Chapter 1: Saying Goodbye

Naruto...

Wake up, silly boy...

Your time here is done, time to move on...

"Sum-buddy turn off the radio," mumbled a voice from the center of a deep crater.

The landscape was alien, at least compared to what it had once been. Where once there were sand dunes as far as the eye could see, now there was glass. A vast sea of frozen glass dunes covered the landscape in all directions, extending to the horizon and probably beyond. Some areas of the glass still glowed a warm orange, where the glass was still cooling, but for the most part the landscape was a dark blackish-blue. Once this land had been called the Land of Wind, but in years to come it would be known as the Frozen Sea.

It's not the radio, Naruto...

But it is a wakeup call...

Now, get up! We've got places to be and this isn't one of them!

"Alright already!" bellowed the young blond teen as he sat up and stretched, yawning as he woke from what he thought was a short nap and bad dream. At lest that's what he thought until he opened his eyes and looked around at the new landscape. "So, not a dream then?"

Nope!

"That last attack really happened and I really sealed the Jubi inside myself?" asked the teen, standing up and noticing he was at the bottom of a large crater of melted glass. "You're not Kurama, so who are you?"

Who do you think, silly? You did seal me inside you after all.

"Jubi?" asked the blond, highly confused by this turn of events as he made his way over to the nearest side of the crater and started to make his way out. "No offense, but weren't you all 'GRRR' and explosions a little while ago?"

Yeah, about that, you do realize that you had a lot of chakra in your system when you absorbed me, right?

Naruto nodded as he used his chakra to adhere to the slippery glass and slowly made his way out of the crater. "I had opened the gates, merged with Kurama's chakra, and had some of the other Biju's chakra as well. So, really, when I absorbed you wouldn't that mean you just merged with their chakra again?"

Not exactly. See, they gave that chakra to you and your body converted it to your own, meaning it was all you there at the end. Sure, I merged with Kurama and the others again, but that left all your chakra floating around inside you. As I am now inside you I absorbed some of the extra chakra, about two tails worth. Which means, I'm no longer the Juubi, but the Junibi(

).

Groaning as he reached the top of the crater's rim, Naruto face palmed, saying, "So, you are now the twelve tailed beast. Great. Any other surprises for me?"

Well, now that you mention it, there are a few. Obviously I mellowed out a lot after absorbing so much of your chakra and surprisingly enough I found out I'm female. Also, you've been comatose for about a month while you healed, so you're probably going to be really hungry. Oh, and we can't stay in this world.

"What!" shouted Naruto, looking around and seeing it was just now sunrise. "I can tell your female from your voice, but what the heck is this about me leaving this world? I have to go back to my friends! They must really be worried about me if Ive been gone a month!"

Sorry, Naruto-kun, but you can't go back. This world can't support your power any longer. Remember, I absorbed the extra that was floating around inside you, but your body is still replenishing its chakra reservoirs and at the rate you are going, you'll soon have so much of it that you'll literally crack the planet open with your every step.

"Can't I seal some of it away or something?" asked Naruto, plopping down on the hard glass and staring at the sun rise with moist eyes. "I just want to have a normal life, just once! Is that so much to ask?"

There is no sealing method powerful enough to hold back your power now, Naruto-kun. I know it's hard, I've seen all your memories and those of Kurama, so I know how difficult this is. Still, you would do more harm than good if you stayed here much longer. What I can do is open a dimensional portal and transport us to someplace that can support our power, someplace where you can start fresh and have the life you want.

Wiping a tear from his eye, Naruto made the hardest decision of his life, the right decision as it would turn out. "Do I have time to send a message to my friends, telling them what happened to me?"

Yes, but only just.

Creating a mass of clones, several thousand at least, Naruto sent them off to say a final farewell to his friends. The clones were also instructed to help in anyway they could, rebuilding and the like, until they ran out of chakra. In the years to come the Shinobi world would call it the Day of the Blond Tide, as thousands of Naruto clones spread across the continent and did what they could to help as many as they could. The clones would last a month, far longer than anyone could have ever imagined, but in that time they would do more to help the recovering society than could be imagined. Farewells were said, tears flowed freely, and when it was all over the world would be a better place for having had Naruto Uzumaki as a part of it.

