CHAPTER ONE: FINDING THE SAMURAI PLUS
Prince: I've always kind of liked the action and latent romance of shows set during olden times. Not to mention that this world also has tech that you wouldn't find anywhere else. I mean Kikochu is a giant robot that apparently has a family line. Plus there's something going on between that samurai apprentice and the priestess. Unfortunately, like N (3) CA (the parentheses means the N's being tripled), the boy will be transformed into a girl.
Kiactu: The pairings will be:
Kiactu/Kirara/FEM Katsushiro
Naruto/?
Ichigo/?
Prince: Prince of the Forgotten does not own Samurai 7 nor Bleach or Naruto (Shippuden). He does however own the group that they are featured in and several AMVs on his computer, as well as the first three episodes of Samurai 7. I will try to have new chapters for Naruto: Restart and Negito up by the end of the month.
CHAPTER START
It was a peaceful day in a random wheat field as a boy and a girl sat on the back of a wagon, the girl petting a creature that had extended ears and brown fur. It really looked like something that someone's offspring decided that they wanted to draw rather crudely, I might add. It seemed to be bipedal with two antennae topped off with orange balls.
A lowly farmer was out in the field picking wheat when he noticed a giant ship of what seemed to be alien design crashed into a forest a few miles off. The resulting explosion ripped through the field in a bright light, obliterating everything there in under a millisecond. It was unknown if the farmer, the girl, the boy, the two mules driving the wagon, or the strange creature, was alive from the blast. While the fire was settling on the ground, the aerial battles of the giant mecha flying over the pass grew more intense. A Merlinian seal appeared on the cannon before a laser erupted, destroying the entire row of mecha on the other side of the air.
The sword attachments on each mecha cut through the enemy, destroying the mecha and the pilot inside. As they were about to attack yet another ship, one of the enemy mecha was cut through by an unknown attack. The sky shined for a split second, showing an aerial craft of some kind with a middle aged man standing outside its cockpit. He jumped from the craft and began to freefall before drawing his sword. The blade cut through another machine (which as actually a pretty impressive feat for a blade that small) and he landed on the bridge of another. He rushed towards the enemy before cutting them down and jumping off the edge once more, landing on his plane and flying off.
"Shuroji," he called out to the pilot, "we're going to drive straight into the enemy battleship and hopefully buy some time for our allies to escape safely." The blond man (with ponytails at sixty degrees of one another) smirked for a second. "An epic battle, huh?" he asked, only for his comrade to tell him that it was all they got. "Commander, flip the pressure valves to fully open. Maximum drive on forward and we'll pulse through their armor." The man outside said nothing as the craft rode off to crash into the ship. Thousands of explosions could be seen afterwards.
Scenes of people suffering sickened a seventeen year old as he walked behind two others: another teen about a year older and one that appeared to be a few years younger. "Kiactu, it pains me to see people like this," the former said. "This place just reeks of death and suffering. We have to do something to help!"
"We don't want to risk our cover," the silver blond responded. "Bear with it. This village will be liberated someday soon. It's better that we don't mess with them unless they massacre this place." He spoke too soon as villagers tried to uprise against the giant mecha as they were picking up bundles. The plan fell short as one of them raised their swords and obliterated the farmers. "Do we attack now?" the third person in their group, a young man with strawberry blond hair, asked. "Of course," Kiactu answered.
"Getsuga Tensho (Translation: Heaven Piercing Fang!)!"
"Blaze Burst!"
"Bijuudama (Translation: Tailed Beast Bomb)!"
The first one up was the strawberry blond, who swung the giant cleaver, the blade itself curved inwards at the backside of the tip similar to a trench knife on his back. A giant wave of white energy crashed into the mecha before a stream of light hit as well. The final attack was a black ball of energy that fully wiped the mecha out. "Nice going, Ichigo and Naruto," Kiactu told his companions as they watched many more mecha come to attack them. "Ichigo, time to unleash your Bankai! Naruto, go Bijuu Moodos!" The two did as instructed, the strawberry blond being covered in black energy as the sunny blond was covered in yellowish flames. The energies dissipated as the two stood there in different outfits.
