I Do Not Own Naruto or Final Fantasy VII

(Naruto's Point of View)

Well, this sucks. My luck have it, I get screwed over by the worst possible fate. Despite learning how to control Kyuubi and combining its power with my own, I failed to stop Madara and Sasuke. …Well, I guess failed isn't the right term.

It turns out I succeed to an extant. Madara will never get his hands on Kyuubi now as the bastard attempted to drag both Sasuke and I to his world and Kyuubi didn't want that to happen. So instead a wormhole opened and all three of us got dragged in and separated, the three of us most likely being sent to different dimensions altogether.

But at the moment, that doesn't really matter. I have now been sent to a world much different from mine.

I guess I should have seen it coming, being thrown into a wormhole and all; but there is hardily any similarities between this world and mine. The only one is that this world has ninjas. Well, there were boats to and people spoke in a language I speak… But that is about it… I think.

Monsters roaming the country side, giant multi-colored birds are used for transportation, people use these weird orb things to get stronger and apparently people use the world's energy to have power in their homes instead of natural resources like coal and such other materials.

Now that I think about it, none of those are really that odd. Outside of those giant yellow chickens and draining the world's energy for electricity, the rest sounded like things we did in my world. I just wasn't use to things here and it was going to take a while to get adjusted while I search for a way back to my world.

To make things worse, after a few months I realized the fox was no longer within me. I know, I should have realized it was gone before but I didn't notice its presence had disappeared. How I realized it wasn't there was actually kind of humorous.

I ended up running into this weird monster that petrified me and I ended up in my mind as I did so many times when my life was in danger. Then I noticed that Kyuubi wasn't in the cage and I began to panic, thinking that it had escaped. My first reaction was that it also was separated from me when I passed through the wormhole, but I would have felt that.

Then I found odd was that there was a crimson materia, the orbs that made people stronger in this world, floating in the stagnant water. I don't know how it got there, but it left a pit in my stomach. That meant the fox was indeed in this world, I just didn't know if this orb was it or if it was free to roam around here.

Things were even stranger when I was able to bring it out of my mind and was still holding it and no longer petrified. That kind of crept me out, but I decided not to think too much on it and simply pocketed it and killed the damn monster.

I really had no use of it for now, except that things like petrifaction and the likes didn't affect me. While I didn't understand how everything in this world worked, I kind of figure that would be useful.

"Well, at least I don't have to worry about the Akatsuki in this world." I chirped, trying to make myself feel a little better as I roamed around, looking for anyway back to my world.

It really didn't work. I missed everyone back home. I just hope there is a way back. But now it has been more then twenty years and I've realized something.

It is going to take more then hope to get me back to my world.

(Naruto's Point of View End)

"It is beautiful, isn't it?" Aeris hummed as she worked in her garden inside the chapel, liking to spend most of her time here.

Naruto smiled and nodded as he looked at the variety of the flowers. Aeris really did a green thumb as he had long thought that it was impossible to grow plants within Midgar, especially in the slums. "I would say. I just still don't understand why you don't sell them for more then a gil as you could get more."

Aeris simply shook her head as she continued tending to the flowers. "Now that wouldn't be right. It isn't hard for me to grow these, so there is no need to charge more. …Besides, while my mother appreciates the money, it isn't why I do this you know?"

"Yeah, I know. You do it to enrich people's lives." Naruto responded as he sat down in a pew before lying down and closing his eyes. "Wake me if anything happens or if the Turks show up again so I can deal with them."

Looking up and seeing Naruto was going to take a nap, Aeris bit her lip as she forced a frown. Standing up and moving towards him, she placed her hands on her hips as she looked down at him. "Oh, some bodyguard you are. Taking a nap in the middle of the job."

"Hey, I take naps in all my jobs. I've even taken a nap while fighting some monsters. You know what happened? They ran off, hoping I wouldn't wake up and finish them off." Naruto commented as he kept his eyes firmly shut, not going to look at Aeris as he knew she was putting on her best pouting face.

She was good at those. That was how she hired him in the first place!

Indeed Aeris was using that face before she started to laugh. While she only had known Naruto for a few weeks since she hired him to guard her, he was always humorous and had a lot of good stories to tell. She had a hard time believing a lot of them, but nonetheless they were funny. "Oh, so when was this?"

