12/13/2014

The Traveler

Chapter 1: The Meet Between the Sages

Time seem to pass slowly around the area. The air is filled with blood and agony. The surrounding area is filled with 5 feet craters, trees completely destroyed. In the distance, there stands a monstrous figure with one huge eye and razor sharp teeth. The eye has multiple Sharigan pupils. But the most prominent feature of this creature is its ten tails.

This creature was the Ten Tailed Beast, the most powerful demon to exist in the ninja world. Its power knew no limits and was thought to be invincible, but that changed when one man came across the demon. That man was the Sage of the Six Paths, the Father of All Ninja.

In top of the Ten Tails' head stand two very recognized ninja; Obito Uchiha and Madara Uchiha. The former was previously thought to have died in the Third Shinobi World War, but was revived by an elderly Madara Uchiha before his death.

Obito planned to revive the Ten Tails and seal it in himself, making him its jinchuriki. However, the beast is incomplete as it is missing two Tailed Beasts; the Eight Tails and the Nine Tails. The two are currently sealed into their jinchuriki; Killer Bee of the Hidden Cloud Village and Naruto Uzumaki of the Hidden Leaf Village.

The former and the latter are currently 40 yards away from their enemies with the Allied Shinobi Forces. Naruto's attire changed when he transformed into his Tailed Beast Mode, a form he gained after he and Kurama, the Nine-Tails' true name, began to work together and diminished the animosity between them.

The Hero of the Hidden Leaf was transferring Kurama's chakra to the Shinobi Forces via Shadow Clones and the Chakra Transfer Technique. Now the entire Force gained a tailless Version 1 Chakra cloak, similar to a Jinchuriki's.

Naruto looks at the Ten Tails with the Shinobi Force behind him, ready to fight. "Attack!" Everyone followed the blonde Jinchuriki who readied Twin Rasenshuriken in his hands.

Shikamaru and the Nara clan bind the Ten Tails' movements with Shadow Posession Jutsu with Choji and his fellow clansmen restricting the beast's arms.

Obito commanded the beast to defend with its tails, blocking the shinobi's way.

"I don't think so!" Naruto with Lee on his right jumped into the air and threw his first Rasenshuriken, destroying the first five tails and was about to throw his second, but he felt a crack and sharp pain.

"What?" He looked at his left shoulder. "That's right. It's dislocated from that last attack." He see Hinata behind him.

"Gentle Fist." Hinata struck Naruto's shoulder, putting it back into place.

"Thanks, Hinata." Naruto launched his second Rasenshuriken at Obito while Lee jumped higher, using Guy to propel himself. "Kick some butt, Lee!"

The Green Beast of the Leaf did that as he roundhouse-kicked Madara with great force, shattering his midsection while the Rasenshuriken made its way at Obito.

The Uchiha phased his stomach, making the chakra shuriken pass through him with no harm, at least that what he though. "Your attack failed on me Uzumaki."

Naruto smirked. "Is that so? Look behind you." The Uchiha looked behind to see the link between him, Madara, and the Ten Tails is severed.

Madara quickly regenerated and he and Obito jumped off the beast's head, landing on the ground. Soon the beast was overrun with the Shinobi Forces attacking it with their individual techniques. Naruto landed on the ground, standing 25 yards away from the two Uchihas.

"You two are no longer controlling the Ten Tails. It's over," stated Naruto firmly, slowly getting into a stance.

"It's not over until you're dead." Obito getting a stance as well did Madara readying his weapon in a reverse grip.

Naruto was about to charge at them when a shadow loomed over the trio. The shinobi looked up to see a foot looking to smash them and jumped backwards away to see the foot smash the spot he and the Uchihas previously were.

"What the…?" The Sage saw the Ten Tails' eye staring at him with its mouth slightly open, drooling. That was a sight he won't forget for a while.

"Ew, that's gross." Naruto shuddered slightly as he watched his fellow ninja attack the beast, not knowing Obito phased out of the ground behind him to strike. Obito extended his right arm, attempting to suck Naruto into his Kamui dimension.

