Boiling Ice: Of Fire and Wind

Epilogue

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Previously on Boiling Ice: Of Fire and Wind,

It was a large tank, cylinder in shape that was big enough to fit someone of Naruto's age given the average size. And that is what can be said about whoever was inside. "Sasuke-kun?" Chōza, head of the Amkimichi Clan and Choji's father, said in disbelief.

Chōza is a tall, plump man with long, spiky red hair and purple markings on his cheeks — with the latter being a common trait in the Akimichi clan. He wears a samurai like outfit which entails a black suit completed with armour that has the kanji for "food" on it. He also wears a rope belt, hand-guards, and instead of a forehead protector — a hachimaki tied around his head. At some point in time, he also wore a pair of silver, hooped earrings before passing them down to his son.

He had heard that Sasuke was falling out of favor of Naruto and soon the rest of the general Shinobi population within Konoha but this is something he never personally expected. Thankfully any of those thoughts were put to rest for good once Naruto cleared his throat.

"Yes and no." Naruto started and everyone knew that phrase was something that meant it was close and yet wrong. "The reason this boy looks perfectly like the Uchiha Teme is because he was made off the DNA of that backstabbing Uchiha and more importantly, it was a failsafe for Orochimaru so much if the original is out of his reach for any reason. When that happens, all that Snake Teme had to do was to train this clone into an obedient slave for him to take over in order to obtain the Sharingan. Thankfully that will never happen."

"And why not? Orochimaru is still known as a Sennin for a reason, he was to be the top candidate for the Yondaime Hokage had not been rejected due to his experiments on human lives." Shibi was the Head of the Aburame Clan and like the others, he was the father of the clan heir Shino. While Inoichi brought the point across and Shikaku was the one to figure out the oblivious before the subject revealed itself; meanwhile, Shibi will be the head that is the coolest and rarely show emotion.

Shibi, like all members of his clan, has his eyes obscured by dark glasses which feature a single tassel hanging down from one-side. He has very spiky short black hair and a moustache. He typically wears a high collared outfit, while carrying a gourd on his back that is used for holding more Kikaichū. He also tends to keep his hands in his pockets a lot, another trait he and his son share.

"Sure and that is why I had to make a hasty choice while in the Forest of Death but in the end, it allowed me to use his ultimate weakness." Naruto answered, "Now that Orochimaru has been undone by the two things he deserved more than anything else in the world in his blind search for immortally, there is nothing stopping us from keeping him. Jimae Uchiha." (1)

Before anyone in the room could comment on this development, the life sized container hissed with steam that escaped when the glass, see-through cover opened to allow the young man to fall slightly forward and land on the ground of the council room. All the while, was breathing heavily, like he finished a hundred mile marathon under ten minutes until he started to catch his breath.

Then the clone, wearing no more than skin tights that are usually used for patients that placed in liquid stasis, then got up without a hitch and opened his eyes to reveal an empty and lonely black eyes that also show very little surprise somehow. Then he moved his head to see the various people that were the Shinobi Council, staring him down like a new exhibit in a zoo.

"…Where is Naruto Uzumaki…?"

Those words were to be followed by many for the years to come for the Clone of one Sasuke Uchiha. Those words were that of anger, confusion, worry, sadness, loyalty and yet never hate unlike the original. And for the long lifetime of Jimae Uchiha, it always been that way until the supposed clone of Sasuke Uchiha died of natural causes; something that blood and flesh clones were never expected of.

But until then, it was nothing but war. War against a single threat. A terrorist organization named after the red, blood and death stained louds that filled the skies above various battlefields during the Second Shinobi War, the Akatsuki. And while there were no more than ten members, this organization proved to be nearly unstoppable as it is composed entirely out of S-rank rogue ninjas that have enough power to take on a country and an army appears to take them.

The members goes as follows;

The first two were the ones that appeared when Naruto and his company were searching for Tsunade to be the next Hokage; Kisame Hoshigaki and Itachi Uchiha. Kisame and Itachi were real threats for sure and even evaded capture and death multiple times during the war against all five Shinobi villages in their Shinobi Alliance. But death can be only be evaded and escaped for so long until she gets smarter and faster at every close encounter

Jimae Uchiha had all the misfortune to keep running into Itachi until the former was finally able to kill the latter in an epic fight to the finish. Now that Itachi of the Uchiha was dead, Jimae had only one last goal in mind; to recreate the Uchiha Clan, one that he will by growing stronger for his friends and for the sake of making an Uchiha Clan that will never be as arrogant and self-righteous as the previous.

