The Last Uzumaki- A piece of the puzzle.
This contains the plot device only. I do not own any of the characters alluded to and this can be skipped without detracting from the previous two chapters.
"This is so wrong, on so many levels," Anzara complained. Then a swing from the expanding fox's tail batted her out of the tree she'd been perched in. She'd not had enough time to reinforce her wings with chakra: one was definitely broken. She wrapped the others close around her body and rode out the upward arc. Right up until her head wacked into the dome, which sealed this pocket universe. She saw a flash of brilliant white light.
Then all was calm. The storm from the fox demon's fire was gone. The sky was clear. "Get your head together, woman," she ordered herself. "You're falling." Carefully she unfolded her wings. Yep, the one was definitely broken. She folded its partner over it to shield it and fully extended the remaining pair. They were not enough for soaring, but sufficient to change her plummet into a clumsy glide. Fortunately, there was no significant turbulence now. Other than some kid trying to use her for target practice, her return to the Hidden Leaf Village was uneventful.
The usual four heads looked over the intact village. From her usual perch she could see the usual faces among its citizens. So, she had changed pocket universes, but was still stuck in the shinobi, call it the "Naruto" multiverse. And this time there didn't appear to be any cross-overs from other multiverses. Baki had said such cross-overs only occurred in fan fiction, or when a Dream Weaver was exceptionally sloppy.
That last universe had to have been the sloppiest cross-over in existence. The panther-woman could have been a resident of Thundara, but her name sounded Vulcan. T'pring, T'pou, T'kah.
Then there was the woman and her daughter. The Shadow-cloak clan had been reduced to one survivor and relegated to the Marvel multiverse. The Wraith were from a different Marvel universe. And neither of them could throw lightning or turn 2-D. Well other than the fact that in reality they were comic book characters. The only individual she knew of with those two characteristics belonged in the Outer Limits mini-verses.
The residents of this Naruto Universe did not appear to be only fictional characters. They seemed fully human, fully self-aware.
What did that make her? Was she still herself? Or had she been cut off, limited to being only a fictional character in somebody else's imagination?