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      Published: 2016-02-15 Chapters: 4/? Words: 15824
****** Muri Sakana ******
by DalkonCledwin
Summary
     Once Upon a Time there was a Kingdom on the Moon, in that Kingdom,
     instead of a single Princess, there were twins, a Princess and a
     Prince. While the Princess was reincarnated on Earth... the Prince
     ended up somewhere else. This is the story of how the Prince was
     reunited with his sister.
Notes
     Disclaimer: I do not own Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon or it's
     associated Anime shows. I also do not own the world of Naruto or any
     of the other franchises that I may make references to in this story.
     Author's Note: So… first things first… another author I read rather
     recently brought up a really good point, and that was to ask why
     Naruto's Oiroke no Jutsu looks so much like Usagi Tsukino. While he
     took his story in one direction, I will be taking mine in an entirely
     different direction.
     I will also note that I will be maintaining Usagi's canonical
     pairing, and doing my darndest to keep Mamoru alive. Not because I
     like Mamoru or anything… because I really don't… but because I
     absolutely ADORE Chibiusa. She's so cute and cuddly.
See the end of the work for more notes
***** A1C0 - Sailor Pluto *****
                          xXx February 20th, 2014 xXx
                             xXx Charon Palace xXx
Princess Setsuna Meiou of the planet Pluto… and yes, it is a planet despite
what the Earth's astronomers might want people to believe… was absolutely
ecstatic. At long last she had pinpointed the location where the ones she had
been tasked with watching over.
One could be found on the local Earth, and judging by the patterns in the time
stream, it looked as if Luna of the Mau would soon be finding her and setting
her on her destiny.
As for the other…
"Oh! Well this will never do. That world is way too dangerous for my Prince to
be left on. Even if Serenity is destined to be the Guardian of the Moon, it is
the Prince who their mother had always suspected would be the one to continue
the royal bloodline into the future." Setsuna stated.
Drawing one of the keys off of her waist, Setsuna walked over to a truly
massive gothic looking doorway and inserted the key into the keyhole, twisting
it to the unlocked position. Once this was done she drew the door open and
stepped through the massive archway. So long as she had the keys with her, no
one else could pass through the gateway.
                        xXx Another Time and Place xXx
Setsuna blinked, and looked around at her surroundings. "This… this can't be
right."
The location that the Space-Time Door had delivered her to looked like Charon
Palace… except everything was in a complete state of decay. Nothing in the
palace was operational except for the Space-Time Door itself. And that seemed
to be having it's power siphoned off by some external force. Fortunately the
door has an infinite reserve of power drawing directly from what those silly
humans in that Academy in one universes London refer to as the Second and Fifth
True Sorceries.
Setsuna let out a laugh as she thought of those humans. They only recognized
five Sorceries. Truth is there are countless True Sorceries. Each Senshi, the
universe over can draw on at least one of them. Setsuna herself can draw on the
Second and Fifth, the members of the Lunar Royal Family traditionally call upon
the First and Third, just to name two examples.
"Now, let's see, if this is Pluto… and nothing here works… well this is rather
awkward. How am I supposed to get to what is probably an alternate version of
Earth if I can't activate the matter transporters?" Setsuna asked thin air.
Sure, she can use what that vampiric troll calls the Kaleidoscope, but she
isn't as good at it as him. She has to have been to a place before to be able
to teleport back to it, which makes it virtually useless in this situation.
Although she is naturally capable of teleporting herself or something else to
any quantum irregularity that exists whether she has been to it before or not.
One of the perks of the other sorcery at her disposal interacting with the
Second Sorcery.
Sighing to herself, Setsuna walked over to one of the various windows in the
palace. It is a really good thing that the Senshi don't need oxygen and won't
die due to exposure to a vacuum, or else she'd already be dead.
"I've never really tried something like this… So I have no idea if I am being
stupid or not… but here goes nothing… Time Alter - Chīlīas Accel!" Setsuna
screamed the last bit out, Surprisingly despite the lack of atmosphere, her
voice would have been heard if there had been anyone around to hear her
speaking.
"Ooof." Setsuna groaned. Even though her version of the Time Alter magic didn't
have the same disastrous side effects as what happens when that foolish man in
the Clocktower's universe uses it, it still wasn't particularly advisable for
her to use anything more than a Square Accel unless the situation absolutely
demanded it. Fortunately, it wasn't on the same level as Time Stop, like all
other Guardians of Time she was absolutely forbidden to use that specific
technique except in the most dire of situations where no other option remained.
Propelling herself out of the window at an astonishing 199.1667 Miles Per
Second… which only just barely reached the rate of 0.1% light speed… she began
her long journey towards what could only be an alternate Earth.
                            xXx 156 Days Later xXx
                         xXx Ichiraku Ramen Stand xXx
                         xXx Konohagakure no Sato xXx
Setsuna was sitting enjoying a nice meal of Ramen when it happened, several
explosions erupted in disparate parts of the village simultaneously.
Standing from her meal and walking outside of the Ramen stand, Setsuna frowned
at what she was witnessing. Not only were there massive explosions still going
off in various locations, but there were now three gigantic orange and black
centipedes wreaking havoc throughout the village.
Suddenly an explosion that resembled what would happen if the Schwerer Gustav
had fired its payload into the middle of the village.
"Okay, now I am pissed," Setsuna exclaimed and thrust out her hand. In that
hand appeared a small wand with a pink heart topped with a blue globe that had
two antenna off of it in a V shape, and on top of the globe was a golden star
shaped ornament. "Pluto Planet Power! Make Up!
In a flash of bright light that seemed to stop time around her, Setsuna was
transformed into Sailor Pluto, the Guardian of Time. Once she has transformed,
Sailor Pluto began walking in the direction of the largest explosion.
After turning only one corner she came upon an orange haired man and watched in
horror as he ripped his victim's very soul out of his body. Not wishing to get
close enough for that man to do that to her, she pointed the Garnet Rod at the
man and declared "You are so Nailed to the Sky!"
Setsuna watched in satisfaction as the man was ripped off the ground at 25020
MPH breaking every single bone in his body to break due to experiencing
approximately 1800 G's all at a single instant.
If the lift off didn't kill the guy, what happened only seconds after he exited
the planet's extreme upper atmosphere certainly did. As soon as he reached that
altitude the gravitational pull of the planet reasserted itself on his body
with extreme aggression and he began plummeting towards the planet at 24606.3
MPH, the same speed as the Apollo 16 Capsule on Reentry.
To say he was nice and toasty when he landed was putting it extremely mildly.
                           xXx Outside of Konoha xXx
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
a voice cried out in extreme agony at the sensation of having one of its bodies
atomized.
"FIND HER AND KILL HER!" Nagato commanded to the other Paths of Pain.
                           xXx Back with Setsuna xXx
The next one of these weirdo's she encountered was a rather blocky fellow with
seven studs in an inverted V on his face and three long spikes sticking out of
his brain… yeah that was what it looks like they are doing… and poking through
his ears.
The man ran up to Setsuna and grabbed her by the throat, which was damn
impressive since she was in Double Accel right now. He then asked the question
"Do you know where Naruto Uzumaki is?"
Setsuna frowned and countered "What is your business with my Prince?"
As soon as she had spoken the last word, a large demonic looking head erupted
out of the ground, unzipped its mouth… yes, unzipping is the right word here…
and a large tendril reached out and pulled out something that seemed to be
attached to Setsuna's tongue.
The head's eyes crinkled in confusion before it released whatever that was it
held and disappeared much to the surprise of the man that was holding her.
"How are you still alive?" the man demanded.
"I don't know. Why would I be dead though?" Setsuna asked.
"That was the King of Hell. Anyone who I ask a question of after grabbing their
throat is judged by the King of Hell. If he finds them to have answered
truthfully, then they live. If they lied, or did not answer, then he kills
them." the man stated.
"Ah, well there's your problem then. Hello, my name is Sailor Pluto, I am the
Sailor Soldier of the Afterlife, Time, Change and Revolution. You can go to
hell. Dead Scream!"
As she said that she swung the Garnet Rod in such a way that a massive blast of
purple energy slammed into the man. This energy, unlike how she would normally
choose to use it had absolutely none of its limiters on it at the moment.
As soon as the energy hit the man every single nerve in his body began firing
signals indicating he was in immense pain. This was of course natural because
he had just been turned into the very beginning stages of a completely self
contained Black Hole that has no chance of affecting the outside world.
His death was going to be horrifically painful. Usually she left the limiters
on, but these guys with the weird swirly eyes were ticking her off immensely.
So far she has had to deal with a guy who eats people's souls, which was
strictly banned by all planets with a Senshi on it, as well as a guy capable of
summoning one of her minions. And the guy had the nerve to use said minion on
her.
"I was having such a nice day…" Setsuna exclaimed as she walked off in search
of her next playmate.
                          xXx A Few Minutes Later xXx
"KAWAII!" Setsuna exclaimed as she glomped the purple haired girl.
"Er…" Konan stuttered not sure quite what to make of this girl. She was under
strict orders to kill the girl but for some reason… "How are you blocking my
paper manipulation?"
"Manipulated the gravity on the paper so that it would take considerably more
chakra than you are capable of generating in order to manipulate it." Setsuna
explained.
Konan's eyes widened in realization of what this girl was capable of doing… the
entire plan relied on the abilities of the Deva Path more than any of the other
Paths. If this girl was capable of manipulating gravity on that fine a level,
then the Deva Path was screwed.
"Um… Miss, can you let me go? I promise to behave." Konan stated.
Setsuna nodded and released the woman.
"Um… this may be impertinent of me, but why are you killing off the Paths of
Pain?" Konan asked.
"The offend me on a fundamental level. In my society eating other people's
souls has been taboo for centuries, and then one of them had the nerve to
assault me with my own subordinate." Setsuna explained.
"Wait… what? Subordinate?" Konan asked.
"Mmmhmm. Knucklehead thought it a good idea to summon the King of Hell against
someone who has dominion over the Afterlife." Setsuna explained.
"Dear Kami." Konan breathed out.
"Um… yes?" Setsuna asked with a chuckle.
"What?" Konan asked.
"You said, and I quote 'Dear Kami.' Well my dear, I happen to be the closest
thing there is to such a person outside of the other Sailor Scouts… well unless
I decide to take you to the world of Clocktower and figure out a way to
introduce you to Amaterasu-ōmikami without getting you incinerated in the
process." Setsuna explained with a grin.
