"Tony Stark. Visionary. Genius. American patriot. And mother. Even from an early age,
the daughter of legendary weapons developer Howard Stark quickly stole the spotlight with her brilliant and unique mind. At age four, she built her first circuit board. At age six, her first engine. And at seventeen, she graduated Summa Cum Laude from MIT. Then, the passing of a titan. Howard Stark's life long friend and ally Obadiah Stane, steps in to help fill the gap left by the legendary founder. Untill at age 21, the prodigal daughter returns, and is anointed the new CEO of Stark Industries. With the keys to the kingdom, Tony ushers in a new era for her father's legacy, creating smarter weapons, advanced robotics, satellite targeting. Today, Tony Stark has changed the face of the weapons industry, by ensuring freedom and protecting America and her interests around the globe." The clip show ended and the screen went dark. As this occurred a man with dark skin, a military haircut, and a uniform walked onto the stage and stood before the microphone.

"As liaison to Stark Industries, I've had the unique privilege of serving with a real patriot. She is my friend and she is my great mentor. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to present this year's Apogee Award to Mrs. Tony Stark!" The man felt slight fear as he really hoped that Tony would show up to her own awards ceremony. The man's fears dissipated as a woman in a red dress with long brown hair began to walk onto the stage.

Tony smiled and waved to the audience as cameras took pictures. Eventually she walked next to the man who gave her the award. "Thanks for holding my award, Rhodey." Tony said.

"You actually showed up for this one. I'm surprised." The man known as Rhodey said. Eventually they let go of one another's hands and Rhodey walked off the stage which left Tony there alone. Eventually the clapping from the audience ceased which allowed Tony to speak.

"Well everyone, this is certainly a very shiny award. I don't know who to thank besides most likely myself and a few other people." Some of the audience chuckled at this. "Well anyway, I thank everyone for the award and for coming here. Now I really have to get going since it's past my son's bedtime and he is probably getting really bored here." This made the audience laugh. In one last showboating move, Tony held the award above her head and began to walk off the stage.

In the audience at a certain table, four people sat. One was Rhodey from before after he had found the table, the next was a bald man with a beard know as Obadiah Stane, and two others. Both were blonde. One was an adult with spiky blonde hair, deep cerulean blue eyes, and a set of three whisker marks on each of his cheeks. The person sitting next to him was a blonde ten year old boy who took after the man in almost every way but for two. The boy had brown eyes and a set of two whisker marks on each cheek.

Tony Stark began to walk to the table and eventually sat down at it in between the blonde boy and man. She and the blonde man kissed as she did this before eventually separating. "Mom, Dad, that is really disgusting, y'know." The boy stated. This made Tony and the blonde man smirk.

"When you get older, you'll understand." Tony replied as she set the award on the table. The blonde man looked at the award and then back at Tony.

"Nice trophy."

"I think it just shows how amazing I am. Not that I need any help, Naruto." Tony replied with a chuckle. She then turned to look at the boy sitting next to her. "So Alex, you ready to go?" She asked.

"Yes mom. This place is so dull with all these old people." Alex replied. Tony glanced over to Obadiah who showed mock hurt on his face.

"I thought that I was a cool old man, Alex. That just hurts me so much." Obadiah said. This made Alex smile.

"You are cool, I guess." Alex replied. After that, Naruto, Tony, and Alex stood up together in order to leave. In normal situations, Obadiah and Rhodey would chastise Tony for leaving her own award ceremony early, but they were glad that she had managed to come and stay at the ceremony for this long.

"I'll see you at the airport tomorrow." Rhodey said as he got out of his seat and gave Tony a hug. Obadiah got out of his chair and gave the woman a handshake before he leaned over to Naruto.

"How did you get her to come to the ceremony?" Obadiah asked, "I would've thought that she'd have gone to a casino or clubbing?" Naruto leaned back over to the older man with a grin.

"Drinks and sex. I've lived with her long enough to know that those are the only things that can get her to do something with no questions asked." Naruto replied.

"Well, keep up the good work. I'll see you at the office Monday as well." Obadiah said.

"Yeah. I'll see you there as well." The two men separated and the group of three walked away leaving both Obadiah and Rhodey alone together.

"I still think that he's whipped." Rhodey remarked. This made Obadiah chuckle.

Outside the building, Tony handed her ticket to the valet who ran off to get their car leaving the three of them alone. Eventually the valet pulled up in their four seated convertible. "After you." Naruto said. Tony rolled her eyes and Alex followed after his mother.

"You're driving." Tony stated. Naruto rolled his eyes as he walked over to the car.

"Mrs. Stark! Mrs. Stark! Tony who had opened the door to let Alex get into the back of the car stopped what she was doing and turned around to the blonde reporter who was running up to her. Naruto continued his journey to the driver's side of the car. "Christine Everhart: Vanity Fair Magazine." She announced. "Can I ask you a couple questions?"

Tony felt a twinge of annoyance enter through her. She wanted to go home and do something fun. What she didn't want was to deal with another reporter question her life choices, hairstyle, sex life, or diet. She knew that she couldn't just blow off the woman in her normal style of insulting whatever was annoying her since both Naruto and Alex were watching and she wanted to be a good role model to her son. So for now she would play nice.

"Hi, yeah, okay go." Tony replied.

"Alright," It seemed like Christine took a moment to prepare herself before she would begin her tangent, "you've been called the da Vinci of our time. What do you have to say about that?" Christine asked.

"Completely ridiculous. I don't paint." Tony answered. She felt really good about shoving that back at Christine's face.

"What about your other nickname, the Merchant of Death?" Christine asked. That made Tony frown slightly. This woman was starting to get on her nerves, and besides, what did all of this pandering really come down to?

"That's not bad." Tony replied. She really didn't like it when work began interfering with family life. Let's see if she could try to get into this Christine's head. "Berkeley?" Tony asked.

"Brown, actually." Christine replied. She quickly pulled out a recorder and held it in front of Tony's face.

"Well, Ms. Brown, it's an imperfect world but it's the only one we've got. I guarantee you, the day weapons are no longer needed to keep the peace, I'll start building bricks and beams for baby hospitals." Tony replied.

"You rehearse that, much?"

"Everyday in front of the mirror before bedtime." This woman had officially become a huge annoyance and it had only been with her speaking four sentences. A new record.

"I can see that."

"I can show it to you first hand. But then you'd be in my house and I would find it to be a little creepy that a reporter managed to stalk me all the way from here." It seemed Christine's buttons were being pushed as she was now looking a little huffy.

"I just want a serious answer." Christine replied. Maybe with a few more sarcastic quips Christine would finally leave. These heels were killing her feet after all.

"Okay, here's serious. My old man had a philosophy, 'Peace means having a bigger stick

than the other guy'." Tony replied.

"That's a great line coming from the woman selling the sticks." Oh, this woman could actually play ball. Now let's see if she could catch.

"My father helped defeat the Nazis. He worked on the Manhattan Project. A lot of people, including your professors at Brown, would call that being a hero."

"And a lot of people would also call that war profiteering."

"Tell me, do you plan to report on the millions we've saved by advancing medical technology or kept from starvation with our intelli-crops? All those breakthroughs, military funding, honey." Tony felt like she had this woman in a corner and it appeared Ms. Brown knew it.

"You ever lose an hour of sleep in your life?" Tony smiled at this. Christine just created the perfect setup for a retort.

