Chaotic Hangouts
Chapter 2: Shingo Sawatari Annoys Shikamaru
Date: July 5th, 2022
"Oh man, what a drag. Why did I get stuck with this guy again? Why does he have to be so annoying?" These words come out of Shikamaru, one of the most skilled strategists in Konoha as he recalls what caused all this to transpire. But let's begin with what he didn't know. Shingo confidently said to Yuya before they and the other Lancers went into Duel Links for the day: "Hey Yuya! The great Shingo is going to defeat more duelists than you!" Yuya replies: "We'll see about that!" "It's on!" After that, they logged into the virtual world. However, when Shingo logged in, he did something clumsy and ended up somewhere else entirely: "Aaa Duel Links. Today is the perfect day for the great Shingo to take down a bunch of chumps! …Wait. This isn't Duel Links. Where am I?" "Shadow Paralysis Jutsu!" A Konoha specialty ninjutsu move uses Shingo's own shadow to trap him in place: "Choji! Ino! I think I just found an enemy who was trying to hide himself before infiltratingthe village." Shikamaru is a black haired in a ponytail of sorts shinobi with the uniform of a Jounin of Konoha. Shingo is a duelist with short and pointy light brown and blonde hair, grayish blue eyes, and a Leo Institute outfit.
Upon hearing their friend and teammate on Team Asuma, Choji and Ino rush on top of the branches of the trees surrounding them in the woods outside of Konoha to see for themselves. Their sensei may be gone but they still pack a punch and impressive teamwork combination. Of course, Shingo didn't know this so he didn't even think to activate his duel disk. If he had, he would have been able to use the likes of Abyss Actor Funky Comedian to give Team Asuma a hard time. After all, duel disks equipped with the Arc technology give off solid holograms. Choji, a pleasantly plump spiky light brown haired shinobi with black eyes, swirl marks on his cheeks, and a red, gray, and green outfit combination reacts upon seeing Shingo: "Who's this guy? LID? What does that mean?" "Can someone explain to the great Shingo why he is trapped by his own shadow? And how could you not know about the Leo Institute for Dueling? It's the best place to learn and master Duel Monsters!" "Oh man. Why did I have to find someone like him? We just wanted to do some training but instead we gotta take care of this guy." "It's okay, Shikamaru. We'll just get him to the village and let the Analysis Team take care of the rest." Ino's kind and warm voice stops Shikamaru from complaining again.
She's a kunoichi with long platinum blonde hair, blue eyes, and a purple outfit. Shingo gets mad: "Hey! How dare you ignore the great Shingo?!" "Look pal, can you please stop being annoying? You're such a drag. Anyway, let's get this over with. I want to get back to training as soon as possible." Choji laughs: "Classic Shikamaru! Could we get some lunch on the way back? I'm starving." "Choji, you're always starving." They end their discussion and Shikamaru finally releases Shingo. Shingo laughs himself and declares: "Now that you've foolishly prematurely freed the great Shingo, he's going to outshine and defeat you!" And that's when it hits him: "Hey wait, I can't battle you because you apparently don't know what Duel Monsters is!" "Do you ever stop talking? You're outside Konoha, the ninja village. And you're an intruder." "Ninja you say? The great Shingo knows 2 ninja but they're clearly not here! Where are Yuya and Reji?" Shikamaru has had it. He uses his jitsu again but that doesn't stop Shingo from blabbering.
That's when Kakashi, a white haired black eyed shinobi with his left eye covered by his headband who wears the Konoha Jounin uniform finds them: "So that's where you went. I was wondering why you weren't training. Who is this with you?" Shikamaru groans: "This guy keeps referring to himself in 3rd person. He just showed up out of nowhere and keeps talking about some game I've never heard of called Duel Monsters. We're taking him to the Analysis Team by any means necessary." This is that moment that Shingo realizes he can still use his cards to fight and Shikamaru just so happened to have released him again: "The great Shingo will not be stopped! He will dazzle you with a performance so great you'll be speechless and on your knees begging for mercy!" The egotistical duelist tries to activate his duel disk but Kakashi is much faster. He throws a shuriken without even trying at the duel disk to stop it from activating: "Until we know who you are, we cannot allow you to do something like that. Come on Team Asuma, we'll take him together. As long as Guy doesn't ask me to do another of his foolish challenges today, I have nothing planned. After all, I'm not going on any missions related to the Akatsuki. I do hope Jiraiya makes it back okay."
