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.


-Moby Dick-

Edward Newgate's sickness did not feel so bad today as he looked at his sons, heading into the island, as they dropped into the anchors and headed into the island that served their meeting spot between the crews allied to him.

Kaido's rampage across the new world had complicated a lot of things. Kaido's drunken rampage fuel by grief over his child's death went through his territory first, then the brat called Red Hair Shanks territory, he also knocked a Big Mom fleet off course into Red Hair territory.

Now usually Whitebeard will not let actions like this slide. But he understood where Kaido was coming from. The death of your own child was no simple thing to experience, and that drunk Oni Dragon had anger issues ever since he introduced to him Rocks.

His sons told him to take a rest and break as they would discuss the important details with the allied crews that composed his fleet. Not wanting to be left out of the conversation, Whitebeard treaded through the empty ship and into the direction of a plank that connected into the harbor.

"I am not alone on this ship…" Whitebeard thought before giving Ace a smug expression and told him, "Your sixteenth try?"

"Seventeenth!" Ace answered him as he attacked Whitebeard, intending to beat him with the training he just got from Thatch this morning.

These flame attacks were sharper and more focused than before, but they were filled with so much frustration and rage that whitebeard read them easily with his Observation Haki.

"What got you so angry?" Whitebeard said gruffly, with a hint of concern.

"The newspaper update on why Kaido rampage…" Ace grunted as he threw a blast of flames into Whitebeard's face that did nothing to him. "I knew his daughter! I just lost a friend, and I thought she lived, and it turns she died with him!"

Ace then just caught himself before glaring at Whitebeard. "Don't try to be nice to me! I am trying to kill you!"

"What about your friend vivre card?" asked Whitebeard causally before giving Ace a questioning eyebrow.

"I don't know…" Ace said before attacking Whitebeard with his flames, only for the old man to blow toward Ace's flames and snuffed them out with his breath alone, as if they were candles.

Whitebeard then looked at the jar in the middle of the deck. The jar that held the blue flame that within it had reforming vivre card that was someone Ace knew.

Whitebeard then realizes that Ace's flames had grown strong enough to burn the hair on his skin and grinned before whacking the boy with the butt of his Meito pole arm.

Ace rolled on the wooden planks in pain, clutching the swollen bump on his head and swearing at him. "Fucking Geezer … that hurts!"

"Come on… I can do this all day!" Whitebeard just said with a huge smirk before his eyes narrowed at the vivre card and muttered something under his breath.


-Pure Lands: The Summit-

Naruto kept a stony expression as the list of charges that were read out against out him and then stared at his parents who were sitting next to Uzumaki Mito. It looked all the people on his side and hoping for his acquittal were looking stressed and worried as they heard the list of charges.

Uzumaki Naruto then whispered to Shikaku, "I know you guys have planned for this… but it is not looking so good for me right now."

The scar faced Nara, then opened his mouth and whispered something that Naruto did not catch as suddenly a buzzing noise filled Naruto's ears. In an instant, the noise was gone.

"Sorry, I didn't catch that. What did you say?" Naruto asked Shikaku with a frown before the surrounding court disappeared for an instant, replaced by a familiar fireplace and facing someone who had a surprised expression. Then he was back in the court. Naruto's eyes immediately widened and stared at the place where the man he just saw sat. The man had a face he had seen a while back.

"-worry we got this…" Shikaku says quietly before catching the look on Naruto face, "Something wrong?"

"It's nothing…" Naruto brushed him off before looking at his other side and muttered, "Inoichi-san, I know what I am going to say and what is the plan. But are you sure this opening move is going to be the best option?"

"It's better to start with an outsider perspective…" started Shikamaru, "Toneri-san memories could bring a firm foundation of your defense."

"So, we are starting with Toneri time with me?" Naruto said with an annoyed expression and reminded them, "He died before I committed to genocide…"

"But it could help us build an establishment and a connection to the people who will judge you…" Inoichi said with a shake of his head, "Understand this Naruto, your allies don't matter in this fight, it those who hold grudges and contempt against you. The ones who call you-"

"I know, and I hate that title!" Naruto said with a sigh as he gritted his teeth and then looked at Toneri and told him, "You must not show them that."

Toneri snorted before shaking his head and said to him, "I understand, and I agree that memory is off limits."

"What are you talking about?" Shikamaru asked Naruto.

"A moment of weakness from me…" Naruto told him with a frown, "Toneri was there, and he alone understands the context for it."

Naruto then nodded before he catches an unfamiliar voice among the mutters and looks at a short man wearing a crown and the strange clothing of aristocratic that existed out the Elemental Continents, "He feels and looks different from I expected, from what I heard of others from his world say, I thought he was a devil."

"Devils don't have souls capable of reaching the afterlife, they are creatures born out of malice and stay in the underworld and they can only be brought to our world by opening a channel…" Naruto heard a tall and thin man with yellow eyes and pointed ears sat, "Even if they are killed, they reincarnate in the underworld into another devil…"

"You are right…" said the short man with a crown, "I think we should witness this trial before we judge him."

A bell rang out, silencing the mutters, "This trial purpose is to deem if Uzumaki Naruto's sins are his own and decide if he should have to be punished for them."

"What you mean deciding if he is going to be punished!?" an angry voice roared, "If he is guilty, we punish him!"

"You are playing favorites! If he wasn't even from that bloodline, you would have already thrown him into the Lost Paradise!" another voice shouted.

"This trial is farce and a dishonor to other judgments we have passed…"

"Shut it!" Oden voice from before him called out, "The court also offers mercy for those who really mean it and those who deserve it…"

"Mercy Is given to those who mean, and you have to have people standing for you! Who do you think among us is going to stand for this… Kin slayer?!" said a man in a fur cloak glaring at Naruto with a look of disgust, "He killed all of his close ones, friends, and humans from our world! Also, his friends and family members may not stand for him, None can! It's one agreement that allowed this trial for other worlds to judge him."

"Oh, we know that!" Uchiha Fugaku voice snapped at them, "We agreed to those terms, you ungrateful buffoon."

"That's enough…" Hamura's voice rang out as he tried to quell the arguments. "This court is not meant for squabbles!"

It went unnoticed, and Hagaromo frowned and tapped the floor with his shakujo staff.

"Are you disrespecting my court?"

All dissents and protests were silenced as Kaguya's cold voice cut in.

"If you have any problem with this court in this afterlife." "You should be reminded what was happening here before my sons took over and established rules in here."

"I apologize, Kaguya-sama…" a quiet voice came out. "Your son's establishment and ruling were a gift for us. They were our salvation."

"What are they are talking about?" Naruto asked Shikamaru with a confused look, "Is there something I am missing?"

"It's a secret… Only those who are sworn in the courts know." Shikaku said to Naruto, "If you survive this trial and be sworn, you will be told about the secrets of the Pure Lands."

Toneri then walked up the middle of the circular court and stated, "My name is Otsutsuki Toneri. I am the last member of the Otsutsuki Clan branch that lived on the moon, protecting and upholding our ancestor Hamura teachings."

"What is your relationship with this accursed person!" a voice growled at Toneri.

Toneri chuckled at the question, "He was a person I hated and had anger towards to for a moment, then he became my best friend till the day I died."


-Seven Years Ago-

-Konoha Cemetery-

Naruto stood in front of a row of graves, some freshly buried, and others freshly dug. Some had tombstones, others didn't. Looking back at Toneri, who looked shocked and horrified at the name on the gravestone.

"She is here…" Naruto muttered with a tired voice as he read the inscription of Hyuga Hinata grave, "Another person I failed to save…"

"What happened?" Toneri whispered as his closed eyes suddenly stare at Naruto as if they could see him, "How… did she… die?"

"Hey Naruto…" Kurama's voice echoed in his mind, "I am sensing a lot of anger and anguish from him. I think is a person belonging to Hamura's bloodline. The old man told me that his brother was on the moon, guarding their ten tails unpowered husk, the Gedō Mazō."

"I killed her…" Naruto said softly as he looked at the sword that once belonged to Sasuke strapped to his side, "I drove this blade directly at heart."

Immediately Toneri's fingers were inches from his face and Naruto intercepted the attack by grasping them and then narrowly dodged the kick from Toneri, aimed for his neck.

Springing back, Naruto created distance from the enraged Toneri and sighed at his enraged expression, "So you intend to kill me…"

"Of course, I do!" Toneri said with a livid face, "This madness on this planet, the people in the cocoons, is it all you're doing?"

"Well, I could take a share of the blame of what happened here…" Naruto mumbled sadly before his face becoming serious as he sensed the chakra leaking from Toneri.

"His reserves are way beyond any average Kage!" Naruto thought as he saw Toneri shift his body to a stance, "And the strength of his chakra- FUCK HE IS HERE!"

Naruto immediately bolted away from the Konoha memorial, and the surroundings began to blur as he began to pick speed as he bounded from tree to tree.

"Not fast enough…" Naruto thought as he sensed the distance between his greatest adversary before looking behind himself and raise his eyebrow at Toneri who was gaining ground with every step.

"Well…" Naruto muttered before Kurama Chakra filled his body and he combined it with the Six Paths Sage Mode that he was gifted by Hagoromo, and he jumped into the air before flying through it with tremendous speed.

With a couple of seconds of flight, he reached his distance and hovered in the air. His eyes locked on the person approaching the divine tree.

