The twist, Naruto after discovering the sword is developing powers and abilities that has never been seen before in the Shinobi world for good or evil Naruto will become the Emperor of the Elemental Nations of the Shinobi Nations bringing law order and justice and bringing a new age of peace and prosperity an age where there is no more war no more bloodshed and no more child soldiers being sent off to their deaths he's still the same Naruto but he is slowly changing into a man that nobody recognizes a man that has the iron will and the necessary evil to do what has to be done to save the world from being destroyed from its own ignorance and stupidity.
The bolter fire had stopped. The bridge over Wave was quiet now except for the wind and the slow lap of the tide against the pylons, and the golden warriors were gone, folded back into the blade like light swallowed by a fist.
Naruto stood at the center of it, twelve years old again, no armor, only the sword. Holy Talon rested point-down against the planks, and where its tip touched the wood a faint gold shimmer spread and faded.
Sasuke would not look away from him. Sakura had her back to a support beam, breathing in careful counts, her medic's mind trying to file what she had seen and failing. Kakashi came forward slowly, one hand loose at his side, the visible eye steady.
"Naruto," Kakashi said. "Talk to me."
"I'm still me," Naruto said. His voice cracked on the last word, and for a heartbeat he was just the boy who ate too much ramen. Then something behind his eyes settled, older and heavier. "I promise I'm still me, Kakashi-sensei. But I heard things. Down there. The dragon showed me things."
Inside him, the presence stirred. Aragon did not speak in words so much as pressure, a golden weight against the walls of his heart. Burn it, the pressure said, when Naruto thought of the village that had let him starve, that had spat at him, that had trained children to die for old men's grudges. Burn the leaf and let the ash be a warning.
Naruto had refused. He kept refusing, every hour, and the refusing was the hardest thing he had ever done.
"There's a war coming," he told his team. "Not this one. A bigger one. The dragon says the whole world is a war that never stops. Kids like me get made into weapons. Villages point kunai at each other for a hundred years and call it peace when they're only reloading." He swallowed. "He wants me to end it. All of it."
"End it how?" Sakura whispered.
Naruto looked at the red paste that had been Gato, at the villagers wandering dazed with borrowed axes still in their hands, and he understood that ending things was not clean. Ending things had a smell.
"By ruling it," he said quietly.
Sasuke's laugh was sharp and humorless. "You. Emperor."
"Not because I want a throne." Naruto met his eyes. "Because I've seen what happens when there isn't one. You want to kill your brother. Your whole life is one revenge. Sakura almost quit being a ninja today because she saw what being a ninja actually is. And Kakashi-sensei carries so many dead people he can't even look at me without seeing my dad." Kakashi flinched, and Naruto's voice gentled. "I'm not blaming you. Any of you. The system did that. I want to break the system."
"Systems don't break gently," Kakashi said. "You saw that. Right here. Empires are built on graves, Naruto. Every single one."
"Then I'll build mine on fewer graves than the alternative." Naruto's jaw tightened. "Do the math, Kakashi-sensei. You fought two wars. How many dead? How many more when the next one starts, and the next? The dragon showed me numbers. Whole countries. If I do nothing, they die anyway, slow, over years, and everyone shrugs because that's just how it is."
He lifted the sword. It did not thirst now. It waited.
"I can stop it. But I have to become something to do it. And I'm scared of what that something is."
That was the true confession, and it landed harder than any speech. The boy was afraid of himself.
Kakashi crossed the last few steps and, to everyone's surprise, dropped to one knee so his eye was level with Naruto's. "Then here is the only advice I have that's worth anything," he said. "Aragon wanted to burn the Leaf and you told him no. Hold onto that. The day you stop telling him no is the day you've lost, no matter how many wars you've won. An emperor who can still refuse his own power is a king. One who can't is a monster wearing a crown."
Naruto stared at him for a long moment. Then he nodded, once, and something in his chest unknotted.
"I need you to teach me," Naruto said. "All of you. Not jutsu. That." He gestured vaguely at Kakashi's chest, at the place where all his ghosts lived. "How to carry the dead without letting them make me cruel. The dragon knows war. He doesn't know that."
Inside him, Aragon rumbled, and for the first time Naruto felt something like the great beast's grudging respect. The champion had refused the easy fire and asked instead for the harder thing.