The 4 take off after Kakashi knocks Shingo unconscious with the finger technique Thousand Years Of Death because even just that is powerful enough to knock a person with basically 0 fighting skills or combat training out with ease. The dialogue is very lively and they after some time make it to the Analysis Team. Kakashi reports to Tsunade, the 5th Hokage, leader of Konoha about this. Ino's father Inoichi who Ino has a strong resemblance to greets Team Asuma: "It's a surprise to see all of you here. Who's this guy?" Ino replies: "Dad, it's so weird. Shikamaru found him after he just appeared out of nowhere. He's been saying really strange things, we don't get it." "In that case, I'll tell Ibiki. He'll be interrogated. He might be a spy with his memory altered intentionally by an enemy of the village." 10 minutes later. Shingo wakes up in a dim room with Ibiki staring at him: "Where am I? How did I get here?" "So you're finally awake. You're in Konoha and are being interrogated. We suspect that you're a spy." "I've been captured! I won't tell you anything!" "Is that so? Well, you aren't going to enjoy it when I make you talk." Shingo's screams of terror echo throughout the whole building as Ibiki works his magic. It was especially easy for Shingo to be psychologically crushed because of his ego and overconfidence. In the end, Shingo gives up: "I can't resist! Fine! I will tell you everything! Just please stop.
" "Good, now who exactly are you?" "I'm Shingo Sawatari, a duelist from Maiami City.." In short, he explains his life including meeting Yuya, stealing his Pendulum cards, being defeated, the whole his dimension being split off from another, the Interdimensional War, and so on, even the calamity in time. It would take forever to go in detail, he's been through a lot. Ibiki doesn't believe him: "But that's impossible. You must still be lying. My methods appear to not be working very well for this. Inoichi should be able to take it from here." The master interrogator has old scars and wounds on his face, concealed top of head, a dark version of the intelligence uniforms, and piercing black eyes. He releases Shingo from the room but keeps a close eye on him as Shikamaru restrains him so Inoichi can peer into his memories. After some time, Inoichi extracts corroborating information from what he got to hear from Ibiki. His eyes widened: "We must inform Tsunade and the Anbu at once! He's from a different universe, whatever that is where a game called Duel Monsters is used to fight instead of chakra! What does this mean?" Ibiki nods: "I'll send word to the Anbu. You go inform Tsunade."
Shikamaru is shocked: "Damn it! I heard a rumor about universes. This is bad and could be the start of more trouble. We already have the Akatsuki Orochimaru to deal with." Shingo replies: "What are you all even talking about?" "I guess since we now know that you aren't a spy, I think you should know since you keep being so annoying about it." The shinobi explains the founding of Shinobi society and how before Konoha, ninja were always fighting one another through commissions from other groups. He also talks about the tailed beasts, the Akatsuki's plans to capture all 9 of them, Orochimaru's human experiments and attack on Konoha, and so forth. It kept everyone from being bored waiting for Tsunade and the Anbu. Meanwhile, Ibiki takes Shingo's duel disk so his associates can analyze it. In terms of timelines and stuff, this situation has forcibly created another timeline and changed the fate of this version of the Shinobi World.
