(We are nearing the season one finale'. The theme song for Naruto will be included at the end of the tone of it is supposed to be somber and emotional guitar music. Anyway, some of you are already PMing and asking me just "WTF" is going on here. Well, all I can say is that hints will be given, take them as you will. Anyway, that about wraps this up, please take care and thank you for one thousand followers.

Seriously, I can't thank you enough!

Let's shoot for two thousand!

-Love Blaze.)

Son Goku stood in his own little reality marble inside of Naruto's seal. The proud ape king, The Yonbi, stood tall over the trees he made up for it. He was lost in his thoughts, focusing on the winds of mountains. He remembered it all, and he couldn't have been happier those days. However, Naruto was only human, and humans never lasted forever. It felt lonely, in this mountain, and yet he could still feel the presence of his brother somewhere here.

He just couldn't find him!

Looking down, he saw a phantom of a little girl playing hopscotch on stones she created. The girl's navy-blue hair didn't wave in his wind, nor did her light blue eyes lack the mirth of any child. She just hummed a song, playing, she stopped and turned to Son Goku. The Monkey King just sighed and smiled. His hand outreached, gently picking her up and placing her on his back.

"Come now, Himawari-Hime, let us go for a walk around my kingdom." Son Goku sighed, but he then forced a smile.

She returned the smile, not recognizing it as force, "Okay, but only until Tou-chan comes to get me!"

"Yes," Son chuckled slightly. "Until he comes to get you…Princess Lavender."

Naruto was slowly leaning upward as he woke up. He had some bandages around his midsection. The smell of medicine permeated the air. Looking over the various beds, he held his head as he felt Son's power move about inside of him. His chakra nodes getting used to Bijuu chakra once more, he felt some open that he never really paid attention to before.

Getting up from the bed, he walked over to grab his jacket that was on a hanger. He noted something, leaning over toward the glass door, he saw his reflection. His whisker marks had thickened a little bit. His blue eyes seemed to glow in the darkness of the room. Opening the door, the blonde saw the hallway that was empty. The ticking of a clock caught his attention, he looked at the time. He saw that it was eleven in the evening, everyone that was responsible would be in bed by now.

'Son, are you awake?' Naruto mentally called out.

'Of course, I am,' Son replied. 'I see you're nearly healed. That emergency seal you did with me was dangerous, your chakra coils and pathway have diluted themselves throughout our separation. Kurama not being inside of you, well, you get the gist.'

'Unfortunately,' Naruto mumbled while he began to walk, 'Son, did I have a weird dream?'

'Define weird,' Son requested. 'I can still see Obito and Madara in mine…'

Naruto bit his lip, 'I feel like I am trapped. I'm inside like this box, and outside I can see myself and Hinata…but…here…I'm stuck.'

'I can't move, I can't call out to her, she can't hear or see me. I'm then just sent away, and I just wake up. This is just been a dream I've had on and off every so often,' Naruto told Son, leaning against the wall. 'We need to get home soon…'

'Naruto,' Son sighed. 'I know we must get home soon, but these people still need us here…'

'I know…' Naruto replies before walking down the hallway, 'I need to go for a walk Son, talk later?'

'I guess, I'm inside of you, not like I'm going anywhere anytime soon…later Naruto-san,' Son disconnected their mental link.

Naruto rubbed his temple, growling a little at the pain. Walking the corridors of the castle-like school, the blonde felt all the energy signatures. However, he found his eyes widening when feeling something pulse back at him. Grunting, he looked around, opening a window before hopping out of it. Looking at his glowing Sun Mark, he saw it staying solid. No pulsing, nothing, just not signaling anything other than he was still an Ashura incarnate. Stopping near the fountain, he looked down at his reflection. He stared into it, noting how he looked trashed.

He saw himself in the waters, slowly, it changed to where he was wearing The Hokage cloak. His eyes dulled over a little bit, watching as Hinata walked next to him in the water. Slowly, he reached down, trying to touch her and see if she could just pull him in. Only he felt the water envelop the tip of his finger, distorting his image and hers until it transformed into a black-haired girl with golden eyes. Startled, he jumped back, looking at her.

"Hey, are you alright?" The girl asked him.

"Wow, sorry, I just…dozed off!" Naruto quickly lied.

"Okay," the teenage girl accepted, though she was weirded out. "Are you a student here, I haven't seen you around?"

"Oh, no, I'm just a…um…a friend of Ozpin's. My name is Naruto," he greeted her with his hand out. "Nice to meet you, sorry I just got out of the infirmary."

She smiled a little, "Blake, Blake Belladonna. You just looked out of place, so I was just checking to see who you were…"

'Right,' Naruto mused before speaking up, "Is the cafeteria still open?"