"With my husband, yes. Now I really need to be going. I'll hope to see you never." Tony walked away to the car and got in. When she looked back at Ms. Brown, the woman's jaw was slightly dropped even when they drove away.

"Did you really need to antagonize the reporter? She could write a terrible article about you with all the stuff you gave her." Naruto asked.

"Let her. It's just one person. She can't do anything that no one else has done." Tony turned around and looked at Alex who was sitting in the back taking in the views of the night life. "Hey sweetie, how are you doing?"

"Fine mom, so what was that lady talking about before?" Alex asked.

"Just stupid stuff. So, any place you want to go to before we head home?" Tony asked. Alex seemed to think about this question before he decided to answer.

"Ice cream?" Tony smiled and nodded.

"Sure. Ice cream for everyone. Actually, we could just buy an ice cream shop if we wanted." Tony thought aloud at the end. Naruto chuckled at this.

"Nope. We are not buying an ice cream shop, but we can go for some. There has got to be a place that's open at this time of night." Naruto replied. It was getting late after all. 9:23 p.m. was a late night, especially for a ten year old. Whatever, he was a kid; he could spend a night up. It wasn't a school night so who cares.

Eventually after some searching, they found an ice cream shop which they went into. The cashier was surprised at how three well dressed people, one who was a billionaire, walked into his shop and ordered ice cream from him.

After eating the ice cream, the trio left for their car and headed to their Malibu mansion. When they entered they were greeted by the voice of their Artificial Intelligence, JARVIS.

"Greetings, Mr.'s and Mrs. Stark. Welcome home." The British accent of the AI greeted.

"Hey Jarv. How're you doing?" Naruto asked.

"I am functioning at full capacity, sir." JARVIS replied. Tony turned to Alex.

"It's time to go to bed. I'll see you in the morning, if I'm actually awake by then." Tony said. Alex groaned in disappointment at this. He enjoyed staying awake during this time of night. It made him feel like he was an adult.

"But I like staying up, mom." Alex replied. Tony kneeled as much as she could in her dress and looked at Alex.

"If you go to bed right now, then how about when I come back from my business trip we'll tinker with some of the cars downstairs?" Tony asked. Alex thought about this before nodded.

"Sure, mom. See you guys in the morning!" Alex said as he ran off up stairs. Tony stood up and looked at Naruto.

"So Naruto, now that we're alone, the kid has gone off to sleep, the sun is down, and I feel a little stressed and could use something to relieve the tension." Tony said as she leaned up and put her arms around Naruto's neck.

"You know, I'm going to miss you when you're gone. And also, when have you ever been stressed?" Naruto asked.

"Do I really need to wear a sign or are you just that oblivious?" Tony asked as she kissed Naruto. Both of them began to move towards the stairs and began to go up. Eventually the separated their lips and Naruto smirked.

"No, I just like to mess with you." Naruto replied. Eventually after a small amount of time, and a bit of bumping into multiple objects, the couple managed to make it into their room where upon Tony and Naruto landed the bed together.

"So, can we please do that thing with the clones that you're so good at?" Tony begged.

"Only if you go to your flight on time." Tony thought about this and agreed. Naruto nodded and put his hands together into a cross shape. Two puffs of smoke appeared by the bed and they eventually dispersed to reveal two clones standing at the foot of the bed with massive grins on their faces. "Woohoo!" Tony cried out in happiness.

It was the morning and Tony woke up feeling very happy with herself. Having awesome sex was a highlight of her life with a guy who could spontaneously clone himself whenever he wanted to. She turned in her bed to see that Naruto was not there, probably training in the basement again. He did that every morning which Tony had grown quite used to. With that in mind, she got out of bed and found a robe to put on over her naked form.

Then she walked down her spiraling staircase past the main floor of the house and walked towards the workout room where she knew that Naruto would be. When she entered into it, she saw Naruto inside the boxing ring facing off against one of his clones. Tony remembered the first time that Naruto had ever shown his abilities, and even then she was still excited whenever she saw him do something new.

"Morning Naruto. Up training I see." Tony stated as she walked over to the fridge in the room and pulled out a water bottle which tossed over to Naruto. She could never tell which one was the clone and which one was the real one. The Naruto nearest to her caught the bottle and tossed it over to the Naruto furthest away who took a swig from it. The clone dispelled in a puff of smoke where upon Naruto exited the arena and walked over to Tony. "We probably need to get cleaned up before the mother hen arrives."

"Hey, Pepper is just looking out for your best interests." Naruto replied.

"She can still be really pushy, especially about running the company." Tony replied. Naruto shook his head at his wife's antics. The woman could really act like a child at times.

"Well, it is your company after all."

"By the way, that going away present was amazing." Tony stated with a lecherous grin. Naruto shook his head in amusement and both he and Tony began walking out. When they got to the kitchen, Naruto began to make eggs and bacon. As this happened, the front door opened.

"Welcome Ms. Potts." JARVIS greeted. The click of Pepper's heels echoed across the floor as the secretary walked up to them.

"Morning Pepper!" Naruto said as he cooked the food.

"Good morning Naruto." Pepper turned and looked at Tony, "And hello Tony. Now there are a few things that you should be aware of when you arrive at the Jericho demonstration. One is that the many of your military backers will be attending. Another is that you'll be heading to the demonstration right when you arrive. I hope you are listening, Tony."

"Yes, Pep. I'm listening. Is there any other thing that I need to know about which I will probably tune out?" Tony asked as she poured herself some orange juice. As she did this, Alex came downstairs rubbing the sleep from his eyes.

"Morning mom and dad." When he opened his eyes, he saw Pepper standing next to his mother. "Hi Pepper!" Alex greeted.

"Hello Alex. Now Tony, please try to not act like you usually do. These backers pay for over forty percent of Stark Industries' budget." Pepper said.

"Alright mom." Tony sarcastically replied. Naruto pulled out three plates and put them down on the table where Alex and Tony were sitting.

"Pepper, you want some bacon?" Naruto asked. She shook her head no in response.

"Already ate breakfast."

"Your loss." Naruto said as he filled the plates with bacon and eggs. He put a fork and knife with each plate and set them in front of Alex and Tony before taking a seat with them and ate.

"Don't worry Pep; I'll be a good girl. I'll see you at the airport." Tony said.

"There a multiple other things on your schedule-" Pepper said and started to go into a tangent which Naruto ignored. It was Tony's company after all, he just worked there as security. Eventually after a while Pepper concluded her business with Tony and left, leaving the Starks alone.

"We better get ready. I'll go take a shower." Naruto said. Tony quickly finished her food in response.

"Wait for me. I'm joining." Tony stated and followed after Naruto. Naruto smiled as he walked with Tony rushing up to his side. She really was insatiable. The couple soon made it to the bathroom where they closed the door behind themselves.

Pepper, Naruto, and Alex stood next to Tony on the airport tarmac where her private jet was located. Rhodey had already made it before them and was standing in the entrance of the plane waiting for Tony to finish her goodbyes.

Tony wore a pair of black suit pants, a gray blouse, and a black vest. She really hated having to wear a dress or a skirt after all. Naruto just wore a black suit with an orange tie. She knew that Naruto had a few weapons hidden under that coat of his, he was the head of security at the office so he treated his job very seriously.

Alex just wore a pair of shorts and an orange shirt.