"A few years back when I was training my pupil. She just stole all of my materia and I was chasing her when these freaking dragon creatures came out of no where and tried to petrify me. They failed horribly and since I had stayed up the whole week before and had been running for a while, I was extraordinarily tired." Naruto began as he went back down memory lane, not that it was too long ago.

"So I used a fear technique of mine and scared them half to death before passing out on my feet. The next thing I know is when I awoke, my pupil was watching over me before bragging that she chased them off. Seeing that she is a compulsive liar, I'm pretty sure they just ran off." Naruto finished up as he chuckled as he knew his pupil was very boisterous, reminding him much of himself when he was young.

Hearing Aeris join him as she laughed lightly, Naruto shook his head and opened his eyes to see Aeris had taken a seat next to him. "I see, so what happened to her?"

"Eh, I left her in the wilderness for a survival test. I've been meaning to check up on her, but I'm sure she's fine after everything I've taught her. Besides, I left her in an area were the monsters are not very strong." Naruto answered as before yawning as he sat up and stretched his arms. "So are you ready to leave or do you want to go somewhere?"

"I've just got a little bit more to do. …And I figured we could get something to eat before you take me home, if those guys don't show up again." Aeris responded softly as she really wanted to pay back Naruto for all he had done for her so far.

When she met him, he accidentally tripped her and her flower basket was trampled over by the people walking around them. Naruto of course apologized and asked if there was a way to repay her, as if he knew the flowers were precious to her. It just happened the guys in the suits arrived and she asked for him to guard her.

And Naruto did just that, easily fending them off when they were cornered and safely returning her home. Yet he arrived the next day to make sure she was still okay. She was sure he was just being courteous and said she was fine and went on her way but ran into the suits later in the day. But Naruto was there to help her again.

The difference was Naruto warned them he wouldn't hold back and when they still tried to kidnap her, he completely decimated them. While he didn't kill them, she was sure there was a lot of broken bones and internal bleeding after he was done.

After they retreated, Aeris asked if he was following her and he admitted he was, but he had verbally agreed that he would be her guard and he didn't leave till a job was done. She felt indignant that he was following her and told him off that she didn't need him to guard her anymore until he explain who the men were coming after her were.

Aeris eventually agreed to him guarding her, mainly because he would whether or not she wanted him to, and worked out a way to pay him. She let him sleep in their spare room and he was fine. The main reason for that being that he didn't want to fork over the gil to stay in an inn.

There was also the fact that he was good company and her mother liked him as he kept a lot of suitors from hitting on her, which a lot of people were doing lately. He was very convincing…

"That's fine. It has been a while since I hurt them, so they might come back if they didn't get my message. Though I doubt they'll stop. The Turks don't give up, so I know they'll keep coming after you. It is their job, after all." Naruto responded as he stood up and tilted his head side to side to stimulate his neck.

Nodding, Aeris had just passed Naruto when he suddenly grabbed her by the waist and pulled her back, just behind him. "What…?"

A loud crack sounded through the entire chapel before debris of the building began to fall. Then a body plummeted and hit the ground, right in the middle of her flower garden.

Aeris immediately ran over to the body that fell through the roof to see it was a young man with blonde spiky hair, similar to Naruto's but with more pronounced spikes and one that just stood out more then the others. Gazing over him, she wasn't really an expert on injuries but she had a good feeling that he was hurt and turned to Naruto.

Naruto, however, was simply looking through the roof whole with a slightly askew mouth that was grimacing as he looked down at the downed man. "Fuck… What kind of body does this guy have? He fell from the plates above, went through a roof and has the luck to land on the only grass patch in Midgar? And he didn't even bruise? What the hell? I mean damn… That is like a couple hundred feet at least, right? …Right?"

Needless to say Naruto was clueless and just spouting off whatever was coming to his mind. The bright side was that he gave her a make-shift report on his status. He was okay, somehow, and that meant they could move him if he wasn't going to wake.

But the thing was he was already beginning to show signs of regaining consciousness, which was sending Naruto off into a whole new rant with one word that caught her attention. "What the…? Come on! Really, this guy is already gaining conscious? What is he, a modified version of a SOLDIER?"

