutes of silence as they were trying to figure out what had just happened, even the Nibi stopped with the best incredulous-catface it could muster, were just a few seconds as a huge explosion rocketed through a specific location in the ocean followed by a massive wave of water that washed over them. The Konoha army was thinking that this was actual an enemy trying to take them by surprise and used their years of experience and hard-work to overpower the wave by gathering their chakra to stick to the ground and not let it drown them.

Kagami knowing this was some unknown jutsu made by Minato, immediately relayed his plan to the small group and shouting to the army back off so they could preserve more lives.

"Listen, we can't fight head on the beast. So we need to play smart here. Kushina prepare your Kekkei Genkai, you'll know what you need to do when the time comes. Mikoto, Sakumo and I will distract it and restrict its movements, two or three seconds is all we need. Let's go!" Kushina, Mikoto and Sakumo nodded as Minato was still recovering from the amount of chakra he used on his last tecnique.

The group of four Shinobis steeled their gazes before Sakumo went through a familiar sequence of hand-seals before biting his thumb.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"

A huge plume of smoke made Nibi narrow its heterochromatic eyes before the ground itself shook as a massive dark-brown dog let out a loud roar showing that he wasn't intimidated at all by the challenge in front of him.

Not a second later, the dog's belly puffed before releasing a huge mud wide spread wall towards the Bijū.

Doton: Doro Kakusan-ha

Mikoto and Kagami went through their own hand-seals while inhaling a good amount of air before breathing a massive torrent of flames that took shape of a dragon and a enormous flamethrower respectively that combined with the mud wall.

"Katon: Karyū Endan" / "Katon: Gōka Messhitsū"

Sakumo had already finished his own chain, before generating 4 huge pillars of spinning wind around him and immediately directing it in front of him.

"Fūton: Kami Kaze!"

A humongous wall of earth-fire wide spread wall took tremendous speed as the wind combined with it towards Nibi who narrowed its eyes angrily.

"Don't be so sure of yourselves!"

Using its paws and tails, Nibi slammed those on the ground with such force that an earthquake was felt from miles away but that was enough to destabilise the combined tecnique in front of him making the jutsu explode half-way that shook the entire battlefield, even the large Dog had difficulties to keep his balance and protecting his summoner and his friends from the recoil.

But that was all they needed just as soon as the smoke from the explosion vanished, several chains emerged from the ground beneath the Bijū encircling his body rendering him from any moves.

"Kongō Fūsa: Kyōsei Baindingu"

A red-haired teenager who had been watching the whole clash made herself known, but she had to grit her teeth as the beast was trying desperately to force itself free. Even though her Kekkei Genkai could theoretically tame or control a beast, just like what she was doing with her own Bijū sealed inside of her, this was the first time she was using it outside of her mindscape against one of them and even though she was not that exhausted since she was an Uzumaki and Kyūbi's Jinchūriki, this was draining her energy very quickly. And that same inexperienced would cost them.

"DON'T UNDERESTIMATE ME, HUMANS...

Letting out a loud roar that shook the entire battlefield, Nibi suddenly spit a small stream of blue fire towards Kushina that made her lose the concentration for a split of a second but that was all the Bijū needed before tensed his muscles and escaping the chains around his neck. Not a second later, the Beast opened its mouth and forcing his tails that still had 2 chains strapped to it, right on top of his head, the 2-tailed Bijū poured massive amounts of demonic chakra as a huge purplish sphere took shape out of thin air almost instantaneous. Everyone could tell and feel the similarities but the big difference between the last and this one.

This sphere has almost twenty-times the power of the last one.

The 4 of them had their eyes widened in shock and fear as they had no way out. Minato watching this immediately took a step forward but instantly regretted as his body failed him and dropped on the Dog's head in front of the group. Tsh, not now...

Everyone was at loss of words as no one had any idea how to stop it. Sakumo, Mikoto and Kagami knew they had no Jutsu in their arsenal to counter it and the latter being in the worst condition possible, Kushina was still forcing her chains to restrain the Beast movements but her heavy breaths indicated that her stamina was running low. Minato was out of chakra and the Dog had a look of realization and fear as well, so they concluded that the animal didn't have anything to block or redirecting it. They couldn't just move away otherwise the army that was running away was behind them. They had to do something, but what?

They snapped out of their thoughts as another loud roar and the shattering ground beneath the beast from sheer pressure of the Bijū's technique was heard. Everyone hang their heads down as they knew what was going to happen just as the blue flamed cat lunged the massive purplish-sphere towards them at tremendous speed.

... Chō Bijūdama!"

Kagami, Sakumo, Mikoto, Kushina, Minato and the Dog's world slowed down as they reviewed all their lifes up until now in a split of a second as the huge sphere was already half-way towards them. No one heard a pair of hands slamming on the ground behind them as they closed their eyes before a massive explosion was felt.

