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JMC-77 proudly presents...
A Naruto and Fullmetal Alchemist story...
...FULLMETAL KITSUNE...
...Years ago.. A great battle was fought.. Between two sides that embodied two philosophies: 'The Ones Who Destroy...' and 'The Ones Who Unite...'
...The ones who led this destruction was that of.. the Nine-Tailed Fox. An ancient fox-like demon dreaded for its strange abilities and intelligence, but as well as its deadly and violent nature... The ones who stood against him.. were Alchemists. People who practiced the ancient form of 'Alchemy,' a mystical form of magic that bends the law of nature and science to turn our greatest thoughts.. Into Matter..!
...However, for those who practice alchemy, the ancient arts is comprised of three virtues that gives us an understanding of it..
..Deconstruction, for the ones who build matter, there are those.. who break it..
..Reconstruction, for the ones who take creation apart.. there are those who rebuild it..
...And finally.. Comprehension. This virtue serves as a creed for any alchemists: Those who understand the structure of matter, as well as the balance of the pieces that take shape...
..These virtues are part of the laws known as 'Equivalent Exchange..' Those who reshape matter into a new structure, in exchange for a sacrifice necessary for such an act...
..Those believed in uniting matter.. the Alchemists.. carried this value with them, and through such persistence... Was able to defeat the Nine-Tailed Fox...
..However, for such an act to be possible.. it required a sacrifice: for its defeat, it must be sealed inside a vessel to prevent its aggression...
...And now, peace has been returned to the land, but some are training alchemy for the sake of a new generation as well as a new war..
..Today, a new hero shall rise...
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Chapter 1: Fullmetal
Konoha, the Leaf Village
Near a large forest comprised of green, was a city that may appeared to be small, but is rather prosperous and expansive. That city was Konoha, home of Alchemy... For years, this city had used to practice the mastery of cunning, honour, courage, as well as deception...
... Years ago, the great battle between the Nine-Tailed Fox and the alchemists who defeat him took place in this seemingly peaceful town. As a last act of vengeance, the nine-tailed demon was sealed away as the host inside the physical being of a young boy with gold hair.
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Naruto Uzumaki, a young boy of 7 years of age, messy bright blonde hair, three scar-shaped whisper marks on each side of his cheeks, eyes as blue as the sky, a white shirt with long green sleeves with grey shorts and simple shoes, walked the streets of Konoha with a very distraught face.
His face was composed of a few bruises and cuts from a fight he had with other children his age. Young Naruto was a student beginning to learn Alchemy, in order to become Hokage: A title granted to those with the greatest mind and skills in the art of alchemy.
To become Hokage was Naruto's dream, but now... He was walking through the streets with a bruised and crying face. As he walked by, various people, especially adults who even grabbed ahold of their children, walked away from where they previously stood, while casting on various looks of scorn and fear...
Naruto did not know why the many adults he encountered were acting this way towards him. As far as he knew, they would always seem to have hated him, as well as ignored him, but he never understood why. When he was around 4, he ran away from the orphanage that was raising him due to the various fights he was involved with others.
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As he rubbing away his tears, he walked through a short-cut between two building that led him... near a small house near the great big lake off the edge of town. He moved there a year after he ran away from the orphanage.
As he took off and dusted his shoes, Naoto opened the door to his bedroom. Inside the rather room was a simple bed with just a blanket and pillow, a table and two chairs, and a square-shaped box with a lock on. Inside the box was various foods Naruto was lucky enough to buy, as well as stole. It was mostly bread, along with rice and water.
His table had a few books on top of it. The books were instructions of the first steps of Alchemy. Naruto hated them though... Finding them boring, as well as wanting to perform a transmutation right away.
As he calmed himself, he looked outside his room once more and his small window. He grinned in a very mischievous tone, as he took out a large red book with the symbol of the Equivalent Exchange: 'The Art of Human Transmutation.'
As he looked briefly at the cover for a minute, Naoto quickly flipped to the next page, or first page, to learn what he always wanted to know: How to perform Alchemy!
Naruto looked the words of the first page with very precise focus as well as deep thinking. For a while, he wondered the existence of Human Transmutation, as he wanted to use as a way to perform Alchemy himself. But for two more reasons... Answers and love.
For any child of a young age, if they were asked a question of what they consider the best thing to ever transpire, their answers are usually candy or even fun. But for young Naruto, his answer would be be strikingly different, as he had desired something else..
...Love..
