Chapter 3: Legacy

Naruto wandered through the fields of his minds, looking for his friend Kurama. Naruto figured out that the better the bond he had with Kurama, the better his mind started to look. Naruto finally found who he was looking for. Granny Mito sat in a flower field with a girl resting her head on her shoulder, completely asleep. Granny Mito shushed Naruto as he walked over. That little girl was none other than the nine tailed fox, in human form. It turned out, Kurama and several other tailed beasts were female. Naruto sighed and sat down next to the two. Kurama took on the age of her holder, so she looked to be at around the same age as Naruto, but she had red hair, and wore red robes as well, with a purple sash through the middle. Naruto was surprised at how friendly Kurama became once Naruto had found Mito.

Naruto looked around for the other inhabitants of his mind, his mother and father. Thay had stored chakra into Naruto when they died, but it wasn't much, and they would have only been able to talk to him once, but Naruto figured out a way to give them his own chakra to keep their forms. For some reason, this made them less like remnants of the people they were, as they were able to start storing new memories. Minato even said that he felt as though his conscious left the Shinagami, and it had been brought to the version of him in Naruto's mind.

Whenever Naruto went to sleep, he would talk to the one's in his mind. This made his relationship with his family better, and he had become friends with Kurama. Naruto was even able to train in his sleep. Of course, this did not mean physical training. He would train in chakra manipulation, and in using the Kyuubi's chakra. Naruto was also learning about a special jutsu from his father, the Rasengan.

Naruto was having a little bit of trouble with the third step, but he luckily had his father there to help him, and he eventually got it down with just a single hand. His mother was teaching him a special jutsu of hers which would cause chains made of pure chakra appear from him, and they noticed something interesting. While Krishna's chains could come from her in a number of places, Naruto could only produce them from his hands. Kushina thought it was because of a lack of practice, but Naruto didn't really care. That kind of jutsu wasn't really his style anyway. Naruto specialized in seals, and that's what he used the most. Naruto had several seals on his body, equipment, and places.

Naruto found his parents a little ways away from Mito. They were laying down in the flower beds. Kushina had her head on his chest. Minato was laid flat, while Kushina was on her side, her body snuggled up against his. Naruto smiled at the two, and was about to make a funny comment to granny Mito, when outside of his mind…

Namikaze residence…

Naruto slowly climbed out of bed. A floor board had creaked from the main room. Naruto made a hand seal and appeared in front of a white haired man. Naruto grabbed the kunai off the hook and quickly grabbed the man by the neck. The man flipped Naruto over his shoulders, sending Naruto flying. Naruto knew what would come next and, while being upside-down in the air, made the hand seals for a water jutsu, blocking the fire jutsu the old man had sent at him. The jutsus neutralized each other. Naruto landed gently on his feet, and realized that there was a kunai flying towards him. He instinctively caught it, only to realize that it had an explosive tag on it. It started activating, so Naruto quickly used a minor fire jutsu on his finger, and wrote a line through the middle of the tag, stopping the activation, and ruining the tag. Naruto tossed the kunai back to his teacher.

Jiraiya laughed, and caught the kunai. "Naruto! You're alive!" He said, hugging his student. He made a fist and rubbed it on the boys head. "And so strong too. I bet your father would be proud." He said.

Naruto smiled. "Thanks old man!" Naruto said, taking the praise with a smile. Jiraiya smiled. "Naruto, where have you been for the last two years?" He asked. Naruto gave Jiraiya the quick version of the story, deciding to include one part that would defiantly peek at Jiraiya's interest.

"You mean, Minato is in your head, and you can talk to him?" He asked. Naruto nodded, and got an idea. He grabbed Jiraiya's wrist, and pulled him into his mind.

Grassy fields…

Naruto and Jiraiya appeared in the flower circle, and before them stood the members of his mind. Jiraiya ran towards his previous student, and hugged him "Minato, is it really you?" He asked. Minato hugged his teacher back. They started a conversation, catching up, talking about the things you would expect two friends to talk about after a long time. After a few minutes, Jiraiya looked at the group.

He briefly spoke with Kushina and Mito, and when he was done, his eyes stopped on Kurama. It was unfortunate that he always spoke his mind. "Naruto, is this your girlfriend?" Jiraiya suddenly found himself flying over the fields after the two teenagers had punched him. They waited until he made his way back before Naruto explained that the girl was Kurama.

"Oh, nice to meet you Kura." Jiraiya said, putting out his hand. Kurama hid behind Mito, and hissed at Jiraiya. Everyone else started laughing, and they talked for what seemed like hours, but in the outside world it all amounted to a few seconds. Jiraiya and Naruto said goodbye to everyone. Jiraiya promised to come back, much to Kurama's chagrin.

Naruto took Jiraiya out of his mind.

Namikaze residence…

Naruto and Jiraiya walked down the streets of Konoha, looking for the location of the second building that Naruto had been given a key to. He had asked Minato about it, but his father had no idea where it was. Apparently, Minato had found it in a secret box labeled with the Uzushio symbol in the Hokage tower, but even when he followed the directions that were also in the box, he couldn't find it. For some reason, Mito seemed very enthusiastic about it, and told him he should seek it out. He thought that it might have been hidden, since its location was in the forest of death.

Naruto and Jiraiya stopped walking, sure that they were right on top of it. Naruto couldn't shake the feeling that he was close. Jiraiya sighed. "Maybe we should give up. If Minato couldn't find it-"

"You forget, he's my father. If anyone's going to find it, it will be me." Naruto said. Jiraiya chuckled at the boys confidence.

