[A/N] Alright guys, this A/N is going in the first chapter of all my new stories. I have a large assortment of fanfics I've had in my back pocket for a while now, but I've been unable to find a beta for any of them. That being said, the ones I'm posting right now are all open to beta readers, and until I get one, they are HEAVILY reliant on feedback.

This does mean that the ones that get more feedback will be worked on more. Honestly, I've got a few chapters written ahead for each, but I'm not going to keep working on fics that no one likes.

Also, yes, this is part of the reason the TPOYB rewrite is taking so long. It is not the only reason, however. I doubt I would work on it any faster without these extra fics. I write these when I have time and don't feel up to taking on TPOYB or my original work. I'm only posting these three, I Chose Rapture, Something New, and Avatars, for the moment as my others are currently more of an outline than anything else.

I do hope you enjoy these as they are ideas I've been toying with for a while and really feel they are unique and different. So if you're checking out one, check the others to see if they also interest you.

Other than that, expect updates to be slow as with my other stories.

Now as for my note about this fic in particular:

So, I was a little disappointed. There are three Naruto/Shadow of the Colossus crossovers. Three. So much untapped potential! That being said, this in not just a crossover with SOC. There are plot elements taken from Ico and Last Guardian. But since I can only tag two…

Anyways, if you aren't familiar with those, only with SOC, let me know and I'll try my best to describe the necessary events throughout the story. I hope you all enjoy.

*Update to the AN*

IMPORTANT (if you haven't played ICO or Last Guardian) So, a friend recommended I do this for people who haven't played Ico or Last Guardian, like her. And it's stupid that I didn't think to do it sooner. I'm going to lay out the only real important information from those games in my story right here in the A/N just in case I fail to implement it well enough.

The Queen - The main antagonist of Ico. She was cloaked in shadow and used shadow creatures similar to those in in Shadow of the Colossus. She tried to take over the body of her daughter to avoid death. In the end, the player kills her with the Queen's Sword, much like the one from SOC gained from the time trials, and her castle sinks into the ocean.

The Master of the Valley - The main "antagonist" of Last Guardian. I use quote marks because the Master is a spherical construct with no obvious motivations other than to maintain its power. It uses signals to control suits of armor and giant flying creatures called Trico to capture children. The children become covered in strange markings consumed by the Master. The suits of armor receive the signals through blue horns on the helmets, similar to the horns of the Trico.

The Nest - The setting of Last Guardian. Massive ruins in a crater/valley surrounded by sheer cliffs. The only way in or out is flight.

And that's pretty much it. Should be anyways.

SEVEN YEARS AGO

"Can you put him on the contract or not, Shima?" Minato demanded.

Shima looked up at him like he was crazy. "We can, Minato, but having one so young on a summoning contract, what if he summons us by accident? What kind of havok could he cause?"

He spat up blood, his vision blurring as he looked over Kushina's shoulder at their son. "I don't care. Jiraiya and Tsunade are good people, but they're hardly responsible, especially with everything going on in Tsunade's life right now. He'll need someone to look after him when he's old enough."

"Please, Shima," Kushina pleaded. "He's a Jinchuriki. He'll need all the allies he can get."

Shima sighed and gave in. A scroll appeared in her hands.

Kushina smiled down at Naruto as she slumped over. "Watch over him," she whispered in her final moments.

Naruto ran through the forest, tears trailing from his face. His fists and teeth were clenched in rage as voices ran through his mind.

'You couldn't beat me even if you could summon.'

'Summon? What animal would choose the deadlast?'

'Mom says he'll always be alone.'

"I hate them. I hate them all!" he cried out, stopping to sit under a tree. "They'll never believe in me. I'll show them!" He bit his finger and went through the summoning hand signs, wanting to summon anything, anything at all to show them how wrong they were.

Seals spread out around him before an ornate symbol glowed under his feet, a pillar of light shot into the sky, and everything went white.

"You have no right to the boy!"

Something laughed, it's dual man and woman voices speaking in disjointed synchronicity. "We have every right to him. He is of our blood."

"You have no blood, Dormin!"

"We were fused with his ancestor. His is the greatest concentration of our power to appear since the laws changed and the seals were undone."

"He is signed to our contract!"

"And thou have done nothing to serve the boy. We could not. There was no pull, until now. He has tried to summon aid. We felt the pull.

"We couldn't help him until he called upon us."

"Thou could have reverse summoned him, taken him to Mount Myoboku to see how he fared. He may have summoned you through your contract, but we were called through his spirit."

"What do you want with the boy, dark creature?"

"Thou are just as the old civilisations were, confusing darkness for evil. Be gone."

Naruto felt his ears ringing as he awoke. What had happened? He remembered...He remembered- He clutched at his head in agony as memories came back to him, the pain his body had felt when he had tried to summon something. Where was he?

He sat up, looking around to see an empty, white expanse. "Where am I?" he asked himself.

"Thou art in limbo." He turned to the voice, seeing a pale, horned figure. "We are Dormin."

"Dormin?" Naruto asked in confusion. "Are-are you my summons?"

"In a sense," Dormin said. A massive scroll formed next to him, shadows leaking through the seams. "The Shinigami, as thou know him, gave us this."