Naruto, the sunny blond, was dressed in a shroud that parted down the middle and opened into a large full-length coat, revealing a black undergarment with magatama near his neck, whilst a seal that had numerous swirl-patterns that were located all over his body that also opened out into complete, dark circles. Ichigo's new clothing was a white undershirt beneath his black shihakushÅ, which was now open. It was held together by three "x"-shaped marks and ended in a number of coattails. He wore black gloves with white "x"-shaped marks that appeared on both the gloves and his forearms. The blade of his sword, which he called Tensa Zangetsu, was now much longer (about the same size as it was before he activated his Bankai) and more curved as it neared the tip, with three protrusions along the blunt end of the sword close to its tip. It looked a lot like a manji, only the tsuba was more curved and jagged. A black chain was connected to his hilt and glove.
Kiactu was bathed in black and white energy as the bandages on his right arm unraveled. His outfit also changed before transforming into a white jacket with attacked gloves. The jacket looked like something that would be expected from a sweat shop that had a surplus of zippers. His pants were held by a black belt and had a skirt-like extension on them (AN: Think of Allen Walker's outfit when he battles Tyki Mikk but with opposite colors. I can't really describe clothing and just re-edited the description on both Narutopedia and the Bleach wiki). The machine came to destroy the trio when Ichigo drew back Tensa Zangetsu. "Kuroi Getsuga," he said under his breath.
A black wave of energy erupted from Tensa Zangetsu, covering the village as it sliced into a ship. The attack could be seen in the villages over as the ship fell into the ground. "Naruto, you're up," Kiactu told the jinchuriki as Naruto nodded. The flames that licked around him grew to immense size before transforming into a giant fox with nine tails. The beast's tail stabbed through the ship once more, blowing it up and destroying it. The rest of the ships ran as they didn't want anything to do with the strange creature that appeared from the field.
In yet another village over, a ship was going over a field of rice. A farmer just so happened to be unlucky that he was even there and was eventually scanned along with the rice. However, the ship left almost as soon as it came, making the man take a deep breath as he looked on. It was a misty place with little to no water. People wore masks that covered their faces and shook sticks with bells on them, chanting as a girl held a crystal with a cat eye on it in front of her. She eventually stopped and put her hand behind her in a way for the little girl behind her to put little parchments on her hand. The crystal glowed as more and more parchments were placed into her hand until it finally stopped suddenly and made the young woman's eyes open. The girl stopped putting parchments in her hand as soon as the music stopped and was asked how many.
"Seven," she replied as the old woman to her side gave a speech. "Seven times with seven turns. Where the Dowsing Crystal points the water will be waiting," she said while praying. One of the villagers, a homely bald man with just a ponytail on his forehead, stated that he was worried when the old well dried up and thought it would be the end for the village. "The priestess has saved us," he said, digging into the ground when suddenly the little girl started crying. "What's wrong, Komachi?" the older one asked.
"My stomach's growling," the one named Komachi answered. The priestess smiled before the earth started to rumble and took the villagers' attention to a giant air craft like the one before. "What are they doing here now?" one of the villagers asked. "They know it's not harvesting season yet." Another commented that the bandits came for more than just food now. One of the villages before tried to rise up against them and had their women and livestock taken. An order was given out to take the priestess into the temple when a sudden jolt happened to the ship.
"Kuroi Getsuga!" a male's voice yelled out as a red-tinged black wave hit the ship. "Kitsune Bi! (Translation: Demon Fox Fire!)" another yelled as well before the remains were set ablaze by a black-tinged blue fire. Chains wrapped around the ship and began to crush it before the flames strengthened and burned the ship. The remains fell to the ground as the crowd of villagers looked to see who their heroes were. A gang of bandits had exited the crash site and decided that they wanted to be imbursed for the damages.