The person froze mid step and glanced upwards towards and grinned before he swung his arms and the air in front of Naruto cracked as a Space-Time Rift opened. And a horde of White Zetsu exploded out of it.

Naruto pulled himself away from them and watched a couple of hundred emerge from the rift that he was hovering at and fall to the ground. There, their white malleable flesh began to merge and fuse into one.

A towering monstrosity of White Zetsu's forming one body what he was facing today… Naruto just attached one of the black malleable chakra orbs to the center of this alignment of White Zetsu.

In an instant, the Truth-Seeking Orb expanded, and the hundred White Zetsu fused into one were gone. Obliterated by the Truth-Seeking Orbs, which broke down matter and flesh in an instant even if he did not apply Yin-Yang release wasn't on them.

"That won't work on me…" Black Zetsu said smugly as he grinned as the body, coated with his black body, peeled away at the face of Uchiha Madara, the dead body opened its eyes to reveal purple ripples that was the Rinnegan, "This body still has traces of Six Paths Power and my Mother Power! LIMBO: BORDER JAIL!"

His Truth-Seeking Orbs instinctively formed into a bo staff and he infused it with Yin-Yang Release before swinging it at the only shadow he sensed that existed in the world of Limbo.

Naruto had done this dance more than dozens of times, and each time he came close to Black Zetsu, the bastard had escaped into another of his mother dimensions.

Suddenly Toneri burst into the valley, his empty eye sockets looking at the two of them with confusion and

"Who is this?" Black Zetsu asked Naruto with a perplexed expression. "He doesn't have a Rinnegan, so how he could have escaped the Infinite Tsukuyomi!"

Naruto took the distraction and then discreetly opened his palm to form a Rasengun while Black Zetsu remained distracted.

"What is going on here?" Toneri asked with gritted teeth, "There are gigantic roots slowly gathering chakra into one location."

"It's not just chakra, it's absorbing huge amounts of natural energy and converting it to chakra." Naruto informed Toneri as he looked at the tree that towered above mountains, "The Divine Tree rate of absorption of natural energy is more than the earth generates natural energy. In a couple of years, this planet is going to be done for unless I destroy it."

"Too bad you can't!" gloated Black Zetsu with a gleeful face, "Everyday more people are becoming closer to transform to Zetsu's! The Divine Tree will devour all life on this planet!"

"Hamura-sama visited my dreams briefly," Toneri's face turned into one of horror as he registered these words, "I did not understand what he meant…Now I know why!"

There was a blur in the air, and Toneri was surrounded by people heavily clothed and wearing a black bandana that had a crescent of the moon. Orbs of chakra formed in their hands, and they fired the blast of chakra of towards Black Zetsu.

Miniature explosions cracked and shattered the surface of the ground, with tremors and shockwaves as Black Zetsu dodged them, before becoming serious as he saw the hail of orbs of chakra coming towards him, and he just vanished from the spot.

"Where…" Toneri said with a surprised face, unaware a black rift in the air was forming behind him.

Naruto said as he sent a blast of wind from his palm reflecting the All Killing Ash Bones that was aimed for Toneri back and hit one of the clothed people. It immediately crumbled to ashes. Toneri's shocked face turned into a grateful one as he glanced at Naruto.

"Uzumaki, you may have slowed it down…" Black Zetsu unembodied voice echoed from the rift, "But mercy killing those shinobi trapped in the cocoons is just delaying the inevitable."

With a laugh the rift closed, and Naruto let an frustrated roar and just punched the nearest rock formation in anger, and it shattered.

"Calm down…" Shukaku told him with an irritated voice, "I am trying to sle- Oh he got away again, didn't he?"

"How does he keep doing it? Currently, the closer you are to the Divine Tree trunk, the more hard to use Ninjutsu…" Naruto complained before he took a deep breath before entering his mindscape to face the Tailed beasts, "Space-Time Ninjutsu is even harder! The amount of mass and chakra in that tree is even warping the curvature of space- time! Look, even if I am careful, a small bit of my chakra still escapes from my body to the tree!"

"Circumstances are different this time…" Kurama said as he sighed, "The earth and its population had amassed a tremendous amount of chakra, life force and genetic information compared to last time. Remember, humans never had chakra until the old man shared it out."

"Naruto, where are your manners?" Matatabi said to him with a scornful meow as her two fiery tails swished, "You have a handsome lad waiting for you outside and he is not leaving without answers. "

Naruto left his mindscape and found himself back in reality, surrounded by a hundred of Toneri's people. Each of them had their both hands glowing with orbs of chakra aimed at him. Wait-

"Are those puppets?" Naruto asked Toneri with a confused look as he inspected the small army of hundreds lead by Toneri.

There were no chakra strings attached to their bodies, but there was the sound of creaking gear and joints. Also, there wasn't the sound of breathing and heartbeats from any of them.

"I will ask the questions!" Toneri snapped at him with an enraged face, "What the hell happened here?"


-Pure Lands: The Summit-

"When I first Uzumaki Naruto…" Toneri said in a somber voice, "I learned that he killed the love of my life."

These words brought a mixture of silent reactions in the courtroom.

"What I felt was something I never experienced…" Toneri said with a somber tone before he looked at Naruto and then Hinata who was in the crowd in the summit, "I wanted to kill him right on the spot, but he headed to battle immediately against Black Zetsu."

Naruto just nodded before giving Toneri an encouraging look as he continued his testimony.

"During the fight he saved my life, even if he there was no merit for him." Toneri said with a pleased voice and then his tone shifted, and his face became serious, "Then I asked him on what happened here."

Naruto remembered what happened as he told Toneri about the circumstances behind Hinata's death.


-Seven Years Ago-

Naruto just finished explaining what happened. His Life being a Jinchūriki, the shinobi system, The Great Fourth Shinobi War, The Ten Tails, Kaguya resurrection and departer to the Pure Lands along with the rest of the Kage and her son. Sasuke death at the hands of black Zetsu.

"So, you see when Sasuke died…" Naruto said with an exhausted voice as he looked at Toneri, "There was nothing I can do to undo this nightmare."

"This does not explain Hinata's death!" Toneri growled in anger, "You drove a sword right into her heart, why? She was your friend!"

"Because it was the only way to free her and save her from being turned!" Naruto's voice cracked with the anguish in him. "It was the only way to save her soul from a fate worse than death! It was the only way to save the other's soul, too!"

"What do you mean?" Toneri said in a shocked voice before his army of puppets lowered their hands.

Naruto then pointed at the remanent corpse of the white flesh that was a monstrous clump of White Zetsu's, "Do you know what those are?"

"No… but they kind of look like humans." Toneri said with a concerned, "And all of them have identical faces."

"These were once humans trapped in the Divine Tree…" Naruto informed him with a grimace as Toneri's face became shocked, "They were once humans, they died while tethered to the Divine Tree."

"That tree made sure that death is not the end for them in this world! Their souls were trapped in the cocoons and then their identity, memories, and soul were drained completely by the Divine Tree." Naruto said as he explained the unholy process, "And what is left of the body is a husk that is transformed into a White Zetsu, and their kind gets stronger, the longer they live attached to the Divine Tree."

"So, you killed her to save her?" Toneri said as his face became pained and regretful at what Naruto was forced to.

"Yes, I killed Hinata, and many people when I felt their death was approaching in these cocoons." Naruto confirmed Toneri's thoughts as he began to climb a divine tree branch unsheathed his sword and punctured it through a cocoon, "I killed them before the Divine Tree claimed them, so they won't be trapped and drained of what makes who they are. I had to save them from a fate worse than death."

"So it was for the greater good…" Toneri said as he saw the stabbed cocoon crumble to pieces and Naruto catches the dying child within it whose eyelids fluttered, unaware that they were dying within seconds. Naruto closed his eyes and sighed before laying down beside him on the hard earth.

Toneri stared at the dead young girl on the floor before he began to walk away from Naruto with conflicted feelings.

"I tried! I tried so fucking hard!" Toneri heard Naruto vehemently growl at him, "There is no other way to save them! It's something I have to do even though I don't want to!"


-Pure Lands: The Summit-

Toneri then eyes blazed as he stared at all the in the summit and challenged all those who doubted Naruto's legitimacy among themselves.

"Uzumaki Naruto is a fucking hero…" Toneri announced as he looked at all in the room, "He went beyond his duties and responsibilities, when most will have killed themselves! He may be flawed, but he never deserves this! A sham trial where many want him punished with the Lost Paradise… I partially saw the future that never happened, and I showed it to him! He brought and leaded an era of peace. Daimyo, and nation leaders' squabbles, stopped even nations in distant continents knew his name and refused to start or renew wars."

Naruto looked at Toneri with surprise and then remembered his time in the Otsutsuki colony on the moon. He kind of forgotten about that during his time here in the pure lands.

Shikaku then looked at Inoichi, who then projected Toneri memories for everyone to see.

Toneri then showed them his memories and Naruto watched them along with everyone.


-Seven Years Ago-

Toneri stood in the castle that once belonged to the main family, surrounded by the puppets powered by the Tenseigan Energy Vessel. He felt so lonely after his father died two years ago. Tradition made him grieve for an entire sun cycle. Now he was the last of his kind. This tradition is going to go extinct.

"Hinata is dead…" Toneri thought with deep grief.

He then looked at the puppet, and requested, "Please give me all Hamura Writings, and anything related about the Tenseigan, it doesn't matter if it is about the Doujutsu or the energy vessel, and also find anything about the Divine Tree and hand it for me."

