A request to me by Phoenix Warehouse Productions, he proposed me to create a Naruto/Zelda Twilight Princess Crossover following his story "Letter to a Hero" using it as a base to create a fanfic using the directions he gave with it, I hope he and you all will like the result ^ ^.
Short chapters, won't listen to Canon haters, I will follow the events of the game but with differences, sometime big ones and sometime little ones, depending from what I want to happen.
A new info:
Yodogimi: the "Clingy Jealous" Girlfriend.
Midna: The "Yandere" Girlfriend (Not on a "Gasai Yuno" level, but still a "You DON'T need other women besides me! / DON'T LOOK AT MY MAN, BITCH!" level)
Ilia: the "Kinky" Girlfriend.
PS: I got nothing against people called "Bob" just so you know.
" You bastard" - Demon/Spirit talking / jutsu
"Let's finish this" - dialogue
" Can it get any worse? " - during flashback/ Thoughts
(Naruto/ Twilight Princess Crossover) Pairing Naru/Midna/Ilia/Yodogimi (Fem Kyuubi).
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or anything else I will use nor I make a profit out of this, I am writing just for the pleasure of doing it.
Chapter 2: Rumble in the Jungle.
Spirit Spring entrance – near Ordon Village – Night -
Four bulblins were patrolling the area near the entrance of the village, casually stopping under the huge tree hosting Naruto's house to discuss what to do.
They were Garflaf, Knorik, Yohmund...and Bob, yes, the latter's parents were assholes.
Their shrieking talk was interrupted when a red-furred missile pounced on them , grabbing Bob by the throat and throwing him away, as the other jumped into action, the big ten-tailed fox dodged back, ignoring the cheering of both Midna and Yodogimi as he dodged a wide swipe of one of the Bulblins, tearing away the offending arm with a bite before jumping on one of the others, tearing the flesh around its neck away with a single bite.
Looking in rage as one of their own had been killed, the three remaining creatures charged together the offending animal.
"Just feel lucky you did not meet me with an human body, bastards!" Naruto yelled, jumping to the left to dodge and pushing the bulblin in front of him face-down in the mud, jumping away to evade the big club that instead splattered the forest with the brain of the downed creature.
"Two down...two to go!" the blond said, charging forward and head-butting the third bulblin against a tree where it left a deep inprint before slumping down with its spine reduced to splinters.
"Wanna try me?" Naruto asked, looking at the last remaining bulblin with narrowed eyes, sighing when the creature tried to hit him.
"Cannon fodder, what did you expect?" Yodogimi said.
"Who are you? I can hear a second voice in here." Midna said.
"Tch! I am Yodogimi, Naru-kun's friend and mate!" the Vixen answered, crossing her arms.
"Gimi-chan?!" Naruto yelled with wide eyes.
"I heard you telling me "I like you" so I am just stating my claim!" she answered.
"Eee Hee Hee! Oh, This is too much fun! I knew it was a good idea asking you for this!" Midna said with a long laugh.
"Who's there? Naruto? Is that you?" Ilia asked, showing herself from the house's window.
"Good Lord thank you, you are safe!" Naruto said elated.
"What happened to you?" she asked in horror.
"It's a long story, did they try to capture you?" he asked.
"No...well, it's not like I can walk easily after what you did so I just had to hide here and wait." Ilia answered, her face completely red.
"Ooh! Something naughty happened and I wasn't informed? How rude of you, Naruto!" Midna muttered with a wide smile.
"I am coming up!" the young man said, jumping up towards the door, Ilia moving to let him in.
"What happened?" she asked.
"After those creatures attacked and I sent you away I followed their traces, I ended-up in front of a barrier, then an huge black hand dragged me through the barrier and when I woke up I was a fox." Naruto answered.
"It was a Shadow Beast, just so you know." Midna whispered in his ear.
"What's happening? I heard a scream about the children." Naruto asked.
"They had been kidnapped, Rusl tried to protect them, but he had been wounded pretty badly, I fear my father may try something stupid to save them, can you help them?" Ilia asked.
"I may be a fox now, but I still know how to fight, don't worry, I will find them." Naruto said with a nod.
"Please be careful, I don't want to lose you." the girl pleaded, hugging him tightly.
"I love you, Ilia." he said with a smile, licking her cheek playfully.
"I love you too, Naruto." she answered with an happy sigh and a wide smile.
"Grrrr!" Yodogimi growled, giving Naruto the mental equivalent of a slap on the back of his head.
"Jealous?" Midna asked with a smirk.
"Shut the fuck up, Imp! You may be little, but you still have an huge ass!" the vixen answered.
"HOY!" Midna answered in anger.
"Quiet you two, Yodogimi, we will talk later about this." Naruto thought in answer.
"No! We are fixing this now! Choose, me or Ilia?!" she asked.
"Both? In a nice hot threesome after a romantic dinner? I'll throw in a sexy back-rub for after the sex." Naruto answered.
"BAKA!" the spluttering vixen said.
"Nice way to defuse her." Midna said with a giggle.
"I was serious, I love my little Vixen as well, I don't want to lose her, I just wish there was a way to unseal her from my body without killing me." Naruto answered.
"KYAA! I LOVE YOU TOO!" Yodogimi squealed happily.
"Talking about doing a one-eighty...what about the human girl?" Midna muttered in surprise.
"He can keep her for the moment, once out of this seal I'll show him what a real woman can do, and that we are better matched as well since we have known each-other for years." she answered.
"Suit yourself, as long as you two are happy." Midna said unconcerned.
"Naruto?" Ilia asked, worried.
"Just talking with Yodogimi." he answered.
"What does that bitch want? She is not trying to make a move on you now that you are a fox, isn't she? I hope she is hearing me because I am not leaving her having her dirty way with you." she said with narrowed eyes.
"He is mine, you dirty whore!" the ten-tailed Vixen said from the seal.
"Let's just focus on those kids, shall we?" Midna asked with a sigh of annoyance.
"Listen Ilia, stay hidden and don't come out no matter what, I'll see what I can do to save the children, okay?" Naruto asked.
"Okay, please be careful." Ilia pleaded.
"I will, don't worry." the young man answered, jumping out of the window and rapidly moving towards the village in the hope to understand what happened and stopping the mayor from enacting his latest foolishness.
Ordon Village – few minutes later -
A big ten-tailed fox could be seen dragging the unconscious mayor in a secluded area of the village, ninja training or not, having a drop on the quite fat man had been pretty easy, an heavy beating later and he had gone down like a sack of potatoes for Naruto to hide.
