HAPPY NEW YEAR! *insert fireworks*

Say hello to 2018 ladies and gentelmans

Here is the new chapter. But before any of you start judging me for raising so many questions, please keep in mind that this is still the beginning of the whole story. They will all be answered in time. Enjoy

[Demon country. Ninja era.]

It was late night and Naruto was happy.

Why wouldn't he be? After all he has everything a man could ask for. Respect, an accomplished life, and most importantly a family.

His daughters are five years old right now. They are laughing without a care in the world as they try to hide from him in the shrine, behind a statue. Yes he's living in the shrine from in Demon country.

After the war ended he had to leave Konoha. Even if he became a symbol of pride for them, the other countries didn't feel safe knowing that just one of them hold so much power. He decided to end his life as a shinobi and enjoy the fruits of his hard work.

He raised his head and looked at the broken moon. Now that was overkill from his side. But it was totally worth it. Not his fault anyway, he just finished what someone else started.

Even with that, it was quiet and peaceful. How he wished that his parents could be here right now. His father would stand next to him and put a hand on his shoulder, congratulating him for bringing his and Jiraiya's dream to life while his mother would...well...to be fair...she would try to break his daughter's bones with her hug.

At least that's what he thought that would happen.

He got closer to the hiding spot and heard them talk. "Taiyo-oneechan, do you think he knows where we are?"

"Keep it low. He won't find us." they giggled.

He had a hard time trying to not laugh at their poor attempt. But he just has to play their game for awhile. "Tsuki! Taiyo! Come out from wherever you are! Papa is worried!" he chuckled for a bit. This is going to be gold. "Tsuki! Taiyo! Maybe I should look for them somewhere else. Maybe in Kumo, but that will take a week or soo." the two stiffened after hearing that. "Or maybe in Suna. That will easily take two weeks. Mmmhhh now that I think about it, I should just look around the world. That will take just a couple of months for me. Yeah I will do this right now."

"NNNOOOOOOO!" the two girls jumped on him with all their might. "Papa please don't goooooooo!" they yelled in unison. He embraced them with both of his arms while laughing. That get them every time. They can't stay away from him more than two days even if their lives depend on it. Three at best and even soo they would be lurking around all day demanding that he has to return.

But he stopped when he felt tears on his clothes."Now, now I was just joking. Stop crying, papa isn't going anywhere."

He can't complain about their reaction. After all, his is the one who is spoiling them rotten. That could been seen in the way they are dressed.

Both of them are wearing golden coloured yukatas with a orange sash, both with flowers design. They are also wearing wooden sandals. Both of them have his skin. Taiyo has his hair and her mother's eyes and Tsuki has her mother's hair and his eyes.

"*sniff* you promise?" asked Tsuki.

"Yes, yes I promise so please stop crying."

"Yay!" they both yelled.

"Now let's go. Soon it will be bedtime and we have to get home."

"OOOOOHHH but I want to play more with papa" said Taiyo.

"We can play tomorrow. We don't want to made your mother angry, do we?"

"Ok"

He put them down and held them by the hands. Taiyo was on his right and Tsuki on his left. As they start walking he could feel that the youngest isn't as energetic as usual. "Is everything alright Tsuki?" he asked with concern.

"Papa, can I ask you something?"

"What?"

"When i grow up, could I still stay with you?"

He smiled gently "That's your decision sweety."

"But would you still love me if I do?" he stopped in track and kneeled beside them.

"I want you to remember that I am always here for you and I will always love you. No matter what, when or where." they smiled and hugged him.

He took a last glance at moon. His eyes widened when he saw a floating figure in the distance.

[With Naruto. 06:30]

His eyes snapped open. It was just another dream.

[With Blake. Same time]

"Early bird gets the worm I suppose *yawn*" she wasn't happy about the fact that she has to wake up so early again.

And it didn't help that she slept in a tree to make sure nobody is going to ambush her. It wasn't the greatest bed ever and she nearly fall two times during the night. But at least shes safe.

For now.

And in addition, this tree is right in the middle of the most used route. The only reason she managed to wake up was the sound of students walking under her.

Three groups passed by now.

"Did they even sleep last night?" she asked herself. The last one was walking in slow pace because all of the members were tired as hell.

She couldn't attack because they were too many. Even so if they meet another group they are done for. "Now this is a dumb decision."

She got down from the three and stretched her limbs. Is time to hunt.

[With Yang. Same time]

"*yawn* I swear I going to punch Cardin in the face when I see him." she muttered to herself.

Because of him she has to be up at this unholy hour. He is going to pay for this. She is ready to fall asleep right now. She couldn't find any shelter. But even if she could find, it wouldn't be too much of an help for her. Without someone to watch her back the others could atack her while she was sleeping.

"*sigh*I hope Ruby is okay."

[With Ruby]

She just woke up and she has to say, it's strange to not see Naruto first thing in the morning. Having someone that greet you with a warm smile every morning is pretty addictive.

She looked to the side to see that Weiss wasn't sleeping. She was still sitting down, but she is awake.

