And so with the begging of my brother, I release this horrible spawn of my insanity. A Naruto and Jak and Daxter crossover. I'm going to be introducing some new Eco types, and new mods for the Morph Gun so be prepared for that. Naruto will be using Eco and Jak and Daxter will not be the main characters. So just saying, enjoy and I would love to see more of this crossover type!

For all of you worrying, no I'm not giving up on my other story but I'm starting this for my bro. And with that said I introduce...

Precursor Artifacts

Chapter One

Naruto Uzumaki, age 5 had currently heard about his grandfather figure who was going to be leaving in a week for Suna. Naturally the small boy wasn't going to let the old man off without a goodbye or even better yet, Naruto was going to Suna with the old man.

The young boy had naturally tan skin from being out in the sun often, along with sunny blonde hair and bright blue eyes. Three marks resembling whiskers on each cheek completed the look for his face while he wore a white shirt with a black swirl on it and blue shorts. He wore typical shinobi sandals and his cheerful and sunny disposition on anything was only dwarfed by the sun itself.

Naruto Uzumaki, despite being an orphan was the happiest child in the entire elemental nations, and nobody could take that title away from him. Said child was currently running through the crowd towards the Hokage tower, to ask his grandfather figure if he could come along on the trip to Suna. People cleared a path for the excited boy and he quickly made headway.

Bursting through the door to the Hokage tower, Naruto rushed past the Hokage's secretary and into the office itself. He didn't bother knocking, and people had learned to be prepared to face Naruto at all costs. The only time that Naruto knew it wasn't safe to enter the office was when the four Anbu who were normally guarding the Hokage were outside of the office.

But today was a safe time and he burst into the office, suprising the Hokage who was smoking from his pipe, on his lunch break.

"Old man! I want to come with you to Suna!" Naruto didn't bother warming up, he was never that kind of person. He liked rushing head first into things just like he was rushing head first into the conversation that could quite literally change his life.

"Naruto! What have I told about rushing into my office?" Hiruzen tried to console Naruto on just rushing into things and as usual, it didn't work.

"I don't remember, but I want to go to Suna with you!" Naruto jumped up into Hiruzen's lap and started childishly hitting the old Hokage's chest with his tiny fists.

"Now Naruto why would you want to go to Suna with me? It is very hot and dry there and I don't think that you would enjoy it."

"But I don't want you to leave, and I figured that if I'm going to be Hokage then I need to know what the other villages look like!" Naruto, despite being a 5 year old was very smart for his age and he put up a rather decent argument.

"Are you sure Naruto? Will you be on your best behavior Naruto? Suna is much more strict that Konoha and they won't appreciate it if you break their rules."

Naruto looked up in thought before he nodded, "I'll be on my best behavior old man! You can bet on that!" Naruto cheered excitedly. Hiruzen simply smiled and nodded before speaking again.

"Alright Naruto, be prepared to leave in about a week, I'll see if one of the Anbu wants to carry you seeing as we will be traveling at shinobi speeds. Think you can handle that?" Hiruzen asked, putting a hand on Naruto head of spikey hair.

"Yeah I can do that old man, you can bet on that!"

-Front Gates- Konoha- One Week Later

Naruto bounced up and down on the balls of his feet, he was an hour early and he was waiting for the Hokage and his protection detail of Anbu to arrive. He had provided the chunin who were stuck with gate duty with entertainment as they tried to keep up with the number of times he could bounce the balls of his feet.

He hadn't stopped for the hour that he was waiting, he was just so excited! So when he saw the Hokage making his way down the street, greeting people and saying good bye to the ninja Naruto could not help but bound over. Tackling the old man, Naruto was enveloped in a warm hug from the elderly Hokage before he was set down.

"Have you been waiting for long Naruto?" Hiruzen asked, and his question was answered by the chunin at the gate.

"He's been here for 60 minutes solid and he's managed to bounce nearly 10 thousand times." the chunin said before he leaned back in the chair. Hiruzen raised an eyebrow at Naruto, who was now busy crawling up an Anbu trying to unmask them, and failing to do so.

"And you brought your own things, good job Naruto. Let Dog put the bag into a storage scroll for you."

"What's a storage scroll?" Naruto asked, handing the bag over the dog masked Anbu who sealed the bag into the small scroll which he tucked into the pocket of Naruto's shorts.

"A storage scroll allows you to store items that you would not other wise be able to store on your person. You only need to channel a bit of chakra and the scroll should be able to seal anything that would fit into the scroll or take anything in the scroll out."

