Heroes of The Planet
A Naruto/Final Fantasy VII crossover
Disclaimer: I own nothing, merely borrowing, would like to not be sued. Everything shown is owned by its legal owner.
Prologue
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January 17, 2067
So.....We've been in this new world for two weeks. After I woke up three days into it, I found myself in a hospital-like room. There were a couple bandages around my waist, and my right arm was in a sling. I had a couple of machines attached to me, and the boy was in the next bed, wrapped in bandages. When he woke up, he freaked a bit. He didn't know where he was and he was restrained. I got him to calm down enough to explain things. It was pretty hard breaking it to the kid. I hardly have any idea what I did myself.
--(Flashback)---
Jiraiya dodged unsteadily to the left, only to get another crimson claw in the side. He slammed hard into a boulder, groaning at the loud pop. He must have broken a rib. Or five. He couldn't tell because of the AGONIZING PAIN he was in. He cracked an eye open to see what he'd created.
In front of him wasn't that goofy, lovable blond that he'd grown look at as his own boy. In front of him was a Four-tailed avatar of destruction. The Kyuubi's chakra had become so potent to the boy that it had melted his skin off, his blood seeping out of every pore to meld with the chakra cloak shielding his body.
The Super Pervert looked down at his chest, where he was bleeding heavily from a grapefruit sized hole in his chest. He could swear that he could see his heart beating. Which was bad. He didn't know why he was laughing.
It was a lucky thing that it seemed to confuse the fox, for it stopped and stared curiously at him, as he seemed to laugh maniacally to himself.
Slowly, Jiraiya reached up and dabbed his fingertips in his blood that was staining his best outfit. He sat up straight and shook his sleeve back on his right arm, and began to write.
The fox slowly began to amble towards him, not quite sure what it's prey was doing. It distinguished the movements, but couldn't register it as good or bad. As Jiraiya finished up, his years of writing allowing him to write quickly, yet legibly. He held out his hand and collected his chakra into palm.
As the powerful orb of energy came to life, Jiraiya smiled. The boy always showed such interesting variations to this attack, he figured he might as well try something he'd been tossing around in his head for a while.
With the ball of energy now in his hand, the fox finally registered a threat, and was charging energy in its mouth to counter accordingly. Knowing he had maybe seconds, he willed himself to his feet and threw his hand forward. "Chouin Rasengan!"
The fox released the blast of energy straight into the Rasengan. The shock wave sent rocks and debris flying in all directions. Jiraiya felt several things in his arm snap but fought blacking out from the blinding pain. He was rewarded with his plan starting to take effect, as the seals he'd written along his arm began to glow a bright white, to which the Rasengan followed suit.
The red ball of energy the fox had released seemed to start pushing Jiraiya back, but it then started to bleed off into the Rasengan, feeding it more power. Jiraiya barked out a laugh and pushed more. The ball in his hand swelled to a size of a basketball and completely enveloped the rest of the energy.
Following with his momentum, Jiraiya stuffed the Rasengan into the fox's face. The fox roared as the energy surrounding it began to get sucked into the ball. It tried to out power the ball, and began to force energy into the energy ball.
As the two forces clashed harder and harder, the shine from the ball began to get brighter and brighter, along with the dark crimson glow of the fox's cloak. Finally, there was an earth shaking crack, and everything around the two energies within fifty yards, seemed to melt and mix together, until looking at it could not distinguish what was just there.
With the glows of the forces reaching its climax, there was a final blinding flash, and when it dissipated, there was an entire chunk taken out of the landscape, as though someone took an ice cream scoop to it.
--(End Flashback)--
I feel bad for the kid. Here we are in a world not our own, it's technically all my fault, because I had to screw with Minato's seal. At least it shows no degradation, that'd be a problem.
The kid's torn. He already misses home. He can't reach his dream. He can't become Hokage. He can't bring back the Uchiha, even if it never would have happened.
Yet he puts up a tough front. He shouldn't, but it's reflex from all his years of living by himself. He never had anyone to confide in. Well, damn it, I'm gonna fix that.
Thanks to the lovely nurse, I've found out where we are. We are in the land of Wutai. At least it seems like home.
While the ladies here are exquisite, and they seem to be from our dimension, they speak two languages. The one we speak, and "English". I'll be seriously teaching the boy now that we're in unknown territory, and "English" will be one of the things we'll both learn. I got us into this mess, so I'm manning up. I'm gonna teach him everything I know, and I'll help him with anything that we learn along the way.
That's a promise.
