Chapter 16

Naruto had his eyes closed as he was currently busy doing laps in a nearby river. Off to the side Tamamo was currently sitting with her back against a tree, taking advantage of the shade it provided while watching him intently.

Naruto wasn't bothered by her staring in the slightest as he dipped his head in the water before coming back up. He threw his head back as droplets of water flew about while he shook his head and running his fingers through his blond locks.

Tamamo bit her lip as she watched the scene in front of her play out while rubbing her thighs together. That was really hot and she let out a soft whimper as he carelessly got out of the river, naked as the day he was born.

He flashed her a smile as made his way towards her, his body already heating up to get rid of any water that was on him. By the time he reached her he was completely dry and put on his clothes that laid next to her.

''That was refreshing.'' He said to her as he sat down next to her once he was clothed.

Tamamo quickly scooted closer to him before she was picked up and placed on his lap. She welcomed the change as she was now facing him and locked her legs around him.

''Hey Naru…''

''Yeah?'' He replied as softly as her whilst stroking her hair with a hand.

''When we get away from here what are we going to do then?''

''Ah. Well, the first thing we'll do is get married. We'll have a large, or small depending on what you like wedding ceremony in Kyoto and invite as many people you want. Amaterasu and Inari will be there, i'll invite Sirzechs and a few close friends as well. Then, after that we'll go on a long vacation. Just the two of us and not worry about anything.''

Tamamo had her eyes closed with a content smile on her face as she listened to his words.

''Perhaps we can think about children as well.''

Her eyes promptly flew open at that before she leaned back and looked at him with shock in her eyes.

Naruto noticed this and raised an eyebrow. ''What's wrong? Do you not want any kids?''

Tamamo quickly shook her head. ''No! No, i do i just didn't think you wanted them, at least not yet.''

Naruto chuckled softly. ''You're right that i didn't want any kids yet. I just wanted to travel for a while with you which we did. Though, once we're done here i don't mind settling down with you. Getting you pregnant is a different story altogether though with the low fertility rates for devils. Luckily we'll have plenty of time to do so.'' He looked at her suggestively causing a small flush to cover her cheeks.

A sudden spike in energy that was sensed by them caused the two to look in the direction, an unreadable expression on both their faces.

It had been close to a week that they had left Kumo after the encounter with the pale eyed girl that attempted to strike Tamamo. The two had traveled for a bit before coming across a little inn not too deep in Fire Country which had a river near it. After discussing a bit with the owner they were happy to let them stay as they were the only ones currently living there themselves.

Of course neither of the two were stupid and knew these energy spikes were from the war that was currently going on, which has been happening for the past few days. Most of the time it wasn't sensed by either of them but this one was big, much bigger than any previous one.

''You want to head back inside?'' He turned her attention back towards him and she nodded. He stood up with her in his arms as he treaded back to the inn that was a minute or so away from them.

Arriving there they entered and greeted the owners which were a couple in their late forties if he had to guess. They weren't even bothered by Tamamo's appearance the first time they had seen her which came as quite a surprise to both of them. It seemed that they just accepted the weird things the world had to offer and they had already seen quite a bit.

''Hello you two, had a nice swim?''

Turning his head towards the voice he spotted an older woman sitting at a table with a newspaper in front of her eyes, not even looking up as she spoke.

''Yeah, it was nice, refreshing.'' Naruto replied. ''What are you reading, anything of importance?''

This time the older woman looked up. ''Well, there's currently a war going on right now. A massive one seeing how five villages are all working together for the first time since ever… I wonder what threat they are dealing with that required that to happen.'' She then hummed while looking intently at them, or rather him. ''Speaking of, are you sure you're not a shinobi? You seem to have the build for it.''

Naruto shook his head. ''Nah, i never had any interest in being a shinobi. I don't like answering to higher ups like a dog does to his owner. I'm more free spirited much like my lover, Tamamo.''

The woman kept her gaze on him for a moment before shrugging. ''Meh, i honestly don't really care. My husband and i have retired from shinobi life not too long ago in order to open up this inn. We both had enough of the bloodshed which was unnecessary most of the time. The lack of risking your life also wasn't something either of us enjoyed.''

Naruto nodded his head to her words before he sat down on a nearby chair and made himself comfortable as Tamamo rested in his lap.

He wondered of anything interesting was going to happen soon.

It was the middle of the night as a familiar spike of energy caused Naruto to shoot up wide awake with his head snapping in the direction he sensed it from.

