This is kinda short with a lot of things in it. I couldn't really find a good ending with Karasuba if I only wanted fifteen chapters. I could go on and on with defeating and how they could.


Chapter Fourteen

Naruto didn't know anything at all.

He didn't know what he felt but right now he felt more frustrated than anything. He open his eyes slowly, it were bright white. He couldn't understand why he were here, it weren't as the last time had been in a genjusu. In the genjutsu he were with others. Here he were alone, and without any exploitation for it.

Had he died?

The blond began to feel something, cold. He was alone and cold, just as he had been when he were a child. Unwanted and cold. The difference were that none were here to see him, he were completely alone. Where were his children and lover? Were they safe? He needed to get away from this place. He turned around, searching for some kind of exit. He saw something bright far away.

He began to walk towards it, it spread its warmth. He didn't realize that he had been ice cold before he had gotten warm. The bright white yellow light didn't hurt his eyes it were soft and welcoming, it guided him towards itself. He didn't want to be alone and if he kept going to the light it could be a way out of it. He began to run, desperate wanted to know what it were. It were attractive and lovely.

He began to see two bodies, both quite tall one feminine and one male. He began to run faster and panting heavily at it. There were someone else there who could answer his questions. He was relived but didn't stop running, he did the opposite. He ran faster than he ever felt like he could, his leg muscle began to sting and begged to for his mind to stop. But he still pushed and when he saw a familiar red long hair and yellow spiky hair were the thing that pushed him to his limit.

" MOM DAD" he screamed on top of his lungs, he saw them looking at him with widen eyes blue eyes. It were some kind of glass and he stopped right in front of it panting heavily.

" Naruto what are you doing here?" Kushina asked him in a surprised tone and raised eyebrows. He looked at his mother with slightly wet blue eyes, as if he were five and just fell of his bike. He looked helpless as if he were a child, but in reality he were thirty four and Hokage.

" I don't know, I thought you two could answer that" he said questionable and looked at his two parents with helpless eyes. Something he never could've done when he were a child, something that he wanted to do so much.

" What was the last thing you remembered?" Minato asked in a friendly tone but wanted information.

" I were fighting a thing, and I were brought here" he answered in a desperate way. He looked at his father, who were shorter than him.

Naruto couldn't touch his parents, it were an invisible line between them two. He could see them as clear as the day, Kushina's long hair that were down to her ankles and Minato's blond hair. He was taller than both of them. He was anger to reach out to hug them, but the expression they were making didn't fit the situation.

" Do you feel anything special?" Minato asked again concerned and Naruto shock his head slightly.

" I have emotions but other than that I feel numb or a little cold" he replied to his father. Kushina looked shocked before turning slightly more serious.

" I think I know what could have happened to you" she said in a calm tone before turning to side look at her husband " You know right?" she asked him. Naruto didn't understand a thing, he were confused and it irritates him to no end.
" Can you please fill me in mom? I don't know a clue" he replied frustrated.

" You are between life and dead Naruto" Kushina replied in a serious tone, making Naruto's eyes widen.

" It can't be" he muttered as he looked down. " I have a family to take care of, a village to lead. I can't be here for long" he muttered once again before looking at his family.

" You became the Homage and you got yourself a family, you need to get back" the red haired said with a smile.

" I became the Homage, I earned their trust even if I keep Kurama inside of me. I have a family, even if it's a mess right now. But I'm a father too" he replied in a light voice with a sad smile.

" But you seem bother by something" Minato ob severed in a caring tone.

" It's been a mess, I married and I got divorced. I didn't know who I was for a while, I only kept working all night and I didn't see the important things. I lost myself, and by that I hurt others" he said low tone " But I found myself slowly again, doing what I love the most. Caring for others" he added in a more happy tone.

" I think you have to go back, your family is waiting for you" Minato said with a smile on his lips.

" We will always be watching over you" Kushina added with a smile. Naruto couldn't return it, it felt broken.

" I don't want to lose you again, I want to see you more and more" he said in a broke voice. Feeling as broken as his voice were.

" You never lost us, we will always be with you. We will meet when your time is ready, you still have things to do and something to protect" Minato replied in a friendly tone.

" If that's true you should be still alive, you wouldn't die when I were born. The village needed you, I needed you both" he said in a low sad tone.

" We died because we love you, we gave you life. You are the only one who can bring peace in this world, we knew that we couldn't let you die. As the Homage, I do what I must for my village. But as a father, I do as much as I can for my son. I never regretted that day, the only thing I regret is not seeing you grow up" Naruto felt wet sting his eyes and felt his cheeks slowly getting wet.

" I know, I just didn't wish that you were the ones that were taken the life as I were given" he replied in a low sad voice.