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May 23, 2067
So we've been wandering this world for about five months now. I've been training the brat in everything I know, and I mean everything. From wooing women, to all my jutsu. Anything new we've learned, I've pounded into his head enough to leave it ground hamburger.
Luckily the kids like a sponge once you give him some actual attention. Give him a few tips and he does the rest. Pretty soon he'll be making jutsu.
He's not doing amazing when it comes to his English, but we're going all right. At least he can string together full sentences. I'm hoping to have him learn it well enough that he can blend in.
We've come across this world's "jutsu", so to speak. Materia. The crystallized lifeblood of the planet. What the ancient texts used to call Mana back in our old world.
Learning how to use it is something entirely different than using jutsu, I'll tell you what. The farmer back in Gongaga was a lifesaver for us later.
--(Flashback)--
They were handed a bag with two bright shining gems. "There. Take 'em. You'll need 'em." The farmer said. Naruto looked inside the bag and glared at the man. "What the hell are these for?" the fourteen year old said, his accent quite heavy.
Jiraiya smacked him on the back of the head. "My apologies. My boy doesn't know to respect his elders!" he growled, glaring at Naruto, who stuck his tongue out at the older man.
"Them's materia. It'll let you cast magic. All you do, is connect it to yer weapon, or armor, if it has the slots fer it, like so." The farmer proceeded to connect the materia he was holding to the bangle on his wrist. The man closed his eyes as he adjusted to the kinks that came with equipping a new materia gem.
They raised some aspects of a person's durability. A person could equip a Restore Materia and gain the ability to heal a person, but lose some physical strength in exchange. It was because the body must accommodate for the power of the Lifestream.
He turned to the small bush at his side. "A demonstration may be in order. In order to actually use the materia, you have to focus on the power of the Lifestream flowing through you, and will it to do it's job." The Farmer closed his eyes, and felt for the energy emanating from the materia in his bangle. He opened his eyes as he willed the magic to work. "Blizzard!"
Instantly, a big hunk of ice shoots out at the bush from nowhere. On contact with the bush, it encased in ice.
Naruto's eyes got wide as saucers and began to dig into the bag of materia. Jiraiya looked on at the bush in open amazement. If they had something like that back in the elemental countries, Akatsuki wouldn't be a problem.
Naruto pulled out a bright yellow-green gem, and stuck it into the bangle he had equipped. He shut his eyes tight, feeling for the Lifestream. The energy hit him like a sugar rush, filling him with newfound knowledge that was not his own. He breathed deep and cried out what came to him.
"Thunder!"
ZAP!
"Yeow!"
--(End Flashback)--
Yeah, thank god the farmer had a couple of potions on him. Those things are amazing. They're like Naruto's healing factor in a bottle. Down enough of them though, and you'll get drunk, so you have be careful.
We'll be leaving tomorrow. The farmer told us to be careful getting through the waters from here to the next dock. We got a boat taking us to Junon. Hopefully we can learn more about the Shinra Corporation. I'm not liking what I'm hearing about them so far.
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June 15, 2067
We finally made it to Junon. We had to take a small boat, and it was slow goings as we had to help the Captain fight monsters off of the deck. Now as the great ninja that I am, I'm desensitized to this stuff. I've seen shit on Triple S Classified missions that'd make most people want to peel their eyes out. The boy hasn't seen this kinda stuff, but he's always so goddamn upbeat that it doesn't really matter.
Oh, we've been fighting monsters for a while in this world, it's just I didn't see much reason to mention it until now. Naruto after the initial shock of it, has fun with it. They're basically projections of the planet for when it feels threatened, for they don't leave carcasses. Not even any of the big ones, like the giant dragon that was attacking the harbor.
--(Flashback)--
"There we are, boys! Junon Harbor!" the captain cried.
Naruto cheered as he ran towards the front of the deck. Jiraiya followed slowly behind him, smiling at the boy's enthusiasm.
As they came closer to the Junon Harbor, happy to see land again, there was a giant explosion. Naruto glued his feet to the deck as the waves shook the boat to and fro. The captain fought to keep the ship going on course. "It looks like there's something going on down there! We should wait it out!" he shouted out.
Naruto turned to Jiraiya, his eyes hard and focused. Jiraiya shook his head and motioned with his hand for the boy to follow him. The kid just had to be a hero.
They went below deck, and quickly packed their bags. As they came back up with their bags slung over their shoulders, the captain squawked. "Where do you think you two are going?!" Naruto smirked at the man. "We're gonna go help!" He said, walking up to the edge of the deck.