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His entire life, Naruto has constantly met the neglect and contempt of the villagers every time he went home, or back to school. One time, when he went off to buy some bread as he was starving, the baker coldly told him to get out and never come back, while calling him a 'stupid little fox.'
The word 'fox,' completely puzzled Naruto when he walked among other villagers, hearing only insults and titles such as 'thing' or 'fox.'
With this book though... He would FINALLY find the answers he had sought for a very long time. As well as use it to... Meet someone dear to him... His beautiful mother Kushina..
.. One time when he asked one of his teachers, Iruka Umino, and the current Hokage, Hiruzen Saroutobi, if he ever had any parents of his own, they remained tight-lipped and silent about the information. So, he broke into Hiruzen's office to steal a diary that had belonged to his long lost father and mother: Minato and Kushina. From what he read, she seemed to be the most warmest woman anybody could ask for, and he was practically the most generous man to ever live.. The best things they wrote about in the diary were how his mother described her reaction and awe to the news that... She. Was. Pregnant. With him. She said that while it surprised her at first, what really mattered was she described as one thing Naruto had never heard anyone call him before...
An angel.
To him, if she said that to his face, he would cry himself to death because of how beautiful it was. He loved it more than anything.
As he closed after reading through the first few pages, Naruto ran out of his bedroom and quickly slipped into his shoes and barged out of his small apartment as he headed back to town for the next important thing: The substances needed to perform the human transmutation!
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The Lake
Near the lake, was Naruto finishing the final touches to a large white transmutation circle that he drew. The circle was at the centre, with a large square on the outside of it, and a triangle with all points reaching out of the cube.
"...50 Litres of Carbon, 100 kilograms of Sulphur, 75 Litres of Salt, and finally 200 kilograms of water..." Spoke the blonde-haired boy as he listed off the final ingredients to perform the transmutation. He had to steal various liquids and materials from the local stores in order to prepare them for his training with alchemy.
"Now then... The moment of truth is here!" Thought the smiling Naruto, as he raised his hands to perform the transmutation. For the first time, he actually felt truly happy. For the entire year spent in his first year at the local Academy, he somehow was unable to perform any kind of transmutation in alchemy, which left him with bad grades and the teasing of his classmates, who felt he could never become Hokage. Because he was now going to meet his parents for the first time! He then looked the drawn circle with a few pieces of his hair as well as a few drops of blood from himself. Naoto then raised both his hands from the left and right, and... Then slowly... CLAPPED the palms of both hands to perform the transmutation. Naruto closed his eyes in order for any surprises.
"This is it!" Thought Naruto with his closed eyes engulfing his sight with a wall of blackness, waiting for the transmutation to occur.
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However, as he reopened his eyes... He realized something strange: Nothing isn't happening...
"Huh!?" Thought Naruto with a shocked tone. He then gritted his teeth and then clapped his hands together once more to perform the process once more.
"I-it... It's not working!? WHY ISN'T WORKING!?" Shouted Naruto to the entire extent in a fit on anger and sadness. He feels betrayed... All of his thefts and all of the stuff he stole from the angry villagers apparently was for... nothing..
Naruto then dropped to his knees, while feeling a bawl of tears surging down his face in defeat. He then asked once more: "W-why..? Why won't it work!?"
"Let me show you..." Came a threatening voice with a smug aura, which quickly caught Naruto's attention as the boy quickly turn around... Only in a fit of panic to step back to find several kunais near his feet and between his legs.
"What was that!?" Cried out the terrified Naruto as he turned his head up to see a tall man in his early 30s with white hair and dressed in green and blue garb looking with a face of contempt and a sadistic smirk.
"So... The little demon brat chose to defy the Equivalent Exchange by not just performing alchemy, but also human alchemy. Well then, I'll have to stab you in the heart, and cure the village of your threat forever, demon." Said the man Tetsuo Mizuki as he grabbed out a long katana while his smirk grinned even wider and slowly walked forward.
"Mizuki!? Wh-what is he doing here!?" thought the scared Naruto as he tried to think of something to get away. Mizuki was among one of the teacher at his school, as well as an old friend of Iruka. But now he's here.. About to kill him!
Naruto, while feeling a few drops of sweat slide his face, quickly clapped his hands again to perform a transmutation, but like the human circle, nothing happened. "Huh!?"
"Hehehehe.. Stupid little runt, you can't perform any kind of alchemy because you weren't meant to perform anything related to it." Replied Mizuki as he raised his katakana above his head to perform the killing blow.
