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PROLOGUE

The sun has once more shined with the luster of its prime and life has once again begun to sprout from the erstwhile blood drenched and barren soil. The human race, it would seem has weathered and almost forgotten the terrible wars waged by their ancestors in the distant past that threatened their very existence; though by some peculiar twist of fate, has also united them as a single species and triumphed upon the malign and great entities that seek to smother their flame. Or so they say. As time passed by, legends became the accepted truths; paradoxically, as humanity developed and advanced, these so called accepted truths has become legends once more.

It is intriguing how the age of the shinobi came to its untimely end, almost 10,000 years ago. Naruto Uzumaki, the greatest hero known to this era has vanished without a trace at the conclusion of the fourth great shinobi war. Grand and majestic monuments of him was commissioned and erected in the heart of every hidden village not only to commemorate his valor but to serve as a potent inspiration to all aspiring ninjas. Though people can't help but wonder what happened to the young shinobi. It was a general conjecture that he, along with the rest of the allied shinobi forces has perished, sacrificing their lives to subdue and seal the ten-tailed beast. However, there are some who believe that he is still alive and will return once more when his people needed him most. The truth, however, is a bitter pill to swallow for he never came back. Not in this timeline at least.

A mysterious plague then swept the land like lighting from a cloudless sky, killing countless in its wake. Soon war broke between the survivors competing for resources. Cities and settlements were razed and civilization began to decline and rapidly devolve, the earth was painted red from the menagerie of violent deaths. What happened next, however, is even grimmer. An unknown series of cataclysms occurred that shattered and sunken the elemental nations beneath the unforgiving ocean. Entombing all but a few of its denizens in a watery mausoleum.

The handful of survivors fled to distant lands where they encountered and interacted with the primitive locals. With their knowledge of chakra and more advanced sciences like metallurgy and medicine, they uplifted these primitives and their descendants ruled over them as kings. However, as decades passed, a new problem arose that effectively erased the legacy and all but a few signs of the Elemental nations.

For reasons unknown, the chakra levels of subsequent generations is gradually dampening and thus their children and their children's progeny has become weaker overtime. They attempted to rectify this by crafting technological devices meant to amplify their existing chakra and by carefully managing their gene-pool through selective marriages and later on inbreeding but to no avail. Chakra has continuously diminished until it became no longer existent. Furthermore, all knowledge, memory and records of the survivors and their descendants literally ceased to exist as time continued to flow. As if it was the sublime machinations of a great and terrible power who by reasons known only to itself, willed them to fade from existence. All that remained of their legacy are the chakra focusing artifacts they crafted eons ago which was discovered later on by modern archeologists and dismissed as meager works of art or ceremonial contrivances, not knowing its higher purpose.

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"Naruto" A calm and mysterious voice whispered

Naruto found himself in a dark and eerie environment. The only thing breaking the silence is what seemed to be the sound of dropping water and an unseen flowing river.

"Who…are you? What is this place? Am I dead?" Naruto asked in bewilderment

"I am Hagoromo Otsusuki and we are in your dream, within the depths of your subconscious mind" the voice said in an astute tone as he revealed himself to be the sage of six paths.

"The war-the Jubi! I must…" Naruto said frantically, recollecting his predicament before the dream.

"It is too late for that my child. Almost ten millennia has passed since then" the sage explained to Naruto which startled the blond shinobi in to disbelief.

"No that's impossible! I was there! I just passed out a few minutes-hours at the most that's all!" Naruto protested in incredulity for what the sage said to him makes no sense. Then memories of the final battle flashed in to his head "The ten tails…..was sealed within me" he muttered as reality finally trickled in.

"Yes. You are now the jichuriki of the one-eyed god. You must use its power wisely. Though, I'm afraid that what I have told you is no less than the truth" The sage exclaimed in a solemn tone.

"And you waited this long to tell me that old man? Why?" Naruto inquired in anguish with a sorrow filled voice and a trace of brewing rage.

"A dark god barred me from this sphere. He is immensely powerful, I was no match. I am only able to form a connection with you just now because he is temporarily distracted for some reason. I fear that it won't last; even as we speak I can sense that he's already aware of my presence and soon he will banish me once more. But before he could, I have decided to transfer my remaining power to you. You shall once again be the protector of mankind" Hagoromo said in a calm and philosophical tone as he proceeded to gift Naruto his remaining power.

