Hi and welcome to my first Naruto fanfiction. The only thing I have to say is this, if you're a Final Fantasy VII fan, I think you'll love this, but who am I to judge? Just go ahead and read. Note that this is between the time when Sasuke left the village and before Naruto went off to train with Jiraiya. I don't own Naruto or Final Fantasy VII
In the outskirts of the Konoha Village...
Naruto jumped from tree to tree complaining about his easy mission, he complained about Tsunade never seeing his talents and never giving him any challenging missions or missions involving Sasuke. He continued to leap as the details of that mourning came back to him.
"ALRIGHT! A MISSION OUTSIDE THE VILLAGE," Naruto screamed into the room. Shizune plugged her ears and Tsunade twitched in anger.
"WILL YOU SHUT THE HELL UP," Tsunade bellowed. She earned a meek 'yes ma'am' as a reply. Tsunade sighed in frustration before explaining the mission. "Reports have indicated that the wildlife near the South-East corner of Fire Country have been avoiding the area causing a lack of food for the villagers there. We here assume that there is some sort of creature driving them off. Since everyone is off on a mission, you will investigate and deal with the issue. This is a B-Rank mission concerning that if you fail then the South-East corner will have to move in order to find food. The difficulty of this mission is most likely C-Ranked so it should be something as simple as eliminating a threatening creature," Tsunade explained.
"So all I have to do is kill some animal and come back? Man that's soooo lame. Are you sure there isn't anyone else obaa-chan," Naruto asked obviously disappointed.
"DON'T CALL ME THAT!!!" The scream was heard all through Konohagkure.
So here Naruto was leaping through the endless trees of Fire Country. Sure there was a lot at stake but Naruto was too busy complaining about how easy it would be. Just as he landed on another branch he froze. The air felt frozen and he could literally fell killing intent pushing against him. He never felt anything this...evil, full of hate. He jumped down from the brach and walked out towards a field of grass with no trees to be seen. He looked at the once blue skies to only see pitch black clouds that did not drop rain. He felt the hatred burning him as he stood there. The temperature dropped because he began to see his breath. He looked down from the skies out onto the clearing of grass in front of him. He then saw something, a man, clothed in black leather armor, with metal plates atop of each shoulder, a blood red cape that was black on the outside, he had long silver hair flowing behind him as the wind blew. He held a exetremely long sheath at his side that was at least twice as tall as any normal human. The trait that stood out the most was that he had one black-blue angel wing.
Upon noticing this, he felt two voices in his head screaming for him to get the hell away, one was him, the other, was Kyubi no Kitsune. They told him to run and forget ever seeing that thing, hide in a corner and pray that it didn't follow. Naruto took a step back in fear landing on a twig that snapped rather loudly, his eyes widened as the man slowly turned towards him. Unable to move, Naruto stood there as the man turned to fully face him, they locked eyes. His eyes were a sick light green with the pupils slit. After a second of staring, the man grinned.
"You're scared of me, aren't you," the man stated rather than asked. He stared at Naruto who was in even more fear now that the man was facing him. Naruto couldn't even comprehend any thoughts anymore, all he felt was fear and hopelessness. Naruto could no longer stand as he fell to his knees.
"W-what are you," Naruto asked fearfully out of instinct. The angel grinned as his hand slowly rose above him. The black clouds began to circle around them far above the sky.
"I am an angel who has come to purify this planet's Lifestream. I am Sephiroth," the angel grinned answering him. Naruto's fear started to turn into curiosity and anger.
"What the hell is a Lifestream," Naruto asked hardening his resolve.
"The Lifestream is the very source of life everything exists by. The very energy used in each of your bodies," Sephiroth explained. '...Chakra?' Naruto's thought seemed to revolve on this answer.
"I plan to use the darkness to destroy this planet's Lifestream, choking it, corroding it. What I want, is to sail the darkness of the cosmoes with this planet as my vessel," Sephiroth said as his hand lowered to the hilt on his sword.
"Kit, he plans on killing everything on the planet and using it to explore the darkness for more power," Kyubi explained.
"Why this planet," Naruto asked his fear completely forgotten. Sephiroth looked into the sky, his dark grin never faded.
"This planet's Lifestream is unique, it is made up of more than light, but also of darkness. This planet's darkness called me so I came to obtain it, as simple as that," Sephiroth explained cooly.
"So you'll kill everything just for that reason, just so you can obtain power! Man that's so low, you don't even know what true strength is! I'll never forgive you!" Naruto yelled at him. Sephiroth laughed.
"I've heard that before, you remind me of him, very well, show me your strength," Sephiroth said as he drew his blade. He changed into his stance as he eyed Naruto. Naruto charged at him drawing out a kunai. He launched it at Sephiroth and lunged at him. Sephiroth side-stepped the kunai and with his free arm caught Naruto's fist. Sephiroth was surprised with the power packed behind it and felt a foreign energy coming from Naruto.
"Oh, what exactly is your strength boy?" Sephiroth let go of Naruto's arm and kicked his stomach, sending Naruto flying backwards thirty feet. Naruto landed on his feet to see Sephiroth quickly closed the distance. Naruto ducked under a swipe of Sephiroth's sword, Masamune. He had no time to counter-attack as Sephiroth continued to slash at Naruto. Naruto could only dodge as the attack seemed endless. Naruto finnaly saw a chance to jump away and took it. He leaped backwards and form his favorite hand-signs.
"Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" Nineteen clones formed around Naruto and all of them lunged at Sephiroth. Spehiroth merely swung his sword once and all the clones dispelled instantly. Naruto made fifty more and once again they lunged at him. Sephiroth had no trouble dealing with them as he swung his sword at godly speeds though them. But in doing this he lost sight of Naruto. He spun around to see him lunge at him. He caught Naruto with the end of his blade and stabbed.
