disclaimer: None of this is mine.
Hi. So here I am again, so soon after completing the first part of this series. This is where the two universes start to actively interact with each other, with explosions, befriending, misconceptions, danger, bodily harm, death, and lime all come together.
As I'm sure you know, this is the second part of the Naruto / Nanoha crossover series I've thought up.
And just like before, this will feature stronger enemies, deeper conspiracies, flashier battles, and our heroes will confront situations that will test their resolve to keep the Will of Fire burning...
I'm planning to do two gaiden series featuring the exploits of Team 7 (starring Sasuke) and Team Guy (starring Lee), but that will have to wait for the moment - Twin Fates and my other crossover works are my current priorities.
If you want to know how we got here, please do check out "Naruto: Arcane Heart", the story preceding this.
So anyhow, without further ado, here's Naruto: Twin Fates.
Note:
Italics are thought.
Boldface are exclamations and/or exaggerated speech.
Bold/italics are Device techniques and/or speech.
Resonating in the far skies...
Are your prayers turning into miracles...
Naruto: Twin Fates
Chapter 1: An All-Too Sudden Beginning
The two silhouettes were going at a decent enough clip as they traveled through the foliage, taking to the branches to avoid the bogs that were the source of the name of their land: the Land of Swamps.
If you assumed they were ninjas by their chakra-enhanced leaps through the trees, well, you would be right.
But ever since the advent of the Elemental Countries, ninjas had become the antithesis of stealth and shadow combat they originally were - you could even blame the Sage of Six Paths for that, and for many other things.
Still, there were those who, despite their massive power, devoted themselves to mastering the art of killing in the shadows that ninja were most known for, even now.
The larger one of them wore a dark-red outfit, carrying a large scroll behind him as he took the lead. His silver hair whipped back as he ran, revealing the custom-made forehead protector marked with "Oil" in the middle.
Not only was he one of these old-school adherents that some of the younger generation looked up to, he was also known as a Sage - the Toad Sage, to be precise.
More people than this knew him to be a bestselling author, responsible for works of "art" such as "Icha Icha Paradise", "Icha Icha Violence", and his latest unreleased work, "Icha Icha Tactics".
Thus was Jiraiya of the Legendary Sannin running through the Land of Swamps along with his apprentice.
The apprentice likewise kept up with his master's speed, not minding the wind blowing in his face as he ran.
This one wore a black jacket with a tiger-striped pattern of dull orange going towards orange-red on half of the sleeves and the upper part of the jacket, hood included. Black ninja pants, midnight blue ninja sandals, and the forehead protector carved with the symbol of Konohagakure rounded out his ensemble.
What was worth noticing was the weirdly out-of-place dagger tucked in nicely in one hip holster: it looked too ornamental to have a practical use for the boy.
As the apprentice followed his master's lead, he took to thinkin about what had been happening so far.
It was two years, ten months, and fifteen days to the day that Uzumaki Naruto left the Village Hidden in the Leaves with his sensei Jiraiya the Toad Sage on a training trip.
The continent-wide trip wasn't just the Sannin checking up on his information network, the duo had also gone on a few missions: some from home (seek and destroy any ROOT remnants); some freelance.
And in between these jobs, Naruto took his ninja training back to its (pun unintended) roots: a warrior who strikes from the shadows, an assassin who kills quickly, cleanly, and discreetly. Fortunately, Naruto had taken his training seriously enough that he would routinely take on what would be rated as C-Rank missions at Konoha with nothing but a pair of kunai, five shuriken, some wire, and the three Academy jutsu... and produce remarkable results.
As they took the trail towards their latest job (a priestess in Demon Country was kidnapped and her bodyguard had commissioned ninja from several villages to aid in the recovery). Naruto was still thinking about just how far he'd gone, and how far he still needed to go.
In fact, the real reason Naruto returned to the beginning of his ninja training was him finding out that his daring rescue of his sensei in Kirigakure had earned him an A-rank bingo book rating.
