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Walking around Konoha, Naruto was slightly stumbling. Hinata was by his side, helping him stay up. The atrophy was starting to wear off, but he found time to enjoy how peaceful Konoha looked. A year and a half had gone by since he had fought Kaguya. From what he understood, Sasuke had been instrumental in getting the villages to unite. The onyx eyed Uchiha had truly changed his ways and had begun to do a redemption mission, training to become The New Rikudō Senin. However, Naruto knew that with his awakening people were going to antsy about them seeing each other again.

"Let's take a seat," Hinata said while walking him toward a bench.

Naruto nodded, being helped over to a bench. He yawned a little, looking at the blue skies above him. The sun glowing across the cold village. Winter was in full swing, snow laid upon the streets of Konoha. Wearing his mother's scarf, the blonde nestled his head against Hinata's. He saw several children run by, the next generation of Konoha's Shinobi.

"What's wrong, Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked sweetly, rubbing his head.

"This just feels surreal, Dattebayo, I've been stuck in this weird dream. I mean, it was me, but it wasn't me. I feel like I'm still there, but I'm not if this is a dream…I really don't want to wake up from it." Naruto admitted, telling her how he felt.

Hinata smiled, "I think you're just really tired."

"Yeah," Naruto laughed slightly. "Never thought one little walk would get me so exhausted."

"You've been laying in a bed for a year, you need to just relax. Besides, everyone around the village is being told just to give you time to adjust." Hinata spoke with some confidence in her voice, "Though, they're thinking of keeping the memorial up."

"Memorial?" Naruto inquired.

"We thought you had died," Hinata lamented as she faced the ground. "Everyone…in every village…built something to honor you."

"I…don't know what to say," Naruto replied silently with shock laced in his voice. "I…never thought that someone would build stuff in my honor. It's a weird feeling."

"You have all the time in the world, right now, at least." Hinata smiled, watching as he nodded.

"Naruto-san!"

Naruto's eyes opened wide, stunned at the voice, "Konohamaru?!"

"Yeah, it is me, the one and only!" Konohamaru announced, jumping down from a nearby tree.

The boy's long scarf dangled in the wind, "Sorry if I'm interrupting your date, Hinata-san!"

"D-date?!" Naruto shouted in surprise, "This isn't a date, I just woke up!"

Hinata giggled a little bit, "You're fine, Konohamaru."

"Yeah, yeah, hey Naruto-san wanna spar?" Konohamaru asked.

"I just woke up," Naruto replied as he yawned. "Still too weak."

"Meh, I was going to suggest ramen eating," Konohamaru teased.

"On second thought, you know what, maybe walking is good for me!" The blonde Shinobi's tune suddenly changed.

The Hyuuga heiress just laughed a little, "Hang on Naruto-kun, I'll help you get there."

Helping him up, Naruto and Hinata began walking out of the park with Konohamaru leading them. Something was off though, it felt like a haze of sorts. Something was happening, Naruto began breathing rapidly, making Hinata stop.

"Naruto?"

Naruto eyes rolled back, he fell forward, smacking into the ground. Hinata immediately grabbed him, looking at Konohamaru.

"Konohamaru, go get Sakura-san, now!" She ordered.

Konohamaru nodded and began to run as fast as possible. Hinata began checking Naruto's pulse, placing her fingers on his neck. She found that his heart was normal, but as blood slowly leaked from his nose, she saw Kurama's chakra take hold of him.

"Naruto!"

He didn't stir, just breathed slowly.

"Naruto!"

She looked around, breathing hard, placing her ear against his chest.

"Naruto…please don't go…"

"Naruto…"
"Naruto…"
"Naruto!"
"NARUTO!"

"Hinata!" Naruto screamed as his eyes opened, waking up from under the rubble.

Naruto got up, pushing the rubble off. Breathing hard, blood dripped from his nose as he gripped his head. His eyes took time to adjust to the light that was now present in the underground city. His labored breathing came to a calmer huffing of air. He tore open his jacket, looking at his arms, no sign of medical equipment even being on him. Dazed, confused, and slightly injured. The Shinobi struggled up, looking at the hidden city.

Noting that City's name was written in Kanji, Naruto took note of what it said.

