Warning to all readers: Do not expect updates to be regular or quick, for that will surely kill any hope for reading this fanfic. I suffer from writer's block in the form of chronic lazinitrosis (aka, laziness.) I shall try to write more often than this, but I can't make any guarantees. The last half is a timeline setter, so basically it is an altered version of a Naruto episode. Just letting you know. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: Refer to the first chapter for the disclaimer.

Naruto 'Aran' Uzamaki

(Point of view)

Description/action/ event

Chapter 2: Prelude to the meet.

ZEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOO………BEAM!

(Normal POV)

(Place: In space ;) )

It is a well guarded secret that bounty hunters don't have a constant lifestyle that consists of train, eat, train, go on a mission, train, eat, train, train, and sleep for about 4 hours before repeating. Nope, in fact, 1 day of every 3rd week the majority of bounty hunters usually forgo about half the training they supposedly do for leisurely activities.

A prime example of this is Samus Aran, now ex-bounty hunter. She also has the strangest tastes to boot. Her strangest habit is reclining back in the chair of her spaceship and eating ramen, often forcing her to drive manually with her feet. This, of course, has led to numerous (and quite expensive) wrecks involving surprise phone calls or space pirates. (Surprisingly, most of them have been caused by the former. This also explains why she is seen pawning off Chozo technology to auction stations every once in a while.)

It was also at this time that she was indulging in said habit.

It has been a lifelong curiosity (aside from wondering about the location of the remaining Chozo) of Samus' as to why she loves Ramen. According to her taste buds, the health food had always seemed to taste better the healthier it was. So why was it that this unhealthy bowl of noodles had a taste worthy of the gods (or god) to her? She had assumed it was genetics, but something told her it was otherwise, and her instinct has never been wrong before.

Anyway, she had just made the jump out of hyperspace and was now eating a bowl of the very best miso ramen she could find, trying (and failing miserably) to eat it slowly as she wondered about her nephew. What would he be like? Would he have an acceptable personality? Would he have friends? Did someone adopt him? What was his favorite color? At the last question, she suddenly had the urge to announce it as orange, but had dismissed it immediately as a stupid idea.

Another little known fact about the universe: There is a scientifically unbound curse placed on the Chozo and their closest friends that causes catastrophic events to occur when they denounce an idea as stupid. A scholar that she once knew denounced the idea of the curse as a stupid one once. Let us just say that he has had an irrational fear of tizerian wolveloes ever since.

So let us think about this for a moment. Samus is a close friend of the Chozo. She is the hated enemy of all space pirates. She has just invoked the curse of the Chozo. Can anyone guess what is going to happen next?

Four jet-black space pirate transport carriers armed to the metaphorical teeth soon jump out of hyperspace and begin unleashing volley after volley of missiles and short-lived lasers on the orange spacecraft.

"D * ^ $!" Samus swore before immediately dropping her ramen of the floor, grabbing the controls, and going into a steep nosedive followed by several barrel rolls and a loop de loop in order to avoid collision with the deadly pirate missiles. After missing their target, the missiles' failsafe kicked in and exploded harmlessly to avoid any unwanted collisions later on.

As she continued to dodge the missiles, one of the lasers nicks her poorly shielded ship, frying her steering system's autopilot center and a few of the steering mechanisms. The damage was enough to prevent her from doing complex maneuvers while giving her basic control over the ship's direction. Thinking fast, Samus activated her spare weapons system spike and broadcasted it to the pirates before they could continue the onslaught of missiles and lasers. However, due to another hit by the enemy's laser, the weapon spike accidently spiked the few weapons systems her ship had, completely disabling them.

It would be only a matter of time before the space pirate technology operatives installed a backup weapons system of sorts, so Samus floored her speed, zooming towards planet K-2L, wondering why she didn't spike their weapons system in the first place.

ZEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOO………BEAM!

(Naruto's POV)

(Place: random side alley in Konoha)

This is just great! Sakura's going to kill me if I don't keep running. Why am I running again? Oh yeah, Konohamaru, the little… Hey, who's that? Huh, if I didn't know any better, I'd say that he was wearing the emo version of the weird guy's jumpsuit I met 1 year ago. He also has on his back what looks like a poorly wrapped mummy.

"That hurt," says the mystery dude coldly.

"Konohamaru!" I yell as the freak with the mummy on his back grabbed Konohamaru's ridiculous scarf and lifted him in the air.

"That hurt brat," he… uh, reideratted or whatever that word is.

"Stop it. We're going to get scolded later," says a mysterious girl. The girl didn't have any spectacular features about her except a red sash, some fishnets, and blond hair. She wasn't too pretty or too ugly, just like Shikamaru wanted. Note to self: Play Matchmaker later.

