"So, you're Emperor Spriggan's best assistant," the emperor said. "I am Acer Jeponicum, the new emperor of Alkatasia, though I assume you already knew that."

"Wow, you know me so well and we just met. I'm flattered," Akira said.

Berlin couldn't tell if Akira told the emperor the truth or not. It sounded sarcastic to him.

"I'm sorry about your 'wife' by the way. It must've been a tragic loss."

"Very, though, I am a bit relieved. I honestly didn't want to marry her. Long-distance relationships never work out anyway," the emperor stated.

He wanted the queen to die? Even though Berlin was an enemy of Ishgar, he couldn't help but feel like that was wrong. Death shouldn't be wished upon a person, though, he had no right to think that, since he caused the death of many.

"So, why did you return? I assume there's a reason you wasted your time to talk to me."

"I have a plan to take over Ishgar."

"Oh?" the emperor questioned, interested.

"In order to do that, I need to join the Circle, along with my colleges. Look in my records and you will know that I'm quite capable and that anyone I ally with is as well."

"That's a lot of confidence."

"But of course. I'm that prepared."

"So, what is your oh-so-called 'master plan'?" the emperor asked.

"Well, you see, it's quite simple, really. Emperor Spriggan was so close, yet he got blinded by his heart. He forsaken his empire just for 'family. I, however know that there is no such thing as family and that people are either with you or against you. First, we need to get strong allies. Preferably some from both continents. That will cause a lot of tension on the opposing side."

"Won't it affect ours as well?"

"Those of Alkatasia, pacifically Alvarez, have been trained to focus more on their duty than such things. That's the Light Guilds weakness. They focus on emotion more than mental and physical strength. You need both in order to turn the tides of the war. You will be a great asset, since you're the emperor. Only you can control the army. However, we won't strike until the enemy is weakened. I have just the tool for that. Act beforehand and we'll lose. It's all about timing." Akira explained.

"How can I know you're loyal? You were Spriggan's brat before. Plus, it seems like you're acting on your own will, no one else's. That makes me think I'm just a tool."

"A tool? How can the emperor be something like that? Tools are minor players. You're at the very top of the ladder, right beside me."

"Beside you, huh? An emperor isn't beside anyone. An emperor is always at the top. Guards, remove him from my sight!" the emperor said.

Guards with black armor marched in with their sword's out.

"Well played. Just know that this isn't the last time you'll see me."

They were escorted out moments later.

"What will we do now, Lord Akira?" Berlin asked.

"First, we're going to test the Anti-Magic. Then, I'm going to get allies."

Then, he opened up a portal and it took them away.

Lisanna stood in Magnolia's park. She looked up at the stars and observed their glow.

"I wonder how Edolas is doing?" she questioned, nobody in particular.

"Better than you're going to be," a voice answered.

She sharply turned and readied her fists.

"Who are you?" she asked.

"No one special," he responded, with a devious smirk. "Now, what is a little girl like yourself doing out here around midnight?"

"Why should I tell you?"

"It seems that you understand not to trust everyone. Good, I thought all Ishgar mages were imbeciles," Akira acknowledged.

"What do you want?"

"What do I want? What I want is to kill you!"

He leapt forward and moved his hand towards her neck. She barely managed to retreat.

"Animal Soul: Bird!"

"Blood Crystal: Ramp!"

A crimson crystal appeared and it pointed in Lisanna's direction. Akira ran up it and jumped towards Lisanna who currently had bright pink bird wings. She dodged and kept flying, though unknown to her, he created a portal. Next, he showed up behind her and grabbed her neck and the Anti-Magic gloves started to absorb her power. They fell to the ground and he straddled her while he tightly squeezed her neck.

"S-Stop," Lisanna pleaded, in a hushed tone.

"To late."

The gloves stopped absorbing her power and he let her go. She stumbled backwards until she bumped into a tree.

"W-What did you do?" she questioned, nervously.

"Just tested something, that's all."

"Animal Soul: Cat!"

Akira continued to smirk as Lisanna examined her unchanged appearance.

"W-What did you do?"

"Let's just say that from now on, this guild will no longer feel like a home. If you want a place in the world, put some magic in this Lacrima and I will come get you."

He handed her the blue crystal. It was smaller than most Lacrima and oddly shaped. She placed it in her pocket but was still on-guard.

"Berlin!"

Berlin appeared out of nowhere and smashed his armored elbow int her head. She collapsed moments later.

"Now, onto face two."

Natsu Dragneel yawned and rolled out of bed. The bed he was in wasn't his, though. It was Lucy's.

