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Wakfu: Chronicles of the Lost Ninja

-Chapter 3-

-Last Time-

"Don.. worra abo.. meh, thish is no…ing, I'll …e out of he.. …o …ime." Dally's muffled voice called out as one of his free hands made a thumbs-up sign.

"You heard the Iop, he's fine, now let's get some grub going finally." Ruel said while making a simple firepit that he lit by making sparks with his shovel. Then reaching into the bag hanging from one side, he pulled out a variety of fruits, vegetables, and fish that he was about to start frying up when Naruto asked a simple but very powerful question.

"What's a Iop?"

-And Now-

"… You're kidding right?" Eva asked with a dull look before blinking in surprise as Naruto shook his head and kept looking at her in confusion. "You seriously don't know what a Iop is?"

"Not a clue." Naruto said as everyone stared at him in shock, even Dally once he managed to get his head free of the rubble. "Why? Is it something I should?"

"Well duh! They're like an entire freaking race of the World of Twelve! What next, you going to say you don't know what a Sadidan or a Cra is?" Amalia asked rhetorically.

"Nani? A what now?" Naruto asked, getting the greenette to drop her jaw.

"…"

"…"

"How long were you in that statue?" Ruel wondered aloud, getting a shrug from the whiskered blonde.

"I don't know, a week or so probably since I'm so tired I'd guess. One moment I was being turned to stone, the next I was here feeling like I just got finished racing Gekimayu-sensei around Konoha again with boulders on my back… again." Naruto shivered slightly as he remembered being tricked by Kakashi to take that challenge for him. He had won by a hair, but his back, legs, and feet had been aching like hell for two days afterwards.

Ruel didn't even bat an eye at the odd name, figuring it was just a nickname like how he called Eva Surudoi-san. Instead, he sighed as a very likely theory popped into his head. "I was afraid you'd say that. Yugo, looks like you're up for cooking tonight… seems we have a lot to explain to our new friend here."

"Got it, I think we still have all the ingredients for some gobbal stew," The youngest of the group said as Ruel moved out of his way and closer to Naruto.

"Now, to start a Iop is…"

-Three Hours Later-

"…And that's about it." Ruel said as he gulped down a mouthful of stew. He had just finished describing a few of the various races that inhabiting the World of Twelve such as the Iops, Cras, Osamodans, Enutrofs, Sadidans, and Pandarians. Amalia, Eva, and an unburied Dally helped by demonstrating a few of their own kinds unique traits, such as Eva's energy arrows and pointed ears of a Cra, Dally's unnatural strength and his lack of a nose of a Iop, and Amalia's partially plant-based biology and plant manipulation of a Sadidan which Naruto found the most intriguing.

Speaking of which…

"This is amazing, it's like Yamato-Sensei's Mokuton." Naruto muttered, his hand held out while Amalia made a small vine curl around it like a snake. However, after a few moments he pulled his hand away while his confused expression returned. "But still, what you're telling me is a little hard to believe Jiji. Me and Ero-sennin went all over the Yōso no Kuni during our training trip and I didn't see anything like what you've described."

This time, Ruel did show a reaction in the form of a raised eyebrow as he mentally translated what the whiskered teen said. 'Perverted sage? I wonder why… no Ruel, not the time to get side-tracked.' The old man told himself with a shake of his head. "Yes, well that is the part you really aren't going to like. I'm pretty sure you were in that statue for longer than just a few weeks." He said making Naruto tilt his head while Eva's eyes widened in realization at where Ruel was going.

"What, you mean like a year or two?" He asked as he suddenly started to feel uneasy for some reason.

"No…" Ruel said with a sigh, "…I think you were petrified for a few thousand years." As soon as the words left his mouth, Naruto froze up for a few seconds before laughing.

"Hahaha! Nice one Jiji, you almost had me with that." Naruto chuckled, a wide grin on his lips that slowly died down as he noticed the completely serious expression on Ruel's face. "You're kidding, aren't you? This is some kind of sick joke, isn't it? Well it isn't funny." Naruto stated angrily while trying to stand up again, only for his legs to give out again and cause him to tumble to the cave floor with a grunt.

