Merry Christmas everyone! Today I'm updating this fic as a present!
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When the light subsided, Naruto opened his eyes and looked around. He noticed the Vile Peaks looked different and noticed something else. His outfit changed. He was wearing a black shirt, a white Sanctum Soldier jacket that was more like a short sleeved long white coat with fire designs at the edges of the coat, a long red cape attached to the left side of the back of the jacket and he noticed it looked like a combination of Lightning's jacket and the Fourth Hokage's when he looked at his reflection from a nearby pond. He looked at his right shoulder and noticed he had some green metal object that has two glowing red stripes on it. He also wore black Anbu pants and black leather boots.
He started to look around and noticed the C'ieth Stone that sent him there was glowing so he walked up to it and was about to touch it until he heard the mysterious voice in his head. You have been sent to the past, you will lose Lightning's Gunblade in this timeline because if the two blades were to clash with each other from a different time, a paradox will ensure. You can only use the Gladius Gunblade here since it is the only Gunblade you have with you. The Lightning in your time is not with you so you will have to fight alone and use your own wits to survive this trial. Now go forth and find what you are looking for and return here when you're done. After the voice finished the C'ieth stone feel to the ground unmoving. With no other choice, Naruto left the stone and went to explore the place to find the fuel he needs and get out of there without getting in trouble. Though when you're an Uzumaki, trouble finds you.
/Vile Peaks-Devastated Dreams/
Naruto was getting annoyed, these creatures and Pulse Machines kept attacking him and he hated having no one to talk to. He then noticed a strange mechanical object that seems to be off and he was just about to investigate it only to grab Gladius and swung it behind him to block an attack from another gunblade as he turned around and gapped at the sight of a familiar face of Lightning. He quickly kicked her in the stomach and leapt backwards and got into a fighting position.
"Why is there a Bodhum Security soilder doing out here?" Lightning asked as she noticed that she attacked a twelve year old with a glowing red badge which marked him as lieutenant. "How could a kid like you even get into Guardian Corp?" Lightning asked which made Naruto's eyes narrow. "Don't underestimate me like other idiots Lightnig." Naruto said causing her to raise an eyebrow. "How do you know me?" Lightning asked with her gunblade still out. Naruto smirked and said "Because I wanted to know the name of the beautiful lady I'm talking to now." Causing a small blush to appear on her left cheek at the comment.
"Wow that kid sure knows how to flirt." Said a man with a pilot's jacket and an afro-like hairstyle with a Chocobo chick in it. Naruto noticed a silver haired kid and an orange-red head with him. "But aren't you a little-""To young to be in Guardian Corp and flirt with women? Yes, yes I am." Naruto said causing the red head to giggle as she somehow got in front of him and started to pull his face around.
"Aw, you're so cute!" the red head said as she pinched his cheeks and rubbed his whisker marks. Naruto quickly used the Replacement jutsu with the silver haired kid and watched as the poor boy got his cheeks pinched. When she noticed whose cheeks she was pinching she stopped and pulled back. "Sorry Hope!" the girl said to the now named Hope who was now rubbing his sore cheeks. "Now I understand why that kid swapped places with me Vanille, because your pinches are as strong as a crab!" Hope said to the now named girl Vanille. "Wait a minute. If you're there then whose…" the man said as he looked to his side to see Naruto right by him causing him to jump and fall backwards.
"What's wrong old man?" Naruto asked as the said man got up and dusted himself. "Well first things first, my name is Sazh not old man!" Sazh said while Lightning got an eye-twitch at what she is seeing. A kid no less is in Guardian Corp, flirts with her, and somehow switches place with Hope and makes a complete fool of them without even trying! She quickly rushes at the boy with gunblade in hand only for the boy to bend backwards and slide under her. "Black lace pants? I see you're a bold one." Naruto said with a smirk making her face red with embarrassment and anger. She was about to launch a barrage of spells at him only to stop as a heap of junk came to life and it revealed a giant Pulse machine.
