Chapter 2 - Second opportunity. . . WTF ?!

"One of those worlds..." - whispered the boy - "But I only know the name of the protagonists and some important details... how will I know which world I want to go to?"

" THAT'S BECAUSE I AM GOD AND I KNOW WHICH WORLD YOU MOST WANT TO GO TO" - 'smiled' god - "BUT YOU WILL NOT GO ALONE, I WILL GIVE YOU A SMALL GIFT SO YOU CAN LIVE A SAFE LIFE"

"And what gift would that be?" - asked the boy but he quickly reacted - "I'm sorry to be so rude, it's just that the excitement got the best of me"

"I TOLD YOU, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WORRY SO MUCH" - answered God - "AND YOUR GIFT IS SIMPLE, IT'S THE POWER TO ADAPT TO EVERYTHING EASILY"

"What's that?" - asked the young man, not yet understanding what it was.

"AS I SAID, IT IS THE POWER TO ADAPT EVERYTHING EASILY, FOR EXAMPLE, THE INCREASE OF STRENGTH IN TRAINING, UNDERSTANDING THE MOVEMENTS OF YOUR ENEMIES, ADAPTING TO PAIN OR THE PRESSURE" - said God - "BUT NOT ONLY THAT, YOUR BODY ALSO ADAPTS TO THE DAMAGE IT RECEIVES, SO IT RECEIVES LESS DAMAGE WHEN A SIMILAR SITUATION OCCURS AGAIN, BUT YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU DON'T BECOME COMPLETELY IMMUNE...HMM, I'D SAY AT MOST IT'S 50%."

"Also to the damage of magic or elemental attacks?" - asked the boy as he glowed slightly.

"YES, BUT THIS WOULD ONLY BE UP TO 25%" - answered God - "PLEASE NOTE THAT 25% IS ALREADY ENOUGH"

"Anything else I need to know?" - the boy asked.

" LET ME SEE, I WOULD SAY THAT YOUR BODY CAN BE STRENGTHENED BY RECEIVING MA.S.SIVE DAMAGE BECAUSE IT WOULD ADAPT TO THAT LEVEL" - answered God again - "BUT THE DAMAGE MUST BE AT THE LIMIT OF WHAT YOUR BODY CAN RECEIVE. IF YOU FALL INTO THE HOSPITAL WITH A PUNCTURED ORGAN, THEN IT WON'T WORK"

"Sounds a bit like the Zenkai of the Saiyan," the young man muttered.

" YOU COULD SAY THAT IT IS A NERFED BUT MODIFIED VERSION OF THE SAIYAN ZENKAI" - 'nodded' god - "YOU CAN ACQUIRE THE EXPLOSION OF POTENTIAL BUT YOU HAVE TO ACC.U.MULATE IT UNTIL YOUR LIMITS ARE BROKEN, OTHERWISE... IT WILL NOT WORK."

"I understand... Will I? Why am I glowing?" - Said the young man as he looked at God

"AS YOUR TIME HERE IS OUT, YOUNG SOUL" - said God with a 'half-smile' - "IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO HAVE YOUR SECOND CHANCE"

". . ." - the young man was silent as he continued to shine with greater intensity.

"VERY GOOD, YOUNG SOUL, I HOPE I WILL NOT SEE YOU IN THIS PLACE SOON, AS IT IS NOT HAPPY TO DIE SO FAST" - God said to him with a slight smile - "I HOPE YOU WILL HAVE A HAPPY LIFE AND WHEN YOU APPEAR IN FRONT OF ME AGAIN, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO TELL ME ALL YOUR ADVENTURES"

"Thank God, I'll never forget this" - said the young man before he disappeared from the void.

"I ONLY HOPE THAT YOU HAVE A GOOD LIFE AND THAT YOU DO NOT REMEMBER YOUR PREVIOUS DEATH" - said God in a sad tone - "GOOD LUCK, YOUNG ???????, I HOPE THAT IN THIS LIFE YOU CAN FIND HAPPINESS"

* * * * * *

It was a beautiful night in Konohagakure no Sato, the villagers were celebrating the birth of the son of their fourth Hokage and everyone was happy. But... who would have thought that everything would change in a few moments?

Everyone was waiting for Minato Namikaze with the news of the birth of his heir until the sound of an explosion was heard in the Namikaze Compound.

"Give up the Jinchuriki of the Kyubi or witness the death of your son" - said a man in a mask that showed only a blood-red eye, a black pupil but three tomoes.

