Disclaimer: Like everybody else on fanfiction, I own nothing. Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto, and One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda.

"Standard" - Normal Speaking

'Italics'–Thoughts

"Bold" Tailed Beasts speaking and Technique.

-Pure Lands-

"UMMM! Man, this is so good! I missed this! Ichiraku Ramen is still the best!" Naruto said with a delighted face as he wolfed down the bowl of Ichiraku Ramen.

"You missed our ramen a lot, didn't you Naruto? No worries, now it's time to make up your absence by trying to surpass the Queens of Gluttony record!" Ayame said with a grin as she prepared another bowl, "So far no one in the Pure Lands have been able to break their tied record."

"Queen of Gluttony?" Naruto mumbled through the noodles before asking Teuchi who was preparing a new broth for his ramen, "Who are they?"

"Look at the picture hanged on the wall..." Tuechi answered with a laugh.

Naruto glanced at the picture and deadpanned at the two women in the picture, "Mom and Hinata-chan, why I am not surprised? How much did they eat in one setting?"

"Hey..." a panicked voice came across the restaurant table that Naruto sat on, "Naruto we can't pay that much ramen bowls..."

"Both of them ate 46 large sized bowls of ramen in one setting," Ayame told Naruto with a grin, "You can try to break that record if you want to Naruto but it's impossible, even most Sumo give up when they hit twenty bowels!"

"Hey, can I break that record?" Naruto asked excitedly, "I mean you said you all are paying for me, just this once!"

"NO!" yelled a chorus of seven voices attempting to stop Naruto from putting a hole in their wallet and purses,

"Do you know how expensive Ichiraku Ramen is here in the Pure Lands!" Naruto heard Nii Yuugito telling him with a deep growl and exasperated face, "It became a top end restaurant that we had to fully book for quiet and peace for the nine of us... If anyone else from our world, especially the rich ones see you in here, they will want the restaurant to be burned down for serving you!"

"Besides booking, this already cost us a lot of favors and money!" Fuu said with a huff, "Us Jinchūriki of our era stick together no matter what!"

"I agree with you, Fuu..." Utakata said as he sipped a glass of cold water and glared at Naruto. "You know Hotaru doesn't blame you for what happened?"

"Hotaru?" Naruto thoughtfully muttered at that name before he recalled the name, "The kunoichi who had that forbidden jutsu imbedded in her... Your student?"

"Yeah, she doesn't blame you..." Roshi said with a nod, "Almost every shinobi and samurai don't blame you for killing them."

"The problem is the others," sighed Han as he smoked on a pipe. "It's only mostly civilians and people from other continents. Hidden Village civilians are mixed in reactions."

"It doesn't matter..." Naruto says with a tired sigh, "It was my choice that killed everyone even if they were going to die, anyway-"

"Hey, we are diverting from the main topic!" Yagura told everyone with a tick mark on his head, "Even if we split the bill equally, it's not fair to us to pay this amount for Naruto's ramen."

"I don't wanna be poor and broke, got to change my money fate," Killer Bee muttered with a nod, "I do not want to to spend all on ramen taste."

"Stop overacting all of you..." Gaara told the rest of the Jinchūriki, "I will be the one paying here... Everything is on me tonight."

"Really Garaa?" Naruto asked with a smile which

"They pay me enough in the summit," Gaara said with a chuckle before asking, "So how was Shukaku?"

"Shukaku?" Naruto blinked, before sighing and pinching the bridge of his nose, "He and Kurama never stopped arguing and Shukaku is rowdy when he is bored... I did not have a good night of sleep when he was bored..."

"I see..." Garaa muttered with a nod before indicating to Nishi to bring another bowl of ramen for him as he and a group of people sat in a private room in the biggest branch of Ichiraku Ramen in the Pure Lands, "He is still the same, he got less rowdy when I got better."

"And what about Gyūki?" asked Killer Bee while staring at the Yuugito's bust in front of him.

"Gyūki... took up... rapping..." Naruto replied to Killer Bee as he stuffed his own face with the third bowl of Miso Ramen, "I will tell you ... your rhymes were much better than his, Bee! Still, he makes it up by being a good listener."

"Eyes up here pervert or I will gouge your eyes out..." Yuugito growled at Killer Bee as she saw him staring at her lecherously before turning her head and asked Naruto, "So about Matatabi? Did you get along?"

Naruto then looked at all eight Jinchūriki he met in the war sitting around the large table and smiled sadly. "You must miss them... When they left you, what did you feel?"

"Like a hole ripped open in my heart," Han muttered, "All of us were hosts to them since we were young. We may have had hard lives because of our relationship with them, but sometimes we miss them."

"I understand it very much." Naruto said with a nod, "They slept for years in my seal recovering their chakra after they saved my life and it seems I won't ever get to thank again them for it."

"So, they will be back in the world you died..." Fuu asked with a thoughtful look before clapping her hands in delight, "Oh, they will all be finally free!"

"If that will be the case, I know Shukaku is going to sleep in a desert most of the time and will occasionally be bothersome to the population if they make him angry. Matatabi is gonna live in the forests. Isobu is gonna go swim in the oceans..." Naruto said with a fond smile as he remembered his time with them, "While Son will be in the mountains minding his business, Kokuō wants to roam the open plains, while Saiken will go live in a cave, and Chōmei once mentioned she wanted to dominate the skies. Gyūki is going to go on a self-discovery journey. Kurama is going to just sleep, eat, and mess with humans for his own amusement."

Naruto then glanced at the menu before frowning and asked, "Since when did Ichiraku Ramen serve anything else than ramen?"

"Oh, we have expanded our menu..." Ayame told him with a wide grin, "Of course our specialty will still be ramen..."

"Then can I have something strong?" Naruto asked her with a questioning glance.

Ayame nodded briefly before Naruto faced the former Jinchūriki comrades and grinned before telling them, "How many of you are up for a drinking game?"

-Pure Lands-

"Have you been drinking?" Kushina asked in a concerned voice as she watched her son stumble around the house.

"Lay off me, Mom." Naruto grumbles before he hiccups and burps, " Yes I was... Gaara and the others were awesome. But drinking sake reminded me of something- no, someone... I want to see someone... Ero-Seninn said there are people from other worlds and dimensions in here... and that we are separated in sections."

"Yes, there are people from other worlds in here..." Kushina said to Naruto as she eased him to a couch and told him, "I know a couple of moms from other worlds... Do you want to meet someone?"

"Yes... Actually, I want to find four people..." Naruto said with an intense stare as guilty and drunken tears welled up in his eyes, "They are probably looking for me in here... They died around the time I did, and they died because of me. Two weeks in here and I never thought of looking them in here..."

"Oh Naruto..." Kushina sighed before telling her son, "Don't worry. I will be you with this. In fact, I know some moms from other dimensions. Many people work in the summit to keep it maintained."

Naruto then felt his mother caress his face and smile at him, "You changed so much... you act like yourself, but your eyes tell me a different story. What happened to you?"

"Mom... can you tell me if I did the right thing on that day?" Naruto asked her with a hoarse voice, "Was there another way, a better option?"

"There wasn't..." Kushina said in a firm voice before she hugged her son, "You did the best you could."

"It wasn't enough mom..." Naruto tells her with weary eyes and then gave a bitter laugh, "I wanted to lead the world to salvation, just like you, Dad, and Ero-Sennin wished and hoped me to do. The Child of the Prophecy brought instead destruction. I don't blame the others who hate me... I hate me too for what I did."

Immediately, a chain shot out of Kushina's hand and looped around her depressed son's leg before hosting and flipping him in the air.

Kushina stared at her upside son with a displeased expression. "You know..."

Before she could give a piece of her mind on her son, Naruto burst into drunken laughter and sniggered, "That jutsu is so cool! Mom! Teach it to me!"

Taken aback by her son's mood swing, she asked. "Naruto, are you okay?"

"Actually, ask Dad to teach me the Hiraishin Jutsu too..." Naruto said in deep thought as he hung from his mother chains tied on his legs. "Can you teach it to me?"

"Didn't we warn you of the three shinobi prohibitions?" Kushina mutters before she pressed a palm to her forehead and sighed when she saw her son just zonk out at those words before snoring.

