For the Greater Good Chapter 2
"You have insulted my purpose mortal, you have broken the laws meant to govern this world, you defile the dead and me the GOD OF DEATH! You will be PUNISHED!"
"Where is Madara?" Naruto sat up unafraid.
"That fool is dead."
"And why am I not?"
"Because he was too far gone, he would not change his path, his brutality exceeds anything I have ever witnessed. You however still know the meaning of mercy, the meaning of forgiveness, and unlike him your purpose was to stop the pain in this world. Even if you are a descendant of Madara the most evil being ever known, do not forget you are also a descendant of Hashirama, fight that darkness within you."
"Even if what you said is the truth, if I am still savable, it is too late, I have done too many wrongs, no matter how many rights I perform I will never be able to redeem myself. Nor will I ever have another chance to save the world from its pain, it is not possible."
"Nothing is impossible. Naruto say you had the chance to go back in time, say that what you have done had never come to pass, say that you could fix everything and could still bring peace to this world."
"I would move heaven and earth to achieve that goal, can you do that? Can you send me back to before?"
"I can and I will, but you must swear to me that you will stop your Grandfather and the Akatsuki, no matter what."
"I swear to you. But when will you send me back?"
"To when everything changed, to when you and your sister first fought and she almost killed you, when you vowed that you would be second to none and set out to have everyone acknowledge you."
"I'm going to be six years old…?"
"Indeed you will, but you will also have the knowledge and the power of your present self, you will have everything you need to stop what is coming."
"Thank you, for what you are going to do."
"Good luck Naruto, but understand your Grandfather was much stronger than you when you both released the Jubi, you must try to surpass him, or else it will all be for not."
"I will surpass him."
"Good."
Suddenly the Shinigami put his hand over Naruto's forehead and was once again engulfed in a white light.
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"Naruto…Naruto…NARUTO!" Minato Namikaze the Yellow Flash and Fourth Hokage of Konohagakure was shouting at his son.
"Yes father?" replied a six year old Naruto, but within him was on of the strongest shinobi to ever live, descendant from the two strongest shinobi ever, Hashirama Senju on his father's side, and Madara Uchiha on his mother's. He was the only one beside Hashirama to be able to use Wood Style, he was also able to access the massive perfect Susanoo second only to Madara's. He had mastery over the abilities of both the Rinnegan and the Sharingan, expert over the five chakra natures with an arsenal of ninjutsu and genjutsu that would make Orochimaru and Kurenai jealous, a ability in taijutsu on par with Gai's that would hold out until he opened the 3rd Gate at least.
All of his strength, and all of his knowledge, Naruto's drive to become the strongest shinobi in the world was influenced by this moment.
His father wanted him to spar with his sister Naoko, the container for the Nine Tailed Fox demon, the Kyubi no Yoko. 6 years prior a masked man attacked the cave that Kushina was giving birth to Naoko and Naruto. The masked man was able to kidnap Kushina and release the Fox, luckily Jiraiya of the Sannin was there, Minato and he both being powerful ninja were able to overwhelm the masked man long enough to seal the Kyubi within Minato's newborn daughter.
From that point forward Naoko was viewed as a hero, the one who would keep the village safe from that monster Fox by keeping it locked up in her belly. The village loved her and so did her parents.
Naruto from the beginning of his life onward was overshadowed by his sister. His parents loved her more and so did the village. Not that they were cruel to him by any means and he didn't mind that they treated her better. He was a noble heart and he was happy for his sister, all he wanted was to make his parents proud as well, to see that smile on their face, and that look in their eyes that told him they were proud.
To do this he studied and he trained from the very point that he was first able to. Even at six he knew what chakra and ninjutsu and genjutsu and taijutsu was. He couldn't wait to join the academy and start his journey to become a great shinobi like his father and to one day become Hokage, to gain the right to protect his precious people too. With the only shinobi to ever get a double S ranking in the bingo book as his father things looked completely possible.
But that was where he was wrong, being the son of the Hokage had a very bad downside, the Hokage was for the most part very busy. So whenever he could spend time with his family, it was with his beautiful wife and his daughter.
He did this because he had a feeling, the Hokage had a feeling, that the masked man who had attacked his wife and released the Fox would return, he also had a feeling that his daughter was the child of the prophecy that his sensei Jiraiya had told him about, the one who would either bring peace to the world or destroy it. So Minato took it upon himself to train his daughter to be the greatest Shinobi to have ever been, his daughter would defeat the masked man and bring peace to the world. And that goal would leave little time for Naruto.
