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Shikamaru sighed as he watched his brother clutching the side of the boat in strong fingers, the cast of his skin paler than normal as he dry-heaved over the side again.
"How in the name of ALL the Kamis do YOU get seasick?! You've already been on a boat for a trip much longer then this, Sasuke said you didn't suffer then. Why now?"
"I'm the Balance Guardian, apparently I NEED to be connected to the earth. Water between us is an interruption to the flow. Razeil-niisan is an vampire, wraith vampire yes, but still a vampire and while in the Spectral plane water may have the consistency of air-a vampire has trouble with large bodies of moving water. Besides, that boat was designed for carrying passengers, made for comfort, THIS is nothing but a bloody glorified dingy."
As Shino approached them he frowned thoughtfully. If what Naruto was saying was true then as Balance Guardian Naruto was either drawing energy from the very earth they walked on to maintain control and his connection to them, or his ability to Balance them relied on a constant flow-no matter how far apart they were-to the surface under them, and moving water screwed with that flow. Add to this the fact that both Razeil san and Kyuubi san had to merge their energies to him in order to help with the poison, and vampires had an violent reaction to moving bodies of water. Even Razeil san had this reaction when in the material realm after becoming a wraith.
Lastly because the previous boat they had traveled on was made specifically for the comfort of passengers it was built and designed to minimize the effects of the waves. After all, the Princess and her film crew would want to be able to film safely on board without worrying about such thing as the camera men and cast being flung around while filming.
It all made sense.
Shikamaru himself was connected to the flow of Death and Life energy of the planet, he could sense it keenly wherever they went and while even on board he could still sense it, even in the ocean beneath them, he had to admit it was a little...disconcerting having that connection weakened. The wood beneath him was a barrier between them where even traveling through the shadows the connection under his feet had been a constant since his appointment.
He wondered if Shino felt the same way the two of them did.
"My kiki are disturbed" Shino answered his thoughts unknowingly "they are sensing an huge power ahead of us and it is affecting them even from this distance."
"How so?" they asked.
"They have never encountered such before. It feels like us, but not, earth, but not, and is covering the entire area."
"Like a seal?" Naruto asked "If the Uzumaki's were really Full Guardians then they would have been closer to us and the earth then any other. Their seals would have been filled with that chakra."
Shikamaru nodded "why you sense the connection to us and the earth. They were similar to us but not enough to be Guardians and Mother Earth was connected to the pillars of Kain-sama's time AND our version of it."
"My kiki are..." he seemed to have trouble thinking of the right term to describe it "not exactly afraid, but similar. Not excited but almost. Hungry is not the right term but the only one I can use" he made a motion they knew meant confusion and helplessness "all of those things, yet none." He hesitated, thinking then said "they want to feed from it, gorge themselves, but at the same time fear the level of chakra there. It excites them, yet they are concerned about it. My kiki have never reacted this way before. It concerns them, it concerns ME."
Shikamaru admitted something else out loud "there is also something else there, something PULLING me. I think..."
"What?" they asked.
"It feels like the glyphs the others have collected. Only it's affecting me."
They looked at him "do you think...It's YOUR glyph?"
"That I don't know for sure, but it is an possibility. An strong one but still an possibility."
Later Naruto was walking around the boat when he found Karin. She was leaning on the side looking ahead of them at the approaching land. Leaning next to her and trying to fight down his nausea he spoke "excited?"
She shrugged, but there was a slight smile on her face "do you feel it? It's like it's welcoming us, like a coming home." She suddenly looked worried and upset "oh! I'm sorry! I didn't mean that..."
He held his hand up to halt her words "I may have take after my biological father more in appearance, but my mother was pure Uzumaki and I can feel her blood inside me boiling, excited to return to her birth-place. We are so few, I am proud of BOTH my heritage's. I may call myself the son of The Blood Shadow, but I understand and accept my roots. My biological parents may not have been there for me, but that wasn't their fault as much as it was yours. My mother's chakra lives inside as me, just like my father's, niisan and neesan. I, like you, am Uzumaki-even if I don't seem it at times."
