This is Chapter 1.

Hey guys, this is Qrious and I've... run into a bit of a problem with my other stories, the ol' imagination tank is running a bit dry so... yeah.

Though I do have something to say about this one.

I have a really bad feeling about this fic. I don't know why but I get this feeling that this'll be... not bad, but- I just have a general bad feeling about this.

Anyways... yeah. This is a NarutoxNier:Automata Xover. And I think this is the first crossover story in that section.

Also, just wanted to say that I don't know what I'm going to do with this storywise. I mean aside from following the events that happened in the game along with writing completely new ones I don't know which direction this will go at. This is just a prototype chapter though, if this'll garner enough attention then I'll continue it if not then it'll sit here.

Forever.

Also this starts at least a few months -maybe weeks- or so before the events of Automata.

P.S. This story will be told primarily through Naruto's perspective so any technical terms or sentences like 'the robot spoke in a synthesised voice' would be more like 'the robot was talking as if it were speaking in front of a fan/the robot said in a weird voice' since I think that would be more how Naruto would describe it or look at it. Except if the scene is being viewed from the machines' or androids' perspective.

Anyways, please do enjoy this doomed to fail -hopefully not- fic

Edit 9/8/17: Edited and Beta'd by Recycler on 8/24/17.

Disclaimer: I Don't own Naruto or Nier: Automata. This author does not have the creativity to make those.


"Where the hell am I?" said the blond haired, whiskered young man, none other than Naruto Uzumaki, Jinchuuriki to Kurama, the Nine Tailed Fox, Shinobi of Konohagakure no Sato, Toad Sage of Mt. Myoboku, and so on. And right now he is currently lost.

He had no idea how he got here. Barely a few minutes ago he was in a fight for both his life and the faith of the Elemental Nations, a battle he was waging against Kaguya Ōtsutsuki alongside teammate-turned-traitor-turned-teammate Sasuke Uchiha, a fight they were losing badly.

At first they were pushing her back, but then things rapidly started going south after Obito got turned to dust. It was all one big blur after that and soon only he and Sasuke stood against the Rabbit Goddess and her plans of world domination. In another time and another place they may have succeeded in their fight against her. Sasuke soon met his demise after getting caught off guard by Kaguya's All-Killing Ash Bones and in a desperate attempt to seal away the ancient menace transferred his Six Paths Yin Chakra to Naruto, but even then it wasn't enough.

Kaguya was already a wickedly lethal opponent when he was fighting her alongside his teammates and Obito, but now that he was on his own it would take a miracle to defeat her. And he got that miracle, though not in the way he wanted it to happen, and not in a way that he could explain the events that followed.

As if some god of the heavens above was listening to him he found an opening in the form of Kaguya suddenly keeling over and grasping her head, as though suffering a migraine. He didn't think much of it at the time, since he hadn't the time to waste pondering such a strange occurrence, but as soon his hand touched Kaguya to begin sealing her away, his entire world went white and he lost his consciousness immediately after.

When he came to, he found himself staring, not at the desolate alternate dimension where he and Kaguya last fought, but rather a place that could best be described as a concrete jungle. Standing up he felt that his chakra reserves, to his surprise, were completely full... as though he never even used it at all. The same could be said for his clothes, as what was once little more than tattered fabric was restored to perfect condition.

Taking a look at his surroundings, he studied the large concrete structures. 'They look like those buildings in Amegakure.' But the ones in Amegakure were nothing compared to the ones here.

While most of the buildings here were overrun with vegetation and decay, there were a few that still stood, albeit precariously, that dwarfed anything in the Hidden Rain Village. Though one thing did pop up into his mind as he surveyed the ruined area.

"What could have happened here?"

"What the HELL did you get us into this time, Naruto?" an all too familiar voice spoke in his head.

'Kurama? Is that you?'

Kurama mentally rolled his eyes at the rather ridiculous question, "No it's your long lost uncle come back to pay such an intelligent nephew a visit," he answered sarcastically.

'No need to be so damn grumpy.' Naruto said with a pout.

"I'm not grumpy, I've always been like this."

'Grumpy?'