"What's going on?" came Minato's voice, which sounded exhausted, before staring at the scene and sighed, "I guess being a parent is tougher than we expected."

"Busy day on the summit?" asked Kushina as she gently placed her son on the sofa.

Minato nodded and looked sadly at Naruto before saying with an anguished voice, "I already failed him in life... I can't just fail him again in the afterlife..."

"What's going on?" Kushina asked as her anxiety spiked.

"The Daimyo and the rulers from other continents wanted to sentence Naruto without a trial. They wanted him to pay for what he had done. On the other side, I and the rest of Kage, along with the Samurai, and Shinobi Clan leaders, oppose this. We want a trial so we can figure out what Naruto deserves, and if we can pardon him." says Minato before he gritted out his teeth in anger, "But the others say we already exhausted our pardons on Madara and Obito even if they were manipulated. They say Naruto does not fit the criteria as he harvested the Chakra Fruit with no one manipulating him. Even if it was to save our world population's souls."

"Don't they know what was going to happen to them, if Naruto hadn't killed all of them?" Kushina whispers and then growls in a low voice as her eyes flash angrily, "I am going to..."

"They used a loophole," Minato said in an exhausted voice. "If Naruto is found guilty, he would be sentenced to the worst fate possible. Soul extinguishment is out of the question. They are gonna try to sentence him to the Lost Paradise."

"No! No! They can't do this to him!" Kushina seethed as tears began to prick the corner, "Only depraved monsters are sentenced there, and Naruto isn't one!"

"Which is why we are requesting the trial to be expanded so other worlds can judge him..." Minato said with a sigh, "If there is an immense bias in the summit, the summit can expand the sphere judgement to reduce the bias."

"When will it happen?" Kushina asked with a growl, "I need to prepare for our son's trial."

"It will start in a year within the Pure-Lands." Minato says with a nod before his voice gained a glimmer of hope, "Usually, trials will happen immediately when an individual reaches the Pure-Lands. But Naruto's trial is going to be a big one, so we have a year to prepare for. Shukaku-san and his son Shikamaru already have already started a plan to acquit Naruto in the trial."

"So we have a year to prepare?" Kushina mutters with a concentrated expression on her face, "So what do we need to make Naruto safe?"

"A lot according to Shikaku and his son," Minato said with a grimace, "First we going to need Naruto's memories, his testimony and statements, which is why he is going to therapy so he can say the things he need in the trial. He is also expected to give a speech before he is judged. We are going to need evidence to help Naruto, like witnesses."

"That's the problem, isn't it?" Kushina said with a pained sigh, "No one was around when it happened!"

"Actually, there is one person..." Naruto mutters out aloud, startling his parents, "He may have been blind in life, but he could see much better than us. If there is going to be a witness in the trial, the first and most important one is the man from the Branch line of the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon. Toneri."

"Naruto..." Minato says gravely as his expression remained, "We only know what you have done until you disappeared from our home planet and dimension. That was seven years ago. Where did you go? What you did in there,"

"Black Zetsu really wanted me gone, so he used a Space Time Ninjutsu to create a rift that sent me to a void." Naruto said with a sigh before puffing his chest, a proud look on his face, "I escaped with the Tailed Beasts help and ended up in another dimension, that had a planet called Earth."

"Okay, so you met a race of humans different from us in another world?" Minato said with a serious expression, "Did you kill any person in that world?"

Naruto took a trip down his memory lane as he remembered his time in Wano and muttered something.

"What was that?" Kushina and Minato asked as they directed a frown towards their son.

"I may or may have not killed a hundred assholes in the first day on that world..." Naruto said with a nervous voice, "The other four hundred were crippled or died from their injuries?"

Kushina just slammed her head on the table and began to wail.

"Naruto ..." Minato asked seriously, "Why did you do it? Did they wrong you?"

"Yeah, they did..." Naruto growled angrily before saying, "They killed my new Ramen and the chef and they were also pirates!"

"They killed your ramen?" Kushina said as she stopped wailing, "Is that why you killed them?"

"The first hot and fresh one in two years, mom!" Naruto said with annoyed face, "They had to ruin it."

"Well, good for you!" Kushina said with a nod of approval and then grinned before ruffling her son's hair. "Your Uzumaki blood still has our clan savageness in temper and battle. And you obviously inherited our love for Ramen!"

"As much as I love Ramen..." Minato said with a sheepish grin at his family, "I need to ask you Naruto, what was the country where you lived in that world called?"

"I mostly lived in Kuri Region of the Land Of Wano..." Naruto answers with a sharp look on his face before asking his dad with a pleading look on his face, "Actually Dad, I want to meet someone in here that came from over there."

"Land of Wano... Kuri..." Minato repeated as he ran over the names he knew on the summit before remembering a unique individual that he befriended on the summit.

"Isn't that Toki-san and her husband's country?" Kushina whispered to Minato with a concerned expression and whirled at Naruto, "Naruto, please tell me you didn't harm its citizens!?"

"Hurt them... No, I did pretty much the opposite," Naruto said with a shrug before asking, "What's going on?"

"Among the Sage favorite people is a Daimyo from another dimension..." Minato said with a serious expression, "That Daimyo is also samurai whose swordsmanship skills are rivaled by a few in here. The man was to be the Shogun after his father, but he was away on an expedition and adventure with a pirate crew when his father died. It all went horribly to him after he returned to his country."

"This story sound very familiar... " thought Naruto before he asked his parents with a raised eyebrow, "Was this guy boiled alive for an hour, while holding up a platform for his retainers and ordered them to stand on it, saving them from being boiled alive."

"You heard of Kozuki Oden?" came Jiraiya's surprised voice from above.

Kushina looked at the roof of her home and saw Jiraiya standing from the ceiling and deadpanned before saying, "Jiraiya, come down."

"Yeah..." Naruto nodded before waiting until Jiraiya came down and then, "Everyone knows who Kozuki Oden is in Wano. He and his Samurai were the only people to stand up to Orochi and his ally Kaido, and he got killed for it. The person who killed Oden was the same person-"

"I see..." Jiraiya said before shaking his head and telling Naruto, "So the people you wanted to see in here are people you knew in that country."

Naruto nodded, "They must be looking for me in here, two weeks in here."

"I told you before Naruto..." Jiraiya said with a shake of his head, "Time runs differently in here Naruto and it's complicated... A thousand years have passed here and only a second has passed in the living worlds. The time difference changes all the time."

-Pure Lands: The Summit-

"Danjo-sama..." a voice called out, "Danzo-sama is here to see you."

"Ah thank you," an extremely pleased voice replied from the room. "Finally, it's nice to meet you in person. You were hailed as the Shinobi of Darkness in your lifetime, weren't you?"

Danzo's eyes narrowed at the man who looked extremely heavy, with fat hanging from his jaw and covering the rest of his body, and asked politely, "What do you want?"

"I require a favor," the man replied as he read the paperwork. "You and another in the Pure-Lands are the only ones able to fulfill it. But regrettably, the other one will refuse this."

"What do I get out of this..." said Danzo dryly as he gripped his cane harder, "There is nothing you can give me-"

"Oh yes, there is..." chuckled Danjo with a smirk, "I know you desire a position in the summit! Always second best from your best friend, Sarutobi Hiruzen!"

At the mention of that name, Danzo eye's blinked before it became cold and emotionless again.

"All I just need you to cast that Jutsu!" Danjo requested as he extends a hand forward, "I heard it can mind control others without them knowing! If you use it on the trail, we can make him suffer from killing us!"

Danzo realized what the request was before he turned around and began to walk out of the room.

"So, you are going to do it!?" asked Danjo hopefully before freezing at the icy glare Danzo gave him.

"I may be a Shinobi that does not care about morals and ethics..." Danzo growled out with a hint of disgust, "But I still have pride and dignity to not bring more shame to my friendship with Sarutobi and my relationship to my teachers."

"But this is the person who destroyed everything!" hissed Danjo angrily, "He destroyed our world, and our futures-"

"I was already dead when it happened..." Danzo told him in a dismissive tone, "Besides, Uzumaki Naruto is a Shinobi of Konoha and I don't betray my comrades unless it's for the good of Konoha. Even if the place that is called Konoha is gone. It is an idea that still exists in death. And I will protect that idea forever. Don't bother to contact me again..."

