Neglect

Chapter 22

I am going to be honest with you guys, I really didn't plan this story out after the whole reveal chapter and I have just been winging it….as some or all of you can probably tell. Still, that makes it hard for me to get chapters out as I have not much idea where I am heading. Plus, with work and playing destiny, it has been taking up some time. But I have a feeling that I can get back on track. If not, then I have other stories in mind that some of you will like, but I am NOT giving up!

Now…on with the show….also, sorry for the long update. At least I am light level 30 in destiny….that is good…right? No? I agree…..WAY to much pointless grinding. Endless….grinding….

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Pure Destruction.

That was all that was left of Orochimaru's base that actually held the box. Apparently, he dream was rather vague about the surroundings and what happened to them. Oh sure, they were warned that something…dark, had obliterated the land near the small town they passed. But was ridiculous!

The base was in shambles. What were once simple rooms looked exploded and oddly enough, Naruto was sure that all the twisted looking spires were made from high powered fire jutsus.

"Are you sure this is a good idea. I am unsure of the danger we are in and I do not like being unprepared." Karasu stated as she looked around, constantly on guard. Such were the effects of growing up in ROOT.

"I have a plan if anything attacks us." Naruto lied. He also doubted anything was actually alive and that anything would even attack them.

"Daddy, why are we even here?" Kushina asked from her position on his shoulders. Since there was no ceiling, Naruto felt comfortable letting her ride on his shoulders.

"We are looking for a strange looking box." Naruto replied.

"I see one." The little red head replied as she pointed to the left. There was debris in the way for Naruto and Karasu, but Kushina could easily see it from her position.

Taking Kushina's word for it, they jumped over the mess of debris and landed right in front of the box.

This is it. Naruto thought as he set Kushina back on the ground, much to her child like annoyance. He took out the double sided key and looked between the key and the box, wondering if this was the right thing to do.

Karasu eyed the strange red box with golden designs on it. Something about it didn't seem right, but at the same time, she felt a strong power from it that made her father look like a weak little academy student. Just what had Naruto been in contact with?

Naruto, deciding to just get this over with and stop the pointless debates going on in their heads, just thrust the key inside the lock.

Kushina tugged on Naruto sleeve in fear as the box glowed for a moment before it sent out a wave of power, knocking all three of them on their butts. Looking back at it, they saw what Naruto saw in his dream. The wispy green figure that formed the shape of a human.

It sat on the box, just staring at them with no actual face until it reformed in smoky form into that of a green eyed Naruto. It smiled at them before addressing the blond boy himself. "I am glad you made it. I was beginning to think you weren't interested."

"Why does the smoke man look like daddy?" Kushina asked out loud.

"Curious child….or mother as she once was. How, interesting." The double chuckled.

"Who are you really? Orochimaru seemed to know and thought he could get power from you." Naruto replied.

"Yes, that silly snake thought he could, but in the end, he did not understand my power." The double replied. "As for who I am, well, I am the entity known as Chaos."

"Why would a higher being want to contact one of us?" Karasu asked.

"Hmmm, that is the question, isn't it?" Chaos replied before a frown marred his face, making him look for older and he looked past them and to the land around them. "I guess you could say the reason I reached out for young Naruto is that I need his help. This land….is one of my own creations and it is in danger."

"From who?" Naruto asked skeptically.

"From my sister of course. Order." Chaos replied tiredly. "For such a long time, we have fought for control over the worlds in creation, but Balance was born to make sure we never over took one another. Our Mother, Creation thought it was a good idea at the time. But sometimes, Balance can be….difficult. So, in order to stop this madness, I created a world of my very own, wanting to prove the chaos itself was not that bad, that Balance was wrong about the end of that extreme."

"I am guessing something went wrong." Karasu replied.

