HF: Hey guys sorry for the slight delay, the excuses will be on the bottom. So I'll be replying to some of the comments here.

ds hero: While the parasite idea is interesting, I don't think I'll be using it because I don't think the 2 would fuse their bodies together, and because it is a kekkei genkai of Sakon and ukon only. Though it is a cool idea.

Stratos263: Sir, I will be making this storie send you and others on a feel trip, All aboard.

eniox27 : Interesting...Very interesting.

"Speech"

'Thoughts'

"Demon/Large summon's speech"

'Demon/Large summon's thoughts'

Quiet on the set...Action!

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"I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents."

― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

-Robert Baden-Powell

Standing in front of a large gate, Naruto was feeling nervous. He had just gotten to the central of the canopy kingdom, getting here via airline Annie. Naruto had to practically beg to get the girl to fly him here, ge didn't know the directions and had lost the piece of paper in the fight with the late queen. Though they did talk a bit, and during the flight she had made him promise not to tell the royal family about her, wanting to stay anonymous. And he would, Naruto was a man of his word. Which leads to his current predicament. How will he tell the queens family.

He can't just walk in their and say "Hey, I'm Naruto. I was sent by the queen who I helped to kill to give her last words and a piece of jewelry to her daughter. Not sure if he did he'd be thanked, or executed on the spot.

Sure she was the skullgirl, which Annie had informed him of during the trip. A women who had wished on an ancient artifact called the skullheart, some mystical floating, flaming skull that grants 1 wish. Though it only grants wishes for females, and if the wish isn't pure it turns the wisher into a skullgirl, an avatar for its destructive will. Though how could a wish for piece be inpure in the slightest was beyond Naruto.

'why not just sell that jewelry and be done with it. We could use that money to buy some food, especially ramen.' Yami decided to cut off Naruto's train of thought.

'No, I will not sell a dead mothers last gift for her child. Even if we are dirt poor.' Naruto was not that low. Sure he had stolen money from his parents bank account, but after an attempt at buying some food showed that the currency wasn't accepted, hell, he was laughed out the store.

Sighing, Naruto made up his mind. He Walked towards the gate, seeing some square metal box next to it with some strange hollowed out lines, and a button. Not sure what it meant, he pressed said button.

"KRRRRCK Hello, do you have an appointment with the royal family." A voice sounded off fromthe box.

"What the Fuck!" Naruto wasn't sure what was going on. "Is their a tiny man in the box!?"

"Hey kid, this is a intercom. I'm talking to you through a device. Now I'm guessing you don't have an appointment, so please leave the premises." The intercom advised.

"Wait!" Naruto remembered what the queen told him to say. " The queen, queen Nancy, has sent me to deliver a message." Naruto almost yelled out.

"What!?" The voice on the intercom yelled. "Stay right their, were sending an entourage for you."

Not knowing what the word entourage meant, Naruto waited. Soon though, He was surrounded by a group of intimidating men. They were all dressed in green military uniforms, with gas masks, and arm bands with umbrella signia. Each was holding a strange metal object with a metal cylinders.

" Come along child." One of the bigger soldiers ordered. They led Naruto to the entrance, through multiple, into a large throne room. It was luxurious room with marble columns, and 2 elegant looking thrones. Sitting in the larger of the 2 thrones was the musatchioed man from the picture, king Franz, looking as regal as he did in the picture. He was setting a calculating look towards Naruto.

To his right stood a Red haired girl around the age of 17-18. She was wearing a Black dress with a short skirt. In her hands held a strange looking umbrella, pure black with a sharp metal point and 6 magma colored orbs below the metal tip. She was leveling an apathetic look toward Naruto, not seeming interested in what he had to say. The girl was Parasoul, daughter of king Franz and queen Nancy, future queen of the canopy kingdom.

"Child," The king began, "did you really get a message from my wife to deliver to us?" he wasn't sure if Naruto was being sincere or was just some kid off the street who wanted to meet the royal family.

"Yes king Franz," Naruto politely said, knowing that being brass in this situation would not help him "your wife has given me a message to deliver."

King Franz just stared at Naruto for a good long minute, checking for any insincerity in his statement, seeing none he spoke "Then child, let us here it. I have not spoken to my dear wife for a good few months." The man looked towards Naruto with some hope, hope that his wife was okay, and had somehow gotten control of herself again since she was able to send a message. He was looking towards Naruto with a look of desperate hope.

