I DO NOT OWN KINGDOM HEARTS OR NARUTO!

The story takes place at the very beginning of Naruto and after the 2nd visit to Space Paranoids in Kingdom Hearts 2

So sorry that I forgot to mention this before!

Now, on to the story…


"Go on in," said the masked guard that stood in front of the building entrance. Sora was about to ask who that was, but Iruka anticipated his question and answered it. "Those are the ANBU black ops. They are high ranking ninja who protect the Hokage and carry out high ranked missions," said Iruka, smiling at Sora, who still looked nervous.

"Don't worry," Iruka said, trying to calm Sora down, "We're just going to talk to the Hokage about your situation." "Okay," Sora replied. "Great," Sora mumbled in his mind. They entered the Hokage's office, as well as a couple of ANBUs. "Lord Hokage," Iruka said standing at attention, "I would like to talk to you about our visitor here." As he said this, he took Sora and pulled him to the front. Sora, not knowing what to say, nervously introduced himself. "Umm…hi. I'm Sora," he said. The old leader smiled at the teen as Iruka whispered into Sora's ear saying, "Show some respect. This is the great Third Hokage, so you should consider yourself honored to meet him in person." Sora, embarrassed at this, simply said "Right, sorry."

The Hokage then stood up and said to the group in his aged voice that matched his image, "All of you, leave me with the boy." This surprised everyone, but they obeyed and exited the room, leaving the Third with Sora.

Once they were alone, the Hokage asked Sora, "You are from another world correct?" Sora was shocked at how quickly he discovered the truth, and mentally screamed at himself for making it so completely obvious. Sora was about to lie and say no, but he decided to tell the old man the truth, since they were the only ones there and the fact that the man was the village leader.

"Yes, I am from another world." Before the Hokage could say anything else, Sora held out his hand and, in a quick flash of light, called the Keyblade into his grip. For a second the Hokage was shocked, but regained his composure, and said to Sora, "Keyblade Bearer, why did you come here?"

Sora told him his story, about crash landing here, as well as the situation with the Heartless and Organization XII.

Once the Third had heard the story he requested that Sora keep the Keyblade a secret and only use the Keyblade in emergencies. Sora nodded, twirling the Keyblade around his hand and rested it on his shoulders.

"As long as you are here, how would you like to be a Konoha ninja," asked the Third.

Smiling greatly, Sora exclaimed with enthusiasm, "Really? I could be a ninja?! Cool! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" Sora began jumping up and down in enjoyment. "He is like Naruto," observed the Hokage, grinning, "I just hope that he doesn't try to show off like Naruto."


Sora exited the building, carrying many scrolls given to him by the Hokage. He told Sora to go out into the woods to practice what was in these scrolls. They would help him become a ninja. So, Sora went out into the woods and began to open the scrolls and practice what was written in them, from substitution-jutsus to clone-jutsus. He practiced hard, really trying hard so he could be a ninja, and from mid-day to the late evening (around 11:00 P.M.) he trained. After a lot of training, Sora groggily walked his way to an apartment that the Hokage let him have.

There he slept, relived to finally sleep in a soft bed and not on the cold ship floor where he usually had to sleep.

He woke up in the morning (around 7:30) and found breakfast in a cabinet. He ate the food, which wasn't bad, but not too good either, and once he was done, he rushed off to the academy. "Two days," he told himself, "until the exam."

Of course he hadn't forgotten about his friends, Donald, Goofy, Riku, Kairi, and the King, but until Donald and Goofy found him and repaired the ship, he was stuck there. "I wonder how they are doing," Sora thought, saddened about what could have happened to them. "They're fine," Sora said to himself, "besides, they wouldn't want me to worry about them. They will find me, we'll repair the Gummi ship, then we will save the worlds as well as find Riku, Kairi, and the King."

Sora entered the academy and found everyone in the classroom. He recognized everyone from when he woke up on the academy floor after the crash. He didn't know their names, except for Naruto, Sasuke, and Iruka, however.

That day, Sora practiced his substitution skills, which he learned to do last night. Also, he worked on his shuriken technique. He did well on it since he had some practice from using his Strike Raid move, plus his aiming was greatly improved, along with his reflexes, strength, agility, speed, and stamina, from the clothes he was given back at Yen Sid's tower.

After the academy, Sora went around the town with Naruto for a little while, before going out to the woods to train some more.


The Next Day

Sora sat in class on the day of the graduation exam. Naruto came in late with Iruka, because Naruto went and painted graffiti on the Hokage's faces, which he saw from the classroom. Sora couldn't help but laugh. As punishment, the whole class had to do the transformation-jutsu. Everyone was angry at Naruto, except Sora, who instead said to the Uzumaki, "Nice job," which he said in a nice way. This made them both laugh. When it was Naruto's turn to do the transformation technique, he followed through with his plan to do his original, but completely useless jutsu, the 'sexy-jutsu'. Everybody tried to hold back from laughing at Iruka-sensei's reaction, except for Naruto and Sora, who were openly laughing.