"YOU! What have you done to the mayor?" Rusl demanded, he was sporting several rounds of bandages around his head and an heavy limp in his steps, but still he held the sword tightly with a fiery passion in his eyes.
"I just wanted to stop this idiot from getting killed, Rusl." Naruto answered.
"How do you know my name?" the swordsman asked, his eyes narrowing dangerously.
"I know it as I know that you like to be tied to the bed while your wife shows you the alternative uses for oil and blindfolds...you should stop drinking, you tend to blurt-out some rather dirty secrets." he answered with a chuckle, grinning at Rusl's horrified look.
"Na-Na-Naruto?" he asked.
"Unfortunately, yes...somehow I was turned into this, I am still going to help those children, mind stopping our esteemed mayor from committing suicide?" Naruto asked.
"I'll take care of that, but...are you okay? How come you changed into that?" Rusl asked.
"Like hell I know! Last thing I remember I was waiting for Epona to heal at the Spirit Spring, then we got attacked, after taking both horse and Ilia to safety I followed those creatures...when I woke up I found myself like this."he answered.
"Is there a way for you to return to normal?" the man asked.
"I really hope so." was the answer.
"I hope so as well, now go, if the others sees you they may not be so understanding, the kidnappers moved towards the Spirit Spring and towards the woods, be careful, I don't know how you plan to fight while like that, but I know you well enough to know that you will find a way out of sheer stubbornness." Rusl said.
"I'll be okay, don't worry, you don't overdo yourself and pay attention, I'll bring your son back in one piece." Naruto said with a fierce nod.
"Okay, I trust you." the man answered, watching the fox move.
"Ah! Naruto?"
"Yes?"
"Tell to someone that thing about my wife and I will use you to create a fur coat for her!" Rusl said, trying to convey as much threatening intent as he could in his glare.
His shoulders though dropped heavily as the young man's long, amused laugh echoed everywhere in answer.
"Don't worry, I won't talk, your kinky secrets are safe with me!" Naruto answered as he sprinted away.
"...Bastard." Rusl muttered with a defeated sigh, vowing once again to not drink anymore in the blond's company so to salvage whatever dignity he still possessed.
With Naruto and Midna – near the Spirit Spring -
"They have been probably brought in the Twilight, I'll let you in." Midna said as they moved rapidly back towards the Spirit Spring.
"Roger!" Naruto answered
"WAIT!" a voice called out as they passed near the springs' entrance.
"Who are you?" Naruto asked, moving his fox body into a combat stance, his ten tails waving around menacingly.
"Come...to my spring..." The voice asked pleadingly.
"What now?" the young man muttered with a sigh, nearing the waters with his senses as sharp as possible.
"You have...been transformed...by the power...of shadow..." the voice said.
"I already suspected that, it reacted with the Seal holding Yodogimi, right?" Naruto asked.
"Yes...come to me..."
"Closer?" the blond muttered taking few steps forward, to his surprise several strangely-shaped rods erupted from underwater, surrounding him.
"What the hell!?" he yelled, jumping back with a growl.
"Beware...the Twilight will be infested by Shadow Beasts, they will come to stop you." the voice said as a strange creature appeared in front of the ten-tailed fox.
It had a black body seemingly made from solidified smoke with darker markings on it, a flat mask of stone with an eye-like hole in its middle acting like head and dirty-looking greasy hair behind it, letting out a deep growl the Beast took a tentative swipe on the shinobi, forcing him to jump back to dodge.
"You are one ugly fucker, you know?" he asked as he got grabbed and slammed with brute strenght down.
"And you do pack some punch!" he added with a groan, biting the hand strongly enough to tear off the whole thing, leaving a 'smoking' stump at the end of the creature's arm.
"GROOOOAR!" the Shadow Beast roared in blind fury.
"Oh, shut up! It's just a flesh wound!" Naruto said, sprinting forward to hit with a head-butt the creature, cracking the mask and making it howl in pain.
"JUST DIE ALREADY!" Naruto yelled, grabbing with a bite the creature's neck and pulled back, snapping it with a loud sickening Snap! Sound, once dead the creature dissolved into smoke, dispersing in the wind.
"Now you owe me some kind of explanation! What's happening here?!" he asked with a heavy glare, waiting for whatever talked earlier to give him some answeres.
To answer him the poles disappeared while strange markings started shining in a pure light on the various rocks adorning the Spirit Spring, the very same water seemed to turn into pure light.
"Now, that is something different." Yodogimi commented with a nod.
The light grew and grew in intensity until the whole area got covered in a blinding shining, from the depths of the water, a small sphere of light resembling a miniaturized sun emerged, hovering over the spring while twisting on itself to find a definite shape.
The light then settled to take the appearance of an huge goat-like creature with a smaller sphere of light held between the long horns on its head, looking down on Naruto from its towering height it talked with a voice holding aheavenly warmness and gentleness.
"Oh brave youth..." the Light said with a booming voice.
"I am one of the Four Light Spirits that protect Hyrule at the behest of the gods. I am Ordona."
"Hurray for the originality! That thing protects Ordon Village and what it is called? Ordona!" Yodogimi said with an heavy dose of sarcasm.
"Now is not the time for jokes." Naruto said.
"The Creature you slayed was a Shadow Being. It had come to seize the Power of Light I wield." the Light said.
"You said that you are one of the Four Guardians...What happened to the others? Are they too under attack?" the blond asked.
"Yes, I am but one of Four, but for my brethren in Hyrule is already too late, their light has already been stolen by those fell beasts, the entire kingdom has been reduced to a Netherworld ruled by the cursed power of darkness." the Light answered with a pained voice.
"This is no good, the thing is getting worse at any passing minute...is Obito and Madara all over again!" Naruto said with a childish whine.
"I know this situation may bring despair to your heart, but we need to be strong; the plight will not stop with Hyrule. Before long the entire world of light will fall into the hands of the king who rules the Twilight." the Light said.
"Yes, I know how these things works, a small country and then the whole world...was there a maniacal laughter too?" Naruto asked, watching as the Light moved its head slightly back in surprise.
"You are talking with someone that already had to fight an Evil Mastermind who wanted to rule the world, enslave humanity, et cetera, et cetera, in a single motion, what do you want me to do?" The blond asked with a sigh, sitting down and watching the Light intently, his tone completely 'on business' like only an ANBU would sound.
"Ehm...Eeh..." -Cough! - "...To...to save this land from the king of Twilight the lost light must be recovered..." the Light answered uncertain.
"Did I ruin the solemnity of moment?" Naruto asked with a yawn.
"A little...we thought you were a farm-hand..." the Light said, a little taken aback by the situation.
"Go on, I won't interrupt you anymore." the blond said with an apologetic tone.
