Marvel: Raising — Chapter 134 - Naruto, You Deserve Better
Unlike Azu, who had just walked out of the lab with stars in his eyes, desperate to prove himself, a total blank slate.
Naruto's inner world was something else entirely.
It went something like this:
Wha-wha-wha-WHAT?!
No freaking way!
Guan Fuyun's appearance and his words had completely overturned everything Naruto thought he knew.
And the thing was.
The facts were exactly as Guan Fuyun said. In that if-future, Naruto, who became the Seventh Hokage, still hadn't brought much peace to the world at all.
He'd promised Yahiko a bright future for the Land of Rain.
But in the Boruto TV series.
The Land of Rain was reduced to rubble.
The dream a hot-blooded kid had chased for years, the title he'd bled for, turned out to be just a bubble. A futile effort.
The shackles of fate.
But right now.
The moment Guan Fuyun spoke, he had already activated [Word Made Law]. Without it, he genuinely wasn't sure he could break the Kotoamatsukami binding Naruto.
"It's not you who is wrong. All along, there have been too many impurities in you. You couldn't be you."
Guan Fuyun said, "Naruto, you are a genius."
And with the Word Spirit came action.
Asura's chakra, the Nine-Tails' chakra, Minato's, Kushina's — all of it was pulled free.
The whisker marks on Naruto's cheeks vanished.
Without the Nine-Tails' influence, no forehead protector sitting on his head, Naruto's face was just straight-up gorgeous.
Actually, come to think of it, the two kids under the Seventh Hokage Naruto also had those fox whiskers on their faces.
Nine-Tails heredity?
And speaking of which, Himawari also had a Kurama Mode.
Each generation more busted than the last. The surpassing-the-master Himawari could practically say: "Pops, your Kurama Mode back in the day wasn't fast enough, and it definitely wasn't ruthless enough."
Ha. Yeah.
"Haha."
The mental image was too good. Guan Fuyun laughed for no particular reason.
"These... are impurity chakra?"
"Inside my body? Since when?"
Naruto was completely stunned.
After the detox.
His monstrous Uzumaki physique seemed to click open like a lock. Chakra surging, spiking, exploding upward.
"So I'm a genius?"
"I'm so handsome!"
He stared into the mirror, dancing on his feet, face split into a grin.
Off to the side.
Guan Fuyun quietly crushed Minato's chakra and extracted the jutsu formulas for Flying Thunder God and Shadow Clone from it.
Then he turned Kushina into a character figurine and slipped her into his pocket.
Call it payment for helping Naruto out.
All talk and no action doesn't cut it, though.
"Come on. Let me show you the world."
Guan Fuyun grabbed the clean, uncontaminated version of Naruto and brought him straight to Marvel New York.
As for the ninja world?
Azu sealed it off, cut off from any outside contact.
It was too good an entertainment hub to mess with. Guan Fuyun wanted the ninja world's authentic flavor preserved at full strength.
Otherwise, who was going to supply the entertainment value he'd be missing out on?
First, he took Naruto to the farm and had him do some actual farm work.
Then they cooked a meal together.
After that: shopping, a movie, an amusement park. And in the middle of the city, Guan Fuyun, Azu, and Naruto ran right into Tony Stank, who was out for a stroll with Pepper and his daughter.
Nowadays, Teacher Tony's life was comfortable. He'd produced offspring ahead of schedule.
He was holding his daughter.
His face was pure, uncut doting.
"Hey! Mr. Guan, Azu, fancy seeing you again."
"Who's this blond, blue-eyed kid?"
"Handsome guy!"
Tony grinned. "If this young man is Mr. Guan's nephew, how about we arrange a betrothal right now?"
That made Naruto go red.
"No way. Pops only has one son, and that's me!"
Azu walked up and punched Tony twice, folding him into a shrimp.
He used his bio-field to do it. Otherwise Teacher Tony would have already been sent flying with his guts behind him, well on his way to the afterlife.
"Roar!"
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! A symbiote went sprinting past. Behind it came Venom and Eddie, chasing the thing down, with Gwen and Peter Parker right behind them.
They scaled walls, swung between buildings, and turned New York into absolute chaos. In the blink of an eye, traffic on several blocks had knotted into gridlock and the air was thick with shouts.
New Yorkers had seen the Chitauri army wiped out in 2 hours. They'd seen a dog become president. They'd seen the solar system displaced. They'd seen the Shi'ar Empire drop dead.
They had nerves of steel by now.
Everyone craned their necks for a look. Oh. Just symbiotes running around. What's the big deal?
"Go, Gwen!"
"Peter Parker is the best Spider-Man! I'm voting him as the top star of the franchise because he can dance!"
"A Parker stan has arrived, as expected."
"I'm dying, you Gwen cult fanboy, and you're coming for me?"
They filmed the superhero chaos on their phones while absolutely tearing into each other, like genuine enemies.
By the roadside, old man Stan Lee stood in his garden wearing reading glasses, making eyes at the granny next door.
The symbiote villain, Venom, Gwen, Peter Parker, all of them ran back and forth right under Stan's nose, beating each other bloody.
"Busy, all busy," old man Stan Lee said peacefully. "Being busy is good."
But then.
Out of nowhere, a chunk of building debris came tumbling in from the super-powered brawl.
Headed straight for Pepper and Tony's daughter.
In this moment of extreme urgency (not really) and dire crisis (not at all).
"Whoosh!"
The colossal reserves of chakra inside Naruto, freed from the Nine-Tails' interference, erupted.
A deep blue light wrapped around him like a coat.
His mobility, strength, and speed shot up. He was in front of Pepper almost before anyone registered he'd moved.
One punch. The debris shattered.
"Mm. Handsome." Tony quietly put his nano armor away.
"6." Guan Fuyun.
"Far worse than me, but not bad," Azu said. He was constitutionally incapable of complimenting anyone except Pops.
The surrounding passersby swarmed in like talent scouts.
"Incredible! Genius boy, what's your name?"
"Ever thought about being in the papers?"
"Want to make your debut?"
"I'm telling you, someone as kind, brave, and gifted as you is destined to make a name for himself!"
"The world is more beautiful because of you!"
Sincere, nearly fanatical praise, pouring in without pause.
Naruto stood there saying nothing, staring at the scene in blank disbelief.
Deep inside him.
Alongside the shock came joy. And a long series of cracking sounds.
The sound of long-held prejudices shattering.
"There."
Guan Fuyun was clapping, his voice warm with approval. "I told you, Naruto. You are a genius. You deserve better."
"This is the Nine-Tails chakra. I've already tamed it for you, gagged the Nine-Tails, and put restrictions on him. Use it freely from now on."
"And these are the ninjutsu for Flying Thunder God and Shadow Clone."
"The you right now can learn both without much trouble."
"Once you do, you'll have the ability to travel back and forth between two worlds."
"Come visit the farm whenever you like."
"And I hope you find yourself a future that's entirely your own."
"Oh, one more thing."
"The Flying Thunder God technique is something else. You can mark an enemy with a Flying Thunder God seal, then just drop by whenever you feel like it, poke them with a kunai, and teleport back home. Repeat as needed. Stab them while you're eating. Stab them before bed. Stab them while you're on the toilet."
"Stab them whenever the mood strikes. Even gods would lose sleep over that."
"There's also an advanced version, Flying Thunder God Meal Snatch, to starve them out, starve them into surrender, or give them chronic gastritis. Go figure it out yourself."
The normal, unencumbered version of Naruto lit up. "Yeah!"
He liked this world.
He didn't like the Village Hidden in the Leaves.
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