As soon he made contact with the young blonde, Obito thought one thing. "Victory is mine!"

Suddenly, the young Uzumaki disappeared, shocking the Uchiha. "Where did he go now?" He waited while using his eyes to search for his enemy until he got a hit. He turned around to see the jinchuriki with a readied Rasengan.

"Rasengan!" Naruto thrust his signature jutsu as he got into close range of the madman, but expectantly his attack passed through him. Obito put his right hand on the blonde's left shoulder, attempting to suck him with his Kamui, but Naruto quickly used his speed, once again, to escape the attempt.

The Uzumaki reappeared 40 yards away from Obito, analyzing his next plan of attack. "Okay. Things are going a little easy, now that he and Madara are no longer in control of the Ten Tails. I'll try to catch him off guard with my speed."

"That won't work!" Naruto recognized the voice when he heard it.

"Kurama, what do you mean it won't work?"

"You've already tried that just now and look at the result. He knew where you were going to appear and he phased through your attack. You need to come up with an unpredictable attack." Naruto thought over Kurama's observation and knew his partner was right. He does need to think of a plan to catch Obito and Madara off guard, speaking of which…

"Wait a minute, where's Madara?" Naruto realized the elder Uchiha was nowhere in sight. He searched for his other enemy and prepared himself for an attack at any time.

The Sage knew the elder Uchiha was no pushover when he used one of the First Hokage's Wood Style techniques and he deflected his Mini Tailed Beast Ball. "Come on, where is this guy?"

"You're not using your ability to find him." Naruto was confused at this.

"What ability?" The fox sweat-dropped at this and pinch his nose bridge.

"Your Negative Emotions Sensing ability can detect hatred, malice and other negative thoughts."

"Oh yeah, I forgot about that." Naruto chuckled a little.

Kurama sigh. "Sometimes I wonder if there's a limit to your denseness."

"Hey, I'm not that dense!"

"Stop arguing with me and focus on the battle, Naruto!" That statement reminded the blonde that he is on a battlefield, facing two madmen and the most powerful demon.

He closed his eyes and focused on the emotions, searching for Madara. Moments later, his eyes open suddenly as he turned to his left and saw the undead Uchiha with a stretched right arm pointed at him.

"Oh crap."

"Universal Pull!" Naruto felt himself being pulled by an invisible force, heading towards Madara.

Naruto gritted his teeth. "Damn that Rinnegan!" The Sage quickly countered by creating a chakra arm from his shroud and commanded the arm to grip the ground, stopping himself. A moment later, the jutsu wore out and Naruto dispelled the arm and landed on the ground.

"I must say you impress me, Jinchuriki. I guess I should've expected that from someone distantly related to the Senju clan." Madara with displeasure in his tone.

"I guess you shouldn't underestimate your opponents, despite of their age." Naruto remarked.

Madara smirked at this, then looked to his right to Obtio beside him, and looked back at the boy. "You can't beat us. No matter how hard you fight, you will lose."

Naruto chuckled. "I'll keep fighting until the both of you are gone."

Obtio laughed a little at the statement. "You forgot about one more person."

Naruto had a puzzled face. "And whose that?" His answer was given when one of the tails of the towering demon is already on top of him. "Crap!"

A shockwave occurred followed by dust covering the area where the whiskered ninja was standing. Soon the dust cloud cleared revealing the tail smashed into the ground or so it seems…

The dust cleared under the tail, revealing the Leaf shinobi with both of his arms outstretched overhead, carrying the tail. He was in a 5-foot crater with spider cracks emitting from the edges.

"Damn, this thing is heavy!" Naruto complained about the weight of the tail. He felt his arms and legs slowly starting to burn despite being in Tailed Beast Mode.

"Naruto, look out!"

He heard the fox's warning. The Sage looked forward to see the Uchihas sprinting towards him, ready to attack. "Damn, my arms are occupied at the moment right now."

Obito and Madara got within 5 yards within their enemy with one thought in their minds. "You're dead!"

Suddenly, two certain female ninja in Version 1 cloaks appeared on top of the tail and jumped into front of the Uchihas' way.

