A Serendipitous Key of Hope
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Kingdom Hearts.
Manabu: We hope you didn't enjoy the last few fights, because this is when things start to kick up.
Alger: Naruto visits his first world.
Yusei: But first, another omake.
- Omakey -
"Shuriken Henge!" Team Seven watches as the teenagers transform.
"Aka ja! Ao ja! Ki ja! Shiro ja! Momo ja!" Three males stand beside their two female relatives. The boys are red, blue and yellow while the girls are white and pink. Each of them flip in the air in order, shouting out their roll call.
"The splendid rampage - Akaninja!"
"The roaring clouds - Aoninja!"
"The sparkling calm - Kininja!"
"The shaking wind flower - Shironinja!"
"The wavering haze - Momoninja!"
"We may be Shinobi, but we don't hie!" says Akaninja as the background changes to a waking dawn.
"Shuriken Sentai Ninninger!" All five Ninninger gather together in their Sentai pose.
Naruto stares blankly. "... You guys are AWESOME!"
Sasuke and Sakura facepalm, in unison thinking, 'Of course he would like them. He sticks out more than they do!'
The IX Keyhole: The Kingdom of the Sun
Through the dome windows of the Gummi Ship, Naruto looks outside to view the world of space. His eyes sparkle in amazement at what he sees, unable to keep his excitement under control. "I hope the world we reach is awesome too."
"We're getting close to a world." Chip and Dale point forward at a world not far away. From above Naruto can see that the world is mostly green, with a blazing sun setting on the end they're going to. "Now, just remember the rules of traveling worlds."
"... Always wipe?" Dale throws a wrench at him. "What?!"
"You gotta protect the world order! No letting people know where you're from!" Chip states. "No one else is to know that you have the Keyblade or that other worlds exist."
"Why not?"
The two look at one another. Then shrug. 'Then why should I care? Shouldn't I have to ask around since I don't know what a Keyhole looks like?'
The Gummi Ship lands in the world. Naruto looks out seeing he's just a mile in the air. With a sigh he jumps out, landing in a tree and sliding down the side. His fingers scrape up bark as he descends, not a single blister left as he hops off and lands gracefully.
"Alright, this is a forest... Maybe it's like Konoha." He rushes off, glad that he hasn't run into any Heartless yet. He does hear a waterfall however. "Yeesh, it's boringly quiet."
"BOOYAH!" That's something he catches; the Keyblader dashes towards the waterfall. He catches a large splash at the bottom.
"Hmm." He dives down headfirst, before flipping to land on top of the water.
And ends up taking a dip instead. 'Oh right, no chakra.' He then twitches from the sudden pain of diving without clenching his butt properly. He looks down seeing a tree trunk rising up from the water, and two guys tied to it. "What the?!" He resurfaces and draws a kunai, using it to cut them free of the vine. The blond then swims forward to grab them, a large, overweight male and a llama.
He brings them over to dry land, the man opening his eyes shortly. "Ugh... I'm alive?"
"Yo." Naruto raises his hand. "You alright?"
"Yeah, thanks." The guy looks over at the animal. "Oh right! I gotta wake him up." He turns the llama over and prepares to give mouth to mouth.
"Wait, what are you doing?"
As his lips descend, the animal's eyes open at that very second. The result is obvious. "AAAAH!"
"AAAH!" Both the man and Naruto yell out in response.
Elsewhere...
Sasuke can be seen existing a portal of darkness, appearing within a world surrounded by buildings in a dark city. "This place again... Why am I here? Why do I keep coming to this junction of crappiness?"
He turns around quickly spotting a man in a dark hood. He looks to be taller than him, and bulkier. "You again? Are you gonna follow me everywhere?"
The man says nothing. Instead, he thrusts his hand forward; one of the buildings behind Sasuke falls towards him. "Damn." He summons the Soul Eater and rushes forward.
…
"For the last time, it wasn't a kiss!"
"I don't care what it was, it's disgusting!"
Naruto's eyes narrow in shock as he stares at the ridiculous site before him; the llama is talking to the big guy after gargling his mouth, even though nothing happened. Though he's still stuck on the fact that the animal is talking. "Why is that camel talking? Is he a summon?"
"What the hell's a camel?! I'm a llama!" he responds. He stomps on the fire the big guy was making, his wet form dowsing the embers. "I'm not even supposed to be a llama!"
"... What, were you supposed to be a bat?"
"He's Kuzco; he used to be the emperor who ruled the world," he explains before going back to work on the fire.
"Hold on, let me." Naruto points, before igniting the pit on fire through the application of magic. "There we go."
"Whoa; how did you do that?" asks the big guy.
"Magic... Wait, emperor? This llama's an emperor?"
