A/N: Yes a new story, but this one is like Steel Angels and a Blonde and is to help me to relax and write some of my harder and more rewarding works (Way of the Jinchuuriki, Power or Three, etc...). Not much else to say but I hope you enjoy the chapter.

I Do Not Own Naruto or Final Fantasy VI

(Naruto's Point of View)

So many years have past and death has not taken me. I watched all my friends die, whether it was through battle or old age. As I watched them die, have children; watch their children die something struck me.

I couldn't die.

No matter what was done to me, I could no longer know if I can die. The fox made sure I would live forever so that he could live forever, cursing me with the ill-ridden fate of watching those who I cherish most die while I stay forever young. I could no longer take it and secluded myself from the rest of the world and watched as it changed.

In a little less then a millennium after I went into seclusion, the world had forgotten about ninjas and what they could do and had become a normal race, hell bent on devolping technology.

Then they found the summons, which had begun to change over the time they hadn't been summoned. They were now known as Espers with the ability to use magic. At first they seemed to share a certain symbiosis with another as they worked to the same goal. Espers even began blessing humans they found worthy with magic.

But there was one thing I learned about humans, they are a greedy race and always want more. We betrayed the Espers and began harvesting them for their magical abilities, wishing to have them for ourselves. This began a war between humanity and the Espers which ultimately gave birth to the Warring Triad that had the power to keep the planet alive or destroy it.

…The weapon that Pein had been so hell bent on trying to create. And it was used for the purpose that bastard ultimately wanted it to be used for.

The world had practically ended and most of humanity and Espers alike had been wiped out. Those who survived began to repopulate the earth while the surviving espers created a new world for their own and left humanity to soak in the sorrow it had caused. I did my part to see that they safely left here while helping the remaining humans rebuild and remember the ways of the old.

Soon as humanity was back on its feet, I left once more and watched from a distance. But it was then when I found an old friend still have family left after all this time.

While I was surprised, I really shouldn't have been as it seemed his family had a knack of finding ways to survive with few to a single clansman left. Determined to help them as I was unable to save him, I began to teach them the ways of the ninja and once they had mastered what I taught them, I left them as my job was finished but I kept an eye out for them just in case.

Almost a thousand years had passed this I last spoke to them and the world was in chaos once more.

A country in the south ocean had begun to gain power in a hurry and began invading its neighbors, easily defeating them and annexing the land as their own. At first I didn't think much of it as there would always be countries that wanted more power then they had.

But when I learned of their attentions when they left their continental island to invade the continents to the north, I paid more attention.

It was during this time I learned that the gate between our world and the world of the espers had reopened. While I was worried that we would repeat the same mistakes as we first did, I found out a human woman fell in love with one of the espers and ended up having a child. While it baffled me how it was possible, I continued with my seclusion until news that the Empire had tried to invade their lands reached my ears.

I rushed to the island in a hurry only to find the cave had been sealed away by a powerful magic and a dying woman on the bridge between. As she was dying, she noticed me and I took her to my residence and tried to nurse her back to health.

I was never the best healer, so it wasn't surprising that I was unable to do anything then prolong her life for a few days. But in those days I learned she was the woman that had fallen into the Espers' world and had just given birth to the half breed child. As she died on my bed, she thanked me for doing what I could and asked a favor of me and I promised her that I would see it through as I did not go back on my word.

Heading back to the Empire, I searched for any traces of her child. It took me a while, but I had learned that Emperor Gestahl himself had taken custody of her. I quickly infiltrated the main fortress of the Empire. Sometimes I wish I hadn't as I had learned what they were truly doing.

They were draining espers of their magic, killing them to gain their strength. It made me sick to my stomach at what they were doing but it was worse as they were even implanting just born children with magiteck. The most gifted were given high seats in their army while the ones that failed were turned into frontline soldiers. It made me sick, but there was nothing I could do for now.

I never found young Terra within the walls, so I headed else where to try and find her. Years past, but I continued my search for the child but every lead I found of her led to another dead end. The Empire was able to cover up their tracks pretty well and I was determined to put a stop to that knowing what they were doing.

I gave the info I had learned about them to a man known as Banon and he quickly gain support for a rebellion against the rising empire called the Returners. It was cheep of me to get someone else do my work, but I needed to stay focused if I was to find the girl.

But when I finally tracked her down, she was seventeen, brainwashed and controlled by Gestahl before the Returners got a hold of her.