The captain sputtered. "Bu..But how?! We're at least three miles for the dock! You can't swim that!" Jiraiya shook his head. "We won't swim!" he said grinning. He jumped off the edge of the boat and landed on the water, taking off like a pair of rockets across the water toward the town.
The captain gawked at them, his jaw wide open. Until he swallowed a bug. As he sputtered and coughed, he thought to himself. Wait 'til I tell the boy this!
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As they reached land and hopped up on the beach, there was a mighty roar that emanated from the town square. Naruto took off running, with his sensei right behind him. As they entered the main area, Naruto skidded to a halt, his eyes widening. Jiraiya came up behind him, gawking as well. "Kid, that's one big lizard. You sure you wanna help?"
Naruto turned and glared at him. He pointed at the town guards dressed in Shinra uniforms getting slaughtered. One tried using a fire spell on the dragon. Jiraiya shook his head. "Go, I'm gonna zip around and get civilians to safety. Once I think I've cleared them all, I'll come back and help if need be." Before Naruto could reply, he Shunshin'd away.
Naruto immediately started off by casting a Thunder spell. He had gotten pretty good at aiming it, he just had to focus on what he wanted electrocuted. The dragon's head came swimming into his mind, and his eyes snapped open, the lightning hitting dead center between the dragon's eyes.
It roared and stumbled around, squashing a couple Shinra soldiers. There was only one left and as the dragon's foot was coming down on him, Jiraiya zipped by, grabbing him by his shirt, dragging him out of harms way at the last second.
As they tumbled to the ground, Naruto dashed forward, pulling out a kunai, and jammed it into the dragon's belly. He ran the length of it's belly leaving a deep gash, diving out from under it as it's feet buckled.
Jiraiya turned to the soldier he'd just saved. His helmet had fallen off, and Jiraiya was amazed to see a boy no older than Naruto. The boy was crying from fear. Jiraiya helped the boy up. "Hey, kid. Kid!" The boy snapped to attention, looking straight at the Toad Sannin. "We'll take care of it. Run."
The boy was off in seconds, running around the corner, and out of sight. Jiraiya turned to Naruto, who was watching the dragon intently. It was starting to get up. "Hey, Naruto!" The boy perked up, looking to his sensei. "Lets make a sandwich!" Naruto grinned. He jumped up and over the dragon to its other side. They had no fear of hurting anyone with this, because the area had been evacuated.
They both powered up a Rasengan, and dashed forward, hitting the dragon from both sides. It roared as the miniature tornadoes of energy tore it apart, inside and out before it glowed bright red, and shattered like glass, leaving stray glittering energy to float back to the ground, and disappear.
Naruto whooped loudly, running up to Jiraiya and giving him a high five. As things settled down, people slowly began to funnel back into the area. When they realized the dragon was gone, they cheered. Running over, they lifted the two up, and paraded them around.
--(End Flashback)--
Heh. Just looking at the kid, you could see how happy he was, just helping people, and having them acknowledge his heroics. I've never seen a truer smile on his face. The people running the place threw us a dinner in our honor, for saving them when Shinra wouldn't.
Oh, you'd think that the corporation that runs this whole continent would do something, but most Shinra soldiers are worthless. There's only one person that I've heard of that really made a difference. He's spoken of almost reverently in Shinra controlled land. He's like a deity to them. Back in Wutai, he was spoken of with hate, but respect for his power.
Sephiroth.
I heard he's disappeared but I've been a ninja too long, and I'm too paranoid to believe that. I'm gonna keep my eyes and ears open. If there's someone that strong out there, I need to make sure that Naruto is ready if we ever go up against him.
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November 23, 2067
So we've got a bit of a resting point. We've stopped at a place called Fort Condor. It's called that because of the....well....Giant Condor on top. The thing doesn't attack. It just sits there, incubating its egg. It never moves.
The people who live in the caves built into the mountain, while penniless, are good people. They said they've been having trouble with Shinra soldiers wanting to go up to the reactor to bug the bird or something. They're kinda evasive about it. It's not really our business, though. They live here.
Speaking of Shinra, learned more on this Sephiroth guy, the longer we were in Junon. Apparently, he was the greatest SOLDIER that was ever made. SOLDIER is, or rather, was the elite fighting force for Shinra back during their war with Wutai. It, and Sephiroth especially, were the reason that Shinra won the war and basically owns the world.
I'm liking this less and less. But seeing as I ran my own information infrastructure back home, I know how to get info. Seems through infighting, the whole program basically disappeared. It all really seemed to disappear with Sephiroth. When he went, Shinra seemed to stop using them as a major fighting force.
