Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Gurren Lagann

Thank you to all who reviewed. I was gonna wait a bit longer to work on this chapter, but then I saw the second Gurren Lagann movie. It was amazing. Afterwards, I had the urge to work on this and get the sory rolling. I've also gone back and fixed a few things from the last chapter.

To archsage328: Yes, Viral will continue to be a big part of this story. As for Gurren, of course it will appear, in this chapter no less. Can't make Gurren Lagann without it, afterall. As for its pilot, it will have many different ones, both Sasuke and Viral being some of them, but neither will be its permanent one.

To Kirino Tsuki: Naruto's parents remain the same. As Viral's lines imply, this story takes place a very long time after Gurren Lagann. If you want, you can think of Naruto as their descendant.

To Zenosyke: There really aren't any Naruto character=Gurren Lagann character comparisons in this story other than Viral comparing Naruto to Simon and Kamina, and one other comparison much later in the story. However, both Tenten and Hinata will have pretty prominent roles in this story, so don't worry too much about them. Though Tenten might live up to Yoko's legacy just a bit. But don't expect too much from Hinata just yet.

To PEJP Bengtzone: Gurren will make its appearance this chapter, along with some other Team Dai-Gurren/Dai-Gurren Dan

And here is chapter two.

This is the tale of a man who has yet to realize his destiny. Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura are young ninja of the village of Konoha, and one day they encounter a terrifying enemy sent by the leader of Oto, Orochmaru: A Gunmen. During a battle with the Gunmen, the three of them fall into an underground cavern, where they meet the mysterious Viral. After seeing the Core Drill around Naruto's neck, Viral gives the boy Lagann, a Gunmen of his very own. Using Lagann, Naruto easily defeats the Gunmen from Oto, and a new tale is born...

Chapter 2
What Would You Say if You Could See Me Now, Lordgenome?

"And here it is! The Gunmen that saved the day, the mighty Lagann!" Naruto declared as he presented his Gunmen to his friends. Teams 8 and 10, as well as Konohamaru, and his friends Moegi and Udon all looked on, each with different reactions. Shikamaru looked as if he couldn't care less, Kiba looked unimpressed, Hinata as nervous as she always was around him, Chouji continued eating, Ino looked a bit skeptical at his claims, and Konohamaru and his friends all looked on in awe. And he couldn't tell for Shino.

"Thats it?" Kiba asked, voicing his opinion of the mini-Gunmen. "Its a lot smaller than the one thats just standing in the middle of the village right now."

"Hey, don't let its size fool you! Lagann single-handedly defeated that big Gunmen all on its own!" Naruto stated.

"As hard to believe as it might sound, its all true." Sakura said. "Me and Sasuke were inside there too, though we didn't do much."

"Yeah, I know. Kurenai-sensei told us what happened." Kiba said. "It still sounds a bit hard to believe, though."

"So what is this 'Gunmen' thing anyway?" Ino asked.

"I don't really know." Naruto replied. "But that isn't important! What is important is that I'm gonna use Lagann here to fight anymore of those big Gunmen that might show up!"

"I see someone hasn't changed since the chunin exams." a voice said. They all turned around to the source to see Lee's team mates, Neji and Tenten. Shortly after, they were also joined by Lee as well, who was slowed down by the injuries he still possessed. "Still talkig as big as you did then." Neji said.

Meanwhile, Tsunade, Shizune, Anko, Kotetsu, and Izumo arrived at the training ground where Naruto and the others said that cavern was. They saw the hole where the genin had said they fell through. "Alright, Shizune and Anko, come with me. Kotetsu and Izumo, you two stand guard up here."

"Right." the four said in unison. They placed three spikes into the ground, and tied ropes to them so that they would be able to get back up. Their reasons for investigating the caverns was two-fold. They wanted to check it for any more of those "Gunmen" things, and to meet with this "Viral" person Naruto and the others had mentioned, which was why Tsunade was leading this team personally.

As they got down there, the person in question was already waiting, sitting right near where they landed. "I thought someone would be coming. Took a bit longer than I expected, though"

"So you're Viral?" Tsunade asked.

"I am."

"My name Tsunade, the Hokage of Konoha."

"Don't know what a 'Hokage' is, but you're here to ask me about Gunmen, right?"

"Correct."

"Alright then." he said as he stood up. "I'll answer all your questions, but I've got a little request first."

"And that is?"

"So this is the thing that you used to beat that big thing in the middle of the village?" Tenten asked as she looked it over, quite interested in the thing.

"Uh-huh." Naruto replied. "And you can ask anyone who was there that it was a piece of cake. It didn't stand a chance against me and Lagann! What do you say to that, Mr 'I'm-a-genius-and-you're-not'?" he said as he looked over at Neji.

"I say that I'm not surprised. Good job." Neji replied.

"Yeah well-Wait, what?" the blonde said, surprised by the Hyuuga boy's response.

"I don't blame you for sounding skeptical. I was a bit arrogant when we fought."

"More than just 'a bit.' You were a real asshole!"

"Yes, I suppose I was." Neji said with brief chuckle. "And for that, I believe I owe you an apology. You were correct, and was not."