To my surprise, they saw her not as a Magiteck Elite but a trump card that could even their odds against the Empire. I continued watching her for a while and even sent my pet to test her strength when they were heading to Narshe with Banon. She was quite capable on her own and her powers were growing everyday. Then it happened when she spoke to the frozen Esper.

Her Esper blood awoke and she went berserk. Luckily, she killed none of her friends before flying off with nearly unmatchable speeds. Even I couldn't keep up with her after a while but with her scent, I quickly tracked her down near Zozo.

She was severely frightened, not sure what had happened to her. I had expected it as the power she had activated would frighten any normal person. Calming her down, I took her to my place at the top of the inn and took care of her.

That was when the frozen Esper found me and instantly recognized me as the Ancient One. Just as he arrived, so did the party that was traveling with Terra. He took the credit as I hid from view as I couldn't let anyone know about my existence. Thankfully, Ramuh did not reveal me to any of them.

Seeing that she was in good hands after they resolved to take down the Empire, I stayed away and went back into seclusion as I believed my promise to be held out even if I had not been the one responsible for her well being.

I should never had stayed away as things had become out of hand. The Empire had succeeded in resurrecting what I had long feared. The Floating Continent and the Warring Triad had been revived and the world essential ended once more due to that back stabbing clown.

It was this even that forced me to act. I could no long sit back idly and let these things happen as I had done in the past. I was going to have to protect this planet myself but I couldn't do it alone.

Well I could honestly do it on my own, but I've grown fond of looking up at the clouds and reminiscing. Besides, this world had to have its own group of heroes. I would only help them out along the way.

…Unfortunately I had to find them first. Damn this sucks, but lets stick with the easiest solution first. I've been avoiding a promise for far too long and its time to make good on it. Mobilz, here I come. Now where is Ultros when I need him?

(Naruto's Point of View End)

"Damn squid…" Naruto mumbled under his breath as he walked onto the beach after running over a hundred miles in open ocean water. "When I find him, I'm going to give him the beating of his life… But at least he'll have a few good pranks to tell me about after it's done."

Shaking his head, Naruto took a look at his surroundings and sighed. He was quite sure he was near the town of Mobilz, but he was one hundred percent sure as the continents were ripped asunder and nothing was the way it was before.

Lasting land marks were the only clue for the blonde and they were hard to come by as a lot were destroyed with the clown destroyed the world. He was guessing, but he was also hoping that the green haired half blood was still there as she was there when he last checked.

"Nah, she wouldn't abandon all those kids." Naruto told himself as he headed towards the direction he believed the village to be.

It didn't take him long to arrive and see the horrific damage that had occurred to town the last time he had been there. His senses began tingling as he knew something was up as this wasn't Kefka and the Warring Triad's work.

A fiend and a powerful one at that was to blame for this damage. Sniffing the air, the stench of blood filled his nostrils before shaking his head. Most of it was old and decayed but a newer and far more fresh blood scent caught his attention.

Finding the blood trail, Naruto quickly picked up the track. While it wasn't her scent, it was that of a young child and he knew Terra was protecting the children in this village from any harm she could.

He stopped at the corpse of a Doberman pinscher. Looking at the wounds carefully and the way the blood was flowing, he took of as the wounds were even fresher then the blood at the village meaning he was close.

With his speed, he quickly caught up a young child, a girl around eight years old, as she was being dragged away by a Luna Wolf. While the scene was gruesome on its own, he calmly assessed the situation as he had seen far worse deaths and far younger children die before.

Knowing that the best thing he could do was to frighten it to release the girl; he slowly accepted some of the fox's chakra into his system. He immediately could tell the wolf had noticed him and was afraid as unlike humans, fiends could feel the aura of stronger foes and did their best to avoid the apex predators.

And in this case, the wolf knew he was dealing with an apex predator. It wisely released the girl and backed away as Naruto advanced upon him and faster then it could react, he drove a kunai into its skull ending its life instantly as he ripped it out, splattering some of its blood onto him.

Creating a no seal shadow clone to harvest the meat, Naruto turned to the young girl and checked upon her condition. Her wounds were grave, but not life threatening if he could stop the bleeding. Still, she needed medical treatment and quickly after he was finished.

Wishing he had listened to Tsunade and taken some medical lessons, he pulled out a needle, styptic and some stitching wire before slowly beginning to stitch up her heavier wounds and applying some of the styptic to lighten the bleeding as he did so.

