AN: Right, so for Christmas I got Rune Factory 4 and immediately fell in love with the game. I played non-stop for hours and I now have the main storyline finished. Shortly afterwards, I got an idea. I thought, "Hey, why not see if there are any crossovers of this series and Naruto?" So, I went on FanFiction and looked. Sure enough, there were. Which was only a sad number of 2 stories. The most reviews one of them having is 3 and it wasn't even the same game that I had in mind for this story. Then again, no offense to the author this is just my personal opinion, it was poorly written with only 215 words. So, after thinking for awhile, I decided to write my own story! To be quite honest, I'm not expecting that many reviews on this considering how under-the-radar this crossover is. But, reviews would be very nice and I would love to see what you think of the story. Lastly, this story will be Naruto-centric with the beginning part being first-person before switching over to third. Now, without further ado, I shall begin the story!
Disclaimer: I do not own the Rune Factory series or Naruto. Both belong to their respectful owners.
A Knight and Her Ninja.
Arc One: Welcome to Selphia!
Prologue.
Pain.
All I could feel was pain. Every bone in my body ached so badly that they refused to move. My muscles were sore to the point of numbness. To top it all off, I had a killer headache. I could feel a cool liquid running down my neck, starting from the top of my head. I didn't know what it was, but now that I think about it, I really don't want to know. I groggily opened my eyes and then immediately closed them. I felt my headache worsen as my eyes tried and failed to adjust to what they saw. I slowly opened them once more and let them adjust. My vision started out blurry before ever so slowly focusing in and clearing up. I could now make out what looked liked a desert battlefield. Wild fires were burning everywhere along with jagged pieces of rock jutting out of the ground. It was then that my brain registered what I was seeing and my eyes widened in shock.
Hell.
That one word pretty much summed up what an 18 year-old, blond haired, blue-eyed teen was currently viewing. Bloodied bodies littered the battlefield as far as the eye could see. Some of the corpses were missing limbs, while others were destroyed beyond recognition. The blond teen nearly vomited at the sight but used all of his will power not to. Struggling, the teen propped himself up against the rock that he was resting on. The teen did this while ignoring the pain that surged throughout his entire body at the slightest movement. When he got himself into a somewhat comfortable position, the teen noticed his attire.
The teenager was dressed in what he guessed had been an orange and black jacket on top of a black T-shirt. The jacket was torn everywhere with holes the size of his hand. His shirt, well, what remained of it, worse-off than his jacket. The black T-shirt was barely holding onto his sweat and blood covered body by only a few threads. When the teen's gaze inspected his lower body, he found that his bloodstained, orange track-pants and sandals were in a slightly better condition than his jacket and shirt. Still, the track-pants had their fair amount of holes in them as well.
The teen returned his gaze to the battlefield where he could only wonder one question.
'What's going on, where am I?'
As he tried to make sense of what was happening around him, a new thought entered his mind.
'Who am I?'
The teen struggled to remember his name, as he assumed that he had one. He heard a small voice in the back of his mind. The voice was soft and faint, and he couldn't make out what it was saying. The voice came again yet this time it was a little louder. The voice he heard felt familiar to him, yet foreign all at the same time. The teen couldn't make heads-or-tails of it and shook his head in confusion. The voice came again yet more clearer than its pervious attempts. The voice was low and had a masculine tone to it. It also had a harsh edge to it and seemed... annoyed? The teen had absentmindedly made note of these things. However, what caught his attention the most was what the voice said. Two simple words but two words that meant the world to the teen.
Naruto Uzumaki.
'Is... is that my name?' The teen thought. He repeated the words several times in his head and the more he said it, the more he was sure that it was his name.
'Naruto... Uzumaki. Yes... That's my name, it has to be it!' The newly named Naruto thought with excitement and conviction. Naruto began to once again observe his surroundings and was still confused and horrified at the sight. Everywhere he looked he only saw corpses. Not a single living person was standing on the on the battlefield. Naruto was then overcome with an emotion that was very familiar to him. Loneliness. There was not a single person that could help him and he felt alone, confused, and afraid. Naruto was beginning to lose all hope of someone finding him when a miracle happened.
