How had events come to this? The war that broke out between Team Rocket versus Sanctuary, the Legendaries that stole her from him, and the manipulations all caused by one source. Where did this endgame begin and what could he have done better to have prevented this disaster? As he looked around the ruins of the lab that served as ground zero of the climax of the war, it was only due to the Kyuubi within him that allowed him to survive the blast that killed so many. The encroaching darkness that drained everything away...where were his remaining girls? The bonds he felt with his harem were quickly disappearing with frightening swiftness. Each pluck of their bond made him stagger in loss as he tried to channel enough chakra to reach whoever survived. At least, he would have were it not for a green wave of energy, one he recognized as a portal, formed before his very eyes. As a green girl with black rings around her blue eyes left the portal, he knew that the girl was in fact a specter. A ghost of one he was unable to save. Was she here to simply torment him, a phenomenon created by the darkness surrounding him?

"You are Naruto Kujaku correct?" As he looked at her with focused eyes, her body seemed solid. Was this really Sexebi?

"You cannot be here. You died!" A light, solemn giggle escaped the girl's lips as she formed a small window made of magic in her palm. Naruto watched along as the familiar scene of Sexebi, used as a battery to fuel the transport of something he did not know. The use of her magic killed her by the end of the task, revealing a withered body that looked more of jerky than Pokegirl.

"All Sexebi of past and future know of this point in time. The point when we are to die by manipulations by our fellow Legendaries. You, Naruto Kujaku, are the only person who can stop this event from ever occurring, allowing for our futures to continue as a result. I can take you back-" A spiral of red energy nearly pierced the Sexebi were it not for her seeing the attack coming from her conjured mirror. Naruto tried to see what was attacking them, only to be looking at a nude, feminized version of himself with an all too familiar energy spawning from the clone.

"Its a G-Splice!" The roar that came from the G-Splice made the darkness disperse enough to reveal three more G-Splice surrounding them. His chakra was still dangerously low, but he could use enough of it to enforce his limbs for stronger hits and take them too. A shimmer of green blinded him for a moment. A moment that made him quickly realize that his right hand brushed over two sealed Pokeballs, and that the green shine was getting brighter.

"I don't know when I'm sending you back, but go now and prevent this from occurring!" Within seconds after the Sexebi spoke to him, the G-Splices struck her with another launching itself after him. The scream that pierced his ears might have been his or the Sexebi as she fought for her life; however, as he descended from the portal that took him to whatever location. No. To whatever time he was to live in. The green portal suddenly dissipated, revealing to him an all too familiar field of the Kujaku Ranch's back yard. A wave of nostalgia struck him as he turned around and saw the familiar stream that brought fresh water through their property and quickly took a much needed slurp of water. When he noticed his reflection after drinking some water, it was not his face that he saw in the reflection.

It was the reflection of a younger him. An inexperienced him that was just about to start his journey into the world of Pokegirls and the responsibilities of being a Tamer.

And the G-Splice from before lunging to swipe at his head.

"Woah!" Dodging the swipe felt tougher than it should have, as did his attempt to block the G-Splice's second strike with a kunai he pulled from his back pouch. He knew that his injuries weren't going to make the situation better, but his body felt completely different than he was used to. The G-Splice, not expecting for the metal blade to slice at its extended palm, screamed in pain as it suddenly twisted to the left, smacking him with her other arm. The strike made him land in the water, an act that he took advantage of by letting the stream's current take him away from the Kujaku Ranch buildings and deeper into the property. Brushing his hand against the Pokeballs he had on him, Naruto realized that neither Pokegirl would be properly ready to confront this G-Splice that was cloned from him.

'I might not have a choice though.' A roar from the G-Splice caught his attention as he watched it lunge at someone else. Not wanting someone else to get involved, Naruto used his chakra to force himself from the stream. A stinging sensation ran down his legs as his chakra forced itself out in pulses rather than a thick, forceful push, resulting in him roughly being forced out of the water. The splash his exit made caught the attention of the G-Splice and the victim of its attack, allowing him to throw three kunai in a trident formation at the G-Splice before it could take action. At least, he hoped it would occur that way.

