The Future World

Chapter 6: Knowledge


"Hmm Kyuubi." Naruto smiled and closed his eyes. "I guess I should have a talk with you."

When Naruto reopened his eyes he saw himself falling in a black abyss, every now and then random colors and images would shoot out from the darkness and envelop him as he fell.

"What's going on? This isn't supposed to happen!" Naruto yelled in confusion.

The next moment he felt an extreme sense of vertigo and nausea, he felt solid ground beneath him and fell to his knees dry-heaving as he tried to reorient himself. When he was done he stood up and realized that he was in his mind, the sewer labyrinth was before him but several things were different about it. There was almost no water on the floor and it was much more dimly lit than Naruto remembered.

"What's happened here?" Naruto wondered aloud and walked down the hallways to the great cage of the Kyuubi.

He soon reached the large room where the demon resided behind the sealed cage his father had left in him. Naruto walked towards the cage and noticed that he couldn't see or feel the Kyuubi. Slightly wary Naruto continued forth until he was just a few short feet away from the cage.

"Kyuubi?" Naruto asked but received no answer. He looked upwards towards his father's seal and noticed that it was still in place. 'The seals still working so where is he?'

"Kyuubi…… Kyuubi…… KYUUBI!"

A weak wave of chakra blew past Naruto sending ripples in the shallow water.

"You…. You pathetic weakling…. You did this to me." The demonic voice called out through the cage.

The great beast opened its monstrous eyes and stared at Naruto. But its gaze felt much less threatening and powerful and Naruto almost immediately noticed that the eyes were much smaller and the distance between them was hardly greater than the distance between Naruto's outstretched hands.

"What happened to you?"

"You worthless useless human, you allowed such a thing to happen to even I. You pathetic bastard orphan! I want to kill you! I want to rip you to pieces!"

"Geez what the hell are you so angry at me for!"

"If you were stronger than that accursed Uchiha would never have done this to me! That sword, the Sword of Totsuka that took my power from me!"

"T-Took your power?"

"I tried to usurp your body once more after the Uchiha almost killed you with Amaterasu but he sealed my power with that bastard sword! So much of my strength has left me I am but a shell of my former self! And it's because of your pathetic insolent and disgustingly weak nature that this happened to me! If you come any closer to me I'll devour you!"

"Sasuke sealed your power, how could that happen? How much did he take?"

"At most I have only four-tails of my chakra left. It will take centuries before I regain my lost power! When I get out of here I'm going to torture you and make sure that your last moments are the most horrible of your entire life!"

"God damnit how the hell are you blaming me for this crap! I told you I never wanted your power again, I didn't want you to try and take me over again! It's your own damn fault you stupid fox!"

"Graaaaahhhh, you wretched mortal! Leave this place and never come before me again!"

The world seemed to spin and Naruto once again had the feeling of intense vertigo, he blacked out and when he awoke he was lying in the field where he was before he went into his mind and the sun was now up.

"Shit." Naruto said as he stood up. "Just how bad are things going to get."


Far south from Naruto there was a lone ninja crawling along the ground sniffing everywhere.

"He's definitely been on this road." Jin said and sniffed the ground a few more times. "His smell goes on directly north, most likely to Keikoku City. I must contact Lord Akkakumaru."

Jin jumped up and teleported away in a puff of smoke.


"This sucks. I can't believe all this crap has happened. Orochimaru's got the world tricked and I can't do shit about it." Naruto sighed. "I can't think like that, there's got to be something I can do, I won't just let this bastard get away with this. Even if some stupid fox won't help me!"

Naruto was running through the forest north of the Valley of the End, he had said his goodbyes to Kouta and his family and although they didn't want to see him go so soon he knew he had more important things to do.

"I need to find Orochimaru's old base, I know it's somewhere in this area. If he hasn't gotten rid of it there must be something I can use to show the people that he's not who they think he is."

For the rest of the day Naruto searched throughout the former Land of Rice. He had been to one of Orochimaru's bases before so he knew what kinds of signs to look for. The serpent had used several seemingly non-existent clues as to where a hideout of his was, in his infinite pride and ego he thought that only he would notice such clues. But Naruto wasn't the number one most unpredictable ninja for nothing.

"Fuck where is it! I know it's around here somewhere!" Naruto yelled in frustration.

Naruto ran past a large tree and saw an odd placement of boulders, as if something had caved in and dragged the boulders over the opening sealing it once again to the world.

"That's it!" Naruto ran to the boulders and quickly looked around. "This is definitely the place, now I just have to move these rocks." Naruto gathered the swirling mass of chakra in his hand and slammed it into the boulders. "Rasengan!"

The boulders exploded in a shower of pebbles and dirt kicked up with the blast. When the dust cleared Naruto was looking down into a dark hallway.

"Finally."

Naruto jumped down into the dark hallway and began walking in the direction that wasn't blocked off by rubble. A short ways in the light began to get fainter and fainter and Naruto started having trouble seeing where he was going.