"Yeah, well what about Hinata? If he hadn't kicked your ass during that fight, I sure as hell would have for what you did to Hinata!" Kiba said, not accepting the older boy's appology after what he did to his teammate..

"Kiba is right, you definitely went way to far when you fought her during the exams! There was no need for you to almost kill her!" Sakura added.

"I agree, your actions then were uncalled for." Shino said. His tone quieter than the others, but carried the same amount of disaproval as his teammate.

"P-please everyone. T-theres really no need for you all to gang up on Neji. I'm sure hes sorry for everything back then." Hinata said. Her cousin had already appologized to her for what he had done to her and she had forgiven him

"Yes, I am aware that what I did to Hinata then was uncalled for, as well as how I treated you during our match, Naruto. As I said, I am truly sorry for the way I acted towards both of you."

Naruto glared at the Hyuuga boy for a bit, then turned around. "Well, as long as you really are sorry, then its all water under the bridge now." he said.

"Hey Naruto! Can you show us what this Gunmen can do?" Konohamaru asked hopefully.

"Of course I can! I wouldn't have brought you all here to show you I if I didn't plan on demonstrating!" Naruto said entusiatically as he hopped into Lagann and started it up.

The three women stared in utter disbelief at Viral. They didn't think it was possible for anyone to do what he was doing. Not even an Akimichi had ever eaten this much. He had been stuffing his face full of food nonstop for the past hour, even choking several times, and he was only now starting to show signs of slowing down. He had eaten countless amounts of food, mostly meat. After finally deciding he was content, Viral leaned back in his seat and rubbed his stomach, and let out a loud belch. "Lady, you have no idea just how hungry I was." he said.

"So you're finished?" Tsunade asked.

"For now."

"Alright then. We provided food for you like you wanted, now I'd like you to answer some questions I have like we agreed on."

"Go ahead." he said as he looked upward and used one of his claws to pick at his teeth. He then sat up straight and looked Tsunade in the eyes. "Sorry. Being alone for so long has dulled my manners."

Ignoring his bad manners, Tsunade asked her first question. "If you don't mind me asking, can you tell me what you are? I've never seen a creature like yourself before.

"I'm a Beastman."

"Beastman?" Shizune reapeated.

"Never heard of one of those." Anko commented.

"Can you elaborate a little further?" Tsunade requested.

"Beastmen are race of creatures who were created by combining the genes of humans and various animals. Our appearances can vary, with some having almost no resemblance to humans, while others like myself being more 'human-like' than others. But I don't think any of that really matters at this point; I'm most likely the only one left."

"How can you be certain?" Anko asked.

"Beastmen bodies are imperfect; their bodies deteriorate at an accelerated rate and their cell lines weaken overtime. On top of that, we can't reproduce, and multiply via cloning. So they've all probably died out by now, all except me."

"And why is that?" Shizune asked him.

"I'm a bit special compared to other beastmen." He took a knife that had been nearby, and stabbed it far into his hand, and the three ninja's recoiled a bit as they saw that. He then pulled out the knife and held up his hand to show the wound quickly seal itself up, then disappear. "My body was altered to be eternal. I can heal from any injury, I never age, and I will essentially live forever. So while the others died off a long time ago, I just continued to live."

"So then what were you doing down there in that cavern?" Tsunade asked him.

"I'd like to say 'I was down there guarding the secrets of that cave' or something cool like that, but the truth is that I just got stuck down there while I was checking up on Lagann one day."

"And how long have you been down there?" Tsunade asked.

"Hard to say. I just stopped keeping track after a few hundred years." he said, and the three just stared at him.

"'Few... hundred years?'" Shizune just repeated in disbelief.

"Yeah, but I know it was a lot longer than that. Why else did you think I was so hungry? I may be immortal, but I still get hungry. And I didn't get to eat often down there. I was fortunate that there was a spring down there, but water isn't very filling. I was lucky whenever some creature managed to tunnel down there."

The three females just stared at him, unable to comprehend what it must have been like. "Ah, don't look so gloomy." Viral told them. "Its all in the past now, and I'll never have to worry about anything like that again, anyway."

Seeing him just brush the situation off, Tsundae continued to question him. "What can you tell me about those things? Naruto says you called them 'Gunmen', but what exactly are they?"

"Like I told the kid, they're big robots that people can pilot. Not much else to them. Though most of them haven't worked for a very long time, longer than I've been stuck in that cave."

"Naruto and the others said you mentioned something happening a long time ago, but what?"

Viral then suddenly burst out laughing. "I was once told by the man who gave me my immortal body that I would live on as a storyteller. And here I am, doing just that! What would you say if you could see me now, Lordgenome?" His laughter died down, and he looked over to the other three. "Sorry about that. Ignore my reminiscing.

"Anyway, a long time ago this planet was vastly different. It was much more technologically advanced. There were giant buildings, vehicles that could fly through the sky, ships that could travel to other planets in the blink of an eye, and a bunch of other stuff." Viral explained.

The three women found his story so far more than a little unbelievable, but continued listening. "And what happened to this civilization?"