Oh, I'm not stupid enough to think that they're all dead, and that Shinra isn't still experimenting. They were exposing people to raw mako. The power-up these guys apparently got from it made them on par with most high level jonin, from what I gather. There's also rumor that there was gene splicing going on with it as well, but that's real hushed up, and I haven't really spent much time digging.
The boy is a handful. It's so lucky that the people of Junon gave us so much food as thanks. We'd be starving otherwise. He never stops eating.
At least I got a kick out of him finding out nobody knew how to make ramen. You'd think his dog just died the way his eyes watered. It was pretty damn funny, in my opinion.
Yeah, hopefully the boy and I can find a place to settle down for a little while. We could use the rest. Speaking of rest, it's nap time.
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November 24, 2067
Ah , how quickly the penniless turn, eh? Them good ol' Shinra boys came knocking on our door last night. Some guy named Tseng. He had a nice little battalion of troops with him too. When we finally met him he told us about Shinra catching wind of our little bit of heroics up in Junon.
They wanted to offer us a job under the direct employ with Shinra, as mercenaries. Well, I already knew my answer, but I answered fro both of us. I told him no. He told us no wasn't an answer. So that's when his guards jumped us. Thank god for the Replacement Technique. I don't think we would have been able to handle that many firearms. We shinobi may be fast, but we're not as fast as sound.
Well, our hosts didn't take kindly to our little juvie record, and went to kick us out on our asses, but one of the more helpful ones was able to let us slip out the back door, so to speak. We high-tailed it to the Mythril Mines like our helper had suggested.
The boy is currently next to me, with his god damned mouth taped shut, in his sleeping bag that is sealed to adhere to any surface, just like mine. We are currently sticking against a wall, in one of the darker parts of the caves, out of the way, so they won't happen to shine a light on us.
Why is the boy's mouth taped shut, you ask? Why to keep him from giving away our position by his insanely loud snoring. I know I snore but what the fuck?! The boy actually brought down a stalactite. I had to shut him up somehow. It's what attracted the soldiers to this area in the first place.
Hopefully, they'll think we backtracked, and go back the way we came in. That is also the most unlikely scenario. Even the boy's luck has been busted since we got here. So the most likely one is that they'll either find us or they'll move ahead, meaning we'll have to deal with them to move on.
We'll probably be on the move a lot after this. Won't have time for the journal for a while. I'll write when I can.
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October 29, 2068
The fact that it's been a year since I last wrote tells you that I've been busy. We had to fight those soldiers back in the caves. They tried using lethal force on the boy, so he defended himself.
He's never killed a person before, which is kinda surprising considering our line of work. He shut himself up pretty tight for a while. It wasn't until he killed a rapist in the middle of the act a month later, that he realized that sometimes doing dark things is the only way to keep innocent people safe.
We'd been hiding in the bog on the eastern entrance to the Mythril Mines for about a month or two. Had to relocate because of that fucking Midgar Zolom. At least that's what the Chocobo Ranch owner had called it. The thing kept freaking when it came close to Naruto. Must have something to do with the fox. Naruto said that not many animals like him. Seems monsters don't either. I'm pretty surprised the chocobo's weren't acting up.
What's a chocobo? It's like a cross between a horse and a chicken. The things big enough to ride on, but they can't fly. Something to do with domestication. The ranch owner said they're really intelligent, and can tell when something will endanger them or not, and when they decide they're in trouble, they hightail it out of the general area faster than anything I've ever seen.
We'll be heading for Kalm soon. We're about two weeks trek from the place. The ranch owner said it's a homey town. Not like Midgar. Hopefully we won't have to go there, as it's completely run by Shinra.
Now you may wonder why the boy and I haven't tried using Henge to stay hidden. Materia makes it pointless. As it is literally part of the planet, it cannot be fooled. A simple Libra spell from a Sense materia, and the Henge just seems to melt off.
I'm hoping that we can stay low for a while in Kalm. We're close enough to Midgar as it is, and they haven't let up sending Turks and MP's after us. I'm just glad that there aren't many SOLDIER's left, if any. I know I'm good, but I doubt I could take a whole squadron of them.
If anything important comes up, it's getting jotted down.
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January 3, 2069
We're in trouble. The Turks found us in Kalm. It was just two this time. A redhead named Reno, and a dark skinned man named Rude. Rude in particularly, is the one I was worried about. Guy carries himself confidently, but he isn't arrogant. He was quiet and respectful, and that's why I find him dangerous. He doesn't let his emotions control him.
