Hey everybody this is my first ever fanfic so I would appreciate it if you tell what you think about it.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to Naruto and all rights are reserved to Masashi kishimoto.

Warning this is a Naruto x mei x hinata fic, not sure if i should make it a harem fanfic tho but if i feel i can smoothly add other girls i might give it a try. Several changes to canon throughout.

"Naruto kun" hinata shouted loudly getting ready to jump to his rescue

"Wait,it's not safe" kurenai said holding hinata by her wrist while looking at the boy who stood on the box with worry.

"Tsunade Sama what do we do now?" questioned sakura snapping her out of thoughts.

Hesitantly looking at sakura, tsunade glanced at the rest of her team" ehm... Our enemy is likely that boy, he may look weak and all but if he is what I think he is, then don't drop your guard, the moment he is taken care of we can worry about Naruto" tsunade said trying to act as composed as possible. ' hopefully once we deal with the boy, whatever jutsu he put on Naruto would be released' she hoped knowing fully well that even if it was possible the probability of Naruto being able to resume his career as a shinobi was very low.

"But Naruto needs help !" hinata said loudly in defiance not liking the fact that she was betraying Naruto again.

"Hinata calm down we are not abandoning him" sakura said trying to calm her down not liking her tone. 'Can't she tell tsunade is feeling just as worried as she is' sakura thought glancing at her master briefly.

"B-but..." Hinata stuttered with anger while clenching her fists.

"Enough... Kakashi, yamato and Bee you're with me, were going to try and move the boys attention away from Naruto, then take care of him. Sakura ,hinata ,kurenai you wait here as soon as he leaves the area secure naruto" tsunade gave her orders looking at the boy on the box.

Taking a glance at hinata ,kakashi couldn't help but hope that she would keep her emotions on check as it was clear to everyone how she felt about Naruto . The last thing they needed was worrying about someone ruining their plans.

"Hokage Sama what would i be doing ?" Sai said with a hint of confusion when he didn't hear his name.

"Seeing as you still are exhausted from the trip it would be best for you to find a secure place where you can rest, hopefully assist kurenai and the others" Tsunade said knowing that Sai was still a bit drained from creating the birds that transported all of them here, as not only would it have taken long to arrive if they used the water but they would have had to deal with the whirlpools around the prison.

"Alright everyone into positions" tsunade said after seeing everyone nod their head in understanding.

Meanwhile with Muku

Patiently watching as his soon to be new body was undergoing reconstruction, he noticed a shiny object approaching his left quickly from the corners of his eyes.

Waiting until it was very close to him he threw his left hand up and grabbed it , stopping the weapon from hitting it's target. Smiling at the failed attempt to harm him Muku paid no attention to the dangling tag tied on the end of the weapon.

"Path-" he didn't get to finish what he was about to say as the tag exploded engulfing him in a large explosion, throwing him completely off the large box where he stood on leaving a thick dark cloud of smoke at his previous location.

Having no time to comprehend the situation Muku was forced to dodge more and more projectiles that headed his location as smoke covered his view from the position of his attackers.

With sakura, kurenai and hinata

Rushing to Naruto's location the group was immediately welcomed by the smell of burnt flesh and the gruesome sight of their fellow shinobi. Doing their best to ignore it, kurenai ordered sakura to break the chains while Hinata watches incase of any surprise attack.

Getting closer to the body sakura ignored the temptation of trying to heal him as she was not sure how the seals would react to her.

Grabbing onto one of the chain's sakura tugged on it repeatedly hoping to snap it, but for some reason nothing was happening. Getting frustrated she decided to get a closer inspection of it. ' you've got to be kidding me ' she thought angry.

"What's wrong sakura?" Kurenai asked when she noticed the worried look on sakura's face.

"It won't work...the chain its made of chakra metal and has some weird writing which is probably strengthening seals" sakura said upset about the situation.

"What are we going to do then kurenai sensei" hinata asked with worry while taking glances at Naruto.