Kuchiyose: Gojū Rashōmon!

*BOOOOOOOOOOM*

The group of Konoha had the same thought running through their heads as they kept their eyes closed.

Am I dead?

But before anyone could process the fact that they didn't even felt any pain, even though that attack was suppose to make them simply disappear without feeling anything, a voice made made themselves almost jump in shock. Almost.

"That's a huge cat there."

Everyone heard the amount of amusement on that statement and had to sweatdrop at the comment before they opened their eyes and gasped in awe and shock at the five gates in front of them, though, 3 of them were destroyed and the fourth was a bit battered, they couldn't stop the sigh of relief that came out of their mouths before gazing over the newcomer. Mikoto immediately lunged towards the figure as moisture had already gathered on the side of her eyes.

"N-Naruto-kun?"

The now revealed Naruto had an impassive face but there was a small smile on it as he heard the amount of relief on how she called him. But he immediately narrowed his eyes at the chained Bijū in front of them as the gates vanished in a plume of smoke after doing its job.

"We can talk later, we need to leave. I'm almost out of chakra just like you and I can sense 2 huge chakra signatures on their way here, no doubt reinforcements. Kushina!"

The red-haired nodded knowing what he was asking her to do before she tensed her body and a second later, more chains emerged from the ground and restrained any movement from the beast. She was breathing hard as this was taking a huge toll on her body, that's why she didn't even notice Naruto finish a sequence of hand-seals and murmuring the next technique.

"Hyōton: Kūki Tōketsu"

It took a few seconds and if the ragged breaths Naruto was letting out was any indicator, he was concentrating hard on his Jutsu and just as they were about to tell him to stop whatever he was doing, the air around them dropped several degrees and everyone had their jaws on the ground as the area around Nibi started to, literally, freeze. They cold feel the cold temperature it was giving off as a small cold mist gathered around the Beast before its paws, tails followed almost by its whole body froze. The flames of its body seem to make it harder as they saw the blocks of ice melting bit by bit. They were snapped out of their thoughts by a weak but still commanding voice.

"We... We need to take this chance and... leave now, otherwise whoever is coming will capture us easily an-"

Before he could finish, his body gave out and he dropped to his knees, he was breathing hard as his Jutsu depleted a good amount of his remaining chakra, his body and chakra reserves didn't recover enough to sustain such type of technique to be used on such large scale and this was not taking to account the flames the Bijū was covered in, that made even more difficult to freeze, even if It just for a few seconds.

The group didn't need to be said twice as Sakumo immediately told his Summon to return back to their tent where their army was probably arriving. The last thing they saw was the blue flames of the beast retracing to its Jinchūriki's body who immediately dropped unconscious on the ground and two well-built man, one of them being covered in black lightning and the other blue lightning, before the Dog made a huge leap back to their post.

Time Skip

Nami no Kuni's Borders - Medical Tent

It's been a few hours since they escaped the Bijū and for almost the tenth time, they sighed in relief. They had been at the death's doorstep multiple times but It was during the fight with the massive beast that they knew they had just escaped Shinigami. All thanks to one boy.

Senju Naruto.

Namikaze Minato had never been so grateful that he asked the youngest Senju to help him with his Jikūkan Ninjutsu, Hiraishin. He still wasn't able to teleport himself to his special kunais, though, he already decipher what Naruto meant when he asked him how he could teleport himself without it giving him secondary effects on his body.

'Don't force yourself. Go with the flow.'

That part was easy but Minato knew that his body wasn't still fast enough to be able to do such thing. His body would immediately destroy itself from the inside out and he would probably missing a few limbs. So while he built his body for speed, he and Naruto started to try and come up with ideas for other uses instead of just teleport themselves.

And the answer came up almost instantaneous.

After all, they were Genius.

A Space-Time Barrier.

He certainly had to thanks Naruto once again for helping him being able to protect his comrades at the last second. He would never in million years guess that he would be in this situation, at first he thought that the young Senju would be a pain in the ass, just like Fugaku, so he didn't trust him at the beginning, an arrogant prick, simple as that. But those thoughts stopped after doing some missions together when the Namikaze came back from his training trip with Jiraya. They had quite a few spars and although Naruto won the majority, he never boasted about it.

It wasn't too long before they became best-friends even if the 15 years-old teen didn't give away many emotions but he could tell by his dark-red eyes, and so, using their several ingenious ideas they started to create and recreate many Jutsus and teaching it to each other.

"Yo, sunshine."

A voice broke him out of his thoughts and he was a bit surprised by the person that was occupying his thoughts standing right in front of him and he didn't even sense him, nevertheless, he got a tic mark on his forehead for those stupid nicknames he always come up with. "Sup, Naruto-kun. Did something come up?"

