Jiraiya began to straighten Naruto's tie. It was quite a busy day as right next to them, Gerard was breathing rapidly due to freaking out over what was about to happen. Today was the day that both he and Amelie would finally get married and he was terrified. Jiraiya stood up from where as he was crouching after he finished dealing with Naruto's tie. "Gerard, are you okay?" Jiraiya asked.

"Maybe we should push the date of the wedding back…" Gerard answered as he began hyperventilating. Jiraiya knew this feeling quite intimately. He felt the same way when he was getting married to Tsunade. Luckily his friend Orochimaru had been there to snap him out of his mania. Guess it was Jiraiya's turn to do the same for his friend.

With that in mind, Jiraiya walked over to Gerard, grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and slapped him in the face. "Get ahold of yourself, Gerard. Do you love this girl?" Jiraiya asked.

"Yes." Gerard stuttered out.

"Does she love you?"

"Yes." Jiraiya let go of Gerard's collar, patted the wrinkles in his suit out, and tied the man's tie.

"Then I want you to man up, walk onto that alter, and kiss that girl. Got it?" Gerard nodded rapidly. "Then congratulations. You are going to be a married man." Gerard looked at the mirror and took a deep breath. Then he looked at Jiraiya and Naruto.

"So, how do I look?" He asked.

"Great!" Naruto and Jiraiya replied with matching grins. Gerard could easily see the family resemblance between the two. The three then began to walk out of the room together. They passed a group of people walking out into the courtyard where an alter and benches had been set up with a priest waiting right by the alter. Jiraiya left the group at the isle as he had another important task to do.

The duo walked out together and saw all the Overwatch members sitting in chairs together. Sadly, both Gerard and Amelie did not have any family to witness this as Amelie was an orphan while Gerard's parents had died two years ago. At least the Overwatch members had decided to step in for this.

The trio walked up to the alter and Gerard stood next to the priest. Naruto walked off to the side to join Jack Morrison, Torbjorn, and Reinhardt. It would be a minute later when the music began to play and Amelie began to walk down the aisle in a white dress while being escorted by Jiraiya who was taking place of Amelie's dead father. When Gerard saw Amelie, the nervousness that was filling him earlier completely left him as he saw the smile that Amelie had under her veil.

Jiraiya and Amelie made it to the alter and Jiraiya walked to join the others on the side. The priest began to speak and Naruto tuned it out as he internally began talking to Kurama. Both could easily admit that while this ceremony looked nice, it was also very boring as nothing exciting was happening. Later tonight he would be calling Lena to tell her all about as well as taking pictures of the ceremony as she wanted to see everything. This was aided by Kurama who managed to rig his mind to be able to take pictures with his eyes which could be uploaded onto the internet and sent to Lena's computer.

Eventually Gerard and Amelie made their vows to one another and kissed which caused the audience to cheer and clap. Naruto joined in with a smile on his face as he was happy for the two Overwatch members who had become sibling to him. Quickly, everyone hurried inside for the food and drinks except for Jiraiya, Ana, and Reinhardt. Naruto walked over to Reinhardt with a grin on his face.

"Reiny!"

"Hello, Naruto. You've grown once again!" The large man said as he kneeled down to Naruto's level and gave the boy a hug. They separated and Reinhardt ruffled Naruto's hair. "So have you gotten stronger?" Reinhardt asked.

"Yeah! I can do all of these awesome things now, and I'm really, really, fast!"

"Good." Reinhardt said. Naruto looked over at Ana ad Jiraiya who were talking with one another. It had been a long time since he had seen the woman and she looked slightly older. Both in her eyes, and due to some lightened streaks in her dark hair.

"Hey, Ms. Ana!" Naruto said. Ana and Jiraiya turned to Naruto.

"Hello, young one. It has been a long time since we have seen one another. You've certainly grown." Ana looked at Jiraiya, "What have you been feeding the boy?" She jokingly asked.

"Everything."

"It is remarkable that he isn't a fussy eater."

