So, this one has a bit of back-story.

Now, the seal Naruto has makes it so that Kurama's chakra comes out an mixes with his, right? So, my thinking is that this would have some side affects other that just more chakra and a few different glowy forms. After all, he's kind of mixing it with an immortal demon fox.

So to me that means that maybe, Naruto gets a bit more out of this deal, like a few more years of life (especially since Uzumaki decent already live long lives).

Or, maybe, a hundred or so.

So in my mind, Naruto gets stuck living far longer than he wanted to. He watches as everyone he knows and loves, even his children, dies.

So, this is that. If you don't like it, too bad, I'm the one in charge here. But also, you can ignore the bits you hate and maybe focus on the other parts. Like how wonderful I am for giving you three chapters in one day.

Oh, and this was kind of also inspired by the Obito/Rin after life scene. Before he kind of came back to life and... stuff... I don't really know what's going on with the Manga right now, but I thought that that was a nice scene.

Onwards, my pretties!

The sun was just getting ready to rise when he entered the village for the first time in too many years to count. They'd changed the security measures and they were more complicated than they had been all those years ago when he had last left but still, sneaking in was child's play for him.

He first went to the Hokage tower and left a note on how to improve said security he had just broken because if he could do it, it wasn't too farfetched for someone else to do it too. They'd have to be extremely skilled and smart, but it could still happen. He left before anyone could even notice he was there and they wouldn't realize it for a few hours, at least. His next stops were just as quick and unnoticed, and he didn't allow himself to linger because he knew that he didn't have the time. His next stop, though, could never be hurried.

"Hey, Hina-chan." He roughly murmured to the old headstone, smiling at the familiar name etched into the slab. "I just checked on everyone, and they seem to be doing alright. A few more of them since the last time I was here, but that's expected. It's been like ten years, right?"

"Twelve." Kurama supplied, his gruff voice unusually quiet.

"Twelve years, then." Naruto sighed, gnarled and aged spotted hands coming up to brush a few leaves away from the stone in front of him. He sat there in silence for a bit, the sun rising slowly and steadily behind him as he stared at the headstone, his face twitching between expressions as if he couldn't decide to smile or frown.

"Naruto…"

"Yeah, I know." He sighed, forcing himself to slowly stand, ignoring the aches that had settled into his bones as he had rested. He placed a hand on top of the stone and patted it, smiling down at it gently. "Don't you worry, 'Nata, I'll be back sooner this time. I promise."

As he left he didn't hurry, walking slowly through the still sleep riddled village, keeping his head down so that on the off chance someone would be able to recognize him, they couldn't. But really, everyone now was too young to know who he was or to recognize his face, so aged from how it was on the mountain that loomed over the village, and so anyone who even realized he was there just assumed that he was simply an old man strolling through the quiet streets.

He returned back to the Hokage tower, and making sure no one was around to notice he quickly made his way up the building, silent and hopefully unnoticed for at least a few more minutes. Really, minutes was all that he needed.

With a grunt and then a sigh he settled down on the roof, looking down at the village he had loved and protected for nearly his entire life. It had changed so much since the last time he had come through, more modern as it had changed with the times, but still beneath all of that new shine he could see the remnants of the place he had grown up in. The place he had called his home and had created such a beautiful life in.

Soft colors stretched across the sky now, and the rising sun painted streaks of light across the buildings and streets below. Some of the more ambitious people were beginning the start of their day, and Naruto watched them for a moment as they moved around so far below that they were indistinguishable figures from where he sat.

"It hasn't changed all that much." He decided, smiling as he watched a little trio hurry off to where the training grounds still were. Kurama snorted in his head derisively.

"Nothing ever does, really. I thought you would have noticed that by now."

"I've changed. I know I have."

"Stop sounding so pitiful. You're still the same loudmouthed annoying kit I got stuck with at the beginning of your life, and I know that that will never and has never changed."

Naruto smiled at that, but it slowly slipped away to be replaced by a solemn expression.

"Do you know what it's like? Do you know where we're going or what will happen?"

A low, almost sad sigh filled his head. "This will be a first for me too, so no."

They were both silent for a moment, just watching the world around them wake up.

"I'm not upset, you know. I've been alive too long, and it hurts too much anymore. Traveling. Waiting. Living. I…" He looked down at the thin, bony hands that rested in his lap, paper skin pulled tight over aching bones. "I thought that after Hinata, that I wouldn't have too long to wait. 'It would be cruel to live too long without her', I thought, 'And the world would never force me to go through how it feels without her for too long'." He chuckled darkly, clenching his hands into fists. "You'd think I would have realized sooner just how cruel life could be, but instead I had to watch all of my children die before me for it to really sink in."

The silence then was grim, but after a few minutes he seemingly shook it off.

"I'll see them soon though, so that's fine." A pause, "I will see them, won't I Kurama?"

"Yes." The demon fox answered lowly, hoping just as much as his vessel that it was true.

"And you'll be okay?"

"I'll come back eventually, perhaps in a century or so since such a large amount of chakra and life force can't be contained too long even by death. It would destroy the natural order. I don't know what will happen after that or what changes will occur to myself or the world."

