Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Flame of Youth ❯ The Jump ( Chapter 2 )

Disclaimer: Me no own Naruto. Me no own anything. Me is… CAPTAIN… CAVEMAN!!!

 

Chapter 2

 

At the Kazekage mansion in Suna.

 

She was worried. She hadn't seen Naruto or the Dark Heart in three days. She had been pacing for the past half-hour, occasionally looking towards the door.

“Still no sign of them?” asked someone from behind. She turned to see that it was a girl with four ponytails and an oversized fan on her back.

“No Temari. I'm really worried about Naruto. He hasn't been gone this long during a training session since Jiraiya took him away for three years, and that was nine years ago.” said the woman

“Don't worry Shizune. Knowing Naruto he's probably at some small village single-handedly supporting a Ramen shop. Kami, he eats so much of it I wouldn't be surprised if he pays for two months worth of income.”

“I guess your right. But still, he could have sent a clone to tell us where he was going.”

“He's probably so enthralled with training that he forgot the Time. You know him, train until he falls asleep from exhaustion. Besides, if anything bad had happened we would have heard some noise. I mean, when you kill a Jinchuurinki there's bound to be a massive release of Chakra detectable for at least 10 miles arou…”

Just then, there was a massive booming sound coming from outside.

“You don't think…” Shizune said

“Let's get Gaara and Kankuro and head out” said Temari

 

22 miles south-west of Suna at the same time

 

“Teme-Sensei, why is it taking so long?” asked a young man.

“Because Naruto. Without a ritual this jutsu would send your soul back to the beginning of your life. And since the mind of a fetus is undeveloped, you would wind up forgetting everything that you wanted to remember.” said the taller man

“Well, I guess your right… but couldn't we have performed the ritual back in Suna Dark Heart Teme-Sensei?” Naruto asked

“Not if you want to leave it standing. When you die the Kyuubi's chakra is going to burst forth and destroy a good five mile radius. Do you really want to blow up Suna?”

“A five mile radius? You mean that if I die, everything within five miles will be destroyed” said a startled Naruto

“Not exactly. Since this is a true Phoenix jutsu it will turn your chakra into a massive blast of fire. Since the true Phoenix jutsus are suicide techniques meant to take out large numbers of enemies in a last ditch effort, it kind of makes since. But don't worry. We're in a no-mans land right now.”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean that this stretch of land can't support life forms higher than microscopic. This land used to be a Nuclear testing ground centuries ago, and the low levels of radiation prevent habitation of more than a couple years for plants, and predators avoid this place because they sense the land here is hungrier than them. But don't worry, unless you plan on spending a year out here you won't go sterile, mutate, or get cancer. And you couldn't really pick a better place to go boom. Well, aside from Oto.”

“I guess your right. Well, lets get on with this.”

 

1 hour later

 

“Ok Naruto, I'm ready on my end. You just need to perform the hand seals to activate the jutsu then you will be 12 years old again.” said DH

“Ok Sensei.” said Naruto

“Just remember. When you wake up use that jutsu.”

“I know, I know. Well here goes”

Naruto then performs hand signs.

Tiger, Ram, Elephant, Ram, Bear, Tiger, Cat, Lion, Pig, Ram, Tiger, Lizard, Elephant, Eagle, Tiger, Pig, Wolf, Tiger, Ram, Elephant, Ram, Bear, Tiger, Cat, Lion, Pig, Ram, Tiger, Lizard, Elephant, Eagle, Tiger, Pig, Wolf,

“Forbidden Art: Fire Void Style: Reverse Time Phoenix Jutsu!” Naruto then performed the Tiger seal and Pumped all of his and the Kyuubi's Chakra into his tenketsu points. He immediately burst into flames and turned to ash. Standing where he was, was a ghostly image of himself. Then it disappeared.

 

3 hours later

 

She was worried. She couldn't get what Temari said off her mind. “He can't be dead” she said.

“Don't worry Shizune. They couldn't have been killed that easily. I mean, the Dark Heart is the Right Hand of the Chikage, and is supposed to be the most powerful of the Void Ninja. Even Orochimaru would be hard-pressed to defeat him.” said Temari

“I know, but I just got this feeling…” just then they came to the epicenter of the five mile wide crater. Sitting near a black scorch mark was the Dark Heart and a Huge glittering suit of armor with a 7-ft. gun mounted above the right shoulder. Naruto was nowhere to be found.

“Dark Heart-sama, where's Naruto-san? And what is that thing?” asked Shizune

“To your first question, you wouldn't believe me if I told you. To your second question, that's a Glitterboy, or more precisely, a NEMA issue, Pre-Cataclysm Chromium Guardsman. And no, I don't know where it came from. How long ago did you hear that boom?”

“About four hours ago Dark Heart-sama,” said Temari, “but that's beside the point, you better tell us where Naruto is or so help me Kami, I will shove my foot so far up your ass it will pop out your mouth.”

