Discliamer: I do not own Naruto, Persona 4, or anything from the Shin Megami Tensei, Megami Tensei, and Persona series.

Authornote-Well, this is one of my rare high rating fics. However, I hope you all like it. Now, a quick overview on all my stories of M rating is I stik with the sites rule for the rating. That means this fic's rating is around PG-17. So, though there might be ecchi, there's now hentai. Now, onto the chapter!

Ch.1 "The Mystery Begins"

"…" Twelve year old Uchiha Sasuke was furious, not, way past furious. He was beginning to want the very being which has brought forth his fury to die the same slow, painful death he wished for his murderous brother. Sasuke glared at the blond hair twelve year old next to him and scrubbing the mess they were both forced to clean. The boy's name was Uzumaki Naruto and Sasuke knew this was all the boy's fault.

"…" Naruto looked at Sasuke before looking back down and continuing to scrub the paint off the wall which the blond's prank had caused.

"…You're such a baka." Sasuke snorted, his eyebrow twitching in anger after seeing the boy not looking him in the eye. "Why the heck are you wasting your time doing these stupid pranks?" Sasuke snapped at Naruto who just kept scrubbing the wall. This only annoyed the last Uchiha more. "You are always shouting 'I'm going to be Hokage someday!' yet all you do is skip school and play these stupid pranks! I understand skipping the academy as it is indeed lame, but-You're just a loser! You can't even do a Bunshin right!"

"…" Naruto did not say a thing as he just focused on the task at hand.

"I bet your parents are furious!" This made Naruto stop in his tracks. "You pull stupid stunts like this and give them nothing but trouble! I bet they are worried sick because of how late you are from cleaning this mess you made! I have no one home to go to, but I still-"

-SMACK!-

Sasuke was shocked as he removed the water rag off his face Naruto had thrown at him.

"…I have no parents. Never had them even when I was a baby," Naruto state in monotone before using a different rag from the bucket of water near him to continue the clean-up from his prank gone super bad thanks to Sasuke interfering.

'He has no parents?' Sasuke thought in shock before paling. 'Ah, crap! I forgot!' Sasuke mentally hit his forehead, completely forgetting the prankster also was an orphan. But, instead of his parents being killed, Naruto never had them to begin with. '…Could it be he does this just for attention… To dull out the pain like I do with training and studying in my free time?' Sasuke thought before sighing. 'My stupid temper…'

"…" Sasuke instantly frown at the silence between both the blond and himself as they continued to clean the wall… Worse, it began to rain.

'…Damn…. Guilt is annoying…' Sasuke thought, annoyed that Naruto was still silent as they both were finishing the cleaning. Sasuke had a pit of guilt that probably has been his own brother's if he had any for killing the Uchiha clan. '…He sort of understands my pain… How do I apologize for the stupid things I said?... If I don't… Then this damn guilt won't leave me alone and I cannot focus on my goals.' Sasuke groaned, remembering his little guilt habit from when he was a child and did something wrong.

"…Hey, I'm sorry about before… Maybe if you ask your caretaker, you can spend the night at my place for din-"

"No one takes care of me. I do that by myself." Naruto sighed, putting his rag in the bucket he was using as they were finished. Sasuke paled as Naruto gathered the cleaning supplies and put them up. They both ended up beginning the walk the same way.

'…Crap… I really suck at talking to other people.' Sasuke sighed, feeling pretty crept out by the fact the loud mouth Naruto was silent, especially with how late it was. "…Hey, about earlier… I mean…"

"You don't have to apologize for hating me." Sasuke recoiled as Naruto stopped near some trash which also included a large screen television with a slight crack in its screen. "… Personally… I am beginning to wonder if I will ever possibly stand a chance becoming the next Hokage…"

'Nani?' Sasuke thought as Naruto looked at the wet trash.

"…I only want the Hokage position for attention… To be seen as myself… But… How can someone like that become Hokage? … I'm quite pitiful… But, then again, the instant I stop demanding attention, I'll just blend into the background and sort of disappear from life since no one want to accept my existence… Like you, I block people away from myself… But, that's because I don't want anyone to cry over me when I am gone as people already don't want to do that… You? You have at least people who want to be near you… You should let people into your life so that at least you don't have to continue living with the pain of loneliness." Naruto frowned at the trash as Sasuke pondered if Naruto was crying as the rain made it impossible to tell… Speaking of which, Sasuke shivered and wondered why it was suddenly cold as even though it was mid-October, it was still somewhat warm in Konoha.

"What are you talking about?" Sasuke asked, confused, wondering what possessed Naruto as the somber frown on the boy did not match all the Uzumaki Naruto he saw in his class.

"…What I am saying is you have worth while I am nothing… My own value is lower than this trash." Sasuke's eyes widen in shock as Naruto looked at the ground. "That's why I am also saying you don't have to apologize for hating me. Everyone hates me… I'm a 'demon'… A monster even if I don't know why… I don't need your pity… As one day, possibly-"

-Zaaaaaz-

"What the?" Sasuke gasped as the television right in the trash suddenly turned on with a noise screen on. "Ha ha… Man… This is not the time for someone to pull a dirty prank." Sasuke sheepishly laugh, though worried as to what Naruto was talking about. He sounded… as if in more pain than him, and he had his whole family killed. What could cause more pain than that?

Naruto looked at the screen and his eyes widen as he saw a blur. "That ain't no prank!" Naruto shouted, pushing Sasuke down as something black shot from the screen. "Agh!"

"What?" Sasuke was in shock as he saw Naruto in the grip of a giant shadowy hand which was coming from the television screen. 'He-No! I'm not about to let someone else die saving me!' Sasuke pulled out one of his practice kunai he still had in his holster on his leg and jumped onto the large hand and stabbed it for a strange moan to come from it.

