A/N: I don’t own Naruto or The One. Though I may purchase Ino.
Multiplicity
The Multiverse is a series of parallel timelines existing simultaneously
with each other. Each individual timeline is different from the last, with
people from each timeline living entirely dissimilar lives from each other.
Over time the people learned to travel the Multiverse and law
enforcement agencies have been established to protect the peace. No person can
travel in any universe without authorization. Access to any uninitiated
universe is strictly restricted.
This is the story of a man who never wanted to be a hero, nor did he
want greatness thrust into his hands. In the end fate has dealt her hand and
chose well.
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Muliverse Command Maximum Security Facility, Cell Block 243
October 25
1145 hours.
The prisoner let his muscle memory move him through his katas, feeling
the chakra course through his body. Once he was known as one of the
Multiverse’s finest medical ninjas, one to rival Tsunade herself. In his life
he had committed many crimes to forever sully that memory from the world, and
now he was to pay for it.
Sweat glistened on his forehead as he continued his exercises, movement
limited by the chakra enhanced handcuffs and manacles he was wearing. He heard
the door swish open and he adjusted his glasses in a subconscious attempt to
make himself more presentable to his visitor.
It was Touji Mizuki. Now what the hell did he want?
“Kabuto,” the recently promoted jounin said. “How are things going on
with you?” The white-haired former medical ninja smirked. “I know you aren’t
here for pleasantries, Mizuki,” the prisoner said. “Come to gloat?”
Mizuki grimaced. “You know me too well, Kabuto-kun. I’m insulted you’d
even think I’d do that.” The prisoner shrugged, continuing to concentrate on
his training.
“I assume you’d like to know why I did the things I did.”
“Yes. That would be nice, actually.”
Kabuto paused for a moment and took in Mizuki’s features. The man still
wore his hair in a crew cut. Not long ago he let his blue locks reach all the
way back to his shoulder. The almost simple-minded innocence he wore as a
rookie enforcer was long gone, purged by all of the trauma he had to go
through.
Things never remain the same.
“I tasted first hand what power was like,” the medical ninja said. “In
each occasion that I took their lives I felt like my own was somehow…magnified.
Had I succeeded I would have created something the Multiverse had never in its
entire existence witnessed.” Kabuto looked inquiringly at Mizuki and added “do
you realize what I could have become? I could have become a god, Mizuki-kun. A
god.”
Mizuki sighed. “You also know that you could have risked destroying the
Multiverse in pursuit of your insane power games--” Kabuto cut him off.
“Insane?” Kabuto let out a dark laugh. “I’d rather be called insane than
live a life of mediocrity I’m not supposed to have! I chased after my dreams,
Mizuki-kun. Can you say the same for yourself?” The jounin turned away.
“I better go.”
“So go.”
“I’m sorry to see what you’ve become, Kabuto.”
“I have nothing more to say to you.”
The medical ninja went on practicing his katas, ignoring his visitor
totally. Mizuki shrugged his shoulders and left, going directly to the
transport chamber that would transport his former partner to the Anubis
universe’s penal colony. Once he’s there, redemption would be so far beyond his
grasp that Mizuki almost felt sorry for him.
Almost.
Mizuki’s footsteps resounded in the hallways, echoing out the song of
lost hope and betrayal.
xxxx
Muliverse Command Maximum Security Facility, Cell Block 243
October 25
1258 hours.
“Kabuto. You are hereby charged with one hundred and twenty-five counts
of murder and one hundred and twenty-five counts of illegal dimensional
travel.”
The former medical ninja was strapped to the chair that would take him
to the prison universe, not even attempting to resist as the security personnel
tightened the leather restraints beyond his tolerance. He bit his lip and kept
his face impassive. He would not admit defeat just yet. Surrounding the chair
is a gigantic sixteen point seal, a major component of the jutsu that will send
him to the prison dimension.
“The names of his victims are as follows. Uchiha Kabuto, Seth Universe.”
A picture flashed on the wide screen showing a raven haired copy of the
prisoner. “Fuuma Kabuto, Horus Universe.” Another picture flashed, showing a
physically identical copy of the prisoner, only with brown hair. “Kurosuki
Kabuto, Tefnut Universe.” A raven-haired Kabuto with spiky locks growing all
the way down his back. “Kazahana Kabuto…”
The names of the people he had killed went on as the medical ninja
stared blankly ahead. He watched the clock on the wall and smiled to himself,
glancing briefly at the one way mirror to his left.
On the other side of the mirror, a woman sashayed down the seats and
placed herself on the third row. The guards who watched her licked their lips,
trying in vain to restrain the animal thoughts going through their minds. The
woman smiled to herself. She knew she was beautiful. More than anything she
wanted others to keep telling her that.
Mitarashi Anko was dressed in a form fitting black dress that hinted at
everything but exposed nothing, ending in a skirt that stopped a few inches
above her knees. Over it she wore a black coat that stopped short of her waist.
