AN: So I don't think I've read a story that had two people put into this animeverse, and really I'm excited to see how this story goes.
Warning: Male trying to Seduce Sasuke Uchiha, Some AU, Self-inserts, Ninja violence.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
Fate is a tricky thing, from the smallest blade of grass to the tallest sycamore tree, fate decides when and how it exists. This is the same for humans, and though everyone may not find their happy endings, fate continues to shape our lives.
But sometimes it decides to alter someone's destiny, if only for its own sense of amusement.
This time instead of one, it revised two lives, which just happened to be very different.
My name is Hinata Sohma.
My name is Shun Fujimoto.
And this is our story.
{Hinata Sohma}
I was rather disappointed in the way I died.
It was too cliché for me, don't get me wrong I very much would like to stay alive, but since the deed was already done I couldn't help but feel disappointed. Apparently though, the person that ran me over also died, and was standing beside me now as a cat informed us about our 'destiny.'
Talk about bad Karma.
But I guess I should introduce myself before I get too far ahead.
My name is Hinata Sohma and I am a normal teenage human male. That means I have two eyes, one mouth, and all four limbs. The only extraordinary thing about me was my ability to send people running for the hills because of my temper. I have one friend, and that's all I really need. With how much drama that goes around, having more than one friend would be like volunteering to speak in front of a huge crowd about the ups and downs of sexual activity. In other words it was a bad idea in my books.
If you asked a random student in the school about Hinata Sohma, they would most likely tell you some ridiculous rumor about me being in a gang and warn you to stay away. Which is wrong, I'm not in a gang, my family just happens to be Yazuka. There's a difference, believe me.
So maybe I'm not so ordinary, at least my life isn't, but I wish it was. Living under a roof with twenty other people and a father that picks on you because of your 'girlish looks' isn't exactly everyone's dream. If you're wondering about my name, my mother was the one who named me. My father had initially tried talk her out of it, but one well-earned glare made him shut-up.
My likes? Reading and solitude. Dislikes? People that make me angry, tomatoes and bees.
As for my death, it happened when I was crossing the road, obviously. One moment I was alive, happy, the next, well I wasn't.
Unfortunately for me it happened very much like the movies. I just happened to look to the side and see the car coming, cue eyes widening, my bag falling to the ground, and a sickening thud.
Like I said, Cliché.
I didn't have much time to comprehend what had happened, before a shock of pain reverberated through my body and the sound of numerous bones breaking echoed in my ears. Then thankfully my mind went black.
Next thing I knew I was having the whole 'out of body' experience, and got to watch as the paramedics scrambled around my body and the crashed car. I wasn't really bothered by all the blood and gore, growing up in a Yazuka family can do that to you, the panicking woman beside me was another story.
{Shun Fujimoto}
I'm a very unlucky, horrible person
I just ran over someone and happened to get myself killed while at it.
It was my coffees fault that it occurred, when it fell on my lap the burningohgoditburns sensation made me panic and lose control of my car. And before I knew it I ran over some boy and I became best friends with the hood of my car.
My mother was right. Seatbelts are to be worn, not sitting on the side as decorations.
I guess introductions are in order.
My name is Shun Fujimoto, and I am a manga artist in training. Like any girl, I have some boobs, a face and hair. But that was the only thing that even signified that I was of the female gender, my name certainly doesn't help matters. My life was normal, my parents bought me manga and I devoured it like a ravenous dog. I had a group of friends when I was in school, you could call the 'outcasts' of our year and they all loved manga and anime as much as I did. I excelled at art, so once I graduated school I decided to become a manga artist. It was hard, very hard but worth it all in the end. Plus I got manga half-off so I was good.
If you ask the people at my work about Shun Fujimoto, they would get a confused look on their face and say they had no clue if I was a boy or girl. I wasn't really bothered about my looks, sure I had more than my fair share of teasing and name calling, but I liked my boyish body. Now if you asked my friends, you would get a completely different answer, they would probably explain me as a cheerful individual who didn't give a crap what people thought of her.
My likes? Manga and anime. Dislikes? Spiders, pain and broccoli.
I never had the chance to have a boyfriend, or even kiss anyone, I died way too early in my life.
Most people would look at you in pity if told that you died after hitting someone with your car. But really I couldn't do much to stop it, the burning pain in my lap, the shock of hitting someone and agony of crashing through my front window and breaking my neck was too distracting.
People say that there are five stages of grief, and since I was in a whole 'out of body' experience, right then seemed like a perfect time.
Denial.
"No this did not just happen! This is just a dream, a messed up dream!"
Anger.
"Why?! Why did this happen to me?! What the hell!"
Bargaining.
"Hey God, remember me? Perhaps you could let me live, I promise to go to church every day if you do."
Depression.