"Ack!" Sasuke yelped along with Naruto as the hand went up quickly, trying to shake Sasuke off to only success in knocking off Naruto's sandals before dragging them both into the television and the screen of the television shattered as one of Naruto's sandals hit as the screen went blank and off again.

"Ow!" Sasuke yelped as Naruto and he landed somewhere covered in fog. "What the-"

"Me… Eat… HuMAnS…" Sasuke and Naruto managed to get up and jump out of the way of the large hand again and noticed through the thick fog a large dark figure.

"…Ah, man… This is bad." Naruto sighed as Sasuke sweated.

"I completely agreed. Any idea what that is?" Sasuke sighed, trembling some from fear, but calming down. This was not the time to panic. He could die if he did.

"HumANS… mUst Eat…HumaN… MiNDs… And… BODY!"

"Move!" Naruto shouted, pushing Sasuke out of the way of another attack from the beings hand, but also managed to get out of the way as well. "Since it wants to eat us, I guess it's a demon!... Man, my life is cursed to be called a demon and now I have a demon that wants a bite of my rear end."

"Any ideas of defeating it, Demon-san?" Sasuke growled, annoyed as to why Naruto was referring to himself as a demon. Naruto was just as human as he was, heck, maybe even more as he was still kind to people.

"Even demons can be defeated as the Fourth Hokage did to the Kyuubi. However, since I have a feeling this demon is a lot weaker than the Kyuubi, then we won't have to kill ourselves to defeat it." Naruto frowned. "Just this is one big foe for both of us to face. We need to find its weak spot and fast." Naruto pulled out two kunai as Sasuke did the same thing.

"Yeah. That's a good plan… Just this damn fog is thick." Sasuke sighed before they both barely dodged another hand attack.

"Then charge forward towards the truth!" Naruto shouted while running towards the large creature.

"Usually, that's a really stupid idea, but that's all we got at the moment." Sasuke grunted, going through hand seals while running and skidding at a stop in front of the large creature that looked like the fusion of many people that were melting in black gunk. "Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" Sasuke fired off a good size fire ball from his mouth and the creature moaned before he got knocked back by a black arm.

"Watch it!" Naruto caught Sasuke who hit the floor hard. "Ow!"

"Baka! You shouldn't be doing that!" Sasuke shouted before Naruto pulled him to the ground for blades of dark energy to go over them. "..."

"Dammit… That's why I said watch it! We don't know what kind of attacks it can use!" Naruto sighed, getting up while Sasuke also got up.

"DiE HUmAnS!" The being raised several of its long arms up for a ball of strange color to appear.

"Move it!" Naruto shouted, hitting Sasuke out of the way with a kick before the beast unleashed a bolt of black energy at the spot. "Ow!" Naruto grunted, coughing up a little blood. "Damn! That hurts!..."

"Thou art I…"

"Huh?" Naruto blinked as his eyes began to glow.

"And I am thou. Call upon my power…"

"What the?" Sasuke shouted as a blue card appeared in Naruto's hand before he gripped his own head as a voice echo.

"Thou art I, and I am thou, call upon my power for which you desire." Sasuke eyes widen as he saw another card in his own hands.

"…Per… So… Na…." Naruto smirked before smashing the card in his hand and being engulfed in blue flames.

"Persona!" Sassuke shouted, copying Naruto and smashing the card in his left hand.

"No yOU dOn'T!" The beast unleased another black wave that hit the flames, but the flames absorbed the attack and the flames disappeared to expose two new figures in the boys place. One was of that of a large man like being in a black cloak like jacket with a metal mask and holding a blade with a long hilt. The other was much smaller, the size of a kid wearing an orange kimono tip with black kimono pants, but its feet were like blades and it had in each of its hand a large sewing needle with a chain connect to the other. It's hair was blond and spiky with a metal lower mask like a jaw and an orange visor over its eyes which were glowing yellow like the other figure. Both charged towards the creature and began to fight on pure instinct.

-Dream-

"…Huh?" Sasuke blinked as he found himself sitting in a strange blue room, but the lights from the narrow, yet long room showed that the room was connected to something that was moving.

"Welcome… to the Velvet Room." Sasuke focused his attention forward to find a strange balding man with a long pointed nose and also pointed ears in front of him sitting on an elegant couch. On the couch next to the man was a young woman in a blue dress that matched the room and seems really pale and had pale blond hair and yellow eyes. "Ah… It seems we have two guests with an intriguing, intertwined destiny." The man chuckled as Sasuke raised an eyebrow before looking to his side.

Next to Sasuke was Naruto, but… something was off… Naruto's blond hair was slightly longer, covering his eyes as there seemed to be tattoos on his body. However, Sasuke could not make out the tattoos thanks to Naruto's jumpsuit covering most of his body. Only thing he could really make out with the tattoos was his whisker like birthmarks, or was it scars, now went off his cheek and down his neck into his clothing… But, the tattoos were also glowing an eerie color, but Sasuke just decided to guess it was an illusion thanks to the room's lighting.

"My name is Igor… I am delighted to make your acquaintance." Sasuke looked back at the man who had a creepy smile on his face. "This place exists between dream and reality, mind and matter… It is a room that only those who are bound by a 'contract' may enter…"

"A… contract?" Sasuke frowned, wondering if this guy was high on drugs.

"It seems you both have already formed such a 'contract,' though in such a unique way." Igor chimed. "Now then… Why don't you introduce yourselves…?"

"I am Uchiha Sasuke…And what is going on? Last I remember was fighting that demons." Sasuke groaned, though at the moment… His memory seemed pretty hazy.