"Teach me how to make one Dog!" Naruto hopped on the dog masked Anbu's back, and the man could only chuckled as he gave Naruto a piggy back. The small team consisting of Dog, Weasel, Stag, and Bear headed out with the Hokage to Suna. Naruto cheering at Dog to go faster, obviously enjoying the winds whipping by his face at high speeds. The whole team of Anbu and the Hokage couldn't help but smile at the childs antics. Hell it was hard not to be caught up in Naruto's little aura of happiness and not smile.

You had to either be super depressed, or mentally insane not to smile at the little ball of sunshine. Dog did some flips and Naruto cheered even louder, whooping and hollering at the ride that he was experiencing. It was like nothing he'd ever done before seeing as he was only five and it was impossible for him to pull something like that off.

Traveling at Anbu speeds for most of the day, the group made it a third of the way to Suna. It was in a nice flat spot that they set up camp, seeing as the Hokage didn't want to feel pampered and he would rather just camp it out like so many ninja's did. The Hokage position was really just a glorified spot for a figure head and the victim of stacks and stacks of paper work.

Most of dinner time was Naruto trying to perfect a sealing scroll that he'd seen before. Dog was helping him through the process. Although it was more of a process of watching Naruto perfectly draw a storage seal on his right hand with his non-dominant left hand which was impressive in itself. It took serious skill to draw seals in the first place, it was simply astounding to see a five year old draw a storage seal on their first try.

Hiruzen could only nod to himself, both his parents were seals masters so it was kind of given that their son would also be a natural at dealing with the most complicated ninja art that there was. Dog drew out Naruto's bag and they tested the new seal and it worked. That was simply amazing, even Weasel was stunned and almost nothing got the Anbu Captain.

And with the entertainment of the night tiring out, Naruto fell asleep in one of the tents and the Anbu started a cycle of watch as the Hokage retired for the night.

Suna Gates- 2 days later

Naruto was pretty much treating Dog like a horse by the time that they got to the gates of Suna but the moment that the chunin met them, Naruto got off of Dog and started acting all prim and proper. He stood up straight and stood still by Dog.

The Anbu were impressed that the energetic boy was able to rein it in and keep still. Although that would probably change by the time that they got to the hotel room.

"Welcome Hokage, the Kazekage has been expecting you. We humbly request that your Anbu guard remain out of sight along with your guest."

Hiruzen nodded before turning around and pushing a few bills of ryo into Naruto's hand, "Please try not to spend it all on one place." Hiruzen stood up and faced Dog who nodded at the silent request. If one could see behind the mask then they could see Dog's eyes which said that he would watch over Naruto. And with that Naruto was left to wander the city under the watchful eye of Dog, while Hiruzen headed for the Kazekage building in order to discuss the treaty.

Naruto of course let his excitment loose when he started looking around Suna, his bright clothes and lack of desert garb attracted quite a bit of attention. Although when some of the shinobi spotted the Anbu that was staying out of sight of the civilians then they knew that the boy wasn't to be messed with. The shinobi left him alone and to the civilians he was simply another tourist and they simply smiled at the young boy who seemed to bring joy and cheer wherever he was.

It was a change from the fear that they had of Gaara, who had just killed his fifth that week. Nobody could seem to touch him due to the fact that the sand always protected him and since half of Suna was pretty much solid sand, the other half was sandstone, Gaara was pretty much untouchable.

Naruto went from shop to shop looking around, seeing what Suna had to offer and to the young boy it was pretty impressive. He didn't know what he wanted to do first, even though it was rather hot and dry in the desert he didn't seem to mind. Hell to Dog it looked like the heat didn't even phase the young boy as he walked around Suna without sweating a drop. It amazed some of the Suna civilians as well, they just couldn't believe that one so young could adapt to the heat so quick.

Some people who were living in the desert heat all their life couldn't still get over how dry it was in Suna.

Naruto wandered until he took a rest at a local playground, where he noticed something that he found to be interesting. So Naruto sat back and watched what was going on.

"Where'd the ball go?" a few kids ran into the park, where a single red headed boy was waiting with the ball in hand.

The boy didn't say a word, but the other kids noticed the boy. At the sight of him the children froze and slowly began to back up.

"Oh, that's okay... you can keep the ball!" the children yelled as they began to run away from the poor red head. Naruto found that to be kind of sad, and so he hopped off of the bench and he walked over ot the red head.

"Hey want to play ball?" Naruto put his hand on the boys shoulder and the boy turned around.

"You would do that with me?" the boy said quietly, obviously not used to being touched or talked to.

"Yeah, I would. So do you want to play? I"m Naruto by the way." Naruto smiled and the boy also smiled although not as brightly.