"I'll eat anything, Ms. Ana!" Naruto replied quickly. Ana looked at Naruto once again. She then smiled at Naruto's exuberance. It was what her daughter was once like before she became a teenager. Now these days, Fareeha was moody and in a disagreeable mood.

"Well then, you should run along inside, little one, or else all the food will be gone before you know it." Ana replied. Naruto's eyes widened before he quickly began running. The adults were surprised at how fast the boy was. His small size really betrayed his speed. "So how fast did you say that Naruto could go?" Ana asked Jiraiya.

"He can literally flash around now. Much too fast for the human eye to comprehend. That was just him going slow. You should see him when he wants to go fast." Jiraiya remarked.

"I'll just have to see that one day. Then again," Ana gave Jiraiya a knowing smile, "you both have been showing up on the news due to your little shoot out earlier. I don't doubt that I'll see more of these heroics with both you and Naruto traveling around." Ana replied. Jiraiya awkwardly laughed while scratching the back of his head in the same way that Naruto did.

"About that…" Ana patted Jiraiya on the shoulder.

"Calm down, old man. You need to relax." Ana replied. She then walked away quite happy with herself. What made her happier was when she heard Jiraiya grumbling.

"I'm not that old, am I?" Jiraiya asked himself. He looked over at Reinhardt. "Am I?" Reinhardt held his hands up in a placating manner.

"Don't involve me in this. I'm already old enough as it is. At least I can be happy with the fact that you're older than me." Reinhardt said before scurrying away quickly for a man over six feet tall. Jiraiya sighed at this. He would definitely get Reinhardt back for that. Maybe by burning his Hasselhoff collection. Who knows?

After a while, Jiraiya joing the festivities inside where the married couple was already eating their cake. Gerard and Amelie really did look good together. It took him back to his wedding with Tsunade. While he was never a rich man, Tsunade's family was. They paid for much of the wedding despite Jiraiya's objections against doing so as he did not wish to put any pressure on Tsunade's family. He was waved off of course but the family appreciated nonetheless.

It was the second happiest day of his life. His first was when Minato was born. Sadly those little moments had to end as Tsunade's family got into a fight with another group known as the Shimada's. What Jiraiya didn't know about Tsunade's family at the time was that they were a criminal family that were rivals with the Shimada's for years. Eventually it came to a head when they staged an attack on Jiraiya and Tsunade.

This ended with Tsunade dying leaving Jiraiya behind. A newly made father with no experience in anything besides fishing. He and Minato were taken in by one of Tsunade's surviving uncles named Tobirama. The man taught Jiraiya everything that he knew, from fighting to espionage which came in handy when the Shimada's came after the three in order to wipe out the last of the Senju's.

Tobirama sacrificed himself in order to save both Jiraiya and Minato. That was when Jiraiya decided to leave for America where he got a job as a security guard for a company before eventually moving on to mercenary work, and eventually to working with the American government. All of this was in order to support Minato which worked.

Jiraiya looked at how happy Naruto was being surrounded by the members of Overwatch. They were Naruto's new family after he had lost his previous one. If anything happened to Jiraiya, then he knew that they would take care of Naruto.

Jiraiya was brought out of these morbid thoughts when he felt someone grab his shoulder. He looked to see that Jack was standing there with a drink in hand. "Hey, Jiraiya, why are you standing in the corner instead of being in the middle of the party?"

"It's not my thing, Jack. I'm not the type of guy who likes to be in the center of a party unless I have to."

"Well, there are some pretty girls here, if that'll cheer you up." As Jack said this, a hispanic woman walked past the two. "Hey, Sombra." Jack greeted.

"Hello, Jack." The woman replied as she walked away.

"Just go out there and have some fun. I'll see you later." Jack then slipped away from Jiraiya which left the older man chuckling to himself before he walked towards the festivities. Maybe he could get the numbers of some of the girls here. Jiraiya once again looked at the happy couple. He hoped that both of them had happiness in their marriage. When he continued his walk, he saw Reinhardt and Ana dancing together. A little strange, but he could deal with it. Those two flirted with each other enough that there was probably something between them. At least Jiraiya hoped, he would feel really awkward if his assumption was wrong.