"…I… can't remember." Sasuke looked at Naruto with shock.

"What are you talking about? You're Uzumaki Naruto…." Sasuke blinked, wondering what has gotten into Konoha number one prankster.

"…" Naruto only frowned and looked down.

"Hm… I see… Now, let's take a look into your future, shall we?" Sasuke glared at Igor, wanting to know what was wrong with Naruto. However, he was shocked when the man's hand had glowed and some cards in a small deck appeared on the table before him. "Do you believe in fortune telling?" The man asked before moving his hand over the table for the cards to form into a diamond pattern on the table. "Each reading is done with the same cards, yet the result is always different…" The man chuckled again. "Life itself follows the same principles, doesn't it?"

"…I… think so…" Sasuke raised an eyebrow at Naruto, but watched as the man flipped the first card over.

"Hm… The Tower in the upright position represents the immediate future… Or is it now present that has just happened?… Well, it seems a terrible catastrophe is imminent." Sasuke's eyes widen, remembering the demon. "The card indicating the future beyond that is…" Igor flipped another card. "The Moon, in the upright position. This card represents 'hesitation' and 'mystery'… Very interesting indeed. It seems you will encounter a misfortune at your destination, and a great mystery will be imposed upon you both. In the coming days, you shall fully come to understand the contract you have both made, after which you both will return here. The coming year is a turning point in your destiny… If the mystery goes unsolved, your future may be forever lost. My duty is to provide assistance to our guests to ensure that does not happen." With a wave of his hand, the cards disappeared from before Igor. "Ah! I have neglected to introduce my assistant to you. This is Margaret. She is a resident of this place, like myself." Igor pointed at the woman.

"My name is Margaret. I am here to accompany you both through your journey both of you will be going on." The woman said in a mannerly tone.

"We shall attend to the details another time… For you both still need to reach your destination… Until then, farewell…" Igor said with a grin before everything faded into black for both of the boys.

"Gasp!" Sasuke sat up, quickly panicking at what he saw. "Where the heck am I?" Sasuke stood up, standing in what seemed to be water as he looked around the dark setting he was in… Everything seems to be in pieces… Toys and furniture was floating around. Same with pieces of buildings, though some were also embedded in the ground as if thrown hard into the ground. "… Naruto!" Sasuke gasped, realizing Naruto had to also be there.

"Zzzzzzz." Sasuke sweated, seeing Naruto somehow sleeping face down in the liquid and managing to snore very lightly, probably thanks to the liquid.

"Wait… I was laying in that, but why am I not wet?" Sasuke sighed, pushing that thought away and knelling down to shake Naruto, praying in his mind that the blond was really alive and the snoring sound was not coming else where. "Naruto, wake up!"

"Hn…." Naruto grunted, getting up and rubbing his eyes behind the now long bangs he had. He stood up for Sasuke to now fully see Naruto. Naruto's body had somehow become a bit more leaner than before as his face was softer… In fact, Naruto's appearance was not of a cute body as Sasuke remember his fan girls' tastes.

'Thank goodness he is the prankster of Konoha or else he would suffer the same fate of fangirls like I did.' Sasuke thought before noticing Naruto just standing there, seeming to stare at him even though his eyes were now hidden by his loose bangs and his hair now seem to lay down some though still a spiky mess. "Are you alright, Naruto?"

"... Is my name really Uzumaki Naruto?" Sasuke's eyes widen in shock at that question.

"W-What are you talking about? Don't you remember? You're Konoha's most annoying person… You pull all sorts of pranks…" Sasuke frowned as he noticed the frown on Naruto's face. "Don't you… remember?"

"…No… All I can remember is being dragging into what that device is called a television, fighting some kind of demon… Us both turning into strange creatures… And then, the demon defeated us and we returned to normal…And I got sick… I saw… I saw an old woman in black with a blond hair, blue eyed child when it seemed time suddenly stopped… They asked me… Who was my true self… I stated there were three things that defined me… My lack of existence… My strength of will to gain my own existence… And the resolve to protect those who would finally accept me, starting with you who I wanted to protect even though you got a kunai up your rear end."

"…" Sasuke sweated, but let Naruto continue. ' But… What does 'kunai up your rear end' means?' Sasuke pondered, remember people had often whispered that about some of his now decease clan members.

"Well… They asked if it would matter what I am if I had to gain the power to protect those I care for… I told them it didn't matter what I become. I didn't care as people already saw me as a monster, so becoming one didn't matter as long as I kept my heart and self the same… Suddenly, I was engulfed in pain and they told me that you and I had interested the boy and wanted to see what kind of entertainment that we would bring to him… Time unfroze and they disappeared when my vision went red and I attacked the beast with a new form… However, when I was ready to kill it, it used a strange attack and took something out of me and all my memory was gone. He shattered it and I managed to grab a fragment and I gained back at least the memories of the fight and how we ended up in the television… But, it was really a distraction as the demon made some kind of hole under us and we fell in and I blacked out…" Naruto sighed as Sasuke looked at Naruto with shock. "… Do you hate me? Now that… I am truly a demon now?" Naruto moved his bangs out of his eyes for Sasuke to see Naruto's eyes were a glowing orange and that now he saw indeed the tattoos on Naruto's face glowing a dull bluish green on the outside of the black and on Naruto's forehead was a strange symbol which looked like a crown with a mouth in the middle and the turns into a water droplet at the bottom.

"…" Sasuke looked down and gripped his fists.