"Well Alex, I will be seeing you again soon enough. Those cars can't build themselves after all. Can you be good for your dad?" Tony asked. Alex nodded and Tony ruffled Alex's hair. "Good boy." She stood up and looked at Pepper. "I'll be a good girl just for you."

"You better Tony." Pepper replied. Finally Tony walked up to Naruto and kissed him.

"I hope my return gift will be even better than my goodbye gift." Tony whispered into Naruto's ear.

"I could always show you my chakra mode." Naruto whispered back. This excited Tony as she remembered when Naruto showed his golden form which was amazing on its own. Add it to their private moments and it was a miracle.

"I'll be waiting." Tony then backed away from the trio and walked towards the jet and up the stair to where Rhodey was waiting. "What are you looking at?" She asked her best friend. Rhodey grinned at his friend.

"Nothing, mommy. I really enjoy how you're actually on time these days. I wonder why that would be." Rhodey replied. Tony lightly punched Rhodey on the shoulder and entered into the jet with Rhodey following after her. When both were seated, they saw the door of the plane close. It took five minutes for the plane to take off and when they were finally in the air, a stewardess walked over to Tony and poured her a glass of whiskey.

"Thank you." Tony drank it and turned to look at Rhodey "Also, I'm on time these days because Naruto has been harassing me about being punctual." Rhodey was slightly confused at this. How did Naruto haranguing Tony make her do anything? Unless…

"He has something on you, doesn't he?" Rhodey was already guessing, it didn't involve embarrassing her; she was pretty much immune to that due to her narcissism. No, there was only one thing he could think of, especially since Tony had been walking with a pep in her step.

"I don't know anything about what you're talking about. Cindy, could you please get my friend here a drink?" Tony asked.

"It is not a time to drink. We need to work." Rhodey replied. The flight attendant walked up to Tony.

"Would you like hot sake?" She asked.

"Yes, two please." Tony replied. Rhodey rubbed his sinuses as while he loved his friend like a sister, she could be so…Tony. If that was even a response.

"Not for me, please." Rhodey said.

"Just ignore my friend and get the other sake." Tony rebuked. She then turned to the colonel, "Come on Rhodey, take a load off, we're going to be on a plane for the next few hours so just live a little."

"I am living. I am living responsibly which is something that you're incapable of." Rhodey replied.

"Of course I can be responsible. I am a mother and I've had to raise a kid for ten years so that's complete proof that I can be responsible." Tony retorted as the flight attendant brought her a drink which she took before she tried to give Rhodey the other drink.

"You are only responsible when either Naruto or Alex are around. If they aren't, then you are basically a kid with a credit card." Rhodey replied.

"Just take the drink. I think that you're too stiff all the time. You need to take a load off." Tony said.

"I am not a stiff Tony, I'm just responsible and when I am in uniform, then I need to be responsible, it's my job, Tony." Rhodey replied.

"You know, you have said responsible about four times already. Now stop being an old man and take the drink." Rhodey rolled his eyes; there was no arguing with Tony so he just decided to play along with her.

"Fine, can I please have the drink?" He asked the flight attendant. She smiled and nodded before handing the glass to him which he took and quickly downed. Tony mockingly clapped and cheered for her friend.

"Can we get another set, please?" Tony asked. The flight attendant nodded and walked away.

"Fine, one more and then I'm done." Rhodey announced. It would be an hour later when Tony and Rhodey could be declared to be officially hammered. They even managed to play beer pong with the sake on hand.

Naruto, Pepper, and Alex all walked back to their cars when they saw that Tony's plane had taken off. "So Pepper, happy birthday." Naruto said.

"Thank you, Naruto." Pepper replied with a smile.

"Would you like to go out for dinner to celebrate your birthday?" Naruto asked.

"I'm sorry but I already had plans. Thanks for offering." Pepper replied. She walked away to her car and left Naruto and Alex alone with one another. "Want to go training, Alex?" Naruto asked. He had been training Alex when his son had first showed signs of being able to use chakra which pleased Naruto greatly. He would never admit it but he was glad that he wasn't the only one of his kind in this world.

It had definitely been a massive change when he had first arrived in this world. He remembered exactly how he had gotten here and he would never forget it as it haunted his dreams every night. Being with Tony had slightly mitigated the dreams to a more manageable level but they didn't disappear.

Naruto and Sasuke watched as Kaguya began to lose all of the Tailed Beast chakra that she contained as she was slowly sealed up into a moon. The battle had finally ended after all this struggle and death. That was what both Naruto and Sasuke had thought when they began to walk away from their defeated opponent. What they didn't expect was that Kaguya would launch one of her bone spears at Sasuke. Naruto first noticed something was off when Sasuke stopped following after him.

When he turned around he saw his friend on his knees and looked up to see Kaguya smile as she turned into a massive wooden husk. The Tailed Beasts had all begun to reform. When she was finally sealed into a moon, it began to be pulled into an alternate dimension, sealed off from all others.

Soon the landscape that they were standing in shifted and Naruto felt the tug in his guy that meant that they had been teleported somewhere else. When he saw the figure of the floating old man and the previous dead hokage, Naruto knew that both he and his friends were back in their own dimension.

Naruto's undead father looked happy at seeing his son returned but Naruto ignored the blonde man for his fallen friend. His legs and hands were already turning to dust due to Kaguya's technique.

"Sasuke, how could this have happened to you?" Naruto asked with some barely concealed tears.

"Bad luck. Now stop being an idiot and listen to me. I was originally planning to overthrow the previous kage to start a new revolution for the world but that won't work now. Instead, I have to ask of you something." Sasuke said. His breathing became much more labored as his forearms and knees turned to dust. Naruto would've liked to have chastised his friend in any other situation but right now was not the time. Instead he had to just listen.

"Go on." Naruto replied. He heard Sakura and Kakashi walk up behind them. Both were quiet in this solemn moment.

"I want you to take my Rinnegan and use it to leave this world." Sasuke demanded. Naruto felt shock at Sasuke's demand.

"Why?" He asked.

"Our families, the Senju who you are related to, and the Uchiha, have been responsible for most of the terrible things in this world. This needs to end and that's why it you need to leave this world. If it wasn't for our families, then this war and so many others would've never happened." Sasuke stated.

"But what about granny Tsunade and Yamato? They both are related to the Senju." Naruto said.

"Tsunade is too old to have kids. Yamato just has Senju DNA grafted to his body. He'll never have kids who are actually Senju. And then there's Karin. She will most likely go into hiding after all of this is done, if not that, then she'll probably kill herself when she learns of my death. No, this needs to end." Sasuke began coughing as he saw more parts of his body turning to dust.

"Take my Rinnegan. Do it now before I die." Sasuke ordered. Naruto thought about this and with some hesitation, he pulled out Sasuke's eye which caused the teen to scream in pain before he calmed down. "Use it and leave this world. Promise me that!" Sasuke screamed out.

Naruto felt the weight of what Sasuke wanted fall upon his shoulders. He would never be able to become hokage like he always wished. He would never be able to be with his friends that he had made. And he would never be able to see what his actions would have done to change the world. In the end, he would just be a memory. He could say no to his friend, but how could he ever be hokage when he was unable to bring his best friend back home.

With great hesitation, Naruto made his decision and reached into his left eye and ripped it out. He tried to control his pain but a scream still ripped through his lips. He then put the Rinnegan into his eye and used his sage chakra to heal the eye so that it would connect into his socket. When it was done, Naruto noticed how much his vision had changed. The world was illuminated by the chakra he could see.