"Look kiddo, I get that this isn't exactly an easy thing to have dropped on you, but I swear on my purse that I am not making this up." Ruel said, getting everyone but Naruto's eyes to widen. To Ruel, money meant more to him than anything even his life at times, just like with most Enutrofs. "It's the only conclusion makes any sense since the only way you would be lacking such common knowledge that even a Iop would know would be that it didn't exist before you were petrified."

"Or you guys are just another group of crazy Kekkei Genkai wielders. You guys are practically a ryo a dozen." Naruto said before closing his eyes and going unnaturally still, the reasoning for this becoming clear as a shiver went up Amalia's spine again while his eyes regained an orange hue around them. Eyes snapping open to reveal golden eyes with bar pupils, Naruto slowly stood up and limped off. "I'm done listening to your crazy tales, I'm going to… get back to my village and make… make sure everyone is… alright." Naruto huffed out, his breath already starting to become ragged from walking just ten feet while he leaned against the wall for support.

Rounding a corner, his annoyance grew when he saw the heavy rainfall that was soaking everything in sight. His teeth groaning under the pressure of his jaw clenching and his eyebrow twitching, Naruto barely even registered his fingers sinking straight through the solid granite wall as his hands balled into fists.

Knowing that there was no way he could make it through that mess in his current condition, he reluctantly turned around and limped back into the cavern. However, instead of stopping at the group, he went right past them and headed deeper into the cave. "Well… that went about as well as I expected." Ruel said before yelping in pain as Eva smacked the back of his head. "Hey!? What was that for?!"

"For being a complete idiot. You don't just drop something like that on a person." Eva said scathingly, sure she didn't trust the boy herself, but she wouldn't just up and tell him 'Hey guess what? Everyone you know and love are most likely dead and the world as you know it is completely different'.

Before she could chew Ruel out further though, the Cra was interrupted as Yugo's voice reached her ears. "Hey Amalia, are you alright? You're shaking." Hearing this, she snapped her head towards the pair and saw that the greenette was indeed shaking as she stared at the direction that Naruto had left.

"Y-yeah… I'm fine," Amalia muttered, struggling, and by the looks of it rapidly failing, to resist going after Naruto. "It's just… he feels so… so…" Just as she gave in and started to walk in his direction, the plant girl was roughly pulled off her feet and into Eva's lap and held firmly in place by the archer. "…thanks." She said even as she desperately tried to squirm away.

"No problem," Eva grunted as she struggled to hold Amalia in place.

"Should one of us go talk to him?" Yugo asked as Az, his pet tofu bird, floated around his head chirping quietly in agreement.

"Not right now Yugo, right now it would be best to let him simmer down for a bit." Ruel said, "He just got a lot dropped on him and needs some time to process."

"Well he better hurry, or at least stop using that stupid Sennin Modo thing of his soon. This isn't exactly easy." Eva said after finally managing to get Amalia in a hold that prevented her from moving anything but her head.

-With Naruto-

'Their lying, it couldn't have been that long. It couldn't have.' The blonde thought as he stumbled through the naturally illuminated cave until he reached a nice secluded area with a soft moss-covered floor, ironically the area he had been petrified. Briefly glancing at the scorched remnants of the seals that had once been embedded into the ground, he stepped past them and towards the middle where the plaque still sat.

Sitting down in lotus position in front of it, he gazed down at the words carved into the stone, gently running his fingers over the stone with a look of contemplation. 'They can't be right. There is no way it's been that long. It's impossible.' He thought, not even caring as several small critters such as a glowing lizard and a small black ball of fluff with eyes and eight scraggly legs settled onto various parts of his body. 'And I know just how to prove it.'

