Worst Possible Outcome

Unconsciousness…. No, I was in a dreamless sleep.

There was nothing. Nothing in my mind, nothing I could do, nothing I thought about doing.

There was nothingness. I couldn't think properly. But I knew I should have woken up.

It had been too long. Why is it taking so long to wake up? I don't understand it.

There isn't anything to do. What is wrong with my body? Why can't I wake up? I"m worried…

Pain. Intense, crushing, tearing pain. I can't feel most of my limbs, just pain near them. Unbearable pain, on my body. my head hurts. My chest feels like there's a hole punched through it. Why can't I move my legs? Why can't I feel them? Or my left arm? My right arm feels like it's been through a grinder!

The pain… I'm floating…? No, flying? The pain! It feels like I was just tossed like a ragdoll through the dirt! God, what is this?! At least it feels as if my chest is healing now. My limbs, I can feel them again. Slowly regaining feeling from the base down… Did I lose my limbs?

Consciousness…

I opened my eyes with a moan. Light! Glorious light! But why so much pain? At least it's lessing quickly. Blinking to get rid of the glare, I looked over towards my once missing arm. There was bone and flesh growing down my forearm. Quickly flowing muscles, fat and skin, visible chakra flowing just ahead of each. 'My body is regenerating!'

Looking down, I saw a huge hole between my breasts had closed. A hole through even my chakra strengthened kimono. 'W-What happened?!' I leaned up a little, favoring my newly healed elbow. My other arm looked like it was torn apart, mangled, and shredded, rather than ripped off. Most of my sleeve and glove was missing. I had the end covering my right hand, some fingers missing, but that was practically all that was left, and my chakra was already taking shape, regenerating the damage. Continuing down I saw my legs, both bare, and slowly being fixed. I couldn't tell if they were shredded before, or ripped off, or maybe it was a spinal injury. But my socks were missing too, when they shouldn't.

I couldn't help but wonder why… 'Gaara?! The Invasion!'

Quickly gaining my senses at last I looked around. My limbs just about finished regenerating, I took in my sights. There was dust all around me. Clouds of dirt. There wasn't even any plants. Close to me was debris of a building with blood all about. Probably my own. 'Where am I?! This isn't even Konoha!'

I moved to get up and quickly fell over, nearly face first. 'Huh?' I tried again, only to barely keep my balance now that I was concentrating. I was shaky at best. 'What the heck is going on?! My body! It's so hard to work to stay upright!'

My ears twitched at a footstep, but I ignored it. 'My sense of balance is all wrong! What's going on here-ttebane?!' It was only then that I realized I felt something extra. Quickly my tails twisted around in front of me. Then I saw it. My seventh tail… 'SEVEN?! HOW?!'

The footsteps were getting closer as I stared at my tails in disbelief. Eventually I decided it was a good thing to have the extra tail, and I merged them together for efficiency. I then felt my neck for some extra confirmation, and there was a collar still wrapped skin-tight around it… Sighing, I pulled my hand away.

Then my violet eyes blinked… and again. 'Why does my body feel so different? Are my breasts... bigger? MY CHAKRA! I have more chakra! It almost feels like it doubled! Just what is going on here?!'

The footsteps stopped, "You flew quite far.. I was hoping to avoid such drastic use of chakra."

I turned towards the voice, startled out of my thoughts. Then shocked disbelief set in… "Huh?"

"...You are to come with me," said the newly faced stranger.

Unable to help myself I couldn't help but rub my eyes… Then I took another look. And the face was still there… I nearly passed out from sheer shocked dread. 'I'm NOT ready to face him! And whatever is going on with my body would mean I wouldn't last seconds!'

"...Well?" Said the man staring at me.

"Just… what are you doing here?" I couldn't help but ask.

He just stared for a moment, "did you not know that you were under attack?"

"The invasion! Yeah! Oto and Suna were invading us! I was forced asleep during my battle. Why am I not in Konoha?! If they're still attacking I need to help!" I couldn't help shouting a bit as my worries increased, my nervousness exuded, and my frustrations of my locations buried into my thoughts.

"...You have been asleep for a long time. It has been two years since then."