"Well, he refused ..." sighed Danjo before picking up another parchment, "Orochimaru is next!"

"You called for me?" Orochimaru said in a mocking tone behind Danjo, making Danjo jump in fear.

"Oh... You were going after my patient?" Orochimaru tutted with a devious grin on his face before his face morphed into anger and he snarled out, "You think I will let you get away with this?"

Danjo's vocal cords lost the ability to speak as Danjo felt his spiritual body cower in fear from Orochimaru's golden, slitted eyes.

"People say that I have gone soft in here..." Orochimaru said with an annoyed sigh and shaking his head, "That's just not true. I just appreciate my relationships in here..."

Orochimaru just looked around and then scratched his head thoughtfully. "Okay, let's see, yes, this one."

-Three Week Later-

"The missing case of the representative of the Summit has been solved. Danjo, the last heir to the Land of Earth, has been found." Uchiha Fugaku addressed a crowd, "He will be assessed here. That's all I have to say today."

With that, Fugaku just entered back to the building of the Summit Security Council where a short and slim woman waiting for him. Her eyes were a shade of green and her ash blonde hair was of medium length, with a solitary strand sticking up from the center of her head. She was dressed in a white and black uniform that had a different insignia to the dark green jackets he and his section wore.

"Licita -san," Fugaku addressed the woman politely, "Your Section is competent as usual. I am grateful for finding Danjo."

"No need to thank me..." Licita said with a shake of her head, "My section tracks down and captures people in the Pure Lands. Yours is to patrol the Pure Lands and keep the peace between people. I recommend you not to tell the public about this. When we captured Danjo... It's better if you see him yourself. Your Sharingan can see memories, can it?"

Fugaku raised an eyebrow at this and told her, "Bring him out then?"

Licita then brought out a bottle and uncorked it open. And a flash of light burst from the bottle before a dazed Danjo appeared in front of them.

"I found him like this. All I could find out was he did not want to be brought in. I wanted to interrogate him further," Licita tells the Uchiha before sighing, "But my skills are limited in that department, so I couldn't find anything else. You Shinobi are really versatile, unlike our world warriors. I was going to send him to Ibiki, but he is really busy now."

Fugaku just nodded before his eyes shifted colors and activated his Sharingan.

Making eye contact with Danjo, Fugaku entered his mind to look through his memories. Immediately, he was inside the man's psyche and looked through his memories and frowned before anger surged within him.

"Take him to Level S..." Fugaku said with a disgusted expression before looking at Richita's surprised face, "He just warranted his soul being extinguished..."

"This is a serious offense?" Licita asked Fugaku with a disturbed face who nodded back, making her say, "Just as I thought. Danjo never felt like a good person to me."

Fugaku just nodded and before he ordered a subordinate, "Put in a request in my name that an emergency summit of our world is needed now."

Naruto returned to his residency after another therapy session with Orochimaru, Tsunade and then a picnic with Hinata to soothe his nerves. He found his dad waiting for him and before he could ask him what was going on. Minato grabbed his shoulder, and he was suddenly in a large courtyard that was filled with the brim of people. All of them looked respectable and held an aura filled with dignity and honor.

Minato then told Naruto, "Follow me."

Naruto followed him out the courtyard and into a large doorway that had a huge kanji etched into it. Before he could read it, the door opened and Naruto felt half of the room glare at him while the other half just sigh at the other's reaction.

Naruto then saw Sasuke sitting in one of the front rows and immediately grinned. Sasuke just smirked at him before becoming serious. And Naruto turned around to see an overweight man being escorted in the room.

"We got a very serious case in here today..." a voice said in the middle room.

Naruto looked to see the two sons of the Sage of Six Paths looking utterly displeased with the person who was being escorted in as silence reined in the room

"Does this man have a person to be his advocate him in this summit?" Hashirama asked as he looked around for Danjo's advocate.

"I volunteered to be his advocate," Orochimaru said as he stood up with a huge grin on his face. "Once I heard all Advocates refusing their service to Danjo, I pitied him."

"Approved..." Madara said with an intense look on his face before saying, "Is there a person in this summit who wants to refute this approval?"

No one came forward, and Indra and Asura nodded before saying in unison, "Danjo, known as the Last Heir to the Land of Earth, you have been charged with a crime against this summit. Now your advocate will read out the list of charges had been placed on you!"

"Of course, I will," Orochimaru said gleefully as he unfurled the scroll that had been handed to him and smirked at shivering Danjo.

"Is Orochimaru being incompetent on purpose? We started the trial with three charges and now it's twenty-three charges against Danjo." Naruto said as he leaned in and whispered to his father, "He is in closing speech, and he didn't defend Danjo at all."

"We don't know why Danjo accepted Orochimaru as an advocate." His father said with a shrug, "But he could have requested to change advocates, and he did not."

"As far as I am aware, however," Orochimaru said gleefully as he pointed out something to the court, "The law of the Pure Land says the summit job is to punish or to acquit Danjo for crimes he found to be guilty of. He has been charged with various crimes and I have presented his defense. All he and I can do now is to await your verdict. That's all I have to say."

Naruto then stared at Danjo, who was sweating heavily and seemingly on the verge of a panic attack.

"The defense was so bad..." Naruto hears Asura whisper to his elder brother before looking at Danjo's shivering form, "All the evidence has shown us that Danjo had committed various crimes. Ranging from bribery, obstruction of the Summit. Dishonoring the privilege, he was granted in the summit."

Asura then said with a deep frown, "Now. Those in favor of acquitting the criminal of all charges?"

No one raised their hands to that motion. Clan Heads, Kage, Shoguns, Kings, Lords, Daimyo all refused to lift a finger to help Danjo.

"And those in favor of conviction?" Madara asked with a look around. Immediately, every hand shot up.

"Danjo, you have been found guilty of attempting to manipulate the summit for your agenda, and attempting to influence a verdict, bribery, along with other charges." Hashirama said with a serious expression, "Now crimes of this magnitude will require you to be sentenced to the harshest penalty we deem appropriate. Your regretful behavior aside, the court will now vote if we sentence you to Soul Extinguishment or expel you to the Lost Paradise."

Danjo then suddenly explodes out and points at Naruto with a mad expression on his face, "I don't deserve this! It's all your fault! All of it! Everything! You will always be-"

Only for his voice to disappear in the middle of his rant, and a woman's voice called out, "I stored your voice away. I don't think you will ever have it back, ever... You are doomed to a fate worse than death, no matter what sentence you get now."

Naruto then tracked down the source of the voice to a displeased woman in a white and black uniform and nudged at Sasuke, who followed his eyes.

"That woman is in the charge of a section of the SSC that tracks down people who commit serious crimes here in the Pure Lands or finds people who went missing in the Pure Lands." Sasuke tells Naruto, "I think your mom is quite close to her..."

"All in favor of expelling him to the Lost Paradise?" Minato called out with an icy glint in his eyes before raising his hand. Immediately a quarter of the people judging here followed suit.

"I abstain!" a voice called from the which was followed by other men dressed in a Daimyo kimono, "Imprisonment in the Prison of Atonement, it should be enough Danjo crimes! I request a motion for that."

"That's only applicable to people who did wrong in life and acknowledged their own mistakes..." Madara says as he activated his Sharingan, "I got out early of that hell, many thanks to certain individuals court and I will say the Prison of Atonement is not enough for this piece of scum. It doesn't matter how many years he spends in there if he isn't remorseless for his actions."

"You damn Shinobi!" yelled another Daimyo. "We were just living our lives. We didn't kill, sabotage, or caused destruction! You did all that!"

"No, but you created the necessity for it." Naruto says with narrowed eyes, "You started wars over petty disputes about land, money, woman, and mostly pride. Shinobi may have justified bloodshed in the cycle of hatred, but you didn't. But it doesn't matter to you..."

"You don't get to talk, you monster!" snarled a foreign-looking king. "You murdered over five billion people! Whatever that tree was doing to us, we were happy in there! Did you have to-"

"Project Tsukuyomi was my doing! Obito and I already paid for it in the Prison of Atonement!" Madara growled with anger as his skeletal Susanoo briefly emerged before fading g, "Even if I was manipulated by Black Zetsu fabrications on the stone tablet to pursue it. The one called Uzumaki Naruto is-"

"This isn't Uzumaki Naruto trial..." Asura reminded everyone in the court with a frown, "We are here for someone else, now all in favor of Soul Extinguishment?"