The puppet gave him a series of clicks and chittering before zooming away to fulfill his orders.

Toneri's gaze shifted towards the hollowed section of the moon's interior. By building the Tenseigan Energy Vessel at the center of the moon, the clan could create a miniature ecosystem on the interior surface, including oceans, mountains, forests, and even animals. The interior was at least as big as a small country. Several villages were built across the landscape, which were abandoned as the Ōtsutsuki's population dwindled over centuries. After his father died, he was the sole survivor of his clan.

Toneri began to retrace his memories to what lead up to this point.

He begged for human companionship; he asked for people that were his age from his father. As the surrounding puppets made poor company. His father appeased him by sometimes taking him to Konoha to observe members of the Hyūga clan from afar.

Because his eyes were taken from him as an infant, Toneri instead observes his surroundings by sensing with his chakra using it as a sonar, a faster and more detailed way of taking in the world, his own father was so skilled with technique that he can watch events on Earth from the Moon.

He remembered what he saw as a kid at the Hyuga compound, though sensing; a rough outline of a girl that looks pretty. Her chakra felt gentler than the stream they had on the moon.

"Hey Dad…. Who is she?" Toneri recalled asking his father this, "She is beautiful…"

"Maybe you should take her as your bride one day…" His father teased him, and he remembered him feeling embarrassed and flushed as he then avoided looking at Hinata for the rest of the day. But the next time they came, he couldn't help it. He watched her pick the flowers, which she will press that day.

They revisited earth and watched the Hyuga clan compound for a couple of years. Until his father fell ill and wasted away for years. Toneri cared for his father for years, but the illness that claimed all of his clan members before them had killed his father.

He remembered his father's words on his deathbed that still made him.

"Being alone will be bad for you! I am so sorry that I cannot see you grow up and raise a family…" His dad then coughed and wheezed as death inched closer than his voice became weaker, "Toneri… Go live on earth, abandon Hamura decree, make friends there! Live for your own sake,"

And those were the last words his father said before he slipped into a coma and passed away the next week. He grieved for a full sun cycle and looked at the earth, wondering why it felt emptier than before.

Hamura Celestial decree was forbidden to be seen by those who have not reached adulthood. Once he reached of age and learned that Hamura's celestial decree was to destroy the planet to punish mankind if they abused chakra and used it to wage wars. He intended to do that only he was stopped by Hamura's ghostly spirit alongside his deceased clansmen telling him that his will and degree have been misinterpreted before fading away, and telling him to go visit the earth.

Toneri then remembered following his father's advice and traveled to the Hyuga compound only to find it devoid of life. There was nothing living in Konoha, except a single man in the red building that had the kanji for fire.

Taking a step closer, he realized it was Naruto. The man who once Hinata always secretly followed when he was a boy. Signs of weariness and exhaustion were etched in his face, and it was twitching from what seemed to be nightmares.

Toneri then remembered using the technique that his deceased mother once used to soothe his nightmares, entering someone's dream. He closed his eyes and surged his chakra.

He was in a dark place that suddenly transformed into an apartment, behind Naruto, who was slouched next to the window, the moon enlightening their faces as its light peeked to greet them. Toneri then slid his hand carefully to stroke Naruto's hair.

Still drowsy, the blonde realized this wasn't his actual room, as his head wasn't lying in his pillow and the hand that caressed his hair felt real, and the moon seemed to be unfamiliar to him. His hands grabbed handfuls of the foreign white cloth he laid in, realizing how tired his body was.

"What?" Naruto said in an exhausted voice, as his head turned lazily to look up. His tired eyes wandering across Toneri's face, too tired to notice or understand what was happening.

"It's okay, Naruto. Just sleep…" Toneri said softly.

"Who are you?" Toneri remembered Naruto asking him, still confused by the situation but not really alarmed, and the dream shattered, and they were back in the Hokage Office.

Naruto woke up with a start and found himself next to the guy who was in his dream. Immediately Naruto swung a chokuto which Toneri dodged gracefully. He then introduced him and asked about Hinata's whereabouts.

Toneri remembered the tense expression that flashed across Naruto's face before his eyes became filled with sadness. He then took him to a row of graves and stood in front of one that was not buried long ago and kneeled at eye and explained the circumstances of her death, and Toneri blamed him immediately.

He wanted to kill Uzumaki Naruto for a brief while, until he saw the fight between Naruto and the being called Black Zetsu, and realized something was off. After the fight, Naruto explained to him what really happened and how his hand was forced to save her soul.

Toneri didn't blame Naruto anymore, he blamed himself. He should have been here to help in the war to save the humans, the Tenseigan energy vessel that his clan built over the centuries helped humans on the earth when the time came.

Now alone and standing at the end of everything, Toneri wept for a love that will never be fulfilled, and as his heart gnawed for Hinata, he scoured the entire library for a way to bring her back.

For three weeks, he tried to find a way before he left the castle and felt lonely. He then exits the colony and walks on the moon's outer surface, feeling the stars he loved blinking far, and held back his sobs as he remembered his father. After a while standing there, he made his mind up. He then grabbed a knife and aimed it at his heart, then drove it in.

Only for it to be intercepted by Naruto, who came from out of nowhere.

They both tumble around the low gravity on the moon, and the knife bounced away. For a moment, both of them laid side by side panting. One by shock, and the other by exhaustion.

"How did you get here?" Toneri asked as his empty eye sockets stared at Naruto with shock.

"I flew…" Naruto said as he stared at the stars glittering above in the vast emptiness of space, "I flew all the way to here, I had to hold my breath for a while when I left the earth atmosphere.…"

Toneri then gave him a chuckle that turned into full-blown laughter. "You flew all the way through that? Just to stop me from killing myself?"

"What if I did!" Naruto snapped at him, "I don't want to be left alone on that planet, fighting till the day I die and win. You are here… you gave me hope of finding someone I can save. Even if it is selfish of me, I want you to stay alive."

Toneri mused over these words, then remembered his father last words before he let out a laugh, grasped Naruto and pulled him up before leading him to the colony below the moon surface.


-Two Weeks Later-

One day when Naruto was on earth, Toneri comes across a dusty old book in the castle library and learns something peculiar about the Tenseigan Energy Vessel that was hidden from the branch family. Despite their blindness since their birth, the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon developed a way of reading and writing through sensing and chakra.

Taking the mechanical device towards the Hamura shrine, he reached for the yellow sphere that powered everything in the moon, the mechanical contraptions, the puppets.

He then aligned the rings around the sphere to a certain angle, and then the entire room became charged with a distinct feeling.

"Just as it was said…" Toneri thought as he looked the yellow sphere turn into a blue sphere with a large yellow petal trace glowing over the sphere. He touched its surface and visions began to pummel his mind.

He saw himself calling out Hiashi Hinata's father about the future of the clan, and then trapping him in a cave, and then using the energy vessel to bring the doom of humanity by controlling the moon's orbit to come closer to earth. The next vision of him was kidnapping Hanabi and taking her eyes for yourself. Toneri saw his other self, sending an army of puppets to kidnap Hinata if they fail it would be a message. Naruto stops and destroys those puppets and saves Hinata. He saw himself enjoying his new eyesight; the feeling was much better than sensing his surroundings.

Witnessing the following events, Toneri saw the vision showing him watching the earth from afar on the moon. He saw the mission to save Hanabi. Hinata had joined to save her own sister once they reached the lake portal. He watched everything, and it made his stomach sick as he watched his horrible actions and hypocrisy.

"This is not me…" Toneri thought in self-disgust as he looked at his other self who was bargaining Hanabi's life for Hinata marriage. He watched Hinata and Naruto became closer, and Naruto realize his own feelings towards woman girl that once followed him discreetly all the time since his childhood. Toneri then saw himself scoring a win against Naruto and sent him crashing down into the earth. He then saw himself with Hinata, and it did not feel pleasant with the way he interacted and treated her.

It seemed in this vision he had such a simple view of "good" and "evil", as the puppets couldn't challenge him to develop better critical thinking skills. Naruto did it for him throughout this year, and seeing this Toneri's misguided actions filled him with sadness and disgust, even if this version of himself was only doing what he believes is right. It seems spending so long with obedient puppets has rendered the Toneri he was seeing could not consider others' views or desires.

Fortunately, his plan was averted by Naruto and his group, who saved Hinata and Hanabi. Naruto then beat him with a single punch. Not giving up his other self did something reckless that nearly killed himself if Naruto did not save him. Hinata then showed the Toneri in the vison the Ōtsutsuki clan's underground cemetery and the site of Hamura's soul, and Toneri in the vision blames himself for ignoring his father's instructions.

Seeing what he had done, the vison Toneri apologizes for his actions and stays on the moon to atone for his sins, despite Hinata and Naruto offering him a place on Earth. The Naruto in the vision tries to convince Toneri to join them, fulfilling his father's request at long last, but the vison Toneri declines so that he can atone for his actions.

"The moon should never approach the earth again…" the vison Toneri told Hinata with a shake of his head as she left. Realizing Naruto was the only person for her. If he loved Hinata, he should let her be happy.

Toneri then looked at the other version of Toneri, who was becoming more concerned as the years went by as if he was awaiting something. The other version of Toneri smiled as he heard a young baby cry. The boy looked a lot like his father and his mother.

