I do not own Magister Negi Magi or Naruto. If i did, i wouldnt have to worry about college.

Prologue:

Negi yawned and stretched, waking up his sister in the process.

Or rather, he would have, if she was still next to him. Sometime before he had woken up, the cousin that he called his sister had not gotten up and started preparing breakfast.

Yawning again, the young mage-in-training got up and put on a shirt, dragging his feet downstairs, heading toward the smell of bacon, eggs, and tea. He had just sat down when…

Ring! Ring! Ring!

Asuna's infernal alarm clock went off at its usual predetermined at five in the morning. Goddamnit, why couldn't she wear earbuds? Why did he have to wake up this early every morning? Every night, he stayed up late to brush up on his magical knowledge, but by the time he finally got around to sleeping, the alarm clock went off.

Of course, he would never tell Asuna this.

Negi yawned and really got out of bed. Two weeks had gone by since he came to Japan to begin his training. In those two weeks, he had been mobbed by girls, fought a ancient and quite literally bloodthirsty vampire who had been sealed away by his father, and fought a giant stone golem, all while being sandwiched around half-naked or naked girls.

The door banged shut as Asuna charged out and Chamo cracked open the window to head out for his morning smoke. Konoka rubbed her eyes and sat up. Normally, they would all sleep for another two hours before getting up, but the trip coming up in two days would need them to pack, and today was a Sunday.

Negi grabbed his backpack and started shoving clothing and books into it at random, only occasionally checking to make sure it was clean. Konoka came by later and put food in front of him, which he thanked her for and ate quickly, returning to the book he had gotten the previous night, looking up a theory for a new attack.

The day passed slowly, with Asuna coming back at nine and trying to drag him out for a bath, saying that he hadn't washed in two days. She was successful, and now Negi was wincing every time Chamo jumped off his shoulder to get another cigarette, or the fan blew too hard on his hair.

He decided to get some sleep that night, having been completely sleep-deprived for the last couple of days. Unfortunately, the alarm clock was having second thoughts about that. At five AM, it went off yet again and woke all of them up, Chamo heading out for his usual morning smoke, Konoka going back to sleep.

Negi didn't even bother to try. He got up, used the restroom, washed his face in a futile attempt to wake up, and began some morning stretching, trying to avoid strained muscles when Asuna saw him in his state and tried to beat him up in order for him to 'relax'.

They made the traditional dash to school, barely making it on time. It seemed just to be another day in a never-ending series of days.

How wrong he was.

Negi was in the middle of writing words on the board, going through the usual motions of teaching. Asuna and Ayaka were glaring daggers at each other, Evangeline and Chachamaru were missing as usual, and everyone else was only paying a hint of attention.

He had just turned back around when a flash of light appeared over his head, a dark portal opened, the temporal winds howled, and two figures fell out of nowhere, crushing the unfortunate boy underneath them. One of them was grumbling as he stood up, the other one brushing himself off.

They were an odd pair. One looked like he was no older then twelve, and wore an orange jumpsuit that made him look like a jailbird. The other wore a suit of shining armor that seemed to shimmer slightly; he looked like to be in his late teens. Both were now grumbling at each other, and an argument broke out.

"You idiot! We're on vacation! You were supposed to turn off your transponder!"

"Well I was about to. It's not my fault that you don't make these things very well."

"It's also not my fault you're a dumbass! Explain why the hell we're about five hundred dimensions away from our vacation spot! We had two years of beach ahead of us, and now we're lost."

"Hey, I'm not the one who insisted that… wait, what?"

"You heard me!"

"Err, could you get an IFF on our location?"

The taller of the duo rolled his eyes and slipped on an eyepiece. "IFF's for people, dumbass. I'll try to get a read on our location through the COM network."

A series of random clicks and beeps rang throughout the classroom as the device tried to get a lock on their location.

"Now, let's see here. Dimension 454837XBA-C, something called the Mahora Academy. Ever heard of that place?"

The blonde, finally having shaken the dust out of his hair, shook his head again. "No. Anything on an exit vector?"

The taller of the two shook his head. "Nothing. The director hasn't seen fit to colonize these dimensions. I'm surprised we can get a COM signal."

"That's impossible! In order for there to be an entry-"

"There must be an exit, yeah, I know. But somehow, you pulled it off again. Now we're stuck here. Thanks a lot, dumbass. Now what are we gonna do?"

"Call for help?"

"It wouldn't make a difference. Unless they decide to colonize this place and completely stir up the locals, any help we get is just gonna get stuck here with us. Besides, the signal's fading. I got one because our entry portal is still fresh, but now that's sealing up. I'll broadcast an emergency message, but don't expect help anytime soon."

"Well, let's do equipment check. I've got everything I need."