This was the symbol of Naruto accepting Sasuke's promise. In his hand he felt his previous eye in his hand before he let it fall to the ground. "How can I use your Rinnegan to teleport?" Naruto asked.

"Just think of leaving and you will. Goodbye…Naruto." Soon after, Sasuke's body disappeared into dust which flew off into the sky. Naruto stood up and walked away from where Sasuke's body once was and to his teacher and teammate.

"Please, don't go, Naruto!" Sakura shouted out with tears in her eyes as she ran over to Naruto and hugged him. She held onto him as if to try and anchor him from leaving the world.

"I'm sorry, Sakura, but it's something that I must do. I made a promise and I will keep it." Naruto calmly said as he slowly and gently pushed Sakura away from him. This was hard enough with having to leave, but Sasuke in a way was right. Their families had helped create this mess. It was in everyone's best interest that something like this would never happen again. When Sakura wouldn't let go, he hugged he back.

"I must go. Please don't stop me." Naruto asked. Sakura sobbed into his shoulder before she eventually let him go. Naruto then walked over to where the massive Tailed Beast sat watching this interaction. While most people would be terrified of these creatures, Naruto felt completely safe being near them. He walked over to the other half of Kurama and looked at the massive fox with nine tails.

"Kurama, I plan to leave this world and I want to ask you, do you want to come with me or do you want to stay here?" He asked.

"I will go with you. And that's for three reasons, one would be that without me and my other half, you would be hopeless. The second reason is because with me gone, it would be impossible to recreate the Ten Tails. And finally, it's because we're partner." Kurama held his fist out to Naruto who smiled and bumped it back. Then the massive fox turned into a mass of red chakra that quickly entered into Naruto's body.

With his friend with him, Naruto turned to Kakashi and nodded to the man. "Thank you for being my teacher." Naruto said to the gray haired man.

"You're welcome. Goodbye Naruto." Naruto then walked over to where the undead hokage were and to his father. He wrapped the armless man in a hug as he knew that he would never be able to interact with the man again.

"Goodbye dad. Thanks for being my dad."

"And thank you for being my son. When I return to the pure realm, I'll tell your mother all about you and about what we did here." Naruto just squeezed the man tighter before letting him go. Then he turned to the floating old man.

"Sasuke's instructions on the Rinnegan were pretty bad. Could you tell me how to leave this world?" Naruto asked. The sage nodded to the teen.

"Come near me and I'll show you how to leave, and something else which only you need to know, now that you're never coming back here." The sage replied. Naruto walked over to the older man who grabbed him by the shoulder and pulled him closer to him. "There are more worlds out there besides this one. When I died, I learned of this knowledge. We are apart of nine different realms and we are not alone in this universe. Now, let me show you a world that you can go to."

The sage then put his finger upon Naruto's forehead and Naruto felt knowledge enter into his mind. There was so much that Naruto couldn't even possibly comprehend.

A Cube Within a Cube

A Staff With a Glowing Blue Tip

A Dark Red Energy That Moved As If Alive

A Silver Stylized Orb

A Golden Eye Amulet

A Stone Hidden In Time

Each item contained a gem of a different color, scattered throughout the universe.

Soon Naruto saw another image of a golden gauntlet with empty spaces inside of it.

Finally, Naruto saw a large structure that was shaped like a tree with multiple ends. But eventually his vision was dragged to one section of this tree before it zoomed in to a small planet out of so many others. This image stuck itself in his mind before the images disappeared and he once again stared at the sage's purple rippled eyes.

"Wh-what did I just see?" Naruto asked as he breathed heavily.

"You have the destination in your mind. I found a world similar yet different to our own. The rest you have seen was what I have identified as objects of immense power. Their ability untapped, and unmatched. Pay to them much respect; they'll be but a stone's throw from you when you arrive to your destination."

"That is weird." Naruto replied. The sage nodded and placed his hand upon Naruto's shoulder.

"I wish you much happiness on your journey, but I wish for you to heed this: there is one who I have seen. A being of death, born of death, and made by death. Fear him, for he is ancient, and he is coming." The sage smiled at Naruto in an effort to comfort the young man. "My son, you have made me proud, please find a good life for yourself unlike your brother. Thankfully he is at peace for he has no one to reincarnate into. Concentrate on the destination that I have shown you, and you will arrive. Goodbye."

The sage then did something that Naruto would've never expected from the serious, aloof, man. The sage hugged him before floating away from Naruto.

"I guess this is it. Goodbye, everyone, thank you for everything." Naruto then concentrated on the location that the sage had showed him and put his chakra into the Rinnegan. In a flash of dim light, Naruto disappeared from the Elemental Nations.

Naruto didn't even notice that his eyes were closed. He did notice that this world he was on smelled dirty. Like the world was being slowly covered in poison. He opened his eyes and saw that he stood in a city unlike any that he had been in before.

"I'm really no longer home, am I?" Naruto asked himself sadly before he began to walk.

Naruto never was able to forget about those objects that he had seen. They would haunt his dreams at times more than even that of Sasuke's death. He never told Tony about the images that he saw, but he did tell her about everything else. About how he was from a different world, about his childhood and teenage years, of Kurama. Tony accepted him regardless, even if she liked to call him fuzzy every now and again.

Alex didn't know about his past except that he had powers and that Kurama was inside of him.

Now though, they headed to the house so that Naruto could continue their training session from before. Last time they were working on wall walking which Alex had failed at mastering at first. The boy had high chakra levels like he did when he was younger. This helped when Naruto decided to train Alex in how to use shadow clones.

The boy would become a powerhouse in the future, if he didn't become a weapons manufacturer or car designer first. Naruto didn't completely agree with Tony building weapons but he understood it. Sometimes war was necessary, even if peace was desired as there were some who would never accept peace. Naruto learned that when he fought against Madara.

When the father and son arrived at the house, Naruto stripped out of his suit and tie and into a pair of gray sweatpants and a black shirt. Alex came to the workout room dressed in matching attire except he wore a red shirt instead. Naruto stood by a wall where Alex walked over to.

"Try and climb it again." Alex nodded with a look of determination upon his face. He had done this over a hundred times and yet he still couldn't stay stuck to the wall like his father could. Today though, he would make it. With that in mind, he ran at the wall and applied his chakra to his feet which he noticed that he was staying attached to the wall for much longer than he usually accomplished.

"I'm doing it dad!" Alex shouted. Naruto nodded with pride at his son. Then Alex was blasted off the wall, "Ow!" Alex shouted in pain from the ground. Naruto watched Alex push himself from the ground and walk to the wall to try and attempt the wall walking again. Naruto smiled at his son's determination and walked over to the boxing ring where he quickly cloned himself and began to fight.

As he did so, he felt that someone or something was watching him. It came and went every once in a while. His Rinnegan could see the energy of whatever it was that was watching. Once when he had used his Nine Tailed Chakra mode, he managed to sense the intention of whatever it was that was watching. Strangely the being had no hostile intent, just curiosity.

Well, guess he could give his watcher a show today. With that in mind he nodded to his clone who smirked. Both he and the clone activated their chakra modes and moved at intense speeds against one another in their mock battle. Naruto enjoyed when got to fight like this as he got bored these days since there was really no one that could match him in a fight.

As he fought his clone, he let the illusion covering his Rinnegan fall as he really wanted to let loose. From an outsiders perspective, mainly Alex's, the boxing arena was just a golden sphere of energy. This amazed Alex as he watched his father fight until after another minute Naruto and his clone stopped and looked at Alex.

