Hey ya'll I came up with this story because I was disappointed with the number stories that crossover Naruto with My Hero Academia. I started watching My Hero Academia a little while ago and have enjoyed it a great deal, even if I can't stand Midoriya's constant crying. Anyway Here's the first chapter of Riptide: Maelstrom's Fury
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters portrayed nor do I profit from the publishing of this story.
Chapter 1: Ninja to Hero?
"Alright Sasuke, this is it, the final stand." stated a young man of 16 with wild blond hair as he turned to a similarly aged boy with dark black hair. He com
The young man was Naruto Uzumaki, dressed in a black and orange tracksuit that had seen better days, he alongside his comrade Sasuke Uchiha dressed in a deep cut white shirt and purple pants were confronting Kaguya Otsuki, the orchestrator of the Fourth Great Shinobi War and the mother of Chakra. The tall women dressed in robes as white as her skin, stared down at the two boys, the source of her current ire and the last vex in her path to world domination.
"We've got one shot at this Naruto, I'm at the end of my rope and I know you don't have much left in you either" the dark hair teen replied.
"Let's do this then!" The blond shouted as he and Sasuke launched themselves at the Rabbit Goddess. Being able to focus on one threat at a time, Kaguya opened a black portal in front of the blondes' jump before launching a shockwave of chakra at the Uchina. Being unable to alter his trajectory the blond was sent through the portal which sealed itself upon his entrance. The dark haired teen was blasted to the ground, left to face the mother of chakra on his own.
'Damn, where could she have possibly sent him?' Sasuke thought to himself "Without Naruto, there's no way to complete the sealing ritual.' Sadly these would be the last thoughts of the Uchiha as Kaguya drifted through another portal and left the Uchiha a a slowly decaying dimension.
"Welcome to the USJ, UA's top notch rescue and survival simulation facility." announced Shota Aizawa in his usual unenthusiastic voice. The hero known as Eraserhead had brough class 1-A to the USJ for their first rescue simulation. This training was essential as fighting villains was only a part of what was expected of pro Heros.
"Incredible! It's so big and there are so many areas!" exclaimed Ochaco Uraraka. The brown haired girl looked about in amazement at the city, mountains and large lake situated inside of the massive USJ dome.
"This facility is able to replicate a large variety of rescue situations you will be faced with as pro Heros, in order to fully monitor your performance, I've asked Number 13 to assist me in today's exercises." Aizawa elaborated to his class as a spacesuit wearing hero ascended the steps towards the entrance of the USJ.
"Exactly, as your Sensei has already explained, each area of this facility focuses on a type of rescue operation you may encounter as a pro Hero." the metallic voice of Number 13 announced to the students of class 1-A.
As the Space hero began his explanation, a large purple miasma began to spread in the center of the facility.
"Whoa, what the hell is that thing? Is the training beginning already?" questioned Eijiro Kirishima, the redheaded student gesturing towards the miasma as it began to form a large rectangle.
"Get back! That's not a part of the training, whatever it is is very real." barked Eraserhead as he turned with Number 13 to face the miasma and block his students from any potential harm. After he finished speaking figures began emerging from the miasma, now identifiable as some type of portal. The figures quickly revealed themselves to be a small army of maliciously grinning villains, led by a pale and sickly looking grey-haired man covered in severed hands.
"It appears that the only real Heros here are Eraserhead and 13, strange since All Might was listed on the training schedule for today." came a disembodied voice as the purple miasma congregated into the shape of a man with piercing yellow eyes. The statement was directed at the sickly man as a final hulking black monstrosity lumbered through the portal. The creature, as no other words could be found to describe it, was easily as tall as the towering All Might and covered in bulging muscles. Its eyes stared ahead blankley leading one to believe that the exposed brain at the top of its head was just for show.
"No matter," dismissed the sickly man "I'm sure he'll appear now we will deal with the sub bosses of the level."
"13, I leave the protection of the student's in your hands. If these villains were able to infiltrate the campus without alerting the rest of the faculty we're in for some trouble." with his peace spoken, Eraserhead dived into the fray of villains, utilizing his ability to erase the villain's Quirks to escape a hastily formed firing squad.