"Ichigo?" Kiactu asked of his partner. The Shinigami said nothing as he demonstrated an impossible feat of strength by grabbing the side of the burned ship. He ignored the burns it gave his fingertips before throwing the side over his shoulder and far off into the distance. "Gentlemen, that rubble was about three to six times the weight of our little crowd, including the villagers over there. Naruto, would you please be a dear and show them how fast you are?" Naruto said nothing as well before disappearing. A streak of light showed his path as he punched a bandit in the stomach, making the man cough up blood before slumping to the ground.
"Any questions?"
The bandits ran off, intimidated by the Namae no Nai and his companions. "AND STAY OUT!" Naruto yelled after the men. "Actually, BRING YOUR FRIENDS! WE COULD USE THE WORK-OUT!" He then turned to Kiactu and Ichigo. "We ooze epicness," he said as a smile was plastered on his face. The sound of little feet running across puddles made Kiactu turn his attention back to the villagers. She came to a screeching stop in front of the three and bent over huffing before staring up at the three. "Who are you?" she asked as she began to poke their legs.
"Could you . . ."
". . . Please stop . . ."
". . . Doing that?" They synchronized their words before the girl caught the hint. Kiactu cleared his throat and bowed. "We're just simple drifters, milady, who just so happened to passing through. I noticed these bandits and just decided to help fight them off." He rose his upper body back up before smiling at the priestess. "I apologize if we've done anything to ruin your . . . ceremony." He looked as the girl tried to touch Naruto's body. "Why is your friend on fire?" she asked, poking at the flames. "Does it hurt?"
"Komachi, it's rude to poke someone you just met," her older sister scolded her. "Especially since those new people saved our village."
"Let's get them to the temple!" one of the villagers cried out before the entire crowd ran to the three and escorted them to the shrine. Inside, the three were debriefed on what was happening. "It's almost harvesting season," a villager told them. "They were probably scouting to see how the rice was going and you just blew up one of their ships. More will come once they get word of their fallen ship and try to kill us all and take our women!" Kiactu, Naruto, and Ichigo collectively sweatdropped as the man began to freak out.
"Don't worry," Kiactu told him anyway. "It's going to take some sort of mecha army to even think they want to attack this village. The only thing is . . . we need more people to even think about a defense. Ichigo, Naruto, and I are not exactly defensive fighters. We really are more of people who rush into things without a plan or thought. To be more effective, we need more than just us."
"I get it," the village elder, a man whose eyebrows grew down the sides of his face, said. "You need samurai." Kiactu nodded as he folded his arms before looking the man in his eye. "I will need an effective unit to help guard you as well," he told them, the joking demeanor in his voice gone and replaced with that of a master strategist. "What do you say, Priestess? Would you like to journey outside of your village as well?"
He had a feeling that the girl would want to help. For some reason, he felt the signature of a mystical item that would be able to help on their quest on her person. "My name's Kirara," she said, a serious look on face.
"I'm Kiactu and this is Naruto and Ichigo."
"Are you mad?" the man from before yelled. "Samurai are expensive and the only thing we have is harvest. Do you think they would come just for a grain or two of rice?" Kiactu turned his attention to the man before saying coldly, "A samurai doesn't ask for anything in return. If you don't give him anything and he knows you're down in the dumps, he'll help anyway he can. Any buffoon can wield a sword. It's how he uses it who determines who he is."
"You seem to know a lot about the way of the samurai," the elder said. "Was there any connection to you and your people?" Kiactu stayed silent before Naruto spoke up. "There is none," he told them. Unlike with Kiactu, the people could tell when a serious look is on his face and when there is none. "I volunteer to go with them into the city," the man, who was arguing with the one who showed doubt, said aloud.
"I do as well," Kirara said, standing up only to be stopped by the elderly woman. "Kirara, please," she was told. "I must. I can use my talents to divine which samurai is most suited for saving us." She looked at the crystal in her hands, which made Kiactu's eyes widen underneath the mask as the item gave off magical energy. That's the mystical item I was sensing, he thought. His attention went back to another question about how they were going to trust the new people in their villages.
"I swear on my nindo," Naruto answered, "that I will bring back samurai before this village is turned to dust."
