Summary: She found him on the beach of Besaid when he was on the verge of dying. She sheltered him and nursed him back to health, despite not knowing who he was. What a man like him could do to repay such kindness? Become her guardian, shield her from dangers and blast Sin's head off if it tries to go near her, simple.

Naruto/Yuna/Lulu


"Naruto" Normal Speech.

'Naruto' Normal Thought.

"Rasengan" Jutsu/Power/Technique.

"Naruto" Demonic/Dragon Speeches.

'Naruto' Demonic/Dragon Thoughts.

A Fishcake Guardian

Arc 1

The summoner and the ninja

Chapter 7

The Journey Continues

"Alright guys, listen up!" Naruto said loudly as he pointed his finger at the group in front of him "I want you all to split up into groups of ten and help these people rebuild their home and do whatever they ask you to do. Let's make this place lively for them again, alright?"

"Aye, boss!" The army of clones cried out and immediately did what they were told, splitting up into six groups of tens and spreading out all around Kilika port. Soon, they got to work, doing everything that required some extra strong hands. They fixed the houses, the walkways, moved obstacles out of the ways and many things along those lines.

Six hundred clones should be more than enough, Naruto thought. At the rate they were working, he was sure that the villagers of Kilika Port could return to their daily life in the morning of the next day.

Nodding his head, the blond turned around and saw Yuna and the rest looking at him in shock and amazement, even the usually serious and calm Kimahri. Naruto appreciated the attention, but he couldn't help but feel rather uncomfortable under their gazes, so he asked while scratching the back of his head.

"Is there anything wrong?" he asked as if what was happening behind him was the most common thing in the world.

"Wrong?" Tidus exclaimed in shock as he gestured both hands toward the Naruto-s "When we asked you how you intended to help them all by yourself, we didn't expect you to create a whole army of yourself man!"

"Seriously man…" Wakka nodded his head in agreement, still having difficulty picking his jaw from the ground.

"After seeing so many strange things from you, I thought I wasn't going to feel anymore surprised." Lulu said, sighing longingly while shaking her head "I guess I was wrong. Just when I thought you had shown us everything, you pulled another trick from your sleeves." She shrugged her shoulder "You will never stop to amaze us, won't you?"

"What can I say?" Naruto grinned "I'm unpredictable." Lulu should get used to that feeling, because he had many tricks he hadn't revealed to them yet, but wished that he wouldn't have to anytime soon.

"So, those people…" Yuna asked slowly "Are you controlling them or are they… you?"

"They're me, one hundred percent, literally." Naruto answered with a smile "They are called Shadow Clones. They can think for themselves, eat, and do anything that I can do."

"Are all Shinobi capable of duplicating themselves like that, or is it just you?" Wakka questioned curiously.

"Well, I have seen more than just a handful of people using Shadow clone." Naruto said thoughtfully, recalling his father, then the second Hokage and much more he had met "It's a very useful technique, for training and doing things like this." He said, looking at his clones who were working.

"I see." Yuna nodded her head "With this, everyone can go back to their daily routines in no time. Thanks, Yevon that we have you here with us." She said, before bowing her head in the traditional prayer.

"Well, I don't know who the hell Yevon is." Naruto said, shrugging while grinning smugly "But I'm sure that if he is the one who brought me to this world, I'm pretty sure that he has chosen the right person." He gave them a thumb up and a nice guy grin "Don't worry Yuna. I'm going to make this pilgrimage as swiftly as possible for you."

"I have no doubt, Naruto." Yuna smiled, nodding her head.

"Anyway, it's getting dark." Lulu spoke up as she looked at the sky and then turned to Yuna "We should find some place for you to rest. We will leave for the temple tomorrow." The busty guardian said with a firm tone as if she was daring Yuna to do otherwise. Knowing the summoner, Naruto was sure that she would want to, because before he used his clones to help the villagers, Yuna had been very determined to help them herself in any way she could. It was a reason Naruto had created so many clones when two or three hundred should be more than enough. He wanted to make sure that they could cover everything so Yuna couldn't find anything to do. Lulu was right. Yuna had already had a rough day, and she needed to take a rest.

"Yes." Seeing that Naruto and his clones could help them way better than she ever could, Yuna could only nod her head to her guardian.

"So there is a temple for Yuna to obtain an Aeon on this island?"

"We have talked about this before we left Besaid, and while we were on the ship earlier." Lulu said stoically as she turned to him "Did you pay attention to what I said?"