In Duel Links, Yuya and friends have been looking for Shingo for hours: "Shingo! Shingo! Where are you? Don't you want to duel me?" Reiji sighs: "We've looked everywhere. He's not in Duel Links. He must have crossed over into some other virtual reality but where? I'm going to contact BRAINS headquarters. This is an emergency we can't solve on our own." He does so and his communication device displays a holographic image of Dr. Bonesbane: "Hey Reiji. I wasn't expecting you to contact headquarters at all. We've never really met in person so this is a little awkward. Oh well, you look like you have a huge problem on your hands. What is it?" "We're in Duel Links and Shingo isn't with us. I suspect he went to another virtual world. Is anyone available to help? Who knows what kind of trouble he's gotten himself into." "Before you ask, no, no one from Miitopia is available. They won't disclose what's going on to us. They typically accept nearly all missions but they declined all of them today. In fact, most BRAINS members are busy. But our allies from Planet Tomapie are free as well as myself. Would it be okay if I went with some of them to investigate?" "Planet Tomapie?" "It's a long story. I'll tell you another time and send an informational document about it tomorrow. I know we will succeed. For now, log out of Duel Links and try your dimension and the 3 others. There's a theory going around that all worlds virtual or not actually exist within their own space instead of just being stored inside computers. That means he could be anywhere. We have better resources here to track him down though." "I see. Thank you."
Back to Shingo and the others. Tsunade uncharacteristically runs into the building for Konoha intelligence with members of the Anbu Black Ops right behind her. Somehow they managed to stop Danzo from coming as well. That man is a creep. The long blonde haired hokage, medical ninja, and kunoichi with brown eyes and a mostly green outfit says: "This incident has given more questions than answers. Ibiki and Inoichi, I want you to make a detailed report on every piece of information you heard from the stranger. We have too much to deal with right now, we can't put in many resources about this when the Akatsuki are hunting down more tailed beasts as we speak. And we can't let this be made public or known to the Foundation. Danzo will probably use this Shingo as a means to more power. Shikamaru, I want you and your team to watch over Shingo until we can find a way to send him back wherever he came from." That's when one of the Cypher members comes over: "Lady Hokage, everyone. The device Ibiki took from Shingo is far beyond our understanding. All we know is that it's used with these cards that were inside." "I see." After more discussion and stuff, everyone gathered disperses to do whatever it is they need to do.
Shikamaru complains: "Oh man, what a drag. Why did I get stuck with this guy again? Why does he have to be so annoying?" He remembers and face palms. Shingo laughs at him: "The great Shingo has annoyed you! You should be very happy to be annoyed by the most shining example of a legendary duelist! Come on, don't you want my autograph?" Choji and Ino excuse themselves from the situation: "We think you can do this by yourself, Shikamaru. We both have things to take care of." "Damn it! Hey, are you just trying to get out of this situation? What's with you two?" Choji responds with a smile: "You're a Jounin. Besides, we'll just tell Tsunade that we had other responsibilities." "Fine. But I'm not paying the bill next time we go out to eat." Shingo then enjoys bugging the crap out of Shikamaru. For the longest time, lots of humor ensues. "Did you know that the great Shingo saved the 4 dimensions by himself? I wiped the floor with that Zarc, he beat everyone but me!" "Are you going to be like this the whole time? I hate everything about this." "Hey, do you want to duel? Wait, they still have my duel disk! I'll never get home without it!" Shingo begins running back but the annoyed ninja simply uses Shadow Paralysis to stop him: "You aren't getting anything as long as you are in this village." Naruto was just passing by so he goes to see what's going on: "Hey did you make a new friend and didn't tell us, Shikamaru?"
"Oh great, it's you. Damn it. He's not a friend, he somehow got here from another universe. Don't you have some training you're supposed to be working on?" "What's a universe?" "How do I put it in a way that you can understand? Let's see. As you know, we have the sun, the moon, and our world. In short, a universe is a place where all kinds of things exist. Including planets. They go on forever, it's not easy traveling across them." "I don't get it." "Of course you don't. Please stop bugging me, I'm in a bad mood today. Jiraiya is out there risking his life while you're here wasting time on something that doesn't concern you. Go on, Naruto." "Don't write me off like that! I'm going to be Hokage one day! Believe it!" "Oh a new face! Hi! The great Shingo is pleased to meet you! This friend of yours is so fun to bother, I love all the attention he's giving me of all people! This will be so fun!" Before Naruto can reply, Yamato, a brown haired and black eyed former Anbu ninja with a forehead protector runs over to him: "Naruto! Come on! If you want to become Hokage so bad, you have to keep training!" "Ah man but I want to know why Grandma Tsunade was out today, Captain Yamato." "I know Naruto but it's none of your concern." "But I want to see!" "Naruto. I'll treat you to ramen for dinner. Just come on." "Ooo ramen! Okay." Shikamaru chuckles: "Heh at least Naruto can keep acting so naive. Hey, where's Shingo?"