"What are you doing just standing there? Keep training, Alex." Naruto ordered.

"But what you're doing looks amazing. When will I be able to fight like that, dad?" Alex asked.

"One day when you are really strong. And a way to get strong is to first master wall walking." Naruto replied with a smile. Alex nodded and with a new resolve he went back to trying to walk on the wall.

It would be twenty minutes later when Alex was cheering in happiness which caught both Narutos attentions. They were able to witness Alex staying glued to the wall which made the Narutos smile. The original turned to his clone and nodded and the clone disappeared in a puff of smoke leaving only one inside the boxing arena. When Naruto hopped out of the ring and walked up to his son.

"Great job, Alex! You really made me proud today." Naruto stated to the boy who was standing horizontal to him. Alex held out his fist to his father and Naruto bumped it. Then Alex jumped off the wall and onto the ground.

"I'm going to go get cleaned. See you, dad." Alex said as he ran off leaving Naruto alone. The presence was still watching him yet now it had some amusement tingeing it. "Whoever is watching, that's all for now." Naruto said as he began to walk out of the room. The presence quickly disappeared after that.

Tony was quite pleased with the weapon demonstration. She managed to not irritate the crotchety old men at the demo, she gained their continued contracts, and she managed to get some whiskey on the side. All she needed to do now was get a ride back to the airport and then she would be back home. She didn't hate Afghanistan, but it was way too sandy for her to deal with.

When she got into the military humvee, she noticed that all the people inside were completely silent. This managed to continue for another ten minutes down the road before she became really annoyed.

"I feel like you're driving me to a court-marshal." Tony blurted out. "This is crazy, what did I do? I feel like you're going to pull over and snuff me." She looked at one of the soldiers who looked like he was going to crack and so she decided to focus her attention on him. "What, you're not allowed to talk? Hey Forrest!"

"We can talk, ma'am." The soldier replied. Oh the relief. At least not everyone would be a stiff on this ride.

"Oh I see, it's personal?" Tony inquired.

"No, you intimidate them." A female voice responded before the soldier turned around to look at Tony. Wow, from behind she really did look like a man. Probably due to the uniform.

"Good God, you're a woman. I thought that I would've been the only one on this ride. I honestly would never have been able to call that." This made the soldiers around her, smile. At least the thick tension that could have been cut with a knife was gone. "I mean, I'd apologize, but isn't that what we're going for here?"

"I'd have taken you for a soldier at first."

"I'm an airman." The woman replied.

"Well, I won't deny you that. Then again, I am not the best person to be asking about who is who in the military. After all, you all shoot guns and look cool and I just make the guns," The tension was almost gone, almost, "come on, it's okay to laugh." She got the soldier to start cracking smiles. Thank God.

"Ma'am, I have a question to ask." One of the soldiers near her asked.

"Go ahead, I'm not stopping you."

"Is it true that both you and your husband were kicked out of a hotel in Paris for disturbing the guests?" The soldier asked.

"In a way that is true. We were very loud and were asked to leave. We then went to a nearby motel." Tony fondly remembered that moment well, the staff of the hotel were all completely red in the face as when they stood by the door of their room. Apparently both she and Naruto were really loud. "Anyone else?" One of the soldiers raised his hand much to Tony's amusement. "You're kidding me with the hand up, right?"

The soldier quickly put his hand down. "Is it alright if I take a picture with you?"

"Yes. It's very cool." Tony replied with a grin.

"All right." The soldier quickly took his camera out and handed it to a man in front. Then he sidled up to Tony's side.

"I don't want to see this on your MySpace page." The soldier then put his hand up in a peace sign. "And no gang signs." The soldier quickly put his hand down. "No, throw it up, I'm kidding." Tony said with mirth, which the soldier did. "Yeah, peace. I love peace. I'd be out of a job with peace." The man with the camera was taking a while when he tried to take the picture.

"Come on, hurry up. Don't mess with the settings." Just as the camera was about to go off, the humvee in front of them exploded and their humvee stopped.

"Contact!" The woman shouted.

"What's going on?" Tony asked with fear in her voice.

"Contact left!" The woman shouted. She then got out of the humvee and was shot immediately. The man in the passenger's seat began to get out.

"Jimmy, stay with Stark!" He shouted. He then got out of the humvee. Jimmy told her to stay down but as she did so, the man outside got shot by a small hail of bullets which also destroyed the window of the humvee. Jimmy then began to move outside which made Tony fear for the life of this man. All the other soldiers who had exited the humvee were killed.

"W-w-w-wait!" Tony shouted. Jimmy was already outside and looking at her through the window.

"Stay here!" Just as he said that, a rain of shrapnel shot at Jimmy, killing him, and damaging the humvee. There were shrapnel holes everywhere but on her. She didn't have time to consider herself lucky as she quickly got out of the humvee in order to find some cover.

All around her explosions went off but she continued running until she found a small mound of rocks with which to hide behind. She jumped behind it and then she pulled out her phone. She considered who she should call, Naruto or Rhodey. She decided to go with Rhodey since he was closer. As she was halfway done with calling the number, an object zoomed past her periphery in stuck itself into the ground. Tony turned and looked at the object and noticed two things. One: it was a shrapnel bomb which she knew immediately, two: which was connected to one, it was her bomb. On the side of it in damning white letters were Stark Industries.

She quickly tried to climb away from it but was too late as the bomb went off, launching her a few feet in the air and back. Tony was surprised to see that she was alive. Thankfully her vest had protected her. Then she felt a warm red liquid on her chest and looked down. Her shirt that she was wearing was quickly being covered in her own blood and so she quickly pulled it apart and looked at the ballistics vest that had multiple small holes in it.

Her head the ground quickly. She knew for a fact that she didn't want to die out here. She wanted to go back home to Naruto, and Alex, Pepper, and even Happy. Then darkness covered her and she was no longer awake.

Tony had quick flashes of consciousness after the blast. The first was her being dragged through what appeared to be a cave. She blacked out before awakening onto a table. Then darkness once again. Once again she awoke, but this was to immense pain in her chest. She thought that she screamed out before someone used something to put her back to sleep.

When she woke up one more, she noticed that she was in a room, staring at a camera. Finally she woke up on what felt like a bed. The pain in her chest was still there so she looked down to see both a mass of bandages wrapped across her chest, and cords emanating from that position.

Tony was terrified as she began ripping at the bandages to see what they were covering. Why there were cords coming out of her chest. After enough tearing, she saw something that stopped her cold. It was a metal circular piece affixed firmly to her chest that looked like a shoddy version of a pacemaker.

"NOO!" Tony screamed as the reality of the situation came crashing down upon her.

Naruto was breathing heavily after he received the news. His anger at learning that Tony had been kidnapped made him punch the wall, creating a hole in it. How could the military be so bad at escorting one person to an airport? How?

He punched the wall once again. He didn't care. Right now he needed to get to Afghanistan and find Tony. At least that's what he would've done if not for Pepper coming by and insisting that he stay here and let Rhodey and the United States find her. Reassurances were only so much. If this had happened in his world, then he would've already been able to find Tony due to Sage mode. Sadly though, this world was so polluted that it caused a weakness in Sage mode. It restricted it to only a half mile of being able to sense where anything was. And it took a few seconds longer to collect energy here then back in his world.

