A Whole New World
By Moderation
I don't own Naruto or Harry Potter
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Constant swaying…
Back and forth…
Back and forth…
Back an…
"GAH! I can't take it anymore!" The young male voice called out over the large, opaque ocean.
"Why the hell is this taking so long?" The young sage mumbled to himself. "When I set out for lands unknown I didn't think it would take this long…"
Naruto threw himself back against the small sailing vessel in exasperation. "If nothing interesting happens soon, I'm going to go stir crazy." The Kyuubi's vessel let out a long drawn out sigh. "Not only have I been out here for months, but I'm running out of food for the trip."
"What did you expect whelp?" spoke a voice from deep within our blond haired, blue eyed Jinchuriki. "I told you setting out just because of a few rumors was a stupid idea, but nooo. You just had to tempt fate and now we're stuck in the middle of nowhere with no idea how to get back to the elemental nations."
Naruto gave a faint smile at his companion's voice. "Hey Kurama, are you finally talking to me again? You've been quiet ever since we left shore." That was a lie, in fact. When Naruto first left shore, Kyuubi was running rampant inside Naruto's mind, demanding that they return to dry land immediately.
It seems that the great and mighty Kyuubi no Kitsune was afraid of the ocean.
Kurama snorted. "Only because it gets boring with nothing to do inside your mindscape. Really, I had enough of that for the first twelve years."
Naruto winced at the valid point. "Yeah, I've been meaning to ask if we could do anything about that place. It is kind of depressing to think of my mind as a sewer after all."
Kurama harrumphed. "Fine we'll do it later, but first I have to tell you something…"
Naruto blinked. "What's that?"
"PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR GODDAMN SURROUNDINGS ASSHOLE!"
Naruto stood up on his boat in shock. "What?"
Turning around slowly, his face went as white as Akamaru's fur.
"OH…"
"…SHIT!" Kurama and Naruto said in unison as a tidal wave larger than the Hokage monument back home picked up the entire ship and began to toss it around like a rag doll.
"Waaaaah!"
"PLEASE DEAR KAMI, I DON'T WANT TO DIE! I'M STILL SO YOUNG!"
Naruto paused in thought right there before dismissing it and returning to the screaming.
The ship finally landed. Fortunately, they survived.
Unfortunately, the boat did not.
Breaking the surface of the water, Naruto came up sputtering and spitting up seawater. "My boat!"
While Naruto was laminating over the loss of his boat, Kurama was busy applying his mind to find a solution. "I've got nothing… WE'RE GONNA DIE! I DON'T WANT TO DIE!"
Naruto attached himself to a piece of drift wood before clearing his eyes. His entire countenance shifted and his eyes lit up at the sight before him. Slowly getting up on the surface of the water and grinning like a madman, Naruto took off across the ocean surface at speeds that would make the Roadrunner blush with envy.
Naruto blinked. Wait… What's a Roadrunner?
Ignoring that train of thought, Naruto shouted to Kurama, "Kurama! I found land! We finally found land!"
Kurama snapped out of his panic attack at hearing those words, "What! Let me see!" Kurama took control of Naruto's eyesight and caught a glimpse of land…
Right before Naruto's body slammed right into the ocean. "GAH! Damn it Kurama! I can't see where I am going when you take over my body!"
Kurama scoffed and handed control back over to Naruto, but the smile from when he caught sight of land remained. "Onward my steed! Ha, mush!"
Naruto's eye twitched at the comparison to him as a method of transport but obliged and ran as fast as he could towards the land.
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Naruto finally waded into the beach, too tired from trying to water walk for nearly half an hour. He may have massive levels of chakra, but it made little difference when trying a control exercise. It actually makes it worse.
Collapsing onto the beach with a moan, Naruto laid his head down for a moment trying to get his bearings. Shifting his head, Naruto noticed the strange looks he was receiving from the inhabitants of the beach.
Clearly, the sight of a seventeen year old wearing combat boots, cargo pants, and a sage coat, walking out of the ocean was not a normal sight for them.