"Oh~ and you'd better hurry" - said the man sarcastically - "My hands are a little weak after receiving that blow"

"What are you waiting for Minato-kun, leave me and save my Sochi!" - said a tired voice full of despair and lack of calm.

". . ." - Minato just gritted his teeth without being able to say anything.

Kushina only gave her husband a pained look when she saw how undecided he was, so she changed her mind - "Let my son go and I'll go with you!"

"We have a deal, Jinchuriki... Now... Take it!" - The masked man only glanced at the redhead as he threw the newborn with all his might in the opposite direction from where the parents were.

"NARUTOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" - Minato screamed as she moved at the maximum speed she could.

"You're going to pay for this," said Kushina angrily as tears streamed down her face.

"I don't think you have to worry about that..." - said the masked man with a disinterested look - "Because you're probably not alive to see it"

"KYUBI! GET OUT OF YOUR SEAL!" - said the masked man - "Kaibi Hoin"

As he said those words, a red aura started to come out of Kushina. It began to grow slowly, bigger and bigger and more sinister.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHH" - Kushina could only scream in pain while feeling her organs being removed. The pain she was feeling right now could not compare to the pain she was feeling when she was giving birth.

"AJAJAJAJAJAJA I AM FREE... I'M FREE!!!" - The red aura laughed as it began to take shape. It was a huge orange-red beast, a fox that had nine tails that seemed to be celebrating its freedom. Cold red eyes, whose contour was black, ripped black pupils whose gaze showed brutality while showing its fangs by laughing maniacally - " I' AM FREE AT LAST"

"Not for long, if I may say." The Kyubi stopped laughing when he heard those words as he coldly watched the masked man standing near his old container.

"NO! I WON'T LET THOSE DAMN EYES STEAL MY FREEDOM AGAIN!" - roared the king of the Bijuu as he attacked the man Uchiha with everything he had.

The Kyubi attacked the masked man whose eye had changed completely with more and more rage. He was still red as blood, but now the tomoes were gone, in the form of a three-pronged Shuriken.

The Kyubi slowed his attack to the point that his movements seemed lethargic. Slowly his eyes lost their focus as his attacks became more predictable.

"Nothing to say?" - asked the masked man - "I guess it ends now... Kyubi no Yoko! I order you to destroy Konoha so that I can announce the return of Uchiha Madara!

"ROAR!" - the Kyubi only roared as he ran towards the village.

"My work is done," said the masked Uchiha. "Now all that remains is to wait for the destruction of Konoha and take the Kyubi when it is all over"

That said, he disappeared in a dimensional distortion, only to have Minato appear with the baby in his arms after a few seconds.

"Kushina-chan?" - Minato asked, waiting for his wife to answer, but after waiting a few seconds he received no answer. He got scared so he looked around until he finally found her - "Kushina-chan!"

"C-Calm down... Minato-kun... nothing will happen to me... I still want to see my grandchildren" - replied the redheaded woman with a voice that showed how weak she was.

Kushina's seal was different from that of the other Jinchurikis. She still retained some of the Kyubi Chakra and in addition to her Uzumaki vitality, it made her out of danger. It was only a matter of time before she recovered, but this was the last thing they had. The Kyubi was heading for the village and was beginning to wreak havoc.

"The Kyubi was released from Kushina, the wife of Yondaime Hokage, and is heading for the village!" - shouted a middle-aged man in a black suit and a samurai-style helmet. He was Hiruzen Sarutobi, Sandaime Hokage of Konohagakure.

"Something must have happened to Minato-kun and Kushina-chan" - thought Hiruzen - "Shit, I can't go see them or at least know how they are.. not with this problem"

Hiruzen was worried about Minato and Kushina. They were like children to him but he couldn't be at Naruto's birth just because Minato had to be there and someone had to do something about all that annoying paperwork.

"I'm too old for this" - Hiruzen thought - "At least it's a good place to read my Icha Icha without my wife discovering me"

Having a slight smile on his face, which faded from the approaching aura - "ALL SET! ATTACK!"

[With Minato and Kushina]

They didn't know what to do with this situation. They were both thinking about how to solve the Kyubi problem but every answer they gave was worse than the previous one.

"Kushina-chan... I may know how to stop the Kyubi... but I'm sure you won't like it" - said a scared Minato because he knew how his wife would get when she was angry.