"NOOOOOO!" Cried out the young Naruto as he clapped his hands once again! Only this time... Something did happen!
The human transmutation that Naruto grew a very faint blue, as the shocked Mizuki turned his head to see what was happening. As the shocked teacher and Naruto looked, the young boy saw red lightning emerge from the circle, and then... he saw a vision of some kind of fox with red glowing eyes roaring furiously at him. At then, from the spot that Naruto and Mizuki stood... A large blue lighting bolt shot down from the sky and struck where the two stood.
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While walking around the street for his young student Naruto about his thefts from the Hokage's office and the local markets concerning stolen supplies, Iruka met up with his follow alchemists: Kakashi Hatake, Yuuhi Kurenai, and Asuma Sarutobi, as all of them gathered to address what they've discovered.
"Did anyone find him?" Questioned Iruka Umino in a serious tone.
"No, couldn't find him." Replied fellow Jonin Yuuhi Kurenai in a calm tone.
"LOOK THERE!" Shouted Kakashi, as he and the other alchemists, along with several villagers looked at the strange blue lightning that struck near their town.
"Wwwhhooaa..." Said Asuma in a shocked voice.
"COME ON!" Said Iruka in a voice loud enough to shake them out of their shock as the four alchemists ran to the spot the lightning struck.
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"NARUTO! NARUTO! NARUTO! Where are you?!" Shouted out the worried Iruka as he and the other alchemists ran closer and closer towards the lake. For the longest period, Iruka had always possessed a subtle fondness for the boy, a trait noticed by many. Hence his saddened expression when he was forced to tell Naruto that he failed the Chuunin Exams this year.
"Uuugghh... H-helllppp... SOMEONE! P-please... help me..." Came a pained voice, which belonged to Naruto. As the four alchemists walked near the smoke, to their shock they found a limbless arm with a katana. But none of that even compares to the sight that horrified them: Naruto standing on a knee... His only knee, clutching his severed, bleeding stump which is where his arm used to be attached. His right arm and left leg were shown on his both sides. His bleeding right arm was in a small mud circle, while his limbless left leg were slowly bleeding out in the water in the lake. The explosion must've caused it to fall into the water!
"I-it... It wasn't... Human..." Came Naruto's pained voice as he closed his crying eyes and turned his horror-stained to the left. The four horrified alchemist soon joined the boy as well, as they found the source of the smoke: A husk with hollow and grey skin, as well as soulless purple eyes, white hair, and an outline of the disgusting creature's limbs. It looked at them with his terrifying eyes, uttering out a final and only sound. "UUgggghhhhh... Aaaarrrrgggghhhh..."
To this, Naruto let a final scream before passing out.
"AAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!"
The boy's screams of terror was loud enough to be heard across the Leaf Village.
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8 Years Later...
Deep within the forests, lies a familiar young man walking through an array of trees and vines.
"Hhhuuufff... Uuuuggghhh..." Came the groaning of a 15-year-old Naruto Uzumaki, who was running out of any breath that was left in his lungs. The boy, or young man, was completely exhausted. He'd been walking for nearly THREE DAYS! Plus, he also starting to get dehydrated and a little starved.
"Hhhuuufff... I hate forests... It's all nothing but bugs and trees. U-ugh.. and if there was any water, I'd practically dump my head into it... Besides, I'M STARVING!" Shouted out the tired teenager. His attire was comprised with that of a hoodless orange vest with black highlights, a blue sleeveless undershirt, black trousers that reached his knees tightened with a belt containing multiple gear, as well as black boots. Plus, his right arm and legs were wrapped entirely around with bandages. His spiky gold hair has lengthened to his shoulders with a few flocks reaching his forehead. He also grew in size with a taller physique with an athletic, but lean build.
"G-gggeeetttinngg tttiireedd..." Said Naruto as his eyes shut tight, finally he fell on the front of his body, slowly going still. As he blacked out, a mysterious figure shadowed the light of the sun shining on top of him, their face blackened.
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?
"Mmmmpppphhhh..." Came the mumbled sound of Naruto waking up. He slowly re-opened his eyes to catch a glimpse of his surroundings. Though his vision is still somewhat blurred, he can still nevertheless try and describe as that of a beige-coloured bedroom with oak dresser, his orange coat hanged over a clothespin, a wooden stool within the upper-left corner, as well as the door slightly opened.
