Yellow Shadows

YELLOW SHADOWS 01- Mission To The Past

Notes:

A basic understanding of the movie plot would help with this since I'm not really changing much in that regard. I just wanted these characters to talk to each other dammit.
Also, unless I'm remembering this incorrectly, I'm sure it's implied that Naruto knows who his father is in this movie, so that's what I'm rolling with. The farewell scene at the end kills me T_T

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Spires and towers rise up over the city, dark stone and clay spiralling up to the sky. From the desert they seem to have grown, a forest of jagged architecture and twisting metal pipes. Sun motifs decorate every building and Naruto covers his eyes from the light as he looks up to the tallest tower. Great, arching windows and kaleidoscopic glass blink multi-coloured light down upon him. He grimaces as his eyes water, looking away. The streets below are sun-baked and empty; maybe the people have sought refuge from the late afternoon heat. He can't blame them. He tugs at his jacket, wishing the mesh vest beneath was cool. He certainly doesn't recognise this place but it feels like the Land of Wind; hot and dry, with sand weighing down the air. He was in the Land of Wind when Mukade released the Fourth's sealing jutsu, so perhaps the jutsu didn't transport him too far. He doesn't remember seeing a city like this amidst the ruins of Rōran, though. It's true that he doesn't pay much attention to Tsunade's briefings but an entire civilisation is no small detail - right?

"Who am I kidding," Naruto sighs, slumping forward. Given that the Fourth was adept in space-time manipulation and Naruto's luck is - well - Naruto's luck, he's probably somewhere dumb like a different dimension.

He grumbles to himself, swinging his legs over the edge of the walkway, high, high above the ground. At his waist, his chakra-blade sits cumbersome and heavy, and Yamato's sigh of why didn't you use it? rings in Naruto's ears. From his supplies pouch he pulls an assortment of blunt shuriken, soldier pills from Sakura, a lucky cat figurine that Yamato created with his wood style, four coupons for Ramen Ichiraku, his frog wallet, and finally a small map. He stuffs everything but the map back into the bag, and then unfolds the map with great difficulty until he finds the crease-lines running through the Land of Wind. A terrible doodle of Gaara glowers up at him. He smiles at it, sure that Gaara has already heard of the disappearance of Konohan shinobi in his land. There was a small team of Suna shinobi exploring the ruins as well, but Naruto doesn't remember what they were doing while Team Kakashi were hunting Mukade down.

He hopes everyone else is okay. Sai's ink falcon is a vague flash in the back of his mind so maybe some of his team escaped the sealing jutsu. If they didn't, then Naruto's priority must be to find them. They can work out where this place is together and then they can hunt Mukade down and beat his face in for messing with the Fourth Hokage's seal.

"All right!" Naruto says, plan decided. He somewhat-folds and shoves the map back into his supplies pouch. "Come on, go in -"

A flash of purple catches his eye. He rolls out of the way just as a sphere of light hurtles past and smashes into the nearby tower, shattering brick and rubble down onto the bridge. Another ball of light soon follows, whizzing by like a colossal rasengan before fizzling out from sight. Across the bridge, a doorway cranks open to reveal three armoured men - or what Naruto assumes to be men; they're human-shaped but far too large, and their bulging armour looks to be made of stone. Abandoning the map, he leaps up and yanks a kunai from his holster, blocking the claw-like blade from the first of the soldiers that charges towards him. The other two circle around, gliding rather than walking, and when they step from the bridge and fire another purple-fire blast, they quite literally hover over the ground.

"The hell!?"

Naruto veers back, chakra-jumping to the tower to put some distance between him and the soldiers. Their heads follow him with slow, cranking sounds; their eyes are pupil-less, their faces stone. Their hands spin like machines and their many blades clash together as they chase him over the bridge. He yelps and leaps for another walkway, forming a shadow clone into existence. It shares his look of incredulity as the three soldiers fly after them. One flimsy kunai doesn't seem like much of a weapon anymore but Naruto bolsters himself and lands hard on the next bridge, rolling off the impact with the kunai ready in his hand.