His sensei was expecting him to react in the typical (read: "Whoo-hoo, I got an A-rank bingo book rating, fuck yes, I'm the best ninja ever!") manner, but Naruto had been strangely subdued when he found out.
"Guess I have an even bigger target painted on me now, right, sensei?" Naruto had asked when he had done thinking about it, and the Toad Sage nodded his assent.
From that point on, the former Kyuubi container (he did contain something, but it was as close to what the Kyuubi was as to a kunai being the scroll it was sealed in) began focusing even more on his training and putting his talents to good use.
The Toad Sage himself had marveled at how Naruto applied his unpredictability and out-of-the-box thinking to his ninja training - that "#1 in Strategy and Tactics" was beginning to show.
Sure, the boy also took some time to strengthen his Armed Device Reynard, but this was all strictly maintenance and keeping his skill set sharp - because he wanted to try and be both a ninja and a Knight simultaneously. And based on revelations after the Kirigakure incident, he'd finally have a chance to.
Judging by the results in the last few missions, Jiraiya thought, the boy was set to completely overshadow his more famous father - he had already beaten the Yondaime in several feats, even!
Speaking of which, during all this time, the Toad Sage never managed to get how the boy found out who his parents were... though he did have a laugh or two at that saying he and his friends coined up at the Academy about him being "a son of a Kage".
Some irony.
And now, here they were, taking to the branches in their hurry to get to the Land of Demons.
What had begun as a quick journey through the gnarled trees was now growing into something more, as Lass, the spirit of the Assassin's Guildmaster sealed within Naruto's Device kept leaking out feelings of nostalgia and deja vu.
Deja vu... it was as if his Device had taken through these very same branches and blazed the same trails before.
Naruto used his mind to keep the voice of his Device's spirit down - it wouldn't do to lose focus at such an important juncture.
That feeling again, Naruto thought. Not only was the nostalgic feeling leaking onto him, so was the fact that this mission had some significance to the Device Spirit.
He was thinking about entering the mindscape when two shots rang out over the branches, forcing master and apprentice to take cover.
"That was way too fast to be an enchanted kunai," Jiraiya said as he assessed the situation. "Naruto, you okay?"
"Wasn't hit anywhere, sensei," Naruto answered, "must be some sort of warning shot."
He leveled a gaze at the Toad Sage, who started to do these strange motions with his eyes.
Naruto nodded, he knew what his sensei wanted him to do.
Kage Bunshin. Two pairs.
First pair as bait, the second pair as trackers.
Naruto nodded and discreetly executed the technique while under cover of the foliage. The shots rang out again as the two clones dashed forward, but instead of missing, they hit straight and true, tearing through and dispelling the two shadow clones Naruto made as bait.
He heard the click, and the nostalgic feeling came over him once more...
Not now... Naruto thought as he felt who or whatever that was move further into the woods. His clones would track that person or thing... and he'd know who or what it was. Jiraiya's little hint about Kage Bunshin had been a little bit too helpful, as this ended up making him use less of the technique than before - it wouldn't do for him to end up with memory overload in the middle of the fight, and he did pick up a few hints on what happened to his "rival" Mr. Uchiha way back during that pursuit.
So currently, there was no point in worrying too much as the two continued taking large chakra-powered leaps towards Demon Country.
"Wonder why Hokage-sama had us take this job on such short notice, sensei?" Naruto asked.
"All Tsunade said was that we were the only Leaf-nin available on such short notice. Still..."
The apprentice left his master to his thoughts as they continued on the trail, and within a few minutes they had arrived at a rather nondescript village - the town center of the Land of Demons.
"Our attacker ended up here," Naruto muttered to his sensei. "My scout clones dispersed close by."
"Then that means the kidnapper's accomplice is somewhere here," the Toad Sage whispered back. "Keep on your toes, Naruto... we're going to the Priestess' bodyguard."
The blonde chunin nodded as they walked through the village. As he did so, though, the voice of the soul sealed within his Armed Device suddenly reverberated within his head - and frankly, it disturbed him. So that's where the feelings of deja vu are coming from.