"…I see… Then I will leave… I under-"

"BAKA!" Naruto was knocked off his feet when Sasuke punched him in the face, hard. "Why would I hate you? You're the one who saved me! You should be the one hating me!" Sasuke growled as Naruto looked at him, shocked. "I'm so useless… Even with all the training and such, I still end up useless… And further more… I let someone else suffer because of my uselessness… You didn't have to sacrifice your humanity because of me… Heck, I would have gladly become the demon instead… You… You never been thrown into darkness… Consumed by hate… While I still desire to kill the murderer of my clan and hate him with all I have." Sasuke sighed, putting his hand on his forehead. "You're not a demon… You're Uzumaki Naruto… Heck… I bet you're more human than me."

"…No… Even though I cannot remember…" Sasuke looked at Naruto up put his bangs back in their place over his eyes. "…I have always been in darkness… I always have been trying to crawl out of it, yet…"

"…Then, I will find a way to make you human again." Naruto was now the one in shock as Sasuke smirked. "I will make people see you as human and find a way to reverse this... Huh?" Sasuke went on guard as both boys looked to their side to see an old man in a white suit and in a wheel chair some distance away with a young lady in black mourning attire stranding near the man.

"Now, this is very interesting… Even with the one above in, for once, agreement with me, I never would have seen such a twist like this to happen."

"Who are you?" Sasuke shouted, glaring at the man and woman.

"I'm just an old man… However, I do admire your courage that even he above sees fit to give you a gift…" The old man chuckled. "Though ironic that the one for light would choose one ready to commit grave sins for his own desires and the one for darkness choose one who even bathed in darkness has a pure soul… Hm… This shall be a very entertaining show, indeed." The old man chuckled before both the woman and he disappeared.

"…Man, either we're high on those paint fumes you used for that prank or this is just getting weirder and weirder." Sasuke groaned, moving his hand near his ear to instantly become shocked at feeling something. He knelled down to look at his reflection in the water. He was shocked to see a pair of short small black horns coming out from just above his ears. "…Am I a demon, too?" Sasuke asked aloud in shock only to pale when he stood up and Naruto was next to him, sniffing him like a dog would.

"Nope. Still hundred percent human." Sasuke sweated at Naruto who grinned. "I know the smell quite well as I guess I somehow know. Maybe the horns were put there to hide yourself among demons like myself."

"…Now, that grin is creepy with your hair over your eyes… But, I am happy you are at least happy…" Sasuke sighed, noticing Naruto staring at him again. "What?"

"You're eyes are red." Sasuke looked back down at the water and was shocked to see he had activated his Sharingan

"Ho-Agh." Sasuke gripped his forehead as suddenly he had a dull headache and flashes of his memory came to him… Including seeing his fleeing brother from the night of the massacre crying. 'What the?... Wait… I activated my Sharingan that night?... And why what that man crying?' Sasuke shook his head and noticed Naruto had cocked his head cutely, like a confused dog. "I'm alright… We should find out where we are."

"… I sense something over there." Naruto pointed over where both noticed what seemed like a tiny horizon was at.

"…Hopefully we can get some answers." Sasuke sighed before both run towards the horizon, not wanting to be out in the open where they could be attacked easily. It did not take them long to reach the horizon, but they were shocked to find it was a city. However, the buildings where twisted in different directions and crumbling, with some objects like lights and trees floating around. The inhabitants were just as queer as they all looks like demons and ghouls.

"… Maybe we are in the demon world." Naruto sighed before seeing a sign. "Well, I don't know why, but for some reason I can remember you can get information from a bar, so why don't we check that place out."

"Uh…." Sasuke paled as he looked at the sign Naruto was pointing at. "…I guess since you become a demon, you gained the ability to read demon language."

"No, I smell sake." Naruto said as both of them walked into the bar. It was actually a club and Naruto saw the bar tender and went up to the bewitching beauty that had bat wings on her back and wearing what looked like a swimsuit. "Could you tell us where we are?"

"Hm?" The woman looked at both of the boys. "Oh! How cute! I might be into handsome men, but you two kids are cute enough to eat."

"Ha ha ha… No biting." Sasuke sweated, not wanting to give another demon a chance to eat him. "We're sort of lost. Where are we?"

"Ah… Wait a second… This feeling… My! A Shadow turned into a demon by that virus, yet you aren't going berserk outside the fog!"

"Shadow?" Sasuke cocked his head as Naruto just absently stared at the woman. "What do you mean by Shadow and fog?"

"Hmm… Oh, this scent… You're neither a Shadow nor demon, yet have horns and red eyes… You're quite a queer creature." A vein popped up on Sasuke's forehead as the woman chuckled. "Well, a Shadow is a human's suppressed emotions. Well, they aren't like demons, though sometimes Shadows escape their world and hunt down human minds to devour to try and gain more emotion." The demon woman sighed. "However, it sort of doesn't matter… The world of demons and the world of Shadows are merging… No one knows why. Some suggest it is because the negative emotions of humans are growing as several types of demons come directly from human feelings. However, one thing is all the demons and Shadows have suddenly become delusional in this thick fog that has appeared in this merged together world… There are only few places there is no fog is at like here, the Abyss, which is the bottom of the Shadow world and the mostly merged with the demon world… A place of forgotten and lost emotions. However, the demons and Shadows that escaped the fog live here, hoping the fog never comes."

"But, what about a Shadow becoming a demon?" Naruto asked, a hint of worry in his voice.

"Well, as both the Shadow and demon world merged, a strange virus came up… One that turns Shadows into demons that can only dwell within the fog. I heard if these demons leave the fog, they will go berserk or even die… But, they have become very hungry and began devouring other Shadows and I even heard a rumor those demons can draw humans into this world."

Naruto and Sasuke looked at each other and nodded. Now they knew what dragged them into this world… But, they were still a bit confused on it. "… Is there any way to reach the human world?" Naruto asked as Sasuke fell over.

'That stupid… Oh, yeah, he has no memory.' Sasuke thought with annoyance.