As he was finishing with the last of the major wound, he heard loud barking from large dogs not to far from his position. Catching the scent, he knew they were Dobermans like the one he found dead finding this girl. He also knew his target was with them as well so everything was working better then he thought. She would be coming to him and he got a free meal thanks to the dead wolf. His luck seemed to be turning.

Wrapping the bandage over his last stitch, he didn't even look up as Terra and a brown haired man that looked like he had seen better days. "You're late, Terra. The girl would be dead if I hadn't been searching for you."

Terra froze as this complete stranger knew her name and she had never met him until just now. Something was wrong with this entire situation and she felt as if she needed to run. But at the same time his presence was familiar but she couldn't quite place where she had felt it before.

But he had just saved young Riza's life and she was grateful for that so she would give him the benefit of the doubt. Taking a look at the injured girl, she noted that he was telling the truth before frowning as she noticed a doppelganger picking the meat off the wolf.

"Duane, take Riza home and have Katarin tend to her minor wounds. She should be okay." Terra spoke in an eerily calm voice as she stood up and kept her eye on the blonde haired shinobi, not trusting him but wanting to know why he knew her name.

Duane would have argued in any normal situation but seeing Riza and having lost one of his hounds, he gingerly picked up the silver haired girl before nodding to the young half blood. "Don't be too long. It may show up again."

Naruto quickly picked up on the it and knew it was a large fiend that had attacked Mobilz. However, he said nothing as he created another clone to start a fire as he pulled out a scroll and drew a cauldron from within it. He could feel that she was slightly shocked by the act but recovered almost immediately as if she had seen someone use the same trick before. "Hmp, Sasuke pull the same trick in front of you before?"

"Sasuke?" Terra questioned as she knew of no one with that name and was beginning to question if this man was truly looking for her or another Terra.

Rolling his eyes as he forgotten that he didn't go by that name ever since his best friend had died, Naruto placed the cauldron over the fire his clone had started before pouring water from his canteen into it before having his clone go refill it and do it over again until there was enough for broth.

Turning his attention back to the green haired half blood, he pulled out a cloth before wiping the wolf's blood of him and then his kunai. "Shadow then. I forgot he hasn't used his real name in a long time."

Terra frowned at the blonde as he seemingly knew the ninja that she had been traveling with. Then again, she never saw Shadow's face and this could in fact be him.

Seeing this thought through the gleam of her eyes, Naruto shook his head. "I am not Shadow if that is what you're thinking. I merely trained his family in the arts of being a ninja long ago."

This put her off even more then before as she was once more at the conclusion that she didn't know who this was. But more importantly, she knew Shadow was at least nearing middle age and this blonde haired man looked no older then her.

Something was off about this whole situation and she was ready to leave him be." Then who are you and what do you want with me?"

Naruto sighed softly as he could tell that she was becoming agitated and decided to get on with it. "It's simple actually. This world is in peril and needs heroes to step out of the ashes and bring an end to this madness. You and your friends fit that bill and I'm going to gather all of you back together so we can bring that damn clown down."

Terra froze once more as his words reached her ears. He wanted her to leave and pick up where she left off before Kefka had tore the world asunder. Glaring coldly at the blonde, she shook her head. "I will not do what you ask and leave these children. These children need my help my then they do. My friends can do what I cannot…"

As she trailed off the end, Naruto gave her a flat stare as he picked himself off of the ground. "You're afraid."

Without second though, Terra had attempted to back hand the blonde for his words but he simply vanished.

Her heart skipped a beat as she felt the cold metal blade against the back of her neck. The world became absolutely silent that she could hear the sweat began dripping from her brow.

It was his voice that broke the deafening silence. "You can deny it all you want, but you are afraid. …But you're not afraid of Kefka. You fear your own power."

Feeling the metallic blade pulled away from her neck, she slowly turned to see he wasn't there before she felt him right behind her as he whispered into her ear. "And it is alright to be afraid of your self. It's natural to feel fear but it is only an emotion. …You must put your fears aside otherwise they will overwhelm you and take over your life."

Her body trembled lightly before he placed his hands on her shoulders. As she slowly began to relax, she began to realize where she had felt his presence before. She turned back to him and gave him a sharp look. "Who exactly are you?"

Naruto chuckled as he released her before walking over to his kettle and began to stir the soup his clones had finished while he was dealing with her. Taking a test taste of the soup, he smiled before looking back at her. "I am Naruto Uzumaki, a friend of your mothers."

"You knew my mother?!" Terra spoke in shock as she took a step back in disbelief.

