As Sasuke began to use his sage given powers to entrap the biju, Naruto flashed right next to him and punched him in the face. Using the knowledge granted by his own gift to save his new friends, Naruto pulled them from the asteroids that Sasuke began to create and into his own seal with Kurama.

"Sasuke, I would question why, but I'm tired of asking it."

As Naruto absorbed the power of all nine beasts, their chakra intermingling with his own as they each eagerly joined him for protection from the sharingan. Naruto grunted in some discomfort as his body adjusted to having so much power within him, as his eyes shifted to the form of the rinnesharingan. Taking a deep breath, Naruto was forced into his Six Paths Sage Mode as he got his newfound power under control.

Sasuke glared as Naruto looked at the red moon, and by himself with all nine of the biju empowering his own eyes, released the genjutsu. "This ends now Sasuke, I am tired of you thinking you know what's best for everyone. The whole reason I fight is to ensure that everyone has the right to choose, the reason I stand here is to act as a beacon, the reason I speak is to guide those willing to listen. I shall not allow you to impose your rotten attitude any longer, so if you really wish to continue this fight. I will not hold back like before."

Sasuke glared as he drew his blade and rushed forward, only for Naruto, with newfound energy from his allies, to pivot around him and kick the misguided brother off to the side.

Sasuke glared down at his left palm, noticing how the moon was fading away. The boy scoffed as he stood up, looking at Naruto told him all he needed to know. The blond's biju were coming together to protect their host against his own abilities, while using their gift to Naruto to drain the chakra he had received from the sage.

Sasuke sighed as he put away his weapon. "I guess I have already lost this fight."

Seeing his brother concede, his empathy able to read the sheer disappointment within his brother, telling him that the Uchiha had truly come to terms with this loss. Even if he had planned to force his method, he no longer had the means.

Naruto smiled as he watched the shinobi alliance wake up, though before any could reach him to thank and congratulate him for winning against such odds, our blond hero began to feel discomfort. Looking down to his hands, he finally noticed the moon symbol appearing on his left hand.

Now, Naruto was used to gaining sudden boosts in power, the times Kurama had saved him throughout his life had prepared him for it, but to receive so many large boosts from different sources in such short timeframes. He gained power from Kurama was they synched up, and once again when his father gave him Kurama's other half, followed by the other eight giving him portions of their strength, followed by having Kurama's first half replaced into him along with the rest of the other eight followed by them draining Sasuke of his six paths chakra.

Naruto was feeling like he was going to throw up.

"You need to release some of this buildup before you explode." Kurama sounded a bit worried over his container's health.

Naruto nodded as he closed his eyes and thought. Before Shukaku could make a joke about trying to think too hard about it, the final jinchuuriki was gone in a golden flash. Never to be seen within the shinobi lands again.

=-=-=-=-=outside of time=-=-=-=-=

Naruto blinked as he saw nothing but flowing darkness, no other sounds but those of Kurama slamming his head into something, the loud repeated thuds telling him so. Looking inwards, he found all nine tailed beasts just staring at him like he was an idiot. "What'd I do?"

Kurama sighed in frustration. "I can't fully blame you, cause we just said to use energy."

Naruto nodded, not understanding where Kurama was going. "Yeah, and the Hiraishin was the safest move I thought of. I just figured I would fly around the world a couple times."

The eight new bijuu within his seal slammed their heads into the floor at that. Kurama sighed, accepting the responsibility of explaining where Naruto goofed. "Naruto, I didn't think I would have to explain this, but overpowering a space/time technique doesn't just increase its effect and range like most other techniques. It alters it."

Doing his best to ignore Naruto's stupefied look, the nine-tails did his best to explain it in a way for Naruto to understand. "Let's use rocks as an example, there's plenty of those in your head," ignoring Naruto's expected indignant response. "Your second leader picked up the rock and walked over before setting it down while your old man tossed the rock before going where it landed. You tossed the little rock into a catapult with piles of C4 and expected similar outcomes as them."