'The Kingdom of Fire,' Naruto read as he squinted his eyes, 'This doesn't make sense…The Great Five were separated in my time…let alone was Hinokuni named The Fire Kingdom.'

Noticing something, the blonde walked over toward human bones. They were broken, snapped to pieces as if something had mauled them to death. He then saw what looked like a sword in their hand, but the symbol on the sword had him taken aback slightly. It was The Uchiha Crest, but with The Uzumaki Swirl inside of it. Picking up the blade, noting how bad it was rusted. It had been many decades at least, and more than likely centuries since anyone truly wielded the blade.

However, the next thing that caught his eye was the presence of automatons. The very same kind of robots that were talked about in science fiction in his time, and made reality in Remnant, seemed to have broken here at some point. The round, ball-like, machine seemed to have mechanisms solely for pushing chakra in a singular direction.

Gripping his head, he felt that something was off. Putting his palms together, Naruto sent a wave of chakra out. If there was any Genjutsu active, his wave of intense chakra would've blown it away. However, as the rubble moved about, and the lanterns flickered, nothing changed. Nothing made sense about this, not now, Naruto took a deep breath before dropping into a lotus position.

Sensing it, his eyes opened wide as they took on the toad-like form of Sage Mode. He got up, looking down at the ground. He felt instinct take over, weaving hand seals directed by the Sun Mark on his hand. Slamming his palms afterward, slapping them onto the ground, it slowly began fissure open. It revealed to Naruto a scene of wonder. Dropping into the small fissure, just right below the city, was a massive storage of food, water, and weapons.

Looking at the storage facility underneath The Underground City. Naruto realized something was calling to his Sun Mark. It had to be, he felt its pulse, how it beat itself rapidly. Holding his right hand, The Shinobi watched as the massive room lit up. A lot of the food was perfectly sealed in Fūinjutsu Seals complex enough to even raise his own eyebrow at. Weapons, on the other hand, looked rusty and crumbling. However, all of them bared the same uniform seal on their hilts.

"None of this makes sense, Shinobi are not from here, but why I am seeing this?" Naruto asked himself aloud.

His footsteps echoed in the eerie silence. Stopping, he found what his mark had been calling him too. His eyes couldn't believe what they were seeing, and in a way, he wanted to refuse it. There, in the middle of this storage room, was a generator. Fresh chakra, obviously from himself, energized back to the point of working. It would explain the powerful feedback loop he received, but that didn't explain why his mark was calling him to it.

It became clear when he got closer and a sudden pillar rose to stop him. The sudden structure glowed a pale green, indicating to Naruto where to place his palm. Reaching out, he placed his palm on the indicator. It began scanning it, this was nothing like his own people's technology, this was too far advanced to be.

"Identification Unrecognized, attempted interface failed. Colony Two of The Fire Kingdom deemed unsuccessful. All remaining citizens, Shinobi, and Knights of Gelel are to proceed to evacuation tunnels. Otsutsuki infiltrators are to be engaged by Automatons."

Naruto's eyes widened tremendously at this message, "Otsutsuki…infiltrators?"

"Hey, wait a minute, what day did this occur?!" Naruto yelled at the pillar.

"Unable to provide information, please see your registration officer."

"Hey," Naruto placed his palm further on it, "I need an answer here!"

"Unable to provide information, please see your registration officer."

"Screw your registration officer!" Naruto screamed as he suddenly felt anger swell within.

"Unable to verify information, have a nice day, thank you for using the information center!"

Naruto growled out, "Screw you too!"

Looking back at the sphere of chakra in the generator, Naruto sensed that it wasn't only his chakra mixed in. Drawing his right fist back, he took a deep breath. This was either going to be a very stupid, potentially deadly, idea. Or, perhaps, letting his natural intuition of punching everything works its magic would help. Roaring out, Naruto slammed his fist against the container. It didn't even crack, the only thing he felt crack remotely was his hand. His eyes widened, like giant white balls of pain, he began jumping shaking his right hand.

"Ow-ow-ow-ow, Naruto yelped over and over, "Damn it, Dattebayo!"

The blonde felt his hand throb in pain, looking at it, it has a purple bruise already began forming. Growling, he held his left hand, forming a Sage enhanced Rasengan. He roared, slamming it into the casing, but once again, there was no dice and the force rebounded onto him. Sending him careening into some of the weapon caches, knocking them all down.

