Okay, I'm sure this has been done before but I don't read a broad spectrum of fanfics so I can't be absolutely sure, but probably. Anyway this is as you know a Blue Exorcist and Naruto crossover. BE story line will be as if Lucifer hadn't attacked yet and Shima is still there. The Naruto story line will be after the attack of Pain on the village but the village reconstruction is finished. There we go so you have the basic set up. This is a prologue and as such will be rather uninformative aside from setup. If you don't like it fine, I don't really care and if I don't get a response then this will go no further. Now without further adieu.=^-^=

Disclaimer - Its a FAN-fiction people.=^-^=

Ch. 1 - Summoning

A young man was walking down a dimly lite hall holding a jar in both hands firmly. He held an expression of determination below his furrowed brow as he quickly passed one torch after another. His lips were making slight movement as if he were mumbling to himself though it was inaudible to anyone if they were near. As he turned a corner a more brightly lit room appeared at the end of the hall and his expression turned to that of a twisted excitement as if his greatest wish were to come true.

Upon entering the room he approached another man wearing several pieces of samurai armor. He looked just short of middle aged with a long black beard and a long scar starting at his firm hairline and going all the way down to his jaw through his left eye. "Is it ready?" He said without facing the man who just entered.

The younger man responded as he kneeled with the jar presented to him. "Yes Lord Raiko."

Raiko peeked over his shoulder at the man and a smile peeked across his lips. "Perfect. The time is drawing near, and we need to start the summoning." He turned back towards the scroll hanging over the large fire pit before him. "The time is upon us." The younger man bowed and backed out of the room, leaving the jar behind on the floor.

Light from the sun peeked through the blinds of the small dorm room of True Cross as morning made itself known. It's attempts to stir the young teenager in the bed were in vain, however, as he simply rolled over waking up the small two tailed cat that was sleeping on one of his legs. "Hey….. what's the big idea?" Little Kuro said while pawing at one of his eyes. He yawned and stretched the sleep from his muscles. Upon seeing the sun through the window fully he walked over the teen's covered form to his head. "It's time to get up Rin. RIN!"

Rin swatted at the cat while grumbling sleepily. "Mmmm….. not yet….. go away…."

Kuro now wore a frown as he walked over to the young teen's face. "But you're the one who told me to wake you up!" He started to paw at the boy's face. "Something about a mission." Rin pulled the covers over his face causing Kuro to fall back a bit.

After a few moments in that state he jerked himself up and frantically looked around the room. "Damn it! Where's Yukio!?"

"He wasn't here when I woke up."

Rin jumped off the bed causing Kuro to once again fall and grabbed the alarm clock. "Holy crap it's 9 already!?" He dropped it back onto the desk and grabbed his uniform from the floor. He was just tucking his tail as he dashed out the door with his sword over his shoulder. "Aww damn I'm gonna be late for class!" Kuro was following close behind as he hurried down the steps, through the halls, and into the dining area.

He stopped cold when he saw a plate of food on the table and for some reason it still seemed to be giving off steam. He felt his stomach growl as he eyed it, and his mind quickly fell into a tug of war over whether to eat or hurry to class. His internal debate was ended short, however, when he heard someone enter the dorm. He turned to the entrance to see Yukio in full exorcist uniform enter the room. Rin's confusion was apparent as he questioned his brother. "Why aren't you in class?"

Yukio raised a brow but it didn't seem to be out of surprise. "There are no classes today, at least not for the regular students."

Rin scratched his head a bit. "Ummm…. Then where did you go so early?"

Yukio cut his eyes at his forgetful brother and responded. "I had a mission this morning; I remember telling you last night and you begging to come, of course there was no waking you up this morning so I didn't bother for too long."

Rin's expression turned disheartened as his jaw dropped at his brother. "WHAT!? Damn I forgot! Couldn't you have tried a bit harder to wake me up!?"

"No." Yukio deadpanned. "Besides it wasn't a big mission so you would have been bored anyway." He then turned to head down the hall. "I'm going to do some homework before class later. I hope you at least started some of yours." He said as he pushed up his glasses.

Rin sighed as he turned to the table with the food waiting. "Damn!... Not only did I miss the mission, but I woke up for nothing." He sat down and began to eat somewhat mournfully. "Hey Rin let's play!"

Rin chewed and swallowed his first bit as he watched Kuro run around in circles on the table before him. "Play?... I guess I could get some more practice in. Last thing I need is Beelzaboobs getting mad at me for slacking off." He piled in his rice as he remembered their training from yesterday. "I swear she's trying to kill me with those crazy sparing sessions!"

He squeezed his eyes shut as he remembered the last thing she said to him as he collapsed on the floor. "You gotta learn the true nature of that flame of yours before you will be able to truly control it. Let's see how long it takes you." He stood up as he finished his meal and Kuro followed him back up to his room.