"Cherry Blossoms Punch!"

"Gentle Fist: Twin Lion Fists!" Naruto smiled when he recognized the names.

"Sakura! Hinata!"

The two ninja quickly sidestepped out of the way, causing the female duo to miss. The hate-filled men leapt backwards, getting 15 yards away from the trio.

Naruto chuckled. "Nice to see you girls stop by." He grunted as he tries to comfort his arms from the weight.

"Ha, Can't let you have all the fun." Sakura remarked, looking at her knuckle-headed friend. She couldn't believe that the man she's seeing is completely different from the boy she met 2 years ago and now she's fighting to keep him safe.

"Hey, mind if we join you?" shouted a voice. Sakura and Hinata, except Naruto who was little occupied, looked and saw the rest of the Konoha 11, in their Version 1 chakra cloaks, on the tail. They jumped down and landed next to the two kunochi, surprising Naruto.

"Guys, what are you doing here?"

"Really? You're asking us that?" Shikamaru sighed.

"We're here to help you beat these guys." Choji bumped his fist into his opened left palm. The rest nodded with the statement and Naruto sighed.

Then the group heard chuckling and looked at Obito who had a smirk on his face. "You really think you and your pathetic friends will stop us now? You really are a fool, Naruto."

"Ha, like I said to Madara; 'You shouldn't underestimate your opponent, despite the age.' " The Konoha 11 smirked and nodded in agreement and got into their respective fighting stances.

"You Leaf ninja are really starting to annoy me. I'll finish all of you now." Madara finished doing a hand-sign.

Naruto grunted, focusing all of his strength into his arms and threw the tail. This action shocked his friends as they watched the tail passed over them, heading towards the Uchihas

"Damn that brat!" Obito gritted his teeth as he and the elder Uchiha disappeared, dodging the tail. The impact created another shockwave, causing some of the Konoha 11 to stumble.

Everyone looked at Naruto with surprised faces.

"What?" Naruto puzzled.

Choji chuckled. "You really are the strongest of all of us, literally."

The blonde chuckled. "Thanks, but we need to focus now, Choji. Our 'friends' are back." Naruto pointed his finger at the tail.

Everyone looked to see Obito and Madara standing there, with the latter with the same hand-sign and now the former performing the sequence of hand-signs until he stopped at the same sign.

"Now where were we? Oh yes. I remember…We're going to destroy you!" The young shinobi group got ready to anticipate whatever their enemies are going to throw at them.

"Ready?"

"Ready."

"FIRE STYLE: DRAGON FLAME JUT—" The duo stopped as they saw blood spurt out of nowhere and Obito felt pain in his stomach. They look down to see a huge claw and looked at the corner of their eye to look the Ten Tails, staring at them emotionless.

"What?" asked Obito weakly, spitting out blood from his mouth.

"It must think we're its enemies. I can't believe I let my guard down around that demon." Madara attempted to move since he'll just regenerate his body but he couldn't move…at all.

"Why can't I move?" Madara was confused by the occurrence.

Meanwhile, the Konoha 11 was trying to process what just happened with Naruto and his partner trying to make the most sense.

"Why did the Ten Tails attack them? I thought it was fighting alongside with them. Kurama, any theories?"

"None so far, but I fear something is going to happen. So keep your guard up."

"Right, stand by incase we need to go full Tailed Beast Mode."

"Understood." Naruto ended the conversation and continued to stare at the Ten Tails who brought the two Uchihas near its face. He heard Madara ordering the beast to release them but to no prevail.

"Release us!" Madara barked another order.

"You are not in command here, mortal." Everyone's eyes widen, including Madara and Obito.

"It can talk?!" The Konoha 11 exclaimed.

"Of course it can talk, what did you expect it to be? A mute?" remarked Kurama with Naruto sweatdropped at this.

"Why did you attack us?" asked Obito weakly. The Ten Tails looked at him.

"I have plans of my own and I will not allow any mortals to control me. I'll rule this world again with no one to stop me this time."

Everyone shuddered at the voice of the demon, feeling the demonic energy it's emitting.