SOLDIER. That brought back a lot of memories. But she didn't really have the time to think about them as it seemed he had awoken and slowly began to sit up. "Are you okay? You took quite a nasty fall."

"Nasty is an understatement." Naruto grumbled as he took a step back, seeing the guy was alright. He wasn't too young so he couldn't call him kid yet at the same time he wasn't old enough to be called a man. So guy worked until he learned a name as he really didn't like using teen or young man as they just sounded weird…

Ignoring Naruto's grumblings as he was still stuck on him not even being scratched from such a fall, Aeris smiled brightly at the blonde in purple as he looked at her. "I'm fine… I've been hurt a lot worse then this. …Wait, I remember you? You were that girl I bought the flower from yesterday."

While Naruto tilted his head, trying to remember the events of yesterday as it was kind of hectic with AVALANCHE taking out a reactor, Aeris smiled and nodded as she immediately remembered him. It wasn't his face or even his hair she remembered, it was his eyes. They had the same glow as he did…

Shaking that thought out of her head, Aeris stood up before taking a step back and grimacing as she began to see the damage he had caused. "Yeah, I'm Aeris and this is my guard, Naruto."

"And you kind of fell and still are sitting in her flower garden." Naruto blandly commented as he looked down at the other blonde, crossing his arms as he tried to appear more like a bouncer, a job he had been doing a lot of lately as it was good money.

Looking down, the other blonde immediately jumped up and out of the small garden in the center of a church. "Sorry about that… Um, I'm Cloud. …Is there anything I can do to repay you?"

"This is starting to look familiar…" Naruto started before Aeris hushed him as she clearly knew what he meant by that.

Aeris simply smiled as she held her hands behind her back as she tilted side to side. "You could walk me home after I fix everything up here. These flowers are quite resilient because this is a sacred place, so it won't be hard to recover them."

Seeing that it was rather reasonable, Cloud nodded. "Sure, but may I ask why? You do have a bodyguard."

"Oh, it isn't that I doubt his abilities, after all he has already saved my life a few times." Aeris responded as she began to tend to the flowers in the area, seeing which ones she could salvage and which ones she would turn to mulch so the others could grow better. "I just wanted to walk home with you. …Your remind me of someone."

While Cloud tilted his head at Aeris before nodding, Naruto frowned. He had learned in the last few weeks that she had a boyfriend that had been a part of SOLDIER. A look into his fellow blonde's eyes clearly told him he was a SOLDIER, so it was possible she was reminded him of her boyfriend.

Deciding not to take this too seriously as Aeris was very kind and trusted almost anyone at first glance, Naruto turned from them before and began to walk to the door way before he stopped and groan. "We have more company coming, Aeris. This time not friendly."

"Alright, just let me finish up here and we'll be out of here." Aeris responded as she fixed up her garden while Cloud walked over to Naruto hearing there could be trouble.

Just then a man with spiky red hair that was so awkward that it made Cloud's and Naruto's look normal walked into the entrance of the chapel and sighed. He had a feeling the blonde that sent them packing would still be with her, but they had prepared for him. Now there was someone new.

Cloud immediately recognized the man thanks to his outfit as only one organization wore a simple black suit. "Shit! What are the Turks doing here?"

Ignoring him for the moment, Naruto pulled out a scroll before releasing a staff and tossed it behind him to Aeris, who easily caught it as she stood up, finished with her work. "They've been chasing me for a while… I'm sorry, but may I ask for you help escape? I rather not fight today."

As Cloud nodded, Naruto took a step backwards before tilting his head that way. "There's a room in the back and a set of stairs. Thanks to your entrance, you just created a way to escape at the top."

"I don't think so." The Turk responded as he pulled out a pistol and aimed straight for Naruto, not wanting him to even get close as three soldiers entered the chapel behind him. "We're going to take the girl one way or another."

Shaking his head as people had a tendency to threaten him with guns, Naruto grinned making Aeris realize what was about to happen as she spoke and snapped her eyes shut. "Cloud, close your eyes!"

Suddenly two tags at the entrance of the chapel went of, bathing the entire room in a bright light and blinding all those that could not close their eyes fast enough.