What happened was the G-Splice weaved to the left to dodge the first kunai, but still found its skull being pierced by the second kunai. The first and third kunai forced their way into the victim's skull, most likely killing him upon impact. Running to the G-Splice first, Naruto didn't take any chances and took a moment to poke its body with an empty Pokeball. Relieved that the Pokeball didn't absorb the G-Splice into itself, Naruto sealed the body within a scroll he had in his pouch. The victim, on the other hand, brought him nothing but fright at the familiar body before him. The lifelessness of the body was not new to him, but it was who it was that made the situation unsettling.

'That is me, right?' As much as Naruto wanted to take in the sight of his corpse and the implications of killing himself, Naruto knew that he didn't have enough time to get lost in his thoughts. With a gulp and a silent prayer for the blessing of his past self, Naruto sealed the body into his scroll and used a kunai to dig out the blood from his corpse and forced it into the water in order to mask the scent of blood being spilled. With that done, Naruto realized that he needed to check the cameras for any evidence of his arrival, the fight, or him...taking care of the enemy. Running back to the ranch took no time at all, despite the sheer exhaustion that began to make itself apparent. Walking into the house, seeing everything as he remembered it mere days before starting his journey, and the nostalgia that clawed at his heart made it difficult for him to focus on what he needed to do. With a sigh and a mental note to investigate on the life of himself later, Naruto went into his father's study, ignoring the various photos hanging from the walls and walked straight for the camera. Thankfully the password for his father was the same, allowing him to see the status of every camera on the property.

Network Error.

Letting a sigh out, Naruto rebooted the system and watched the system restore itself. Looking through the footage revealed to him that his 'arrival' to this timeline wiped the system of its footage for the entire day. An unexpected boon from Sexebi forcing him into the past he supposed. The next task he needed to accomplish was healing his Pokegirls on the private server, which was located in the Researcher's Quarters of the ranch. His only Pokegirls were some of the most resilient combatants he ever obtained, yet not even they were able to...

Shaking his head to rid himself of the train of thought that would not benefit him, Naruto walked into the Researcher's Quarters and entered his access codes to use the healing chamber. Placing his two Pokeballs into the machine and setting them for the maximum treatment, Naruto proceeded to seal the room from outside intrusions and grabbed the sealing scroll that contained...himself. He knew that he should be doing this in his room. An act of tribute for a blessing from himself, but knew that time was of the essence. With a nudge of his chakra his body appeared on the floor, still with no sign of life coming from within the corpse. Taking off the shirt of the corpse revealed the seal that held the Kyuubi starting to fade on the outer edges of the seal. The Kyuubi inside of the seal must be angry at not being able to do anything about its current situation. Brushing his hand across his own seal made him think of his Kyuubi, the one who did so much for him and gave him the opportunity to live when he should have died multiple times.

'If only the two of you met already, then perhaps you would have been able to block my kunai. I am sure the two of us could have figured out a way to explain the time travel problem together.'

"Who is to say that we cannot figure out a way?" The voice, so similar to Kyuubi he knew, yet of a different tone called out to him. Looking above the corpse, Naruto made eye contact with a dark skinned woman with nine maroon tails curled around her waist. Though she had no vulpine features on her face, he felt that the form this woman took was merely a shell of its true glory. "You possess the Yang portion of me, yet do not feel the same as I do. You being here should not be possible, yet you present an opportunity I would be foolish to deny for myself or my host. The Pokegirl that attacked my host you have it yes?"

"I do, but she is dead and sealed."

"Despite being dead, as you know it of course, her body still roared with life. Our Biju chakra still flowed within its veins, and through our connection I make you this offer. Allow me to use you as a conduit to transfer me and my host's soul into the body of the feral and, in exchange, I will give you whatever chakra I cannot take with me."

"Why give up your chakra so willingly to someone you don't know?" Warmth began to caress his chest with every innocent twirl of the Kyuubi in front of him. The smile she wore, he could tell, was simple in its honesty of defeat. It was an expression his Kyuubi never used with him.

"If I do nothing then me and my host will die. Even if most of my power never returns to me, we will still live even if the body is not our original." The Kyuubi of the corpse bent down and traced a finger over her seal. Her home, he realized, and noticed her eyes taking in every detail of her host's body. Looking back to him, the Kyuubi gestured to the scroll under the body. "There isn't much time. Unseal the feral and place your right hand over its naval. As I force chakra out of the seal, guide it to the feral and I will do the rest from within." Despite being unsure of the idea this Kyuubi had, Naruto didn't want for either it or the him before himself to die. Nodding to himself, Naruto proceeded to release the body of the G-Splice and laid it next to his corpse. By placing his hands upon both navels at the same time, he began to spread his chakra across his hands waiting for what he assumed would be a trickle of chakra from the Kyuubi.