They walked back to the village together as the sun went down over the ocean, staining the water the color of the blade's gold light.
Over the years that followed, the boy grew into the promise and the fear both.
He did not conquer with the Thunder Dragon Warriors, though he could have. He learned quickly that a throne taken by slaughter would rot from the day it was raised. Instead he did smaller, stranger things. When the Chunin Exams turned to invasion and the Sand and Sound descended, he did not annihilate them. He raised a wall of golden light around the entire village and simply held it, immovable, until every attacker's chakra had guttered out against his nullifying aura, and then he offered the exhausted Sand a treaty instead of a grave. He gave the Sand water rights, grain, physicians. He made an enemy into a debtor, and then into a friend.
One by one the villages learned what he was. One by one they sent assassins, and one by one those assassins woke in soft beds having been disarmed rather than killed, with a letter beside them inviting their masters to talk. It unnerved the Kage more than butchery would have. Butchery they understood. Mercy from a man who could butcher them was a language they had never been taught.
He abolished the academy graduation exam that sent children to die and replaced it with an age of eighteen and a war he intended no one to have to fight. Old lords screamed that he was destroying tradition. He let them scream. He was, after all, still Naruto, and he grinned at them exactly the way he had grinned at bullies as a boy, right before he proved them wrong.
But the change was real, and his friends saw it. There were nights Sakura, now the finest healer in the Nations, would find him alone with the sword across his knees, staring at nothing, and she would sit with him and neither would speak. There were mornings Sasuke, who had given up his revenge because the man who ended all wars had also, quietly, brought him the truth of his clan and a justice that did not require his own damnation, would spar with him and find the boy he remembered buried deeper each year beneath the weight of the crown.
"You're becoming someone I don't recognize," Sasuke told him once, not unkindly.
"I know," Naruto said. "Tell me when I stop being able to refuse him. Promise me you'll tell me."
"I promise," said Sasuke. And Kakashi promised, and Sakura promised, and that circle of promises became the truest wall around the throne, stronger than any golden barrier the sword could raise.
So the Emperor of the Elemental Nations ruled, and there was no more war, and no more child soldiers, and no more graves dug for grudges. And every single day, in the quiet of his own heart, he told the dragon no, and remained a man.
Transformative fan fiction. The Chronicles of Naruto: The rise of the Dragon Emperor. Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, Kakashi Hatake also Known as Team 7 were on a mission in Wave country helping the bridge builder Tazuna their contract With him was protect the bridge builder connecting the Wave Country bridge connecting to wave country and the Land of Fire Country to build strong relations and trade agreements completely unaware that this mission will change the fate of the Naruto universe forever because in this critical chapter Naruto will accidentally discover a sword of tremendous power and transcend almost to godhood and reshape the course of the history of the ninja world forever for good or evil this world would change forever the ninja of Naruto will engage a brand new style of warfare that has not experienced before war as they know it will be completely reshaped by Naruto's will Naruto is a guardian to save the ninja world from a great evil far darker and far more sinister than anything that this ninja world has ever seen before and that evil is known as the evil sword Death Fang. Naruto discovered the Holy sword Holy Talon by accident During the Wave country mission Naruto was trying his best to protect his friend Sasuke that was Almost about to be killed when Naruto interfered and saved his life but in the process he was badly injured and thrown into a river leading to the ocean underneath the bridge and in this moment fate will forever change the ninja world forever it was in this very moment when Naruto was barely conscious and sinking to the bottom of the ocean refusing to die and trying his best to fight back That is when he discovered a strange looking sword that looked ancient and futuristic at the same time with a super sharp blade on one side and serrated teeth on the other that can tear flesh from bone and Naruto reached with his hands and touched the hilt of the sword and a surge of energy courts through Naruto's body and his wounds were healed and slowly & steadily a Cocoon like barrier surrounded Naruto giving him pregnancy of oxygen but also healing his wounds and Transforming Naruto with magical energies and genetic and cybernetic enhancements forever changing Naruto's physical body forever making him stronger faster and deadlier and smarter. From within Naruto Mind within his very mind body and soul he was in a realm between realms where time and space are concepts that are both familiar and foreign at the same time And in the center of a golden light was a gigantic golden dragon with green eyes searching Naruto's soul testing him to find out if he worthy to wield a powerful relic from another world that is not native to the ninja