A World Without Naruto
Before Naruto could fall off the cliff he suddenly felt a hand grab him by the shoulder and throw him away from the cliff. "Whoa! Who the hell… wait, what happened to the Blizzard? Wait, is this it, am I dead now…. But I didn't eve start falling…" He opened his eyes, he was still at the cliff, the snow was on the ground, the blizzard was falling from the sky, but it wasn't moving. Naruto slowly looked around, it was like the blizzard had paused itself.
"This is so creepy…" He whispered to no one.
"Yeah, I never get used to it myself" A voice came back. Naruto nearly jumped out his skin.
"Oh, sorry to make you jump didn't mean to" Naruto span round to see a boy sitting casually on a rock admiring the view. He had short dark brown hair that was slightly longer on one side; he looked at Naruto with his hazel eyes.
"So, you are Naruto right? I can't tell you how many times I've stopped the wrong suicide it's not even funny" Naruto Blinked " Sorry bad joke, but then death isn't funny" He took Naruto's hand and shook it warmly, all poor Naruto could do was stare at him. Just who was he? How could he stop time? How did he know his name? Why was he trying to joke around at a time like this?
"I know what you're thinking, hardly the Angel role model but"
"Angel?!" Naruto blurted out. The boy paused before answering, watching Naruto carefully.
"Ugh, yeah, you think we just let people kill themselves? Well, maybe some of the sinners but not the good guys, not guys like you, Naruto" Naruto could only stare at the boy, just what was going on?!
"Now I know your mind must be in chaos right now I've heard it all before. And Truthfully we don't stop a lot of people killing themselves, well we can't can we? Free will and all, but Naruto, we couldn't let you do this because of a days feelings"
"But the world would be better off without me, I thought it through before I jumped. My life is rotten…"
"Maybe, but maybe not, Naruto, you won't know till you look" Naruto blinked again
"Something in your eye?"
"What do you mean by that?" Naruto asked, amazed at what his ears were hearing
"We can't stop you killing yourself, but see, you're doing more than you think, so we got it all worked out, here's the deal. We show you the world as it would had you never been born, then I put you back here, and you go ahead and make your choice. So, ready?" Naruto barely made half a nod when he felt himself falling with the boy.
After a few seconds they landed on a path in a village
Naruto found himself in some rundown dump of a town, and was about to ask where the hell he was but then he heard a familiar voice
"DAMMIT! I SWEAR THESE THINGS ARE FIXED!" Tsunade yelled at the slot machine. Naruto was confused.
"But Jiraiya was the one who got her to be Hokage, what's she doing here??"
"That's not true, She only agreed for you, she saw a part of her little brother in you, and so decided to help out Konoha for him and you." The boy explained. Naruto was in shock, he'd had only been doing this stupid thing for 5 minutes and already he felt like killing himself was a big mistake.
"Ready to move on?" The boy questioned. Again Naruto barely reacted, the boy snapped hi fingers and the whole village disappeared and was replaced by some fields with trees doted about.
Naruto recognised it as the place he became a genin. The boy walked to the stone where they carved the names of fallen heroes.
"Why don't you tell me the names of people who aren't on here who were, and the names of new people here?" He said watching Naruto emotionlessly. Naruto didn't follow, but he began reading the names of the lost shinobi in his head until he came to her.
"WHAT?!" He cried out, "THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE I SAVED H" realizing what it was he was saying he felt sick instantly, he fell to his knee to help resist the urge to physically do so.
"Exactly, you weren't there to save her, so she died. Haruno Sakura, died fighting the monster Gaara. Why don't you keep reading there's more changes than that" Naruto could barely bring himself to look at the stone again, but he did, he kept reading.
"Chouji?! How?!"
"Without Tsunade in Konoha he was beyond saving, same goes for your other friend" The Boy continued to show utter lack of emotion in his voice
"Neji?!" Naruto was getting the worst feeling in the bottom of his stomach. He just made a huge mistake.
"So, are you ready to move on now?" Naruto barely mustered a nod, the boy clicked his fingers.
This time Naruto found himself on a rocky terrain, with a town in the near distance. Thought the ground between them was amazingly uneven.
"I'll be surprised if you recognise this" the boy said looking around and placing is fists on his waist. Naruto looked around, sure enough; he hadn't a clue where he was.
"This where your standing now, is the same stop where I picked you up." The boy said looking around, it is hard to believe. Naruto laughed
"I'm not stupid, nothing can do this, that was a mountain here" Naruto said grinning that this couldn't be right
"Ah, that's a good point, only, to the Kyuubi no Kitsune Mountains are soft." The boy said watching Naruto's expression of Horror.
"That's also why the ground is so uneven there; one crack of those tails makes the earth itself dent and break."