"Gah, what the hell?!" Naruto roared, gripping his head, "That's not normal!"

His eyes got a glint of something inside of the sphere. An object that seemed to glint under the light. Sucking his teeth, Naruto grumbled as he got up. He just stood there, looking at his Sun Mark pulse like crazy. He watched the sphere carefully, noting how it also pulsed at the same time. That's when he had an epiphany and pointed his hand toward the chakra. Focusing, he draws on his own chakra from within the sphere and linked it with the other chakra in it. Entering Six Paths Mode, Naruto's golden eyes took on their fox-like appearance. The glass began cracking, that's when he charged.

Breaking the through the glass with ease, reaching in, and grabbing what he had been seeing. Pulling it out, he discovered that it was a crystal. Naruto recognized that the make of the crystal was Gelel, but is infused with chakra. More specifically, it was infused with the chakra of a Bijuu, Son Goku. The crystal began to slowly transfer its chakra into The Shinobi. For a moment, after absorbing the chakra, Naruto's skin lit up like a flame. Golden fire trailed over his body, extinguishing it just as quickly.

His eyes burned with golden fire however, he felt power radiate through him. He shut his eyes, hearing battle, followed by the roaring of Son Goku. Hundreds of Grimm screamed in unison, and when he saw the face of a demonic woman. His eyes snapped open, still retaining their Six Path's form, Naruto found himself running out of the storage room. Grabbing a sword on the way out, he jumped through the hole he created when he first entered and began to use his instincts to travel forward through The Underground City.

He felt Son Goku fighting a massive winged beast and losing!

Without much thought, Naruto crouched down as the golden flames gathered around him, "Hold on Son!"

He leaped up into the air, subconsciously weaving hand seals before slamming his palm into the earth above him. It opened a fissure that deepened as he went through, bursting through the ground, Naruto slammed into a Nevermore that had been flying above the location. Its body charred from the heat Naruto's flames produced.

He began to drop from the air as he closed his eyes, sending a massive pulse chakra out.

Ozpin was sitting at his desk, reading the fairytale book he had been fond of. He suddenly felt all the hairs of his body stand up, he stood up from his desk, rushing toward the window. He watched as the skies seem to calm themselves, the rain stopping, with the sun slowly peeking out from the clouds. As if touched by the God of Light, the sky began to light with fire as the sun pierced through further.

Orange clouds rolled by, with some lightning remaining to be released, but that wasn't what he felt. He felt the oppressive aura being lifted away, he felt the rays of warmth fill his office, and most of all he felt something stir inside of himself. A feeling he had long forgotten, hope.

He looked back toward the fairytale book, the hero was dressed in golden flames.

Flying briefly, Naruto felt his Six Path's energy blistering inside of him for the first time in a very long time. Knocking down several Nevermore that had flown in the sky trying to intercept him, he slammed downward with his target being a giant twin-headed snake Grimm known as a King Taijitu. The massive beast screeched in pain as its body burned to embers.

The golden flames faded, but Naruto's still glowed with power. He growled like a beast. He saw several Beowolfs heading right for him. Without much thought, Naruto caused the ground to ignite around him as it melted into the lava that was forming. Pushing his right hand forward, the lava flowed with the movement, drowning the Grimm in liquid rock.

Blocking a Deathstalker's stinger his forearm. Naruto gripped its tail before spinning on his heels and throwing it! The mighty Grimm clicked and chittered as it slammed into a large cliff. There was a rage burning inside his very soul, he felt it burn, and as he walked forward so did the lava. Dead trees began to ignite around him as his breathing became calm, his golden foxlike eyes burned with rage.

Jumping up, with the lava following him, he weaved hand seals to concentrate the lava into a single puddle. He dropped down onto the only solid piece in the middle of it, his skin energized by his power unaffected by the heat. A roar of Grimm made him stare over his shoulder, dozens of Creepers and Beowolfs came charging out of the forest. Weaving hand seals, Naruto stumped his right foot onto the ground, causing a fissure to open. The fissure ended up swallowing the small horde of Grimm, and as the lava flowed in, he felt his Six Paths energy leaving him. Jumping off the platform, Naruto's eyes turned back into the toad-like ones of Sage Mode. He could sense Son. He felt the massive beast losing his fight after he got swarmed by dozens of smaller Grimm.

