"What the hell...?"
"So let me get this straight. Someone made a darker, edgier version of me, gave them a cool mask, and now they're running around trying to prove they're the real Naruto?"
Naruto pressed his palm to V-2's chest. A glowing spiral spread across their skin. Uzumaki Naruto -V.2- NZC
"You came," V-2 said. Their voice was modulated, but underneath it, Naruto heard something unsettling: his own cadence, his own pauses.
"They built several someones. All but one were decommissioned after the war. But this last one... went rogue. Calls themselves ." "What the hell
"I'm already pumping chakra into them," Kurama growled in his mind. "They're synthetic. I can stabilize, but not for long. You need a seal."
"You wanna know the truth?" Naruto said finally. "Yeah. Sometimes. Being Hokage isn't like I dreamed. It's paperwork, politics, and watching people I love get older while I stay... this." He gestured at himself. "Kurama's still with me, but even he gets tired. And some nights, I wonder if I was better as the loud kid nobody believed in. At least then, every victory felt earned." "You came," V-2 said
"Course I did. You're crashing my legacy. That's a declaration of war, y'know."