Naruto told her this. What he didn't mention was at the moment his Uzumaki was stronger due to the gift of his mother's chakra clone. It had told him to return to The Village Hidden In The Eddie's sooner rather than later, that when he did her chakra inside him would awaken in reaction to the seal around it, strengthening his own Uzumaki blood temporarily, allowing him to access the place. She had told him seriously there would be something there only for him. At first he thought she was talking about the earth orb, but she told him no, it was something else, that if he found it, it meant it was for him and him alone. When he told her about the other Uzumaki they had met in the preliminaries, she told him if she was meant to be there, sometime or other she would end up there. There were things she could have, things meant only for an member of their clan.
Naruto intended to have Karin walk through the entire area thoroughly to see if anything called to her, which was why they needed to be here a while, a week at the most, just to be sure.
Hours later they landed.
The first thing they had to do was find somewhere to set up camp. Naruto suggested instead of using the tents they find a nice sized house still in one piece and set up their sleeping bags there "I'm sure our clan wouldn't mind if we do so. It's not like they're using it."
So they moved into the ruined village, Naruto and Karin's presence seeming to allow the other two through the barrier. It was as if they were allowed, as long as they were accompanied by an Uzumaki.
Naruto figured it may be some sort of old protection when the village was open to visitors and filled with his mothers clan, to ensure that anyone who came in couldn't wander off and find their secrets-like a spy for instances. They looked around at the ruined buildings, awed at what was once an beautiful village, signs of a once thriving home to a clan.
"Up here" Karin called from up ahead of them, motioning at the building she stood beside. They headed her way to find an fairly good sized house with only a few broken windows and chunks missing from the walls and roof. When they entered they found an nice old lounge room, a kitchen directly across from it and an hallway visible from the right. wandering down the hallway they found four separate bedrooms and bathrooms, an storage room with half the wall destroyed and scorched marks around it. As long as they kept the storage room door closed and found something to cover the little holes around the place it would be a perfect home for the week. After choosing a room they each started to set out their items and folded out the futons so they could lay their sleeping bags over them. Shino used his kiki to chase any spiders or bugs from the bedrooms and they spent their first day tiding up and covering the holes with cloth from old clothing and tree sap.
The second day they separated to do a general search of the area. They weren't looking for anything in particular, just looking for anything resembling landmarks, temples, or anything that looked important. On the third day they met up and investigated any areas that each other found.
The forth day was spent with all four together as they expanded their search to the areas around the actual village.
Just before the end of the forth day both Naruto and Karin sensed something, something that pulled at their senses and blood.
Naruto sensed it first, his head snapping to the side, face intent. Karin's followed seconds after.
"What is it?" Shikamaru asked them.
Without a word, almost like the two were sleep-walking they turned in the direction they were looking and began walking. Exchanging looks the two followed.
They walked for hours, almost into the night.
Just as the sun was setting they all reached an building hidden away in the trees surrounding the village. It was small and no different than any other, but even the two other heirs could sence the strong pull of nature from it. Naruto grinned and moved inside, motioning them to follow, Karin grinning right along with him by his side.
They found an large chamber covering paintings, something that resembled the council chamber in Kohona. There was an heavy looking stone door at the back, an candelabra above and a few old windows.
After examining the chamber Naruto moved to the stone door, examining it for traps, triggers or signs of use. He dug his fingers under and attempted to use his enhanced strength to lift, but it didn't move. He turned to them.
"Whatever it is that we are after is in THERE" he motioned at the door before turning to Shikamaru who nodded. Grasping Karin's arm the shadows swallowed them up before reopening on the other side of the door, in the dark. Karin collapsed, swearing and shivering, looking like she was about to throw up. Naruto just looked at her and said "you'll get used to it."
She mumbled something like "no fucken way, never again" before chocking on another retch.
Naruto summoned the fire reaver, lighting up the room.
It was some sort of store room but different. The center of the chamber was taken up by an large pestilential.
"Bingo" Naruto grinned, walking over to check it out.
"What makes you so sure?"