"I didn't always used to be a llama! This peasant here turned me into an animal, just so he doesn't have to vacate his home!" Now, Naruto is lost. "Oh yeah, I'm tearing down his home to set up a beach home. I call it, Kuzcotopia!"
Now he gets it. "You're tearing down his home for a summer home?"
"Yeah. There's no doubt he used some voodoo magic to turn me into-" Naruto grabs his mouth.
"Let me get this straight; YOU WERE GOING TO BULLDOZE..." He pauses to turn to him. "What's your name?"
"Pacha."
"-PACHA'S HOME JUST SO YOU COULD HAVE A PLACE TO SWIM?!" Upon finishing, Kuzco nods in response and actually smiles. This prompts Naruto to throwing him into a tree. "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?! WHAT KIND OF KING DOES THAT?!"
Kuzco picks himself up rather quickly. "I'm... the emperor. And I will not have such subordination! Wait, how do I know that word?"
"Since when does emperor mean tyrant?! I'm surprised you weren't overthrown!" Naruto bares his teeth out of his sheer annoyance and anger at the guy, before slapping himself to regain composure. 'Remember; balance in heart. I have to find the Keyhole, not waste time with an animal tyrant.' "Look, I'm looking for this-"
"Overthrown, yeah right! Who would get rid of me; everyone loves me!" Kuzco remarks, interrupting Naruto's sentence. "Look, I don't have to take this from you; I did NOTHING to deserve being a loser!" He then claps his hooves and troddles away. "Let's go servant. The sooner I'm back in Ysma's lab the sooner I can use her magic formula whatever to return to human, the sooner I can build Kuzcotopia!"
Pacha simply watches him walk on. With a mighty pause, he states, "No."
The disgusting llama stops in his tracks. "What?"
"I'm not taking you back."
"What?! But you have to!" he sputters, going to him desperately. "I can't be a llama for the rest of my life! And I sure as heck can't ask this primitive idiot to take me!" Naruto almost strikes him with a single fist.
"Unless you promise not to destroy my home, and build your summer home somewhere else, I won't take you back." The blond smiles seeing Pacha stand up for himself. Guess someone in this world has some backbone.
"What? You can't expect me to keep that-" Naruto grabs his ear pulling. "Ow, ow, ow!"
He lets go of him frowning. "Ya got no choice stupid. Unless you wanna get home and return to being human, you have no choice. I doubt you know anything about this...jungle...and I'm not helping you either. But, if you want to get home then you gotta keep your world. I don't think those panthers are too keen on letting you leave."
He then points behind a couple of trees, exposing a couple of animals watching them. The llama freaks out before turning to both Naruto and Pacha. Regardless of how he views them, he needs them to survive long enough. "Fine." He and Pacha shake on their new contract.
Naruto sits down as he contemplates what to do, and comes to a thought. 'The Keyhole's probably someplace important, so maybe this emperor idiot knows where it is. I'll get on his good side and he'll tell me.'
Morning rolls by rather quickly. Upon the break of dawn Pacha leads the group through the jungle, with the palace being their destination. Along the way Naruto tenses up, his heart feeling something coming. 'Heartless... They're here already...'
Eventually they come before a rope bridge. It's the kind of rickety bridge that you see in cartoons, almost totally unstable in appearance. Pacha holds a hand out. "I'll go first, and then you guys follow."
As he peasant takes a step forward crossing, the emperor llama goes forth next before Naruto brings up the rear. The blond drops his guard slightly, just as a hole in the bridge breaks open, and Pacha falls through. "Pacha!" Naruto reaches out for him, only to fall through instead.
Down under the bridge he and Pacha are tangled in the ropes from underneath the bridge. Even farther below is a river filled with alligators snapping at them. Pacha looks up at Kuzco staring at them. "Kuzco, help!"
The llama reaches out his hoove, before stepping over the holes. "Oh sure, no problem. I'll send some guards down to arrest you guys, if they're not busy with Kuzcotopia."
"What?!" Naruto bares his teeth in anger.
"Oh yeah, I'm still making Kuzcotopia! Like I'm gonna give that up!" The llama walks forward, leaving them alone.
Pacha fumes furiously. His face turns a light shade of red. "How?! How can you just throw away something like that?! We shook hands!"
Kuzco turns around and dips his head down the hole. "Yeah, about that... It works better when, you know, YOU HAVE ACTUAL HANDS!" He then cockily laughs, walking away on all fours to reach the other end.
And then he falls through, screaming as he gets tangled up. He pants contemplating his situation, and realizes he's still stuck with the people he just planned on betraying. "... Uh oh."
"So, you okay?" Naruto asks him, sounding concerned for his safety.
"Huh? Oh yeah." The blond then glares at him.
"Good!" Pacha yells before punching him so hard he rocks back and forth. "That's for breaking your promise!"
Naruto swings and tackles him too. "And that's for planning on leaving us here!"