While he was distracted, Shingo ran off to explore or something: "Damn it. I guess I better get Ino and Choji to actually help me. And I know exactly how." He goes to a store and immediately buys a bag of potato chips. Shikamaru opens the bag, takes a chip out, and tries to eat it before the bag and chip are snatched out of his hands. Choji has arrived: "Hey, since when did you want to eat potato chips without me? That's so not cool, Shikamaru!" "Heh. I got you good. Look, I know it's a drag but we gotta watch Shingo together. Because of you, Naruto, and Ino, he's run off to who knows where. It's our responsibility to find him and to honor the memory of Asuma-sensei by carrying out our orders just as Tsunade wanted us to." "Okay, okay. I wanted to go on a snack run, I'm so hungry!" "Well if you help me with this and also help get Ino to rejoin us, I'll buy us dinner tonight. Just don't make me drain my wallet again. Sometimes I wonder how Asuma even managed to keep you fed and his wallet not empty for long." "You, my friend, have yourself a deal!" It doesn't take long for them to find Ino, she's literally just at her family's flower shop helping out with the business. Ino spots them: "Choji, weren't you supposed to be on a snack run for yourself. And Shikamaru, where's Shingo?"
"That's just it. He disappeared after Naruto distracted me. I got Choji to help me find you and him. We're a team, we can't let Asuma-sensei down." "When you put it like that, we really should have just kept helping you. Let's find him, together! I'm so sorry to run off, I just couldn't stand that selfish weirdo! And besides, my mom loves it when I help out here at Yamanaka Flowers." "Fair enough. But please don't ever do that again. If I had to guess, Shingo probably went to retrieve his duel disk thing. Let's go." "Right!" The 3 of them run off and a familiar masked figure chuckles while watching: "Very interesting. So that's what happened. I guess going back several years in existence's time relative to my Earth to recover my memories was worth it after all. This was during the time I had no powers. It's a shame I can't intervene in the crisis involving Yappa Yappa without disrupting space time even more than I have. Anyway, it's time to go to my past self at this same time, I can't put my finger on it but today must have been a bad quiet day for them for some reason." Choji by this point has eaten 4 bags of potato chips since he snatched the ones Shikamaru bought but is still running fast: "Hey guys! I don't think we can do this alone. Shouldn't we get Shino, Kiba, Akamaru, and Hinata to help us too?" "Oh don't worry, I have an idea of where Shingo is if he's not where we were earlier. We'll get him."
Sure enough, they get to see Shingo running off with his still damaged duel disk as a Cypher member yells at him: "Hey get back here! We haven't finished looking at your device!" Team Asuma manages to almost catch up to him and Shikamaru uses his specialty to try to stop Shingo but Shingo has smartened up a little: "You can't use that on the great Shingo anymore!" Shikamaru smirks silently as Choji shouts: "Expansion Jutsu!" With the power of his move, he made his right hand over 10 times larger than normal to try to grab Shingo. Shingo is able to dodge it. But it's not over. Ino gets in front of Shingo and shouts while forming hand signs: "Mind Transfer Jutsu!" It doesn't work because Shingo is really good at running away since he's done that a lot ever since the day the Fusion Dimension attacked his home Pendulum Dimension(formerly the Standard Dimension). What he didn't know was failing to catch him was their plan all along. He doesn't notice the shadow coming from Shikamaru but he does hear: "Ino-Shika-Cho, complete."
