The Future World

Chapter 2: Orochimaru


In the Emperor's palace there was a room larger than any other. This was the Emperor's audience room where he spent most of his time meeting with people, going over reports and paperwork, and generally just sitting around in his free time. The room was sparsely decorated with only a few plants lining the walls and two great open windows on either side of the room. At the back of the room there was a simple throne made out of oak not even raised above the rest of the floor.

It was on this throne that the most powerful, respected, and loved man in the world and of all time sat.

Orochimaru smiled to himself as he finished going over the final financial report for Yamata City, everything was in order and no budgets had been exceeded. It was a typical day, he had met with his advisors and they planned their new economic policy that would revolve around the new electronics business. In the past fifty years technology had improved and now long range communications were a standard for even smaller towns.

"To think when I first became a ninja the radio didn't even exist." Orochimaru sighed and walked over to the window on his left so he could watch over his city, he was dressed in clothing very similar to the Hokage robes except that instead of red there was gold and replacing the symbol for fire was peace and unity, also the sleeves were much wider and their bottoms flowed to the floor. "It's almost depressing to think that most of our money goes to industry instead of going to the ninjas. And now in this age of peace children don't aspire to become 'cool ninjas' anymore, now they want to become doctors and teachers." Orochimaru smiled. "Of course though I suppose it's a good thing."

True enough there was less and less use of ninjas nowadays, without war for the past fifty years it really wasn't required as much. Now ninjas were basically a police force and occasionally used to take care of some bandits or other problems. But that still didn't stop the fact that kids weren't as caring about it as they were when Orochimaru was young.

"Quite nostalgic thinking about all this really, ninjas don't even wear forehead protectors anymore."

Suddenly the doors to Orochimaru's throne room opened and his head guard Hachibe Kajisawa strode in. He was relatively tall standing above Orochimaru by a few inches with slicked back brown hair and brown eyes and wore the same armor as the gate guards.

"Oh? What is it Hachibe." Orochimaru said as he walked over to one of his favorite people to see. Hachibe was an all business sort of person but he didn't mind listening to Orochimaru's talking and ideas.

"My lord I'm sorry to disturb you but there is a rather obstinate young man demanding to see you. Ugan and Sagan told him he needed an appointment but he refused to leave. We didn't want to use force so I decided to come to you."

Orochimaru chuckled and smiled to his guard. "It is alright Hachibe; as a matter of fact I've just finished with the final report of the day. But who is this young man and why is he so desperate to see me. Did he give you a reason?"

"He did not give us a reason but he did say that you would want to see him… and….."

"What?"

Hachibe frowned and became rather nervous, as if he was unsure of what he was saying. "He said some very rude things about you. I've never heard someone say such things about you lord. I think he must be sick or something."

"Well then I must see him, if he has a grievance with me I must try to make things better between us. You said he gave you his name correct? What was it, perhaps I know him."

"He said he was Naruto Uzumaki."

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"What?"

"He said his name was Naruto Uzumaki."

Orochimaru's expression did not change and his voice was as calm and even as ever. "Does he have blonde hair and blue eyes with marks that look like whiskers on his cheeks?"

"Yes he does, my lord do you know him?"

Orochimaru's lips twitched upwards in the faintest indication of a smile. "Oh we have our history."


"The Emperor will make time for you but I will not let you out of my sight for a second." Hachibe told Naruto as the two of them walked to the throne room. "I don't know why you hate Emperor Orochimaru but you should know that he is seeing you out of the kindness in his heart so that you can settle your problems with him."

Naruto wasn't even paying attention.

"Alright we're here, the Emperor doesn't mind if you aren't courteous but I do. If I hear you call him a bastard or anything like that you are going to be in a lot of trouble."

"Just open the door."

Hachibe frowned but did as he was told. "Lord Orochimaru I bring you Naruto Uzumaki."

Naruto walked into the room and immediately spotted his hated enemy sitting on the throne. He could see the amused smile on Orochimaru's face and the twinkle in his eye and it took every fiber of Naruto's being to not charge him and rip off the assholes head.

"Thank you Hachibe you may take your leave now."

"But my lord-"

"It is alright, I'll be fine."

Hachibe frowned again but left the room; before the door closed he sent one final glare at Naruto. Not like he noticed.

"Well isn't this interesting, I must say I never expected to see you again." Orochimaru couldn't help but smile as Naruto's face contorted in rage.

"How the fuck did all this happen. When am I? Where am I?"

"That's a long story, and I'm certain it would be quite boring to you. However though I can at least tell you that you've been gone for over seventy years."

Naruto's face paled and his eyes widened in shock. "Im-impossible, how… how did that happen?"

"You were fighting Sasuke remember? Unfortunately I didn't really get to witness the actual fight but the aftermath was an especially delightful sight."

"What the hell are you talking about!?"

"You know come to think of it you never really knew did you?"

"Knew what!?"