"Why else would they have an empty pedestal in an room made of stone behind the obviously council chambers?" He walked around the chamber, lighting torches he found there, soon flooding the room with light. The walls were inscribed with seals woven among an ancient language all but Karin knew.
Shikamaru traced the letters with one finger "ancient vampire. The Uzumaki clan were more than Full Guardians it seems. Somehow they have used human sealing and interwoven it with ancient vampire magic to produce powerful seals. It is no wonder they were so strong."
Naruto nodded, running his fingers over the carvings opposite the stone door, his mind open to his chichi and grandfather, letting them see through his eyes, knowing Janos would inform Tsunade of what they found.
He slowly moved around the room, allowing his grandfather's mind to absorb everything he saw and remember, stopping if he asked to focus on something in particular.
Once he had examined everything, even the pedestal, he looked to his two fellow Skulk members and said briefly "I'll be back" before shifting to the Spectral Realm.
And gaped.
Usually when he shifted in an building, or just somewhere enclosed like a cave, the environment also shifted but just slightly-like an warped version of it's material half. He was shocked when instead of an large room with an closed stone door he was outside-in the open.
It resembled a field in the material realm, the only thing that resembled the original room inside was the pedestal still there, only it had warped into a pillar of some sort.
Looking around he found it was nature he was seeing here. While everywhere else was as if the material realm was life-the spectral death-THIS room was nature-as if both the realms were being merged into one-the realm of life merging with that of death.
It both amazed and confused both him and Razeil. How could this happen? Why were both realms merging and HERE of all places?
"I have no idea" the vampire wraith said "perhaps it is the effect of earth orb, which suggests it is here-or was recently."
"Perhaps" Kyuubi agreed "or perhaps it is something else."
"What is it you are thinking?" Razeil asked her.
"The spectral realm, the earth orb, material realm and The Elder God."
"What about them?"
"The spectral realm and material realm are all a piece of nature-the cycle of life-separate yet one in the same. However since the creation of the pillars it seems that all these aspects seem to be becoming more and more separate, more... contaminated. I have noticed they were originally three separate states-life, death, earth. This is not how it is supposed to be, they should all be one and the same. But since our appointments they are slowly merging, first in you, then Naruto, next in Shikamaru, now in reality."
Razeil spoke thoughtfully "so you think that all three are meant to be one-perhaps eons ago they were-and something we are doing is causing it to return to its proper state."
"I am convinced it is so."
"Then what caused their separation in the first place?"
"I have an idea. It is not confirmed and I do not think I shall ever be able to prove it, but..."
"What is it?" Naruto asked.
"It is just a theory, but there is only one connection I can find, one common factor that links all of these, all of YOU."
"What?"
"The Elder God."
"The Elder God?" he parroted.
"I see" Razeil said "the vampires AND Hylden lived in peace and harmony with their environment for centuries, building temples and being connected to mother earth they inhabited. It was how they were able to create the pillars and their connection in the first place. Then along came the so-called Elder God. He corrupted the vampires and even humans. With their connection to mother earth, the corruption moved to the very plain of the material realm, followed by the spectral realm with those deaths caused by them. As the corruption spread he grew stronger and the link weakened. He probably did it on purpose so he could weaken the strength of those links and seek to control each. He already had most of his control over the spectral realm-warping it into what it was-and through Mobius was seeking the material when I turned up. With my link as an vampire wraith through both realms, I was an opportunity he could not pass up."
"Exactly" the fox vixen answered.
Looking around Naruto spoke "so by killing The Elder God, chichi was actually freeing all three, allowing nature to begin to reestablish the connection."
"Exactly" the fox vixen nodded.
Forgetting the subject, Naruto moved to examine the pillar. All around the sides and top was the symbols of the ten guardians. The top center was flattened down, leading Naruto to believe the center depression was where the orb once rested.
The pillar itself was in the dead center of the clearing, meaning obviously that the orb WAS there at some point and for a while. Maybe BEFORE the Uzumaki's, he didn't know.
There was an Uzumaki swirl symbol on two places of the pillar, front and back he assumed. He reverently traced each symbol, feeling the carved perfection, touching the Balance symbol last before his hand trailed down to the whirl, all without lifting his fingers once from the cold stone. He felt on the verge of an huge revelation, a secret revealed only to him "the Uzumaki swirl. It's the symbol of the Full Guardians, not the clan."