Closing his eyes, Naruto put his hands into a ram hand-sign as his body gained an almost imperceptible blueish-green aura around it. Eyes closing, Naruto took in a single long deep breath before exhaling just as the aura pulsed outwards. Within his mind, Naruto's already impressive senses were boosted even further. Within seconds, he was picking up every living creature within a thirty-mile radius, right down to the smallest of ant-like creatures.

The sheer number of them was almost staggering, but Naruto was quickly able to sort through them by focusing for the specific signatures that beings of a human being gave off. Since this was definitely the place he had originally been sealed, he should have been able to easily pick up Konoha and its residents.

…but he didn't.

'Come on, where are they? They should be around here somewhere.' He thought, his brow furrowing in concentration as he desperately tried to find any sign of them or the crater that used to be Konoha. He scoured every inch of the surrounding area with his senses, only to come up with nothing. 'Any second now, I'll find them at any moment and then I can go home, make sure everyone's alright then enjoy a nice bowl of ramen.'

Despite his attempts at optimism, Naruto couldn't stop the feeling of dread reforming back in his stomach as each second passed with no results. Soon, the pulse died down and his senses died back down to only to normal fifty yards around him. Not willing to give up that easily, he focused more power and released another wave.

-Back with the Others-

WHAT THE HELL IS THAT IOP BRAIN DOING!?" Eva yelled as she, Yugo, Ruel, AND Dally all struggled to hold a practically rabid Amalia down as the barely noticeable wave of energy washed over them for a third time.

"How should we know?! Just focus on keeping Amalia do-OOF!" Ruel started to say only to get cut off as all four of them were flung off by large green vines covered in small thorns that suddenly emerged from the ground. Quickly scrambling to her feet, the greenette darted off after the source, with Eva, who recovered the fastest, chasing after her. Rounding a corner, the Cra react just fast enough to catch the plain looking doll that Amalia had tossed at her blindly.

"EEEAAHAHA!" The doll screamed, throwing punches and kicks that Eva barely felt before she tossed it away and continued to pursue. Skidding around a corner, she made it just in time to see Amalia tackle Naruto's side and hug him tightly, startling off the various other critters that had perched on him.

Seriously annoyed, she marched towards the duo with the intent of giving her fellow blonde a thorough tongue lashing. However, once she got close she noticed a key detail that caused her to stop.

'…He's crying,' Sure enough, tears were slowly streaming down Naruto's whiskered cheeks even as his face was set in a look of complete determination and his eyes darted around under his eyelids, apparently completely oblivious to the girl snuggling her head into the crook of his neck. As another pulse washed over her, Eva quickly figured out what he was doing and looked down at the boy with pity. 'He's trying to find his home.'

Standing there quietly, she was soon joined by Yugo as he hopped out of one of his portals, Dally who smacked Rubilax against the ground causing the small sword to grow and gain a swirling green pattern over it, and Ruel who held his shovel at the ready. They relaxed however when Eva waved them down and pointed to the two in the center of the room.

Naruto continued his endeavor for almost an hour, with each pulse getting steadily weaker as his Sennin Modo took longer and became harder to charge up and maintain. Near the end it was so weak that Amalia finally managed to come back to her senses and quickly clambered off the blonde with a deep blush on her face.

As the orange pigment faded away, his once again cerulean eyes slowly cracked open to reveal the despair within them as he cried full force. "…no… …no... this can't be true… please no…" He muttered, his body sagging to the floor as the reality hit him. Clenching his fists, he smashed one into the ground with enough force to spiderweb it with cracks. "…no… No… No, No, No! NOOOOO!" Naruto screamed, each word punctuated with a stronger punch than before, causing the ground to crater beneath him from the force.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

-End Chapter-

AN: Yoso no Kuni: Elemental Nations according to google translate

And thus ends the introduction chapters. Next one will be having the group back on the path with their new companion. But how will Naruto cope with the knowledge that his home and everyone he has ever known is gone and that he has failed his promises? Keep reading to find out. Also, if you haven't read my other stories, I do apologies if this chapter wasn't very good, I'm trying to get better at emotion parts and any advice is welcome. Thank you for reading and please review.