This was where Naruto began his journey to darkness, all that neglect that had been building up inside him was his fuel. With it he would go on to unlock his abilities and try to bring the world the peace that his father wanted. At 16 Naruto would go on to meet Madara as he tried to complete his plan to release the Jubi by kidnapping his sister, both he and his sister were Jounin by this time. But seeing Naruto's darkness and Naruto's revelation, that he wanted to bring peace to the world and defeat Madara, Madara was interested in the boy, knowing that he was his Grandson he elected to take the boy under his wing, to train him even further and have him join the Akatsuki.
"Listen to me Naruto, I know who you are, I know the power you hold, and I have the same dream that you do, to bring peace to this world."
"You are Madara Uchiha you don't know the meaning of peace!"
"I am your Grandfather Naruto, Kushina is my daughter, and I am doing this for her, for you, for all those that have experienced the pain of losing people close to them, join me Naruto, and I will teach you so many things, I will make you stronger, and together we will bring peace to this world, no shinobi, no war, just peace."
"How can I trust you?"
"You can't, a shinobi's greatest weapon is deception, but I am telling you the truth here and now, you can believe me, if you couldn't you would have been dead by now, you are my family, and I want us to achieve our goals."
With much consideration Naruto thought of everything in that moment about his life, he wanted peace, he wanted to make his parents proud, he had killed too many and seen to many die to want anything else other then to see the dream that is peace be realized "I will go with you."
"Good."
From that point on Madara would take Naruto under his wing and train him to perfection. Naruto would become a missing ninja of Konohagakure, beginning with an A rank, quickly becoming an S rank when he killed Orochimaru and began to help Madara take the Bijus from their respective villages.
Soon the Akatsuki whom Naruto joined and became one of the most powerful members of had all but the ninth beast whom Naruto's sister was still the jinchuriki of.
"Brother stop doing this please!" Shouted Naoko.
"Son please stop this!" Screamed Kushina..
"Naruto please!" Pleaded Minato.
"This is what you wanted father, for peace to be brought to this world, I will bring that peace that we both want, and soon all this struggle, all this death will bear fruit, we will no longer have to kill, the world will no longer know the meaning of pain."
Behind Naruto dressed in his Akatsuki robe stood the other members of the organization, Deidra, Hidan, Kisame, Kakuzu, Zetsu, Tobi, Itachi, Sasori, Nagato, and Konan. Next to Naruto stood his Grandfather Madara Uchiha.
In front of Naruto stood his family, his father the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze, his mother the Red Death Kushina Uzumaki, and his sister Naoko Uzumaki Namikaze. Around them were the dead bodies of many Konoha Shinobi, all tried to protect their Hokage, the most notable were the Kami no Shinobi Hiruzen Sarutobi, Kakashi Hatake, Might Guy, Jiraiya, Kurenai, even Danzo was dead. Many that were Naruto's age were there, Neji Hyuga, Rock Lee, Tenten, Hinata Hyuga, Aburame Shino, Kiba Inuzuka, Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, and Choji Akimichi. Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, Sai, all dead.
"Don't do this Naruto it isn't you!"
"It is now-"
Naruto couldn't speak anymore because there was a kunai protruding from his chest. Its wielder was Itachi Uchiha, the loyal son of Konoha who massacred his entire clan except for his brother to avoid a civil war that would have resulted in the destruction of Konoha.
Itachi had quickly moved to the side of his Hokage, but Naruto who was impaled suddenly turned into a flock of crows, something that Itachi himself taught Naruto.
Suddenly appearing behind the group of S ranked criminals, Naruto spoke.
"Itachi I know your loyalty to Konoha is as strong as ever, but do not forget our goals, you as well as I want peace for the world, I will give you one chance, get back over here."
"I'm sorry Naruto, but you are not working toward world peace, you are working toward world destruction, a path that I will not follow."
"Very well."
What happened next was a shock to those on the Konoha side, Naruto was behind Itachi, and plunged his sword into Itachi's heart, as Itachi fell to his knees Naruto moved to perform hand seals and aimed himself at his family Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation! And a wall of flames exploded from his mouth and flew at the three. Minato threw a three pronged kunai and so did Naoko who Minato taught the Flying Thunder God to, they disappeared in a yellow flash to their kunai while Kushina performed her own jutsu, Earth Release: Hiding Like a Mole Technique. Seconds later Kushina came out of the ground to stand next to her husband and daughter.
"Please Naruto stop this!"
"Enough Kushina he has chosen his path, I'm sorry Naruto I don't want to kill you but you leave me no choice!"
Madara then stepped forward but slightly turned to the rest of the Akatsuki. "Stay out of this, this matter is between family."
"Father please don't do this, you don't have to do this!" Screamed Kushina.
"I'm sorry daughter but Konoha needs to pay for what it has done, and this world will know peace. I will let you live just leave, all we want is Naoko." Reasoned Madara.
"You know I wont leave my family!"
Naruto moved to stand next to his grandfather.
"Shall we begin." Said Naruto.