Regardless, he wanted to just ignore what everyone was telling him and instead charge out into the desert. Naruto knew that Alex wasn't taking the news of his mother's kidnapping well. He rushed up into his room and had been there ever since. What confused Naruto was why the kidnappers weren't making any demands. He had been told by Rhodey that Tony was probably going to be ransomed but he had heard nothing about it. That either meant that these people didn't care about money, or that they were planning on using Tony for something else.

That night Pepper, Happy, and Obadiah came over in order to be supporting during this time. Pepper's eyes were slightly red and puffy while Happy's normally cheerful demeanor was completely opposite of his namesakes. Obadiah on the other hand looked colder compared to how he usually acted.

He really hoped that Tony would be found soon because he didn't know how much longer he would be able to control himself from charging off on a mission to save his wife. Even Kurama was up in arms about it and he had displayed his anger quite clearly in his mindscape.

Naruto just hoped that Tony was alright and would be found soon.

As Tony was ready to tear this metal object out of her chest, she was stopped by a single voice. "I wouldn't do that if I were you." The man said calmly.

"What the hell did you do to me?" Tony asked as she saw a thin looking man in dirty clothes. He had a shaved head and completed his ensemble with a pair of glasses.

"What I did?" The man began and stopped before continuing, "What I did is to save your life. I removed all the shrapnel I could, but there's still a lot left, and it's headed into your atrial system." He walked over to Tony with something in his hand. "Here, want to see." The man said before placing a small glass bottle onto the table next to her. Inside were multiple metal shards that were covered in dried blood.

"I have a souvenir. Take a look." Tony said while pointing to the object in her chest.

"I've seen many wounds like that in my village. We call them the walking dead because it takes about a week for the barbs to reach the vital organs." The man replied.

"What is this?" Tony asked as she slowly pushed herself up from her bed.

"It's an electromagnet, hooked up to a car battery, and it's keeping the shrapnel from entering you heart." The man said with a sad smirk.

"Yeah, that's right. Smile." Tony replied in an effort to lash out at someone at her situation.

"We met once, you know, at a technical conference in Berlin." The man stated.

"I don't remember."

"No, you wouldn't. If I had been that drunk, I wouldn't have been able to stand, much less give a lecture on integrated circuits. Your husband though was much more sociable than you, though." The man remarked with some amusement.

"Isn't he always." Tony looked around the room where she was. "Where are we?" She asked. Both of their attentions were taken away from the conversation when they heard shouting outside of the metal door near them. The man quickly stood up and gently but firmly pulled Tony to her feet.

"Come on, stand up. Stand up!" He ordered. Eventually when Tony was on her feet, she saw the man put his hands up. "Just do as I do. Come on, put your hands up!" The man shouted. Tony quickly followed suit just as the door opened and multiple men with guns entered the room. Tony noticed that on all of their guns the words Stark Industries was present.

"Those are my guns. How did they get my guns?" Tony asked in shock. One man walked into the room who looked extremely plump and full of a form of pride as he strutted into the room. He then started to speak a language that Tony had no idea about. Her, probably, only friend at the moment spoke out to translate.

"He says, 'Welcome, Tony Stark, the world's most famous mass murderer in the history of America.' He is very honored. And he wants you to build the missile. The Jericho missile that you demonstrated." The fat man pulled out a picture of the missile in all of its glory.

It only took Tony one moment to think about this. She would never build a device like that for people like these. "I refuse."

Tony found out quite quickly that these men were not courteous to ladies at all as they managed to torture her for the next few minutes by dunking her head into a bucket of water and leaving her to struggle for air. Eventually they pulled her out of the water for the last time before she finally agreed to listen to their demands. She did not want to go back to the waterboarding.

After that, they took her outside into their compound. Mr. Glasses followed after them in order to translate what fatman was saying. The compound was filled to the brim with weapons, her weapons. Each and everyone of the weapons and crates here had her name stamped onto them. How many people had died due to these men using her weapons?

Fatman began to speak to her and Mr. Glasses began to translate next to her. "He wants to know what you think." Mr. Glasses said.

"I think you've got a lot of my weapons." Tony replied sourly.

"He says they have everything you need to build the Jericho missile. He wants you to make the list of materials. He says for you to start working immediately, and when you're done, he will set you free." Mr. Glasses said. Tony guessed almost immediately that fatman was lying.

"No he won't." She stated as fact.

"No he won't." Glasses replied. After the show of force, Tony and Mr. Glasses were taken back to their room where they were left to their own devices.

"So, Mr. Glasses. Do you have a name or am I just going to keep calling you that?" Tony asked as she went back to her bed and set the car battery that she was carrying onto the table next to her. It was really tiring lugging that thing around. She needed to make something else that was much smaller and yet could still give off a huge amount of power.

"Look, what you just saw, that is your legacy, Stark. Your life's work, in the hands of those murderers. Is that how you want to go out? Is this the last act of defiance of the great Antonia Stark? Or are you going to do something about it?" Mr. Glasses asked. Tony turned and looked at the man with a look of resolve plastered across her face.

"Two things. One: the name is Tony. No one calls me anything else except for my husband. Two: my legacy is my son." Tony replied. "Why should I even do anything? They'll kill me, you, either way. And if they don't, then I'll probably be dead by the end of the week anyway." Tony said somberly as the defiance that was so clear of her face started to become marred with doubt.

"Well, then, this is a very important week for you, isn't it? And if you won't fight for yourself, then try to fight for your child. After all, I hear the worst thing to do is to separate a mother from her child." Before the man walked away, he turned around, "And my name is Ho Yinsen." The man replied. He then walked to another corner of the room and began to eat on a tray.

What Yinsen had said, resonated through her. She wanted to get back home, to be with Naruto and Alex. But no, she would not bow to this pressure. She was Tony Stark damnit! It was time to get to work. She stood up and picked up the car battery before walking over to Yinsen. "Time to get up, Yinsen. We need to get to work." Yinsen turned to Tony and smiled.

"Good, at least you are not taking this lying down."

Naruto had finally had enough. After waiting twenty four hours and receiving nothing new. He decided to do something stupid and called Rhodey. After that, he called Pepper. It took a ring before she picked up. "Hello Naruto, what do you need today?" Pepper asked in a slightly dull tone. Tony's disappearance had hit her hard as well.

"I need you to come over to the house."

"Please don't tell me that you have done something that would be considered an insane idea." Pepper pleaded.

"I got Rhodey to pull some strings for me. He will be getting me into Afghanistan and I will find Tony. I just need you to watch Alex for the next few days." Naruto replied.

"Naruto, why do you think that you'll be able to find Tony when the army can't? Alex can't lose you as well!" Pepper shouted over the phone which made Naruto pull the phone from his ear.

"I've already made up my mind. Now are you going to come over to watch Alex or are you just going to let him be in the house all by himself?" Naruto asked. Pepper was silent for a moment before she sighed.

"Don't worry, I'll watch Alex." Pepper said.

"Thank you." Naruto replied.

"Please be careful."

"Always." And Naruto ended the call there. He turned around to see Alex standing in the doorway. "Did you hear all of that, Alex?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah. You really think that you'll be able to find mom?" Alex asked.

"I don't think. I know. After all, I'm the strongest guy on the planet." Naruto boasted. Alex ran up to Naruto and gave him a hug. Naruto smiled before returning the gesture.