"You may be able to erase out quirks, but you can't stop a heteromorphic Quirk like mine." shouted a four armed villain as he attempted to punch Aizawa.
"Maybe not," he exclaimed mid dodge "but you still have to be able to hit me to do any damage." Quickly zeroing in on the purple human shaped figure, Eraserhead attacked, assuming him to be the most dangerous of the villains. In the small instant that it took him to lead towards the purple figure, it had vanished a Eraserhead was left hitting solid air. "Damn, the most dangerous one was able to escape in an instant. I can only rely on 13 to protect the children while I hold off the rest of the riff raff until help can arrive.
In the instant that the dark misma had disappeared, it appeared in front on the group of Heros-in-training and 13. "We are the league of villains, and we have invited ourselves into this house of justice to put an end to All Might. How fitting that he take his final breaths in this very center of good." came the voice from the void as it solidified around a metallic rib cage.
"Like that'll ever happen!" yelled Katsuki Bakugo as the blond temperamental teen and Kirishima leapt at the figure. The resulting smoke from Bakugo's explosive attack blinded the class. Sure that their attack had landed the two teens relaxed their stance, a costly mistake.
"You think a pitiful attack like that could harm me?" gloated the miasma as it blew away the smoke and resolidified between the two students and the remainder of the class.
"No way, how could he survive an explosion like that from Kacchan?" wondered the short green-haired boy known as Izuku Midoriya.
"There is no escape for you" came the foreboding call of the void as it surrounded the pro Hero and class 1-A, scattering a majority of them to the far corners of the simulation facility. Leaving only 13, Mina Ashido, Tenya Lida, Uraraka, Rikido Sato, Mezo Shoji and Hanta Sero still standing infront of the purple miasma.
"Shoji, any idea where the rest of the class went?" asked Sato as the tall student's tentacles formed sensory organs to search for their missing classmates.
"It appears as though they've been scattered throughout the facility." The stoic teen replied.
"Class rep" the metallic voice of 13 shook Lida from his stupor "run back to campus as inform the rest of the faculty of what is going on here. If they've managed to infiltrate the school without alerting anyone to their presence then it is certain that no help will arrive. Head out and get that help."
As Lida began to rev the engines in his calves, the voice of the miasma spoke once more .
"Don't think I'll allow you to escape!"
Lida took off in a dead sprint, hoping to reach the doors to the facility but the miasma was faster, appearing in front of him and blocking the only available exit from the facility.
As the miasma spread 13 spoke up, the fingertip on one of his gloves slipping open "Even if you can't teleport let's see if you can get around this. Black Hole!" with the spaceman's declaration came an intense and all encompassing pull sourced at his fingertips. The purple miasma was quickly sucked into the spaceman's fingertips as the students began to feel their fears lessen.
"Alright! With 13's Black Hole Quirk, he can suck up this noxious villain in no time." cheered Sero. His excitement was short lived however as the voice of the void spoke.
"You think think this can stop me?" and with that the miasma opened a portal in front of the suction and behind 13 causing the space hero to begin absorbing his own body.
Within the portal created by Kaguya Naruto cursed to himself.
"Damnit. That was our last chance to taking that monster down and now Sasuke is facing her alone!" punching at the void he floated in. Quickly realizing that wasting time and energy on a tantrum was worthless, the Uzumaki settled into a meditative stance and began attempting communication with the beast locked inside of him..
'Kurama, what's our best way out of here?'
"Without Hatake's eye, we're completely at Kaguya's mercy. My only thought would be to gather power and wait for the inevitable time that she enters this space to end you." came the surprisingly calm beasts voice.
"So we're just supposed to wait while she finishes Sasuke off, or even waits till after she controls the world to pick us off like fish in a barrel?"
"Unfortunately yes, without a way out we are stuck here until she returns."
As the Uzumaki continued to communicate with the beast sealed inside him, he failed to notice the small white dot forming in the void dimension until it had grown and encompassed him.