Naruto then looked around to see a row of hands raise nearly half of the room.

"Soul Extinguishment..." Ashura muttered with a nod before looking at Danjo with a disappointed face, "You are lucky to not be expelled to the Lost Paradise."

Minato just rubs his arms before saying, "My arms still feel stiff when I ever see this happen."

Danjo's mouth opened into silent screams as fear and tears filled his eyes as a very familiar black ball formed in Ashura's hand.

"Is that a Truth-Seeking Orb?" Naruto said in a stunned voice as he saw Ashura toss it to Danjo feet and the Truth-Seeking Orb changed shape into thin threads that began to puncture Danjo's spiritual body and then black destructive chakra created mass cocooned around the body completely.

Danjo's presence then just vanished like he was never been there, and the Truth-Seeking Orb Cocoon unraveled to reveal nothing inside it. Danjo was gone and just like that, everyone began to file out of the room. Some looked absolutely aloof to what happened, the others ranged into nervousness, shuddering.

"Come with me, Naruto." Minato told Naruto as he stood up and headed to the doorway.

"Are we going back home?"

Minato just smiled and nodded before placing a palm on Naruto's back, "I invited someone over..."

In a flash they were in front of the house, and Naruto could already smell his mother's delicious cooking.

"You are late!" Kushina's scolding voice makes Naruto and Minato wince.

"Sorry we are late!" Minato said with a nervous chuckle as he removed his shoes, "Our section of the Summit took longer than expected..."

"Blame Orochimaru Mom..." Naruto called out before he heard his Mom snap the wooden spatula in her hand.

"You and your excuses!" Kushina growled before sniffing, "I didn't ask for them! I should have been there to raise you!"

"Now... Now... Kushina-san," an unfamiliar voice came from the kitchen, "My husband also works on the summit, and he comes late sometimes. You should cut them some slack. Isn't that right dear..."

"Wait, that accent..." Naruto thought as he stood in the doorway with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah, that summit can be a pain in the ass..." huffed a rougher voice with the same accent, "But someone had to deal with sinners and criminals... If only my dad was here, I will have more time to spend with you!"

Naruto then ran in the dining hall and blinked in surprise before slapping himself to check if he was dreaming. He only seen this face in books.

The man in the dining room stood 382cm tall and very large and muscular man. He had long, black, and unruly hair that was fashioned into a prominent, flat, circular shape at the top, complete with a distinct widow's peak and triangular sideburns. His piercing black eyes had jagged edges sloping downwards towards the inner corner and upwards towards the outer corner. A pair of eyebrows, highly arched, were above them. He applied red eyeliner around his eyes, intensifying their sharpness. His nose was of a moderate size with a slight hook, his mouth was large and expressive, and his broad chin was adorned with a short goatee.

He wore an orange kimono, leaving most of his legs exposed; the kimono had two yellow crescent moon designs on it. The man also wore a large purple and white nio-dasuki tied around his shoulders that ran down his back just like Yamato.

"No, not like Yamato, she dresses like him!" Naruto thought before looking at the woman who came from the Kitchen holding a large steaming pot.

Her tall stature and lengthy dark hair, which she tied back except for two strands in the front resembling her daughter, were complemented by a floral decoration and a pearl necklace, contributing to her refined appearance. She donned a short pink kimono with crescent moons at the hem, resembling the Kozuki Clan's symbol.

"Minato, is your son okay?" Kozuki Oden asked as he peered at Naruto.

"You are..." Naruto says as he points at Oden, "Oden. Kozuki Oden and that's your wife, Kozuki Toki!"

"Yes, we are..." Toki said with a smile before she saw Naruto's eyes that were so far away before she asked, "What's wrong?"

"Your daughter Hiyori looks so much like you," Naruto tells her with a pained expression on his expression before pinching the bridge of his nose, "Oh this is so weird."

"What?" asks Oden in a blink before looking at his wife's shocked face. "I don't understand Minato. How could he have met Hiyori?"

"It's a long story..." Naruto says with a serious voice, "But I ended up in another dimension after a botched Space Time Ninjutsu. Wano is where I crashed into, and I put a target on my back immediately after fighting a couple of Pirates. Met an old man wearing a Tengu mask, who turned out to be your old man in hiding."

"WHAT!" Oden says in shock as his eyes bug open and his jaw hits the floor. All the while, Toki blinks in surprise.

"Everyone thought he was dead. I didn't even know what his real name and his face looked like five days- Actually, I will tell you about it later. Your old man seemed lonely, so I stuck around to help him raise a girl named Tama." Naruto says before he began to ramble and began to ask with wild eyes, "Tama has to be here? Ulti and Page One? Yamato?"

"Naruto..." Kushina said in a soothing voice that snapped him out of his frantic questions, "I am so sorry... Forgive my son's behavior. I know it's no excuse, but he is still healing."

Dinner was his mom's favorite dish and other assortment of foods that his mom usually cooked, and then there was the giant pot of Oden in the middle that the Kozuki's cooked up.

"So, how did you guys meet?" Naruto said as he eyeballed everyone sitting on the table.

"Well, your dad once had the chance to judge from our world," Oden said between the mouthful of foods, "We met there and he was amused by my jokes... We met a couple of times in the summit again... Then I invited him for a drink, and we hit it off."

"Now..." Toki said with a gleam in her, "What's your relationship with my daughter?"

"Well, we are friends-"

"Just friends?" Oden mutters before asking, "You are just friends with my daughter?"

"Denjiro gave me a job to be her bodyguard, after all she was the most sought geisha in the capital..." Naruto said before taking a sip of water, "I don't know if she had a crush on me... But we were pretty close, I looked out for her as a bodyguard, and beaten over dozens of fools trying to take advantage of her."

"How long have you known her?" Toki asked with a straight face.

"Six years..." Naruto replied with a shrug, "But I took breaks within those years..."

"Why did you take breaks?" Minato asked with curiosity.

"To create hidden villages in Wano-"

CRASH

Kushina just dropped the glass she was holding and stared at Naruto with a stunned expression.

"You founded a hidden village?" asked a shocked Minato as he looked at Naruto with stunned disbelief before grinning as he understood Naruto's intentions. "I see... I am proud of you."

"What's a hidden village?" Toki asked with a confused face.

"In my heart I will always be a Konoha Shinobi," smiled Naruto as he counted up to five with his fingers as he looked at Oden proudly, "I created five villages hidden in Wano, each having a representative that once reported to me. Now they report to old man Sukiyaki. Those villages are safe havens to the people of Wano, free from Orochi and Kaido. Even if I am dead. The others will complete my work- Are you crying?"

Oden just sniffed. " I am not crying! The Pirate King crew don't shed tears!"

"Ah, about Roger!" Naruto said as he snapped his fingers. "He is stuck in purgatory. I met him in there."

"THAT'S WHERE HE HAS BEEN!" Oden yelled in surprise. "Roger isn't the man to have regrets in life!"

"Unless it was a kid..." Toki said to her husband, "after all, the woman who Roger loved said she bore a child for him? She said his name was Ace."

"PORTGAS D. ACE IS THE PIRATE KING SON!" Naruto shouts in shock before standing up and muttering under her breath.

"Well, Rouge always said Ace is her pride..." Toki said with a smile, "Kushina, take him there one day. Everyone will love to see your son."

"What place?" Naruto said in confusion, only to realize everyone had finished their bowels and plates and at that moment Oden sighed as the parcel fell directly into his lap and read it out loud, "Celestial dragon... Oh Great!"

Oden and Toki then stood up and thanked his parents, before bowing down with a request, "Can we borrow your son sometime next month? We would like to hear about what happened in Wano. As for the people send me list of their name and their relationships, we could track them down if they are here."

And with that, they left. Minato then saw another parcel and sighed, "I got summoned to another foreign summit... One I never went to before."

-One Week Later-

"Is there a reason you are smiling today?" Orochimaru asked a leaving Naruto with an encouraging smile, "Already one month in and you are already..."

"Oh, shut up..." Naruto said bashfully with a grin before leaving, "I am meeting some old friends today!"