"Uh… no." Naruto answered straightly, and while the black haired woman could only sigh in defeat and the rest shook their heads, Yuna laughed softly at his blank and simple honesty.

The group quickly made their ways to a local inn and booked three rooms with double beds, which at first, didn't cost a single Gil because Yuna was a summoner and Naruto was helping everyone outside. Yuna and Lulu would stay in one room, while Wakka would stay with Kimahri, who Naruto was sure that wasn't going to stay long in his room with the red-haired captain, leaving Naruto and Tidus with the last room.

Leaving the inn after he had taken a bath, Naruto went to check on his clones and saw and felt while some had disappeared, the rest were still working hard. The villagers were very grateful, some thanked him when he walked pass them, and the children really liked him because of his cool trick. Naruto felt really happy at the affections they had for him, and couldn't help but wonder would it be the same feeling everyone had for him once he went back to his world, his home.

When Naruto went back to the inn to get something to eat, Lulu appeared on the second floor and quickly made her way down to the hall through the staircase. Seeing Naruto standing with a small package of foods in his hand, the black mage pondered thoughtfully for a second before approaching him.

"Hey, Lulu?" Deciding to be the one who made the first greeting, he spoke to the woman, raising a hand and flashing her a smile "What's up?"

"I need to buy some supplies. There will be a lot of strong fiends on the path to the temple in the jungle, so we better come prepared." Lulu said "Since you're already here, why don't you join me? I can teach you one or two things about my world." She offered.

"Sound good." Naruto nodded. Putting the food package he bought from the innkeeper into his pocket, the blond quickly followed Lulu as she walked out of the inn "So what do we need?" He asked, curiously.

"Not everyone heals as fast as you are, so we will need some potions, in case Yuna is tired and cannot use her magic." Naruto nodded in understanding. He had heard about potions before. Yuna had told him that she and everyone had intended to let him use potions to speed up the healing process because her magic couldn't heal him from his more fatal injuries completely. It had been a good thing that it had only taken him one and a half day to heal, and a few more to recover completely much to her and everyone's shock "We also need some antidotes, phoenix downs, and…"

"Hold on, phoenix downs?" Naruto interrupted her "What are they?"

"I will show you." Lulu shrugged and the two stopped in front of an elderly woman that looked to be in her late fifties and stood beside a large chest that must be even larger and heavier than her.

"Oh, you two are customers, aren't you?" She asked with a smile "My my, what a lovely couple you are!"

"Couple?" Naruto asked confusedly.

"I think you're misunderstanding, ma'am," Lulu answered calmly, but the old woman ignored her word.

"You two remind me of my old days." She said, "I used to be a beautiful and attractive woman like you, then I met my…"

"Ma'am, can we buy some supplies please?" The black mage interrupted coolly.

The woman widened her eyes slightly before turning to the chest "So, what can I get you?" Opening it, she turned her eyes back to them and asked with the same wrinkled smile.

"I will need five bottles of potion and antidotes, each. I will also have two tufts of phoenix downs, please."

"I see." She took out from the chest two tufts of orange feather and gave it to Lulu "Here you go."

Taking the feathers from the merchant, Lulu turned around and showed them to Naruto "These are phoenix down." She explained while putting them into his hands "If someone is knocked out completely, you just need to throw one of these at them and they will get right back up with half of the strength at their best." Naruto took them and looked at the phoenix feathers carefully "You should keep them."

"Me?" Naruto asked, pointing at himself.

"Of course, rather than the fact that you can store them, you are the one with the best chance to be the last man standing. You also have the best aim, even better than Wakka, so you can revive us even when we are out of reach."

"Oh well, if you say so." Naruto nodded his head in understanding. However, instead of storing them in his scroll, Naruto decided to put them on his porch, because from there, he could take them out quickly.

"Here are your potions," The elderly merchant said as she handed Lulu five vials of a clear, bright green liquid "and the antidotes." Three tiny bottles of a pearly, off-white substance came out next from the depth of her chest." Accepting the items, Lulu took out the necessary Gil to pay for the items and gave them to Naruto, who then sealed all of them into his second scroll, which he decided to name 'Item scroll' because he would only store everyone's supplies inside from then on "That's some interesting magic you have there, young man." The woman commented while looking at Naruto "Is there anything else you need?" She asked both of them.

"Do you sell weapons?" Lulu asked curiously.