"The three Light Spirits who have lost their light must be revived...it's pretty much important."
"Okay...go on." Naruto said, prompting the Light to continue.
"Well, there is someone able to revive them and redeem this land...that one is you...you have still not discovered your true power." the Light said.
"No, I pretty much know what my Power is, thank you." Naruto said.
"Do you mind?" the Light asked, a touch of annoyance marring its tone.
"Sorry, go on! I won't interrupt." the blond said with a sheepish grin.
"Those transformed by the Twilight usually cannot recover their original forms..."
"WHAT THE FUCK?!" Naruto yelled.
"LET ME FINISH! I said that they usually cannot recover their original forms! But if you were to return to the woods where you were firstly transformed and were to revive the light in there, then by the power of the Light Spirit, you may find the means to return to your other state of being...I think..." The Light said.
"You sure?" Naruto asked hopefully.
"Well...It's a good possibility." the creature of Light answered with a nod.
"Better than anything I guess, any suggestion?"
"Be strong Chosen One, great trials awaits you." the Light said, its body erupting into a shower of sparks that returned underwater, making the darkness of the night return in the spring.
"Well, that was eventful, what do you think that thing meant with that 'Chosen One' thing? Still referring to the Toads Prophecy?" Naruto asked aloud.
"Like hell I know, for now let's focus on saving those children, then we will take care of the Light Guardians." Yodogimi said.
"You two are getting always stranger, do you know? Eee Hee, it seems I choose to follow a pair of crazy nutters!" Midna said with an heavily amused tone.
"You have no Idea how much shit me and Yodogimi went through, once done here I think that a little telling will be necessary." Naruto said with a sigh.
"If you really have to." Midna said, voice dripping in boredom.
A little jog later and the tall barrier was once again in front of the blond shinobi.
"What now?" he asked.
"I'll take care of this, remember, the Faron Woods that you once knew are now covered in Twilight, so pay attention since we won't meet fluffy bunnies in there, Eee Hee!" Midna said with a big smirk.
"Tch! Just let's go, Midna, show me what you can do." Naruto said.
"Eh! Watch and be amazed!" the tiny girl said, surfacing from his shadow and entering the barrier, creating ripples on its surface, barely few seconds later her huge hair-made hand shot out, grabbing Naruto in its massive grasp.
"Okay...I am amazed." the young man admitted as he was pulled through the barrier.
Few instants later – Faron Woods -
The woods were an utter mess, while still looking alive, both trees and grass had took a more greyish tint with the leaves looking completely black, an unnatural silence ruled absolute while not even the smallest insect could be seen around, after being trained in 'Feeling' the Natural Chakra in Nature, Naruto couldn't help but shiver slightly at the feeling of the Twilight Tainting the very energy around him, like some sort of parasite infecting Nature, making Yodogimi sneer in disdain at the feeling.
The strange thing that was out of the picture was the far-away lament that was echoing everywhere, carrying both sadness and pain at the same time.
"Who would be singing in a moment like this?" the foxified blond asked.
"That is not a song, silly...that is the lamentation of the spirit that had its light stolen, where in the world could it be? Eee hee!" Midna said with a giggle.
"If I didn't know better, I may think that your are finding the idea of the End of the World amusing." Naruto said, slowly walking towards the source of the lamentation.
"Don't be so hard on me, I usually LIVE in the Twilight, for me this is normal, if you want this to stop you'll have to hurry up and 'Find' the Light for that spirit, I won't be blamed if you fail in this." she answered, leaning down on his back to enjoy his soft fur.
"So am I doing this alone? What a pity...I was starting to enjoy your company." the other answered in sarcasm.
"Well, I promised to help you, right?" Midna said with a knowing smirk.
"Why do I feel a "but" incoming?" he asked with a sigh.
"Let's say that in exchange for my help I will need you to gather some things for me..." she answered, whispering in his ear with a wide smile.
"What kind of things?"
"Look, I can't tell you all the details now, but it will be easy, trust me..." the small Imp answered.
"I swear, if you drag me to buy a dildo, a vibrator or something like that I will bite your legs off!" Naruto answered in indignation, remembering fully well the last time he had to gather "Some Things" for someone, he still had to forgive Tsunami for that, he knew he would never again see the woman in the same light after that.
"Can you take this seriously?" Midna asked with crossed arms.
"I AM serious! I won't help you buy anything smut-related!" he answered.
"You really need to tell me what kind of life you had before we met..." the girl muttered, shaking her head.
While muttering in a low voice several curses at whatever Being that forced him to undergo a new Quest to save the world, a tear opened in the sky, making three dark-skinned creatures drop in front of the ex-shinobi while a barrier appeared to cut him off from the rest of the woods.
"Three Shadow Beasts against a lone fox? Isn't this an overkill?" Naruto asked, surprised.
"Afraid?" Midna asked back.
"More likely annoyed, any suggestion?" he answered, the three creatures briefly shrieking at each other before slowly stalking closer to him.
"Are you asking for help? I am surprised." Midna said with an amused tone.
"You said it, you live in the Twilight, you probably know those things better than me...I learned to stop and think instead of rushing out towards the unknown...had to risk my life several times to learn that though." the young man said with a sigh.
"They have to die at the same time, if one remains he will just revive the others, to help you out of this I will just create an energy field and..." Midna started answering, she stopped abruptly when she felt the grass of the forest floor hit her backside as the fox she had been riding seemingly 'teleported' away from the speed of his sprint.
Tearing the throat of one of the beasts off the former Konoha Shinobi moved through a substitution technique with one of the Shadow Beasts still alive, watching in satisfaction as the third creature beheaded the other with the strength of its attack.
Before it could react the last remaining Shadow Beast saw red fur fill its vision as the blond teared open its stomach with a bite, making it look down at the gaping hole for an instant before falling face-first on the floor, the three creatures dissolving into smoke under the eyebrow-raised expression of Midna.
"I may not be able to do much while with the body of a fox, but Seal-less Jutsus like tree-walking, water-walking, and Kawarimi (substitution) can still help a lot!" Naruto said cheerfully as the barrier around him dropped.
"Did you have to do this? I was about to help you, you know? I may want to feel useful from time to time instead of someone just "Tagging along" would have it been so bad to have me give you an hand?" Midna asked with an huff, dropping on his back roughly and yanking his ear in annoyance.
"You mean you are not with me just to say "Hey! Listen!" every five seconds to point out the obvious?" he asked.
"What? No! Who do you think I am?" Midna said, taken aback.
"Sorry, sorry, let's just go."
