Welcome to my new crossover! I bet you weren't expecting it to be about this!
Yes, Naruto and Plants vs Zombies are two of my favourite things ever and the current stories that are there about this topic aren't alive anymore, so I decided to make one of my own.
Just to set some things straight:
One: only certain characters will be able to make plants. How they will be able to do so will be explained.
Two: Plants and zombies from the main two games will appear in this story. I'm not gonna include Garden Warfare and Heroes versions.
Three: Just like the manga and anime, there will be no official paring. But Naruto will be treated better by people like Sakura and Kiba for a reason.
Four: I am intending to change things up a bit with the story and remove some bits from the cannon story.
Naruto and PVZ do not belong to me.
Please let me know what you think and enjoy!
"Come on, come out!" boomed the voice of Naruto Uzumaki, as he struggled to pull something out of a messy pile of junk that had been slowly rusting in the closet of his apartment. There was a lot of stuff in there that was deemed unnecessary by the troubled youth. In fact, most of the items in there were from attacks by the villagers who despised him. He almost got to the object when...
"GAAAHHH!" The whole pile came tumbling down on top of him. Naruto struggled to escape and had his newly received Gennin headband faintly scratched.
"Oh for the love of Kami! Can't I get something out of this closet without the whole lot tumbling down!?" Naruto complained childishly. He then surprisingly saw that a bruise on his arm healed all of a sudden. Naruto remembered what Mizuki told him last night.
"The fox spirit that killed Iruka's parents and destroyed our village has taken over your body! You are the nine tailed fox!"
Naruto brandished a grin as he thought of using the forbidden shadow clone jutsu to beat Mizuki, and the Hokage giving him his headband passing him in the graduation test. He had never been so happy in his entire life!
It was while he was celebrating at the Ichiraku Ramen shop, Iruka who was still recovering from his injury from Mizuki's shuriken, told him that he had put 'something' in Naruto's apartment. He said it was something that was useless to him and maybe Naruto would be able to use it. Of course, Naruto responded in the way that he usually did:
"Don't worry Iruka-Sensei! I'll find your thing and use it to become the best Hokage! Believe it!" Iruka and Ayame couldn't help but chuckle at his antics.
And now that brings him here, struggling to find the mystery object that his sensei had told him about.
"EUREKA!" Naruto cried as he found the thing. It was an old book, a catalogue to be precise. It was called, "Bloom and doom seed co. A manual to our solar plants."
"Solar plants?" Naruto asked out loud in confusion. He had never heard of such a thing before. Curiously, he quickly opened the cover with excitement to reveal ten yellow orbs which suddenly absorbed into Naruto's body when he tried to touch them.
"...Whoa," was the single word that came out of the shocked Naruto as he skimmed through the first page.
"Greetings reader! You have just opened a new edition of our very new magazine! What was just absorbed into your body is solar, or sun energy. This type of energy is the life source the plants have and what is used to create them! In the next page you will find some seed packets. Touch them and see what happens!" That was what was written on the page. Intrigued, Naruto slowly opened the page to notice some brand new seed packets of very unusual plants that he had never seen before taped to the catalogue.
"What are these?" he wondered out loud like your typical childish hero. "Are these super duper ninjustu seeds that will give me super powers!?" He thought about the image of himself beating the current third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, who took over after the forth had sacrificed himself to save the village from the Nine Tailed Fox.
He leaned forward to grab them, which was a choice which massively changed his life forever. As soon as his skin came in contact with one of the packets which had a picture of a sunflower on it, his skin glowed softly and a blue beam of power shot straight up his arm and went into his body.
"I knew it! I KNEW IT! These are super power seeds that Iruka-Sensei gave me because he wanted me to be a great ninja! Believe it!" Naruto said proudly out loud and happily continued to read the next page in the magazine.
"Congratulations! You now have the power to create this type of plant where or whenever you want! Just make sure you have enough sun/solar power and a Flower Pot which you will find in a seed packet and you will be A-O-GOOD!" Naruto looked back at the packets to see a seed with a brown pot on it. It boggled his mind since pots weren't plants, but he accepted it and tried to make one appear in front of him.
Somewhere else in a forest quite far away from the hidden leaf village, a gang of ordinary bandits had ambushed a couple from another village looking for herbs, and had taken a young lady hostage back to their camp, with her boyfriend following in desperation.