What he got was, instead, a flood of chakra that burned his hand before he could siphon it through his body. Naruto bit into his left shoulder to muffle the scream that wanted to make itself known as he directed whatever chakra he could into the G-Splice. As he continued this process, Naruto felt a swirling sensation occurring within himself, as if his own seal was helping to filter the chakra into its new home. Like a pinwheel moving due to the wind, the seal felt as if it was a whirlpool churning to devour the chakra coming into him. A burst of intensely hot chakra came out of his corpse, making Naruto wince as he felt the nerves within his arm radiate pain that almost made him lose his concentration.

"Do...Don't..." Glancing at the corpse of the G-Splice, Naruto saw its eyes creaked at him with the familiar glow of orange slowly bubbling around itself. Nodding to the Kyuubi, Naruto doubled his efforts to siphon the remaining chakra from the corpse while doing his best to ignore the stinging numbness that began to take over both of his arms. As he focused on siphoning chakra, Naruto lost track of the orange glow of chakra that overlapped his body. He was not sure if this cloak was his own or the Kyuubi within the G-Splice, but the corpse no longer looked like him. The corpse had, at one point, began to melt into a puddle of blood and muscle that made it impossible to recognize its face.

Eventually, as the last remaining bits of chakra were extracted from what remained of the corpse, the remains became lit by a flicker of the Kyuubi's chakra, erasing all organic matter of the Naruto Uzumaki Kujaku from this past. In his place was the G-Splice that tried to kill Naruto as he was forced into this time. As if unified by their pain, both Naruto and the Kyuubi felt their chakra cloaks disappear and looked at each other. Looking down at his belt, the Kyuubi moved its right hand to the Pokeball he tried to use on the G-Splice corpse earlier and entered it without hassle.

'I need to heal her. Them, Ugh,' Naruto scratched the top of his skull as he placed the Pokeball on the healing machine for the same treatment as his other Pokegirls. The idea of two souls sharing one body, while not unusual considering what he dealt with in the past, was still something he found unnerving considering he did not know if the soul of her Naruto managed to be brought with her or not. He didn't feel a burning pulse similar to her soul entering the G-Splice after all. Taking a moment to himself, he glanced down at the remains of the corpse, its material belongings that it wore at the time, and made a gesture of prayer to the deities above for what he was about to do.

Sealing his old clothes into a scroll, Naruto glanced at the classic navy blue jean overalls his family were infamous for wearing. The red shirt underneath had gashes that were sewn multiple times if he had to guess, and the brown leather boots were steel tipped and clearly were worn from excessive use on the farm. Glancing at the cell phone he now owned, Naruto flipped through some of the text messages and pictures he had. The only text of interest were of someone by the name Bri, who was someone Naruto didn't recognize from his time, and from Viri, who had not replied in over a day if the date was correct. A thought entered his mind that immediately prompted him to check for the date and time of this exact moment.

(June 5th, 10:41 A.M., 300AS)

He appeared four days before his parents gave him permission to take the Tamer test. With the Tamer test in mind, Naruto looked around his pockets and found the oddity that confused him as he examined his new belongings.

An occupied Great Ball.

What kind of bond was he to have with this Pokegirl? Was it even a tamed girl or a feral that was caught before he arrived? A minor inconvenience from his arrival to the past erasing the camera data, but the boon of not having footage of his arrival was too important. He didn't need to be captured and examined by scientists and magical experts after all. Grabbing his Pokedex and opening the device revealed to him that, much to his confusion, all of his SLC, list of won badges, and most of his Pokedex entries were gone, erased from this world. The only entries, outside of his basic profile from his time, were of the three Pokegirls he currently had on him. While the first two he expected, the G-Splice (more speficially its components) confused him. Tapping on her data entry didn't help either.