The doorway was a bit small, but it gave him a glimpse of not just something, but... someone. It looked like a young teenage girl who seemed to be around his age. She was wearing a bandage around her forehead with navy blue hair that had two bangs shaped on both sides of her face, as well as the back tied with a hair braid. She was also wearing a grey sleeveless shirt and black shorts that reaches her knees. Her arms were wrapped around with bandages like him, along with her forearms and legs. She currently seems to be folding some clothes from his angle.
"Mmmppphh.. Hheeyy..." Came the soft and groaning greeting out of Naruto's pained voice in an attempt to get her attention. She widened her eyes then turned her head around to look right at him, who was beginning to sit straight up.
"OH! Wait! Don't sit up! You'll make the pain even worse!" The mysterious girl said, with a tone comprised of gentle worry.
"Uuugghhh.. It's alright. I'll be okay, once I've-AAARRGGGHH!" Grunted Naruto, whose attempts at being calm and polite was interrupted by a strike of pain coming from his left rib.
"Please. Don't try to move, I was able to bandage your body as best as I could, even gave it enough rest. Try to be careful." Came her soft voice.
"... I will, but... I just wanted to say thank you.." Said the young man who looked at her with a pained, but grateful smile. She had pale skin as well as eyes as dark as her blue hair. If Naruto could somehow admit it, she even looked beautiful.
"Oh... Your welcome.." Said the mysterious girl replied, her cheeks blushing a slight shade of pink. Naruto mentally couldn't but feel amused by it.
"Anyway... My name's Naruto. Did you help him?" Asked the curious blonde.
"Yes, my name is.. Isaribi." The girl Isaribi shyly replied, avoiding his face as she continued to blush more.
"Nice to meet you. But I was wondering something..."
"W-what is it?"
"Do you know where that I've traveled so far?" Naruto asked, his face having a curious set of eyes.
"Uummm... Umi no Kini, the Sea Country." The girl calmly replied.
"Sea Country, huh? Look ... Isaribi, the reason for why I've been traveling this is because well... Let's just say that I'm trying to track something down, nothing more.." Naruto said, with his face becoming much more serious and somewhat straight-laced as he finished his explanation.
"Oh.. I see. What is it that you're trying to track down?" Isaribi replied, as the rather shy girl looked at him with a curious expression.
"Well, uh... Something that could help me in Alchemy." Naruto replied, answering her question. His rather expression somewhat mellowed, as he replied to her question with a calm smile.
"Alchemy? So then... The pendent you were wearing, does that mean that you're... An alchemist!?" Asked Isaribi, whose demure face became shocked by the blonde's response. She then put her hand in her right pocket, taking out what seems to a light blue crystal wrapped along a black thread.
"Yeah. And, uh... Not to brag or anything, but some people know me as the Fullmetal Fox." Naruto replied, with a flashy grin now having a cocky ring towards it, as he raised a thumb towards himself.
"... I'm sorry, but... I've never heard of you before.." The girl shyly replied, with an apologetic tone to her voice.
"Huh?! Really?!" Naruto asked with a shocked look on his face. "Then that means... That this town must be rather remote if such things like that aren't well-known..." Naruto thought.
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"Well, anyway... I've made you some food when you would wake up.." Isaribi said with a bashful smile, as she walked out of the room, placing Naruto on the desk to his right. As he watched her walk out of the room, Naruto then looked at his pendent with a thoughtful expression on his face. That pendent has always been a reminder of who he remembered and thought about for so long. His mother. Grabbing the pendent, Naruto then takes a last look at it with a smile then wrapped it around his neck, while thinking "Mom..." He then takes a look at his right, and grasped it with a somber face. His arm was still bandaged, hardly unwrapped or even checked. Naruto then wondered why Isaribi didn't check his arm like she did with his ribs.
"Here it is." Isaribi said, returning to the room with a bowl of ramen.
"Hey, thanks..." Naruto replied with a gratefully pleasant smile, as he grabbed it from her as well as two chopsticks, and then started to pick up bits and pieces of his meal. Naruto ate at it with a proud, but slow motion, as he was still tired from all the walking he had been forced to do..
Finishing his rather small, yet delicious meal, Naruto carefully placed his chops inside the empty bowl and smiled at Isaribi, who looked at him with an impassive face. "I... Appreciate what you did for me, as well as the meal you made. Thank you.." The blonde alchemist spoke, as he got up to walk and clean the bowl himself. "Your welcome.." Isaribi replied, looking away once again to avoid having him look at her flustered expression, which were pink once more.