"WEIiii SSSSSSS!" Ruby jumped on her with a big smile on her face and tears of happiness in her eyes.

"RUBY YOU DOLT GET OFF ME RIGHT NOW" yup...she is alright. The good old ice queen. "What got into you?" she asked with her usual stern voice.

"But you!..and the wound!...and you wouldn't wake up!...and!...and!...and!...I'm sorry for not coming faster!" anime style tears were pouring from her eyes.

"I'm fine. Now please explain what happened. How long have I been out?"

"A little over 10 hours" said a voice from their right. It was Ren."I am glad to see that you are awake. But we have to hurry. The others are going to leave soon. Can you walk or do you want someone to carry you for a while?" she finally got Ruby off of her and raised from the ground. She doesn't have any problem standing up or walking.

"I can walk on my own." she said after a few seconds.

"Good. We will explain everything on the way to our new destination. Some of Cardin's scouts found a passing not far from here. It's leading straight toward the West region."

"Cardin's scouts? Why are we listening to Cardin out of all people out there?"

"Believe me Weiss, I don't like it one bit myself. But right now the numbers are talking." said Ren with a defeated tone.

"How many are they that we can't take them down?" she may be tired and angered by her lose, but she knows very well that Pyrrha, Nora and Ren are better than regular students. Even than a big majority of the third year.

"Around 30, without us." said Ruby.

"Correction, they were around 30 last night. Now we are talking about 45. During Cardin's shift a group joined us. He managed to somehow convince them to trust him. Don't ask me how, just keep your eyes wide open."

"Ren you have to be kidding me. How could Cardin do this. He is the most hated individual in the whole school since the incident from the cafeteria. If this is a joke it's not funny."

"We know. And believe me when I say that we want to leave his group. But we have to wait for the right moment. For now we must wait. Now let's go, the others are waiting."

[Salem's castel. Library. The same time]

The four new Uzumaki were standing at a table, waiting for Salem to join them. Emerald was sleepy since she spend a lot of time searching through books yesterday.

"Had a rough time sleeping sweetheart?" asked Mercury with a teasing tone. He slept like a log all night so he is ok with waking up early in the morning.

"Mercury, shut up or I will make you to."

"Ohh my fucking god! Shut the fuck up already you two! Take your lover's quarrel somewhere else!" Roman is very angry right, so they choose to stop. He didn't smoke any cigarets in the last 10 hours or so. Damn Cinder for taking his only lighter and every bit of fire dust he had. How did she get her hands on it in the first place?

And here comes the mistress, dressed as always and ready to brainwa-ahhhh teach the new generation about the ways of the Keepers. Yeah that's it *cough*.

"I am happy to see you all so eager. For now we will continue with the introduction to the origins. As I was saying yesterday, our Lord has left the realm of mortals. But this was just the beginning. What brought us to our current situation happened after this. Even with Him gone, the chakra that was bestowed to us long ago was still in our hands." she was interrupted by Mercury.

"Ahhhh cha-what?"

Emerald was the one that answered. "Chakra. The first form of aura. It's an ancient power far stronger than what we have today. It's also the power used by our Lord and the dark gods. It was diluted over the years because of the countless changes that took place in our world."

"Correct. Without him to guide us, humanity choose the war again. Not even our ancestor could comprehend what was the spark that ignited the first war that took place after His departure. They named it 'The hollow war'. It was such a meaningless confrontation that appeared without any logical reason. It is believed that this was the true nature of the humans that lived long ago. Pure violence. In this time, both the Keepers and the Followers were still allies that fought for peace. But as the next generation came, nothing changed. His daughters died during the war and now their children were the leaders. They prayed for His return, guidance or help just to receive nothing in return. The hope was lost. But finally, they got an answer. A god came on earth to help and showed himself in front of the leader of Keepers. The god kneeled in defeat before him, his tears holding great pain as bleeding wounds covered his body. Not knowing who or what was he, the leader was reluctant to listen to him. He spoke about the cruelty of the other gods. They locked our savior away and cast the war on the world so His struggle for peace would be pointless. They wanted to selfishly punish him for becoming stronger than them. The Keepers didn't believe him but he said his last words:'In nine days the sky will turn black and the gates toward the god's realm will close forever. But there is a way to open them. Once the peace will rule again, He will gain enough power to escape their grasp' as soon as he finished, his body fell on ground and disappeared."

"The crow on his shoulder." said Roman, making the others look at him "That is the meaning of the crow that was whispering in His ear in that image. The one from yesterday."