Before his tenants could speak something happened. As it had months ago at the ruins of the pillars, Naruto's hand seemed to suddenly stick where it was caressing the symbol. He couldn't move it no matter what he tried.
So he shifted back, opening his mouth to call for help to the others, only to have the words stick in his throat as images assaulted him.
The buildings of the village-predestine and beautiful. Men, women and children walking around doing their daily things, most with red hair but the occasional color mixed in. Ninja mixed among citizens, some in obvious uniforms, others plain-clothed.
Everyone seemed happy, at peace here.
One red head tended a garden in her yard and her face was familiar. He blinked "gr..grandmother?!" She was almost exactly like his own mother when he had seen her last in his head, only older and with slight differences in facial features.
There was a gasp and he turned to see Karin standing there in the middle of the street, looking around in awe and shock. She saw him, her eyes widened and she asked "what's going on?!"
Composing himself Naruto spoke "as far as I can figure, we tripped an seal and are seeing the past. If YOU are here it's set to only be triggered to Uzumaki's."
There was an giggle of a baby and they saw an older gentleman carrying what appeared to be an newborn baby down the road. Karin's eyes widened "grandfather?!"
"How can you tell?" Naruto frowned.
"The blanket it's wrapped in. Dad told me it was one-of-a-kind made by his mother for him while she was pregnant with him. When I was a baby, he wrapped ME in it. I still have what's left of it."
They watched the man walk over to the fence and start chatting with the woman. Both were surprised, their grandparents knew each other? But then again, they WERE all from one clan so chances are they were all related.
Funny thought to both of them. Before it was like they were just a village despite calling each other clan members, but this cemented it in each other's head. They were related-maybe not directly-but definitely genetically. Naruto smiled at this, it would make Sasuke actually part of his family when they married.
The woman nursed the baby for a while, a smile on her face as she did so. A child came running up to them, all smiles and excitement. Almost to his teens he was allowed to nurse the baby briefly.
The ground suddenly heaved and when the adults looked up the sealshield above them shimmered and almost buckled. Frowning in concern the man guided the child into the house with the woman. Opening a panel in the kitchen floor, he shooed the two down and passed the woman the baby before closing the hatch and covering it with an rug.
They found themselves following the old woman and child carrying the baby along a tunnel underground, rushing through miles of tunnels in twists and turns. As they traveled they met up with more people, mostly women and children, babies or toddlers plus SOME ninja and it suddenly occurred to Naruto that THIS was how some of his people survived the destruction of the village, the ninja with them were there to protect them and ensure they escaped safely. There was probably some area or safe house organized for them to stay until it was safe to return.
As they moved he could hear the regular explosions above from both from jutsu's and seals. Glancing beside him at Karin, he saw her lips compressed and face worried and frightened for them. Even though they were seeing the past and KNEW there was nothing they could do to help, it didn't make it any easier to watch. Naruto frowned deeper when he saw the old woman hand the baby off to an scared woman and turned to go back the way they had come. She was an Uzumaki, she couldn't leave her people to fight alone. If his mother WAS the daughter of the head of the line, that made her an important influential woman, probably an council member, and she was NOT going to abandon her clan to fight without her.
Although really, what could she do?
Karin stopped, looking the way her father was taken, then at the woman and when Naruto nodded to show he understood how she felt and turned to leave, she decided and followed in his wake. When Naruto raised an eyebrow at her, she said softly "we know my dad made it out, I want to go with you, even if it means seeing our people die."
He nodded and they followed the old woman through the tunnel and to the surface again.
Into hell.
To their shock they saw Uzumaki fighting along side the enemy AGAINST their own clan, killing, maiming and slaughtering their own people. Karin made a sound of pure disbelief and pain, but they managed to tear themselves away from the scene and run after the woman.
They soon recognized the path she was headed down, the building they thought was for the council, and more importantly, the orbs chamber. Excited despite what was going on around them, they picked up their pace.
