AN: Well guys and girls, here's that Code Lyoko crossover I talked about. Right now, this chapter is more about getting Naruto introduced to the group. Naturally, since he is going to join the gang, he will be around their age and in their class. Also, Naruto will not be a genius. He will be smart, but he will still struggle in some subjects. Since his father was an American soldier (which branch will be up to suggestion), he will be athletically fit. As far as his avatar and weapons for Lyoko, I keep thinking of using the Night Stalker avatar with some alterations. One major alteration is he will be wearing the "Mad Killer" Night Stalker costume and instead of using the Night Stalker's usual weapon, he will use throwing knives along with the normal hidden blades. Another alteration would be several belt used to hold his obviously many knives being worn around his waist, torso and thighs. I've also looked at the wiki they have for Code Lyoko and I've noticed that the gang that goes into Lyoko have abilities and powers. So here is what I would have him have for his avatar:
Naruto:
Avatar: Assassin
Weapon: Throwing knives and hidden blades
Powers:
Smoke bomb
Superhuman speed and reflexes
Superhuman balance and durability
Enhanced agility
Enhanced cutting/slicing
Hand-to-hand combatant
Enhanced targeting
Enhanced marksmanship
Vehicle: None (for now)
Transportation: Free running and Parkour
As it is, in the real world, Naruto will someone who is into parkour and will use it from time to time along with free running. I will try to use the correct term for each so as not to get any hate from those who do know the difference and get butt hurt easily over them not being used correctly. Now then, enough of this, let's get to the story.
DISCLAIMER: I own neither the Naruto series nor Code Lyoko.
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It's the start of another day of school at Kadic Academy for our group of unsung heroes. Yumi Ishiyama, the often considered cold yet popular beauty with one of the biggest hearts for her friends. Odd Della Robbia, the class clown with surprising bouts of sensitivity and care. Ulrich Stern, the introvert with hidden feelings and has girls swooning after him. And Jeremie Belpois, the undisputed "Einstein" of the class and stereotypical nerd. These four make a team that protects their unknowing classmates, and the world, from the destruction that would reign if their mortal enemy ever succeeded. But for now, they are only in class, where they are considered nothing more than students."Hey guys," started Odd to his three compatriots, "have you heard the new rumor around campus?" His response was a quick shake of the head from each of his friends. "Well apparently we're supposed to be getting a transfer student sometime soon."
Yumi looked a little surprised and voiced a question unknowingly shared amongst them. "Really, this close to homecoming?" Odd's only response was to nod.
Ulrich, deciding to add his two cents, threw in his own question. "Well, what does the rumor know about the person?"
Odd shook his head and shrugged his shoulders, "No one's for sure about that. But what I am hoping is that the new person is a really cute girl, you know what I mean?"
Jeremie just snorted slightly before responding, "Odd, you're only going to be digging your grave if you keep that up." Everyone that could hear that response started laughing, especially Elisabeth "Sissi" Delmas, one of Odd's more targeted victims.
Before anymore conversation could continue, a woman in her seemingly later half of life entered the classroom. "Attention class, I have an announcement before we start class today," stated Mrs. Hertz, the class' science and homeroom teacher. To this, most of the class groaned in unison. "Now now class, you don't even know what this might be about," reprimanded the teacher. "As I was saying, I'd like to introduce a new student from America. Mr. Morrison, please come in." Immediately after the science teacher finished her announcement, the door in the front of the classroom opened as a blonde male entered. As the new student walked to the very front of the class, everyone was able to take in his appearance. His blonde hair was short and spike backwards with a lone bang hanging forward over his forehead. His face, while slightly rounded, was astoundingly blemish free, and quite attractive to the fairer sex. He seemed to hold a content look upon his face. Yet if one looked closely enough to his deep sapphire eyes, they'd see a twinge of mischievousness held within. The boy, or model to some of the more superficial types, was decently tall for their age group. He wore a loose fitting, burnt orange long sleeve with a white depiction of a bull's head with long horns on the front of the shirt(1). As for his lower torso, he wore baggy, grey cargo pants that lead to black shoes with orange stripes going across the sides. Due to his wardrobe choice, no real physical qualities could be determined besides him being fairly tall and somewhat lean. Once he reached the front, Mrs. Hertz decided to speak up once again, "Well class, this is Mr. Morrison. Now I will leave the rest of his introduction up to him, so save any questions you have for him till the end."