Naruto thrust his hands forward shuriken flying at the trio in front, Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique, muttered Naruto and his shuriken turned into a couple dozen, Fire Style Fireball Jutsu! shouted Madara and flames erupted from his mouth, the flames quickly caught up with the shuriken in the air setting them on fire and increasing their speed. Three seconds later the shuriken hit their target in a large explosion but as the smoke cleared there was nobody there.
Naruto and Madara both stood in their spots as they felt something appear above them, both Minato and Naoko smashed their Rasengans into the ground creating large craters, completely passing through Naruto and Madara. Naoko, Naruto and Madara noticed was covered in a bright yellow chakra cloak. Naruto launched a Shinra Tensei knocking both of them away but quickly chased after them creating something that Naruto copied from Kakashi with his eyes, Chidori, Naruto lunged his hand forward toward his father but caught nothing with his attack, feeling something coming Naruto again turned intangible and as soon as he did chakra chains passed through his body originating from underground where he suspected his mother was. Naruto punched the ground with chakra laced into it, blowing it apart to reveal Kushina. Kushina then jumped up to avoid another of Naruto's Chidoris, her chakra chains still trying to find their target.
On Madara's side, he was engaging in a taijutsu match with both Minato and Naoko, Naoko's speed and strength greatly enhanced from the chakra given to her by the Nine Tails, and Minato, the fastest man in the world seemed to be even with the shinobi legend Madara. Madara quickly ducked as a kunai passed his head and turned around to see a Minato appear in a yellow flash, Rasengan in hand. Minato thrust his jutsu forward but was met with a barrier coming form Madara that absorbed his jutsu, with his weight pushing him forward he could not quickly maneuver away from Madara's hand that grabbed on to his neck, something happened to him as he was grabbed by the neck, he no longer had control over his chakra, as if it was being sucked from his body and siphoned into Madara's. But before he could find a way out of the grip Madara decided to finish him and removed his soul from his body.
"One down." The Fourth Hokage had died.
"FATHER!"
Naoko lunged forward to attack Madara but he dodged, instead she received a kick to the face sending her flying away. Quickly trying to regain her composure she skidded on her feet to look where Madara had been but saw nobody. Madara suddenly appeared behind Naoko and on him was a large rib cage that looked to be made of pure chakra, from it came out an arm that drew back and punched Naoko into the ground.
During this Naruto was still fighting his mother, while she was a kenjutsu master, so was he and their swords were clashing against each other over and over. Naruto's was the Kusangi that he pried from the dead body of Orochimaru after their battle, his mothers was a sword that had a red hilt and looked to be made of a black metal, whatever it was was strong, strong enough to not be sliced in half by the sharpness of the Kusangi.
Naruto swiped his sword where his mothers head was however it no longer was, she had ducked under it and rolled towards him kicking him with both legs sending Naruto flying back, but catching himself and back flipping to avoid his mothers follow up Naruto willed the Kusangi back to his hand and prepared himself to end his mother. Naruto quickly threw a kunai that he brought out from his back pouch hidden by his Akatsuki robe and threw it at his mother. She dodged but at the last second saw an explosive tag attached to it. Quickly jumping away she avoided most of the damaged but was still thrown back and caught some of the blast.
As she was disoriented Naruto made his move, putting his hand up Bansho Tenin, his mother was suddenly pulled toward him and her heart was pierced with the Kusangi that he had brought up with his other hand.
"I'm sorry mother" Naruto whispered as a tear fell from his eye.
"I'm sorry Naruto, forgive me for your childhood, and don't forget that we will always love you, and we will always be with you." Kushina said with blood dripping from her mouth.
Naruto slowly placed his mother on the floor, grabbing the sword that had belonged to her and strapped it along with the hilt that he removed from his mothers body onto his hip, it would remind him of her, her strength and her will, as well as reinforce his purpose. He then walked to his Grandfather.
"Are you ready Madara, I want to get this over with."
"Yes, let's move out and seal the Nine Tails." Madara said with an unconscious Naoko on his shoulder.
It will finally be over thought Naruto.
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A tear slipped from a six year old looking Naruto.
"I'm sorry can you say that again father?"
"I said spar with your sister."
"Okay."
A six year old Naruto and Naoko took their stances, a somber look on his face and a excited look on hers, both then began to run towards each other and Naoko threw a punch that landed on nothing, moving her knee up to hit Naruto's face after he ducked, Naruto blocked the attack with the palm of his hands and back flipped kicking his sister on the face as he went backwards knocking her unconscious. When these series of events originally happened, in her want to win, Naoko accessed some of the Kyubi's chakra and gravely injured Naruto.
It's time to do it different, it's time to do it better thought Naruto as he walked off leaving a surprised Minato and Kushina behind.