Of Men and Monsters
A Naruto Lives Crossover Story
Written by SSK
Assisted by Baron Von Nobody
Rating M for Mature: Blood, Gore, Violence, Sexual Activity, and Language
Summary: It had been a day like any other day, until the giant meteors hit. All those in the blast radius find themselves still alive, having awoken in a new place, but things are not what they seem...
A/N: There is a manga called Lives it's a rather curious manga and I would recommend reading it, I will warn you though it is rather short. This story will go beyond the manga ever did so enjoy.

Prologue
Meteors

A young man wearing a black trenchcoat, white undershirt, and blue jeans walked out of the gates of the school. Wrapped around his head was a white headband with long trails, his hands were in his pockets his arm had muscle that bulged slightly as he walked, his skin slightly tanned, and his hair a spiked mess colored like the sun. His face was young but strong, his eyes were a deep blue that could rival the blue of the sky above. His name was Naruto Uzumaki, a young man who grew up with his Godfather Jiraiya and his Godmother Tsunade. His parents had died when he was a kid, in a car accident. He didn't much like his godparents, he felt they were old, boring, annoying and had as much idea how to raise a kid as they did having one. As such he grew up to be a delinquent causing trouble, making fights, and always getting on everybody's bad side. You wanted an idiot to annoy someone call Naruto. Needed someone beaten to a pulp? Call Naruto. You need a bodyguard from some jerks at school? Call Naruto.

He stopped as he came to the wall turning, blocking off the property of Konoha Highschool from the public, and looked at the school. All of it was just an act, in truth Naruto was a nice young man who could be courteous, kind, and friendly. However it was easier to push people away than to keep them close. He never really had a friend nor did he really want one. He looked away sighed his shoulder slumping. "Fuck school good for anyway?" he muttered darkly and continued to walk eyes closing and he inhaled deeply his head moving back as he took in the air. The same dirty, industrial air he smelled every day, he lowered his head opening his eyes and started walking again. His feet carried him his mind focusing on other things. Stupid things girls, homework, his godparents, what kind of job would he get, and other random crap.

"Hey if it isn't Naruto!" he looked up he was in front of Ichiraku Ramen, a small ramen restaurant ran by Ichiraku the owner, proprietor and creator of said restaurant. He was an older man approaching his early 50's who wore the same white diamond shaped chef hat, white chef shirt, and white shorts. Currently he was at the door readying to go on his lunch break. "Shouldn't you be in school?" the old man asked, Naruto just looked away. "You know if you keep this up you won't be able to get a respectable job." The old man said as he went to lock the doors. When all he got was silence the old man sighed. "Come in." he ordered and he opened the door and walked inside. Naruto followed suit, the restaurant was about as big as a local diner 6 tables with window views, and a small bar for those wanting either a drink or chat with the owner while they ate. Naruto went to the bar and sat down, he drummed his fingers on the counter.

"So what'd you do this time?" asked Ichiraku as he shook the strainer.

"Nothing," replied the blonde outcast gruffly, "Just didn't want to hear the teacher talking so I left." He rubbed and wrung his hands as he waited.

"I'm guessing him would that Iruka teacher yes?" Naruto didn't say anything. "You know he worries about you. Says so when he comes here." Informed the ramen maker.

"So?" the blonde began shift in his seat, he wasn't comfortable with talking to people who talked about him to other people or being told that they talked about him.

"So you don't care that despite all the hot air he blows in school that he is quite genuinely and greatly worried that you could become a thug in the street?" The old man set down the hot bowl of ramen. Naruto stared into the bowl and saw his reflection. The boy wiped his sweaty forehead and sat there his right hand tapping the desk in a steady rhythm.

"Look I just want to do what I want to do ok?" Naruto said.

"My boy that's not how the world works for people like you and me. If you want to do that you need to have things, influence, money, a job. People don't care about you if you don't have that and if you want that you need to get educated. But what you should be doing is what you love most." Ichiraku advised. The boy tapped the counter again, one leg jumping as he thought.

'Not like I asked anybody to look out for me,' he grabbed a chopstick and split them. 'I can look out after myself better than they could,' he dipped the wooden sticks and pulled out a few noodles blowing on them to cool them down. He then ate it, 'Do I really have to lie to myself?' he swallowed "A bit pointless old man only thing I like is being outdoors and fighting." Said the kindhearted tough guy.

"And helping people." Ichiraku added in.

"Shut up." Retorted the boy, he went to scoop up some more when everything began to rattle and clang loudly. The two looked around, "Is that an earthquake?" asked Naruto confused.