Toneri then felt a shoulder pull him back, and he was in Hamura temple again next to the glowing, his nostrils mouth heavily bleeding and Naruto looking at him with a concerned face.

"I was looking for you for three days…" Naruto said before hugging him and then, "Are you okay?"

"Yes…" Toneri lied as he looked at Naruto and smiled despite the exhaustion filling his body, "Can you help me back to my bed, I want to sleep…. How are things back on earth?"

"The same…" Naruto said with a shake of his head, "I went to the distant continent. Some places there had empty cocoons. There are no signs of the people that escaped them, or how they escaped. They disappeared just like that, and I know they did not turn into White Zetsu's. The Land of Snow was like that too."

"Does someone have access to a space-time Ninjutsu?" Toneri said with a questioning glance, "Did they escape from the Infinite Tsukuyomi light by going to another dimension when it happened and began to send some trapped in the Infinite Tsukuyomi to another dimension?"

"Kurama says it's possible…" Naruto informed him before he shook his head, "But Space-Time Ninjutsu are really rare! And they take a tremendous amount of chakra to use. The chances of someone using it like this is naught zero."

Naruto then just looked up at Toneri with worried eyes, "The only one I know who fits this criterion is Black Zetsu…"

Naruto then glanced at the book that Toneri dropped on the floor, and looked over it before saying, "Old fashioned kanji sucks, I can barely read it."

"I never seen you read anything?" Toneri said before chuckling, "I suppose it expected, your brain hates it!"

"Hey… I have a mental Library, here!" Naruto taps the brain and then shows him the seal on his left hand, "Any book or Scroll I seal in here is destroyed and then replicated in my mindscape! I was sorting a lot of things in there!"

"I see that's how you seem to know every dead person's name…" Toneri mutters before nodding, "You sealed the government archives into your mind."

"Yes, I did… I sealed nearly all government documents and archives on this planet into a library in my mind," Naruto said with a grin before puffing his chest proudly, "This is a valued Uzumaki Seal so physical documents are not stolen, there is another seal that can expel the documents out your mind and back into physical reality but it's tricker,"

"It's a good seal for you to use in the castle library when I am dead…" Toneri muttered under his breath.

"What did you say?" Naruto asked with a carefree grin, unaware of what Toneri said to himself.

"Nothing Naruto…" Toneri said with a sad smile before looking at him and the Energy Vessel, "Hey can I try something with you and the Tenseigan vessel?"

"I thought outsiders were forbidden from touching it?" Naruto said to him with a frown, "I mean the Curse Jutsu on Tenseigan-"

"This was always meant for a gift for humans to use on earth…" Toneri informed him with a smile, "I learned something it from now. I want to see if you can learn something different."

Toneri flowed his chakra into Naruto and then told him, "Touch it…"

Naruto did just that and there was a flash and bang and Toneri caught fragmental visions in his mind that blurred too quickly for him to understand, as Naruto twitched and grunted before releasing his hold on it before stumbling backwards.

"Well, yours was faster…" Toneri said to Naruto, who looked shellshocked by something, "What did you see?"

"I had a family in there…" Naruto said with a broken laugh and a hint of anger in his eyes, "We fought over Hinata. I married her, had a daughter and a son, Himawari and Boruto. Became Hokage and a dad who was barely around due to my Hokage duties. I can't remember the rest but, I think I adopted a kid called Kawaki? What did I see?"

"Another timeline…" Toneri said with a shake of his head, "I thought there could solve our problem."


-Nine Months Later-

Toneri noticed in the last couple of weeks that Naruto noticed that he was getting frailer and sicker. The sickness that claimed his father's life and the rest of his clan had come much earlier than he expected.

"Toneri, you look rough…" Naruto told him with a worried voice as he saw him reading a scroll, "Take a break and sleep."

"It's fine…" Toneri replied and told him and sensed what was meticulously, "Everyone in my clan got like this at sometime of our life it will go,…"

Naruto did not buy it and pressed on further, "There is something you are not telling me."

"Yes…" Toneri said with a nod as he scanned the words he saw on the scrolls with sense, "But I will tell it you later."

Once Naruto left, Toneri came across a book describing a weird ritual the main clan did to celebrate the Rinne festival, a time when the Shrine was the closest to the castle. He then noticed a recorded celestial event and its effect on the ritual.

"If we do this…" Toneri thought as he learned the ritual purpose and then a sudden idea stuck him as his mind began to connect the dots, "That's it! I think I found a way! But I have to make sure it works before I show it to Naruto!"

He then let out a choked hack and spat the blood and bile from his throat and gave a disgruntled face.

"I am dying…" Toneri muttered with a worried expression on his face before looking at his extensive research and then ordered a puppet, "Listen, when I die… you will pass everything to Naruto. The instructions on how to control the Tenseigan and the Tenseigan itself. Your bodies will serve and everything this clan posses belongs to him once I die."

The puppet let out a chatter as it recognized the order, and then left.

Toneri then took a scroll out and traced his finger on it, and used his chakra and finger to write a letter to Naruto id the worst happened.


-Two Weeks Later-

Toneri was lying on a medical cot, having spent the last week bedridden and Naruto taking care of him.

Looking at Naruto, he handed him the letter. "Read it when I am gone. Promise me that!"

"I promise you that," Naruto said in a stiff voice as he closed his pained eyes, "The sickness isn't the major cause of your death. It's your heartbreak over Hinata's death."

"It's sad that we are the last of our descendants from Kaguya's children, and it's even sadder that you outlasted me." Toneri said with a hoarse voice before he smiled at Naruto, "Even if I was heartbroken over her death, the last six months with you were the best parts of my life."

Toneri began to hack as he struggled to breathe due to heart failure. He then continued to say the following words with a great struggle.

"You made my childhood dream and my father's request come true, to leave the moon and make friends from the world the sage of six paths created. I am glad you were my friend…" Toneri said with a whisper before his voice became weaker, "Stay strong, Naruto, and end this madness before he takes it somewhere else… End… it…"


-Pure Lands: The Summit-

Naruto watched Toneri's memories stop, and he explained everything until he stopped speaking before Shikamaru told Naruto to stand up.

"I know, I am hated here…" Naruto said with a soft voice that carried a strength that silenced all, "And my actions may have ended everything on the planet but things were busy that summer. The disaster of the past year probably played a role, but White Zetsu were springing up like maggots. And freeing you through death was even harder!"

"Free someone and save their soul by killing them." Naruto uttered to himself mostly, as he remembered the cycle that nearly made him insane, "Find out who they were. Bury them. Kill, Free, Save, Find Out, Bury. Over and over again."

"No one else understands what the desolate world I had to live in." Naruto said with a steeled tone before locking eyes with a pair of Sharingan that sympathized with him, "After all, being forced to kill your close ones is something only few know. It's like inhaling at a dirty cloth that's been used to clean up the blood you split."

"What I did was my choice," Naruto addressed the summit with a sad sigh. "I may regret it, but it was probably for the better. That's what I've been telling myself ever since that day."

"What happened…" asked the short man dressed in king robes next to his pointed elf friends. "There must be a reason you did it?"

Naruto opened his mouth as his memories were projected out to all see be Inoichi and said, "After Toneri's death, thing got really difficult for me…."


-Six Years Ago-

"End it…" Naruto remembered Toneri as he held his bleeding side and then felt the tailed beasts heal the wound that Black Zetsu inflicted in their latest battle. This battle, it seemed, went perfectly for Black Zetsu as he nearly killed Naruto over 20 times if not for Naruto's reflexes and sensing.

"It was like he could see the future!" Naruto thought as he went over the battle in his mind, "He made no mistakes, and expected every move, and every time I countered his attacks he knew what to do. Hell, his fighting skills are getting even better."

"Why not end everything…" Naruto said as he stood at the top of the Divine Tree, "I have suffered all this time trying to save them from a fate from death. This will make sure things much easier."

"NARUTO!" Kurama roared with a flash of panic, "Don't do it! You will regret it!"

"I am sorry…" Naruto mutters. He did not know he was apologizing to was it to himself, or was to everyone still trapped in those cocoons, or was it to those he killed to save them from a fate worse than death.

"But my heart can't keep going further…" Naruto continues to mutter to himself ignoring the shouting in his head telling him to stop, "Next time I know he will win, and beat me for this, and if he does, I will definitely loose and he will get this, anyway."

And with that he reached for the bud and tore it open, a mass of crystallized light, genetic information, and tremendous amount of energy of everything that ever lived and died on this planet was formed into a pure red fruit that was layered with a shape of swirling peach. The fruit color was red, dark red, as if drenched with the blood of millions.

Naruto reached and pulled it out off from its stem, and ripped the fruit of the tree, severing its connection from the tree and with that he felt a tremor that shook the Divine Tree. And as if a candle was blown out by him, Naruto felt all life connected to the tree on this planet was extinguished.

Standing atop everything, looking down at the dead world, Naruto's lips trembled, and he fell to his knee and began to weep. Tears flowed down his face, as he felt sick in his stomach. Most of all, he could feel the shock and horror of the Tailed Beasts.

Naruto's stomach then heaved, and he vomited, tugging at his blonde locks. Naruto opened his mouth and he let out his heart out to the empty world.

Screams of pain, frustration, anguish roared and questioned the universe one thing.

"WHY! WHY!? Why do I live while the others died…" Naruto mentally screamed to himself as he begged for the universe for an answer.