"I swear on my badge," Ichigo said, holding it up and allowing everyone to see.
"I swear on my pride as an ex-prince," Kiactu also said. That silenced everyone here. "You were a prince?" Kirara asked. "What happened?" The boy said nothing before standing. "That's a story for another time, priestess," he simply told her, the air growing cold and thickening before he left. They continued on the conversation as before. Kirara's eyes kept on the door as it was decided that she, along with Kiactu and the others, including the now-named Rikichi, would go find samurai to help protect her village. "Before the ears of rice began to bend, bring us samurai who can defend us," the elder told her. "Our hope now rests on that."
The group began their journey the morning after with Rikichi holding a sack of rice over his back. "I promise on my life that I will protect you both, priestess," he told the girl. "And we are grateful for that, Rikichi," Kirara told him. Kiactu and his group stayed silent as the leader walked before them while Naruto and Ichigo brought up the rear, both of them in their normal clothing (Ichigo's shihakushÅ being closed and Zangetsu in its massive Shikai form wrapped up on his back and Naruto with no cloak on, showing an orange and black tracksuit with the former color being the more prominent). The tails of Naruto's headband moved in the wind as they walked to the city.
"So, what about you three?" Komachi asked as she looked between Kiactu and his teammates. "Where are you from?" Naruto and Ichigo automatically told her that they were from far away in distant lands. "My village is called Konohagakure no Sato," Naruto told him. "It was technically called that because the village was surrounded by trees and Ichigo's from a little place called Karakuri Town."
"That is a strange name for a village," Kirara admitted. Ichigo shrugged before dropping the subject. Komachi looked towards Kiactu and was about to ask him about his comeuppance when Naruto told her to stay silent. "He doesn't really want to talk about his past with people he's barely even known," he explained. "Kiactu's what you might call an exile. He just up and abandoned his people because of their desire for power." Not to mention that he killed them in cold blood.
"An exiled prince?" Rikichi asked.
"Yeah," Ichigo told them, "something among those lines."
After a moment of silence, Kirara started up a conversation with her little sister. "You were very sweet to come along, Komachi," she said. "I wanted to go along too and see the whole rest of the world!" the little girl answered. "I just can't let you have all the fun on your own." Kirara commented about that being the reason she came along as the sextuplet walked on to the city.
The capital was a gigantic place with buildings turned sideways as if to say "FUCK YOU, LEANING TOWER OF PISA! WE ALSO CAN DEFY GRAVITY!" It was filled to the brim with people and Kirara tried to track the samurai using her Dowsing Crystal while Kiactu, Ichigo, and Naruto looked around for signs of danger. "This city is filled with negative emotions," Naruto whispered to Kiactu. "I can tell that some of these people want to go ahead and gut us to be done with it." Ichigo's grip on Zangetsu began to tighten as he looked at the people crowding around him.
"I'd rather be in Hueco Mundo," he muttered, Kiactu and Naruto being the only ones who heard. "Don't bring suspicion upon yourself," the former warned. "Like I said before, these guys will slit your throat with the very hand they used to help you up." That was when a thief struck, grabbing the bag on top of Rikichi's back and running off with it. Kiactu told Naruto and Ichigo to stay there while he and Rikichi raced after the thief. He jumped on top of the roofs before watching as the thief kept running, only to be taken down by a girl with a top ponytail. She tripped him up using some sort of stance and he ran off, the basket of rice forgotten.
"You're lucky I'm not turning you in!" she yelled as the man got away. Rikichi began to bow to the girl before noticing some cutthroats trying to steal the rice when suddenly a fox appeared before biting on the men's hands and forcing them to flee after being threatened by the girl's sword. She held that pose until the priestess showed up with Naruto and Ichigo. "I see you've finally decided to use that form, huh?" Naruto asked. "I was wondering why you didn't use it on our travels."
"Fuck you, Naruto," the fox said before being covered in a cloud of smoke. Kiactu appeared in its place. "It was the only for I could use that was fast enough to catch the thief." Komachi tried her best to pet his head, only for the boy to sweatdrop as she tried even harder. "You know, that doesn't work when I'm a human," he deadpanned.
