Disclaimer: I don't own Cardfight Vanguard or Naruto
To lokey478: It's not exactly like the Duel Spirits in Yugioh. While the Duel Spirits are just spirits that come from an entirely different dimension all together, the warriors of Planet Cray in the anime canon are living breathing creatures and Cray itself is an actual planet in the same universe as Earth. Also don't worry about Naruto girls appearing to cause love triangles.
To RoyalTwinFangs: Yes, both Covert Demonic Dragons are going to be considered Naruto's aces with a third that I left a clue for in the last chapter. If you can guess the card more power to you, but don't spoil it for others. Also I suggest you look up the lore of Cardfight Vanguard, Garmore was originally a part of the Royal Paladins until they were sealed, in his desire to free his comrades he dawned the armor of the silver wolf and helped form the Gold Paladins.
To VeilSlide: Thanks for noticing my screw ups, I proofread this to the best a guy like me can. I haven't done anything like this since I graduated from High School almost three years ago and plus it was like 3 in the morning when I checked everything. As for Naruto not using Limit Break, I wanted to establish how powerful of a fighter he is without the possibilities that Limit Break gives.
To Naruhina Inukag fan: While Jun is a good fighter, I don't want to mess with the canonical fight that takes place in the final tournament. He was considered in the beginning but it would be too far-fetched to believe Jun would even consider joining in a team, him being an underground fighter and all.
Solis et Lunae
The next day at Hitsue Middle School
Naruto was sitting in math class staring at his invitation to the Circuit on his desk. His teacher didn't mind at he already finished the assignment a while ago. The bell rang causing the students to scatter into the hall with Naruto walking behind them reading the letter. Halfway down the hall he looked up to see a girl hanging onto a guy's arm with a dumb smirk on her face. The girl had long pink hair that reached the small of her back with green eyes and was wearing the girl's standard uniform and blue heeled shoes. The guy had black hair that Naruto could only describe as resembling a duck's ass and black eyes and wearing the boy's standard uniform but with an alteration, a red and white fan crest that was plastered on top of the school emblem covering it up completely. The pink haired teenage girl looked at Naruto and started frowning.
"I thought I told you I don't want to see your worthless face near my beautiful visage ever again. Can't you take a hint? I love Sasuke-kun not you!" This was the girl Naruto dated for about four months before she left him high and dry at the last place they were going to for a date, Sakura Haruno. Naruto sighed. "This is a public hallway you know I can walk past you whenever I want. Besides my next class is on the other side." He said as he folded up the letter and slipped it into his pocket. Most students weren't stopping because this was a regular occurrence, but Aichi, who was just passing by, stopped and looked at the commotion. "So what was that? Probably a love letter from some ugly excuse for a girl with a hopeless crush on a worthless loser like youself, isn't it?" Sakura asked rudely.
Naruto sighed again and responded. "If you must know, it's an invitation to the upcoming Vanguard Fight Circuit. I was trying to think of people to take as teammates." This statement caught the black haired teen's attention and the pinkette started laughing at him. "You're still playing that worthless game. It's time to face reality, you are too old to be playing a children's card game." She stopped laughing when she saw her companion start to walk to Naruto. He stopped in front of the blonde and held out his hand as if asking for something. "Give me that. The honor of winning in such a tournament should go to me alone." Naruto was insulted by the audacity of the other teen. This was Sasuke Uchiha, heir to the Uchiha family fortune and the one who never had to work for anything in his life. The one person Naruto can't stand even being in the same room as. "I'm sorry what was that? You want my place in a tournament for a game I'm sure you've never played before in you life. I got this for my victory at the Single's Regional, thank you very much."
Sasuke scoffed at this. "I could just go read the rule book and buy the best deck possible to beat some as talentless waste of space such as yourself." The whiskered teen's eyebrow was twitching at the Uchiha's blatant attempts to get what he wants. "That's it I'm going to class. I don't need to hear this from someone like you who doesn't know the meaning of humility." He said as he started to walk away while being bitched out by Sakura. The pink haired teen realized that Naruto wasn't listening and took Sasuke's arm and walked away. Aichi just stood there with a confused look on his face until he realized he was going to be late to class and took off.
Later Naruto was on the school roof eating lunch with a few of his friends. Among them was Shino Aburame, a somewhat lanky teen with brown hair in a small afro and was wearing glasses with pitch black lens so you can't see his eyes, Shikamaru Nara, an average looking teen with black hair tied back and black eyes, Kiba Inuzuka, a teen with a similar body build to Naruto with messy brown hair and black feral eyes, and finally Choji Akimichi, a somewhat portly teen with spikey long brown hair and brown eyes.