My violet eyes nearly bulged. 'B-But, if it's over, who won? What happened with Gaara? Did Jiraiya get everything taken care of? ...why is he here in front of me? When he faced Naruto…"

"Don't you see anything familiar?" The man said, almost amusedly? or bored? Can't tell…

I took another good look around. The clouds had nearly cleared since I first woke up. Around me were sloped walls of dirt in the distance, with crumpled buildings slammed into walls on top of the ledges. We were in a crater. Finally I set eyes upon the Hokage mountain. 'No...'

My thoughts turned terrible as I set eyes on the fifth face on the mountain. 'Danzo…. Just what did you do? How are you alive?! WHY ARE YOU ALIVE?'

I just couldn't help but stare in utter disbelief at the fifth face on the mountain. Danzo's creepy face was plastered next to my father's face. It was a sight I never wanted to behold. 'Just what happened?!'

He voiced my unspoken question, "I suppose this would be a good experience for you. This will give you a small idea of my true pain.

From my current knowledge, Danzo had killed Orochimaru in the invasion two years ago. They pardoned his small action against the village and elected him as Hokage for killing the traitor who assassinated the third Hokage. He then released information stating you were actually the nine-tailed fox given human form, stating you were to be locked away. Somehow he had already captured you. I had not listened to his reasons

There were several attempts at either freeing you, or stealing you away. All ended with dead parties. From who I remember - Hatake Kakashi, Uzuki Yuugao, Yuuhi Kurenai, and our Sensei Jiraiya of the Sannin."

My eyes started streaming tears. They had died. My family is dead. Danzo killed my family! And this wasn't even recent. He had even murdered a Sannin! 'Jiji… Kaa-Chan! Whyyy?!'

Aside from that, Konoha has been at war with Suna for the past two years. Other nations eventually decided to get involved. We had decided to start with Suna. We took the one-tails first. Somehow his host survived, but we had disclosed our presence. The war should have helped us hide as we moved, however the targeting of the Bijuu set us as high priority targets.

We have few members, and I decided I would come for the last myself."

I was breathing. Hard. Barely listening to the Rinnegan user, my inner turmoil continued, even as I took his words in.

"Unfortunately you were hidden well. So I just decided to destroy everything and allow your presence to show through. Of course I had to find your crushed body, but it was proof enough that you are now the fox."

My brain hurt. My heart hurt. It just hurt to listen. Everyone was dead. The pain unbearable. My life. My world had come crashing down. 'This man could revi-no they are long dead! Beating him won't bring back my loved ones!'

"Now maybe you understand a bit of true pain… You are to come with me Uzumaki Naruna"

Danzo… He had betrayed the leaf, somehow figured out Orochimaru's plan and removed him. Kidnapped me as I was unconscious from my match, and proceeded to seal me away somehow until he had the time to deal with me properly...for years. Killed everyone I cared about.

Looking up to the rinnegan wielder, my tearstained face taking in his. "Gaara's… Alive?" I don't know why I felt happy at that, but for some reason I was. It wasn't like I loved him or anything as I did the others though… Even Jiraiya I had grown fond of.

"He is, but you won't be there to meet him again." My eyes widened at this. He was planning to have me take Kurama's place in the statue! I don't even know if that would work, but I didn't wanna find out!

"N-NO!" I got up to my feet shakily, scared eyes looking straight into Yahiko's Rinnegan, no, Nagato's. "It wouldn't even work! He's no longer inside me, and I am not him!"

"It will work. You have his essence. His chakra is a part of your very being now." He said, even as he pulled out a black rod from his sleeve.

I turned around and attempted to run, only to trip over a rock I had tried to avoid. My longer legs were giving me trouble. The Height adjustment of several centimeters, and growth of two years catching up with my me. I had lost nearly all control of my body. My chakra control was shot, I just knew it somehow, and I had no protection seals on me anymore - most of my clothes were ripped apart or completely gone, even if they're healing with my chakra aura.

Panicking, I twisting over onto my back, doing the one thing I could with pure dense chakra alone. I started forming a hand sized tailed-beast-ball. Proportions right, but size triple the size of what I was aiming for. I proceeded to launch it at his form, only for him to deflect it with a 'Shinra Tensei'. Sadly It took me more time to form it with my new problems than it took for him to recover his skills.