"Anyway, I'd better pack my stuff and head around the town for some supplies." Naruto said, after placing his empty bowl into a bucket full of water. He head back into the room to grab, only for a familiar to stop him."
"Your leaving..?" Isaribi asked him, with a confused expression."
"No, I'm just planning not asking a few questions, that's all." Naruto calmly replied to her question with an impish smile. He then grabbed his black vest then zippered it over his black undershirt. Finally, he then grabbed his red coat and put both his arms through each opening, as well as grabbed a large green circular-shaped bag he took in his travels.
"Naruto, wait..!" Isaribi said, getting his attention." Promise that you won't just leave so soon?" She asked with the same impassive expression.
"I won't. Trust me." Naruto, looked at her with a resolute face.
"...Huh?" Isaribi replied with a curious yet surprised face.
"I give you my word." Naruto said, closing his eyes and forming a thoughtful smile on his face. Naruto then walked to the exit to re-begin his travels leaving Isaribi surprised by his promise.
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Exiting there other small... hut, Naruto then walked down a pathway over a hill that gave him a rather impressive view of the town. It was small, but to Naruto, a big town that reached the shores of a large bay of water. The shores had numerous docks with people preparing or sailing in boats.
As Naruto began walking into the Sea Country, a few people began to take note of his presence.
"Who's he?"
"I don't think I've ever saw him before...
"Think he's a part of some military or something?"
"Maybe he's from out of town.."
Needless to say, these murmurs did not escape Naruto's ears.
"...Hhmm, I should probably find some place to drink. My throat's starting to get dry.." Naruto as his tongue move inside his jaw to taste how de-hydrated it was. As he was walking, Naruto came to stop as he heard the sound of water pouring. Looking in front of him, it was a large fountain that had multiple disks ranging from large to small.
"W-Water!" Naruto said loudly as he quickly ran to the fountain to get a quick sip. "H-huh!?" Naruto asked, as his view of the fountain became more clear as he got closer. Much to his surprise, there was no water pouring the disks at all! But a scarlet red liquid instead.
"This would explain the rotting smell I've been getting in the air..." Naruto complained with a disappointed look. His frustrated face became replaced with a more curious one as his left hand motioned to feel the presence of the red 'water.'
"Smell's too strong to count as blood. Maybe sake by the looks of it..." While analyzing the alcohol, the whiskered alchemist failed to notice the rising hand reaching for his shoulder.
"HEY! THAT FOUNTAIN'S OFF-LIMITS TO STRANGERS!" Came the voice of an older man. Naruto turned to see the enraged face with a man in his possible mid-30s with a few pores around his front of his face, a brown mustache shaped over his lips, grey eyes, and a tall, muscular look with a bit of plump.
"Huh!?" Asked the confused Naruto.
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"Ha, ha, ha! Sorry 'bout that fella, didn't know that you were out of town! We don't get that much visitors around this place." Said the older man's voice, now in a more jovial tone as he washed an empty glass with a white cloth with a rather big grin.
"No problem.." Replied a sheepishly-smiling Naruto, drinking a mug of tea served to him by the merchant.
"Anyway, besides that little stunt... Where you from, friend?"
"Well, I'm kind of my own at the moment. But I do come from the Leaf City in Konoha..."
"Konoha, huh? Well, what brings someone as young as you out so far?" Asked the merchant with a curious stare.
"Well, that thing is that I've kind of... Got lost..." Naruto answered with shut eyes and a sheepish grin.
"Clearly, but either way... You a tourist in these parts?" The merchant asked again with a hint of bemusement.
"No, just passing by. I'm just trying to track something important down, that's all." Naruto answered with a more serious tone. "Anyway, I should be on my way." He then reached into his pocket and put two coins near his now-empty mug. But as the whiskered fellow got up from his stool, his hand accidentally knocked the mug over the side and onto the ground, breaking into multiple pieces.
"Ooohhh, great! Now look at what ya' did!" Shouted the now-angry merchant.
"Heh, sorry 'bout that... Don't suppose you could let me fix that?" Asked Naruto.
"How you planning on fixing it?! It's in a thousand pieces!" Loudly replied the angry merchant.
"Relax old man, it's easy..." Replied a glaring Naruto as he kneeled down to 'fix' the mug.
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Now in front both Naruto and the merchant was a custom-made transmutation circle drawn by the former, with the shattered mug now in the centre.