The sage brought his hands together and placed them in to Naruto' forehead then proceeded to transferred his chakra, wisdom and an aspect of his personality to guide the young shinobi in his tasks. Naruto felt a warm sensation as the power of the great sage flowed within him and revitalized his body. A golden shroud of chakra began to engulf him. Then it formed in to a light gold colored coat with a dark colored 'bodysuit' that covers of his torso underneath (or that's what it superficially looks like), reaching down to his arms and to his knuckles, and down his legs, stopping just above his sandals which also changed color. A light colored circle appeared where his seal was placed, as well as golden magatama markings on his collar. Subsequently, truth seeking balls began to form. They were orbs of black malleable chakra the size of a fist and containing all five nature transformations and yin-yang release.

"Cool" Naruto amusedly exclaimed as he held out his hand and a truth seeking ball hovered above it. "What should I do now?" he then queried the sage, unsure of how he'll proceed.

"First you must wake up" The sage resonded with a smile as he slowly fades and vanished.

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(Bimini Island - 1855)

Faintly glowing, rippled-purple eyes slowly opened. Naruto looked around and although it is pitch black his eyes were perfectly capable of perceiving the environment. He found himself in an underground cavern of glossy obsidian riddled with clusters of hexagonal crystal stalagmites and stalactites, and a series of interconnected subterranean rivers coursed within the natural edifice. The sound of the flowing streams, along with the rhythmic falling drops of water from the crystal stalagmites created a pleasing harmonic melody.

"Shinra Tensei!" Naruto instinctively exclaimed with a strong commanding voice. A huge shockwave of repelling force emanated from his body and smashed in to the rocks above him like a giant's hammer. This created a large geyser of dust and rubble that was spotted by a passing steam ship, the Isabel, who was on her route to England after a largely unsuccessful expedition from the southern Americas.

Naruto emerged from the crater and incoherently limped for some distance before he collapsed from the strain of activating his Rinnengan for the first time and the stupor caused by suddenly unleashing vast amounts of chakra after his millennia long inertness.

"Sir there is some kind of explosion on the island" A crewman peering on a spy glass yelled

A man named William Kennedy, who is the head of the said expedition took his spy glass and peered in it seeing an expanding cloud of dust akin to that elicited by barrels of gunpowder that has been lit. He decided to investigate and gave the order. "Captain, turn starboard in to that island and instruct your men to prepare the boats"

"Aye sir!" The captain concurred and began cascading orders to the rest of his crew.

The Isabel seemed to bristle with life as her crew was roused to activity. The helmsman turned the ship starboard and headed to the island as ordered. While others of the crew prepared to lower the jollyboats to ferry people once they get in to a sufficient proximity to the island.

An exploration team was assembled to investigate the mysterious explosion. Leading it was William Kennedy himself and a rather stout Spanish gentleman named Gaspard Villalobos, who's also the ship's first mate and second in command. Once the jollyboats hit shore they instantly noticed Naruto lying senseless on the beach.

"It's just a young lad, no older than my boy" said by a middle aged crewmen as they approached and got a closer inspection of the shinobi

"Maybe one of the locals?" a relatively naïve crewman inquired

"Nay. He doesn't look like it" The first replied

"The boy's features are distinctly Caucasian, and the clothes he's wearing…..well I never seen the likes of it before. He could be a survivor from a shipwreck; this part of the world is known for its sporadic and unpredictable storms after all." Gaspard Villalobos mused as he tried to deduce the predicament that befallen the golden haired boy.

"Bring him to the ship. Let's save our questions when he wake up" William Kennedy said looking at the unconscious Naruto.

Naruto was carried in one of the jollyboat and transported back to the Isabel while the rest of the crew stayed on the island to investigate. They found nothing unusual except a fairly large crater, the size of a house.

"Found anything interesting sir?" The captain greeted William Kennedy as he returned and board the ship

"Non, save for a depression caused by the earlier explosion we've witnessed. What of the boy?"