Once reached the Spirit Springs in the woods, both Naruto and Midna could see a little ensemble of sparks flying closer to form a small 'cloud' of sort hovering over the water of the spring.
"Hello? Can you hear me?" Naruto asked aloud, somehow knowing that the Light 'turned' to look at him.
"...Please...be careful...these woods have changed..." the Light said weakly.
"Yes, I could feel it, something is corrupting the place." Naruto said, ignoring Midna's offended grunt at his treating the Twilight as an infestation.
"The dark clouds of dusk cover this land...this drape of shadows is called...Twilight." the Light said, even if a whisper, its voice was still filled with disgust.
"Not everyone from the Twilight realm is bad, you know." the small girl muttered, ignoring that the fox she was riding managed to hear her.
"In this twilight, those who live in the light...become as mere spirits...it is a place...where the dark ones and evil creatures dwell..." the mass of sparks said, making Midna flinch and Naruto growl.
"Can you please get to the point and stop gratuitously insult whoever lives in the Twilight, please?" he asked with narrowed eyes and an angry tone, missing the girl's surprised expression and the small smile she had after his words.
"I am...sorry?" the Light asked, curious.
"Yeah-yeah, you are one of the four Light Spirit, Twilight is evil and blah-blah-blah, what do I need to do to help you?" Naruto.
"Blue-eyed beast?" the Light asked in confusion.
"GET TO THE POINT OR I WILL LEAVE YOU LIKE THAT!" Naruto yelled in anger.
"Please...look for my light...retrieve the light stolen by the dark beasts...and keep it in this vessel...please..." the Light pleaded, making a short rope holding several small spheres appear on the shore of the spring.
"I will help you, but then we WILL have a talk about this whole thing, and you better give me the answers I need, otherwise we'll have a problem and you DON'T need to add someone like me to your list of enemies." Naruto said, grabbing the small vessel with one of his tails and giving it to the quietly bewildered Midna.
"I will...answer all your questions...Chosen One...just hurry, without my light I can't free the forest from the Twilight." the Light answered, watching the fox walk away without giving a sign of acknowledgment.
"The creatures took the appearance of insects of darkness, they are the form...taken by evil once it has latched to our scattered light...you won't be able to find them in the shadows of the Twilight...let me..."
"I'll deal with this myself, thank you, I don't need anything from you." Naruto answered without looking back, his tone dripping in disdain.
"Chosen...one?" the Light muttered in confusion.
Once far from the Spirit Spring, Midna awkwardly patted the blond's head.
"...Thanks..." she muttered.
"He was a pretentious asshole, he and the other talked about the Twilight as if it was Evil Incarnate, you say to come from there and you don't seem evil to me, on the contrary, you seems like an okay girl." He answered.
For the first time in a long time, Midna didn't know how to answer to those words.
As the awkward silence continued, the blond felt the intense need to rub the back of his neck.
"I mean...we spoke with two of them and they kept saying how bad the Twilight was and how much it was filled with evil beings, I thought that since they were talking about your home you would have felt insulted since I would have in your place...sorry." the young man said with a sigh.
"No...no, I appreciated it, come on, let's go find that light so the spirit will be happy." Midna said, kicking his sides to make him run.
"Chop-chop! Hurry up, Mister Shinobi! We can't slack off!" she said with a gleeful voice.
"As you wish, Princess Midna!" Naruto answered with an amused chuckle, this time missing her flinching as he sprinted forward.
"You won't be able to see those creatures, what will we do?" the girl asked, curious.
"Those are insects of darkness that 'ate' the Light, right?" Naruto asked.
"Hu-uh." she said with a nod.
"Yodogimi can sense Negative Emotions and so can I, I bet that if we focus hard enough we will be able to feel the hunger of those creatures if it is evil enough...no offence." he answered.
"None taken, those are not from the Twilight." she answered, smiling in gratitude.
"That way, as the living-light-show said, some kind of Hunger condensed into a bug, I can smell the evil intentions from inside here." Yodogimi said from the seal.
"I felt it too." Naruto answered, watching as a big insects with a rock-made carapace came out from underground, snapping a pair of pincers in defiance.
"Tch! Nasty thing." Midna said, watching the foxified blond grab it with its mouth, slamming it down before stomping on it, freeing a small orb of light from its crushed body, the Vessel of Light shining in resonance and capturing the small orb in one of its spherical containers.
"How many of those do we need?" Naruto asked.
"Let me check..." Midna answered, counting the beads on the vessel.
"Sixteen." she then said.
"Well...shit." Naruto muttered, dropping down his head in defeat.
"Come on! How hard can it be to track down some insects? Eee Hee! We'll catch them in no time!" Midna said with a laugh.
Faron woods – a week later -
"WHERE THE FUCK ARE THOSE BUG HIDINGS?!" Midna screeched angrily.
"We found the three hiding in that afro-guy's hut and few in the forest...we only need six more." Naruto said, trying to calm her down.
"Maybe the Light Spirit will help if we ask?" Yodogimi proposed.
"Oh, Hell no! I won't give to that bastard the satisfaction! Just focus on every bad intention you can sense! I don't care if it's a monster, a bokoblin or the spirit of a salesman, we'll check them one by one!" the young man answered with a growl.
Their hunt continued until they found themselves in an ample clearing filled with a purplish mist, the smell of decaying matter making the air hard to breath.
"Yuck...poison?" Naruto asked.
"It seems so, needs some help in choosing where to go?" Midna offered, hovering near his head.
"If you don't mind." he answered.
"Then follow me if you can, fur-ball! Eee Hee!" she said flying on an high tree branch and waving at him playfully.
"She seems awfully happy." the ten-tailed vixen said with a chuckle.
"I guess that is not everyday that someone defend her and the Twilight." the former shinobi answered.
"Yeah, then again, she doesn't know with who she is traveling with, you never cared about etiquette or rules when it comes to right or wrong and who you see as a friend." Yodogimi said.
"You know me well." he answered, using both agility and tree-walking to chase the laughing Imp through the trees.
Without stopping his sprint, the blond moved to caught another pair or Darkness Bugs in his mouth to kill them, almost puking at the terrible taste those things had.
"Two down, four to go." Midna said, gracefully returning to sit on his back once he landed on the other side of the venomous cloud.
Once again cursing under his breath and deeply missing having a human body, the blond ex-shinobi moved deeper in the woods, reaching the giant tree where he had found Talo imprisoned, the same female monkey he saw that time perched on a wooden post while the remaining four Bugs were circling around her hungrily.
"I hope Shino won't ever find this out… He'll still whine about me killing bugs no matter how evil." Naruto muttered, moving stealthy towards his remaining prey.