"Something called the Spiral Nemesis."

"'Spiral Nemesis?'"

"Its what hapens when the overuse of Spiral Power causes the number of galaxies to grow too large, and eventually collapse into themselves and create a supermasive black hole that would destroy the universe. We had been expecting that this could happen for a long time, and had always been preparing counter-measures to prevent it. Unfortunately, not everything went as planned, and although the Spiral Nemesis was prevented, a countless ammount of galaxies and planets were destroyed, and those that weren't were nearly destroyed themselves. This planet was hit pretty hard itself. Its surface became a barren wasteland, cities were destroyed, and many people lost their lives. Most of the population of this planet was lost. Over time, life on this planet began to get back on track again. People started to rebuild, and over time, the civilization of the past was forgotten."

"Thats quite a story Mr. Viral." Shizune said.

"No 'Mr', please. Just Viral is fine." he corrected her. "And yeah, it does sound pretty far fetched, but I assure you its the truth."

"Alright, I'll believe you for now. And what can you tell me about Gunmen?" Tsunade asked.

"They're pretty much what they look like; big robots. People go inside them, and pilot them."

"Excuse me Lady Tsunade, but I have something I need to tell you." someone said, and Ibiki entered the room. "I need to give you my report on the interogation."

"Go ahead, Ibiki."

"The prisoner capture earlier was obviously identified as a ninja from Otogakure. We weren't able to extract much information due to a curse seal that activated shortly after the interogation started, and killed him before he could give us too much information his boss didn't want us to know. However, we did learn that Orochimaru has more of those 'Gunmen' things than the one he sent earlier, and even a hidden factory used to build even more of them."

"What!" Shizune let out in shock.

"That bastard has even more of those machines!" Anko said.

"I was afraid that might be the case..." Tsunade said.

"Sounds like you guys have a real problem on your hands." Viral said, and everyone turned to look at him. "But I think I just might be able to help you all." he said with a grin.

Meanwhile, back at Otogakure, Kabuto entered Orochimaru's room. "Excuse me, Lord Orochimaru." Kabuto said.

"What is it?" Orochimaru asked.

"I have some unexpected news; the Gunmen we sent to Konoha has ceased transmitting a single. It appears that it was defeated."

Orochimaru's expression contained signs of surprise, but no hints of worry. "This is unexpected. Perhaps I overestimated the power of a single unit."

"What should we do now?"

"Send someone to investigate and see if they can discover how they managed to defeat it. In the meantime, prepare several more to send out there once the scout returns."

"As you wish, Lord Orochimaru." Kabuto said before leaving to do as he was instructed.

"C'mon! Start!" Kiba shouted in frustration as he turned the Core Drill to activate Lagann, yet it stayed motionless. After a while, the others wanted to give using Lagann a try, yet it hadn't started for anyone except Naruto. Everyone, with the exception of Lee, Sakura, and Sasuke, had tried so far. Kiba hopped out of the mini-Gunmen and kicked the thing. "Stupid piece of crap!"

"Hey! Don't kick my Gunmen like that! You wouldn't like it if I just kicked that dog of yours!" Naruto yelled at the Inuzuka boy.

"Just try it!" Kiba responded, and Akamaru barked in agreement.

"You sure seem to be full of spirit, Naruto. Thats good; you'll need to be." someone said, and everyone turned to where it came from to see Viral. Some of them were a little surprised by his appearance.

"Viral? What are you doing here?" Naruto questioned him.

"I brought him up." Tsunade said, as she was followed by Shizune, Anko, Kotetsu, Izumo, Genma, Ibiki, and a few masked anbu. "We've got a problem; Orochimaru has more of those Gunmen things."

"Really? Well just leave it up to me and Lagann. We'll take care of any more that snake bastard sends at us." Naruto stated confidently.

"Unfortunately, I don't think your Lagann alone will be enough. Orochimaru has a factory to mass produce Gunmen. As strong as that little thing might be, I doubt it can handle an entire army on its own."

"What! An entire army!" Sakura exclaimed. She remembered the one from earlier. She shuddered at the thought of a hundred or possibly even more attacking Konoha at once.

"Don't worry, I know a way that should be able to even the odds. We're just gonna need your Lagann's help to do it, though." Viral said.

"What do you need me to do?" Naruto asked, determination in his voice.

"First of all, you'll need to bring Lagann back to the cave you found me in." Viral said as he started walking in its direction. He then stopped and turned around, and looked over Naruto's friends. "Actually, the rest of you should come too. We're gonna need some help down there, and every hand counts."

One by one, mostly everyone except Lee climbed down into the hole, with Naruto floating down in Lagann with Sakura, Hinata, Konohamaru, Moegi, and Udon all hitching a ride with him. As they got down there, they lit up some torches, and Lagann activated some lights in its eyes. They looked around, seeing that the cavern was quite large, and they were surprised that something like this was so close to their village. Viral looked around, then pointed in a direction. "Its this way." he said as he started walking in said direction, and everyone else following him.

"So what exactly is down here that can help us?" Sakura inquired.

"This place used to be a museum a long time ago." Viral explained as they reached a smaller tunnel.