A moment later there was an explosion in the side of the crater, taking a good portion of the view with it, forming a new crater. Maybe a quarter the size of the one we were sitting in. But I wasn't paying attention to that. He had just deflected one of the strongest attacks I could muster, and the only one I could control now. I knew nothing else would form right if that attack was multiple times larger than I wanted formed.

Pathetically, I tried dragging myself away from him, but I was too late, he stabbed the chakra rod through my lower leg, digging through skin, muscle, scraping bone, and messing with my system. I screamed in pain, only to feel another one enter the other. He was practically rendering my chakra control to nonexistence. I had no doubt I could force it out like Hashirama, but that truly did nothing. And unlike Naruto, I didn't have Kurama to rely on - he was never stabbed, so he could force his chakra through however he wished.

Helpless... I was helpless, and in pain. He stabbed me again, through my thighs, tearing flesh from my bones. He was forcing his chakra into my system, disrupting my own pathways. I felt another rod go through my side, blood flowing through the wound. More pain. And then another rod on the other side.

I had to get out of there. There was nothing I could do like this. Weaker than a Genin, unable to resist a single motion. Only one thing left that I could do, I started building chakra. Even as another rod entered my shoulder, and my screams intensified. He had already rendered my techniques useless, yet he was still adding pressure.

I was building up as much chakra as I could, I'm sure he noticed, but had no clue as to why. He knew I couldn't attack him anymore. Truly, there was no clues as to how much I needed, but at least I didn't have to control it for my escape to work. This was the one thing I truly didn't want to be forced to use.

My chakra spread completely throughout my body. I built up as much as I could muster, and eventually it found my seal. A seal that would affect the chakra it detects connected to my body. My clothes would follow me, I didn't want to have to leave them behind after all…

However since Pein's chakra is constantly in flux, his frequency always changing to hide his presence, so even if my seal detects the chakra, it would change before it's added into the flow. I would leave his rods and anything connected to him behind, thankfully. It wasn't actually something I planned into the seal, but I couldn't help but be grateful with how it works. The other security feature was that anything that had more chakra then the seal acquired was left behind, after factoring myself in of course - a protection in the seal.

This was my 'last resort' as I called it. All I had to do was force chakra into the seal to unlock. I poured as much chakra into my body as possible, and feeling it all flow in one direction, I tried to follow that flow myself. This increased the speed in which the seal absorbed the chakra, and it activated, even as more was forced inside.

A vortex appeared on my body, the specialized design I had come up with as the basis and link. It began spinning around on my belly. Nagato turned to look, even as he put a rod through my hand, scraping more bones. The pain was unbearable, but I just poured everything I had into my body, trying to get the seal to at least give me a little more time to work with.

The vortex started expanding, drifting off my body and onto the ground below me. Expanding, symbols flowing around it, and inside the lines spinning inside the circle itself. Faster and faster it flowed, until eventually it reached up with blood red tendrils and covered my body with red writing, encasing my body, and ignoring the chakra rods through my body. Then lines shot out, links to the encased chakra, from my covered body, probably linking to my torn living clothes. Then there was a flash of red light and Nagato was alone with bloody poles sticking out of the ground in front of him, wondering what had happened.

Uzumaki Naruna had disappeared...

Omake

Danze had planned and designed his future. He had set up the perfect opportunities in the background, spoke to certain people, paid others, and even blackmailed or threatened the rest.

He had set up specific targets for his ROOT agents to take out. Uchiha Shisui being the primary, a council member, and a few others. A few agents would help stall Jiraiya during the invasion, and hopefully the Snake would kill Hiruzen. He had even given an extra donation towards Orochimaru's goal for that.

Then there was Uzumaki Naruna. She was powerful. Too powerful to be left alone. Yet he could use that power. He could shape her into the perfect weapon. And if that fails, he could seal her, just like the fox before her. All he would need is a seal from the Forbidden Scroll. A copy of which he had made.

Capturing her would be difficult. Or so he thought. While his agents made sure the rest happened quietly, yet successfully, he was in the arena watching the match. It would also serve as an alibi should the council try to convict him on Shisui's death. It wouldn't do to have a counterargument disappear, only for another problem to arise.