"Of course, I sell weapons but I am afraid that the choices are rather limited." The merchant nodded her head "What do you need?"

"Do you have dolls?" The black mage asked in interest "Can I take a look at what doll you have?"

"You know…" Naruto spoke up while the merchant was taking out the dolls "I still have no ideas why you choose to fight with dolls." He had seen Lulu dropping her doll to the ground and letting it fight instead of casting her black spells, but it couldn't do much damage to the fiends.

In his opinion, the doll was only there to piss the enemies off.

"It's because they are the best type of weapon for black mages." Lulu answered "Much like the other weapons, holding a doll in my hand can give me the ability such as piercing to damage fiend with strong armor, or grant us an advantage by putting them to sleep with a single strike, or simply raise my magic as a black mage, allowing me to deal more damages with the same spells."

"Oh, I think I get it now." Naruto grinned "Man, why didn't you explain that when I asked you the first time? Seriously, I thought you liked to play with dolls or something like that."

"Where did you even have that kind of idea anyway?" She asked nonchalantly, looking at the dolls the woman had put on the chest.

"I saw Wakka using his blitzball to fight." Naruto shrugged. At least the blitzball was extremely durable and could use as a weapon "I thought you were just like him."

"Point taken." Lulu stated before pointing at the doll in the middle, which looked like a Cactus "I will take this one."

"A very wise choice." The merchant smiled "This would be two hundred and fifty Gil." Lulu gave her the money and picked the doll up, holding it in her hands "I believe I can keep this one." She said, moving it away from Naruto's hands when he reached his hand out for it, thinking that she wanted him to seal it away too.

"Hehe, sorry." Naruto chuckled before asking "So, what does it do?"

"I can use Sensor ability with it." She said and sighed when he saw his confused face "With this ability, I can reveal the elemental characteristics and status effects of a target. I can also see its current health and strength. From there, I can determine how much damage it can take and how many attacks do we need to use to take it down."

"Damn, that's some useful ability right there." Naruto stated in amazement before pointing at himself "Hey, why don't you test that on me? See how powerful I am and how many hits I can take before I go down."

"Okay. No harm done I guess…" Lulu shrugged and used the ability the doll, Cactuar Scope, gave her on Naruto, making her eyes shone for a second.

The next instant, she took a step back and nearly dropped her doll because of what she saw.

Naruto's stats were, literally, completely insane.

She had never seen anyone or anything like him. He had so many nature elemental characteristics, some she had never seen before. Naruto was also immune to almost all kinds of negative status effects. He didn't have any weakness against any elements, and she didn't feel surprised when she saw auto Regen on him. Meanwhile, his health was also totally off the chart. What she was seeing made her question the education she had when she was younger because she didn't know that kind of number actually existed.

Lulu gulped… unless her eyes were fooling her, Naruto Uzumaki could be the strongest being she had ever seen in her life. Was he stronger than Sin? She didn't know, but she was sure that he was way, way stronger than an Aeon summoned by a powerful summoner, which was near impossible because Aeons were supposed to be stronger than any human. It was Aeons that had the power to defeat Sin, while no human could.

Was he even human?

What exactly was he?

"So, what do you see?" Naruto asked eagerly "How strong am I?"

"You are strong." She answered, curtly.

"That's it?" Naruto asked. His shoulders dropped. He was expecting Lulu to say something cooler than that "So, how many hits can I take before I go down?"

"One." Naruto's jaw dropped in shock "One hit between the legs is enough to take you down."

"H-hey… I didn't mean that." Naruto said, taking a step back cautiously.

"You asked me how many hits, didn't you?" Lulu then noticed the smile on his face and couldn't help but ask "What's with the smile?"

"I didn't know you could make a joke. You're just so serious all the time." Naruto answered truthfully, putting his hands into his pockets "Glad to know that you're still a normal human being, Lulu."

"Hm…" The black haired woman put a hand on her hip before saying "Get used to it." She wanted to say she wasn't really joking when she told him a hit between his legs were enough to take him down, but decided against it and said something nicer to him.

"Oh hell yeah I will." Naruto grinned as the two returned their attentions to the elderly merchant, only to see her smiling at both of them.

"It's good to be young and in love, isn't it?" She asked with a smile, and Lulu could only sigh in response "So, do you need anything else? I have a magic rod for the summoner right here." She said, raising a magic staff from her chest.