Jiraiya really hoped that things would get a little easier for him after this. After all, he and Naruto still had a long way to go…

Four Years Later

It had been three harsh years trekking through Russia after spending a year touring throughout Europe. While both Jiraiya and Naruto were used to living in the wilderness, they were not used to living in extremely cold conditions as the two had forgone using a cabin. They decided to stay away from cities as Vishkar had tracked them down four times when they went to a highly populated area.

The Vishkar members that were sent against them were always really weak compare to the Namikaze's. Both were slightly thankful for this as they really didn't like having their journey slowed down. Naruto had grown along with Kurama. Both of their existences were covered up heavily by Overwatch as Vishkar was still ever searching.

The two had managed to get that golden cloak form of theirs mastered completely and both were working on a special ability together which they called their Nine Tailed mode or something like that. All attempts at it were a failure and both Naruto and Kurama blamed it on lack of power. Besides just Naruto's and Kurama's relationship growing, the relationship between Naruto and Lena had grown as both refused to stay out of contact with one another for more than a week. Jiraiya found it cute in a way.

Both Gerard and Amelie were quite happy together, Jiraiya and Naruto both made it a plan to contact the two every month as they had grown close over their six-month time together. Gerard was also dealing with more and more TALON activities which had started spanning more of the world. They even worried Jiraiya with how they were so secretive. None of his contacts had found anything about the group but rumor and dead ends.

As of right now, the duo was getting off a plane together in order to enter South Korea. Apparently the tickets were very cheap this time of year. Jiraiya didn't know why but it really didn't matter at this point. Both he and Naruto would be taking a break together in order to just relax. Though Jiraiya didn't like being near this part of the world due to how close it was to Japan.

"Well, Naruto, what do you think we should do first?" Jiraiya asked.

"I heard that they serve live squid here. I want to try some. And there is supposed to be a video game tournament that's supposed to happen. I'm rooting for D. Va!" Naruto replied. Jiraiya cocked his eyebrow at Naruto.

"What is a D. Va?" Jiraiya asked.

"She's this awesome gamer that has been winning a lot of tournaments." Naruto replied.

"So, she's basically a gremlin." Jiraiya remarked. Naruto sighed at the man. The older man really didn't understand video games.

"You're old, gramps." Naruto replied as he zipped his orange jacket up. He had to get a new jacket after the amount of punishment his old one took over the years along with how Naruto grew out of it after a while. Being 15 would do that to you. For Naruto's 14th birthday, Jiraiya had gotten him a jacket that was similar to the previous one, except that this had an orange and black color scheme. Naruto liked it and yet he still kept the previous jacket as a memento. When Jiraiya and Naruto finally got out of the airport together after dealing with the baggage claim where Jiraiya had to do many things in order to actually get his guns into the country, they took a taxi and headed off.

One of their first stops was by a food stand where they got some lunch which consisted of fish and noodles. This was quickly followed by Jiraiya ordering a cup of sake and downing it. To finish this, Naruto ordered up a live squid to eat. The stand owner was happy to oblige and after preparing it, the squid was wrapped on a stick and handed over to Naruto.

With no regrets, Naruto bit down on the squid and started chewing. After the second chew, the squid began fighting but Naruto used his immense strength that was aided by Kurama to chew the squid up and eventually swallow it with some difficulty. After finishing, Naruto raised his arms in victory while the chef and Jiraiya congratulated him.

"Good job." Jiraiya said while patting Naruto on the back. He quickly handed money over to the chef and the two got up and began walking.

"I want to see the ocean, would you mind if I dragged you along?" Naruto asked with a grin. Jiraiya was used to Naruto speeding around areas and dragging him along. Jiraiya smirked and nodded which made Naruto jump with joy. He rarely got to show his abilities in public when he was younger. This would be one of those chances to do so.

Naruto tossed his bag to Jiraiya who caught it which was followed by Naruto being covered in gold Hard-light flames. He had mastered this form enough that he could customize what he looked like. This eventually settled for Naruto wearing black clothing underneath a golden cloak with a high collar that was tattered along with the sleeves and hem. "Let's go Kurama!" Naruto shouted before he picked up Jiraiya with one of his Hard-light claws. A second later and the two were gone.