"The hell… you mean there really are Gods out there?" Konan asked
incredulously.
"Um… yes. Well at least in some realities. This one seems to have killed off
its own somehow. Not really sure what happened there as I arrived long after it
happened." Setsuna explained.
"Dammit, this is just going to go to Nagato's head if he learns of it."
"Learns of what, Konan?" a loud but emotionless voice said from behind Konan.
Setsuna frowned at the intruder in their conversation. However it was Konan who
responded. "Deva Path. Great. This just went from enlightening to terrifying.
Um… Miss, I am convinced enough to help you, but I am going to need my
abilities back if I want to survive this."
Setsuna tapped Konan on the shoulder and said "There you go."
"Thanks."
"So what can this one do?" Setsuna asked.
"Control gravity." Konan said.
Setsuna gave Konan a deadpan look and said "Please tell me you are joking?"
"Not in the slightest bit." Konan said just as deadpan.
"Okay, well that makes things easy then." Setsuna said.
"What? What do you mean easy?" Konan screamed out incredulously.
"I just turn off his ability like this." Setsuna pointed the Garnet rod at the
man and said "Off."
The Deva Path frowned and raised a hand saying "Banshō Ten-in."
His frown grew even deeper when absolutely nothing happened. "What did you do?"
"Like I said, I turned your ability off. Now my dear friend here can use her
paper to eliminate you." Setsuna said with a cheery voice.
"Sorry Nagato, but you only claimed to be Kami, this girl has offered to
introduce me to the real deal." Konan said with a said smile on her face, "Kami
Shuriken!"
As soon as she said that hundreds of hardened pieces of paper flew off of her
body and slammed into the Deva Path's body giving it all manner of severe paper
cuts.
As the coupe de grace Konan raised both of her hands above her head and
declared "Kami Chakram!" as a large whirling buzz saw of paper formed above her
head which she launched at the Path.
This resulted in the Path being decapitated.
"Fascinating. Now tell me my dear, how many of these Paths are there and what
do the want with my Prince?" Setsuna asked.
"Prince? Huh… Well originally there were six. If you had already dealt with the
ones that can eat souls and summon the King of Hell, in addition to the one we
just dealt with… then that leaves the Asura Path, Animal Path, and Preta Path…
Oh and Nagato's main body, but he is immobile and not going anywhere anytime
soon. He actually needs the help of either the Animal or Naraka Paths to get
around anymore… though I imagine he can summon the King of Hell on his own,
I've just never seen him do it." Konan explained.
"Okay, that helps, though you didn't answer the question about my Prince."
Setsuna stated.
"Well the thing is… the thing is that the organization I was affiliated with
through my friendship to Nagato has been collecting the nine Jinchuriki…"
"First question… what is a Jinchuriki?"
"They are people who have had one of the nine Tailed Demon Beasts sealed within
them to prevent the beasts from destroying the world."
"My Prince has one of these sealed inside of him?" Setsuna asked incredulously.
"If his name is Naruto Uzumaki then yes…"
"Well in that case I will need to speed up the process of awakening his sister
to her destiny." Setsuna stated.
"Sister?" Konan asked, "But Naruto is an only child, his parents died the night
he was born and had no other children…"
"Oh… didn't I mention I am from another dimension? Well, the Queen of the Moon
a few hundred years ago from my perspective was having a bit of a crisis as her
kingdom was falling apart. So in a last ditch effort to rescue her kingdom she
sent the souls of all of her subjects forward in time. This includes the souls
of her twin children a son and daughter. The problem is that something got
messed up in the process and the Prince's soul got sent to a different universe
than it was supposed to be sent to. This universe. I only just managed to track
it down." Setsuna explained.
"Oh buggering hell!" Konan exclaimed. "How screwed would we have been if he had
died?"
"I would have kidnapped Primate Murder from Altrouge Brunestud and set him
loose in this world." Setsuna stated.
"The hell is a Primate Murder?" Konan asked.
"Just what the name says." Setsuna said with a mad cackle as she started
walking again.
                              xXx Townsquare xXx
                          xXx Half an Hour Later xXx
The three remaining Paths of Pein stood on one side of the square, Setsuna and
Konan on the other. Both sides actively glaring at the other when suddenly a
massive pop sounded and a large cloud of white smoke appeared out of thin air.
"Oh… that is wonderful. Could they have not summoned him into the middle of
this like that?" Konan growled.
Setsuna used some mild repulsive force to clear the smoke, and grinned at what
she saw before her. There standing on top of a rather gigantic toad was her
Prince.
"Oi! Who are you, and why are you in such a flimsy outfit in a battle like
this?" Naruto yelled down at Setsuna.
Setsuna pouted, "I will have you know that this outfit was specially designed
by your mother!"
"Kaasan?" Naruto frowned.
"Now my Prince, come over here while I deal with those three nuisances."
Setsuna stated.
"Naruto-chan, don't trust her, she is standing next to one of the people
responsible for killing Jiraiya-chan." the wrinkled old toad next to Naruto
stated.
Naruto narrowed his eyes at Konan.
"Yeah, sorry about that." Konan stated. "I know I can't make up for the loss of
Sensei, but I can guarantee you that this woman has your best interests at
heart, whereas those three over there will kidnap you and forcibly extract the
Kyuubi from you, a process that is excruciatingly painful, and which will
ultimately kill you."
"And if you die my Prince, I will set something loose in this world that is far
worse than any Tailed Beast in retribution for killing someone that they should
have treasured." Setsuna explained.
"Dammit, Fukasaku, you may be right to not trust the lavender haired girl, but
the other one has given me no option but to trust her." Naruto ground out.
"You may be right Naruto-chan." Fukasaku conceded.
With that said, Naruto leapt over to Setsuna and Konan in a single bound. "Hi,
I am Naruto Uzumaki, and you two are?"
"Konan." the lavender haired girl stated.
"For right now call me Sailor Pluto. Now, lets see, what did you say the
abilities of these three were again Konan-chan?"
"Ah, well the small girl can summon any animal she wants no matter what it is
and it is forcibly subjected it to her will." Konan stated.
Setsuna glanced over at the toads for a moment and said "Do toads normally get
that large in this world?"
Naruto and Konan blinked, and both answered "Summons aren't from this world."
"Ah, well that explains what is sapping my gates then. I will be remedying that
when we get to Pluto. For now, I think the best option for that one would be…
hmm… yeah that should do it." Setsuna pointed the Garnet Rod at the girl and
said "Go chillax at V4641 Sgr." and just like that the girl vanished from the
battlefield.
Almost simultaneously the other two Paths fell to the ground and seemed to stop
moving… or doing anything really.
"W-what did you just do?" Konan asked in shock.
"Tell me… how is Nagato controlling the Paths?" Setsuna asked.
"Chakra receivers, coupled with the Rinnegan Dojutsu. He can perceive
everything that they do, and control their bodies as if they were his own."
Konan answered.
"Well… that might explain what just happened then. The path I just teleported
away is technically still 'alive,' but only because time moves so slowly where
she is that it would appear to take… oh roughly one thousand years from our
perspective for all her biological functions to completely stop functioning."
Setsuna stated. "Which of course means that our good friend Nagato-san is
currently perceiving the world at what... if it were a speed would be roughly
Negative 671,000,001 Miles Per Hour. My magic may have also inadvertently and
massively amplified the effect of those Chakra Receivers in her body judging by
the fact he is receiving her signal from over 9,405,800,597,093,772 miles away
from this planet right now."
"The hell? What could possibly do that?" Naruto asked in a completely horrified
voice.
"A Quantum Singularity, or as it is more commonly known, a Black Hole. It's
what happens when something like the Sun becomes so absolutely massive that it
collapses in upon itself and begins to suck all the matter in the immediate
region of space around it into itself. Objects with that kind of mass exhibit
extreme Time Dilation Fields to the point that it is extremely dangerous to be
anywhere near them, as once you enter the field it is too late to escape the
gravitational pull of the Black Hole and you are ultimately going to be ripped
apart at the subatomic level. Only myself and the residents of the Planet of
Gallifrey in Universe 982 are truly safe from Black Holes, and I have revoked
all travel privileges to Universe 982 or any universe that is in close
proximity to it."
"Why did you revoke those privileges?" Konan asked.
"Because the self proclaimed 'Time Lords' are only able to claim such a title
because they haphazardly travel through time like they own the time stream not
caring what they mess up while they do so. Then when they realize they screwed
up something major, they use one of their various pieces of advanced technology
to retcon the entire situation so that it fits their vision of history. The
only Time Lord I actually get along with is Kenneth." Setsuna explained.
"Kenneth?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Don't tell him I told you that, he doesn't even know I know his real name.
Kind of hard to hide things like that when the time stream is my television set
and his life provides some of the best entertainment. I mean I never even
imagined he would marry someone who was effectively his own daughter. That was
hilarious." continued Setsuna.
"Wait, what?" Naruto asked.
"Kenneth, otherwise known to the world by the name of 'The Doctor,' married a
woman named River Song, who was a partial female clone of him. She had
regeneration's and everything."
***** A1C1 - The Golden Prince *****
Chapter Notes
     Disclaimer: I do not own Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon or it's
     associated Anime shows. I also do not own the world of Naruto or any
     of the other franchises that I may make references to in this story.
     Author's Notes: Hey Inuboy86, I happen to be a Whovian myself… so at
     least I know the risks.
     For those who are wondering, the title of the story is a direct
     translation into Japanese (at least according to Google Translate) of
     the phrase "Moon Fish" and is as such a play on Naruto's name and
     role in this story.
     Yes, there will be lots of humor, but the story is largely about the
     romance between the various characters, as well as the adventures the
     various characters get up to.
                     xXx Nagato's Hideout Near Konoha xXx
"Well… he is still alive at least." Zetsu commented.
"Is this a Genjutsu?" Obito asked.
"No. A Genjutsu placed on one of the Paths would have had no effect on him.
Whatever this is… it is something else." Zetsu stated.
"Is there a way to revive him?"
"Unknown without knowing what it is affecting him." Zetsu stated.
"That means unless Konan returns alive, that we are effectively down to two
members, because Itachi is pretty much dead on his feet, and neither of us has
the Rinnegan?" Obito said in an angry voice as he fumed over the situation.