The look had rattled Naruto's nerves, he didn't want to break whatever sort of hope the man had. Taking a look towards the girl, he could see the same kind of hope, though hidden what he now realized to be a mask of apathy. Naruto just reached into his pockets and pulled out the locket for them to see.

Upon seeing the locket the royal family realized that their hopes were about to be crushed. "What happened." The king asked quietly, he and his daughter parasoul lowering their heads slightly.

Naruto then went on to explain on what had happened, while leaving out some facts such as him being from another continent, and Annie's identity. What the royal family got from Naruto's explanation was that Naruto was just an orphan child who didn't know what he was getting in to. That he just happened onto the the skullgirls battle with a mysterious figure, and used himself as a distraction to help this figure combat the queen. And had used himself as a shield to protect the queen when she had gotten control of herself. The queen's acceptance of death, telling Naruto to give the locket to her daughter as a final gift to remember her bye. And her honorable death. At the end the king held a look of regret, and heart crushing guilt. While Parasoul was just looking down not showing her face, her body only slightly twitching. Upon closer inspection, Naruto could see light droplets of water falling off her chin. She was crying.

Naruto not sure what to do, just went with his instincts. He slowly walked towards Parasoul, careful not to agitate the guards present. Soon when he was within arms reach of her, he gently tugged on her sleeve. Lifting her head up slightly, Parasoul looked with clouded eyes at Naruto. He was wearing a face full of remorse. Shocked at the look he was giving, she just stared at him as he started to speak.

"I'm sorry." He said, his voice soaked in regret. "I...I wasn't able to save your mother, and I can never fix that." He then pulled her left hands towards him, and tentatively opened up her clenched palms, and placed the locket in her hand. He that softly closed her hands and continued, tears brimming in his eyes. "I am ashamed to having been unable to save her. If it's any consolation, your mother loved you till the end, thinking of you and your sister, and regretting not being able to be their for you." He bowed his head, feeling immeasurable guilt.

Parasoul shell shocked by the boys guilt just stood their, staring at him for a few seconds. Naruto was expecting a slap or being yelled at, though what came next was not something he was prepared for. Warm arms wrapped around him in a caring embrace. Parasoul was hugging him. How long has it been since he'd last experienced this? Years? Naruto wasn't sure.

"It isn't your fault." Parasoul said, in a strong yet caring tone. "Their was nothing you could've done, My mother was already possesed by the skullheart. She may have gained control, but in the end the skullheart would've taken control soon enough." Tears were now flowing down her eyes, slightly drenching Naruto's shoulders. "But you were their for her." Her voice was getting more passionate, "You console her in her final moments, gave her peace of mind." She then pulled back slightly. "So for that," She gave him a sincere smile, conveying her feelings, "I thank you." She finished.

She didn't resent him, she didn't hate him for her mothers death. She had actually been thankful for Naruto's actions. At this point Naruto was openly crying, tears of relief and happiness. He wasn't hated.

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(Day of escape.)

Waking up from the drunken festivities, Kushina was having one of the worst hangovers of her life. She had a blast at the Kyuubi festival with her family, well most of it anyways. Naruto had not been with the family during the festivities, likely in his room the whole night in his room after hearing the news of him loosing his birth right.

It had broken Kushina's heart to hurt Naruto like that and neglecting him, though it was necessary. She and Minato had agreed that the masked man who had called himself Madara 7 years ago was a major threat, and that they needed to raise at least one of their children to be able to combat him.

So with the looming threat of the masked man's return, they had begun training their daughters. They had chosen to train their daughters because both held the yin and yang halves of the kyuubi. They had the most potential, with both being jinchūrikis and their children, they had the best shot at beating the masked man when they grew up.

It was a shitty thing to neglect Naruto, but they needed to focus their energy on training Naruko and Natsumi to stop a madman. Eventually when the twins were at a good level, then they would start training Naruto. Most likely after the academy. Then they would start giving Naruto the training he craved.

Sure,their relationship might not be the best now, but they believed that Naruto will forgive them. It was for the greater good, they were sure he would understand. They believed they could fix their relationship, that they had the time to.

Slowly getting out of bed, Kushina noticed that it was barely sunrise. she was certain her daughters would be out for a few more hours, now was the time to talk to Naruto. In the privacy of his room, his siblings out cold so they won't remind him of his loss of inheritance. She softly shook Minato.

"Minato-kun, wake up. We got to talk to Naruto now." She told him in a hushed voice.

"Mmmm. Five more minutes." He mumbled out.

