Chapter 2: Of Alliances

March 4th 2095

It was known that Operatives preferred to work alone, they could infiltrate groups and countries more easily if they worked alone. Technology and Magic had allowed for countries to have tighter security and many countries had very harsh laws on tourism and migration, Japan was one of them. After World War 3, certain countries like Australia had closed their borders. They still actively worked on trading with other nation but with the existence of magic, they were more independent than they have ever been. The fall of the Commonwealth and with the United Kingdom choosing to become a part of the West EU, Australia found themselves to be alone. Considering it's remote location, it was relatively easy to spot any threat to the country.

Japan followed suit, they closed their borders and aggressively vetted all incoming persons but there were rules that Japan had to follow written by the International Magic Association and the United Nations that was now more of a defunct ruling organisation that only the West really followed. Japan had to allow traders and merchants through their borders and it wasn't rare to find a child born from Japanese businessmen or women to return to the country and begin his education, in fact, Japan strongly advised the parents do that, especially if they possessed innate magical abilities.

Using this loophole Naruto constructed his entire persona and life, he claimed to be a son of a businessman who had recently passed away. They vetted his so-called family and checked his financial records, finding them to be incredibly vast, Naruto was allowed into Japan on the condition that he attended school. Of course one would wonder how Naruto fooled one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, the answer was ironically technology.

Naruto was indeed wary of anything being traced back to him, he laundered everything in through shady Yakuza businesses and several shadow criminal companies that he had made allies of. The JSDF didn't have any Strategical type magicians equivalent to the ONI. Of the five of them, the weakest was capable of causing havoc on the battlefield, with his odd ability of human puppeteering. Naruto shuddered slightly, who knew that another version of Sasori would be birthed here.

His TV blinked on and on it appeared Levi and General Anderson albeit, on different screens, Anderson said, "I trust you are fitting quite well in Japan."

Naruto nodded, "With the exception of the constant boredom, I believe I am doing fairly well."

Levi said, "You know perhaps I can fly over and help alleviate your boredom."

"And risk a nuclear cataclysm, I don't think so." Anderson said, "I am sending Levi to China. The both of you will work hard to earn the trust of the targets I have informed you about."

Naruto merely saluted and Anderson blinked out, Levi gave him a Cheshire grin and said, "I know that look, Naruto. You're up to something and since you haven't told Anderson, I can only assume it's somewhat shady."

"Let's just say Japan has become slightly more interesting," Naruto said with a slight smirk. "So, what is your mission."

Levi chuckled slightly, "Infiltrate a magic university in China and gain access to their military database. Apparently, the Great Asian Alliance has been stealing tech from the USNA."

"Why do you get all the interesting missions," Naruto said with a hint of annoyance.

Levi's lips quirked, "Your one to talk, you get all of those merc assignments. Believe me, assassination missions are far more fun than infiltration ones. Anyway, I must get going now if I am to catch my flight. I sent you some paperwork that I need your help with."

"I'll get right on it after school." He said the word with a slight distaste. He switched off the channel and began to get ready for yet another boring day at school.

First High School

Naruto sighed as he eyed the classroom for the corner of his eyes, he chose to sit at the back in the furthest corner from the door, he did this to avoid any sort of interaction with Mizuki, the girl's unique ability to sense his Psion count was disturbing and since he was still working on his fuinjutsu, he hadn't found a way to seal his Psion count or at least lower them to someone possessing ESP.

Despite the outward jovial appearance of the classroom, he found a slight depressing undertone in the classroom. It appeared one day in this school was enough for the weeds to understand the extent of the discrimination in this School. Now he wasn't saying the USNA was any better but there were no such divisions in classrooms back home, it was more of an ability gap, with those who were considered A-class or S-class magicians being taken to work with the STARS and the DoD.

His research here was that magic was more familial and inheritable in the sense that each family or clan decided to use a unique type of magic to make themselves stand out in the populace and as such those who were members of the Ten Master Clans were given a higher status than the general magician populace. It instilled some sort of holier than thou feel to the whole community and Naruto hated it.

He abhorred it. And not for the reasons that you would think. According to certain protocols the course 2 students were given limited practical skills training as a posed to the course 1 students, this, in turn, furthered the discrimination. The rationale behind these protocols didn't elude him but rather he found the way it was set up to be irritating. Even though his interference strength and psion count were extremely potent, he found that his chakra tended to cause a lot of what could be called normal magic to go haywire or be too powerful something that he was only able to hide in the practical exams by simple luck. It required intense training and years of understanding and experimentation to explore the interaction between chakra and magic but such was the complexity of chakra that he found that it worked in both an astral sense and a physical sense, despite this setback he had found that the best way for both to work harmoniously in his body was chakra control exercises.

