Back to the past, Believe it!

Ch.60 Black Zetsu

Naruto felt someone's eyes on his back. It made a shiver run down his spine.

Naruto turned from where he had perched on a tree branch. It had turned habit, since the whole Pein incident they had taken turns watching out for anything they didn't remember. Sasuke had actually been with Orochimaru, they both had the common interest of figuring out the time traveling jutsu.

Naruto stood where he was originally crouching. He remembered the chakra signature, but he couldn't place a finger on who it was.

"Who is there. Your not going around unnoticed." Naruto said calmly. There was a rustling around him, it seemed to come from all directions.

Naruto felt his heart beat quicken but it didn't bother him. "I won't ask again." Naruto's eyes narrowed dangerously. Many people had found out the hard way that he really wasn't the old Naruto everyone knew.

He didn't joke often, he didn't smile much unless it was around Sasuke or Shikamaru, he didn't prank anyone. He was a person with war PTSD.

Finally, after what seemed to be eternity, a branch creature emerged beside him. Naruto felt his heart stop and the heat of chakra forming around himself.

Before Zetsu even had time to speak he was grabbed by the neck and Naruto's own chakra surrounded him.

Black zetsu coughed and choked at Naruto's grasp. If Zetsu was human, and Naruto let go, his neck would be black and blue from the sheer force of Naruto's grip.

The black zetsu made attempts to speak or to get Naruto off. Even tried wood style jutsu, but Naruto didn't budge not a breath escaped Naruto's lips.

You could even tell. This hadn't been the black zetsu that would have been from this time. There were occasional reports of sighting of black zetsu. He had been making rash moves panicked ones even. Zetsu's original plan was crumbling before his eyes. And soon, his precious mother, Kaguya would not be revived.

Naruto felt his malice and pure hatred in the chakra that surrounded him and zetsu. He made sure that zetsu felt every ounce of it as well. Black zetsu finally got Naruto off of him, well, Naruto grip was no longer on his neck, more on his torso.

"I wanted to tell you something." Zetsu finally said speaking through wheezes and gasps for breathe. Naruto didn't respond. Naruto's gaze pierced through black zetsu.

Zetsu made a quiet wince sound but continued regardless. "The Jutsu that the nine tails used." Naruto was silent, but he was intrigued.

Zetsu smiled when he noticed Naruto's interest. "I'm sure your more than aware that the Jutsu didn't come without a price. Not just simple chakra exhaustion." Naruto's eyes narrowed. Of course he knew that. All of them did. But what was Zetsu's point?

Zetsu's smile quickly disappeared as Naruto looked at Zetsu again. "You've aged considerably. Though not obvious." Despite how scary the words might have sounded to anyone else, Naruto didn't really mind them.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Naruto finally spoke. His voice was low and quiet every word dripping with malice and hatred.

This Zetsu guy, had killed all of his friends and those he considered family. He easily felt Kurama's own hatred fusing with his own. It took everything Naruto had to not try and kill Zetsu or seal him right here and now.

"It means how many years you traveled back here, is how much you aged, same goes for me. Same goes for your friends. Same goes for the nine tailed fox." There was a look of victory on Zetsu's face when he told Naruto this.

Naruto felt his hand falter but went back to gripping Zetsu so he couldn't escape. "Why... Why should I believe you?" Zetsu's smile only widened. "Do you really believe that I would make something like this up?" Naruto stared at Zetsu. "I have every reason to believe your lying." Zetsu scoffed but it was cut short by the tightening of Naruto's grip.

"Your getting cocky." Naruto felt the aura around him strengthen. It was Kurama, now he was angry, much more than Naruto was, if that was even possible. Though, if you were a tailed beast originally known for its hatred I bet this is a mere fraction of what Kurama can feel.

Though, that was almost confirmation that Zetsu was not lying. "Why tell me this?" Naruto spoke again. "Doesn't it bother you? That Kurama lied to you?" Naruto thought for a moment.

"No." Zetsu's face faltered. Was this his whole reason for coming here? "Man... You really are getting desperate." Naruto laughed to himself. Zetsu's face contorted to disgust and fear.

"Even if that was presented to me in the beginning. I would still have taken the chance to go back to the past anyway." Naruto said with a smirk.

Several black lines started to contort they're way over Zetsu's body, turning white when it hit the black side of his body. Naruto let the action continue. It had been Kurama's doing. Naruto didn't know what it did, nor did he really care.

Both of them had the same idea. To shut this creature up for the rest of it's pathetic life.

Zetsu's body contorted in ways not thought possible as he reacted to the seal that was stretching across his body. Then Naruto felt a burning in his body.

Every chakra nerve in his body screamed at him to move. But he didn't. He accepted Kurama's decision. The black part of Zetsu's body started to shrink and entered through Naruto's palm. It had been painful, beyond belief it had been excruciating. But Naruto did not make a sound.

Once the process was over he felt his body falter and he fell into a crouched position. He was on one of the highest branches in all the leaf, he couldn't fall.

Naruto summoned some of Kurama's chakra and took out the white Zetsu that remained. In a way he kinda felt bad for the white Zetsu.

"What... What did you do?" Naruto's gaze finally darkened.