"Hmn... the only option would be to keep watch over him and maybe find some way to inform tsunade sama about the situation" kurenai stated watching the battle going on. 'but then we would still need the key' kurenai thought.

" why don't we ask Sai to help look for the key to the lock" sakura said.

'thats much better than waiting here' kurenai thought, seeing hinata nod her head in agreement to the plan kurenai informed sakura to signal Sai for help in retrieving the key.

Turning to the location Sai went sakura stared for a while.

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...

"Something's wrong ?" Sai said to himself when he noticed sakura looking at him.

Knowing that she had his attention Sakura quickly went on to start making weird hand gestures informing him about the situation.

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"She wants me to find the key" Sai said understanding the signal. 'thats not going to be easy...but i'll give it a try' he thought trying to be positive.

"Okay" he said as he quickly turned dashing into some random location.

"Your sure he understood what you were implying ?" Kurenai asked not really trusting the method sakura used.

"Yep kurenai sensei" sakura said as she took a position guarding her falling teammate

'i hope he gets here in time or things might get a whole lot worse' sakura and hinata thought with worry fearing that with Naruto's current condition the kyuubi might use it as a means to try and escape.

Meanwhile in Naruto's mindscape

Drip

Drip

Opening his eyes Naruto stared below him. Noticing he was impaled by a long black looking pole that had large spikes along it's body, making it look like some kinda cactus. It held him high above the floor where a figure stood.

Moving his dangling limbs in a desperate attempt to free himself

"There's no need" the black figure said staring at him directly from below. Laughing lightly he turned around walking slowly towards the cage where the kyuubi resided.

"If you think I'm going to let you kill the kid your absolutely wrong" the kyuubi said angrily knowing that if Naruto died so would he. ( The seal works different here than in the anime...it basically links both Naruto and the Foxes life together so if Naruto dies he would go into the shinigami stomach along with the fox )

"You have no other option to watch like the nice observer you are" the black figure said smiling knowing the beast was angry from his comment.

Turning towards the location where he heard footsteps the shadow closed his fist commanding weird looking tendrils to rise up from the ground to subdue whoever was there while he focused on the fox.

Huge tendrils erupted from the ground wrapping around the limbs and tails of the fox, the shadow smiled watching the struggling fox as each tendril split stabbing into the fox limbs, making it roar as some liquid similar to that of Naruto's gushed out from it's open wounds.

Feeling weaker and weaker the more the seconds passed Naruto was sure that he wasn't going to make it this time. Deciding to turn off everything going on he reflected on his life, he was quickly welcomed by the feeling of saddness, condo he had not achieved any of his dreams.

Flashback

A nude Mei who layed on the bed stirred, having been woken up by the sound made by the other occupant in the room.

Observing him closely she watched as he turned around in the room looking for something, he walked to the door that faced the room sliding it open, then after some minutes he came back with lots of clothes in his hands.

Dropping them on the chair in the bedroom which was beside the large window he began separating hers from his,then wearing his.

"Your leaving already ?" He heard Mei say with a saddened tone as she watched him dress up.

"Yeah, i'm kinda late for an appointment right now but don't worry once i'm done i'll be back" Naruto replied giving her a smile. He didn't intend on waking her up like this and at the same time he also didn't want to just leave without telling her.

"Something bothering you ?" He questioned noticing she still looked sad which worried him.'damn that ero sannin for this' he thought furious at his sensei.

"No it's just that after yesterday..." She suddenly went silent clutching on the sheets not knowing how to put the words well.

Beep

His brain quickly understood what was going on "I know... I promise you it's not like that" halting his dress up he paused briefly then walked towards her placing his palm on the bed he leaned in nuzzling her cheeks, he moved and kissed her lips softly hoping to remove any form of doubt from her. Naruto then rested his forehead on hers as he closed his eyes taking in the scent of hers.