"Typical of Orochimaru to make his bases freaking labyrinths that becomes pitch black without a torch. And I don't know any fire or lighting jutsu. Man where's Hinata or Neji when you need them!"

Naruto reached his hand towards the wall and felt along as he walked making sure he wasn't missing any important turns. He was feeling along when suddenly his hand pushed against nothing causing Naruto to lose his balance and tumble down an unseen staircase. He fell, unable to stop due to not being able to see, for awhile before coming to a stop in a heap at the foot of the stairs.

"Ow ow ow ow." Naruto said as he picked himself up and looked around. At the dark. "Still no damn light!"

"Who's there!" A voice shouted from the darkness.

Naruto instantly backed up to the wall.

"I said who's there!" The voice called out again. It sounded raspy and weak, like an old man who hadn't spoken more than a few words in a long while, much less shouted.

Then a light went up in the room, the person had lit a torch, and the room was illuminated revealing Naruto standing with his back against the wall.

The person, who Naruto now noticed as an old hunched over man, waved the torch in front of him and peered into his face.

"Who the hell are you kid?"

"Uh, my names Naruto." Naruto answered completely confused as how to deal with this situation. He never in a million years would've suspected some old guy would be living in one of Orochimaru's abandoned hideouts.

"What are you doing here? Do you even know where you are kid?"

"Do you know where you are? Do you have any idea what this place is?"

"Well… not really sure who built it and why, but I like to call it home."

"Old man how long have you been living here." Naruto asked incredulously

"Oh I'd say a good forty years. Never much cared for people and civilization, much to uncivilized for me. You know I've seen a couple of people in the forest above but I've never ran into someone actually in here. How'd you get down here?"

"I guess you could say I broke in."

"Why would you do that? Don't really see much point to coming down here."

"Believe it or not old man but this place was built by Orochimaru, he used it as a secret base."

"Orochimaru? The emperor? Huh, what would he need with a place like this."

"The emperor isn't the kind of guy you think he is. He's not really some great God-like man, he's evil, as bad as they get."

"Huh? Oh well doesn't really much matter to me now does it?"

"What!"

"What's with that response? Why should I care if he's some evil guy or something? Nothing he does affects me, why should I care. He may be ruler of the lands but I live here on my own, not with his laws or any of that crap, if he's evil so what? Doesn't change anything for me."

"So you don't care that he's tricked the world into thinking that he's the epitome of good, that he's lied and murdered and done all sorts of things to get to that bullshit position of his?"

"Nope." The old man replied nonchalantly.

"He used this very base for human experiments! You're living in a damn human science lab that might as well be a fucking graveyard! Do you care about that!"

"It's a tad unsettling, might cost me a little sleep knowing that there's some corpses buried here." The old man replied sarcastically.

"Is that it? You don't care that he's done these things?"

"Other people have done similar things, if I care about what he's done then shouldn't I care about that too, but I don't because there's no point. I could care less about that.

People have been dying for countless reasons and ways over the course of history, unless it's someone I care about or knew personally what's the point of losing any sleep over it?"

Naruto had gotten very angry at this point, he had to restrain himself from doing anything he might regret. "If there's any more pathetic people like you than I might just stop caring too. But I'm not giving up even if no one cares about his evil, because it's the right thing to do. You can live the rest of your life in here alone if you don't care about anyone else then. Bye." Naruto ran back up the stairs, which were illuminated slightly from the torch, to the original hallway and from there back out into the forest.

"What was I even looking for."

Naruto turned north and ran for what he knew as the Sound Village. But who knows what had happened to it since he'd been gone.


Akkakumaru, still shrouded in his regal purple robe, Jin and the remaining three subordinate ninjas walked across the bridge of Keikoku City. The people gave them a wide berth as Akkakumaru's large physique was rather imposing, and the five of them just didn't have a friendly feeling.

"You're sure he went this way?" Akkakumaru asked Jin.

"My nose is infallible. He left the city not long ago and headed north into Sector 4. I can smell him now, he's moving slowly which means he's either injured or is unaware that we're tracking him. If we move now we can reach him before nightfall, as long as his speed remains the same."

Akkakumaru pondered this for a moment. "He's moved into Sector 4. That's Koga's. If we wait then there's a chance that he would find out the criminal is in his territory. Despite me winning the first opportunity, Koga would probably attack him anyways if he came across him in his sector. Very well then, we move to attack the criminal immediately, the four of you will move on ahead and attack him first. Due to my slow speed you will have to occupy him until I get there my self. Or if you're strong enough simply kill him on your own. Move!"

The five disappeared in a flash.

The confrontation is moments away. Naruto will soon face one of Orochimaru's strongest. The battle begins next chapter!


I apologize for it taking so long for me to get this chapter out. With the end of school coming up I haven't had a whole lot of time. However there is only one week left so chapter's will hopefully be coming out faster. Thank you for waiting.