Author Note: Hello everyone I would first like to say that I apologize for the delay with this chapter.

Another reason depending on if this chapter is covering the next chapter of "Sky Fox" by Hussbek or something else means that I might have hit a slight bit of a block for the chapter. If it's the next chapter of Sky Fox then I managed to break the block…If its something else then the Block won this time. That being said in the event the Block won don't worry as I will get back to covering Sky Fox ASAP.

Kuro seeing that the group is ready to continue, snaps his fingers starting the next scene.

The Sky Fox

Chapter 1: Hitting a Reset Button for a New Life

"…Ugh," Naruto let out a groan as he sat up while rubbing his head to ease off the headache "That wasn't the first time I fell from a great height but it doesn't mean that it won't hurt the same though," he looked around to find himself in the middle of a forest where he could hear the sounds of animals echoing through the trees, a place he was more familiar with than the previous forest.

Naruto began to sweat and his face paled upon sensing the dread looming behind him "Just what is that supposed to mean young man" Kushina says with a tone of death upon hearing that her son has fallen from great heights multiple times.

Naruto gulped "Well there was one time when I fell from the Hokage Monument though to be fair it was more of a controlled jump. Then there was the time Ero-Sennin threw me off that cliff into that huge ravine with the massive spikes on the walls" he says in an attempt to divert his mothers wrath away from him.

Kushina's eyes glow red as she slowly turns her head towards a cowering Jiraiya "That's right I had forgot the worthless pervert did that…we will have WORDS about your actions later Jiraiya" she says in a deathly voice causing a number of the group to shiver while Jiraiya makes a mental note to update his will before the end of the scene they are watching.

This place is his mindscape where he usually meets Kurami within the seal. Originally it was a dreary sewer with a cage which Kurami would be behind with the kanji seal on it until he met her and changed it into the forest with animals and a mansion much to her joy. He got up from the ground and began to make his way to the mansion and talk about what's going on. He had finally reached his destination when he suddenly sensed something approaching quickly from behind and turned around just to be tackled to the ground by a red blur before feeling two soft mounds pressed against his chest, making him blush tomato red as he knew who had just tackled him.

"Kurami-chan, could you please get off? I'm finding it hard to breathe," said Naruto.

"Okay Naruto-kun, but you have no idea how worried I was," said Kurami as she got off for Naruto to sit up and take a good look at her.

She was a woman with fiery red hair that reached her waist with a single hair strand sticking out from the top in between her fox ears, she wears a red kimono with fox designs on it which fits her voluptuous figure with the cleavage of her DD-cup breasts peeking out and there's a hole for her nine tails to poke out freely.

Hearing some giggling the group turned to see Jiraiyra giggling as he wrote in his notebook only to freeze when said Toad Sage notices the staring…more specifically the absolute death glare coming from Kurama "I swear by the sage that if you do not cease writing about my counterpart I will fucking eat you alive, vomit you out, eat said vomit, shit you out, and then vaporize the remains with a Tailed Beast Bomb" the fox says in a deathly calm tone that damn near causes Jiraiya to have a heart attack.

"Okay ew I so didn't need that mental image" Ino says with her face twisted up in disgust.

"Oh piss off blondie I am a Fox which is part of the Canine family…Potentially eating vomit is nowhere near some of the grossest things I could do if I wanted" Kurama says with a roll of his eyes.

"Sorry if I worried you Kurami-chan, anyway I wanted to talk to you about our current situation right now. With what we've seen like those metal carriages, flying machines and other stuff, I'm getting the sinking feeling that we've ended up somewhere that is not on the map of the Elemental Nations," said Naruto.

"I'm afraid you're only half right Naruto-kun, it's not that we got blown into a different region but a different dimension," said Kurami.

Naruto looked shocked upon hearing what the vixen had just said "What? But how could that have happened?"

"It must have been that the differing chakras from the clash between you and the Uchiha that had resulted in tearing open a rift which you must have fallen into and we ended up here,"

"To be honest I am honestly surprised that shit didn't happen here as well with all the messed up chakra that you and the emo scum were throwing around in your fight" Kurama comments looking at Naruto with a deadpan for a moment.