"Hey, that's not fair! How dare you outnumber and outsmart the great Shingo! I wanted to put on a show for all of you but none of you want me to! It makes me sad!" Ino takes the duel disk from Shingo before returning it for analysis. With that done, Shikamaru says: "Look, we can't keep chasing and yelling at you. Why don't you try being less obnoxious and not run away?" "Shikamaru. That's not how we should be handling it. Shingo, we don't want to hurt you. Our orders are to watch and stay with you. We will not fail the mission any more than we have. Can you please stay with us and not go out of your way to annoy others all the time?" "I'll stay with you but the great Shingo will not change! In fact, the great Shingo demands you take me all around this town. I might be stuck here forever and I want to put on shows so I can be showered with love!" "*sigh* Fine. I got a brief glimpse at your cards earlier. Your game seems similar to Shogi. Let's go to my dad's house first. We can play Shogi there and see how much you like it. Please don't make me regret this." Choji ends up getting along really well with Shingo because he reminds Shingo of Yuya.
At the same time in the vastness of space, Dr. Bonesbane says to the Tomapieian crew of the hot pocket ship: "So it looks like Shingo is not in any virtual world. I looked as we went inside Ovenzilla. Why did we have to use this ship anyway? It's weird enough that your ships are giant hot pockets that can achieve something far beyond light speed with the power of the oven star your planet revolves around. Then again, I am a scientist so I shouldn't be using terms like weird. It's not logical when I study other universes and used to experiment with Chemistry." One of the crew, a pizza slice with an eyepatch for an eye named Scar Basiltomato replies: "We had all of these ships just lying around after Marinara Pineapple was dethroned. We could have used Quantum Leap if it weren't for the fact our bands haven't arrived yet. Dominic was supposed to get them to us this morning. I guess whatever they're dealing with in Miitopia is so terrifyingly serious they don't want to tell us yet. Plus these ships use less energy than those bands." "Alright, you got me. I've just found Shingo's location. This is bad. Approximately not too long before the Fourth Shinobi World War in the Naruto universe. Set the coordinates, here they are." "Got it. It'll take 15 minutes to get there with the help of Ovenzilla Hole in addition to the Ovenzilla speed we are already at. It's about to get bumpy. Prepare to scream!" Everyone on board, even Dr. Bonesbane started screaming as things got really intense.
Now back to Shikamaru and co. After a little time, they arrive at where Shikamaru lives with his father. It's a very nicely designed house with excellent architecture. Shikaku, Shikamaru's father is home and looks up in surprise to see the 4. He's like an older version of Shikamaru with his scars and style of hair, not to mention his attitude: "Wow Shikamaru. You brought friends over. Also, I heard from Tsunade about the one I don't recognize. Things just keep getting more complicated, what a drag." "Oh hey Dad. We came here so Shingo wouldn't run off again. He caused a bit of a scene before we got here. The story's a drag. I'd like to show him Shogi." "Well in that case you're in luck. I just got out the pieces for Shogi." For a little while, Shikamaru tries teaching Shingo how to play but Shingo is really bad at it: "Aww man. Do you even know how to strategize? Even when I let one of my pawns be out there in the open, you don't know what to do!" "But it's all so complicated! In Duel Monsters, I can just read the effects and stats of my cards and go from there! That and I can summon several monsters in a turn!" Shikaku offers to try to teach him but Shikamaru signs: "Look dad, I know you're the best at Shogi but I can tell you can't get Shingo to understand either. I'm sorry but we should go somewhere else. I'll see you later." So they go elsewhere after saying goodbye to Shikaku.
As this happened, Dr. Bonesbane professionally held back anger at the Tomapieians: "You said our arrival time would be 15 minutes after we really got going. But it's been longer than that. Could you tell me what's going on?" "Sorry about that, I made a miscalculation but we're about to enter the solar system where the world in which Naruto exists is located." "Oh that's all? I was holding myself back from chewing your somethings out with my ranting. And now we're slowing down. So we're about to crash. WE'RE ABOUT TO CRASH! AAAAAAAAAAAA!" The others scream right alongside Bonesbane. Choji sniffs out the smell of a cooking hot pocket: "Guys, why do I smell food I've never smelled before and why is the smell getting closer really fast?" Shikamaru sweat drops before widening his eyes at what's coming down from the sky: "What is that? Whatever that is, it's where the smell of food is coming from! Can this day get any weirder?" Choji's mouth waters at that while Ino exclaims: "I think it's going to crash nearby!" "We better hurry before suspicious characters get their hands on it! Who knows what Danzo and the Foundation could do with whatever that is? Shingo, stay right where you are. We'll be back for you."