When they arrived at the coast, Naruto stopped and set Jiraiya down. When Naruto had first done this, Jiraiya vomited his stomach out. It took three more times before Jiraiya got better and stopped losing his lunch over the high velocity of Naruto's run. Quickly Naruto let the cloak disperse which left him in his orange clothes.

"Why are there so many mechs here?" Naruto asked. It was true, there were a large amount of robots with guns for arms that were all aimed at the ocean. Jiraiya was confused about this as well. He was about to try and find someone to ask about this when a man dressed in a soldier's uniform ran up to him.

"What are you two idiots doing here?! Don't you know that the Colossal Omnic is coming!?" The man asked as he ran over to the two. Naruto and Jiraiya turned to look at each other in confusion. Eventually the soldier made it to the two. "Come on, we need to get out of here before it comes. As he said this, a loud metallic screeching sounded from the ocean. Naruto and Jiraiya turned around and looked at the ocean to see that there were large waves crashing against the sand of the beach.

The mechs stood still and unmoving. "We need to run, now!" The soldier shouted before running away. The Namikaze's followed after the man figuring that it was the best idea at the time. As they did so, the soldier began screaming into his radio, "Activate the mechs! The Colossal Omnic is coming!" Eventually the three made it to a barricade where they hid.

Jiraiya dropped the bags that he was carrying and pulled out his revolvers. The soldier glanced at the guns before pulling out his rifle and aiming at the ocean. "I hope you know how to use those. Now why in the hell were you two by the ocean during a time like this? Don't you know that the Colossus comes around this time?"

"Two things, I am a member of Overwatch, I know how to use these guns, and we don't know about what you're talking about." Jiraiya replied.

"Overwatch or not, I don't think that you are prepared for what's coming." As the soldier said this, a few tanks floated past them and towards the ocean. "Every year, the great beast comes out of the ocean in order to attack us and every year we push it back. Damn Minato Namikaze for creating these things." The soldier said. Now that Naruto and Jiraiya got a good look at the man, they noticed how he had scarring across his fight, the indicator of an old soldier, even if the man didn't look his age.

"Well then, we'll just have to show you what Overwatch can do. Naruto, go Hard-light mode, and take point on a roof." Jiraiya reached into his bag and pulled out a rifle which he tossed to Naruto. When he caught the gun, he was quickly consumed by golden flames which made the soldier's jaw drop. Then Naruto jumped into the air and onto the roof of the building next to them in a single bound.

"What!" The soldier shouted in shock. He was quickly drawn out of it when from the ocean, a massive metallic beast burst out with a roar that shattered the glass in the area and forced Jiraiya and the soldier to cover their ears. The soldier grabbed his radio and began shouting order in it. "What the hell, why aren't the mechs firing!?" He shouted.

"Our systems have been compromised. The mechs are down!" The person replied. The soldier's eyes widened.

"Then send everything else. We need to push it back!"

"It'll take four minutes for the jets to take off. You need to hold off until then." The soldier acknowledged this before throwing his radio at the wall. He looked over to Jiraiya with a look of defeat on his face.

"The coast will probably be destroyed by the time we push it back. I would recommend that you leave before then." Jiraiya shook his head in response which confused the soldier.

"Naruto and I are not running. We'll stay here and help you fight this thing."

"If we are to most likely die with one another, could I at least get your name before then?" The soldier asked.

"Jiraiya Namikaze, and my grandson Naruto Namikaze, at your service." As Jiraiya said this, the Omnic burst from the sea in all of its glory. It was a massive machine easily reaching over two hundred and fifty feet high. It had a main large pod that housed the barrels for multiple weapons. Two arms held massive missile turrets while four legs stomped along the ground like a giant crab. A red glowing line could be construed as its eye.

This thing absolutely terrified Jiraiya as he had never seen an Omnic of this size before. His hopes of defeating it were completely dashed when he witnessed it.