"Is there any way for us to go back?" Naruto looked at her with hope in his eyes but was disheartened when he saw her shake her head sadly.

"Unless we recreate the clash of those two jutsus, we're stuck here and who knows if we would even return to our dimension if we can't control the rift,"

The whole place was silent for several minutes until it was finally broken by Naruto "So what do we do now? With no way to go back, how are we going to live in this dimension?"

"He could try being an artist" Choji says before eating more chips causing everyone to look at him "What? I thought his painting of the Hokage Monument was actually pretty good" he adds getting a sigh from Minato and a boisterous laugh from Kushina.

Kurami was deep in thought for a moment and she spoke up "You could ask Fabio-san for help, I'm sure he'll be willing to give us information about this new world and then we'll know where to go from there,"

"I'll do that, he seems like a nice guy. So I'll ask him when I wake up," Naruto, then he began to fade away from the mindscape which signifies that he's waking up in reality.

"Ah yes the old capitalizing on the rescued daughter trope trick…not bad" Jiraiya says while rubbing his chin in thought getting sighs from everyone else.

"This could also be a chance for a new life for you, Naruto-kun," said Kurami softly.

Naruto slowly opened his eyes only to squeeze them shut to block out the bright light which shone down on his face. He pulled the blanket off his body to see that he was wearing a white gown and looked around to see that he was in a white room with green curtains and could even smell the anesthetic in the air.

"Hospitals it always has to be hospitals" Naruto says with a disgusted look on his face at the scene.

"And just what is wrong with a hospital brat?" Tsunade asks with a twitching eye having taken some offense to the remark due to her also being the head of Konoha's Hospital in addition to being Hokage…despite how she has Shizune handle all the day to day stuff for the hospital.

"They suck! Everything is so blindingly white, most of the staff are rude or unhelpful due to being overworked or just hating their jobs, and don't even get me started on the nasty food!" Naruto lists off and by the end of his mini rant has Tsunade making some mental notes to make some big changes when they get back to Konoha.

"I guess I must be in a hospital ward, makes sense that I would end up here after what happened back in the forest," thought Naruto

Then he heard a sound beside him and turned to see a brown hair which he immediately recognized to be Sonia who rested her head beside his bed and was sleeping. He leaned over and shook her awake as she raised her head and let out a cute yawn. Sonia drowsily rubbed her eyes and looked around a bit before she saw Naruto smiling at her.

"Naruto! You're finally awake!" said Sonia as she happily hugged the blond "I have to go and let papa know!" then she ran out of the room before Naruto could say anything.

"...She is like a mini-Naruto" Tenten said blinking a couple of times at the sight before getting a series of laughs from others while Naruto just pouted at the remark.

"She sounded very happy to see me," thought Naruto.

"It's obvious, especially since you kept your promise to save her and her father," said Kurami.

Then the door open to reveal Sonia returning with her father Fabio who smiled upon seeing Naruto.

"It's good to see that you're finally awake Naruto," said Fabio.

Hearing this made Naruto quirk an eyebrow in confusion "What do you mean by that? How long was I out?"

"Ever since you fell from the helicopter, you had been unconscious for almost week. The doctor said you would have taken a month or more to recover, but it was a surprise when you recovered much quickly than he estimated,"

"Meh not the longest I have been out" Naruto says with a shrug as there were several times he had been unconscious for longer than a week.

"WHAT WAS THAT!" Kushina roared out in motherly fury at the thought of her baby being so injured he was unconscious for a week let alone longer than a week. Her display caused many of the group to cower in fear.

"Let's just say that it is a trait which I possess, since I always heal quickly from things like this," said Naruto.

"Is it one of your powers like the one where you can make copies of yourself?" Sonia asked curiously, which caught Fabio's attention as he recalled the surprise he had when he went to look for Sonia only to come upon her being surrounded by clones of the boy who offered to retrieve the IS core for him before disappearing in puffs of smoke when they saw him.