This is Silver Cross Town.
It can't be.
How can this be Silver Cross Town?
What's the surprise for, Lass? Naruto thought-asked his Device.
I'm positive. This is Silver Cross Town.
Okay, now I'm officially freaked at this. You end up in the same world as they are? What are the odds? a second voice asked in Naruto's mind.
Hi, Fox. How are the transmission matrices going?
I've finished analyzing your transmission matrices.
Sorry it took you so long because of the purification process.
Well, it's a lot easier now. Before, when purification was ongoing, it took a lot out of me to stabilize the flow of what little was purified so far. Now that we can theoretically access all of it, I'm going to start off with a small amount of this energy before subjecting you to larger and larger amounts - so your body can take it.
Thanks, Fox.
You're welcome, dear boy. So... Lass... it seems we're finding more and more proof of your little hypothesis about this world.
I know... but this... it's convincing, but there's a little part of me that's saying there's more to this than it seems.
Let's not focus on that now, guys. Sensei and I still have to talk with the bodyguard about that rescue mission.
We'll do our own investigating, then. Drop by again if you discover anything.
Sure thing, guys.
Back outside Naruto's mind, he and his master in the ninja arts had been welcomed into one of the larger sitting rooms available in the town.
They had waited for all of two minutes when the client walked in - she had on a large, hooded cloak that concealed most of her facial features... except her eyes.
That seemed to be the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back, as Naruto could hear Lass' voice in his mind stutter and stammer when the client shook hands with the Toad Sage and then turned to Naruto.
It's her. First these coincidences, then Silver Cross... and now her.
Do you know her? the Fox asked.
I know only one girl who has a blue right eye and a red left eye.
Sure enough, the client removed the hood, revealing that she had, indeed, a blue right eye and a red left eye - the defining feature of a gentle and calm face, long blue hair, and eyeglasses.
"A bloodline limit?" Naruto had blurted out in sheer disbelief.
"Your medic-nin would define it as 'heterochromia'," the girl answered in a quiet and almost blank tone. "My name is Mari - and I have been Priestess Shion's bodyguard for the past several years."
Naruto's eyes narrowed as the memories of his dispelled Kage Bunshin resurfaced. "Were you the one who ambushed Sensei and I back outside town?"
"My apologies," Mari said almost blandly, making Naruto think that the apology wasn't too sincere. "It was only to ascertain the extent of your abilities. You carry a Device with you, why not use it?"
"I have my reasons," Naruto answered, "and I'm not too comfortable disclosing them at this moment."
"Give it a try, kid," a voice echoed somewhere, and with a swirl of leaves, two ninja entered the sitting room.
Naruto's mind boggled as the two stepped towards the client. Not only did they look familiar, they also sported the headbands of Otogakure!
"Don't remember the face of your old pal Sieghart, kid?" the dark-haired man asked, smiling.
The boy quickly reached for the ornate dagger - his Device - while taking a defensive position. "Sieghart," he muttered as he tensed himself up for battle.
"Relax, we're also here on the same job. Mission clauses to each Kage and council were worded that no inter-village spats would happen barring pecuniary penalties, so no, we don't get to continue that little contest we had," Sieghart answered, raising his hands in a placating gesture. "Oh, by the way, I picked up an apprentice on the job: meet Tsuchi Kin. Kin, meet Uzumaki Naruto and Jiraiya the Toad Sage."
"Pleasure to meet you," the dark-haired kunoichi said, bowing as the tradition went.
"Uh, well, nice to meet you too, I suppose," both Leaf-nin managed to sputter out before bowing as well.
Several minutes of the requisite small talk went by before a ninja wearing the forehead protector of the Village Hidden in the Grass walked into the sitting room. Naruto's eyes bugged: what in the world?
He originally thought it was an extremely buff Grass-nin, but as the person went closer, he could see mesh armor and bandages around the chest and abdomen.