"Let the ceremony begin!" Raiko walked into the center of a large intricate diagram. Six men sat in key points with their hands together in the standard pose for molding chakra. They all began to chant in unison as Raiko began to form the hand signs of boar, dog, bird, monkey and ram in succession. The final sing he did was rather mysterious as it almost resembled dragon, but it was slightly off; the thumbs were strait not bent.

With one final motion he bit his thumb and slammed his hand to the ground shouting, "Summoning Jutsu, Spawn of the Beast!" The markings along the diagram immediately lit up much to the satisfaction of Raiko who bore a grin. Each of the other men started to chant louder as the light got brighter. It seemed to go as planned until one of the men burst into blue flames with a horrible scream. The man's gaze did not wander from the horrid sight before him as he beckoned the others to keep chanting. "Keep going! We almost have it!"

Once again the clamor of chanting grew louder and a slight panic could be felt on them as another burned up in the blue hell fire. "KEEP GOING!" The chanting continued as another burned up causing the chanting volume to increase. It seemed the men were on the verge of breaking down when a large flame appeared in the center beside Raiko much to the confusion of the other men. "He's almost-"

He could continue as he was distracted by the remaining men bursting into blue flames and screaming for their lives. "NO!" As each men fell the light started to fade and the fire dimmed. "So close!" He fell to his knees and pounded the ground. "I was so close!" He stopped slamming his fist into the ground after he noticed the light from the diagram had faded but the flame had not burned out. "Wait…"

He turned and placed his hands around it. "It's still here?... But that would mean…. I did it!?" He stood up rapidly. "I did it!"

"It seems so my Lord." Raiko turned to the young man standing in the door way with a black cloak and an oni mask placed over his head. "The summoning was incomplete, however, my Lord and the beast could be anywhere."

Raiko turned to him with a stern glare. "Then I want him found Kazema! I want all of the squads out there looking!" The young man once again knelled, pulled down his mask, and disappeared from the door way. Raiko then looked back to the flame. "Once I have the beast then I shall have my chance. Who needs a tailed beast when you could have a demon at your beck and call?" He laughed a bit. "At least once I have it under complete control. The five nations will have a new super weapon to deal with once I'm finished." The flame seemed to dance as then man continued his laugh.

"Young man?" An old man was standing over the form of a teenager sleeping partway into a bush on the side of a dirt road. "You shouldn't be sleeping in such a place." He poked at the boy's leg with a staff.

"Why don't you just leave him be dear and take a rest. It's gonna take half the day to get to the village and longer if you don't take it easy." He turned to the elderly woman sitting on a bench beside a wooden cart. She was dressed in a brown kimono and was fanning herself.

"I can't just leave him there Yuno." He poked at the boy again and this time he seemed to twitch. "Oh?"

One of the legs started rise and the bushes parted as the knee bent. "What the…..?" The young teen looked sleepily up to the man. "What's going on?"

The old man scratched his head under the straw hat. "You were sleeping on the side of the road boy. Don't you know that's dangerous?"

Rin scratched his head as he tried to snap out of his drowsy daze. "Sleeping….. on the side of a road?" He looked around at spotted the dirt road and then noticed he was surrounded by trees. "Whoa….. where am I?"

That threw the old man a bit. "Forgot where you went ta sleep eh? Well were on our way to Konoha and its further down that way." He pointed to his right. "If you go this way you'll end up at a nice hot spring village called Kameha." He pointed to his left.

Rin turned his head in confusion. "What? I've never heard of any of those places."

The old man turned to his wife. "I think he must'a hit his head somewhere."

She stood up and walked over. "Oh dear, are you alright?"

Rin stood up and dusted the leaves off of him. "Yeah and I don't think I hit my head." He rubbed at his head to see if there were any bumps. "Though I don't remember falling asleep here. I was on my dorm roof."

"Dorm?" The man questioned while throwing a questioning glance to his wife who shrugged in return.

"Yeah, I was with….. KURO!" Rin started to look around in a panicked state. "Where'd Kuro go!?" He frantically searched the bushes he'd been sleeping in.

"Now who's this Kuro?"

Rin continued to search the bushes as he answered. "He's a two-tailed cat and he was taking a nap with me."

After watching the boy file through the branches for ten minutes the old man decided to step in. "It would seem that your cat idn't here. Maybe he wandered off somewhere."

Rin turned to him with a sigh. "Yeah, maybe….."

"Where are you from boy?" The old woman asked.

"I'm from True Cross Academy, in Academy town."

The old couple traded confused glances. "Never heard of such a place."

"How could you not? It's huge."

The old man shook his head. "Sorry, but the biggest village around here is Konoha."

It was Rin's turned to be confused as he mulled over the foreign name. "….. this can't be right….." He was shaken out of his thoughts when his stomach growled. He blushed a bit as he placed his hand on his belly. "Oh… I guess I missed lunch."