Later That Night

Naruto was near a wooden shack, catching his breath. He succeeded in getting the Scroll of Sealing from the Hokage's main building. "Now all I have to do is master one technique in this scroll and I can become a genin," thought Naruto as he opened the scroll.

"Go," ordered the Hokage. Immediately, all the jounin and chuunin that were before him jumped away and began searching for Naruto.

"I can't believe he would do something like this," the Third thought, disappointed in what Naruto did.

Among the search party was Iruka. He was going especially fast, hoping to find the 12 year old before the others. "Why would Naruto do this," the chuunin thought, worried about what his favorite student might become.


Sora passed the exam and became a genin, which made him feel proud, but he felt sorry for Naruto since he didn't pass. He was going to go comfort the depressed blonde but couldn't find him, since he disappeared after the exam was over. "I hope he's okay…" Sora said to himself.

Sora couldn't sleep. He had a strange dream that showed him in the Organization XII stronghold. He saw every member their, including some he hadn't seen before (because he had his Castle Oblivion memories erased by Namine), each sitting in numbered chairs, from I to XII. On the chair marked XII, he saw a guy who looked kind of like…himself.

Sora went to the roof of the apartment complex to think about this.

Why did that guy look like me? And why does he feel so familiar?

Before he could continue his thoughts, he saw Iruka dash by on the roof tops of the buildings adjacent to the apartment building Sora was on.

"What's going on? He thought, as he followed Iruka.

He followed Iruka into the woods nearby the village. He lost track of his sensei there. "I can see why it is called a 'hidden village'" Sora told himself, fighting through the thick tree leaves.


"Naruto get down!" Iruka yelled to Naruto as a large shuriken flew towards him. Naruto ducked down and Iruka jumped and took the shuriken's blow to the back. The shuriken was thrown by a silhouetted figure that had just jumped down from the tree branch he was on.

Naruto looked into his beloved sensei's eyes, now dripping with tears.

"It hurts doesn't it Naruto, the pain of being alone. I know. I've been there. You pull pranks so you can get some attention from others and you laugh to hide the pain. I did that same thing too when I was your age, after my parents were killed."

Iruka told all this to Naruto, who at the time had mixed emotions:

Anger

Hate

Sadness

Confusion

Iruka was about to continue, but he was cut off by another chuunin, Mizuki Touji, the silhouetted figure, who had tricked Naruto into stealing the Scroll of Sealing, a scroll that contained forbidden techniques within that could bring ruin to the village if it fell into the wrong hands. Mizuki also told Naruto something that was forbidden. He told Naruto that he contained the Nine-Tailed Fox demon that destroyed the village 12 years ago and every villager knew about it, but had to keep it a secret from him.

"Don't listen to him Naruto. He would say anything for you to give him the scroll," said the evil Mizuki, "The truth is that your precious sensei hates your guts."

Naruto couldn't take it anymore. He ran off, tears trailing from his eyes. "NARUTO," Iruka yelled. "Too bad, and I was going to kill him quickly and painlessly," Mizuki said, chuckling evilly, "Oh well, looks like I'm going to have to kill the demon slowly and painfully…right after I'm done with you." As he said this, the traitorous chuunin grabbed a kunai knife out of his back pocket and walked over to the wounded Iruka.


"Where did he go? He couldn't have gone too far." Sora was walking aimlessly around the dense forest, looking for any signs of Iruka.

"NARUTO!"

Sora jumped. "That was Iruka's voice," Sora told himself as he bounded off looking for the source of the scream. Then he saw Iruka, with a huge shuriken in his back, as well as another adult with a hair style similar to Riku's. He heard the mysterious adult say, "…kill the demon slowly and painfully…right after I'm done with you." He then saw that adult pull out a knife out of his pocket as he headed towards the downed chunnin. Quickly, Sora jumped out from his cover, threw his own shuriken at the unknown adult, which forced him to jump back to dodge it. While the startled traitor was busy dodging, Iruka took his chance and pulled the over-sized shuriken from his back and threw it at Mizuki. As Mizuki was busy dodging the weapons, Sora quickly helped the wounded, but sill mobile, Iruka up and they ran away as fast as possible.

Iruka told Sora about what was going on; about how Naruto stole the Scroll of Sealing after being tricked by the guy they just saw, Mizuki, and what they had to do.


Naruto was sitting with his back to the truck of a tree, crying.