"I would never do that to you hime, everything i said last night was the honest truth and to be honest i would rather be here all comfy with you than be with some perverted old man" he said smiling as he saw her mood brighten slightly .

"sorry, I was just worried..." she said nervously gazing into his blue eyes.

"It's okay hime, so what time would you be leaving ?" Naruto asked getting back up and backing from the bed a bit

"Maybe in the next 3 to 4 hours" Mei answered blushing slightly as she slowly stood up from the bed letting the blanket covering her fall off exposing her breasts to Naruto, who was glancing at them repeatedly.

"Awww i'm not going to be able to meet up" Naruto complained already knowing that jiraiya was going to make him do some 'serious' training that would probably keep him busy all day.

"It's okay but-" she replied stretching her limbs.

"Can you promise me one thing" Mei continued standing up and looking at him with a worried gaze.

"Sure anything" Naruto replied turning his focus to her.

"I know it's weird asking you this but can you remember me and the time we spent together" she said with hope in her voice.

'why would she...ohhh i see, so she's just worried i would forget about her' Naruto thought mentally smiling at the fact that she really liked him.

'That won't do' Naruto thought

Looking at Mei "I promise,and should we meet again i won't hesitate to make you mine" Naruto said firmly

"That means we're not allowed to die until we fulfill the deal" Smiling from his reply Mei said as she walked towards Naruto helping him ease out the wrinkles from his clothe.

"Yes ma'am" he said saluting her.

flashback end

"Son don't give up !" a voice said loudly through grunts

'Seems like i couldn't hold my end Mei chan' Naruto thought tiredly ignoring the voice as he watched the blackish goo substance continue to move from his body into the rod which eagerly absorbed it.

"Goodbye h-him" Naruto said softly feeling the energy in his chest gradually diminish as his eyelid closed slowly his body went still with his form slowly crumbled into dust.

"No wake up, naruto wake up" another voice shouted trying to get his attention but it was all in vain.

"Rrrrrwwww" kyuubi shouted in anger as it watched it's host give up without putting much of a fight. Kushina and minato feeling tired from the rate the tentacle was absorbing their life force could only stare at it attacked the kyuubi absorbing various parts of its body at a very fast pace.

some minutes later

A figure stood in a dark hallway with surprise at what was going on. Taking in the view from the collapsing room to the occupants inside. Staring at the large pole that stood in the center of the room he closely looked at what seemed to be a person pinned on it, his eyes trying to figure out who that was.

Immediately his single eye widened in surprise as he stared at the crumbling body. Turning his attention to the only person talking who was free from any shackle.

His gaze hardened as he summarized that the man was the cause of everything going on here and his death.

Feeling his anger build up quickly he tightened his knuckles as a liquid substance poured out from his palm before morphing into a black katana, out of thin air he took a step forward before quickly fading with the wind causing the water to ripple. Seeing his opponent getting closer to him he lifted his sword upwards and swung hoping to disect the fool quickly.

Hearing a sound the shadow man immediately swerved around on instinct, dodging a downward slash by the new attacker. Jumping a bit to give space between them the attacker wasn't done as he followed the shadow turning his grip he then continued slashing at him following the shadows every step, he was placing light cuts on the shadow man who continuously tried to avoid the violent swings.

Dodging a slash the shadow man took the opening to claw at his opponents face but the figure hopped back avoiding the attack.

Pausing the two figures stared at each other, the shadow stared into the eye of the same man he had just recently killed. Getting confused of the situation he quickly glanced at the figure on the rod seeing that he was still there, he finally understood the situation.

"No wonder he gave up quickly" the shadow man said plainly before he took towards the yang naruto stomping the ground hard, tendrils tore through the water beneath them heading towards yang naruto who quickly backflipped while swinging his blade to shred any tendrils that was close to him.

Crouching low he dashed towards the shadow man dodging the remaining tendrils, he threw his blade towards the shadow who was forced to dodge the blade. Not giving him time to regain his bearing Naruto began attacking immediately unleashing rapid punches and kicks.