"I see..." Orochimaru mutters before saying to other Sannin sitting on the window aisle, "I kept you waiting, Jiraiya lets go,"

"I invited Tsunade and Sensei as well ..." Jiraiya said with a grin, "Be on your best behavior, or sensei will scold you again."

"Oh, great..." sighed Orochimaru before rolling his eyes at Jiraiya's amused expression,

Naruto briskly walked to the meeting spot where he was supposed to meet everyone. He already met and talked with all of them in the Pure Lands. But hanging out as a group of friends took some time.

He had to thank Ino for putting this to together and Ten-Ten for spreading the word.

Tonight all of them reunite for some talking, eating, and, of course, drinking, a party that celebrates Naruto return to them.

Naruto arrived to see everyone sitting and waiting for him with an enthusiastic smile.

"WOW! THIS IS GREAT!" Naruto shouted happily before saying, "The Genin's are back together!"

"Speak for yourself, Naruto," Shikamaru laughed, "You never became Chunin!"

"Oh, yeah" frowned Naruto before looking at Sasuke, knowing at least he wasn't the last Genin there and the, noticed someone missing.

"Wait, a minute-" Naruto said as he looked around and asked, "Where's Lee?"

"He is somewhere training," brushed off Tenten with a chuckle. "He always adds another thousand something finger push-ups, don't worry, he'll be here soon!"

"Hey Naruto, I dare you to drink this entire bottle of Sake in one go!" Kiba said, holding up a bottle of the strong liquor.

"Ha! That's easy! I can do that no problem!" Naruto said confidently.

"Really? Then prove it!" Kiba said, handing him the bottle.

"Fine! Watch this!" Naruto said, grabbing the bottle and opening it, grabbing everyone's attention.

Naruto lifted it to his mouth and started to chug it down. As the liquor flowed down, a burning sensation filled his throat and stomach. Naruto felt his eyes beginning to water, his nose running, and head began to spin and his vision blur.

Naruto spat out the liquid and coughed violently and realized he had been tricked.

He looked at the bottle and saw a label that read "Extra Spicy Sake".

His gaze locked onto Kiba, who was laughing uncontrollably. Immediately, the entire table howled with laughter. Even Shino was laughing.

"Gotcha, Naruto! That's not regular sake, that's extra spicy sake!" Ino said between her laughs, "It's made with chili peppers and wasabi!"

"You bastard! That's not funny!" Naruto yelled, throwing the bottle at Kiba.

Kiba dodged the bottle as he rolled around on the floor.

"Aw, come on, Naruto. It's just a prank." Kiba chuckled with a shrug before begging at Naruto, "Don't be such a baby..."

"Here Naruto..." Shino said with a smirk as he handed him a glass of water.

"Fine..." Naruto growled as he drank down a glass of water to cool down his mouth.

Shino then just poured a bottle into a jug for Naruto, "Here, take this..."

Naruto sipped into the jug and raised an eyebrow at the sweet alcohol, "This is good..."

"It's one of Iwagakure Clans' specialty. The Kamizuru Clan used their bees for the honey in this wine." Shino explained to Naruto, "But here it's different since there are no bees. They literally ground up the pollen and turn it into nectar, add the enzymes and dry out honey. The honey is then used for a lot of things, like making this mead."

CRASH

"I guess it's a passed-out Sasuke," sighed Shikamaru before chuckling, "Wished it was singing Sasuke."

A tipsy Naruto burst out laughing, followed by a howl from the other boys.

"Oh, no..." Sakura said as she lifted Sasuke's face off the table.

Ino began to move the plates aside to make room for a snoring Sasuke. "He is going to be alright!"

The night carried on, bringing laughing tears into the eyes of anyone who remembered that Sasuke was there.

"Just like back in the day I suppose," Chuckled Kiba, "Not hearing a word from Sasuke!"

"Don't remind me..." Naruto said with a shudder before grinning, "Here comes Lee!"

An excited Lee blazed in with his legs up and hands on the floor. With a flip he announced, "HELLO MY FELLOW BRETHREN'S LIVING IN THE SPRINGTIME OF THEIR YOUTHS! I, ROCK LEE, AM READY TO ENJOY A HEARTY MEAL WITH PALS!"

"Lee!" the drunken group cheered.

"Where were you, Lee? We are almost done!" Neji asked, blinking slowly as he saw his teammate,

"I know you will be late..." Tenten sighed before she ordered another round of meat.

"Forgive me for being late..." Lee said with an apologetic nod, "I ran into Garaa and his siblings, they are coming by soon to join us!"

"She is coming here?" Shikamaru asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I am already here, Shikamaru!" Temari's annoyed voice echoed across the restaurant. "Why didn't you invite us?"

Shikamaru just chuckled and said to her, "Sorry, I must have forgotten... Anyway, make some space, guys!"

"Ah, I am famished! I do desperately need a glass of water!" And with the slip of a hand, Lee reached for the bottle of sake rather than the jug of water right beside it.

Naruto then saw everyone get tense and jumped for Lee, but no one could match his speed while being tipsy and drunk. By the time Neji, Choji, Kiba and Shikamaru were pulling back his arms and hands, the empty bottle shattered to the ground.

"Oh, no," whispered Tenten in horror before she paled.

"Fuck" muttered Shikamaru as a doozy-out Lee slipped out of their hands and Garaa and Kankuro entered the restaurant.

Then there was a shift in the mood as the air turned sinister as Lee locked eyes with Garaa.

"HEY! WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?!" Lee grumbled in a doozy voice, " I CHALLENGE-"

Lee crashes into the floor passed out, making everyone let out a breath of relief.

Gaara and Kankuro then joined them and began to feast on the food and Naruto just slung an arm around Gaara and told him, "I got you, bud. What do you want me to do?"

"Nothing..." Gaara replied with an eye roll before asking in a quiet voice, "I heard from Hinata I was meant to adopt a son... Was I going to be a good father?"

"Gaara..." Naruto said with a shake of his head before giving him a grin with sad eyes, "You were going to be the perfect father to your son, and the best uncle to my dear children."

"I see..." Gaara said with a glad smile, "So what are we doing here? We should have fun!"

"That is something I defiantly agree with!" Naruto laughed.

It's been a while since Naruto remembered he had this much fun, as he joked around with Hinata as she played with his hair while being drunk before she slumped and slept on his back.

Laying Hinata gently down, Naruto poked her cheek with amusement as she grumbled something in her sleep with an annoyed face, before making his jacket a makeshift pillow for Hinata and looked around the table.

Suddenly Naruto noticed in the corner of his eyes a fellow wind release user that he had seen around in the Pure Lands.

"Ah, you guys are here too..." said Sarutobi Asuma with a grin as he saw his buzzed juniors and students.

"Asuma-sensei!" Choji said with a grin, "Come and join us! We ordered enough to feed all of us for Naruto's drinking party."

"Sorry..." Asuma said as he waved them off, "The big adults are waiting for me at that table!"

Naruto then looked in the direction Asuma was pointing, to see a table filled with people from his generation; Kakashi, Obito, Rin, Gai, Kurenai, Ibiki, Aoba, Genma, Raidō, Anko, who all waved at them.

"Mirai is being babysat by your mom Shikamaru..." Asuma said as he stared daggers at Shikamaru, who just gulped.

"You still won't let it go..." Shikamaru said with a nervous chuckle, "Mirai may have picked some bad habits from me, but that was not entirely my fault!"

"Kurenai still blames you!" Asuma said with a sigh before he told them, "Have a fun, kiddos..."

"What was that about?" Naruto asked as he looked at an embarrassed Shikamaru, "Is this about Mirai? I have been to their house, and she sleeps nearly all the time."

"I may have convinced her to be a baby as long as she wants..." Shikamaru said with an embarrassed, forced cough, "So she is being a stubborn baby that talks cohesively and refusing to grow up."

"Old man Third prefers to look like his 50s..." Naruto said with a grin and shakes his head, "I know souls can look at the age they prefer, but this is stupidly funny!"

"Shikamaru can be a lazy idiot sometimes," Temari said with a disappointed sigh. "I have to slap some sense to him sometimes."

"Uhhh... What's going on?" a drunk Sasuke stirred before looking at Sakura with adoration, "Have I ever told you that you look so beautiful?"