Madara and Obito looked at each other and gave each other a subtle nod and looked at the Ten Tails. They lift their right arms, but Obito had difficulty due to the claw in his stomach.

"Shinra Tensei!" The force of the powerful jutsu collided with the demon's face, creating a shockwave and a dust cloud. Naruto felt the attack was at its full power.

The Konoha 11 widen their eyes at the notion and had one thought in their minds. "Did it work?"

They got their answer when the dust cleared, revealing the demon still holding the Uchihas captive. The two megalomaniacs eyes widen when they see the Ten Tails didn't appear to be fazed by their coordinated attack.

"What?! It doesn't even have a scratch," asked Madara.

"The last time I've encountered that attack was when I fought that cursed Sage of the Six Paths and the attack you two threw at me… that's nothing compared to that mortal's attack."

Madara and Obito were shocked as they're told that their current power was not comparable to their ancestor's. The latter soon spit out more blood as he's slowly dying.

The Ten Tails scoffed. "You two are pathetic. Thought that if you can control me, even briefly, you can rule the world and nothing can touch you. Now…allow me to dispose of you two."

Obito widen his eyes as the demon opened his mouth, saliva dripping. Then the latter saw a dark energy entering the beast's mouth while, at the same time, he was feeling a lot weaker than he did before and was wondering why.

"Unless…" The Uchiha looked at his stomach to see the dark energy traveling from him, up along the beast's arm and into its mouth. "No" Obito said weakly as he realized it's his chakra.

The Ten Tails continued devouring the mortal's chakra until the said latter's body started to decay. Soon the body of Obito Uchiha was gone, turned into dust.

Madara and the Konoha 11, plus the Shinobi Forces, were appalled by the display of inhumane nature. Then the Ten Tails turned to the elder Uchiha who realized it's his turn.

"You can't kill me. I'll just regenerate since I'm already dead," said Madara arrogantly. The Ten Tails smirked at this which worried the shinobi.

"Is that so? Then I'll make you there's no trace of your presence anywhere. Not only I devoured your fellow clansmen's chakra; I devoured his soul!" Madara felt fear for the first time in a long time when he heard of the revelation. Then he felt his chakra being pulled from his body, soon his eyes turned blank followed by his body being disintegrated into dust.

Naruto couldn't believe his eyes when he saw what happened; his enemies, two of the most powerful and toughest shinobi he ever faced, was defeated and gone forever. He gulped when the demon set its eye upon him and his friends.

"Guys, get ready. I have a feeling this is going to get a lot more difficult." Naruto stated after getting into a stance, so did his friends. "Kurama, we need to go all out and push our limits farther than before."

"I know." The fox growled at the notion.

The Ten Tails was about to speak but he heard a man called out its name and turned to face the Shinobi Forces.

"Come on, everyone! Bombard it with every jutsu you know!" shouted a Nara clansmen.

"RIGHT!" replied the entire Forces. They attacked the Ten Tails with every Fire Style, Water Style, Earth Style, Wind Style and Lightning Style offensive jutsu in their arsenal while in the Version 1 chakra cloaks surrounding their bodies.

The multi-tailed beast grunted in response from the contact by the coordinated attacks which created a huge dust cloud, covering the demon. The barrage kept on going for a few minutes, surprising the Konoha 11.

"Do you think they can land a scratch on him?" asked Ino.

"Perhaps… I mean they're unleashing everything they got and there's no way even that beast can't leave unharmed," replied Kiba. Shikamaru, Naruto, and Kurama thought otherwise and knew that the power boost they have isn't enough.

Finally the Forces ended their barrage with the chakra cloaks dissipated, ending empowered state. All of the shinobi felt immediate exhaustion and wobbled a bit, then fell on their knees, panting heavily but had smirks on their faces, thinking that they've won.

The dust cloud was slowly dissipating to the point where a huge shadow appeared, shocking everyone excluding the Uzumaki, Nara, and Kurama. The cloud was blown away by the wind, revealing the intimidating beast who didn't look fazed by the barrage and had a bored expression on its face.