Naruto saw... wait, were those breasts being constrained by the bandages? He was momentarily discombobulated at the dissonant mix: a gigantic kunoichi who seemed to carry that massive axe like it was a child's squeak toy. The rest of her look: hakama pants, ninja sandals, goggles, ash-blond hair and pointy ears poking out from under her boyish cut seemed to be just an afterthought.
"Otsuka reporting for duty," she said blandly at the client.
"Otsuka-san, you seem to be even more withdrawn than before..." Mari mused. "Anyway, do introduce yourselves to one another. As I am the client in this joint-village operation, I shall begin. My name is Mari... and up until 12 hours ago, I was the bodyguard of the current priestess of Demon Country, Shion. It is my assumption that she was taken in order to resurrect some sort of demonic influence; thus, I hired ninja from several villages to help with the retrieval effort, and here we are. Leaf-nin-san?"
"Um, yeah," Jiraiya said, feeling just a bit out of place among all the younger nin. "Name's Jiraiya, I'm a ninja of the Leaf, and a writer and researcher. You might know me as the author of books such as 'Icha Icha Paradise' and its sequels."
"Can I have an autograph?" Kin asked as her master palmed his face. The Kusa-nin named Otsuka seemed to have a slight glint in her eye when Jiraiya mentioned the famous book he penned, but it passed by quickly.
"Maybe after this mission. Oi, kid. You're up."
"Uzumaki Naruto, Chunin of the Leaf," Naruto said, scratching his head sheepishly. "I got railroaded into taking a training trip because I was an idiot and didn't even bother to see who I fought until after I took him down."
That brought out a lot of chuckles from the assembled ninja for a while, until Mari coughed before looking at Sieghart.
"All right, then..." Sieghart said. "The name's Sieghart, of Sound... I want to get to a nice, steaming onsen right after this mission... because training my apprentice turned out to be a dumb, tedious, tiresome, but ultimately fulfilling, move on my part," the dark-haired nin sighed. "Your turn, my darling apprentice."
"Pervert," Kin shot back. "I'm Tsuchi Kin, Special Jonin of Sound. Used to be a genjutsu specialist, now I'm more of a combat supporter. It's a long story, involving earrings, genjutsu, the Sound Five, and several jibes about the Otokage's tongue, but that's how I ended up with this lazy bum for my master."
"I am not a bum!" Sieghart bristled at the insult.
"Point made," Kin answered, giggling.
The girl with the pointy ears politely stretched out her lips in what passed off as a smile. "Otsuka Hikaru, Grass. Forest Patrol. These ears are a bloodline limit."
"Aren't they all?" Sieghart asked, grinning. "So, we're an inter-village wrecking crew you ended up hiring. Wonder why?"
"What about showing the secondary proof of your power?" Mari asked, rummaging in her cloak a bit before withdrawing a very strange thing - something that looked like one of the firearms the Fire Daimyo's militia had recently researched, but this one had a more streamlined and powerful look to it - and it had a large cylindrical part that Naruto guessed could spin around.
"Fafnir?" Hikaru asked, and an orange orb embedded in the axe she carried began to blink as it spoke. "Yes, my lord?"
"Meeting new friends... everyone, my partner Fafnir," the pointy-eared Grass-nin said, pointing to her axe.
"New friends?" Fafnir asked in an electronic voice. "This isn't a meeting of new friends, it's a reunion. Lass... Amy... Sieghart... and Mari. Long time no see. Ryan here."
Everyone nearly bugged out at Fafnir's revelation. No way this was a coincidence.
Deep inside, Naruto knew that while the hand of destiny might have taken him in this direction, everything else pointed towards the intervention of someone - or something.
The question now was, why?
"As we'd like to stay, chat, and reminisce about times long past, we all need to hurry... Priestess Shion will most likely be used to revive a sealed demonic entity," Mari said, shifting her gaze at Naruto when she saw his eyes go blank for a moment, as if thinking about how this seemed to be fitting too well.