"Not exactly Sonia-chan, it's actually called a jutsu which can only be performed when I use the energy from within my body," said Naruto looking sheepish.

"And this is same knucklehead that somehow managed to paint the Hokage Monument in a bright orange jumpsuit in broad daylight, and also sneak into the Hokage Tower and steal the Forbidden Scroll…secrecy is not a common sense for him it seems" Asuma says with a deadpan look on his face.

"YOU DID WHAT!" the other Genin yelled looking at Naruto with wide eyes having not known he did the latter

"Well I have to say that I'm truly grateful for saving us as well as recovering the IS core. I'm sure your parents would be proud if they heard of what you did, which brings me to ask why a young boy like you is wondering around the forest alone instead of being with your parents?" asked Fabio.

"The thing is…I'm not from around here and I'm an orphan. My parents died to protect me from danger when I was just a baby," said Naruto while smiling sadly.

"Heh Kurama 2, Flasher/Tomato 0" Kurama says with a grin before a sandal collides with his head "Oi who threw that! I will fucking kill a bitch!" he roars out before another sandal hits him in the mouth before he spits it out "Yuck shoulda known it would be you tomato" he says as a barefoot Kushina walks over and grabs her sandals with a glare.

"I'm sorry Naruto-kun, it was my fault that you were alone all this time," said Kurami with her ears drooping and her tails falling limp on the ground.

"No it wasn't your fault Kurami, all of it was because of that Uchiha-Teme. And I wasn't truly alone…since you were there for me the most even if we met for the first time during the mission at the Nami no Kuni,"

"Oi can we trade this grumpy furball in for that version of him?" Kushina asks, looking at Kuro who had just opened a bag of beef jerky.

"Sorry, all sales are final" Kuro says with a deadpan look, popping a piece of jerky into his mouth and savoring the flavor while Kushina's shoulders just droop in disappointment.

"Naruto-kun…," Kurami says softly

"I apologize, I didn't mean to bring up bad memories, but what about your other relatives?" asked Fabio after apologizing.

"It's okay since you didn't know, and I don't know of any other relatives," said Naruto.

"If so then you could stay with us for the time being,"

Naruto's eyes widened in surprise at what he heard "A-are you sure? I don't want to be a bother,"

"Oh no, not at all. It's the least I could do for you, and I'm sure Sonia would like for you to stay and I would to introduce my wife to the one who helped saving her from the coma,"

At first Sonia was sad when she heard that her hero is an orphan and didn't know his parents unlike her but then started to jump for joy when her father offered for him to stay with them "Please Naruto, I really want you to stay with us so that you can see mama with me when she wakes up,"

"He is totally going to cave…girl brought out the puppy dog eyes" Ino says with a smirk already knowing whats going to happen and predicting that Sonia is going to have Naruto wrapped around her finger pretty quickly.

Naruto looked deep in thought but he was actually within his mindscape talking to Kurami.

"What do you think Kurami-chan?"

"You should accept it Naruto-kun, plus we could learn a lot of things with them and they're really nice people from what I've seen," said Kurami.

Naruto nodded before retreating to his consciousness, then he turned to Fabio and Sonia with a smile "I would like accept your offer if that's okay,"

Fabio smiled widely while Sonia hugged Naruto tightly out of sheer joy.

Several of the girls of the group 'Awwed' at the scene while several of the males of the group either snickered or silently poured one out for what was surely going to be another member of the 'Whipped' faction.

A few days later, Naruto was finally discharged from the hospital and moved in with Fabio and Sonia in their home at Sorrento. Due to his lack of knowledge about this new world, Fabio enrolled Naruto in an international school and transferred Sonia there as well much to his chagrin since he thought he would never have to go to school again since the ninja academy. At first he was put off but then started to have fun especially since things here are just as interesting as those in his old world. He excelled in his lessons and skipped a few grades thanks to his shadow clones secondary ability, something which Fabio envies him for.

"..Naruto not only enjoys but also excels at school…I wouldn't believe it if I wasn't seeing it" Sakura states with wide eyes at the scene. The sheer thought of any version of Naruto enjoying and excelling at school was nearly causing her mind to meltdown.