Naruto jumped when he felt a hand collapse on his shoulder. He immediately looked towards the source and was both surprised and overwhelmed with joy at what he saw.
There stood a man with gravity-defying silver hair. The man wore a bloodstained, forest-green, flack-jacket. Underneath the flack-jacket was a dark-blue body suit with several rips and tears in it. On his pants was a pouch that looked like it would fall off if the tiniest breeze would brush it. The most prominent feature of the man was the torn-up headband that covered his left eye completely with the rest of his lower face being covered up by a mask.
It was then that Naruto noticed the concern and worry that was shone in the man's lone eye. The man seemed to be speaking but Naruto couldn't hear him. Naruto tilted his head to the side in confusion. This response seemed the placate the man before he started speaking again. Once again Naruto couldn't hear him or the world around him. This went on for several minutes before a giant shadow loomed over the two, startling the pair into looking up.
What Naruto saw then would forever scar his mind and continue to haunt him in his dreams for the rest of his life. There stood towering over the wasteland was the most enormous creature he had ever seen, (even if he couldn't remember anything past ten minutes ago.) The creature, no, titan stood, radiating the most horrifying feeling that Naruto had experienced. Naruto felt so much hate and malice that he wanted to do practically anything to escape it.
The beast stood towering the two humans at a height that made Naruto feel like a grain of rice compared to. The body of the beast was somewhat humanoid with two muscular arms, but that was where the similarities ended. The titan had ten tails that were just as long as the beast itself. Each tail looked like they could reshape the earth drastically with a single swipe. Jutting out of the titan's back looked to be like wooden spikes that could pierce even the hardest metals without any effort. But the one thing that caught Naruto's attention was the monsters' lone eye. The entirety of the eye was blood-red. The pupil had three black rings expanding out of the center of the eye along with three comma-like marks were on each ring, giving it an intimidating look. However, these features alone weren't what scared Naruto the most of the eye. No, it was the hate that was contained in the eye that scared him. All that hate was directed on Naruto and the man that stood by him. This is what scared Naruto the most.
The man shook Naruto out of his daze, putting Naruto's sole attention on the man. The man spoke but Naruto still couldn't hear him. However, Naruto did see urgency in the man's eye and was slightly confused. His confusion ended when he saw what the man was pointing at.
One of the titan's tails was moving with the intent to crush them at an alarming rate.
Naruto felt fear rise up in him as he looked to the man, silently praying for a miracle to save them. Instead of a miracle, the man raised the headband and uncovered his left eye. What Naruto saw slightly surprised him. The man's left eye was blood-red like the titan's, only the man's had three comma-like marks in them without any rings at all. Then Naruto was surprised once again the design of the man's left eye morphed into what looked like three stretched triangles with the points curving at the top to form a circle.
Naruto voiced out his confusion about what the man was planning to do but, to his shock, found that no sound was produced. Naruto saw the man's gaze shift to the oncoming tail and found it surprisingly closer than before. The man shifted his gaze back to Naruto before saying one last word that left Naruto confused.
"Goodbye, Naruto. Kamui," the man said, much to Naruto's obvious shock. Naruto then felt a strong pulling in his chest. He looked down and found what looked like a small, black hole in the center of his chest, right above the navel. Naruto felt his entire body begin to warp around the black hole before being sucked in. He looked up at the man with utter shock on his face, then he noticed the tail of the titan was nearly on top of them.
Right as the tail was about to strike them, Naruto's vision went black.
AN: Alright! Prologue is done and it took several re-writes before I was satisfied with it. Incase I forgot to mention this before, this story will be a crossover with Rune Factory 4. I honestly don't know what else to say considering I'm wiped out and it's 1 AM at the moment. So, I hope that all of you who decide to read this will enjoy it. Reviews are always welcome and I appreciate constructive-criticism.