As soon as the class' full attention was back to the boy, he gave a lazy wave towards the class in general before starting his own introduction. "Hey, the name's Naruto Auguste Morrison. My father was half Japanese and half American while my mother was full French. I'm 15 and I'll be staying here in the academy with the rest of you all. I was born in California in the States. But since my father was in the Navy at the time, I moved around a lot due to father's work. I just recently got here from the States about a few days ago and still getting settled into my new dorm room. And yeah, that's about all I have that would interest you, does anyone have questions?"
First hand to rise belonged to Sissi, who asked what others would consider a rude question. "How come you're a year older than us, but still in our grade?"
Mrs. Hertz quickly attempted to swerve the question aside, but Naruto merely went on to answer. "That is something personal that I believe should be answered swiftly so no one gets a misunderstanding. Simply, a couple years back, my father died in an accident. While I found it hard to get over, I got lost in my own self pity and failed a year of school. I've long since gotten over it and I don't let it bother me anymore. And just so everyone understands, the reason I'm here is because my mother thought it would be good to have a change of scenery and send me to Kadic Academy, where she once studied. Now then, since I doubt that that was the last of the questions, I'd be happy to continue. But I think it would do better to get back to class, right Mrs. Hertz?" With a nod, the teacher guided Naruto to an open seat, which happened to be next to Yumi.
"Sorry about Sissi," the dark haired beauty whispered to the newly transferred blonde. To which, Naruto waved it off muttering about how she was "just curious". "Anyways, seeing as you're new here and all, maybe you'd like to hang out with my friends and I during lunch?" Looking around at her obvious friends, Ulrich and Jeremie giving small, good-natured smiles while Odd giving the new boy a toothy grin and a thumbs up. Smiling at the friendliness of the group, Naruto couldn't help but chuckle and nod. Sissi, overhearing that, was immediately upset at not being able to get her claws into the new kid and swaying him to her beliefs. But she decided to hold back her tongue, otherwise she risk getting into trouble.
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As the day dragged on, seemingly nothing overshadowing the new kid's arrival to the campus. It soon became lunch time and Naruto found himself sitting alongside his new and fast friends. He had to admit, while he wouldn't have thought that he'd have a hard time finding friends, he wouldn't think he could find better friends so soon. Sure, they all had their faults, such as Jeremie's innate ability to talk over all of their heads or Odd's sometimes dry humor. Though, he'd have to say, he quite liked spending his time around the group, and more importantly to him, around Yumi. He would call himself foolish for saying that he hadn't formed a bit of a crush almost immediately on the raven-haired beauty, but he found it hard not to out-right like the seemingly perfect girl. Great at sports and academics, always graceful and no doubt one of the top beauties of the school right next to that Sissi girl. Though he'd have to say, it felt as if the group had something to hide. Even if he liked secrets, he'd respect theirs. As he continued to talk to them about some of his past times and hobbies, he felt something akin to a feeling foretelling him that something troublesome was approaching. "And so after sliding under the parked delivery truck…," Naruto paused dramatically, "the annoying bully ran straight into the side!" The whole table chuckled humorously at the blonde's exploits from back in the States. After the chuckling died down enough, he continued on. "Now he learned that he would never be able to match me in free running, but he hated my guts ever after. Though he never tried coming after me in a fight considering who my father was and how he trained me in a bit of his fighting style from his work."
Everyone nodded before Ulrich spoke up. "I'd think again about fighting you considering that your father was a trained Navy Seal."
Naruto merely chuckled before replying, "Yeah, but he was terrified of my mom. Special Forces or not, an angry female in general is like facing off a tank with a knife. Or so said my father." Everyone gave another round of laughs before a question snuck its way into Odd's brain.
