The beach

"Hmm ?" "Where am I?" Opening his eyes, Naruto asked.

Birds as far as the eye could see in the sky were squeaking with grating yet precious, cute sound.

In his ears, he also heard the steadily soothing, move back and forth pitch of turning, tossing waves.

It didn't take him long to recognize how he was lying on a beach. He had gone to several beaches before.

The partly hot and cold sand, on which his body was, emphasized to him this detail. Starting from his abdomen, where the waves of seawater stalled, procrastinated, Naruto's lower half was wet and muddy. In an enjoyable, gratifying way.

His idea of paradise wasn't exactly this, but something close. At least if he could find people. The people he expected to meet.

"A beach? This isn't exactly what I had in mind, but is this the afterlife?"

"Anyone?!"

Confused, during a long-lasting and slow-breaking scowl, Naruto inquired loudly. To nobody that he could spot, distinguish.

He couldn't use his Chakra. Or any of his past life abilities. The connection with Kurama also seemed to be cut off. Naruto couldn't sense him inside.

Hoping the phenomenon was caused by some afterlife gimmick where he couldn't use his abilities yet, Naruto eventually came to the more crystal clear, self-evident clue. About something which he should've already known.

If this was the hereafter, Kurama couldn't, wouldn't die with and follow him, of course...

"Am I alone here?" Sad, but glad for his living on fox buddy, getting up and cleaning his butt naked ass, Naruto made an odd facial expression. "The scenery is great, but what kind of shitty afterlife would this be? This isn't it, right? There must be a mistake somewhere..."

"Let's go and take a look around."

Unable to make heads or tails of his situation, Naruto made up his mind. Before this turned into a predicament.

This was when he remarked new stuff.

Paying closer mind to his body, Naruto noticed that his arms seemed shorter. So did his legs.

His voice, which never drastically changed over time, also sounded younger.

"This must be some afterlife stuff. Do we go back in time if we're injured or sick? Can we even die here?" Convinced and maybe reassured at the unexplainable change, Naruto, who started to doubt paradise, said.

The next moment he was looking himself in the water, he was truly younger. He had his fourteen-year-old build and look.

.......

"Huh? When did this get here?

"Did it get carried here by the waves?"

Staring at a green fruit with strange, creepy patterns that seemed to have been drawn by a demented person, Naruto glowered. It was at the base of his feet.

Remembering how he may have been holding on something waking up, which he readily let go of in his confusedness, Naruto recognized the fruit. It didn't seem normal. Neither did it seem reasonable for nature to produce something like it.

If it was, and fell down from a tree, it was alarming.

Wondering what the tree which produced such a bizarre fruit could look like, Naruto was anything but tempted to take a bite.

It was at that moment that the next weirdest thing after this demoralising and puzzling afterlife happened.

When Naruto was trying to shift his focus away from the fruit he was grabbing, and go explore for other lost souls like him, he saw something come about.

In his eyes, something materialized.

It was a semitransparent, moving, floating framework. Hanged in the air and seemingly following up on his skyward sight. With words getting written in it.

Naruto swore he never saw the language in his life, but what was curious was that he was immediately able to read, understand that writing.

It was baffling. But everything had been so, so far.

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[Name: Naruto]

Level: 1

Unique Cheats: Pokeball, Pokecenter, Talent Shop, Private World, Woman Tamer, Magic Sperm

Talents: Wind, Haki, Body, Stamina, Jutsu

Devil fruit: N/A

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Naruto was dumbstruck.

When he read the interface, appalled at first with a red face, but then growing excited, new windows informing him about odd, unusual powers, materialized at the sides of his face.

He still wasn't sure where he was, but this didn't seem to be his world's afterlife.

Though Jutsu and all the easy Chakra usages, hard practical applications, could be learned, used, in this new, awe-inspiring land, relying on other processes, Chakra itself didn't exist.