Naruto was so enamored with his thoughts, he never noticed a young lady addressing the class about counseling and registration of electives. As he began to return to reality, he found the lady staring at him, she gave a quick smile as if she knew that he had not been paying attention. She said, "For those who have already finished registration as well, it's fine to leave. However, you may not do so after guidance has started, so if you wish to do so, please leave now. If that is the case, please don't forget your ID card."

Naruto simply stood up and walked out of the classroom, he found everyone looking at him, but he couldn't seem to find in him to care. He had never exactly been a conformist. The scraping of another chair indicated that another student had also chosen to skip the guidance part of the session.

Naruto sighed, 'Guess I'll go check the library. They may have some sequences I can copy.'

Elsewhere

Yotsuba Clan Manor

Yotsuba Maya was known to be one of the most powerful women in the entirety of Japan and even the world, her notoriety was not only gained by her dangerous magical ability but the wealth of information she possessed no thanks to having access to Echelon 3, a global monitoring system.

A knock on her office door and her butler walked in, "I have the information you wanted, Maya-Sama." A folder was placed on her desk and she opened the binder, pictures of what could only be called a massacre were uncovered.

"And this is what the Belarus government said happened. What about the operation."

"Destroyed. It appears that the death of Hanzo and the uncovering of our operation was no coincidence."

Maya frowned slightly, "This isn't the first time, this kind of attack has happened. York, Moscow, Brazil, China and now Belarus. It appears there is a mysterious organisation in our midst."

The butler asked, "But why did you ask for this boy's file."

Maya pulled out the file and said, "Because he is of interest to me."

"He is in the same class as him, is he not. I saw his scores they don't look very promising."

Maya merely smiled in a dismissive manner, the butler understood the call, she wanted to be alone for now. Maya typed a few things in her terminal and a picture popped up, a picture of a 9-year-old Naruto walking out of a mafia hideout and a police report on what had occurred. The whole thing had been classified and scrubbed by the DoD and had she not had access to that backdoor, she would have never found it.

'Because sometimes the devils you seek disguise themselves as the weak and frail.' She mentally answered the butler's question. 'I wonder what you are Naruto.' She would find out in due time, she thought as she sipped her expensive wine. With her weapon in First High protecting Miyuki, she knew that Naruto wouldn't be able to hurt her but she had a hunch that that wasn't the point of his incursion into Japan. She guessed he was most likely an operative for the DoD.

A smile appeared on her face, it was devilish as she said softly, "Let's see what your game is then." She would use the backdoor as a means to observe his actions in real time whilst he was in the school.

Arena

Naruto trudged across the field and towards one of the practical sessions that he wanted to observe, Battle Magic was an elective that the school allowed for both Course 1 and Course 2 students to take. It involved training students in the use of weapon CADs, basic casting strategy, duels and many other aspects that would help those who wished to move on to the National Defence Academy.

As he neared the 'arena' he found himself watching Watanabe Mari use self-acceleration to avoid her opponents spell, the boy merely tracked her trajectory and aimed his CAD at what he assumed to be her landing spot. 'Too slow.' Naruto thought. Mari landed just before he could launch the spell and in effect accelerated herself towards the boy. The next thing he knew, Mari was right behind him, an activation sequence already up.

The boy chuckled, "Your win, Mari."

Mari looked at the large group of bystanders, every year this elective was by far the most popular and as was tradition, it was common for the top duellist to duel some of the first years. "Anyone else want to have a go?" Mari said.

No one raised their hand, Naruto understood why. It was idiotic, Mari was a very powerful tactical magician. Mari said, "Then I will have to pick one of you." Everyone became slightly anxious, Mari scanned the crowd and her eyes fell on Naruto's. She thought, 'Isn't that the foreigner that Mayumi was talking about. Let us see what all the hype is."

"You." She pointed straight at Naruto. Naruto merely smiled as if he knew she was going to pick him. As the crowd parted for Naruto, he heard the whispers of all the blooms saying how easy it would be for Mari to beat him.

Naruto walked onto the carpet, he noted several racks of weapon CADs around. "What are the rules?"

"No lethal spells but apart from that everything else is permitted." An eerie grin appeared on his face as he picked up a bo staff, he spun it for good measure. "Very well."

The boy that Mari had just versed said, "I shall referee this fight."

Both Mari and Naruto stood opposite each other and bowed. The boy motioned with his hand to begin, Mari burst forth intent on finishing Naruto as quick as possible. Naruto simply hopped to the side as Mari appeared behind him, she was forced to duck as his bo staff was thrust towards her neck. She thought, 'A warning shot. He's telling me not to underestimate him.'