He also excelled in sports which was a piece of cake due to his ninja training which he continues to do and acquired several scholarships, however he ran into an issue called 'fangirls' who constantly pursued him because of his looks (For once he could sympathize with Sasuke on this one since he stand this throughout the academy) and guys try to bully him because of it due to jealousy but they had no idea who they were messing with. The next day, the students saw a few of their fellow classmates walking in with their hair dyed yellow and someone drew whiskers on their cheeks with a permanent marker, many parents reported to the teachers but they didn't have any solid evidence that it was Naruto much to their ire as the blond simply stood there with a golden halo hovering above his head before it was replaced with devil horns when they turned away.

"Naruto having a bunch of fangirls…Not sure if I should pity him or be jealous of him" Kiba states with a wide eyed stare before Kurenai bops him on the back of the head and shakes her head at his remark.

Life with the Salvatores was the best thing to happen to Naruto, Fabio was like a father to him just like Iruka and adopted his habit for inventions, and Sonia was like the little sister he never had while she saw him as her big brother who would always spend time with her. It got a whole lot better when Fabio's wife Maria Salvatore woke up from her coma after the operation, it was a tearful family reunion for the Salvatores and when she learnt about Naruto and how he rescued them from the mercenaries, she adopted him into the family right then and there and was quite the mother hen much to his embarrassment but he found it comforting since he never felt a mother's love before. So from then on, he was Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze Salvatore.

Kushina and Minato looked at the scene both fondly and sadly. They were glad that Naruto had a loving family but yet they were sad that they weren't able to be it for him.

Jiraiya meanwhile was niggling to himself off to the side catching the attention of Tsunade "What's so funny?" she asks.

Jiraiya manages to get his giggling under control before he answers "His name…think about his initials" the toad sage says before he starts chuckling again.

Tsunade thinks on it for a moment before sighing "Ugh grow up" she says with a shake of her head at her teammates immaturity.

***Time Skip***

Today Naruto was following Fabio to his facility called the Stellare enterprise, where Fabio and his team of scientists were building an IS to insert the core within it and then find a suitable pilot who would bring out its potential and represent Italy among the ranks of the world. Naruto had read quite a bit about the Infinite Stratos or IS for short, he read that it is a multiform suit that was originally designed to be operated in outer space but was halted and due to a treaty called 'The Alaska Treaty', the military is prohibited from using the IS and is rather used for competitions and sports. But the thing is…the IS can only be operated by women.

Kuro seeing the confused looks on the groups faces snapped his fingers bringing up a video screen showing various IS "Basically a scientist invented high-tech suits that were meant to be used for space stuff, only to now be used for sporting competitions, and they can only be piloted by women" he says giving a quick summary of the world.

"But why can only women pilot them?" Kiba asks with a raised eyebrow.

"No idea could have just been the creators choice, or maybe there is some big underlying reason?" Kuro says with a shrug as not even he knew why only women could pilot IS.

"No matter how many times I come here, this place still amazes me," said Naruto as he looked around and waved at some of the staff who waved back as they're familiar with him since he comes to the facility often, then he turned his attention back to his father "So tou-san, have you learnt anything new about the second core?"

A few days after being discharged from the hospital, Fabio told Naruto about how he found him holding another IS core with him which confused Naruto since he retrieved only one IS core, then Fabio theorized that maybe the IS core absorbed his chakra which resulted its creation and Kurami seconded that as she felt her chakra being drained into it. Naruto had told the Salvatores where he really came from but they still accepted him as part of the family, especially Sonia, and promised not to reveal it to anybody much to his surprise and then joy.

"Both the brats chakra and my chakra being absorbed into that thing…yeah that's going to end well" Kurama says with a roll of his eyes. While the rest of the group deadpanned at the fox's remark they had to admit he probably had a point.

Nothing new has been discovered, so far what my team and I know is that the second core is just as original as the other IS cores we've seen and there are no irregularities," said Fabio.