"But the great Shingo loves running right into danger!" "Man, you are so much like Naruto. If you stay put, I'll get you something really good to eat. I already promised Choji that already so I might as well promise you too." At that moment, they start hearing the screams from the hot pocket spaceship and even make out Bonesbane yelling: "Can you even land one of these things?! I know your planet used to be all about invading worlds by crash landing on them first but still! As a scientist, I am concerned at the force that is being generated by this ship. We are accelerating at a constant rate and have just a few seconds till we accidentally destroy part of Konoha! You better do something!" The ship makes the most depressingly high pitched and slow sound in the universe as it suddenly slows down and actually lands softly onto the ground below. A large rectangular hole opens up and causes a mass of cheese and sauce to ooze out. Scar Basiltomato announces: "We're finally here! Are you okay, Dr. Bonesbane? You're definitely not used to this at all. We of the Planet Tomapie used to live through this all the time."
The furry scientist responds while trying not to blow chunks: "Could be better. I need to sit down somewhere." "Okay, we'll take our time to get off this ship to start. Don't worry about the cheese and sauce, a path will make itself known among the mess." 2 minutes come and go and now Dr. Bonesbane is off the ship with the Tomapieians. In fact, he spots a bench and sits down immediately. While this happens, Shikamaru demands: "Who are you and what the hell is going on? You better tell us now, the Anbu Black Ops will be here at any moment. Why do you look like food?" Scar Basiltomato replies: "It's a long explanation. I will start it while Dr. Bonesbane will continue it. He needs rest. Also, we know who all of you are. Please don't eat us, Choji. Not only will we not taste very pleasant for humans like you but we're living creatures. We'll begin with our identities and what's going on. Your world is so lucky to not have any nation directly trying to snuff out dissent and anything deemed different with laws, violence, hatred, and misinformation. Our world wasn't so lucky for a long time. I'm Scar Basiltomato and these are my friends from Tomapie. Tomapie is a world that used to be run by a king/dictator that is made of what is called pizza. Pizza is a a bread food typically with at the minimum cheese and sauce on top."
"Such a place exists?! That makes me so hungry!" "Watch yourself, Choji. Anyway, Dr. Bonesbane is from a different world called Kohnanix. Kohnanix is a planet inhabited by walking and talking animals alongside ones who aren't human like in that way but still have significant intellect." "What a drag. This is blowing my mind so hard." Dr. Bonesbane finally speaks: "Yes I know very well that it's a lot to take in. Thanks Scar for filling in. Before I explain more, we should all head to the Hokage's office immediately. I will teleport all of us there to save time. But first, the ship has to be moved. And I know how." The scientist uses his Quantum Leap band to send the hot pocket ship off to a small pocket dimension: "That'll take care of things for now. Let's go. Shikamaru, you and your team should be standing in front of us once we get in there. That way we'll give off the right impression when we enter. That being said, does anyone need to use the bathroom? A potentially long and somewhat stressful situation would not be good. We could stop in Twisted Land for a few minutes to go." "Hold on a second, are you saying that you can send us anywhere instantly at will? But you don't even use any ninjutsu!"