"He's alive ?" kushina questioned confused and at the same time glad about the sudden turn of event while watching as the two fighting figures dodged the rocks that dropped from the roof of the room never breaking their dance.

Minato on the other hand couldn't help but smile at Naruto's display of skill, but that smile didn't last long when he noticed something.

The kyuubi seeing that the shadow had lost his focus began moving his limbs violently trying to free the binds on him. Feeling most of them shred he growled in anger as he stared at the fight between Naruto and the shadow. Hardening his gaze at the shadow he ripped the tendrils off him and dashed into the gate ramming into it continuously.

"No no" the fourth hokage and his wife said as they laid on the floor with tendrils wrapped around their hands as the black liguid substance slowly crawled up their stomach eating all their energy. They watched in fear for their son as the very hope the had for his survival dwindled before their very eyes.

*Crack*

Finally the gate gave into the attacks of the fox, with no chakra in Naruto's system to strengthen it. One end swung open with the top hinge breaking while the other flew completely off from the kyuubi's brute force, sailing towards the yang Naruto and the shadow.

Naruto feeling something approaching him quickly rotated mid swing, pulling his hand towards himself he watched as the bars of the gate passed him. The shadow who had already positioned himself safely smirked as he watched Naruto rotate through the space in between the bars of the approaching gate, while he just stood.

Landing roughly Naruto wasted no time as he dashed at the shadow to resume his attack, forming kunais in each of his hands Naruto attacked taking turns swinging each blade at the man.

Boom

"Your able to survive despite the fact your other half is destroyed" the shadow said ducking under Naruto's overhead swipe with his right hand, he blocked another a the other hand that Naruto moved to stab him in the stomach.

Ignoring the fastly approaching and loud noise made from the kyuubi running towards them, Naruto could tell that if the footsteps were from who he guessed , they were he was in trouble as he was backing the cage while the shadow on the other hand was facing it.

"Shut up" Naruto said with anger as he head-butted the man and pushed him back hoping that he would get an opening. He watched as the man's head melted from the impact from the attack before building up back.

"You truly are a worthy vessel" the shadow said giving Naruto a full evil grin exposing his sparkling white teeth as he attempted to grab both of Naruto's fist.

Turning their gaze to the side when they noticed the sudden shadow that enveloped them, they saw the hand of the kyuubi heading towards them with incredible speed. The fox was going for a full hand sweep wanting to catch both of them in the attack.

Thinking fast the yang Naruto quickly relaxed his body making him sink into the water beneath. The shadow on the other hand lifted his hand to shield himself from the attack but was thrown off his feet bouncing on the water like a skipping stone, he twisted his hands using them as a spring to throw himself on his feet to slow down the impact. He paid no attention to his damaged body as it began repairing the damage.

"Rrrrrrwwwwwwww"

Planting his feet on the floor causing the water to ripple the kyuubi wasted no time in rearing his head back as his mouth opened wide, throwing it forward with a mighty roar causing water to rippled then finally split into two from the pressure of the wind, while the wind travelled towards the shadows direction.

'amazing even with 60% of its life force gone and without the use of chakra it can pull off something like this' the shadow thought smirking as his body stitched together covering the glowing white orb in his chest, slapping his palms together he then placing them on the water as a wall of the same kind of black goo substance lifted from the floor defending him from the kyuubi's attack.

Naruto planted his feet to the floor doing his best to stay grounded unfortunately he didn't last long as he was blown towards the shadow due to the water splitting in the middle exposing him to the direct wind pressure. Acting on instincts he shielded his eyes not wanting something to get in them.

'the hell is that ?' Naruto thought getting a glimpse of the white glowing orb in the shadows chest before it was consumed by the black goo substance that made him.

Feeling the wind pressure die down, he pulled out a chain that had what looked like a kunai at it's tip ( scorpions weapon in mortal kombat ) and threw it at the shadows back hoping to catch him off guard.