"Tell me Minato-kun?" - The Redhead said to Minato with a smile, but that smile had a murderous aura stronger than all the acc.u.mulated hatred of the now liberated king of the Bijuus.

"E..etto... Well... Kushina-chan you know..." - Minato was sweating so much that if you saw him you'd say he was learning a new Jutsu Suiton.

"Talk the hell out of it!" - shouted Kushina - "Tell me your plan... Now!"

"Well... Why don't we reseal the Kyubi?" - Minato said to Kushina, but Kushina just punched him in the face - "Why?! Simple! We don't have a container!"

"I can't seal it in myself because I'm too weak and my vitality wouldn't stand up to a second seal! And only an Uzumaki can contain the entire Kyubi chakra, no...!" - exclaimed the redhead but understood what the blond Hokage meant - "No... Don't you dare, Minato Namikaze! You know very well what I went through by being the Jinchuriki of the Kyubi!"

"I know Kushina-chan... but understand that if we don't do this, the whole village will disappear" - Minato told Kushina in a firm tone - "Do you want to see all those people die?!"

"But Minato... our son will suffer" - Kushina said to him in a sadder tone because she knew he was right but couldn't give it to her because it was her own son's life. No mother could give such a heavy burden to her poor baby.

She tried to calm down but could not because in the distance it looked like smoke was coming out from the destruction of the Kyubi.

"Come on Minato-kun... We have to stop the Kyubi" - Kushina answered with a sad and somber tone.

[Back to the Village]

The destruction was done by the Kyubi no Yoko was somewhat superficial, whether by the instinct of the Kyubi itself or the efforts of the Konohakagure ninja, but they still could not stop the deaths.

Hiruzen did everything he could to try and stop the beast's advance and was able to do so thanks to the sacrifice of leaf ninjas. The losses were not great, but the sadness and anger of the people who lost their families could not be contained. Screams, insults, cries, all those emotions could not get out and they had no way to get even because the monster was too powerful to take revenge.

Minato, Kushina and a baby Naruto arrived near Hiruzen, who, seeing them, was finally able to relax a little.

"Hiruzen-sama," Minato said as he looked at the old Hokage, "I have an idea how I can stop the Kyubi but if anything goes wrong, I just hope you can take care of Naruto for me"

Hiruzen only took one look at his successor - "Don't worry Minato-kun, I planned to do it even if you didn't ask me"

"With that, I'm a little more relaxed" - the blond man nodded and then turned to his wife - "Kushi-chan... come on"

Hiruzen saw the couple and the baby heading towards the Kyubi and couldn't think out loud - " It couldn't be that..."

* * * * * *

As they ran toward the Kyubi, Kushina could not stop looking at Naruto who was in his arms.

"I'm sorry my Soshi... I'm sorry I have to give you this fate" - she looked at him with tears in her eyes - "But I can't let so many people die when I can do something to stop it ..."

Arriving at the Kyubi, Kushina left little Naruto in the safest place she could find, and then looked at the big nine-tailed beast in front of her.

"Kongo Fusa!" - Kushina shouted as chains came off her back. These chakra chains were the exclusive Fuinjutsu of the Uzumaki clan, their Kekkei Genkai.

Kurama could not move thanks to the seals that were used with the chains giving Minato time to make his move.

"Fuinjutsu: Shiki Fuujin!" - Minato said as a purple-skinned, white-haired, two-horned demon with a tantou in its mouth appeared, its body covered in a white robe next to a Buddhist prayer necklace.

The demon or Shinigami approached the Kyubi that was being held by the chains of Kushina, while its chakra was sealed inside the baby Naruto. He did not need to know what he was called to do, after all, it was 'written' in the contract when he was invoked.

"GRRRRR!" - grunted the Kyubi, as he began to come to his senses from the effect of the sealing.

"DAMN IT!" - He told Minato and Kushina - "I WILL NOT BE SEALED AGAIN!"

The Kyubi tried as best he could but to no avail as the chains were draining part of his chakra while the shinigami sealed it.

"Well done, as expected from Konoha's Kiiroi Senko," said the voice of the masked man, who appeared from the dimensional distortion.

Minato and Kushina could only see the Uchiha man approaching slowly because they could not stop their Jutsus. They were in the middle of their work and if they stopped, then they could harm their newborn son.

"Ho~? What a great family bond, I could almost cry from the feeling" - commented the Uchiha - "You know? I could hit one of you and make your Jutsus break, freeing the Kyubi in the process and damaging you at the same time... that would be quite dangerous and more so for the little tadpole over there".

