Hello, hello! Here I am, once again! This time, I bring you something not seen often enough in our little world of fan made fiction: a NarutoxElfen Lied X-Over! Quite honestly, I see a very interesting resemblance between Naruto and Lucy/Nyu/Kaede. Both hated for something they didn't choose, feared and mistreated by society because of it… damn, Naruto is pretty much an honorary Diclonious with all the stuff he's gone through. Ok, so here's the basic plot: In the Elfen Lied OVA (Episode 14), there's a girl who befriends Lucy/Kaede as she runs away from the Organization. Sadly, she gets shot and doesn't survive. BUT! What if instead of it being a girl in a random city, it was Naruto in Konoha? When he was still young and not yet a ninja? Anyway, without further ado, NYU! Can you do the disclaimer?

Nyu: Nyu?

Oh, right… Well, I'm not stupid enough to hit you in the head to bring out your other side, so I'll do it myself. I do not own Naruto or Elfen Lied. If I did, the following events would happen.

The road near Konohagakure no Saito

It was a beautiful day in the Land of Fire, where people were going along with their everyday business. Right now, Jiraiya and Naruto were on their way back to Konoha. It had been a long 2 ½ years, but definitely worth every second of training. Jiraiya was happy to be back in his home village, without having to worry about Akatsuki popping out of somewhere or the occasional bandit thinking he could beat them… buuut most of all because he could get back to his research without Naruto yelling 'ERO-SENNIN' and earning him a few rocks and water tubs in the head…

'Oh well, occupational hazards of a Super Pervert' He thought, chuckling silently. He then turned to look at his student, expecting him to be happy to be back home… only to see him with a downcast look, rubbing a spot in his chest very near to where Sasuke had impaled him. "Naruto? Oi, Gaki! What's the matter, we're almost home!"

"Huh? O-oh, yeah…" Jiraiya stopped moving altogether when his normally hyper student answered. After two and a half years traveling together, Jiraiya knew very well when something was bothering him. Also, his tone sounded like someone had just told him his ramen had disappeared. He stopped walking and began to glare at Naruto.

"Spill it, gaki. What's on your head?" Naruto was about to deny the accusation once more, putting on the fake smile he was so used to using, when Jiraiya's glare suddenly intensified. "Spill. It."

"*Sigh* Today is December 10th, right?" The Sensei nodded at his student. "You see, 8 years ago, on this very day, I met a very nice girl. She wasn't like the other villagers that hated and feared me. Needless to say, we hit it off right off the bat. One day, while we were playing, a group of men arrived and tried to take her away. I tried to fight back, and even used my own body to block their projectiles, but in the end she let herself get caught… so they'd leave me alone…"

"I take it you never saw her again?" Naruto nodded at his Sensei. "Can you describe her? Maybe it'll help you to let it out of your chest." Naruto nodded again, and took a deep breath.

"I remember her like we met only yesterday." His eyes gained a faraway look as he began to talk. "She had real pretty big, red eyes, with short pinkish-red hair. She had very fair skin, but her most beautiful feature was on her head…" Naruto's voice was full of sadness, most likely from the memory of losing his first true friend.

"Oh? Really? Did she have a bow or something?" Sadly for Naruto, this question wasn't just for curiosity, Jiraiya was already using this to plan a new novel. 'Oh yes… best friends, a girl and a boy, separated by an evil Daimyo, and the one of them goes to rescue the other and gets 'thanked'… man this kid is the Golden Pot of ideas!'

"No, not a bow… it wasn't something artificial…" Naruto said, this time his voice full of nostalgia. "She had a small pair of horns, growing from the sides of her head… They were the reason she was taken away…" Jiraiya tensed a lot when Naruto mentioned the horns. "As I said, I tried to protect her, but her pursuers had some strange weapons. They fired metal really fast, kinda like Kunai Launchers on a sugar rush…" Naruto now noticed how wide Jiraiya's eyes were. "Ero-Sennin? What is it?"