She checked her watch, counting off the remaining seconds in her head.
When her count ended, she palmed something from the sleeve of her coat. It
was a trained mouse with an explosive tag wrapped around its middle. The moment
the guard focused his attention on the charges read against her lover, she let
it go, forming the seals for the jutsu and stopping short of the last. She
needed to gather enough chakra for the jutsu to be effective, and that took
some time.
She waited until the guards had finished strapping her lover in the seat
before she released the rodent, waiting for it to push through a small hole in
the wall. Anko activated the final seal.
The sudden explosion distraced everyone enough for Kabuto to move. Using
one handed seals, he activated his chakra scalpel jutsu, slicing through the
leather restraints like a hot knife through butter. Of the security personnel,
Mizuki was one of the people who saw just what happened and was already moving
to try and stop the prisoner.
Kabuto’s eyes sparkled with excitement behind his glasses. Using
gargantuan strength, he ripped the arm rests of the chair and flung them at
supersonic speeds at his pursuers. “You’re too late Mizuki-kun!” he said,
flashing his hands through some seals. “In a couple of moments I will have
found the last remaining Kabuto in the Multiverse and there will have been
nothing you could do to stop me!”
“Kasumi Enbu no Jutsu!” (Mist Waltz Technique)
Kabuto breathed out a huge cloud of mist from his mouth that momentarily
distracted the ANBU guards. Then, completing the seals, he ignited the mist
with a spark, incinerating half the room and blowing Mizuki backwards by
fifteen feet. The powerful tug of the Dimension Transfer Seal reverberated
throughout the room. The enforcers cursed to themselves as the injured nursed
third degree wounds.
The prisoner had escaped.
xxxx
Jiraiya pursed his lips, annoyed at the recent development. “Uchiha,” he
yelled. “Did you see where he was going?”
Itachi deactivated his Mangekyou and checked the seal charts in front of
him. “There was no need to make use of my bloodline, Hokage-sama,” he stated. “We
all know to which universe he’s going.” The Godaime Hokage cursed. Mizuki
limped forward and saluted. “Hokage-sama,” he pleaded “I request to be made a
part of the retrieval team.”
“Denied.”
“But Hokage-sama…”
The Toad Hermit glared. Mizuki wisely decided that this was the time to
shut his mouth. “You’ve been taking this case far too personally, Touji,”
Jiraiya said. “I think operatives with a bit more objectivity will be far more
effective in this operation.”
“But Hokage-sama.”
“Forget it. Send in Sabaku no Yashamaru, Rouga Nadare and Hyuuga
Hizashi.”
No less than five minutes passed before the three were summoned. “We
were briefed on the way here,” the Hyuuga stated. “I assume the Hokage wishes
for him to be alive?” Jiraiya nodded. “The next gate opens in fifty seconds,”
the Toad Hermit said. “You have to find him and isolate him before he gets his
hands on the last Kabuto.”
The ice nin grimaced as they took their place in the center of the
sixteen point seal. “Why in the hell can’t we just let him kill the guy?” Nadare
said. “From what I’ve heard, the Kabuto in that world was a traitorous ass. I
happen to think we should just let the both of them kill each other off or
something.” Jiraiya gave him a slap to the back of the head. Yashamaru laughed.
“Let’s just get there so we can make it back in time to watch out soap
operas, ne?” The Sand ninja said. “Hyuuga-teicho, you lead.” Hizashi nodded. With
thirty seconds remaining, the Hyuuga’s hands flashed through the twenty seals
they needed to activate the black hole.
“Five.”
“Four.”
“Three.”
“Two.”
“Dimensional transition initiated.”
“Brace for impact.”
The shimmering portal opened, translating the trio’s molecular structure
into the target universe. Nadare and the rest screamed, the process of
dimensional travel never growing any less painful each time they had to go
through with it. The tunnel in between dimensions was a chaotic light show,
blinding the operatives’ eyes even as they blasted through it.
The entire journey took a total of 15.45 seconds, though at times it
felt like a couple of years had passed. The cell found themselves in the middle
of a grassy clearing, a mass of redwoods filling the surrounding area. Examining
the wooden platform underneath them revealed that it was actually the burnt out
wreckage of a tree trunk. They had translated directly in the center of one of
the redwoods and incinerated the gigantic tree.
Yashamaru got up shakily. “Holy hell,” the Sand ninja said. “This
shouldn’t happen to a tree.” Hizashi’s Byakugan flared for a minute before he
announced “I don’t think pissing off the Save the trees foundation is something
we should worry about right now.” The trio turned and saw a blue-haired jounin
lying prone behind them, groaning in pain.
Touji Mizuki had stowed away with them.
A/N: Okay Skriba. Here’s you’re Kabuto fic. Hope you don’t mind the
crappy intro cause I really couldn’t figure out another way to write it.
Please review.