"We could always transplant one of Nagato's eyes into you, that would solve the
immediate problem." Zetsu stated.
"Without knowing if it is some sort of jutsu specifically designed to
incapacitate a bearer of the Rinnegan in this manner we can't risk it. I will
go to Konoha and see what I can discover. Surely the answer lies there." Obito
commanded.
"Would it not be wiser for me to go?" Zetsu asked cautiously.
"I am afraid not. At this point you are too integral to the overall plan to
risk on a mission. Whatever caused this completely disabled the assault team. I
should be better suited to dealing with the situation than Nagato was."
              xXx Later on the Road Towards the Hokage Tower xXx
Naruto, Fukasaku, Setsuna, and Konan all stopped walking to stare at the sight
in front of them.
"Is that man really trying to suck on a lollipop through that bizarre mask of
his?" Setsuna asked.
"I've seen weirder. Kakashi-sensei somehow manages to eat full course dinners
without ever taking his ski mask off." Naruto stated blandly.
"But… but…" Setsuna protested.
"Um… guys… not to put too fine an edge on this, but that is the real leader of
the Akatsuki. He is also completely untouchable." Konan stated.
"Untouchable?" Setsuna asked narrowing her eyes at the man.
"Dammit Konan, you had to go and ruin my fun. I guess this means you have
turned traitor then?" the man stated.
"How can I be a traitor when I was never loyal to the Akatsuki. My loyalty
resided solely to Amegakure and by proxy to Nagato. The Akatsuki is NOT
Amegakure." Konan stated.
"Yes, still, as you have betrayed our trust, I will have to end you." and with
that the man rushed forward straight at Konan with the intent to kill.
Naruto threw several Kunai at the man, but they passed straight through him
leaving a sort of rippling distortion as they passed.
"OH HELL NO!" Setsuna exclaimed as she slammed the butt end of the Garnet Rod
into the man's stomach causing him to stagger back.
"W-what? How?" the man exclaimed in shock.
"Honestly, what is with this world and the casual disregard for the laws of
space-time?" Setsuna growled out.
"The fuck?"
"Madara, allow me to introduce to you, Sailor Pluto, the Guardian of Time."
Konan stated.
"Fucking hell." Madara stated.
"That's right little man, you just pissed off the wrong woman with that trick
of yours." Setsuna stated. "I have permanently disabled your ability to travel
between dimensions like that. Now for something a little niftier. Feel what it
is like to be Nailed to the Sky!"
Obito emitted a girly little shriek as he was rocketed out of the atmosphere.
"Sooo cool!" Naruto said.
"Wait for it…" Setsuna said.
Suddenly the sky lit up as if it were on fire, but that fire never reached the
ground.
"The hell was that?" Konan asked fearfully.
"That was your former colleague being incinerated during his atmospheric
reentry." Setsuna stated.
"You can do that?" Konan asked in shock.
"Yep." Setsuna said rather smugly.
"I should warn you… there are two other Akatsuki members, and if they are
feeling desperate they could go ask Orochimaru for backup." Konan stated.
"The circle serpent? fascinating." Setsuna stated, "I have to ask, is he
actually a snake?"
Suddenly a laugh broke out from behind the group causing them to turn around
and come face to face with Anko Mitarashi.
Setsuna blinked at what the woman was wearing, and said "Are you… really…
wearing nothing but fishnet as your shirt?"
"Look who's talking, Miss 'My skirt is so short that I might as well not even
be wearing it'" Anko stated with a leer at Setsuna.
Setsuna had the common decency to blush at that statement. It was true, the
skirts of the Sailor Scouts were dangerously short. "I think you and I will get
along admirably."
"I imagine we will. Now in answer to your question… yes he by this point he
probably succeeded in that particular experiment." Anko stated.
"The hell is wrong with this world?" Setsuna asked in complete and utter
stupification.
This caused everyone present except Setsuna to break out laughing.
                            xXx Hokage's Office xXx
Tsunade looked up as several people entered her office. Anko… okay… enemy
combatant… that is unusual... Fukasaku & Naruto… to be expected… and…
Tsunade banged her head down on her desk and exclaimed "I finally have a reason
to be glad that Jiraiya is dead. Seriously, what are you wearing?"
"It.. it's called a Sailor Fuku." Setsuna admitted.
"Who named an article of clothing 'Sailor Fuck You?'" everyone in the room
asked in shock
"It is pronounced foo koo, not fuk yoo." Setsuna instructed.
"I suppose that is a tad bit better then. But why is it so… skin tight?"
Tsunade asked.
"Apparently Kaasan designed it." Naruto stated.
"Kushina-chan made that abomination?" Tsunade asked in horror.
"Who's Kushina?" Setsuna asked.
"Naruto's mother…" Tsunade stated.
"Oh… no, when I said his mother designed it, I meant his mother from his past
life." Setsuna admitted sheepishly.
"The hell?" Tsunade asked.
"Roll with it Lady Hokage. She has a significant mastery over time. If she says
she knew his past life's mother… well at this point I am willing to believe
her." the enemy combatant stated.
"And who are you?" Tsunade asked.
"I am Konan. I have no surname." Konan stated.
"Konan?" Wait… My little Konan-chan?" Tsunade asked with a bright smile.
Konan smiled, "It is good to see you as well milady."
"How are Nagato-kun and Yahiko-kun?" Tsunade asked.
At that question Konan's face fell and she began to cry at the memories.
"Oh, I am so sorry my dear. If there is anything that can be done?" Tsunade
asked.
"Unfortunately Yahiko died years ago, and Nagato… well he might have been
better off dying as well compared to what ended up happening," Konan admitted,
"He lost sight of our dream and had it replaced by a nightmare that he wanted
to impose on the rest of the world."
"Dream? Nightmare?" Setsuna asked.
"The dream, if I am correct, is the one that Jiraiya instills into all of his
students…" Tsunade stated.
"To bring the world into an era of peace." Naruto continued.
"The nightmare however was to use the Chakra of the Tailed Beasts to power a
Jutsu so devastating that it would show the world the meaning of true pain.
Nagato came to believe that only once people understood that horrific
sensation, would there ever be peace. Peace through fear of pain." Konan
elaborated.
"That is truly awful." Setsuna stated.
"It actually gets worse, because I managed to figure out what the ultimate goal
of the Akatsuki was, something which Nagato never managed to figure out."
"Okay, so what is the end game for the Akatsuki?" Tsunade asked in a calm tone
of voice.
"The complete resurrection of the Juubi and it's conversion into the Shinju
which would enable a person with the Mangekyou Sharingan to place the entire
world under the Infinite Tsukuyomi Genjutsu."
"And what is the Infinite Tsukuyomi?" Tsunade asked.
"It is an illusion that would completely pacify an individual under its effect
by making them experience an eternal vision of whatever they perceive to be the
perfect life." Konan stated.
"Uh huh. Well there is a remarkably easy way to solve that issue rather
permanently. It is such a good thing I did a flyby of the moon and found it to
be inhabited by some sort of odd demons instead of the Lunar Kingdom it was
supposed to house." Setsuna stated.
Setsuna walked over to the window opened it and looked up at the moon. "Never
had to do this before, but that Aoko girl proved it is possible, so here goes
nothing."
Suddenly lots of blue lights and energy began appearing around Setsuna. Several
of these lights took the form of what looked like a Fuinjutsu Array to the
Shinobi in the room, but using a script that none of them had ever seen before.
Setsuna held out her hand and a large ball of energy began forming in front of
it. "SHOOT!"
The shockwave caused by the beam of concentrated magical energy launching out
of her hand caused all of the people who were standing up in the room, except
for Setsuna, to fall to the ground due to the muzzle velocity it was launched
with.
A few seconds after that a deafening explosion from high in the sky was heard.
"Wow… that was... audible?" Setsuna asked a bit out of shock at what had just
happened.
"The hell did you just do?" Tsunade roared in outrage.
"Blew up the moon of course." Setsuna stated.
"I am continually in awe of just what you are capable of doing Setsuna-chan."
Konan stated, having learned her actual name on the walk over to the Hokage
Tower.
"I wasn't even sure that would work truth be told. All I knew was that someone
with similar powers to mine used a similar technique to blow apart a large
planetbound asteroid that would have destroyed life on the planet. That
Asteroid wasn't even close to the same size as the moon…" Setsuna explained
before adding "And there, newly created pocket of stable gravity that has
roughly the same mass as the moon did and is in the same orbital pattern as the
moon. That will stop any natural disasters from occurring."
                  xXx Elsewhere in the Elemental Nations xXx
Zetsu was staring into the sky in complete and utter shock. The entire plan had
just gone down the drain. How did this happen? Who could possibly have the
power to destroy the fucking moon in a single shot like that?
"What am I supposed to do now?" Zetsu asked no one in particular.
                            xXx Back in Konoha xXx
"So… let me get this straight. You came to this world so you could find Naruto,
and then reunite him with his sister… a sister who the last time you checked
doesn't even remember her original identity?" Tsunade asked while rubbing her
temples to relieve the migraine she could already feel coming.
"Yes, that is correct." Setsuna stated.
"Okay, say he goes with you, you already admitted that the kingdom he was
originally part of suffered some sort of catastrophe. Is such a thing likely to
happen again?" Tsunade asked.
"The possibility is vastly increased if he is not present. There are actually
multiple futures that exist for any given world. That is what causes the
phenomena of worlds that are closely parallel to each other in most cases.
However the two most common deviations are where he is present and able to stop
Sailor Galaxia before she can do any harm to the Sailor Scouts, or where he
isn't present and all the Scouts save for his sister herself die as a
consequence of Galaxia's actions. I have been unable to see what happens after
their deaths though, so I don't know the final outcome in that scenario."
Setsuna explained.
"How would Naruto be able to stop someone, who if I am correct, is at least as
powerful as you, if not more so?" Anko asked in confusion.
Setsuna sighed. "It would be easier to demonstrate this back in our original
universe… here I am afraid I am going to have to jump start the process a bit."
"What do you mean?" Tsunade asked in confusion.
All three of the other girls in the room watched utterly flabbergasted as
Setsuna roughly grabbed Naruto by the shirt and forced her tongue down into his
mouth. Naruto himself was completely shocked by the action as he had never been
kissed even once before in his life.
