AN: Hello there. This idea below just wouldn´t leave me alone and I just had to type it down. It will be the Naruto story, but with some twists and I know this first chapter may seem a bit strange, but I will hurry to get the next one done and clear things up a bit.
For those who don´t know Roxas or DiZ, they are characters of Kingdom Hearts and throughout the story there will be some little appearances of other Kingdom Hearts elements, but nothing major. For now just treat Roxas and DiZ like OC´s and don´t worry there won´t be too many appearances of other elements.
This story plays in the Narutoverse and will stay there, it just happens that I like Roxas and needed a way to insert an OC, so I think this works just fine. Now without further blithering from my part, on with the story and have fun with this chapter.
Oh and don´t forget to leave a Review. Questions, suggestions, criticism, ... everything is appreciated.
Disclaimer: I own neither Naruto, nor Kingdom Hearts and nothing else I might use in this story. There is no profit, no benefits and nothing even remotely similar earned by this fic. I only do it for fun and to enjoy any form of criticism I might get.
There was a slight rustle in the leaves of several trees, as a light breeze blew through the Village Hidden in the Leaves. The sun was slowly sinking behind the horizon and currently the sky was painted in a rich orange. Everything was calm and quite in Konohagakure and slowly the day's business was dying down. Merchants prepared to close their stores for the day, bars and restaurants began to fill with many people, civilians and Ninja alike and finally there were the families who were sitting down together for dinner. Yes, all in all life seemed to be peaceful and quite all throughout Konoha.
All this was watched by two blondes who sat on the Hokage Monument. One sat on the head of the Fourth Hokage, he is clad in simple black pants and a white shirt with a red spiral symbol on it, concluded is his outfit by an orange jacket with black stripes which was only half closed. The other boy sat on the head of the Third Hokage and he is clad in white pants with a black stripes going down on each leg and a black jacket with red markings all over that was left open it over a white shirt. Both had their blue eyes glued to the peaceful scenery before them and were enclosed in their own thoughts.
Another slight rustle was heard as another breeze blew through the village. The air was filled with the aroma of earth and fresh plants, mixed with the scents of countless meals which were served throughout the village. Neither boy moved at this slight distraction, but neither was it ignored. The boy on the Third´s hat sighed in pure bliss and simply enjoyed this moment of peace, an action that was soon copied by the second blond boy. They both had earned this moment of peace after the day´s events.
In the dwindling light of the day the hair of the boy on the Third´s head was bordering to golden and his brother´s was faintly looking orange for a change. Those boys while looking faintly alike were no brothers by blood, but by heart. They had known each other since the day they were born, they had gone through every misery and happiness in their lives together and the events off the ending day had only strengthened this bond. Those two were brothers in every meaning of the word.
The now golden-haired boy finally looked up from the village to reveal a smooth face, but sadly it was clad with a bandage that covered nearly the entire right part of his face. He slowly moved his arms and undid the bandages, freeing his gravity defying hair, which stood to the sky proudly in form of many spikes. He also revealed a nearly perfectly healed scar going from below his eye to a bit above it, the scar was hard to make out on a distance, but not to miss if you looked closer. Despite the scar looking dangerous for his eyesight, his untouched bright blue iris revealed his eye to be completely unharmed. He held onto the bandage for a moment, before he let loose and let it fly over the village carried by the slight breeze. He watched the bandage for some long moments and finally his concentration seemed to break and the bandage ignited into flames. Only seconds later nothing but ashes would remain of the bandage. Nothing but the scar would remind them of the day´s events. But even if the obvious scar might heal, the emotional scars would take years until they were healed … if they ever were.
The other boy tore his eyes away from the village laid out beneath them shortly after, he looked to the other boy and especially the light scar, before showing a sad smile. Things could have been worse, they got lucky after all. But what was it? Had it been luck, a stroke of destiny or something completely different? Maybe they will never know. It wouldn´t do any good to dwell on the past, but still … What if something had been different?
Finally the sun set completely and at the last moment there was a white flash in the sky. It was so fast that if you had blinked, you would have missed it. Both boys had seen it however and both started to remember another evening when the sun had set like this. Sure they hadn´t much memories of that evening, since they had only been newborns that day, but they had heard the story countless times by their `Jiji´, their grandfather-figure. The old man is wise and powerful and both looked up to him. He was the Hokage after all.
Well it was getting time to go home, it wouldn´t do any good to make everyone worry even more and they would probably never hear the end of it if they were late for dinner. They stood up without saying a word and slowly made their way down the mountain and moved to the estate, to their surrogate family.
Shortly before they would enter their home one of them finally spoke up. "Hey Naruto, I know you probably feel sorry or something like that. But listen, this isn´t your fault." To prove his statement he pointed to the slight scar that now could barely be seen in the evening lights.