Kisame had to suffer another fate altogether. During the war, he was sent to finish off Naruto and Jimae by his lord since the two had been a big thorn in their side. It took both Konoha Shinobi to even wound Kisame but after the Samehada was forced to consume Naruto's charka so much, the shark-like sword rebelled against Kisame in favor of Naruto as her new welder. That was how Kisame managed to lose but won't let himself being captured for information. In the most honorable way, he used the Suirō no Jutsu on himself while allowing his shark summons to feast on his flesh, preventing Naruto and Jimae from any Akatsuki secrets. And yet despite betraying Kisame, Samehada still mourned over this brutal death.

Next was Deidara and his partner, Sasori. Deidara had slanted blue eyes and very long blond hair which he wore drawn into a half ponytail with the rest hanging down freely. The bang hanging over his left eye is what concealed his eye scope signifying that he was a long-range fighter, but as shown in his fight with Sasuke, it was not permanently attached to his face. He also had mouths in each of the palms of his hands which were used for moulding his clay and under his cloak he wore a utility belt with two bags where he carried all of his clay. Deidara wore a blue and grey kimono jacket with a fishnet undershirt inside and khaki pants with sandals and a belt-like pouch with a chain. His blond hair was also tied into a lower ponytail and an Iwa forehead protector.

Deidara had one of his arms crushed by Gaara's sand, and the elbow of his other arm was blown into another dimension by Kakashi's Kamui. Deidara had his arms restored by having Kakuzu sew what was left of his arms with what appears to be a transplanted arm. His transplant was dark brown and had several wrinkles on it. Under his cloak, he wore a V-neck, sleeveless, midriff shirt with mesh armour underneath it along with pants, stirrups, and sandals. On his right index finger was his Akatsuki ring, which bore the kanji for "blue or green" and was teal in colour. He wore black nail polish on his fingers and toes.

On the left side his chest he had a large, stitched-up mouth for setting off his self-destruct technique. And this is what killed this mad bomber, when he set out against Naruto in retaliation for the blonde 'stealing his kill' with Orochimaru. Deidara proved to be a destructive foe with his bombs of various sizes and shapes but Naruto ultimately forced Deidara to turn to his last resort that he called his 'Ultimate Art', his Shī Ō. A technique that can cover a large area in which the shape of the explosion bears a resemblance to Tarō Okamoto's Tower of the Sun and it can destroy pretty much anything with one catch; Deidara himself was the bomb. Naruto watched on how this bomber was insane, taking what little clay the latter had and fed it to his formally stitched up mouth on his chest. But despite blowing himself up, Deidara never counted on Naruto escaping the blast via a summon beast a good distance from the center of the explosion.

Meanwhile, Sasori had wide greyish brown eyes which he inherited from his mother, and short, mousy red hair which he inherited from his father. He was usually seen with a hazy, dreamy look to his appearance. After leaving Sunagakure, Sasori's hair became slightly messier, and wore his Akatsuki robe along with a purple Akatsuki ring on his left thumb that bears the kanji for "jewel" or "sphere". He also wore teal nail polish on his fingernails. Even though Sasori still possessed his Sunagakure forehead protector that was slashed out in the middle, he kept it on his person instead of wearing it.

Sasori's puppet body consisted of a pair of spinning claws attached to his lower back, a holder for four scrolls on his back, a stinger in the empty and open stomach cavity, a compartment in his right chest, and a 'core of living flesh' in the left which had the kanji for "scorpion" painted on it. In his exposed state, Sasori's eyes would also be wide open in a maniacal way, as opposed to his normal calm looking eyes.

And speaking of which, that was exactly what Sasori also tried to use against his Konoha enemies when Sakura and a Suna elder had cornered him when the organization tried to kill Gaara for the Bijuu inside the latter who was the Kazekage at the time, three years after the death of Orochimaru. When the two Kunoichi had finished off his original puppet based off an ogre-like scorpion and his favorite Shinobi War Puppet, modeled after a previous Kazekage, Sasori had to resort his own puppet body. He could have the advantage if the Elder, named Chiyo, hadn't revealed that she brought her own secret weapon along, the Shirohigi: Jikki Chikamatsu no Shū. This technique was said to have been made by the founding user of Shinobi puppets and even brought down a fortress for each of the ten white puppets.