Up on the roof, Naruto was already firing shot after shot at targets that Kurama perceived as weak areas on the giant Omnic. Every bullet that met its target would elicit a roar that it seemed to show the rage of the machine. Whenever they put a bullet into a weak area, that area would then be covered by a sheet of metal making the area impossible to damage.

Naruto's eyes widened when he saw the Omnic turn its attention to him. Quickly the Omnic fired missiles at his position which was when Naruto dashed off the building and onto another. Behind him, the previous building he had been standing on was covered in a fiery ball that consumed the area and collapsed the building. More missiles followed after him which made Naruto have to jump to different building just to avoid being consumed in an inferno.

"Kurama, any ideas!?" Naruto screamed as he dodged each missile fired at him.

'We could try Nine Tailed mode?' Kurama recommended. Naruto jumped down into an alley just as a missile destroyed the building next to him. Then he ran.

"We don't have the amount of power required to do it!" Naruto shouted back. Thankfully there weren't any missiles being fired at him as of right now.

'There is a power station that gives electricity to this whole block just fifty feet in front of you.' Kurama said with an excited tone. He really wanted to see how this ability would work out since both he and Naruto had been working on it for a few months now.

Two Months Earlier

Naruto was surrounded by a mass of trees with a face scrunched in concentration. Surrounding him was a golden outline of Hard-light that was shaped like that of a giant fox's head that easily dwarfed him. It seemed like it was slowly fading into existence but eventually after a small amount of time, it faded away, leaving Naruto breathing heavily and covered in sweat. The golden Hard-light form that had encased him quickly dispersed as there wasn't any energy left to sustain it.

"Damn it! This is the twentieth time that this has happened!" Naruto complained aloud. Kurama grumbled at this. "What is it, Kurama?"

'I figured out the real issue with what we are trying to do.' Kurama replied.

"And what would that be?" Naruto asked as he sat down upon the grass in order to rest. This ability was really giving him a headache. He noticed it after the tenth attempt at it. Kurama said that he would begin work on it as he found this issue to be very disturbing.

'We need power. Much more power than we hold right now. The only way I could theoretically see us gaining the energy needed would be to train till we drop every day for the next five years.' Naruto groaned with annoyance.

"Well, then this move will need to be scrapped. I just cannot see anyway to use it with the requirements needed. And I really wanted to be able to do it as well, y'know?" Naruto pushed himself off the ground and began walking back to the camp where Jiraiya was cooking fish. At least he could get some food after all of this…

With the new directive in mind, Naruto ran towards the power station. Ahead of him was a brick building but Naruto just charged through it and ignored the obstacle which left a hole in its wake. This was swiftly followed by another hole in the building which exited out into a fenced out area with a massive box that was surrounded by coils. "Hey, Kurama, how badly could this plan go?" Naruto asked as he jumped over the fence.

'Your brain could possibly melt while the nanobots in your body would explode. This could cause a chain reaction that would leave you a smear in the ground and me as a disembodied mind lost in cyberspace. Other than that, no worries. Knock yourself out…please don't die.' Kurama quickly finished. Naruto breathed in deeply. This would be something that would either mean the life or death of many. He couldn't die from this as there were too many people counting on him.

Naruto punched his fist into the metal panel of the station box which exposed many wires that were obviously charged with energy. With one last thought of regret, Naruto used both of his hands to grab the wires. The huge influx of energy turned his vision white and Naruto was unable to tell if he was screaming in pain…

Jiraiya had felt worry when he saw the missiles chase after Naruto and hoped that the boy was still alive. Most likely yes as Jiraiya had found that it was pretty hard to kill him over the years. Still, it worried the older man at times with how reckless Naruto could be. Right now though, it was not the time to be scared as the massive Omnic was approaching the buildings. None of the tanks had been able to repel the Omnic as they didn't do enough damage to it in the long run.

It made Jiraiya nervous as he noticed that the Omnic adapted to the tanks strategies which involved pushing it back into the water. In response, the Omnic began to use buildings for cover which it pushed over when the tanks approached to close.