Sakura blushed and smiled coyly, and Sasuke looked at Naruto with a smirk and said, "I'm going to have a meeting in three days. Want to want to join me?"

Naruto then saw a happy and hiccupping Sai drawing in his sketchbook and went over to him, only to see him drawing the lively scene in front of him.

"That's looks good..." Naruto complimented Sai before asking him, "You really improved, by the way, what's going with you and Ino?"

"WE ARE DATING!" a drunk Ino shouted across the table as she glued her eyes toward Tenten, who was juggling dozens of kunai while being drunk.

Neji was just turning off and on his Byakugan in a staring match with Sasuke's Sharingan.

Rock Lee was playing rock paper scissors with Kankuro. Gaara and Sakura were just laughing at everything they see. Shikamaru and Temari were just cuddling and ignoring the surrounding chaos, all the while taking turns drinking from the same sake bottle.

"I don't remember the last time I had this much fun..." Naruto muttered as he realized how much he missed out while he was alive and his people were dead, "I wish this moment last forever."

"Naruto, are you free? I got this annual meeting that you should come to." Sasuke asked Naruto with a drunk grin, "Some important people will be there."

"If I am free, I will go okay!" Naruto replied with a dismissive look before he felt Sasuke grab him and give him a serious look and then replied, "I will try to make space, okay?"

"Good..." Sasuke replied with a smile before pouring Naruto another shot and clinking his glass with his and muttering, "To you dobe... We missed you!"

"TO NARUTO!" a drunken chorus of voices shouted in union.

-Two Weeks Later-

Pure Lands: A room in the Summit.

"I AM A GOD! I CREATED YOUR WORLD! YOU CAN'T JUDGE ME!" a enraged and panicked voice yelled in the summit, "I SHOULD BE THERE ON THE TOP! FILIFTHY HUMANS HAVE NO RIGHT TO JUDGE GODS BY THERE STANDERDS!"

"Oh, you like to call yourself a god?" Oden said with a dull and annoyed voice, "You are no good, but you will meet a godlike person in a second."

Naruto just sat next to Oden as he looked on with pure and utter disgust at the thing that was being judged. Oden had invited him to this trail, and he could feel the hatred of everyone directed at this disgusting person.

"I, King Riku Doldo the Second, recommend the summit to sentence this so-called god to the Lost Paradise." Said in a middle ages man with an amused voice that did not match the fury in his eyes, "All in Favor?"

All hands in the court were raised immediately.

"Call them ..." Oden called out to an attendant, who nodded and ran out of the room.

Five minutes later, Hagaromo and Hamura entered the room, each holding a Shakujo made from the black malleable chakra that was composed of the truth-seeking orbs.

"Let's begin Hamura." Hagaromo said in a grave voice as his Rinnegan began to glow while his brother Tenseigan began to do the same.

Both siblings began to trace their staffs in the air, forming glowing black Kanji's that formed links to the celestial dragon soul.

Naruto recognized the Kanji's there were nine of them and read them mentally, "There is a kanji for the Physical body, Spiritual body, Name, Identity, Personality, Essence, Heart, Shadow and finally Power."

As soon all the Kanji's formed and were linked, the celestial dragon yelled, "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM YOU HORNED FREAKS! I AM-"

Hamura smashed his Shakujo on the Kanji that said Name, and it was erased,

"I AM! I AM... I AM! WHATS MY NAME!?" the Celestial Dragon said in a tone that shifted into anger and then panic, "WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?"

"They took his name?" Naruto thought fascinated with deep interest as Hagaromo erased a Kanji, "They just destroyed the Kanji for Identity!"

"Who am I? What am I? I remember what I did! Stop it, please!" begged the Celestial Dragon.

"You had your chance to beg for forgiveness in the court." Hamura said coldly as he erased the Kanji of power, "What ever strength you had is now gone!"

Naruto watched them destroy the Kanji for Shadow, which rendered the soul influence on the world, and then erased the Kanji for Physical Body making the celestial dragon scream in pain, and then the Kanji for Essence, Heart, and Personality at the same time, making the soul features turn cloudy and slump on the floor. Finally, they erased Kanji for the Spiritual Body, turning the soul into a black wisp.

Hagoromo then grabbed the black wisp with the Human Path and Hamura opened a space time rift to a dimension where it was filled with pained howling screams that were longing for something and threw the soul that is now a shadow of itself in there for all eternity.

"That's the Lost Paradise?!" Naruto whispered in horror as fear filled his heart before he felt a comforting palm on his shoulder and Oden looking at him.

"Calm down!" Oden said, comforting even if his hand was still shaking. "Let's go back to my house. Everyone is always scared of seeing this punishment."

Naruto then locked eyes with Hamura and Hagaromo, who just gave him an acknowledging nod. Naruto did the same despite the shivers in his spine before following Oden out of the summit.

-Pure Lands: Kozuki's Residence-

"Was taking to me the summit to see that was your idea of a good time?" Naruto asked Oden in an annoyed voice.

"It may have been in poor taste," Oden winced "But I wanted to spend time with you, to show you my thanks for looking over Hiyori and Wano. We went drinking, gambling, had a little arm match. I just didn't know today was another celestial dragon! My wife is doing you a big favor right now, isn't she?"

"Yeah..." Naruto sighed as his mind replayed the Celestial Dragon's fate in his mind.

"You told so much about Hiyori-" Oden said before being taken aback by Naruto brooding, "What's wrong?"

"Is that my fate?" Naruto asked in a toneless voice, "That's what they want to do me right?"

Oden just handed a glass of cold water and muttered, "I am afraid so."

Naruto let out a bitter laugh, "Damn all them who want it... I saved their souls by killing them all! Do they have any idea how many sleepless nights have over it?"

"Do you regret it?" Oden asked Naruto with an intense expression.

"Do you regret taking Orochi deal?" Naruto said bitterly, "I mean you saved people, but after the years you were gone... The Wano you knew was gone."

"I don't regret anything..." "Besides knowing that you helped my people and the others are continuing your work? Its makes its easier."

"Well, I didn't even help them because I wanted to help them..." Naruto muttered with a self-loathing voice, "I did it to make myself feel better! To get rid of that hollow feeling in my heart, and guess what the worst of it was?"

Oden remained silent as he listened intensely.

"it worked! I actually felt alive, when I saw happy the people where!" Naruto whispered out, "I didn't deserve that!"

"If you had to do it again, will you do it?" Oden asked him as he glanced, "Killing everyone to save their souls?"

"If I was given thousands of do overs and there was no other choice..." Naruto said to Oden as he looked at him with tired eyes, "I will do it every time! Even if they hate me! Even if they curse me! I may hate what happened, but not the choice!"

Oden smiled and told him with a grin, "That's exactly what I feel."

"There you are guys!" Toki's bleary voice snapped Naruto and Oden's attention to the doorway, where Toki was panting as she held a parchment.

"You found them?" Naruto asked hopefully with wide eyes.

"Yes..." Toki said with a nod before looking apologetically at Naruto, "I don't how you would react, but I pestered her and she looked throughout the Pure Lands and Purgatory. She said they are not there."

"Grandma Rabbit said that?" Naruto muttered before a soft smile came on his face, "That means they are..."

"They are alive, all of them." Toki said with a soft smile before her expression became serious, "But there is something I should tell you about Tama."

"What about Tama?" Naruto asked with concern in his voice, "Did something happen to her?!"

"I found her parents..." Toki said with a serious look at Oden, "They are outside right now... Should I let them in?"

"Let them in, I don't really care..." Oden said with a shrug. "Any news is good news right now for him."

"Come in!" Toki called at the doorway and a woman whose soft facial features and violet hair heavily resembled Tama's came through. Followed by a man who had Tama's eyes. They all looked heavily nervous.

"These are Tama parents..." Toki said with a smile to them, "Meet Kurozumi Kie and Kurozumi Shigeru."

Kurozumi Shigeru took a step forward and prostrated to Oden and yelled at the top of his voice, "MY FAMILY CRIMES-"

"That's enough!" cut Oden with a firm voice.

"But we nee-" Kurozumi Kie protested.

"I won't hear it!" snapped Toki as she grabbed her hand and held it in comfort. "There is no need for you people to apologize! You suffered too! Orochi and the others left you to die! I read your summit files!"