"They're closed," Blake answered while crossing her arms. "I think there's some stuff to make sandwiches in the common rooms though."

"Awesome," Naruto said while chuckling a little. "Looks like Operation: Kill All Sandwiches is in effect, Dattebayo."

She couldn't help it, a giggle crept out, "Yeah. Though, if I may warn you, avoid the chicken."

"Oh, why's that?" Naruto inquired, rubbing the back of his head.

"Crap, sorry, just trying to do what a friend told me to do. Break the ice with jokes," she sighed. "Well, I didn't mean to offend you, since you're a Fox Faunus."

"Well…I'm not a Faunus," Naruto pointed toward his whiskers, "These are just birthmarks."

"Really?" Blake asked, surprised.

"Yeah, trust me, I grew up with being called The Fox Boy and stuff because of them. Anyway," Naruto sighed as he stretched. "I know this may sound embarrassing, but I don't really know my way around this place…"

"Didn't you say you were a friend of Ozpin?" Blake inquired incredulously.

"To be fair," Naruto points out, "I didn't say I knew my way around here."

Rolling her eyes, Blake smirked, "Fair point."

"Still though," Blake pointed toward a part of the campus, "You'll find the common rooms over there."

"Thanks, um, Blake." Naruto thanked her, he felt confused. "By chance, are you staying up?"

"I'm mostly an owl," She admitted. "I have trouble sleeping at night, why?"

"Just thought I could talk to someone to pass the time," the Shinobi admitted. "I'm not from Vale."

Blake hummed, "Where are you from then?"

"Vacuo," Naruto answered swiftly. "I am just dropping by every so often since Ozpin is offering jobs."

"Jobs," she lingered on the word, "As in Hunting missions?"

"Well," Naruto rubbed the back of his head, "More like specific things."

She was curious and looked into his eyes to see if he was lying. Usually, when someone lies, their pupils would dilate for a very moment. He caught onto what she was doing quickly enough and paced his heart in order to control his own body's natural tendency to dilate in the act of a lie. So, when he answered her, she couldn't notice his eyes dilating. She pulled back, crossing her arms, and looking at him some more.

'It's weird,' Blake thought as she gazed into his eyes. 'I swear I've met him before….'

'Why is she just staring into my eyes,' Naruto began to sweat, 'Seriously, its kind of weird.'

She just sighed, "Sorry, I just…well…"

"You know," Naruto chuckled a little bit. "I don't mind hanging out here…kind of peaceful."

"Yeah," she took a seat on the fountain's stonework, "Sorry about being suspicious…"

"It's all good," Naruto replied as he took a seat on the stonework as well. "Truth be told, I'm rather surprised that there aren't security guards walking around this place."

"Well there's Glynda, who is like an army of security guards," Blake pointed out.

"Still," the blonde watched as moth floated down to his outstretched finger, "Only so much one person can do."

She looked bewildered at what he was reaching out for.

"That is very true, sometimes I think Glynda overworks herself. Although she won't admit it," Blake agreed as she sat on the edge of the fountain.

Naruto hummed, nodding his head as the moth flew off his finger. The weirdest thing about the moth he noted was that it seemed to glow bright orange as it floated toward the moon. His blue eyes scanned over the terrain, finding nothing there, and he took a deep breath to calm his nerves. Ever since discovering the hidden city, he had been on edge.

The Belladonna saw him looking at the moon, "Are you alright, seriously."

"Yeah," he answered her. "I'm just thinking of a friend back home."

"Girlfriend?" She inquired, almost teasingly, but she restrained herself slightly.

"Yeah, kind of," he admitted as he put his arms behind his head. "I never got to say goodbye before I left home."

"Oh…" She looked down at her feet, "I kind of understand…"

"Yeah…" Naruto sighed as he watched as clouds moved over the moon.

"Hey, there's another moth, wow…" Blake reached out to let it land on her finger.

Naruto looked confused, kind of like she had earlier when he did the same because there was no moth there.

His eyes focused on the small bits of light breaking through the clouds. Watching as it bent around the clouds, an aurora of baleful light breaching the sky. Blake noted that his stare was intense as if he was seeing something she couldn't and went to get up before she felt herself faint. Naruto barely caught her, but he finally found the source of the imagery starting to misshape around him.

A woman with butterfly wings was playing a shamisen, the music just now reaching his ears. She had moths of many colors around her. She smirked and with a large stroke of the strings, a soundwave filled the entire school. Naruto barely dodged out of the way as a plume of the black smoke engulfed area he was in. He noted the horrendous smell of it, and all the while had to hold Blake bridal style to keep her from save as he turned his back.