"Speaking of your mother, what does she do for a living, Naruto?" Odd's question made everyone at the table nod and look toward the blonde transfer student for the answer.
"Well you see... my mom is actually a model for this somewhat big modeling company. She's hardly around, and that's my reason for living in the dorms. Don't get me wrong, she still writes when she can. But her job takes a lot of time out of her schedule, even if it pays for the tuition and junk." That got a round of sympathy from the group, but no one expressed it in fear of hurting their new friend's feelings.
"You know what, how about this," Yumi suddenly spoke up. "Ulrich, Odd and I are setting up for the prom tonight, why not help us?" This got a nod of agreement from Ulrich and an audible "Yeah!" from Odd.
Naruto was about to respond, but a sudden voice interrupted him. "Hey, what's with you dorks," interrupted the miffed Sissi. "What makes you four think you can keep the new guy to yourselves?" Besides Sissi were Nicholas Poliakoff and Herb Pichon, Sissi's number one and two lackeys, nodding at the superficial girl's words.
The group sighed before Naruto himself responded. "For such a cute girl, you sure are quite a bossy person. I mean seriously, I'm my own person and should be allowed to befriend who I want. Maybe if you were nicer, you would have more real friends." Sissi merely "hmmphed" and walked away abruptly before being swiftly followed by Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb. Odd gave a thumbs up to his fellow blonde as Naruto nodded. "Anyway, yeah, I'd like to help with the decoration. Should be fun." At that, he gave a discrete glance towards Yumi before blushing slightly. An action that seemingly only Odd and Jeremie caught.
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The rest of the classes passed quickly, them again not being to interesting. It soon became time to help his new friends with the prom decorations. "So tell me again," Naruto started, "how am I supposed to understand Einstein's language?" This only getting chuckles and shaking of the head from Odd, Ulrich and Yumi. Apparently, not even they knew. He looked over to just outside the gym, where it was decided to host the prom, and noticed two young girls. From what he was told, they were apart the schools news program or something, he didn't really care. All he really cared about was getting closer to his new crush. Maybe he could play the knight in shining armor? No, that's too suspicious. How about being there for her when something bad happens? Could work, but he definitely wouldn't be going around causing problems to get closer to her. Out of the corner of his eye, Naruto catches Ulrich talking to the lighter skinned young girl, who he believes he heard called Milly. Though he only seemed to catch what Ulrich said back to the girl, he could kinda figure it out. And after following the gang outside to the hallway and hearing what Yumi had to say to Sissi, he fully understood what happened. Sissi, being the stuck up girl she was, pressured Milly into asking Ulrich out to the prom. Ulrich being… well Ulrich, denied Milly a bit insensitively. Naruto looked towards Ulrich and commented a bit dryly, "You know, it wouldn't hurt to take Milly to the prom. It's not like you'd be hurting anyone's feelings like you just did." That seemed to really hit home with the boy, especially with Odd and Yumi agreeing so easily. "Well, whatever's done is done. We need to get back to work in there. I refuse to let my first prom in my new school be a bore." Saying so seemed to bring everybody back on track as we head back in to finish up.
After a while of working and setting the electronics up, Jeremie finally came around to helping his friends. At this, Naruto couldn't help but joke around with the younger boy. "Oh, hey there Jeremie. Took your sweet time. What were you doing, talking to your virtual girlfriend or something?" That seemed to hit something, which is odd. I even hear some nervous laughter from Odd, much like his name-sake again. Putting that away for now, Naruto simply continued on obliviously. "Well whatever, you're here now and we could always use some extra hands around." So things went setting up the rest of the things that we needed for the prom to be totally awesome. Also got a joke that was actually funny from Odd, much to Sissi's expense. Not much longer did Sissi finally go to get ready for prom and that we were able to get more things done without the deadweight around. Though once again, Naruto got that feeling from before acting up. But this time, it felt worse. Well whatever, when it happens, it happens. For now, he needed to finish things up before he could go get a break with his friends.