"...Moving back to my previous question, where are we? This doesn't look like anywhere remotely near the Elemental Nations. And believe me, I'd be the first to know where the ruins are."

Naruto cringed. 'Because you caused more than half of those ruins?'

"...perhaps."

'We need to have a talk about your destructive tendencies.' Naruto thought dryly as he took one final look at the area.

'Well. No point in staying around here. Might as well try finding people, wherever they may be.'

"Smartest thing you've said all day."


"Damn it. It's been five hours already and there's still no sign of people," Naruto muttered as he walked through the ruined cityscape.

'Not to mention how bizarre the weather is acting.' He sent a confused glance at the sun. When he woke up five hours ago it looked like the sun was just starting to come up for the day, yet in the three of those five hours it was as though the sun wasn't moving from it's position.

It should've been way up in the sky right now, rather than being just above the horizon. In fact, it wasn't until he started moving east that sun started to come up.

He may not have been some astro-wiz who could memorize the stars and planets, but even he knew that wasn't normal.

'What about you Kurama? Sense something on your end?'

Naruto sighed. The fox had been giving the silent treatment for the past few hours. He just wanted Kurama to be a little less Biju-bomb-happy. After all, the locals probably wouldn't like it for their homes to become smoldering craters. If there were any locals left, anyway. Given that for the past five hours of walking he could see nary a soul...

"Naruto."

'Yeah?'

"I know you're not the sharpest crayon in the box, but is there any special reason why you aren't using your Kage Bunshin?"

Kurama palmed his face as he groaned out, "...You forgot about it, didn't you?"

'...Maybe…'

"Our hero, ladies and gentlemen."

Ignoring the Tailed Beast, Naruto set about a set of sixty clones, divided evenly into three groups. Clone Group A would scour the city for any salvageable information. While it had most certainly seen better days, the city surely had to have some sort of library or government building with relevant intel on where he was.

Clone Group B was tasked with collecting food, something his late mentor Jiraiya of the Sannin had drilled into his head as being critical to survival in unknown areas.

And finally, Clone Group C was tasked with finding ingredients that can be used to make ramen. He may not have been capable of remaking the flavors of Ichiraku Ramen (only the gods could recreate such manna) but he'd be damned if he'd have to live in a world without ramen.

As the clones left to do their assigned tasks, Naruto took a seat on the chair that had very conveniently appeared behind him while he was distracted.

Wait a minute.

Naruto's hands groped the object he was sitting on, proving that it was in fact a chair. But it was also a chair that wasn't there before. Not to mention he didn't detect the presence of anything near him OR in the general area around him so that ruled out the possibility of someone putting it there.

Naruto broke out into a cold sweat. Truly, there was only one possible answer as to why that chair suddenly appeared.

"GHOSTS!"


As Naruto panicked and fled at the speed of a race car, a few dozen meters or so away multiple sets glowing yellow eyes were staring at the running blond. Every so often some of the eyes turned to look at each other, pondering the sight before them.

The eyes observed the blond as he ran around the area. When he brandished one of his kunai knives, some of the eyes turned a bright crimson, fearing that their position had been given away and that their query had turned hostile. They soon came to the conclusion that he hadn't when Naruto put his kunai back into his pouch, groaned, and palmed his face with both hands in frustration.

Another hour of observations later found the still-unaware Naruto tense and his eyes keeping a sharp lookout for anything out of the ordinary. As he sat he held his head as his mind was bombarded by the information his clones found. And it confirmed what Kurama thought.

"Just as we feared, we're no longer in the Elemental Nations. Let alone our own world."

'But we did undo the Infinite Tsukuyomi, right?'

Kurama shrugged, "I don't know, but even if we didn't there's still Hagoromo-jiji to undo the genjutsu."

Naruto sighed in relief at that. Kurama wasn't relieved at all. When he said that Hagoromo was able to dispel the Tsukuyomi, that didn't necessarily mean it would happen. The Sage may have had the Rinnegan and technically had the chakra of all the Tailed Beasts due to being the first Jinchūriki, but since he wasn't technically alive, being only a spirit communicating with them, there were good (terrible) odds that their world was utterly doomed without them.