His sudden movement caused Tamamo to wake up as well though she looked quite sleepy as she rubbed her eyes while looking around, her weapon, The Yata no Kagami was floating in front of her, ready to attack on a moment's notice.

''Naru… what's going on?'' She drawled out as she let out a cute yawn.

''Tamamo, spread your sensing out to the east and tell me if you sense something familiar.'' Tamamo didn't question him as she did what he asked. Closing her eyes she focused on her connection to nature which boosted her sensing abilities. The nature here was very clean and made it possible to access Senjutsu within seconds.

Finally she found what he seemed to sense as well and let out a gasp in surprise. ''This energy, chakra, it is similar to Kurama-san's except less hateful.'' She spoke before opening her eyes and seeing Naruto nod.

''So i wasn't imagining things then huh…''

Suddenly Tamamo's breath hitched. ''What's this?'' She asked herself.

''This amount of nature chakra, it's massive!'' She swallowed before letting go of her Senjutsu state and breathing in relief.

''Are you alright?'' Naruto asked concerned at what she might have sensed.

She nodded, a bit shaky but it was a nod. ''Y-Yeah… i was just surprised at what i sensed. So much nature chakra and it seemed almost sentient. Like, it was trying to overwhelm me as it knew i was sensing it somehow.''

''I see, so we're dealing with someone or something that has Kurama's chakra along with an unknown entity composed entirely out of nature chakra as i couldn't sense it.'' He then looked in her eyes. ''You wanna go an check it out?''

She stared at him for a couple seconds before nodding. ''Mhm, sure.''

Moments later the two were both outside clad in their respective outfits. Naruto had quickly scribbled a note together along that Tamamo and he were gone as something came up. Whether or not they would return or not remained unknown for now.

It was the least he could do for allowing them to stay and the hospitality they showed.

He picked Tamamo up in a bridal carry as she couldn't keep up with him otherwise as a pair of crimson flaming wings formed on his back. The ground cratered beneath his feet as he kicked off.

A loud boom resounded as he casually broke through the sound barrier while hoping he didn't wake them up.

Tamamo was curled up into him as she wasn't a big fan of traveling this fast. While this was by far from as fast as he could go she never was a big fan of fast speeds such as these and made that known by clawing into his chest through his clothes.

Sensing the large amount of energy in the distance he accelerated even further. ''Hm, shouldn't be too far as is i can sense the energy in the air getting more and more.''

A couple hundred kilometers ahead from their location the battle that would determine the fate of the entire shinobi world was currently being held.

For four days straight they had fought against a mixture of white Zetsu and Edo Tensei in order to secure a future for themselves. It wasn't until less than a day that their hopes of survival gradually had gotten less and less when they learned the person who had started all of this wasn't the man he proclaimed himself to be as Madara Uchiha had been brought back as an Edo Tensei and laid waste to over a fourth of their total manpower.

It didn't stop there though as shortly thereafter the Five Kages had arrived on the field in an attempt to put an end to the man. It was there that they had gotten first hand experience of the gap of their power as Madara had pretty much toyed with them until the dance had gotten boring.

They had sent the other shinobi to the other battlefield where the fake Madara was at to stop him. And while they weren't sure of what had happened to their Kage, it was safe to say they had lost when Madara Uchiha had arrived at the new battlefield with no signs of even a single Kage.

If that wasn't enough to shatter their hope, the monstrous beast they were currently facing did its job.

Massive.

That's what the creature before them was as it dwarfed the Hachibi, the last Jinchuuriki with ease. The brown colored single eyes monstrosity had ten large tails flailing behind it which reached high into the sky.

It had a large single eye, red in color with a ripple pattern and tomoe circling each that was currently glaring down at the small forms of shinobi whom were nothing but ants and it could sense its chakra circulating through each of them.

''Everyone, get ready!'' Came the command of Shikamaru Nara who had taken over command as the beast in front of them, the Juubi, had blown up their previous command center all the way back in Kumo. ''I want every natural Earth Style user in the back as they will be our last line of defense!''

The urgency could clearly be heard in his voice as his eyes were focused on the large Tailed Beast Ball in was creating.

He raised his hand as the Juubi seemed content with the size of the Bijuudama, it's single eye looking around before landing on him and then it fired.

''NOW!'' He lowered his hand as hundreds, if not thousands of shinobi simultaneously ran through a specific set of hand seals before slamming their hands down.

''Doton: Renga no Jutsu!'' Came the combined cry as uncountable walls rose up.

''AGAIN!'' He commanded, this time to the natural Earth Style users who ran through their set of hand seals.