"Unfortunately, Yuna's current weapon is more useful than this one." Lulu answered while shaking her head "I cannot decide for the others, so we will let bring her and the rest here tomorrow."

"Alright then." The old lady nodded her head and returned the rod back to the chest.

After that, Lulu and Naruto took their leaves, returning to the inn where they were greeted by the Besaid Aurochs, Tidus and its captain Wakka. As Lulu went back to her room, Naruto stayed behind to grab a decent dinner from the innkeeper before heading back to his room as well.

Later that night, Naruto curled up in his bed at the inn, mindlessly thinking about his friends at home. He missed Konoha, he missed its people, but above all, he missed his friends. But he couldn't return to them, not right now. He had so many things to do, a girl to help, a world to protect. At the moment, Sin could be destroying another village, ruining someone's life. Somewhere, more people and children were crying because Sin had taken their loved ones away from them, just like what he had done this morning.

Tidus returned to the room much later that night and quickly went to sleep. Naruto's clones had also disappeared, so the blond closed his eyes and soon drifted to the dreamland as well.

Line Break

Morning came early. The sky was clear and blue, the air was warm and balmy, just as one would expect from a tropical island like Kilika. By the time Naruto, Yuna and everyone had woken up at six, the port had been rebuilt and life had returned to its people. There were still sadness and grieves in their eyes, because of the loss of their loved ones, but from what he had heard, the people were all grateful for Yuna's sending ceremony and glad that the deaths had made it to the Farplane in peace.

"Hey, guys!" Naruto spoke up as he approached Yuna and the others, who were standing beside a set of stone makers. Yuna and Kimahri stood to the side of the path, but Lulu stood separately from them, her lips pursed slightly in annoyance. Tidus and Wakka arrived shortly after him "What's going on?" He asked curiously, looking at Lulu, whose eyes were fixed on the two Blitzball players.

"Yuna is saying she wants Tidus to come with us." She said carefully, turning to Tidus.

"Huh?" The young man pointed at himself in confusion.

Yuna answered with a nod of her head "I want to ask you to be my guardian."

"Yuna, what are you talking about?" Wakka said in surprise as he walked over to her. "This is not the time for jokes, ya?" He stood behind her, looking over at Tidus. "The boy may be a blitzball whizz-kid but up against fiends, he's a newbie."

"I had never fought fiends before coming to this world." Naruto raised his hand, but a glare from Lulu was enough to put it down "Just want to point that out."

"Not a guardian then… it's just… he fought against fiends and Sinspawns with us yesterday..."

"It has something to do with the fact that he is Sir Jecht's son, hasn't it?" Lulu asked, crossing her arms under her ample breasts, which Naruto thought it was going to burst out from the bodice she was wearing. Not being a pervert like his late Ero teacher or anything, it's just they were too eye-catching "Can't this wait till later? We need to go to the temple." She reminded.

She lowered her head and bowed her head. "My apologies…" she said, her voice low.

With that, they headed down the path, making their way through the forest and to the temple located on the far side of the woods north of Kilika. Because it was a tropical forest, Naruto couldn't see anything between the giant trees and overgrown bushes, but he could feel almost everything around them, including the fiends that were waiting for an opportunity to attack them.

The journey was uneventful for the first ten minutes. They travelled swiftly through the forest with no accidents, but the peace didn't last long because when they reached an intersection in the path, they were ambushed by something that jumped out from behind the trees. A rotund, mint-coloured creature burst out from the brush and began to spray the, with a volley of tiny, hard seeds.

"Here you go!" While the others evaded, Naruto caught two in his hands before throwing it back to the fiend with the same if not even greater speed than before, knocking it back and effectively stopping it from continuing its onslaught "Stand behind me Yuna." He said to the summoner, who clenched her magic rod tightly in her hand and nodded her head before giving him a small smile. He had been taught that a medic should never stand on the front lines, and Yuna's white magic made her an excellent healer of the team. Protecting Yuna was his top priority, not just because he was her guardian, but also because in critical situations, the lives of his friends could be in her hands.

"Kimahri!" Lulu called out "Why don't you use 'Lancet' on it?" Naruto looked at Kimahri in interest, as the tall Ronso stood in front of his opponent. Kimahri unleashed a cry, his energy flared around his body, and caused streams of bright strips of light burst from the fiend and soared over to the leonine, who absorbed them into his chest. Narrowing his eyes, Kimahri nodded at the creature as if he was thanking it for the knowledge, and he demonstrated his new ability.