"So your going to the Circuit? Who are you considering?" Kiba asked as he wolfed down his lunch of beef skewers and fried rice. Naruto was sitting there eating his tempura ramen. "Well...I've been thinking about maybe making Shikamaru my first pick." Shikamaru finished eating a piece from his takiyaki and looked at the blonde. "Why bother? It's too troublesome for me to travel all across the world to participate in a series of tournaments that we might not even win." The whiskered teen looked back and responded. "Well you did give me the toughest challenge back at the Single's. You seem to be the best choice." Choji took a bite of his fifth nikuman. "Shika, you really need to stop this 'too troublesome' talk." The lazy teen sighs and thought for a second. "I'll think about it, Naruto. Give me a day or two to decide." Naruto finished his ramen and nodded. "Alright, when you make your decision come tell me." The bell rang signaling the end of lunch and the boys went to class.
After School at Card Capital
Naruto walked in and saw Misaki sitting at the counter reading a small book with a small cat sitting on the counter. "Good afternoon Misaki-chan." Said girl looked up and saw the blonde teen walk up. "Hello Naruto. How have you been?" She asked with a small smile. The cat looked between the two teens with a quizzical look as Naruto went behind the counter to take his jacket off and get his work apron. "I've been good, possibly found a person for my team. He's a friend of mine who gave me a tough time at the Regionals. So how have things been for you?" Misaki looked back to her book. "It's been about the same here. Shin-san hasn't been up to his usual routine though." The blonde teen laughed a little and went to organizing the merchandise. "So what's with the cat? It was here yesterday too." He asked as he puts a Gold Paladin starter deck in it's place. The cat in question perked up when he was mentioned. "That's the Sub Manager. He likes to lay there and nap most of the time though." Misaki answered as the tomcat meowed in response.
"Sub Manager huh?" Naruto wonder out loud as he worked. "When Kiba hears this, he is going to laugh his ass off. I mean really, I'm work with a cat as my superior. Sounds like a bad sitcom if you ask me." He said jokingly causing Misaki to giggle a little. "When you say it like that it does sound funny." At this moment Aichi and his friends walk into the shop and saw the two teen conversing among themselves with the Sub Manager looking at the blonde with an annoyed face. "Hello Misaki-san, Naruto-san." The blue haired teen greeted the employees. "Good to see you, Aichi." Misaki said as she went back to reading her book and Naruto turned around from the shelves. "Hey, it's you again. You come here often?" "Yes I've been coming here on a daily basis for about a year when I just started playing Vanguard." Aichi said as he and a bored looking Morikawa sat at the nearest table.
"Cool. So how did you get invited to the VF Circuit anyway? I never heard of you or Kamui until yesterday." Naruto asked getting looks from Morikawa and Izaki as if he was crazy. Aichi scratched the back of his head. "Kamui-kun, Misaki-san, and I are the team that won at the Team Nationals a few months ago. It was our second try after we lost in the qualifier the first time. Naruto-san, you won at the Singles Regional right? Why don't you tell us about that." The whiskered teen put the last starter deck in place as he grabbed several boxes of booster packs from the cardboard box at his feet to set them up at the front counter. "Well it was tough in that there were one hundred twenty-eight people competing for a title that only one person can get. Even before then you would have to get at least in the top four in a special qualifier held months in advance. All the fighters were at a level you can't even imagine. I would imagine that most of the fighters at the Teams Nationals wouldn't make it very far, seeing that you can't lose one match or your out."
Aichi and his friends were listening intently as Naruto explained how many skilled fighters he had to defeat in order to get into the Circuit. The blonde had to win at least twelve times without losing between the the qualifier and the Regionals themselves. The pressure must be so much worse then at the Teams Nationals. Misaki was impressed by the obvious skill needed to win in a tournament like that, Naruto didn't have a team to act as a safety net. She asked a question that was nagging at the her head. "So why haven't you entered the Singles Nationals? I imagine it should have started not long after the Regionals." Naruto looked at the teen across the counter as he placed the last box on it. "It was postponed for a while for unknown reasons, but according to the organizers it will start a little after the Circuit has finished its last stage. So the Circuit is first on my radar at the moment."
As more students started coming in and two in particular stood out. A small girl with orange hair and blue eyes, and a girl with pale green hair and purple eyes, both were wearing the Miyaji Academy uniform. The orange haired girl sees Aichi and goes to his table. "I knew I would find you here. You never just go home, do you?" She asked getting a nervous laugh from the blue haired teen. "Well Emi, I like being here. I play games with my friends here almost everyday." He answer while scratching the back of his head. "The only game you play here is Vanguard. You don't seem to be playing though, when I get here your usually halfway through a fight." The now identified Emi stated with a confused face as Naruto finished putting the booster packs up and looked to see two girls who apparently went to the same school as his sister.
"We were actually talking to Naruto-san for a little while before we start." Aichi said. Emi and her friend had a confused look as they looked around to find the blonde haired teen looking at them. "Naruto-san? Aichi did mention that he fought you yesterday. You won with a three damage lead, you must be really good." The child said with a smile. "Well I like to make thing interesting for my opponent. Enough about me, who are you two ladies?" The teen asked with a cheeky smile. "I'm Emi Sendou." Emi said "And I'm Mai Tobita, its nice to meet you Naruto-san." Emi's friend responded with a small blush.