'That's strange, I feel someone in my body, as if someone was traveling through one of my portals." thought the purple miasma as thirteen canceled his Quirk but not before doing significant damage to himself.
"13!" shouted Uraraka as she and Mina ran to the downed Herp.
"See, there is no one left to help you. Even pro Hero's bow before the might of the League of Villains." gloated the miasma.
"Naruto! Pay attention, we're no longer in the same void that Kaguya sent us."
Shaking himself out of his meditative stance, Naruto glanced around noting the black void had lighted into a purple miasma. At that moment the Uzumaki heard a scream.
"13!"
Hearing the despair in the cry, Naruto perked up. 'I might not be able to do anything about Kaguya but I can certaining do something to help! Let's go Kurama!"
"Alright brat, let's bust outta here!"
The reply of the beast came with an impressive burst of orange power that completely covered the blond teen forming his Nail- Tailed Chakra Mode.
"Time to save the day!" with his decree the size of the cloak quickly expanded, consuming the entirety of the purple void.
As the purple void trembled in laughter and amusement, a small speck of orange began to form within the metal rib cage that was exposed in its more condensed human shape.
"What the heck is that?" questioned Sato as the dot began to grow in size.
"I'm not sure but it couldn't be any worse than what we're already facing." replied Shoji as he prepared for the worst. "Lida! Take this chance a go!"
"Right. As class rep it is my responsibility to ensure the safety of the class." proclaimed Lida as he took off for the doors.
"I told you once that it won't work, why bother again?" came the voice of the void as the purple miasma once more moved to block the class rep. It was at this moment that the orange glow had become larger than the metal rib cage inside the miasma. Once it had been engulfed, the entirety of the miasma vanished and let our a cry of pain.
From the orange glow came a distance voice "...save the day!" The glow continued to grow as the class minus Lida stared in amazement. The glow quickly took on the shade of a human and revealed the blond haired boy to the class.
"Naruto Uzumaki is here! Believe it!" he exclaimed as Lida made it through the doors of the USJ, his exhaust flames tuning blue as he sped off.
'I can only hope that this individual is here to help.' thought the speedster as he took off towards the center of campus.
Noticing the metallic armor wrapped around his torso, Naruto used the enhanced strength granted by his cloak to snap the rib cage before tossing the broken halves to the side. No longer having a physical anchor the remainder of the miasma disappeared into nothing.
"Hey, who the heck are you?" screamed Sato as he prepared to shove some sugar cubes into his mouth. The sugar would have given him a strength boast to deal with the new threat had the orange figure not spoken up.
"What's going on here?"
"We're under attack by villains" came the voice of Uraraka from the downed body of 13. Noticing the downed spaceman missing its back, Naruto stepped over and crouched down by the attempted to place his hand on the space suit before a tentacle courtesy of Shoji wrapped around his wrist.
"Relax, I'm one of the good guys, I'm gonna patch this guy up but it's going to take a lot out of him" came the calming voice of the Uzumaki.
Shoji looked towards Sero who nodded, the nod causing the stoic boy to release his grip on the blond teen's wrist. With his hand free to move, Naruto quickly placed it on the head of the spaceman as the orange glow spread over the suit and began to build it back up. After a tense minute the suit was completely restored but 13 was still left unconscious.
"There, he should be back on his feet after a good night's rest. However you said villains, as in plural, where are the rest?" questioned the blond teen as he turned to the rest of the teens.
Mina quickly pointed behind the blond, towards the center of the facility where Eraserhead could be seen struggling with the multitude of villains. "They're scattered around the facility with our classmates, and fighting our sensei in the center."
"Right, I'll take care of it then." Naruto replied.
"How could you possibly deal with so many, not even Aizawa-sensei can deal with so many villains and he's a pro?' questioned Uraraka.
"Like this." answered Naruto as he brought his hands up with two fingers from each hand forming a cross. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" A burst of smoke filled the view of the students and as it dissipated they could see over a hundred copies of the same blonde raring to go.