As soon as she released him from the kiss, Naruto was flooded with the memories
of his past life. He was also enveloped in a golden light. When the light
cleared the others saw that his traditional orange and black clothing had been
replaced by something that to them seemed completely otherworldly but also
completely combat practical.
Naruto was encased from neck to foot in gold armor with dark blue accents.
There was a red cloth coming out of the front just below the crotch guard, and
a similar cloth trailing out of the back.
"This armor, is one of only two copies of this type of armor to have ever
existed. The other copy belonged to the King of Uruk, Gilgamesh, and he took
that armor to the grave with him." Setsuna explained.
"I can only thank Kami that I am not as arrogant as the memories I just got say
that man was." Naruto stated.
"Yes, well, the armor was a gift to him by your mother. She was the only woman
to successfully catch the guys attention for longer than a few moments. She was
the only person he considered his equal. Unfortunately that hussy Ishtar
decided to ruin a good thing." Setsuna stated.
"Right… aren't didn't you say earlier that the Gods aren't on our world?"
Naruto asked, now fully believing he was in the wrong world.
"Gods can travel freely between the worlds, and then there is that bothersome
interdimensional clusterfuck, that I would get rid of if I could, known as the
Throne of Heroes. That thing has absolutely no respect for a person's
afterlife. That thing has indirectly caused so many disasters in the various
close parallels to the Clocktower universe that I wouldn't even know where to
begin in fixing that problem." Setsuna stated.
"So what is Naruto now capable of?" Tsunade asked.
"Well, from what I gathered by my memory download… I can essentially sustain a
perpetual Senjutsu form, but it would be rather dissimilar to the one I was
taught on Mount Myoboku. Additionally… huh… that is… damn. I have gained the
ability to use all five basic Nature Transformations, in addition, I can use
the Lava, Boil, Scorch, Magnet… and… what the hell is a Dark Release?" Naruto
said the last bit as an open question.
"It means you can manipulate light waves, my Prince."
"Why did you get those specific five Kekkei Genkei?" Anko asked.
Naruto sighed and said, "While my sister and mother draw their power from the
moon, I draw my power from the sun. Specifically the Sun in that universe,
which is why Setsuna-hime had to kickstart the transformation the way she did."
"Hime?" Tsunade asked.
"Setsuna has been incredibly coy about it, but she is a princess as well.
Specifically the Princess of Pluto." Naruto stated.
"Well I did say I was as close as Konan was likely to find to a Goddess outside
the other Scouts." Setsuna stated smugly.
Naruto smacked Setsuna upside the head. "OUCH! Baka! Don't do that while your
hand is encased in a metal glove."
"Consider that a punishment for acting high and mighty." Naruto said in a
chiding voice.
"Yes sir." Setsuna said somberly. While she would probably disregard any
punishments the Princess tried to hand out due to her being incredibly too
bubbly to be taken seriously, the Prince was always a different matter. He
could be a bit of a goof at times, but when he became serious about something,
it meant you had to be serious too.
"So. I guess this means I am approving the mission to another world."
"Tsunade-hime…" Naruto began to speak only to get interrupted
"What did you just call me?" Tsunade asked in a sharp tone of voice.
"I said Tsunade-hime. Like it or not, you are essentially a princess in your
own right. You are the granddaughter of the First Hokage, as well as the
granddaughter of one of the most highly thought of Uzumaki in history. Even if
you do not bear a title of nobility, you are considered royalty by the people
simply because of who your grandparents were." Naruto explained, Naruto's
information download had also included an info dump from the portion of Kushina
stashed inside of the Kyuubi's seal. Naruto now knew EVERYTHING!
Tsunade sighed in resignation before saying "Just do me a favor Naruto, take a
few people with you that you can trust to watch your back in that world."
"I'll be going with them." Konan admitted.
"I wonder if anyone in that new world of yours can do anything about Hebi-
teme's hickey of doom?" Anko asked the room at large.
Everyone in the room blinked, Naruto and Setsuna slowly turned their heads to
look at the exhibitionist. "What did you just say?"
"Orochimaru tends to place cursed seals on the people he 'likes' the most."
Tsunade stated.
"Yes, and the way he does it is biting them." Konan admitted.
Naruto turned to look at Setsuna and asked "Moon Healing Escalation, you
think?"
Setsuna nodded her head, "Probably. It works for almost any form corruption I
have ever seen."
"Out of curiosity was that what happened to Sasuke-teme?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah it sure was, ungrateful bastard." Anko stated.
"What do you mean?" Setsuna asked.
"The hickey will, if you get it sealed and learn to control your emotions,
leave you alone." Anko stated.
"Let me guess, he didn't do one of those two things?" Setsuna asked.
"Psychological profiles of the boy that he never knew were being done on him
indicate that while on the surface he appears to remain calm in almost any
situation, underneath that he is a writhing mass of negative emotions mostly
focused on the goal of killing his brother who was under orders from one of my
predecessors to eliminate the threat posed by the rest of the Uchiha Clan who
were planning what would be a violent coup. Itachi for whatever reason decided
to spare his younger brother, but only after subjecting him to a genjutsu where
he was forced to watch his parents being brutally stabbed to death repeatedly
for what to him felt like 72 hours straight." Tsunade explained.
"No child should ever have to witness something like that!" both Konan and
Setsuna shrieked in absolute horror.
"Yes, while that is true, it certainly explains why he opted to become a
Nukenin instead of remain in the village if he thought doing such a thing would
give him the power to put down Itachi." Naruto said coldly.
Suddenly the door to the office opened and two Shinobi stood there.
"Kankuro? Temari? What are you two doing here?" Naruto asked.
Temari took a good look at the people in the room and fell on the floor holding
her gut as she laughed uncontrollably.
"What got into her?" Anko asked in a confused tone of voice.
"We live in a desert. The outfits Naruto and the mysterious new girl are
wearing would be laughed at the instant the showed up there." Kankuro stated
dryly.
Naruto smirked and said, "Surprisingly this armor comes complete with air
conditioning features. Queen Serenity, or Mom I guess, did design it with the
intent of giving one copy of it to a guy who lived in a desert."
"As for myself… watch this. Pluto Planet Power! Desert Option, Make Up!"
Setsuna exclaimed causing a sheath of light to cover her for a few seconds.
When the light cleared she was wearing a variation of the sailor fuku she had
started with, except it looked more like the Service Dress Uniform worn by the
United States Navies Petty Officer's in that it was loose fitting with full
length slacks and long sleeves.
"That is much more practical." Kankuro admitted.
Temari managed to reign in her laughter after a few more moments and had to
ask, "Naruto, what on earth are you wearing? And where can I get some?"
Naruto frowned in thought, "Setsuna, what is the state of Armorsmithing on
Earth in its current century?"
"If you are thinking of trying to get a Armorsmith from Earth to craft armor
like that, don't bother. It can't be done." Setsuna stated.
"I guess we are bringing Tenten with us then. She'll probably want her own set
too." Naruto said.
Tsunade nodded and thought for a moment. "Kidnap Hinata and Hanabi while you
are at it. Hinata will thank you for it, and Hanabi could do with a vacation,
the poor girl."
"How in the name of the moon am I supposed to pull that off?" Naruto asked.
Tsunade frowned, "You do have a point. Those damn eyes of theirs… You know
what? Screw it, Hanabi is a Genin, time for her to go on her first C-Rank
Mission."
"You are classing this a C-Rank?" Anko asked incredulously.
"Only to get it under the Hiashi's radar. I would technically class this an S-
Rank Infiltration mission with high risks of defection." Tsunade stated, "But
Hiashi doesn't need to know that."
Tsunade began scribing on a scroll, "Anko, please deliver this to Hiashi."
"Yes Lady Hokage." Anko stated grabbing the scroll and departing the office via
shunshin.
"Do I have to kill her for disobeying the laws of space-time?" Setsuna asked in
sadness.
"No Setsuna-hime, that was simply a method of allowing you to move faster than
the eye can normally perceive. It does not violate temporal mechanics, it just
requires reinforcing one's body to incredible levels so that you don't succumb
to the G Forces."
"Right, anyways, Temari, Kankuro, do you think you two could go find Tenten?
She's probably out training with Gai or something." Tsunade asked.
"Gai… Gai? Oh… be right back." Setsuna stated and vanished in a puff of green
light.
"The hell did she just do?" Konan asked.
"She teleported. She always complains when the Troll of the Clocktower shows up
in our world because he is so much better at teleporting like that than she is
and he tends to bypass her gates and it annoys her to no end that he can do
that. He also can't seem to avoid hitting on Setsuna each and every time he
shows up. The guy looks like an eighty year old man by the way." Naruto
explained.
Both Tsunade and Konan shivered at the thought of such an old fossil hitting on
that sweet young girl. Little did they know that although she looks young she
had been continuously alive for around 4,200 years give or take. Calculating
the exact date she was born by the modern Earth calendar was something she
never bothered to do as humans back then didn't even record the days beyond
knowing the cycle of the seasons.
                        xXx Team Gai Training Field xXx
"Gai-Sensei!"
"Lee-kun!"
"Gai-Sensei!"
"Lee…" *THUNK* *THUNK*
"didn't I already tell you two to stop it with the homoerotic illusions?" a
terse voice stated from behind the two men.
"Oww, Setsuna-chan?" Gai asked while rubbing his head. Normally a physical blow
to the head wouldn't even phase him. But somehow this girl could break any and
all defenses he had. What is more is that she had volunteered to spar with the
two of them while they had none of their weights on, and could out pace them
the entire time.
"That is my name, don't wear it out." Setsuna said in a singsong tone of voice.
"Can I keep her?" Tenten asked from over in the corner.
"I wouldn't mind having her around more frequently as well." Neji admitted.
"I've actually come to ask a favor of you lot. How would you all like to go on
an extended vacation?" Setsuna asked.
"What is the catch?" Neji inquired.
"Simple. I pick their clothes…" she said pointing at Gai and Lee. "And you act
as bodyguard to Hinata and Hanabi on the mission Neji."
"And what about me?" Tenten asked.
"You'd have wanted to come regardless of what I could have said, so I have no
stipulations on you coming along." Setsuna admitted.
Tenten raised her eyebrow in intrigue at that statement.