Naruto smirked and decided to liven things up and got into a pose. "Show time!" Naruto said as the battle commenced. Naruto casted a Libra spell on it and scowled, "Be careful! Physical and magic based attacks are reduced, use elemental attacks!" Naruto shouted as he threw a few Thunder spells and avoiding being clawed at by the Dreadnought. Lightning decided to kill the kid later and got into the battle using the Smart Bomb Paradigm with Vanille using her Deshell and Deprotect on the machine as it started to emit steam from its body. Naruto leapt on the back of the Dreadnought and tried to get the controls only for the living wrecking ball to attack him, trying to get him off. "That's it! I've had enough of you!" Naruto said as he used a Sparkstrike on the controls causing the machine move shake violently.
"That can't be a good sign." Naruto said as he jumped off. The minute he did though, the Dreadnought used its wrecking ball on the floor causing everyone to fall into the pit with the Dreadnought jumping in after them. "Way to go kid, you just had to make it angry did you?" Sazh asked. "Put a sock in it!" Naruto replied as he narrowly dodged a flamethrower attack from the machine. Lightning was trying to get an opening and noticed that the controls Naruto hit were damaged but still operational. "We need to attack the controllers again!" Lightning shouted as Naruto nodded his head in confirmation as he turned his head to her. "Time for a Dualcasting?" Naruto asked as she nodded her head as their aura's turned blue. "Cover us!" Naruto shouted to Sazh, Vanille and Hope who joined in and the attacked the Dreadnought, getting its attention while Naruto and Lightning sneaked right behind it.
"How are we going to get up there?" Lightning asked since she could have jumped from the Dreadnought's arms, but it would give her away. Naruto smirked at the question and did something that she did not expect, "Like this!" Naruto shouted as he wrapped his arm around her waist and used his chakra to jump on top of the Dreadnought as light as a feather without it even noticing. She quickly got out of his hold and started launching spells and a few Aquastrike and Sparkstrikes with Naruto following behind. Naruto decided to do things Uzumaki style and charged up a Sparkstrike and stab into the controllers causing the machine to overload and crash to the ground completely falling apart. When he and Lightning jumped off, they noticed two kits inside the machine and took it and looked inside to see odd tools. "It seems to be a kit to upgrade weaponry." Lightning said with a smirk before realizing she wanted to get back at the blonde haired kid who was walking through a tunnel and was waving. "Thanks for the info Light!" Naruto said as he left the area. "Get back here!" Lightning shouted as she chased after him with Sazh sighing with exhaustion and Vanille giggling at the sight. Hope was just surprised at that Lightning lost her temper to some twelve year old and followed them.
Naruto looked around some of the wreckage of ships and found what he was looking for. "Aha! There it is!" Naruto shouted as he summoned clones to lift a barrel of fuel and exit the cargo hold only to be grabbed by the scruff of his shirt by Lightning who was glaring at him. "Can I help you?" Naruto nervously asked as Lightning looked straight in his eyes. "Who are you? What is a kid doing in Guardian Corp and why are you able to use magic?" Lightning asked in an interrogator's tone only for Naruto to role his eyes. "You're not going to do the old 'good guy, bad guy' thing are you? Because I need to refuel my ship before my teacher kills me." Naruto said causing her to raise an eyebrow. "And who is your teacher exactly?" Lightning asked while looking into his eyes to see if he was lying or not. Naruto decided to give her the best lie/truth he could think of.
"An old man who is a self proclaimed super pervert that peeks at women with no shame at all and is a dangerous fighter when someone ruins his 'research' for a book he writes." Naruto said with an annoyed tone as Lighting saw that he was telling the truth and became furious at the said pervert was teaching this kid on how to be a pervert. "Thanks for that info. Now tell me how you can use magic and why do you wear a uniform." Lightning demanded as Sazh, Hope and Vanille came by and listened to how the kid acquired the ability to use magic. "Well, I'm just like you." Naruto said as he got out of her hold and lifted up his shirt revealing the Pulse L'Cie brand that to Lightning looked eerily similar to where her brand is. "Great, another kid is dragged into this mess." Sazh sighed only for Naruto to look at him. "At least I know how to fight unlike most of you, I would guess you guys are rookie L'Cie to huh?" Naruto asked as they nodded their heads in agreement.