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'Well, this is new; apparently Sissi was frightened by something.' Naruto thought as he grabbed a cup of hot chocolate from the vending machine. Walking back over to his friends, who seemingly are wondering over this incident themselves, Naruto over hears something he quite not expected. 'Xana? What's a xana? Maybe some weird thing that's only really around these neck of the woods? Whatever, as long as it doesn't directly harm my friends.' After putting his thoughts to the side once again, he made his presence known. "So any idea what freaked out Miss Princess over there?"
Odd gave a quick snort, "Not too sure, about to go check it out though."
Naruto nodded as he followed the gang over to Sissi's dorm, without knowing that the young reporter duo following them.
As the group inspected, Jeremie tossed the idea of a simple short circuit around. One that Naruto wasn't so sure about. "Probably not, Jeremie. I mean, look at it. Way too much destruction to seem like something a freaked out Sissi would do. Maybe the short circuit scared something else before it scared Sissi? You never know, but I can say it's definitely not simple." Unknowingly, Naruto's words simply reaffirmed what the other's thoughts were. But seeing as there was nothing else left to do here, they just decided to continue on with their day and leave Sissi's dorm as it is while Jeremie hummed his curiosity while following.
After returning to the gym with most of the group, Odd being a good guy and helping the reporter duo, they started to finally have everything set up. Naruto, paying more attention to the records he was sorting through, didn't hear the little group talk that his friends were having. Something that they used to their advantage as they discreetly talked about whatever secret they shared. Though, Naruto was brought out of his small disassociation from the group as Yumi got up to leave. Waving goodbye awkwardly, Naruto bid his crush a good evening. Even though he was sad to see Yumi leave, he had to admit that he liked to see her go.
Not too long after, the rest of the group was finished and left outside. Though they did catch up with Odd, Naruto decided to get ready for the prom instead and intended to head straight towards his dorm. Instead, something he caught took his interest. Seems that the three guys of the group didn't wait long enough for him to leave and brought something familiar up. 'Xana again? I know I shouldn't bother, but I'm just way too interested now. Hopefully they'll forgive me if I'm caught.' So in deciding to eavesdrop some more, Naruto inadvertently hears their plan to split up and decides to tail Odd and Jeremie. Following them into a building and making sure to stay out of sight, he finds them at a red door before a smell reaches him. A door to the sewers. After allowing some buffer space so as to not get caught, he follows after the blonde duo. While idly noting that there are more skateboards, Naruto once more puts it to the back of his mind in interest for his bigger curiosity getting away from him. He soon finds out to where Odd and Jeremie went, due to the skateboard and scooter just next to a ladder up, and finds out he is just outside an abandoned factory. Soon going through the front entrance and using an exposed wire to get to the next floor where a door to an elevator stood. Naruto, quickly pressing the red button after several moments of hesitation, was welcomed to the sight of a functioning, empty elevator. Entering cautiously, he looked at the panel and pressed a button randomly, hoping that it wouldn't give him away and took him to where his secretive friends were. After a moment of waiting, Naruto was gifted with the sound of the elevator stopping and the door very noisily opening. Naruto, with gritted teeth, saw through the opening given that Jeremie no doubt heard the elevator open and reveal its contents. Jeremie gasped in no little amount of shock as Naruto spoke jokingly in hopes calming the boy down before he had a heart attack. "Well, looks like I got me a surprise." While it didn't do much of anything, he was rewarded with something.
"Who was that Jeremie?" questioned an obviously female voice. Naruto quickly looked around for the person that the voice no doubt came from, but found nothing.
"Guess I was right about having a virtual girlfriend," Naruto commented off-handedly while approaching Jeremie.