"Maybe…." Kurama said, shockingly calm, not a hint of blame towards him at what he just did.

"Please tell me…" Naruto said with angered tears as he stared at the dead world below him.

"Why?" Kurama spoke to him softly, "I don't know Naruto… but it wasn't to despair and cry. There is something not finished with you, and you are not finished it with him."

Naruto froze. The winds blew against him, but he could not be moved by them.

The chakra fruit in his hand was becoming heavier in his hand.

"Something like this is it worth it at the expense off all lives…" Naruto wondered as he looked at the blood red fruit and Kaguya warnings echoed within his head before muttered to himself as he stared at it and then the planet below him, "Too powerful… Too frightening…too dangerous…"

Coming to a decision, Naruto bites his thumb to draw blood and then weaves a sequence of hand signs before slamming his hand and muttering. "Summoning Jutsu: Uzumaki Iron Box."

He then began creating a talisman wrapping inked with the strongest combination of seal to keep it away from all hands. Once the red-blood fruit was wrapped and sealed with the talisman. He formed a hand seal and it the writing on the wrappings and the talisman glowed briefly. Now the Chakra Fruit was invisible to all those who can sense chakra. Placing the wrapped Chakra Fruit in a container cube and then placing the cube into the Uzumaki Iron Box.

Forming a hand seal, the Uzumaki Iron Box disappeared in a burst of smoke. Naruto then looked down at the huge White Zetsu army gathering at the slopes of the mountain ranges around the Divine Tree.

Naruto made up his mind and thought, "The Space-Time lake is three countries away… I didn't read Toneri's letter, yet."

He flew, ignoring the army gathering below him.


-Pure Lands-

"It was bound to happen," Naruto said with an exhausted voice as he recounted the events that lead as he lowered his head, "If it wasn't for me… Many of you will never be here, your souls consumed into the tree to make it even more powerful! Black Zetsu would have killed me and waited it for its completion, and then taking it for himself!"

An uncomfortable silence filled the summit.

"Yes, I took it… to make things easier for myself. Killing you one by one was harder…" Naruto said with a nod. "Just snuffing everything and everyone attached to the tree with one action was easier."

"And where is the chakra fruit?" Kaguya said with a frown as she looked at Naruto.

"I hid it somewhere none can find it…" Naruto answered before he doubled over in pain, as he felt his very essence being touched by something, "What the hell is happening to me!"

Naruto then felt a head splitting headache shatter his composure as he groaned in pain, making all in the courtroom look at him with surprise.

"What's going on?" Inoichi said with a concerned voice that seemed so distant right now.

"Nothing…" Naruto lied as he brushed off the pain before he saw, in the corner of his eyes, was a flickering image of Roger and then thousands of screaming souls that looked like they were missing their essence and under the torment of something beyond his sight.

"Something is wrong!" Naruto thought as a chilling feeling filled him, "Why do I keep sensing stuff I am not meant to sense! And why do I keep seeing Roger? And what the hell is that place?"

"What happened next…" Naruto said with a shake of his head as he forced himself to talk, "Was something I had to do preparing to kill Black Zetsu or die trying and if I win, then I was going to bring you all back!"


-FLASHBACK: THE MOON -

Naruto looked at the seal in his left hand that held the mental library; now it had the entire archives of the moon and the entirety of documents that Toneri left behind.

He then looked at the glowing the yellow Tenseigan Energy Vessel Orb, that Toneri bequeathed to him after his death, and he held the letter that Toneri left to him. He was afraid to read it, because if he read it would be like saying goodbye to Toneri for real.

Tearing it open, Naruto read it with trembling hands.

(

I think I brought them all back… To bring us all back. The power within this Tenseigan Energy Vessel is said to rebuild the planet from its ashes… This is just a theory but if you can summon their souls over to this side and then use these hand signs in this incomplete ritual with the Energy Vessel. You can reincarnate every soul you summon and bless them with new bodies that are exact replicas of the ones that they were alive.

Records show that Hamura and Hagaromo could control life and death in their lifetime. The clan tried to replicate it but only studied and theorized on how to do it… I can't finish their work; I think you can do it in Naruto. But the price is unknown, and it's probably risky.

The only difficult requirement to do is summon their souls on this side. But I expect you to know how to do that. You told me there was a forbidden jutsu that can summon a soul with a living sacrifice… The White Zetsu army could work as sacrifices.

Whatever you do, I am fine with it. Bring us all back or keep us all dead. Just never give up and don't regret anything.

Toneri.

A friend that wished our friendship would last a lifetime.

)

For a minute Naruto stared and reread the letter in disbelief… And faint hope filled his heart after so long, and a delighted chuckle broke out.

He then looked at the drawn instructions of the ritual and hand signs, and he realized how difficult it was.

"In the middle of a Solar Eclipse!" Naruto thought with shock before blanching at the sequence of hand signs, "And ninety-nine hand seals for this Jutsu and ritual! And this application is incomplete and all entirely theoretical…"

Naruto then folded the letter back in his pockets. And sealed everything away. The Tenseigan Energy Vessel disappeared into the subspace that Toneri had prepared in advance.

"You see…" Matatabi whispered in his mind, "Everything is going to be okay."

"But before I do this…" Naruto said as his eyes steeled themselves, "I want to bring them back to a world of peace."

"That means killing him…" Gyūki said with a rumble. All the tailed beasts nodded their heads in unison at those words.

"Black Zetsu is a pest…" Chomei said with a flutter of her wings.

"The problem is, he is even harder to kill than a cockroach." Kokuō said with a stamp of her foot.

"The Army is also a problem…" Kurama said as he planned a plan to deal with the endless horde. "Unless we can dispel the Infinite Tsukuyomi, they are going to keep coming."

"I think I have a good plan…" said Isobu with a serious voice.

Saiken just replies to her brother, "Your plans are brilliant or just funny!"

"Oh, let it out." Son Goku said with a laugh, "What do we do?

"Any plan is better than Kurama taking credit for it. He always thinks he is the smartest of us!" Shukaku said with a shrug and ignored the stink eye that Kurama gave him.

"Boys, if you are done measuring your tails…" Matatabi growled to stop another a squabble between them.

Naruto then walked though the empty moon colony with a laugh on his face before he stood in front of the Space Lime Lake that connected the moon to the earth.

"Use the White Zetsu in the army as sacrifices for Edo-Tensei to bring everyone's soul over to this side and then try to use the ritual to reincarnate them in new bodies that look like the ones they died in." Isobu said proudly, without a hint of remorse.

"That's a fantastic idea!" Naruto agreed with him before he began to chuckle, "Isobu, you marvelous turtle!"

Naruto then jumped into the lake that connected the earth and the moon with a grin as listened and then and he sensed something as he entered the dimension filled with various orbs, some of which are earthen in composition and other Genjutsu traps, a dimension that connected the earth and the moon together. A dimension filled with thousands of White Zetsu's and in the middle stood Black Zetsu with an open palm directed at his direction, a red nine tomoe Rinne-Sharingan glowed as it opened a black rift and brought one of Kaguya's dimensions to where Naruto stood.

"NO!" Naruto screamed as he felt three dimensions overlap and the boundaries between them began to overlap.

Naruto activated his Six Paths Sage Mode and narrowly dodged the lethal bones before he saw the boundaries crack and then shatter, and he faced a void of nothingness in front of him and he was sucked it into it and let out a scream.

"I WILL KILL YOU!" Naruto howled with deep anger as he fell into and saw the boundaries of the dimension rebound and then began to heal, trapping him in the void where nothing existed.

And Naruto fell into the Darkness and light of the void.

"Hang in there, Naruto! "Kurama screamed within Naruto's seal as he prepared to pour all his chakra into Naruto.


-Pure Lands: The Summit-

"After that I was in Wano…." Naruto said with an irritated face as he watched his memories showing himself landing in Wano, "Black Zetsu ruined the chance for me to bring you back!"

"So, you started killing in the first day in Wano?" Naruto heard a question from the pointed ear man as he glanced and saw his memories showing the rampage he did in the Battle Of The Bloody Ramen Broth and he nervously chuckled and blushed, "I had a good excuse for that!"

Oden just laughed and said, "You fought back against Kaido's men!"

Naruto just nodded and continued to explain his actions and intentions. He hopes to help the people of Wano by establishing the villages until his self-imposed exile and fight against Kaido to make him look the sole rebel. A sacrifice to keep the existence of the villages hidden.

Naruto looked at the people now, giving him smiles and nods, impressed by his deeds and bravery, while the others looked conflicted as they saw the context of his crimes in his world and his heroics in Wano.

And then they started voting.

During the voting section of this trial, Naruto was given a pair of muffles to cover his ears as everyone around him discussed his fate. He could not hear, but he could see and feel the conflicting looks being shared.

"It's over…" Naruto thought as he looked around and to see over half of the summit and the people raise their hands, "So this is it? "

Naruto then looked around to see his parents' trembling face and just gave them a smile before removing the muffles covering his ears as he was showed to do.

"Uzumaki Naruto…" Naruto heard the name echoed around the summit, and Naruto just lifted his head to stare at the three judges who will announce his

"This trail had been one of the most complex and exhaustive I ever presided over…" Hagoromo Otsutsuki said in a grave voice, "This has been one of the biggest challenges the Pure Lands had ever seen."