Naruto led Aeris, who was leading a staggering Cloud as he rubbed his eyes furiously, to the back room. Not hesitating, he jumped the gap before turning back to Aeris and Cloud. Cloud easily made the jump, not being too horribly affected by the flash as he managed to close his eyes and turn away before he got the full dosage.

Aeris, however, was a little apprehensive as she didn't exactly have the same capacity as they did. Her hesitation nearly cost her as the solider, who apparently had shades on as did the Turk, were able to recover quickly and chased them into the room just as Aeris made the jump.

Quickly forming three clones that scaled the roof quickly and made it to the support beams, Naruto hurried Aeris up the stairs with Cloud as they began shooting at them before covering her and ducking to avoid the bullets. "Why in the hell are they shooting? Damn idiots…"

Just then, three barrels suddenly rolled off the support beams and struck each soldier shooting, shattering on impact and knocking them out cold.

Surprised at what happened, Cloud didn't let it affect his judgment as he quickly stood up and made it to the support struts with Naruto and Aeris behind him. Seeing the hole he created from falling in and that he somehow didn't hit the rafter right underneath it and destroy it, he jumped out with Aeris following.

Naruto, however, stopped before sticking his tongue out and blowing a raspberry at the Turk below. "So sorry for foiling you again, Reno! Maybe next time, huh?"

Down below, the Turk known as Reno simply twitched at Naruto's action before flipping him the bird as he followed his target and left through the hole in the church, blending in with the background like a chameleon. Damn he hated that blonde… Why didn't President Shinra just pay him to help them again as it was simply easier when he was on their side?

Looking at the three soldiers he knocked out, Reno groaned as he rubbed his temple. "Goddamn him… How am I suppose to explain what happened this time? …I need a drink."

"Hey, wait up!" Aeris yelled out as Cloud made each jump from roof to roof look easy. Obviously it wasn't as Aeris had to take her time to make sure she made it, sometimes having to make a running jump just to barely land on the edge.

Stopping and turning to Aeris, waiting for her, Cloud began looking around as he noticed Naruto was no longer there. "What the… Where did Naruto go?"

Jumping besides Cloud, Aeris shrugged her shoulders as she knew Naruto was watching them, more specifically her. "Oh he's around, that much I am sure of. He's just giving us space as I asked you to walk me home."

"How can you be so sure? I mean he could be working with the Turks…" Cloud started to question before Aeris silenced him.

"He's worked for them before as he's admitted that to me, but once he gives a vow he won't break it no matter what. That's how I know he won't betray me. And to how I know he is around, I've seen him literally disappear right before my eyes yet still be around if I need him." Aeris interrupted as she trusted Naruto completely.

While Cloud wasn't entirely convinced, he would go along with it as she seemed to have confidence in him. Besides, it really didn't matter that much to him. Aeris seemed like a nice person and he didn't really want to see someone like her hurt.

"Hey, do you have any materia?" Aeris suddenly asked him, making cloud nearly double over as he hadn't expected that question.

"Yeah, mostly everyone does nowadays thanks to the Shinra Corporation as they give people the ability to use spells like fire, lighting and even cure." Cloud responded as he showed her a Fire Materia he had with him before putting it up.

Nodding as that was true, especially seeing Naruto's collection, Aeris gripped her necklace and showed Cloud a small orb of materia. "Well, you see I have this white one and it is rather special. It does absolutely nothing. I even gave Naruto it for a while to see if he could use it and he couldn't do anything with it."

Looking mildly surprised at that, Cloud nodded as he examined it for a moment. "That doesn't mean it is useless. It still might be good for something, but you just don't know what it is. There is probably someone out there that knows how to use it."

Aeris shook her head as put her necklace back where it was. "If there was anyone that knew how to use it, it would be my mother. She was the one that gave it to me… But even if it doesn't do anything, it makes me feel safe."

Understanding that feeling, Cloud almost smiled as he examined Aeris. "Hm, something bugs me. …Why would the Turks be chasing you? While they are a jack of all trades, they are normally used to scout for possible candidates for SOLDIER. And while I don't know you too much, I doubt they want you for the SOLDIER program."

"Naruto's already told me as much, but yeah it is kind of weird. I don't know why they are chasing me but I do know I don't want to be caught by those people if it turns out they want me for something really bad." Aeris responded as she placed her hands behind her back and tilted her head at him as she wiggled side to side.