''Doton: Doryūheki!'' More walls rose, these clearly stronger as they were much thicker and higher. They could only wait and pray it would do it's intended job as their view was now obscured.

Shikamaru closed his eyes as he could feel the ground vibrate as the Bijuudama crashed through dozens of thin walls every second. He wasn't the only one that was praying as more and more people closed their eyes.

Opening his eyes to peek, Shikamaru was just in time to watch the last wall before them break as the Bijuudama broke through it with ease. However, just as it was about to reach them it suddenly disappeared.

He blinked, along with many others after nothing followed, not even an explosion.

''Wha...what?'' He said what everyone was thinking as he looked around.

His answer came in the form of a tri-pronged kunai landing nearby followed by a yellow flash and Shikamaru widened his eyes as new hope filled him.

''Brace for impact.'' The newcomer said and before they could ponder about what he meant a massive explosion was heard followed by huge quakes that caused some of them to lose their balance.

''Y-you! Yondaime Hokage!'' Shikamaru exclaimed as he understood that he must've done something to the attack the Juubi had sent their way.

''I see i was just in time.'' He said as he looked around as if searching for something. ''Where is the Kyuubi? I can't sense him anywhere… Where is Naruto?''

At the mention of that name a downtrodden expression formed on Shikamaru's face and several other Konoha shinobi around them.

Seeing their expressions, Minato widened his eyes before clenching them shut. ''No.'' He whispered as his earlier assumption after not sensing the remaining Kyuubi was correct.

Shikamaru saw the man's pained expression and wondered what it had to do with Naruto before he took a better look at the reanimated Hokage and took in his features. His eyes widened once more, he was sure it had happened more today than his entire life combined as he noticed the similar features Naruto shared with the blond that still had his eyes closed and released a shuddering breath.

A loud roar released by the Juubi knocked him out of his depressed state and he turned his head back to the large beast that began charging up another attack. Right, they were currently dealing with a threat. He could morn later once they were done.

It was interrupted however as a second new voice spoke up.

''Senpō: Myōjinmon!''

Falling down from the sky were ten massive wooden torii gates, each came crashing down with a thunderous sound as they kept the tails grounded. Another gate came crashing down, this one bigger than the previous ones as it landed on the neck of the beast causing the attack it was charging to stop halfway through and instead explode right in front if its own face.

''Shodaime-sama!'' One of the shinobis said as they watched a second person land next to the Yondaime. ''And that's Nidaime-sama along with Sandaime-sama!'' As two more people joined them.

Upon seeing those four the morale of those fighting against the Juubi was boosted as they looked at four of the most powerful shinobis that have graced these lands.

''Hokages!'' Hashirama Senju, Shodaime Hokage of Konoha spoke up. ''We've been brought back to deal with this being that is a threat to the entire shinobi nations!'' He pointed his finger in the direction of the Juubi which was attempting to rid itself from the gates that kept it grounded.

''Looking around i see shinobi from all villages fighting under one banner. It warms my heart to see my dream of peace could be achieved this way. As such we will fight to ensure a future for our people, for everyone fighting here, today regardless of which village they are from. And when this is over, may peace reign for our children!''

The surrounding shinobi couldn't help but listen with awe to the man's words, his charisma ensnaring each of them as before they knew it they nodded with determination filling them.

The four Hokages shared a glance and each nodded. They were about to do their next move but a something descending their direction caught their attention and stopped them from moving.

Seconds later something impacted the ground as a lot of dust and dirt was kicked up, obscuring whatever it was that crashed near them.

Everyone's attention was on who or what was currently in the dust cloud as the fighting stopped. Even the Juubi stopped trashing about as it seemed to sense something from it. The Hokages were each on guard, ready to act on a moment's notice if it were a threat or not.

However, once the dust was cleared the view they were presented with was not what they, or anyone else for that matter expected.

There, standing in a couple feet deep crater was a spiky haired blond that looked very much like the Yondaime Hokage who was holding a fox girl in bridal carry.

The blond however seemed much more interest in the Juubi as he stared right at the beast which glared back at him. The fox girl on the other hand was more interested in the four Hokages, the blond that looked much like Naruto to be specific.

Naruto let out a scoff as he had enough of that ugly monstrosity glaring at him before turning his head in front of him. The moment he did so his blue eyes met equally blue ones and Naruto allowed shock to overtake him.

''You!?'' Naruto exclaimed as he let Tamamo stand on her own two legs as he made his way over to his fellow blond.

The blond Kage looked at the person approaching him carefully, a sense of familiarity overtaking him the closer he got. He increased the grip he had on his two kunai as the a chill ran through him despite not even being alive. Up close he couldn't sense a single drop of chakra from him.

