Here you could find a world similar to the series "K-On" for example. Everything would turn out similarly up until the Zombie Apocalypse or the Great Kanto Earthquake of 2011 or something similar came along.
It didn't even need to be that large an event to cause the tragedy that ended the story mirrored in other worlds' entertainment. Toltiir eyed one where Mio Akiyama slipped on an icy step and the surviving members broke up shortly thereafter.
Toltiir looked through the eyes of various incarnations and avatars, seeing multiple realities where the happy ending was denied. Here a timeline where Sailor Moon failed in her battle against Sailor Galaxia. There one where a magical girl named Madoka was killed early in her battles against the witches that had once been magical girls themselves.
In some worlds, everything had to go exactly right with any single step going wrong ending up with a tragic outcome.
Even those with no supernatural, magical, science fiction, or martial arts themes going tended to end in unamusing manner.
Where was the fun in that sort of thing anyway?
The protaganists in that Madoka timeline had rejected his offer. Once burned, twice shy or something like that.
One after the other rejected his offer, even in the face of imminent destruction.
It was curious. Nothing about Naruto or his timeline seemed that bad, all things considered. Many seemed open to the possibility until that point was raised.
Was it some quality of Naruto Uzumaki that repelled them? Was it the setting? Was it the whole 'ninja' thing?
There were those who had a different take on the matter of course. It was the nature of such diverse beings that SOME would be less hostile to the idea. Some individuals might be perfectly at ease with the thought of death and what came after. Some less were so.
Here and there, particularly in variant universes where things had not gone as in the storylines depicted in other worlds - there were those individuals who were in dire situations and more receptive to the idea of starting over again.
The problem was that things were complicated enough in the Naruto-verse without fitting in individuals from a half-dozen sources. He was already going to have to make adjustments so that they fit into the setting a bit more.
For example, here was a shipful of Sekirei where the angle of their ship was a bit off and their speed a smidge too great. Resulting in their ship arriving on Earth but hitting the ocean at a speed that resulted in a boiling sea and one hundred and nine casualties. It would be hardly any effort at all to appear before their caretaker, the 00 Sekirei, and make the offer. Then pop back with Naruto able to summon one after the other. Naruto would end up with a few girlfriends, some of the other Sekirei would end up pairing off with other Konohagakure ninja. Just the interactions between Kakashi, Jiraiya, the Third Hokage and various potentially amorous Sekirei could turn out amusing.
Or this world, where the Rosario + Vampire girls never encountered Tsukune. Certainly what happened to those same girls wasn't funny. Not nearly. If he made the offer at the moment of death, he could work them and their abilities into this setting without much trouble. Surviving families sworn to the service of the Uzumaki Clan and things would settle right into place.
The magical girl sets were a little more tricky but the same mechanism could be put to use and wouldn't cause much in the way of ripple-effects. There a lone magical girl made her final stand and did NOT suddenly pull out a power-up out of sheer desperation. Here a superheroine was apparently counting on Plot Armor because she certainly didn't have much of a plan. There a Grail War where Gilgamesh emerged victorious.
Finally though, a decision was reached.
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