"Our guest has regained consciousness though he's still quite weak, Dr. Newton said he will be fine but would need a few days to regain his strength"

"Very well" William Kennedy nodded to the captain

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(Steam Ship Isabel – The Next Day)

After some hours of rest Kenneddy and Villalobos decided to give their guest a visit

"How is he doctor?" Villalobos inquired

"It's amazing. He shouldn't even be able to stand at this state but it appears that he has fully recuperated in just a short amount of time." Dr. Michael Newton, a lanky, blond haired Englishman said astounded at how fast Naruto has recovered. He later migrated to the US and settled in California a few years after the expedition. He is Mike Newton's great-grandfather.

"You boy, what is your name?" Kennedy inquired in a calm but stern tone

Naruto looked at him with a bemused stare and began speaking in the language of the Elemental nations of which non them could understand.

"Ya' know I appreciate you taking care of me and all but can someone please tell me where the hell am I?" Naruto said with a bit of bewilderment in his face

"Did anyone caught any of that?" A perplexed crewman inquired

"We can't comprehend a thing he's saying and apparently he can't understand our language either" Dr. Newton exclaimed

"It sounds very much like Japanese" Villalobos speculated, his hand rubbing his chin.

"I didn't know you speak the orient" The captain said in amusement

"Oh I'm quite fluent at it. You see, there's this beautiful Japanese girl I met in Manila when I was but a young lad serving as a cabin boy for a merchant galleon, several years ago. She taught me a few words and a few more other things if you know what I mean. Villalobos reminisced in a jolly tone that made him and the rest of the crew burst in a roaring belly laugh.

"Then talk to him" Kennedy instructed the Spaniard with an impassive face.

So Villalobos did as he was ordered and started speaking in a heavily accented Japanese, asking the boy his name.

Modern Nihongo is a linguistic evolution of the more archaic language of the Elemental nations and thus Naruto found it to be only partially intelligible but he caught enough words to deduce his enquirer's question.

"Naruto" He replied pointing a finger to himself.

"What did he say" Kennedy queried

"I think he said his name is Naruto" Villalobos replied, uncertain.

"Very well then Mr. Naruto, welcome to the Isabel" Kennedy exclaimed, extending his arm for a handshake.

Though he couldn't understand the strange man in front of him, Naruto knew that he is extending a gesture of friendship and so he responded. But as soon as their hands made contact, Naruto, through his latent six paths sage power has inadvertently gazed in to the mind of William Kennedy and saw what the latter saw in his lifetime and learned much from it, including the English language.

"Whoa! What was that?" Naruto said in English as he recovered from the confounding experience.

"I thought he couldn't speak English" The captain said more suspicious than confused.

"I do now" Naruto shrugged dumbfounding everyone. As to how he did it he never told them.

Days have passed and the crews' suspicion of the shinobi has eventually quelled. He befriended them and using the knowledge he gained from William Kennedy's mind, Naruto fabricated a story to satisfy their curiosity. He told them that he was in the service of a merchant ship, acting as a translator. One day, as their ship was on route to Acapulco a violent storm appeared out of nowhere, battering them with violent winds and colossal waves. The last thing he remembered was a large waterspout approaching their vessel, violently reaping its fore-sail and breaking a mast before he felt a debris struck his head and blacked out.

Everyone who heard his story became pale and felt their blood curdled as the horrific account is nothing short of every seafarer's nightmare. They pitied Naruto but at the same time felt a huge pride for him as it's quite rare indeed to see what he saw and live to tell the tale.

Months have passed and the Isabel reached London. Naruto decided to explore this new world and learn everything he could from it. He bid farewell to the crew of the Isabel and thanked them once more for the kindness they showed him.

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Years have passed and Naruto learned the existence of curious creatures living in the sewers of London. They look like ordinary men and women, but much paler. They have cold skin, red eyes and fed on the blood of humans to sustain their own damned existence. He decided to observe this cloistered beings and study them and their behavior. It seemed that their reflexes and agility are much faster than what modern humans are able see. They also have sharper and more attuned senses designed to track and predict their prey like apex predators. According to the stories he heard, these undead beings are called vampires; they subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures, specifically their blood. When it became clear to Naruto that these vampires were beyond any help and are a threat to the people living above he decided to destroy them as humanely as possible with powerful fire jutsus.