"Can I check it out? Not like I have anything to do right now,"

"Of course son take your time, I'll be over soon with my associates," Fabio took out a keycard and handed "it over to Naruto before walking away. Naruto pocketed the keycard and walked towards the research room while saying hello to the people working there. He soon reached a high tech door with a control panel next to it and cameras all around.

"Ever since the mercenary incident, they've really upped the security around here," thought Naruto.

"They don't want a second theft especially now that there are two cores," said Kurami.

"Given how close they were to the theft going much worse than it did that is an understatement" Minato says crossing his arms as he could tell without Naruto's interference things would have been much worse.

Naruto placed a hand on the scanner, followed by punching the access codes before taking out the keycard and swiping it on the slot. The control panel beeped a few times before displaying 'Access Granted' and the doors opened for him to pass through. Naruto entered to find himself in a white room where there is a pedestal at the center and the two IS cores were on top of it.

"To think that these are the hearts of potentially powerful suits," said Naruto as he stood before the pedestal and was looking at the cores. He reached to touch them but when his hands made contact, the cores suddenly glowed brightly and he felt a strange sensation course through his hands and into his brain before he could pull back.

"Nar…uto...wh…oing…on?! Some…happ…her…," Naruto could barely hear what Kurami is trying to say as his mind went black.

"Dun dun dunn" Kiba says in a deep voice causing everyone to turn to him with a deadpan look "What I thought it was fitting?" he says only to be hit in the face by several empty drink bottles from everyone before they turned their attention back to the scene.

He opened his eyes and looked around only to find himself standing in the middle of an unusually calm ocean with a cloudy blue sky over his head.

"Where am I?" Naruto could hear his voice echo as he spoke out. Suddenly he sensed someone from behind, then he quickly turned around and was about to drop into a fighting stance when he stopped upon seeing who it was…or rather who they were.

The first is a woman with pale skin and long red hair which reached her waist with one side held up by a black hairclip, she wears a high-collared, sleeveless blouse under a long loose-fitting dress with a wristband on her left wrist.

The other is a man with spiky blond hair like his own except his bangs reached his jaws, he wears the Konoha ninja uniform, a green flak jacket, blue forehead protector, and blue sandals. Over it he wears a short-sleeved long white haori which is decorated by red flame-like motifs on the edges with the kanji for 'Fourth hokage' written vertically down the back.

Naruto took a step back as he stared at them in disbelief, he knew who they were from the memories which Kurami showed to him. The woman let out a gasp when she saw him along with the man.

The group was speechless at the scene as they had no way to explain how Naruto was seemingly meeting his definitely dead parents.

"Naruto…is that really you?" that was what the woman asked.

"Yes it's me…Kaa-san," no sooner had he said that than a red blur tackled him into a tight hug, he felt his shirt becoming wet as he heard her sobbing which made him start to cry as well while the man approached the scene with a gentle smile.

"Kushina-chan, you're suffocating him," said the man.

Kushina pouted as the rest of the group started laughing or chuckling at this finding the scene rather amusing. The red head couldn't even defend her alternate versions actions as she would have done the same thing.

"You've grown so much and you look just like Minato-kun except your whisker marks make you look so cute," she broke from the bear hug and was looking at him with motherly care, something he felt from Maria, his surrogate mother.

"Thanks Kaa-san, Kurami-chan said I inherited my love for pranks and ramen from you," Naruto replied happily much to her glee "But how did you end up here?"

"When you made contact with the IS core while using Kurami-san's chakra. It drew in our chakra which we placed in the seal from it and duplicated itself for each," said Minato.

"Minato, how does placing your chakra in the seal result in there being a sentient construct of you and Kushina in said seal?" Jiraiya asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Honestly sensei?...I have no idea" Minato says with a shrug, causing Jiraiya to face fault at the answer.

"So you mean you're in the cores, that explains why Fabio-san and the others couldn't learn anything more,"

Then Minato had a look of sadness and regret "Naruto…I saw what the villagers did to you through the seal and I'm so sorry for sealing Kurami into you, Kushina warned me about what would have happened but I was too naïve to believe that they would ignore my wish to see you as a hero,"

"That's an understatement" Kushina mutters with a hiss causing Minato to flinch at his wife's barbs.

