'Thinking'
"Speaking"
"Summons/Jutsu/Kyuubi" speaking
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or The Familiar of Zero
AN/ Okay sorry about the late update but my computer, mainly Microsoft word has been acting up so I've had to write this out by hand and then type it up on my bro's laptop, I'm thinking about starting No Need for Naruto over again because another author has given me some really good ideas so until I decide what I'm doing with it I won't update that story probably, but my next update shouldn't take as long as this update, also for any of you who are actually reading this I'm thinking about what to do after I get a few chapter's done in each of these fic's, someone suggested a vandread crossover and after watching the series, I might actually make it though it would be difficult to work well, and also after re-watching Gurren Laggan I want to do something with it in it as well, so if you have an opinion on these idea's or your own idea you want me to try put it in a review or PM me . Now on with the story.
Chapter start
Louise's room
"Elemental countries?" Louise asked Naruto, trying to follow along Naruto's explanation of his home,
"That's right, until you summoned me here, I was in the Elemental countries, fire country to be exact, heading towards the Ninja village Konoha, and ninja's, I guess, are sort of like mages" Naruto said trying to explain his world, it was times like this he almost wished he paid attention in the academy.
Naruto was behaving quite civilly, which was surprising considering the position he was currently in, he was sitting down, and he had finally gotten a top, it was a simple black t shirt that was a bit to small but still it was better than nothing, but the main difference was Naruto's new accessory, that being a large metal collar, which was chained to the wall to stop him from 'running away' and no matter how hard he tried he couldn't get Louise to believe he was just exploring the school.
"So you're a ninja from another world and because you're a ninja you learnt how to do that wall walking thing?" Louise asked trying to clarify what Naruto had said; at this Naruto nodded happily thinking she had finally gotten what he had said. "I don't believe you" Louise stated causing Naruto's head to drop before he replied tiredly "It doesn't matter if you don't believe it, it's still the truth" before continuing on in a far off tone too quiet for Louise to hear "And now I'm stuck here according to Gamakichi, but still it might be for the best without me, the Akatsuki can't complete their plan" he was broken from his musings when a cloak was thrown over his head, he pulled it over his head to see Louise undressing again.
"Whatever, it doesn't matter who you are or where you're from" Louise said as she continued to undress, kicking off her skirt, and then throwing her shirt and skirt at him, which Naruto caught, and he now had a small blush on his cheeks, mind not exactly functioning correctly he asked quietly "Um ... what exactly are you doing?".
Louise, who was now only in a nighty and her panties, just looked at him and tilted her head slightly saying "I'm going to bed so I'm changing" she said simply, she then snapped her fingers causing the lights around the room to go out, and making Naruto look around curiously before looking back to Louise and quickly staring wide eyed and blushing, shouting "W-why are you doing this in front of me?" stuttering slightly in embarrassment , as she had taken off the nighty and was now only in her panties.
Her simple answer was "Why not?" Naruto quickly replying "Does that mean your fine with a guy seeing you like this?"
"A man?" she asked curiously "but your just a familiar" and Naruto's retort was cut off as a pair of panties hit his head.
"Go wash those clothes" Louise said as she slipped on a different nighty and climbed into the rather large bed.
"Eh ... why do I have to wash your clothes?" Naruto half yelled
Louise replied without moving in her bed "Who do you think will care for you?" at this Naruto stared at her curiously "You're my familiar, right, cleaning washing and other things like that, it's naturally your duty" Louise said before adding as an afterthought "Also prepare my clothes in the morning."
Naruto wasn't as dumb as most people believed, at times he may have been oblivious but he wasn't stupid, he knew that he could survive on his own in this world, all he really needed to do was get to a town, when he was there he could get money by either stealing or working for it and while in a town he could easily gather information, from travellers and such, about this world he was in, but 'kichi had said he was supposed to stay with this girl and help her, so he'd make due, after all he'd had it worse when he was younger.
Louise's sleepy voice broke Naruto from his thoughts "Rest assured ... if you work properly ... you'll be fed" Naruto just sighed at that.
"I guess I'll make the most of it" he said before looking over at his 'bed' it was just a mat on the floor, seeing this Naruto rolled up the right leg of his pants and applied some chakra to a seal that was on his shin and a scroll poofed into existence, opening it and looking through it for about a minute, he then unsealed a sleeping bag and rolled up the scroll sealing it back into the seal on his shin, moving the sleeping bag over against a wall he decided he should just get some sleep for now, he could deal with everything in the morning
Naruto's Mindscape
When Naruto woke up he wasn't entirely unsurprised, when he found himself, instead of waking up in Louise's room, in a dark dank sewer, with a very large cage in front of him, and inside the cage an equally large fox with nine tails.