world of Shinobi that this sword is from a reality drenched in war in blood and endless conflict determining the balance of power and maintaining the balance of light and darkness that good shall always triumph over evil the great golden dragon Looked at Naruto with a single glance and seeing a conflicted soul on one hand Naruto was more than worthy to wield this sword because it was his destiny to find the sword and wielded tremendous power for good and always standing up for what is right helping those in need and standing up for law order and justice and everyone being treated as equals regardless of race and nationality However it also a spark of darkness within Naruto It is not Naruto himself but the entity of the Nine tailed fox that was sealed within him when he was just a baby and the great dragon saw all of the pain and suffering the boy He suffered through his entire life and being lied to & manipulated the great golden dragon Aragon the name of the dragon was Beyond Furious He was extremely to burn the Hidden Leaf Village to the ground killing every man woman and child to serve as a constant reminder and a strong warning to the other Hidden Villages To never let children like Naruto suffer the way he suffered and most importantly Aragon the great Golden Dragon has decided that this shinobi world needed a new ruler to rule them all for good for far too long this shinobi world has been drowned in blood and an endless cold civil war making children soldiers and a never ending arms race against one another regardless of their reasonings Aragon the Great Golden dragon has decided that this should know we world much changed for the better rather it wants to or not but it will having biting its time to build a strong foundations Of building a mighty empire that no one would dare challenge an empire led by Naruto Aragon will not interfere with Naruto's destiny but he will slightly guide Naruto on the proper path of becoming an emperor but slowly and steadily he will be teaching Naruto how to be a proper warrior and being properly taught both in the warrior ways of the Samurai of Bushido and the ancient Templar Knights within his reality. After Aragon has made his decision to make this boy Naruto his champion as well as the new ruler of this reality and world of shinobi Aragon given Naruto the blessing of wielding the holy Sword holy Talon and in that moment Naruto's physical body including his mind body and soul was being transformed from the inside out the seal within Naruto containing the nine tailed fox also known as Kurama was strengthened 10,000 fold to keep any evil forces and evil intentions from the fox completely inert making sure no evil influences from the fox could poison the boy Aragon could have removed the fox entirely but in doing so it would kill Naruto so it decided not to for now until they found another way to safely remove the fox without killing Naruto during the transformation Naruto looked like a 25 year old man with thick muscles throughout his entire body and wearing a futuristic power armor suit that looks like a cross fusion of power armor suit designs from Warhammer 30K/40K mixed with Halo, Starship Troopers, Fallout 4 and Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty. When Naruto fully awakened in reality in his world of shinobi his conscious mind was still in a air bubble beneath waters of the ocean and when he emerged out of the water like a speeding bullet Including seeing a tremendous energy in a form of a great golden dragon behind him as he crashed landed in a perfect landing superhero pose between his friends and the enemy shinobi and mercenaries and bandits from Gato's mercenaries and criminals At first there was a state of confusion The members of Team 7 Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, Kakashi Hatake Are having mixed feelings and reactions of seeing Naruto Sasuke and Sakura are seeing Naruto in an Different light They see him alive and well but he looked older between an adult and a teenager with thick muscles throughout his entire body and wearing some sort of futuristic primitive armor protecting his vital organs and seeing some sort of energy barrier protecting him and wielding a strange sword that was magnificent and beautiful but also slightly terrifying sensing a powerful aura of that was thirsting for the blood of criminals those who are stained with the blood of innocents and deserve retribution and extermination with extreme prejudice showing no pity no mercy and not a shred of remorse to those who are beyond hope and redemption and those who committed unspeakable crimes. As for Kakashi Hatake from his Point of view He was seeing his old master once again but in the form of his student Naruto that looked almost looked like a spinning image of his biological father that happens to be a sensei At that same moment he felt both pride and shame and guilt and also feeling a tremendous feeling of terror and fear from the sword almost as if the sword judged him for his past sins and craving his blood and dying 1000 deaths each one far worse than the last Basically a living hell for all of the mistakes he made and not being there for Naruto where he should be this feeling of absolute judgment and dreaded within his mind body and soul was terrifying him to his very core and he has to make up but for some reason Sword will not kill him at least not yet At least for him to prove himself worthy to be a proper master and teacher