Though Jeremie was less than pleased, he tried to stop his new friend. "N-Naruto, you shouldn't be here. What if someone saw you and followed y-" Jeremie was instantly cut-off by Naruto as he deadpanned towards the blonde genius. This caused the boy to just sigh and slump into his chair before talking into his headset. "Guys, it seems that Naruto followed me and Odd to the Factory." Naruto had no doubt that whoever he was talking to, the gang most likely, would be surprised. He was next to the Einstein as he started to explain what the whole system was and the need for secrecy.
Naruto nodded before replying seriously, "Everyone has their secret. It's not my place to tell others' secrets, but I'm your friend and I expect to be allowed to help if and when I can." Jeremie nodded, taking Naruto at his word. Immediately afterwards, a sudden beeping came as a warning from computer showing five red circles approaching two green ones, who Naruto assumed were Odd and this Aelita person. "What's going on?" Naruto cried in alarm.
"Kankrelats, and five of them. Odd should be able to- Wait, what are you doing?" Jeremie cried after Naruto as he headed towards the elevator.
"Odd got in somehow, and that's how I'm going in. Don't try and stop me, because you know how that will work. Just tell me what to do and I'll get them the help they need." The conviction in Naruto's words asked, no… demanded Jeremie to trust his friend. And trust he did.
"Okay, go down a level and enter one of those chamber things below. They're called scanners and I can use them to get you to Odd and Aelita."
With a nod, Naruto swiftly entered the elevator and descended a level. After the door opened up to reveal three tall chambers, what he assumed were the scanners, Naruto quickly entered the nearest one and let the door close in front of him. He soon found a bright light approaching him and squeezed his eyes tight he felt himself becoming… different. Not bad, but definitely something else. Once he opened his eyes, he saw that he was in the air, right over whom he assumed Odd, the purple man-cat thing, and Aelita, a cute pink haired elf, before dropping in front of them. He took a quick second to search himself for weapons before pulling a knife from one of his knife belts and quickly throwing it towards a Kankrelat and scoring a direct hit on its eye design. This had the effect of immediately destroying the blasted thing, but Naruto was forced to react by pulling out another throwing knife to deflect two shots from the other Kankrelats. Naruto was soon pulled down onto the downward spiraling path by Aelita while Odd blasted another Kankrelat before being hit in the abdomen. Before Naruto could rush to Odd's help, the cat-boy springs back up and ducks to cover besides Naruto and Aelita. "Come on, this is the only path we have now," stated Aelita as she started to lead to blonde duo down the path as the Kankrelats gave chase. Odd and Naruto turned around abruptly before each launching their weapons at the monsters, both destroying one each before Naruto took a shot to his right knee and falling to his back. Even though his friend taking a fall, Odd was able to destroy another before forcing the last off the edge. The falling hitting the ground next to Aelita and startling her off the edge as well before falling itself into the drop below. Odd, thinking quickly, jumped after Aelita and managed to catch her before using his claws to cling to the wall and slow to a safe stop with Aelita in hand. Naruto, looking over the edge in worry for his friends, saw that they were safe for now and decided to examine himself now that they were safe for the time being.
As Naruto inspected himself he recognized what he was wearing. He had on a brown leather trench coat with a hood drawn over his head the sleeves tucked into his leather gloves' rather large cuffs. Under his coat, he wore a light grey woolen shirt and a pair of woolen pants dyed to the shade of tree bark. On his feet, he wears brown leather boots while a dark grey clothe covers his mouth and nose. Across his torso and thighs, he has several belts fashioned to hold many throwing knives. Naruto looks back down over to his two friends. "Are you to okay down there?"
To which his reply comes from Aelita. "Yes we are, but we might have found a way to the activated tower."
Odd as well throws his own observation in. "There seems to be ledges down here that look big enough to climb. Maybe you can follow us." Naruto nodded as he looked around and spotted the ledges Odd mentioned. After a few moments of getting used to his new looks and how they affect his skills, Naruto was able to make it to the small tunnel in the wall that seemed to snake its way through. "Well, we'll definitely have to talk about this later Naruto, but for now, let's go shut down that tower." Both Naruto and Odd nodded before following after their pink haired charge. Though the quiet wasn't meant to last as a giant metal ball started to roll after them causing the trio to sprint down the tunnel. It was both help and a threat, as they reached the other end of the tunnel, where they jumped to the side to avoid the ball, and revealed the tower. Though a threat as Naruto threw a knife at the giant ball and learned he couldn't even scratch the thing! Odd shook his head slightly. "That's a Megatank, Naruto, it has to open up first before we can hit its weak spot. So Einstein, we found the tower, but we also have to deal with an old friend."