Sasori still found a way to combat this unfortunate development with his own special technique that can only be done with his puppet body, the Akahigi: Hyakki no Sōen. Sasori stated that while the Shirohigi: Jikki Chikamatsu no Shū can bring down forts, his technique once destroyed an entire country. And that was a good claim since Sakura and Chiyo had trouble combating Sasori with his Akahigi: Hyakki no Sōen even with Chiyo's Shirohigi: Jikki Chikamatsu no Shū. In fact, both Kunoichi were brought on the brink of death because each of Sasori's puppets carried a deadly poison that can kill any living organism within a battle's time; even though Sakura brought the cure from when Sasori faced against Gaara's older brother and won, it wasn't enough for the two of them.

Still the battle drew to a close when Sakura managed to stall Sasori long enough for Chiyo to deliver a finishing blow or in this case, a finishing stab or four to the one thing organic about Sasori; his own heart. And in a twist of irony, it was done by the first two puppets that Sasori had ever made in his life; based of his dead parents, killed off in the Third Shinobi War. So Sasori died in the embrace of the two puppets that caused his beginnings as a Puppet master and ultimately a criminal.

Then there was Hidan and Kakuzu, known as the 'Zombie Duo' for both being seemly immortal and cannot be killed. Hidan has medium-length grey hair that was slicked back and distinctive purple eyes. He wore his Akatsuki cloak open with no shirt, only pants under it revealing his Yugakure forehead protector around his neck and Jashin amulet. He also wore dark green nail polish and his orange Akatsuki ring on his left index finger, which bears the kanji for "three". When not fighting, he was always seen with his Triple-Bladed Scythe on his back. After his fight with Asuma, Hidan lost part of his left ear and Kakuzu stitched his neck after he was briefly decapitated.

Kakuzu was a tan-skinned and tall man, easily standing as the second tallest member of Akatsuki. Noticeably, despite his advanced age, he still appears as a man well within his prime, retaining a very muscular build. He wore a white hood and a black mask, with his eyes being the only visible part of his face. Underneath, his mouth was stitched together at the edges (giving him a glasgow smile) and he had long dark brown hair. His eyes have an unusual colouring: green irides, no pupils and red sclerae. His clothing included the traditional Akatsuki cloak and the forehead protector of his home village with a scratch in the middle which symbolized that he was no longer loyal to it. He also wore brown nail polish and his dark green Akatsuki ring with the kanji for "north" was placed on his left middle finger. His entire body was covered with various stitches and predominantly appeared to be sewn together. This was a result of the unique technique that he possessed — the Jiongu.

Hidan did indeed fight against Asuma because the latter wanted revenge for the death of one of his friends at the hands of the former; and it was all because that monk had a considerable bounty and the Zombie Duo do their business with bounty hunting. But Asuma was nearly killed by Hidan because he had no idea that his enemy was virtually immortal and used his strength, agility and reflexes as well as a deadly ritual which took advantage of Hidan's immortally to inflict any damage to his victims by doing them to himself first. Asuma was spared when Naruto interrupted the ritual until the rest of the reinforcements arrived.

Despite the duo escaping the first encounter with Naruto, they were faced off during the Akatsucki War. And while Naruto couldn't directly kill Hidan, the blonde was willing to compromise by using his Futton to turn all of Hidan's blood and other internal, bodily fluids to stone while forcing the lungs to fill up with boiling water that is maintained by the still beating heart so that Hidan will have chest pains 24/7 and powerless to stop it as a suitable way to finish him off.

Kakuzu, however, was a much more impressive foe since Hidan was a one-trick pony with his immortally and ritual as the latter's only form of combat. With Jiongu, Kakuzu took everyone by surprise again when it was revealed that while the bounty hunter turned rogue Shinobi can die, he will only lose a heart and come back to life again when everyone least expect it. As a result, it was a nearly and troublesome battle that took a good two hours until Naruto decided to play by Kakuzu's rules and bring out a very deadly technique that Naruto had been working on for three years; the Kinjutsu that only Naruto can use and is going to make the blonde infamous. The Rasenshuriken technique which is Chakra in the shape and form of the Fuma-style Shuriken; this energy is very deadly as it is moving so fast at a constant rate that it is more like poison than physical trauma.