Really, at this point Jiraiya felt completely out of his element. He had no way to combat this thing as his guns were all but useless against the tough metal exterior of the Omnic. With little options left, Jiraiya chose to follow on foot after the Omnic to see if there were any flaws in its ability or body which could be exploited. This truly was a chore as he had to navigate through the rubble of the city. As far as the Overwatch member could tell, there was nothing that could be done about this Omnic other than leaving this area of the city for dead and instead bombing it.

Three aircrafts quickly flew over Jiraiya before they fired their missiles at the Omnic. Sadly, it did nothing except draw the Omnic's attention. Quickly two of those three planes were shot out of the sky while the third rushed off. A few screams came from one of the collapsed buildings that Jiraiya was near. Without a second's hesitation, Jiraiya ran over to the building which he noticed was a small house. Quite strange in a city like this, but he put that thought out of his mind and crawled over the rubble.

"Hold on, I'm coming to get you!" Jiraiya shouted in Korean.

"We're here! We're here!" The voice of a woman replied. After finally climbing over the rubble, Jiraiya entered the ruins of what might have once been a kitchen due to its broken counter and tiled floor. "Right here!" Jiraiya turned to his left and saw a woman and a little girl trapped behind some broken beams which were supporting a section of ceiling that was on the brink of collapsing on the two.

"Don't worry, I'm going to get you two out." Jiraiya said calmly before holstering his guns. He quickly walked over to the beams and began to analyze the situation. From what he could tell, the three of the beams were supporting the load of the ceiling while one of the beams was blocking a small hole that could be crawled out of. "I'm going to lift one of the beams. When I do, I want you two to crawl out. Can you do that for me?" Jiraiya asked as he put his fingers under the beam. He really hoped that he wouldn't pull his back out on this.

With a count of three, Jiraiya began lifting the beam which felt like it was over two hundred pounds. Where was Reinhardt when you needed him. "Go!" Jiraiya yelled as he felt his muscles burn. The girl crawled out first while the mother crawled out after her. With relief, Jiraiya dropped the dead weight and began rubbing his shaking hands.

"Thank you!" The woman said before picking up her daughter and running away. The Omnic screamed once more and Jiraiya saw that its gaze was fixed in his direction. Guess it was programmed to kill all humans. That certainly meant him. He took off in an attempt to get away from the giant robot of destruction and hopefully lose the attention of it.

Truly this was the absolute worse vacation that he and Naruto could have gone on. As it were, he found that climbing over rubble was made much faster when being chased by something that wanted to kill you. A building fell in front of him which blocked off his escape route. "Shit!" Jiraiya shouted before turning around and pulling out his guns. If he was going to go down, then at least he would face this Omnic head on instead of running away.

"Come on you giant trashcan! I can take you!" Jiraiya fired at it which elicited a scream from the machine. It trained its guns on Jiraiya and just before it could fire, the strangest thing in Jiraiya's day occurred. A giant golden fox with nine tails tackled the Omnic to the ground.

"Don't/Don't you/you dare/dare touch/touch our/our gramps/gramps you/you prick/prick!" The giant fox screamed in the combined voices of Naruto and Kurama at the Omnic. Jiraiya's jaw dropped at this. The massive golden fox looked at Jiraiya with glowing white eyes surrounded in black that trailed up to it's ears. There were three black bars on it's face while black markings were etched all along the body.

The golden fox avatar looked at Jiraiya and inside it's head, Jiraiya could see Naruto floating. "N-Naruto?!" Jiraiya half shouted and half asked.

"And/And Kurama/Kurama!" The being replied before turning back to the Omnic that pushed itself back onto its legs. The fox took off once more after the machine while the Omnic began firing rockets at the fox. "Stop/Stop firing/firing at/at us/us you/you crab/crab knockoff/knockoff!" They charged through the explosions which did nothing to the golden exterior of the avatar and slammed their tails at the Omnic which sent it back a few blocks to the coast.

The fox avatar charged at the machine and didn't give it an inch. Nothing would deter them from tossing it back into the ocean as they were really annoyed from the amount of pain that they were feeling. Unfortunately, while the plan to charge themselves up went without a hitch, Naruto had been quite injured from the huge amount of voltage that they had taken.