"But..." - He went on to say as he walked towards them slowly - "It's more fun to see the look of despair as I slowly walk towards you"

"Hmm... I don't like to kill women first," muttered the masked Uchiha as he looked at Kushina. "It reminds me of the sadness I had losing the woman I loved and knowing it was for someone close to me"

Both Minato and Kushina could only bite their lips as they tried their best to speed up the process of their Jutsus.

"I'm going to give you the p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e of not seeing your loved ones die in front of you, Minato Namikase as you' ll all die together..." - continued the Uchiha - "Isn't that a beautiful way to die? Think about it, you will die together as a family, you may even remain so in the next life"

"Anyway, I'd better finish this," said the masked man to his listeners, "because a lot of people are coming."

As he finished saying his words the masked man used a bit of chakra to attack the Shinigami, interrupting the seal. This caused the Kyubi's chakra to get out of control.

"NO!" - Kushina shouted as tears began to stream from her eyes.

"Kukuku, it was a p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e to see you again Minato-san, perhaps in the next world you will discover who I am" - the masked Uchiha finished saying - "It is probably a forever"

That was the last thing they heard the Uchiha say before he disappeared into the dimensional distortion.

"Kushina-chan..." - Minato muttered as he fell to the ground with great injuries from the interruption of Jutsu.

". . ." - Kushina could say nothing. Her throat was sore from screaming, not to mention that her chakra was at critical levels and she could only move slightly.

But before Minato could say anything else, something changed. The incomplete seal of Naruto began to absorb the entire chakra near the site, including that of the Kyubi.

Kushina could only watch his son change slowly as Minato clenched his fist in fury. Neither of them knew what would happen after this, only that their son would not be the same. But what neither of them knew, however, was that among all the chakra Naruto had absorbed, there was something else, something that would change the fate of many people.

[In Naruto's soul]

"Hmm... Where am I?" - the boy asked himself as he looked around.

"I BELIEVE I COULD SAY THAT TO YOU, POOR MISFORTUNED SOUL... JAJAJA" - the boy could only tremble with fear at the sound of that voice full of malice. Slowly he turned to see the source of the voice, only to see an orange-red fox with nine tails - "Ku..ku..ku...Kurama?!"

"HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT NAME?!" - roared the Kyubi in fury - "TELL ME! OR I SWEAR I WILL DEVOUR YOUR SOUL IN THE SLOWEST AND PAINFUL WAY POSSIBLE!"

". . ." - the boy could only tremble with fear as he tried to organize his thoughts.

"YOU'RE GOING TO TALK OR I'M GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE THE TRUTH OUT OF YOU WHILE I DEVOUR YOUR LIMBS!" - roared the old Fox. The boy couldn't handle the pressure so he told him everything he knew.

Kurama slowly calmed down as he listened carefully to what the boy said. He was not afraid that I would lie to him because he could feel the boy's emotions.

" FATHER WAS RIGHT WITH THE YOGEN NO KO" - murmured Kurama as he analyzed the information he had received. He could not believe that in the future he would become friends with his jailer but the boy was not lying. Slowly his mind began to change as he analyzed more information.

"I'm sorry..." - the boy muttered - "It's quite obvious that that future no longer exists..."

". . ." - Kurama remained silent because he knew it was true. The changes were too great if they were in this place. He couldn't see the Soul of his original jailer anywhere, and that meant only one thing.

"IT CAN STILL BE FULFILLED..." - murmured the old Kitsune - " ONLY A SMALL ADJUSTMENT MUST BE MADE... AND I THINK THIS IS GOOD FOR ME TOO..."

"What do you mean?" - asked the boy with slight fear.

"DON'T WORRY... I'M NOT THINKING OF DOING YOU ANYTHING BAD" - said Kurama - " WHAT I WAS TRYING TO SAY IS THAT AT LAST, I WILL BE ABLE TO REST IN PEACE... NO MORE HATE, NO MORE PAIN, NO MORE LONELINESS"

"?" - the boy still didn't understand what he was trying to say.

"I GUESS IT'S OBVIOUS YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND..." - muttered the old fox - "I'LL EXPLAIN IT TO YOU. MY LIFE HAS NOT BEEN GOOD, KIT... SINCE FATHER DIED, HUMANS HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR MY BROTHERS AND ME TO BE NOTHING MORE THAN CHAKRA BATTERIES. WE WERE CREATED TO BE ABLE TO SAVE HUMANITY BUT WE WERE ONLY TREATED AS MINDLESS BEASTS, BEINGS WHO ONLY LIVE FOR DESTRUCTION..."

"THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME I WENT OUT OF MY SEAL, ONLY TO BE USED AS A WEAPON..." sighed Kurama - " I AM SICK OF ALL THIS... THAT'S WHY I SAY THIS SITUATION SUITS ME"

"YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT BUT WE ARE MIXING" - continued the fox - "IT WILL BE OUR BODIES FIRST AND THEN OUR SOULS...THIS WILL MAKE YOU PRACTICALLY A BIJUU OF FLESH AND BONES..."

". . ." - The boy didn't know how to react to this, especially when he heard what he said afterward - "NOT TO MENTION THAT IT SEEMS THAT THE SOUL OF NARUTO... HAS DISAPPEARED..."

"WHAT?!" - the boy couldn't believe his ears.

"AS I SAID, 'NARUTO'S SOUL IS NOT ON ANY SIDE" - sighed the old fox - "THIS ONLY MEANS THAT HE ENTERED THE REINCARNATION CYCLE OR SIMPLY DISAPPEARED BECAUSE HE COULD NOT RESIST THE PRESSURE OF YOUR SOUL AND A LARGE PART OF MY SOUL"

". . ." - the young man couldn't handle the guilt he was feeling. He had been responsible not only for the death of someone he wanted to be friends with but for the hero who would save the world.

" DON'T PUT THAT FACE, KIT" - said Kurama - "NOTHING IS COMPLETELY GOOD OR COMPLETELY BAD... EVEN IF THE GAKI IS GONE, YOU CAN TAKE ITS PLACE AND BRING PEACE TO THE WORLD"

"I don't think I can do it..." - murmured the boy with regret.

" YOU CAN DO IT, I KNOW BECAUSE YOU WILL SOON BE THE GREAT KYUBI NO YOKO" - smiled Kurama - "HMM... I THINK YOUR PERSONALITY HAS BEEN AFFECTING ME TOO MUCH... NORMALLY I WOULDN'T HAVE ACCEPTED EVERYTHING THIS WAY..."

"What should I do?" - murmured the boy.

"IF IT SERVES YOU AS A GOAL, YOU CAN SAVE MY, NO, OUR BROTHERS AND IN THE WAY FULFILL MY DREAM, ONE THAT I ALWAYS KEEP IN MY HEART BUT HID FOR THE FAULT OF HUMAN AVARICE" - sighed Kurama.

"What is it you wish?" - the boy asked.

"IT MAY SOUND IRONIC BUT I ALWAYS WANTED TO HAVE A FAMILY LIKE TOUSAN..." - murmured Kurama - "ONE THAT IS ALWAYS AT MY SIDE IN MY MOMENTS OF SOLITUDE..."

"LONELINESS IS THE WORST PARTNER TIME CAN HAVE" - said the old fox - "THAT IS WHY I ALWAYS WANT TO HAVE SOMEONE ON MY SIDE, SOMEONE WHO WILL TALK TO ME, WILL LOVE ME, WILL RESPECT ME, WILL NOT SEE ME AS THE MONSTER EVERYONE SAYS I AM..."

"I can be that someone who's with you... after all, we will be one entity..." - said the boy with a smile.

"Thank you," muttered the old fox, "but I think it's time to get out of here"

"I promise I will fulfill your dream Kurama" - said the boy as he hugged the fox. Kurama was surprised for a moment as no one had hugged him since the times when his father was alive.

"Is this what it feels like to have a cub?" - Kyubi wondered as he looked at the only human who did not look at him as a monster after he spoke. While they didn't have the best first impression, everything changed as they spoke. Kurama had begun to gain a certain affection for the boy because he could see that despite hiding it well, he too had lived a life full of suffering.

"I won't let you down Kurama! I'll be the strongest existence in the world and I'll have a great family!" - exclaimed the boy as his body began to glow again.

Kurama only smiled as never before in all these years as he shook his head - "I think you are not the only one who changed during this short time..."

The old fox had noticed how shy the boy was when he arrived, but thanks to his influence, he had gained new courage. On the other hand, Kurama had softened up even though he did not find this bad. He didn't exactly like being surrounded by dark feelings - "Good luck, Kit..."