This means that Naruto can be affected by its effects while involved microscopic blades that inflict cutting damage on the cellular level. That was how Kakuzu was finished off, not only did his body get destroyed but his remaining hearts were killed in one few swoop so the bounty hunter couldn't get up from that one. It became a Kinjutsu once the body was given to Tsunade for study and the Hokage gave the word for Kakashi to remind Naruto not to use it until the blonde can find a way to counteract the cost of losing his arm permeably due to raw and repeated exposure to the deadly technique.

Then there was Zetsu composed of both Black Zetsu and White Zetsu. When together, the two Zetsu were easily distinguished by the two Venus flytrap-like extensions that emerged from their sides, enveloping their head and upper body as a shell, which they were able to open and close. Beneath these extensions, White Zetsu had short green hair and a single yellow eye. The right half of his body was covered by Black Zetsu, whose leg was originally White Zetsu's own right leg. Under their Akatsuki cloak, they wore blue pants and sandals, and had both legs wrapped in bandages. Zetsu's green Akatsuki ring, which bore the kanji for "sign of the boar" was worn on Black Zetsu's little finger.

Unlike Black Zetsu, White Zetsu had human-like facial features and a proper eye, as well as unusually rounded teeth. When he was first created, his Venus flytrap-like protrusions were not fully formed, being white in colour as well as sticking out all along the right side of his body. When the two halves split apart, their plant-like extensions would separate and hang from the waists of both. Any clothing they were wearing, including their Akatsuki mantle, would split along with them, usually causing them to discard their torn clothing. When either of the halves emerged from the ground while split, their plant-like extensions would surround them in a circular formation. The two also demonstrated the ability to grow an additional leg, though deformed, from their white body mass to substitute for their missing half while split.

What happened to them was unknown as when the war started, they rarely appeared and even more rarely challenged the Shinobi in combat. And with the rest of the members of the Akatsucki on their minds, the Alliance had to forget about them for the time being. And that was because of what was next to come,

Next were the 'leaders' of the Akatsuki, Konan and Nagato. Konan was a relatively tall woman who had short, straight blue hair, grey eyes with lavender eye shadow, and a labret piercing. Konan's eyelashes are shown to be a diagonal line at the bottom corner of her eyes. She has worn a large light blue paper flower in her hair since she was a child. Her facial expression was usually neutral, though usually protested or looked worried when Nagato performed a technique that would debilitate him. She wore the Akatsuki cloak and her Akatsuki ring on her right middle finger, the kanji on it meaning "white". She also wore orange nail polish. Although she never removed her Akatsuki mantle, it was revealed that underneath it she wore a revealing navy blue robe, with a large hemline on the front, and exposed her arms, her back, the lateral part of her breast, and her belly, with her navel being surrounded by four more piercings; instead of the standard sandals and leg-warmers, she wore a pair of blue pants that also functioned as her shoes, with white high heels, inverting the organization's standard colour scheme.

Nagato had pale white skin with straight red hair, a sign of his Uzumaki heritage. Linking with the Gedō Mazō left a number of black receivers embedded in his back and caused his body to become very emaciated, limiting his mobility. For this reason he spends most of his adult life in a mechanical walker from which he controls the Six Paths of Pain. He likewise does not personally wear any of the typical Akatsuki clothing, having his Paths wear it instead.

Nagato was also known as simply 'Pein' to his fellow members with the expectation being Konan. He established himself a god of pain and justice that will bring peace to warring nations. But while he did managed to almost kill Jiraiya in Amegakure, if the Toad Sage didn't have one last trick up his sleeve, Nagato tried to destroy the village under the guise of wanting Naruto; he did this as an excuse to finish off the village that he had hated from the second Shinobi War, for killing his parents and forcing his best friend to die as well.

Instead he only managed to devastate the area in which Konoha has settled in while barley even scratched the population of Konoha. Naruto then appeared in the company of representatives from the beast summon clan that taught him how to take the power and energy from nature itself to make him a much stronger Shinobi. He then fought against Nagato's paths, each dealt in a way that they can't get up from until Naruto was able to find the puppet master behind the Pein Rikudō no Jutsu.