"It's true that none of my comrades nor I can use chakra for anything as we don't have chakra networks. But we have the power of technology that far exceeds any you have ever encountered on your missions. It has opened up endless possibilities. Don't worry, the teleportation won't hurt. And Twisted Land is a theme park in another world built by a trusted friend of mine." After some discussion, the ninja and Shingo agree to stop by Twisted Land because actually most everyone needs to tinkle. Bonesbane teleports himself and everybody else to the most optimal bathroom to go to. Twisted Land has a new water park called Wild Waters that has a bathroom which isn't even open yet: "Woah, is that a shipwreck? That's so cool! Almost as awesome as eating lots of food!" Bonesbane laughs: "Indeed it is. Now please follow me. Make sure to be quick about this because there aren't enough stalls for us to go all at once." 10 minutes of walking and bathroom use later, everyone is done and ready to head back. They all get sent to the Hokage's office directly from right outside the Wild Waters bathroom.
Tsunade gasps in shock at seeing Shikamaru, Ino, and Choji in front of Shingo, Dr. Bonesbane, and the Tomapieians: "Shikamaru, how did all of you get here and who in the world are they?" "Lady Hokage, I think it's best if we let Dr. Bonesbane explain." That's his queue to speak: "Thank you for putting trust in me, Shikamaru. As ninja, you are all well versed in the knowledge that anyone could backstab and kill you at any time without warning. There's a lot to explain. That thing that was falling down in the sky is a ship piloted by my companions. We are from different worlds and universes entirely. It's very confusing but I'm sure I can get you to understand, Lady Tsunade, one of the legendary Sunnin and Hokage of Konoha. I'm a scientist from a world called Kohnanix."
He explains what he and Scar told Shingo and Team Asuma earlier before adding: "Interdimensional travel is a complicated and energy consuming process but that's why I'm glad me and the Tomapieians are members of a secret organization you'll learn about another day. I have a feeling one of my good friends will be visiting your world at a different time. Anyway, we can't disclose everything right now because it's not crucial to and you have a lot of issues to deal with already. Let me just say that there are countless universes out there, each is defined by edges of star systems and galaxies where nothing is seen far beyond that. In many universes, a version of this planet exists. That's one way you can tell you're in a different universe or even timeline. I heard Naruto got caught up in a time travel incident some time ago and went out of it with no memory of what happened." Tsunade nods: "We didn't know it was time travel but it was strange to see Naruto of all people with no memory of what happened. But how do you know all this?" Bonesbane goes on to explain the proven multiverse theory, the teleportation stuff, the anime and manga franchise Naruto, magic, and some more about Tomapie and Kohnanix. This all took 2 hours. "It's getting late out, thank you for coming to me directly about this. Shikamaru, could you treat our guests to dinner? You will be compensated later. This is a lot to think about."
Dr. Bonesbane replies while Shikamaru nods: "There's just one problem. Your memory of today's events could mess up your future greatly. And if Danzo or the Akatsuki found out, there'd be major trouble. We have a device a spell both prepared for this kind of predicament. I hate to ask but would you be willing to let a spell be cast over the general area this village is located to seal away any memories of what wasn't supposed to be happening here today. It may be damage control but it's vitally important that it's done. I can only imagine the consequences and how nutty the ones that have already popped up are. You deserve to continue focusing on Naruto and the Akatsuki and this is the only truly safe way to pull that off. Now if someone from another universe or time comes to your era in your world then we promise some individuals will be sent in to help." "You have my permission but make sure you remove all documents and items too." "Okay, good. We'll pass on dinner btw. We can get some elsewhere with ease for free. Plus Shingo has to be taken back. This is where we part ways, the others won't be coming back but I will return with a close friend to do the spell. Thank you so much for your time. There might be a way to do this day over without the unforeseen events happening. I just hope my Miitopian scientist buddy is okay enough to handle it."