"I'm sorry, I was just joking around sir!" begs the beautiful Sakura.

Okay, he hasn't let go of my apprentice, he's being a j ^ $ & * &, and I'm mad.

"Hey! Let go of my friend, you jerk!" I yell again at the freak. I tend to yell a lot, don't I?

Anyway, the creep just chuckled and smiled. I hate this kind of creep.

"But I want to play around before some noisy people come," the mystery dude says eerily as he tightens his grip on Konohamaru.

"Let go!" Yells Konohamaru, kicking at the mystery dude to no… uh, anvil, was it?

"You're very energetic kid," he simply says as he continues to tighten his grip.

Seeing Konohamaru in pain, I heroically charge at the creep and- Gah! Tripping's not part of the plan! Just what did he do?

"What was that!?" I ask in be-be-bewonderment? Maybe I should look these words up later.

"Konoha's ninja are weak," he chuckles, leaving me to wonder just what kind of country he came from. Maybe that Zabuza guy's country, 'cause they both are rather cold and-and-and… aggh! Whatever, they're both alike!

"Konohamaru!" I yell again. His girlfriend or whoever she was as well as the nerd call his name out as well.

"Hey! If you don't let go of him, you're going to have to get it from me, you idiot!" I yell out before being put into a headlock by Sakura-chan.

"You're the idiot! Don't provoke him!" she growls at me.

You know, she's very convincing when she has you in a headlock.

"You piss me off," the mystery dude says, every word filled with killer intent. "I hate short people anyway. And you're so impertinent for someone younger than me."

He turns his head towards me. "It makes me want to crush you."

A chill went down my spine as he said that to me. I'd hate to meet this guy in a dark alley.

The mystery girl sighs and says, "I'm not going to be responsible for what you do."

"After this short kid, the short kid over there is next," he says as he tenses his fist again, ready to punch Konohamaru this time. Unfortunately, all I could do was yell out stop before the mystery dude… drops Konohamaru?

"What do you think you're doing in another's village?" says Sasuke from a nearby tree.

I saw him tossing a rock in his hand up and down and realized he must have thrown it at the mystery dude. I should have known.

"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura-chan squeals in delight. It's official: he's a show off.

"Naruto!" yells the terrified Konohamaru as he runs up to me.

"Great, another kid that pisses me off…" mutters the mystery dude as he rubbed his hand. Hah! What a wuss!

Sasuke crushes the rock in his hand into dust with his hand as says, "Get lost."

Great, he looked cooler than I did!

Unfortunately, this made Sakura and whoever the shrimp's girlfriend is squeal even more. "He's so cool!"

I feel so lame right now.

Konohamaru turns and points at me. "Naruto, you're not cool," wines Konohamaru.

Yikes! I've got to save my reputation!

"I would have beaten that guy…"

"Liar!"

GRRRRR! Sasuke… Why do you always stick your nose into everything like this…?

"Hey, come down kid!" yells the mystery dude. Sasuke just stares at him, causing the freak to talk some more. "I hate kids like you, who think they're so clever."

When will you quit it with the kid stuff! You aren't that much older than us, you know! Huh? What's he doing with the mummy-like thing?

"Hey! You're going to use Karasu?" asks the mystery girl with a little worry.

So it is a mummy! Or it could be a younger brother. Or it could be both. You can never know with these creeps.

Kankuro slams the thing on the ground, but before he could reveal what it was, another mystery dude stops him.

"Kankuro, stop."

Huh? Yikes! Scratch that earlier statement; I'd hate to meet him in a dark alley. The weird redhead with the kanji for love on his forehead and a peanut shaped gourd on his back just scares me, and he's only said 2 words!

"You're a disgrace to our village."

Kankuro's a disgrace to their village!? The genin test in their village must be a death match or something! Heck, even the mummy guy is scared of this new creep!

"G-Garra…" stutters Kankuro.

(Normal POV)

However, before anything else could happen, strange noises filled the air. Everyone looked up, and witnessed what would forever change their lives: four black metallic objects firing weird blasts of energy and metallic objects at one eyesore orange object, heading straight for the Forest of Death…

ZEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOO………BEAM!

And that is a wrap to the second chapter of this fanfiction. Next chapter will contain Samus and Naruto's encounter, but not under the conditions anyone would have liked; except for action lovers, of course.

Yeah, I blew a lot of time recreating episode 20 in Naruto's POV, but I had to have a reference to what point in the series Naruto was in. -.-; Yeah, I overdid it. Sorry. Credit goes to the person who added the subtitles to Pagan poetry's (MySpace account) version of the Japanese episode as well as pagan poetry him/herself.

Later!

(The author uses a Shuishen to reach the Forest of Death.)