Chapter 1

"Mother!" I knelt into the dark palace as I held her old withered body. The shadows wrapped around us, almost as though they were claiming us as one of their own. The spell had been difficult especially with the timing… but it had seemed to work. That bitch of a star and her stupid man from over wall seemed to have fallen for it.

That stupid star had tried destroying my mother and she had almost succeeded in ripping her into shreds… but I am my mother's son and I have the darkest of magic. Yet because of the stupid boy I have lost my aunts, but I had managed to disperse and re emerge my mother... but at what cost.

"Mother!" I felt her clawed hand grab my collar as she groaned.

"You did well." She moaned weakly.

"I got them." I managed happily as I saw her emotionless eyes fixate on me.

"So you finally given me something to make me proud of you boy?" she growled and I flinched like she had hit me but I still nodded.

While I rummaged for a small bag she ran her eyes over me critically. Good god, what had that star done to her. Her skin looked as though it was almost withered charcoal just like my damaged arm now. Her long dress was torn and ripped, still smoking and burning.

I had shared her pain and saved her life… but I was just the same as I always was.

Something that she regretted.

"Here mother." I pulled the bag and I found I couldn't even manage to look at it. The screams still haunted me. She took the bag like a rabid dog does when it see's meat. "So you have done some deeds to me." She laughed, "but you are still as pathetic as always."

"I figured as much." I whispered as my own heart dropped but she stood as she tipped the contents of her bag back into her throat. It was like an aura of light had passed through her as she screamed happily looking at her reflection.

The withered skin became smooth. The white stringy hair became locks of spun soft brown curls that fell to her waist.

Eternal youth. I shook my head, I had given my mother everything that she desired… and it still wasn't enough.

A hand gently held onto my shoulder as tears formed in my eyes. All of it and for nothing!

While my mother had been away hunting after one star. Another had fallen.

Under orders of my aunts I had set out, being my mother's son I had the strongest magic of them with the exception of the obvious.

I looked to my aunts and pulled my travelling cloak tight around my shoulders and set a knife in my belt before they tightened the leather clothing around me so I would appear like a rich prince. "Like my mother said, Aunts of mine. Never fear. I will not fail." They placed the runes in my gloved hands and I grinned when an Emerald necklace was placed over my head.

I was no beauty, I guess my mother thought otherwise. I had spiky blonde and brown hair and my deep Emerald eyes. My mother often used this to her advantage as I would go and lure girls for them to practice their spells on… or my for my aunts too… no it doesn't matter.

I had barely been out of our home and through the first meadow when I my necklace shined slight and I saw my mother with a glare and look of fixated death, "Have you located the star yet boy?" there was no emotion in her voice, just a cold hard tone she always used with me.

"Yes mother, it seems she fell near the wall."

"HURRY TO HER YOU IDIOT!" she snarled, "I will not let our star become a lump of metallic rock!" her words felt like they were stabbing into my own heart painfully.

"Mother, do not worry, I will not fail you."

"You better not. If you do this I may even be proud of you… maybe." Her image vanished and a smile lit my face.

I could make my mother happy. I could-

I felt my self punched backwards as I hit the ground hard while my eyes glistened looking at the burning golden sun… wait… it was night how could there be sun and stars?

It seemed that I had been knocked down by an orb of light and I was sprawled to the floor. "What in the name of hell!" I snarled and felt the lump on me move.

"Well that's a surprise."

I looked to the moron who now sat on my chest with a massive grin and my face broke out in a massive blush. He had blonde hair and two deep blue eyes which watched me with a grin. On his face were three equal scars on each side… almost like whiskers. He was tanned like me though he was stronger with more muscles. "What? It's a surprise to you that you cannot land on people like a complete moron idiot!"

When he had finally decided to stop using me like a seat I sat back up and brushed off my cloak. "So what are you? A warlock? Or just a plain moron who got lucky and found a Babylon candle?"

"I'm someone who searching for something even more precious than gold." He whispered with a grin.

He's looking for the star. My thoughts growled.

"All that glitters isn't gold." I whispered as he looked at me again and I blushed… why am I blushing?

"Why is everything so old anyway?"

"What?" I frowned and looked into the distance where a village stood. It had only been finished being built last week. How could that be old?

"There's not even Television here or any lamps."

"What on earth are you on about idiot?" I snapped. I had never even heard of… what did he call it? Lamps and Televisions?

"It doesn't matter." He looked at the candle, "Can I help you? Maybe I can make it up to you by getting you somewhere? This candle seems to-"

"It barely has one us left." I rolled my eyes, "and I am more than sure that you are going to need it to… return to what ever strange place you come from."