"Never had one before… but…" the old man stopped as he looked out the window noticing how everything was in shadow. "Somethings going on outside!" he said and he went from his counter to the door Naruto right behind him. When they got out and looked up they could only gawk in disbelief. Above them was a giant meteor that was falling them! He stared up at the giant rock burning red hot from entering that atmosphere and he tried to run. However his legs refused to move! 'Run you fucking moron run!' his leg twitched and he punched it to force it but the meteor was so large that he was within it's impact radius. "Fuck…" was the only thing he could say then the meteor crashed down. An intense and instant burning filled him his flesh burned off almost instantly he tried to scream however his body was rent into pieces and he thought no more.

-Konoha Highschool Room 3-C-

A young woman wrote down in a notebook as the teacher talked, she would raise her head her black eyes scanning the board only to lower it to jot down and adjust her notes. She had long hair that was a rich dark Indigo that would look black in all other lights save sunlight some of her hair got in her view and she gently pulled it behind her ear with her hand. She was dressed in normal school wear; a plaid, blue green skirt, and a white sailor top that was bulging slightly from her rather generous bosom. Her skin was a rich creamy white color, and her face was soft, round yet strangely mature she wore no makeup as she cared not for such things she had large dark black eyes, in fact one could see their own reflection in them. This was Hinata Hyuuga, the number academic student in Konoha Highschool. She was known for three particular traits. Number one, her body for a girl of 18 years of age, pushing 19, she had a rather well-developed body some even considered it rather scandalous and slutty. Number two, her dedication to school study she was very studious and dedicated to her education few would find a person more zealous toward education than her. Number three, her academic grades was among the highest in the school only 2 other people were higher than her, one Sasuke Uchiha and Shino Aburame.

However her background made reason two and three clear. She was the daughter of the Hyuuga family a large industrious company. The Hyuuga's were business minded, strict, with heavy political ties to their company. They were the best, were expected to be the best and did not tolerate anything less than the best. To say she was pressured would be putting it mildly. She was suffocating under a great weight forced upon her by her father. 'A Hyuuga must always aim to be the best, anything else is beneath them!' those words were drilled into her skull and stuck there like gum under the desk. Hard, gnarled and disgusting, she would've liked to of been a normal girl but the name Hyuuga prevented that. She didn't want the weight of responsibility or title that came with her family name.

The bell rang students closed their books and pushed backwards in their chairs to stand up. As they put their school items away Hinata remained at her desk writing down the notes still. Minutes passed as she wrote, "That's all Hinata." The teacher said, her pencil stopped writing and she sat there. She set her pencil down and closed her notebook grabbing her backpack she began to put her materials inside. As she did she heard the door to the classroom open.

"Look at this if it isn't the honor student still here after the lunch bell rings like clockwork." A young mans voice said, cocky and somewhat sneering. She looked up to see a young man with short spiky brown hair and two markings on his cheek shaped like two upside down red triangles. This was Kiba a young man who was cocky, a troublemaker and despite his actions had a very large crush on Hinata. She continued putting her stuff away as Kiba walked toward her. "Say how about you come with me after school to the park? You know get some air, talk for a bit… like a normal girl." Hinata stopped at this her black eyes looking around scared. Hinata wasn't dumb she knew that all Kiba wanted to do was get in her pants, however she knew he would never do so without her consent or risk serious ramifications.

His tactic was the same, come in sneering, insulting and then switch to tempting her with an attempt at normalcy. Truth be told she would've accepted it no problem had she been anything but a Hyuuga. But the problem was she was a Hyuuga, her father would consider it a great insult on the family name if she consented to Kiba's advances. 'Such things are beneath a Hyuuga! Beneath you!' it was what he would say and if he learned she'd allow it he make her life a living hell and probably would publicly disown her. While part of her understood that she'd no longer be bound to her family all attempts at normal life afterward would be impossible. Her father would use his connections to deny her a job, deny her an education and deny her life in general. She'd died homeless, poor, and crushed by the wrath of her father.

"No thank you Kib-san." She said in her soft voice and she put her notebook inside and shouldered her backpack and walked out. Kiba however pursued her, eventually walking side by side with her.

"Aw come on I'm just asking for a walk through the park not your hand in marriage or a date." He insisted, Hinata smiled slightly Kiba was one of two people that didn't care that she was a Hyuuga. Though admittedly he didn't start till the first person who didn't care about her status talked to her, that person was the blonde-haired blue-eyed Naruto Uzumaki.