The drawing. What's it for?" Asked the merchant, curious about what the whiskered young man is going do.
"You'll see.." Replied a smiling Naruto, as he finished the circle. He stood up on both his feet, then he placed his left hand over his right, shadowing the spot where the mug is. Then... A flash of blue lightning came out of his hand and struck the circle! There was a blank white flash, and then... The mug was now standing fixed and clean, with the transmutation circle gone.
"WOW! A miracle!" Proclaimed the shocked, but smiling merchant with an impressed energy to his voice.
"Nope.. That was science. It was Alchemy." Replied the smiling Naruto.
"Alchemy? So then.. You're an alchemist?" Asked the now curious man.
"Yep. Name's Naruto. Naruto Uzumaki. And some people call me the 'Fullmetal Fox.' Not to brag or anything..." Said the now grinning alchemist.
"Fullmetal, huh?"
"Sorry kid, but we've never heard of ya..." Answered a nearby witness, who was a tall man with blonde hair and a beard, and had muscle-like appearance.
"Though, if do you plan finding some work, you're more than welcomed at my shop.." Came another voice that was from a beautiful woman with long black hair, brown eyes, and a face that seemed to be in her late 20s.
"None of you need to grant him any kind of work, Naruto here is the 'Fullmetal Fox.' He doesn't need any work." Came the male voice of a nearby witness. Everyone hearing the mysterious turned to the right to see a tall man with a lean physique, covered in a greyish cloak with a hood over his head. The man seemed in his youth, has long flowing blonde hair, light blue eyes, and a charming smile.
"Your 'guest' here is quite the celebrity in most parts. They say he's the student of the best alchemists in the leaf. A rather 'resourceful' type..." The man finished explaining with a cordial tone. After listening to the man's story, every villager hearing this then re-looked at Naruto.
"You mean this little shorty here?" Asked the beard spectator, who pointed at him. Naruto then felt a gigantic red vein appear on his head, as a rising ounce of anger replaced the young alchemist with a red-faced demon. "AAAARRRRGGGHHH!" Grunted Naruto.
"SHORTY!? CAN A SHORTY DO THIS!? WHAT ELSE YA WANNA CALL ME, A HALF-PINT PEAS-SPROUT MIDGET!? I'M STILL GROWING FASTER THAN THE REST OF YA SORRY FISH-LOADING DIMWITS!" Shouted Naruto as he, with surprising incredible strength, spun two screaming villagers around with fangs in his mouth. The merchant gave a small sheepish giggle at this with a sweat-drop falling down his head.
End.
Here's chapter 1 of my Naruto/FMA crossover story. Plus, no gratuitous Japanese or anything will be in this story.
Fun fact(s): I've always pictured Jason Spisak as a male voice for Naruto, especially his Shippuden counterpart during Part II. Nothing against Maile Flannagan, but her voice doesn't fit the fox-tailed shinobi, now that he's a teenager. Comment in the review(s) section what you think of this suggestion, as well as how Japanese musician/seiyuu KENN can do so as well!
(Plus... I'm discontinuing Astonishing Spider-Man. I'm sorry to say that, but I've sadly lost interest for now).
Write down any kind of story suggestions in the reviews with some creative ideas of what to do!
The Naruto of my story is, as you could tell, a fusion between Kishimoto's original and Edward Elric. To describe him, he's similar to the original: an affable outsider who hides his issues with false bravado and mischief.
While he has the same youthful energy, my interpretation of Naruto is based on having a personality similar to a mythological kitsune; cocky and mercurial, affable and compassionate, brave and committed, has a mischievous and snarky sense of humor, cunning and unpredictable, but also hides a more lonely and troubled side. He'll get a bunch of character progression throughout the story though... ;D
Plus, I'm thinking about writing stereotypical qualities in classical Shonen stories, with FMA's: Villains being through unified efforts, victories coming from sacrifices (both the deaths of others and the art of transmutation), and our heroes outmanoeuvring through quick-thinking. Now, as for the classical Shonen qualities: There were still be a one-to-one battle between the villain & hero, a realistic capture of time-skipping in the form of a few years, and the bonds achieved from emotionally connecting with others. (Don't worry, they'll be done in a more well-rounded spin).
Suggest any thoughts for future chapters in your reviews please.
Plus, have any of ya guys noticed Naruto's backstory, motivations, and character is somewhat similar to that of Final Fantasy protagonist Cloud Strife? He also looks like a grown-up version of our fox-tailed hero.