Curiously, he also discovered that some of these vampires have special abilities like telepathy and lesser element manipulation (though these abilities are inferior and less versatile compared to those possessed by any given jonin or talented chunin). He hypothesized that these rare individuals may have been descended from the shinobis who survived the destruction of the Elemental nations; and the same process that turned them in to undead beings may have also awakened the latent powers of their lineage.

He became much engrossed studying these creatures for he thought that they would be the key to unlock the elusive mysteries of the past. His quest has led him to travel all over the known world and beheld strange and fascinating things and beings alike. Such of these are the feral werewolves that reminded him so much of the Inuzuka clan, Kiba and Akamaru in particular.

On one of his travels to Italy he encountered a vampire named Carlisle Cullen who he found interesting for he is unlike the rest of his kind. This vampire prefers to drink animal blood. This is due to his belief that it's much more humane than drinking the blood of humans, thereby killing them.

He revealed himself to the Carlisle who found him equally fascinating as well; for the latter never saw the kind of immortality Naruto has. They became good friends and in time Naruto told him the truth about himself and how he acquired his immortality. He told him about how the ten-tails sealed in him supercharged the longevity and regenerative abilities of his Uzumaki lineage to the point of agelessness and immortality. Any damage he sustains (which requires an immensely powerful force) instantly neat up within moments as if it was never inflicted on the first place. He no longer needs to eat nor drink for nourishment due to the fact that he passively absorbs and assimilate nature energy that fuels him, though he does eat food nonetheless for the pleasure of it and because it reminds him of his humanity.

Years have passed yet again and Carlisle decided to move to the new worlds, feeling that there's nothing more for him left in Europe and citing the possibilities of a new and more prolific life in the Americas. Soon after, Naruto decided to migrate as well.

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(Late 1800s – Texas)

It was in the apex of the southern vampire war that Naruto landed on the shores of the United States. He traveled for a while then decided to settle in Pleasanton, a sleepy little community at the time, south of San Antonio. The town is indeed true to its name for he found the weather and the simple folks living there to be no less than pleasant.

"I can get used to this" he said with a smile on his face while basking in the gentle rays of the autumnal sun.

He had settled in town for about four years and a half now, and built a cozy and lofty house near what is now known today as Ruby hill. Though he occasionally sends his shadow clones far and wide to investigate. Everybody knows him as the luckiest young prospector on the face of the earth for he always came back in town from his numerous yearlong expeditions with a satchel full of gold. In reality the gold is a product of a Jutsu he developed by combining Earth Element Transformation and Magnet Release Chakra to mystically extract any kind of metal from crude ores and later on he became so proficient at the technique that he was able to extract metal such as gold to its purest form on the very landscape he is standing on.

Young women would always blush and giggle at the sight of him for he is the most eligible bachelor in town. This is not only in part due to his extraordinary good looks but also because of his affluence. Though people can't help but wonder why hadn't he found himself a wife or at the very least doesn't hire any domestic help; he is a wealthy man after all and frugality isn't really a mandatory virtue, furthermore his residence is quite sizable and maintaining it would require a servant or two. To all who curiously asked him such questions he just responded that he values his privacy and enjoy living a bachelor's life.

One winter night he encountered a group of vampires who killed a local man. Three of them were new-borns and the last one is a blond male wearing a confederate uniform, his skin covered with scars from past battles; though this scars are normally invisible to humans they are his dominant features when viewed by others with supernatural eyesight. Not only did Naruto instantly scrutinized the fact that he is the leader of the group but also discerned the vampire's somewhat slight hesitation to kill humans.

As soon as they noticed Naruto, the new-born vampires attacked without hesitation as they thought him as another easy meal. The shinobi then proceeded to efficiently dispatched them all in a split second save for the leader who is now awestricken for he never encountered any creature let alone a human being able to do that.

"Say, what's your name soldier?" Naruto said

"Jasper Whitlock" the vampire responded.

Naruto found him quite amusing, similar to when he first met Carlisle. To Jasper's surprise, Naruto did not only spare his life that night but also offered him another option to live. He found this difficult to believe and it confounded him. He retreated back to his coven and never told anyone what happened that night.