"A museum? What the hell could we find in a museum that could help us fight these Gunmen things?" Kiba asked.

"You'll see. This place was called 'The Team Dai-Gurren Memorial Museum.'"

"What does its name have to do with anything?" Sasuke asked.

"Team Dai-Gurren was the name of a group led by a man named Simon. Everyone in that group was a great hero, and this museum was built to honor them."

"That still does tell us what could be down here we could use to help us. If its just a bunch of statues and pictures, I doubt thats going to stop any Gunmen." Kiba commented.

As they reached the end of the hallway, they came to another large open area. They then saw several large Gunmen, 11 in total, all around the area. "Most of these here are fully functional replicas of the Gunmen that Team Dai-Gurren used long ago, with a few of them being the genuine articles. They're a bit broken down for now, but we should be able to restore them."

"Woooah, cool." Konohamaru said in awe as he and his two friends stood in front of the nearest one. It was red in color, and what those present found surprising was that it looked like it had sunglasses on it.

"That one there is Gurren. Its a very important one. Its Lagann's partner." Viral explained. He then walked up to a another one, which was mostly white, and held some sort of bladed weapon in its hand. "This one here is Enkidu. It was mine for a while."

Most of those present all looked around at the Gunmen in amazement. Before today, they had never seen nor imagined anything like them before.

Tsunade was not as impressed though. "While these things should prove useful, I don't think 11 alone, plus Lagann, will be able to fight off an entire army." she said, and everyone else silently agreed as their amazement passed and they realized she was right.

"Don't worry too much. These ones are pretty damn powerful. But this isn't the only reason we're down here." Viral said. He then pointed over to further into the cavern, past the Gunmen. "What we really came down here for is over there."

"You mean theres more?" Kotetsu asked out loud as he and Izumo walked in the direction he pointed in. "So we'll have our ow-WOAH!" he exclaimed as he nearly fell into a dark abyss. Izumo and him had come to ledge, and he had almost walkec straight off of it, but luckily Izumo had grabbed him.

"We're gonna need some power on in here first... Now where was that generator...?" Viral said to himself.

"W-what does it look like? I could use my Byakugan to find it." Hinata asked.

"Byagu-wha?" Viral asked cluelessly. "Ah, nevermind. Its a big metal box pretty much. I think it was near one of the Gunmen." Viral explained to her. She did as she said, and looked aound and found it behind a larger golden Gunmen. "Thanks kid. Now all we need to do is find a way to power the thing up. Any of you know a way we can run some electricty through it to give it a quick charge?"

"Leave that to me." Sasuke said as he headed over to where Hinata had said it was. When he got there, he saw that there was an opening in the front. "Perfect." he did a few hand seals, and his hand was suddenly surround with electricty and a loud chirping sound could be heard by all. "Chidori!" he said as he stuck his hand into the machine randomly, not really knowing what he was doing, and grabbed some of the wires. He got lucky as it started up, and one by one the lights started to turn on.

"Thats the Team Dai-Gurren way, alright." Viral commented, though no one else understood what he meant.

As all the lights came on, the ninja of Konoha were greeted with an amazing sight. While the Gunmen they had already been showed were impressive, what they saw now far suprassed them.

"WOAH!" was all Kiba could say.

"No way!" Sakura said.

"HOLY SHIT!" Anko let out.

"AWESOME!" Konohamaru shouted out.

Everyone else was speechless. "Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, Dai-Gurren." Viral said. What they now saw was a massive Gunmen, far larger than the others they had seen. The other Gunmen weren't even bigger than its feet. "This here was Team Dai-Gurren's base of operations for a time. Its a fortress, with heavy firepower, and facilities that you can use."

"This is amazing." Shizune said.

"It will take some time, but we should be able to restore it." Viral said. "First things first, we should start stripping the Gunmen back on the surface for spare parts. It'll save time if we have ones that are already in working condition."

"Right." Tsunade agreed. "Ibiki, Genma, you two start leading a team in dismantling that thing."

"Right." They said, and they left with the unknown anbu.

"Next, we should start assembling people to begin the restoration of Dai-Gurren and the other Gunmen." Viral went on.

"Kotetsu and Izumo, you two start gathering everyone this village can spare to aid in the restoration. Get anyone who is willing to help." Tsunade said

"Yes ma'am." they said before they left as well.

"And everyone except Naruto, start gathering up any spare parts you can find throughout this cave. I'll look over anything you find to see if we can use it." Viral aid, then walked over to Naruto and Lagann, and hopped onto the back. "Alright then kid, fly down to Dai-Gurren. We're gonna take a look at the control room."

"I'll come with you two." Tsunade said, hopping in as well. "Shizune, you and Anko will take care of gathering up anything in this cave that looks like we can use it with the rest of these kids."

And with that, the three of them flew down towards the gigantic Gunmen. As they landed in the control room, Viral started to examine the consoles. "So what are we doing here anyway?" Naruto asked.

"I came to get the data on the Gunmen to help repair them." Viral explained. As he looked over each console, he sighed. "Damn, none are starting up. Guess this thing doesn't have any power left."