" Naruto, you are amazing without us. You build yourself with help of others, I don't know who you would be with us in the picture. But without us you still made it to the Hokage post and lived our legacy. We will always watch you" Kushina replied with slightly wet eyes. " I think the rest of your family is waiting" she added. Naruto gave a broken chuckle at it.

" Yeah, Sasuke will probably kill me when I get back" he said in a broken way. " But my children needs me too" he added in a more fatherly way. " I don't know how after life works, but if you see Hitachi. Tell him I take care of his little brother" he finished with a smile.

" Of course, the times running out. Take care Naruto, we love you" Kushina said with a gentle smile.

" You can't stay there much longer. We love you and we will always watch over you" Minato added to his wife.

" I want to be here for a while longer, I have a village to protect. I will carry the title Hokage with proud and carry the Uzumaki name till the day I die" Naruto said more confident and with a smile on his lips.

He didn't want to turn back, but he felt his consciousness run out and he felt lighter as he began to run. He didn't know where he would go, but he knew that he had a short time to find a way out of here. He took a breath, calming his nerves down.

He took a last breath and felt himself drawn to the right side, without anything to go on he ran towards it. He couldn't die now, he were the Homage, he had a family now. He couldn't loose them now that he had everything fixed and better than before. He had made a promise to Boruto, that he would be on his side through this. He couldn't break that promise, he could never do it. He would make it, he ran towards it.

" Naruto, Naruto" he heard someone scream his name, he felt himself going lighter.

" Naruto you can do this" he heard someone say in a worried tone. The next moment he were somewhere else.

The ground were hard and felt cold against his back. He slowly open his eyes, seeing someone stand beside him. Sasuke stood there, and he saw a little fire come out of his mouth. Sasuke were fighting someone, and with that he stood up quickly. Too quickly and he felt dizzy after that. But he still stood up on shaky legs, he saw Karasuba stand there with fire all around it.

" If I make Wind shüriken and you Katon the fire will become bigger and possible beat him" Naruto said and he felt his lovers glare on him.

" I can't talk you out of this, and we need the time" Sasuke replied in a dry tone.

" We need to go on a larger field if I'm going to use wind Shüriken, we need Karasuba to follow us" the blond looked at the sand figure, only looking at them.
" We don't have time for that and it could be a risky plan if it won't follow either of us" the raven replied.

" Then we will have to drag it out of here with force, I know a field close to here" the Homage replied and made his favorite Juts, twenty other Naruto puffed out of the air and began to run quickly towards the enemy.

The clones pushed out Karasuba out of the woods quickly and with every clones short time line were over Naruto made a new one. He was surprised that Karasuba didn't make any effort towards them, it were scary. As if something were wrong, and it rubbed him wrong in more ways than one.

" Karasuba doesn't make any effort to win this, I don't understand this" Naruto muttered to Sasuke as they ran to the clones and their enemy. They finally were at an open area, and the clones were gone. The two males against some creature and the distance between them were short.

" I made a mufti Jutsus before, but it didn't seem tired or wounded by it" The raven replied. Naruto did two clones in a puff of smoke.

" Let's make a big fire on it" Naruto replied short, and he focused his energy onto his hand. The two other clones made circular movements and the rasangan as well as wind began to form in his hand, he felt the power grow quickly. The two clones were gone a moment after and he moved it over his head, and threw it and a fire ball came with it. They were matched and the fire grew quickly as it landed on their enemy.

The fire grew quickly, and the sand creature began to crystallized and hope filled his chest. But it wasn't enough, it were just a small part of the creature that were in glass and when the fire slowly died out it weren't dead.

" We need to do it again, we can't quit" Naruto demanded and made five clones and began to form the wind Shüriken. He and his clones threw it and two flaming hot fire balls came after.

The fire were bigger, but the panic began to spread when he thought that it wouldn't be enough to stop the creature. He had enough charka to make more wind, but it needed fire.

" Do you have enough chakra to make more fire balls? We need to keep the fire going" Naruto said to his lover.

" I have enough, we need to make them when the fire turns less" Sasuke replied in a stoic tone.

" Good, because I don't know yet how we can kill it" the blond replied.

The fire slowed down, and Naruto made the wind Juts as well as Sasuke made his fire. The heat melted the glass and the wind rebuild it. It seemed to help, the glass turning larger and larger as each time they made it bigger and stronger. But he didn't know why it didn't make an effort fighting back, it bothered him. Karasuba could want to die on its own.

" What if it wants to die, that could be a reason" Naruto muttered his thoughts out loud.

" We will let it turn to glass and then we can break it" Sasuke replied in a responsible tone. " Alright, it sounds like a plan" The blond replied.

They made another attack, and it were quiet all the time. All males spoke to each other, no small talk to fill in the silence. Naruto were happy for that fact, he didn't want to speak about what happened just a half an hour ago. He didn't know what had happened or why he were in between life and death. Sasuke could answer that question, but that meant that he had to think about it. It were painful even now.