They were just in time to see the councils last stand, including the older man Karin thought was her grandfather. She screamed in pure fury and agony as the man's throat was slashed open and he fell. Crawling to his side, sobbing brokenly, she tried to take him into her arms to cradle, but her hands went right through him. Instead she knelt beside him with her head lowered, sobbing brokenly, her eyes never leaving his gentle lined face.
There came the sound of footsteps and she looked up to see the one who had slashed his throat open approach, another of the Uzumaki rebels helping the enemy. While Karin's eyes widened and she cried "no, NO, NO!" the man raised his katana and...
"NO!" she screamed one last time in denial, throwing herself over the man in an useless attempt to save her only family left. But this was only an vision of the past, not present and the ghostly weapon passed right through her and into the figure under her, directly in the heart.
She thought she FELT and heard his body convulse once, an rattledwhistled breath in the throat, then he was gone.
Sobbing brokenly it took her a few seconds to move and when she did she looked up at him, pure hate and fury at the young man's satisfied expression "I'll find you, you bastard, I'll find you and get my revenge, even if it kills me."
From where he stood Naruto frowned at her. "Revenge isn't the way" he said as she stood, angry tears falling down her cheeks "how would YOU know?!" she motioned at the older woman, also dead a few inches from him "and why aren't you even mad!?"
"I AM" he said in an low, even voice "but there are factors we don't know here..."
"Factors!?" she screamed "what factors!? They are traitors! They deserve to die! This was THEIR clan, THEIR people they betrayed! And for what, an orb that just let them talk to the earth!"
Naruto continued calmly "what if they weren't responsible for their reactions."
"What?" this jerked her from her fury.
"What if they weren't responsible for their actions" he repeated calmly.
Her mind whired and she desperately tried to think "you mean an genjutsu?"
"Think about it. If Uzumaki ninja went on missions for other villages, including the ones there that night, how hard would it be for the enemy to implant them somehow so at the moment of attack, they either are sent into an genjutsu or were 'programmed' to obey? Yes Uzumaki are seal experts and-like you-many were sensors, but they could of found a way around it. My...aunt and her teammate are Sannin, yet they never knew Orochimaru-sama was being controlled by some sort of jutsu. If THEY can be fooled, so could our clan."
Despite her desire to deny his words and continue her need for revenge, Karin saw his point. But he was going on "revenge never solves anything. My Glyph Brother's family were murdered, slaughtered like this. He could have chosen revenge, but if he had of, he would have given in to that curse mark, became a thing of darkness and revenge.
My father was murdered when he was but a young man by a group of thugs. The Guardian of Death offered him a chance of revenge, to return to the land of life to get his desire fulfilled. My father did so, but was manipulated into murdering the Guardian of Deaths fellow Guardians one by one, only to learn that HE was the final Guardian who was to die, not just that, the Guardian of Death himself had hired the thugs himself to kill him and trick him into the decision he so foolishly made. The Guardian had been manipulated HIMSELF by others seeking revenge against my fathers kind, causing and domino effect that lead to my fathers race being whiped out, leaving my father as the last of his kind."
There was two lights that formed beside him, and man and a woman stood there. The woman spoke "I was used by an human in HIS warped sense of revenge. He took control of me to attack a village, slaughtering every who was there, men, women, children, ANYONE" she sobbed, being surrounded by the man and wingedtailed boy's arms "so many died, I didn't want to do it, but I couldn't do anything to stop myself. All because some bastard wanted revenge for what HE wanted denied to him."
The man looked at her from where he held the woman "I was my father's right-hand-man. I was faithful, I believed in him and his right to rule it all. But I was betrayed. I found my way out of the abyss where he left me and allowed myself to be lead-manipulated-by one I distrusted, all to get my revenge. I blazed my way through my brothers and their clans, slaughtering all who stood between us even tried a few times to kill my father. I ended up responsible not just for my grandfather's death by my actions but my...uncle. All for revenge. Only to find out that my father had NOT left me there that day to betray me, to hurt me but try and free me from my fate. From an eternity of hunger, insanity and imprisonment as a weapon. He had beeen trying to free me all my existence and I killed my brothers and was responsible for the death of the only men who truly cared for me for something so petty."