"I'm the demon?" Naruto thought, questioning what he had just heard "No. No! It can't be true!" Naruto tried to convince himself it was a lie, but then he thought about how all the villagers treated him, about the marking on his stomach that appeared whenever he focused his chakra, and about the fact that the demon fox, the Kyubi, was 'killed' on the same day and year of his birth. Suddenly, he heard voices. "Give up! Naruto's like me. He is going to use the scroll to take revenge on Konoha," said the first voice, which he recognized as Mizuki. "That not true!" said the second voice, who Naruto immediately knew was Sora's. Sora wasn't aware of the fact that the Kyubi was inside Naruto. "You're right," said the third voice, which Naruto knew was Iruka's. Naruto felt his heart freeze. "So, even Iruka-sensei thinks I'm a demon," said the dismayed Naruto, but then he heard Iruka continue, "demons are like that, but Naruto isn't anything like the Kyubi! He tries hard, and if he fails, he gets up and tries again!"

Naruto was amazed to hear this. "He still believes in me…"

Iruka was sitting with his back to the tree, too exhausted to go on. Sora was in front of him ready to fight Mizuki. In order to help Naruto escape, Iruka transformed himself into Naruto, while Sora transformed into the scroll and they tried to divert Mizuki's attention to themselves. Mizuki fell for it and transformed himself into Iruka trying to persuade the false Naruto to give him the scroll. The Naruto imposer kicked the Iruka fake in the stomach, and, when he hit the ground, Mizuki reverted to his normal appearance, as did Sora and Iruka.

"I was going to save you for later, but it looks like I'll have to finish you off now!" declared the slightly injured Mizuki. Sora prepared for the strike, waiting for Mizuki to get close so that he could deliver a crushing blow to his face with the Keyblade. Mizuki lunged, spinning another giant ninja star in his hands, but before Sora could bring out his Keyblade and smash the traitor's head in, the real Naruto jumped out and kicked the chuunin in the face. Throwing the real scroll to the ground near Sora and Iruka, Naruto threatened Mizuki with, "If you lay a hand on my friend or my sensei—I'll kill you!" Before Mizuki could retort to the boy's threat, and before Iruka and Sora say how glad they were to see the blonde headed ninja, Naruto quickly made a hand sign and stated, "SHADOW CLONE-JUTSU!"

Smoke filled the forest clearing and once the smoke dissipated, thousands of orange jump-suited ninjas appear, surrounding Mizuki.

All the clones were closing in on the frightened ninja, and the traitor let out one last scream before receiving punches and kicks from all directions.


For saving him and for mastering the jounin-level 'Shadow Clone-jutsu' Iruka awarded Naruto with a Konoha ninja headband, as well as a dinner at Ichikraku's. Naruto gave his sensei a huge hug, which caused the academy teacher to fall back. Sora had healed Iruka wound with a Cure spell as Naruto was thrashing Mizuki, so Iruka was fine with it.

"Sora, thank you," thanked a smiling Iruka, who still was being hugged by an energetic Naruto. "No problem," responded Sora, with his hand resting behind his head, "but I would like to know something." Both Iruka and Naruto looked at him inquisitively, waiting for his question.

"Why did that Mizuki guy call Naruto a demon?"

Naruto stopped and looked at the ground, depressed at being reminded of what Mizuki told him.

"Because I contain the Kyubi," answered the dismal Naruto.

Sora froze. He had heard about the Kyubi in the academy, so he knew how muck suffering it had caused.

"You probably hate me now, just like the others…" continued Naruto, at the verge of crying.

"How could I hate a friend?" replied Sora in his cheerful voice.

Naruto looked up to see Sora smiling at him. "Besides, it's like Iruka said. You are nothing like the Kyubi," continued Sora.

Naruto was stunned for a moment, but then stared at Sora, smiling at him and said, "Thanks Sora, I needed that."

Then Sora came up and put his arm around his neck in a friendly way.

"So, anyone want some breakfast?" said Sora

As soon as he said this, everyone's stomach growled. They were hungry after the fight.

"Yeah, but first we need to talk to the Hokage and explain to him what happened," Iruka said.

They had told the Third Hokage about Mizuki's treachery and where he was so that the ANBU could go and take him to prison. Naruto had returned the scroll and apologized. The Hokage, being understanding, accepted the apology, and reminded Naruto that the ninja teams were being chosen tomorrow, so he had better be prepared. Naruto just gave him a smile, and the trio left to get some well deserved breakfast at Ichikraku's.


"That boy would make an interesting Nobody," said a cloaked figure. "So should we take him now?" asked another cloaked individual. The first figure responded to the other's question, in an impassive, cold tone of voice, with, "No. The Keyblade Bearer is with him. Fighting him would draw the attention of others. Besides, the boy isn't important. We must focus on our goal." "Yes," said the other cloaked figure, "Kingdom Hearts."

Then they both disappeared into separate portals of darkness that vanished once they walked through them.


Whew! That was a long chapter, so I hope you like it

Thanks to 'Sights Unseen' for the commet, and to all of you who are reading this story

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