The Future: Naruto Fanfiction

Chapter 67 QUIET BEFORE THE STORM

The Pocket World

Peterson and Sheer stand at the edge of the pocket world, at the last camp that will ever be made within it. Indeed, the plan is to leave for their world, to take all the villagers with them for their protection. If they don't return, if there aren't enough people left to return to this world, if they simply decide to remain in the other world, then this pocket world will never again have human occupants. Each one of them is dead, save for the villagers and shinobi of the Hidden Leaf and the few survivors of the Hidden Sand village. Perhaps it was always destiny that this world would end in that way.

Clyde looks at the camp around him and then to the portal at the head of the camp. This spot had been chosen deliberately. This portal must have been the entrance that Lara and her followers used to enter the pocket world. It is their ticket back to the homeworld. It is the door they will go through to fix all their issues. Clyde and his subordinates had planned to smuggle Naruto through this door during the previous conflict, so that he alone may attempt to tackle the injustice beyond. That is no longer necessary, circumstances have placed them in an ironic position where they are stronger than they ever thought they would be when this moment came. They are going through the portal and they will be taking a small army with them.

Clyde takes in a deep breath of air and smiles.

"Is something getting to you sir" Peterson asks.

"Do you realise what we're doing?" comes the reply. "We're taking on Furst Jonas. We're taking on Emperor Furst! And logically I'm well aware that this is a bad idea but I'm excited. We're doing something right for a change. No matter what, I feel like I'm not going to regret that".

Sheer nods. It's a fantastic feeling that she is all too familiar with. Not too long ago, she lamented their fate as the cursed children. Too afraid to stand up to daddy. Now things have been turned around completely by an enormous collective effort. An effort unintentionally spearheaded by one young man. Naruto.

"It's something to be proud of, this crazy thing we're doing" Sheer agrees, "We can't really take too much credit. We simply followed the example set to us by these locals. But we are the first military group to rebel against the new emperor. So hopefully this will be the rebellion that brings him down".

"We've been blessed haven't we" Peterson says.

"Oh?".

"I'm sure you remember us describing ourselves as cursed. How we hated what had happened to us. Resenting the circumstances, we had matured in but having no way to reject them. But we have been saved from our own helplessness, and by our own victim no less, if that's not blessed I don't know what is".

It is good fortune, if nothing else, that this has happened to this group of pocket-world invaders. Other groups of survivors have violently rejected the people of their homeworld when given the choice. The group headed up by Hashirama, by Boruto and by Tao Ma. Each man and woman in that group aims to kill them, not to show mercy on them. A stark contrast to the people of the Hidden Leaf Village currently allied with them.

"He's quite something, that Uzumaki Naruto".

"I never should have asked you to keep him in that prison" Clyde says after a pensive moment of silence. "I fought him, yet I underestimated his strength and his value. I thought of him as something to protect. Something to protect, ha, Naruto is the heart and soul of rebellion already. He isn't a child we are waiting on to grow, he's already an adult".