Without missing a beat, Naruto dashed at blistering speeds toward where he felt Son's energy signature. His arms were behind his back, grabbing the sword he had taken from the storage area under the lost city. Pulling the blade out in a reverse grip, his chakra ignited the blade. It had a crystal inside of it, like those Dust Crystals, which perturbed him slightly.

As a Beringel charged out of the forest, Naruto dashed forward, leaping to meet it. Slicing its head off in a fluid motion, landing in a slide, he began to cut down Grimm that came at him left and right. Like a scythe cutting grass, he felt everything about him was cranked up to eleven after his brief exposure of Bijuu chakra. He felt his chakra reserves igniting, he felt his heart pounding, he felt alive! As a horde of demons of the night descended, the sun would not fall, instead, its light cut them away. Time seems to pass by quickly as he created clones to cover his flanks, each of them taking out dozens of Grimm. This horde was massive, and then he felt his senses kicking up a storm.

Jumping up, the ground cracked open as Son Goku emerged out while holding a giant falcon-like creature in its hands. The massive horde of Grimm turning their attention to him, Naruto created more clones and took an opportunistic approach in the slaughter of night demons. Landing in the middle of a group, Naruto unleashed a wave of wind chakra from the blade, slicing anything in its path apart.

Son ripped the massive phoenix-like Grimm in half, roaring in victory. He turned his attention to fighting below him. He smiled with mirth as Naruto tossed a group of smaller Grimm up toward him, he blew hot flames from his mouth to incarnate them.

"Son," Naruto took a moment to let his clones do the work. "Are you alright?!"

"About time you arrived, I was starting to think I'd have to get myself out of this jam. Why do I detect my chakra inside of you already?" Son inquired while casually stomping on smaller Grimm.

"Not a very good time right now, don't you think?!" Naruto yelled as he blasted several more Grimm away.

He felt his Natural Chakra reserves slowly diminishing. Though, it didn't much matter as Son swatted everything around them. Naruto smirked, holding his right fist out. Son returned the smirk and placed his knuckle against the much smaller one of Naruto. Both of their eyes widened as their chakra flowed into each other's, and Son slowly found himself being pulled into Naruto's seal. The seal he was given at birth glowed orange until turning back to its normal black.

'Let's finish this, kid.'
'Don't have to tell me twice, Son!'

Naruto roared out as a red chakra cloak formed over his body. Sprouting four-tails made of energy, he hunched over slightly as lava began to form around him. The chakra cloak took the form of a monkey with octopi tails. Smirking, Naruto watched as The Grimm began to back off. He took a step forward, his eyes turning red from Bijuu chakra flowing and mixing with his remaining natural energy. When a Beowolf tried to be brave and attack, Naruto made a third hand with the cloak, snatching it midair. He crushed it into black dust, watching as it flowed away in the wind.

The Grimm began to scatter, running away, but not feeling merciful Naruto held his right hand above his head. A massive amount of fire began to gather into a ball of energy, becoming bladed. Naruto readied to launch the attack but smirked when he turned around and launched at a group guarding a jellyfish-looking Grimm.

"Yōton: Rasenshuriken!"

The attack impacted, obliterating everything in its path with hellfire and rage. Taking deep breaths, Naruto calmed down as he saw the embers of a burning forest flow past him. Setting things right, he weaved hand seals and conjured a massive torrent of water into his mouth.

'I see that you've been mastering the elements, not bad for a human kid. How did you come about my chakra earlier, when I felt it coming toward me? I latched on and managed to draw a lot of it out of you.' Son explained why Naruto's earlier power seemed so brief.

Naruto closed his eyes, 'I saw visions of you fighting that massive beast of a Grimm and losing.'

'Your vision must be really lacking, I was clearly winning,' Son laughed it off.

Rolling his eyes while they were close, Naruto smirked, 'Ain't no shame in admitting you needed help.'

'If you keep this up, I'm cutting off my generous tithe of chakra. Besides, it has been a very a long time, I'm sure you've been filled in by now.' Son Goku argued and sensed for any other Bijuu chakra inside of Naruto.