It took just few minutes before the remaining bugs too went destroyed, making the Vessel of Light emit a feeble pulse of light to show its being complete.
"Someone...someone helped me?" the monkey muttered, looking around surprised.
Another thing Naruto learned was that apparently, since he turned into an animal himself, he could understand what the other animals were saying.
"A pity she can't thank me directly." the blond said.
"She can't see us, in the Twilight Realm we are now is like a different plain of existence, humans and animals are literally "asleep" and can't tell how long they are staying as spirits, some can be corrupted, but you will hardly see that happen." Midna explained.
"How long do you think it will take to the Twilight to cover everything?" Naruto asked.
"I can't really answer, I can only say that the Veil of Twilight is spreading at a snail pace, whatever the so called 'King' is planning it's not easy, so we are not exactly in an hurry...no matter how bad this may sound, normal people won't notice and the Four Guardians are weakened, they have all the Time in the World." she answered
"Sounds nasty." he said, shaking his head.
"But it's how things are at the moment." she said with a shrug.
A little sigh returned the two's focus on the young monkey.
"Boy, lucky for me...ever since the Boss went funny in the head, there's been scary monsters everywhere...those village kids got lead through the woods for some reasons..."
"How convenient, she just told us where the kids are." Naruto said in sarcasm.
"A lot of luck we were here to listen to her talk loudly to herself about that." Midna said.
"The whole forest is so weird now...what's happened?" the small monkey said, scratching her head while watching around herself in confusion.
"Bah! Whatever, let's return the light to the Spirit Spring so you can take back your old face." the Imp Girl said.
"Yeah, I can't wait!" Naruto said, hurrying back towards the lamenting spirit.
Spirit Spring – few minutes later -
Once returned, the blond had tossed the Vessel of Light in the middle of the spring, making the Twilight disperse in an instant as the forest returned to its original state.
A loudly grumbling Midna had instantly took possession of Naruto's shadow to cover herself, looking at the young man with a bored expression.
"Aww, but it was so nice here in the Twilight...what's so great about a world of light, anyway?" she asked with an annoyed expression, floating near her friend's head.
"Consider this, at least the Light Spirit will stop whining." Naruto answered.
"I guess you are right, Eee Hee Hee! See you later!" the girl answered with a laugh, melting in his shadow with a playful wave.
After she was gone, once again the water of the Spirit Spring became pure light, making a miniature sun emerge from underwater, around it the huge body of a being similar to a squirrel with a very long tail and an humanoid face nursing the sphere of light lovingly.
"My Name is Faron..." The revived Light Guardian said.
"AH! Another case of lack of imagination!" Yodogimi muttered with a grin.
"I am one of the spirits of light who dwell in Hyrule. I use the life force of the gods to protect this forest." The Light said with a booming voice.
"And yet you needed my help." Naruto said, still angry at the spirit's early words about the Twilight.
"The forces of Evil knew how to surpass even my power, o brave youth, and yet, in the land covered in twilight, where people roam as spirits, you were transformed into a blue-eyed beast, that was a sign...a sign that the powers of the chosen one rest within you...and that they are awakening. LOOK AT YOUR AWAKENED FORM!" The Light said as its voice grew deafening and light covered Naruto's body of a fox.
Once it dispersed, the young man could see that he was once again back into being human, still with his working clothes as a farm-hand.
"...Eh?" The Light muttered with raised eyebrows.
"YEAH! I am back into being human! That's great!" Naruto said with a loud cheer.
"Where...where is the green tunic?" The Light Guardian asked with a VERY worried tone.
"A tunic? No, I was not wearing a pajama when I was transformed into a fox." the blond answered, curious by the Light's shocked expression.
"THAT'S NOT A PAJAMA! THAT'S THE GARB ONCE BELONGING TO THE ANCIENT HERO CHOSEN BY THE GODS! WHERE IS IT?!" The Light yelled frantically.
"I don't have it with me...why? Is that a problem?" Naruto asked, confused.
"But...but...his power should be yours! The true power sleeping within you!" The Entity answered, its voice gaining an higher pitch at each word.
"Ehm...not to judge, but isn't it possible that you made a mistake? Maybe you took me for someone else." Naruto said.
"Impossible, your name is Link..." The Light answered.
"No, actually, my name is Naruto Namikaze...Link was the name of the old man that took me in his home and told everyone I was his nephew, he died six months ago, I am sorry." Naruto answered, sniffing a little at the sad memory.
"...Dead?..." The Light Guardian asked with a small, almost squeaky, voice.
"Yeah, catching a cold at his old age had been fatal for his old body, there was nothing we could do...well, I guess you 'missed him' of several years." the blond answered.
"..."
"..."
A long silence fell in the Spirit Spring before the Light Guardian slowly opened its mouth wide.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" The entity yelled in horror with all the strength of its divine lungs.
"Maybe things can still be solved..?" Naruto tried saying.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"The Light didn't seem to hear him as it continued its horrified scream of anguish.
"Hoy..."
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"Maybe you should stop...your face is getting kinda red..." Naruto tried saying in worry.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"Do you think we broke him?" Yodogimi asked.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"Probably." Midna said with a worried tone.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"What do we do?" Naruto asked.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"Try to make him stop before its head explodes." Midna answered, a little concerned herself at watching the Light break the third minute of non-stop screaming.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Naruto yelled, incredibly making the Light fall silent.
"We are doomed! We are doomed! There is no hope left! All is lost! The Chosen One is already dead of old age and there is no-one that will stop the Twilight from covering everything in its embrace of Evil!" the Light sobbed pitifully.
"HOY! THERE ARE GOOD PEOPLE TOO IN THE TWILIGHT, THANK YOU!" Naruto yelled, once again surprising Midna.
"Stop telling lies! We are doomed, Hyrule's days are over and we are all gonna die! Can you at least let me anguish in peace?!" the Light Guardian said with an angry sob.
"First off, you of the Light are a bunch of assholes, just because they are not from here it doesn't mean that everyone from Midna's world are evil, second thing, can you read minds?" Naruto asked.
"...Yes...but I can't see how this will change the fact that we are all gonna die an horrible death at the hands of those dirty twisted creatures of twilight-" -SLAP- The Light Guardian answered, gaining a right-hook from Naruto at its words that made its head snap back from the force behind it.
"...You have..." Midna said with wide eyes.
"Quit the bitching and read my mind, bastard! You have a forest to protect!" the blond snapped angrily.
"HOW DARE YOU?! FINE! Let's see your mind, what may have done a farm hand to be so sure of himself and...oh, my...wow..." the Light roared in indignation, before falling silent while looking through the young man's memories of his past as a shinobi.