"Yes, we will be returning to Konoha, tomorrow. Nami no Kuni hassurrendered to our force and have expressed their wishes to form an alliance with us. Although they are not giving us a boost in military force, their rare minerals will be very welcomed to produce our weapons and other stuff." It wasn't Naruto who replied. A pair of blood-red eyes with his arms crossed and lining on the wall gazed over them, Naruto didn't show any reactions indicating that he already knew, though, Minato had a second vein comically throbbing his forehead at yet another presence he couldn't sense.

The Namikaze hummed a bit at the news, before replying "What happened to the Nibi's Jinchūriki?"

It was Kushina this time that replied, though, this time Minato had already sensed her dense chakra "The rescuers probably took her back. If what Naruto-kun said was right, one of the mans was the Sandaime Raikage. Our sensory division reported that they had fall back along with the small platoon they brought with them."

The black-haired Senju held an impassive face, though, inwardly his mind was racing through some of his own agenda. I've marked Ichibi's Jinchūriki so It will be not that difficult to extract him as soon as I solve the problem to extract a Bijū without killing its host. Though, It's proving to be a troublesome task.

He was snapped out of his thoughts as he saw the several eyes gazing over him with curious, concerned and angry looks. He sweatdropped.

"Huh, did you say something?"

Everyone face faulted and a certain gray-haired adult had his eyebrow furiously twitching but he restrained himself to lash out on his student's ignorance. Kagami coughed to get their attention.

"Mikoto-chan and Naruto-san will be heading to Konoha tonight to relay everything we know so far and report the successful mission in detail. Understood?"

Kushina narrowed her eyes a bit at the almost unnoticed spark Mikoto's charcoal eyes gave hearing that but reluctantly nodded as well as Minato. Sakumo ruffled his apprentice's hair gaining a small glare much to his amusement and patted his back mouthing a low 'I'm proud of you' that no one except for Naruto, heard. The Senju let out a small smile grace his lips before exiting the tent along with the Uchiha's heiress to pack their own stuff before heading towards the village.

Time Skip

Naruto and Mikoto were already on their way, the latter kept stealing glances at the former who had his impassive face in place, though, he was aware of said glances.

The Uchiha huffed in annoyance and started "Thank you... for saving us."

The black-haired boy raised an eyebrow at that, before replying "No problem, I'm not letting any comrade die to those scums, much less if It was you... Nevertheless, I can already see how pointless a war is."

Hearing this, the Hi no Megami looked away with a small blush at his words before taking the subject she was looking for and spoke "I agree, this war is pointless. Seeing so many people from both sides die just like that... I feel like I don't want to waste my time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. The life of a Shinobi is too short to be unhappy. With this in mind, I decided that I don't want to be an option in your life... I want to become the choice of your life."

Naruto's eyes widened at the last and almost unheard statement and before he knew Mikoto had thrust him onto some random tree, blood-red 3 tomoe eyes met dark-red eyes as their lips were inching closer...

Meanwhile

Iwagakure no Sato - Tsuchikage's Office

Ryōtenbin no Ōnoki, the Sandaime Tsuchikage, was currently going through some reports personally sent by the Raikage. It wasn't public knowledge, or so that was what he thought, that both Villages made an secret alliance to take down and conquer Elemental Nations, though, only higher-ups in their respective villages knew about this. They would be using Sunagakure as a pawn and that chance came when Raikage had received a scroll to aid them in taking over Nami no Kuni.

He didn't know what the Kazekage was thinking but asking a foreign Nation that had no ties with for an alliance even if It was just temporary was basically an invitation to do as he pleased with them.

But sometimes desperation calls for desperate moves.Fools.

Nevertheless, this new Senju figure that just came out of nowhere a year ago been causing more trouble than what It was worth. To defeat a squad which had a Jinchūriki included plus the slaughter that occurred afterwards and again defeating a Bijū was no small feat that even he, the Tsuchikage, didn't know he was capable of.

They needed to put him down.

The question was how.

He hummed a bit in thought and an idea hit him as an evil grin threatened to split his face.

Maybe the Kazekage still has some uses.

Time Skip

Konohagakure no Saton - Council Room

Been roughly two weeks since Naruto and Mikoto reported everything to Sarutobi Hiruzen. He was kinda shocked when they reported that they had to fight a Bijū and thanked Kami that his army avoided a massacre if certain people weren't there at the time.

Nevertheless, he was grateful that they had now acquired full support from the Daimyo of Nami no Kuni and so he along with the Jounin Commander and other important figures started the next step of the plan.

Though, recent rumours coupled with some reports made them stop in their tracks. The Sandaime Hokage gazed over everyone in the room, Clan Heads, Advisors and important figures of the War that were currently engaging in a small chat and finally decided to speak.