"So then are we screwed?" Naruto asked, sounding a bit worried.

"Not quite, kid. This is the reason we needed your Lagann." Viral looked around, then pointed to a central area of the control room. "Embed Lagann's drill there."

"What! Why?" Naruto asked, clearly confused by the beastman's request.

"Just do what he says, Naruto." Tsunade ordered.

"Alright. Just don't blame me if this breaks this thing." Naruto mumbled. He walked Lagann to where he had be instructed. He then had the mini-Gunmen float up a bit, then its arms and legs retracted into its body, and a large drill came out of th bottom, and embedded itself as he had been told. After a few secoonds, Laganns eyes glowed brightly, and all of the consoles came to life, as well as all the lights inside the giant gunmen.

"There we go." Viral commented as he sat down at a console. "I basically had you channel Lagann's energy into Dai-Gurren." he elaborated as he typed his commands into it. "Never really was a computer expert, but even I can get the blueprints we'll need to repair Dai-Gurren and the other Gunmen off of this thing."

It was the next day, and a large amount of people had amassed in the cavern. Tsunade stood on an elavated surface as she began ordering everyone, with Viral standing at her side. "Alright everyone. Most of you are going to focus your efforts on working on Dai-Gurren, but we can't limit ourselves on only it. Incase more Gunmen from the sound village attack, we're going to need some of our own to aid us in defending our home." she stated.

Viral then took over for her. "We'll start repair on some of the Gunmen, among them should be Gurren and Enkidu." He then pulled out several rolls of paper. "These here are the blueprints for the all the Gunmen. They should be simple enough for even all of you who have never sen Gunmen before to read, but if anyone has any questions, just ask me."

"Viral will be leading the repairs on Dai-Gurren, while Shizune will head up the team repairing the other Gunmen. Make sure all of you do your own fair share of work! We need all of your efforts together to make sure we finish this!"

Near the back, Naruto and his friends stood around Lagann. They weren't obligated to help like the adults, but still came down here to help in any ways they could.

"Man, it would be awesome to pilot one of those big ones." Kiba said as he looked over the Gunmen. "Bet it wouldn't be a piece of crap like Naruto's midget one."

Kiba's comment was met with Naruto punching him in the back of his head. "Say that again, I dare you!" he said.

"You heard me the first time!" Kiba said. The two fell into fighting stances, preparing to fight the other.

"Kock it off you two!" Sakura said, punching them both simultaneously. "Stop acting like a bunch of idiots. We're not down here so the two of you could get into a fight."

"Excuse me, Naruto?" Shizune asked as she walked over to them.

"Yeah Shizune?" he replied, turning his attention to her.

"Could you give us a hand? There are several large parts that need to be transported onto Dai-Gurren, and your Lagann would really speed things up since its much stronger than anyone else here, except maybe lady Tsunade."

"Sure, no problem." he said as he leaped into Lagann and started it up. He then had it walk over to where the parts were.

"Excuse me, Miss Shizune, but is there anything we can do to help?" Sakura asked.

"Yes, please. Theres a lot of work to be done on the smaller Gunmen. I may have been put in charge of the repairs on them, but thats only because I'm lady Tsunade's assistant. I don't know anything more about these things than you all do, so any help at all is greatly apreciated."

On the outskirts of the village, the Sound ninja scout stood as he looked around at the damage that the Gunmen they had sent yesterday had caused. There were several destroyed buildings, and its footprints could be seen. Then after taking care to make sure he was not seen, he headed into the village itself. It didn't take long to find the Gunmen standing further in.

'Whats going on here, I wonder?' he thought to himself. The arms looked to have been destroyed, and there was some damage to its teeth in the front, but what he found most interesting is that it looked like people had begun to take it apart. He couldn't help but wonder what this vilage was up to.

"Hey, Uzumaki! Hurry up" he heard someone call out.

The scout quickly conealed himself, and made sure he wouldn't be seen. He then observed several ninja of the village walked past him, each carrying as much parts as they could, and they were followed by Naruto in Lagann dragging a large cart that contained the remains of the larger Gunmen's arms. "I'm coming, I'm coming! Geez, have a little patience will you?" Naruto called back to them.

As soon as they were gone, he got out from his hiding place. 'So they have their own Gunmen now, too? Its small, but if it managed to beat the one we sent, then we can't underestimate them.' he thought to himself. He then quickly hurried off, intent on reporting what he had dicovered to Orochimaru.

In the Dai-Gurren's engine room, Viral, Tsunade and many others carried out the repairs. "So how long do you think repairs will take?" Tsunade asked Viral.

"Hard to say. I'm no mechanical expert, so it won't be a fast as if we had someone like Leeron or Leite." Viral replied.

"Who?"

"Old friends. They were Team Dai-Gurren's mechanic's, and the best at what they did. Anyway, we'll need to restore power to this thing before we do most of the major repairs."

"Why is that?"

"With power restored, we'll be able to use the bridge without having to use Lagann as a power source. On the bridge is a variety of systems, most notably the radar. We'll be able to use it to detect any Gunmen that this Orochmaru guy you told me about sends to attack this village before they get here."