She has been gone for a couple days. There has been no sign of her. Natsu hopes that whatever she found on the other side of the portal was friendly.

"Come on Happy, let's go to the guild," Natsu said.

"Aye!"

He eventually arrived with Happy floating by his side. They entered the guild and saw Lisanna sprawled out across the floor, unconscious.

"Lisanna!" Natsu and Happy exclaimed.

They ran over to her and moments later, Erza and Gray entered, along with Mira.

"What happened?" Gray asked.

"If you did anything to her, I swear, I'll-" Mira started.

"We did nothing! We arrived seconds before you and she was already like this!" Natsu protested, and Happy nodded in agreement.

"Lisanna!" Erza exclaimed, when Lisanna sat up.

"Lisanna, what happened?" Erza questioned.

"I don't remember... wait, there was this guy. He... he did something."

"She's clothed, so it can't be that," Gray said, as he crossed out a possibility in his head.

"They ambushed me at the park. I tried to fight back, but that guy snuck up on me and took me down. There were two others, though I only saw two. One used crystals, one used portals, and I don't know what the other could do, though I remember him hitting me on the head. That's all I remember," Lisanna exclaimed. "Wait..."

She attempted to summon Magic Power, but failed.

"I can't use my magic."

"He..." Erza started.

"Took your powers?" everyone else finished.

"Yeah, and I remember him saying that he was trying to test something. Maybe it's a new power?"

"Or an item," Mira added.

Natsu was worried about Lucy, but the thing with Lisanna concerns him even more, knowing how it'll effect her.

"Come on, there has to be something we can do," Natsu persisted, desperately.

They all looked at each other nervously.

"I'm sure that this is just temporary. I'll be fine," Lisanna reassured.

"But, Lisanna-" Gray started.

"I'll be fine as long as I have you guys and everyone else. The others are going to be here soon, let's get ready for them."

"Okay, Lisanna," Mira said. "Ok."

Yet everyone knew that it was a lie.

Sasuke's pov...

Sasuke stood in a random street. It was empty and barely visible. He blended in perfectly with the darkness.

"Come out. I know you're there," he said.

There was a moment of silence then the suspect stepped out of the shadows. Sasuke immediately recognized them.

"Sorry, I mean no harm. I just wanted to apologize for earlier," Lucy explained.

"How'd you find me?"

"Neji used his Byakugan."

"Hn," he muttered.

"So, since it's pretty obvious that you don't like it when I ask them things, you owe me some answers," Lucy stated.

"Owe you? Since when did I owe you anything?" he retorted.

"I need answers from someone around here. I'm from another world, remember?" she inquired.

"Why are you asking us for answers when you haven't told us anything? I'm not the only guilty one around here," Sasuke deadpanned. "For all I could know, you could be some kind of super villain."

"Seriously? What did I do that was so untrustworthy to you?" she questioned, offended by his accusation.

"I don't trust people who pop up out of nowhere and the fact that you come from an unknown dimension where people use this 'magic is even more unsettling."

"That's rich, coming from a ninja," she deadpanned.

'Seriously, what's with this guy?' she thought.

"Can't you at least give me a change? I'm not a bad person, and neither are my friends," she beseeched.

"Ok, Lucy, how would you feel if you saw your own sibling murder your parents?"

That stopped all of her train of thought. His brother... murdered his, their parents?

"What?" she managed, flabbergasted.

"Since then, I've learned a thing or two about trusting people. I've learned that it shouldn't be done thoughtlessly."

"But, why? Why did he do it?" she pressed.

"An order from the village's council members. The Uchiha's were accused of setting the Nine-tails off on the village and were ordered to be executed. My brother had the choice of not doing it and have everyone, including me killed, or he could do it and spare me. After that, I dedicated my life to becoming strong enough to kill him. You couldn't possibly understand what that could do to someone," he said.

"Maybe not, though, don't act like you're the only one with problems. My mother died when I was very long. Soon after, my dad became very cruel, which resulted in me running away when I was older and joining a guild."

"A guild?"

"A place where magic-users like myself go. You can go to a Light Guild which exists to protect people or a Dark Guild which is the opposite, but that's no the topic here," Lucy explained. "My father sent some cruel mages after me, but my friends protected me. Eventually, he lost control over the Heartfilia Estate. I thought he had changed, but he didn't. He came and asked me for money. I told him to go think about his life and how he treats others. That's the last time I saw him."

"What happened?"

Lucy clenched her fists and slightly gritted her teeth.

"My friends and I ended up getting sealed away on an island for seven years and he died! I didn't even get to see him in his final moments nor the person he may have become! At least you got to see your parents fate. The next time you brood, at least consider the fact that you aren't the only one suffering."