"Why… Oh! Now I get it! This creature is a human! I never seen one up close before or one with horns at that matter!" The woman gasped in shock. "Well, since you two were such nice eye candy for me, I'll tell ya what I know."

"Thank you, ma'am." Naruto bowed as Sasuke was kind of shocked Naruto even had the knowledge of manners from how he acted before, though Sasuke was the one speaking.

"Well, there's an upper level full of these televisions. I believe it is called the Junkyard and full of garbage as another mind set of human emotion. However, the fog has been slowly spreading downward, so I don't know if that level of this world has be engulfed yet as luckily the demon's energy here has been keeping the fog from coming completely down. But, I heard a humor that if a Shadow goes through a television screen, they will end up in the human world."

"I see… So, hopefully this works for demons as well." Sasuke sighed, not wanting the demons around him to know he was human.

"Yes, but getting up to the higher levels of this world, you will have to find a way up yourselves." The woman chuckled. "Though, I heard that some stairs will simply due."

"Thank you, now we must go." Sasuke dragged Naruto outside of the bar. However, the instant they were outside, they found a gang of demons had already block their outside escape route.

"Heh heh! Haven't seen a human in many years! You'll make a tasty snack since everyone wants a bite." A large demon that looked a twisted sheep chuckled.

"Leave this instant or else I shall devour you." Sasuke looked at Naruto with shock when the younger boy gotten in front of him, becoming a shield in front of Sasuke.

"What? A little human devour us?" One of the demons in the small mob laughed.

"I'm not human…" Naruto growled, his eyes glowing as the marking on his body also turned completely bluish green as the mark on his forehead glowed. Veins of light began to come off the larger lines of light. "You shall not devour my friend!" Naruto shouted for his body to be engulfed in blue light for his form to grow and changed. "ROOOOAR!" The creature which took Naruto's place roared. It was a large adult male looking demon with a horn crown that covered its upper head and eyes which went down the back of its neck to form a chest plate on its chest. It also had blue skin with black in the middle of its stomach that went down its legs. On its arms were a foldable blade in the middle of the flesh and Sasuke noticed some black on the demon's face which mimicked Naruto's whisker birth marks as well as it seemed to stand on the top of its toes. Also, there was three yellow lines on each side of the lower stomach.

"Think you can-" The gloating sheep demon was beheaded by the demon Naruto turned into, shocking the other demons by its speed before being even more shocked by Naruto holding the head and biting into it.

"Get the human and kill that demon!" Sasuke gasped when suddenly he was grabbed and was shot into the air. He looked up, only to see it was the demon Naruto had turned into had grabbed him.

"Naruto!" Sasuke said before seeing the small mob of demons giving chase, though he also noticed the other creatures, not knowing which demons were and which these Shadows, complaining at the mob were.

"..Rrrrr…" A low growl came from Naruto as he moved his head to look at the mob which was still coming after them even with Naruto's increase speed and using the buildings as the faster creatures were keeping up.

"Dammit! They'll catch us! We need a wall or something! Heck, even spikes!" Sasuke shouted in a panic for his body to glow to his own shock and suddenly spikes came out of the ground and impale some of the creatures as Naruto stopped in shock. "W-What the heck?"

"How did the demon do that? Attack afar!" A demon shouted as Sasuke and Naruto noticed they were charging up what looked to be jutsu.

"We need a barrier!... A wall!" Sasuke shouted for a wall to shot out of the ground and took the blows of the magic, shocking demon Naruto and creatures. "No way… I did that?" Sasuke asked the creatures looked at Sasuke.

"That human… What kind of power is that?"

"A power to grant desire and wishes!"

"Give me the boy! I want to be powerful!" Naruto quickly went back to running as the spikes made a wall which the creatures were busy trying to get down and to give chase.

"…Oh… I don't feel so good, Naruto…" Sasuke grunted, gripping his head as now he had a headache and felt extremely tired and weak. 'But… How did I summon up a wall and spikes?' Sasuke thought as Naruto saw what looked like a spiraling case going up into the dark space above that was the sky in the Abyss.

" Roar!" Naruto roared, is body glowing blue as he cast a spell which hit the bottom of the stair and freezing it before he leapt on one of the building fragments and landing on the higher, unfrozen part of the stair case before running full speed up the case. 'I need to get Sasuke out of here!' Naruto's thoughts focused on protecting his only friend as he continues to run towards the top of the stair case. He was shocked when suddenly the surrounds changed and he was now standing in a fog filled area with shadows of junk all over.

"…" Naruto looked down at Sasuke who had a flush on his face as if he had a fever. Naruto looked around and then heard the fuzz of noise from the television. He ran towards it and found an old television sideways in a pile of junk. Naruto's body turned dark and veins of bluish green line appeared on his body as he morphed back to normal. "Hold on, Sasuke… We are almost out…" Naruto mumbled before hearing movement behind him and stood his ground to cover Sasuke as something launched thin spikes like needles at him before he got hit in the back and he stumbled. "Ack!" Naruto gasped as both Sasuke and he hit the television and disappeared, much to the disappointment of the shadowy creatures surrounding the television.

-Demon-

"…So, let me get this straight… Both these two just appear out of nowhere … One of which keeps saying this weird story about being dragged into a television and being chased by demons." An adult with short dark brown hair and narrow matching eyes sighed in annoyance. His dark coat draped over the chair he was using as his red tie loosely held his dark blue dress shirt in place which matched his dark pants.