Several large knives buried themselves deep into his back. He looked over his shoulder, seeing a mutated man with mandibles and six arms smirking. He should've known better to let his guard down so easily, and as he felt the blood dripping from his back. Naruto growled as his eyes turned gold from gathering nature chakra from standing still as they gloated. Angling his right hand to form a one-handed seal for his Shadow Clone, he formed one to take Blake away from the fight as used chakra inside of him to propel the knives out.

He watched as the large man went after the clone. He pulled a kunai out, throwing it toward Blake. Just about the time, he'd grab her, he warped in a yellow flash right in front of her. His eyes widened as Naruto sent a kick straight into his head, knocking him across the school grounds. The large man growled, getting up and coughing a wad of black blood up. Naruto formed two more clones, looking at them, and nodding. They went off to secure the rest of the school, and to make sure Ozpin was okay. The blonde walked forward, spitting out some blood that had gathered into his mouth.

"I've got to admit one thing," Naruto growled as he looked at them. "Whoever this Salem person is, she's a tenacious bitch."

"How dare you, mortal, call our God Queen a bitch? She is the one that will unite Remnant and bring about the peace that it needs. If blood must be spilled in the process, so be it, but you of all people should know this more than any other, Inari Hinokami." The Butterfly person spoke as if she knew Naruto.

"Inari…Hinokami," Naruto sounded out, confused. "My name is Naruto Uzumaki…"

"Hehe, well, this certainly is very interesting. Either way, you'll be coming with us, unfortunately, Lady Salem wants you alive…but she never how much alive either." The Monarch looking woman giggled, readying her shamisen.

'As much as I'm showing out, this is a very bad situation. My body still hasn't fully recovered from entering The Six Paths state earlier yesterday. I managed to push the blades out, but without proper chakra control, my wounds aren't sealing. I let my guard down,' Naruto grimaced as he felt blood roll down his back. 'Not to mention that butterfly woman is very good at audible Genjutsu, any sound I hear could be false.'

He sensed the hidden third one, 'Then there's the hidden guy, the one that launched the smoke at me and Blake-san. If she had inhaled any of it, aura or not, I think she'd die. Luckily, I was aware enough to move aside, but I ended inhaling some of it.'

Naruto finally turned his attention to the guy with mandibles, 'And then there's this abomination. He was strong enough to sink those blades into me from a good distance and accurate enough to put them into spots that'll keep bleeding.'

'No doubt about it, they weren't aiming to outright kill me. They were aiming to disable me, and almost succeeded…Son…' Naruto called out mentally.

"What is it, Naruto?" Son responded as he yawned.

'Oi, wake up! We're in some serious trouble, I need to borrow some chakra!' Naruto mentally yelled as he dodged a smoke bomb being thrown at him.

He formed a clone to make sure that it was kicked away from the school. Dodging backward, Naruto saw some more blades getting throw at him. He used his kunai to deflect them and began to run toward the wall of the school. Intent to lead them away while his clones went through and secured the place with barrier seals.

However, the trio looked at each other, smirking. The Shamisen was then played rapidly, winds began to whip as the hidden one suddenly emerged from the forest, blowing black smoke from his mouth. Naruto looked at the school as black smoke headed right for it. Naruto's clones emerged from the school, forming hand seals before launching a blast of wind from their palms. They managed to blow the cloud away, but blades flew out from the smoke, impacting them.

The large man was about to break through the school's wall, and into one of the student rooms before Naruto warped right in front of him. A red chakra cloak formed around him as the large man tried to smash him into the building, negating the attack altogether. Growling, the mutant pushed Naruto backward. His feet taking some of the stone of the building, the blonde noted that he was using chakra to anchor himself to the building. With a deep breath, Naruto draws his fist back and punched the mutant off the building.

"Pincer!" The butterfly woman yelled out, watching him land and break the ground a little.

Naruto landed in the courtyard, his eyes burning orange as he took a deep breath. The other man beside her began to swell up, a greenish smoke flowing from his nostrils before he blew a column of it toward their target. The blonde closed his eyes as began to heat the air around him. Suddenly the gas plume ignited, flowing red hot flames right back to the origin. Monarch barely dodged out of the way as Bombardier was engulfed in the flames.

He screamed in pain for a split second before disappearing into ashes. Monarch landed in a nearby tree, watching as Naruto emerged out of the fire, the ground melting under his footsteps. Naruto glared right at them. He took a deep breath before forming hand seals to Son's mental instruction. Turning on his feet, he charged at them. Pincer placed himself in between Naruto and Monarch, blocking the blonde's attack.