"NO WAY! THERE'S NOT ONE SCRATCH ON HIM!" exclaimed a shinobi with fear on his face.

The Ten Tails then look at the Alliance and laughed a bit, making everyone shuddered and after it stopped, he opened its mouth, gathering black and blue chakra and condensing it into a ball. Everyone's eyes widen when they realized it's another Tailed Beast Bomb.

Naruto jumped in front of his friends, crossing his arms. "Guys, get ready!" The Konoha 11 complied and readied them-selves for what's next.

"Kurama, we need to go full Tailed Beast Mode now!" But they were too late to react or transform.

The Ten Tails finished gathering enough chakra and prepared to attack the annoying threat. "Farewell, pests!" He unleashed the bomb, the chakra beam making its way to its targets who are stunned to do anything. The contact created an enormous dust cloud and a huge shockwave. The dust cloud soon dissipated again, revealing a huge trench-like crater that looked endless.

The Ten Tails chuckled at his work then looked at the young shinobi group, smirking at them. "I will kill you next, but not before I take what's mine," he pointed his claw at Naruto, "you and that other jinchuriki have the last remaining parts of chakra. I will tear them apart from you and when I absorbed them, I will be complete." The Konoha 11 glared at the demon, despite their fear, and got into their fighting stances.

"That's so cute, you fighting me. There's nothing you can do to hurt me. I'm invici-"

"Shut your trap!" exclaimed a pissed Naruto with clenched fists. His friends looked at their blonde friend, shocked by the latter's action and felt fear once again as they stared at the beast.

The demon then chuckled after a few moments and stared at Naruto. "No one has defied me since that cursed Sage. You remind me of him, both your appearance and spirit… I will crush that!" After that, he charged at the shinobi group who were surprised by the demon's speed despite its size.

As the Ten Tails was near them, he felt a sharp punch to the face and was sent skidding the ground, putting great distance between him and its targets. He looked for the one who punched him and saw the Eight-Tails towering the shinobi and smirked. "You actually caught me off-guard there, but I assure you…that won't happen again."

Naruto looked up at Bee and smiled. "Finally recovered your strength, huh?" he received a nod from his fellow jinchuriki, then look at his friends. "Guys, it's been an honor fighting alongside you and…having you guys as my friends. I don't regret that and I never will." Everyone smiled and some of them had tears in their eyes, but quickly wiped them off.

"We're glad you're in our lives and we don't regret it," said Sakura with everyone nodding in agreement. Naruto nodded back and turned to face the Ten-Tails.

"Okay, Ten Tails. You want to rip out Gyuki and Kurama from our bodies? you'll have to take them by force!" With that, Naruto went into his full Tailed Beast Mode, his shroud enlarging into Kurama's overall form with the same seal around it and became translucent.

The Konoha 11 are in awe as they're on top of the fox with Sakura noticing Naruto inside the fox's head. Naruto and Kurama looked at Gyuki and Bee who looked back at them, then looked at the Ten Tails.

"Very well, then. I prefer to do the hard way, anyway." The Ten Tails charged and so did the two Jinchuriki. The Jinchuriki, Kurama, Gyuki and the Konoha 11 yelled as they prepare to fight to the death.

-(10 Minutes Later)-

"Argh," exclaimed Naruto as he landed on the ground hard. He was lying in a 10-foot crater and he opened his eyes slowly, feeling pain all over his body with multiple bruises and scratches everywhere. Failed to notice that he's no longer in Tailed Beast Mode, the Sage slowly got up, ignoring the immense pain and walked out of the crater, stumbling as he got out and looked at the sight that appalled him.

His friends' bodies laid on the ground with pools of blood surrounding each one of them. Naruto had tear in his eyes as he stares at them, then look to see the Ten Tails 30 yards away, devouring Gyuki from Bee's body soon his chakra.

"No…Killer Bee," said Naruto weakly as the rapping ninja was no more and the demon looks at Naruto.

"See what happens to those who defy me? They die. You and your friends chose this and now you must pay the consequences and your payment will be the last bit of my chakra inside you."