Konan was still by Nagato's side as Naruto talked his fellow Uzumaki down to see that the blonde is his legacy, what he truly stands for and ultimately what Nagato has to do to retaliate for his sins; use a Jutsu that use up what little energy he had in his withered old body. The Gedō: Rinne Tensei no Jutsu. It summoned the head of what Nagato called, the 'King of the Underworld', in order to restore the bodies of those who died in his invasion and bring them back to life. After that was done, the technique left Nagato with no chakra left and he had to die from chakra exhaustion right on the spot.

Konan was offered a place where she will no longer have to go back to the Akatsucki by Naruto but she refused because she couldn't possibility live in the village after see set everyone up at a bomber and a terrorist who had been following another one blindly. Naruto just told her that he had a feeling that she was killed off if Konan tried to return to Amegakure. And she nearly was when a figure tried to do so and loot the two dead bodies of her best friends until she was able to escape.

And then there was Tobi, the most mysterious and least taken member of them all during the start of the war. Tobi wears a black long-sleeve top that covered his neck and chin, a pair of black gloves, a pair of dark-coloured pants, a long green scarf and standard sandals and white stirrups. On his waist, he wears a thick black belt with armour-like metal plates attached to it, and similar plates on his upper arms. Tobi had blue nail polish on his fingers and toes. He continues to wear this outfit under his Akatsuki cloak after he becomes a member and also wears a purple ring, which bears the kanji for "jewel" or "sphere", on his left thumb.

He was to replace Sasori's place since the puppet master was the first one of the Akatsucki to fall. And since Deidara is usually paired off with Sasori, Tobi was the former's new partner. And Tobi was there to see Jimae fight and see that Deidara blew himself up in order to kill the Uchiha. Tobi was also the one who sought to kill Konan and grave rob the body of Nagato if the latter hadn't received Naruto's warning; that meant Tobi failed to kill Konan but he still made off with Nagato's eyes which were the legendary eyes like the Sharingan of the Uchiha Clan and the Byakugan of the Hyuga Clan. The Rinnegan. Grants the user the power over the five basic chakra natures, able to use six deadly abilities that are labeled as Paths of Pain and even control life and death; no doubt the last power was what Tobi really was after.

With the Rinnegan, Tobi was able to bring his plan that he called Tsuki no Me Keikaku into friction. With the help of the Bijuu chakra that he had stolen and collected for every single one that ever existed, Tobi planned to bring back the source of the nine Bijuu; the Jūbi. And with the help of the Jūbi, Tobi was going to bring what is known as Mugen Tsukuyomi in order to 'create a much better world'.

When the Alliance found out what the Akatsucki War was all about, they set out to stop Tobi. But when they tried to bring down him and his forces of unlimited White Zetsu, the Shinobi Alliance found themselves facing another great threat; the rogue founder of Konoha, Madara Uchiha.

Madara was a fair-skinned man with spiky, black hair that had a slight blue tint to it. Madara let his hair grow to waist-length with shoulder-length bangs framing the sides of his face, covering most of his right eye. Although still relatively young, more prominent creases had developed under each of his eyes. At times, he wore crimson armour with numerous metal plates, forming protective guards along his chest, waist, shoulders and thighs. Most of the time, however, he continued wearing the same basic Uchiha outfit: a blue high-collared, long sleeve mantle that splits down the lower half and a simple, light-brown obi and a belt. During battle, he often carried an orange-brown gunbai which had a long black chain running up it.

Madara had somehow got brought back from the dead and now is strong enough to go with the Tsuki no Me Keikaku as well. With Tobi by his side, Madara revealed that he will use Mugen Tsukuyomi to create his own version of a better world; 'a world where the strong truly exist and exist alone.'

But in yet another twist, the identity of Tobi was revealed to be another Uchiha and not just any other Uchiha; it was Obito Uchiha, one of Kakashi's old teammates who supposedly have perished in the Third Shinobi War. He revealed that he was seeing to that the Akatsucki turn into a terrorist organization in order to make a world where 'no one should suffer again'. But in reality, Obito was following the word of an old man who claimed to be Madara after witnessing his beloved get killed by Kakashi, whom Obito once called brother.

It took a lot of sweat and blood and words and even Obito becoming the Jinchuriki of the Jūbi in order for Naruto to prove to the fallen Uchiha that making a false world isn't what the real Obito will do and neither will his beloved will want of the real Obito to do. So Obito decided to help in order to make up for all the suffering, hatred and blood spilled because of his foolish desire to follow the word of an old man who said he will bring back Obito's love.