The reason he lied to his host was purely practical; Any hostiles reacting to a foreign threat would take advantage of the distraught young man's emotional turmoil to kill, capture, or otherwise incapacitate him, and if Naruto believed that his friends could still be saved then it would motivate him to keep them both safe.

It would also give the Kyuubi time to figure out how to break the bad news to him later, though he had a sneaking suspicion that his lie was going to come back and bite him in the ass.

Though he supposed he would have to tell him that there was a good chance Kaguya had followed them both here.

'Kaguya's what!?'

Kurama froze and blinked in confusion. "Did I just say that out loud?"

So much for THAT plan...

Naruto ignored his question in favor of the large bombshell Kurama unintentionally dropped. 'That psycho bunny-woman is here!?'

Kurama groaned into his paw, "Ugh, and here I was hoping to break it to you delicately. Yes, Naruto. Kaguya may or may not be here with us."

'Is she here or not here?'

"Well, she's not here with us right now..."

'Huh?'

While the fox was trying to be as vague as possible as to whether or not Kaguya landed in this world with them, which he also knew would be a really bad idea but oh well, the multiple eyes that were watching Naruto at a distance began blinking. This wasn't just random blinking though; they decided not to communicate vocally since they sensed that Naruto had better than average hearing. To avoid detection, they spoke to each other through another medium.

Then, all as one, their yellow eyes briefly turned green before switching back to yellow. One set of yellow eyes moved towards Naruto with mechanical footsteps.

Hearing something approaching him, Naruto momentarily muted Kurama -"Screw you too, Naruto!"- to see what it was. He was surprised at what he saw.

What could only be described as a human-sized wind-up toy with stubby legs, flat feet, a rusty, can-shaped body, and a mouthless spherical head with circular yellow eyes approached him.

The small metal being walked towards him with it's short legs carrying it as fast as it could. When it reached him, all it did was stare up at his face, though in reality it was doing far more than that.


Have made contact with Unknown.

Is the Unknown one an android?

Hold. Scanning. Strange. Unit cannot get proper scan.

Is it possible Unknown has a jamming device.

Unlikely. Jamming device would have been immediately noticed by us upon entering area.

Reiteration of previous statement. Unknown is more similar to predatory vulpine species found near and within the forest than to Cold Ones. Unknown is also similar to androids, though only in outward appearance.

Conjecture. Perhaps Unknown is a new weapon made by the androids, particularly from those that come from space?

Hypothesis. Perhaps Unknown is... human?

Extremely unlikely. All records obtained from knowledge sources and planetary sweeps have concluded that the species known as 'humans' have long since been extinct. Some of our fellow Machine Lifeforms appear to partake in human practices.

Like us.

Indeed.

Return to observation. Unknown is approaching you.

Acknowledged.


*tap tap tap*

"Helloooo, anyone there?" Naruto asked as he tapped the head of the Machine. It had been staring at him for nearly a minute now.

"Can you hurry up and kill it already?"

Naruto sweatdropped at Kurama's question. 'Why the hell would I do that? This thing's harmless!'

Kurama offered no answer except for a contemplative hum. Truth be told he was a bit uneasy at the feeling he'd been getting from this metal puppet. It felt like it was being run by nature energy, but at same time it wasn't. Naruto couldn't feel it at the moment because the brat wasn't in Sage Mode, but he knew that if he did he'd be far more cautious around it than he was now.

Suddenly, without warning, the metal-puppet began moving its spherical head.

The machine's head tilted from side to side, as though it was trying to get a better look at him.

Then it spoke.

"Hello."

Naruto blinked. He didn't actually expect the thing to talk, much less in a voice that sounded as though someone was speaking in front of a large table fan, and he responded in the only way he felt appropriate:

"Uh..."


And that's the first chapter.

Truth be told this was supposed to be longer, with it ending with Naruto running into some YoRHa androids or A2 but I felt that would've been a bit too early.

Anyway, like I said in the above Author's Notes, I'm a bit nervous with this one a whole lot more than with Hyperdimension Vacation or Naru Zwei so please leave your most honest as hell comment or criticism. But no 'Go f**k yourself' or 'This is sh*t, go crawl under a rock and die' kind of reviews because you are helping no one.