Sighting a small pavilion nearby, Naruto walked up to it, noticing uncomfortably that people were parting away from him. Walking up to the man behind the glass window, Naruto spoke, "Excuse me, but do you know where I can get a place to sleep?"
The man stared blankly at him before responding. Unfortunately, Naruto couldn't understand a single strand of the gibberish that was coming out of the man's mouth.
Calmly walking away with only the barest of eye twitches, Naruto began to slam his head against a nearby wall.
He forgot to take into account the possible language barrier before he left.
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Naruto sighed as he walked along the streets of this strange place.
Now understand that Naruto comes from a village -very large village, but a village none the less- where everything is made of wood and just a little concrete. This place, however, had buildings that looked like they should be swaying with the wind, considering the height at which they stood. Naruto also had a strong hunch that the buildings were not made of wood, but metal!
Naruto rolled his eyes. Of course they don't make their buildings out of metal Naruto! I mean really, shouldn't the buildings sink? Also, why would they waste steel on buildings instead of weapons?
Kurama rolled his eyes at his idiotic container. "Remember Naruto that these people are completely different from you… They might make their weapons out of something else… Or they might just have enough metal that making buildings out of them isn't so unbelievable."
Naruto ignored Kurama and instead opted to try and find someone who spoke his language. His strategy involved walking up to several people and asking how their day was. If they responded in his own language he had a winner.
Finally approaching the fiftieth person so far he got a match. The man seemed surprised that someone spoke what he called Japanese in the place called America. After giving the man an edited version of the truth where he was lost in a shipping accident and ended up on shore, the man took him to what looked like a bookstore and bought him several books on speaking the language called English. The man apparently owned the bookstore and offered to give Naruto room and board as long as Naruto helped around the store.
Needless to say, Naruto said yes.
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Naruto swept up the dust on the floor around the store, while shadow clones studied the books upstairs and organized the storage in the back of the store. Understandably, the old storekeeper made Naruto promise to not reveal the clone technique to anyone when he found out.
So Naruto had about ten clones upstairs reading the books on English while he worked downstairs in the shop. It wasn't the most exciting life, but until Naruto could function normally in society it would have to do.
After about five months of working and studying, Naruto felt he could hold a semi-decent conversation in English without butchering the language horribly enough to call it criminal.
After ten months, Naruto could read most books that he could get his hands on, so he did. By that, it means that Naruto began to peruse the rest of the old man's books while still improving his speaking skills. Also, it is interesting to note that Kurama slept for most of this time, after Naruto changed the mindscape to nicer accommodations. Although it can be argued that a burning replica of the Leaf Village wasn't much of a step past the sewer that was once Naruto's mind.
Stress relief, Kurama called it.
Naruto found an interest in books strangely enough, considering his great adherence to books in his childhood.
After nearly a year and a half, Naruto could speak and read fluently in English and was working on an interesting dead language called Latin in his spare time. He also began to read history textbooks on the world and on more specialized regions of the world.
While he was at it, he also purchased a flute and began to teach himself how to play.
He accomplished this in less than a month.
Ah, the joys of Shadow Clones…
After two years in the old man's bookstore, Naruto had read nearly every book available to him and had sufficiently mastered both the English and Latin languages.
Thanking the man profusely, Naruto set out to live on his own. The blond sage had been fascinated with the world's history ever since he first picked up the first textbook. The world was just so much larger than he could have originally guessed.
After all, if the Elemental Nations turned out to be a medium sized island within the Pacific when compared to the rest of the world…
Needless to say, Naruto doubted anyone from his home would ever believe him if he told them.
And a snowball had a better chance in hell than him returning to the Elemental Nations. He left for good reason after all.
Naruto picked up his map as he left while walking down the street.
"Hey Kurama."
"Mmh."
"Where do you think we should travel to first?"
Taking control of one of Naruto's eyes, Kurama scanned the map.
"How about England? You said something about visiting Stonehenge, I believe."
Naruto's eyes lit up. "Ah yes, I did say that didn't I? Well I suppose it's off to England then."