"Quite a fine mess you managed to get yourself into brat" the Kyuubi said the voice booming around the sewer like mindscape.
"Yeah well it's not like it was my choice this time" Naruto replied, now standing before the cage, over time Naruto and Kyuubi had begun to get along better, or had just gotten bored of constantly insulting and threatening each other and so they had come to an agreement that they were stuck together so they may as well make the best of it and try to get along.
"Hmph, I suppose your right, anyway I've got some things to explain to you so be quiet and listen, first it seems that the trip to this world has damaged your chakra coils, as best as I can tell it looks like something was trying to force your chakra to change into a different type of energy, most likely the 'magic' of this world and your body fought against the change causing the damage, I managed to stop it, but the damage was still pretty bad" Kyuubi explained and then gestured upwards with one of his tails, Naruto looked up and saw that the pipes that would usually run along the ceiling were now cracked and rusted.
"So while you can still use chakra you won't be able to use a lot of it without agonizing pain, your limit right now is about the same as 50 or so of those clones you use, and while you can still use my chakra, it would probably be as damaging as it would be helpful, you would still get the power but it would most likely make the damage to your coils worse so it's best to keep it as a last resort" at this Naruto looked a bit put out one of his major advantages was his large chakra capacity so without that he was considerably weaker and while he was still probably mid to high Chuunin level with Ero-Sennin's training, he should have been low to mid Jounin level.
"The second thing is that mark on your hand, from what I can tell it gives you some sort of power, but until it's used I can't tell you what it does, I forced some of my chakra into it when it was being put on and it seems to have mixed with it and used that to increase its power, it is quite interesting but I would still like to know what it does" Kyuubi said trailing off towards the end.
"So let me see if I have this right I can only use a little chakra, drawing out yours is probably gonna make the damage to my coils worse so it's back to a last resort, and I've been given some sort of power but you don't know what it does" Naruto said going over the main facts.
"Yeah that's the short version brat, now I'm tired from all the work I had to do to stop that damage so get out, and make sure you don't get us killed" the fox said kicking Naruto out of his mindscape.
Next Morning
Louise was awoken when someone pulled her bed sheets off of her, "Who ... are you?" Louise asked around a yawn, her answer was Naruto throwing some clothes at her.
"Here you told me to prepare these for you this morning" Naruto said turning away, Louise sat up rubbing the sleep from her eyes.
"Oh yeah ... didn't I just summon you yesterday?" she asked, still half asleep, then she looked through her clothes and noticed something was missing "Where's my underwear?".
A flustered Naruto said that she could get those herself but relented and got them for her when she threatened to take away his meals.
"Can I take off this chain already" Naruto asked Louise, it was beginning to bother him a bit, to which she said no but still there was the sound of a lock clicking, and then the much louder sound of the chain crashing into the floor, making Louise stare towards Naruto wide eyed.
Naruto though, was putting away the senbon he had used to pick the lock, while he couldn't use senbon in battle he usually kept some around for lock-picking and whatever else they might be needed for, he put the senbon into a weapons pouch that he had unsealed earlier that morning and taped to his leg.
"W-W-What are you doing?" Louise shouted pointing at him.
"Relax, it's not like I'm going anywhere and besides that thing was starting to itch" Naruto said calmly scratching his neck when he said the last bit.
"W-Whatever" Louise said calming down a bit, she then threw her clothes at him again ordering him to dress her and another argument came about over this but again Naruto relented and dressed her, it wasn't like it was the most unpleasant thing in the world to do, Naruto had to admit the girl was cute, sort of like a less violent Sakura.
After Naruto had finished dressing Louise they both left for breakfast, in the dining hall there were three very long tables, one for each year, the first years were on the left, the second years in the middle and the third years on the right.
As Naruto and Louise walked down the side of the middle table almost everyone turned to stare at them or mainly Naruto, it seemed that everyone had heard about the commoner familiar, Naruto though, was uncomfortable with everyone looking at him and was fidgeting under their gazes, and he was a little frightened at some of the looks he was getting from the girls.
Kirche was talking to Montmorency when she noticed Louise and Naruto "Ah here she comes ... the rumoured run away familiar and its master" she somewhat announced.
As they got to the place where Louise was going to sit, Naruto finally managed to stop fidgeting, the sight of all the food probably had something to do with this, "Wow, this is an awesome feast!, you eat this every day?" Naruto questioned Louise who was standing next to him.