Of course, the unexpected may happen. And for his advantage too. The sand jinchuuriki had somehow put her to sleep. Danzo ordered his men to signal the ones stalling Jiraiya, dressed as Suna shinobi, to stand down. The village could get some serious damage if the boy let out the one-tail. And he could do some serious damage. They would let Jiraiya finish what he was doing so he could seal the boy up.

The girl, however. She was left alone while the rest of the audience went under siege. Signaling another of his agents, Danzo had him get to the girl. She had a weakness to poisons apparently, in a report of the White-Fang's son, she had been unable to move due to a poison applied to a kunai. She was quickly fighting it off, healing it out of her system, but with the kunai in her body, it just kept seeping in.

Danzo's agent, disguised as a Konoha shinobi took her towards the medical ward for insurance that nobody would stop him. However the agent continued, while sticking two poisoned need into her shoulder. She would continue to sleep for a few hours with those needles staying in there, and continuously changing them out.

The girl's capture was ridiculously easy during an invasion. Next Danzo planned to wait for Orochimaru. That of course was simple as well. The Hokage had apparently stolen his arms. Somehow Hiruzen had prepared enough to actually fight off Orochimaru's surprise attack, yet still let himself get caught in a barrier. Perhaps he planned to die?

Danzo's agents, the strongest of them, were hidden away along the Snake's escape routes. Both of them. When a signal was given, Danzo and the rest of his agents followed to new fighting. Orochimaru couldn't escape. He was mad at another betrayal, but that was ignored. Danzo easily beheaded the Snake, weakened as he was. At this time, Jiraiya had also sealed the boy, before he had managed to bring out Shukaku.

Getting the council to pardon him of his crimes after bringing the Hokage's killer back was extremely simple. Of course thanks to his extra efforts in the background, Danzo was elected as new Hokage, his efforts of killing the Kage's Killer being the main cause.

There was outrage, but the decision stood. The next issue were the people closest with the fox child. Several were trying to find her, and Jiraiya had managed to locate her. They attempted a rescue. However Danzo's agents were quick, and he had expected an operation to take place eventually. Despite their speed, a single touch could kill after all, so when facing Danzo's agents, they made several mistakes. This ended the lives of Kakashi and Jiraiya.

Then there was that woman who took care of the girl. Somehow she had taken it to the public. Danzo proceeded to release the foxes information, how she had absorbed the fox into her being, how she now was the fox itself, and she needed to be kept locked up or issue could arise. And as their Hokage, who could argue with the logic? She was to be kept sedated permanently, until he could successfully control her.

This news sent much of the village into outrage. They had been walking alongside the fox itself for years without realizing it. The woman was assassinated, of course. His plans were moving along swiftly. Until war broke loose.

Somehow skirmishes between nations started. Iwa was quick in attacking in small areas of Konoha. Suna then declared war, with reasons unknown. However, it was suspected that Iwa somehow framed Konoha for something. The rest of the Nation's soon joined in the warfront.

With a fourth shinobi war, he was unable to come up with a seal powerful enough to ensure complete obedience from the Uzumaki child. The best he could do was to seal her away, yet that wasn't the best option, and he still had time. Her body was constantly being filled with sleeping drugs.

Then there was that new group 'Akatsuki'. They had been hunting the tailed beasts. Somehow they managed to get the Shukaku from Gaara. Yet the boy survived. Nobody knew how they managed to save their newly appointed Kage. Then the rest of the jinchuuriki fell, one by one. Even Kumo lost both. The nations had discovered many of the agents in the organization during this time, and began hunting them down. They were actually more important than the war to most nations.

It wasn't until Konoha was the only hidden village with a beast that Danzo started getting nervous. Then there was the intruder. Danzo had confronted the man only to see the Rinnegan for the second time in his life, the first being when watching Hanzo. And he felt fear. Soon after the village disappeared to reshape as a crater. Danzo had denied the request to hand over the fox child after all.

Part 1 - Rebrith of a Fox - Officially Over!
Part 2 - A New Life - Incoming Tomorrow!

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