"Yes… I did a quick exam on both boys and it seems one has complete amnesia and the other has suffer a traumatic event which could have caused him to make up this lie." The doctor sighed, looking at the man before him in the police station. "Though, from what you found, it is possibly true they are orphans and the fact they only know how to speak and write in Japanese, it means they are not illegal aliens. In fact, how the dark hair boy became somewhat confused is probably how he became orphaned. The lack of memory for the other boy might have come from whatever accident they were in before the police found them."

"I see." The man sighed, rubbing his stubble beard he was starting to form. 'Gotta shave the next chance I got.' The man reminded himself before focusing back on the matter at hand. "So, we just let them go? Especially now that we looked over the evidence of the break in, it appears the glass was shattered from them hitting the glass, not directly hit by a weapon or their fists."

"I don't think sending them to an orphanage would be a good idea." The man looked at the doctor with a raised eyebrow. "They might have run away from an orphanage from the way they are acting. Also, they might be separated and the amnesia boy relies much on the other as he knows him."

"So, what are you saying?" The man asked, confused.

"Well, since I believe the police still need to investigate where these two boys came from, they need… family. They are both showing signs of social withdrawal… If you just send them to the orphanage, then they might run away from there or possibly worse. So, I was wondering if possibly one of the officers could make a deal with social care and take them in. That way you can still keep an eye on them while investigating their origin." The doctor sighed.

"I see… Though, I don't know who could take them in." The man sighed again, wondering if he was going to sigh all night long. A few days ago, two kids were found where an alarm went off at one of the small shops in Inaba. The boys were arrested and brought into jail even though they were two pre-teens. So far, though, they have yet been able to figure who the kids' parents were and where they lived at.

"I can't…"

"Me neither." Several of the police officers in the same room said.

"Hey, Dojima-san, why don't you take them in?" A meek looking man with slightly shaddy brown hair chimed.

"What?" Detective Dojima Ryotaro glared at the meek man. "Adachi! I can't take care of them!"

"But, they could keep Nanako-san from being lonely." Tohru Adachi sighed weakly. "I mean, you do have extra space in your home, so why not let them stay at your place?"

"…" Ryotaro took a long draw on his smoke. "Fine… But, if they become a bad influence to Nanako, they are out."

"Thank you, Detective Dojima." The doctor bowed. "I will contact social services and get the paperwork for you." The doctor left as Ryotaro's head dropped.

"Man… Adachi, you should learn to keep your big fat mouth shut." Adachi recoiled from his senior's glare. "But, what grade are they going to be in? Nanako is just six and just starting elementary school."

"We had a school seen an exam so we could find out." Adachi smirked. "In fact, we are just waiting for the call back from the school to get the results." Just as the meek, well dressed man had finished, the phone near Dojima rang and he answered it.

"Hello, this is Detective Dojima Ryotaro… Ah, so you have the results of the boys' tests… Wait, that can't be right… They are just pre-teens…O-Okay... Thanks. I will pick up their uniforms later." Ryotaro sighed before glaring at the police officers and Adachi. "That was Yasogami High School saying that the two boys have been accepted into their school as second years thanks to their test results. Now, care to explain how a pair of twelve year olds took an exam for high school when they shouldn't?"

"I-It was a prank… The dark hair boy was sort of furious to be forced to go to school, so we gave his friend and he the high school exam as the junior high accidently gave the wrong exam as they still had extra entrance exams for Yasogami High School." An officer sheepishly laughed as Ryotaro sighed. "We called to get the right exams, but they were out, so we would have had to wait… But, it seems the prank actually turned out a good thing."

"…Yesh… Well, best get them out of here and take them to pick up some things… Oh, yeah, I also need to pick up Nanako." Ryotaro got and picked up his coat before walking towards the jail cells with a police officer. He looked into one cell to see the two boys of twelve years old.

"Dang it, Naruto, you really have an iron stomach… Soap is for washing, not eating." The police officer and detective sweated like the raven hair boy as they saw the blond hair boy finish chewing something and swallow.

"Sorry, Sasuke… I was hungry and it sort of looked tasty… Hic." A bubble came out of the blond hair boy's mouth. To Ryotaro, both boys looked like typical twelve year olds. One was a raven hair boy with slightly pale skin and had onyx eyes while the other boy had shaggy blond hair that hid his eyes and strangely whisker like tattoos on his slightly tanned face. Though, he guessed the so called tattoos were really birthmarks as he noticed the coloring of the marks were darker than what he seen from black tattoo ink on skin.

"Well, ha ha, I won't what to worry about washing your mouth out with soap… Since you just ate a bar… Wait, is that toxic?" Ryotaro asked the officer.\

"We use non-toxic soap by protocol." The officer sighed while opening the door of the cell. "Though, most people try eating the soap to try and commit suicide… This is the first time I heard someone eat it just because they are hungry."

"…Yeah… Naruto's sort of queer that way even before losing his memory. He's known to out eat the Akimichi clan when comes to ramen." The raven hair boy sighed as both his friend and he got out of the cell.

"Akimichi clan?" Ryotaro asked. He heard about the boy's "story" as the officers were calling it, but he was a little interested.

"Yeah. They are a clan that uses their body size with their fighting style… Like you'll believe me." The boy sighed. "But, we're free now right?"

"Not completely." Ryotaro sighed before smiling. "We were thinking of sending you two to an orphanage, but the doc says that not a good idea. So, I will be your temporary guardian for the time being. I am Detective Dojima Ryotaro."

"I am Uchiha Sasuke and this is my pal, Uzumaki Naruto." Sasuke sighed in annoyance. "I guess we have no choice, not knowing anything of this world. Thank you for taking care of us, Dojima."

"…Sure… Well, I need to go buy some stuff for you two as well as pick up my daughter. Also, I believe starting tomorrow, you two will be starting school." Ryotaro said as both boys nodded. "I have to pick up your uniforms up, too."