She activated her CAD and was intent on knocking back Naruto as he now began to go on the offensive. She was unprepared for him to once again manoeuvre out of the specified coordinate of the movement type spell. 'Impossible! How could he have known the parameters of my spell.'

Naruto raised his bo staff and struck the ground, "Come on Watanabe-Senpai, I expect better from you. This is child's play."

"Yeah! Beat the weed already." They heard from the crowd, she glanced at where the voice came from but was unable to discern as to whom had said the derogatory word.

"Focus!" Naruto was already on her his bo staff was already coming down and onto her head. She sped into him and delivered an uppercut. 'Fast.' She thought as she barely skimmed his chin. She grabbed the bo staff and used it to reel him in. Her CAD had already activated another attack, a burst of pressurised wind struck Naruto and he was launched into the wall.

The students clapped as if she had already won but Naruto merely stood up, he cracked his neck, "Allow me to return the favour." She could barely react as he thrust his palm, he muttered, "Futon: Gale Palm." An insane stream of wind struck at where Mari was currently located and swept the area. 'Shit!.' At first, it seemed like it was a localised attack but as the pressure of the wind began to expand, she found herself being swept into the air despite accelerating away from the main focal point of the attack. She landed painfully on her back and as Naruto rushed towards her intent on finishing her off, the bell for lunchtime went off. He chuckled, "Saved by the bell senpai."

He extended his hand to her and she grasped it as he helped her up. "Guess I went a little too far with my wind attack."

Mari simply gave him an awkward smile, "I wasn't expecting it to expand like that. It was my fault for underestimating it."

"You give yourself far too little credit. Most people wouldn't have been able to discern the area of expansion. If this were an open arena, you would have surely dodged it." He said.

Despite his assurances, Mari narrowed her eyes at the redhead, she could have sworn that she did not see an activation sequence when he launched the spell. He was definitely far more powerful than he let on.

She turned to address the group of students huddling around the dojo, "Guess that covers the demonstrations of this elective. Make sure you have registered before the end of the school day." A clap resounded from the blooms and the weeds before they began to file out of the room.

Mari turned to ask Naruto a question but found the boy had seemingly disappeared. She asked her colleague, "Where did he go!" Neither of them noticed that Naruto had simply just mixed in with the crowd and disappeared.

The boy asked, "I think you should get him to join the Public Moral Committee."

Mari frowned, "Guess we'll just have to see. " But from what she could see he enjoyed fighting more than he enjoyed stopping it.

Canteen

Erika said, "You should have seen it, Naruto was fighting Mari. It was like he was toying with her." Erika seemed oddly happy about it.

Tatsuya replied, "You said, he attacked her with a wind-based spell. So he converged the wind into a single focal point and then released in the form of a wave." Erika nodded, he ran the calculations in his head. To generate that much pressure in a short amount of time as well the area of effect, it would be classed as high-level magic. Impossible for a course 2 student to do. It once again verified his theory about Naruto hiding his true magic ability. He would, of course, need to see the activation sequence to be sure.

Afterschool

Naruto yawned as he walked across the courtyard towards the gate to leave the school when he spotted Tatsuya, Erika, Mizuki, Miyuki, and Leo being approached by a group of blooms, among them was Morisaki Shun.

Naruto shook his head, he didn't want to get involved. He heard Mizuki say, "We are all freshmen. You guys are Blooms, but right now just how are you any better than us?" He applauded the normally shy girl for her courageous behaviour but also wanted to tell her that such actions were foolish.

Shun shouted out, "…If you want to know just how much better, I can show you." Using his family's infamous drawless technique, he drew out his pistol CAD and pointed it at Mizuki. Naruto sighed, 'Guess I might as well join the fray.'

"Perhaps you should think about what you are doing, Morisaki. You are violating school rules after all." Naruto said.

"You weeds don't get to tell me what to do." He activated his sequence and Naruto watched as Erika disarmed him with her baton. She said with a grin, "At this distance, it's easier if I use my body." She felt a breeze as Naruto quickly grabbed Morisaki and threw him over his hips and into the ground, holding his wrist he put him into a painful wrist lock. "Without your CAD, you're not much are you Morisaki."

"Damned Weeds." Two other boys activated their own spells and aimed at Naruto who released Shun and moved to intercept.

"Stop!" A girl screamed as she activated a knockback spell to hit both students who were about to attack Naruto and co.

Tatsuya noted that Naruto would be able to stop the boys but the girl would launch the spell and if he moved to intercept the girl, the boys would launch their spells at Erika. He would need to move as well to stop the girl. Miyuki looked at her brother as he was about to activate an acceleration spell to speed over there.