"Watch this," Wakka said as Kimahri raised his muscular arms in the air, and in one quick motion, he brought his fists down in front of him and shot an enormous seed from his chest. It smacked straight into the fiend, which withered and dispersed into pyreflies immediately from the strong impact.

"Damn, that's cool," Naruto commented.

"Normally, it's a skill that weakens enemies and heals the users as well as replenishes their strength." Lulu explained, "But when a Ronso uses it, they can sometimes learn the fiends' abilities."

"Ah, I see then." Tidus nodded his head and sheathed Brotherhood back to the scabbard on his back. After that, the party moved further down the path, weaving their way through the tall trees, dodging any fiends that tried to ambush them. With Naruto's sensor ability, it was easy for them to do so, but still, they decided to take down some of them to collect spheres to become stronger. By the time they arrived at another intersection, Naruto's scroll was half full with spheres of all kind.

Before they could get anywhere, two young men from the Crusaders, an organisation of volunteer warriors who pledged their lives to defend the people of Spira against the terror of Sin, appeared and stopped them by blocking their path.

"Company, halt!" the shorter one cried as he stood before them. The group stopped walking, a little puzzled by them.

"You want trouble pal?" Naruto asked threateningly as he stood at the front of the group, facing the two directly.

"What's the problem, Luzzu?" Wakka asked as he stepped up.

Luzzu, the taller Crusader, stepped ahead of his companion and pointed behind him. "Can you see that?"

They peered past the Crusaders and widened their eyes slightly at what they saw. Only a few yards away from them was a giant fiend, which stood thrice as tall as Kimahri, the tallest among them, and had a large, round, and plant-like body with skin like purple bark. It had a leafy green skirt growing around the base of its body, and long branch-like arms that spotting out from its sides and up into the air, with large claws dangling high above its head. Its front body split open from top to the bottom to reveal rows of tiny sharp teeth and a gargantuan mouth.

"That fiend before us is Ochu, Lord of the Wood!" Luzzu informed them. "We've had trouble with this one before. Remember, discretion is the better part of valour."

"Thank you for your warning," Lulu lowered her head.

"So… do you want to take it down or circle around it and try another way?" Naruto asked curiously. He bet that he could take it down smoothly, but then again, that monster looked tough and he still had much to learn about the fiends of Spira. He couldn't just send a Rasenshuriken or something as strong as toward it either. The destructive power of his technique could level an entire part of the forest and destroy the nature would be the last thing he would want to do.

"I think we should take the way…"

Yuna decided to interrupt Wakka's suggestion with a firm tone "I think we can take it. There will be many people coming and going from the temple today, I want to make the path safe for them."

"The Ochu is no garden-variety fiend," Luzzu said seriously. "We could throw a hundred Crusaders at it and still lose."

"Good thing I am a one man army." Naruto pointed out with a grin as he approached Ochu "I can be two hundred or three hundred in a second, so don't worry about that, we can take them on just fine." He continued confidently when he saw the way the Crusaders were looking at him.

"So be it then." Lulu said finally after realising that Naruto and Yuna weren't going to give up "But be careful, Ochu poison is one of the fastest and most painful ways to get to the Farplane."

"For some reason, I really don't like the sound of that." Naruto chuckled nervously. He had dealt with poisons in the past, and while Kurama could burn them all away and keep him alive, having deathly poisons in his system wasn't something he wanted in a regular basic "Hm… coward." Naruto commented when he saw Luzzu and his friend running away.

"Is everybody ready?" Lulu asked quietly as she moved forward, holding her magic doll at her hip. Nodding their heads, everyone took out their weapons and prepared for their toughest battle yet.

At first, the giant fiend didn't seem to notice their presences. But when Wakka's shoes made a crunching sound when he stepped on small rocks on the ground underneath him, Ochu shuddered as though it had been startled, and as it screeched like a wild animal, the fiend raised all four of its arms.

Without wasting a second, Lulu she raised her arm and cast her spell, causing an explosion of fire to appear in the centre of the monster. It shrieked in pain as a part of its body was burn away, and the Ochu returned the favour by whipping its vine-like arms at her. She braced for the impact, but Naruto immediately leapt forward and took Lulu with him, avoiding the attack before landing on the ground.

"A thank you should be nice," Naruto smirked as he put the black mage down, who dusted her dress.

"I have it covered." She blankly replied

"Suit yourself." Naruto grinned as he threw a kunai with an explosive tag one of the veins, blasting it away in a strong explosion.