"All Votes will be cast in have to be counted and even I can't foresee the accurate results, there are too many factors," Hamura's voice echoed around the summit, making those seated mummer,

Kaguya then activated her Byakugan and peered directly at Naruto with intense expression as she said, "Uzumaki Naruto, you have been judged, all is left is for the counting. Different worlds also helped in thus judgment, and with the voting is still being counted among the people of your world, please wait outside. Licita, escort him to the waiting room."

Licita then came in and took Naruto into a waiting room.

"So, what do you think?" Naruto asked her with a questioning stare, "The truth about that day has been laid bare to everyone. Am I a monster that killed around five billion people or I am a hero that saved around five billion souls?"

"Honestly, I think you are a good person who made some hard decisions that were going to be bad either way…" Licita said as she looked at him with folded arms, "But I don't think it's entirely your fault in what happened that day and I think you chose the best option."

Naruto looked at her with a surprised face, "I see… I thought you were going to be like the others."

Licita harrumphs at that. "I think you are going to be here for a while until they finish. I will go talk to my people and make sure they are on your side."

Naruto just chuckled and told her, "Tell my mom that I am okay."

"I will tell her that." Licita nodded and left Naruto alone, who let out a sigh. "The waiting is killing me already… Ah, that's wrong, I am already dead. For the record, before you got messed up and depressed. You kind of reminded me of my son. You still do right now."

Naruto felt a smile on his face and then chuckled at those words. After waiting for a long while, Naruto returned to the court to receive his verdict.

He entered a deathly silent summit that all occupants in stared at him.

"The votes had been counted," Kaguya announced with an unreadable expression. "Two thirds of the total votes have chosen a certain fate for you, Uzumaki Naruto. The other third has chosen another fate for you."

"Uzumaki Naruto the court finds you…" Hagoromo says with a smile, that confirmed everything Naruto hoped for.

Naruto felt pain shoot up through his body as he stumbled briefly, much to his surprise, and he heard something the distant screaming of souls and then he felt like was in five places right now, here in the pure lands and four other locations in a place so far away. He felt people around him, living people…

One place was a chilly island, another was a large mostly empty boat in a harbor, lastly he sensed a place he knew very well.

But the most powerful feeling he felt was something he forgot he had. A heartbeat.

Naruto then passed out as he felt like he was being ripped into pieces. Thousands of voices cried in his head and around him in horror and shock.


-Land of Wano-

-Kuri: Okagakure-

Hiyori looked Naruto shrine which had his vivre card which has been acting strange since yesterday. It was reforming withing a blue flame that generated no heat or burned anything.

It was her shift to look at it and it was in the middle of her shift when it started to before she tied a blindfold around her eyes and then began to practice throwing kunai and shuriken at her multiple targets.

Unaware of the vivre card starting to burn brighter than before, and then disappeared completely before reappearing.


-Pure Lands-

Minato stared at his son, whose soul was flickering and fading as it was stuck in between two states. His voice rose, and he shouted.

Only for his wife beat him, crying out for their only child, "NARUTO!"

Shikaku, Shikamaru, Inoichi, Toneri all kneeled at his side examining Naruto. Once they touched him, they were sent flying away with a powerful invisible force.

Asura and Indra reached their first and somehow grabbed Naruto and pull his limp form upwards before Sasuke, Madara, Hashirama joined them.

Sasuke looked at Naruto with his Rinnegan and Sharingan and swore, "There is something wrong! I don't understand what I am seeing! Naruto's presence vanishes and appears like he is teleporting between places!"

Suddenly someone let out a scream as they saw a flickering, horned silhouette forming next to Naruto.

"So… I… Back…." The horned silhouette voice came out in a broken connection to them before it looked at them and then its features started to form until it was a hazy figure.

"Traitor…" the person's voice, now much clearer, stared at Kaguya and hissed at her, "You shared our divinity and blood with monkeys! Your half monkeys' sons will pay for trapping us in this so-called Lost Paradise! The depowered souls are not good nourishments!"

"My sons beat you quiet easily last time," said Kaguya as just swept a hand through the silhouette and told him, "You are not welcome here. Otsutsuki Yarkoshiki."

And with a flare of her chakra, the horned silhouette was gone, and Naruto stabilized.


-Minion Island-

Doflamingo wiped the spittle and blood flowed from his mouth before grinning manically as he felt his ruptured muscles being patched up with his strings as he got into his feet. Being knocked across the island was a painful business.

His opponent was in a much better shape than he was, but that was what he got from underestimating and experimenting with someone physically stronger than him. The bruises and broken skin on the sides and his head really showed that her blows at a Haki infused club would whittle him down if she kept it up. The rest of the enemies were no threat to him.

Yes, he was injured, but she was giving signs of exhaustion, and Doflamingo knew he still had more to give in this fight. His years of experience in the sea and fighting told him the woman may be stronger than him in strength wise but she was struggling to keep up with his speed at a constant rate.

"She never had a serious fight in her life until now…" Doflamingo thought as he began to chuckle and dug his fingers the ground buried by the snow, "Let see how she handles this!"

The mushy snow and the hard ground below suddenly were replaced with threads of strings. Everything his hand touched turned into a torrent of long interweaved threads, and the earth and the snow around were transfigured into a sea of strings.

Peering behind his purple shades, Doflamingo grinned manically at the shocked woman and took it even a step further.

In an instant, Doflamingo emits an incredible number of strings from the middle of his hand that launched high into the atmosphere in the shape of a pillar of strings. As soon as the pillar of strings rose high enough, they started to fan out and separate, cascading over the area and forming an impenetrable birdcage of strings that could sever anything that came in contact with it.

"Everything is over for you guys…" Doflamingo said as he laughed and twitched his fingers, "Nobody had ever escaped from my birdcage before, and no one will here. You are all puppets before me!"


-Pure Lands-

Naruto let a grunt of pain, as he felt his existence stabilize for a moment and he opened his eyes to see he was surrounded by everyone he knew and loved from his own planet. Kaguya, Hagoromo, Hamura, Asura, Indra, Toneri stood in front of him with their palms open, flowing their chakra to him that seemly kept him here. While everyone else he knew from his world was here feeding him a steady stream of chakra that protected him.

"What happened…" Naruto said with a groan as he looked around to see his mother and father's tear-stricken faces.

"Your soul was used as a pathway as a connection, and it was nearly sent to the Lost Paradise." Kaguya said with a worried face, "The reason why your soul has been used as a pathway is because of the unique circumstances you are in. Your soul is struggling to find the correct place it's meant to be. The living world… or here with us. Your soul nearly went to the Lost Paradise when they tried to use you as a connection."

"What is even the Lost Paradise?" Naruto said as he looked at Hamura, "What is the secret that every person in the summit is sworn to keep?"

"Do any of you remember the time before my children ruled and guided this afterlife? Of course not…" Kaguya said before shaking her head.

"Few of you remember the time before I was here. There aren't any survivors from back then in this afterlife." Hagoromo said with a grave nod, "Souls in here back then where just amusement and food for them and a way back to the living physical world, if they ate enough."

"When my children came here, they freed this afterlife from my clan members who died and somehow found their way into here eons ago." Kaguya informed them before giving her sons a proud look. "My sons defeated them all, and then sealed them away to the Lost Paradise…"

"People who are sentenced to the lost paradise, their souls are removed all the information of who they you are and sent there. The lack of information in the soul is worthless to them for consumption," Hamura explained as he understood the question that was going to be asked, "Those who are sent to the Lost Paradise are cursed forever to be tormented by my mother clan members for eternity."

Naruto then saw a flicker of movement and he was in unfamiliar places and he saw a white ivory skinned horned man with a Byakugan reach for him before he was back surrounded with his loved ones.

"Sorry Naruto…" Naruto heard Hagoromo who looked at him with a kind voice, "This is for your own good. When you die properly next time, you will be at peace with yourself."

"Wait! What's going on? What was my verdict?" Naruto shouted as he felt an incredible amount of chakra fill his soul.

"Not Guilty…" Shikamaru said as he took a drag out of his cigarette that was lit by Asuma as he extended a hand that was filled with chakra.

Naruto then looked around and saw all of them give him sad smiles, and a tear formed in the corner of his eyes, "No… I don't want to leave you."

"It's for your good…" Minato said with a shaky voice before smiling at him, "And if they get their hands on you and escape, they will wreak havoc here. You suffered enough Naruto; you are free now… This is a second chance. We will all miss you, but we know you will come back to us one day!"

Naruto then looked around and saw everyone he loved smiling at him, and giving him support.

"I promise, one day I will be back!" Naruto said before he felt more chakra than he ever felt flood his soul and he understood everything and felt the five locations down in the living world.

And the surrounding people disappeared as his soul forced it self through layers of reality and entered existence that laid beyond the pure lands, and then he felt himself back in the living world and levitating over an island and then he looked at his hands and his face became ticked and he groaned, "Seriously, this isn't my body!"

The entire island then shook, and Naruto's eyes widened when he sensed who was on it.


-Minion Island-

Tama woke up sensing hearing Nue shouting in her mind.

"IF YOU WANT YOUR FRIENDS TO LIVE! FREE ME!" Nue voice roared in her mind.

Tama shivered as she felt the snow around as she saw the shrinking cage made of sharp strings.

Tama then sensed the overwhelming malice from the enemy who was laughing as his fingers twitched and turned the surrounding snow into huge threads of strings that were swarming Yamato and each blow from those black tipped thread of strings nearly overpowered her.