A place where he's really and completely-

SHUT UP! I snapped in my thoughts.

"Earth to boy." He waved his hand in front of my face and I frowned, "Do you even have a name?" he asked.

"I am named after a Titan from another world." I said, "But you can call me Duke. I don't let anyone else call me anything different."

"Aw come on, tell me your name." he grinned.

"What part of; I don't let anyone else call me anything different didn't you understand?"

"The part when you blushed when you said it." I was going to end up smacking that grin off his face when I turned him into a toad!

"I guess I must ask of yours" I sighed and I began walking towards wall. It wasn't that far, a couple of miles. I would be there by sun down.

"My name is Naruto." He smiled.

"And from what part of Stormhold…" I looked at him then began to notice his strange clothes, "You are not from our world are you?"

"I come from a village called Konoha." His gaze became distant and dream like.

I clicked my fingers and a burst of green flames appeared in front of his face making him flinch back. "Earth to Naruto."

"How did you?"

"You were spacing out"

"So you tried to set me on fire?!"

"Humph." I frowned, "If I wanted you dead I wouldn't be talking to you." I began striding along the gravel path.

"Dude you got anger problems ya know?"

"Why do you speak so strangely? It is Duke with a K not a D."

"What are you on about?" he stared at me but I shook my head. This lunatic was driving me insane… and making me blush like hell when ever he looked in my eyes!

For a couple of hours we just walked in silence until my necklace began to shine again and I smiled slightly as everything around me blurred and I saw my mother. "WHERE IS MY STAR, BOY?!" she snarled.

"She is still unconscious at wall." I stepped back away from my mothers burning glare, "mother the more you use your magic the more your body will change back." I pleaded.

"The boy is right Lamia. It is best that you only call on us in dire need! Even the ring will begin to take its toll!" my aunt's voice cackled.

"WELL THEN. FIND. MY. STAR! OR I WILL RIP THE STAR OUT THAT BOY NARUTO!" she screamed and the vision broke making me fall backwards into Naruto.

"Well then, who's landing on who now?" he grinned and I blushed bright red pushing him away. "Dude. Why were you talking to yourself? Was it some kind of mind communication Jutsu?"

"Again you speak with words I have never heard." I shook my head, who was this moron? Was he dropped on his head as a baby? Or maybe just an escapee from a mental asylum. "What was you thinking anyway when you lit the Babylon candle? Maybe that can help me figure out why you come to our world."

"No..." it was the first time I had seen him blush, "It doesn't matter." I shook my head exasperated.

"What are we even looking for!" he groaned walking slower and slower as we had finally come to wall.

But then I grinned as I saw a flaming trail along the grass. Hello my pretty. I laughed.

"We got to help her!" Naruto shouted as he ran forward.

The crater wasn't that deep but still, all the minerals of the earth around it had been scorched and now shined slightly as they were lined with flames. In the centre was a girl, her bright hair shined… pink?! I had often seen stars with hair red, golden and brown but never pink. Her hair colour doesn't matter idiot! IT'S HER HEART YOU WANT.

"Naruto get out my way." But as he turned, his eyes were blood red and the whiskers on his cheek were darker as he was still glaring at the star.

"Sakura." Even his voice had changed.

"A demon boy." I smiled. "Now that's interesting." He's just like me. "To what beast do I speak with?"

"DIE." He launched forward but it was with more than ease I swerved my arms like in a wave and my green magic made a burning shield as he bounced off it.

"No, though I assure you that star is about to die." That seemed to pacify him.

"Kill…girl?" I pulled my knife from my belt without showing emotion.

"So beastie hates the girl. Let me put it simply for you. I am going to kill her. Rip out her heart and let my mother feast upon it." I turned and made my way to her with every step my body began changing.

My brown and blond hair became black.

My skin became pale and muscled.

"make it slow." The demon laughed and I did just as he asked as she looked up at me with sparkling eyes. I hate you star. You got to live so far above us and watched immortally while I have suffered for years. But now you have fallen. Now you die.

"Sasuke." She smiled leaning in close as she glowed brightly.

"Not exactly." My knife slammed into her chest and before she could dim. "I am so sorry." I kissed her forehead and held her as I carved out through the bone and pulled out a light that was so intense, it burned my hand just to hold it.

She flailed for a few moments before my looks changed back. "I'm sorry." I whispered again and then let her fall back as her eyes closed burning away till nothing was left. "The burning heart of a star in love." I sighed at the bag I now held, "My mother will finally…"

"You killed her."

Naruto's blunt voice turned me around as I looked at him, seeing the crimson demon gone from his eyes. "You don't even care."