"When Sasuke 'defeated' me so he could go on his little revenge journey against Itachi I was sealed inside of him. And then when he finally fought Itachi he used up all his chakra and I was able to break free. I really thought I had won then. But it wasn't meant to be, at least not yet. Itachi sealed me with the Sword of Totsuka using his Susanoo technique and I was, again, defeated and sealed."

"Then how the hell are you standing here right now!? How the hell has any of this shit happened!?"

"Patience my dear Naruto. I was sealed for quite awhile, but then something amazing happened, something that would change the history of this world forever. You chased Sasuke down and fought him! I don't know what transpired during the fight but what I do know is that at some point you drew on the power of the Fox. It must have been truly something to force Sasuke to use Susanoo."

Naruto started to lose it. "Orochimaru if you don't tell me what happened; someone in this room is going to die!"

"Kukuku as hotheaded as ever really. Anyways Sasuke had to use Susanoo to defeat you, he started sealing the demon chakra, but there was a problem. Susanoo is not an omnipotent ability; nothing can hold the full power of the fox. The blissful genjutsu I had been trapped in broke around me and I witnessed the Fox's chakra coalescing and condensing around me. The next thing I new I was laying down in a crater with Sasuke's poor lifeless body next to me."

"What! Sasuke died! But-"

"I don't know how it happened, overuse of Sharingan, chakra exhaustion, the explosion that caused the crater, who knows? Either way he was dead and you were gone."

"It can't be." Naruto dropped to his knees. "I couldn't have."

"Oh it gets better. As a corpse Sasuke was useless to me, his eyes were dead along with his body. But I was still able to survive in my true form until I found a suitable replacement. Such a shame for Kabuto, he never should have integrated my remains into his body."

"You killed Kabuto?! You took his body!"

"The part of me that he integrated into himself called out to me like a beacon, in took less than a week to find him and absorb him."

"Absorb?"

"Oh yes, not just a soul transfer, this time I merged myself with him and absorbed his chakra and devoured his soul. After that it was onto Sasuke." Orochimaru walked over to the same window he had been looking out earlier. "Finally I had that Uchiha body I had dreamt for for so long."

"But you said that he wasn't of any use to you if he was dead!"

"I wasn't taking his body Naruto, just his eyes. They weren't destroyed and they weren't sealed like a branch Hyuga's Byakugan would have been. They were just damaged. And with my healing powers and massive increase in chakra I had gained from absorbing Kabuto I could repair the eyes and stall the degradation of the Sharingan until I found a way to stop it permanently."

"After that was when the fun really began. I tracked down and killed my greatest threat Madara Uchiha, it was a rather difficult fight but with my new abilities I prevailed in the end. And poor, poor Madara, after a hundred years everything he had done was meaningless. Although I must thank him for keeping Itachi's body perfectly preserved."

"What!"

"Yes, Madara didn't want such a potential power to go to waste, he thought Sasuke would implant Itachi's eyes into himself to stop the degradation of the Mangekyo Sharingan and achieve the Eternal Mangekyo. However Sasuke didn't want power in such a way, but Madara kept Itachi's body anyways and it was at that moment, when I discovered the corpse and implanted Itachi's eyes into my own, that the world would truly be changed."

Naruto got back up off his knees and walked over to Orochimaru; he grabbed him by the collar and slammed him into the window he'd been looking out. "You son of a bitch! Give me one reason why I shouldn't kill you now!"

Orochimaru's smile widened. "Because I'm the one who made the world peaceful."

Naruto clenched his teeth in anger and tightened his grip on Orochimaru. "You're full of shit!"

"Oh no my good friend, everything I'm about to tell you is the truth. After implanting Itachi's eyes my Sharingan evolved, the degradation stopped and I had abilities I never thought were possible to have." Orochimaru's expression turned contemplative. "And I got to thinking. What now? I had achieved the sharingan, I had mastered thousands of jutsus, I was clearly the most powerful ninja on the planet as evidenced by my victory over Madara. All that was left was to learn and master all the jutsu that I hadn't already. But then I thought, so what? What was the point of it all? I had an immortal body that would never die courtesy of my various experimentations and I had the highest level of sharingan. But who really cared? It wasn't enough for me just to realize how perfect I was, I needed more, and I still had that craving for more and more and more."

"You bastard! I can see where this is going, how many people have you killed to get to this lie of peace!?"

"Kukuku….. thousands. I went back to Konoha and killed Tsunade and any other ninja that sided against or had a problem with me."

"YOU KILLED GRANNY TSUNADE!" Naruto reared back his fist and punched Orochimaru in the face as hard as he could, and kept on punching and punching until his knuckles bled.

When he couldn't keep it up Naruto threw Orochimaru away from him and fell to the floor sobbing. "Granny…. everyone…."

"I don't regret it."

Naruto looked over his shoulder to see Orochimaru stand back up with hardly a mark on his face.