Karin sobbed, head lowered, unable to stand it any longer. If she sought revenge, who else would she be hurting?
What if she killed the man and he HAD been under an genjutsu? What if he had had started family afterwards, it would be just like she had gone through, only SHE was doing it to someone else.
And what if his family was here that day and had escaped with the other women and children?
She couldn't, she just couldn't do it, no matter how much her anger made her want to. Their clan was so few now, she couldn't be the cause of the loss of even more.
Instead she collapsed, brokenly sobbing, unable to stop as the feelings from witnessing the end of her clan combined with the emotions of the past of loosing her parents.
She felt arms surround her, three sets, and through her sobs managed to look up. The two figures from before and the wingedtailed boy were there, the boy hugging her while the two 'adults' hugged them both. While there was no sound from the boy, she could feel wetness growing on her shoulder.
She managed a smile through her tears and raised her arms to embrace him as well. The boy may only be half-Uzumaki, but as far she was concerned he was all in spirit. He was right, revenge wasn't the way. Her clan wouldn't want it. Most of all, her grandfather wouldn't want it.
She glanced down at where he lay...only to find it gone. So was the older woman's.
She was about to question it when there was an sudden wrenched feeling and out of the doorway appeared a man, an tall figure of authority, his silhouette vaguely familiar.
All four crouched and huddled figures looked up at it.
The figure stroad into the room and passed them, looking around and by the reaction of his body they knew he was horrified. He must have been seeing the bodies. So someone had come to aid the village-a little too late it seems. If the authority and strength they could see in his form meant anything, it was probably one of the Kages. Or even one of the Lords.
He moved forward, towards the stone door. Naruto frowned and motioned the two with him. The two rose and followed. Naruto looked into the girls eyes "do you think you can go on?"
She managed to nod, whipping her eyes as she let him pull her to her feet.
Hands linked, they moved to follow the figure.
Standing on either side in the doorway the two adults watched inside, heads turning in union at their approach. Wordlessly they turned their heads back to look inside.
Instead of questioning who they were she followed the other into the room. The figure stood beside the pedestal, looking down at his feet.
The crystal orb was gone, but there was SOMETHING on the floor...
The figure crouched, hand reaching out to touch something, reverence and concern in his body. Whoever he was was both concerned over it and obviously KNEW what he was seeing.
As they watched he took up three pieces, one large and two smaller, and placed them in his side pouch. He rose and turned and it was then, with two people entering the room with torches, that his face became obvious. Naruto gasped "Tobirama Senju!"
The instant he spoke the name the necklace around his neck began to glow, awakening a feeling inside him, the same feeling of connection he got from the earth during their appointment as Guardian. Instinctively he reached up to grasp it, looking down as it suddenly struck him.
His people had shattered the orb in order to protect it, but some fragments were left. The Second Hokage had fashioned those fragments into an necklace-so the members of his line could protect its remains-however unknowingly! Of course! It explains how the orb could have been in Senju care then suddenly in his, when he was a child Tsunade had given him the necklace!
And that was not all, at the base of the pillar was another light, the rest of the orb! It had been there all along, those fragments buried under an thin layer of earth all this time! He rushed over, followed closely by Karin, and they began to dig them out as the vision faded around them.
Naruto's hand brushed up against a piece at the exact moment Karins did, the fragments letting out an musical sound-like the sound you get when you run your finger along the rim of an crystal wine glass-and the shards seemed to move, almost as if pulled towards them.
Three large chunks moved towards Naruto's, merging with it until and smaller version of the orb hung from his neck. The rest merged together to become another, resting in Karin's palms.
Then Naruto heard it, a soft feminine voice in his head "You, my children." Naruto's head snapped up "Mother Earth?"
The voice was gentle and seemed amused "you may call me Gaia, my child."
"Is it true, Mother Gaia, the things we learned about the pillars and you? Were the Uzumaki's really an perfect combination of all ten guardians?"