''How the fuck are you here? And why can i sense Kurama's chakra coming from you?'' He glared at his fellow blond, not paying any mind to the man's three friends that were ready to attack.

The Yondaime Hokage blinked. ''I-i'm sorry but do i know you? You seem familiar and you look a lot like my s-son but he's d-dead.'' The Sandaime widened his eyes as he heard the latter and let his sadness show by briefly closing his eyes.

''You don't know who i am?'' Naruto questioned. ''Interesting as i've met you before. It was back when i was younger say… little to a century ago i'd say.''

The four Kages blinked at him as they thought they heard him wrong. A century? Does that mean he's immortal as he looked no day over 18!

''Impossible, i wasn't even born that long ago.'' Minato told him before frowning in confusion. ''Yet i can tell you aren't lying either.''

''Of course not. You had been on my mind ever since we met in this weird space during a dream. You… you called me your son and told me you were sorry for what you did to me…'' Naruto held his head in pain.

''Naruto-kun!'' Tamamo quickly made her way over to him as the blond Hokage widened his eyes upon hearing what this strange fox girl said.

''I… wha-what's is going o-on? My brain… it hurts. You, you said you were my father but were sorry for not being there.. Minato Namikaze… Yondaime Hokage of Konohagakure no Sato. Reincarnation something...ugh.'' He groaned loudly as it felt like someone was drilling into his brain.

Minato looked at the blond that was currently hunched over and clearly in pain. He still wasn't sure what was going on. This young man was implying he was his father yet at the same time not? He also implied he was much older than him and a reincarnation, perhaps of his son? Yet that still didn't explain the age difference unless he reincarnated somewhere else?

It would certainly explain the fox girl that was currently soothing his mind as he was a hundred percent sure there were no humans with tails and/or ears around here.

He definitely felt a connection with the young man and if he truly was his son but in a different body, a reincarnation then- Minato was stopped from thinking about it more as in the distance the Juubi managed to charge up another of its Bijuudama which it shot towards them.

He and his fellow Kages were about to move but stopped as the fox girl accompanying his son? materialized a beautiful mirror out of nothing. She stood in its path with the mirror floating mid air in front of her, glowing brightly.

The massive Bijuudama came in contact with the small mirror and then much to their shock was reflected back at the beast.

Naruto who managed to thanks to Tamamo had managed to ease most of the pain his brain was experiencing stomped the ground as seconds later a thick pillar of superheated flames shot up from the ground beneath the ten tailed beast, completely encompassing its massive form in flames which then expanded outwards into a barrier.

It was just in time as well as the second the barrier was formed its own Bijuudama collided against it, resulting in a huge explosion. The barrier which he had made prior held up with ease and the result of the explosion escaped from the top that was left open.

''Tch, just in time huh.'' He commented with a slight grimace as he wasn't completely healed yet. ''Nicely done though Tamamo.'' He said as the fox girl quickly made her way toward him and smiled at the praise.

The two were regarded with wary glances from both shinobi and the four Kages as what they just did was unheard of. First, the fox girl they discovered was called Tamamo managed to block such an attack with a mirror of all things and even reflect it right back!

Then, the blond of which they still weren't completely sure of who he was conjured up a pillar of flames so high and hot with a simple stomp of his feet. And if that's not enough he somehow managed to turn his first attack into a barrier that could withstand an attack that could turn a Hidden Village into a crater. All by himself no less.

The four of them had initially planned on putting up a barrier as well, except their required four Kage level shinobi had the chakra cost was very high. But to see a barrier even superior to the one they were about to use done by a single person was quite frightening. And they still couldn't sense any chakra from the blond.

''Seeing how that'll hold for a while how about you answer why i can sense Kurama's power in you? It's much less hateful compared to back in Kyoto but still… how do you have it?''

Minato couldn't help but gulp from the stare he was subjected to. He was curious about this 'Kyoto' he mentioned and about Kurama as he could feel the Kyuubi inside of him listening. He responded to the question by closing his eyes before his form was engulfed in golden chakra.

Naruto raised an eyebrow at the sudden rise in power from the man before him. It still wasn't anything crazy but it now was close to on par with the long, dark haired man standing near them who too seemed intrigued at the transformation. ''Yes, this is Kurama's energy without any of the hate and bloodlust…'' He hummed as he looked him up and down.

''This is half of the Kyuubi i had sealed in myself sixteen years ago. I sealed the rest in my son but he was killed. The Kyuubi told me it can't sense it's other half either which makes the possibility of what you said earlier, about being my son or at least a reincarnation more likely.''

