So I came up with this idea after reading the stories of one of my favorite Naruto authors, Leaf Ranger. I am in no way trying to copy off of his ideas, but I really do love his stories. I thought long an hard about how to handle this story. Should it be an extremely long one shot. Should it have multiple chapters? I couldn't decide. Finally I thought, who would want to read one really long chapter? So it will be multiple, and I have no way of estimating how long exactly. I also am typing this on a laptop that I am not accustomed to, so there will be a lot of gramatical and spelling errors. We will see.

Mulan: Can you just get on with the story? Please?

Phoenix: Patience is a virtue love.

Mulan: I've never really had patience.

Phoenix: *sighs*

This is a Naruto/Mulan crossover, and I will try my best to portray most of the characters as they were intended. I cannot guarantee anything though. Naruto will definitely be more OC, and he will be less idiotic than he is in the series. SOOOO ONWARD!

Disclaimer: If I owned either series, which I dont, would I be writing fanfiction for it? (dont answer that)


"Where is that girl?" "Mama" asked as she glanced around the court yard. Hinata Hyuuga, a shy girl who was the same age as Mulan glanced up from the scroll she had been reading.

"I-I don't k-know." She stuttered.

"I found us a lucky one!" Mulan's grandmother called from a few feet away. In her hand was a small cage, which at the time, held a cricket.

"Let's see if you're lucky!" She looked at the small creature. Crickee, as he had liked to call himself, clutched to the bars of the wooden prison, and watched as the elder woman covered her eyes, and stepped into the busy street. Carts and horses raced by, as the woman confidently walked. Two carts, both carrying vegetables and fruits, happened to be in the same lane, and with the amount of dust that had kicked up from the other people on the road, could not see the collision waiting to happen. Just as Grandmother Fa passed the lane, they collided. The dirt kicked up once more, and she was on the other side.

"It works!" she called back to her concerned family. Hinata sighed and looked back at the courtyard gate.

"S-she's here." She muttered with a small smile. Mulan road up to them on the back of her favorite horse Khan. He snorted as he came to a halt, allowing her to jump from his back.

"Sorry I'm late!" She said. Hinata sighed and followed her into the bath house. There, both girls began to prepare to see the match maker. In a separate bath from Mulan's, Hinata could hear the other girls, mother scolding.

"It would have been warmer had you gotten here on time! And what are these?"

"Notes…In case I forgot something…" After everything was said and done, the girls were finally ushered to the line and brought to the match maker.

"Fa Mulan?" The woman called. She was a larger women, with a big ego and an even bigger temper.

"Present! Oh…" Mulan stood up and waved her hand.

"Speaking out of turn." The matchmaker muttered to her pen and paper. Hinata watched from the outside, hidden behind her lavender colored umbrella that matched her eyes. The Hyuuga family, who originally came from Japan, was a group that all had long black hair, and violet eyes. They were a military family who, like the Fa family, almost lost one of their own in the last war. Hiashi Hyuuga, Hinata's father, was blind, because he lost his eyes. While Zhou Fa, was crippled permanently in one of his legs. Both girls took care of their fathers, and helped the other's family whenever it was necessary, being neighbors. From inside the walls of the matchmakers house, crashes and screams could be heard, and finally the large woman came through her door screaming to put the fire on her large behind out. Mulan, with a tea kettle in her hands, splashed the hot liquid over the women, who noticeably had ink around her mouth in the shape of facial hair, screamed,

"You may look like a bride but you will never be one! You have brought great dishonor to your family!" Hinata stood up, she did not like how the women had treated Mulan, and the place was in a state of disarray in any case, so there would be no match making this time. As they reached the small village where they lived, Hinata returned to her own home, while Mulan hers.

"M-Mulan. I-it will be o-ok." She tried to reassure her friend. All Mulan did was shake her head.

"How was the match maker?" Hiashi asked his daughter.

"I was not matched today. One of the other girls caused a disruption." Hinata reported not mentioning that it had been Mulan. When she was with her father her shyness fled. She loved her father more than anyone in her family. A love that rivaled that which she held for her younger sister Hanabi.

"All will be fine, my daughter." Hinata nodded and excused herself from her fathers room. Hanabi, and Junsei, her siblings, were waiting outside to hear the news. Junsei, Hinata's twin brother, was born with a bad heart, something that the local doctor had tried to help cure as best as he could.

"Sooo, who's the man?" He asked with a large grin on his face. Hinata sighed and glanced at him.

"I was not matched today." She said with a small smile. While she would never go against her fathers wishes, she disliked the idea of marrying a man whom she did not know.

"Well thats good for you isn't it?" He said with the same grin. Hinata nodded, and continued smiling until the crash of drums broke the peaceful silence.

"The army." Junsei's face hardened. He knew it was a matter of time before he was drafted, but had hoped it would be later rather than sooner.

"Hinata, keep Hanabi with you. I will lead Father to the gate." Hinata nodded and kept Hanabi close as they went into their shared room. Soon, both men returned with solemn looking faces.