"I see."

"Hey Viral, can we get some help over here?" Izumo called out to him.

"Be right there." Viral replied as he headed over to help them.

The next day, at the sound village, Kabuto listened to what the scout had seen. "So they have one too?" he asked.

"Yes. As I said, its much smaller than the one we sent, but if it managed to defeat the one you sent the other day, than it would be unwise to underestimate them."

"You're right. Head down into the compound and inform them to prepare several Gunmen to send to Konoha. If one isn't enough, then we'll just have to send a few extra."

"Aren't you giving them a bit too much credit?" a voice asked, and a boy with gray hair walked into the room. His most noticeable feature was what appeared to be a second head coming out of his back.

"Now, now, Sakon. He has a point. If they have one Gunmen, its quite possible they could have more." Kabuto said.

"Then perhaps I should go? I would love to be able to use one of these Gunmen things in actual combat." Sakon replied.

"I appreciate your entusiasm, but that won't be neccesary."

"And why is that, might I ask?"

"We already have very special ones being made for you and the rest of the Sound 4." Kabuto says as he walks over to a computer that they had installed in the room. On the screen, four large Gunmen were shown being worked upon. He then pressed another key and the camera focused on one in particular. It was large and more humanoid, and possessed a head on its shoulders in contrast to most other Gunmen. It was white and green, and possessed a pair of wings on its back. It also appeared to possess two faces, one on its chest like most other Gunmen, and one on its head. It also possessed two spheres in place of its feet. "This one will be yours. The data says its called 'Shuzack.'"

Sakon could only grin visciously at the sight of his future Gunmen. "I can't wait to use it." he said with anticipation.

Then suddenly, a loud scream of pain could be heard throughout the compound. "I see... Lord Orochimaru doesn't have much time left with that body... I'll have to begin preparations to find a suitable new host."

It was a few days later, and things were going smoothly for those in Konoha. Despite a few problems at first, they were quickly adapting and learning how to do things properly. While power hadn't been restored yet, it was very close to being . Repairs was also going smoothly on the smaller Gunmen, and a few were almost done. The many workers were heading into cave for another day of work.

"Man, I can't wait until we're done with this stuff. I'm getting kinda sick of coming down into this cave everyday." Kotetsu said.

"Yeah, I know what you mean." Izumo said.

"Don't get so lazy you guys." Genma said as he walked alongside the two chunin. "We need to complete things as soon as possible. We don't know when we'll be under attack by Oto again."

"Besides, its only been four days." Anko said.

"Lady Tsunade! I have urgent news!" someone yelled as he pushed past people as he ran down the tunnel.

"What is it?" the Hokage asked.

"Gunmen have been sight en route to Konoha!"

"What!" she responded, and people murmured.

"And thats not all; theres more than one this time! A total of four! of them"

There was a panic among the people in the tunnels. They hadn't been able to defeat a single one without Lagann, and many doubted that it could handle these odds. "Hey! Don't start doubting me until I've tried!" Naruto yelled out.

"Hes right." Tsunade said to everyone in the tunnel. "And we've got more people than last time, so we're not finished yet."

One by one, most of the ninja cleared out and headed up to the surface, leaving only the non-ninjas and the younger one like Naruto's friends. Not long after that, Viral came walking down the tunnel from the opposite end of the tunnel. He looked around, and asked them were everyone else was.

"We're under attack. More Gunmen are coming." Sakura said.

"They said there are 4 of them this time." Ino said.

"Naruto and everyone else went up to go fight them off." Kiba said.

"Damn. They might not stand a chance on there own... Alright everyone! Hurry up!" Viral said as he started to walk quickly down the tunnel. "We're almost done with a few of the Gunmen! If we hury, we should be able to even out the odds!" As he said that, everyone nodded and followed after him.

Meanwhile, back on the surface, many of Konoha ninja had concealed themselves in the forest as they awaited the arrival of the Gunmen. As they heard the loud stomping that signalled their aproach, they observed their enemies.

The first Gunmen looked rather plain. It was almost all green, and its body was round, and its face almost resembled a skull. The seconnd Gunmen was also green, and its body was more rectangular, with two triangular points on its top. The third was was another green one, closely resembling a frog. The 4th one however, was red and orange, and its face resemble the Gurren they had seen in the cavern, though it lacked the sunglasses and its arms and legs were much different and thinner. It also carried a pair of swords on its back.

As the Gunmen continued their march to Konoha, one of them stepped on a a wired that triggered a great amount of exploding tags. Unfortunately, they did little to harm the Gunmen. Disappointed, the Leaf ninjas quickly fell back, careful so as not to be seen. "This is Genma. The explosive tags failed. We're falling back to your position." he said into his radio.

Further back, Kotetsu, Izumo, and Ibiki, as well as several others awaited the Gunmen as the second line of defense. They were soon joined by Genma and the other members of the first line. "So whats plan B?" Izumo asked.

"Depends if the kid is done yet..." Kotersu replied.

As they awaited the approaching Gunmen, they were shortly joined by Lagann coming up from beneath the ground. "Its all done." Naruto said as the dome opened up. "So you think this will work?"