Naruto looked around, most of the village had been moved, rebuilt in the distance.
"Why doesn't it have any walls?" Naruto wondered out loud.
"Well for one, to make them strong they take years to build. For two, Orochimaru levelled them when he attacked. Konoha is neither rich nor powerful like the one you know, so rebuilding the walls is an expensive and slow process" The boy explained. They both gazed to the once great Konoha for a few minutes.
"What about Kyuubi now?" Naruto asked randomly
"He was sealed inside another child, but, she killed herself at the age of 12"
"Who…" Naruto asked, not sure if he really wanted to know/
"Your friend Ino. Poor thing couldn't take the bullying and teasing, so she…." Naruto again found himself fighting a battle with the knot in his throat.
"Girls can be some much more brutal than boys as kids, you know?" The boy continued. He raised his hand and clicked again.
Naruto found himself in the Hokage office, he looked around, no one was in the room. "Jiraiya is probably out doing 'research'" he thought to himself. Voice approach the door, someone was giving orders as footsteps moved of one by one. The door swung open to reveal Kakashi.
"What?! Kakashi is the Hokage?!" Naruto could hardly believe his own eyes.
"Who else would it have been? Jiraiya said he never wanted to be Hokage so… it had to fall to someone" Naruto simply watched as Hokage Kakashi order about the others about before settling down to mounds of paperwork.
"Lets move on" The boy said, snapping his fingers before Naruto could respond.
This time Naruto found himself in a courtyard of stone. Flowers decorated the courtyard all beautiful colours that made it seems so luxurious. Naruto noticed a dark haired maid working on them on one side of the courtyard. He glanced at the boy who nodded. Intrigued, Naruto approached the maid.
"Excuse me?" Naruto asked
"She can't hear or see you" The Boy called over. Naruto walked round the maid and realised. It was Hinata.
"I never knew she was a gardener" Naruto commented to himself
"She isn't where you come from. Without you she had no inspiration, no one to show her that a loser can become a winner if they try hard enough, so she gave up on the way of the ninja, she never made it through the academy. Of course Hiashi couldn't have an Heir who wasn't a ninja. So her right as Heir was removed from her. A Hyuga with doesn't not serve the main family in missions serves them in other ways, Hinata is a maid now." Naruto was lost for words. Back home she was a skilled ninja all that was born our of his effort on his own way to being a ninja
"Later She would be expected to marry someone of Hiashi's choosing, usually a ninja the family can use, she will certainly have no say in the matter.
"But what if she doesn't love them" Naruto asked
"Tough, that's how it is for someone in Hinata's current position"
"Hiashi can do that?!" Naruto growled
"Of course, his right as Clan Leader" The boy explained.
"Moving on" The said, clicking his fingers again.
Now Naruto found himself in a dark chamber, Orochimaru's chamber. He turned to the boy
"Are you gonna tell me Orochimaru….is Sasuke?" He fought back that knot once again
"I see, you don't need to see, but simply put, without you on the retrieve Sasuke mission, Sasuke made it in time, Orochimaru used him as soon as he arrived…you know what that's means…" The boy clicked his fingers again.
Naruto wasn't sure if he wanted to look now, he's seen so many bad things, what was next?
"No, please, I must do this!" Lee insisted. Naruto turned and looked. A nurse was trying to force him into bed, hen was trying to use his remaining good arm to do push ups.
"With no Tsunade, no operation, Lee won't get better. But then being a ninja is all he knows. It will be hard, and he will take a long time to forget his dreams, but he can make something else of himself" the boy said. Naruto Fell to his knee's he wanted nothing more than to go back, he wanted to see and hug his precious people, he wanted to congratulate Lee on being a fantastic Ninja, He want to tell Hinata how proud of her he was. He want to tell Sakura how much he loves behind her team mate, it doesn't matter that she didn't love him. So many things he wanted to do, so many things he wanted to say.
"You see it didn't before, but I bet you do now" The boy said smiling,
"You really had a wonderful life. You bought so many people together, you saved so many, and you make people's dreams come true" The boys smile grew bigger,
"Lets go back now, yeah?" The boy waited for a response.
"Yeah, thanks, for everything" Naruto said, picking himself up, he offered his hand. The boy gladly shook it. Naruto now found himself back on the cliff, overlooking the Beautiful village. The Blizzard had stopped and the snow had settled in deeply. The village view with the Christmas lights and snow was spectacular. Naruto looked about, but the boy was no where to be seen. Naruto smiled, truly smiled, he had some people he had to go see.
A/N Yay Another Chapter down. Did you realise Naruto impacts so much? Though TECHINCALLY Sasuke would have died fighting Haku, I decided Haku never wanted to kill so in this he didn't.
Hope you all enjoyed it, Be completing the final chapter really soon.
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