Ulti and Page One were struggling against something as they approached each other against their wills.

"No…" Page One moaned as he fought back the tears in his eyes as he advanced towards a dazed Ulti with his axe.

"DAMN IT!" Yamato shouted as she was overpowered and sent flying away by his strings and her back hit the sharp razor cage, gashing her back deeply and drenching her clothes with blood.

Tama then weakly stood up and then felt a shadow loom over her head, and she froze.

"Hey kiddo…" said the enemy responsible for everything as his fingers twitched, "The crew you are in, it's unnaturally strong for this region of the world… They won't tell me anything even if I torture and play with them."

Tama turned around gulped before she aimed a fist directly and it was grabbed harshly by the guy.

"My name is Doffy," he smirked and chuckled at her terrified eyes, "Let's play a game. Take this."

Doffy then threw a gun down at her, and she picked it up gingerly.

"Now this game, is called choosing who dies." Doffy said with a laugh as his fingers twitched and Page One and Ulti were forced on their knees in the snow, "Choose who will die tonight and shoot them… If you don't shoot you loose and I kill them both."

"I can't choose…" Tama said with tears in her eyes as she shook her head in refusal, "I don't know how to use this."

"RELEASE ME AND I CAN KILL HIM!" Nue growled in her mind.

"Okay then…" Doflamingo said with an unamused frown as he picked up the gun and pressed it against her skull, "I have one question. Who and where is your captain?"

"Right here…" growled Naruto's voice behind him and Doffy whirled around in surprise before a powerful impact shook the entire island and Doffy was sent flying in the air knocked out by the courtesy of one punch from a Naruto whose body made of chakra and he was wearing clothes that were not from Wano, but he wore a tight upper cloth, and baggy lowers clothes and was barefoot.

"Big Bro…" Tama said with tears in her eyes before she jumped and hugged the flickering body made out chakra.

"That Impossible…" Nue said in her mind with stunned disbelief.

Naruto laughed with utter delight and placed her on her shoulders and she clung at him tightly before walking towards the unconscious Ulti and Page One and with a sweep of left hand and right hand, their wounds vanished and their energy and stamina was restored like they never had experienced the ordeal they were just placed through.

Ulti and Page One woke up and their eyes just blinked in confusion before they let out a glad cry.

"You are alive." Page One said happily as he wiped the prick of tears out of his eyes quickly before looking at Naruto with a worried face.

"You look like a ghost!" a freaked out Ulti pointed at his body made of chakra. "Are you dead?"

Page One nodded in agreement.

"It's a long story, but my body isn't here." Naruto told them as he picked them up and carried them between his arms, ignoring their protests, "Now where is Yamato?"

They walked over to Yamato, who was giving him a stunned expression before she glomped with an enormous hug and sobbed, "I missed you, you idiot!"

With the same hand motions, Naruto healed the wounds on her back and recovered her stamina.

Tama, Yamato, Ulti, Page One clung into Naruto as if he was a dream and not real, and Naruto hugged them back.

Naruto then looked at the shrinking cage still around before he heard a voice.

"You are the captain?" Doffy said weakly as a huge gash from his head poured blood into the snow, "What is this ridiculous overpowering strength?"

Naruto let Tama, Page One, Ulti and Yamato pull away before he faced Doffy and told him with a hardened expression, "Leave or I will make you regret it."

"Leave!" scoffed Doffy indignantly and the surrounding snow exploded into black threads of strings. "WE ARE JUST STARTING!"

Naruto then moved, too fast for anyone's eyes to follow, tearing and shattering the black threads of strings and then delivered a spin kick directly at his enemy ribs and he was sent flying into the abandoned village with an earth shattering crash. And the cage, made of razor sharp string around them, began to disappear.

"He is out cold…" Naruto told them before ordering them, "Get off the island… Now! I can't stay here for too long."

"It's not possible," Page One said with a shake of his head, "Our Ship is stuck in the frozen river."

"Take me there!" Naruto said to him, and they took him to the ship stuck in the middle of a frozen river. The Beast Pirates Ship had sustained damage and was still unrepaired and somehow stuck in the river.

Naruto just sighed and looked at Tama, "Nue… did you trigger the incomplete space time formula I placed on the ship?"

Tama felt Nue inside her just remain silent, not sharing anything.

"Well, it doesn't matter now. Is there any other ship on this island?" Naruto asked them.

Ulti nodded and told him, "A group of pirates, have we knocked them out?"

"Steal it, take your belongings and don't forget to take my belongs on this ship." Naruto ordered them.

"Are we abandoning it?" Page One said with a frown, "These cannons are top-notch and high grade. I don't think you can find any better quality than that. Especially these long-range cannons."

"The ship and the flag it flies will bring unwanted attention…" Naruto told him as he looked at the ship cannons, "But you make a good point on the ship cannons."

Ulti came out of the ship carrying a large bundle of everyone belongings, and Naruto beckoned for his bag, which he extracted a scroll and unfurled it open and the storage seal within it sealed the Beast Pirates ship within the scroll much to the shock of everyone.

"That was cool!" Yamato said with a sparkly eye and an impressed face.

"Go to the ship!" Naruto ordered them before his mass of chakra began to flicker and fade, "Do you have any way to talk to me!"

"Wait, can't you just do this again?" Tama asked him as Ulti rattled off the Den Den Mushi number snail they had gotten from the ship.

"I can only do this because of the unique circumstances right now…" Naruto said before he told Tama, "I got a lot to tell you when we see each other next time."

And with that, Naruto chakra dissipated away and a piece of the vivre card that he once had given Yamato fell into the ground fully reformed from the ashes.

Yamato gingerly picked up the vivre card and the storage scroll with an amazed face before she told them, "To the Ship!"


"Gah!" said a reappearing Naruto, making everyone of his friends and family in the pure lands blink in surprise.

Naruto then just looked at everyone's stunned faces and told them, "Being a soul in a chakra entity that is disconnected from my body feels weird. And I felt like I can do anything with all of your chakra flowing within me."

"Okay let's try again…" Hamura said with a raised eyebrow and all of them nodded in agreement, and Naruto felt himself entering existence again and the pure lands this time became a faded existence like a background noise.


-Moby Dick-

Ace just stared at Whitebeard, who just let out a shudder as he sat on his on the deck as he breathed through the oxygen tubes and was hooked up to intravenous tubes and life support systems before giving him a smug expression.

Ace then drew his Yondai Kitetsu and flowed his devil fruit power within it, and the blade sparked and then blazed with white-red flames.

"That's a good blade you got there…" Whitebeard said as he deflected the burning blade with the tip of his massive Tomoe type naginata and asked him, "Where did you get it?"

"That is not none of your business…" Ace growled with a grunt as he skidded backwards and thought of the effort Naruto put in making it.

"Come on! Why am I on a ship this time?!" a voice yelled above them, and both Ace and Whitebeard froze for different reasons before the voice, "This feels really weird when I can hear my heartbeat in my body far away!"

"What the…" Whitebeard said as he squinted at the mast to see a floating blonde ghost with an annoyed face as he looked at his surroundings.

"Naruto?!" said an unsteady and confused Ace, not believing his eyes, "Aren't you dead?"

Ace then saw Naruto glance down at him and Whitebeard and then grinned before whooping, "ACE!"

A whoosh and ghostly Naruto made of energy floated down and then looked at Whitebeard and told him, "Ace… Why are you trying to kill an old man who looks like is already one foot in a grave?"

Whitebeard looked offended by the comment and blinked at the ghostly Naruto who rounded at Ace. "She isn't going to be happy with you!"

"What?" Ace said with a confused expression.

"Hey Super Gramps Sage!" Naruto said out loud as his eyes then glowed white, "Yeah my soul is still- No, don't pull me out from here yet! Can you summon the someone from that side over here with me as a connection?"

Whitebeard just stared at the ghostly intruder and sighed at Ace, "Is this friend of yours is the one whose vivre card did burn up?"

Ace then nodded before he saw Naruto mutter and then nod, "Okay, I agree, no longer than an hour!"

Naruto then snapped back to the ship and then told Ace with a grin, "You may be shocked by this, but I think you will love it!"

A huge blinding glow emanated from Naruto, making Ace and Whitebeard cover their eyes.

When the light faded, Ace sensed two people had joined them and his eyes stared at the woman who just appeared at Naruto's side.

Instinctively, Ace knew who she was. She had long, wavy pink-blonde hair, and he inherited her freckles.

"Mom…" whispered Ace, and she smiled at him before laughing in delight and then reached for him and hugged him in a tight hug despite her shimmering body,

The other person who appeared also hugged them and Ace heard his voice saying, "Rouge is this…"

"Yes dear, this is Ace!"

"In all my years…" Ace heard Whitebeard said with a shocked voice, "It you Roger?! Or did I have a heart attack and passed away just now!"

At the mention of Roger's name, Ace recoiled away and stared with shock at the man whose shadow he could never escape. The Pirate King was looking disheveled and teary faced as he looked at Rouge and then his son.

"So Garp took you in," Ace heard Roger said with a smile. "You look like you have grown into a fine man, Ace."

Ace then looked at Naruto, who just grinned at his shocked face and felt a mixture of emotions at him: rage, annoyance, happiness, confusion, but most of them felt peace as he felt his mother embrace and sniffle.