"So it seems you're the real one, you should know, that numbers don't compensate for skill, you're weaker than I thought you were," Sephiroth said grinning.
"Yeah, well you should never underestimate a shinobi," 'Naruto' said as he poofed from existence. Sephiroth's eyes widened as Naruto and his clone came holding a spiraling orb of chakra. Sephiroth tried to spin around and attack but only managed to dispell the clone and by then it was far too late.
"Rasengan!" Naruto thrusted the Rasengan into Sephiroth's stomach and start to let it drill in. However, Sephiroth managed to back-hand Naruto causing the Rasengan explode and launch them both in opposite directions spiraling away until they landed on the ground. Sephiroth merely extended his wing and he landed on his feet, he brushed it off like it was nothing. Naruto bounced on the gound a few times before he landed on his feet, coughing up a little blood.
'Damn, I guess that's what it feels like when I'm hit with my own attack, I'm pretty lucky there isn't anything for me to hit around here or I'd be dead. He however brushed it off like it was nothing. Damn him," Naruto cursed in his own head.
"Powerful technique, but it looks like you've used your energy," Sephiroth said as he stared at Naruto.
"Oh yeah? Well I'm just getting started. Tajuu Kage Bushin no Justu!" 400 shadow clones appeared all ready to take Sephiroth down. Sephiroth just shook his head.
"I said it before, numbers don't compensate for skill," he stated staring at his many adversaries.
"And I said this! Don't you ever underestimate a shinobi," all the Naruto clones yelled as the jumped into to the air. They all threw shurikens at him. Sephiroth gaze tightened, a challenge at last.
"Shuriken Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" the Naruto clones exclaimed. Sephiroth's eyes widened as the shurikens multiplied ten-fold. 'Damn'
The shurikens all connected and victory was assured. They stared at were the shurikens landed only to see many black feathers pinned to the ground. They looked on with confusion as they landed on the ground.
Did we get 'em?" Their question was answered when feather fell from the sky as they clones rapidly started disappearing. The clones were quickly picked off one by one. "What the hell? Is he using Substitution?" The unfortunate clone who asked was instantly destroyed afterwards. Naruto realized after he caught a glimse of Sephiroth that he was teleporting leaving black feathers in his wake. But by the time he realized, his clones were all gone. Sephiroth stood in middle of the falling feathers calmly he turned to Naruto.
" I saw you the whole time I killed off the clones, you used some body switching technique everytime I tried to kill you, hence I had to kill them all, now, you have nowhere to hide," Sephiroth said as he teleported once more in front of Naruto and he thrust Masamune into his stomach until his blade came out of Naruto's back. "You were doomed from the start, boy. I am shamed to say that you put up more of a fight than I would've like." Naruto put both of his hands on Sephiroth's sword in attempt to pull it out. "Give up, it won't be long before the rest of the world joins you in your eternal slumber," Sephrioth said.
"No...I won't, ever give up, there are people who care about me, I have precious people and I...I...won't let you hurt them. SO YOU'RE OUT OF LUCK!" Naruto screamed as his whisker marks darkened and his eyes turned blood red with slit pupils. His chakra turned red and erupted out of him causing Sephiroth to yank out his sword and leap away. Naruto screamed into the air. The chakra formed fox ears and a tail. Naruto got down on all fours and stared at Sephiroth menacingly. His claws grew and fangs formed in his teeth.
"What kind of monster are you," Sephiroth calmly asked believing to have face worse, he was dead wrong.
"I'M MORE HUMAN THAN YOU MONSTER," Naruto screamed as he charged at Sephiroth. Sephiroth flinched upon being called a monster. Memeories flooded his mind as Naruto seemed to charge in slow motion.
"Human who are exposed to small levels of mako become super humans, when humans are exposed to extreme levels of mako they become what's inside that," Sephiroth explained to Zack. Zack looked inside the pod and jumped back in fear of seeing it.
"They become monsters," Zack asked in fear. Sephiroth looked down sadly and started shaking.
"No...not me too...I'm not a monster," Sephiroth said with a single tear falling from his face.
Naruto charged at Sephiroth and punched him, Sephiroth was too distracted with his memory to block. Naruto continued to punch Sephiroth mercilessly leaving no openings. He gave off one final punch that launched Sephiroth forty feet. Naruto then quickly charged up a Rasengan in his hand. Sephiroth quickly jumped into the air and summoned a meteor from the heavens and launched it at Naruto. Naruto blasted through it with ease and thrust his Rasengan into Sephiroth.
"RASENGAN!!!" Naruto's Rasengan was caught by Sephiroth's free hand as they both pumped energy/chakra into it. Sephiroth began to glow a dark blue as Naruto glowed a darker red. The Rasengan expanded in size until it covered both of them then in an explosion of light they both flew opposite ways. Naruto fell towards the ground and Sephiroth flew into the sky. Naruto landed on the ground on his feet, the demonic chakra gone and his normal facial features returned. He panted heavily. He stared at Sephiroth who stopped in mid-air and fully extended his wing looking down upon Naruto.
"I never would of imagined being defeated today. What is your name," Sephiroth asked.
"Uzimaki Naruto, don't forget it," Naruto weakly said grinning.
"I am Sephiroth, the One-Winged Angel. Naruto, I will return to test your strength, remember, I will never be a memory," Sephiroth said smiling as he faded away into black-blue feathers. Naruto weakly stared at where Sephiroth was and fell to his back breathing heavily.
"Well that was a workout," Naruto said as the clouds cleared and the sun shined upon him. He smiled feeling he made a friend instead of an enemy.
That's the end. I hoped you liked please review. I'm sorry it probably seemed like Advent Children but I needed some reason why Sephiroth was there, I might make a sequel using Shippuden Naruto later.