Naruto shook his head and smiled at his father "It's okay tou-san, I saw all that happened through Kurami's memories and understood why you did it. You entrusted Kurami to me because you believed in me, your own flesh and blood, and Kurami had been there for me when I was in trouble,"

"I'm so glad that Kurami-chan had been there to protect you all this time, especially from Sasuke. I still can't believe that Mikoto-chan's son would end up like that," said Kushina.

"So what happens now?" asked Naruto curiously.

"Well since you made a connection with us, that means you'll be able to use the IS we would be inserted into," said Minato after thinking deeply.

"What? But only women can use an IS and I'm a guy,"

"Hmm, given your counterparts ability to pilot an IS and how you did create that Sexy Jutsu of yours…Something you wanna admit Naruto?" Kakashi says with an eyesmile getting a few chuckles while Naruto pouts. Hinata however was blushing heavily as her mind conjured several not so family friendly images of her and a female Naruto. Unknown to her Anko was having several images in her mind as well that resulted in her giggling pervertedly causing Kurenai to sigh and facepalm at her friends antics.

"That would have been so if this had not happened, we'll be training you in our arts. Kushina-chan and I will teach you about seals, Kushina will be teaching you kenjutsu and I will be teaching you taijutsu among other things so I suggest that you and your surrogate father keep this a secret until you're ready,"

"Okay tou-san, kaa-san. I have to get going but I'll be sure to return," said Naruto as he slowly faded away.

"Come back soon sochi-kun," said Kushina while waving at Naruto who simply grinned like a fox.

Naruto opened his eyes and looked around to see that he was still in the containment room with his hands still on the cores.

"I guess time slows down there just like in my mindscape," thought Naruto.

Hearing this Naruto raised an eyebrow as he began to think of a couple things he could maybe try while in his mindscape next time.

Then he heard Kurami's voice in his mind "Naruto-kun! Are you okay? I felt our connection being severed when you touched the cores, did something happen?"

"Something did happen Kurami-chan," said Naruto with a smile, then he told her of his encounter with his parents within the cores, the vixen was happy that he got to meet them.

Later when Naruto and Fabio returned to their homes, he repeated what happened to his new family. They were surprised by all especially since this makes Naruto the first ever male IS pilot in the world, Fabio decided to train Naruto alongside his team of scientist. Although the Alaska treaty says that the owners of IS should always disclose their research to the world for all to see, Fabio made it look like they were searching for suitable IS pilots while continuing to build the IS before disclosing the info at a later time so as to give Naruto more time to train in his ninja arts while at the same time learning about the modern weapons like handguns, machineguns, rifles and rocket launchers.

Kuro snaps his fingers a couple times making pictures of said weapons pop up "Huh they kinda seem like the weapons that Jedi Naruto's men use" Choji says eating another bag of chips.

"Yep only instead of blaster bolts they fire solid projectiles" Kuro says before he vanishes the images and the scene resumes.

With the help of Fabio and his father, Naruto really got into inventing a lot of gadgets with some able to link him directly to the two IS and speak with them without having to go and touch the cores to speak with them.

Meanwhile with his parents, Kushina taught him her sword style known as the Whirlpool sword style which can make use of both single and dual blades something which he has a talent for much to her joy. Minato taught him his taijutsu called the Hummingbird style which is based on high speed strikes and counter attacks. But together they taught him about seals Naruto had quite a knack and even went to creating new seals due to his curious nature.

Seeing this Naruto began to think of maybe seeing if his mom could teach him how to use a sword while they were in this area before they had to leave. As if reading his mind Kushina put her hand on his shoulder causing him to turn to her and see her wide smile and nod.

Aside from all this, Naruto continues to spend time with the Salvatores and go to school like always while waiting for the right time to announce his presence to the world that a maelstrom is coming, not knowing that the time will come soon enough and is going to be a wild ride.

As the scene fades to black Kuro rolls his neck popping a few kinks in it "Well that's the scene now let's continue on to the next one shall we?" he says getting nods from the group.

End Chapter 10