After Naruto sent off his clones the Junibi immediately opened the dimensional portal that would take them to a new world. Naruto was of course sleeping for the transfer, even someone as powerful as he was would not have been able to handle the transfer otherwise, so the Junibi took her time to pick just the right world. Knowing how much Naruto cared for and loved his precious people the Junibi, or Momo as she named herself, took great care to find a world that she felt would be perfect for him. Thankfully, for Naruto at any rate, she seemed to have fairly hight standards.

No, that one won't do at all. Sasuke is a cross dressing bondage fetishist with a fatal obsession directed at Naruto, don't think that will work. This one is almost as bad, what with Itachi being the cross dresser. Wait, Sasuke AND Itachi are cross dressers in this one.

Ewwwww! Sakura is a man with Naruto tied up in her basement in this one. Yuck!

Oh, this one looks good... Oh... Wait... Ewwwwwwww! Sasuke, Itachi, Kakashi, and Kisame are all cross dressers with a crush on Naruto. What is it with these alternate realities and cross dressing?

This one isn't so bad, well except for the fact that Naruto would be gay and dating a cross dressing Sasuke. Again with the cross dressing!

Hmmm... Normal reality, no shinobi, no chakra, and no cross dressing. Looks ok... No... Damn! Naruto is the cross dresser in this one. Damn those cute dresses!

Naruto is a wizard...

Naruto is a god, but dating Sakura... No!

Naruto collects funny looking animals and keeps them in balls tied to his belt. Wouldn't be so bad if it was a Pokemon universe, but its not and he's a serial killer.

Naruto is a space captain dating a cute girl... Oh... No... Hell no... He's pregnant with Sasuke's baby.

Dating Tobi... No.

Dating Itachi... No.

Dating Sakura... No.

Dating Sakura and Sasuke... No.

Dating everyone and Sasuke... No.

The list went on and on, almost an infinite number of variations on Naruto's original reality. Some were better than others, but even the best of them had something wrong with them. Whether it be some random super god-like enemy she had never heard of before or Naruto's life being even shittier than it had already been, the list just kept getting shorter and shorter. A few of the worlds she wished she could pick would not accept the influx of Naruto's massive chakra reserves, while other's already had a happy Naruto in them. It was just so hard to find anything that would work for her.

Eventually, after having exhausted the list, Momo began to wonder if maybe she should branch out and look at realities that were not centered around Naruto's past life. She was just about to branch out when she noticed a scrap of paper floating in the void next to her. Considering she was still inside Naruto's mindscape and she knew for a fact she hadn't created the piece of paper, she had to wonder where it had come from. Possibly it was from Naruto's subconscious mind, but that was unlikely as he was currently dreaming about a sea of ramen.

Could it be from outside his mind?

Momo was fully aware that there were entities beyond what even she could understand, not that she had ever encountered any of them personally. Still, they existed and it was not inconceivable that one of them might take a hand in helping her out. At least she wanted to hope that was the case. She knew Naruto had suffered and she rather hoped that Kami, or any divine entity for that matter, might want to help him lead a better life. With that hope in mind she reached out and grabbed the paper, reading what was written upon it.

Slightly larger planet, higher gravity by fifty percent, and a much larger pool of natural chakra. Danzo was killed before Sarutobi was picked as Hokage, so ROOT was never formed. Nagato and Konan actually got married and have a child, that's sweet, Yahiko is the child's godfather. Yondaime Hokage killed Tobi after Kyubi was released, so Akatsuke remained focused solely on freeing Amegakure. He was still forced to seal the Kyubi in...

Wait...

Is that right?

And they had...

Oh, yeah, that's going to work out just fine!

With a smirk on her face, Momo directed the dimensional rift towards their final destination. Sure, no world was perfect, but this one was going to be a lot of fun for herself and Naruto. In fact, while he would have loads of fun in the new world, she would have just as much fun watching events as they played out. In fact, if she played her cards right, she would be having fun for a very long time to come.