"Minatoooo" Kushina's voice was still hushed, but held a threatining tone, her hair started to rise, forming 9 tail like shapes.

"I'm up!" He said frantically, wanting to avoid his wife's wrath.

"Good." She said. They then walked out of their room, heading towards Naruto's room. When they reached his room, Kushina gently knocked on Naruto's door.

"Honey." kushina quietly called out, "Can you open the door?"

Their was no response.

"Honey, open the door."Kushina called out one more time. Minato rubbing the sleep out of his eyes next to her.

Figuring Naruto was still asleep, she channeled her chackra into the handle. Her chackra activated the seals in the handle, unlocking the door. Hearing the click signifying the door was now unlocked, Kushina opened the door.

"Naruto, we need to talk...to...you." Kushina started in a soft tone, until she noticed Naruto wasn't in his bed.

"Naruto?" Kushina said in a confused voice. Naruto wasn't in his bed, and their wasn't any place for him to be hiden behind. Minato walked, now fully awake, also wondering where Naruto was. They then Noticed the open window, with a prominent shoe print on the window sill.

"Naruto!?" They ran to the window, hoping he was somehow still their. Their was no trace of him. He had ran away.

They had realized that Naruto had likely run away after hearing that his heir status had been taken from him. It had only been around 6-7 hours, and he was only a untrained 7 year old. He couldn't have gotten far. They soon realized that he had left the village when a report of the gate guards had reached Minato. Naruto was out of the village.

Minato had called upon the Anbu and member of the inuzuka clan to search for his son immediately, being supplemented by Minato's own student Kakashi Hatake. Kushina had demanded to be part of the search team, looking from Naruto. At first Minato wanted Kushina to stay to inform their daughters, but his objections soon crumbled under his wife's wrath.

The Inuzukas soon after leaving the village had found a faint trail of Naruto's scent. Following the scent, the group eventually after 9 hours reached the village of tea. Following the trail which had gotten more and more fresh, they were led to the harbor full of trading & transport ships. The trail ended to an empty dock, when they asked the supervisor what type of ship had been their, they were horrified by the answer. The ship was a pioneering ship, looking for new undiscovered land. Pioneer ships were infamous for how all were never seen again, and it had left a few hours ago, they were too late. Devastated, the group returned back to Konoha, having to resort to restraining Kushina who wouldn't return. She wanted to go after the ship, but it would be futile, by the time they could aquire a ship would be unattainably far. Though they did leave a few members behind incase the ship decided to give up and return.

When they returned back to inform their hokage on what had happened, he was heartbroken. His son was gone. The only thing they could hope for was that the ship turned back.

At the Namikaze house Minato and Kushina tried to explain to their daughters that their brother had ranaway. While Naruko seemed to be devastated, Natsumi just seemed more annoyed than anything else.

After a few weeks remains of the ship washed up along the coast of tea country. A tombstone was made 2 months later for Naruto when his body was not found. It read:

Narutp Uzumaki Namikaze

Regrets last, a tragedy that shouldn't have ever happened

A son, a brother, and a friend. He will be forever missed.

May he rest in peace.

The tombstone was vandalized a few time, but when Kushina had found out who had done so had been hospitalized for months by her own hand.

At Naruto's apparent death Kushina had been filled with deep guilt. Thoughts of "If only I didn't neglect him." and "This is all my fault." ran through her mind. She had been in a deep depression for months, but slowly with time began to go back into status quo. Though she would never loose the feeling of guilt of Naruto's fate.

Minato was Heartbroken at Naruto's death, but didn't fully blame himself. He done what he felt to be right, they needed to have focused on Naruko and Natsumi. They were the hope for the future of all of the Elemental Nations. Though he did train them harder and raised the academy graduation age to 15-16 years old. He wanted his remaining children to have as much training they could get to survive. He wasn't sure he could survive another of his children dying. Though he did have Jiraiya keep his spy network open on the off chance Naruto had survived.

Naruko was saddened by her brothers death. She didn't talk to her brother much, mainly focusing on her training, but she did want their relationship to get better. The few times she had tried to talk to Naruto he had just ignored her, seming to have a horrid headache each time. She didn't know what to do. She just went with the flow, feeling guilty for Naruto's death, maybe if she and Natsumi din't take his heir status he'd still be here.