"Nice, isn't it?" Naruto told him fondly, "My parents passed away at my birth, and I never met her until I was sixteen thanks to an imprint of their consciousness they left behind inside of me. It felt so good when I met them, and so I thought it would feel the same for you!"

"Naruto…" Rouge told him with an amused smile, "You are really your mother's son! I am so happy for you when I heard the verdict! Kushina must be proud to have a son like you!"

"Well, coming back to life was not what I thought would happen!" Naruto said with a shake of head as he stared at her and then his eyes flickered to Whitebeard, who was listening with a grin, "And so was the verdict. I thought it was going to be guilty."

"Naruto…" Roger said with a calm voice, "How did you get me out of purgatory?"

"You are not out yet," Naruto told him with a frown before he heard a crash.

"Hey Marco, Teach, Thatch! Come out of your hiding places!" Whitebeard's voice rumbled in annoyance. "And you too, Deuce!"

Naruto then looked at the trio of men who were all long timers on Whitebeard's ship, and then at Deuce and laughed. "Did you guys get captured by this old man's crew?"

Ace heard a snort come out from his father. "Newgate, are you going to let this brat disrespect you like this?"

"He is just a snot faced brat who does not know what he is talking about!" grunted Whitebeard before pointing at his long-time crew members. "Keep this a secret! No one must know that Ace is Roger's son! Think what would happen if someone like Sqaurd knew about this!"

"I already knew…" Deuce said with a shrug, much to Ace's surprise.

"The meeting is over, pops." Marco informed Whitebeard before he looked at the three ghostlike figures around them. "The rest of us are celebrating with a feat and are drinking! They are asking for you!"

Whitebeard just chuckled and told them, "I have business here. I will come and swing by later!"


-1 Hour Later-

"Well, times up." Naruto said to everyone.

"Really…" said Roger with a disappointed sigh, "Me and Newgate just started reminiscing about the old times in the sea."

"Gurarararara!" laughed Whitebeard as he slapped his knee jokingly, saying, "Don't worry! I will probably join you in the next decade!"

"Not funny, Pops!" Marco and Thatch yelled at him at the same time.

"Yeah, you are really important to the people in your territories!" Deuce agreed with a nod. "And Ace better stop trying to kill him!"

"Give me seventy-five more chances and then I will stop!" Ace said sardonically and deflated under the glare his mother gave him.

"Ace…" she said before squeezing his cheeks playfully, "Stay out of trouble, for me!"

Roger then stood up and looked at Ace with an unreadable expression.

"Hey Pirate King…" Teach tried to say something to Roger, but Roger's attention was somewhere else.

Roger kneeled at Ace's side and Ace seemed to have a conflicted expression. "Son… I know that you hate-"

"I never hated you!" Ace snapped at him. "I resented you-"

"Ace, I understand…" Roger told him with a comforting smile, "You may not give a damn about me or feel like you don't me owe anything but this hour I spent with is the best hour of existence when I was alive or dead."

"I will surpass you!" Ace told him with a heated look before he grinned and flipped off his father, "So that history will only remember you as the father of Portgas D. Ace!"

Roger and Whitebeard then shared a glance before stifling their laughter.

"This brat got some mouth!" Whitebeard said to Roger, "Well, I will keep an eye on him Roger!"

"You do that," Roger said as his shimmering form began to fade along with Rouge, who hugged Ace.

They then faded back to the afterlife, and Naruto sensed Roger soul entering the pure lands this time and he grinned before he walked over to the vivre card in the jar, and said, "Ah I see, did this bring my soul here?"

And he was back in the Pure Lands, surrounded by everyone again, and told them, "Actually, I want a minor detour before I return to my body!"


-Land of Wano-

-Kuri: Okagakure-

Naruto dodged the Kunai and shiruken thrown at him by a terrified Hiyori who was screaming her head off. Making everyone else enter the room and recoil at the sight of his shimmering form.

Naruto then hugged Hiyori, and she immediately calmed down, as her body trembled and shook in his embrace.

Naruto then glanced at Denjiro, Ashura, Shinobu, and Sukiyaki and let go of Hiyori before asking them, "How are the villages?"

"We grieved for you…" Denjiro said with a shocked expression, "We all did!"

"I am sorry." Naruto apologized to them with a shamed face, "You all deserved better than that. The truth is complicated, but I did not fake my death."

"You stupid brat!" Sukiyaki admonished him. "I thought I lost another child I was meant to protect! Where is Tama!"

"She is safe!" Naruto told him as his shimmering form began to glow, "There are two people who want to see you…"

When the glow faded away, Kozuki Toki and Kozuki Oden stood in front of them in shimmering form.

Hiyori gave a choked gasp as she saw her parents and whispered in disbelief, "Mom? Dad?"

"Son!" Sukiyaki said as he stared at Oden with astonishment.

"Oden-sama!" Ashura, Denjiro, Shinobu cried out, and they kneeled immediately out of respect, much to Oden chagrin.

"Hey guys, there is no need for this!" Oden exclaimed as he looked at them.

Naruto then locked eyes with Hiyori, who just gave him the biggest smile he had seen out of her and then tackled her father and mother with a hug.

What happened in the next hour and a half was something Naruto remembered forever.


-ONE AND A HALF HOUR LATER-

-Egghead-

Naruto wasn't feeling happy. It wasn't about Orochi execution that was going to happen tomorrow. He was just mad and embarrassed by Hiyori's actions.

Naruto kept thinking about that moment as he climbed up the moving staircase. He still could remember the taste and brush of Hiyori's quick kiss on his lips that caught him off guard once he said goodbye and then giggled at his face before he was recalled to the pure lands. It didn't help that she was drunk, and that her parents witnessed it with her grandfather and his subordinates and allies in Wano.

"Damn it, Hiyori!" thought Naruto with as he pressed his left hand on his face and gave an embarrassed sigh. "I didn't have time to enjoy that kiss before I went back and then came here back in my body! Next time, I will get you back!"

Naruto took a step outside of the basement and stood on a firm cloud that had a highly advanced technologic infrastructure as he left the moving staircase.

He then looked at where his right forearm was meant to be and kept staring at the stumped and bandaged right forearm. The rest of it and his right hand were gone. He then looked at his right shoulder where now the Six Paths Yang Sun Seal moved to and then to his left shoulder where the recently gifted Six Paths Yin Seal was given to him by the others in the Pure Land once they confirmed he was going back to his body.

"A parting gift to seal Black Zetsu away…" he remembered someone saying this before they sent his soul back into his body and he departed the Pure Lands one final time.

Waking up in and being back in his body felt wonderful. The only issue he had right now was his right hand was gone along with the half of his forearm.

Traces of everyone's power and chakra still existed within him, but it was going to fade away in the next half an hour.

Staring at the purple barrier, Naruto stared at it in shock as he recognized for what it was, before he saw a blur heading directly.

Suddenly alarms began to fully blare in this building and Naruto heard a terrified scream and wail coming from the floors above.

Immediately, Naruto reacted and raced to save the person from the attacker. He then expanded his chakra sensing range all over the island and noticed that were only two chakra users on this island, and they had left a carnage on the outside.

From what he can see, only a few dozen survivors were outside the barrier, the rest outside were dead, their throats torn out, necks snapped, heart and vital organs ruptured.

Others were crushed between buildings and rubble, and some of them looked like they have been used as pincushions.

Naruto then saw one of them attacking a very tall and injured woman who was wheezing in pain as she held her broken arm and struggled to get away from him as his eye looked at her like she was a prey. The cloaked individual then thrusted his hand towards the woman's abdomen only for Naruto to intercept the thrust and stopped it short, inches away from her skin.

"Thank you…" the very tall woman thanked him as she looked at Naruto, who stood between her and her attacker and then said to him, "My name is Dr. Vegapunk…"

"You are interesting…" Naruto heard his adversary say as both of them circled each other looking for any weakness, "There aren't many talented enough to stand on level! Not after the advancements my body has gone through!"

Naruto then catches the small cube made of carbon that was aimed for the back of his head and then he forms one hand sign with his left hand and immediately something about his opponent's demeanor changed as his eyes widened at Naruto's one-handed sign.

The man jumped towards Naruto and his hand-to-hand combat surprised Naruto as he thought, "This is an abandoned Taijutsu style from the Hidden Mist!"

Naruto felt himself being pressured by this enemy before he started getting serious and asked him, "Who are you?"

"I should be asking you that question!" his adversary said before dodging the low sweeping kick from Naruto , "Shinobi are extinct! The age and time of shinobi is over!"

His enemy then took back a nervous as he saw an icy stare that did not match the feral grin that spread across Naruto.

"I am still a Shinobi!" Naruto told him coldly and then started attacking.


A/N: Naruto is back! And so am I with a new chapter.

This is something I loved to do, but for the past couple of months I really hated to put any work in it. I just wanted to leave it alone for a while, and then return to it slowly. So that what I did. I apologize to those who waited patiently, I don't know when I will update this next but hopefully in the near future.

For those of you windering how the ghosts of the pure lands crossed to the living world, Naruto served as a connection and Hagoromo can summon souls without sacrifices as seen in Naruto, and chakra basically connects the living world with the pure land and purgatory

SO WE ARE BACK! AND SO IS NARUTO. NOW THE FIRST SAGA IS OVER! LET START WITH A NEW!

WITH THE FOUNDING SAGA IS OVER

THE SHINOBI PIRACY SAGA IS HERE.

What will Naruto do now he is separated from his allies and friends?