539: The foolishness of man

The kyubi looks at Naruto and laughs at what Naruto has just said.

Kyubi: “What you say now is no different than what Nagato said when he created akatsuki. You are still gonna end up like him if you think you can just change the world with a few words and a dream.”
Naruto: “Than what would you have me do? Run away from those who would threaten my life or the lives of my friends?”

The kyubi laughs once again as it moves away from the bars.

Kyubi: “No but there is another way. You eliminate the source of the problem as it should have been done long ago.”
Naruto: “?”
Kyubi: “Maybe it is time I share a memory of my own with you. Place your hand upon my head.”

Naruto looks at the kyubi with a suspicious look as the kyubi moves its head close to the bars.

Naruto: “Ok but if you try anything Im outta here.”

Naruto comes to the bars and places his hand on the kyubi’s head. Suddenly naruto finds himself standing at the shore of a lake. Around him naruto sees the lake is covered with rotted dead trees and bodies of countless creatures that have come to the lake at some point. Naruto looks at the lakes and grimaces as he sees the rotten decay around him. The kyubi appears behind naruto and looks towards the center of the lake with a contemptous face.

Naruto: “What is this place?”
Kyubi: “This is where it all began. Deep in this lake sits an ancient fissure. A fissure that has existed since long before your people even existed.”
Naruto: “What happened here?”
Kyubi: “A corruption that even now still exists. Come and see where it all began.”

Naruto suddenly feels himself zooming fast underwater until he is right next to what looks like a deep rocky chasm that seems to have no bottom. As naruto looks deeper over the edge he sees something in the unclear distance looking back at him in the darkness of the bottom. Naruto shivers as he looks into the deep chasm.

Kyubi: “It is here that the juubi crossed into our world. Its evil was so great that it had ripped a hole out of its own dimension and into yours.”
Naruto: “What is that down there?”
Kyubi: “A portal to a world of total darkness and corruption where all life is dead. It is a portal to the realm of the juubi.”

Naruto turns around to face the kyubi who is looking down with an angry look at the chasm.

Naruto: “Why are you showing me this? What is so important about this portal?”

Naruto suddenly feels the water vanish around him and finds himself high up on the cliff ledge of a mountain. As he looks on in the distance, Naruto sees a male ninja fighting a giant tailed beast as it struggles to get to him as he moves up the mountain.

Naruto: “What is that?”
Kyubi: “That is one of my few memories I have from when I was still a part of the juubi. All of the bijuu share this memory as a bitter sweet moment.”
Naruto: “What is happening?”
Kyubi: “Watch.”

The rikudo senin does a series of hand signs and suddenly as if on que he floats above the ground. The juubi repeatedly slashes at the rikudo senin from a distance but he easily dodges it while continuing to hold a hand sign as cracks begin to form in the mountain. The mountain begins crumble as pieces float high above into the sky to form into a ball which the rikudo senin stands on while the juubi tries to maintain a grip as the mountain breaks up into smaller and smaller pieces. The rikudo senin jumps to another cliff near by as the juubi struggles to move to him. Suddenly the rocks speed rapidly towards the balls pulling the juubi toward it. The juubi struggles as it gets pulled inside the ball as it continues to grow in size. As the ball finishes forming only the face of the juubi is still visable from within the rock. Naruto gasps as if in recognition to what he has just witnessed.

Kyubi: “It is at that moment when your rikudo senin made his one biggest mistake. He never thought to consider returning the juubi to where it belonged.”

Naruto finds himself standing on the roof of a burning building looking as down as a fight between a male jinchuriki with a red aura with two tails and several ninjas occurs in the streets. The ninjas try desperately to stop the jinchuriki with primative weapons but are no match for him. As the fight progresses naruto looks around to see the whole village is in flames and the sounds of destruction echoing through the area. The fox is standing on a nearby building watching the destruction below.

Kyubi: “The humans he so foolishly entrusted with the greatest gift instead abused his gift and thus began as your people call it The first ninja war. It was in the end his greatest folly to ever think humans were ready for the gift that was given to them.”

Naruto finds himself back at the cage with his hand still on the kyubi’s head. The kyubi moves away and looks at Naruto.

Naruto: “What exactly did you have in mind?”
Kyubi: “Now listen to what I tell you for it may yet be your best way to end this war.”