"Another one down, one more to answer." Lightning said as they neared a giant ship to rest at. "Well I can't really recall how I joined. It just happened after they saw my abilities before I became a L'Cie." Naruto lied with a blank expression as he sat down while his clones who were carrying the fuel catched up with them dispelled themselves much to the others surprise. "Guess we know how special your abilities are now." Sazh commented "But what about your parents?" he asked. When Naruto heard this question, he looked away and sadly replied "They died on the same day I was born. I'm…an orphan at birth." This caused many to gasp at the news and Vanille decided to give him a hug to try and cheer him up.
"There, there now. We could be your family now." Vanille happily said causing everyone save Naruto to look at her like she was crazy. Naruto got out of Vanille's hug and summoned clones to grab the fuel. "Thanks but no thanks. Because I already lost my childhood to the cruelty of people who abused me when I was younger so I decided to hide under a mask of a prankster for most of my life. But in reality, I grew up and had that hidden from even those I consider close to me." When he said that, it reminded Lightning when her parents died and she took up the name she has now. "See you guys next time, and avoid getting killed here, this place is a death maze." Naruto said as he and his clones left them.
Naruto got to the C'ieth stone with no problems at all, not even a single creature or machine was there at all. Naruto guessed that the PSICOM hunters were here to find Lightning and her group. He had to ask her more about her journey as a L'cie to figure out how to avoid becoming a C'ieth. When he touched it, the mysterious voice ringing in his head. Becareful child, when you get back you will be in a world of pain soon. And here are two presents: one for you and one for Lightning and Merry Christmas! The voice ended and a new gunblade appeared in front of Naruto who grabbed it and then a light from the C'ieth stone entered Naruto making him wonder what happened and what was Christmas as he and the fuel tank were sent back to the future.
When Naruto opened his eyes again, he felt the familiar presence of Lightning inside his mind and suddenly got electrocuted for some reason. "Ouch! What was that for?" Naruto asked her as he got electrocuted again by Lightning. "For being a pervert with myself in the past and messing with me you bastard!" Lightning practically shouted inside his mind. "If I ever get a body I would beat you up so bad that your mother and father won't recognize you once I'm through with you!" Lightning said.
Suddenly Naruto's body began to glow as he felt her presence in his mind leaving with the light as she somehow became physical much to their surprise and Naruto made a conclusion. "That second gift the C'ieth stone gave me was for you to come out at will it seems…" Naruto said before paling "Uh-oh…" he trailed off as he saw Lightning smiling a little too sweetly at him. In a blink of an eye, Naruto grabbed the fuel tank with the strength he never imagined and ran as if hell was after him and was already at the ship refueling it as Lightning started to race to the ship to deliver justice to him.
Naruto had just finished emptying the tank and quickly started up the ship and closing the hatch not noticing that Lightning got in at the last second as he took off. "Man, I thought I was a goner." Naruto said out loud as he relaxed in the pilot seat until he felt a hand on his shoulder causing him to pale in pure horror as he heard a familiar voice behind him. "Really? Because from where I'm standing I see a dead man." Lightning said causing Naruto to leap onto the ceiling in pure shock and cling to it like a cat would. "Mercy?" Naruto asked which cause Lightning to chuckle. "Sorry, I'm all out of mercy right now." Lightning said as she jumped and grabbed Naruto, slammed him to the floor and was about to give him a boot to the face only to hit nothing as Naruto got behind her.
"Think Naruto! What do you know about Lightning right now that could save your own hide?" Naruto thought until he realized that she was sealed in her own blade for over thousands of years with nothing to do and decided to pull a stunt that would make Ero-sennin proud of him. He put his hand underneath her turtleneck and with one finger, makes it go up her spine causing her to straighten up in shock at the foreign feeling in her spine. Before she could react to what happened, she felt something massaging her left breast causing that feeling in her to break out. Meanwhile back at Konoha, after Jiraiya told the Third what happened to Naruto, he had suddenly busted into tears while saying "Another kid has fallen to the art of perversions, and I have a feeling its N-A-R-U-T-O!" causing the Third to sweat drop.
*Secret Author technique: Cliff-hanger Jutsu!*
Well that was unexpected of Naruto! Will he be skinned alive by Lightning or something unexpected happen that would save his life? I'm leaving you guys to figure it out. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!