"Oh yeah?!" Kuzco retaliates, tackling Pacha who hits Naruto. "That's for kidnapping me and taking me to your village, which I'm still gonna destroy by the way." Pacha and Naruto combine their momentum to smack him into the side of the cliff.
"Why did I ever think this would work?"Naruto grumbles slapping his forehead. "I don't want help from this selfish idiot!"
"Why did I ever decide to help a brat like you?! I could have left you to die and ALL my troubles would be over!" says Pacha.
"Well then I guess that makes you ugly AND stupid," Kuzco retorts.
All three duke it out, two guys versus an animal. Their random bicker fight leads to the ropes snapping. "Oh crap!"
They bounce and slide down the slowly narrowing cliff, which causes them to stand back to back on the walls except Naruto who's on top of their heads. The gators snap and roar for their fall.
"What are we gonna do?!" Kuzco gripes.
"Lock your arms together and walk up the cliff!" says Naruto still standing on them. He would jump up to save himself, but the force would break the walls and leave them to fall to their deaths.
"How do we do that?" Pacha ignores Kuzco's question and grabs his arms. "Oh, I see."
"Now, push on eachother's back. Go!" At Naruto's signal, Pacha pushes hard enough to smash Kuzco into his end. Seeing it he cups his mouth to avoid laughing. "At once." They straighten themselves out. "Alright, now let's walk up. Start with the right."
"Wait, mine or his?" Kuzco quickly asks.
"Mine," Pacha replies.
"Why do you get to go first?"
"Kuzco goes first," Naruto states annoyed. This llama is going to be the death of him.
The two begin their climbing walk. Naruto stands tall looking up, seeing a rope attached to the top and entangled in a branch. As soon as they get close they come to a point where they can't walk anymore. 'This would be so much easier if I had chakra.' "Okay, there's a rope we can climb up with. Kuzco, push Pacha up further so I can grab it!"
The animal isn't convinced. "How do I know you guys won't drop me once you get the rope?"
"Because we're not you!" Pacha responds ever so quickly. "Now push me up!"
"How do I do that?!"
"Use your neck, llama!" The transformed llama groans before complying, pushing Pacha as much as he could. "Just a little more."
"It's a good thing you're not a fat guy or something or else this would be REALLY difficult!"
Naruto reaches up and grabs hold of the rope, Pacha grabbing hold of his legs. He jiggles it about trying to pry it from the branch, and scorpions fall out of it on top of Kuzco's neck. "SCORPIONS!" His freak out causes him to break out of the lock they had going and he drops.
"Kuzco!" Pacha grabs his leg, his face slamming into a hole. The branch breaks off, causing it to fall on Pacha, who screams and slams his back into the side of the cliff.
The pounding alerts bats inside of the hole, which fly and knock Kuzco out. "Oh, this isn't going to be good."
At that moment, Naruto gains a flashing sight in his eyes. He pulls his free leg out to stomp into the side of the cliff and flip him and the others upward, along with the bats. The trio easily land on top of the cliff, on the other side they were attempting to reach in the first place.
The bats fly away, all the scorpions are gone, and they can be seen staring out blankly. Naruto begins to laugh, followed by Kuzco and Pacha. After a brief moment to pause.
The piece of the cliff breaks away. "Look out!" Kuzco teethes his cloak and pulls to safety. The llama watches it fall, with Kuzco cheering. "Yeah! I just pulled you away! Take that gravity!" He then goes through a fun dance.
"You, just saved my life..." Pacha looks at him in shock.
"Huh? W-Well, of course I did." Kuzco replies. "Don't read anything into this."
"I knew there was some good in you!"
"Shut up!"
"You deny it?"
"Oh come on, let it go! Nobody's that heartless!" Kuzco cups his mouth.
The village leader sighs. "Come on. My place is just down this road." He walks ahead of Naruto.
"Wait, you're still gonna take me back? Even though I'll tear down your village?"
"Yeah, I have a feeling you'll change your mind." Though Kuzco constantly denies his words, the trio continue down the road.
'That was close. Wish I could have used my wind magic to-' He pauses, before dropping his jaw completely.
"What's wrong with you?" asks the transformed llama.
"N-Nothing! I'm just kind of hungry!" He walks in the middle of the group, looking away. 'I'll die before I let them know I could have used Aeroga to save us earlier.'
He then thinks about what he DID do to save them. 'I saw it; a vision of what would happen if I did that. And it happened! What was with that reaction speed though? I've never acted that fast before.'
His thoughts distract him from the yellow eyes in pursuit.
Manabu: And that ends this chapter. Kinda short.
Yusei: Next time, Naruto and the others are attacked by the emperor's former advisor/new empress, and her true plans are revealed.
Alger: There won't be an update next month too. Sorry.