Naruto see this but brushes it off. "I see... So you go to Miyaji Academy. My little sister goes there too." The whiskered blonde said. "Really, whats her name?" Mai asked with a quizzical look on her face. "Naomi Namikaze. You can't miss her with her bright red hair and dark blue eyes, not to mention she acts like she ate a bag of sugar everyday." Naruto said with a laugh then realized he was on the clock and went back to work. Both Mai and Emi had a pale face that Aichi noticed. "Emi, whats wrong?" Emi slowly turned to her brother. "Nothing! Nothing at all! Come on Mai-chan let play a game!" Mai swiftly nodded as the duo walked to a table to play.
Naruto walked out of the storage closet with a ladder, large banner, and staple gun. Misaki looked at him with an amused look as the blonde struggled to move to the door with all that stuff. "Do you need any help with that, Naruto?" The lavenderette asked while smiling behind her book. "No its okay. No need to worry your pretty little head." Naruto said as he made it to the door, slid it open with his elbow, and inched out. Aichi who just finished a fight with Izaki looked to the front door as the new employee went out. He put his deck back into his bag and followed Naruto out. Said blonde was setting up the ladder at the left side of the shop.
'Umm...Naruto-san, can I help with that?" Aichi asked the older teen as he took his first step on the ladder. "I guess, just hold the ladder in place so I don't fall." Naruto answered while taking a few more steps up and the younger teen grabbed the sides of the ladder. Aichi thought about what happened in the hallway earlier today. "Naruto-san?" Naruto unfolded the banner, placed the upper left corner to the shop's wooden frame, and stapled it three times. "Yeah?" He started stapling the side evenly. "What happened in the hallway today? That girl seemed very rude." The blue haired male asked causing the blonde to stop for a second. "Oh...her. How do I put this?" Misaki was just about to walk out the door to run an errand for her uncle when she heard the two males outside the door.
Naruto went back to stapling and answered."Well Aichi, that is what happens when you choose the absolute wrong girl to have a crush on. Her name is Sakura Haruno and she was the girl I used to dated a while back. It certainly wasn't the most pleasant time of my life. You saw the black haired pretty boy who's arm she was hanging off of, right? That was Sasuke Uchiha, heir to the Uchiha family fortune and no sooner then when he transferred in, it likely that she was cheating on me. It was over a year ago on a Sunday when we were supposed to go to a fancy Italian restaurant when I got a text telling me of all the reasons she hates my guts and that she doesn't want to see me approach her or Sasuke or she will file a restraining order." Aichi and Misaki were shocked at this, Naruto seemed like a very dependable guy and this girl stepped all over him like a door mat.
"Is it ok for you to be telling me this? I mean we barely know each other enough to tell each other this kind of stuff." The blue haired teen said as he looked up at his senior. Naruto finished stapling the left side and climbed down to move the ladder to the middle to repeat the process. "I've been holding in this for over a year, I'm tired of getting the pity party from everyone whenever the break up is mentioned. I just want to move on." He finished the top an started working on the bottom. Misaki decided to walk out and hope the two teens wouldn't call her out on her eavesdropping. "Hey Misaki-chan. Where are you off to? Don't you have work?" Naruto asked as he finished the middle section of the banner and climbed down. Misaki turned around and answered. "Shin-san asked me to get some papers that pertain to the shop in town. Hes watching the counter while I'm gone." Naruto moves the ladder to the last section he has to work on and Aichi braces it. "Well see you when you get back or tomorrow if you don't get back soon, Misaki-chan." The female teen walked away with a small blush on her face. The blonde climbed the ladder and took one last look at the retreating girl.
"Well were just about done here." Naruto quickly finished the job really fast and slid down the ladder as Aichi let go of it. The banner that he just put up had big bold letters saying Good Luck at the Circuit, Team Q4 and Team Maelstrom! "Team Maelstrom? Seems that the Manager is managing both our teams. That's kinda odd don't you think, Aichi?" Aichi was scratching the back of his head while laughing nervously. "Shin-san likes jump the gun sometimes." The duo walked in the store and finished the day off and went home. Maybe tomorrow will bring a new twist to this VF Circuit situation.
AN: I am sorry to those who were waiting for this chapter. I've had writer's block for the first week and no internet for the second. But after twelve hours of thinking and fifteen hours of trying to get it all down. I'm going to address this right now. Mai's crush on Naruto is just a thing little girls have at the beginning of the early preteen stage, attraction to a man that is several years older then them.
Also there's the meaning of the title because someone asked. In Latin it means 'Sun and Moon'. It describes Naruto's usual sunny attitude and Misaki's calm subdued personality. It is also reversed by their chose of unit, Dark and Demonic for Naruto, Bright and Godly for Misaki.