No not an update just a very small tweak that will make the story have more sense to it. Sorry for the disappointmet
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Naruto didn't where he was. All he could tell was that it was dark and wet. There was sound of heavy breathing in the air.
"Huh? Where am I?" Naruto looked around. Where he was looked like a sewer with large pipes overhead. One of the pipes was glowing a light blue that had a calming aura around it. The second pipe and the biggest was glowing crimson and had a dark aura around it. It radiated a feeling of unease.
"Come to me. Seek me out for answers." A deep voice whispered from where the breathing was
"W-whose there? Show yourself!" The frightened boy called out
"Seek me out. I will answer all of your questions." The voice said again.
"How do I find you?" Naruto asked with his curiosity piqued.
"Follow the red pipe."
So Naruto got up and did as the voice asked. After a few minutes the pipe lead to a massive room with a ceiling so high up that it was swallowed by darkness. On the other side of the room opposite from where Naruto was, was a giant cage being held shut by a paper that had the symbol for seal written on it.
"Come closer. I wish you no harm despite what you would believe." the voice said.
As Naruto got closer he became aware of sounds coming from the cage. They sounded like breathing.
"I've been waiting for you, Naruto." The voice said.
"W-who are you? Where are you?" Naruto asked with a shiver.
With those questions out of the shadows in the cage a giant red fox appeared. It wasn't any normal fox though. It had a human-like torso with five fingers on its front hands ending with long claws. The thing that got Naruto scared though was the nine whip-like tails flowing behind it.
"You-you're the K-kyuubi! I-I thought the Fourth Hokage killed you." Naruto said with absolute terror
"Please calm yourself. I mean no harm I promise." The Kyuubi said with a small sigh.
"You-you mean it?" Naruto asked still scared
"Even if I did, I can't. This cage prevents me from doing anything to you."
"Oh, how are you here? And where is here?" Naruto asked realizing that he was safe
"This is your mind. I am here because no mortal can kill me. I can only be sealed into a living human."
"And that is me isn't it? I guess I should have figured it out then after all that the village has done."
"Listen, I know what I say might not have much meaning to you but, I'm truly sorry about what happened to you. I did my best to keep you okay."
"Wait you mean you were the one who kept healing me? Thank you. Without it I would have died."
"Its no problem kid. I admit at first I only did it so I could escape. Now however, I see that that would be pointless."
"What? What do you mean?"
"The world is coming to an end kid. You're probably the last one alive on the planet."
"What? Why do you say that?"
"Before you fell into that pod, I could feel the energy being released into the world and the desperation of the people. Whatever attacked did so without warning and with devastating power. Your people fought back but fell all the same."
Naruto didn't want to believe it but he knew the fox was right. He could just feel it in his very soul. And just like that he broke down and started to cry.
"I'm so sorry Naruto. I wish I could help you. It was my home as well and I hate to admit it but...I enjoyed it there."
XxLINEBREAKxX
It took awhile but Naruto eventually cried himself out.
"Listen Naruto, I have an idea. I don't know why but I get the feeling that you're going to make it out of this. So tell you what. I didn't live this long and not pick up a few tricks so how about I train you? It would be the least I can do and since you seem to be stuck here anyway..."
"I- I would be honored." Naruto said with slight shock. "What are we going to do first Kyuubi-sensei?"
"My name isn't Kyuubi. It's Kurama."
XxLINEBREAKxX
(OUTSIDE)
The prothians landed on the planets surface as soon as the Reapers left. As with all attack sites the planet was in ruins with corpses everywhere. What surprised them was the actual reaper corpses. They knew the people on this planet didn't have space travel and yet they could take down capital ship class Reapers. This showed exactly why they were destroyed. Unfortunately they misjudged the length of time it would take to explore the planet. They would be exploring every little inch of it after all. Just to see if anyone survived.
(TWO YEARS LATER) (IN NARUTO'S MIND)
"I must say Naruto you're good at this now." Kurama said as he dodged an attack from Naruto
"I did have the best teacher I could have had." Naruto said while charging up a Rasengan.