And yet despite being able to get Obito to help, defeating Madara was like impossible when the undead founder took the power of the Jūbi's Jinchuriki in order to be able to kill the entire Shinobi Alliance and cast Mugen Tsukuyomi on every single living being on the face of the planet. Jimae and Team Seven were still humility's last hope so they tried to get to Madara only for Haku and Sakura to be disabled while Jimae and Naruto were on the verge of death. Madara left the Shinobi to tend to their saviors until he can find a way to obtain all of the essence of the Shinju or Jūbi's true form; that was the only way for Madara to cast Mugen Tsukuyomi.

When it seemed that Jimae and Naruto were going to die in the hands of their comrades, two of them managed to perform a miracle which caused someone from a time long forgotten had come to grant them both the power that had defeated the Jūbi when it first appeared to threaten the entire Elemental Continent. The power of the very first Shinobi in human history, Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki aka the Rikudō Sennin aka the Shinobi no Kami aka the Kono Yo no Kyūseishu.

And with the power over existence in the physical world and over immaterial energy in the spirit world, the two Shinobi challenged Madara for one last time. But Madara fled when he decided that he wasted enough time and Jimae and Naruto couldn't do a thing when Madara completed Mugen Tsukuyomi, trapping all but a few in a strange illusion that forces them to be in a helpless and eternal sleep. Jimae and Naruto were able to avoid the glaze while the former prevented Kakashi, Sakura and Hinata from the light that the moon brought, turning night to day.

Once the light passed, the remaining free Shinobi readied to fight Madara again until another shocking twist made their day; Black Zetsu betrayed Madara! Black Zetsu said that when Madara claimed to have created him, the former claimed to be made by Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, the mother of Hagoromo and a princess of an extinct kingdom, instead. Black Zetsu said that he had been in existence longer than even Madara has, looking over the course of human and Shinobi history to make sure that they will eventually cause the return of Kaguya from her prison in the moon by her sons, Hagoromo and his forgotten brother Hamura.

The restless Shinobi could only watch in horror as Madara suddenly transformed when Black Zetsu stabbed in the back. Madara seemed to swell up, like he was going to blow up but instead he contorted and altered into that of another person entirely; Kaguya Ōtsutsuki herself. A woman in possession of very delicate facial features, Kaguya also had extremely long, sweeping white hair that touched the ground. Most noticeable were two brown horns which stuck out from her head — appendages inherited by both her sons. Kaguya possessed the Byakugan, and also had a third eye on the center of her forehead that's eyelids parted vertically. Her eyebrows were cut very short — a symbol of nobility, and she wore a dark shade of lipstick on her lips and a dark shade of nail polish on her long fingernails. She wore the transitional high-collared hime-kimono which was adorned with intricate lines that are gold and purple and tomoe running down the center and edges of the gown. She is also pale-skinned.

But the worst part of Kaguya was that both Naruto and Jimae could agree that her chakra levels top that of the Jūbi. But before they could even try to get ready for Kaguya, they were suddenly transported to another place entirely; a world of lava, brimstone and a caste in the background. Naruto was able to catch Jimae since the blonde's new power allows him to fly while Kakashi was able to save himself and the girls with the help of a spare scroll for the moment. Obito was hanging too via a Kunai in his numb hand.

They had to move because the lava's heat was burning the scroll used for a rope. Jimae revealed to have a contact with the Hawk Summon Clan which allowed them to avoid the lava for now but they still had to face against Kaguya who seem to want to kill them while muttering something about her 'children' and her 'playground'. Naruto allowed Jimae to fall back and help the others while he tried to catch up with Kaguya's storm of giant chakra fists, with his own.

But Kaguya had brought them to another world entirely and she could do it again; and Kaguya did. To a world of ice, to a world of endless deserts, to a world with an ocean of acid until they finally appeared in a world with a surface of pyramids but also where the gravity is almost ten times that of the Elemental Continent. There, it was like they were at their weakest since the gravity made it nigh impossible to dodge an attack properly. That was where Obito, unfortunately, gave his life to block a very deadly technique that Kaguya had been using in her little game of cat-and-mouse chase with Naruto's large mass of Kage Bunshin.