***** A1C2 - Departure *****
Chapter Notes
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                               xXx Somewhere xXx
                               xXx Sometime xXx
Orochimaru calmly sat and listened to Zetsu explain the situation to him before
he cracked a grin and said "Oh dear, it seems those ancient records from before
the time of the Sage of Six Paths that I uncovered actually bear some truth to
what they were implying."
"What?" Zetsu asked swiftly.
"You people are fools. You angered a Senshi. I have no idea why she is on this
planet, but make no mistake, angering a Senshi that severely is the last thing
anyone ever does in their lifetime. Each Senshi has powers that make Chakra
look pedestrian by comparison. These powers… are nothing short of TRUE MAGIC."
Orochimaru stated.
"That is impossible. Such people cannot exist." Zetsu said uncomprehendingly.
"I did not think they existed until the very moment I saw the moon be
destroyed. No Chakra technique would be capable of that, you can have my word
on that." Orochimaru stated rather firmly. "I will also not be helping you in
this situation as my sense of self preservation is a little bit more refined
than to go in and attack a Senshi like that, especially one who can put Nagato-
kun into a coma."
"Do you at least know of a way to get him out of it?" Zetsu asked.
"Judging by the symptoms you have described, compared with the descriptions in
the tablets I found, You are dealing with the Senshi of Pluto. In which case
you are shit out of luck, because what she most likely did was toss one of the
still living paths into the nearest Quantum Singularity, which based on what
the tablet said… means that he is experiencing the world at such a slow rate of
perception that he will be dead due any number of complications that can turn
up in such a weakened body long before the connection between him and that Path
is finally severed by the body being destroyed by gravimetric tidal forces. His
case is hopeless."
"Would your apprentice care for his Rinnegan then?" Zetsu asked.
"You already know my plans for Sasuke-kun, as such asking such a thing is
entirely pointless." Orochimaru stated flatly.
"Very well. Goodbye Orochimaru." Zetsu stated as he faded into the ground.
                             xXx Hokage Tower xXx
Setsuna arrived in the tower with the entirety of Team Gai to discover Hanabi,
Hinata, and Anko were already present.
Naruto took one look at the presence of the entirety of Team Gai and facepalmed
"This has something to do with Venus, doesn't it?"
"How did you ever guess?" Setsuna asked while tilting her head to the side.
"Because she was always bugging you to let her watch the universes that had
those weird Power Rangers in them…" Naruto stated dryly.
"Good answer. Her current name is Minako Aino, and she has taken to going
around duplicating those ridiculous poses and speeches whenever she is doing
her job as a Senshi." Setsuna stated.
Naruto was forced to facepalm yet again. "Fine, they can come. But you are
their babysitter."
"Of course." Setsuna stated happily.
"Now that everyone is here, shall I begin the Mission Brief?" Tsunade asked.
Getting several nods of assent, Tsunade sighed and said "Off the record this
mission is an S-Rank Infiltration Mission with high risk of defection. On the
record, it is a C-Rank bodyguarding mission for a newly discovered member of a
foreign royal house for the purpose of delivering him back to his home."
Everyone blinked, including Kankuro and Temari who were still present. Temari
shot a look at Naruto and the golden armor and smirked "I think I am going to
accompany them on this mission. I'll catch ya later Kankuro."
"Yeah, sure, whatever. I'll be sure to report you M.I.A. when I get back to
Suna." Kankuro deadpanned.
Tsunade slammed her head down on her desk again and exclaimed "MORON!"
"He is only joking Lady Hokage." Temari stated, "He and I tend to joke about
things like that all the time now. Ever since our brother gained a sense of
sanity and stopped killing people for even the most inane of reasons we can
have a little levity by making such jokes."
"That is really stupid." Tsunade stated as she raised her head off of a table
that now had several fissures running through its surface. Even if it was just
her head, and she wasn't using her chakra techniques to enhance it any,
Tsunade's strength was still a sight to behold.
"Anyways, as I was saying, the C-Rank description is entirely accurate, it just
neglects mentioning where exactly the Royal House is located. Setsuna, can you
explain this for us?" Tsunade asked.
"Let's see… how did Kenneth explain this again? Oh yes…. and I quote 'People
assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually*
from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of
wibbly wobbly… time-y wimey… stuff.' The Multiverse is basically a big web
created out of multiple versions of such balls. I can navigate that mess with
relative ease. Basically what this means is that we will be traveling to
another universe."
"Will we still be able to use our Chakra in that universe?" Neji asked.
"Yes." Naruto stated matter of factly.
"Good then. Shall we all go pack?" Neji asked.
"Everyone but Gai and Lee. You two are coming with me." Setsuna stated as she
grabbed Gai and Lee by the scruff of the neck and teleported with them.
"Where did she take them?" Konan asked.
"The nearest barber and men's wear shop." Naruto stated dryly.
"How did you know her stipulation on them coming was that she gets to choose
what they wear?" Tenten asked curiously.
"I just got the memories of a past life where I got to spend a lot of time
hanging out watching the timestream with that woman. If there is one thing I
know about her, it is that she would not be caught dead in public on the planet
Earth with two men in tight green spandex." Naruto stated tiredly.
"And the barber?" Anko asked.
"Have you seen their hair and eyebrows?" Naruto asked incredulously.
At this everyone in the room broke down into laughter. Tenten's only thought
was 'Those poor boys just met a woman that can control them.'
After everyone finished except Naruto left to go pack, Tsunade asked "Naruto
don't you have anything you want to take with you?"
"Well I would take Ichiraku's with me if I could get away with it…" Naruto
stated.
"I doubt that would go over well." Tsunade admitted.
"Well other than that, no, not really." Naruto admitted.
"And why haven't you dismissed the Armor like I imagine you can?" Tsunade
asked.
Naruto sniffed and said "I like this armor. It reminds me of Serenity-kaasan."
"Oh, I see… Well Naruto, these may be the last few moments we ever see each
other during. I wish you a long life and much happiness." Tsunade stated.
"Um… Tsunade? How old would you say that Setsuna is?" Naruto asked.
Tsunade frowned in thought and said "She can't be more than twenty can she?"
Naruto chuckled and said "When she activated my powers, I got a brief flash of
her memories as well as those of Kushina-kaasan and my own from my past life.
What I discovered is that Setsuna was never reincarnated the way that the rest
of the Moon Kingdom was. She has been alive for all of the intervening
centuries between then and the reincarnation of the other Senshi…"
"Wait… you and Setsuna seem to use the term Senshi and Scout interchangeably,
is there a reason for that?" Tsunade asked.
Naruto thought about it for a moment, "Senshi is similar to a title of nobility
I guess. It roughly translates to Guardian and is roughly the same rank as the
title 'Lord Knight.' Scout is more of the job description but a piss poor one,
I blame my sister for coming up with that."
"Uh huh… so why do you and Setsuna use it then if it is such a bad job
description?"
"One word… Luna."
"I hesitate to ask." Tsunade stated.
"Luna is basically the nanny of the Moon Kingdom's royalty. That included the
Princesses of the other planets in the Solar System, all of whom were Senshi…
Well as it turns out, Luna was the first one to hear Serena mention the word in
that context and thought it was a brilliant idea, and thus it became canonized
because Luna is the one primarily in charge of training the Senshi in their
powers. Her boyfriend Artemis is more the strategic planning trainer."
"The hell?" Tsunade asked incredulously.
"Does it help your impression of Luna to know that she and Artemis are talking
cats that can only become human for a handful of hours in a day?" Naruto asked
innocently.
Tsunade banged her head against her desk again which resulted in the desk
issuing forth an ominous creak.
"Um… Tsunade-hime, I think you should probably stop killing your desk now."
Naruto said with a massive sweat drop forming.
"Perhaps you are right." Tsunade sighed.
The doors opened to reveal Hanabi, Hinata, and Neji all packed and ready to go.
"A-are w-we the first ones back?" Hinata stuttered.
"Yeah it would seem so." Naruto nodded. "Now let us see… I should probably go
on ahead to Charon Palace and re-establish its atmosphere. Setsuna mentioned it
was in a pretty shoddy state of disrepair."
"How are you going to get there?" Tsunade inquired.
"Fun little fact… apparently my alternate in this universe who died centuries
ago was the inventor of the Hiraishin, because when I got my memory download,
it came with alerting me to several hundred million hiraishin beacons all over
the solar system. I only knew what they were because in my original universe I
did the same exact thing. I can pretty much get anywhere I want to in the
entire Solar System of both universes at this point."
"That… is a rather scary thought." Neji stated.
"Yeah… well it is kind of useless on this planet because all my beacons are
buried under large amounts of sediment deposits due to the intervening
centuries and the fact that geology is constantly in flux on a planet.
Fortunately Charon Palace is an artificially constructed orbital satellite and
not part of the planet of Pluto itself, thus my beacons there are completely
undisturbed. Now if you will excuse me…" Naruto stated just as he blinked out
of existence.
Unlike with Setsuna's Teleport which was more gradual in happening, Naruto's
Hiraishin was rather abrupt and took place faster than the eye could process.
"I always hated that technique." Tsunade growled out.
                             xXx Charon Palace xXx
Naruto took one look at the state of the palace, let out a slow breath that
shouldn't be possible in this environment before saying "I am so glad I placed
a beacon in Tsunade's office before I left. This is terrible. What the hell
happened in this universe?"
Naruto walked over to the nearest console and prodded at it. "Dammit. Okay…
Atmospherics are this way…" Naruto stated as he walked off down the hall.
As soon as he reached the Atmosphere Control Room and entered it he began
pulling apart the entire work station in the room.
"Well… this at least is helpful. The Power and Control Crystals are still
operational. I think whatever happened here was that someone managed to force a
system wide shutdown on the entire palace. Which means they would have had to
issue the command from… DAMMIT the only place that could happen is by inputting
the shutdown command directly into the Palace Heart. The Gate is not connected
to the heart though, which is why it is still operational."
Naruto got up and began walking the long walk into the very bowels of the
Palace Heart.
Upon arriving there, he stopped and stared in horror at what he was seeing.
"Setsuna? What happened to you?"
The crippled and decrepit form of what was once Sailor Pluto looked up at the
person who had spoken to her. "I-ignatius?"
"Yes." Naruto agreed.
"I am the last. Sailor Galaxia… she destroyed all the others. When that was
fulfilled she crippled me, disabled the Palace and plunged humanity into its
age of darkness by inciting the rise of chakra among the humans." the alternate
of Setsuna explained.