Over the last two years Naruto and Kurama have been training in every aspect that existed in the shinobi world. Of course Naruto still couldn't cast a genjutsu if his life depended on it but his chakra control was nearly perfect. When Naruto asked about the third pipeline that ran through his mind not even Kurama really knew what it was but it was always there. Since Naruto was trained by Kurama, he fought like an animal rather than a normal human. Meaning he used everything he could to ensure victory. A berserker fighting style that didn't let up the offensive and focused on either overwhelming or countering instead of planning out ahead of time since the battle plan can be shot to hell in a heartbeat.
Naruto ran at Kurama and managed to slam the Rasengan into him and finally defeating the fox.
"Nice work. That settles it then. I've nothing more to really teach you. I mean you still gotta get used to using my chakra but that will come with time."
(OUTSIDE)
"We have been on this planet for two years now. We will not find any thing here. We need to leave and go back to the empire." one of the Protheans said
"We are almost done searching this is the final zone that had a significant population."
Of the ten Protheans that landed on the planet there were only two left. They were twins a brother and sister. As Prothean tradition they served together as Prothean twins were rare. The male was taller at around 6'2" his armor was black and built to look like it spiraled out from his heart. In his hands was a powerful shotgun. His name was Rilik.
The female was smaller and had more curves than her brother. Her armor was layered in a ripple style from here neck down to her waist with plating on her arms and legs. In her hands was a salvaged sniper rifle from an enslaved Prothean that was left on the planet. Her name was Renir.
"I know that but we haven't found anything on this planet. What's to say this will be any different?" Rilik asked
"Simple if we don't check then we won't know for certain and it will eat away at you until you decide to go back and look and we'll find a fresh corpse because of your desire to not go in now." Renir said with a small smile.
Rilik and Renir were not like other Protheans. They were considered free thinkers. They were infiltration units and were given a bit more leeway in how they act than most since it was one of the most dangerous positions to hold in the military. As such they were more prone to speaking with a bit less tact than most and were not afraid to speak up about things that they didn't agree with.
"Sigh...I don't know how you do that. Yeah you're right lets go have a look." Rilik said admitting defeat.
The two Protheans walked into the village to see the ruins of one of the biggest cities they've seen on this planet. Several of them were mildly intact actually but offered no cover from the elements once the Reapers left the planet. After several hours they located a signal of life. I was small and looked to be far underground. They walked until they were right above the life source and looked around. All that was around was a large clearing, the only thing that stuck out was the lone tree that stood defiant against the barren landscape.
"There is no way that tree is natural. Everything else in this area was destroyed or burned." Rilik said
"True, be on guard Rilik." Renir said
The two approached the tree and scanned it finding it hollow and with a chute down underground.
"Are you ready? Lets go." Rilik said
The two slide down the tube and some time later landed on the ground. Looking around they saw something that shocked them to the core. An ancient temple built by the Innosanian (A/N-What the hell were they called again. Something like that I know.) The Protheans thought they found them all but there was one more and it contained the life force. So naturally they jumped to conclusions and thought it was one of the people that ruled the galaxy before them.
"Brother, can you believe it? One of them survived all this time." Renir said in absolute awe
"Yeah...we should be careful though. After all I've seen I'm not gonna hold my breath about it." Rilik said with a sigh.
"When did you get to be such a downer? This could be the find that we need to defeat the Reapers once and for all!" Renir said with determination as she walked over to the pod.
"It looks like it is made similar to ours but slightly more advanced." Rilik said as he inspected the pod.
"Yeah but it also looks easier to open as well. I mean the panel is over here and the pass-code is simple enough to decipher." Renir said as she started typing away at the console to the left.
"Just hurry up and get the damn thing open so we can leave. I feel like a reaper unit is going to show up any second now and alert them to where we are." Rilik said as he readied his shotgun.
"Okay I'm opening the pod now." Renir said typing away
XxIn Naruto's mindxX
"Well it feels like I'm waking up Kurama so I guess I'll talk to you later." Naruto said as he got up and felt himself fading.
"Yeah I'll see ya kid. Kick some ass for me." Kurama said
XxOutsidexX
The pod opened slowly. Almost painfully so. When it was fully opened Renir was shocked and Rilik started laughing.
Inside the pod was possibly the only living human on the planet. And they just happened to find him in a stasis pod that belonged to their predecessors in ruling the galaxy.
"Well this is awkward." Was all Rilik said as the Naruto started to wake up.
THERE FINALLY! I got it done. It took me awhile to get this done because of several things that I won't bore you with the list. Hope you enjoyed the chapter and hope you review.
Till next time