"Incredible! You have a cloning Quirk!" Exclaimed Mina.
"I'm not sure what a Quirk is but that was my Shadow Clone Jutsu these are solid copies of me." announced the blond. "Go and help the students, use the Negative Emotion sensing to determine if they're friendlies or not, I'll go help their sensei." The clones showed their understanding by scattering to go assist the UA students around the facility. This left two Naruto's remaining. The original turned to his clone. "You stay here and protect the civilians." The clone nodded as the original blurred away towards Eraserhead.
"Seems like you're slowing down Eraserhead, that last eraser was only 14 second!" chuckled the sickly man as he continued to sway and evade the teacher's blows. "Too bad for you that I'm not the final boss, get him Nomu!" Hearing the command of his master, the hulking black figure launched himself at Aizawa quickly grabbing ahold of him. Aizawa attempted to utilize his Quirk, however his head was quickly smashed into the ground.
'Incredible, I erased his Quirk and he was still able to smash me into the ground. That's raw strength instead of a Quirk.' the teacher thought to himself.
"Nomu, finish him." the command from the unnamed man caused Nomu to raise Aizawa's head once more, prepared to smash it into the ground to finish him.
"Not today asshole!" came a shout as an orange blur barreled into the hulking creature. The sudden blow caused Nomu to release its hold on Aizawa allowing him to collapse onto the ground.
'What the hell was that, it didn't sound like All Might but he's the only other Hero in the area that could hit this guy like that.' Eraserhead thought to himself.
"No! No! No! Your party is full, you can't accept anymore players!" rambled the hand covered man.
Pushing himself off of the Nomu, Naruto revealed himself to the villain and pro Hero the orange glow fading away to show his tattered and dirty clothes.
'Huh? Kurama why did the cloak fade?' the blond asked his inner beast. Receiving no reply he quickly became worried as all around the facility his clones found themselves in similar predicaments. Shortly after disposing of the villains in the each area, the chakra cloak had faded just before they were forcefully dispelled.
'Something must be blocking my access to Kurama, one of them must have a sealing jutsu.' rationalized the blond. 'I'll just have to finish up here and figure it out once everyone is safe.'
It was at this time that the Nomu had regained its balance and returned to its master's side. The sickly man looked disturbed at this new development. The Nomu had been specifically designed to handle shocks and was gifted with extraordinary strength and regeneration. For someone other than All Might to have been able to harm it meant serious trouble.
Naruto seeing a temporary lapse in the battle quickly retrieved the black haired man and gained some distance from the two enemies. Taking note that the skin on the man's elbow was missing, he attempted to channel Yang chakra to heal him. To his shock he was completely unable to control his chakra. He could still feel it inside of him, just unable to grasp it to use.
'This isn't good, without access to my chakra I'll have to resort to Taijutsu to beat these guys.' thought the blond to himself with worry.
"Just who are you?" asked the man Naruto was holding snapping him out of his thoughts "On second thought it doesn't matter right now, you helping me cleary shows you're not with them."
"No I'm not. What's the deal with these guys anyway?" Naruto replied.
"The grey haired one can decay anything he touches, thats what happened to my arm. The big guy is a mystery all I know is that he's super strong." warned the teacher. "I'm out for the rest of the fight and we don't have backup so I'm trusting you to handle it."
"Right. I'll do my best, I've already taken care of the your students, they should be safe and regrouping at the entrance of this building. One of them ran off to get backup, he seemed pretty quick so help should be here soon."
"That was Lida, he's the fastest student in my class so I'm sure you're right."
It was at that moment that the doors to the USJ were blown off their hinges and a deep voice boomed over the area.
"I was on my way to this building when I ran into young Lida, he told me of what was going on." The smoke from the doors began to clear and a tall figure with twin horns was seen silhouetted by the smoke. "So I rushed here as fast as possible. There's no need to fear students." By then the smoke had completely cleared and the imposing figure of All Might was revealed to the students "Because I am HERE!" Hearing the number one Hero's catchphrase sent a wave of relief through the students, who had gathered near the entrance. Looking about, All Might zeroed in on the standoff between Nomu and Naruto, leaping to get involved.