"So? Am I qualified enough to solve this mess?" Naruto asked, crossing his arms with narrowed eyes.
"...Okay...okay, MAYBE...maybe, mind you, we may have a chance here, you seem to have some experience in both fighting and saving the world, so even while not being the Chosen One of OUR prophecy, your being the past one of another MIGHT be good enough to help us..." the Light Guardian said, trying to recompose himself but still sounding dubious.
"Good, I already have a certain idea of what happened here, any suggestions about how to tackle this thing?" Naruto asked.
"Yes, a dark power rests in the temple deep within these woods, it is a forbidden power that long ago I and the other spirits of light locked away, because of its nature, it is a power that should never be touched by any who dwell in the light...but this time of crisis leave us with no other choice, you must match the power of the king of shadows." the Light said, somehow returning to its previous fierce appearances.
"I'll see what I can do, at least those bastards won't have an easy life, I assure you that." the blond answered, watching the Light Guardian once again deflate slightly.
"The power you seek is in the temple in the forest depths...please tell me you can help us...anything you want in exchange is yours...just save us..." the Light said with a plea.
"The 'Price' of my services I will give you fully later, for now, I just need a good weapon." Naruto answered, taking a thinking pose.
"Well...there is the Master..." the Light started saying before being cut off.
"AH-HA! I know what I need! Can you take here the sword Samehada? It can absorb chakra, which is akin to life force so it may be good enough to kill those monsters!" Naruto said.
"And it looks badass." Yodogimi said.
"And it looks badass, yeah." Naruto admitted with a little blush.
"Samehada? What a strange name...let me see...AH!? That's...that's such a Dark Weapon! I can feel its hunger growl like a bottomless pit!" the Light said in disgust.
"Yep! That's her, don't worry, I have more than what she can swallow!" Naruto answered.
"Do you know how dirty that sounded?" Midna asked.
"I know and I don't care." the blond answered.
"Just because we are in deep shi...troubles." the Light Guardian muttered, summoning in front of the former shinobi the living sword.
"Do you remember me, Samehada-chan?" Naruto asked, grabbing the hilt, hissing in pain as thorns appeared on the handle.
"Instead of bitching, try to have a taste." He said, watching the defense disappear and feeling the sword starting absorbing.
Giving a feral smile, the blond started pumping chakra inside Samehada by force, almost feeling the blade strain to absorb the energy. Barely a minute later Samehada stopped, apparently satisfied.
-BUUUUUUUUUURP- A long, baritone burp echoed in the forest shocking the trees.
"I guess she accepted." Midna muttered, watching the blond strapping the blade on his back.
"I hope we are making the right choice, Warrior Namikaze, the Light will protect you during your journey, may the Gods guide your steps..." the Light said before disappearing.
"If you are not the Chosen Hero, how come you turned into a beast?" Midna asked, coming out of his shadow to move face-to-face with him.
"I guess the seal that holds Yodogimi inside me reacted with the Twilight powers, instead of turning me into a spirit it changed me into a ten-tailed fox." Naruto answered, unsure.
"Oh, well! Not our problem Eee hee hee! So, what will we do? Do you want to head to that temple? I was going to head there myself, kinda convenient, don't you think?" she asked.
"I want to help my friends, so maybe I should try to take a look there as well." The blond answered.
"At least they won't get scared at seeing a huge fox talking to them, Eee Hee!" Midna said with a smirk.
"Yeah, and now I'll need to change my clothes into something more resilient since I am apparently the one that will be tasked with saving the world...again." Naruto said with a sigh.
"You sure? It would be nice to see a farm-hand save the world! Eee hee!" Midna said from the blond's shadow.
"Since I have to be a Hero once again, I will do that MY way, please don't look, I need to change." he answered.
"Why? You have nothing more than any other man I saw." she replied.
"Please?" he asked again with a pleading look.
"Uff! Fine!" she answered, giving the boy her back like he asked.
"Thank you." Naruto said with a grateful nod.
"Tch! What he ever had to hide, I say." Midna muttered in disdain, hearing the young man splash himself with water with a pleasured sigh.
Curiosity having the better of her, she discreetly looked above her shoulder to see what all the secrecy was about, making her heart skip a beat at what she saw.
She had seen muscled men, but almost every one of them seemed to have "Favorited" an aspect of their bodies, meaning that they were either mountain of muscles for Strength alone or more athletically 'skinny' to have more speed and agility but with less "mass" on their bodies.
The blond instead, he seemed to stand in the middle of the two worlds, a body of an athlete but with more defined muscles coming from the hard work in the farm, whatever a shinobi was, their training was apparently one where conditioning was the most important thing since the body she was watching seemed an human-replica of the one of a statue, every muscle had been trained to have top performances in Stamina, Power and Speed at the same time apparently.
-SPLASH!- A new hand-full of water was thrown against that monument to human hotness, making the small Imp Girl's eye follow each drop as it ran through 'valleys' of muscles, along his broad shoulders down to his chiseled abs and hips and then down to his...
That,THATwas what caught Midna's ultimate interest then, as her sight zeroed in with a bad case of tunnel-vision towards the "Big Hidden Prize" she was not expecting, her transfixed, unblinking eye focusing on every millimeter of what she was watching, carefully and meticulously burning to memory every single detail as water kept running over its impressive size.
She was...what was her name again? She was so focused on comparing "measures" that her brain could no longer waste resources in trivial things like remembering her name, blinking or breathing, but she remembered clearly that the "Average" Hylian man was around the three inches, rarely four and only when talking about well endowed, in terms of 'Interesting Qualities' while the blond definitely surpassed that size, so her theory about him being a stranger gained some form of truth.
"So it's true what they say about Non-Hylian men." Midna muttered with a feral smirk.
"I am almost done! Sorry, I needed to get clean a little." the blond said with an apologetic tone, never noticing that by bending down to get his pants he also gave new info to his little companion.
"Tch! Take you time, at least you won't smell!" Midna answered, feigning at the best of her abilities an annoyed tone.
"Pretty toned ass as well, nice." she muttered.
Mama Midna liked what she was seeing, and usually what Mama Midna liked, Mama Midna got!
"Done! I am all ready now!" the blond said with a smirk, feeling a certain degree of pleasure in wearing back his black-and-orange jumpsuit and the red cloak over it with the black flames at the bottom, he even secured an huge scroll similar to the one of the Toad Summoning Contract to his back just like he did when he fought against Pein.
"Nice outfit." Midna commented, returning inside his shadow to plot a certain 'Side Mission' of her own.
"Yeah! In the end, it's nice to be back!" he answered cheerfully.