"Probably not. This isn't likely to stop them, but it should buy us some time for the third line to finish getting ready." Ibiki said. "You guys fall back to the third line in the clearing. We only need one person here to watch them."

"Right." They said, and everyone else fell back except for Anko. She watched from a safe distance as the four Gunmen got closer. As they did, the ground suddenly collapsed beneath them, and they fell into a giant pit. They struggled a bit, but they weren't beaten yet.

Even further back, the first and second lines met up with the third and last line. "How are things going?" Genma asked Shizune as he approached her.

"We've finished setting up."she replied. "I'm sure glad we found these in the cave as well."

"Hope you guys are ready, because they'll be there soon." Ibiki informed them over the radio.

"Everybody, get ready!" Anko called out to al of the stationed ninjas. Naruto and Lagann stood in the center of the clearing, while everyone else stayed hidden.

They felt they cround shake as the large mecha entered the clearing. They looked around and saw only Lagann. "Is this it? This small thing is the only thing here after those futile traps we ran into? HA! Konoha must be desperate now!" the lead Gunmen, the red one, said. It laughed loudly, and the other three joined him.

"If I were you, I wouldn't be laughing. You guys don't even know what you've got coming." Naruto said, his voice being projected through Lagann.

"And what are you going to do, you little runt?" the round green one asked.

"Not me." Naruto said. Lagann then pointed behind itself. "Her."

"Huh?" the round one said, not seeing anything. Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and a small object impacted into the forehead of the large one, knocking it back and causing it to fall on its back. There was small hole in its forehead where the object had impacted. Much further back, Tenten sat in a tree with a strange metal weapon, looking through a scope mounted on top of it. I had a long tube-like protrusion sticking out with a hole on the end.

-Flashback-

"Hey what are these?" Anko asked as she called over Viral to a large chamber she had found. Viral, Naruto, and several others came over to where she was. It was a large room with several strange metal objects the likes of which were just as strange to them as the Gunmen.

"These?" Viral asked as he walked in. "They're called guns."

"Guns?" Tenten asked as she walked in.

"Yeah. They're weapons that shoot things called bullets. Don't really like them too much myself, so I never really used them."

"How do the work?" Naruto asked.

"You just aim and pull the trigger-" No sooner than he said that, a loud sound went off in the cave as a shot was fired and most covered their ears since they were unfamiliar with such as sound, nor were they expecting it. They all turned to were it had come from and saw Tenten holding a larger rifle in her hands, looking through the scope on the top. Way on the other side of the cave, there was a hole where the bullet had hit, dead center in a large rock.

"I think I like this thing." Tenten said as she lowered the weapon.

-End Flasback-

Just then, the members of the third line of defense came out from their hiding places, and began to open fire on the Gunmen withtheir own guns. The Gunmen were pelted with a hail of bullets, and the Gunmen covered their faces with their arms. Taking this oportunity, Naruto made Lagann run forward, and he was directly under one of the Gunmen's arms. Lagann's drills came out, and he was about to destroy the arms, but was suddenly knocked away as the red one drew its swords and swatted him away.

The red Gunmen then threw its other sword forward at where a group of leaf ninja were. "Fall back!" Anko said, as the group ceased their firing and fell back to avoid the giant blade. It then threw his second blade at the other group, and they fell back like the second group. Naruto was about to attack the red Gunmen, but was knocked away by one of the other Gunmen. Lagann was then kicked by yet another of the Gunmen. As the four Gunmen each took turns smacking around Lagann, Naruto was knocked all around in his cockpit.

"Hey, we all don't need to be here." The red Gunmen said as it picked up its blades. It then pointed at the frog Gunmen and the round gunmen. "You two go take care of the Konoha ninja. We'll handle things here."

"Right." the two Gunmen said as the headed off to do as told. The other remaining Gunmen kicked Lagann towards the red one.

"Say your prayers, kid." the red Gunmen said as it raised its blade over its head.

"Damn. I wouldn't be having a problem if it was ono-on-one. But everytime I try to go after one of them, one of the others stops me." Naruto said inside his cockpit as he quickly tried to get back in the seat to get away from the blade. However, it didn't look like he would be fast enough.

As the blade came down on Lagann, it was suddenly knocked away by another large object. The object landed in the ground, and it appeared to be a pair of gian black sunglasses. Their was then a sound of a gunshot, but this one sounded much louder. The large bullet knocked the red one down.

"Looks like you bit off more than you could chew, as usual." a familar male voice said.

"Don't be like that Sasuke. We came here to help Naruto, not berate him." another familar voice said, this one female.

Naruto then looked over to where the voices came from, and saw two large Gunmen. The first was recognized as Gurren, minus the sunglasses that now sat embedded into that ground next to Lagann. The second one was pink and purple, and had a cannon mounted on top of its head.

Inside the Lagann's cockpit, two images came up on the screen, both faces very familar to the blonde. "Sakura! Sasuke!" Naruto said, surprised to see them.

"Sorry we're late." Sakura apologized. "But we hurried as fast as we could to get these ones finished."

"You're lucky we got here just in time." Sasuke said.