to Naruto to redeem himself if that's possible. As for the Criminal crime lord Goto he & his Band of Mercenaries and criminals were completely dumbstruck at first but they had the sheer numbers and weapons believing they can easily win the fight completely unaware that this is gonna be a one sided massacre of horrors A butcher shop of horrors straight out of their darkest nightmares. Naruto using the moment of distraction Raised his newly acquired sword raised out into the and a great golden light with silver Gray light coming in from it as well and out of the blue three hundred and eighty five warriors appeared out of nowhere and each and every single one of them are absolutely terrifying They look an army that can Completely massacre an entire battalions of enemies single handedly each of these warriors stood 12 feet tall clad in power armor suits and wielding some sort of futuristic primitive bolter rifle and the look in their eyes that were like a deep dark Crimson red with snake like slit and on their chest was a symbol of a golden dragon with in the clouds with Thunder and lightning bolts with it in its claws raining down death upon the enemies of humanity and all the forces of good and showing no mercy to its enemies. The warriors that Naruto Summoned out of nowhere are known as the Thunder Dragon Warriors known for their savage brutality on the battlefield but also for their cunning nature and surgical precision showing no pity no mercy and not a shred of remorse to their enemies who commit unspeakable crimes against innocent civilians unlike some of their brothers these warriors are not just shock troopers they are also the sledgehammer and surgical knife against the enemies of good. The Thunder Dragons warriors shoulder their weapons They're weapons that look like a crossfusion design of an AK-47 and M-16 Assault rifle & an Warhammer 30k/40k heavy bolter rifle with a drum magazine carrying at least 285 rounds of high velocity armor piercing explosive rounds They aim their weapons straight at the incoming surge of enemy combatants of shinobi warriors and bandits and mercenaries and with a single twitch of the finger all 385 warriors of the Thunder Dragons opened fired and their weapons made a loud bang that sounded like Thunder and lightning within the first 12 ranks of the enemy shinobi of mercenaries and bandits and criminals were cut down like pigs to the slaughterhouse of horrors They exploded Some of them were literally disintegrated and half of their bodies missing from explosions and evaporations for a brief moment everything was frozen in place as almost as if time and space was frozen at that exact moment The mercenaries and bandits of the Shinobis under the command of Goto's criminal empire were completely frozen in absolute sheer terror and fear. Goto’s Criminals mercenaries and hired Bandit shinobi criminals were completely dumb struck and stricken with horror and some of them actually threw up of seeing the absolute carnage before them Half of them were running away in fear but some of the more brave or perhaps foolish and completely stupid under the payroll of the criminal underworld criminal empire of Goto's paychecks they attempted to continue forward Trying to fulfill their honor and contract with the criminal Empire's leaders Gato but unfortunately they had absolutely no idea the sheer carnage before them some of them tried to use their limited training of shinobi arts but for some strange and bizarre reason their abilities and their chakra was being blocked like their ability to use their to use their shinobi arts and Nijitsu was completely nullified like completely unable to use their power and abilities and that made them even more vulnerable to psychological warfare of the Thunder Dragon Warriors because they have this special power and ability to make them extremely deadly on the battlefield using their natural ability of nullification just somehow blocking the power and abilities of the ninjas that were hired by Gato after the initial shock was over half of Gato mercenary army was fleeing for their very lives running away while some were rushing ahead blindly trying to take the upper hand but failed miserably after another volley of bolter of compressed energy and projectile based weapons projectiles completely massacred the second wave of mercenaries cutting them down like we to the scythe also lambs to the slaughter house of horrors after the initial volleys were over the thunder Dragon Warriors took their turn to charge Drawing out their own close combat weapons of swords battle ax and a whole variety of other deadly close quarter weapons that can cut cleanly through tear apart flesh and bone with a single strike and other such instruments of horrors that can completely massacre enemies humanity with a single strike. From the Points of view from Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, Kakashi Hatake They were witnessing a one sided slaughterhouse of horrors and sakura wanted to puke her guts out both figuratively and literally of seeing so much death and carnage in a single day She was training to be one day a medical ninja but seeing this level of carnage before her she was reconsidering her ideas of even becoming a ninja in the first place maybe even quitting seeing this level of carnage this savage barbarity this was not a war in history books that she remembered This was Meccai's butchery on a scale that she would never comprehend She just