Today was another tragic day for Konoha, it lay in ruin and its hero defeated. Pain looked at the unconscious Naruto and carried him with one of his paths. The battle was intense but Naruto was not strong enough to compete with such a foe.

'There is only one more target left and soon the world will know pain.' Pain thought as he flew while Konan joined him

Naruto didn't even get to wake up as he was put into suspended animation and the Kyuubi was taken from his body forcefully, which killed him instantly as they were tied too close.

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"Where am I?" Naruto muttered as he woke up

He was feeling dizzy and something was unusual in his head, like a chunk of his memory had been erased.

Naruto's eyes finally could see right and he found himself in the woods, he felt that it was a mountainous region.

'Where is this place? These trees are too small to be close to Konoha or anywhere I have been to.' Naruto thought as he stood up and looked at his surroundings and found the trees too small.

He extended his hand and just put slight pressure, the tree cracked under that minuscule force.

"Definitely not close." Naruto confirmed as he didn't remember the trees close by, breaking with such ease. They had been blessed with the abundant nature energy and grown durable beyond normal, which was what he had learned from Jiraiya.

"I really shouldn't have jumped after Mukade." Naruto muttered in an annoyed tone as he remembered following a target through a portal

He looked around and decided to leave the mountain to see if he could find any clues. The mountain was quite small unlike the ones he was used to seeing, which did seem weird in a way along with the fact that his body felt a bit lighter.

'Maybe I am just stronger now or something.' Naruto thought as he exited the mountain and arrived outside.

Naruto still couldn't find anything that looked much different until he saw people climbing the mountain from the other side.

Somehow he could extend his senses for 40 m and could tell their life force along with their current emotion vaguely.

'They have very weak life force.' Naruto thought but he didn't conclude that he was in a different world from not sensing chakra as not everyone or thing had chakra and it needed to be molded.

He saw unique clothing they were wearing and thought he was in a different Land or something since he had never seen such in the places he visited.

Naruto walked closer to them and called, "Hello, can I have a moment of your time."

Naruto asked in a friendly tone and the couple turned to him, "Yes, how may we help you?"

Naruto was happy that they didn't react in a rude manner and decided to ask, "Can you tell me where the Land of Fire is?"

Naruto decided not to be straight forward as it could cause problems for him, "I have never heard of such a thing but maybe someone else will know."

The couple took him as weeb, one of the worst kinds of foreigner to set foot on their land. They excused themselves and left as they didn't want to handle his kind, they were impressed by his language but it didn't mean they were willing to listen to his nonsense.

'What just happened?' Naruto was confused but decided to move on instead of causing an issue from nothing

After several minutes of walking aimlessly, Naruto stopped and muttered in a confident tone, "Come out, I know you are there."

He could feel a person had been following him for awhile and unlike the others, this person had strong life force.

'A shinobi' Naruto thought from his mannerism and was curious, and hopeful

Naruto saw a man appear several meters from him. The man was tall with black hair and wearing a sleeveless red Gi.

"Apologies for my rude actions but your appearance caught my interest." The man said in a calm tone without a change in his expression

"What caught your interest?"

"You are not from here and from your mannerism I can tell you are a ninja. So are you one of those foreign ninjas, USA or some other country."

"USA?" Naruto pronounced the words awkwardly surprising the man

"You said Land of fire but no such place exists, is it a code word or are you serious?"

Naruto looked at the man and decided it was better not to share his life with others; he was getting strange feeling about this issue.

"It is a code name. I want to ask where we are now."

"Japan, near MT.Fuji" Guy responded as he analyzed the kid who was the same age as Ibuki

"Thank you, my name is Naruto. What is yours?" Naruto replied in a friendly tone

"It was nothing and my name is Guy, if you need anything just look for me around here." Guy said as he left at his full speed, which didn't look much in Naruto's eye

'He has a strong body but the speed is just terrible.

From his words I can assume that I am not in the same world as he seemed to imply that he knew the rest of the world but just to be sure, I need to see a map.' Naruto thought as he decided to be cautious, he turned his appearance into one of the people he saw and walked out of the woods

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'He looked really strong and dangerous. The moment I thought of attacking him, I saw death. He seemed too nonchalant about this. Is he even aware of his strength? It seems he might have memory issues from his questions.' Guy thought as he went back to his training area, where he practiced art of movement

He was not tricked by Naruto's attempt as he was used to ninja work for several years and lying, gathering information was the usual deal.

'I should inform master about him. He could cause problems in the country so we should prepare to end him if he shows signs of evil.' Guy mused as he took out his phone