Shiki and Naruto anime crossover.

Characters

Shiki:
Toshio, Natsuno, Seishin, Megumi, Tatsumi, Sunako, Ritsuko, Akira, Kaori, Toruru and Chizuru

Naruto:
Hinata, Naruto, Sai, Sakura and Tsunade

This story is dedicated to my friend Tulli Batty, who introduced me to Shiki.

"Good you are both here" stated Tsunade without turning away from her office window. She stood with her back to the both of them as she continued to speak.
"Now, I have a mission for you both. You are to head North-west from here to a small village called Sotobamura." She turned back to her desk and slumped in her chair, staring to the small team of ninja before her.

"For what purpose?" asked Sai kindly, giving on of him this-will-make-everything-okay smiles.

"I sent Naruto and Hinata there earlier in the week, but they are yet to send word or return, so I have chosen you both to be their back up and to find out what has kept them" she folded her hands beneath her chin.

"Naruto and Hinata? What for?" asked Sakura, trying to hold her voice firm as she spoke. If Sai picked up on a change of tone from her, she would be stuck hearing him try to decipher a meaning from it the whole way to the village.

"The village of Sotobamura has been in chaos. Many villagers have been dying quickly of an unknown cause. Naruto and Hinata were sent to report back on the village's current condition and to help where they could." She leaned back in her chair and let out a tired sigh "But since you two are here, you can see that they have not sent word back to us yet. Therefore your mission is to reach the village, find Naruto and Hinata and return word of the village's current condition"

Sakura and Sai nodded to Tsunade to confirm to her that they were up for the mission.

"Good. You both will leave immediately. Pack your gear" having finished she got out of her seat and returned to watching the village below.

The trip to Sotobamura took two full days for them to travel. They had refused to stop for sleep during the traveling; deciding that reaching the village and finding their fellow ninja was the priority task. They could rest and send word back to their own village afterwards.

It was midday by the time they arrived to the small village. It was a large flat open space surrounded by wood covered hills. Much of the open land was for crops and a fresh water stream ran through the open land.
The majority of the houses that the villagers lived in were by the far end of the open land except one house that sat higher up on a hill rise. It was a European styled home that was the size of a mansion and surrounded by a large wall and closed gate, looking very out of place in the small village.

It wasn't long till Sakura and Sai made their way into the main body of the village. The people who lived there sat solemnly to the sides of the roads and stared vacantly into nothingness, caught in their own thoughts.

They continued through the village main roads till they came across a more cheerful looking girl walking a dog.
The girl had short brown hair that was tied back into twisted pigtails that flared out at the tips, forming an almost star like shape at the end of each of her pigtails. The girl wore a short skirt with knee high socks and polished shoes and a red hooded jacket that she wore unzipped on top of her plain coloured shirt.

Her and her very unattractive dog came closer as they walked along the street.

"Excuse me" stated Sakura, halting the girls humming so she turned to face Sakura. "Hi my name is Sakura and this is Sai," Sai waved shyly to the girl and flashed a smile as she looked to him "we are from the Leaf village. Have you seen any other ninja from the Leaf village here?"

The girl paused and stared at the two strangers from the Leaf village for a long while before replying.
"My name is Kaori" she smiled to them both cheerfully "and our village doesn't have any ninja"

Sakura thought of how to ask her again.
"Then have you seen a tall blonde haired boy wearing orange clothing with a dark haired girl?"

Kaori nodded to her, still smiling "I have seen the boy, but he didn't have a girl with him."

"Okay, where did he go?" asked Sakura, trying not to sound impatient.

"He went to the clinic," her voice sounded graver, but she continued to smile "he looked a bit unwell, like the others"

Sai leaned forward slightly, the conversation having peeked his interest.
"The others?"

Kaori nodded to him.
"Lots of people have been becoming sick here lately. And a lot of them have been dying. So a nurse found him and took him to the clinic" Kaori smiling to them as she thought back to all the people who had died recently, including her closest friend, Megumi.