Salem seemed pleased "Yes. Over the time, he was represented in our paintings as a crow. Excellent deduction Roman. Ofcourse the Keepers didn't believe him at first. Who would trust a strange man with some tricks up his sleeve. But even so, they thought of it as another reason to continue to fight for peace. Even if it was the fantasy of a mad man, the very idea that their victory will help Him in any way was enough. However, they could only look helplessly as nine days later his premonition became real. The entire sky became completely dark. Soon the Keepers talked with the Followers about this, but they didn't believe that this is related in any way with what happened. In the end they ignored this event. However, this left one question in the back of every Keeper's mind. What if the rest is also true? After that we choose to take a more...direct abordation. The leaders wanted the war to stop, no matter what they had to do, so they made a decree: Anyone who dare to disturb the peace of the world, in any way, will be killed on instant. The Followers didn't agree and this is the point where we became enemies. They wanted to keep them alive and judge them 'justly', postponing the moment of His liberation. It was too late to make them see the reality. This lead to their ultimate demise during the last war between kingdoms. But we too had our loses. Now is time for us to put an end to the war that tainted our world for all this years."

"Ah Hmm I don't want to question the wisdom of the great Keepers or whatever, but there is one things wrong in that story." said Mercury, a bit confused.

"The presence of our saviour among us. As painful as it is, I must say that the one who is now serving that huntress is nothing but a hollow shell of what He was. The dark gods corrupted him, why else do you think that he would lower himself to such degree." said Salem with a scowl "This is why we have act fast. If He is here, than the one that came long ago to give us the truth will come too. We have to be prepared for war once again. The others will start your training as soon as possible."

The four new members were left with a few question of their own after this. What did they get themselves into.

[With Kami and Shinigami. Kami's realm]

Shinigami had to resist the urge to sigh loudly. He has to sit through one of his sister's ranting about how angry she is because of Naruto. AGAIN!

"I am going to kill him when I get my hands on his neck. Just who does he think he is? And now he is just fooling around with the humans. I swear that-""I GOT IT! YOU ARE PISSED! DEAL WITH IT!"

"Don't you dare insinuate that he doesn't deserve what he got."

"Who? Me? Oh no no no. Kami, I am hurt my dear sister. I am just saying that you went OVER THE FUCKING BOARD!"

"OH please do tell me why is it that."

"Look. I respect you. He respects you. Every god and goddess respects you. There is a reason why we choose you as our leader. BUT OPEN YOUR EYES ALREADY! This is not normal. Humans and faunus are dying more that they are supposed too. Some of them even earlier then they should. If anything WE should be down there doing something. But why aren't we? OHHH YEAHHH. Because we aren't allowed there anymore. It's sooooo bad that we can't make an exception from this rule for once, just to make sure that this is really 'natural'." the sarcasm was clear in his voice.

"We aren't supposed to be able to at this point. The barrier we made around it was too strong to be destroyed by any of us. How did it happen?"

"How should I know?! But with it or without it, the situation would be the same. Ever since we made that damn barrier, everything became worse than it was before. I am sick of having to deal with these kind of things. Is easy for you and Yami to remain calm, but I have to take care of every soul. I have seen what wars and natural disasters could cause. This is neither of them. If anything it's ten times worse the two of them put together."

"It was impossible for any god to control was happened during this time. Why do you and Naruto keep saying this. The only ones that could pass the barrier were you and your angels of death. You have been countless of times in the mortal realm. You seen it for yourself."

"The barrier would allow us to go there just enough time to take the souls. Once we took them, it would teleport us back to the underworld and you know that. I never had the chance to see what is going on there. And none of my angels could afford to even care about this. Right now, the underworld is overflowing with souls that have to be send in the after life."

"And yet, you have time to be here." that was the point were Shinigami lost it.

"YOU UNGRATEFUL, SPOILED BRAT!"

"WHAT!? DO YOU WANNA FIGHT SHINIGAMI?"

"NO! I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT! I WANT A DAMN SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM! THERE ARE JUST FOUR OF US THAT KNOW ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING AND WE NEED TO SOLVE IT SOMEHOW! BUT INSTEAD OF THINKING ABOUT THIS, YOU JUST SEND HIM TO THE MORTAL REALM!"

"HE BROKE THE RULES!"

"I DON'T CARE! TOGETHER WE WOULD MOST LIKELY HAVE FINISHED EVERYTHING BY NOW! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE STUBBORN?!"

There was silence for a few seconds. They began emit a lot of power and killing intent without realising.

"I don't have to justify myself in front of you." her eyes were cold as he was glaring at her brother.

"Of Course. Why would our almighty leader answer a question that came from a lowly servant."

"Don't push it brother. I am warning you."

"I'm backing down from this one, dear sister. And I demand that you lift his punishment, think better about everything that happened until this point and than come with a decision."

"And since when can you demand things from me."

"Since you owe me for that incident three thousand years ago. I am not joking around, so if you don't want everyone to know what happened back there, do what I said."

Kami's face was full of rage and shame. She sighed in defeat "I am not going to lift his punishment yet. Here is a deal. If he can bring any evidence that what you say is true, I will reveal everything to the other gods and forgive him. You have one month." she extended her hand toward Shinigami "Deal?"

He accepted her hand "Deal" turning around, the god of death leaved her realm via teleportation. Kami was left alone with her thoughts. In her mind, she knew that they will not find anything. But like hell is she going to let the others know about her secret. If this event will come to light, she might lose more than her position as the leader of the gods.

Aaaaannnnnddd done!

See you all next time!