"Alright boy! Hand over all your ryo and girly here shall live!" the leader said menacingly once they reached the camp in the most generic way possible. It may have been a line which he used far too often, but it struck sheer terror into the man.
"Take it all! Just don't hurt her!" the man cried, pathetically throwing all the moolah he had. The leader shoved the girl to one of his thugs and examined the money.
"Looks good, but that's not enough," the leader sneered pointing a plain ordinary kunai at the young lady's throat.
"NO PLEASE! I'LL DO ANYTHING! JUST LET HER GO!" the man screamed in horror as the leader got ready to slit...
"Say goodbye bit..." The leader started but he couldn't finish her off for a certain reason.
"Hey boss, do you hear that?" one of the standby thugs asked straightening up. Indeed, there was a faint melody echoing throughout the entire forest. It was faint where the bandits were standing but it seemed to coming closer. In fact, the melody seemed to be playing the same tune repeatedly, almost as if it was being operated by someone.
"Who's there?" the leader shouted sharply in the direction where the tune was coming from. It seemed to be a couple meters away from their current position. Some thuggish henchmen who decided to investigate, found the source of jingle, and were in for the shock of their lives.
Back at the camp, the tension was high as the music came even closer. Nobody made a move to stop it as the man started to shout.
"PLEASE HELP! THESE BEASTS HAVE MY GIRLFREIND AND ARE GOIN TO..."
BOOM! The explosion that occurred shook everyone to the core, as startled birds flew away to flee from the noise while the thugs came back looking terrified.
"What'd you find?" the leader asked with a mixture of worry and interest as to what could possibly explode so suddenly.
"Leader-sama, we saw a person walking towards the camp holding a square thing which he was doing something to it. After a while, something came out the thing and blew up the person," one of the more serious thugs reported. Silence, until...
"Oh come on!" The leader laughed right in his thug's face. "Is that the best you got!?"
"Is swear it Lead..." that was as far as he got as a shadowed figure emerged from the trees. The figure emerged and appeared to be a living corpse wearing a brown suit with a tie and blue pants. One pant leg was torn off, but apart from that, there was nothing particularly special about it. It was so... plain that it would put the villagers back in Konoha to shame.
"Who are you and what do you want?" the leader asked the zombie, which slowly walked closer.
"Brains..." it groaned in hunger, desperate for the human part which powered said homo sapiens. The leader just blinked and burst out laughing.
"What the hell's that supposed to mean!?" he cried out in sheer amusement. That amusement vanished instantly when another zombie appeared. This zombie was holding a red flag with a picture of a brain on it and was leading a LOT of zombies behind him.
"Brains!" the Flag Zombie cried out and slowly shuffled forward with the other zombies slowly following, the one holding the flag moving a bit faster than the zombies behind him.
"Don't just stand there!" the bandit leader shouted at his stunned henchmen. "KILL THEM!" Almost instantly, the bandits brought out kunai, shurikens, and other instruments of death as they waited fight the zombies as they hobbled closer.
"DIE YOU BASTARDS!" one arrogant thug cried as he charged at the Flag Zombie and successfully cut its head off in one quick slash. Instead of seeing a dead body like he hoped, the body slumped on the ground before evaporating into dust and fading away on the wind. The thug looked puzzled but didn't have time to think it over as more zombies were slowly coming. He didn't see the Basic Zombie come up behind him.
Back at Konoha...
"YES!" Naruto cried out in victory as a Flower Pot finally appeared in front of him. It was just a plain brown pot with a green sprout and a small face. It made absolutely no noise whatsoever.
"So... what do you do?" Naruto asked dumbly. The pot's face frowned slightly and almost instantly, Naruto guessed why.
"Oh that's right! I'm supposed to put one of the super plants on you because there's no grass in here!" Naruto said in the most Narutoish was possible. The Flower Pot grinned slightly; it was beginning to like this kid already. Naruto opened the magazine and made sure to gently touch the packet which had a Sunflower with a smiling face on it. It also had a 'plant me!' sticker on it, meaning it must be very important.
"Alright Mr. Pot, I'm gonna give you a friend! Believe it!" Naruto told the pot and began to use the sun power to make the chosen plant appear. It took awhile because it was Naruto's first time at attempting to try this.