The old couple laughed. "You don't look like you're from around here anyway, but if you'd like some food, I think we got enough to share." Yuno then pulled out a wrapped box from the cart.

"Really!?" Rin asked excitedly.

"Of course boy, now come on." He waved him over to the bench. As soon as they finished eating the old man walked over and lifted the bar at the head of the cart and struggled a bit in lifting it. "We best move on if we want to get to the village before nightfall."

Yuno got up to join him. "Yes that would be best." She turned and waved to the young man. "I hope you find your cat."

The boy watched as the old man struggled to pull the cart and furrowed his brow. "Here, let me help." He stood and moved over to the man to grab the bar.

"It's alright boy, I can handle it. I doubt you have the-" He was cut off when the teen held the bar up with ease and the old man let go.

"Sorry old timer but I'm stronger than I look. Just let me do this to pay you back for the meal alright?"

The man turned to his wife with a baffled smile. "I don't know…."

The boy jerked the cart down and up scooping the old man up in the process. "Believe me, I can handle this."

The man straightened himself in surprise as he watched the young man before him pull not only the cart but him as well. "It seems you are stronger then ya look." He was scratching his head as he turned to his wife again.

"My names Rin by the way, Rin Okumura and you should both ride on the cart. It'll be faster this way."

The old woman hesitantly complied as her husband helped her up. "Well thank you Rin. My names Hiro and this is my wife Yuno. It's simply amazing you can pull this much weight."

Rin did grunt a bit as he responded. "No problem." The cart was going at a nice speed in no time at all, much faster than the old couple expected.

Only a few hours passed before the village was in full view. "Would ya look at that Yuno, we made it here in record time." Rin took in the sight as he pulled the heavy cart along. "Whoa… this place is huge."

Yuno laughed a bit at his reaction. "Well yes, but what would you expect from one of the great ninja villages? Their recent reconstruction seems almost finished as well."

Rin turned to them in curiosity without stopping. "Ninja village? Reconstruction….. what happened?"

"You musta come from some place real far off if you ain't heard. They were attacked a few months ago by some rouges. Almost destroyed the whole village in the attack too."

Yuno place a finger on her chin. "The strangest thing is that I heard there weren't any deaths."

Rin turned back to the village now only a few minutes from them. "Okay, so it's a huge village full of ninjas… wait NINJAS!? That's so cool!"

He picked up his pace much to the surprise of the old couple who had to steady themselves from the jerk he caused. "Whoa Rin, the village ain't goin anywhere!"

He did let up a bit in response. "Sorry it's just it sounded so cool." They continued at that nice quick pace until they reached the gates around mid-afternoon.

"Well if it isn't old man Hiro!" Hiro walked over to a station with two men wearing ninja attire sat. The one who spoke had spiky black hair and a bandage over his nose.

"Afternoon Kotetsu."

"Here a bit early aren't you?" The other ninja said. This one had dark brown hair peeking out from the bandana that covered most of his head.

"Yeah, I ran into the strangest kid on the way here. He hauled my load part of the way here with both me and Yuno on top of it." He pointed behind him where Rin had helped Yuno down after setting the cart bar down.

Both Kotetsu and Izumo looked at the boy with interest. "And you were hauling your normal amount of iron and steel?"

The old man turned to watch Rin as well. "Actually, I have a bit more than normal which is why I didn't expect to get here before nightfall. He saved me a great deal of work."

Izumo stood up and walked over to inspect the cart while Kotetsu continued to talk to the old man. "He looks a bit odd."

"Yup and I found 'em sleepin on the side of the road about half a day's walk from here. Told me he was from some place called True Cross and he'd never heard of Konoha. I think he might of takin a hit to the head to be honest."

Kotetsu's brow furrowed in confusion at the news. "That is weird…"

"He's a good kid though. Volunteered to help me out even though I'd just met him."

Izumo came back over. "It's clear Hiro. I'm sure Kirin will be happy to have an early delivery." They both waved the old man off before Izumo join Kotetsu back behind the station.

"So what did you think?" Their faces became a bit serious as Kotetsu asked.

"He seemed harmless from what I could gather. Told me his name was Rin Okumura."

"But..?"

"Yeah, something was bit off about him. I couldn't really put my finger on it though." Izumo crossed his arms as he tried to think. "Think we should have him under observation?"

"That would be best considering recent events."

And there it is. If you love it or hate it that's up to you. Like I said, if I get no response then this will not continue and I'll take it down later. I also don't think it'll be as complicated or intricate as other fics out there so just think of it as one of those weird filler arcs featuring another anime instead of some random scenario that will never be used in the rest of the manga... now that I think of it I guess filler arcs are like fanfics. To respond leave a review. I will also answer any questions posed to me and feel free to point out mistake or inconsistencies.=^-^=