Moving back towards the woods, the blond young man found himself in front of a closed gate on the road towards the depths of the forest.
"As a fox I jumped over, I can do that now as well." he said with a shrug.
"Blow it to pieces, let's show to Midna-baka what you can do." Yodogimi said, sighing at being once again an huge Vixen instead of human.
"What was that?" Midna asked, curious.
"I saw you spy on him...he is mine!" the Biju hissed, hiding her conversation from Naruto's ears.
"Who says I'm interested?" the Imp answered with a chuckle.
"The fact that you were panting while watching him!" she answered with narrowed eyes.
"I don't pant, thank you! Besides...he's a young man, sooner or later he'll need "release" and when he is human you are a fox, so he will need help, I might even be so generous as to help him until he has had enough." Midna answered.
"Tch! With that small body? I can even see that you are a frigid wooden-pussy, probably getting scandalized if someone says penis!" Yodogimi answered.
"I am not Zelda, thank you!" Midna said with narrowed eyes.
Back in Hyrule Castle, an un-lady-like sneeze rattled the windows.
"I am his mate!" the Vixen said.
"Just because he is stuck with you." Midna answered, highly amused by the other woman's anger.
"You don't even want him! Why do you do this?" Yodogimi asked with a snarl.
"Because teasing you is getting always more fun! Eee Hee! Don't worry, you precious mate is safe." the small girl said with a wave of her hand, a mischievous smile on her face.
"At least I have him, you smell of cowardice, someone like you is not worth my time or respect, be happy to be alone, because I pity whoever will be so unlucky to be forced to stay with you." the ten-tailed fox said with a sneer.
"Cowardice?" Midna asked.
"I watched you, and I will keep an eye on you until this forced partnership with us is over, like that you won't betray us as well!" she answered.
Before the other could say a thing, the blond's voice managed to interrupt their discussion.
"GIRLS!" Naruto yelled, startling both.
"Yes?" Midna asked.
"I don't know what you were talking about, but please alert me before cutting me off, I was getting worried." he asked.
"Worried?" the small girl said.
"Yeah, you both disappeared without notice and I feared that somehow I had lost both." Naruto said.
"I can defend myself." Midna said.
"Yeah, but I still want to be sure you are safe, we're friends and I won't leave you behind." he answered.
"Oh...thank you." she said, surprised.
"Nothing, now...watch and be amazed! Rasengan!" Naruto yelled, summoning in his hand the spiraling sphere of chakra he then used to blow the wooden gate to bits.
"Okay… I'm amazed." Midna admitted with a small nod.
"See? I told you I could do more as a human than as a fox, let's go!" he answered, running deeper in the forest towards the temple hidden there.
Not too far away from the demolished gate, a young man with an afro hair-style was looking at the scene of destruction and back at the key of the gate in his hand, dropping his head with a sigh he threw away the key, cursing the missing of a new occasion to sell a lantern and oil and gain a new customer.
Running through the short cave towards the still gas-covered forest, Naruto spun on himself to grab whatever was chasing him, moving in front of his face the same female monkey he saw earlier.
"What do you want?" he asked.
"Hu-uh!" the animal said, pointing back.
"No, I don't need a lantern, I have my ways to see in the dark, why?" the blond said.
"He can speak to monkeys even as an human?" Midna asked.
"Nah! That thing is just telegraphing what she want." Yodogimi answered.
"Hu-uh-HUA!" the monkey said, twisting itself free from his and and pointing frantically at the purple gas filling the forest floor.
"Yeah, it's deadly, so what?" Naruto asked, making the monkey go red-faced in rage.
"HUAAAAA! HUUUAAA!" the animal howled, jumping on the spot in annoyance.
"Tch! If you want to pass through, just tree-jump, is not like I can't do that myself! As a human I can do this for way much longer since I know how to do it properly!" the blond answered, jumping on a tree and walking vertically on its bark until he stood upside-down on a high branch.
"So? You're not coming?" he asked.
"HU!?" the monkey screeched with her mouth open wide in shock.
"Whatever! I'll go ahead, catch up when you decide what to do." Naruto said, jumping between trees and leaving behind a bewildered monkey wondering how much humans changed since she last saw some.
"How many chances do you think there were that the very same tree I found Talo at would have turned out to be the one where I needed to go?" Naruto asked.
"Very few, especially since that place was supposed to be sealed off and the Guardians responsible for the sealing had their powers sucked off and stolen, I bet that the supposed power holding it closed also failed pretty easily."the Ten-tailed Bijuu answered.
"Why'd you defend me, by the way?" Midna asked.
"I told you why, we're friends, and I'll be damned if I don't help and protect my friends." Naruto answered.
"We barely know each other… It's pretty soon to say if we are friends or not." she said.
"Oh...oh...I'm sorry then..." he answered with a sad tone and a downcast expression.
"Let's focus on this now, we'll talk a little after saving the kids, then we'll decide if we are friends or just two people sharing a mission, m'kay?" Midna said cheerfully.
"Yeah..." he muttered.
"Don't mind her, you have plenty of friends. Me, Ilia, Rusl, the people of Ordon… and the kids we're going to save, let her be alone if she wants to." Yodogimi said.
"Thanks Gimi-chan, I needed that." the blond answered with a smile.
"See? That's better, let's find those brats and save this place, me and you, just like old times when we showed everyone how badass we are!" the Vixen said in determination.
"ALL RIGHT!" he answered, fire burning in his eyes.
"Hoy?" Midna said, looking at them curiously.
"No-one cares, thank you." Yodogimi said with narrowed eyes.
"I… There is a shining wolf coming this way...I thought you would have liked to know." Midna answered, her amused smile strained.
"How did that thing manage to sneak up on me?! It's emitting light on its own!" Naruto said in surprise.
"That's because both of you were spacing out, Eee Hee!" the Imp girl said with a short empty laugh, feeling alone all of a sudden.
The strange animal had in that moment stopped barely few feet from the shinobi, looking in his cerulean eyes with its own red, both its eyes and fur shining in an ethereal light, taking a combat stance it growled at Naruto.
"What do you want?" the blond asked.
In answer the wolf pounced on him, covering his view in a blinding white light.
Inside the Biju Seal – an instant later -
The wolf was looking around with a surprised expression, expecting to see the smoky white land of the Spiritual World welcome both him and the boy he thought was the Chosen One.
What he found himself in was instead the old sewer system the Juubi Vixen had been sealed into, even if lacking the knee-high water or the stench of decay that once was in there.
Hearing a loud, deep growling sound the wolf looked up, finding its eyes growing wide and its jaw hitting the floor as the MASSIVELY HUGE Yodogimi, having reached the same size of the "old" Jubi after the absorption, was looking all the way down to the beast with a deep sneer and narrowed eyes, her ten tails spread behind her to add to the imposing image.