Instead of answering him Louise said "Hurry and pull out the chair, it's discourteous of you" Naruto did this, though he was annoyed at being ignored, as she sat down Naruto moved to sit down beside her until he felt Louise pull at his arm.
Turning to look at her he asked "What is it?, I'm starving I haven't eaten in like two days" when he looked at her, he saw her eyebrow twitching and she was pointing downwards, following her finger Naruto saw a plate sitting on the ground, after a few seconds of Naruto looking to the plate then to Louise and then back to the plate again Louise spoke saying "Only nobles can sit here, a commoner like you sits here".
Naruto's immediate reaction was to shout "What the hell?, No Way!"
Him shouting this caused many people near them to start laughing it would seem that many of the students were eavesdropping in on the two, and at the sound of their laughter Louise let out an annoyed sigh.
Seeing that he was embarrassing Louise Naruto, being the kind person he is decided to do as she asked for now and sat on the floor cross legged.
The students then began to say prayer's before eating, Naruto though, now had his own eyebrow twitching as he looked at his 'breakfast' all it was, was a slightly stale piece of bread 'just bare it for today, you can just eat the food you've got sealed in the scroll starting tomorrow' Naruto thought to himself as he ate.
After eating their food, Louise and Naruto walked out into the courtyard, Louise saying that usually familiars stayed outside during meals while their masters ate, "It was a special request for you to be next to me" she said as if she was doing Naruto a favour.
He simple replied "I'd probably be better off outside".
Looking around the courtyard and seeing so many people outside Naruto asked "Why's everyone out here? I thought this was a school, shouldn't there be classes or something?".
Louise looked around at everyone as well and answered saying "There's no lessons for the second years today, it's to start communication with the familiars they summoned yesterday" and looking they saw most of the second years were stroking their familiars as most had some sort of animal.
Naruto then commented "I don't think that would work for us"
Hearing someone behind them Naruto and Louise turned and were looking into the face of a large red lizard, the sight caused Naruto to jump back in surprise his hand immediately shooting into his holster and grabbing a kunai, but the grip loosened when he saw a student beside the lizard and he let go completely when she started to pet it, the girl laughed slightly at Naruto's reaction, causing him to blush a bit in embarrassment or that may have been from how the girl was dressed.
Kirche then spoke "Is this the first time you've seen a salamander?" she asked Naruto, he nodded in response before looking over the lizard and then remembered seeing it the day before when he was summoned.
Naruto then asked something he had been wondering "Why are all familiars so tame? I mean you only just summoned them, I would've thought they would be more aggressive or something" Naruto mind drifting back till the times when he had summoned Gamabunta.
Kirche answered Naruto saying "A contracted familiar is absolutely obedient to its master, so they won't attack anyone or run away ..." here she paused and scratched the familiars head and it let out, what Naruto guessed was a pleased sound based on the way its tail wagged " ... Right Flame?" Kirche finished smirking towards Louise.
Louise easily saw the jab at Naruto 'Running away' and got a little angry, shouting "Mind your own business!".
Kirche stood up at this and said "Hey you probably just grabbed a commoner that was walking by, didn't you ... you deceived us quite well with that explosion, but at least you choose an interesting one" and she gave Naruto an appraising look while not so subtly checking him out, her thoughts also going to when he had walked on the walls last night.
"You're wrong" was Louise's instant reply, "I properly made a summon and he just came out!" she said loudly pointing in Naruto's direction.
Naruto at this point in their argument, seemed to be having a staring contest with the salamander as he was crouched down and close to its face and staring at it, the salamander then licked Naruto's face causing him to jump away and fall backwards, the salamander once again seemed to let out a pleased sound, while Naruto just looked at it and said "I hope to god your female"
"Well a commoner is a perfect fit for you anyway, zero Louise" Kirche stated before walking off with Flame, laughing haughtily.
Louise growled slightly as Kirche walked away, her fists clenched tightly, before turning and shouting at Naruto, who was rubbing his face, "Don't just stand there!, at the very least go get me some tea!"
Naruto was now walking through an area that looked like an outdoor cafe, many students and their familiars were sitting at tables being served by people, while looking around he didn't really pay attention to what was in front of him, until he heard something make a noise, looking ahead he saw that a few inches in front of his face was a giant floating purple eye.
Once more Naruto leaped back in surprise, stumbling a bit when he hit someone, the eye had floated off.
Naruto turned to see who he bumped into and saw it was a girl, she had shoulder length black hair, cut in a way that was somewhat similar to Tabitha's, she had dark blue eyes and was dressed as a maid.