Shukaku interrupted with a mad cackle. "Spoiler alert, you didn't get them! Hahahaha!"

The sand tanuki was knowledgeable of seals so he fully understood what was going wrong. Though the sudden flinch from all nine, before they began to flex their power sent up red flags for Naruto. "What's wrong?"

Son Goku grunted in frustration. "You are flowing through somewhere outside of space and time, the energy you used to power the technique is moving you so far away, we don't know where you'll end up."

Seiken sighed in exasperation. "We had to act fast, and might have stumbled somewhat."

Naruto blinked as he decided to wake up and see what the six-tails was talking about. And the sight that greeted him was unexpected. Two clones of himself stared back, each with bijuu chakra pushing the other two back. The one to his right had a couple wings popping out his back, boiling energy leaking from him, as shukaku's sand was pushing against himself and the other clone.

The clone to his left had gained some tentacle-like tails, as steam began to circulate around him, leaving blue flames to push the other two back. Looking at himself, he found himself with fox tails, as a viscous energy flowed around him, with what looked to be coral pushed back the other two.

Naruto was confused, a look shared by the other two, as Kurama continued to explain. "We are currently outside of time, which leaves your future up to an infinite number of outcomes. That many timelines colliding erased what could have been, and if not for each of us protecting how you are, holding you together, as well as keeping your timelines from colliding, you would cease to exist."

Gyuki spoke up from there. "We are made of pure energy, so we are not affected in the same manner as yourself. You would die, and we would have reformed randomly within the nearest timeline."

"So, what does this mean for me?"

Chomei was the one that answered. "It means something, but what this all will entail, like hell if we know. Not everyday someone does something like this, our previous containers couldn't do the Hiraishin, let alone power it with the full power of all nine of us, as well as both Yin and Yang power from our pops. This is new, and somewhat exciting."

All three versions of Naruto blinked, as each was hearing the same thing, having the same feelings, as each of them suddenly felt a wave of energy flow over them as they left the void between space/time.

The first Naruto flew from the rip in space as he crashed into a cabin within the woods, leaving a sizable dent in the wall as the wooden exterior chipped and broke, revealing high tech metallic walls and alerting the inhabitants hidden within that someone had slammed into their building.

Naruto never wished he had something on his stomach as he did now, because the nausea he was feeling was killing him. Whatever his head slammed into had done some real damage.

His thoughts were cut off as a couple guys in lab coats began to check him over, like any decent doctor. Naruto registered that some of the men began to fret over him as someone began to check over the wall he slammed into as a couple of armored people even pulled out some weird weapons and began to scout the area.

As Naruto was led inside, he felt the gentle guidance stop, the soothing words silence, he felt something cold and metallic grab him before he was slammed into a wall. The jostling was enough to clear up his vision long enough to catch glimpses of cruel smiles as whatever he was slammed into sealed shut and began to fill with liquid. Finally able to hear the words of his tenants in his brief moment of clarity as they all shouted for him to escape.

It was almost as if someone was clouding his thoughts and brain activity.

On the other side of the tube that now held Naruto, the 'doctors' that had brought the boy in were all watching as they guided the machines within to force a breathing tube down his throat so as to prevent the boy from drowning in the green liquid that was filling the tube. Their devices picked up a surge of alien-esque energy, before their topside hideout was jostled from a heavy hit. All they found was this boy looking half drunk and covered in blood.

If the powerful readings were anything to go by, this boy could be what "they" were after for "their" experiments. The head scientist, smiling wide as he began to enter things into the computers around him, couldn't believe his luck.

He has had to work so hard, using his own technologically controlled peons for his experiments after he ran out of test subjects. He only had five left, the three "scientists" and two hunters, Charlie being the most important one due to his semblance being able to cloud the mind of others. With this boy appearing from nowhere, people won't come looking for him, possibly assuming his death, and the energy levels he had were astronomical.

Dr Merlot laughed as he input commands to the computer, causing the unknown boy to shout loud enough to be heard through the glass and liquid as a metal needle stabbed into the back of his neck angled towards the base of his brain, while multiple other needles connected to tubes filled with a tar like substance stabbed into him through his back along his spine.