"What the fuck do you want? What are you doing in my mate's head?!" she demanded with a booming voice.
Coming pretty close at actually releasing a brick from its backside, the wolf moved its mouth open and closed few times as to find the correct words.
"The...Chosen One?" the spiritual animal asked weakly.
"Dead of old age, you people missed him of several years, we're filling in for him." Naruto answered, walking towards the two and jumping to sit on the Vixen' huge head.
"WHAT?!" the wolf yelled in horror.
"Yup, apparently the bad guys attacked later than what you all anticipated, can I help you?" the blond asked.
"This can't be happening… I wanted to impart my knowledge to the Chosen One and help him achieve more power to fight the Evil that plagued this land! Like that I would have been able to pass on and free myself from the guilt that it's weighting on my soul!" the creature answered with a tone bordering on the whining, switching its appearances to a skeleton wearing an old armour.
"Too late then, he's already dead." Yodogimi said with a shrug.
"Can I teach it to you then, young man? At least I will console myself with the notion that I would have helped a new hero in his quest." the spirit asked, sounding hopeful.
"I had been already trained to be a shinobi, but some pointers for how to use a sword would be great, at least I won't just wave Samehada around like an idiot." Naruto answered.
"Wonderful! Whenever you want my help, just look for the statues that howl with the sound of the wind. Seek the sound that calls to the spirit of the beast to..." the dead warrior started saying before a laughing fit of Naruto stopped him.
"Nonono! It doesn't work like this with me! I am tired of this "show your willingness to learn" before getting some miserable pointers, you want to help? Tell Yodogimi what you want me to know, she will "write down" everything for me to study later." the blond said, shaking his head.
"WHAT?! That is not how things are done! You must seek with humility the will to learn and.." the spirit tried saying before being interrupted again.
"Humility? Bitch please, we are not the ones that fucked up and wish to amend to our mistake by teaching some technique, you want to pass on? Good, do things our way and everything will be fine, both me and Naruto are professional warriors and already are trained, at the very least you would be "polishing" some details, do not act so high and might just because you know how to swing a blade." Yodogimi said.
"How dare you! You vile beast don't know how..."
"BIJUDAMA!" The Vixen yelled, shooting a colossal sphere of energy that flew at an inch of the warrior, causing a loud explosion that shocked the whole area.
This time a brick DID fall from the spirit backside.
"I didn't need the headache, Gimi-chan." Naruto said with a whine.
"Sorry. It will pass in an instant." the Biju said with a gentle smile.
"Okay… maybe you already know how to fight..." the dead warrior admitted with a whisper.
"So? Those wonderful techniques? I won't be pushed down a fucking ravine just to prove that I want to learn something." Naruto said, making the spirit grumble in annoyance.
"...Okay, okay… what kind of teacher would push a student down a ravine to test him, I wonder..." the entity muttered as it started talking.
It was anticlimactic, but at least like that he would still have his redemption to rest in peace, after beating whatever idiot missed the fact that the Chosen One was about to die of old age before telling him.
But while in the seal time flowed slower, making possible to the dead warrior to teach what he knew to Naruto, to the outside world in that apparent "instant" it took for the meeting to take place, a new problem had just reached the coasts of Hyrule.
Sea – not far away from Hylian Territory-
A lone man was looking at the land as the small ship he had boarded in secret drew closer, it had took him almost an year to track down his target and learn enough Hylian to ask around for him, but he was Jiraiya of the Sannin, and he was not one to be scared by some difficulties.
"So we have an accord?" the Spy Master said.
"Aye-aye, no-one of the Elemental Countries will know you came here, my men don't even know we had an extra helper on bard, that trick of yours to look like me was kinda cool, can ya teach me?" the young man answered.
"Sorry, boy! I only have one student, and he's somewhere in Hyrule, and I need to talk to him." Jiraiya answered.
"Then I guess I'll have to tell the captain about the clandestine we have on board." the other said with a superior smirk.
"Tch! Idiot." the Toad Sage said, slapping a seal on the back of the young man's neck, activating it to erase the whole three weeks of time from his mind, effectively erasing every trace of Jiraiya on the ship.
"I'm not where I am just because I'm pretty, brat! I prepared the seal just for this reason, in a few hours you will wake up with a splitting head-ache and no memory of ever meeting me...and since you won't remember me...I'll take back my money too." the Toad Sage said with a smirk, rummaging in the young man's pockets to take back his money he used to buy the trip to Hyrule.
"I'm coming, Naruto! We need to talk a little, just me and you, two men facing each other, no Konoha or Hokage interfering, but I need to know why you did not return home..." the old man said, hopping down the ship to water-walk for the remaining distance and enter the land of Hyrule with as much a low profile as his abilities as a spy could provide.
It had took him a lot of time to secretly find the blond and hide every possible trace to the other spies that had been deployed to find him, but Jiraiya needed to know why he had not returned, and in case he had been somehow coerced into staying or kidnapped, then taking him back by force.
Even if a small part of Jiraiya wanted to bring Naruto back to Konoha, even if the blond had chosen to stay there by his own will, even just to stop feeling guilty about the banishment no matter how much selfish the Toad Sage himself admitted his mission to be, he would just drag the gaki back to Konoha screaming and kicking if forced, just to have him back in what he felt was his rightful home.
The problems for Naruto had just increased, as his new mission against the King of Twilight moved on, part of his past had just reached him to forcefully take him back against his will, feeling a small chill run up his spine, the blond just exited the Seal on his body, steeling his resolve with the new knowledge about fighting with a sword and running up towards the entrance of the temple to save the kids, still oblivious of the new menace looking at the horizon wearing a Konoha forehead protector.
Okay, third chapter is over, I hope it didn't seem rushed, I try to be as "slow" as possible, I am sorry if I failed.
Jiraiya is now joining the scene to track down Naruto, will he help him? Will he fight our blond hero to forcefully take him back to Konoha? Or will the just talk a last time before bidding each other farewell forever? Only time will tell, you just keep reading and following the story, something will surely happen ^ ^.
Sorry if the chapter is a let down, I am trying to not rush too much, follow canon and at the same time add something new, like with Midna, recently Re-playing the game I started seeing her overly cheerful attitude like a mask to hide her real worry for the Twilight Realm, so I started to make cracks appear on her "mask" so to slowly start her pairing with Naruto.
I hope you enjoyed, I am not a Master Writer, but I try to give my best, thanks for reading my stories ^ ^.
Have a nice day, my friends.
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