Naruto gritted his teeth as the towering demon gets closer to him. He remembers the last 10 minutes of combat; he, Kurama and their fellow comrades charging the demon. Both sides colliding, fighting tooth and nail with the last remaining Shinobi Forces pushed to their limits. They'd thrown everything they got and it still wasn't enough, even with the link between Kurama, Naruto and the Konoha 11.

The Sage was panting heavily as the Ten Tails stopped in front of him, 15 yards away and towering him, grinning at him. "Don't feel so bad, pest. I'll make your death quick and painless." Naruto clenched his fists tightly to the point of making them bleed and glared at the Ten Tails.

"Kurama"

"Naruto" replied the fox.

"What do you say we go out with a bang?" asked Naruto, making his partner smirk.

"You bet…brat" The fox said, making his jinchuriki smirk as well.

The Ten Tails caught this and asked. "Why you're smirking when you are about to die?"

"Because I have no regrets," Naruto transformed into his Tailed Beast Mode for one final time, "and I won't stop fighting." The Jinchuriki outstretched his right arm overhead and started channeling chakra into his palm. The chakra soon turned into a large shuriken with an orb in the center and it gave a loud bell-like screech. "This is my final technique. Wind Style: Rasenshuriken!"

The Ten Tails was mildly impressed by the mortal's stature and fighting to the death. The demon smirked at this and said: "Very well. I was going to rip my chakra from your body, but I guess I could wait for a while for it to regenerate. Farewell, Jinchuriki!" The beast opened and channeled its chakra in front of its mouth, preparing another Tailed Beast Ball.

Naruto responded by putting all of his and Kurama's strengths into the jutsu, making larger than before. The two techniques was affecting the area; making the ground shake, rocks floating in mid-air and spider cracks in the ground near them.

"Kurama…" said Naruto.

"Yes, Naruto?" asked the Tailed Beast.

"I'm glad you became my friend and I don't regret it," replied the whiskered ninja, getting a growl from the fox.

"So am I, Naruto. So am I," replied Kurama. The two beings felt their techniques ready and stared at each other.

"Farewell, pest!" The Ten Tails unleashed the Bomb, heading at its next target. Naruto gritted his teeth and with one last cry of exertion, he threw the shuriken at the incoming jutsu with the shinobi exiting out of Tailed Beast Mode.

The Bomb and Rasenshuriken collided with the latter jutsu expanded widely upon impact. The shuriken held on for a few minutes until the Bomb blew through it, heading towards the Jinchuriki.

"Good bye, Kurama," said Naruto as the Bomb got closer.

"Bye, Naruto Uzumaki," replied Kurama sadly as he can't believe that he's about to lose his only friend.

The young Uzumaki closed his eyes, ready for the impact. Unbeknownst to the shinobi, strange lights were swirling around his body, soon the light consumed him and shot upwards to the sky. The demon's jutsu created another shockwave and another huge dust cloud as it made contact with the ground and incinerated the Konoha 11's bodies.

The Ten Tails was laughing madly as the cloud was blown away by a hard wind. "Now…No one can stop my reign this time!" The demon continued to laugh as the last defense was gone or so he thought…

-Unknown Realm-

Naruto waited for the Bomb to make contact with his body, but it didn't come. He opened his eyes to find himself in a strange white room that seem to go on for miles with nothing in sight.

"What the…Where am I?" asked Naruto to himself.

"Naruto" said a voice. The shinobi turned around and his eyes widen when he saw his partner, Kurama, towering over him.

"Kurama?! What are you doing here?! What am I doing here?!" Naruto asked his partner, starting to panic.

Kurama's eyes widen when he recognized the place they're currently in when he looked at the floor; two circles with symbols around them and he finds himself sitting in one of them. "Naruto, I know where we are. We're in…" The fox was cut off as his jinchuriki was panicking around the room, making him sweat-dropped and irritated. "Will you stop that and listen to me?!" commanded Kurama, making the blonde stop with the beast pinching his nose bridge, sighing.