Hikaru's eyes instantly grew hard. "How long do we have left?"
"The target area is around 20 kilometers to the north-northwest of here - a mountain temple at the southern edge of the Land of Swamps. Beware, I heard that Yomi had assembled an array of monsters to hinder any attempts at rescue - and that the ritual will begin the night after tomorrow."
"We'll take care of it, right, Scheherazade?" Kin asked.
"Right you are, my lady." a voice echoed as the hoop earrings Kin wore lit up.
"That's the spirit, kid," Sieghart said. "Hey, white-haired porn fiend. You don't seem to have a Device. Don't know if you have what it takes to run with someone as awesome as I am."
"Appearances can be deceiving, Sieghart," Mari said. "If you must know, this man is a Sage - a powerful one. He can go toe-to-toe with the best of us, and he's had a lot of experience in many other fields."
"If you say so," Sieghart replied, knowing that part of that was true. After all, he did spend a great majority of his immortal life in battle. "So... the ceremony starts night after tomorrow, huh? Long enough time for us to tear through these things and save the day."
"As I'm sure you will. Now please, I have to finish a few last-minute preparations. Jiraiya-sama, I leave you to lead this team. Please bring Shion-sama back safe and sound."
"We'll do our best," the five ninja said, and the client stood up, bowed a dismissal, and retreated to her office, presumably to begin contingency plans.
"Uzumaki Naruto," Hikaru said, looking at the blonde Konoha chunin after Mari had taken to her office. "Fafnir tells me your Device has Lass... it's a great combination."
"Thank you," Naruto said off-handedly.
"It's hard, isn't it? To manage being both a ninja and a knight?"
Naruto and Kin both coughed. "It's really not that hard."
"True, you get used to it in time," the Oto special jonin added.
"I have a feeling we will get along... famously, so they say," the kunoichi from Grass said.
"She's tall," Kin whispered to Naruto.
"Tell me about it," Naruto whispered back. "She's a full head taller than me, and I'm well into my spurt."
The Grass kunoichi simply sighed. When will people stop using my height to pick me out of a crowd?
Elsewhere, crickets chirped in the night air as a black-clad couple somberly walked through the front door of their rather modest home.
"Welcome home," a rather cute brunette said, getting off the couch and turning off the TV as soon as she heard the door open.
"Thanks for taking care of the twins, Sera," the husband said. "So, are they done for the night?"
"Yes, sir," the babysitter replied. "They're already sleeping soundly."
The couple nodded appreciatively before the husband went to reach for his wallet.
"Sir, it's late... and I have to get home as soon as I can. If it isn't any trouble, can I just come by tomorrow?"
"That's no problem, Miss Sera..." the man said, smiling sadly. "I'll drop it off with Amy here, and you can come by before going to school."
"Thanks, sir!" the babysitter said, her expression brightening before she took her leave of the couple.
The couple spent a few minutes viewing the doorway of their home silently before the brown-haired woman finally closed the door and breathed a sigh of relief. "Well, at least we know she's a great babysitter..."
She turned to her husband, and gasped as she saw him with an ineffably sad expression on his face... so she wasted no time in going around him and engulfing him with her arms with an embrace from behind.
"Oh, Chrono... I'm sorry..."
"He taught me everything I know... I would have been less than half as good if it wasn't for him..."
"...you want to talk more about it?" Amy asked her husband.
He nodded at his darling wife wistfully. "Yeah..."
"Let's get out of these stuffy clothes, first," she said, winking.
Admiral Chrono Harlaown cracked his first smile of the day then before leading his wife Amy Limietta-Harlaown to their bedroom.
"You know, I never thought of Hayate-chan being vindictive," Amy began as she wiggled around, trying to get to the zipper of her black dress. "But after what we saw when the contracts were summoned, I wonder. Is she, really?"
"A gentle soul like Hayate-chan? It's unlikely. You should have seen the faces on those two, though... Aria and Lotte looked like their lives flashed before their eyes when they found out their contracts were passed on to Hayate from the old Admiral," Chrono replied, assisting his wife in finding and pulling down the annoying zipper.