'Horns… strange weapons… the age… that description… it all matches!" The Frog Sage quickly grabbed Naruto by the shoulders and looked at him in the eyes. "NARUTO! That information you gave me, it matches perfectly with the info I recently got from my Spy network!" This time, it was Naruto's turn to widen his eyes. "I was informed that a girl with horns was born a few months ago in Suna. Her parents loved her nonetheless. Hell, apparently Gaara was considering training her himself if she decided to become a Shinobi. Not 2 weeks after her birth, however, a group with strange weapons arrived at Suna and took her away. They somehow managed to get into the village at night and take the girl from her crib. The parents were heartbroken when they found out, but before they took her, they had placed a seal on their daughter that would allow them to track her, no matter where they took her, and see through her eyes and listen through her ears. They said they saw several others with horns, and now that I think of it, one of them matches that description perfectly!" Naruto's eyes widened even more. Jiraiya actually thought that they would pop out of their sockets. "I also know where they are. Let's get to Konoha first so I can fill you in in all the details before you go and try to play hero, ok?"

The Anti-Diclonii organization HQ, one week later

Lucy was, as per usual, tied up to a wall, waiting for the next cannonball to be fired at her. The building's lab rooms were nothing more and nothing less than pure and absolute hell. How she wished they didn't use that weird drug to limit her Vector's vibration to deflecting instead of cutting… Maybe then she'd be able to get out of the damned place… She looked through the window again and saw the technicians adjusting the machine's strength while the man in a suit- Kurama- was watching them intently. Lucy still hadn't forgotten that promise she made the man so long ago… when she promised she'd kill all he held dear… The same day he told her that he had died…

Flashback!

Lucy was tied up to the wall of her cage, a straightjacket binding her to it and an iron helmet on her head, blocking her vision. Despite the lack of comfortableness of her current situation, her mind was elsewhere. She kept thinking of the boy that tried to save her from the men… and got shot in the process. The suited man, who she had learned was called Kurama, had promised her that if she turned herself in, he'd get the kid some help…

'Oh, Naruto… please be ok…' were the only words going through her head. Naruto had been the only person she could say had never betrayed her, unlike that brat Kouta who lied to her… 'He even jumped in front of a shot for me…' Her thoughts were interrupted when Kurama walked into her cell, his neutral face on, as always. Lucy felt a glimmer of hope that her friend had survived…

"I'm sorry, but the boy didn't make it. He died in the surgery…" The words hit Lucy harder than any punch she'd ever received. The horned girl just stared at the man in disbelief, tears starting to flow out of her eyes before she could do anything about it. What Lucy didn't know, was that Kurama was lying… not entirely though. The part in which he was lying was in saying he took the boy to the hospital. After the capture had been completed, a masked man appeared and took off with the kid, so he didn't know what had happened with the blond runt.

"Listen to me…" Kurama looked at the girl with a look of confusion. Only now did he notice the tears running down the helmet. "I-I will not kill you… but I will take everything you ever loved!"

Flashback end!

Lucy was brought out of the memory when she heard the machine whirring back to life. She knew she wouldn't be able to fully deflect this one, but at least she should be able to keep it from hitting anything vital. She readied her vectors, the machine took aim and…

*Knock Knock!*

… The procedure was interrupted by someone knocking on the door rather loudly. One of the technicians got up and went to the door.

"Who's there!?" He asked, just in case that a Diclonii had escaped her containment.

"RA!" Was the answer that came from the other side. Lucy found the voice incredibly familiar…

"Ra, who?" Something that sounded like spinning energy began to emanate from the other side of the door, and then the door began to bulge forward.

"RASENGAN!" The door was torn from its hinges as something powerful drilled through it. The Technician that was standing in front of it was crushed by the force it exerted. "TAJUU KAGE BUNSHIN!" A giant puff of white smoke filled the room, even the area where Lucy was kept. Before the smoke dissipated, Lucy felt someone releasing her from her bonds and covering her with some sort of jacket. Out of pure instinct, she lashed out with her vectors, trying to kill the one that had released her. All she managed to do, though, was smack him hard, the drug still in effect. She was about to attack again, when the smoke cleared, and…

"Yare, Yare, Kaede-chan! That is not how you welcome an old friend, is it?"