"Yeah, you would, seeing as you don't need anything but food and clothing to attack."

"What are you carrying?"

The figure reached over his back and pulled down a gun that made Mana's look like a peashooter. The orange-wearing boy winced. "Isn't that your 5.56? Why didn't you bring the .50 cal or the 7.62?"

"Because, dumbass, I wasn't expecting to actually fight anyone. And this thing can fire 7.62. I just need to get a barrel. If this dimension is advanced enough to use guns, that is."

"But we don't have any money. We only brought credits. They're not made of anything particularly valuable."

"Dumbass. My armor, remember? Element scanner can detect valuable metals within half a light-year. We'll just have to make do until we can find a way out of here."

"Hmm?" right in front of the dumbstruck class, the smaller of the two figures and pulled out a kettle and filled it with water and was now holding a handful of fire underneath it to… wait. Was that cup ramen sitting next to their quizzes?

The taller figure sweatdropped. "Can you please get your mind off of ramen for a few minutes? We're in kind of a crisis here."

"What?" the younger of the two said defensively as he poured water into the cup. "It's not like we're gonna be going anywhere for a while. We might as well enjoy ourselves."

The taller figure growled and slotted a magazine into the gun, the metallic clack of the charging lever resounding like a gunshot of its own through the room. "Don't make me shoot you, Naruto."

Naruto shrugged and taped the lid of the ramen shut. "Please, Josh. It's not like those puny bullets are gonna do anything major."

Josh grinned and pulled out a huge pistol from behind his back, dropped a single round into the chamber, cocked it, and aimed it at the blonde's head. "Ok, what about now?"

Naruto froze just as he was pulling the lid off of the ramen, looking quizzically at the offending barrel. "Charged round?"

"Yep."

"Ok, just one question before you shoot me."

"Go ahead."

"Where the fuck did you get that thing?"

"Mail-order Magazine."

"What the hell man? We don't get mail, we don't get magazines! And we certainly as shit don't get refurbished arm cannons."

"Now that would be a trade secret."

"Trade this!" and faster then the eye could see, Naruto whipped out a Kunai and jammed it up the barrel, effectively stopping it from firing.

"YOU IDIOT! You better not have screwed up the rifling, or I'll screw you! … Urg… that came out wrong."

"I'm sorry, but I'm not into guys. Try next door."

"Why you little…" Josh scowled, leveled his rifle, and snapped off a dozen rounds, each of which Naruto either dodged or parried with a sword that appeared out of nowhere.

"Look, we'll fight about your views later. Let's find some locals and get a picture of a possible way out."

Josh scowled again but clicked the safety and slung the rifle over his back. "Right. Now…"

They both turned around to look at the dumbfounded class.

Naruto sweatdropped. "Err, Josh. Question."

"Shoot."

"Where the hell did these locals come from?"

"Beats me. Here, let me try something." Josh stepped forward and raised both his hands. "Hola, local. Entramos la paz."

The class stared back at them.

"Hmm… guess they don't speak Spanish."

"Do they look Hispanic to you?"

"Ok, let me try French. Bonjour, local. Nous entrons la paix."

The class just kept on staring at them.

"Nope, not French. Try German."

"It's worth a shot. Hallo, Einheimische. Wir kommen Frieden herein."

Two of the students twitched slightly but still stared at them.

"Damn, do they speak a language that you know?"

"I'll try Texan English."

"Not Texan English! Even I can't understand that!"

"Der yer spenk anglish? We kome an piece."

"There's no way in hell they'd understand that."

A girl with purple hair spoke up. "English?"

Naruto palmed his face and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Out of all the languages that you know, why the fuck did it have to be your Texan English that they respond to?"

"Natural charm, I guess. Here, let's try unaccented English."

Josh reached into an unseen pouch on his armor, pulling out a pack of cigars and offered one to Naruto, who declined. "I don't know how you smoke those things. What are they, mushrooms?"

He scowled and held one out for Naruto to light, which he did. Josh then took a long pull on the cigar and blew out a ring of smoke before responding. "They're fungal cigars, dumbass. Besides," he sucked in another lungful of smoke. "They wont let me smoke aboard the ship, but this technically counts as cooking."

"Oh, so that's why I smelled mushroom pizzas coming out of your room when we were aboard the carrier. I thought you had gotten take-out or something."

"For the last time, they're not mushrooms. They're fungal cigars."

"What's the difference?"

"Well, mushroom cigars just get you high. Fungal cigars smell nice and get you high."

"So it's all about getting high?"

"Yep."

"And you call me a dumbass."

"You are one. And it also seems that you have yet to master the subtle yet effective art of sarcasm."

"Oh yeah, well master this!"

