Sage of Hearts

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"The connection of our hearts…" : Speech (Bold for yelling ,Bijuu, or massive creatures)

'The connection of our hearts…' : Thought

The Sage of Hearts

Valley of the End, Hi no Kuni

Humans are strange beings – blessed as they are with intelligence and the sentience to appreciate it, they are capable of changing their surroundings to suit their needs. This knowledge is a double edged sword however, as humans are forever cursed to be able to grow bored and accustomed to any condition they find themselves in. You could put a man in Heaven and he would probably be bored out of his mind after a while – the things we all take for granted all serve to tell us that yes, we always have something to lose.

So why the existential debate one might ask? Well for one Uzumaki Naruto, he was faced with quite the dilemma – after achieving his dream and ensuring peace for the ninja world, his greatest asset, his chakra, proved to be his undoing. What can a man do when he's simply too powerful to be contained safely on his world, nay his own universe? When Kurama fused with his other half and became whole once more, Naruto's power expanded exponentially and now as a twenty year old man, he found himself possessing chakra reserves matching or even exceeding the bijuu contained within him (don't even get him started on his Six Paths chakra- he was literally a god when using that power…Sasuke could use his fancy eyes whenever he wanted…life was truly unfair).

With his colossal reserves and equalized Yin-Yang chakra composition (fixing his 'lacking' mental faculties let's say), it didn't take him long into his training to become Hokage to realize that his mere existence was disrupting the material and Pure worlds. Needless to say, this left him quite anguished- he now had to find a way to dissipate his chakra without exploding, dying or some unholy combination of both. We now find the man of the hour in a ramshackle shed he had put together after his self imposed exile from Konoha (Hinata was distraught but the other ninja just figured that he was pulling a Sasuke before chaining himself to the Hokage seat and Kakashi allowed him to take some time off). Naruto was half naked in a meditative position in a massive seal array, his Death reaper seal glowing with a soft gold light as he slowly eased himself into Six Path Sage mode.

Mindscape

"I still think this is a foolish idea – why don't you just seal your excess chakra? This elaborate plan is too risky-even Father never attempted the same when he was the Juubi jinchuriki…" Kurama grumbled in annoyance as he looked down at Naruto, who was tiredly rubbing his hair.

"I understand your reservations there buddy but there's really no way to avoid this – as a bijuu, your chakra flows throughout the world and never really expands continuously. I can't do this naturally – my chakra keeps increasing as I grow and with Old Man Sage's power, my energy is straining the world…" Naruto said in a resigned voice as he opened his eyes, already in their characteristic glowing cross pupil form.

"While your connection to Nature has blessed you with more wisdom regarding this issue, you still need to remember that you're an impulsive brat. Maybe you're blowing all this out of proportion – this seal could kill you and if you're wrong, you can just go back to the village and become Hokage like you've been yelling about your whole life – that Hyuga girl also looks like potential mate material, certainly better than that Haruno…" Kurama said as he looked sad for a second but then quickly schooled his features.

"Always the tsundere act with you huh? I can't see another way to fix this issue anyway – the Death Reaper seal is not really holding you back anymore so if things go south, you will survive. I can't selfishly doom the world just so I can remain strong – Konoha can produce another Hokage candidate anyway. Besides, the seal only compresses and then dissipates my chakra- I will live but I will be much weaker. Hinata and I can try for a relationship after all this is done so no rush there." Naruto said as he could feel his chakra folding in on itself.

The process was two-fold, first compressing his chakra to make it denser (similar to a bijuu's in potency) before venting the energy in diffuse waves as natural chakra. He would then have a smaller resting chakra pool as he would be bleeding his chakra in a more 'recyclable nature'. While his Uzumaki heritage definitely helped with the seal design process, Kurama was right about one thing…

Naruto is and always will be…

…an impulsive bonehead (ahem…a GUTSY NINJA).

 As Naruto fully entered his Six Path sage mode, he suddenly stiffened – he couldn't move a muscle in his body and he could feel his consciousness being pulled into the seal with the rest of his chakra.

"Kurama! What's going on? I can't feel my body and my chakra is getting denser than I anticipated!" Naruto said as he could see Kurama was being expelled from his body.

"You reckless fool! Your chakra has become too dense to be contained in your body – you have effectively converted your own body into a Gedo Mazo! Your mind is latching onto your chakra but your body is no longer your own. You are slowly turning to a chakra ghost like Father was when he passed."  Kurama said as he facepalmed in exasperation.

"Well at least I wouldn't threaten the world with my existence this way…*sigh* Well maybe I can still appear to Sasuke and help him out if he ever encounters a great threat he can't face…" Naruto said, surprisingly level headed despite his situation.

"You don't understand Naruto…you are fading from this world even as we speak – I don't know where you'll end up but this is the last time you'll ever see this world…good bye kid. You were one of the few humans I actually liked , figures that you'd end up disappearing…" Kurama said as he hurriedly wiped a stray tear as he could see Naruto was turning ethereal as he spoke.

"Don't worry Kurama…wherever I end up, I will never lose heart – just live with all your might and I'll do the same, alright buddy?" Naruto said as he extended his hand for a final fist bump.

"Sure, Naruto. I'll tell the Hokage about your situation…after that, I think I'll make myself scarce for a while…maybe sleep for a century or so." Kurama said he bumped fists with Naruto.

And with a final grin, the hero of the Shinobi world vanished in a shower of sparkles, leaving his body as a pristine marble statue in his place. Where he'd end up next was a mystery but one thing was sure – it was only the start of a new adventure for Naruto and like any ninja hero, he would save the day and protect princesses.

Seeing as my Scarlet Nexus fanfic didn't get much interest, I decided to write this as well. I got the idea when I read that the young Naruto talked about protecting princesses back during the initial Tazuna meeting. So this Naruto will move from Disney world to world, helping and/or saving the princesses of said worlds. In typical Naruto fashion, he'll be stealing hearts left and right (Talk no jutsu for the win) and this will hopefully be a better read for you guys. Any advice or support would be welcome – I can be found on P-a-t-r-e-o-n under DudeWithaMac.