"Please come back safe." Alex begged. Naruto kneeled so that he was at Alex's height and put his hands on both of his son's shoulders.

"I'll promise you this, Alex. When I come back with your mother, I'll begin teaching you my greatest technique, the Rasengan." Alex slightly smiled at this. "Now I need to go pack." Naruto then stood up and ran off to the bedroom. When he got to the bedroom, he pulled a trunk out from under the bed. This had been a gift given to him by his toad summons after he had arrived in this world. He didn't summon them that often since it took a massive amount of chakra on his part to do so as his world was extremely far from Earth. The second time he had summoned the toads here, they had given this chest to his as a gift which was filled with some personal items. Along with one other thing.

Naruto pulled out the photographs, books, and scrolls before he reached what he wanted. Quite gingerly, he pulled out a familiar looking red cloak. He let it unfold which revealed it to have short sleeves and a black flame design at the hem of the cloak. Shima had made this for him as a gift to replace the one he had lost years ago.

Naruto set this and his kunai, shurikans, and pouches onto the bed before he walked over to the dresser and pulled out a long sleeved orange shirt, and a pair of black cargo pants. After putting his clothes on, he walked back over to the bed and grabbed the cloak which he slid on. Then he strapped the pouched onto his legs and the back of his hip before filling them with weapons. He walked over to the sealing scrolls in the chest and pulled out the ones labeled for food and water which he shoved into the pockets of his pants.

Now he was ready.

As Naruto was busy preparing for his trip to Afghanistan, Tony was planning her escape with Yinsen. After ordering the terrorists on what she needed, she really enjoyed how she could order terrorists around; they set up her new makeshift workshop. The first plan for all of this to work was to make a new energy device for her magnet as having to lug a battery around, while seeming like a new fashion statement, was really annoying. So, she decided to fix that.

This was why right now, Yinsen was pouring 1.6 grams of molten palladium into a circular mold which Tony was holding. When the circle was formed and had cooled down, Tony use a pair of pliers to pull it out of the mold and to set it into the a circle of metal. Over the next hour, Tony began to assemble the item that would lead to their escape. When she had created the body for the item, she hooked it up a set of power cables which she hooked up to the terror cave's power grid.

Tony heard Yinsen walk up behind her as she turned her reactor on. The lights that were powered in the cave began to flicker while the Arc reactor on the table glowed with a white light.

"Wow," Yinsen said with awe as he looked over her shoulder, "that doesn't look like a Jericho missile."

"That's because it's not, it's a miniaturized Arc reactor. I got a big one powering my factory at home." Tony replied. She clicked on the clear panel and was happy that it was holding together, "It's to keep the shrapnel out of my heart."

"But what could it generate?" Yinsen asked.

"If my math is right, and it always is, three gigajoules per second."

"That could run your heart for fifty lifetimes."

"Or something big for fifteen minutes." When the Arc reactor was finally charged, Tony removed the cables from it and pulled the dirty tank top that she was wearing down so that the magnet in her chest was completely exposed. "Could you help put this in?" Tony asked. Yinsen nodded.

"Lean back slightly," Tony did as she was asked and Yinsen held the reactor in his hand with a wire dangling from its base. "I will need to do this quickly, or else your body may be injured by the shrapnel." Yinsen replied. With a quick and professional ease, Yinsen pulled the battery pack attached to her magnet out of her chest. It was attached by only one cord which Yinsen gently pulled out.

"Wow, that feels weird. Never knew what the saying 'rip your heart out' meant until now." Quickly Yinsen shoved the plug of the reactor into the outlet of the magnet. Tony felt a slight change in her body. It felt like she was being energized. Maybe this was how Naruto felt all the time. The Arc reactor was then put into the hole in her chest and it Yinsen twisted it which caused it to stick inside of the hole.

"You can lean forward now." Yinsen said with a smile. Tony did so and stood up and readjusted her tank top so that it covered more of her breasts.

"Now it's time to get to work Yinsen." Tony walked over to a table with Yinsen following after her. She pulled out some plans that she had been working on after she finished her Arc reactor plans. Then she rolled the plans out onto the table.

"This is our ticket out of here." Tony stated.

"What is it?"

"Flatten them out and look." As Yinsen did so, he saw that the plans formed an armor which made him smile in hope.

"Impressive."

Over the course of the week, Tony and Yinsen built the suit of armor. They gained a sort of camaraderie though their imprisonment together. The first thing that showed how far their progress went was the helmet that Tony dropped onto the table where Yinsen was.

During one of the moments when they were able to eat together, Tony decided that she wanted to know more about her friend, so she asked him, "You still haven't told me where you're from." Tony said.

"I'm from a small town called Gulmira. It's actually a nice place." Yinsen said.

"Got a family?" Tony asked.

"Yes, and I will see them when I leave here." Yinsen replied with a small smile. "And what about you, what is your family like?" Yinsen asked.

"Well, there's Naruto, he used to be my bodyguard, can you believe that? We eventually found out that we couldn't resist one another and that led to the horizontal tango. Then years later and Alex was born. He's smart like me and yet he has his father's stubbornness. I'd say that I gave him ninety percent of the good genes and Naruto provided the other ten." Tony replied.

"At least you have a family. My question, though, is why you build machines that take life when you yourself have given it?" Tony didn't know how to respond to that statement. She remained quiet instead.

After being dropped off into the desert near the position what Tony was last heard from with nothing but a satellite phone and a large amount of strange looks, Naruto began to absorb the natural energy in the area. It took him a while to do so but he eventually managed to achieve sage mode after standing still for twenty seconds. When he did so, he was able to sense all living beings in the area within a half mile. The first thing he noticed was that there was a group of people nearby moving together very fast to his position. Naruto smirked at this.

When he looked towards the area where the group was coming from, he saw a truck filled with men waving about guns. Guess it was time to greet the locals. With a new target in mind, Naruto used his immense speed to meet the truck at the halfway point by standing in front of it. The truck was unable to stop in time and instead collided into Naruto and folded in on itself.

Sage mode and sticking to the ground with chakra were powerful allies.

The men in the back of the truck were flung forward while the two men sitting in the driver and passenger seat were rendered unconscious. One of the men who recovered before all of his comrades stood on one knee and began to fire at Naruto. The bullets bounced off of his Sage mode enhanced skin while Naruto walked towards the man. He looked at the rifle that the man was using and had a look of surprise cross his face.

Eventually the gun ran out of bullets and Naruto ripped it out of the scared man's hands. This was a Stark weapon. Naruto glared at the man before him and put his hand on the man's forehead. The illusion covering his eye dispersed and revealed the gray rippled eye that was the Rinnegan. Using one of the abilities, Naruto partially pulled the man's soul from his body and used the Rinnegan's ability to read his mind.

He found what he was looking for when he saw the familiar face of Tony as she…she was injured. And she was dragged into a cave!? Naruto let the man's soul go back into his body. The man found his voice when his soul entered back into his body. "W-what are you? Are you a divine being?" The man asked in Arabic. Naruto glared at the man.

"No, right now I'm demonic." Naruto replied in Arabic just as his right eye changed into one that was red with a cross shape. The man screamed as Naruto punched the man as hard as he could in the jaw. He heard it break and the man groan on the ground before he left the area and headed for where Tony should be.

Tony felt quite secure as she was strapped into the armor that she and Yinsen had built together. Yinsen typed a few keys on the computer and the program that would help move this suit would be downloaded inside. "Come over here and button me up." Tony said to her friend. Yinsen did as asked. "Okay. All right. Every other hexbolt." Yinsen looked at the doorway as he heard men screaming down the hallway.