(A/N: Start playing Naruto Fighting Spirit)

'That voice! It can't be!' But it was. When the smoke cleared, it showed that the floor, walls and ceiling were littered with blue-eyed blonds wearing orange and black jackets with matching pants, except for the one that gave his jacket to Kaede. "N-Naruto?" The original blond (who was standing right next to her with a noticeable smack mark in his chest) turned to see her.

"Hello, Kaede-chan! Long time no see, eh?" Lucy couldn't believe it. It was really too good to be true.

'Did I finally die? Is he here to take me to the afterlife?' The thought was quickly eliminated from her head, though, when the blond next to her laid his hand on her shoulder and pushed her out of the way of another cannonball. Naruto's eyes were flickering from blue too red, mark of the rage he felt of the way his friend was being treated.

"I'm sure we have a lot of catching up to do, but I think we should get the hell out of here first, 'k?" These words made Kurama snap out of his shock-induced trance, and began barking orders to the P.A.

"ATTENTION! INTRUDER ALERT! REQUEST BACKUP IN TESTING LAB 4!" His words were answered by the sounds of people yelling at each other and the sound of gunshots in the distance. The blond haired clones and their creator began to laugh.

"Kinda hard to go somewhere when they're fighting an army!" They laughed a little again at that.

"An army?" Kaede asked, still a little shocked that her friend was alive. The Shinobi held up two fingers.

"Two words, Kaede-chan: PRISON BREAAAK!" As if on cue, several alarms began to ring around the station.

"ALERT! SILPELITS #7, #11, #15, #35 AND #36 HAVE ESCAPED! ALERT! EXPLOSIVES WITHIN #35 HAVE BEEN DEACTIVATED FOR 24 HOURS! EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY! ARMED TROOPS ARE REQUIRED TO MOVE IN! HEY, WHAT THE…" The next sound that was heard was that of screams of pure agony. Naruto chuckled loudly again.

"You heard them, people!" He yelled at his clones. "It's time for us to move out!" The clones nodded and began to grab the technicians and Kurama, holding them in a full nelson with Kunais aimed at their throats. The real Naruto and a whole bunch of his clones began to run out, Kaede riding on the original one's back. Despite the joy she felt of seeing her friend again, something was off…

"Naruto…"

"Hai, Kaede?" He gulped audibly when he felt a pair of ghostly arms start to wrap themselves tightly against his neck. Even though the drug prevented her from cutting, nothing was stopping her from strangling.

"How did… how did you find this place? And most importantly, how did you survive? I saw you get shot!" It was just then that they met up with four other Clone squads, each of them carrying an unconscious Diclonius, except for one she recognized as Nana, and one of them was carrying a baby. The five teams began to run towards the exit.

"Kaede-chan, now is definitely NOT a good time to talk about this, ne? I'll tell you once we get to a safe location!" He told her as they rounded a corner. Around it, they found a rather unpleasant surprise. Kurama, who had somehow released himself from the clones, accompanied by two rows of armed soldiers, all of them aiming at the escape party with floor mounted turrets.

"Kurama…" Lucy sneered at the man, her eyes showing the hate and resentment she had built around the years.

"Kurama? Yeesh, how come every Kurama I know is a pain in the ass?" Naruto asked out loud, causing a certain Nine tailed Fox Demon to grumble something about 'Stupid blond gaki's. Naruto was rather surprised when they all heard the little Diclonius, Nana, whimper a little.

"Papa…" She muttered, although a little too loud, loud enough for everyone to hear. One would think that this would make someone's heart go out to the girl, but instead, Kurama simply looked at a camera for a few seconds…

"Fire…" The soldiers began to shoot at his order. The bullets were too big to stop with Vectors, being fired from large 50mm anti-tank turrets. The conscious Diclonii extended them anyway, in an attempt to complete their escape. Before the bullets got too close, however, they all felt a tug in their gut, followed by a rush of wind, and they were now standing at the side of Kurama, the Narutos manning the turrets. Where they once stood, the soldiers now laid dead.