This sacrifice made and one last gift given to Kakashi by Obito was all they need to finally bring down Kaguya and when Sakura and Hinata dealt a sneak attack, Naruto and Jimae were able to move in to seal her away once again; in a recently created satellite that will be called the moon just like in ages long ago. But while everyone was getting to regroup, Jimae said that Naruto had one last thing to do; find Black Zetsu and 'fulfil his last wish that he had spent countless generations waiting and wasted for'. Let's just say that since Black Zetsu had been the cause of countless people to die and all because he wanted his creator, his mother, back to him and the way Naruto did it, Black Zetsu will never without Kaguya ever again.

After the war ended and the cause for countless lives lost and countless years of suffering had been expelled from the Elemental Nations, it was time for those war heroes to try and fix what the war broke for them and hopefully rebuild what the war had destroyed. And that included buildings, bonds and broken hearts. But on the other hand, most of the war survivors wanted to try and make families as people to protect for the rest of their lives.

And after several years, dreams were finally completed and families were eventually constructed. Jimae Uchiha did have to enroll in the CRA or Clan Restoration Art in which a single male heir have to web and mate with multiple women to give a nigh extinct clan a jumpstart; it was just forgotten that it also works for single female heirs to near extinct clans. Since he was raised to be reluctant and only agreeing to the CRA because it was necessary for his clan, Jimae made his own conditions.

One, that Ino Yamanaka will be the first girl in the 'harem' and thus has the privilege of being the first married and the first to give birth to Jimae's heirs. Also that Ino is the head of the large family so she is in charge of the multiple women that the village throws in the pile whatever it sparks a fire or not. Two, no one outside the 'harem' will decide on the girls without Jimae's consent. And three, any children born in this 'harem' will be under the responsibility of both Jimae and Ino Uchiha alone. With those three conditions met, the Uchiha did indeed get reborn with its fresh set of children already in stock and more on the way.

As for Naruto and the rest of the Konoha Twelve, they were busy themselves. Naruto had been seen a war hero who had his own little fan club come at him while he became one of the village's strongest Jonin under the rule of the Rokudaime Hokage, Kakashi Hatake. Still, Naruto had managed to make time for his two girls that were his own big family as they already gave birth during the war and thankfully, no harm came to Naruto's children off the front lines. Naruto was grateful for becoming a father and his children even helped him out by playfully fighting away any fan girl who try to mess with their father even on the way to the grocery stores.

Ino was busy managing the large family while Jimae made sure that her own pregnancy was as comfortable as possible when he takes time off his training to become a clan head.

Shikamaru had found himself the advisor to not only the Rokudaime Hokage and the Nanadaime Hokage but also husband to Temari as part of a treaty between Konoha and Suna since the two villages helped each other the most during the Akatsucki War; also Shikamaru became the father to a blonde who is both a lazy boy and an ambitious thinker.

Choji found himself in shoes similar to Shikamaru but being married to Karui of Kumogakure was a very confusing matchup despite the two of them being parents to a daughter who has their best characteristics.

Haku married Kabuto after remaining loyal to the latter during his probation and they gave birth to twins who always expressed their desire to learn about medicine and their love for winter's snow.

Shino was uninterested in dating and marriage so he simply took his father's place as head of the Aburame Clan in his childhood dream to simply collect new specimens of insects never seen before and overlook the growth of the next generation of Genin. It just that he never counted on being a very monotonic teacher that not a single student took him seriously.

Kiba was allowed to train and rise in the ranks of a Shinobi but he hasn't have much luck with the girls with his mother and sister breathing down his neck. He was spending most of his time grumbling on whatever to thank Naruto for letting him stay a Shinobi or despise him for the hell like life that started years ago. Too bad that Akamaru had to age his worth in dog years so he just spends his time in one place surrounded by pups that come to him, talking about what is going on in the world.

Tenten took over her father's weapon store which wasn't doing so well since it was peace times. Tenten just was glad that Naruto made it clear that peace isn't something to be left untouched but to preserve and protect. So occasionally, she gets customers to maintain their tools and give stock to the Genin.

Lee spends his days like usual, training nonstop. But he seemed to have a son in Metal Lee and yet none of them will ever tell anyone about the mother. Not even Naruto knows which he dropped a long time ago after seeing the duo torture him with their hugging in the sunset; just when is that nightmare going to go extinct?

Neji simply wanted to be the one to look after the only cousin he had left, Hanabi Hyuga, while being Naruto's bodyguard since the blond pretty much was the cause for this clear and positive turn in his life.