stood there frozen unable to move and witnessing the horrors before her very eyes that these warriors that were on her side at least from her point of view at least they were fighting for protecting innocent civilians and helping those in need but seeing them completely go absolute berserk and savage on the Bandits and mercenaries and enemy shinobi was like witness something straight out of your worst nightmares the bandits and mercenaries and shinobi We're getting butchered getting gutted Impaled their spines being ripped out as well as their hearts being crushed and their skulls being cracked like eggs Seeing this carnage before her she was paper thin clothes of fainting and passing out and having psychological trauma from that day to the rest of her days. As for the Point of view from Kakashi Hatake He has been in several conflicts before and even fought in several shinobi battles and conflicts even two shinobi wars but this was Something he will never comprehend This was in war as he knew it This wasn't a battle of shinobi This was something straight out of his darkest nightmares This was a one sided massacre even though they were technically outnumbered but the sheer level of devastation and explosions and sheer psychological warfare and some strange ability these warriors had to nullify they enemy shinobis ninjutsu was something completely alien and foreign and seeing the carnage before him was terrifying For some strange reason these warriors were using unseen ability to completely nullify their enemy's powers and abilities making them extremely valuable to be easily slaughtered this was not a battle this was not a war this was nothing like anything that he had seen before This was something else completely This was a war beyond imagination This was a war of extermination A one sided slaughterhouse of horrors in this one sided massacre will forever be scarred into his memories for the rest of his days and could not comprehend the coming wars yet to come and he cannot begin to imagine what wars that will come from this one sided Slaughter. During the Battle of the Slaughterhouse of Horrors one of the Thunder Dragons warriors a commanding officer by the looks of his armor plating was more ornate and more golden and silver was gathering the last remaining survivors of the criminals and enemy shinobi and mercenaries even though they all threw down their weapons the enemy shinobi and Criminals and mercenaries They were all begging and pleading for mercy to be let go and attempting to bribe them whether for money or valuables they had on them the Towering Thunder Dragon Warrior commanding Officer look down on these scumbags and criminals with absolute hatred and contempt he grabbed one of the enemy shinobi literally by the head and lifted him up and speaking in a loud foreign language that nobody understood they can understand like bits and pieces of what he was saying but nobody understood in the foreign language of the Thunder Dragon Warriors the commanding officer of the Thunder Dragon Warriors said these words. Mercy Mercy you dare ask for mercy for what you were about to do to the innocent civilians to wave country you were about to raid plunder and pillage their homes for whatever they had You dare ask for mercy which you would have given nothing back in return you asking to be spared after what you did to these villagers you will get no mercy no pity no mercy and not a shred of remorse from your kind Your kind is a cancer a disease a plague upon this realm people like you are the scum of the earth taking what you want and giving back nothing And did any of you show a shred of humanity did any of you show a shred of compassion or understanding or a show of restraint to the innocent civilians which you haunted and preyed upon and thus you will get no mercy You deserve only extermination and death. The commanding officer of the Thunder Dragon Warriors Simply closed his hand and crushing the enemy shinobi's head like an egg spilling his eye core and brains and shattered skull into the ground with a wave of his other hand 36 Thunder Dragon Warriors with assault rifles with built in grenade launchers that look like flamethrowers They which they were like a combined element of a machine gun and a flamethrower They activated the flamethrower mode and basically burned the bandits and mercenaries including the enemy Shinobi burning them all alive some of them were being gunned down impaled and skinned alive however Goto the Crime Lord Bandit was getting a poetic justice for his punishment for all of the crimes he committed and everything he did to this village of wave country. Goto with Broken arms and broken legs and a broken jaw was dragged with a hook in his shoulder blade literally being dragged to the village of wave country by one of the towering Thunder Dragon Warriors the commanding officer himself to be Executed by the hands of the villagers which he personally suffered by his hands poetic justice at its finest giving the death penalty by the hands of the people that he may suffer for years. One of the Thunder Dragon Warriors a Lieutenant Commander by the looks of him dragging several weapons of the Enemy weapons including The civilians own weapons for protecting themselves grabbing a Cortana like sword and placing in the feet of a 12 year old child boy that happens to be Tazuna Grandson He wanted to stop the Thunder Dragon Warriors for forcing his grandson to kill the man responsible but the