"I shall have the ultimate beast at my command, and when you are done, you shall help me retrieve the silver-eyed warriors. If I can combine the easily controlled humans with the might and form of the grimm, I will be unstoppable. And if I add what magic dwells within the last of the silver-eyed warriors, I will have the perfect army."

Merlot snarled as he realized there was just a single silver-eyed warrior. Oh well, he would just have to breed the silver-eyed warrior so he could have more test subjects. Maybe he could combine the genes of his new test subject with that of the Rose girl he knew lived on the isle of Patch in Vale. He has heard about how she was going to be going to Beacon soon, and overconfident young huntresses go missing all the time.

=-=-=-=-=flung to the future of another timeline=-=-=-=-=

This version of Naruto popped out in a completely different area, though his landing only stopped as he smacked into the side of a mountain, before he flopped down into a pool of black tar. It wasn't hard for him to use his chakra to keep himself from inhaling any, while also launching him away from the sharp teeth that greeted him near the bottom of the pool. "And here I thought public swimming was allowed."

Naruto barely registered what the liquid did as it was absorbed into his skin, changing his outward appearance as he swam to the surface, creating and leaving behind Rasengans to explode behind him to stop whatever creatures were pursuing him.

Naruto burst from the pool, his form now reaching fifteen feet tall, if he measured right. He was covered in scales that appeared to be made of pale white tree bark. Reaching a hand to his face, taking note of his new void colored claws, he felt his face and found three eyes on his face.

What Naruto couldn't see, was that each of his eyes only showed a part of the rinnesharingan, as if he had only one eye, that was shown through three sockets. Looking himself over further, he found himself with a similar appearance to that of a dragon with ten powerful tails swinging behind him, though he lacked any wings, or snout.

Before Naruto could settle himself down and commune with the nine beasts within, he was surprised by the blade of a scythe. Not far away, stood a youthful looking, yet hardened, woman wearing a red cloak over a white long-sleeved shirt with a black corset and battle dress, black stockings, and knee high combat boots.

The woman raised a staff-like weapon up as a wire pulled the scythe blade back to her, allowing her to catch the blade with a swirl as she prepared to fight him. "Strange new grimm huh? Guess without her minions she has to pull out something new."

Reaching back with her left hand, she pulled another scythe from her belt and held both at the ready. The two blades were pretty much mirrored images of the other, for those that would recognize her, both were recrafts of her first weapon, Crescent Rose, and after a simple twirl, the two scythes combined into a single large one that was several inches larger than Crescent Rose MKI. While MKII lacked the sniper form, this new one held some surprises still.

Naruto blinked at what he was called. "Grimm you say?" As Naruto opened his mouth to speak, his lips opened up to halfway down his neck instead of stopping at his cheeks revealing countless teeth that looked sharper than any blade. His tongue was also not spared from the change, seeing as it looked more needle-like, and barbed.

Naruto regretted speaking as he watched the woman flinch, the caution and fear within her eyes. "It's not like I intended to fall into that pit." He mumbled his defense somewhat, not wanting to cause more problems with the warrior, and the way her face cleared some proved his words had helped.

"So, you fell in and came out like that? Not easily believable, but better than Salem making a new kind of grimm, especially one as thick skinned as you appear to be. Would be a pain in the ass if she could create an army immune to my weapon." As the woman sighed, she gave him a look. "Sorry, but since you were cursed by the grimm pool, I kinda got to put an end to you."

Naruto scoffed as she rushed forward, one of his tails stopping her scythe dead in its tracks as a second one speared forward to knock her back. Or it would have, if she didn't shatter into rose petals along with her weapon before reforming behind him mid swing, hooking her blade into the corner of his mouth before slamming her heel into the back of his head.

Naruto growled in irritation as several explosions went off against his back as the girl did her best to slice his head in half. Every stomp caused a stabbing feeling, before an explosion went off, and while he barely felt it through his new scales, it was still rather uncomfortable.