"Indeed. I had forgotten that in every dimension, that War was ever present and it exploited the pure chaos of my world. The nature of every living beoing has war in it and all that does is cause destruction…..Death." Chaos paused for a moment before speaking again. "So when my sister caught wind of my creation, she saw it as ugly and corrupt….which at that point, she was right. Balance was needed, but she would not allow our sibling to interfere, she wanted my creation destroyed once and for all. That…angered me. Sure, my world was not perfect, but I thought it could be saved instead of destroyed."

"What stopped her?" Naruto asked.

"I did of course! I barred her from setting foot in my world; however, there was an age old loophole that she exploited. An Avatar." Chaos stated, letting that sink in. "She could create one though since this was my creation, so she created a tree with a single fruit upon it, that when ingested, wrapped one of my creations to her will, creating her avatar."

Naruto frowned at that. If what Chaos said was true, then Kaguya was that Avatar, but she wasn't just a simple Avatar, she was Order in human form since she forcibly ejected the original Kaguya's soul from her body. That was just horrible.

"I see that you understand now from the dream I sent your way. Yes, my own Avatar was her own son and he saw the need for Balance, so he split her creation of order in my world into a 9 beings of Balance. I was quite happy about it."

"So….I am assuming Order is trying once more to either control or destroy this place." Naruto offered.

"Right once again. She is using another Avatar, but this time the soul is intact. The down side to this for her is that her current Avatar is far weaker than the original one. So, she must free her original body from its prison…the moon. Then she will merge with that body and finish what she started. However, this time, she is creating a small army of Parasites to get the job done. She knows that the 9 beings of Balance would not be a wise choice to combine back into the Shinju Beast for it might not obey her like it once did.

"I cannot speak for the Shinju, but I will not follow her and neither will my siblings." Spoke Isobu from the sand backpack on Naruto's back.

"I am glad to hear that." Chaos replied with a smile.

"Ok, I understand now, but what makes me worthy to be your Avatar if that is what you wish?" Naruto asked.

"Oh that." Chaos replied lamely. "To put it simple, you understand power to known what limits are and you have a pure heart despite what the current Avatar of Order has done to you and your family. You may have started a dark path, but now follow a path to find yourself and grow stronger. I wish to help you do that, but to do that you must do one more thing for me."

"What else must he do for you? A fight?" Karasu asked honestly.

"No, he has already seen where that leads….nowhere. Just look at the area we are in now thanks to a fight between me and Orochimaru." Chaos replied with a shake of his head.

Karasu looked around at the utter destruction around them. This place, which was once an underground base of the Snake Sage, was now a giant hole in the ground. That kind of power…was not something anyone in this era could tackle. Maybe the ninja of Hashirama's era but not now. It was a scary thought to the emotionless girl, who looked visibly shaken.

"No, he must activate what he dubs as Super Sage Mode and maintain it." Chaos replied with a smile.

"That was a fluke. I had to have Isobu give me his power just to achieve it." Naruto replied.

Chaos nodded with a smile. "That is true, but consider this. Isobu is made up of pure chakra. The world itself is as well, that is why we have Sage Mode in the first place, to use the Chakra of the World. Isobu merely helped you expand on your reserves and make you stronger. Trust me, you will be able to do it, just believe in yourself."

Naruto frowned before summoning Goku and Vegeta. Once summoned, he told them of the situation and what he needed of them. "It is about time someone is trying to call upon the power of the Super Sage." Vegeta grumbled.

"What do you mean? Who else used that power?" Karasu asked in confusion.

"His first Avatar of course." Vegeta replied rudely while pointing to Chaos. "Then there was the Hawk Summoner Hashirama, but he couldn't maintain it for very long."

"Alright then." Naruto said as he breathed in deeply. "Let's do this." The two monkey summons nodded as they jump on his shoulders to help bring in Nature Chakra. The transformation was quick like it usually was as the monkey features appeared all around the boy.

It was at this point that the two monkeys jumped off for this was something Naruto had to do on his own. Even Shukaku backed off with Isobu's sealed form still connected to him. The blond concentrated as he pulled in more and more of the Chakra of the World, or more commonly known as Nature Chakra.