As if by some miracle, Naruto heard Jeremie's voice in his head. "Well than, hurry up. Ulrich and Yumi don't have much time." At this, Naruto's eyes hardened as he readied another throwing knife while Odd readied his arm to fire. But as the Megatank opened up its shell and revealed its eye, Naruto could feel as if the world around him slowed. He pulled his arm back. The Megatank visibly started charging up its energy. Odd yelled something before rushing to the side. Naruto swings his arm forward and releases his knife, sending it slowly soaring towards the monster. Megatank releases it's built up energy straight at Naruto. He hears someone yelling for him to dodge. Naruto dives to the side into a roll just as his knife passes the energy attack. Then suddenly, as two separate explosions go off, time seems to return to normal. Naruto can hear everything fine now, as he hears Odd and Aelita asking if he's alright before he once again hears Jeremie saying the he's (Naruto) fine. Both Odd and Aelita let out a breath they unknowingly held. Jeremie's voice continues in their heads, "Aelita, we need to hurry and shut down the tower."
Aelita nods and rushes towards and into the tower as Odd neared Naruto. Odd pats Naruto's shoulder before speaking up. "You know Naruto, it's nice to have your help and all, but you should leave the dangerous stunts to me. Nice clothes by the way, they suit you."
Naruto snorts before replying, "Thanks, but why should you have all the fun?"
Odd grins before bringing something that makes Naruto tense up noticeably. "I'm sure Yumi wouldn't to lose a friend like you, Naruto." At this, Naruto looks Odd in the eye. "Yup, I know about your crush. Maybe Yumi would like to hear all about that." When Naruto gave an almost pleading look toward Odd, Odd's grin grew. "Alright, I won't tell her. But eventually you will."
Naruto just huffs in defeat before asking a question he had stored in his mind. "Now that we won, what happens next?" Odd just holds up his hand before Naruto hears Jeremie say something that should be impossible.
"Return to the past now!" Naruto looks toward the tower as a bright white field envelops his sight before a deep black took the white's place.
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The day passed by as it had before. All classes boring and somewhat useless. But for Naruto, he was slight perplexed. Hadn't he been through this before? Odd and Jeremie made it obvious to him that they remember. Ulrich and Yumi, they seem to be acting like they never met him before though. Was it just that they weren't told by Odd and Jeremie? Possibly likely. Well whatever, he'd wait for lunch. Something that was right around the corner. And now, he decided to bring thing up to both of his friends. "Alright you two, why are you acting like this?" Ulrich and Yumi both shared a look before trying to understand what the blonde American meant. At this point, Odd and Jeremie couldn't last anymore and burst out laughing. While the other two were confused, Naruto decided to clarify and explain some things to both of them.
"You mean to tell us that you followed Odd and Jeremie to the abandoned factory because you were curious?" questioned the usually calm Ulrich. Naruto only nodded, which prompted the brown haired boy to groan.
"And you forced Jeremie to virtualize you into Lyoko? That explains why we couldn't find you." Yumi felt both hurt and relieved at the blonde's actions. Hurt that he seemingly didn't trust them, but relieved that he would risk himself to help is friends.
"Trust me," Naruto replied calmly. "You guys are my friends and I'd protect you guys with my life if the need arises." To that, everyone at the table smiled happily.
It soon became time to decorate the gym once more. This time though, Ulrich accepted Milly as his date for the prom, thoroughly embarrassing Sissi. "Well, how about you be my date Odd?" Yumi asked her friend playfully.
Countering with a grin, Odd commented, "Sorry Yumi, I already asked someone else out. But I know Naruto is free."