"Uniforms?" Sasuke asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah, high schools have a dress code." Ryotaro blinked as Sasuke nodded. "I guess where you come from, there isn't a dress code?"

"Yeah and I wish there was… Damn fan girls dress like bimbos just to try and impress me." The detective's face turned beet red with the officers. "So, for once, might actually be able to just see decent clothing on girls… However, is it true that today is April eleventh?" Sasuke asked as the Ryotaro raised an eyebrow.

"Yes? Why?" The officer said, confused as well.

"Nothing… Just hard to keep up with time without a calendar…" Sasuke sighed. "But… How could six months pass when we were in that strange place for just a few hours? Or, did it just seem hours…" Sasuke mumbled, but Ryotaro caught the mumble.

"Well, let's go. My car is just outside." Ryotaro then noticed the boys' confusion. "What's wrong?"

"What's a car?" Sasuke asked as Naruto cocked his head. This just caused Ryotaro to frown and just had them follow outside. "Whoa!" Sasuke gasped at seeing Ryotaro's car. "There's nothing like that back at Konoha!"

"Then how do people get around?" Ryotaro asked, curious to the boys' reactions as he knew they were at least genuine.

"Mostly walk and run. Though civilians also use horses and carriages." Sasuke sighed. "But, man, no wonder no one believes me… If you guys have such advanced technology, then why would you guys even need ninja for?"

"Ninja, huh?" Ryotaro raised an eyebrow. "No, tell me… Of all the things, why did you say ninja?"

"Well, the main job in Konoha is being a ninja. Ranging jobs of simple tasks to escort missions to even assassinations, though the last one had been in decline thanks to peace," Sasuke replied with a glare at the detective. "I know you won't believe me, but it's the truth. Naruto and I come from another world, which is clearly lagging behind on tech, but at least we kept our fighting techniques and such… But… How we got here… I wish I knew as I am so confuse now. But, with all Naruto and I have been though… Never mind…" Sasuke sighed, turning to the vehicle to only sweat. "Hum… How do you get inside this contraption?"

'Maybe these kids did come from another world… Or this "ninja" village is hidden in Japan elsewhere… Yeah. It has to be the second one. With how isolate Inaba is, I wouldn't be surprise if there is really a hidden ninja village somewhere in Japan.' Ryotaro thought while showing the boys how to open the doors and then getting them inside to head off into town. It didn't take the detective long to pick up his shy daughter Nanako and get the stuff the boys needed. However, Ryotaro stopped at a gas station on the way home.

"Hi! Welcome to Moel!" The gas attendant shouted as they parked.

"Can you go to the bathroom by yourself?" Ryotaro asked his daughter who had to go to the restroom.

"Uh-huh." Nanako nodded as her father got out as well as she did. The attendant noticed Nanako looking around.

"It's in the back, to your left. You know which way's left? The side you don't hold your chop sticks." The attendant smiled at Nanako who pouted at the attendant.

"I know… Geez…" Nanako ran to the restroom Sasuke and Naruto got out of the car, feeling a little claustrophobic.

"Are you taking a trip?" The attendant asked, noticing Sasuke and Naruto.

"No, these two are going to be under my care for some time. From what they say, they are from a much more laid back city, though larger than Inaba amazingly." Ryotaro said with a smile.

"The city, huh?"

"Fill up my car while you're at it. Regular's fine," Ryotaro said.

"Right away, Sir!" The attendant chimed happily.

"Good a time as any for a smoke." Ryotaro sighed while walking off to smoke.

"Are you two in junior high school?" The attendant asked Sasuke and Naruto.

"No, just high school." The attendant looked at them both in shock.

"Well, does it surprise a pair of city boys like you to see how little there is out here?" The attendant sighed with some annoyance. "There's so little to do, I'm sure you'll get bored fast. You'll either be hanging out with your friends or doing part-time jobs. Speaking of which, we're actually looking for part-time help right now. Though, don't know if they hire someone your age, but give it some thought, why don't you? We don't mind if you're a student." The attendant walked up to Sasuke and held out her hand. Sasuke grabbed it and shook it for only a moment when Naruto grabbed the attendants wrist and pulled him away from Sasuke. "Whoa!"

"Ack! No, Naruto!" Sasuke grabbed both the attendant's wrist and Naruto's and made them shake hands. "That's a greeting. It's called a handshake."

"…Oh…. Sorry…" Naruto looked down as Sasuke sweated.

"Please excuse my friend… He isn't so good with interacting with people." Sasuke bowed in apology.

"No… Problem…" The attendant rubbed her wrist. "Though you got quite a grip there… Oh! I should get back to work." The attendant walked off to go pump the gas when Sasuke and Naruto noticed the pink dress wearing girl that was Nanako staring at them. However, suddenly they both felt dizzy.

"Are you two okay?" Nanako asked with worry. "Did you get carsick? You don't look too good…"

"Maybe… It is the first time Naruto and I rode in a car." Sasuke sighed, guessing it was delayed motion sickness. After leaving the gas station, they went all the way to the Dojima's residence which was a simple two story house with a mix of traditional style building with more modern style housing. Evening came pretty quickly and the four was sitting around a small dining room table in the living room and eating take-out.

"All right, let's have a toast." Ryotaro chimed before they all raised their can of soda and drank from the cans. "So… Both your parents are gone, was it? Well, I guess it's rough being a kid then during such a time. Well, it's just me and Nanako here, so it'll be nice having someone like you two around. So long as you're here, you're part of the family, so make yourselves at home."

"Thank you for your kindness." Sasuke said, a bit stiff as he didn't know what to do in such a situation while Naruto just stayed quiet, also not knowing what to say.