"Make sure you don't forget this, alright? You became a pretty decent friend, you know, so don't forget any of it and try not to be such a huge ass." Naruto chuckled, crossing his legs beneath him to get a bit more comfortable.

"I'll do what I want once I'm free from your insufferable hold." The fox growled, but Naruto just smiled because after all their years together it was incredibly easy to find the sentiment in the fox's seemingly unfeeling words.

A sudden heaviness seemed to fall on Naruto, weighing his shoulders down and making him feel so tired and so incredibly relieved because this was it.

Kurama felt it too, and sighed. "I'll not forget, especially not you. I'm sure not even death could make me forget such a loud-mouthed brat." He gruffly promised. Naruto's shoulders shook with quiet laughter before they slowly slumped down.

"Stupid fox." He sighed, eyes sliding slowly down until only a thin slit was left open. "'M tired." He murmured, slumping down just a tiny bit more.

And suddenly, the vicious nine-tailed demon fox was faced with an incredible and terrifying feeling he hadn't felt since he was first born, listening to the last words of his father the Sage. He was scared for his death even though he knew it wouldn't hold him back for long because it was so unknown, but that wasn't the thing that was forcing all of these emotions to come to the surface.

No, it was this human boy, still a child to him even in his extreme age, and the fact that he was dying. His first friend, his only companion for centuries, and he was losing him to an inevitable fate. What was he supposed to do without his annoying laugh and his insufferable attitude and his dense comments? And was he always going to feel this guilt? What was he supposed to do once he was back onto the plane of existence again, because something inside of him knew that if he tried to destroy any more pathetic human settlements he'd remember the child he was stuck with too long and he wouldn't be able to do it.

Oh, how weak he had become.

But strangely, this fact didn't upset him as much as the fact that soon he'd be alone again, and alone was a feeling that he'd just found out was such a sad thing. He was an incredibly powerful demon, and he would surely become even more powerful in the future once freed. He could surely find a way to change this, to bring the boy back.

But Naruto relaxed even more and Kurama felt the longing he felt to be with the people he loved once again as if it were his own, and he knew that he could never be so cruel. Not to Naruto.

"Sleep then." He growled, settling down in the home he had kept for so long, for just one last time. "It'll be done soon."

Everything was white, but not the eye shocking white that was too bright and that made you squint so hard it hurt. Instead it was a soft white, soothing in its clean, blankness. It made him feel light, like gravity was no longer a tether that weighed him down, and it made him feel relaxed because suddenly his worries were so insignificant and were pushed to the back of his mind.

Then, there was red.

"Mom!" He cried as he was talked into a hug, blinking back tears and quickly wrapping his arms around her as she squeezed him tightly. Then, looking off the side he saw the gentle smile of his father, "Dad!"

"Naruto!" Kushina pulled back, grinning at him and framing his face with her strong hands. "Look at you! You grew up so much. Did you have a good life? Were you happy? Loved?"

"Yeah." He managed, smiling through his tears, "Yeah, I did. I was."

"Oh, I just-"

"Kushina," Minato gently pulled her back a bit, still smiling, "I think that there's someone who wants to see him, and who he might want to see a bit more than us at the moment."

She pulled away from him with a small, "Oh, yeah," And Naruto didn't understand because really, who could he want more than his parents in this moment?

And then they moved, and he knew.

He was running before he even realized what he was doing, tears streaming down his face and a tightness that had been wrapped around his heart like a fist for decades finally releasing. In that moment, suddenly, he was sixteen again, staring into her eyes for the very first time and finding himself lost. He was seventeen and kissing her and falling, falling, falling…

He was twenty and lying in bed beside her, watching her sleep for a moment before accidentally waking her up because he was laughing too hard for no other reason than that he was just so happy. He was sixty on a quiet afternoon, both of them in the garden and looking over to see her, her face with a smudge of dirt across the cheek and he was falling in love all over again and even harder, if that was possible.

When they reach each other, they collide and grab on so hard that it's almost painful to watch, holding on as if to make sure they could never be torn apart again.

"Hinata." He gasps, putting his forehead on hers and just staring because the sight was too amazing to look away from. She looked just as she had all those years ago just before she had been forced to leave him. Long white hair pulled back away from her face, lines and wrinkles and creases formed from years of love and happiness, bright white eyes shining at him and so beautiful it stole his breath.

"Naruto. Oh, Naruto." She whispers, bringing one of her hands up to cup his cheek and brush away some of his tears and the tracks they had left. "I'm so happy to finally see you again." She laughs then, tears of her own rolling down her face, and he didn't realize how much he had missed that sound until the moment he finally heard it again and it was like his world was filled again.

She pulled him forward so that they could kiss, and everything was finally right after being so wrong for so long.

"We all missed you." She whispers once they finally separate, smiling at him and everything he had ever missed.

"Everyone is here?" He asks, crying even harder because finally, finally…

"Come on." His mom says, coming up beside him and putting a hand on his shoulder, his father right behind her, "They're waiting."

And finally, Uzumaki Naruto was at rest.

Tada!

Also, I just want to say that I love you all, my sweet darling babies. But TheCookieMonster77, you darling gem of a person, your comments make me so incredibly happy. Thank you, sweetling.

Also, all of your pain over these chapters that are death centric is much appreciated and makes me very happy.