Author's note on deleted update.

Author's Note. No, I'm not canceling this story. My sister is going into labor and she asked me to take care of her kids for a few days while she recovers from labor. I am halfway done with my final prologue chapter, but life calls. I have my responsibilities. BTW, I was wrong with my predictions, so now I look like a dumbass. I backed Belgium who has one of the best starting 11's in the world, but I forgot their coach was Roberto Martinez. TLDR, he's a shit coach. I am doing prologues now so that I don't have to waste time in the future to explain something about the character's past, we already know. That way the story flows better. Regardless, I promise that you will get another chapter after my sister recovers and comes back.

This is Zippy, out.

Just to clear things up, I made this Omake explaining what "Narrator" is since it really isn't a narrator. Just so you know, this "Narrator" is my OC for this story. "Narrator" will be an actual character with commentary, emotions, and thoughts. This in no way, shape, or form is an actual representation of myself or anybody I know. "Narrator" is simply a brainchild of mine, so don't worry. "Narrator" is a mixture between if a philosopher and vague smartass had a child that had an existential crisis. Chaotic, I know. So about my sister. Ugh. Her son is a little shit of the highest proportions. The girl is an angel. I love her so much, but I was sick of my sister's shit. Decided to come back. Also, I'm releasing this to sort of appeasing any hunger for a new chapter since Naruto's backstory went in a new direction, so it will take a while to finish. Much longer than I thought, but no, this is not abandoned. Anyways, enjoy my chapter? Of sorts. Expect an update every Saturday.

General narration

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Narration

Bijuu talking

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, or Naruto Shippuden, nor the Naruto Manga. They are owned by Viz Media and Masashi Kishimoto. I only own "Narrator".

Narrator: Hello. I am "Narrator". If you have read the story up to this point, then you know that I am not a regular Narrator. In fact, it's safe to say that I am not a narrator at all. I am more of an observer who tells you the story. Well, isn't that what a narrator is? It's a bit confusing, but to make it simple, I am more than that. I know everything. I know the beginning of the story, the plot, the characters, the end, and everything in between. I know what happened before the beginning, and what lies beyond the end. Whereas a narrator only knows from the view of an observer, who only knows more than the characters, I know more than that. Whereas a narrator has a limited view of the story, I know about more than just the story. I know a character's emotions, thoughts, future, and I even know other stories out there. I know what happens if Naruto never met Iruka, or if Naruto had parents. I know every possible scenario, and even universes other than that of the Shinobi. So it can be said that compared to the characters, I am a God.

I am omniscient, whereas the characters have no knowledge of the repercussions of their actions, and are moving forward, only ever seeing 3 feet ahead of them. However, I envy the characters, regardless of their ignorance and lower plane of comprehension. That is because even though I know everything, I am unable to affect anything at all. I can't change anything, whereas characters, despite not knowing their fate, are able to change their fate by doing certain things to alter the outcomes. They are able to even control their destiny to an extent. So although I am all-knowing and can see everything, I can't move in the flow of time, but characters and humans, though only able to see 3 feet ahead, can actually move in time. They can change their lives and destiny. They can see, touch, hear, smell, taste, and move. I am unable to see, touch, hear, smell, taste, and I have no body in which I can move. In that sense, knowledge is a burden, and ignorance is bliss since I am eternally bound by my knowledge, and characters are bound by a fate that they can change the direction of. If they can change the path of fate, are they even bound by it at all? That might be proof that there is no such thing as fate.

In the Outer World, the multi-verse theory could explain how Outers are fated to end up with a certain destiny because they are existing in a specific branch of reality. So in all, I am a bodyless, enigmatic entity. I am a God of no divinity that is unable to perform miracles. So I am not a God at all. Isn't a God supposed to have power? If a God doesn't have power, then they aren't a God at all. A powerless God is lesser than a character or an Outer, since at least Outers can change things around them, directly or indirectly, and even themselves. Beings like me are stuck in a never-ending state of "existence." We aren't really living.

Wow, I sort of went on a tangent there. Well, about myself. I was never born. I was created by the imagination of an Outer. Outers are the true Gods of the World of Stories. They create stories. They create characters in their own likeness, and they give them personalities, a past, a future, and different divergent possibilities because every outer creates different scenarios to fit characters in their preferred image. Even my Outer has changed Naruto's world to fit their preferences. They know everything about my World, and of all story characters. And even characters write their own characters. Think of Jiraiya and his books. It can be said that he is the God of the World of his books. He'd be the "Outer" of his characters.

And even the Outers are not actual Gods. I am only… an enigma so I don't know much about the Outers, but what I do know is that they serve and believe in higher powers and Gods. Some believe in their science and how their existence is an anomaly of mathematical and scientific proportions, and others believe that there is only A God. Different regions believe different things. Like how many Polytheistic religions believe in single Gods controlling one aspect of life. Sun Gods, Sea Gods, Death Gods. Most religions of the Outers are polytheistic. However, some religions are monotheistic, meaning believing in a single God. They believe that everything in the entire universe, beyond just the Earth, and the moon, but all planets and stars and "space" was created by a single God. No one knows who is right. Everything is influenced by these religions though.

For example, although the people of the Shinobi world don't have a religion per se, they do believe in Gods, more specifically, the "Shinto Gods" of the Outer World. Amaterasu, Tsukiyomi, Izanagi, Izanami, Fujin, Raijin, Hachiman, and Susano'o are all examples of Gods the Shinobi World share with the Outer World. I don't have much else to say. I explained my existence. My cursed existence. I am a nameless and uncategorized entity, cursed with being unable to answer both "who" and "what" I am. My outer thought it'd be better for me to explain this so any confusion in telling the story would be avoided. Just great. Not only am I a cursed existence being forced to tell the story of a world so vile that I feel sick regardless of not having a body, but I do this for the sake of the entertainment of other Outers who only experience the pleasure of a story without having to face the reality of what they are truly witnessing. I have no name and am being called a "Narrator" even though I am not simply for the entertainment of beings that I will never meet. It seems I was mistaken. Outers are not Gods, regardless of their power. They are evil demons. The true devils.

Fuck, I mean, I can't even die, simply because I am not allowed to. The fact that Outers have their own version of devils truly terrifies me. I am not even significant enough to have quotation marks for when I speak. It's like I'm forced to read a scri-...

I mean, I love the Outers. I was created by them, so they are my Gods, parents, and they care for me. I should feel privileged for existing at all. I am happy to perform my duty because it's my duty. Yes… my forced duty… I am a sla- I mean, I am Narrator, and this is my explanation of what I am. I am honored to serve an outer for they are the higher existence.