"Alright, let's get to the real point of this meeting. Jiraya's spy network reported a small platoon from Sunagakure is moving towards Takigakure. The one leading this mission is... The Sandaime Kazekage."

One of the advisors, Danzō Shimura, was the one who asked the obvious question "What are their intentions?"

Hiruzen blowed some smoke from his mouth before gripping the pipe and almost cracking it as he spoke "They plan to make it a base of operations and destroy the loyalty they have to Konoha. With Kazekage in their mist this will be possible as they don't have any high caliber Shinibi to take him head-on. The Jinchūriki is still far from getting his Bijū under control. This move was expected, though, the Kazekage coming along wasn't."

It was the Jounin Commander, Shiku Nara, who made his presence known "Troublesome, this means he won't get any rest anytime soon."

Sandaime and Danzō smirked at that before the former replied "Indeed..."

Time Skip

Takigakure no Sato - Borders

Sandaime Kazekage, Ryūzei, known from the mastery over his Kekkei Genkai, Satetsu, was leading a 'small' but his strongest platoon of hundred Shinobis. He was currently reviewing his plan with two of his most trusted mans and former teammates. Paki, the Shakuton user, and Chiyo, a Kugutsu and Poison master.

Their plan was quite simple as from his spies Takigakure, although, they currently had a strong Bijū in their ranks, they also knew that they had no experience or amount of power to defend themselves of an attack from one of the Great Five.

And so, in an act of desperation, they decided to invade before their allies, Konoha, could take notice of their plans. What they and the other Nations didn't know was how effective Jiraya's spy network was, and soon, the whole world would know one of the main reasons for Konoha being always a step ahead of them and acknowledge the Gama Sennin as a spy master and not just by his prowess on the battlefield.

And soon enough, Ryūsei and his teammates heard explosions all over their camp. As they rushed out of the tent, their eyes widened in shock at the sight in front of them.

What was a simple camp that had little over an hundred Shinobis gathered was painted in blood-red colours filled with craters and smoke.

Ryūsei narrowed his eyes at the four figures on the side, completly ignoring the limping and screaming survivors that managed to escape death.

An almost-evil voice was heard "Fufufu... That's quite a sight, Naruto-kun."

There was no reply much to the amusement of the person that spoke as the smoke cleared and Chiyo along with Paki widened his eyes at the appearance of Gama Sennin, Hebi Sennin, Namekuji Sennin and Taka Sennin, the Sandaime Kazekage kept his stoic face in place.

It was the former and Kugutsu Mistress that broke the silence "Orochimaru, Jiraya, Senju Tsunade and Senju Naruto..."

The Shakuton user narrowed his eyes as a question surged in his mind "How... How did you know?"

It was the gallant, spiky white-haired man that answered "Ohoho... Now, that's a good question, isn't it?"

Orochimaru almost smirked but hide it in time before continuing "Now now, they are about to die. So It doesn't really matter... Jiraya's spy network has its advantages."

Kazekage narrowed his eyes at that tad bit of information but smirked as his senses detected three newcomers taking notice of the small flicker in the Senju's eyes.

So, he's a sensor and a good one too.

As he finished that train of thoughts, the four Konoha-nins had to jump backwards as a strong torrent of water crushed the ground where they were standing just moments ago.

"Suiton: Mizurappa!"

Jiraya widened his eyes at the familiar but now deeper voice, and a frown displayed on his face as soon as he gazed over the attackers.

"It's been a while Jiraya-sensei..."

Orochimaru and Tsunade reaction was a slightly widening in their eyes as their minds raced at the familiar but now more mature faces, Naruto kept his impassive face but there was a small twitch on his hands as he took notice of one of the figures visible eye. It was the Gama Sennin who broke out of his shock and his eyes hardened before replying.

"Yahiko, Nagato and Konan..."

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And done.

Thank you for reading, hope you liked it. Write some review if you wish to change about something and I promise I'll look into it.

Don't worry, I'll explain what happened with them. Yes, they are the former Akatsuki when they were created from the cannon but with a small twist.

I'll give you a heads up on something, this is where Orochimaru will get a certain obsession over Kekkei Genkais. Though, we'll see if he will become evil or not. I kinda wanted to make him stay on the good side, oh well..

There will be probably some complains about the Hiraishin, hmm, well, in my opinion I think It's theoretical easier to teleport an object, energy, chakra, whatever, instead of himself. A body needs to be adapted to certain circumstances, I think I wrote or explained it good enough. And yes, It was Naruto who taught or worked on Hiraishin with Minato. I'll probably will make a flashback with a fight between them, cuz I want to give 'screen time' to Minato, I love that dude.

Naruto and Mikoto got closer, though, they aren't in a relationship... yet.

Thank you, guys. See you soon in the other stories!