Karasuba were soon in glass, it were a relief. But the blond still had his distance between them, still watching it slowly. The body were still pitched black but unloving, the Hokage didn't know what it even were made of. It did look creepy inside the glass. He was satisfied that he and Sasuke managed to keep in inside.

With heavy steps he walked towards them, feeling Sasuke moving beside him. He took a closer look at the creature, it didn't seem dangerous. But the power it held were scary, as if it were the master of Genjutsu. It were a power he never wanted to harm anyone, kept hidden and with a secret that no one would mention. It were an uncomfortable air around them, and it were hard not to be angry at it.

In a swing of his arm he punched the glass in the cent rum, his knuckles covered in blood but he couldn't care less. He punched once more, and one more. With every punch he felt the blood run thicker, and he felt more satisfied with each painful punch. He let out a battle cry and the glass split teed in front of him, small glass flies broke his skin slightly. He breathed in heavily breaths, panting more of frustration than anything else.

" Let's head home" he said and turned around and walked past an emotionless face. He felt the blood run still, but he hoped that Kurama would heal it before Himawari saw it. But knew he had to hide it either way.

" Are you satisfied?" he heard his lovers deep voice ask him, he didn't need to think much about it.

" Yes I am, I can recover in peace now" he replied with a low tone as they walked through the woods.

" You need to check your knuckles before we meet Himawari and Hinata" Sasuke replied, no tone of arguments there. The blond looked at his knuckles they were already bandaged, it were his right arm.

" If we hurry we can make it in time before we get Himawari and Hinata" he responded, as he felt the scars heal. " On the other hand, Kurama heals me pretty quickly" he added.

" If you aren't healed before we are there, I or Sakura will fix it" Sasuke responded in a demanding tone.

" Yeah, thank you" he replied in a soft tone. He knew that it weren't enough to put in words, but he needed to say something and it turned out more cheesy.

" I hope you know that you will help me with the cooking today" Sasuke replied tiny playful.

" Only if you help me, teme" he replied with a lighter tone.

" Hey Himawari!" the blond waved a hand towards his daughter, his knuckles healed perfectly as they arrived. She waved a tiny hand towards him and smiled as they meet half ways the distance. She smiled towards him and he did return it.

" Was it fun with Pinata?" he asked with a friendly tone, his daughter nodded her head.

" Yes, It's always fun being with mom!" she smiled as she replied. Her attention turned to the male beside him.

" Where you at the office with dad?" Himawari asked.

" Yes, we were" Sasuke replied shortly. The air grew uncomfortable in a moment of silence.

" I think we should head home, I'm getting hungry" the blond broke the silence. He began to walk home and the other two followed him. He stopped and turned to look at Hinata.

" What are you doing there? You are invited for dinner at our place" he said with a small smile. She smiled gently.

" Thank you, Naruto-kun" she said with a gentle voice and began to walk towards them with a small smile.

" What kind of food will we eat today?" Himawari asked beside him, with pale exited eyes.

" I don't know, what kind of food do you want?" he asked his daughter with a gentle smile. She returned the smile before answering.

" Ramen!" she replied and the blond felt a grin spread on his face.

" Ramen it is!" he responded exited.

" I won't make that, but you can" Sasuke replied.

" Why not? It's dads favorite, shouldn't you be able to make that?" The young girl asked in surprise.

" It's not healthy and it takes salt. Nothing more" the black haired male responded.

" Tomatoes doesn't taste much either" the blond teased his lover.

" At least tomatoes have vitamins, give me one thing that Ramen is good for?" the black haired replied.

" It keeps you filled for the whole day, you get hungry after ten minutes if you only eat tomatoes" Naruto replied, they were thirty year old and they couldn't stop with the teasing.

" I don't only eat tomatoes, I eat it with other things. That does make you full for the whole day" his lover replied.

" But it's not tasty at all, if someone made ramen. It's because we should eat it, not the opposite" he replied in a defending tone.

" You need more things than ramen, it's needed for your body" his lover responded.

" Fine, but can we have ramen today and other days we can eat healthy?" he asked in a gentle tone " Come on Himawari, fight for our ramen!" he eyed his daughter with a grin.

" Please Sasuke-san!" Himawari said with hope in her pale eyes

" If you cook it, it's fine" the raven said in defeat.

" Looks like we are getting ramen for tonight Himawari!" he said with a smile towards his daughter.

They cooked the dinner together, and Naruto could laugh with no guilt for it. Himawari smiled countless times that night, and he were sure that he did the same. She was social with him, and he enjoyed more than anything. He loved spending time with his daughter as the rest of his family. The dinner around the table were a little stoic at first, before he made a little small talk. Hinata didn't speak much but he saw her confident smile at him and he felt warm inside.

He could finally move on, but the progress of the recovery would take time. He could make it, with the help of his family.