Blightened Berserker AMALGAM, the Sick Unarmored Fury Pokegirl

Component: Blight, Berserker

Type: Very Near Human

Element: Poison/Fighting

Frequency: Unique (Breeding Capabilities Unknown

Diet: Any Food

Role: Virus Spreader, Plague Bearer, Assault Troop (Legal Status Unknown)

Libido: Average

Strong Vs: Plant, Bug, Fighting, Poison, Dark, Rock

Weak Vs: Flying, Psychic, Healing Types

Attacks: Poison Powder, Poison Mask, Poison Mist, Spice 3, Plague, Rage, Snarl, Fear Aura, Gatling Punch, Gatling Kick

Enhancements: Enhancements increase with damage and anger (up to Speed, Strength, and Reflexes (x15), Enhanced Senses (x 3), Regeneration, Summon Weapon, Disease Resistance, Fast Healing

Disadvantages: Easily Berserks, Low Self Control

Evolves: Unknown

Evolves From: None

Amalgams were the rarest G-Splices to exist, a fact he learned from Fran during their travels together. The fact that the G-Splice that was made with some of his chakra, combined with the knowledge that there were an unknown amount of these fighting against his friends and family alike made him dread the possibility of the Kyuubi within the G-Splice being unable to control itself. Upon taking a quick read of the Components and their Pokedex entries, Naruto learned that the Blight were an extinct race of Pokegirls that poisoned whole communities merely by existing whereas the Berserker only became powerful as it lost itself into the lust of battle or the fury of its own anger. Part of him pondered the usefulness of the Blightened Berserker as a combatant, seeing as she was a normal Pokegirl otherwise, but knew that he would need to be careful using her in official settings.

Actually, his entire team currently were too unique to be used openly at the moment. Walking straight out into the world as a Tamer with high leveled Pokegirls of Extremely Rare or Unique typing would attract all sorts of negative attention he did not need. While he would keep his Pokegirls on hand, seeing as they were still synced to his Pokedex, he would have to turn it off whenever he obtained his new Pokedex and wanted to catch Pokegirls that he did not mind the world, or spies, knowing. Thoughts of his Pokegirls, those that he was forced to leave behind, clouded his mind as he briefly heard the cycle on the healing machine end. Grabbing his three Pokegirls and erasing his data from the systems, Naruto left the Researcher's Quarters and walked to his room as if he walked through a graveyard. Each photo on the wall, every award that was won that referenced him were not of him but of the Naruto he killed in order to live. Walking up the stairs with his hand gliding against the railing that he would climb down as a child made him reminisce of his childhood, everything his parents did to raise him to become the man he became, all irrelevant in this time. It was as he walked to his room that he noticed something odd about the room across from him.

The door opened, revealing a young woman with short, bowl cut black hair with sharp green eyes, light brown skin that reminded him of his mom. Her baggy green turtleneck went down to her knees, barely showing any of her black leggings, let alone if she had any Pokeballs on her. The expression on her face, so still that it made statues jealous, appraised him in his entirety in a way that put him on edge. Nodding in front of him, the woman grabbed him by his wrist and practically thrown him into the room. By the time he regained his bearings the door became locked, a pair of muscular arms held him in a bear hug, and he was face to face with the woman.

"Care to explain someone who looks like my brother magic'd him away and took his place?"

-Author Notes-

Hello readers, reviewers, and followers! For those who remember what I consider my first multi-chapter story, The Start of a Unique Journey, has been on hiatus for a long time. Too long for my tastes. While reading over the story from start to finish, making notes and taking reviews into consideration, I decided to go back to the drawing board and start the story over not from scratch, but from the ashes of a burned down building with only the foundation remaining intact. So, with that said, what is there to expect from this story? How will it play out with the original still up on the site?

Starting the Unique Journey from the Beginning is a time travel multiverse story that has the Naruto Uzumaki Kujaku from The Start of a Unique Journey being forced into a new universe so similar to his own, yet different. Expect plenty of flashbacks to different scenes I had written up as serious plot points for the first story, yet never had enough time to flesh out whole chapters around them. The story is its own entity, so Naruto might want to try and follow some of the same choices he made in his original timeline; however, things might not be the same in comparison.

I will be leaving the original story up for readers to reference as this story progresses. Eventually it is my hope that I can integrate details from the original story into this one to the point where the first story will no longer be necessary to read. While I love the original, I feel that my writing style changed to a state that will not flow with its roots, hence why I have this as its own story rather than a brand new chapter. With that out of the way, I will not be adding any Character Info until Naruto 'officially' begins his journey, which should be either the next chapter or the following one. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to drop them down as a review and I'll be sure to answer them in the next chapter.

So, until next time everyone, stay golden!

Kazikamikaze24