While most people would see this action as cute, or some sort of erotic dance, Cloud shook his head as he was all but immune to it. After all, Tifa made pretty much any guy immune to getting charmed. At first look she was a looker, but the next she was knocking your lights out for checking her out…

"Alright, let's get going. They might try and follows us. …Where are we anyways?" Cloud commented as he looked around, not entirely sure where he was as he had never been to this part of Midgar.

"Oh, we're in Sector Five." Aeris answered before lining up her jump to the next roof top and landing directly on it, stumbling a little as she lost her balanced.

Shaking his head, Cloud followed suit and passed her as he jumped from house to house before using some of the junk laying around in the slums to get to the ground. That was when Aeris shouted at him. "Slow down… I'm not exactly the active type you know."

"Well, at least we know now they aren't after you to be a SOLDIER." Cloud joked around as he found it rather humorous that she ran out of breath so quickly.

Aeris simply huffed at him as she caught her breath and turned away indigently. Then her face dropped slightly as the thought that had been bugging her came back. "Cloud… Were you ever part of SOLDIER?"

"Yes, at one point I was. How did you know?" Cloud responded as he was very surprised that she was able to identify that he was once a SOLDIER. Sure other people knew, but that was because he told them he was.

Turning back to him, Aeris simply looked into his eyes, seeing the unearthly glow within them. "It's your eyes. They glow just like his did…"

Now seeing how she immediately knew he was a part of SOLDIER, as the eyes were dead give-aways, Cloud was actually curious about whom this guy was. "Yeah, the glow in our eyes is a sign that we've been infused with Mako, marking us as SOLDIERS. …But it sounds like you knew one of us. Maybe I know him?"

Shaking her head, as Aeris didn't want to talk about that anymore and wished Naruto would intervene on their privacy now, she sighed before beginning to walk forward. "Come on. My home isn't too far from here and it is getting late. I bet my mom is getting worried."

Following her, they passed by a small residential area with a few people living there before arriving at a lone house. Cloud's jaw dropped as it seemed plant life was growing plenteously throughout the entire area. Not only did the garden where Aeris' grew her flowers, the plant life around where she lived grew. Did her presence just cause plants to grow?

Laughing at Cloud's reaction, Aeris shook her head before inviting him inside, holding the door open. "Thank you for walking with me… You can come on in and rest for a little while if you want. I'm sure my mother won't mind too much."

Slowly recovering from the sight, Cloud followed Aeris into her home as Aeris ran in and loudly announced her arrival. "Mom, I'm home and I brought a friend!"

A brown haired woman in her forties came walking down the stairs wearing simple clothing with an apron, possibly because she was cleaning. "I see that. Where is Naruto?"

"I'm right here!" Naruto boisterously announced, suddenly appearing besides Cloud with as if he had been there the entire time. No smoke or anything. He just appeared. And the fact that he was standing on the ceiling didn't help anything.

Cloud nearly screamed as he jumped away from Naruto. He hadn't been that scared in years and Naruto definitely ended that streak. Looking at him, clutching his heart, Cloud yelled at him. "Where in the hell did you come from? And how are you fucking standing on the ceiling?"

"Science fiction!" Naruto stated with an amused tone as he scared the SOLDIER. He just loved messing with people like that.

"Language please… And Naruto, don't scare our guests like that." Aeris' mother commented while Aeris literally fell onto her butt, laughing at Cloud's reaction as she had planned on Naruto scaring him, hence her opening the door before inviting Cloud inside.

Naruto only chuckled as he dropped down, flipping in mid air to land on his feet. "Sorry about that Elmyra. Aeris kind of gave me the signal when she left the door opened and made that invitation signal."

"Don't drag me into this! I don't want to get into trouble!" Aeris screamed at Naruto, flailing around as she stated seated on the floor hearing Naruto as she just got over her fit of laughter.

Shaking her head at both her daughter's reaction and Naruto, Elmyra rolled her eyes and sighed. "What am I going to do with you two? Ever since you arrived Aeris has been more mischievous and daring, just like when her last boyfriend was around."

Seeing Aeris immediately clam up and her face go blank and Naruto grimaced, Elmyra sighed again. While she understood that was still a sore subject for Aeris as he was her last boyfriend, she just couldn't get Naruto's. He had to know something about what happened to Zack, but it wasn't her business to get involved.