Sasuke's pov...

She marched away and his cloak fluttered in the wind as he watched her leave.

"I was always alone, then I saw you. I saw someone like me and that made me so happy. However, I didn't know how to approach. You were so cool, ya know? That's why you became my rival. I wanted to show you that I was worthy."

"Worthy?"

"Worthy of being noticed, worthy of being your rival. In the end, I guess it was to be worthy of being your friend."

He had that conversation with Naruto shortly after the war. Naruto was someone who truly understood him. Sasuke's parents were murdered along with this clan. Solitary was something he understood very well.

At first, he thought he was the only one. Then, he learned how Naruto never met his parents and never had a single friend until Team Seven formed. People feared Naruto for something Naruto himself didn't know about and that was because Naruto had Nine-Tails, a demon that almost destroyed the village sealed inside of him by the Fourth Hokage, Naruto's own father.

Just now, he learned a bit about Lucy's past. Sasuke originally took Lucy as a girl who was always happy and had a perfect life. He learned that wasn't true and that she only held onto what remained, kind of like him, though he tended to push that away, because he didn't like the village, nor he was only a hazard. Hopefully he will get more answers when he goes to her world. She was definitely interesting and people don't interest him very often. It was only a matter of time.

Naruto saw Lucy run off after teme earlier. What happened? He hadn't heard anything since and he was supposed to get sleep before the big day.

Tomorrow would be the first day in history when ninjas traveled to another world occupied with human beings. They didn't know what to expect. There was to many possibilities.

"I wonder what will happen?" Naruto asked himself, as he gazed up at his bedroom ceiling.

Lucy must have good friends. She was so concerned about them, so they must've done something good to earn it. He looked forward to meet them.

"Kurama, what do you think about all this?"

"I think you're thinking too much. The Naruto I know doesn't think. He just goes with the flow."

"Hey, you're ri- Wait, did you just insult me?"

"There's nothing bad about it. You're fun to be around."

"Aw, thanks. It'll all turn out all right somehow. I just hope the teme is nice. He was never much of a people-person and I don't want our first impression to be bad, ya know?"

"Since when did you worry so much?"

"Since now, I guess. I've never been to another world before."

"Kaguya transported you to another dimension. You literally fought a god and you're worried about going to this girl's dimension."

"Hey, you're right. I literally fought the creator of Chakra! Thanks, K."

"K? We're using nicknames now?"

"Heh, heh, yup! Well, I need to get some sleep."

"Go do that. I'm going to make sure my Chakra is at it's max, so we're fully prepared."

"Ok! Let's do this!"

Then, Naruto laid down and slowly drifted off.

Lucy's pov...

Lucy entered the house and saw Rin. She could think about the emo, later.

"Rin, what are you doing up so late?" she asked.

"Lucy!"

Rin ran up and wrapped his arms around her. Teams streamed out of his eyes.

"Rin?" Lucy questioned, while she attempted to comfort him.

"I don't want you to go!" he wailed.

"It'll be ok. I'm sure we'll see each other again."

"You mean it?"

"Of course. I never break a promise. Now, go to bed. Your mom won't be happy if she realizes you're still up."

"Ok," Rin muttered, as he headed towards the stars.

Tomorrow was going to be a loong day.

A/N Hello! Sorry that chapter took so long. It was hard to do Sasuke and Lucy's dialogue. I felt like it had to be perfect and it's so easy to make Sasuke occ.

Next chapter, Naruto and Sasuke will go to Ishgar. Who do you think they will meet first? Also, what do you think Akira will do now that the emperor refused his request? Nothing good, that's for sure!

At some point, Jellal will get involved. It will be a bit after Naruto, Sasuke, and Lucy go to Fairy Tail. I'm not sure how the other members of Crime Sorciere will fit into the story though. They won't have as big as a role as him.

I'm still debating on whether to have the final battle in the Fairy Tail world or Naruto's. I think it'll be Fairy Tail's and Naruto will go get backup from his or something. That's awhile from now.

Also, how do you think Sasuke will react to seeing Lucy's friends? Will he like any of them? His reaction to Natsu will definitely be something.

More Oc's will be introduced soon. They will all be villains, unless there's a guard or someone like that with a minor role.

Akira won't enter Naruto's universe until Naruto and Sasuke are already gone. That's good timing.

What do you think Lisanna will do? Will she join Akira or will she stay in Fairy Tail?

There's also the issue with Kiba. He's not evil, but he has trust issues. I don't plan on killing him. I have plans, though.

See you next time!