"You are Tama's parents?" Naruto asked them with an astonished voice.

Kie nodded with solemnly, "They found me around the time Oden-sama was executed..."

"I was always there back up. The next in line to the Shogunate if something happened to Orochi..." Shigeru said with gritted teeth, "My parents talked to me about my family sins before they died. I wanted nothing to do with ruling Wano, I just wanted to live a normal life."

"We were kept alive and hidden in the palace for years..." Kie muttered in a hushed voice, "Before previous Shogun from his prison and swore him to secrecy to tell no one about us when we reached Amigasa Village!"

"I was gravely injured the night we all escaped..." Shigeru said sadly, "I died a couple of years later than my body never really recovered from the wounds. Kie found she was pregnant after I passed away."

"I lived in a hut at the edge of the village's during my term ... my last request was for Sukiyaki was to never tell Tama's heritage until she is ready..." Kie told them with a raised head before asking Naruto in pleading voice, "I just want to know how my baby is doing?"

Naruto just pushed aside his thoughts and smiled at Kie, "She is doing great... It was nice to have a little sister. She has your facial features, ya know?"

Naruto saw Kie's face brighten at that before he looked at Shigeru before laughing with delight, "And she has your eyes. Got a unique personality for a kid in Wano."

Naruto then gazed at the ceiling before saying, softly, "Leading the Hidden Villages was no small task with her distracting me, but she made it up to me to bring joy to my life. I guess talking about it doesn't hurt."

-Three Weeks Later-

Naruto wandered through the misty landscape of the Pure Lands, taking in the sights and sounds of the afterlife. Every day, he talked to someone. It was his parents or his friends from Konoha and all over the Shinobi world or Oden and Toki or Tama's parents or the Kage's or the average Samurai and Shinobi or people from Konoha. His two therapists, and also two lawyers.

Occasionally he meets people from other worlds, like rulers in the summit or just his mom's friends.

Speaking of his mom and her friends, he promised to meet them today.

"I will see you later, Gramps!" Naruto waved off Sarutobi as he left him smoking on his pipe by the riverbank. "Say hello to Konohamaru for me!"

Looking back, Naruto saw Hiruzen smiling as he walked away.

"Who should I see right now?" Naruto thought as his mind raced through all the close people to him, he knew in the Pure Lands, "I saw Iruka-sensei last week. Do I want to see someone else today?"

Kicking a rock into the riverbank, Naruto sighed and sat by a riverbank looking at his reflections when he heard a voice behind him.

"You've changed, Naruto," said Minato with a cheerful voice, and Naruto turned around to see his father standing there with a soft smile.

"What do you mean?" Naruto asked his father with a raised eyebrow.

"You're not the same as you were before," Minato told him softly, sitting down next to Naruto and ruffling his hair, "When you came here... it seemed you were very conflicted. You just went along the flow with everything, even if you didn't want to, only expressing yourself when you feel like it."

"Well therapy helped..." Naruto said with a laugh, "Orochimaru is surprisingly a good talker and Granny Tsunade is a good listener."

"Now, don't keep your mother waiting for you." Minato advised Naruto before telling him, "I have to meet your advocates for the summit soon. After all, your trial is in ten months."

"Already?" Naruto said before asking, "Who are they?"

"The team is still incomplete," Minato told him with a serious nod. "I am gathering the very best. Shikaku and his son are already in."

"I don't know if I should be worried or happy about that?" Naruto said with a sweat drop before muttering, "Actually the team is in a good hand with you selecting the best. Okay, I am going to see mom and her friends."

"I am Uzumaki Naruto," Naruto introduced himself to a large group of woman while his mom stood by his side.

"Oh, he is such a handsome boy..." a voice cooed in reaction to Naruto's introduction, "He has your face, Kushina, but his colors are most just like your husband."

"I am not a baby so please don't coo at me," Naruto growled, and rolled his eyes,

"Careful he bites." Joked another woman before everyone, including his mother, burst into laughter.

"I heard he committed genocide, is that true?" asked another nervous voice. "If he did, he better not be like Karla's son!"

"Oh, fuck all of you!" a black-haired woman snapped at the others, "The summit nearly erased his soul but decided to imprison him in the prison for a hundred and eighty-five million years, as it was deemed a more fitting punishment for my baby."

"Didn't he kill like a hundred and eighty-five million people?" another woman asked. " I would have disowned any child of mine if they done that

Karla nodded and threw her hands in the air. "Well, he was an idiot! Thought he was doing it for freedom!"

Naruto, not wanting to hear any woman argue with each other all day, just looked at his mother who was used to this commotion.

"Mom..." Naruto snapped irritably as he glanced at his mom, "What's the point of this? What the hell is this club?"

"Oh Kushina, you let him say that to your face?" a woman's voice jeered.

"Oh, don't worry, I am going to deal with his manner when you get home," Kushina told her with a smile before hissing at Naruto, "Ignore that one. She drives me crazy every time I see her. I hate putting up with her!"

"Well, your kid doesn't seem bad?" Naruto heard and looked up to see the woman in the summit giving him a thoughtful look as she peered at him, "Hey, I adopted a son who wasn't human, and he turned out to be a beautiful kid. Wish I could introduce you to them, but they are currently alive in their own world."

The other woman just jeered back, "Didn't you leave your bio-"

The woman who said that disappeared in a flash of light, that flew towards toward Licita, who had a peeved look on her face and into the jar she was holding.

"Licita ..." Kushina says with an amused smile, "Do not forget her in there, okay?"

"I will let her out after this..." Licita says with a sigh as she fixes her jacket, "To answer your previous question, this is a club for mothers. Even in death we are mothers as our kids are more messed up in death, so this is a support club that exchanges advise and ideas to help us manage our kids."

"So why am I here, then?" Naruto asked with an embarrassed look, "What can I do to help?"

"I heard you met and befriended my Ace when you were alive..." a soft voice said in the corner, "And my Roger in purgatory. I think Fate is a strange thing, and I bet it was not done with you, Naruto."

"You are Ace's mom?" Naruto asked before looking at her and comparing her to Ace. "He has your freckles..."

Portgas D. Rouge just blinks at Naruto before stifling a laugh, "Kushina, he really is your son! He does the same dumb face when he is surprised."

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Naruto and Kushina asked in union before staring at each other.

Licita just slung an arm around Rouge and said, "Come on ladies... we are all friend here! Especially us three. We founded this club along with others."

Naruto could sense the tension spike in across the room and decided to bolt out as soon as possible, "Well I gotta go! Nice seeing ya all! You know!"

"Wait, can you do this lady a favor?" Rouge asked Naruto politely, "Tell me about Ace? Is he a good boy?"

And of course, because of his bleeding heart and the look his Mother gave him, Naruto had no choice but to do that.

-Six Hours Later-

"Your testimony could support Naruto's..." Minato asked Toneri who sat at the table looking at the plans for N

"The problem is that I wasn't there." Toneri reminded them all, "Naruto did it-"

"After you died, yeah, we know." Shikaku sighed before looking at one of his best friends. "So we need his memories?"

"I usually don't recommend it but if it can give Naruto a chance..." Inoichi said before shaking his head, "Problem is we need more..."

"Naruto testament and circumstances would usually make them lenient..." Minato said with a sigh, "Problem is, I don't think some of them will even try to listen to him."

"How about this?" Shikamaru said as he looked at the table. "I know some of them will play underhanded tricks, so what if we did the same?"

"That's not a bad idea. It could pay off if we are careful." Toneri said with a thoughtful expression, "If we could reduce the numbers of the ones who really hate Naruto."

"That's tampering and its gets your soul extinguished at minimum." Minato warned them, "We should find a way to excuse Naruto's actions in that day."

"Hey what's going on?" Naruto's exhausted voice came from the doorway, "The Mother Club is so troublesome."

Naruto then stumbled in and his eyes scanned across the table and then asked, "What's going on?"

"We are representing you, as advocates in the summit." Shikamaru muttered as he lit a cigarette, "You really got into a troublesome situation, Naruto..."

"I know..." Naruto muttered before burying his face and groaned as he remembered the worst day of his life, "If only that day went differently..."

"Naruto, we all know the results..." Minato said with a grim face before asking, "But what did really happen in that day?"