Sai and Sakura looked to one another.
"Can you show us where the clinic is?" asked Sakura

The girl nodded, smiling again.
"I can take you there"

Sai and Sakura hung back behind the girl as she led them with her strangely pale pink dog to the clinic. The clinic sat just outside the main body of the village; a field of crops growing between the village to the clinic.

The clinic was a peaceful looking place. The green roof extended from the building to create a sheltered area that formed a passageway around the building, held up by white posts that matched the faded white building walls. The windows on the top story were open to let in the sunlight, inside a nurse brought food to an elderly woman patient in her room.

Kaori announced that they had arrived to the clinic before she said farewell cheerfully and finished walking her dog back towards the village.

Sai followed Sakura into the building. The main room was white with seats inside for waiting people to sit. A receptionist spoke to them from the other side of glass that separated his working area from the waiting room.
"Can I help you?" he asked

"Yes," replied Sakura turning to speak to him as Sai ventured deeper into the waiting room to sit silently.
"We are here to see a friend of ours"

"And what is the person's name?" asked the man, already pulling out a chart that listed the names of all the patients in the clinic.

"Naruto Uzumaki" replied Sakura.

The man stared down at his list for a long moment, his eyes flicking across the page.
"I'm sorry, we have no patient by that name." he looked back down to his paper.
Sakura cursed to herself mentally for letting her hopes up that Naruto would be there. Of course Naruto would make himself hard to find in such a small place.
"Although, he wouldn't happen to be a blonde boy wearing orange clothing would he?" asked the man.

Sakura's face lit up.
"Yes"

The man ignored her enthusiasm and called down the hall for a nurse before sitting back in his seat behind his reception desk and continuing his paper work; ignoring Sakura who still stood in front of him.

A lovely looking nurse with green hair tied back in a long ponytail entered the waiting room from the hallways and stood before Sai as Sakura joined his side; her white nurse uniform putting the white walls to shame.

Then nurse bowed her head to them.
"Welcome to Sotobamura clinic. My name is Ritsuko. How may I help you?" she asked with a kind voice and a warm smile.

"They are friends of the orange boy" replied the man behind the desk without looking up.

Ritsuko glared down at him for a moment, disliking that he replied when her question wasn't to him; but the man didn't notice and continued his work.

"We are ninja from the Leaf village" stated Sakura, Sai and her bowing their heads in return to the nurse, causing her to smile warmly at them again "This is Sai and my name is Sakura"

Ritsuko nodded to them and led them down the hallway to the room where Naruto, the 'orange boy' was.

Several doors before Naruto's room a man stepped out into the hallway, Ritsuko pausing before his and bowing her head.
"Doctor, how is the boy?" she asked kindly

The doctor turned to face her. He had brown messy spiked hair and a layer of matching brown stubble that covered his chin and sides of his face lightly. He wore dark pants and a pale green shirt beneath his long white doctor coat and he looked to Sai and Sakura behind the nurse with tired eyes.

"I was just going to check on him" replied the doctor without changing his tired expression. He then turned to lead the way to Naruto's room, the nurse, Sakura and Sai following behind him.

"These two are Sakura and Sai," stated Ritsuko to the doctor as they continued down the hall
"they are ninja from the Leaf village"

"Oh," replied the doctor tiredly without turning to face them "more from the Leaf village"

Sakura had expected him to say something else, but he didn't speak again till they reached the room.

The doctor tapped on the window of the door and a wide nurse opened the door to him.
"Oh doctor"

"How is he?" asked the doctor to the wide nurse who stood in the door way.

"He just woke up, but he seems a bit dazed"

"Thank you" replied the doctor, nodding his head to the wide nurse and she left the room to tend to other patients.

The doctor stood in the door way and turned to face the two of them and Ritsuko.
"Ritsuko, I would like you and the two ninja from the leaf village to stay by the door way and to remain silent while I speak to him" he waited for a moment till all three of them nodded to him in agreement before the entered the room.