"Where was I when this happened?" Naruto asked.
"You had gone missing years before she arrived. No one knew what had happened.
I couldn't locate you in the timestream." Setsuna said.
Naruto frowned at that.
"Setsuna I am going to reactivate the Palace." Naruto stated.
"NO!" Setsuna exclaimed.
"What? Why?"
"If you activate the Palace, it will draw Galaxia to this system again."
Setsuna stated.
"Buggering hell." Naruto frowned. "Okay I can deal with this I think… Thank you
for your time Setsuna."
"I am always at your service my Liege."
Naruto scowled at that statement. Of course this Setsuna thinks he was the
version of Ignatius native to this universe. That was the only assumption she
could make without being able to see his soul, and only Serena or their mother
can see the souls of other people without outside assistance. And since the
entire rest of the Moon Kingdom was dead, that would in her mind automatically
promote him to the position of King over the Solar System.
"I am sorry Setsuna, I am not your Ignatius." Naruto stated as gently as he
could.
"But… no… my last hope…" Setsuna croaked out.
"I don't know what happened to him. I wish I did so I could tell you where to
look for him, but I don't. My loyalty must always be to my universe. How I even
ended up in this universe is an anomaly that your counterpart couldn't figure
out either. She only just found me after I don't know how many centuries of
searching."
"Bring her to me. One of the odder traits of our powers is that if one of us is
injured or crippled beyond repair contact with one of our dimensional
counterparts will restore us to full health and vitality." Setsuna commanded.
"Of course." Naruto agreed and vanished in the blink of an eye.
Setsuna sighed and said "I really did hope mine would have taught me that trick
before vanishing the way he did."
                             xXx Hokage Tower xXx
           xXx Several Hours after Naruto had Initially vanished xXx
Naruto reappeared in the room only to feel a massive weight hit his head.
"Was that really necessary Setsuna-nee?" Naruto asked.
"If that actually hurt you I will sign my retirement forms." Setsuna stated.
"Well no… not really, but there is the principle of the thing… you don't just
go mauling the Crown Prince of the Moon Kingdom." Naruto stated.
"Crown Prince?" several voices all asked at the same time.
"Honestly, Serena was the figurehead, the person Mom liked to show off at
parties. Stuff like that. I was the one who was expected to carry on the
Kingdom in mother's absence, I was the one with the leadership skills necessary
to rule. all that."
"And there is also the fact that Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn… and weird as it may
seem even Uranus and Neptune... all had massive crushes on you."
"Really? Uranus and Neptune? Weren't they in a relationship with each other?"
Naruto asked incredulously.
"Primarily because neither one thought they had a shot with you." Setsuna
stated.
Naruto stared at her with his mouth hanging open and his eyes widened.
"I take it that is to say they definitely had a shot with you?" Temari asked.
Setsuna chuckled and said "How to phrase this… Neptune is basically the
embodiment of any straight man's wet dream in terms of what she looks like. As
for Uranus…"
"She is the only woman who could keep up with me in a spar." Naruto stated,
"Well at least until I met you Tsunade-hime."
"Anyways we have a bit of a problem Setsuna-nee." Naruto stated.
"Oh, what is that?"
"I just made the discovery that your counterpart in this reality is alive… but
in really bad condition and needs your assistance."
Setsuna vanished in a glowing swirl of green light almost as soon as he
finished speaking leaving everyone else behind.
"Why didn't she take us with her?" Lee asked.
"Lee, what she is about to do, is something which I think needs to be kept
extremely private for the sake of her own sanity." Naruto cautioned.
"What do you mean?" Lee asked.
Every female in the room had already figured out what Naruto was implying and
all of them, including Hinata and Hanabi, yelled at Lee "DROP IT!" the young
Ninja could be incredibly naive at times.
                          xXx Half an Hour Later xXx
Setsuna reappeared in the room with a heavy blush on her face. She looked at
Naruto and said "She is using her magic to maintain a breathable atmosphere on
the palace without powering it up, so we should be safe from attracting
Galaxia's attention at this time. However, it is highly advisable that she find
somewhere to seek refuge other than this universe and that we set a delayed
explosion to destroy this universe's copy of the gates."
"Good idea. From what you and she have said about this Galaxia we certainly
don't want her to have unrestricted access to the gates." Naruto stated.
"She already does."
"What?" Naruto snapped out in shock.
"She stole my counterparts keys." Setsuna stated.
"Of course… which is why we have to destroy the Gate here, otherwise she can
just use the keys to summon it to her no matter where she is. How much you want
to bet that is the reason my counterpart vanished into thin air years before
Galaxia made her move on the Moon Kingdom?" Naruto asked.
"Seems reasonable. And if she simply banished him to a universe without a gate
or without the clocktower, it would be difficult to locate him, even by viewing
the tapestry of the Multiverse the way that Zelretch can. It took me ages to
find you, and Zelretch was helping me look. And you were in a universe with a
gate."
"Seriously why do you put up with that man?" Naruto asked.
"As annoying as he is, he is useful. Plus Altrouge and Arcueid are fun to talk
with." Setsuna stated.
"Who?" Naruto asked.
"His adoptive granddaughters. Those two were probably the only thing keeping me
from going on a rampage in some random universe due to sheer boredom in my
3,000 or so years of isolation."
Naruto whistled and said "3,000 years, that is… way, way more than I originally
anticipated."
"Yeah… about that… Earth's historian's date the rule of Gilgamesh to what today
is called the year 2,600 B.C.E. That means 'Before the Common Era.' Now the
year I left was the year 2014 C.E…. You do the math."
"That can't possibly be accurate…" Naruto stated.
"Not in the least bit. Humans only started recording years like that relatively
recently in their history, and not one culture, until the formation of the
Christian Church, could agree on a measuring system. The end effect is that
Sumeria has a list of Kings, the number of years that they ruled for, what
region they ruled over, but no actual dates given as to when they ruled. The
Historians just do a lot of cross referencing with that list and other sources
of information to guesstimate approximately when a particular ruler was in
power. Oh… and coincidentally… Endymion appears on that list, but not under any
name you would recognize him for."
"The pretty boy that my sister had the hots for?" Naruto asked.
"Are aware of what ultimately led to the Moon's downfall?" Setsuna asked.
Naruto thought about it, and suddenly blushed bright red.
"Naruto… what did you just remember?" Setsuna asked with as sweet a tone to her
voice as she could.
"Um… last thing I can remember of that time period was watching Jupiter getting
dressed…"
Tsunade's head thunked on her desk again and caused the entire surface of the
desk to give way, this resulted in a startled yelp from the woman as she
tumbled onto the floor.
"I warned you Tsunade-hime." Naruto stated.
"Yeah, yeah." Tsunade said as she pulled herself back up into her chair.
"Right then… Naruto… Beryl." Setsuna stated.
Naruto's head whipped away from Tsunade to stare at Setsuna. "Beryl? As in the
Whore of Macedonia?"
"That's the one." Setsuna stated.
"Right of course. It makes sense now. That woman would of wanted Endymion as
one of her pets. She tried to get Gilgamesh but as soon as she showed up he
started hurling weapons at her. That man is rather terrifying." Naruto stated.
"Would it surprise you to know that now that he is in the Throne of Heroes he
can call forth the weapon of any other hero that has ever existed in the
history of the multiverse, and that any weapon he calls forth is automatically
one category of power stronger than it would be in anyone else's possession?"
Setsuna asked.
"How on earth did he manage that?" Naruto asked.
"He got himself remembered for being the very first Hero." Setsuna stated.
Naruto facepalmed and said "Then what does that make us?"
"Casualties of war apparently." Setsuna stated "No one will remember the Senshi
unless… well actually there is one scenario where the legacy of the Senshi
endures for a long damn time, but I can't explain that…"
Naruto pouted at Setsuna.
"Spoilers my Prince, spoilers… Now shall we be off?" Setsuna asked.
After receiving everyone's assent, Setsuna expanded the field of her magic
around the party, and teleported them all to Charon Palace.
A few minutes after they left Sakura entered the office and asked "Lady
Tsunade, have you seen Naruto? I wanted to welcome him back to town but can't
seem to find him anywhere."
"Oh Sakura-chan…" Tsunade said softly as she suddenly realized that this young
girl had now lost both of her teammates and didn't even know it yet. 'Dammit
Naruto, you should have asked Sakura to go with you.'
"Ts-Tsunade, are you crying?" Sakura asked.
"Yes, Sakura, I am, and I fear that once I inform you of the situation you will
either be yelling in outrage or crying as well… it is a bit of a gamble as to
which." Tsunade stated through her tears.
Sakura gulped and nodded her head in understanding "He's left the village…
probably permanently… and… you… you let him go?"
"I had no choice Sakura. It would have been disastrous for a large group of
people if I hadn't."
Sakura sighed in resignation, "The Will of Fire."
"Yes, he has always had that in spades, always willing to protect that which is
most precious to him… I am afraid to say that it just isn't this village
anymore."
"Did you at least send people with him that could act as his support?" Sakura
asked.
"Temari of Suna, Hinata and Hanabi Hyuuga, Anko Mitarashi, a woman by the name
of Konan, and the entirety of Team Gai." Tsunade stated.
"Team Bushy Brows? Seriously?" Sakura asked.
"As hard as this may be to believe, the woman who came to fetch Naruto
specifically requested Gai and Lee join them on this. Initially Naruto was only
planning to take Tenten and maybe Neji, but Setsuna made a strong case for
adding Gai and Lee."
"What possible reason could any woman have for bringing those two weirdoes with
her on a trip?" Sakura asked incredulously.
"Apparently she wants to spook the weird out of one of her friends. A friend
who happens to be female and does bizarre speeches about love and friendship...
as well as odd poses apparently."
Sakura blinked several times before she fell on her ass and started laughing
her behind off.
Chapter End Notes
     This story is now officially caught up to where I am on
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***** A2C0 - Arrival Point *****
Chapter Notes
     Disclaimer: I do not own Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon or it's
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                            xXx July 26th, 2014 xXx
                              xXx Tokyo City xXx
The group of people from the Elemental Nations just stood there staring at the
sight surrounding them.
"What the bloody hell?" Neji exclaimed after deactivating his Byakugan. "Metal
and glass for as far as I could see, and that is a pretty long distance."