"Why (sob), why did this happen to me? (hiccup) What did I do in my life to deserve this?"
Acceptance.
"Well, I guess since I died I get to go to heaven now. Preferably one with manga characters in it."
No time better than when you die to have a mental breakdown.
"Hey." I froze and slowly turned toward the voice, and almost lost it when I came face to face with a Bishonen male.
"You're the person that ran me over right?"
I nodded quickly, not trusting myself to speak.
He smiled prettily at me, and my heart almost leaped out of my throat.
"Then I hope you don't mind if I take the liberty…"
Thump
"…Of sending you to heaven myself."
I blinked confused at the sudden change of tone in his voice. "Eh?"
My heart skipped a beat, but this time in fear as his brown eyes narrowed and his face contorted into a dark glare. "I'm going to send you sky high for killing me!"
I panicked as he stomped toward me, walking backwards as fast as I could with a nervous laugh. Oh dear, it looks like I ran over the wrong person.
"Ahaha. Why don't we just settle down, if you didn't notice I'm dead as well."
He visibly twitched. "I don't see how that is any better! We shouldn't be dead in the first place!"
I paused still smiling, well he got me there.
"So you are the two unfortunate souls that Fate-sama decided to mess with."
I spun around and scanned my surroundings, building, car, cat, car, random person.
I shot a glance at the boy, inwardly chuckling at our height difference, who was staring at the cat with a confused look.
I raised an eyebrow and turned my gaze toward the cat, well it didn't look like any cat I had seen before. It was silver with red eyes and oddly enough a couple piercings on its left ear.
"What are you looking at? Never seen a talking cat before?"
{Hinata Sohma}
I snorted at the question. "Of course we haven't seen a talking cat before."
The cat flicked its tail dismissively. "No matter, it's time to go now." The cat promptly turned around and started walking away and down the road.
I assumed that it wanted us to follow, but it wasn't like we had anywhere else to go. I scowled at the thought of being made to do something before reluctantly walking forward, the girl followed soon after a confused smile on her face.
"So what's your name?" The girl asked me after a few moments.
I gave her a glance out of the corner of my eye, slightly distrustful of the woman who ran me over. She had a carefree happy look to her that didn't seem like someone who would purposely run a person over. Even if she too was dead I had grown up learning that it was dangerous to just trust someone you didn't know, but she seemed like an okay person.
"Hinata Sohma." I finally replied, mentally preparing for her laugh when she heard my name.
Instead she only smiled. "That's a nice name, mine's Shun Fujimoto."
Ah, it seems like I wasn't the only one whose parents didn't understand how to name a child.
"This is touching, really." The cat spoke up from ahead of us, her voice sarcastic. "But I need you two to shut-up for a second."
I scowled slightly at the cat's bluntness but didn't say anything, Shun didn't seem the least bit bothered and simply nodded with a smile.
"I am your Informer." The cat said ignoring the way it completely passed through a human. "And as Informers do, I need to prepare you two for your destinies."
Shun scratched her head. "But you're a cat…"
The feline snorted. "Way to be obvious, be honored that I accepted the task of Informing you two when no one else would. Your race really is one of the weaker ones."
"Are you implying that you are some sort of higher being?" I asked, crossing my arms. I hated when someone talked down to me.
"I am a talking cat."
Apparently that gave all the answers to the universe because our Informer didn't elaborate. "Great." I huffed, my fingers tapping on my arm.
"What do you mean by our destinies?" Shun questioned, her brown eyes curious.
The cat's tail twitched at the tip as it walked. "Everyone has a story they follow that is written by Fate-sama, some people are made to make a difference in the world while others not so much. Then there are a few souls that are picked out to become Travelers because Fate-sama saw something special in them. Travelers cross into another universe because Fate-sama wants to see what happens."
I felt my eyebrow twitch. "Are we by chance Travelers?"
"Correct."
"You weren't kidding when you called us unfortunate souls." Shun said, her eyes thoughtful. "Where exactly are we supposed to travel?"
The cat chuckled ominously. "Somewhere exciting."
Nothing like being destined to be lab rats when you die. "Can't we just go to heaven instead?" I offered.
"No."
After a while of walking the cat suddenly stopped and we were forced to follow suit, I highly doubted the feline would have been very happy if he accidentally stepped on her. I looked at our surrounding, a few stores were just ahead but otherwise it looked like a completely normal part of the road.
I startled when Shun made a happy noise, possibly the only 'girly' noise I had heard from her so far, and before I knew it she was gone.
I stared blankly at the place she used to be. Ninja?
"Well at least it seems that one of you will have a clue what's going on." The cat mused, her eyes trained on a brightly colored store.
I followed her gaze, my brows furrowing at the posters decorating the window. What in the world type of place was this? There was young girls dressed in odd outfits posing as if they were actual models, and brightly decorated books with large pictures on the cover seemed to completely cover the store. I was almost afraid to go in.