"Stand down young man, I'll handle it from here" All Might said as he turned to the young man holding Eraserhead.
It was then that the sickly man spoke up, a maniacal tone in his voice.
"He's here, the final boss is here. GET HIM NOMU!"
The creature leapt at All Might locking hands in a grapple and letting loose a roar. The two figures engaged in a test of strength neither willing to budge. All Might disengaged and and smashed a blow into the stomach of the Nomu, only for nothing to happen.
"Nomu has super strength and shock absorption! The perfect weapon for beating you All Might!" preened the sickly man as he scratched at his neck.
"Heh, so he has shock absorption" laughed All Might as he began launching a series of blistering punches on the Nomu."Too bad he doesn't have shock absorbtion. You created this weapon to beat me at 100%? Then I'll just have to go beyond that. PLUS ULTRA!" with a final punch the number one Hero sent the Nomu flying into the air where it crashed through the dome of the USJ.
As the Nomu was sent flying the sickly man scratched at his neck with an increase franticness.
"No this can't be happening!" he raised a communicator to his mouth "Sensei, let me bring more Nomu so I can crush him." The hero watched on until the purple miasma returned and surrounded the sickly man.
"Tomura Shigaraki, it is time to go" boomed the voice of the miasma as the now named Tomura began to sink into it.
"This isn't the last time you'll see me All Might, I'll be back with more Nomus to clear the level." with his final words said Tomura disappeared from view as the last remains of the purple miasma vanished.
Naruto turned to All Might who was smoking heavily, at that moment more backup arrived in the form of several heroes such as Cementoss, Snipe, Power Loader, and Principal Nezu. Seeing Toshinori's state, Cementoss was quick to erect a wall between the students and All Might, just in time to prevent them from seeing the number one Hero turn into a frail looking man. Toshinori then collapsed to one knee as Naruto rushed over to check on him.
"Hey are you alright? What happened to that big guy? Were you using a Henge?" the rapid fire questions went unanswered as the man collapsed face first into the ground.
"He'll be alright" came a small calming voice, Naruto turned and saw a small rat, dog, bear looking thing approaching him. "Recovery Girl will get him back into shape. My name is Nezu, mind telling me who you are young man and how you entered this facility?"
"Well, I'm not really sure hehe." Naruto replied as he scratched the back of his neck.
"While it seems ridiculous to think, perhaps the interaction of Kurigiri's teleportation Quirk and 13's Black Hole caused a rip in the dimensional lining of the universe." theorized Nezu who had quickly whisked Naruto away to his office. The two were currently sitting and enjoying some tea as they tried to figure out how Naruto ended up in a world much different than his own.
"I'm not to sure what you're talking about but sure hehe." The blond chuckled to himself while scratching the back of his neck. "I'm more concerned as to why I can't grasp any of my chakra."
"From what it sounds, this chakra is much different from the spiritual equivalent of this world. Perhaps because it does not exist in our world, your chakra has been sealed off so as to comply with the laws of this universe? Or perhaps it has been traded for a Quirk instead."
"I'm still not sure exactly what a Quirk is, is it how skeleton man had all those muscles?"
"You see Naruto, all men are not born equal in this world. In this world Quirks exist and give people powers beyond that of a normal human. Around 80% of the population of this world hold a Quirk and the powers range from the simple ability to pull things mentally, all the way to super human strength and durability like All Might has."
"Well, how do we know if I have a Quirk or not?"
"We'll do an x-ray of your foot. Quirk users have only a single joint in their pinky toe, while a normal human has two."
"So you just have to look at my foot?"
"Yep, although that won't tell us what your Quirk is, that's something you'll have to find out on your own."
Hearing this the blond began to sweat, what if he was just a normal person now? No chakra, no Quirk, how was he supposed to get home and defeat Kaguya...if there was even a home to return to. Surely by now Kaguya had beaten Sasuke and taken control. As his worry increased he began to sweat more and more. Nezu sat observing this as blond was lost in thought.