He is right. Naruto thought. My tolerance to hold more of this power has increased, but there is a block…could that be the limit I must break? It was a as good a lead as any. So he drew upon more and more power, feeling the barrier crack and with a mighty yell and tug, the limit broke and his power skyrocketed as his physical form radiated a bright golden aura.

This was it, the Super Sage Mode and it felt great, but he felt himself more Nature Chakra, which was dangerous. He was not sure of the limit in this form and he also didn't want to turn into a monkey statue. So, he forced himself to stop taking in more. That is where things got complicated. He started to lose power quickly as the energy started to leave him.

Of course that made him panic before he thought quickly. This seemed a lot like the Water Walking exercise that in a sense, the energy flow was constant. The human body could not hold all that energy all at once, so it quickly flowed out, so maybe he had to keep a constant flow for the energy itself to left him stay in Super Sage Mode.

Trying it, Naruto found that his quick theory was right. It was hard to keep up of course but he felt that if he practiced like he did with Water Walking, he might be able to master this new form.

"Whoa, congrats Naruto!" Goku said loudly as Naruto focused on him.

"Yay, Daddy's all golden now." Kushina laughed as she hugged a confused Goku from behind, making Vegeta smirk.

"Yes, you have found the secret it seems. I am glad, not let me give you a piece of what power you can achieve once you become my Avatar." Chaos replied happily before a single stream of energy arced its way off him and onto Naruto. The effects were instant as the golden aura mixed with the green. In a way, it resembled that of another powerful warrior with Legendary status.

However, Naruto quickly fell to his needs as he felt that like before with Danzo, it was just too much. The weight of such power was something he could not maintain just yet and he quickly lost control and lost the Sage Mode, going back to normal, panting like he had just run a mile.

"What the hell." Naruto said after a moment as Kushina and Karasu helped him back up.

Chaos nodded sagely and said, "That power is what you will eventually achieve, Naruto. It is a power you must work for, like you have done all this time. Now you must do it again, along with your other powers."

"I see." Naruto replied as he thought about it. "Then that is good. Having something this instant isn't truly worthwhile. Yes, I accept that and I accept for offer."

"Good because I sort of made it a rule of no direct inference and I don't know how far you would have made it against my sister if you so choose to go after her." Chaos paused for a moment and said, "While our journey will be long, I feel that to combat my sister's Parasite Army, I feel that we should make our own group."

"That seems logical." Karasu said while Kushina had gotten bored of all the talking and way annoying Vegeta alongside Goku. "Should we partner up with the remaining Jinchuriki as well?"

"Yes, you should find them and help them as best you can, but eventually, Naruto will need to use their power to help him defeat my sister as she once used the power of the Shinju against me and my Avatar." Chaos seemed to think on it for a moment before a smile graced his lips. "Shukaku, do you wish to live a human life?"

Shukaku frozen up at being talked directly to until he shaped back into his mini form from the backpack. He looked conflicted before he said, "My time after creation was spent making a large desert to play around in and confuse people for the fun of it. But when the humans caught wind of my power and sealed me into their jinchurikis, I felt madness and just for one wish. To escape and live a normal life. So yes, I wish to become Human."

"Then we shall work on a way to do that so you and your siblings can live the way that want since I am sure Isobu wants the same, no?"

"Yes, that is correct." The sealed turtle replied.

"Good, then maybe this will turn out good so that this fight will help our side even more." Chaos replied . "Naruto, to build this group, I feel that we must pick up the pieces of an old one, so my advice is to head to the Village Hidden in Rain and on the way there, I feel that experimenting with seals will help with the Tailed Beast's wish."

"It is as good as a plan as any at the moment." Naruto replied with a shrug. He had a few years before he had to return to Konoha anyway. Training with seals and his new Super Sage mode was going to keep him busy, that was for sure. Plus, this group to combat Rin and Order.

This was going to be fun!

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And that is where I end this chapter for now. Yes, Naruto will create his version of Akatsuki. Aren't you guys excited?!

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