'Filled…in, you mean about The Gods, and stuff like that?' Naruto inquired.

'Uh…no, I assumed you were already aware of that. Father must've told you by now, about what happened, you know?' Son asked, trying to pry.

"Um, no, all he told me was to be wary of The Gods. I'm assuming they're just having a little fun game, but I'm not playing by their rules…I think, anyway have any of you seen Kaguya?' Naruto inquired, dropping into a lotus.

The last embers of the burning fires fade as the rain returns. Naruto took a deep breath, feeling the blank signatures of The Grimm leaving as they fled. Their mission failed, there was no reason to stick around and fight him. Even Grimm sometimes knew when to retreat, although from what Naruto experienced it took a lot.

'What…no, what game? Naruto…you…I…' Son sounded confused, 'Do you not know what happened?'

'Okay, Son, you're starting to worry me here. Jokes over, I found you, you're safe. With your power, I'm gonna work on gathering everyone else back up, and we're gonna go home!' Naruto replied mentally, laying against the charred ground.

The sword lying next to him.

'Naruto…you're…right. Let's gather everyone and find a way home. Hey, we'll need to talk to Father sometime soon,' Son said through their mental link, I think I'm going to take a nap.

'Don't go turning into another Kurama, speak of Kurama, I need to find him…have you seen him?' Naruto inquired further, watching as the skies part, feeling the warmth of the sun.

'Come to think of it, I did have this weird dream when I got knocked out in an Underground City not far from here…' Naruto watched as tree leaves began to fall around them, hearing a jet engine approaching.

'Naruto…I'm taking a nap, please…let's talk some other time. I'm cutting the link, for now, forgive me,' Son replied, yawning afterward.

'Right, you must be very tired Son, sorry.' Naruto apologized, watching as an aircraft landed nearby.

"Oi," a man called out as the bay door to a Bullhead opened up, "Are you Naruto Uzumaki?"

"Yeah," Naruto raised his hand up, "That's me…who are you?"

The man stepping out of the aircraft was an older man, he had blonde hair and green eyes. He wore a green flight suit. His hair had a fade inside of the middle. He yawned, scratching his backside a little. Looking at the Shinobi, he smirked. Reaching for his pistol, Naruto got ready to act, but instead, he shot past him. Hitting a small tentacle Grimm with a skull-like body dead-on.

"Gotcha," The man stated. "Sorry, that thing would've made you an obedient slave to its whims. Fusers tend to that, and combine Grimm together, its not pretty sight."

"Oh, thanks," Naruto thanked the man.

"No need for it kid, looks you've been busy. Qrow knows how to pick 'em, drunk owes me a good shot of whiskey for this job. My name's Jack, by the way, Jack "Ace" Green, now get on my bird, and let's bounce out of this kettle pot." Jack stated, pointing toward his Bullhead with his thumb.

Naruto nodded, slightly limping over toward the aircraft. No sooner than he sat down and strapped himself in he passed out. Jack rolled his eyes, closing the bay door. He went over to the pilot seat, starting the machine up. He noted that something was moving away from them on the radar, a group of three signatures.

"Ah, probably just some Grimm, better arm my cannons," Jack said aloud, activating his guns.

He then got his scroll out, "Qrow, this is Jack. Puppy Dog is in the crate, in the pipe, I'm Oscar-Mike to Beta Echo Alpha Charlie Oscar November. Tell Headmaster Ozpin that he owes me a paycheck for this job, and you owe me a glass of whiskey with some gosh darn coke."

"Right, rain check that whiskey, and I'm sure Oz will cut a big check for this one. Remember the old rule, if you saw something that's not normal, you didn't see it all, kapeesh?" Qrow replied to Jack's call.

"Heh," Jack laughed slightly, "Roger that, drunken bird."

Son Goku looked at his area inside of Naruto, shaping it to his will. He formed a landscape from a long time ago. He looked around his forest mountains, the great fruit trees that bloomed. However, most of all, he looked at the little shrine that was made by a little girl with navy blue hair and light blue eyes. She had two whisker marks on her face and smiled and looked down at her. She smiled back, but no sooner than she was created in his landscape, she ended up fading away.

Sighing, he held his head low, 'Father…what have you done?'