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"Speech"

'Thought'

"Demon speech"

'Demon thought'

Jutsu

Changing Fate Chapter 2

Naruto had been having a bad couple days. First a war of sorts had broken out shortly after his return to Konoha. An army marched across the land and he had been told he would not be going to the front by Tsunade. Oh sure he was being sent to escort the one person who could stop the army by stopping it's master but it still wasn't the same. Then she had assigned Lee as a replacement for Sasuke and Neji as the team leader of the mission since Kakashi was needed at the battlefront.

They arrived in the Oni no Kuni only to find out that they will be escorting a spoiled priestess with no compassion for her men who had fallen in battle to protect her. She then went on to predict his death on this mission. Now he didn't believe in fortune tellers but her guardian Taruho told him she had never been wrong in her predictions of death.

As they made their trek to the shrine where Shion the priestess would perform the sealing ceremony to stop the demon Moryo who lead the army he had stupidly gone against Neji's orders allowing the suiton using kunoichi to draw him away from the group and distract him. Each of his other team members had also been distracted until only Sakura guarded Shion but seeing as she was also carrying the girl the enemy easily got the drop on her.

By the time he had caught back up it had seemed it was too late Shion was dead. He was taking his anger at himself out on Neji when the real Shion arrived. Taruho had used a forbidden jutsu from Oni no Kuni to permanently transform himself into Shion taking her place. Angry that Shion showed no emotion at the loss of a person whom he had started to see as a friend he now turned his anger upon her.

He had learned from Taruho that her people had started to fear being near her. Afraid if they were close to her she would predict their death. Her life had become so lonely and full of pain, just like his, but he still had stupidly dumped more upon her. She broke away running into the forest but he followed his incriminating words driving her until finally she broke down before him telling him as a leader she had to stifle her own feelings or it would dishonor the sacrifices her people had made to protect her.

She explained to him that her foresight was her future self, sending her a message that she was in danger of death and who would be there that could possibly save her. In revealing this to that person, they would sacrifice themselves in order that she may live. For if the priestess should fall there would be no one to seal Moryo should he escape again.

The team had decided that he would be the one to take her to the shrine and that they would stay behind to take out the ninja should they return. Upon arriving at the shrine they had found Moryo's army standing guard and Shion had been thrown off a cliff but he had barely been able to stop her from falling wrong into the water below, though his back had suffered the price.

She had lost her faith in herself but he had easily talked her into trusting in him. She had made him swear on his nindo a promise that he would protect her and that they would both live. Assaulting the army with an army of shadow clones he had managed to get her to the shrine before turning to hold of the terracotta warriors. The battle was hard and soon he was running low on chakra but he was determined to give the girl the time she needed when finally backup had arrived.

They had sent him into the cave to make sure everything was going ok. Seeing her there on the floor and seeing the corps by her he had assumed she had won. "Shion!" he had excitedly called out. "Did you do it? You sealed that bastard away didn't you?" he had asked.

She had turned with tears coming from her eyes and called out "Naruto."

Noting her slumped posture he thought she must have been through a grueling battle and asked, "Uh, are you okay?" Thinking that she had been in battle with the demon he asked, "Oh yeah your probably tired huh?"

"I… I didn't… deserve to be protected… by you… or anyone else," she had haltingly said.

Angry that she would say such a thing he started moving towards her saying, "Shion!"

That's when the chamber began to shake causing him to stumble. From the ground surrounding the seal burst several dragon shaped heads. Realizing her imminent danger he started to run, calling out to her once again, "Shion!" But he had been too slow and the ground beneath her crumbled dropping her into a darkness that looked alive.

As he raced to try and save her refusing to believe that it was too late a dragon head burst from the ground ahead of him flying at him. He leaped into the air with another cry of, "Shion!"

Coming back down he was getting angry realizing that Moryo was trying to prevent him from saving her. "Why you-," he growled out before making his most often used cross hand sign producing a dozen clones. Bushen Tackle he called out as he leaped again followed by each clone.

One of the dragon heads attacked and a clone managed to wound it causing the head to seemingly burst into several smaller heads but it just reformed before swinging its' neck swatting him and his clones out of the air.

"I will not… die!" he shouted as he climbed to his feet within the small crater his body had made. He then used a burst of chakra to race towards the cluster of heads at the heart of the seal dodging one that moved to attack. With another leap he sliced through the necks of two of them with a fore and back hand swing.