Naruto looked at the man before turning to Tamamo. ''Can you use your Senjutsu and give me an estimate of how powerful that thing in there is?'' He pointed to the Juubi currently confined in his barrier.

Tamamo nodded and closer her eyes as she focused on the natural energy around her and became one with it. Once she was connected to nature she focused at the massive amount of nature chakra she could sense that was in one place. Her brows furrowed together as she found herself being stared down by the titanic monster looming over her. Despite that she showed no discomfort, merely focusing on the task Naruto requested.

Naruto watched as Tamamo opened her eyes before looking at him. ''It's hard to tell exactly exactly Naru… Even using Senjutsu it's hard to get an exact read on it as Nature seemed to move towards it. I can tell you though that it is entirely composed out of Nature Chakra and it doesn't really have a conscious… It's like Nature given a body and acts on whatever it is looking for.''

''Interesting, so you don't know its exact power?'' Hashirama asked as he had gotten interested once Senjutsu was mentioned.

''Well, it's stronger than everyone of you here, combined. Though in terms Naruto-kun is more familiar with it's High-Ultimate Class in pure power though the lack of a proper conscious is severely hampering it from acting on it's power correctly.''

''I see.'' Naruto spared the beast another look. ''You think the Power of Destruction would work on it? I could simply erase it from existence if it does.''

''I don't know, sorry.'' Tamamo apologized as the other Kages stared at him like he was crazy. Erase this thing, this Juubi from existence all by himself? She said it was upper Ultimate-Class powerwise which to them sounded quite bad but to the blond it seemed nothing too threatening. Was he really that powerful and if so, where's he from as no one with that much power would be able to stay under the radar. It was almost like he was an off worlder and that was frightening as they could only wonder if there were people even more powerful than him.

''It's okay you couldn't know that. Though i can at least try.'' Looking in the direction of the Juubi he raised his hand as three massive magic circles formed high up in the air. It's crimson color getting the attention from everyone present as they were layered on top of another before they began to glow. ''Destruction arts: Triple layered downfall.'' He clenched his fist as in less than a second a thick, radiant red column of energy shot downwards onto the Juubi.

What followed was a bright light that caused them to look away followed by a deafening explosion that shook the earth to its core.

Silence reigned the battlefield once the earth stopped trembling and the dirt and rocks that were kicked up by the explosion cleared. Eyes widened as they stared at the aftermath of the attack Naruto had launched.

A crater over a mile in width and several dozen feet deep could be seen. The barrier he had previously placed was gone as well due to the earth beneath it being destroyed.

Naruto was the first to move towards it to check it out followed by Tamamo and the four Hokages. Making it to the edge of the crater he looked down and was honestly surprised it had survived. It was clearly wounded as its single eye glared up at him with something akin to hate.

''Oh my…'' Hashirama voiced as he looked at the result of Naruto's attack. To see the massive beast wounded this much by one attack was something to behold and he didn't even look tired either.

Seeing it regenerating from the damage done to it Naruto was about to fly up to fire another attack at it. But instead of that he jumped back with the others just as wooden stakes shot up in an attempt to skewer them were they previously stood.

''Hn, impressive.'' A deep, male voice said as he jumped down in front of them.

''Madara!'' Hashirama and Tobirama said at the same time.

Naruto raised an eyebrow as he inspected the newcomer with him doing the same. ''Hoh? So this is Madara, the real one?''

''So you've met my student? Hn, he told me to watch out for you as you are powerful, more powerful than even Hashirama or I. While i didn't believe him initially i can see there was truth to his words. Though, according to him you weren't going to participate in this war after what happened to her.'' He sent Tamamo a glance, raising an eyebrow at the woman's features before going back to Naruto.

''Well, you're right that neither of us were planning of helping them out.'' He spoke casually much to the shock of the four men next to him but he paid them no mind. ''In fact, if it weren't for me sensing a certain energy in the blond next to me we would probably still be asleep while these people would fruitlessly fight against that thing down there. So you should blame whoever brought them here.'' He scratched the back of his head. ''I mean, the two of us are trying to find a way back home but haven't been very successful so far… If you know how to send us back we'd leave right now really.''

Madara looked at them for a moment before letting out a regretful sigh. ''I don't but that won't mean i'll go out without a fight. To fight for peace, a world where there won't any needlessly fighting!'' He brought his chakra to the surface, fluttering his hair as he held up his hands in a horse seal.

''Katon: Gouka Mekkyaku!''

End Chapter.