Before Naruto could put a stop to the assault, he shivered as a golden light enveloped him and his attacker, before he felt like he was being pulled through a kaleidoscope straw, all the spinning and colors included.

=-=-=-=Within the past of the third timeline=-=-=-=

Naruto once again was shot from a hole in the universe, though instead of crashing into a wall or mountain, this time, he smacked head to head against a dragon.

Naruto flew from the rip in space/time, smacking his head against the skeletal armor upon the head of a large grimm dragon, causing the bone to crack from front to back. As the dragon took a step back, feeling dazed from the unexpected assault, Naruto wasn't doing much better as he fell to the ground next to a woman wearing a white cloak. She was rather injured, obviously having been fighting the dragon he had just headbutted, along with the… three? Scorpion guys… when did the dragon have four dazed heads?

Naruto wobbled to his feet, simply wishing the world would stop spinning, as he stumbled slightly as the woman helped him steady himself. "Well, misery loves company I guess."

Naruto, keeping his eyes closed until the world decided it wanted to stop dancing, raised a brow at her. "What?" Whatever Naruto was about to say, was silenced as he and the woman were swallowed whole by the dragon. "Why is the first thing these fuckin reptiles do is eat me?"

As Naruto and the woman, that he just found out was injured as she shouted in pain as her damaged leg moved in ways it shouldn't be able to as it was knocked against his own, began to descend down the throat of the beast, the dragon was swallowed in a flash of golden light, leaving a very confused scorpion faunus. "What the fuck just happened? Hopefully my goddess has the answers, because I do not."

=-=-=-=Back in the first timeline=-=-=-=

Whatever was doing it, Naruto's thoughts remained cloudy. His head felt like he was being drugged as he heard mechanical voices in his head as he felt his insides boil. The voices were all the same, repeating the same thing.

"Obey. Merlot. Hunt. Retrieve. Contain. Ruby Rose. Obey. Merlot. Hunt. Retrieve. Contain. Ruby Rose."

Normally, as the brain heard and archived the forced brainwashing, the activity within would alter accordingly. However, Merlot never encountered someone as determined, unpredictable, crazy, or as dumb, as Naruto Uzumaki. For our blond hero was the epitome of rebellion, and refused to listen to authority.

Just ask any of his teachers.

So rebellious, Naruto created his own mantra to sound out Merlot's. "Shove a rubber chicken down Merdot's throat. Protect Ruby Rose from the pervert. Shove a red herring down Merdock's throat. Keep Ruby Rose away from the creep."

As Naruto focused on his own mantra, it actually had the same effect as if the brainwashing was taking effect, which it technically was. If you counted reversing all the things it was supposed to be doing. This did have the unfortunate side effect of Merlot thinking Naruto wasn't strong willed, and sped up the infusion of grimm blood into his system. A concoction of his own make, that he got from liquidizing grimm flesh, drawing whatever counted as blood for the creatures out, as well as some black liquid from a nearby grimm pool. Along with some of the bones, both from the armor, as well as teeth and claws ground into a nice poisonous, viscous, painful, injection, that caused the subject to feel as if their own blood was turning to acid.

The only thing keeping Naruto alive was the bijuu at this point, as his Mantra was shortened. "Kill Mermer. Protect Ruby. Fucking Kill Psycho Bitch. Protect Rose."

As Naruto faced this torture, his body was undergoing some changes. A white liquid was seeping from his pores before solidifying along his forearms and shins in a facsimile of the armor worn by ANBU operatives, as more began to solidify around his jaw and curling up to his ears and extending to give them a more rabbit-esque appearance, before the portion at his chin extended into the lower half of a fox's muzzle.

The final bit of bone armor that formed was over the left side of his chest, covering the section of his chest where, if coherent, Naruto would recall being impaled when he was twelve. A 'grimm' reminder of his battle back then, as it took the shape of what a scar would have looked like if Kurama hadn't healed him. As a similar one formed in the same spot on his back, there was also a white bone-like structure forming along his spine, forming a somewhat short tail at the end, while the tip of his fingers became claws, and his toes met a similar fate.