"Come on! WORK!" he strained and as if his pleas were heard, a sunflower suddenly appeared in the pot which still remained impassive.
"Awesome! But what do you do?" Naruto asked the Sunflower which smiled and glowed yellow, producing an orb of sun which magnetised itself to Naruto's body which it was absorbed.
"So you create more sun? That's so cool!" Naruto praised the plant which blushed slightly from the praise. The excited youth then vaguely remembered he still had more plants to try out, but he was getting tired so he did the only thing he could do without having to go back to get a plant over and over again.
"Shadow Clone jutsu!" Soon there were seven Narutos. They each touched the seeds giving the power to make the specified plants to the real one. They then vanished in puffs of smoke as Naruto made another flower pot and with it, two cherries with angry looking faces on it.
"Aw why so down?" Naruto asked teasingly. This proved to be quite a mistake on his part.
POWIE! The explosion caught Naruto completely off guard as the cherry blew up right in his face.
"WHY YOU LITTLE!..." Naruto reached out to strangle it to find it gone. He looked through the catalogue on cherries that exploded. He found it eventually and was surprised as to what he read:
Cherry Bomb: an exploding plant which detonates as soon as it makes contact with a surface. Can be held to become a throwable weapon.
"Note to self: a soon as I get one... run." Naruto shuddered thinking of being on the wrong end of that plant. He quickly shook it off and made his next plant in the surprisingly undamaged pot. It was a big green headed one with an open mouth that was pitch black on the inside and its head was round shaped like a pea. It also had a large green stem and four leaves at the base along with a small pair of eyes, as well a leaf at the back of its head.
"Awesome!" Naruto cheered and the plant smiled with its eyes at the boy's childishness. "What do you do? What do you do!?" he asked it eagerly. The plant turned to face a wall and shot what seemed to be a giant pea, at least that's what Naruto registered, before it went splat on the wall. Seeing the youth's confusion, the plant fired its projectile out of an open window which Naruto ran to and got a good look at the object.
"So you're like some pea shooter thingy! That's so cool!" Naruto praised it, and the Peashooter seemed to make a sort of happy noise.
"Wait, can you talk?" Naruto asked his plants curiously. The Peashooter and the Sunflower both shook their heads in a no fashion, just as the flower produced another sun orb which automatically went into Naruto's body, as if he was a sun container.
"That's so awesome!" But it's getting late and I need to rest for the Gennin exams tomorrow, goodnight!" Naruto told his new plants before running to his room and flopped on a mattress with a blanket which was what he called a bed. The plants just made some noises that resembled laughter and eventually went to sleep themselves.
Back at the bandit camp, the thugs weren't doing so well against these new opponents. Mainly because of how many there were, they just kept on coming like a swarm of Squibos. Things got worse however when the innocent man freaked out.
"I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!" With that scream, he ran blindly into the forest in terror not looking where he was going. This proved to be a massive mistake as he was just about into the trees when a zombie wearing a cone on its head grabbed him and began to chow on his brains.
"AHHHHHH!" the man cried in pain before the cone wearing zombie pulled his brain out of his body and ate it up. Whole. One of the ninjas was visibly disgusted and threw a kunai at the zombie. Its cone came off its head, but it didn't die. A thug saw this and rammed the zombie's head with a metal pipe, this time it died, quickly evaporating away.
"Oh great! Now they're using hats against us!" the leader said sarcastically as he watched more of his henchmen get eaten by zombies, some by the newly arrived cone wearing ones. That was when he and the few remaining thugs heard it. And then they saw it.
"What the bloody hell!?" one thug cried as a Basic Zombie dug into his brains, but the remaining thugs were more interested in the zombie making the repeated music and what they guessed the explosion came from earlier.
"Haphajahahahbrainshahasha!" the music making zombie laughed like a maniac as he walked-jogged towards them. The zombie was dressed in a white strait-jacket that had been ripped open, allowing movement of the arms and legs. What was intriguing is that it was holding a box like object which the crazed zombie was spinning a crank attached to the side of the box, that seemed to be the cause of the music. What was especially scary about it was that it had a smile on its face. Not a happy smile, but an insane smile. It was also faster than the other zombie.