"I am needed at a training camp. I leave tomorrow. Along with Zhou Fa." Junsei said to his sisters. The girls gasped at the news.

"Mulan spoke out as well. Bringing shame to him." Hiashi spoke. Hinata silently cursed her friends sharp tongue. The rest of the afternoon and night was spent in silence. A storm had arisen, as if foreshadowing disaster. As Hinata lay under her blanket, she became aware of a figure in her room. There stood a soldier, wearing his armor and bearing a sword. She opened her mouth to cry out but a hand, soft and delicate feeling, covered it.

"Shhh Hinata! It's me!" Mulan spoke, removing the helmet she wore.

"What? Why?" Hinata cried in a hushed whisper. It was then that Mulan informed her of her plan. Since both families were unable to give proper soldiers, Mulan had planned on stealing her fathers armor and running away. But the girl had planned on taking her friend with. Hinata was shocked. A pair of woman joining the army? It was unheard of!

"Please you have to come with me! We don't have much time!" After much pestering and convincing, Hinata agreed to go. After gathering both the armor, the sword, the bow and arrow, and the horse, Hinata tied bandages around her chest to hid any hints of femininity, and road to the camp with Mulan.

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The first Great Ancestor of the Fa family awoke in disgust.

"Of course. Mulan had to go running off to war." He said to himself as he awoke Mushu. The small dragon, as he liked to think he was, never stopped talking. He had lost his chance to be a guardian when he caused the death of a family member, many years in the past.

"Who do you need me to kill oh great one! Just say the word and I'm there!" He kept rambling.

"Mushu! What is your job?" the spirit asked in annoyance.

"I...I ring the gong." The small lizard, as the world saw him, sighed in disappointment.

"Thats right, now awaken the ancestors!" Loud clangs could be heard as Mushu rang the small gong, previously used as an incense tray, and woke the many spirits that resided in the small shrine.

"That girl needs to learn her place!" One spirit called.

"Hey she gets it from your side of the family! My side was all acupuncturists!"

"Well we can't all be acupuncturists!" Another chided.

"SILENCE! We need to decide on a guardian to bring Mulan, and her young friend Hinata, back."

"We should take the swiftest!"

"The wisest!"

"The most cunning!"

"NO! We will send the most powerful! The great stone dragon." The first ancestor said, ignoring the words Mushu had spoken.

"Mushu go awaken the dragon and inform him of our dilema." Mushu was instructed as he was thrown out the window. The ancestors continued to talk,

"Do you think that Mushu will be able to do this?" One hesitant ancestor commented.

"He will succeed. Or risk being banished completely. Not just demoted." The first great ancestor replied. As he finished his sentence, he could hear Mushu's voice call in a strange accent. With a sigh the ancestor glanced out the window. In the small lizards claws was the head from the Great stone dragon.

"Go and fetch Mulan and her friend." He instructed.

"I, the great stone dragon, shall go and fetch mulan! Did I mention I was the great stone dragon! I shall bring honor to the family!" He said, attempting to be smooth.

"Go, and bring her back." The great ancestor sighed. Be safe, Fa Mulan.

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Within the shrine of the nearby family, the Hyuuga Ancestors were furious.

"I cannot believe this insignificant, GIRL, has taken the heir to our family!" One spirit cried in anger.

"The timid girl would never survive the strife of war." Another agreed.

"We must send a guardian, and the only guardian we have is Shima." The Elder's voice rose above the uproar. At the mention of her name, a small wolf pup with light lavender fur, leapt down from the rafters above.

"Shima here!" She said, with a toothy grin.

"Shima is but a pup! She has yet to learn her place in this world, and the next!" A younger spirit called.

"You were but a young boy when you were sent of to war. How is Shima any different?" The Elder chided.

"I was a boy. Yes. But man by gender definition, none-the-less." He fired back.

"And as hot headed as ever. How is a pup supposed to learn, if not given anything to learn from? Shima will be fine. Mushu will be there will he not?"

Somewhere in the forest nearby a sneeze could be heard, followed by a voice,

"Man, musta caught a cold or somethin'."


SOOOOOOOOO READ AND REVIEW PLEASE! I realize that I am still in the middle of Death Fox, and I unfortunately have to put that story on Hiatus, because all inspiration to write that story has fled me. I lost all copies of the chapter I had been writing, and recently I had gotten into Mulan, sooooo this transpired. I again tried to replicate it as best as I could, and finding areas to finish the chapter is difficult. Sooo we will see where this ends up. Please don't be angry with me if I end up just putting it all into one long chapter, eventually.

Mulan: Whoooooooo! Freedom!

Hinata: Shhhhhhh! Y-you w-will r-r-reveal u-u-us!

Phoenix: You're in the middle of the forest. No one will hear you but the birds, and the spirits, and the snakes, and the rats, and bugs *evil cackling*

Hinata: EEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK KKKK! *THUD*

Phoenix: oops...

Mulan: You made her pass out! What the h***!

This is rated pg, hence the movie, soooooo no swearing.