"I know," Komachi told him.
They all picked up the rice, even the samurai who helped with the thief. She kept on glancing back to the mysterious boy before her, the one who transformed into a fox. "DON'T EVERYONE CROWD AROUND TO HELP US" he yelled at the crowd. They just stood there and watched as the group tried to pick up the rice.
"I was hungry and we almost lost it," Komachi cried as she wiped the tears from her eyes. "Don't cry," Kiactu told her. "We got it back and I'm sure Naruto has his scent." Naruto shook his head and made the Namae no Nai's left eye twitch. Kirara sifted the rice before throwing the useless grains out and being handed another handful by Komachi. Eventually, they got it cleaned up and Kiactu thanked the samurai girl who helped. "You're going to embarrass me if you keep talking like that and it's a part of Bushido to help those in need." Kiactu nodded his head.
"So, what's with the giant curved sword on your strawberry haired friend's back?" she asked. Ichigo glared at the girl before going back to work. "It's . . . a blade that in a way was custom made for him," Kiactu answered. "When I say custom made, I mean really custom made."
"And the one on yours?"
"Me and Knight Blade have been together since I was able to wield it at three," Kiactu answered. "It's always been by my side and eventually, it was joined by two others: Oblivion and Retribution." Once they were done, Kiactu lifted up the tail of his jacket, showing two L-shaped weapons on his back that resembled more technologically advanced pistols. Kirara looked at the girl before her and back down at her crystal, which did nothing but look the same before Katsushiro (that's the name of the girl; apparently her father wanted a boy and gave her a boy's name) appeared.
The seven now walked through the city, picking up the sights as Kiactu glanced at a man spitting fire. The fire apparently had traces of gunpowder in it that lit up the air as soon as the fire dissipated before they died out themselves. "Some advice: Don't walk around with your rice in plain view," Katsushiro told the farmers. "This city is filled with thugs and muggers who wouldn't think twice about stealing your basket." Rikichi was about to ask her something when he was told by Kirara that she wasn't the one to ask. Katsushiro walked on, leaving the six behind as she kept going forward. Kiactu also agreed with their statement as the samurai sort of felt a little . . . green around the edges.
They began walking through the crowd when Kiactu was overrun by a group of people going towards a commotion. "How ya feelin'?" Naruto asked, glancing down at the boy. "Not . . . a . . . word," Kiactu said as he laid face down in an imprint of his body. He tried to pry himself out, getting a helping hand from Ichigo who used Zangetsu as a lever. "Wonder what the commotion is?" Kiactu asked, his mask cracked from the force of the people running.
He then noticed Kirara and her group running towards the place as well. "What's happening?" he asked Naruto. "Apparently, Kirara's crystal began glowing and she ran after the people," the jinchuriki said. "They seem to be crowding around that shop." Kiactu then nodded before running towards the shop as well, followed by Naruto and Ichigo. Katsushiro was talking to the shop owner, who told her that a bandit had taken over his shop and kidnapped his baby. Kiactu was about to step in when a giant armored man stepped forward.
"Hold it there!" the man yelled. "You're going to need some muscle in business like this. I'll help you out."
"He's an even more 'subtle' type than Naruto," Ichigo deadpanned, getting a "HEY!" from said boy as he glared at his teammate. Kiactu watched as the man moved and detected the smell of oil off of him. "I would think that's armor, but it's too oily? So, is his body artificial?" he asked himself. "Or is everything about him artificial?"
The machine drew his arm back before letting his sword flash, only for the metal to clash with that of another. Ichigo stood before the man, Zangetsu holding back the giant sword with nary a problem. "Are you all kinds of stupid?" he asked as the man (who introduced himself as Kikuchiyo) tried even harder to bring his sword down. "Wow, you're pretty strong!" the machine said as he tried to pressure Ichigo down even more. "But you have to get outta my way! I'm going to save this man's child!"