"Ah sorry" Naruto said as he saw he had caused her to drop what she was carrying, she replied "No, it's ok, I'm fine" then they both leaned down to pick up the cake she had dropped, Naruto grabbed the cake and the girl picked up the plate.
As Naruto set the cake down, the girl noticed the markings on his hand and asked "Could you perhaps be the one who became Ms. Valiel's familiar?".
Naruto simply sighed saying "Heh seems like everyone knows who I am" to be honest Naruto was getting a bit annoyed at all the stares.
The maid continued on saying "Most people do, for a commoner to be summoned as a familiar, it's already gossip" the girl then said "Oh! I'm Siesta by the way".
Naruto smiled at the girl and then introduced himself "I'm Naruto Uzumaki ... just call me Naruto".
"Naruto-san ..." but Naruto stopped her from saying more by interrupting.
"No, no san just Naruto or Naruto-kun if you have to add something " Siesta looked surprised at this and blushed slightly at Naruto wanting her to call him kun.
They were both stopped from continuing their conversation as Guiche called out asking if the cake he ordered was ready, Naruto then took a closer look around and saw how busy the servers were so he offered to take the cake over to him and when Siesta was about to argue that it was dropped, Naruto just grinned at her causing her to blush a bit and said "Don't worry he won't even notice" and then walked over.
As he reached their table he set the cake down saying "Here you go" and then he noticed who Guiche was with and said "Oh hi Montmorency, hey 'kichi" with a small wave, both Guiche and Montmorency looked up in surprise seeing Naruto, the toad though just waved "I'll talk to you later, I have to get stuff for Louise" Naruto said, though who he was talking to was unknown, Montmorency still blushed.
As he was walking away he remembered something and turned and said "Oh yeah, Guiche, why was that girl you were with last night wearing a brown cloak, what do the cloaks mean?" and then he got confused when Guiche suddenly got nervous and Montmorency started to get angry, knowing better than to get in an angry girls path Naruto just said "Nevermind, I'll talk to you later" and walked off quickly.
As he walked off either not noticing or skilfully ignoring the argument he had started, he walked into the girl, Katie, noticing her looking for someone Naruto pointed her in Guiche's direction, she quickly went over to Guiche and Montmorency, Naruto turned and looked seeing their argument he couldn't help but come to a conclusion, but he didn't need to shout it out like he did "Ah! You were two-timing!" and Naruto's shout drew more attention to the scene.
After a little more arguing the two girls both shouted out "You Liar!" and Montmorency slapped Guiche before both girls ran off crying and the crowd that had gathered began laughing at Guiche.
Guiche got up staring angrily at Naruto "It seems you; do not know how to act towards a noble".
Naruto just stared plainly, and then said "In my world, I'd insult two of the strongest and most respected people in my village regularly, so I doubt I'll be any different to anyone here".
"Very well" Guiche said quite sinisterly "I challenge you to a duel! For a person who statuses as a commoner, who is also a familiar, to disgrace me, and more over you made two ladies cry!" Guiche called out during the small speech he had pulled out a rose from his cloak and was moving it around.
Naruto spoke right after Guiche had stopped, shouting "It was you who made those girls cry bastard, don't try to blame me because you got caught two-timing" Guiche blushed a bit in embarrassment and when the gathered crowd saw this they began laughing again.
At the sound of the crowd's laughter Guiche's anger rose, and pointing the rose towards Naruto he said "You better prove that resolve, I'll be waiting at the grounds in front of the vestry" and he then walked off.
Naruto watched him leave and before he had the chance to move Louise stomped up to him shouting "What are you doing?" she then grabbed his arm and started to drag him away, ignoring his complaints Louise continued to pull him forward saying "What the hell were you thinking accepting that duel?"
Naruto at this just asked "Where are you taking me?"
"To apologize to Guiche, if we hurry he might forgive you" when he heard this Naruto pulled his arm from her grip.
Glaring at her slightly he said "I did nothing wrong, so why should I have to apologize" his anger made his voice harder than he wanted.
"you really understand nothing, a commoner can never overcome a noble!, you'll be lucky if you come out of this only hurt!" she cried out.
Naruto just turned away looking over to where some students were staring and asked "Hey, where are the grounds in front of the vestry?" the student pointed off in the direction Guiche had gone and Naruto thanked him and before jogging off said to Louise "You shouldn't underestimate me" and then went off ignoring Louise's shout of "Why is my familiar so selfish".
Another crowd had gathered in front of the vestry, having heard what was going on they had formed a large circle around Guiche and Naruto.