"Okay, so you know where we are? What is this place?" The Tailed Beast was about to respond but he gasped and his eyes widen when he looked behind his jinchuriki, who caught the expression. "Kurama, what is it?" He received no answer and turned around to find a man standing in the center of the circle.

He had short light-coloured hair that spiked up in the front with two distinctive pieces of his hair resembling horns. He was wearing a full-length cloak with a high collar, revealing a necklace of six red magatama and in the back of the collar, it had a stylized Rinnegan with nine magatama in three rows beneath it. But the most prominent characteristic is the Rinnegan in his eyes.

Naruto widen his eyes as he realized the man in front of him is the one who defeated the Ten Tails generations before. "T-The Sage o-of the Six Paths? Am I hallucinating, Kurama?"

"No, Naruto. It's him," replied Kurama still in shock. The Sage chuckled and smiled at the two.

"I'm very glad that the young generation knows your name, Kurama and I'm even more grateful that it is one of my descendants who knows it," said the wise Sage, shocking Naruto.

"Wait, I'm your descendant?" asked Naruto.

Kurama sighed. "Naruto, remember your conversation with your mother." The young Sage thought back and remembered that his clan, the Uzumaki Clan, are distant blood relatives to the Senju Clan, who in turn, are direct descendants of the Sage.

"Oh, yeah, I remember. Cool, I'm related to the Sage of the Six Paths!" exclaimed Naruto, grinning madly. The elder Sage smiled at his descendant's action and proud that he was the one who lead to the Tailed Beasts to the right path. The smile on the elder ninja turned serious, catching both Naruto and Kurama's attention.

"Sage?"

"Old man?"

"I must tell you the reason why I brought you two here," said the Sage. Naruto then remember about his friends at the battlefield and the Ten Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb's trajectory at them.

"You're the one who brought me here? Why didn't you bring my friends along with me?" asked Naruto angrily, shocking the duo. "Why didn't you let me die alongside them?"

"Naruto!" exclaimed Kurama, making the blonde flinched a little.

The Sage held his hand. "Kurama, it is all right. He's upset and I understand his anger."

Naruto was panting heavy for a few minutes until he calmed down and looked at the Sage. "Can you tell us why you brought us here?"

The God of Shinobi nodded and proceeded. "I summoned you and Kurama here to tell you the way to spilt the Ten Tails' chakra and rescue the other Tailed Beasts and end the demon's wrath." This revelation shocked Naruto, even Kurama, to their core. Immediately, the Jinchuriki was to ask the question.

"How? How can we stop the Ten Tails?" asked the young blonde Sage.

The Sage of the Six Paths explained. "When I defeated the Ten Tails, I used four mystical items that helped me to split the Ten Tails' chakra into the Tailed Beasts. After I finished splitting the chakra, I sent the items to four different worlds that I traveled to years before my death, in case the Ten Tails revived."

Naruto couldn't believe his ears when he heard this and he bet his partner is going through the same process. "Okay, point us to the right direction and Kurama and I can retrieve them."

The Sage shook his head, confusing the blonde. "You disagree? Why?"

"Despite of your current strength, you are not strong enough to defeat the guardians that I assigned to protect the Keys," replied the first shinobi.

Naruto frowned at this observation and hung his head down.

"However…" This caught Naruto's attention and he looked up at the elder Sage.

"I can train you to become stronger, to the point that you might equal or even exceed my strength." Naruto fell down in anime-style when he was offered the opportunity to train by the first shinobi. He quickly got up and said.

"What are we waiting for? Let's get this starting," said Naruto happily, earning chuckles from the Six Paths and Kurama. The duo looked at each other, smiling at each other.

"It's good to see you again, Kurama."

"Back at you, Old Man."

After calming the young blonde ninja, the trio went through a door that the Sage of the Six Paths summoned. Naruto was excited for the training and had one thought in his mind: "We'll meet again, Ten Tails and when that time comes, Kurama and I will beat you."

END OF CHAPTER

As you all probably noticed; I re-edited this chapter with only the techniques' names. I'm going to re-edit the other chapters because it will probably be more helpful for guys to read better and understand the techniques.