“Four Hours, eh? That means he's right on schedule.”

“What do you mean?” asked the silent Gaara.

“It means the Time Dilation is working perfectly.”

“Time Dilation? You don't mean Naruto went back in time do you?” said a startled Temari.

“Not precisely, but I don't have time to explain the interaction of Quantum and Temporal mechanics. We had best head back to Suna, I haven't eaten anything for three days.”

“But what about Naruto?” asked Shizune, who waved her left arm about.

“Don't worry. Since Temari confirmed that you heard the boom four hours ago, and he performed the Jutsu three hours ago, the Time Dilation is working perfectly and he should arrive at the night before he became a Gennin. Soon everything will change, for good or ill, with his actions. If everything goes to plan, Konoha will never have been invaded by Oto.”

 

Meanwhile, in a Chronal Flux dimension…

 

Naruto was falling. Not precisely falling, but it was the best description. All around him were scenes of events that have happened across the megaverse. He saw unimaginable vistas, of demonic-looking moon-sized monsters devouring planets; of massive machines the size of a planet. He saw battles between western demons and deevils, of mighty warships against battle ship-sized bio-organisms. He saw a hundred Rock Lees charging a horde of heavily armed, 8 ft. tall green-skinned creatures screaming “WAAAAAAGH!!!!!!!” If he didn't know any better, he'd think that he had gone mad. He saw robots disguising themselves as common vehicles. He saw what looked like an orange ball with spikes beating a man with a green onion while screaming something about a Don Patch Sword. He saw a ten year old boy turn into a giant, red, four-armed monster.

“Well, well, well. What do we have here?” said a voice from behind him. He turned and looked. There was a young woman standing there. She was average height and build, with blue-black hair with glittering points of light. Strapped to her back was a sword easily 4 ft. long. “I wasn't expecting to have any visitors.” Said the woman.

“Can eat his soul?” said a voice from behind her.

“No, that wouldn't be prudent. So, what are you doing here?” she asked

“Uh, well the Dark Heart said…” he started to say but she held up her hand.

“My grandfather said that the Dark Heart was sending someone through here. I guess that would be you.” she said

“Grandfather?” he asked

“Yes. Right now he likes to be called the Chikage. Would you be terribly disappointed to learn that he's not even a Ninja?”

“Not really. Teme-Sensei mentioned him a few times, that he rarely uses any Jutsus, instead relying upon his other, more practical powers, like spitting fireballs without hand signs.”

“Actually, he breaths fire like a dragon. I've never actually seen him breathe fire. So what's your name?”

“I'm Naruto Uzumaki. How about you?”

“I am Cosmos, the Goliath Empire's Goddess of Time and space. And this here” she points her thumb at the hilt over her right shoulder “is the Black Blade. A little something my grandfather made for a bunch of foolish elves that sought to control him. It back fired when the sword possessed a human who began the single-handed genocide of their race. It highlighted the foolhardiness of messing with someone who bitch slaps gods like they're mere flies.”

“So what're you doing here?”

“I'm just hanging out, watching things go… WHOA! Do you see that?” she exclaimed. She pointed behind him, so he turned and looked. There was rock covering a dead Viking einherjer. Right next to him was another Viking. In front of him was an army of genetically enhanced super soldiers flinging rocks at a wall that was behind him. So he did the natural thing: He plowed through them like they were flies, slaughtering dozens of them before he was crushed under their weight of numbers.

“That has got to be the coolest thing I've ever seen” said Cosmos “But I expect nothing less from a Viking”

“Yeah, that is cool”

“It's cooler than seeing the Broken Heart plow through nearly two-hundred hired killers.”

“The Broken Heart?”

“Yeah, another version of you. He's supposed to be the smartest of you, and I would have dated him, if it wasn't for the fact that he is mated for life with the Kyuubi. But oh well. It looks like your stop is up. It's been nice talking to you. Oh yeah, by the way… May the Schwartz be with you.” She said before disappearing.

“The Schwartz?” Naruto said before he to disappeared.

 

 

So what do you think of Chapter 2? I know it's shorter than Chapter 1, but still. Don't get cocky. Just because I seem to be producing chapters quickly means nothing; I'm just manic right now.

To head off any questions, I'm not a Sasuke or Sakura Hater. To those of you who e-mail me, I probably won't reply via E-Mail unless you ask me to. I just wasn't sure about how to check reviews when I wrote the prologue so I didn't know I would get an E-Mail saying that I got a review, and would take me to see said review. Oh yeah, I like speculation on the Dark Heart, so e-mail if you got an idea, just don't post it on mediaminer. Don't want to ruin it for your fellow readers, now do we?

So until next time… Sto Si Taco Zao Zivote!

 

P.S.: Kudos to whoever names all the references in this Chapter. Glitterboys Rock.