Wakka spun around and threw his blitzball toward the Ochu, smashing it in its lower jaw, but Naruto felt like it could do much damage. Kimahri and Tidus joined in by swiping their weapons at its limbs, shielding Wakka as he caught his ball in hands.

"Wakka, don't!" Lulu suddenly shouted when the blitzball captain was about to throw his ball once again, but this time, it had a dark cloud around it "Save your energy, Ochu is only vulnerable to fire element attack." Naruto turned to look at her and saw her eyes shining brightly. She was using Sensor, he thought.

Naruto wished he could use that ability too. Everything could have been a lot easier if he knew his enemies' weaknesses and strength.

The black mage cast her spell Fire once more and combined with Naruto's explosive kunai, they managed to deal some heavy damages to the giant plant fiends, but the monster looked like it was not going to go down anytime soon.

Then suddenly, when Tidus stepped forward to attack, the Ochu swung its arms again, catching him square in the chest before sending him flying back several feet. Tidus cried out in pain as he tried to stand his ground, but quickly realised he was going to get more than just a bruise. His skin darkened where he'd been struck, and he looked down to see it growing a very angry red with a mixture of green.

It didn't take the poison long to full affect his body, as his vision started blurring and Tidus felt the world around him spinning like a top.

"Oh no, he has been poisoned." Wakka called out as he dodged a vein by jumping "Can anyone give him an antidote?"

"I have one." Naruto took out one and made his way toward Tidus.

However, Lulu decided to stop him "No, you do it Yuna." The summoner nodded her head as she raised her staff "Use Esuna." When Yuna brought her staff down, she engulfed Tidus in a quick flash of light, and much to Naruto's amazement, the green part of his chest had disappeared. Yuna the cast her magic once again, and in a flash, Tidus' injury disappeared, leaving him as good as new.

"Phew, I thought I was done for," Tidus said as he rubbed the spot where he had been injured.

"That's awesome Yuna!" Naruto gave her a thumb up.

"Thank you, Naruto." Yuna smiled gratefully as she lowered her head, but then she widened her eyes in shock before crying out loudly when she saw a vine-arm attacking Naruto from behind "Watch out!" with the same smile, Naruto simply jumped into the air and flipped his body backwardly, making the arm pass him harmlessly.

"Don't worry, I have it covered." Naruto grinned, giving Yuna a thumb up as she breathed out in relief.

After a moment of taking hit after hit from them, the Ochu shuddered and sunk closer to the ground. Its arms hung lower and a spray of light green mist began to emanate from the claws at the ends. At first, Naruto thought they had won, but when he realised it wasn't going to disappear like the other fiends, he knew it was up to something.

"What's it doing?" Tidus asked, confused.

"It's... sleeping?" Wakka answered with a puzzled expression.

"It's regenerating!" Lulu immediately corrected him as she pointed to one of the cuts Tidus had left on its body that was disappearing slowly. The arm that Naruto had blown away was also growing back as well "Quick, we have to take it down before it can fully restore." The others nodded their heads and charged at the fiend.

"It's vulnerable to fire huh?" Naruto asked thoughtfully "Maybe I can use some a fiery help. You there, Matatabi?" He asked the two-tailed Bijuu, whose consciousness appeared in his mind after hearing his call.

At first, Naruto thought his connections with the other tailed beasts had been served because he was staying in a different world, but to his relief, it was only temporary. The reason he couldn't see any tailed beasts in his mindscape was rather simple. It was because they had been busy find places to settle down as soon as they were released from their prisons, which had been created by Sasuke. It was the first time in a very long time they were free from the human, and they had decided to enjoy it as much as they could before contacting him. They were still telepathy linked to each other.

He didn't know how it was possible but decided to leave that matter for later.

"Having a fight already, aren't you?" The demonic cat replied with a nod of her head "Alright, I'm ready when you are."

He had never used the other Bijuu's chakra and power outside of Rasengan before, but he was sure that he could use them the same way their previous hosts had used them. Fortunately for Naruto, he had already seen them using their Bijuu's powers during his fight against them while under they were still under Obito's control, so he knew what to do, basically.

"Let's do it," Naruto muttered as he lowered his body down and put one hand on the ground while raising the other at his side, with bluish aura flaring from his body, which soon solidified and took the form of burning blue flame. Naruto shot forward, ignoring the shock and amazed look the others were giving him, and punched Ochu's torso with his flaming fish, causing it to screech in pain while being sent back a few feet. However, unlike Lulu's fire spell, the hellish flame around the part that had caught fire didn't disappear, and continued to burn into its body and spread like fire on hay.