Naruto stopped in the middle of the path. He was staring at something intensely. Jiraiya looked at what the boy was focusing on. It was a branch with the Uzushio symbol carved into it. Naruto looked above them at the tree it must have come from. He walked around it, looking for something else.

The tree was quite wide. It must have been three feet wide, and many times taller. Naruto stopped at the other side of the tree, finding another symbol. This one was different. It was the Uzushio symbol with several crossing patterns below it. Naruto concentrated his chakra in a single finger and traced the Uzushio symbol, and suddenly, the ground below them started to shake. Naruto jumped back as the ground at the base of the tree lowered into a spiraling staircase.

Once the ground settled, Naruto noticed there were seals at the bottom of the staircase. Naruto grabbed a rock and threw it, only to watch it shatter. Naruto analyzed the seal. It was an S rank trap seal that could only be broken with blood. Naruto bit his thumb and wiped the blood over the seals, and walked through, unharmed.

He walked into the chamber, and was quickly met with a barrage of attacks from his left. They were all low rank fire jutsu, and Naruto was able to easily dodge the attacks. Naruto made a rasengan, and quickly destroyed the trap. He then made a small flame in the palm of his hand, and quickly checked the walls, floor, and ceiling. Before him was a long hallway that seemed to be made from several trees extending from a stone platform. Naruto looked around, searching for traps or seals. He didn't find anything, so he continued on. Naruto realized that he must have been walking on trees made by a jutsu.

'But that cant be right.' He thought. 'The only one with the ability to create trees was Hashirama Senju, the first hokage.' Naruto shook his head. It didn't matter. He walked to the end of the hallway, and into a large open room. Naruto could see a podium at the end of the room, a scroll on top of it. Naruto took a few steps before the ground started to shake once again. He watched as a figure emerged from the ground. It was some kind of chakra infused being. It looked like it was made of rock. After it had fully risen out of the ground, it just stood there. Naruto pulled out a kunai and an extra katana he had picked up in uzushio. He threw the kunai at it, and watched as the metal throwing weapon shattered. Naruto drew his katana and leaped forward, slashing downward. The figure rose its hand, catching the blade. It threw Naruto, along with the sword back. Naruto flew back, catching himself on the wall with his legs. Naruto tried to run around it, but the clay monster moved to intercept him. Naruto jumped back and stood by the door. He thought for a moment, then got an idea.

He grabbed the special kunai that had belonged to his father and threw in behind the clay figure. When he appeared behind the Golem, and looked at its back. He saw there was a spot where the clay was wet on its back. Naruto unsealed his elemental katana and stabbed the rock monster in the back, and quickly channeled water based chakra into the blade. It started to lose its shape as it was filled with water. Once it had become a puddle, Naruto channeled fire based chakra into the katana, and removed all the water from the Golem. Naruto watched the Golem crumble before going to the podium.

The podium was golden, with the Uzushio symbol carved into it. Naruto felt the intricate carvings, and as soon as he touched the top of it, he felt a tingling sensation in his arm. He felt his consiousness slip for a moment, and heard a voice say to him, "The chosen one arrives!" Naruto shook his head, feeling his thoughts go cloudy. He heard the voice speak again. "Do you know what you are?" The voice asked. "Do you know what it is that you must do?" The voice said. Naruto had no clue. "How arrogant. You don't even know your evils, yet you ask for my power?" Naruto felt his arm go completely numb. His arm all the way up to his shoulder was shivering. Muscles tensing and untensing uncontrollably. "However, you are a most suitable host. Maybe I'll see how this goes. Sorry. You lived a long enough life though, right?" Naruto felt his right arm suddenly burn, it traveled from his fingertips and up his arm, traveling up to his right eye. "Your not dying yet? Why?" The voice paused for a second. It came back in a scared, endangered way. "You have one? Number 9? NO!" The yelling was loud, and Naruto could hear his ears ringing.

Then, the darkness enveloped his mind, and he fell into a deep sleep, and traveling to his mind. Everything would not be the same in his mind, however, as someone new had found their way into his mind meadow.

Naruto's mind

Naruto sat up, finding himself in the flower bed. Naruto got to his feet and looked around, quickly finding the group that roamed his mind. He heard yelling as he ran toward them. Once he got there, he was even more confused. Standing before him was Mito, Kushina, Minato, Kurama, and a girl with white hair, pale eyes, and a red jewel adorned on her forehead. She wore white robes with a purple and golden trim. Her skin was fair, almost like snow. She seemed to be the same age as Kurama.

Everyone except Kurama and the white haired girl seemed confused. The two were arguing about this and that, but he couldn't make any sense of it. Naruto quickly imagined that the two were gagged, and suddenly, they were.

"Alright, Kurama-" He imagined the gag on Kurama was gone. "What's going on?" He asked.

Kurama glared at him. "What have you done?" As soon as she said it, Naruto felt his head start to ache. He knelt down, the pain becoming unbearable. Naruto looked over to the pale girl. She was holding a hand out to him. Naruto quickly imagined up explosive tags all around the girl. He made a hand seal, and they exploded. The pain stopped and Naruto charged forward, tackling the seemingly unharmed girl. He held her arms to the ground, keeping her from attacking his mind.

"Who are you?" Naruto asked.

The girl looked at him in surprise, but she also had a smirk on her face. "My name is Kaguya." Naruto flinched at the name. She continued, "But you may call me master."

Author's Notes: Hello everyone! Sorry it took so long to update, I decided to re-watch most of Naruto, since I missed something big, and that was Tsunade's Kage status before the Sasuke retrieval arc. Instead of fixing this, I decided to integrate it into the story, but that will be next chapter. Siyonara!

Thanks to these individuals for pointing out the Tsunade error:

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