"People die and that's all there is to it. It's impossible to have the peace I've achieved without killing and war first. At first though I simply made treaties and alliances, it was easier that way. Funny though how I finally was Hokage and that the people generally liked me. Sure there was the voice of dissent about how I had killed to get to the position and there were many older citizens who knew of things I had done in the past. But most didn't care because things had gotten so bad recently."

"What, what the fuck are you talking about?" Naruto choked out in between sobs.

"Pein was right, without the jinchuuriki the balance of power went out the window and the last nation with their jinchuuriki decided to take control while they could. Kumo went on the warpath with their jinchuuriki and many other ninja villages followed suit. It was chaos. And by the time I came back to Konoha and killed Tsunade things were so bad the Fire Lord was thinking about declaring their unconditional surrender."

Orochimaru went back to his throne and sat there. He closed his eyes for a moment and let out a long breath before continuing. "So I made a quick alliance with the frenzied Rain, Grass, and Waterfall villages as well as a non-aggression pact with Mist and then I did what any logical shinobi would do in my situation with my power. I burned Kumo to the ground with Amaterasu and then when Killer Bee came to try and stop me I killed him too. No more jinchuuriki, no more Bijuu, no more Kumo. Then I did the exact same thing with any other nation that opposed me."

"You'd be surprised how many ninjas returned to their villages when they learned I set fire to it, I lost track of how many died trying to put it out. The destruction of the other villages was the perfect thing for the world, now all that was left was Konoha and all the villages allied with it. Then I made my announcement that I was changing our little group of allied nations into an empire with me as its sole ruler. Naturally this wasn't well received, I had to kill a lot of people before no one would try and go to war with Konoha or secede out of our group. But time heals all wounds and with the dissolving of borders people who were born in the land of fire moved and settled in new areas and vice versa, soon enough there was no Rain or Fire, there was only the empire. Now the empire is divided into six sectors with five lords in the other sectors and me as the central ruler. And for the past fifty years we've had no war at all. Of course there is still crime, still bandits and the occasional disgruntled shinobi but it's not a big deal."

"How can this be? The world's turned upside down."

Orochimaru looked back over to Naruto. "For the better though. In fact nowadays ninja are really just police officers. We have no need for a standing army."

"I can't let this go on." Naruto stood up, tears gone, and faced Orochimaru.

"What do you mean?"

"All of this is a lie. It's all crap! These people worship you like a God! They think you're some amazing loving person who cares about them when you're really just a deceitful snake bastard."

"You can stop right there." Orochimaru said darkly.

Naruto looked shocked, in the whole conversation so far Orochimaru had been speaking calmly and even kind of happily.

"You see me as evil because you're from a different time. But fifty years is a long time Naruto, it took me that long to become the man who attacked Konoha and kill his teacher without remorse. And it took fifty more years for me to become the man I am now. After all the time ruling over this empire and city I can truthfully say that it makes me happy to perpetuate the worlds peace and the happiness of its citizens. I've changed Naruto. Before I had my ambition and craving, but now It's gone. I'm at the head of the world and I feel content and at peace."

"Just because you've stopped wars for the past fifty years and now say that you've changed doesn't erase your past sins! If these people knew about the things you did what do you think they'll do? Do you honestly believe they'll still say they love you? Do you believe that nothing would change?!"

Orochimaru frowned. "My sins may not be erased but they are outweighed, I will keep this world unified and peaceful for eternity. And just because you think people should know the truth about me doesn't mean they should! What would that accomplish? The world would be thrown back into chaos!"

"They need to know. They have a right to know."

"I'm not going to let you destroy this world."

"God damn it I won't be destroying it! Just opening its eyes!"

Orochimaru got off his throne and stood before Naruto. They were only a few feet apart.

"I won't let you take peace away." Orochimaru said calmly and evenly.

And then he spat a sword out of his mouth.

The sword sailed through the air lighting quick and with only a few feet in between them Naruto had no chance to dodge. The sword impaled him right through the heart. There was a look of disbelief on his face before he exploded in a cloud of smoke.

Orochimaru had a slight frown but it quickly turned back into a smirk, the sword on the ground promptly turned into a snake and slithered up into Orochimaru's robes. "A shadow clone all this time. Very well Naruto, but you still won't succeed. Hachibe!"

The doors opened and Hachibe walked into the throne room. He had been standing on the other side of the doors the whole time, but the doors were sound proof and thus he heard nothing. "Yes Lord Orochimaru!?" Hachibe quickly answered and then looked around noticing that Naruto had disappeared. "My lord what has happened to that Naruto guy?"

"Oh that's inconsequential for now. However I do have something important for you to do."

"Whatever you ask I shall do."

"I need you to send a message to the five Overseers, tell them to immediately come here regardless of what they are doing."

"Yes my lord." And with that Hachibe left.

"Kukuku I must say this is actually quite enjoyable, nothing this fun has happened in years."


Naruto left Yamata City without anyone's knowledge. Security was lax and thus he had no trouble slipping out undetected. He had no money, no change of clothes, and no idea where he was going, but he knew what he had to do.

He would bring Orochimaru down.