Then there was the Jonin who fought in the war as well. Kakashi became the Rokudaime Hokage until he eventually stepped down into retirement, sticking around for the same reason that Hiruzen is; to be there when the next generation needs their wisdom the most. Asuma had managed to stay with Kurenai until their daughter was born and grew into a Kunoichi worthy to accompany the Nanadaime Hokage to any Gokage meetings. Guy had to take an early retirement since a permeant foot injury had ruined his career. Every other Jonin are either still on duty or retired due to the end of the war.

Meanwhile, all the former Jinchuriki retrieved their Bijuu upon request including the oldest named Killer Bee who spends his time debating with his Bijuu on whatever to visit Naruto or not. Bee was the latest teacher who was able to complete Naruto's Jinchuriki training and the only Jinchuriki to last uncaptured the most other than the blonde himself. As for the remaining Jinchuriki, Naruto hadn't heard a single word from any other of them since he is forbidden to ask the other villages about them.

Finally, the previous generation of the Gokage spend their days in retirement and going to reunions arranged by a very frail Ōnoki, the former Tsuchikage who turned over his title to his prodigious granddaughter, Kurotsuchi. He refused to admit that he was getting old but his little body just couldn't even handle going outside so he just stays in his single chair for the remainder of his days. Meanwhile, the other members of the previous Gokage barely changed at all and they usually pass the time while rethinking on their younger days and still are worried on whatever they left their village in capable hands.

By the time that his first two children had become Genin, Naruto was there to congratulate them himself, as the Nanadaime Hokage appointed when Kakashi felt that the blonde had finally earned his worth to take the mantle. It was wonderful day in the village and Naruto promised to not only look after his family but also the entire village as Hokage, encouraging equality and treating others fairly by leaving no one high in praise or left in the dust like himself and a lot of others that Naruto knew in his lifetime. And he knew just what happens when feelings like those are left uncheck; they can boil over or freeze over, with fire and wind.

End of Story.

*I guess you were expecting more chapters after the last one right? Well I couldn't think of much detail to the story since the canon was pretty much built on Haku and Zabuza being dead while Orochimaru and Sasuke are still alive. So I had to make an epilogue since it was the only way to end this story.

I hope this proves to you all Haku lovers and Sasuke haters that a good story is dependent on not only twists and developments but also the continuous existence of some certain characters. I am sure you will see just what role did Sasuke play out in the canon after going rogue and abandoning the village for a fellow traitor. There are plenty of stories without Sasuke but killing off Orochimaru like this have left me dry since I have crossed the line.

I will have to tell you this that without Orochimaru continuing to research the Kuchiyose: Edo Tensei then Kabuto was never driven to the point he foolishly fell for Madara's plan that Tobi was undergoing, thus never starting the Fourth Shinobi War that takes place in the Canon; leading to Kagura being reviled when Black Zetsu gathered all the efforts from Tobi, Kabuto and Madara in the canon. It all never happened.

So that is why I had to make my own epilogue and that will never work with very little content in one chapter a piece. But if you still want the complete story then I will be waiting for enough answers to make the decision. Please let me know about this story overall and I will try harder with my remaining stories. Meanwhile, have a nice day and see you all later!*

Translations:

Samehada – Shark Skin

Suirō no Jutsu – Water Prison Technique

Kamui – Might of God

Shī Ō – C0

Bijuu – Tailed Beast

Shirohigi: Jikki Chikamatsu no Shū – White Secret Technique: The Chikamatsu Collection of Ten Puppets

Akahigi: Hyakki no Sōen – Red Secret Technique: Performance of a Hundred Puppets

Jiongu – Earth Grudge Fear

Futton – Boil Release

Rasenshuriken – Spiraling Shuriken

Gedō Mazō – Demonic Statue of the Outer Path

Pein Rikudō – Six Paths of Pain

Gedō: Rinne Tensei no Jutsu – Outer Path: Saṃsāra of Heavenly Life Technique

Tsuki no Me Keikaku – Eye of the Moon Plan

Jūbi – Ten Tails

Mugen Tsukuyomi – Infinite Tsukuyomi

Shinju – God Tree

Rikudō Sennin – Six Paths Sage

Shinobi no Kami – God of Shinobi

Kono Yo no Kyūseishu – Savior of the World

Kage Bunshin – Shadow Clone