"I compliment you for not running away " Guiche said and Naruto's reply was cut off by Louise shouting "Wait!" and running up to Guiche trying to convince him to call the whole thing off, Naruto though, was already quite angry and with everything that happened the last couple of days, he was looking forward to this fight so he could work off some of his frustration, so he walked over to where Louise was and without any warning picked up the smaller girl and threw her over his shoulder and started to carry her off into the crowd, ignoring Louise's yells and her fists beating on his back, as well as ignoring what the crowd were saying.
Louise though was incredibly embarrassed and was yelling at him to let her go, having given up on hitting him as it was like hitting a brick wall.
After looking through the crowd Naruto brought Louise over to where Kirche and Tabitha were standing, and set her asking them politely to watch her, much to the amusement of Kirche , Tabitha just looked up from her book for a moment to nod to him and then went back to her book, and then Naruto walked back into the centre and stood facing Guiche.
Guiche just smirked at Naruto and shouted "The duel has begun!" waving the rose and one of the petals came off and fell towards the ground, when it touched the ground a circle of white light appeared, and what looked like a suit of armour began to rise up from the ground "My name is Guiche of the Bronze, therefore the bronze golem, Valkyrie, shall be your opponent" and as Guiche finished speaking the suit of armour stood where the circle of light was and it held a spear in its right hand.
Naruto looked on in slight wonder as the armour rose from the ground, but quickly snapped out of it, but not quite quick enough as the Valkyrie moved with surprising speed and punched him in the stomach, the punch was fairly strong but it was weak compared to what Jiraiya could do, and nothing compared to Tsunade so he was able to shake it off fairly easily.
He moved back quickly after the hit so the Valkyrie couldn't follow up, but the Valkyrie stood in place and Guiche spoke "Oh, you're still standing, I must have held back too much".
Naruto, though mentally berating himself for dropping his guard like that, still said "I'll admit the armour and its speed caught me by surprise, but it won't happen again".
Guiche then said "Well it'd be a pity if I destroyed Louise's toy ... if you apologize here I'll forgive you".
"Pff, as if that hit would make me give up, my baa-chan can hit harder, your doll is pathetic" Naruto said grinning as he mocked Guiche.
Guiche's eyes narrowed as he said "Is that so" and he then had the Valkyrie attack again, but it was exactly the same as before a straight-forward punch, Naruto easily grabbed the Valkyrie's fist, when it was close enough, with his right hand, he forced the Valkyrie back a bit showing considerable strength and even more so when the crowd heard to metal fist groaning from the force he was clenching it with.
Naruto then kicked the Valkyrie in the side, the force of the kick sending the Valkyrie tumbling several feet away, and as it went, Naruto dashed forward, figuring that this was basically the same as fighting a puppet user, so he went for the one pulling the strings.
The Valkyrie was back sooner than he expected though, and before he could get to Guiche he had to dodge a punch, again moving back to get some distance, Naruto waited but it seemed like the Valkyrie was waiting for him to make a move.
Using the time to his advantage in a few seconds he put together a simple plan, reaching into his weapons holster he pulled out a kunai and an exploding tag, but he didn't notice as he held them the symbols on his right hand glowing, but it did wake up his tenant who quickly began looking at what it was doing.
Naruto wrapped the tag around the handle of the kunai, and ran at the Valkyrie, it charged out to meet him and threw a punch, Naruto moved around it and pushed the arm away, he then took the opening he had made and rammed the kunai into the chest piece of the Valkyrie, pushing chakra into the tag as he did so, and then quickly jumped away to avoid another punch.
Guiche laughed at this and said "was that supposed to do something?".
Naruto just smirked at him and when Guiche saw this he stopped laughing, and as he stopped he heard a hissing sound and began to look around, when he looked back at Naruto he saw he had his arms crossed in front of his face though you could still see his smirk, and then Naruto said something the entire crowd heard "Boom".
And then the tag on the kunai went off, exploding and destroying the Valkyrie, scattering bits and pieces all around, Naruto having already known the tag was going to go off, was able to move right after the explosion, so when Guiche was just realizing what happened Naruto was already in front of him his fist inches from Guiche's face.
When the punch connected the force of the hit sent Guiche flying back several feet, also sending him into unconsciousness.
Naruto looked at the downed Guiche disappointed with how the fight had ended so quickly.
He then noticed the wide eyed, slack jawed stares he was getting from most of the students gathered around and simply asked "What?"
(sorry about cutting the fight short and the bad ending but it's late, I'm tired and this update is already way late as it is, I'll probably redo the fight and the ending to this chapter at some point).