The over boy looked over to him and his facial features lightened and loosened up a bit at that. He even managed a smile, but sadly it didn´t reach his eyes. The six whisker marks on his cheeks stood proudly to the world as if screaming that this boy was different. It took some time for him to bring his thoughts together and when he finally spoke up every sign of happiness had left his face and voice. "I know, I didn´t ask for this after all. But still, you got hurt protecting me, protecting … a demon …"
"That´s not true! I got hurt protecting my brother, which is my right and duty as a good brother. Nothing more and nothing less. Now cut the demon crap or I have to punch this idea out of your head, understood?!" Now this boy was slowly losing his temper, they had been over this countless times by now and it was time his brother snapped out of it.
Fortunately it seemed he had gotten through this time, since being around his brother for this long he could clearly see which smile was true and which was fake. This time it was a true one. "Thanks brother and you´re right. I´m me and nobody else, right Roxas? Now let´s get going before we are late. Race you to the door."
"Oh you are so on." And with that both dashed off in speed nearly unseen in boys their age. Laughing and taunting each other the entire way.
Neither Naruto, nor Roxas was aware that they were being watched by the old Hokage himself. Hiruzen Sarutobi sat in his office and looked into his crystal ball and smiled to himself. Once again he remembered, something he did more often nowadays. He remembered … how everything began.
(October 11th twelve years ago)
Hiruzen sat in his office and let out a deep sigh. He was tired, truly tired now. The village was in chaos, one half of the village council dead or needed within their clans and the other half was out for Naruto´s blood. Naruto… Minato´s and Kushina´s son lay in a cradle next to him. It had only been hours since the attack had taken place and already there were people who demanded to kill the "Demon-scum", if they only knew… But he couldn´t tell them his heritage, he would be in grave danger if the world knew. But still … with the way things are going, he could now be in grave danger in his own village.
He just didn´t know what to do anymore. Naruto would probably have no chance for a normal life, but this wasn´t fair … This boy is a hero. He keeps those fools save from the Kyubi and still they only see the demon in him. If there only was an easy way out.
And that´s when things got from bad to worse.
Hiruzen was so deep in his thoughts, that he nearly missed the ripping sound in the middle of his office. But he wasn´t known as the God of Shinobi for nothing. Within a second he leaped into action, took a guarded stance and was ready for every form of assault that may come.
He wasn´t however prepared for a form of portal opening in front of him. And much less for a person to calmly step out of it. The portal closed behind this strange man and he stood there as if nothing had happened at all.
His clothes were very strange as well, like nothing that Hiruzen had ever seen through his whole life. His face was covered in red bandages, save for his right eye and mouth, and he had tied two intersecting belts around his head, one passing over where his left eye should be. He wore a long, red cape with an odd, angular cut taken out at the chest, the edges of which are yellow. This cut exposes a similarly oblong white symbol on a pitch-black shirt. Overtop this shirt, the strange man wore what seems to be grey, segmented armor over his sides and abdomen. His legs were covered by a long, black cloth lined with yellow, which itself has several brown straps pinned onto the front, seemingly for no purpose other than to create yet another angular pattern. On a yellow sash that hangs around his waist were three brown pouches, descending downward diagonally on his left hip.
All in all this seemed pretty strange, but still he held some kind of strength. He stood tall and proud and radiated an aura of superiority. He clearly had Hiruzen on the edge. But what this man had to say was even weirder.
"Who are you if I may ask?"
Hiruzen while still being on the edge studied this man very closely and noticed another thing, he held some kind of blanked on one of his arms. While his demeanor seemed relaxed it wasn´t good to take chances, especially now that the village was in such a dire situation.
"You come into my office and ask questions. Why don´t we start the other way around and you explain yourself first. Now or I will have to attack!"
"Oh, I wouldn´t want that now. How about we sit down, this will surely take some time." Hiruzen wasn´t sure, but he thought he saw the bundle in the man´s arms move.
(One secret conversation later)
"Make sure to come by some time DiZ. I think the boy would like to know his savior."
"Very well Hiruzen, while I can´t promise anything I will see what I can do. Remember through, if I don´t make it, give him this letter when he becomes a ninja. And please ask your son to take them in, I … I just want the boy to have a chance for a better life and I think it could help little Naruto over there as well. Now I will be going and remember to keep this secret, wouldn´t want to endanger the world order, now would we?"
"Certainly not. I wish you all of luck. Good Bye, oh and next time you need to tell me your name."
DiZ only chuckled as he opened another portal and disappeared into it. This had been the last he had seen of this strange man. He was left with two babies this evening, a whole bunch of problems and only a slight shimmer of hope. However, he would do everything in his might to protect those two boys and he would be damned before he let them be harmed by anyone.
On this day, two orphans came to Konoha one by the name Naruto and the other by the name Roxas. One brought by the unending love of his parents and the other by the sheer power of his will and the kindness of one man. Let´s see what will become of this two.
'This ought to be interesting' was Hiruzen´s last thought, before he took both babies and made his way to the Hokage estate.
AN: I know a bit cryptic, but it will get much clearer in the next chapter, till then stay tuned dear readers.