Thunder Dragon Warrior stopped him and looked him dead in the eye and said in a foreign language And yet the language strangely was trying to speak the native language of the shinobi world speaking in a firm tone that justice demands blood This man is responsible for making your life your grandson's life and the lives of your village complete hell The years of pent up anger and rage needs to be vented For too long this village has been under the boot heel of this criminal but no more Take your vengeance take your justice take everything this man took from you and finally get your revenge At first the boy Tazuna Grandson was hesitant at first But all of his suppressed anger his rage his fury his desire to finally avenge his father's death and take it out upon the man responsible for taking everything from him And so the boy grabbed the Cortana like sword walking straight up to Goto and without a shred of hesitation Tazuna's grandson With all of his strength swing the sword like a baseball bat cutting off Gptos head The man responsible for taking his father's life was finally over but his fury and anger and rage was not done with blinding he used the sword to cut up and stab and penetrate the body of Goto's body trying to cut it up to pieces Not long after one by one the starting with the younger members the children no older than 12 or 18 or younger walked up and grabbed swords axes and Spears and pitchforks and the elderly doing the same walking up to Gotos body and butchering it, It was in this very moment that every single man woman and child of the Wave Country Village was venting out their anger their rage their fury their bottled up emotions against the man responsible for making their lives a living hell both vigorously and literal and when they were finally done and Goto's body was Nothing more and nothing less than a grind up thin red paste The villagers finally got their revenge and their sense of justice and yet for some strange reason they were not truly satisfied. The villagers of the Wave Country Village finally got their revenge and finally venting out their pent up rage and suppressed emotions that they bottled up for years and grinding up the body to a thin red paste making sure that every last trace of the man responsible for making their lives a living hell pay dearly even though he was already dead and his body was grinded up to a thin red paste and eventually the last remain bits of body was burned with fire even though they in some way they finally got their satisfaction of revenge and a sense of justice they were still unsatisfied. After the Thunder Dragon Warriors completed their mission of completely exterminating the enemy forces of bandits mercenaries and enemies shinobi All 385 of the Thunder Dragon Warriors disappeared in a golden and went straight to Naruto's sword and went into it as for Naruto still in his new body looking like a demigod of war with thick muscles throughout his entire body and wearing a futuristic primitive Suit of Power armor Naruto using his sword Holy Talon to summon 12 bags in all 12 of them contained gold silver and highly valuable jewelry that is worth a fortune in the shinobi world he gave 8 Bags to Wave Country Village as payment for the mission being fully complete and their village now had the money and resources Not only from what Naruto summoned but also Goto's Criminal empire fortune was given to Wave Country Village They were now extremely rich capable of buying resources they need to fix and rebuild their lives As for the remaining four bags of gold jewelry and silver they were given to Team Seven as payment for completing the Wave Country mission after everything was settled and everything was settling down Naruto reverted back to his 12 year old self but still having thick muscles throws entire body but no longer wearing a suit of power armor. Naruto was Still the same old Naruto A complete blockhead knucklehead goofball but still the Golden Boy that always wanted to help those in need but that was just the facade Naruto was extremely intelligent now hiding it beneath stupidity But he is the same old Naruto kind and but carrying a newfound knowledge that he wields a tremendous power at his command and he intends of using it for good never for evil and hopefully people will see him as still the caring Naruto. As for team 7 Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, Kakashi Hatake they were Glad to see their Naruto back but could not help but be slightly intimidated and cautious around him because he is wielding the most powerful sword in shinobi history that can never be found in this world or recognized in history but still they were cautious of bringing him back the Hidden Leaf Village they needed to find out where that sword came from and what other capabilities it has Naruto will explain the best he can from what he learned so far of the powers and abilities this sword possesses but there are limitations here and there but it is not evil whatsoever it only strikes down those who have committed unspeakable crimes and commit great offenses such as meddling with forces beyond their understanding or control and tampering with the forces of nature and those who attempt to play God meddling with things that should never be meddled with and attempting to cheat death and creating unspeakable abominations. and its characters belong to their respective rights holders; this reimagining is unofficial and for entertainment only.