"Do you think Hayate-chan would do anything... to hurt them?" Amy asked, gasping as her husband got a little bit frisky before unsnapping her brassiere.
"Knowing her? She's not going to do anything to them. Every time she looks at them, they're going to be reminded of what they've done, and that, for me, is a million times worse than if she worked them to death, used them for target practice, anything," Chrono answered before tossing aside his pants. "Sometimes I even wonder if Hayate still remembers. Goodness knows Aria and Lotte do."
"Gah! You rascal. You're not going to give me a chance to shower, won't you?" Amy gasped out.
"No. We go together," Chrono answered before gently holding his wife's wrist and easing her towards the bathroom.
Several minutes later, while the couple were rinsing off a rather heated shower that served as the appetizer to the night's main course, Amy went back to what they had been talking about.
"Admiral Graham lived a long and fruitful life, didn't he?"
"Yes, he did. Never mind all the stunts he pulled, all the under-the-table dealing... never mind that the only way he got me to be serious about my magical career was by mentioning my father's memory..."
"...and Hayate-chan."
Chrono grunted. "She's already forgiven those two, but somehow, there's still a part of her that wants to hurt them back..."
"How do you know this?" Amy asked as she dried off her husband.
"Because I feel the same way, too," he answered as he took the other towel and reciprocated his wife's actions. "Maybe I should have a talk with her about this. Get her to admit that she still hates them - even if only a little - for what they did to her those years ago. Hopefully, she's still as wise as before so that she'll realize that getting back at the two girls is never worth it."
"What would be worth it then?" Amy asked, her expression changing.
"You know the saying that hate never beats hate; but love does. How about we try for another?" Chrono asked, raising his eyebrows. "It's been quite some time since the twins, right?"
"It is... and you've got yourself a deal, Admiral," Amy said cheekily as she took her husband by the hand and walked over to their bed.
There were skeletons among them. Skeletons wielding armor, swords, and bows...
...Dark-robed reanimated humans, wielding dark magics: arcs of black lightning, clouds of noxious fumes...
... and gigantic stone constructs, sending tremors through the ground as their monolithic arms swung.
And there were a lot of them, stretching a line beginning from the outskirts of Demon Country's capital all the way to wherever they came from.
Okay, the ninja quote for the day seems to be "expect the unexpected". Too bad they didn't specify "how unexpected", Uzumaki Naruto thought as the rescue team comprising of him and Jiraiya from Konoha, Sieghart and Kin from Oto, and Hikaru from Kusa went face-first into the fray, blazing a trail of destruction from the gates of the frontier town all the way to the Land of Swamps.
"Judging by their number, whoever summoned these creatures was planning for an invasion. A major one," Jiraiya said as he crushed a skeleton swordsman into bone dust with a Rasengan.
"So this was why Mari-san hired us?" Hikaru asked before hefting her axe, winding up, and sending a flurry of arrows sent their way back with a charged swing of the axe. "Because she somehow knew this would happen?"
I think every Device here knows, too. They're just not made to openly conjecture, though, Naruto thought. Still... if Lass has been here, then it stands to reason that Sieghart...
The aforementioned Oto-nin was further ahead, tearing into a large stone creature that was breathing jets of fire at him. Too bad he had his aura out, and was zipping around these flames, swatting his sword at the stone construct at every possible place - the creature didn't last that long under said onslaught, collapsing into a pile of rocks as Sieghart finished it off with a Grinding Punisher.
"Bloody show-off," Kin muttered as she took out another one of those cloaked monsters with a combination of ninja wire and kunai.
It's too early for us to show our dances, my lady, a voice in Kin's head echoed.
All right, we'll stay in a low key. I don't know how long we can keep it that way, though... look out!
A sickening hue of orange burst from the bogs, and the earth thudded as EVERYONE stopped in their tracks.
Something big was lumbering towards them, and after the crashes of its footfalls finished, the monstrosity came into full view.