'He seems to be sweating an incredible amount.' the principal thought to himself 'No, that's not it, the water in the air is condensing on him' Hopping up onto his desk and placing his paw on the blond's forehead caused Naruto to snap out of his funk.
"What are you doing teach?" questioned the blond.
"If you've noticed you're sweating a lot, much more than is normal. The water in the air seems to be condensing on you but you don't feel cold. I believe that a part of your Quirk involves the manipulation of water." the furry man told Naruto.
"That doesn't make any sense though, in my world I had wind nature chakra, shouldn't I be able to control wind?" he asked.
"Like I said, it may only be a part. One of the students of class 1-A, Shoto Todoroki can control flames and ice because of his Quirk Half-Cold Half Hot. It's entirely possible that wind manipulation may come to you as you become more accustomed to your Quirk."
"That's all well and good teach, but what about getting back to my world? What am I supposed to do in the meantime?"
"Well that is quite the conundrum. It is unlikely that there will be another incident where Kurogiri and 13's Quirks can interact so I'm afraid you're stuck here for the foreseeable future. As for what to do I believe I have a solution."
"What's that teach?"
"From what Aizawa and the student's have told me, you rushed into battle not knowing a thing about your enemy. You handled you opponents with ease and saved the students from serious harm."
"Well yeah, I couldn't just let them get hurt."
"That is one of the true markings of a Hero, someone willing to risk everything and stand in the face of the unknown to help others. I think you would make a fine addition to UA as a student."
"I guess I don't have much of a choice, as much as I hated the academy back home I don't have anywhere to stay. I'll take you up on that offer teach."
"Great I'll have Midnight take you to get fitted for a uniform."
"Uniform?"
As it turned out the required uniform for UA involved something they called a tie and that something was currently attempting to choke him as he walked down the hall with Midnight.
"Does it have to be so tight?" the blond whined to the R-rated Hero, a title which Naruto quickly found to be true. He hands constantly wandering over him during the fitting process.
"Yes, and you look quite dashing in that unfirmal young man." the compliment from Midnight brought a dusting of red to his cheeks.
"But there isn't any orange to it, and this think is choking me!"
"You'll get used to it" Midnight replied as they reached the classroom door they had been walking towards. She knocked twice before Naruto heard a family voice telling them to enter. Midnight slid the door open to reveal a heavily bandaged Aizawa standing in front of his class, class 1-A.
"Hey, its that guy that saved us!" shouted the familiar looking pink girl from the USJ.
"Don't go thinking you're better than me bastard." shouted a spiky haired blond boy in the back row. This exclamation caused the rest of the classroom to devolve into chaos as rapid fire questions were fired at Naruto.
"Everyone calm down. Naruto if you would like to explain." said Eraserhead as the students began to calm down.
As Naruto began to explain to the class his situation, Midnight sauntered over to Aizawa and handed him a piece of paper. Aizawa read of the paper before grunting once in acknowledgement. Seeing his understanding Midnight walked towards the door just as Naruto had finished his explanation, giving his butt a quick pinch on her way out the door. The sudden pinch caused the blond to jump and turn red in embarrassment as a few males in the class gave whistles.
Lida was quick to raise his hand in a very stiff manner, "That is all well and good but why are you here Naruto-san?"
As the blond was about to answer, Aizawa cleared his throat and spoke up. "Naruto has been assigned to class 1-A in the hopes that he can learn to utilize his newly developed Quirk and until we can find a way for him to return to his world. Until that time he will be the 21st member of class 1-A."
"But there are only 20 seats in the classroom." called out Uraraka causing the rest of the class to sweatdrop at that realization.
"Right, we'll take a short break so you can all talk to Naruto and have a new desk brought into the room for him." replied Aizawa. His announcement came with a cheer from the class as they most of them charged Naruto and carried him out of the room, thankful for a short break from boring lessons.
Not sure yet how updates are going to be with this story, I just started a new job so things will be a little hectic while I finish all the training up. I hope ya'll enjoyed and thank you for reading!