"Welcome to the Tokyo Megacity of the year 2014. As you will notice, the city
is composed of buildings that make even the tallest structure in the Elemental
Nations like microscopic in comparison. If you will follow me I will show you
to your place of residence while in the city." Setsuna stated in the manner of
a tour guide. She had deactivated her Senshi form prior to arriving in the city
and was dressed in a conservative set of slacks with a sweater on top of a
blouse.
Unlike Setsuna, Naruto had opted to keep his armor on. As such he was drawing a
great deal of attention from the people passing them by. Fortunately no one
seemed to be willing to call him on it thanks to the combined effects of the
armor and his own appearance seeming to simply ooze charisma. Several women
were actually left drooling in his wake as he passed them by. The girls in his
company… well save Hinata… seemed completely immune to his presence thanks to
overexposure to it. Hinata unfortunately had always been rather susceptible to
his presence and was thus blushing profusely the entire time she had been
around him in that armor. Fortunately she was able to stop before she began
drooling.
"We've been walking for a while now." Naruto pointed out.
"That… is because I want you in the same school as your sister." Setsuna
admitted sheepishly.
"School?" Naruto asked incredulously.
"Believe it or not but school in this world doesn't end when you turn 12,
Naruto." Setsuna stated.
"Buggering hell… school?" Naruto exclaimed.
"Naruto, I could have sworn I downloaded the entirety of the Japanese Education
Program into your mind when I activated your powers. You should be fine. You
won't even have to pay attention in class to pass all the tests and do all the
homework."
"YOSHI! Can you do that for us as well?" Lee asked
Setsuna looked at Lee and said "Only in your dreams green boy."
"Huh?" Lee asked.
"She has to exchange bodily fluids with whoever she downloads information into
the mind of. Nifty trick she picked up from watching a race of people known as
the Tamaraneans and reversing the principle of what they were doing."
"That means these Tamaraneans… kiss or… squick… to learn new things?" Hanabi
asked.
"Essentially, yes. They primarily use it to assimilate languages that they are
unfamiliar with, but that has the effect of only giving them the words and
their definitions, not the context that they should be used in." Setsuna
stated.
"Which leads to many the faux pax in social situations for that species."
Naruto stated.
"There was one who opted to learn the English language the normal way." Setsuna
admitted.
"Oh?"
"Yeah, she's a real bitch though." Setsuna stated. "Ah, we have arrived.
Welcome to my home while on Earth, Meiou Estate."
"Now this is more like it!" Neji exclaimed seeing a residence that reminded him
of the Hyuuga Clan Compound.
"It does look like home." Hanabi said.
"This is a style of home that was popular a century or more ago, and almost no
one alive today can afford to have these kinds of homes in the middle of
Tokyo." Setsuna stated.
"How'd you manage it?" Gai asked.
"Did I mention I am over 3,000 years old?" Setsuna asked.
"You mentioned it." Konan agreed.
"Well, one of the absolute best ways to pass time over such an expansive period
of time is to play the markets of the world. I am the proud owner of the vast
majority of this planet's financial capital and they don't even know it."
Setsuna stated.
"Is that good?" Naruto asked.
"Good? No, not really. The entire world has effectively put themselves into
debt, and done so willingly. The debt is so massive that none of the Nations,
even if they all worked together could by themselves out of it." Setsuna
admitted.
"Setsuna did you start with the intention to financially cripple the world?"
Naruto asked.
"Not in the least bit. But I got so bored and I just kept succeeding in my
market gambles that it just kind of got away from me. I eventually stopped
paying attention to the financial situation outside of the occasional news
broadcast after I had this place built."
"Right no more playing the market for you Setsuna. You've been a very bad girl,
and you are going to figure out a way to uncripple the Nations of the world."
Naruto stated firmly.
"Yes sir…" Setsuna said demurely.
                       xXx Roughly Five Weeks Later xXx
"Seriously Naruto? Put something on!" Neji yelled at the young Prince through
the wall. The shinobi had quickly discovered that back on the Moon Kingdom,
Naruto had almost no sense of modesty, thus it had fallen to Neji, and Hanabi
to make sure he was wearing something before he exited his room. Hinata would
have volunteered but the very first time Naruto had done this the first person
to see him was poor Hinata. Girl fainted from the embarrassment of seeing her
crushes naked physique.
A few moments later a fully dress Naruto exited his room with a rather sheepish
expression, "Sorry."
"I don't understand how you can just forget your clothes like that?"
"Meh, me either, but somehow I do."
The two men proceeded to the family room where they found Setsuna and Anko
having a friendly chat.
Today was the day that Naruto and the younger generation were going to be
joining classes at Juuban Municipal Junior High School. There was one question
burning in Naruto's mind at the moment. "Setsuna-nee, do the reincarnations of
the scouts look exactly as they did in the Moon Kingdom?"
Setsuna smirked and said "That is the most hilarious aspect about this entire
situation."
"What do you mean?" Naruto asked.
"Luna and Artemis were tasked with locating the Moon Princess before Beryl
does… however Queen Serenity removed the knowledge of the identity of the Moon
Princess from everyone who who has been reincarnated, including the two Mau.
The only reason you know who she is is because I restored it to your memory."
Naruto blinked a few times as he processed this information. "Great, that means
Serena, or Usagi I suppose… looks exactly the same. Well this is embarrassing."
"What do you mean?" Setsuna asked.
"I was… apparently subconsciously… using my sister's appearance as the base of
something called the Oiroke no Jutsu."
"I don't think that means the same thing to me as whatever it means to you…"
Setsuna stated.
"He's talking about the variant of the Henge Jutsu he devised to turn himself
into an attractive and completely naked girl." Neji stated acerbically having
figured out that the body Naruto used for that Jutsu really existed and that
they are about to meet her. "Naruto, if I felt confident in my ability to geld
you, I would."
"Hey, I didn't even know she existed at that point in time." Naruto defended
himself.
Setsuna stared at Naruto for a few moments before she broke out laughing.
"What… why are you laughing?" Neji asked incredulously.
"Except for when outside of the Private Chambers of the Royal Family, which
amounted to two entire wings of the palace that were next to each other, his
entire family was essentially a group of nudists. Though apparently Usagi
hasn't manifested that aspect of her personality in the current day."
"You mean all this time…" Neji asked as he began going pale.
"Yes, what you and Hanabi-chan are trying to do, while admirable, is ultimately
futile." Setsuna stated.
Hanabi came in just in time to hear the full explanation "Told you so Nii-san."
Neji palmed his face in frustration.
"Point is that Serena would have laughed at the very idea of such a technique,
even if Usagi can't be told about it at this point." Setsuna stated.
                            xXx Two Hours Later xXx
                           xXx Usagi's Homeroom xXx
"Class, today we have the honor of hosting two new students. You can come in
now."
Naruto and Hinata entered the room and stood at the front of the room as they
had been instructed. Their sharp hearing, honed by years as Shinobi picked out
the various whispers.
"Check out her eyes, do you think she's blind?" At that one Hinata smirked.
"He's sooo dreamy" several voices exclaimed almost at the same time. Hinata
frowned at that, she was sooo used to being the only person even remotely
interested in Naruto in that manner, only for the bombshell to be dropped on
her that in his past life he was apparently what the people of this world and
time would call a playboy. That had hurt.
The one reaction that both Hinata and Naruto were paying the most attention to
was that coming from Usagi Tsukino. From what Setsuna had told them, Luna had
not yet made contact with her, or if she had, it had only been a most
preliminary probing of the girl and not anything that could be termed as actual
interaction between the two.
However the eyes of both Shinobi noticed how Usagi instantly became more rigid
and narrowed her eyes by a degree that would be undetectable to anyone not
specifically trained to read body language like they had been. Even if it was
only on a subconscious level, Usagi had just displayed recognition of Naruto,
but also confusion about the reason for that recognition.
"Please introduce yourselves." the teacher stated once the hubbub had died
down.
"I am Naruto Uzumaki, and my friend is Hinata Hyuuga…" Naruto stated.
"F-f-friend?" Hinata stuttered.
Naruto grabbed her shoulder and turned her to look at him, "Hinata-chan, how
long have we known each other?"
"Y-years?" Hinata said unsurely.
"Since we were eight if I recall correctly. Do you recall what happened the day
I met you?" Naruto asked.
Hinata shook her head in confusion. She had been watching Naruto for so long
that she couldn't remember one specific incident.
"I rescued you from three bullies."
Hinata's eyes grew big and round, as she instantly began recalling the specific
incident he was talking about. She lunged forward and curled her arms around
him, finally able to do the one thing she had desperately wanted to do ever
since she could remember.
Whispers broke out again at the scene they were making. However the teacher for
some reason decided to let them have their moment.
Once it was over they were told to pick some seats. Naruto picked the seat next
to Usagi, which caused her to stiffen even further. Hinata however opted to
take the seat next to a girl named Naru who seemed to be a gossip.
Later in the day as Naruto was heading to the cafeteria to get something to eat
for his lunch a someone behind him exclaimed "Oji-sama?"
Naruto turned around to behold the girl who could only be the reincarnation of
Sailor Mercury. "I am sorry?"
"I am sorry… but I had this strange feeling that you were a prince or
something" the girl mumbled out apologetically.
'Wow, Mercury got reincarnated as a total softie if she can barely manage to
speak to me.' Naruto thought.
He took three strides to close the distance between them and gently grabbed her
lifting her face so that she was looking at him and then proceeded to use the
exact same trick that Setsuna had used on him to this girl.
At first the girl struggled against the invasion, but as soon as the memories
took hold she relaxed and began returning the kiss.
When they broke apart the girl said "My lord!"
"Welcome back love." Naruto said.
"Oh god! Usagi!" Mercury, or Ami as she was called in the modern era, exclaimed
frantically.
"Shhh… she'll be alright. Setsuna is keeping watch over the situation."
"Setsuna-nee?" Ami asked "Oh dear… she didn't get reincarnated like we did, did
she?"
"Nope." Naruto said with a smirk.
"Hang on... " Ami said as she frowned and concentrated. "My powers… where are
they?"
"If I know Mum… she will have gated your powers behind various tasks and tests
that you have to overcome in order to get them all back." Naruto said.
"Of course she would, that is so like her." Ami stated with a frown.