"Come on." The feline motioned toward me with her tail and I hesitantly followed, my eyes widening as we stepped in the store. Book cases full of the same books I had seen outside stood tall and proud, figurines of girls with ridiculously long hair smiled at me from inside glass cases and what looked like posters of guys kissing hung on the walls.
I didn't know how to react.
"Every time I come here is like I haven't come here at all!" Shun appeared as fast as she disappeared, her cheeks rosy as she held an armload of books in her arms. "It's amazing!"
I stared at her, slightly curious about what in the world was making her so excited. "Where are we?" I finally asked.
Shun froze, her eyes slowly turning to lock on mine. "You-you mean you've never been here before?" She acted like I had killed her cat and roasted it on a fire.
I shook my head. "No I have no clue what any of this is."
"E-eh?!"
The cat snorted from beside my feet. "Well this is going to be interesting. A traveler who knows everything and one who knows nothing, Fate-sama really outdid herself this time."
After motioning for Shun to put down her books the feline led us to a bookcase near the back of the store, it was just as full of books as the other ones and even had a table where even more of the books were laid on.
"I'm going to start from the beginning since Hinata is new to this." I twitched at the familiarity but otherwise didn't say anything. "These books," The cat began motioning to the whole bookstore with her paw. "Are called Manga. You could say that they are a Japanese version of comics, but they still are different."
Shun nodded in agreement, her eyes fierce. "Very different."
I raised a brow and looked down toward one of the books, it had a rather handsome blond male embracing a redhead female as they both looked down at a small baby. Curious I picked it up and opened it to a random page, the pages weren't colored but I could recognize the female as she snuggled into the baby, her face was tired and slightly dirty as tears fell from her eyes.
"Naruto..."
Shun looked over my shoulder. "I hated that part." She said, her eyes sad. "No matter how many times I read it, I always cry when his parents die."
I looked at her and then back at the book. From the looks of it, she was very connected with this story. But it made no sense..."It's just a book." I said, looking at the drawn pictures. "Its not like it's real or anything."
She sighed. "You wouldn't understand the bond that forms between a manga lover and her manga Sohma-san."
"It's good to hear that you like the manga so much." The cat spoke up, her red eyes gleaming. "Because that's where you're going to be sent."
Everything seemed to still, Shun was like a statue as she stared at the feline, her eyes wide. "W-what...?" She started to look panicked. "T-that's..."
The cat seemed to look at us with something akin to pity. "I'm not the boss, I just listen to orders."
I couldn't understand why this was such a big deal. The story didn't look too bad. "What's wrong with going here?" I asked, flipping through the pages.
Shun backed up a few paces, wiping her hands on her jeans. "You ask what's wrong?" She laughed nervously. "That manga is one of the most dangerous to be in." The brunette grabbed the book from my hands and flipped a few pages before handing it back to me.
A huge fox with nine tails was destroying a city, its large body easily towered over the buildings and crushed them with its clawed feet.
"There are things like that in the Naruto-Verse."
I stared, taking in the image. "What is it?"
Shun shifted. "He's called Kyuubi, or Nine-tails, and he's only one of the nine Bijū that the characters interact with."
This did look rather dangerous, who would want to fight something like that? Was it even possible?
"But that is just a small part of the world." Our Informer said, her tail flicking. "You couldn't even imagine how much information you would need to fully understand that world."
"If it's so dangerous why are we being sent there?" I questioned and Shun looked at the cat expectantly, as if hoping the cat would suddenly realize how not cool it was to send us to this 'dangerous' world.
The feline sighed and her ears titled back a little. "Like I said, Fate-sama is the boss and I'm just following orders."
It was silent, but everyone was tense. I still had no clue about this world, but from the panicked look Shun was wearing I couldn't help but feel dread. But I easily pushed away the fear, I was Hinata Sohma, son of a Yazuka. I grew up with people who fought amongst each other, I watched as my father fought rival Yazuka and left them on deaths door, even if this world was dangerous I wasn't going to allow myself to be ruled by fear.
"When do we go?"
{Shun Fujimoto}
I don't think anyone actually wants to be in the Naruto-Verse. It was a cold, ruthless place and while Masashi Kishimoto added humor here and there, it was undeniable that being a character in Naruto was dangerous. There were more dangerous manga, I shudder to think what it would be like to be in Shingeki no Kyojin, but being a ninja was dangerous. People could achieve the impossible, running on water, destroying a whole village with a single move, and while I enjoyed day-dreaming about being a kick-ass ninja I didn't actually want to be one.