He simply nodded at her as he took out two bowls and filled them up before handing her one. As she warily accepted it, he knelt onto the ground before finding a comfortable place to sit. Seeing that she didn't follow, he sighed before motioning her to do the same. "Please sit. This might take a little while to explain."

Doing as she was told, Terra sat in front of Naruto still looking at him oddly before gingerly lifting the spoon, unsure if the soup was edible.

Naruto chuckled once more at her as he took a bite. "Don't worry, it is quite good actually. You just have to know what fiends are okay to eat. Luna wolves' are quite tasty but they make a better jerky."

This made Terra a little sick that he actually ate fiends and seemingly did it on a regular basis. Taking a sip of the broth, she was pleasantly surprised that it was indeed edible. She quickly ate the soup as there hadn't been a lot to eat and mostly everything was given to the kids as they couldn't withstand not eating at long periods at a time.

As she finished the bowl, Naruto frowned lightly at this but figured out the reason she was so hungry. She was practically starving and he could see her rib cage through her red outfit. She also seemed to be very frail compared to what she looked when he last saw her and knew this was the sacrifice she was making to protect the children. He reminded himself to take the leftovers to Mobilz to feed everyone so they could keep up their strength.

Once she was finished with her bowl, she put it aside before noticing that he was looking at her pensively. She flinched under his gaze which quickly broke it as he took another bite of the soup.

Feeling a little relieved that he wasn't looking at her like that any longer, she spoke softly. "So how did you know my mother?"

Taking another bite of his soup, Naruto closed his eyes as he reminisced about his meeting with her mother.

Opening his eyes, he looked softly at her before putting his bowl down. "I took care of her before she passed away from this world. …I tried to save her but I wasn't able to. All I could do was ease her pain."

Terra's face fell hearing this before she looked away from him and to the clouds above.

Tears lightly streaked from her eyes as a sad smile graced her lips before turning to him. "Thank you… for trying. I was sure she had died thanks to the Emperor."

Naruto nodded before finishing the rest of his soup. Looking at his two clones, he merely gave them a nod and they extinguished the fire before lifting the cauldron and heading towards the village.

Seeing the questioning look on her face, he answered her unspoken question. "There was plenty of it and I can tell just from you they are underfed as well."

Her cheek flushed lightly even though she had no reason to be embarrassed. They were having a hard time finding food and she really didn't know what types of fiends were edible. And then that creature had begun raiding the village and even leaving to gather food had become dangerous.

A chill swept over her body remembering it and quickly stood up. "I have to get back…"

"Relax." Naruto interrupted with a tranquil voice as he stood up and walked besides her. "Nothing is wrong, so calm down otherwise you'll panic the little ones when you get there."

Wondering how he instinctively knew that nothing was wrong, Terra did as he said and took a few deep breathes as they walked towards the village, following his two doppelgangers carrying the cauldron of wolf stew.

They walked silently for a little while as the village came into view. It was when it came into view that Terra stopped as something crossed her mind.

Waiting till he stopped and turned towards her, Terra frowned as she looked straight into his eyes. "Why did you come seek me first? I'm sure the others would be easier to convince then me but you still come to me first. There is something you aren't telling me and I want to know what."

Sighing, Naruto didn't feel like answering her question. But at the same time, if he didn't answer her she would be even harder to reach. So he would just have to omit some of it and tell her about it later. Running his hand through is hair, slicking it back slightly making it look like that of his fathers he reminded himself to get a hair cut as it had been a while and his hair was growing out.

Putting that thought away for now, he matched her look as his eyes gazed into her purplish blues. "I came searching for you first because I promised your mother to look after you. I may be late, but I never break a promise. That has and always been my motto."

For the third time that day, Terra froze.

He had promised her mother to look after her and even after almost a twenty year absence; he was determined to see through his promise for some unknown reason. She felt a dizzy suddenly and tripped over her own feet as she attempted to walk forward. She only fell into his arms making her look up towards his smiling face.

Blushing, she quickly pulled herself from his grip and stood up and stormed off in front of him. She didn't understand why she was this embarrassed, but something was just bugging her. As she reached the door to the house they were staying in, she could feel that he wasn't following making her turn around and looking at him angrily.

"Come on! Seeing that you're feeding us, the least we can do is let you have a safe place to sleep!" Terra screamed at him from a good twenty meters away with a voice that promised swift kick in the sack if he didn't do as she said.

Naruto could only shake his head as he walked towards her and sigh. Why did every woman he know have to be temperamental?