Reno on the other hand, is like an adult version of Naruto, except he's a bigger pervert. It's a good thing Naruto's Oroike no Jutsu works on people in this world. I was surprised to see Rude holding his nose after Reno passed out.
They found us when they came walking into the bar that Naruto was working at. Once he was pointed out, they chased his ass out of the pub, and he lead them to us. I had to smack the kid when he showed up. He doesn't use his common sense enough. It's gonna get him hurt bad one of these days, and not necessarily physically. We're on our way to Midgar. Sounds stupid, but you know what they say. The closer you are to danger, the safer you are. I hope that's true. We'll be there by tomorrow. What happens next, I don't know.
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Reno pulled out his cell phone, and flipped it open. He was pissed. They let their targets get away. They were crafty, pulling something like that on them. "Damn it! Pick up already, woman!"
"Calm down, Reno." The redhead turned to glower at his partner. "You should be just as pissed! They beat us by way of morphing into a naked hot chick! Tseng's not gonna like this." The phone had been answered while he was talking and he heard a female voice on the other side. "Why's that, Reno? What'd you fuck up this time?"
"I didn't fuck anything up, Cissnei! They tricked us, and got away!" He screamed into the phone. Rude simply shook his head and adjusted his sunglasses.
When Cissnei was sure that his temper tantrum was over, she put the phone back to her ear. "Doesn't matter. Tseng's reassigned you. You're to go after the Ancient again. Rude is to continue pursuit of the targets. Do you know where they're headed?"
Reno smirked. "Of course! The plan that we set up is working perfectly! They don't even know we've been herding 'em straight to us." he said, snickering.
Cissnei smiled. "Good. You two know your objectives, now get to it." -CLICK-. -BOOP- -BOOP-.
Reno closed the phone and turned to Rude. "You keep going after them, she says." Rude nodded, starting to walk. "What about you?" he asked.
"I'm going after that stupid Ancient girl again. I'm surprised she keeps giving us the slip." Reno replied, as they both exited the town together. As they stepped out they turned to the motorcycles they had parked just outside of town.
They hopped on their respective bikes, and started them, the engines roaring to life. Rude looked to Reno, staring pointedly at him. "Don't be reckless, Reno." With that said, he took off after his two targets.
Reno simply flipped his partner off. "Don't be reckless, he says." He took off in the same direction as Rude did. He'd reach Midgar in a day or two, and then he'd go after that ditzy girl in the Sector 5 slums.
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The next night…….
Naruto and Jiraiya entered the Sector 7 area quite weary. They had been going nonstop so they could stay ahead of their pursuers. Jiraiya led them to the nearest pub. The boy had earned it for getting them away so quickly. He was gonna get him drunk. As they walked up to a building with a bright neon sign displaying SEVENTH HEAVEN across the top, a ragtag group of five burst out the front door, consisting of one cute woman, and four burly looking men, one of them black. Three of them ran ahead, but a blonde and the black man stayed behind, arguing as they walked. It was hushed but heated. So Jiraiya guided Naruto towards them as they made their way to the pub.
"Damn it, you spiky haired bastard! We've been arguing about your pay for the past three fucking days! You're getting yo' 1500 gil. I promise, asshole!" The black man shouted.
The blond stared uncaringly at him. "You better. You know that's all I'm in this for." As he turned away, he noticed the teenage blond and the old man staring questioningly at him. His icy gaze fell on the old man. He seems like he knows something. Better watch him.
Jiraiya turned away nonchalantly, but Naruto glared right back at the older blond. The black man turned to look at them. "What 'choo want?" he asked gruffly. Jiraiya shook his head. "My boy and I are simply wanting to get a good hard drink after our long trek."
The black man eyed them suspiciously before pointing at them with his right arm, which had a gun attached to it. "Cause the bartender any problems and I'll whip your asses, understood? She's one of my good friends." Naruto and Jiraiya nodded. The black man nodded back to them before turning to his companion. "C'mon, we got a train to catch."
Jiraiya shook his head as they ascended the steps to the bar. The technology in this world never ceases to amaze me. I don't think we'd have made cars and such for another century in our world at least.
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Author Notes: Ok. Welcome to my first foray into the world of fan fiction. I was prompted to try and write this story after reading a god awful crossover that had Naruto overpowered in the span of five chapters. So I thought, "Hey! Why don't I write one myself?"
It'll take me a little while to get out chapters as I work six nights a week and I only have the time to really work on it, either before work, if I get up early enough, or after work, as I will be up 'til about four in the morning.
Anyway, hope you enjoy the prologue, and I will try to get the first chapter out by next week.
Edit: Changed a couple of small things.