It looked human, but instead of two eyes, it hand just one - and its arms looked much larger than normal. The thing let its lone eye in a gaze over the battlefield, registering the five ninja as targets.
And then it brought its arms down.
That was when Uzumaki Naruto realized that this wasn't just any mission, any more... because all of them scattered at the flaming boulders coughed up from the fissures in the ground caused by this monster's massive blow.
Morning had finally arrived.
After an exhausting night of intimate contact, Admiral Chrono Harlaown of the Time-Space Administration Bureau wearily dragged himself out of bed and went to his portable command console after doing the rituals of day's start.
As soon as he had booted up the laptop that was his direct line to the data banks in his TSAB office, notifications began to spring up - after all, he did take a week off from his work. Someone important to him and the Bureau did, after all, shuffle off his mortal coil.
It took him a hastily-made breakfast and a cup of coffee to get most of the usual business that an Admiral of the TSAB would have to go through done, but by the time the cup of coffee was empty, he was down to one notification.
Intrigued, he clicked on the strange link that came from his office's personal file.
"Your personal file has been updated. The time lock on Directive 11-2309A has passed."
That's funny, Chrono thought. Directives under those are ranked-SSS, not even for someone of my rank. Why would someone want to give me this file?
He gasped when he saw the names of the undersigned.
Admiral Lindy Harlaown.
Admiral Gil Graham.
Gone but not forgotten was a most apt note, Chrono thought. But what would have gotten Mother to cooperate with Admiral Graham after the "Tome of the Night Sky" incident?
He read the abstract.
And then he paled.
He hurriedly went back to his bedroom to get his uniform on. The appropriate personnel would have to be notified. A ship had to be requisitioned, supplied, and manned for an operation of this magnitude.
In the midst of his frenzy of preparing, one thought passed through his mind.
Mother... Graham... how?
Why have you kept this from us for so long?
He took a second to look at the invitation card for the funeral held yesterday for the man he considered to be his mentor (aside from his mother), but no answers would come.
Admiral Chrono Harlaown thus began his day preparing for an off-the-books TSAB intervention.
Naruto: Twin Fates
Chapter 1 - END
a/n: Holy crap Nitramy writes lime. Of course, you dolt. I'm Linux Black Sarena, too. *blasts commenter with High Intensity Laser*
And yes, I'm sorry for shifting the rating to M. I have my reasons why. You've already read one, and several others will be coming soon.
No, we will not have the TSAB actually drop in yet. We still have a few chapters to go (and Naruto still has to go back to Konoha, natch!) that will set everything else in motion.
Hikaru will probably play a supporting role in the story, but that doesn't mean she'll hook up with a Narutoverse or Nanohaverse character. Why she chooses to remain single will be revealed next chapter.
If you want to know what Admiral Chrono Harlaown stumbled upon, go back to my previous story (Naruto: Arcane Heart) and go read Chapter 32.
We're not done with the twists yet, so buckle up, we're only getting started.
Again, reviews and things where you want to see a few scenes and improvements will make me really happy.
There's a link in my profile again, and the poll is still open (I'll keep it open until Mobile Assault Force 6 makes their debut).
OC Biography
Name: Otsuka Hikaru
Village: Kusagakure
Rank: Special Jonin (Weapons spec)
Elemental Affinity: Earth / Water
Bloodline Limit: A minor one: her ears are pointed, much like an elf's. It was said to be a recessive Clan trait.
Biography: It remains a mystery to this day how Kusagakure managed to hide its own Device user until recent times. Hikaru is the first of Kusagakure's Forest Patrols, a group of ecologically-inclined ninja who are trained to battle within forests, jungles, and bogs. Their range of jutsu is limited to whatever allows them to blend in the forest better, but what little they know allows them to be near invisble in their chosen battleground.
P.S. There are cookies to be given away! A cookie will be given to who gets where I got Hikaru's appearance (and name!) from. First 3 who get it right get named recognition in the next chapter.