"Do not say that moron." I looked at him out the corner of my eye, "I did it for selfish reasons and for more than one of them. Do not judge me. You have never had to live the kind of life I have."

"Want to bet?"

"Yeah." I felt my magic bursting through my as nine long burning feline tails formed over me covering me in a burning cloak.

"But… that's impossible… only Kuruma has nine tails."

"What the hell are you on about?" I turned and began walking down the path deciding I was not going to waste any more time then I had to on this boy.

"A missing Jinchuriki." He whispered.

"I was born from my mother who then chained the Demon inside of me giving me much more power so she could use me as a weapon." His hand landed on my shoulder and I turned on him, "So don't you ever dare judge me! My mother is all I have!"

"But I saw the fear when you used that Jutsu to talk to her!"

"WHAT IS JUTSU? WHY DO YOU SPEAK SO STRANGELY!" I snapped then felt his arms pull me into a hug… no one had ever done this before.

I was lucky enough if my mother ever even looked at me never mind cared for me.

The blood in my body warmed in my cheeks then started moving… down. Oh god. I pushed him away as I turned embarrassed. Just pretend it never happened. Just pretend it never happened. "Naruto, I did what I had to do. I did it to keep you safe otherwise my mother would have killed you." I closed my eyes and pulled a small black stub of a candle from my belt hold a flame in my other hand. "Just… don't forget me okay?" his hand touched the side of my face and I flinched accidently igniting the candle. "NO!"

It felt instantaneous.

I looked around the burning wreckage of my house from the shadows at the bitch of a star and bastard boy from the wall as my mother was hit by light. "Damn it!" I snarled and thrust out my hand hitting my mother with my own light. Her body ripped away and her green light formed in my hand as both the star and boy smiled thinking she was dead.

Naruto pulled me into the shadows stealthily as they walked past then stared in horror at my arm, "You're hurt!"

"I do not matter. Nothing that happens to me matters." I said in a tone that made it sound like a matter of fact.

"Of course it does!"

I shook my head and watched as the light in my palm began to grow into my mother.

That's how my mother had survived.

I had killed a star.

She now stood admiring her new beauty cackling. She did it. She had everything… or so I thought. "I'll give that boy one chance to leave now before I chain him myself." She said with a smile looking at him.

"Naruto, just go."

"No you're hurt I can't let you!"

"If you feel anything for me just go, I could not live knowing that you died because of her." A flame leaped from my finger to the candle in his palm. "Think of home." I whispered then watched as he placed his hand on my shoulder.

"I can't let you stay here with her." He whispered as his grip tightened.

"Don't!" I hissed, "She will kill you!"

"I can't let you stay because if you do then she will kill you!"

"I can… I did everything she asked… isn't she supposed to love me though now?" I whispered.

"A mother's love is unconditional. She is just a overgrown, withered hag!" he snarled.

"NARUTO! NO!" my mother turned on him finally finding the reason that she could use to kill him.

"You dare take my weapon?" she grinned as her hand sent a wave of green flames towards him but this time, not part of her body aged or withered. Only the evil in her eye grew brighter.

"You won't hurt him!" I stood and stopped as the flames stabbed into me like a sword.

It's strange. The flames became sharp pure metal and I felt everything starting to go cold… until I exploded myself in green flames and snarled.

How can you call him a moron? A voice snarled, when you force me to save you like this.

Because I would rather we died than him. I growled. I could feel the demon's blood lust running wild in my body as she was desperate to kill my mother.

You have done everything for her. Your aunts have just died and you still went. You killed someone. She threatened to kill him. I have always been there for you! I gave you strength when you had none. Now. LET. ME. TEAR. HER!

Revenge solves nothing. I gasped as the flames pulled back from my skin and Naruto kept a hand on me, we both turned to golden light.

"Mother." I reached out a hand though she was only trying to pull me back so she didn't loose her weapon.

She grinned and turned her dagger from her sleeve slashing along my eyebrow down to my chin in a crescent moon, "Now I will be able to tell you and find you."

"Mother!" I screamed and Naruto closed his eyes as we both vanished.

Everything was strange after that. I would only ever come to consciousness for a few minutes at a time. The first time I did, a blonde haired lady who had her hair back in two ponytails stood over me like how a doctor would as she looked at and dealt with my wounds.

The second time I was lay in a bed and in front of me on a smooth painted wall was a large thin box with moving pictures in… why did everything here seem so familiar. Naruto was sat to my side and I weakly managed to reach a hand out and he ran over. "It's okay. You're safe now. You're in Konoha." My eyes closed and I fell back into deep slumber.

Konoha? What did he mean? Wasn't that the name of the village from his world?

Naruto… what have you done?