Naruto rolled his eyes as his fist suddenly heated up, melting through the armor plating on Pincer's arms. The mutant screamed in pain, only to get pulled away by Monarch, who flew into the air. She tossed him into air, grabbing him by her legs, and began to play her shamisen. Tree branches around her target began to get shredded.

The blonde took a deep breath, "Yōton: Hotaru!"

Breathing out, flaming lights emerged Naruto's mouth, carried like embers toward the approaching wind. Monarch watched as these flickering lights impacted one of her wind blasts, suddenly igniting it. She stopped immediately, flying just high enough to avoid the flame pillar that came from the backlash of Wind Chakra and Fire Chakra mixing. Naruto stood in the flames as the red cloak flickered off him, she just smirked as the flames consumed him.

Only for a kunai to shoot up from the flames. it impacted Pincer's head, killing him instantly. His eyes rolled backward, and his dead weight brought her down. She was about to call out to him when Naruto suddenly appeared behind her in a yellow flash. She couldn't dodge in time, promptly, she was kicked in the back and sent to the ground.

The flames began to die down. Clones of Naruto began to use both water release Jutsus and Yang release to hide the fact that a battle had taken place. She struggled, crawling herself toward a tree. Leaning up against it, Naruto watched her reach out to her shamisen. He took a deep breath as he began limping, and readied wind chakra around the kunai.

She and he locked eyes, glaring at each other.

"You're so strong," She breathed out as she readied to play her final note. "Still, you're so weak-minded. Don't you want to know why called you Inari Hinokami?"

"Not really," Naruto admitted as he readied himself. "All I know is that if you are linked to her…then she needs to heed this warning. I'm fair game, no one else is."

"Fool," She giggled as she looked him dead in the eye. "You're so clueless, Naruto Uzumaki is dead."

He stopped just a few inches from her faces, her eyes widened at the blistering speed. The point of the kunai just hanging above her eye, he struggled with himself. Finally, he settled with just cutting the strings off the shamisen, breaking whatever Genjutsu had been pervading the area. She looked up at him and watched as his eyes turned back into their natural blue.

She breathed hard, "Those ruins you found, they're not of any village you'd know of. That's because of The Great War thousands of years ago, a war so devastating…your people had to flee their very world."

"Bullshit," Naruto readied himself to stab her, "I'm not listening to bullshit tales from a monster."

"Would it surprise you that I now see you," She told him with a smirk. "I can see why you'd call yourself Naruto Uzumaki, but that doesn't change the fact you're actually…"

He couldn't stop himself, Naruto sliced across her neck. She just sat there, midsentence as black blood slowly leaked down. Dripping onto the ground, her head rolled off her shoulders just as her entire body turned black and faded into dust. Naruto stood there, watching as the dust fluttered into the wind. His blue eyes glowing with power.

"If I'm so dead, why are you just fluttering away then," Naruto commented as he turned away.

Collapsing down afterward, blood still flowing from the wounds, Naruto took a deep breath. Son began to finally heal him, all the while the blonde slowly migrated his consciousness into the realm of the Six Paths. Taking a deep breath to calm himself, feeling his clones finally disappear after making sure everyone was okay.

One of his clones left Blake Belladonna by her Team's door.

Hagaromo was sitting by a fire, making tea for two, Naruto appeared on the tatami matt he had prepared. The elderly God leaned back, looking at him.

"You disobeyed me," The Sage of Six Paths stated. "I'm disappointed that you couldn't let sleeping dogs lie."

Naruto glared at him, "You've been lying to me, why?"

"The truth will only serve to hurt you at this time," Hagaromo offered Naruto some of the tea. "Please, take from it, it'll help you heal in the physical world."

The blonde took a deep breath, sipping the hot liquid. A warmth filled his body as he stretched, watching as souls headed toward the golden light. The Sages looked at one another, with the younger still glaring at him. Finally, relenting, Hagaromo just sighed as he prepared a third cup. The Jinchuuriki was confused but watched as they were joined by a third party. The third party sat down, leaning on his left hand as he took the cup.

The third party had red spiky hair going down to his shoulders, bright blue eyes, and a very bright smile. He greeted Hagaromo like an old friend, bowing his head respectfully before drinking from the cup. Naruto was very confused as the man's round face had three whisker marks like he did. The man finished his cup quickly, turning attention to Naruto, who looked confused.

"You look almost…" The blonde was lost for words, struggling to find the correct one.

The man chuckled, "Me? I should, but that is a very complicated talk to have isn't it, Hagaromo-san?"

Hagaromo sighed, "It would be a very complicated situation. One that I think would be easier if you would leave."