"Stop right there! Using attack magic on others for any reason other than self-defense is not just a violation of school rules, it's a criminal offense!" A psion bullet was released and the girl's activation sequence was shattered. The boys froze and as such their spells were negated as they didn't complete their activation sequence.

Naruto thought, 'Great…Watanabe Mari and Saegusa Mayumi. The last two people you want to come across in this situation.'

"You are students from 1A and 1E, aren't you? I will hear you out. Please come along." Mari held an activation sequence that was ready to fire at any given time. Naruto analysed it and smirked, it was the same attack she used on him before.

Tatsuya stepped forward and said, "I apologize, the prank went too far." At those unexpected words, Mari's eyebrows arched up. "Morisaki's quick-draw is famed, so I asked him to give a demonstration for future reference, but it became too lifelike and got out of hand."

"So why is Morisaki on the ground and why did the girl from 1-A activate a magic sequence."

Naruto intervened, "That would be my fault, I mistook the situation for an attack and quickly diffused the situation without the use of magic. "

Tatsuya continued, "And she was taken by surprise. Being able to start up activation processes as a conditioned reflex is truly worthy of a first-course student." Naruto merely snorted, this guy was truly a good actor and his sarcasm was, even more, praise worthy.

Mari understood what he was doing, "Your friends were attacked by magic and you still intend on saying this was a prank."

"Even if you call it an attack, all she intended to fire was a flash of blinding magic. It wasn't on a level where it could have caused blindness or impairment." Oh, revealing a skill already, Naruto thought. Everyone in the courtyard seemed to be slightly shocked that Tatsuya could do something that was considered impossible.

The girl said softly, "How could you have known that."

Mari was slightly impressed, "So you can read an activation sequence before they have been deployed."

Tatsuya said stoically, "I'm no good at practical magic, but I'm confident in my analysis."

"You also seem skilled at subterfuge." Mari analysed the situation and thought that considering no one had stepped up to dispute Tatsuya's testimony, it would be pointless to arrest any individual.

Mayumi said, "So this was all a training exercise for you, Tatsuya-Kun."

Mari shook her head and said, "Since the president seems so inclined to let you all go, I'll look the other way today." She turned heel and took two steps before coming to a stop, "Your name."

"Shiba Tatsuya, Class 1-E." He said smoothly.

"I'll be sure to remember it." She then remembered that this was the best time to talk to Naruto privately but her momentary discussion with Tatsuya had only led to the disappearance of Naruto. God damn it!

Naruto merely whistled to himself as he walked around the corner. With all their attention at Tatsuya and Mari, it was very easy to slip away.

Tokyo

Midnight

Naruto found himself at an upscale bar/restaurant located on the highest floor of Tokyo's foremost hotel. He sat on the table that was booked for him by one of his new clients. "I hope you didn't have to wait very long. " A gentle feminine voice spoke from behind him. As she took her seat, Naruto finally had a good look at her. She was a woman of immaculate beauty and looked to be in her late 20s, she possessed silky black hair and stormy grey eyes.

"No."

The woman barely nodded, "I am sure you know who I am."

"Of course Sayuri. I am aware of your current predicament in Tokyo, with the Blanche managing to take over, your business is suffering."

"And?"

Naruto smirked as he withdrew a small scroll from his pocket and slid it across the table, "I wish to extend a helping hand."

Sayuri opened the scroll and her eyes widened, "But this is…"

"A way out." He said as he leveled his gaze at Sayuri.

Sayuri asked curiously, "What is your game? You could sell this blueprint to the military for billions."

"Let's just say you and I are the same, we resent the Japanese government. This weapon will help even the playing field with you and the magicians that are currently undermining your operation."

Sayuri smiled sinisterly, "Very well." She extended her hand and Naruto shook it.

"To our partnership." They both said as their meals had arrived.

"What about the more powerful magicians?"

Naruto's eyes flashed red, "I'll deal with them personally." A grin played on his lips, all was going according to plan. With the Blanche beginning to make their move, Naruto would help the Black Lotus in succeeding the group.

A/N

Finally finished this chapter. I don't know what it is about this crossover but it is really hard to write. Also, it took me a while to try and figure a way to even the playing field between Naruto and Tatsuya, Tatsuya's decomposition magic is insanely overpowered, he has the power to reduce anything to whatever he wants by manipulating the Eidos.

Anyway, I hope you liked the chapter and please review. As for the pairing, I am not exactly sure yet, if you have any ideas of who should be paired with Naruto do say it in your review.