Not as scared as he was before, Cloud had to wonder if her last boyfriend was the SOLDIER Aeris apparently knew. With the way they talked about him he must have passed on as SOLDIERS didn't just quit… They either deserted and managed to escape the Turks or were killed.

Deciding not the press the issue, seeing that Aeris no longer had a smile on her face, Cloud decided now would be the best time to ask for directions. "Um, miss do you happen to know how far Sector Seven is from here? I want to get back to my friend Tifa's bar."

Having her ears suddenly perk up, which kind of looked like elvin ears if you looked at them long enough, Aeris looked over at Cloud. "So, is Tifa a girl?" Seeing Cloud nod as she happened to be, she frowned as she had a feeling the next answer would be the same. "Is she… Your girlfriend?"

Thinking on that for a moment, Cloud was stumped. He really didn't know how to answer that. She was a girl that happened to be his friend and they happened to be friends since they were kids, but were they actually boyfriend/girlfriend? "Um… I guess so. I'm not really sure what to call our relationship but I guess you can say we are together."

Aeris really didn't like that answer and it showed as she was disappointed it but hid it well with a smile. "Well, that's nice to hear. So let's see, Sector Seven… Where is that again Naruto?"

"You're kidding me right? You've actually forgotten?" Naruto commented as his eye twitched at Aeris, knowing she damn well knew where it was. "If you had kept going forward when Aeris brought you to the residential area and not have turned to get here you would find a badly damaged street. Follow that and you'll end up at the entrance for Sector Seven and the Wall Market."

"Alright, so let's get going!" Aeris suddenly announced as she jumped back to her feet and was ready to walk out the door.

"Are you serious? You'll see me back there and put yourself in danger again?" Cloud responded as he was skeptical about her coming along. Naruto had given him pretty good directions as he knew exactly what he was talking of, so he was pretty sure he could get back on his own.

"Danger?" Elmyra caught that one word and immediately frowned as she turned to Naruto. "They came after her again?"

"They did but I handled them without too much violence, seeing that Aeris didn't want to see me do what I did last time." Naruto answered truthfully as Elmyra wasn't in the mood for joking now that her daughter was in danger.

Sighing, figuring as much seeing that she remembered how frightened Aeris was after Naruto had defended her the second time, Elmyra shook her head which in turn seemed to give Cloud enough reason to say no. "Sorry, but I'll be fine. After all, you would just slow me down…"

"No!" Naruto started and clapped his hand around Cloud's mouth, hoping Aeris did not hear what she had said as he knew how hard headed she would get if anyone doubted her. Unfortunately Aeris heard exactly what he said.

"I would slow you down? Is that supposed to mean something? Do you expect me to sit back here and let you go on your own after that?" Aeris responded heatedly before she turned to her mother, her anger still flaring. Mom, I'm going to take Cloud to Sector Seven. I'll be back in a while."

Elmyra would have moved to stop Aeris, but she knew there would be no stopping Aeris now. "…I would stop you, but you don't listen when you've made up your mind. …I just ask that you rest for now. It is late and it is very dangerous at night."

"I'll be fine. I have a SOLDIER and Naruto with me. I don't think any thief, rapist, serial killer or even the Turks would be bold enough to try and do anything to me with them around." Aeris responded as Naruto alone was a deterrent and add in a former SOLDIER in Cloud and well… Not many people were stupid enough to fight those two.

However, to nip this in the butt, Naruto yawned loudly as he began to walk to the stairs. "I'm not going. It is late and I want to sleep as I am tired. After all, I didn't get my morning, mid day or afternoon nap today."

As Aeris jaw dropped, Naruto having never denied her before, Cloud nodded in agreement forcing her to give up. "Fine… We'll go in the morning. Naruto! Cloud gets your bed!"

Naruto grumbled as he figured that would happen, but he would take the fall. He didn't want to go out at night simply because it was too dangerous to go out for her. For anyone outside of Cloud's capacity at the least it was not a smart idea. "I'll deal. …But I did leave the bed rather messy…"

Twitching at Naruto as he hadn't been this conniving since they had met, Aeris grumbled back as she walked up the stairs with a fit, having to fix the bed and change the sheets so Cloud could sleep there tonight.