"Yes, my child. It is all true. After the magic of your fathers ancestors forced an connection to me I suffered the corruption of the guardians. However it was not always so, the generations between the vampires and ones who corrupted them were able to hear me, sense me and we shared an mutually beneficial bond. Until the Elder God blurred out my voice to the one who caused so much damage. Your father, as well as your brother, were my attempt to fix the wrongs they had brought about. Even through his corruption, Kain heard me and while he DID in one timeline almost destroy me, he attempted to fix what was wrought."
Naruto blinked. Could it be true? Was Kain the entire time his niisan was chasing him and going on about the pillars and 'the third side of a coin' actually working to restore nature? It was possible, he had KNOWN what the result of his actions were in the alternate timeline where he ruled, but hadn't known a way to prevent it.
If he allowed himself to diebe killed then the pillars would completely fall, opening the seal and freeing the Hylden for good. Driven insane from centuries imprisoned they would flood the planet, killing, enslaving, destroying just because they could and felt they deserved it. The planet-the earth-would crumble in ways even mother Gaia would never survive, let alone recover from. Ways that would make the future he had ruled seem a paradise. His father had gotten a small dose of it on that island during his quest to rule Meridian.
If Kain prevented the timeline from going the way it did through Razeil niisan's free will, he could possibly prevent not just the destruction of the pillars but preserve nature, restore it to the peace of the ones who had lived in unity with the world.
Now that the Hylden were all dead, the seal no longer needed, Mother Gaia had called new guardians to her, to continue the fight to preserve the peace and protect her.
He and his brothers and sisters.
"Mother Gaia, why? Why did you allow your children to die? Didn't they try to help you, to protect you?"
The female voice sighed "everything must die my child, you know that better than most. It was just their time. Even I am part of the cycle of life-myself more susceptible than most. I could do nothing but weep, the fates had decided long before what would happen to my favored ones" her voice held the same raw grief and pain both he and Karin had felt at the events witnessed. Only hers was as fresh as the day it had happened.
She spoke next to the only true Uzumaki in the room "I am glad you gave up your need for revenge, my child, for YOUR fate is along a different path."
"Wh...what do you mean?"
"I will not lie to you, daughter, and tell you you will have an good or easy life, but I will give you this. Persevere, hold on, true happiness awaits you when it's over. Your dream, your wish WILL come true. You have only to survive the track and you will reach your desired destination."
Karin face looked both utterly confused and full of agonized hope, as if she didn't know what she was talking about, but she wanted it anyway. She managed to speak again, voice trembling "my grandfather..."
"Do not fear my child, he, like my child's grandmother, have moved on. They now have another life and people to love."
The connection was weakening, wavering, no matter how much they didn't want it to, for her to go away "goodbye my children, remember, I am always here for you, even if you don't hear or sense me." And she was gone.
Feeling bereft after the warmth and peace of the female's presence the two cuddled together silently for a while, comforting each other with the mutual presence of clansmanship, Karin clutching her half of the orb to her.
A strange tingling caught Naruto's attention, causing him to look up, eyes widening in shock. He quickly shook the girl, an awed "look" in his voice.
There in front of them was an elder man and woman, holding hands and smiling at them. The two figures smiled serenely before fading away. But before they did an message popped into their heads.
The two Uzumaki's cuddled closer, allowing the tears to flow again.
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This is part one of the chapter I intended, two will be next.
I am sorry about the wait guys but had a family tragedy recently. In the end of August we received a call from my Uncle that my grandmother, who lives two states away, had a massive heart attack and was slipping away. My parents and I had just enough time to grab the basics and rush to the plane, only to find it wasn't that serious, she only had a minor one. This meant no laptop. We were there two weeks until she died the day my father and I left for home after having one a few days before. I got to see her and say goodbye but while I'm torn about not being there in the end and going to the funeral, I'm also glad in a way I didn't. She was my last grandmother, I was close, I don't think I could of held it together to be there. I have been in an grieving period and my father has been pushing me the last few days HARD to get things organized as my grandfather-my last grandparent and my nanna's husband-is coming to live with us, which means heavy duty cleaning, furniture moving and so on.
You can probably tell by the last part of the chapter what had happened.
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