Naruto extended one hand and six small blue spheres formed, one large one in the middle, five smaller ones orbiting like a model of the solar system. As they watched, the five smaller ones on the outside turning red, white, yellow, brown, and a lighter shade of blue.

However, the most amazing transformation was reserved for the central one. The biggest sphere started to whirl and turn a blinding shade of silver, the ambient energy in the room jumping to make everyone sweat.

Josh whistled, looking over the spheres. "Not bad, kid. Elemental Master and Initial Guardian Rasengans in one hand. Kinda slow, though."

"Well, that's faster then your Initial Bunker Buster. What's that, forty seconds?"

"It completely outclasses this, though. I've got two settings on that thing, wide and focused. Your Rasengan isn't any good for attacking multiple targets."

"Bullshit. What about my Bullet Rasengan?"

"You can't charge it, so it doesn't count."

"Does it really matter?"

"It does when you're fighting Bijuu Spawn."

"We're not always fighting Bijuu Spawn!"

"We are most of the time. It's part of our job, after all."

Naruto scowled and popped open the lid of the ramen, pulling a pair of chopsticks from up his sleeve at the same time, and took a huge bite of the noodles before responding with his mouth still full. "Nefvr min hat. Het halk ho he loalhs."

"For god's sake. Chew before you speak. Didn't your mom ever teach you any manners?"

"No, I never knew my mom. And I said, never mind that, let's talk to the locals."

"I think they've been trying to understand us this whole time. Don't think that English is their native language though. Guessing by their faces, I'll try a oriental language. Your native language?"

"Go for it."

Instead of speaking a new language, Josh reached behind his neck and snapped out a small box, popped it open, slipped a small pill out, twisted two gears, and swallowed it. He then tapped his ear, and not finding the wanted results, punched it.

(A/N. ALL FURTHER LANGUAGE FROM HERE IS TRANSLATED JAPANESE, UNLESS MARKED OTHERWISE.)

"Hello, everyone. We come in peace. Can you take us to your leader and/or teacher?"

Naruto poked Josh with his chopsticks. "Dude. That's not Japanese. I think you screwed up the translator."

Josh didn't say anything, partly because even if he did, nobody would understand him, and second of all, he could still change it. He reached and tapped his throat, a hissing sound coming from his throat. "Ok, what about now?"

"Strange accent, but that should work… I hope. Anyway. Let me try this. Hello, everyone. We come in peace. Could you take us to your teacher?"

Nodoka stared at the two strangers as they bickered with each other. She had flinched when the gun came out and stared even more when the second figure had deflected each of the bullets. She had been the one to respond to the armored figure's heavily accented English,

Asuna stared at the taller of the two figures, trying to figure out why he was dressed so strangely.

Ayaka stared at the shorter of the two figures, trying to determine his age.

Everyone seemed to have forgotten about Negi, crushed behind them.

That is, until Josh asked again, "Can we speak to your teacher?"

Yue sipped more juice and pointed to the desk, the shock having finally worn off her. "You landed on him when you fell into our room."

Both Naruto and Josh sweatdropped and whipped their heads around and saw the feebly stirring figure of Negi attempting to sit up. They rushed over and gingerly picked up the small boy, setting him flat on his own desk.

The brown-haired boy tapped a button on the side of his eyepiece and zoomed in on the leg with the X-ray scanner active.

What he saw had him immediately reaching onto his belt for a can of Biofoam.

The armor he wore wasn't exactly lightweight, and Naruto's supplies had also landed on this poor kid's legs and back. If what he was seeing in the pictures was right, Negi had a triple compound fracture in one leg, three cracked ribs, and a broken finger. Nothing fatal, but if improperly treated, could result in several months of extreme pain.

He handed a smaller can to Naruto, who adjusted the nozzle so that the needle was exposed, and injected some into Negi's finger, making it swell slightly, but far less then what it would have been. Josh, meanwhile, was busy filling the ribcage with Biofoam to rapidly accelerate the healing process. For the leg, he extracted a piece of foil, wrapped it around the poor boy's leg, and tapped it once with his armored gauntlet.

"You paid the Chief a visit?"

"Nah. The chief's busy on Luna, flushing out Innies. Got these from Lord Hood himself. They're rather short on manpower right now."

"So jiji's handing out supplies now? Never thought a Fleet Admiral would have to do that."

"Well, they normally wouldn't, if it wasn't for those blasts that eliminated half the UNSC personnel in the Sol System."

"When did that happen? I never heard anything about it."

"Six months ago, local time. Anyway, let's get this brat back onto the table. The cast I applied needs to be removed soon or he could end up with mismatched legs."

"Oh, yeah. I remember when you did that to the Lieutenant. He acted like you shit in his coffee or something."

"That was funny though, watching him stump around trying to catch me."