"Unfortunately, only Setsuna figured out the trick to forcibly breaking those
gates with the technique I used to restore your memory, and she never taught it
to me." Naruto admitted.
"When did she teach you that?" Ami asked.
"Well… first off she used it to bring my memories powers back, so I already
understood the basic principle. But she also included the biological data of
the species that inspired the technique in the information exchange. I sort of
reverse engineered the process from there."
"Fascinating. Teach it to me when I get my powers back." Ami stated.
"Sure thing." Naruto stated.
"Now let's see… I have no idea where any of the other Senshi are… but Venus has
been making the news rather frequently. She is not being particularly subtle
with what she is doing."
"Did you really expect someone who idolizes the Power Rangers to be capable of
being subtle?" Naruto asked deadpan.
"Wait… Power Rangers?" Ami asked… "Isn't that…"
"The rather horrifying American rip off of the the Super Sentai franchise? Why
yes it is."
"Wait… are you trying to tell me…"
"There is indeed actually a universe out there which inspired the plotline for
the Power Rangers TV series." Naruto said with a grimace "Complete with the
poses, speeches and everything."
"Oh dear… and Usagi is the type of girl who will run with an idea if someone
else is already doing it." Ami stated with a massive sweat drop forming.
"And her empathic powers would cause the entirety of the Senshi to start doing
it too." Naruto said with a grin.
"Now that I know it is going to happen I can stop it from affecting me." Ami
stated firmly.
"Good luck with that. Though I do have something in mind that will scare that
entire idea out of both Usagi and Venus rather permanently."
"What could possibly do that to those two one-track minds?"
"If you had ever seen two men in tight green spandex bodysuits that leaves
almost nothing to the imagination you would never need to ask me that question
in the first place." Naruto said with a shudder.
Ami frowned at the mental image he just put into her mind. "Thank you, I think
I need to go wash my brain out with bleach now."
"You're welcome dear." Naruto said as he swatted her on the butt as she walked
off earning him a little meep from her.
"N-naruto? W-who was that?" Hinata asked as she turned the corner.
"How long have you been standing there?" Naruto asked.
"Since you described Gai-sensei and Lee-kun." Hinata stated.
"Ah! Well, that... was the reincarnation of Sailor Mercury whose memories I
just reawakened." Naruto stated.
"In the same manner as how Miss Setsuna awakened your memories?" Hinata asked
with an edge to her tone.
"I cannot possibly answer that safely." Naruto groused.
*SMACK*
"Huh… you've been being a lot bolder than you usually are ever since I reminded
you of how we met, Hinata-chan." Naruto commented, not even having felt the
punch beyond realizing he'd been hit.
"I have just realized what my priorities are." Hinata admitted.
"Hinata, I'm going to be straight with you. I am in love with several of the
Senshi. I have been for a long time. I am willing to accept you into that
relationship, but you have to be willing to share." Naruto stated.
Hinata hummed and walked away in thought.
                           xXx Later that Night xXx
                             xXx Jewelry OSA-P xXx
"AND ON BEHALF OF THE MOON I WILL PUNISH YOU." the voice of Usagi Tsukino
exclaimed from below.
"Okay boys, showtime, and you are free to do anything you want as celebration
for defeating the monster, but only if it is in front of the girl in the sailor
outfit and the cat." a female stated.
Before Usagi could so much as do or say anything else, two blurs of green
slammed into the monster and began to break every bone in the monster's body in
only a handful of seconds.
As soon as it was blatantly obvious that the creature was beyond all hope of
survival the blurs stabilized into the form of two men, one about Usagi's age,
the other looked to be in his thirties. Both were wearing skintight green
unitards. These two men glomped each other and began intermittently declaring
the other's name. As that happened somehow… Usagi had no idea how… a bright
sunset over an ocean manifested to serve as the backdrop to these two hugging
each other.
"Oh god… I think I'm going to hurl…" Usagi complained clutching her stomach.
Suddenly a woman in a similar outfit to Usagi stepped out of the shadows, she
had long dark green hair and had her arms underneath her much larger bust than
Usagi's.
"Sailor Pluto? What are you doing here? You're supposed to be guarding the Time
Gates." Luna chastised.
"Prince Ignatius asked for my assistance on a particular problem he was
having." Setsuna said rather coolly to Luna. Technically if Luna hadn't have
been put into suspended animation by Queen Serenity the two of them would be
the same age. Cats mature faster than humans so she was able to care for the
other Senshi, but to Setsuna she had only ever been viewed as a sister, and an
annoyingly bossy one at that.
"The Prince? He's awake already? How did that happen?" Luna asked in horror.
"Why do you sound horrified by this?" Setsuna asked beginning to get pissed off
with her sister.
"The Prince was always the wrong sort of influence on the Princess. Having him
awake when we find her will be disastrous." Luna stated.
Setsuna facepalmed, not because of what Luna's opinion of Naruto was, but
because she had unknowingly just told Usagi that she didn't think it a good
idea for her to associate with her brother.
"Now you listen here, Shisuta-baka, you and your boyfriend are not the Crown
Regent to the Moon Kingdom. You have no say in who the Princess can or can't
associate with, especially when it comes to her brother. At this point in time,
and as was decreed by Queen Serenity eons ago, Prince Ignatius is the sole
Sovereign of the Moon Kingdom. The Princess was only ever meant to be the
person to serve as the Heart of the Kingdom."
At this point Usagi was getting fed up with Luna and this woman dancing around
the identity of the Princess. "Um… Miss… since Luna obviously doesn't know as
she is searching for her… do you know who the Princess is and where to find
her?"
Setsuna smiled at Usagi, she can be a bit of an airhead, but she always asks
good questions. "Sailor Moon, I am the Guardian of Time. What do you think?"
Usagi gulped at the obvious implied level of power this woman just claimed to
possess. The two men who had been hugging had stopped to watch the show and
were sniggering at the question that Setsuna had just asked as both men had
instantly recognized Usagi from overexposure to Naruto's special jutsu that
came hand-in-hand with living in their village.
"You do!" Luna hissed in realization.
"Of course I do. But my Prince has commanded me to reveal only that she is
closer than you think. Now I am afraid that I have to return to Pluto. Boys
don't stay out too late, you know how grumpy Tenshi-chan gets when people enter
the house after the curfew she has set."
"Only you, Hebi-chan and the Prince have ever gotten away with it for some
reason… You are all most YOUTHFUL!" Gai stated.
"Huh… well… that is certainly one way of looking at why she lets us get away
with it." Setsuna said with a lopsided grin. There is just no way Setsuna is
discussing her sex life with these two bozos any further than what had already
been said. And the less mentioned about what Naruto did to convince Konan to
let him break curfew like that the better. How that… thing… could be accepted
as a divinity by Konan, Setsuna could never figure out…
Somehow Naruto and the Fox came to an understanding the instant the Fox figured
out that by being in this new universe it never had to become part of the
Juubi. As such, the Fox decided to give Naruto the ability to summon forth his
Chakra and control it safely, in exchange, the Fox asked never to be returned
to the world that it originated from. Naruto readily agreed to this arrangement
and in so doing, Naruto became insanely more powerful than he already was.
Kyuubi Chakra… well there isn't a whole heck of a lot that is a match for it in
a straight up contest of brute strength. Even with the True Sorceries the
Senshi may not be able to stop someone protected by the Kyuubi's Chakra Cloak
as it is so dense that it negates practically any magic that attempts to touch
it. Only other equally powerful Chakra is a match for it, and according to the
Kyuubi, the only thing in existence with Chakra powerful enough to disrupt the
Kyuubi Chakra Cloak is someone capable of entering Rikudo Senjutsu. Which is
frankly impossible for anyone except Naruto or maybe one other person to pull
off at this point, and no one in this universe except Naruto is capable of it.
With a wave of goodbye to Usagi, Setsuna disappeared in a swirl of green light.
"Di-did she just teleport?" Usagi asked in awe.
Luna sighed and said "Yes Sailor Moon, yes she did."
"Oooh… oh God! Naru!" Usagi screamed and ran over to where her friend was on
the floor unconscious.
                                 xXx Omake xXx
"Good Morning Tokyo. Today we have some really bizarre news to start the
morning off. When people started waking up this morning, it was to the
discovery that Tokyo Tower has been rather… tastefully… covered from base to
tip in toilet paper. Whoever executed this prank was able to pull it off
without alerting the night sentries on the site…" the morning newscaster
stated.
"Huh… so I guess that was what Naruto wanted with four thousand rolls of toilet
paper." Setsuna stated deadpan.
"You think that is something, you should have seen all the times he managed to
graffiti the Hokage Monument." Tenten said with a chuckle.
"That big carbon copy of Mount Rushmore?" Setsuna asked.
"Yep, that's the one. Now get this, he was able to graffiti that thing, at
roughly 8:00 a.m. in the morning each time he did that, while wearing a 'kill
me now' orange Tracksuit." Tenten explained.
"And he was able to pull that off in the middle of a Ninja Village? What? Are
the people in your village incompetent or something?" Setsuna asked.
"You think that is bad? You should have seen the time he replaced all the ANBU
Uniforms with S&M outfits. I've never laughed so hard in my life. Yugao-nee
however, decided to keep hers." Anko stated. "Oh, and he was eight at the
time."
"Isn't ANBU H.Q. one of the most heavily guarded buildings in the village?"
Hinata asked.
"You got it. Guard every ten feet." Anko admitted.
"It is so youthful that Naruto is still only a Genin when he is probably the
best Shinobi out of Konoha in decades." Lee stated.
Chapter End Notes
     Author's Note: I feel I should point out that my Omake in this story
     are all going to be at least canonical with the rest of the story…
     they just detail things that are so off the wall that they hold
     absolutely no direct relevance to the rest of the story, and are as
     such classified as small stand alone views into the daily lives of my
     characters.
End Notes
     Author's Note: Ooooh! How Dare I? I committed the ultimate taboo of
     giving a name to The Doctor… Ooh, Aah, run away in fear!
     And yes. Setsuna and several other characters will both be OOC and
     breaking the fourth wall A LOT. As she is centuries old, she had to
     find something to entertain herself with. TV Tropes hadn't been
     invented yet… so she created an interdimensional television and
     started watching the lives of the protagonists of all those other
     universes that she had access to. She is a major couch potato, what
     did you expect the immortal guardian of time to do for entertainment?
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