"Answer is still no Kiba-san." She repeated.

"Fine, fine I wanted to give you a chance to be normal but-" He stopped as he saw a person leaning against the wall of a classroom. He had long black hair with a slight brownish tinge, and black eyes similar to Hinata, his skin was also rather pale like hers and he looked at the two his eyes narrowing with disgust as he looked at Kiba.

"N-Neji-san!" She said partly surprised, partly embarrassed. Neji Hyuuga, Hinata's cousin. It was rather well know that Neji was highly favored by the Hyuuga due to his own high grades, athleticism and powerful presence.

"Shouldn't you be at lunch with your pathetic friends dog boy?" Said the male Hyuuga coldly.

"What'd you say?" Kiba growled, Kiba's family owned a dog hotel where locals would take their dogs to get treated like kings as his family had an unusual affinity with dogs.

"Move away from her now and maybe I won't report this to her father and he doesn't end up driving your business into the dirt." Neji warned moving away from the wall and walking toward them. He stood in front of Kiba who glared at him, "Beat it." The brown haired man growled then he walked away. Hinata scowled and she gripped the shoulder strap of her backpack tightly.

"He wasn't doing anything you know." She snapped angrily.

"He's beneath you, he shouldn't even be talking to you like equals neither should that other punk." Said her cousin coolly ever in control of his emotions.

"You are a real piece of work, or rather a real asshole can't I just have a normal conversation with my classmates for once?" She shot at him venomously and she walked away from him. Neji's gaze fell into an apologetic look as he watched her. Truth be told Neji cared about her and her safety he didn't want her to get into trouble with her father. If he was honest everyone in this school was beneath her especially that Naruto person as well as the two girls he knew that Hinata would be sitting with in a few minutes. However he wasn't worried about Hinata with those two as he knew she would never do what they wanted.

-Lunchroom-

Hinata sat by herself near the window while students sat with their classmates with lunch they bought from the lunchroom or from home. In her case it was a bento she had made for herself, rice, with curry, sausages made in the shape of octopus, and even diced octopus mixed in the curry. She heard the clatter of plates and looked up to see a girl with long blonde hair with a noticeable bang that covered one of her eyes. Next to her was a girl with bubblegum pink hair with a rather wide forehead. The blonde was Ino Yamanaka, and the pinkette Sakura Haruno. Both were 'friends' of Hinata, if they could be called that. It's true that they kept her company and talked with her more respectfully than most, however they were not the ideal 'friend' that most people would consider. They were at the most leechers wanting to get her into trouble and tempt her into doing very inappropriate things."So Hinata, how's it going?" Ino asked.

"Fine." She said simply.

"Oh come on you can't tell me you weren't shocked when that bonehead decided to leave class," Sakura said in a hushed tone Hinata's fork froze at that, "Ah ha!" the pinkette smiled triumphantly."Oh come on you can't tell me you weren't shocked when that bonehead decided to leave class," Sakura said in a hushed tone Hinata's fork froze at that, "Ah ha!" the pinkette smiled triumphantly.

"Isn't it true you have a crush on him?" Hinata shook her head.

"No." she said they looked at her face, she wasn't blushing or looking embarrassed.

"Mmm well seriously though I almost thought he was gonna throw his desk at Iruka-sensei that guy's like a ticking timebomb filled with-" Ino began when Hinata pounded her fist on the table the plates shaking.

"Could you shut up?" Hinata snapped, her face now red with anger.

"Geeze relax I didn't think you thought so highly of him." Ino said though she did look a little rattled from Hinata's anger. That wasn't the only thing that was rattled as the plates began to rattle on the table.

"Whoa chill out she said she was sorry." Sakura said.

"I'm not doing that," Hinata said confused, "And she didn't say she was sorry!" the Hyuuga pointed out angrily.

"Then what's-" the pinkette began but then someone screamed.

"O-Outside!" All the students cluttered to the window and they saw everything was growing dark then they looked up and pandemonium ensued. There was a giant meteor falling down burning red hot. Hinata stood still even as students ran out of the lunchroom screaming and pushing other students out of the way or down.

"Hey come on!" Sakura shouted grabbing the heiress' shoulder.

"Just leave her! Let's go!" Ino snapped and she pulled her friend away. The Meteor crushed the ceiling raining burning rubble down. Hinata just looked up her hair burned then her skin burned and her body was crushed as the meteor fell down on her.

Not the longest of Prologue but it's for setting things up, I'll have chapter 1 up tomorrow provided this has garnered some interest.