Looking over to the stunned Naruto, Yumi asked, "Is that okay with you, Naruto?"
Naruto, acting like a deer caught in the headlights, responded smartly, "I-I, y-yeah uh… I mean, I would love to." At this, Yumi gave him a warm smile, Odd gave a cheeky grin and a thumbs up while Ulrich "hmmed".
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Chapter End
Well now, that was fun. I had to watch the first episode several times to get this down right. Something I did learn though is that the first season of Code Lyoko isn't in a linear story. That means that I could hypothetically play around with the episodes until the last two of the season. Now then, a couple thing going to be pointed out here. First is Naruto's real world description. The shirt should be obvious, but whatever. As for the POV, it will be 3rd Person unless said otherwise, but it will be mainly around Naruto. That's why you don't see any mention of what happened in Sissi's room when the "Teddygozilla", which is the official episode title, attacked nor of when it goes on a rampage during Naruto's first entry into Lyoko. As for why Ulrich and Yumi don't learn of Naruto's ability to remember the past, I simply thought of it like this: Odd and Jeremie thought it would be funnier for them to discover it from the newest addition himself. As for how Naruto was able to follow both Odd and Jeremie as flawlessly as he did, you have to remember two key details. I did mention that Naruto was trained by his late father, who was a former Navy SEAL, and that both Odd and Jeremie are only junior high students. Odd only has his enhanced hearing in Lyoko, so it's less likely for him to hear a stealthy Naruto. As for Jeremie, well he is described as the stereotypical nerd. Onto Naruto's crush on Yumi. Naruto is from a highly military influenced life style due to his father. As I understand it, since I'm not a military brat myself, the military demands the best of you in all you can do, which is something that can be passed onto one's children. As Yumi being raised by her somewhat stereotyped parents, as in that they demand the best out of their children, she was pressured into being the best in everything she did academically and sports-wise. To Naruto, he sees that as something amazing since the other girls at the academy are more into looking their best and not about being their best. Add to that, Yumi has been said to be one of the most beautiful girls in the school. When you consider Naruto's lack of romantic attachments due to the military brat lifestyle and the fact that he is a year older then Yumi, who has been mentioned to be older than the rest of the class by a year, where hormones are still a major part of his life, it would make sense that Naruto would gain a crush of some sort on a female friend that even remotely met his standards. For how I plan of making Sissi fall for Naruto is quite simple. While Naruto strongly dislikes it when someone messes with his friends, it doesn't make him feel that he should hate on that person just for what they did. So naturally, Naruto would try to make his enemy into his friend, with the exception of X.A.N.A. Speaking of X.A.N.A., if you saw earlier, Naruto mentions him as "xana" in his thoughts and how it might be a local thing. For the first part, this is really his first time hearing its name, so obviously he wouldn't fully understand. And why he thinks it's a local thing is because he's still new to the area. Now then, I explained a lot and I've left things unanswered on purpose. The pairing is NarutoxYumixSissi, but that is just what is assured. Obviously, Naruto's crush on Yumi will cause tension between him and Ulrich, so with that I say "DRAMA~". The squiggly line is for exaggeration. I plan on making Naruto the wacky guy that says phrases that make you scratch your head while you ponder it and eventually give up, then it won't really make sense to a situation arises that fully pertains to what he was saying in the first place. In other words, and I dubbed it this, he will be Gandalfing them. Yep, making that a term and copywriting that. Anyways, I've said a lot and I plan on updating weekly but I will tell you if something planned happens in where I won't be able to upload things. Also I've made a mention as to a Borderlands 2 crossover that I want to do in my note in my abandoned Bleach crossover. Anyways, thanks anyone and everyone who has continued to support me even if I have taken a long hiatus and dropped two stories, one of which that didn't get much love to be honest. I hope to get reviews of encouragement, suggestions and helpful criticisms as they are an author's bread and water. As for any flames sent my way, I will use them as a means to warmly ride out this winter season.
Zepheros, out.