"I bet most of those assholes who want me to pay just think I walked to the Divine Tree and harvested it, to get the Chakra Fruit." Naruto asked with a twitching and angry face before becoming calm, "But you all think otherwise?"

Naruto saw all the nods in the room, and his mind delved into the darkest day of his existence, "Actually, it's more complicated than that. It all started..."

Naruto just finished his tale and could feel the eyes on his room filled with horror and shock.

"Every moment when I see a reflection of myself," Naruto lamented with a broken voice, "I wonder which one is more human, me or the reflection... Black Zetsu really won that day, when he broke me and, in my mind, I can still hear his laugh when I choose wrong... In the end, it was my fault that I killed all of you."

Naruto then stood up and told to everyone in the room with a defeated voice, "This is what I will say in the summit. Everyone who died deserves to know how and why I did it. Do what you want with I just told you it doesn't change the fact I killed over five billion people..."

"He was that close to free us?" Shikamaru said with a shocked face, "And then all of that happened, and Naruto's hand was forced to kill all of us..."

Minato slammed his palm and in a trembling voice said, "Naruto just said it himself... If we use this on the summit, it could be his saving grace or the thing that dooms him."

"So, what do we do?" Toneri said as he looked around.

"I have an idea..." Shikamaru said with a grin as he lifted a Shogi piece and faced his father, "Let's play a game. I just want to confirm something."

-One Week Later-

"This is your first time joining us Naruto isn't it!" Hashirama said with a grin as he and Madara gave him identical shit-eating grins.

"Welcome to the best time of the year!" Madara said with a nod as he laughed and then told Sasuke who is at Naruto's side, "Hey Sasuke! Introduce Naruto to them!"

"I don't think that will be necessary!" laughed another voice, "I mean, he has inherited my chakra and is one of my descendants! I would be ashamed of not knowing your name, Uzumaki Naruto!"

"That is because our dad really spoke highly of you!" another voice said in an impressed tone, "And so did our dear uncle and grandmother."

Naruto turned around to see Indra and Asura Otsutsuki greeting him with a smile on their face before crashing their head on the grass with a sudden bow.

"THANK YOU!" Indra yelled at the top of his voice before sniffing, "Now me and my brother can finally get along after you and Sasuke accepted each other."

"Yes, what my brother said, Naruto!" Asura replied with manly tears, "We are forever in your debt!"

Naruto then looked at Sasuke who just rolled his eyes and told him, "They did this with me too."

Soon Naruto, Sasuke, Hashirama, Madara, Asura, and Indra were sitting around and drinking the sake from saucer cups.

"It's good to see you two getting along now," said Hashirama with a chuckle, "You two started fighting the moment you met each other in the Pure Lands. Glad your squabble is over and we are all at peace."

"It won't last long." snorted Madara and chucked. "They'll start arguing about something soon enough."

"I'm surprised you're not trying to start something, Madara," Naruto said, raising an eyebrow.

Madara shrugged. "I'm too old for that now. I'd rather just enjoy my drink and this beautiful scenery."

"That's a lie..." Indra said with a knowing grin. "I remember seeing a Blue Susanno fighting a wooden golem a couple of months ago."

"Okay, I was bored and goaded Hashirama into a light spar." Madara said with a chuckle before glaring at everyone, "Don't tell Mito, okay? She would ground Hashirama for months and I will miss him."

They all laughed and continued their drinking, arguing, and reminiscing about their lives and fights.

Asura then looked at his side and gulped, "Ah Grandma is not looking pleased right now."

Naruto then followed Asura's eyes and saw Hamura, and Hagaromo following their mother as she walked gracefully towards them.

"My sons, my grandsons, and my dear descendants." Kaguya said eloquently with a smile, "It's been too long since we sat together as a family."

She then sat and locked eyes with Naruto and her Byakugan activated as she narrowed her eyes.

"My dear boy, after all those warnings I gave you. You still did it." Said an irritated Kaguya before she growled out, "Why did you do it? I loved that planet so much I entrusted it to you, my dear descendants!"

"Now mom..." Hamura said with a soft and encouraging smile, "We all know Zetsu it the most to blame here."

"Yes..." Hagaromo said with a nod, "But we can no longer deal with him. It's out of our hands."

"See, he knows he holds a partial responsibility to what happened back then." Kaguya told her sons before giving Naruto a forgiving smile, "But I forgive this blonde fool descendant of mine...Because that is what mothers do! I am the Mother of Chakra... Mother of your clans! And I will always look out for my people in here."

"What about the summit?" Naruto asked them, "Can help me with my trial!"

"That's a complication..." Hamura said with an annoyed face, "We gave ourselves checks and rules to keep the balance of power."

"Only a great deal of injustice by the Summit can force us to break the laws we placed on ourselves." said Hagoromo with a careful voice.

"Besides we already have a plan for you and the summit if you are not found guilty." Kaguya said softly, "If you are found not guilty in the summit we are going to need to have a serious discussion Naruto."

-Nine Months Later-

Naruto stood in front of a crowd of people as they all just had nervous and sad expressions on their faces. They all spent time with him here, and he knew they all had his back and were supporting him in this trial.

He was already dressed in humble clothing and was waiting for himself to be escorted to the summit.

Of course there were some missing people, like his parents, Sasuke, Hashirama, Madara, Oden and Toki, Tama's Parents, Portgas D. Rouge, Hagaromo, Hamura, Indra, Ashura, Kaguya and a couple of other people who were already busy preparing for the summit. They already said there last possible

Naruto remembered his mother's sobs and his father consoling each other as they sat around the fireplace for possibly the last time together.

"This is the trail of gigaannum guys." A voice came from the Radio that was broadcasted "It's the talk of the Pure Lands! Many call him a monster, others call him a hero. But we all know his name. This man's infamous name is already gaining a massive cult from freaks. The man's name is Uzumaki Naruto!"

"Uzumaki..." Licita voice called out, "I am sorry, buts it's time for you to be escorted to the summit Naruto."

Naruto smiled sadly as he looked back at everyone and saw that many of them were on the verge of tears and told them with a comforting grin, "I may regret a lot of things... But I damn well never regret meeting or knowing you guys. No matter what happens in this trial... Can you please remember me for the person you once knew?"

Naruto then parted from the crowd and walked to a conflicted looking Licita and told her with a straight face, "Do it Licita, please don't make this harder than it already is."

Licita just nodded and Naruto saw a flash of light before he was cocooned in darkness, and he began to wait and closed his eyes for a moment.

Then something strange happened. Naruto stumbled and suddenly he felt like he was in multiple places at once ... He could feel the wintery cold of some place as winds and chilly gusts. In his mind, he also was standing on a large ship that was currently mostly empty apart from two people. In another place, his sense of hearing could hear distant drums and celebrations that sounded very familiar. But most of all, he could feel his body lying down on a strange, cold bed and within it, something churned.

Naruto then stood in the middle of a courtyard facing every face and person he knew in the Pure Lands, along with a couple of unrecognizable faces as a voice echoed,

"The Trial of Uzumaki Naruto Starts Now!"

OLD COMMENT

I have been seeing a lot of readers disliking this arc. Naruto in the Pure Lands…. I got DMs telling me to drop this Arc. The problem is i want write this but i really want to explore the afterlife and expand on what happened with Naruto and Toneri.

I cant drop this arc and pretend it never happened.

Also I can't just keep writing about a depressed and moody Naruto. I want Naruto to move on! I want him to be happy. The best way was this way. As for the afterlife, the pure lands and its judgment. It a complicated system. Ever heard of the saying. One man's hero is another mans villian.

Zabuza and every ninja were born into a world influenced and created by black zetsu. Ninjas aren't evil or good. they are morally grey as the novels really told us that most of them sought peace through war. and the Daimyo started most of the wars that involved ninjas

A/N: Updated

Thanks for all the support. It really helped and I will answer the Questions you have gave me in the reviews tomorrow. Next Chapter is coming soon. Are you all excited for Naruto trial? I made a little cameo for a character that is not a One Piece or Naruto/Boruto character can you guess who is it? Just like I said it will be. This is a Naruto focused chapter.

Naruto Trial in the summit has started. What will be Naruto fate? What happened in the darkest day of Naruto's life.

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