"A-are you the leader of these brain dead idiots?" the leader asked nervously as he heard the woman screaming as a cone wearing zombie ate her brain. The Jack-in-the-box Zombie just laughed and moved forward.
"STAY AWAY FROM US!" a thug cried like a little girl as the insane zombie got very close to the selected thug. The zombie was about to attack when SPROING! The jack in the box suddenly burst open revealing a small dummy holding a stick of dynamite. The zombie burst into an insane laughing fit before doing what it does best.
BOOM! The explosion that the jack in the box made was enough to send the five remaining thugs flying, while blowing up the unfortunate target, leaving behind a pile of charred ashes and a brain which the zombies massed around like seagulls and ate.
"Boss we're surround-GAHHHH!" one of the thugs uselessly reported, before having his brains eaten by a zombie which got too close. The leader could only watch in horror as one by one, his henchmen had their brains eaten by the hungry zombies. They then added themselves to the mob that was approaching the leader who was the only one left. He looked behind him to see if he could make a run for it, but there were zombies in the trees as well, effectively blocking any escape routes.
"Please stop! I'll give you anything! Money, weapons, anything! Just let me live! PLEASE!" the leader begged for his life as a Conehead Zombie made what they wanted clear in one word:
"Brains," and with that the zombie began to hungrily eat the poor leader's brains.
"NOOOOOOOOoooooo..." was the leader's final death cry before having his brain was removed and eaten. The zombies looked around to see that there were no brains in the area. They went slowly away shuffling randomly in different directions, hoping that they would find some more delicious brains.
The next day, the academy...
"Phew, I made it!" Naruto declared out loud for everyone to hear as he barged into his classroom, only to be ignored like usual. He sat behind his desk and placed the venus fly trap plant which he found out was called a Chomper next to his desk, a bit of dirt spilling out of its Flower Pot.
"Naruto... you did graduate. I knew you could do it!" Hinata Hyuuga silently cheered for her crush.
"Hey dead last, what's that stupid looking plant thing?" Kiba barked at Naruto, standing next to him. His question caught the attention of a certain platinum haired blonde who was arguing with her long time rival over a certain raven haired avenger before the plant was mentioned. Ino raised her eye brows at the mysterious plant. She had never seen anything like it in her whole life. In fact, nearly everyone was looking at the plant. Even Sasuke moved his eyes in Naruto's direction.
"This is one of my super powered plants! With them, I'm gonna be the greatest Hokage ever! Believe it!" Naruto told the dog boy, with the Chomper nodding in agreement. Kiba just snorted and looked amused.
"Yeah right! You probably stole it! You don't deserve to be here!" Kiba laughed mockingly, however that proved to be a mistake as the Chomper suddenly reached up and heartily swallowed his upper body.
"HMHMMHMHHMMM!?" Kiba's muffled cries for help went unheard as the Chomper spun its head and threw Kiba into a wall.
"You'll pay for that dead last," the dog growled and moved back to his seat, covered in purple salvia.
"By the way, what are you doing here? Didn't you fail?" Shikamaru asked waking up from his nap.
"Yeah well look at this headband! The old man Hokage gave it to me personally after I stopped Mizuki stealing the forbidden scroll!" Naruto told the lazy bum who muttered "Troublesome..." and went back to his nap as if nothing had happened. Naruto got to work making a Flower Pot on his desk. However, what he did attracted the attention of some students who just stared in awe at the pot.
"Did you just really make a pot appear on your desk Dobe?" Sasuke asked in disbelief.
"Yes I did! You got a problem with that Teme?" Naruto quizzed him who just grunted and looked away.
"See Naruto-Baka? You might have some cool plants and all, but you'll never be as cool as Sasuke-kun!" Sakura jeered at the boy, who just concentrated and the next thing that everyone knew, a Sunflower grew out of the pot almost instantly, much to the shock of everyone watching.
"Yeah that's right! I just made a Sunflower appear thanks to this super cool new thing I touched last night!" Naruto told the class as he put the flower next to the Chomper as it produced a sun orb which went into Naruto's body. This really caught the attention of Ino who stopped pestering Sakura, much to her relief.