Josh drew and twirled a small pen in his hand, whistling all the while. At some unknown signal, he spun the pen into the air, snapped his fingers, and traced a line down the cast with one finger, caught the pen, and traced the same line with the pen. As soon as the metal tip lost contact, the cast disintegrated and both Negi and Josh groaned.

"Damn, I didn't think that would be its last charge… ah well, what can you do?"

"Wake this kid up."

"Good point. Stand back." He put the pen away in yet another pouch and extended a rod, tapping the poor boy right in the middle of his forehead, a two thousand volt zap of electricity immediately knocking him out of his stupor.

"Wha? Who are you?" Immediately, Negi's staff jumped to his hand and he started chanting. "Ras Tel Ma Scir Magister… Come forth, spirits of wind, Spiritus Ventus, nineteen arrows of wind!"

Out of nowhere, nineteen bolts of wind emerged and surrounded the entire class, but all of which targeted the two strangers. However, the shorter one did not panic. His hands rapidly flipped through some strange motions and raised one hand with a shout, "Guardian Art, Katon Rasengan!"

With a flourish, Naruto absorbed all of the magic bolts and let the sphere of fire fade away. "What is up with this kid?"

Josh raised both hands, hoping to prevent another attack. "Whoa, kid. Hold your goddamned horses. We're not your fucking enemy. We're just looking for a way back to where we came from."

"But we could also use a workout. Do you know someone who is extremely powerful?"

Negi flinched, first from having one of his most powerful magical attacks repelled with a single lazily-cast attack. These people were powerful… "Umm… there is someone, but I think she would be too much for you."

"Bullshit. I haven't met a non-guardian yet who could even come close to us. Let us at him."

"Err, it's a her, actually."

"Even better. Maybe I'll get some action."

"Dumbass. You're twelve years old."

"Whatever. Let's wipe these locals and get over there."

Josh tapped a spot on his belt and a blinding flash split the room, which after it faded, all of the girls were on the ground, out for the count."

"Right, let's get going."

Evangeline sat in her bed, sipping lightly from a teacup that Chachamaru had set on the nightstand next to her, finally taking a huge swig and swishing it around in her mouth.

The little vampire had just put the cup down and was considering taking a nap when she sat back up with a jerk and spat the tea left in her mouth everywhere.

There was Negi, waving at her outside the window, with a figure in silver armor and an orange jumpsuit-clad kid quite literally standing on the windowpane.

Eva got out of bed and rushed downstairs. She could not wait to hear this.

"So let me get this straight. You were sealed by the kid's father, so now you can't fight outside a full moon?"

"Yeah. That's pretty much it."

Naruto leaned back in and yawned. "You don't look much like a vampire."

"What was that, brat?"

"Well, you're not that scary. And you're just a kid. Josh's power scanner could barely pick you up. Even if your powers were sealed, there would be something leaking through."

Josh reached into a bag that appeared out of nowhere, finally pulling out four jet-black disks. "Well, there's always one way to find out."

Eva took a deep breath and stepped into the field that the two so-called guardians had put out. According to them, this field would cancel out any seals holding back one's personal sealed power. This would not affect Naruto, after a long explanation about the Kyuubi being sealed within him.

On the other side of the sphere, Naruto stepped in and tightened the headband covering his forehead, drawing a handful of shuriken and kunai right after he did so.

"Hey, Josh. What does the scanner say about her power level?"

Josh obliged, tapping the eyepiece again before his eyes widened. "It's over nine thousand!"

"Nine thous- Wait a second. I'm not falling for that twice." A split second later, a Naruto clone smacked him in the back of the head. "Tell me in guardian terms."

"All right, be a spoilsport. Let me see…" Josh tapped the eyepiece again. "Let's see… Whoa…"

"What?"

"If this thing is working properly." He said, tapping the device to make sure it was working, "Then her power would be roughly equal... to a Third Tier Sacred Guardian."

"So, in other words, i'd be fighting sensei."

"Close enough."

"All right," Naruto said, turning and grinning foxily at Eva, who grinned evily right back at him. "Let's get this party started."

Author's Note

I LIVE! I'M BACK!

This is a prequel to the Guardian Trilogy. It should help explain how Naruto got some of his powers and show off new ones that i have yet to introduce in timeless. It should also explain, by the time it's finished, why naurto seems more powerful in this piece.

This is a piece that ive been working on for a while. The Fire Emblem and Ace Combat pieces never got off the ground. if i do another piece, its gonna be on a 90s anime that i just finished watching, Martian Successor Nadesico. Great anime, though kinda aged.

Anyway, that's it for now. Stand by for another chapter of Timeless in a couple of days. The Akastuki fight is coming up soon.

With all due regards.

Xingster

P.S. Read the Manga. it's great.