"C'mon, there's no need to be so formal." Ryotaro smiled. "Look, you're making Nanako all tense." Nanako jumped and looked down, also not knowing what to say. "Well, anyway… Let's eat." However, a beeping noise came from Ryotaro. "Ugh… Who's calling at this hour?" Ryotaro took out his cell phone and answered it. "Dojima speaking..." Ryotaro got up and went away. "Yeah? I see… So where is it?... All right, I'm on my way. Looks like I made the right choice to skip the booze." Ryotaro hung up and put his cell phone back into his pocket. "Sorry, but I gotta go take care of some business. Go ahead and eat without me. I don't know how later I'll be. Nanako, you help them out, okay?" Nanako got up and nodded.

"Okay…" Nanako sighed in disappointment.

"Oh! Almost forgot!" Ryotaro looked back at Naruto and Sasuke. "I bought each of you a cell phone. They are charging on the counter. Just read the manual to figure out how they work." Ryotaro sighed before walking out of the house. "Nanako, it's raining out. What did you do with the laundry?"

"I already brought it in!" Nanako shouted back.

"All right. Well. I'm off." Ryotaro shouted back before leaving and they heard the car turn on and leave. Nanako sat back down and turned on the television.

"—for this week. Next, let's take a look at the hourly breakdown of tomorrow's weather. With storm clouds moving in from the west, expect rain throughout the day tomorrow in most areas."

"…Let's eat…" Nanako sighed as both boys realized they had not touched their food.

"Um… What does your dad do?" Sasuke asked, trying to break the awkward silence.

"He… investigates stuff. Like crime scenes. My dad's a detective." Nanako chimed before the news came in.

"And now for the local news… City council secretary Namatame Taro is under fire for an alleged relationship with a female reporter. His wife, enka ballad sensation Hiiragi Misuzu, revealed to this station that she will likely pursue damages. In response, Eye Television has decided to cancel all of announcer Yamano Mayumi's televisied appearances. Until allegations of an affair with Mr. Namatame are resolved, she'll remain off the air and out of public eye."

"…This is boring." Nanako sighed, changing the channel for it to hit a commercial.

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"Every day's great at your Junes!" Nanako happily sung.

"Every day's great at your Junes?" Naruto sung as well, though cocking his head confusedly.

"…Aren't you going to eat?" Nanako asked, noticed neither of them had touched their food. Both jumped and quickly went to eating. Once done, Naruto and Sasuke went upstairs to the room the Dojima's were letting them use.

"…Naruto… We… did go through the television and end up in that strange world?" Sasuke asked as Naruto gotten the futons ready.

"…We did…" Naruto sighed while standing up. "Check it." Naruto lifted up his bangs to expose the rest of his face. His eyes had some of their original sapphire blue back, but a ring of orange was around the edge of the iris… And on his forehead was the same brand from before. "However, it could be that at this moment, our bodies managed to hide our new features to help protect us."

"That's kind of far fetched… Worse, it seems that it has been six months since when we entered the television and when we got out. That's even weirder… Paper." Sasuke sighed, saying what he was focusing on for a piece of square paper to appear in his hand. "But… Now you are able to turn into a demon and I am able to create things just by thinking, though it is easier to say it as well as thinking."

"I wonder why we were given these abilities…" Naruto sighed.

"…Well, I don't care. What I want to know is how to return to our world and get your memories back. Also, we need to make you human again, but not before your memories as we now know how dangerous the world you lost your memories inside is." Sasuke groaned, flopping onto his futon.

"…I promise to protect you, Sasuke." Sasuke looked at Naruto. "You are the first one to ever accept me, even when now I really am a demon. I will make sure to never let anything hurt you."

"Don't worry. I am not going to be totally defenseless, Naruto. I refuse to let another person sacrifice for me." Sasuke said, staring at the ceiling. "Plus… Now… I want to know… I want to know the truth…"

"…The truth?" Naruto asked before getting smacked in the face by his pillow.

"Never mind… Let's get to bed. At least we should use our time here wisely and learn some stuff so our little adventure is not a complete waste of time." Sasuke covered himself up as Naruto smiled at his friend.

"Yeah…" Naruto turned the lights out before getting into his futon next to Sasuke's futon.

-Elsewhere-

"….So, no possible leads in the disappearance of Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto?" The Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, sighed while smoking his pipe.

"No… It's been six months since they disappeared and we had yet to find a lead or proof another village would kidnap them." The ANBU in front of him sighed. "I am sorry."

"It is alright… I just hope both of them are alright." Hiruzen said while blowing out some smoke as the ANBU disappeared in smoke. He pulled out his crystal ball for his viewing jutsu. For the past six months, he had constantly tried his Tomegane no Jutsu to try and find Naruto and Sasuke, but to no avail as all he got was fog in the image… However, he was still worried and kept trying.

"…Huh?" Hiruzen blinked as even though it was still somewhat foggy, he now could see Naruto and Sasuke. Both were sleeping and seemed to be safe in a room. "…Finally, at least they are safe… Hm?" Hiruzen had the image zoom on Naruto, more on the blond's head. He was confused to see some kind of tattoo on Naruto's forehead, like a brand. "I wonder where that came from… But, why is the jutsu working now… Where are they?… Hm… And how to contact them as I now at least they are not in Fire Country." The Hokage pondered. Though, at least he didn't have to worry about the two boys as much now thanks to seeing they were safe. But, how they disappeared in the beginning was what he wanted to know as well as what caused the disappearance.

'This is becoming quite a mystery…' The Hokage looked out the window at the star filled night sky. "Oh, it's getting late, so I best finish up here and head home." Hiruzen chimed, happy of his small discovery.

Endnote-I hope you all liked this chapter and I shall only update if I get some reviews!