While Elmyra didn't exactly like how Naruto handled it, she did appreciate he had sent Aeris upstairs. He knew of her last boyfriend, at least that he was a SOLDIER and knew her dislike of them.

Turning to Cloud, she sighed before looking into his eyes, seeing the same shine as she saw in Zack. "You are a SOLDIER, right?" As Cloud nodded Elmyra sighed before continued. "…I would like it if you left during the night. Aeris last boyfriend was a SOLDIER and she has never gotten over him. …I don't want to see my little girl get hurt like that again, so please leave tonight."

Cloud didn't like how he was asked to leave but he at least understood Elmira's reason. If he had a daughter, he definitely would not want to see her heartbroken. In fact, he was very sure he would find who broke her heart and break their legs if it was his girl… Unless they happened to die.

At least she wasn't saying he had to leave right now and could rest up for tomorrow. He was rather sore. "Alright, I'll leave a little before dawn."

"Thank you… It is the first door you see once you're up the stairs." Elmyra responded as Cloud began to head up the stairs, planning on getting as much rest as he could before leaving early in the morning.

But as he walked upstairs and began chatting with Aeris, Naruto only shook his head as he looked at Elmyra. "You do know when you wake that both Aeris and I will be gone, with Cloud in the morning?"

Nodding as she figured as much, knowing Aeris probably knew that she would say something like that to the SOLDIER, Elmyra sighed. "I do, but can't you refuse her just this one time?"

Naruto just shook his head before he looked up at Aeris as she now as that top of the stairs, saying goodnight to Cloud. "I can, but the thing is… She'll go out on her own and I can't let that happen. Once I've given my word, I vow to keep it."

"I will protect Aeris with all my life until the madness that is beginning to unfold ends."

Sighing at Naruto's conviction, Elmyra sighed as she began that he had never met Aeris as he was one of the few that knew what she truly was. And before she could say anything more, Aeris had walked down as Cloud entered his room for the night. "Naruto, you can sleep in my room with me if you promise if you won't do anything funny."

Trying not to laugh at the mock/serious face Aeris was giving him; Naruto bit his lip as this look was almost as bad as her puppy dog look. "I do, but it is up to your mom if she trusts me enough not to do anything."

Not entire glad that she was brought into this, despite knowing she should be worried that a guy would be sleeping in Aeris' room with her, Elmyra sighed before nodding. "I trust you entirely, Naruto. …I'm more worried about her trying something then you doing so."

"Hey!" Aeris suddenly yelled out, not liking what her mom said. "Why do you think I would be more likely to do something like that then he would be?"

"Because," Her mother explained with a small smile on her face, "It would go against his word and you know as well as I do that he never breaks his word."

Aeris tried to find her voice so she could snap back but she couldn't. Her mother put up a very valid point. Once Naruto promised something, he would not break his vow even if it meant certain death especially after hearing all the stories he had told her. He was something rare as not many people were as dependable as he was.

Shaking her head, Aeris slowly turned and walked back up the stairs with Naruto trailing before arriving at her door. "The bed's mine. You get to sleep on the floor."

"Who said anything about a floor?" Naruto commented as he closed the door behind her, scaring Aeris half to death thinking that he might actually break his promise.

Naruto simply grinned at her before he walked up one of the wall of her bedroom before lying down on the ceiling. "After all, you got a perfectly good ceiling to use."

Aeris face faulted. She should have known…

A/N: Yeah, I know. A new story. …I just finished playing seven, give me a break! What? What do you mean you won't? Come on, that isn't even fair! …I hate you.

The opening scene is still very much up for change as I don't exactly like it that much, but it is at least reasonable compared to some of the other ways out there. We do know Madara has his own little world when he fazes out of existence and maybe, just maybe, if enough power is put into it(perhaps Kyuubi's power) there is a chance it could become a wormhole to other dimensions or even worlds.

The pairing, for those that are interested, is Naruto/Aeris(Aerith if that's how you like it, I'm going with the way it was spelled in the game). If you don't like it… FUCK YOU! …Not really, as I respect all my readers opinions, but that is the final pairing. I actually like Yuffie more as she reminds me of Rikku, but Aeris is a better match for the design of this story.