Natsumi didn't seem to change much. But if one looked close enough, she behaved a lot more irritably. She wanted to brag, to rub it into Naruto's face that she had taken his heir status. She wanted to prove her superiorty to her brother, but she couldn't cause now he was dead. It wasn't fair, she wanted to prove she was better than Naruto, to him. It wasn't fair, she wanted her brother back.

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Naruto was sitting in the royal garden of the Renoir family. The family allowed him to stay for awhile and had given him a guest room. He had his eyes closed, and was calming his breathing. Naruto was currently trying to meditate.

Yami had stated that to give him some freedom like he had promised, he's need to go into his mindscape. Yami said that all Naruto would need to do was meditate, and he would bring him their. Soon Naruto started to feel a stange pull in the back of his mind. Then he was pulled from the garden and was now in a dark corridor of sorts.

"Naruto, this way!" Naruto could hear yami yell down from the corridor. Following his voice, Naruto started walking at a slow pace. When he reached the end of the corridor, it opened into a wide expanse. The land was barren of any growth, giving off a lifeless vibe. Their were a few trees, but they were dead with sharp brances spreading out towards the sky. The sky itseld was a deep dark blackish blue, with an etheral yellow moon glowing in the dark. A few meters away stood a large gate to a cage of sorts, though it seemed to have no roof but the sky. Inside the cage was the kyuubi's body, slumped on the floor, unable to move without it's soul.

Sitting atop of the monstrous fox head was Yami. Yami looked like a carbon clone of Naruto with only a few key differences. To begin with Yami had his hair tips colored black. His skin was lighter than Naruto's, looking almost ghostly. The sclera of his eyes (white part) were blacked out, and his pupils were glowing red with slits. And most prominent was his smile, the smile was that of a sinister jester or the devil himself.

"Hey Naruto, time to keep your promise." Yami yelled gleefully.

"Yeah, yeah I know Yami. So what do I have to do?" Naruto asked, getting straight to the point.

"Oooh, so bossy. Well you see that lock?" Yami said pointing upwards towards the gate of the cage. Following where he was pointed Naruto saw a locking mechanism of gears and pulleys holding the door locked. Noticing that Naruto saw what he was talking about he continued. "Yes, that. I just need you to go infront of the lock, and think of it opening. Then the door will open up, and with each inch open I will be able to talk to you more, and be able to give you Kyuubi's chakra easier." Yami explained, while also giving positives of opening the door.

"Alright, I'll get it done." Naruto replied. Turning towards the lock, he didn't see Yami's demented smile. As Naruto thought of the gates opening, the sound of gears and pulleys turning and screeching reached his ears. Naruto watched as the doors slowly opened, but as they barely cracked open, he felt immense pain wash over him. This pain stopped Naruto from opening the gates any further than 1/10 of it's way. Looking over he saw that Yami had lost his smile.

"Why did you stop? " Yami asked, not understanding the sudden stop.

"I..It hurts, I don't think I can open it any further." Naruto panted out.

"But I can't get out." Yami stated in an irritated voice.

"Wha...Theirs a big enough gap for you to squeeze through though!?" Naruto yelld in outrage.

Yami simply responded by outstretching his hand passed the barrier and was electrocuted with blue and red electricity. Quickly removing his arm he said "No, No I can't. The gate needs to be at the very least halfway open." Yami said in an aggravated tone.

"Yami, I'm sorry but I can't open it any further. It hurts too much." NAruto honestly said.

Yami than gave Naruto a disarming smile. "Oh don't worry about that then. I wouldn't want you to be hurt. Why don't you just leave the mindscape and relax. All you gotta do is think about waking up." Yami informed cheerfully.

"O..Okay. See ya later Yami." Naruto said with a cheeky smile as he faded away.

Yami smile the fell into a dark scowl. "Soon," He began in a dark tone, sure Naruto couldn't here him, "I'll be the one in control. Oh I will." unbeknownst to Naruto, Yami was laughing with dark glee at his plans to usurp his body.

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HF: So...Your thoughts? I'm not sure I got the scene with the Namikazes very well, but I tried my best as I could on that scene. Now onto the excuses, 2 to be exact.

#1- HalfwayFallen is drinking nuclear tea, typing a new in peace when out of nowhere...School dropkicks him in the face. ACT Prep classes pops up behind him and performs a german suplex, work comes in a stomps on his beaten remains, and finally sleep knocks him out for awhile.

#2- I rewrote the scene with Parasoul because the first time was...well shit. I thought I could do better and got what you guys read.

Alright than, please leave a review. And until next time, Have a good day/night/whatever time it is!