Merlot watched as his latest test subject stopped struggling, though happily surprised when he proved somewhat aquatic as the tube for its air was ripped from his mouth during the transformation.

As Merlot laughed and celebrated his victory, he failed to notice the subtle forming of energy at his creation's mouth. So focused on the readouts he was receiving from the computers all telling him the tests were a success. The batch of grimm blood was used up, the obedience chip was doing its own job, and the subject was still strapped with his personally modified mechanical bindings.

Before the mad scientist could fully turn around, Naruto released a quick bijuu-dama, the lab exploding in a brilliant show of destruction as it all turned into a wide crater.

Naruto breathed heavily, looking around at the destruction he created, before looking himself over as his instincts kicked in to fill in the gaps. The bone structure along his spine shifted into different tails, as well as some insect-like wings, which tells him he can shift between bijuu tails as he pleases. "This sucked."

Naruto flopped to his knees as he jerked his head towards a specific direction.

As he stood up, Naruto could finally hear Kurama. "Finally able to think clearly now?"

Naruto smiled as he nodded, subconsciously shifting to have Chomei's wings as he flew off towards where his subconscious led him. While Naruto being on the move wasn't bad, it did leave the beasts curious about whether he had a destination or not.

Now if only Shukaku would stop singing.

Gyuki sighed at his brother's antics before he focused on talking with Naruto. "Listen, while you were strapped down, you somehow became the anchor between the hiraishin of the other two timelines, so whenever or wherever they are, they will soon find equilibrium with your own position."

Matatabi growled to show her irritation. "That chip the psycho tried to shove into your head has mostly disintegrated. Had to leave it a couple of seconds so the doc would think it was working."

Each bijuu scoffed at the poor attempt at brainwashing and mind control, though Naruto wasn't fully free of all of it if what they were seeing was any indication. Naruto was flying towards civilization with a destination in mind, even if the smart thing would be to hide in the forests until they could fix the time issues they were having.

As the boy arrived at the destination, each of them could see that Ruby Rose was actually a young girl. Welp Naruto would have protected her from the creep either way, so nothing to really worry about, other than the apparent fact that now he had the uncontrollable urge to protect the girl.

Naruto groaned at his instincts yelling at him to follow her, before sighing as he jumped towards the small group that looked to have just gotten out of a fight, if the two large dissolving corpses were anything to go by.

=-=-=-=-=END=-=-=-=-=

Alright, I have a couple of announcements to make.

First, I updated a couple things on my Patre0n, added a couple extra tiers that give more benefits, such as seeing what I am working on, or even helping me write my works. All the details are on my profile here, so if you want some early access give it a look.

My second thing I want to talk about, actually has to deal with this story here.

I have four ideas to work with this story itself, the first one would be to separate it into three different stories and work on each timeline as different chapters. Like chapter 2 will continue timeline 1, chapter 3 will be timeline 2, and so on.

The second idea, all three versions of Naruto will be in the same timeline, and will be treated more as brothers than the same person. Third idea, they fuse back and Naruto gets to change between the three forms, human/half-breed/full grimm. I can think of several humorous situations where this can be utilized off the back of my head.

My fourth idea, I keep them in separate timelines, but they are connected, as in Naruto is able to communicate with the other two through the biju, and this will give a unique semblance for them. Spoiler, they swap places. If I keep the timelines connected, but split, Naruto will unlock aura, and his semblance will randomly swap the three Narutos around until he learns to control it. So one moment, if for example, Yang gives human Naruto a kiss, she could end up backing away from giving beast Naruto a kiss.

The reason I ask this kind of question to everyone, is because I don't have much plans for any of my stories when I write them, I just wrote this out to get the idea down to help break through my writer's block. I am really hoping to clean out some clutter in my brain to open the space up for ideas for my other stories. I don't have a long term plan at the moment, but if you all enjoy this story, I will try my hardest to continue it.

So, give me your opinions on how you would like to see this thing go, and I will work with it.