"Ah, the wonders of the Kawarimi Jutsu…" The original Naruto said with a happy sigh. Kurama, after recovering, drew out a pistol and prepared to shoot at Naruto. "Now, I don't think that's a smart move." The Naruto's all aimed their turrets at Kurama. Poor idiot didn't know that Naruto had little to no idea how to work them, but the ruse worked. The suited man dropped his gun. "There, now that's a smart move…" Naruto chuckled. He then nodded at one of his clones, who proceeded to knock out Kurama with a chop to the neck. He fell rather unceremoniously on the floor, his head making a loud thud when it collided with the polished surface. "That has got to hurt… Oh well! Moving on!" The Narutos resumed their run, the clones with their hands free knocking out whoever tried to stop them. "Now, listen Kaede. I have some friends waiting outside to get us out of here. I remember you telling me about distrusting others, so I just want you to know that the people outside are friendlies, ok?" The Diclonius nodded at her friend, two of her vectors still set firmly on his neck. She wasn't going to choke him… unless, of course, he turned out to be an impostor hired to mess with her mind. And if he was, she still wouldn't choke him… she would dismember him first, and then, when he was on the floor bleeding out, she'd slowly cut him in half. When they burst out of the building, she saw a bunch of people fighting against the soldiers. One of them, a slightly big boned one, was increasing the size of each of his limbs for devastating punches. Another one's shadow was stretched out, connected to a soldier, and said soldier was now shooting his own allies, mirroring every move the pineapple headed man was doing. There was a blonde girl whipping around a giant fan, the resulting wind waves slicing through every soldier that they came in contact with. Finally, a red haired man was manipulating what looked like sand, making it cocoon the soldiers and crush them within.

'What are these people?' Lucy thought as she saw the Narutos join the fray, knocking out every single soldier. 'So much power…'

"OI! SHIKAMARU! Any idea how to get out of here!?" Naruto yelled at the Pineapple head. Said man ran through some hand signs, and his shadow choked the man it was connected to.

"Of course I have one…" Lucy was rather surprised at how laziness simply dripped off the man's voice. Shikamaru pulled out a scroll that had the words 'To the Leaf' written in it. "I asked Jiraiya to make these things. It was a real drag but each one can take up to two people back to Konoha. I've brought just enough for all of us here to leave. I knew you'd rescue anyone else trapped in this place, so I brought some extras." He began to pass the scrolls around while the Narutos fought off the remaining soldiers. "Just pump some Chakra into them as you open them and we'll be as good as gone. We just have to wait for…"

"YOSH!" Shikamaru was interrupted by a voice that was the complete opposite of his own. This one was absolutely full of energy.

"… Lee to finish putting the explosive tags." Lee pulled a small sliver of paper with symbols and laid it on the metal floor. "Did you put everyone in its place?"

"YOSH! Of course! If I missed one, I'll run three hundred laps around Konoha! And if I fail to do that, I'll…" before he could finish, three of the Narutos put their hands on his mouth, effectively shutting him up.

"Lee, let's just turn this place into a firework, ok?" The three told him. Once everyone had a scroll, they opened them and poofed out of existence. Meanwhile, in a slowly retreating chopper, Kurama was beginning to regain consciousness, just in time to see the HQ go up in smoke.

'Mariko!'

And that's it for now! Whew, I've been wanting to get this one off my head for a while. Seriously, a few days ago I dreamt of Lucy/Nyu/Kaede threatening me with her vectors while Naruto held a Rasengan to my face… not really pretty. So, here's what I'm gonna do: I'm gonna write the first chapter of every idea I get. Then, when the ones I'm working on now are finished, I'll start working on these. This is BladeOfThePoet, logging…

Lucy: What about the canon characters? *Aims her Vectors at the terrified Author*

*Gulp* A-all in good time, Lucy, all in good time… NARUTO CALM HER DOWN!

Naruto: Hey, Kaede-chan! Let's go kill Sasuke-teme!

Sasuke: WHAT!? *Runs away with a Naruto Army and Lucy with her vectors tailing him*

Whew. Well, with that settled, this is BladeOfThePoet, logging out!