Naruto smirked when he heard a grunt, tugged on the chain pulling himself towards the man as a new katana materialized in his right hand preparing to stab the shadow in his heart. 'maybe i should aim for the orb thing' he thought as he said towards his opponent.

Swerving around the shadow tugged on the chain pulling naruto with more speed towards him. Rearing his hand back, his fingers suddenly broke with his fingers snapping and shifting, they merged with each other while extending into some weird blade.

Surprised from the sudden turn of event Naruto had nothing to do but prepare himself for impact. Naruto watched as the wall turned into many thick tendrils and moved towards the Biju.

Kushina along with minato's eyes widened as they watch their son approach his doom in what seemed like slow motion.

Stabbing Naruto from with his blade hand directly through the center of his stomach , the shadow tossed the body away like a piece of rag not bothering to spare a glance at the boy, he pulled the sword out of his shoulder as he prepared to take care of the kyuubi who was busy jumping away from the tendrils and ripping those than grabbed onto him.

The shadow said sighing "I really didn't expect you to give me a good fight" pausing for a while he smiled then said "then again your an Uzumaki it was obvious this would have been harder from the start"

"Son wake up...c-can you hear me wake up" kushina shouted frantically scared that he was actually dead, she was angry that she could not help him

Minato on the other hand just stood there with a sad look on his face. 'i still don't understand how this happend' he thought confused

Smiling at the look of horror on minato and kushina's face the figure commanded the goo to completely devour them as he walked towards the struggling bijuu. He couldn't help but grin from his accomplishment, he had finally gotten a worthy vessel.

Outside Naruto's mindscape

"Naruto kun I have it!! " Ryūzetsu shouted as she ran to where he was.

Stopping her sprint she stared at the three women who stood blocking her from her destination .

'what are they doing here?' she thought bitterly when she noticed their headbands.

"Who are you?" sakura asked not trusting the girl that just arrived.

"That's not important now" kurenai said breaking the stare down.

"I'm sorry but you have to give us those keys" kurenai said drawing their attention to the bunch of keys Ryūzetsu was trying to hide at her back.

"Sorry I can't do that, you see my friend there needs these keys, so i can't let you have then" she said pointing at Naruto. Then she got into a fighting stance. Ryūzetsu knew the possibility of her beating the three of them was low, but she wasn't going to just give them the key like that.

"so how are we going to do this" Ryūzetsu asked seeing sakura and hinata get into fighting stances too.

"We won't be doing anything, miss" Sai said appearing from nowhere with his tanto at her neck.

"it would be stupid of us to fight seeing as we want the same thing" kurenai said as she took the key from Ryūzetsu and tossed it to sakura

Ryūzetsu couldn't help but glare at sakura as she watched her hurriedly release the shackles off naruto. Looking at the remains of her partner Ryūzetsu silently prayed that he would be okay somehow.

"Naruto kun" Ryūzetsu called to him ignoring the looks from the konoha team. Hearing no response she called again getting a lot worried but this time she tried to move closer only to be stopped by the blade at her throat.But still there was no response,not even a twitch to signal him hearing her.

" Hinata can you take a look at his system?" kurenai said worried.

"Hai" hinata quickly responded activating her byakugan to scan his chakra paths. Immediately she frowned noticing a problem, cleaning her eyes she tried again hoping what she was seeing was a mistake.

"No no no no no" hinata said shaking her head repeatedly while tears fell from her eyes.

"What's the matter hinata ?" sakura asked already expecting a bad answer from seeing hinata's reaction.

"H-how ?... why d-ddoesnt he have any chakra path" she said as she fell to her knees shaking her head in disbelief.

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'What'

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"Impossible" Sai said knowing full well that it was impossible for a living person to exist without having constant flow of chakra in their system, even civilians had chakra coils only that it was very small and couldn't accumulate enough chakra to do anything special. But for someone to have no coil then that person is more likely a corpse.

'no that's can't be true' Ryūzetsu thought looking at the corpse on the floor.