Ichigo sighed before finally adding pressure, destroying the shop in his power as he drove Kikuchiyo back with one swing. The now obvious machine was about to brag when he noticed the carnage that Ichigo had brought. Ichigo was about to turn his back on Kikuchiyo when he suddenly put Zangetsu behind him. "I want to fight you now," the machine said as steam pillared out of a pipe on his head. "It will prove my worth as a samurai."
Ichigo said nothing and brought Zangetsu back with both hands before slicing the robot's head off with one movement. "You bastard!" the thing yelled as its voice kept changing. Kikuchiyo's vocalizer was probably damaged in the attack. "That was a little excessive," Kiactu muttered aloud. "I mean geez. The least you could've done was gave him more of a challenge." The two didn't notice the man with the baby about to stab the two of them, but just threw their fists out there. He impacted against Kiactu's right and Ichigo's left fist, the two not even noticing they were being attacked.
Kiactu scoffed before turning his attention to the former samurai. "Now why would you go and attack a poor shop like this?" he asked. "Are you two samurai?" the man asked.
"Well . . . no," Kiactu answered. "We're kind of borderline mercs, only we do things to help people and not traffic drugs or women. Hell, we don't even take payments so I guess you could just call us nomads."
"Well then you know my plight!" the man yelled, going on about how the war left him starving and he didn't want to be a beggar on the streets. "You know, most of the military men I've ever seen after a war keep in the service of their leader," was Kiactu's reply. "You on the other hand seem like you were expendable. So I ask again, why are you attacking a poor shop?"
The man said nothing and was about to attack when a flash of golden light appeared before him, temporarily blinding the man and grabbing the child before handing it to the parents. It revealed Naruto in his Controlled Tailed Beast Cloak as he just stared at the man. "If I know you're type, you turned your back on the people you care about," the jinchuriki answered, all jokes gone from his voice. "You just chose the wrong time to attack."
The man smiled crazily before showing that he was covered in dynamite and held a lit torch. He was about to light himself up when Kiactu grabbed the hand that was about to light the fuses. A resounding crack got the man to drop the torch as he looked into the eyes of Kiactu's mask. He felt fear behind the eyes of the Namae no Nai and tried to squirm before using his sword to cut into Kiactu's arm holding him. The blade went through his arm and he let go, jumping back as the man grabbed the torch once more.
He was about to light it when the air grew dark and cold. Kirara recognized this feeling as the one Kiactu had the night the village came up with the idea to gather samurai and glanced as the boy's hair turned dark as night. "Cursed Moon Seal unlocked," a monotone voice came from Kiactu. "Bloody Slicer." He ran towards the man who readied his sword once more. The next thing that happened surprised everyone as the blood on Kiactu's arm became a solid black blade.
It cut into the man's arm and made him yell in pain. What happened next surprised even he as a man dressed in a white cloak cut the fuses (which were now lit) and the man at the same time. "I would have killed the one in the armor myself," the man told Ichigo, "as he was the killer of my parents." Strangely enough, the man's presence felt like Zangetsu's did . . . before the whole turning young thing. "But I thank you."
"It was nothing big," Ichigo told him. "Just some machine thinking that it was stronger. I mean, unless you weren't really thinking about it, you wouldn't have known he was one." The samurai smirked before running off, Kirara's crystal acting up as soon as she began to run after the man. Kiactu and the others noticed before running after her as well. "I'm sure of it," she told them after being asked what was up, "he's the samurai for our village."
Kiactu smiled before speeding up. "Well then, we might as well help her catch up with the man." He transformed into a fox kit before running between her legs and transforming once more into a horse-sized fox with nine tails. Kirara began to cling to his fur as she wasn't used to riding bareback and the ride was bumpy. Kiactu tried to not notice, but that was exceptionally difficult when a girl was nude under her clothing and riding on your back. Fuck my thousand years of abstinence, he thought to himself as they raced after the mysterious man.
CHAPTER END
Prince: What do you think? Was it to your liking? I started looking at Samurai 7 since it aired on Toonami and I have to say that it's not really that