III. NarutoxRusty Hearts Crossover Challenge: Kin'in Naruto
A new, up-and-coming, still-beta game that I love is Rusty Hearts. It has four characters, a not-full-vampire character called Frantz, a witch that has bound her soul to a demonic sword called Angela, a not-exactly-a-werewolf guy called Tude and a Lara-Croft ripoff named Natasha. They are all insane, as is the game. The game is an action MMO that follows Devil May Cry's footsteps, and that's what makes it so awesome.
Anyway, in this challenge, the four (or three, depending on if you like Natasha or even can justify her existence) heroes actually, eventually, became strong enough to rival the Big Bad Guy, a vampire that is inspiringly called 'Vlad'. Oh yes, that cliche. However, something went wrong; Vlad isn't an idiot and didn't fight them fairly. Even though individually they rivaled him, and together they would've smoked him, he didn't fight fairly (you can just not mention how he managed that) and defeated them! Oh noes! As a last-minute resort, Frantz and co. sealed themselves inside Graestra, the only weapon strong enough to actually have a chance to hurt Vlad and then gave it to the Golden Seal team. Then the rest of the Golden Seal team used the blade to kill/seal (whatever you choose) Vlad off for good!
Several hundred/thousand years later, Naruto comes across some ruins, decides to explore them and, le gasp, comes across Graestra. The blade of course tries to take over his mind, because it's evil like that, and it would have managed to since it has not only its own mental strength but also the mental strength of the sealed warriors inside it, but Kyubi actually was good for something; the Reaper Death Seal actually stopped the sword enough for the sealed Golden Seal members to save the boy (and maybe put Kyubi in its place). Since Naruto is now bonded to the sword, and the sword to him, it 'obeys' him slightly, but not completely. In short that means that he has the sucky form of the blade and has to earn its 'loyalty' by fighting and killing until he gains back its true form (call it leveling). In the meantime, the rest of the Golden Team teaches Naruto their skills and even change him into a hybrid between themselves; silver eyes like Frantz, Tude's wolf-arm and Angela's spiky red hair. Why? Because they are bored.
The characters should be more-or-less omnipotent... but they are sealed so tightly they can't do anything. Not even get free so they can actually use their powers. The can however advise Naruto on what to do or how to use specific hidden rituals (read; spells he hadn't bothered to learn so he needs to depend on a ritual to get a result).
Due to his masters, Naruto will be arrogant, though to a point he is justified. The moment he realizes that he is in fact not jounin-level (as he thought) but merely chuunin-level should be traumatizing enough (and almost make him loose control of his vampiric bloodlust).
What focus Naruto will take for his skills is up to you, as is his weapon. I suggest the Magic Sword, for its plethora of spells, the Gauntlet, because speed counts, and the Axe, because sometimes you just gotta kill a motherf****er. Of course, you can use the Revolvers/Musket too, if you want, maybe left-over blueprints by Natasha that had the secrets of each and every of her devices and gadgets (how he builds them is another thing altogether).
The tone of the fic may range from almost crack to serious drama, depends on how you pull it off. Mostly, I just want to see some humor and insanity in, just like the game (chicken clucking=quest to get her chicks, which you randomly hatch by tossing raw eggs in some public baths...)
The name comes from the fact that 'kin'in' means 'Golden Seal' in japanese. You won't find it in google but 'kin' means gold and 'fuuin' means seal; the 'in' part especially.