It had been enough to systematically kill the entire powergrid for the area. Not a spark was left as all of it had gone into creating this body. There was also the other issue which was due to Naruto's mind. Sadly, it wasn't built to handle the task of making and keeping this body in control, so Kurama had to temporarily merge his mind with Naruto, ergo, what was standing before the giant robot right now.

The fox avatar used the tails it had to wrap around the Omnic's legs and pull them out from under it. With a quick application of strength, the Omnic was tossed over into the beach where it stood up with a limp. One of its four legs had been damaged in the attack which revealed itself through the massive amount of sparks that emitted from the area. With its defeat clear, the Omnic fired at the fox avatar and began retreating.

The fox avatar grew annoyed with this. They let their displeasure be known by shouting at the Omnic, "Here/Here we/we are/are, don't/don't turn/turn away/away now/now!" Even though the fox avatar was quite giddy with the prospect of fighting the Omnic some more, they knew that there wasn't much they could do as their energy was nearly depleted. Instead, the fox avatar simply opted to glare at the Omnic as it scurried back into the ocean until its head sunk below the waves. With a sigh, the fox avatar turned their gaze from the ocean and padded back over to where their gramps was. They found Jiraiya still where they had left him.

"Naruto and Kurama, that was unbelievable! You took that Omnic down like it was nothing! How did you manage to do this?" Jiraiya asked while gesturing to the massive body. The fox avatar gained a slightly embarrassed look on their face before they began rubbing the back of their head.

"It/It was/was nothing/nothing, y'know/y'know…" The fox avatar replied before their hand fell down to the ground which caused a tremor in the ground. "Still/Still, we're/we're about/about to/to collapse/collapse so/so we/we suggest/suggest that/that we/we save/save the/the conversation/conversation for/for later/later." The fox avatar then laid their head down onto the ground while the golden form that had been surrounding Naruto, faded away leaving the teen blinking heavy eyes before falling to the ground. Jiraiya rushed over and picked Naruto up.

"So, did we do good?" Naruto asked. Jiraiya nodded his head.

"You two did great." Naruto smiled before slipping peacefully into unconsciousness. As this happened military jeeps and chopper began surrounding the area which made Jiraiya groan in annoyance. "Really, now is the time when you finally show up?!" He shouted. Men started to jumped out of the jeeps with their guns trained on both the older man, and the teen in his arms. From one of the jeeps, a man in a uniform that was highly decorated began walking towards the two.

He had an easygoing smile on his face but Jiraiya could easily tell that it was a façade as the smile didn't even come close to his eyes. Unfortunately, Jiraiya knew who this man was as they had both run into each other at a UN conference. That man really had a hard on for hating Minato back then, the opinion probably didn't change now.

"Hello, Jiraiya. It is quite the pleasure to see you once again." The man said with a gruff voice.

"Chang. Isn't it just a nice surprise to see you. How's the career?" Jiraiya replied. The man had been a social climber all his life. It probably didn't change now.

"How's your son?" This made Jiraiya glare at the man. "How about you and the…" Chang took a moment to choose his wording, "boy join me on a trip to our base?" The man asked.

"Do I get to phone my lawyer." Chang began to laugh.

"You Japanese are always so funny. Especially when you come from America." Change stated.

"Now that's just racist." Jiraiya replied. Chang's eyes narrowed slightly.

"Get into the car." At this point Jiraiya knew that the time for banter was over. If Naruto wasn't in his arms, then Jiraiya would definitely be trying to push this man's buttons, but because all these soldiers looked really trigger happy, he refrained from doing so.

"Sounds nice." Jiraiya said before following after Chang. This situation just kept getting better and better.

In a facility contained within the Thar desert of India, a scientist walked down a corridor with to guards. The two guards each contained key cards which they inserted into each door in order to unlock them. Normally the Vishkar research facilities had much smaller levels of security for threats outside. This was much different though…

There was a threat on the inside.