Meanwile, as the other two gunmen cornered most of the other leaf ninja. There was a gunshot as Tenten fired on one of them from behind. While one of them stumbled, the other one threw a large rock at the tree she currently sat, knocking her to the ground as it was destroyed. "Damn..." she said, having dropped her rifle, causing it to land away from her.

One of the two Gunmen walked over to her while the other watched over the leaf ninja. Just as the Gunmen was about to pick her up, it was met by a large fist impacting into its face, knocking it down. Standing above Tenten was the large golden Gunmen that slightly resembled a star from the cavern. "Sorry, but I won't allow you to harm one of my teammates." the Gunmen said, and Tenten instantly recognized the voice she heard.

"Neji? Is that you?" she asked out loud.

Then suddenly, another Gunmen leaped out and severed the arms of the other enemy Gunmen. The Gunmen's arms fell to the ground, and the Gunmen that had caused this placed its blade on top of its head.

"Hey, thats Enkidu!" Izumo said as he recognized it from the cavern as well.

"Ah, just like old times." Viral said from the Enkidu's cockpit, the Gunmen mimicking its speech.

Neji's Gunmen stepped foward, and stood alongside Viral's Enkidu. "What did you say this one was called again?" Neji asked Viral over the Gunmen's communications.

"King Kittan. Its named after its old pilot." the beastman replied.

"Right." Neji said. "Tell me, are you sure you want to continue?" Neji asked, his Gunmen speaking as he did. "With my King Kittan, and my partner's Enkidu, we have you outmatched since only one of you is able to fight now."

The sound ninja inside the other Gunmen considered this, and he knew that Neji was right. He stood little chance now, so he turned around and started to run. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't going to get away. As he started to run, Neji's Gunmen ran forward, and the horn on its front went up an met with the one on its back, closing the opnening. The King Kittan then rammed its 'stinger' through the fleeing Gunmen, then the two horns split apart, causing the Gunmen to explode. Then, before the other Gunmen could react, Viral's Enkidu quickly removed its blade from its head, and bisected he other Gunmen, destroying it as well. The leaf ninja all cheered loudly at the defeat of the sound village's Gunmen.

Back with Naruto and the other two, Sakura's Gunmen openned fire on the remaining two enemy Gunmen. "Sasuke, I'll cover you and Naruto with this Yoko M Tank, you and Gurren go help Naruto." she said over their comunications.

Sasuke did as she said, and Gurren ran forward and picked up the sunglasses he had thrown earlier. He then clashed swords with the Gurren look-alike. 'So these 'sunglasses' are actually a sword.' he thought to himself.

"Our Gunmen may look similar, but yours will pale in comparison to my Gunzar!" the red Gunmen said. However, as it said this, it found itself being pushed back.

"Funny, cause it doesn't look like this 'Gunzar' of yours stands a chance against Gurren." Sasuke said through the Gurren. The Gunzar was then knocked to the ground by Gurren.

The other sound Gunmen was about to run to help his comrade, but found itself pelted not only by the large rounds of Sakura in the Yoko M Tank, but by the many leaf ninja who had returned to aid their own comrades. It was about to try to make a run for it, but Lagann suddenly came up from bellow the ground and destroyed one of its legs. It didn't last much longer, so the pilot attempted to make his escape by abandoning his Gunmen, but he didn't make it far until he was caught by Neji's King Kittan.

Back with Sasuke, he finished off the Gunzar as he stabbed the Gurren's sunglasses through its mouth. "And that takes care of you." he said as the Gunzar exploded.

An hour later in the underground cavern, Naruto stood alongside Sasuke, Sakura, and Neji as the looked at Lagann, Gurren, Yoko M Tank, and King Kittan. "The Gunmen certainly are impressive." Neji commented.

"Yeah. If it weren't for them, the village would have been done for." Sakura said.

"And if it weren't for you guys, I would have geen done for." Naruto said as he put his arms around Sakura and Sasuke's shoulders.

"You guys handled yourselves pretty well out there for your first" Viral said from Enkidu as he came into the cavern carrying the last of the parts salvaged from Oto's Gunmen. "And pretty soon, we should have ther others completed soon." he said as he stepped out of Enkidu's cockpit.

"Pretty soon we'll be ready for whatever that snake bastard throws at us." Naruto said.

And there is the second chapter. As for the Gunmen that appeared this chapter, only Neji will be keeping the one he used throughout the story(besides Viral). Other than Neji with the King Kittan, here are who I plan to give each Gunmen to(Using the names from Bandai's english Gurren Lagann manga):

Kakashi, and much later, Sai - Dayakkaiser

Tenten - Moshogun

Hinata - Kiyalunga

Shikamaru - Iinzer

Chouji - Kid Knuckle

Genma - Sozorthine

Kotetsu & Izumo - Twin Boukun

I also have a few original Gunmen planned for some like Kiba, Shino, Lee, Anko, and others. And as said earlier in the AN at the start, the Gurren won't be Sasuke's(hes gonna be mostly pilotting it for the first few chapters), and the same goes for the Yoko M Tank and Sakura.

Please review.