As for Aeris' personality, I've always seen her as a gentle soul, but there is just more to her then that. She is a free spirit, not free with her body obviously, and genuinely cares for everyone. I see her as outgoing and playful but at the same time serious and not a joker. Hell, I can't even begin to describe her as she simply, at least from how I see it, one of the most complex characters I've seen, at least in a video game.

Also, just to state this, Naruto is like thirty-eight yet he still looks like he's twenty-four, twenty-five. I haven't really thought on why this is, but it will probably be because of the Kyuubi Materia. The only reason I'm not sure is I'm not even sure what I want the Kyuubi Materia to be yet. A summon, its chakra, regeneration and eternal youth, etc… I might even take a vote on it as I'm just not sure.

Now for entertainment purposes, and experimental ones, I've allowed my little brother, Clyde the Nightmare, to do the Omakes for this story. Well, at least most of them. There will be a few that are all me. However, to point out he is using the actual story line of Final Fantasy VII for most of these without Naruto being involved… For most.

Now take a gander, if you dare…

OMAKE - Reno Goes To Church

By: Clyde the Nightmare

It began as just another day for Reno. Wake up, get his mission from a superior and then get drunk. So far, so good. That was until the mission was made clear where he had to go. Church.

Reno walked with the sober soldiers out of 'Tifa's Heaven', disappointed that there was no sake to drink. "Crap, why the hell are we so late! We were supposed to get to the church at eleven. Steve, why did you have to play that damned pinball game for thirty minutes!" Asked the hangover-afflicted Reno.

"Umm… sir, you were the one at the pinball game." Retorted the innocent Steve.

"Everyone's against me." Complained the sober Reno. "Wait a second… aren't we trying to capture that flower girl? Hell, she gave me a really good… umm, never mind."

"Sir, we have arrived at the destination!" Announced one of the soldiers.

"Ow… F&%K, why did you yell? I'm right here and I know where the hell we are going." Replied Reno as they went in. "I'll give the church atmosphere a four out of ten and I'll give the spiky blonde a seven out of ten for breaking through the roof. As for the brunette, I give a ten out of ten for not singing 'It's Raining Men'."

"SHIT, hey blondie… if you wake up and stop this guy from capturing me, I'll do things you couldn't imagine…. Just not sexually."

"Why the hell does everyone run? Why can't women run TO me instead." Thought the spiky-haired redhead as he ran through a garden in the middle of the church. "Could you at least run slowly, you're gonna get caught and attempted to be bred with a wolf-thing anyway. Just come down after getting shot at."

"Are you a negotiator because you suck at talking to people? You'd have a better chance of getting stuck at the bottom of the ocean while a Meteor is going to impact Midgar. Just quit chasing us and eat a barrel!" Yelled the blonde ex-SOLDIER.

"OWW, why did you throw a barrel at me! Are you a son of Donkey Kong? Seriously, how about I try to get that brunette down here by firing live ammunition? It doesn't sound smart, but it works." Responded the pissed-off Turk.

"Try and catch us, Ka-diddle-hopper!" Cried the renegade blonde fighter.

"I swear, if that blonde ever calls me a Ka-diddle-hopper again, I will hire a silver-haired pretty-boy to stab that brunette at the most inconvenient time, in the most inconvenient place. SON OF A B%$&, GOD D&#$#, I WILL MAKE YOU EAT S#%!&%%!&#!&#$!%#&!$%#!$$#%!%#!&#%!#&%&!$%#$%&!$#&$&$!&$&#$&!$#%&#&%#&$!&%#&%$#." Cursed the furious Reno.

The swears continued for so long that the church was now about as holy as a frat boy toilet seat used by the Devil.

OMAKE END

Well, that was that. Not bad actually, but give some honest feedback on it as I am kind of bias. I'm his brother after all.

Now, just as I do at the end of all of my author notes, if you have any questions that I missed or just want to drop in and say hi just leave a review. If flames are left for me, I will report the a-hole if possible and if not, I'll frame the person's post for all to see in my next chapter and rip on you, you jack asses. FYI, I don't consider criticism a flame, and in fact encourage it, just keep it clean and not utterly insulting as that is just low.

Also, if it seems like I did more work on this A/N then the story… You might just be right… Not. Peace Out.