Flipping his kunai around with a smile as another attacked from below he taunted, "Ha to slow." He then maneuvered to allow the dragon to pass him and stabbed it directly on the top of the head. He then looked down to the cavern below and noticed a glow in one of the loops in the strange pathway making it look like some kind of eye and the entire pattern of the paths to seem as one large face.

"Naruto," he seemed to hear the voice of Shion say to him as he looked at the pattern seeing the other eye light up. "You must… LIVE!" she seemed to shout within his mind. Suddenly with the resounding of a bell a barrier appeared around him as a dragon head attacked him from behind. As he fell another two attacked but the barrier bounced off of each wounding them. One final head made an attempt again ringing off of the barrier before he was driven into the ground.

As he skidded along the path he realized that moment was the one Shion had predicted. He was meant to die so that she would survive but somehow she had placed that barrier around him which must mean that she was not protecting herself. "What did you… What did you just do!" he said finishing in a yell.

Suddenly the dragon heads were roaring in pain. Realizing Shion must be doing something inside that darkness to pain Moryo he decided this was his chance. Hoping the barrier would protect him he ran and dived into the pit of darkness into which she had fallen forming a chain of clones almost as an afterthought.

Seeing a single light within that darkness he angled his fall hoping that it was her. Reaching into the light he grabbed something solid and had his clones begin to pull. As the light faded he saw he indeed had grabbed Shion who seemed unconscious. He then shouted as they burst from the darkness, "Shion snap out of it! Open your eyes and breathe!" That got a sudden gasp and a widening of her violet eyes he was looking for as his clones launched them into the air.

"Can you see? Can you hear? What is your heart telling you?" he questioned her rapidly as they came face to face. "Do you want to die like this or what?" he continued shouting as his cerulean eyes looked into her violet ones. Getting a strangled sob from her he finally asked, "Do you want to just fade away?"

'I…" she hesitantly said.

"I can't hear you!" he sarcastically responded. "Say it Shion! Say it in your own words! Come on let me hear it!" he screamed out tilting his head back as if to roar it.

"I want," she quietly began before shouting back at him in the same manner, "To Live!"

"All right then!" he gladly responded sure that his next idea would work just as it had with several other friends in the past. Holding out the bell he had found upon himself he pulled her hand just over it and began to form a Rasengan with it at the center.

The bell started constantly ringing as it floated between their hands. He spoke haltingly as energy began to coalesce around the bell saying, "Me… and all my comrades… we don't bow down for anybody!"

It began to shine brightly as he turned his angry face to her. He tried to encourage her by saying, "You don't like the hand fate has dealt you, fight for a better one."

He looked back at the energy ball and called out, "Keep it coming. More!"

She grunted gently and the ball of light began to expand rapidly. "Everything your feeling just let it out," he encouraged as it grew to massive size.

Moryo's physical form began to burst free of the confines of the rock he had been buried within. "Too slow," he stated knowing that they would land the attack before he could free himself fully.

As they reached the apogee of their flight he held the massive sphere of energy above their heads. "You want it? Here have a taste of the Naruto to Shion no Cho Chakura Rasengan!" he yelled as they plummeted and he turned them to go head and Rasengan first into the demon causing Moryo to wail in pain as they came down upon him.

"I promised you didn't I? I said we were going to change your destiny and that's just what we're going to do." Naruto again shouted knowing that they had won.

Shion hugged him tighter and he heard her say quietly, "I'm with you mother."

Moryo seemed to explode into a column of light causing the earth to shake. The pathways and celling of the sealing chamber began to collapse into the magma below. Realizing their danger he prepared to run when suddenly he could feel a pull upon his chakra. Seeing his rasengan drawing more chakra he began to worry that he wouldn't have the power to accelerate his movement to get them to safety in time with his rapidly dwindling reserves if he didn't find some way to stop it. Thinking Moryo had something to do with it as some last ditch effort to kill them he let his anger get the better of him and began to draw the fox's power only for that too to be drawn in.

That's when he felt something he had never experienced before. It was like Shion was more than just beside him but that she was a part of him. He could feel her warm feelings toward him and had a sense of just how hard her life had been and the true extent of the power she wielded. This was the most intimate and most connected sensation he had ever had with anyone.

Suddenly he felt a pulling sensation as if she had grabbed his hand and was taking him somewhere. Trusting her completely he followed her in this ephemeral way and was engulfed in darkness.

AN: Welcome to chapter 2. This one is just a simple retelling of the movie's events from Naruto's perspective. I intend to jump back and forth between the perspective of Shion and Naruto untill such time as they are back together. I hope you enjoyed and reviews are always welcome.