More specifically, one of their research projects that had been developed for the last four years. It was all due to being unable to capture the Namikaze's that the higher ups had decided that they should continue regardless. If they could find the Namikaze's, then that would be a major development on the research project, sadly, until then, they were stuck having to scrape by on the few notes left by Minato Namikaze on his work.

As the steel door opened, the scientist felt a slight tremor of fear enter him. He had encountered the subject three times previously and each time, the subject had displayed how mentally…unhinged that he was. The subject wasn't always like this. When he was nine, he had shown signs of a healthy mentality on life and personal relationships even if his parents abandoned him in an orphanage.

When the subject was introduced to the A.I. that the researchers had created, it did something to him. He became deranged, sociopathic. No longer did the subject believe in his humanity or that of the human race, now he wished to see the downfall of both humans and Omnics. The subject was given enhancements under the orders of the executives that would allow him to lift items telepathically with his mind. While they were able to put the augmentations into the subject, it was considered a waste as he could only life particles that were no bigger than one gram. It was quite the breakthrough when they found out that the subject could lift multiple things at once and move them at speeds of over one hundred miles per hour.

This is what quickly left to higher security as the subject tried to escape by killing guards. Now the subject was on high alert until they decided upon what needed to be done with him. The scientist entered through the last set of doors and walked into a room with a plastic cell in the center. The plastic was reinforced so that the subject would be unable to scrape any of it off to be used as a weapon.

There was nothing inside the cell as well, that also meant that the subject had to go unclothed. In the center of the cell, the subject kept his back turned. His hair was shaved off every week so that it wouldn't be weaponized. The thirteen-year-old began laughing while rocking back and forth. This made the scientist nervous, it was never a good sign when the subject laughed.

"Good morning Subject 001. How are you doing today?" The scientist asked. The subject stopped rocking and became ridged. At the back of his skull, the scars from implanting the A.I. stood out as a light pink compared to the pale skin the subject displayed.

"Our name isn't subject." The boy replied in a gravelly voice for someone so young.

"Subject 001, I am here for your yearly inspection." The scientist replied with a slight gulp. He really wanted to get out of here but he first needed to question the subject's mental stability. It was the reason why they chose him as he had a doctorate in psychology.

"We said our name isn't subject." The boy said louder.

"Then what would you like me you call you?" The doctor asked.

"Gaara." The boy replied. His rocking began once again at a faster rate.

"Well, Garra, could you tell me about yourself some more. And why is it that you are referring to yourself in the plural sense? Who else is with you?"

"My friend. He is always here. He talks to me a lot."

"Can you tell me about your friend? What is he like? What does he tell you?" The doctor wrote all of this down in his notepad. The subject had never displayed schizophrenic behavior before.

"He is angry that we are still here. And he doesn't like you. I don't like you." Gaara rocked even faster before stopping to turn and look at the doctor. His green eyes glared at the doctor while his arm trailed with what looked like dried blood. By Gaara's feet, there was a small pile of flecked off blood that slowly floated off the ground and began slamming against the plastic wall and out into the room.

The doctor began to back away but the blood sand quickly tore him apart. "I really don't like you." Gaara said. More flecks of blood sand rose up around Gaara and quickly created a door way of plastic which Gaara pushed open and walked out. He walked over to the scientist and took the man's coat off which he put on. He waited for the guards to walk through the door before quickly killing them. "Yes, I did it. Now what?" Gaara asked aloud.

He closed his mouth and nodded. "Alright, I'll do it." Gaara walked through the facility and towards some computers. He began typing on the keyboard and a file came up. It brought up the creation of his friend which was based on a previous design from a man named Minato Namikaze. The designs were made from an A.I. that was thought to be held by Jiraiya and Naruto Namikaze. Maybe the A.I. would be just like his friend. He would have to find it.

The A.I. would help his task of destroying this world.

I'm back, and I did a time skip! Now he skipped through Russia. And with going to South Korea, Naruto has a Tailed Beast mode that is woefully impractical for prolonged battles as of now. And I brought in Gaara…of the bloody funk!

I hoped you all enjoyed this chapter as it's the first one I have written since getting into college. Stay frosty my friends.