"They're coming!" Yinsen exclaimed with fear.

"Nothing pretty, just get it done. Then we can get out of here together." Tony said in an effort to calm her friend down. "Make sure the checkpoints are clear when you follow me." Yinsen looked at the computer screen and saw that the download still had a while to go. He only knew of one option that could at least help Tony if not him.

"We need more time." He stated before walking away to one of the downed soldiers who fell to the bomb that they placed on the door earlier. Yinsen picked up the assault rifle.

"Hey!" Tony shouted after her friend. She was scared for him.

"I'm gonna buy you some time." Yinsen said as he ran out of the doorway.

"Hey, stick to the plan!" She could hear Yinsen screaming and shooting the rifle down the hallway. "Yinsen!" After a few more moments the download finished and the lights of the cave shut down leaving her in darkness except for the glow of her Arc reactor. Tony unhooked herself from the cables and cords that were attached to the suit. She reached over to where the helmet had been set on the table and placed it on her head. It was slightly harder to breathe with it on but she dealt with it, she needed to save Yinsen and then get both of them out of this cave.

She heard someone enter the room and smiled to herself. Hello human stress ball! She began to move when she saw the terrorist run around the corner and when he saw her, he began to fire the assault rifle at her. Tony swung her fist at the man and he was launched into the other wall where he collapsed in a heap. When that happened, the terrorists posse began to fire at the wall.

Tony walked around the workshop and hugged a wall before inching to the group who stopped firing. 'Surprise boys' Tony thought to herself as she stepped into view and began to punch each of the men down. She walked forward down the corridor where people fired at her with their assault rifles; she walked through it and punched each one of the men down.

One the terrorist's was locked on the other side of the door. Tony felt amusement at the fear this guy showed before she smashed his head into the wall. Then she punched the doors down. The group of terrorists began to fire at her, but Tony walked through the hail of bullets and smashed her way through the group until her arm got stuck in a wall.

A bullet ricocheted off the helmet which created a loud ping that gave Tony a slight headache. After walking a bit longer, she saw much to her horror that Yinsen was lying on multiple sacks of supplies, his chest riddled with bullet holes.

"Yinsen!" She shouted.

"Watch out!" The dying man croaked out. Tony turned to the entrance of the cave and saw the terrorist leader known as Raza, fire a rocket at her. Tony leaned backwards slightly and the rocket hit the wall near her. In response, Tony opened up a compartment on her left arm which housed a missile. She then fired said missile at Raza which hit the wall near him and knocked him unconscious due to the shockwave.

Tony walked over to Yinsen and kneeled down next to him and pulled the faceplate of her helmet up.

"Stark." Yinsen said with some happiness.

"Come on, we got to go. Move for me, stick to the plan." Tony ordered. She did not want to lose her friend in this dark cave in the middle of nowhere. He deserved better than that.

"This was always the plan, Stark." Yinsen said in defeat. It seemed that the will that was carrying him though this week had shriveled up in just one instant. Tony searched through her mind for anything that would get the man to move. Eventually she remembered.

"Come on, you're gonna go see your family. Get up." Tony pleaded. What Yinsen said next would stay with in Tony's mind for the rest of her life.

"My family is dead. I'm going to see them now, Stark. It's okay. I want this. I want this." Yinsen said with effort.

"Thank you for saving me." Tony said. It was all that she could think of.

"Don't waste it. Don't waste your life." The words echoed through her mind as Yinsen breathed his last. Quickly her face turned into a grimace as she became filled with anger. These men would die today. They would pay for killing Yinsen.

With a new resolve, Tony stood up and lowered her faceplate back down. She then trudged through the cave and towards the entrance where the rest of these murderers were. When she stood outside, she became attacked by a hail of gunfire all aimed at bringing her down. She ignored it though, and eventually the murderers stopped firing. Tony smirked under the helmet.

"My turn." She then activated the flamethrowers attached to her wrists and began to blast all the people in the area with it. After taking down all the people, she aimed for the crates upon crates filled with her weapons until she was satisfied that they were going to blow.

The gunfire resumed quite quickly after the murderers regained themselves. Tony knew that a bullet hit a critical component of the leg portion of the suit when she collapsed to her knee. It was time to get out of here. So, Tony quickly pushed herself back on her feet and pressed a button on her left arm. Quite quickly, the jets in her boots launched her up into the sky as all of the weapons in the camp exploded around her.

Flying was quite exhilarating until the eventuality that what goes up must come down. She screamed as she began to fall to the ground and was quite prepared for being in a massive world of hurt until from out of nowhere she was caught. Eventually after being lowered to the ground, she turned around and saw who saved her.

"Naruto!" Tony cried out as she rushed at the man and grabbed him into a hug. "How did you find me?" She asked.

"Only you would be coming out of an explosion in a flying robotic suit. How about I get that off of you." Naruto said which Tony nodded to. Naruto then closed his eyes and held his hand out to Tony. She could hear the creak and groan of metal before the suit came apart before her and fell to the ground in a heap of metal and leather.

Naruto's eyes on the other hand were staring at her chest, or, more specifically, her Arc reactor. "What happened?" Naruto asked with concern.

"A long story." Tony replied.

"How about you tell me on the ride back home. I've got Rhodey on speed dial right now." Naruto said. Tony nodded and hugged Naruto before both enveloped each other in a passionate kiss.

Three minutes earlier.

Naruto ran through the desert road as he wanted to get to Tony as soon as possible. He was worried even if he tired to hide it. "Kurama, let's go!" Naruto shouted and was enveloped in a golden light. When the light receded, Naruto was covered in a golden cloak of energy with a black shirt underneath that had a golden circle at the stomach. On the cloak were numerous black symbols while his three whisker marks were all black bars.

With this new form, a new amount of speed filled Naruto as he ran through the desert; a massive cloud of sand flew behind him. The location was growing closer as Naruto sped through the desert. That was when he heard the noises of gunfire going off which attracted Naruto's attention. He quickly activated his Sage mode and sensed the area. A smile grew on his face as he ran to the gunshots.

A moment later and a large amount of explosions went off. Naruto ran even faster and felt the life signs of many people end quickly. Tony's was still going strong and that was all he cared about. He was quite surprised when he felt Tony's energy begin to fly. When he followed the sign with his eyes, he saw what looked like a person covered in metal.

Tony!

Naruto ran as fast as he could and jumped at Tony just as she began falling to the earth. He sighed in relief as he caught her and fell back down to the earth where he dispersed his Nine Tails Mode and set Tony down.

It took about twenty minutes before Rhodey came to their location in a chopper. Tony handed Naruto the water bottle that he had given her, and stood up and walked over to Rhodey before giving him a hug. "What took you so long?" Tony asked.

"Turbulence. Next time, you ride with me, alright." Rhodey said with a grin. He looked up at Naruto and laughed. "It took you one day to find her. You really are a miracle worker."

"She's my wife. I knew she could take care of herself but I got lonely waiting for her at home." Naruto replied. Rhodey laughed and the three friends walked into the chopper together.

And a new crossover is born! This literally came to me one night and has been an earworm for a while. Now though, it has been written out. Good? Bad? Tell me in the comment section. Hope you all enjoyed.

Now time to go back to my other crossovers/normal fics. Stay frosty my friends.