Angrily, the lord of the wood slashed its vein-arms at Naruto, only for the blond to swiftly dodged by jumping before slashing both hands horizontally to the sides, sending a sharp, claws-like hot flame toward Ochu's arms, cutting and burning them down in the process. Landing on the ground, Naruto pushed his foot and then charged forward with blinding speed, using its body to jump into the air. When he reached the maximum height, Naruto created a Rasengan in his hand, before gathering the fire on his body around it, creating a flaming spiralling orb. Falling down, Naruto then slammed the orb down the top of the fiend's head, creating a vortex of blue fire that allowed him to tear and burn his way through its giant body. In a matter of seconds, Ochu was finished, and when Naruto's feet touched the ground, it exploded in pyreflies and several abilities and speed spheres fell to the ground.

"Rest in peace, everyone," Naruto muttered as he looked at the colourful orbs that were flying away.

"Dude!" Tidus suddenly appeared at his side while crying out excitedly, throwing one arm around his shoulder "That was amazing!"

"Thanks." Naruto grinned, scratching the back of his head.

"And you surprised us, once again." Lulu stepped closer and said with a sigh "Maybe next time you should hold back a little and leave some for us. You are making this too easy for all of us, you know?"

"Well, sorry about that." Naruto chuckled.

"Who care about that, with a power like this, we can get Yuna to finish her pilgrimage and defeat Sin in no time," Wakka stated with the same excitement Tidus had.

"Yes…" Yuna stated softly as she approached him with Kimahri "You're so strong, Naruto."

"Hey, strong guardians ensure a safe journey for you, doesn't it?" Naruto grinned at her. He then turned his head to see Luzzu and Gatta approaching them "Look who is back!"

"Whoa," They said in astonishment as he stopped in front of the party, staring at the spot where Ochu used to stand in disbelief.

"Everyone one is strong!" Gatta exclaimed before turning to his superior "Sir, I think we should fight too."

"We'll get our chance soon enough," Luzzu laughed before turning to Yuna and her guardians "A summoner and her guardians." Luzzu said with a smile "You guys are very impressive!"

"It was Naruto who defeated Ochu." Yuna corrected them while shaking her head "We didn't do anything."

"But Lady Yuna, a strong guardian only follows a strong summoner." The tall Crusader smiled, nodding his head "With this, the path is clear, you guys and everyone can safely travel to the temple this way."

Biting the party goodbye, Luzzu and his companion crossed the bridge once more, but Gatta's enthusiasm still showed. "Young Crusaders gather round!" he sang as he jogged ahead of Luzzu again. "We'll beat Sin into the ground!"

"Say the guy who ran as soon as Ochu was provoked," Naruto commented.

"He's young, but enthusiasm. Cut him some slack will you?" Wakka chuckled before motioning ahead "Come on, it's not far now."

And with that, their journey continued.


End of Chapter 7


Alright guys! That's the end of this chapter!

In case you haven't noticed, I have decided to pair our busty black mage with him as well. As you can see in this chapter, Lulu has her bonding moments with Naruto the most out of the other characters. Yuna will have her moments soon, because she is the main pairing for Naruto, but Lulu will be the one who have the more developments with him first.

Yuna and Lulu will be the ONLY girls that I pair with Naruto in this story, so technically, it's not a harem for our favorite hero. Many reviewers and readers have requested me to pair Lulu with Naruto, so after thinking it thoroughly, I have decided to do just that.

Anyway, I hope you have like this chapter, and remember to leave me a review when you are done.

In case you haven't noticed, I have dropped New Life Second Chance, but will make a reboot for that story. I have already scripted down the plot, and am on the way of writing the first chapter down. It is going to be published tomorrow, and I will inform you guys on my Facebook and at the last update for New Life Second Chance.

New story will be called New Life New Journey

And this is the summary:

Naruto Uzumaki had dedicated his entire life for the sake of other people, now, Fate asked him to do it once again. Transported into a world where his parents were alive with the memories of his previous life, he thought it was the opportunity for him to shape the life he used to dream about, only to realize that things weren't as easy as he imagined it to be…

That's all I want to say.

I will see you tomorrow in New Life New Jorney.

Ja ne!