"Oh, c'mon, I just got here Datteina!" The man complained, but with a snap, Hagaromo sent away.

Naruto looked back at Hagaromo, confused enough to sit up straight. The elderly sage took a deep breath and looked at the blonde.

"Who was that, Jiji?" Naruto inquired, feeling some familiarity with him.

"That is part of the complication, Naruto, I'm sorry. You're right I have been lying to you, but it was meant to protect you. The Gods that you were warned about cannot reach me here, and I have decided it best to tell you the truth since you'll now figure it out eventually." Hagaromo took a deep breath, forming a staff from the Truth-Seeking Orbs behind him.

Tapping the watery ground around them, it suddenly rippled.

It revealed a Konoha with everything intact and advanced with tall buildings behind The Hokage Monument. Naruto looked on as people took cable cars and trains, a new generation of Shinobi looked over the city. That's when his eyes caught the glimpse of himself, he was buzz cut and wearing a bandage around his right arm. Naruto stared at himself as he walked down a familiar street.

"He's, I…I'm heading home?" Naruto questioned Hagaromo.

"Yes," Hagaromo sighed. "And no, Naruto…this was you after you defeated Kaguya…and came back."

"What?" Naruto stood up, confused, nearly breaking the image.

Hagaromo let a tear-out, "Just watch…"

The young man looked around, watching as people waved at him. Waving back at them, he stopped, quickly running into a store. He came back up with diapers, baby wipes, and carrying a bag of baby food. He smiled brightly as someone made small talk with him, and the distinctive movement of his mouth made Naruto's hair stand straight up across his body.

This version of him laughed and quickly broke the conversation. Running past his old home, Naruto watched as he went up to a much larger house. It was big enough to hold a family in it, and when he was about to open the door…someone else did.

Hinata stood at the door, holding a small blonde infant in her arms.

The image broke with Naruto screaming her name, crying out to her. The Sage watched as the area distorted as Naruto fell into a heap on his knees. Shaking his head, confused, and then looked at Hagaromo. The man frowned, watching as the younger man composed himself.

"I'm so confused," Naruto admitted as he looked at Hagaromo. "I don't understand any of this now…who am I?"

"Naruto Uzumaki, just like he was Naruto Uzumaki, you are a reincarnation. A perfect reincarnation, one who holds a complete soul of an individual that has passed and will struggle with the convergence of your soul and theirs. When you fought Kaguya, she and you breached the realm of creation, and in doing so The Gods took from your chakra to make a perfect copy of you…and her…" Naruto watched as Hagaromo stood up, holding out his staff.

"Ever since you took upon Bijuu Chakra again, the residual chakra of yours that remained in them has begun flowing back into you. It carries with its memories of a lifetime long passed, The Life of Naruto Uzumaki, Konoha's Nanidame Hokage…that's what I didn't want to tell you…" Hagaromo couldn't get another word out as Naruto slugged him across the face.

Naruto roared out, "You are lying bastard!"

"This all fake, I am Naruto Uzumaki, and I'm going to go back home! I am not dead, I'm here goddamn it all, I am ALIVE!" Naruto screamed, and then fell to his knees. "This is impossible, I am Naruto Uzumaki…but I'm not…what bullshit is this? Who am I then, if I'm just a different person…?"

Hagaromo got up from the ground, nursing the bruising on his face. Naruto stayed there, knelt, and just sobbing. He finally calmed down after a while, and then just took a deep breath. He got up from the ground, watching as the ripples radiated throughout.

"So, what happens now? I…don't think I want to continue this lie anymore." Naruto spoke honestly and just kept his head low. "I guess…I guess I got my happy ending, huh?"

"In a sense," Hagaromo placed his hand on the boy's shoulder. "However, just because your story ended once already, doesn't mean it can't be retold. Naruto…you'll always be who you want to be, but never forget that deep inside of you, you are still Naruto Uzumaki…The Hero."

"What do I do now, the cat's out of the bag, and I just wished…" The young man took a deep breath, "Wished it was just not there to begin with."

"You have a choice," Hagaromo stated as he held out his staff. "I'm confident that you'll pick the right one…"

Naruto took the staff, it jingled at the top, "Choice?"

"To be the Savior," Hagaromo reminded him with a smile, "Or, The Destroyer."

"That man that was here, what was his name?" Naruto asked as he looked into Hagaromo's eyes as the world began to flutter around them.

"Inari Hinokami."

Naruto woke up in a hospital bed, Ozpin looking over him. The man watched as his eyes fluttered open, and he just chuckled a little bit.

"Naruto," Ozpin sighed, "You're just a glutton for bad luck, aren't you?"