"Hey, what sort of thing did you touch Naruto?" the blonde asked, without calling him a Baka in case he might get offended and not answer her, because she really wanted to know where he got these plants.
"Well you see..." Naruto started but at that moment, Iruka came in and Naruto had to save his story for later, much to Ino's intense disappointment.
"Congratulations! As of now, all of you are now ninjas that have difficult trials and hardships. But all of you are just Gennin, first level ninjas. You will be added into squads of three led by a Jonin: an elite ninja," Iruka explained to the eager students. Some noticed the absence of Mizuki but decided not to question it.
"Well someone's gotta be in Sasuke-kun's group and that's me!" Ino declared to Sakura who just glared and replied with a simple, "I don't know."
"Really? Groups of three? This will only slow me down into killing him..." Sasuke bitterly thought at the mention of the man who slaughtered his clan.
Naruto for once said nothing as he made another Flower Pot. Iruka looked at him and couldn't help but smile.
"We wanted each squad to have a balance of power and abilities so that's what we did. I will now announce them anyway. Team one!" Iruka said and at this point Naruto just faded out and made himself a blue headed Peashooter with three icy crystals on the back of its head, instead of the usual leaf. This got him even more stares than before so he decided not make another one until the ordeal was over. He thought about throwing a Cherry Bomb at Sasuke and show the grump who was the better one.
"Squad seven: Naruto Uzumaki!" That was enough to snap Naruto back into the real world. "Ino Yamanaka!" The blonde was slightly glad as she could question Naruto about his plants. "And Sasuke Uchiha!" Ino let out a squeal of delight while Naruto performed the jutsu of 'headdesk' that he usually did when he was upset with something.
"I won't be with Naruto-kun then..." A certain Hyuuga heiress thought sadly.
"Next: Squad Eight: Hinata Hyuuga!" Iruka announced, which snapped the lavender eyed girl back to attention. "Kiba Inuzuka!" the dog boy grinned at the thought of being with his crush. "And Shino Aburame!" The usually silent bug user simply adjusted his sunglasses.
At the back, Sakura was seething at Ino who gave her a peace sign. "How did you get on Sasuke-kun's team, Ino-pig!?" she screeched causing everyone's eardrums to burst.
"Honestly, what do you see in him anyway? It's not like he special or anything," Shikamaru drawled tiredly.
"You are so dumb Shikamaru. Don't you get it at all!?" Sakura snapped at the lazy nin who focused his gaze on the pink haired banshee.
"No I don't cause I'm not a girl," the Nara heir stated blandly causing Sakura to fume and wanted to outright punch the guy but somehow managed to resist.
"Whatever, just pray that you're not on my team or I will give you a beating of a lifetime," the pinkette snarled at Shikamaru who shuddered for his health.
"Squad nine of Rock Lee, Tenten Yukari, and Neji Hyuuga is still in circulation from last year, so that just leaves Squad ten!" Iruka said clearing his throat. "This squad consists of Sakura Haruno, Shikamaru Nara," "I'm doomed..." thought the Nara heir shuddering. "And Choji Akimichi!" Iruka finished, looking at a plump boy who was stuffing potato chips into his mouth.
"THIS IS OUTRAGEOUES! I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ON SAUSKE-KUN'S TEAM! AND INSTEAD, I GET A LAZY BUM AND A PIG! MOTHER WILL HERE ABOUT THIS!" Inner Sakura bellowed inside the banshee's head as she grasped her head in horror.
"Those are all the squads. Now..." "IRUKA-SENSEI! WHY DOES A GREAT NINJA LIKE ME HAVE TO BE WITH A BUM LIKE SASUKE!?" Naruto shouted at his academy teacher who just sighed.
"Sasuke had the best scores of the class, you had the worst Naruto." The class laughed at that. "It was done so it can be a balanced team," Iruka explained calmly.
"Just make sure you don't get in my way Teme," Sasuke said in his usual tone to Naruto who fumed at the emo.
"After lunch, you will meet your Jonin teacher. And before I dismiss you all, I just want to say it has been a pleasure teaching all of you. Get out of here," Iruka added with a smile and all the kids ran swiftly out. Naruto ran to the swings where he worked on making some plants. He was watched by Ino the entire time.
And that's that! I hope this goes well, especially with the changes I made, like Ino being on Naruto's team.
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