"My name is Gaara, and yeah I would love to play." again it was said quietly but Naruto backed off and they began kicking the ball back and forth. Dog could only smile, it was nice to see that Naruto had made a friend in another village, it would be a sad break up when they left but hopefully this was the kind of friendship that lasted despite the distance and village difference.

Suna-4 Hours Later- Quicksand Pits

Somehow the little game of kick the ball around had migrated from the playground to the equivalent of Konoha's forest of death, the Suna Quicksand Pits. For Gaara the last four hours had been the best of his life he had a friend. He'd never played ball before, but Naruto had been kind and accommodating and had been patient with Gaara. Gaara couldn't believe that he had his first friend. Granted Gaara was not stupid and knew that Naruto wasn't from the village, his clothing and the fact that the Anbu was trailing him was big signs.

Although for reasons that Gaara couldn't fathom, the Anbu wasn't paying attention to them. Not like it mattered anyways seeing as he got to play with Naruto for a little more. It would be until some ninja came to drag Gaara back to the house when they couldn't play for the rest of the day. Naruto returned the ball a little hard and to the right, allowing for it to sail right over the fence and into the QuickSand Pits.

"Don't worry Gaara! I'll go get that ball for us!" Naruto said as he ran right into the field of the Quicksand Pits. He grabbed the ball easily, and waved back to Gaara who smiled and motioned for Naruto to come back. As fate would have it, a random whirlpool of quicksand opened underneath Naruto. Naruto didn't stand a chance, his foot was grabbed by the sinking sand and he lost balance. He toppled face first into the sand and was quickly sucked underneath the surface.

Gaara was shocked, he needed to save Naruto! Reaching out with his sand, Gaara grabbed what little of Naruto was still above the surface, his left arm and pulled. The only thing that could be heard was a sickening crunch, a pop, and a scream before the quicksand pits were quiet again. All Gaara's sand brought him was the remains of Naruto's left arm, his fore-arm. Gaara was shocked, why did this have to happen to him!? He had just gained one friend only to loose him just as quickly!

And so for the first time in his life, Gaara collapsed to his knees and hugged the forearm of what used to be his friend. All the while Dog wasn't paying attention and instead giggling at the small orange book that was in his pocket. He was unaware of the tragedy that just took place, and the cries of Gaara were lost on him.

Unknown amount of time Later- Unknown Location

Naruto woke up with a groan, his head hurt and he couldn't feel the forearm or hand of his left arm. Shaking his head he slowly got up, making sure that his legs would support his body weight. Leaning against what he assumed to be the wall, Naruto rubbed his eyes with his right hand and looked at his left arm trying to figure why it was so numb. What scared him was the fact that his entire left arm was gone from the elbow. It was scabbed over but the skin was rapidly growing back, as if the arm was cut off. And so doing the only sensible thing that Naruto could do, he screamed.

After what seemed to be a few minutes, Naruto calmed down and collapsed on the floor, leaning against the wall of whatever room that he was in. The walls seemed to be a shiny type of brass color and they were reflective allowing Naruto to look into his reflections. Getting up Naruto leaned heavily up against the wall that he was on and he started walking. He didn't know where he was but he knew that he could go back the same way that he came in. He would have to find an exit on his own and he knew that it was probably going to be just as unpleasant as the entrance.

The walls were stylized with art and what appeared to be unknown letters that where incomprehensible to his five year old mind. But he got that the pictures were telling a basic story of what appeared to be some person. Was this a tomb of some type? Naruto didn't know but he was getting creeps from this place and he wanted to leave as soon as freaking possible. Although his legs wouldn't take him any faster and he didn't trust them to carry his weight without the support of the wall so he just continued taking it all in.

The hallway ended abruptly and Naruto came to a large room, and he stopped to take it all in again. The room was huge, and in the center of it was what appeared to be a table with items covered in dust on it. But between the table and Naruto was a large chasm that when Naruto looked down he could see a thick black sludge that did not look pleasant to take a dip in. There was a series of platforms and pillars that Naruto could jump to and from to get to the center of the room. So always the risk taker, Naruto looked forward and made the first leap.

It wasn't like there was any way of him getting out going back, so he might as well cross the room. Landing on the first platform there was no problems what so ever. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad. Naruto cursed himself for jinxing it when the platform underneath him shifted. He started running and running platform to platform. He didn't stop running and jumping between platforms, although it wasn't enough. He felt the platform underneath him start to fall and he was a bit late on the jump causing him to only grab onto the edge of the last platform but with his lacking strength and lack of two arms Naruto wasn't able to pull himself up. And so when Naruto's grip failed, he fell into the dark sludge below.

Well... I hoped that you enjoyed chapter one of this story, I don't know when chapter two will be coming out but expect it some time in the future. I would love some positive feedback and I hope that everybody has a good day/night!