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Naruto has lived a peaceful and blissful life in that sleepy town but alas, it's time to move on. Less than pleasant gossips and rumors about him are quickly spreading and the superstitious townsfolk has made themselves scarce in his presence for they have scrutinized some truth from the malicious whispers; such as the fact that he didn't look a day older since he first set foot on Pleasanton, more than a decade ago. He decided to sell his estate and move north but before he left, he cast a powerful Genjutsu on the townspeople that made them believe that nothing is amiss.

He then heard stories of Quileute shape-shifters that can transform in to wolves at will so he went in search of them but ended up slightly disappointed after he found out that the transformation process is some sort of defensive response. This means that their lycanthrope shifting ability could only be initialized by having a vampire present to trigger it on a genetic level, but for generations such creatures has not been seen and the last remaining Quileute elder who have the power to transform is on his deathbed. Interestingly, he found out that once activated they can consciously control their shifting and are aware of their actions while in wolf form unlike werewolves who can only transform at the phase of the full moon and on the process loses their self-awareness in lieu of bloodthirsty feral rage.

Another 26 years swiftly passed, seemingly like a feather that has fallen from the wings of a soaring falcon. During this interim Naruto has traveled all around the world and studied in the most respected universities and under the most preeminent intellectuals the sciences of archeology, biology and genetics (a relatively new kind of discipline at the time) as well as the contemporary theories of evolution of that period. Though it is not in his character to seek answers in the academe, the wisdom and aspect of Hagoromo Otsusuki embedded on the totality of his personality has discerned it necessary to further his search for answers.

Unfortunately things took a turn for the worst as his theory regarding the shape-shifters transformation and the special abilities of some vampires has been unfounded. He discovered that these gifts are wrought through evolutionary mutations or may be entirely supernatural in some cases but has no connection to Kekkei Genkai nor Chakra, thus ruling-out the possibility that they are descendants of survivors from the Elemental nations.

This had depressed and disheartened the shinobi so much and was about to give up on his hopes when he encountered an old friend on one of his travels to Washington. It was Carlisle; they haven't seen each other for roughly 60 years now. To Naruto's surprise, Carlisle has some company with him. He introduced the shinobi to Esme, Edward, Rosalie and Emmet; it would seem that all this time he found himself a new family. Interestingly, Jasper, the vampire he encountered and decided to spare in the past is now a member of Carlisle's coven along with his mate, Alice. Jasper was equally surprised seeing the shinobi again and knowing that he and Carlisle knew each other.

Naruto was then further flabbergasted when Carlisle suddenly invited him to be a member of his family, which he graciously accepted. Though, he found it a little bit amusing to pose as Carlisle's adopted son due to the fact that he is technically thousands of years older than him.

"Naruto Cullen huh? I don't know. It sounds a little weird ya' know" Naruto hummed with a stoic face.

"Well we could always go with any name you see fit old friend" Carlisle chuckled

"Naruto Uzumaki. I want to use the name my parents gave me to honor the legacy of the elemental nations and so that it would always remind me of my heritage and my quest." Naruto exclaimed with the will of fire burning in his eyes.

"It's settled then. Welcome to the family Naruto Uzumaki." Carlisle said with a gentle smile

The shinobi felt elated and his depression was partially appeased from the unexpected serendipity, it reminded him of the nostalgic bliss of having friends and family once more.

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AN: Hi there folks! I hope you enjoyed reading.

This is the first time I wrote a fanfic or anything else for that matter since highschool. I've been reading some fanfics and short stories for several months now and decided to take a shot and write one of my own. So basically I wanted to write a Naruto-Twilight crossover with some elements of C'thulhu mythos and other literary works to supplement the plot. I hope I wouldn't disappoint you folks.

In this chapter Naruto woke up from what he thought to be just a few hours of being unconscious but realized that he has been in hibernation for 9,885 years. Also I thought I would expound on the events that occurred before he met the Cullens.

What really happened to the elemental nations and the shinobi world as a whole will be gradually revealed as the story develops and as we progress to the subsequent chapters.

Please tell me what you think and I also would highly welcome any suggestions to improve it.

See you next chapter

Cheers!