In Naruto it was be strong, or cower behind the ninja as they fight for you. But even if you were a ninja, there was a very big chance that you would die at a young age, and if by chance you happen to be one of the powerful characters, you are almost always attacked by strong enemies. Naruto was the main character, so no way was he going to die. But us, we were most definitely killable.
There were so many things to take into account when thinking about the Naruto-Verse, so many characters you had to be careful of, so many butterfly you could step on.
"When do we go?"
At first I didn't comprehend that Hinata had spoken at all, then after a few moments my brain finally started up again. "Are you actually going to go along with this?" I asked, mentally trying to get him to understand why we should try to put up more of a fight.
He gave me a blank look, but his eyes were determined. "It's not like we have a choice, so we might as well go along with it." He replied, straightening his shoulders.
He only reached my nose, and had a fragile looking body but I could see that he was perfectly fine with going. Even if he had no idea who Naruto was.
"Very good." The cat approved, looking at my direction. "And you Shun?"
I sighed, this was beyond crazy. We were probably going to die if we accepted, but we were already dead so I guess dying again wouldn't hurt.
Well we could get tortured to death, or burned alive, or electrocuted, or have Gaara kill us with his sand coffin. So many choices...
I glanced toward Hinata, taking in his almost delicate features. While he had a hot temper, which I had experience single handedly, he reminded me of Kushina. A small body but amazing determination, but I knew that he would have a very little chance of surviving a world he knew nothing about. For goodness sake he didn't even know the world we were going to was filled with ninja!
Damn my mother instincts.
"I guess I'll go too." I half whispered, my brain already flying through what to do and what not to do. Who would have know that my life could change this much? I guess Dumbledore was right, death really is the next adventure.
"Very good." The cat stood up her eyes scanning our faces. "I will inform you on what your assignment is."
Hinata and I looked at each other and then the cat. "Assignment?" We asked simultaneously.
Our Informer gave us an amused look. "You didn't think Fate-sama was just going to drop you somewhere and allow you to do whatever you wanted to, did you?"
I gulped. Yes.
Hinata crossed his arms, a disgruntled look crossing his face but otherwise stayed silent.
The feline paced back and forth. "When you are sent to the Naruto world, you will be in different bodies and have different names." She explained. "Basically you're going to be reincarnated, but still have your memories."
I guessed that was fair, it would make sense if Hinata had to change his name since there was already someone with it in the Naruto-Verse. I didn't know how exciting being in a body that wasn't my own was going to be.
"Don't think you're going to be part of some powerful clan." The cat continued, giving me a glance. "That would just be asking for trouble. Fate-sama has found two bodies that your souls will match with, they are rather close to what you too look like right now, but there are some changes you will see once you are in them." She didn't elaborate so I guessed we were meant to figure that out ourselves. "You both have different assignments."
The cat paused her eyes glimmering with mirth. "Very interesting assignments."
I gulped.
She turned to me first. "Shun Fujimoto you will become best friends with Hinata Hyuuga, you will help her become more confident faster and be the one who she looks up to." I nodded, that wasn't going to be too hard, but her father was going to be tricky to maneuver around.
"Hinata Sohma..." The cat's eyes started to glimmer with sadistic glee, and Hinata stiffened immediately his eyes wary. "You will seduce Sasuke Uchiha, you will make sure that he thinks twice before leaving the village and becoming obsessed with power."
I choked. "S-say what?"
Hinata didn't know who Sasuke Uchiha was so he didn't really react, I almost died, again, in shock, if that was even possible.
Could an Uchiha even be seduced?
"Who is she?" Hinata asked, and I immediately felt bad for him. Poor guy was going to have to seduce someone who wanted to have millions of babies and he didn't even know it.
The feline chuckled. "He is someone who doesn't even smile much less be seduced."
The poor boy froze. "He?"
I stepped a few steps back as a menacing aura started to surround the seemingly harmless Bishonen, his face was once again formed in the dangerous look that could probably rival Kushina's when she was in Habanero mode. "You want me to seduce a guy?! Is this because of my looks?! Did you just think, 'since he looks like a girl let's pair him with a guy,' how do you even know if I like guys or not?!"
The cat was unaffected. "Too bad for you, besides Fate-sama knows everything." She said ominously, giving Hinata a pointed look.
He growled but started to calm down. "Tch!" His face turned away form the cat in irritation.
I eyed the boy, Sasuke was cold and had a rather hot temper, but perhaps he needed someone who wouldn't take his crap.
I wonder how the story would be like if Sasuke didn't end up going psycho...
"Now that's over, time to get rid of you." The cat was suddenly cheerful, her ears perked up and tail high. "Don't die too soon."
Her fur started to glow and only got brighter and brighter until we had to cover our eyes, the light was surprisingly warm and I felt like someone was embracing me.
Perhaps this won't be too bad.
Then everything went black.
AN: I hope you like it so far, reviews are always appreciated.