With that, goodbyes are exchanged, the group eat at Loco Bueno in Twisted Land, Bonesbane drops the Tomapieians off on their planet, and returns the ship to them immediately: "I'll see you guys again sometime. Take care and keep repairing your society. You have lots of work left to do considering your system contrasts and resists countless years of civilizations on your planet. Goodbye." Shingo oddly has stayed silent for a while, I guess hearing all the scientific stuff has started to make his head spin on the inside. The pals from Tomapie say goodbye too before Shingo and Bonesbane go to Duel Links. Awaiting them is an empty Arc-V duel world, not even the vagabond or standard duelists are around: "Interesting. I've never seen Duel Links before. Adam has told me how great it looks and now I can say for sure that I agree. Well then, this is where I leave you so I can go home myself and get that spell done, Shingo. I'm surprised you haven't been talking that much for a while." "The great Shingo is just confused and in deep thought! I will return to Yuya and the others now so I can beat him again!" "Ha. We'll see about that. Now if you excuse me, I have work to do back at my lab and someone to get to help me out." Bonesbane teleports away and Shingo logs off Duel Links. Waiting for him are Yuya, Yuzu(Zuzu), Reiji, and Noboru(Gong).
Reiji calmly states: "So there you are. We got a message from Dr. Bonesbane just now explaining where you were. Please pay more attention to what you do when you log into Duel Links for now on. The Lancers don't need any more incidents like that." Yuya gets excited about Shingo's return, he even hugs the guy. After that, they all part ways and go to sleep for the night. What a day! Dr. Bonesbane goes to the undersea nation of Coralia in Kohnanix to see an enchantress. The purple and blue seahorse furry with pink eyes wearing a beautiful cloak greets him: "It's been a while, Dr. Bonesbane! Haven't seen you since you first launched the Statue Mayhem game. What are you doing here?" "I need a favor, Rose. *hands her a scroll with the spell on it* Could you come with me to another world to cast this spell in a 30 mile radius from an area I choose? I know it's a lot considering the chaos that has been going on around here but I need your help." "Well I do owe you for saving my life with one of your crazy contraptions. Okay. Let's go." "Thank you so much! This means a lot, we'll at least delay a huge timeline problem with your aid." Bonesbane teleports himself and Rose to the middle of Konoha. By this time, Shikamaru, Choji, and Ino got to eat a nice dinner. In no time, Rose chants the required chant to activate the spell: "Interference in time leads to great danger. Destiny must not be interfered with. So I cast this spell to put a stop to this great disruption before it can tamper with everything. Altered Memory Sealing!"
In seconds, a faint rainbow aura spreads out throughout the area and once it fades, Bonesbane takes her back to Coralia after taking out all evidence in Konoha of the events and thanks her before going to his lab to do some research before bed. In a dark and unknown location, a mysterious figure who has been watching everything and talking about bringing some villains together states: "Everything is going exactly the way it has countless times before. If the consistency keeps up like this as always, I will finally find the opportunity to change the future that awaits. The reset is coming in several years. I must not let it happen. I must win the ultimate battle and not tie with my enemies again! The Dark Council will not be enough, I've tried it so many times and it always lets me down when it counts most. Any day now, the 2nd time ripple will signal my chance to begin the next phase of MY plot!" In Konoha, things turn back to normal, as normal as Konoha can be with the threat of the Akatsuki. In Miitopia, things remain on alert within Miitopia BRAINS. But there is another faction in Miitopia out there planning something. A swordfighter clad in knight armor with a grand looking sword and shield with some knight emblem on each ponders to herself while walking through Karakaton: "Tension is rising throughout Miitopia. It's almost time to go public with our organization. We need to recruit more powerful warriors to our cause. It's the only way." Find out what all these events lead to in other stories as the probably grim future that is waiting for us all with menacing eyes and sinister grins continues to rear it's horrifying head.
Outro: This was one heck of a chapter to write. It wasn't as funny or light hearted as the previous chapter but that's okay, there's stil, quite a bit of humor! The world of Naruto is much more dangerous and serious than say Equestria. I had a hard time with writing a good chunk of this, it can be hard to be in the right mood for these stories. A dark future is brewing in the plot line just like in real life. Countless life forms are in danger of being destroyed thanks to the greed and hatred spewing from the rich and powerful. Nowhere is truly safe. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Get ready for a much more humorous story chapter for Redundant Apocalypses which I haven't quite figured out how to have characters solve the conflict of. Anyway, see you next time! Stay safe, prepare to fight for your very existence in the near future, have some fun, and don't let people use you for their own selfish goals.