Alright everyone, this is my first chapter for my very own Naruto/Sekirei Crossover. I have read a few of the crossovers before, and watched the Sekirei season on anime, and decided to try my hand at a fanfiction. Any criticism would be nice; however, flames will be ignored. It's my first fanfiction other than a couple of drabbles in the past, so try to take that into consideration.
I do not own Either Naruto or Sekirei. Those both belong to Masashi Kishimoto and Sakurako Gokurakuin, respectively.
"Speaking"
'Thinking'
At about 6.5 miles over Nagoya, a massive Boeing 737 casts a shadow on the clouds and the ground as it passes over on its way to Tokyo, Japan. Only two passengers are about the aircraft, sitting on opposite chairs, not too far from each other. One of the passengers, A silver haired man with one visible black eye, and an eye patch covering his other eye, and wearing a grey business suit, is busy directing and giving commands to the many identical copies of the second passenger running around the plane.
"Hurry up! We don't have all day. Land fall should be in about 2 hours." Kakashi spoke to a clone that was running through the aisle.
"We know. We know. Don't get your headband in a knot, we've practiced this plenty of times." Said the clone as he flipped off the silver haired man.
"I really hate when one of your clones gets a mind of its own." Kakashi said as he glanced at the other passenger and then pulls out an orange book with a sigh. "Perhaps they give you more perspectives, eh boss?"
The second passenger, a tall sun kissed blonde with ocean blue eyes, with distinguishing birth marks in the shape of three whiskers on each his cheeks, appears to be watching the movie playing on his entertainment system, but in actuality, the blonde is reminiscing the string of occurrences that led to this flight, and his return to Japan. Strange dreams that come in the form of outlandishly beautiful women. Women whose beauty the likes of which haven't been seen since the time of the elemental nations, so long ago. An otherworldly beauty that caught his attention as being strange immediately. Now normally simple dreams wouldn't have caused a trip across the world, but the people in them, and their frequency and continuity is what drove the desire to finally see if he's finally lost his mind, or if he really is supposed to meet these women in Tokyo, as almost all of them have claimed. He's dreamed of five women so far, the first of which he dreamed of a few years ago. How long ago he wasn't sure, as time seems to blur together for him nowadays.
(Dream Scape)
The blonde opens his eyes to a blurry sky and a strong scent of the ocean. "What is this place?" He gets up from the wet ground to look around, first looking to see exits and ways to escape like he was trained from an early age, then to actually take in the scenery at a second glance. He can tell he's on an island, on account of the ocean being without sight on all sides. He can also tell that there was recently a battle of some kind here, with dead soldiers and even tanks and helicopters that look to have been sliced into pieces. The strangest thing about this army is that it carries no banners or marking to signify which country they belong to. "So, I'm on an island where a battle recently took place, huh? It looks like it was a completely one-sided battle too, as the soldiers are all in the same types of uniform. Geeze, I wonder what they ran into to tear the entire army apart so easily? Or is this a battle I fought in and don't remember?"
The blonde walks to the water to see if there are any landmarks in the distance to discern where he is. As he looks into the water, he sees his own reflection in the same blurry manner as the rest of the dream. "That's odd, normally when I am undercover, I dream as my henge." The blonde closes his eyes as he wills his appearance to change to that of his current undercover form. His blond hair grows longer and changes to silver as it takes on a gravity defying trait. His whicker marks fade a disappear together as his clothes turn into a grey suit that costs more than some people make in a year, and his eyes turn black. "Ok, that's a little better, this is a strange dream so far."
"Is that you Takehito-san?" A voice from the distance questions.
Naruto/Kakashi spins around ready to fight before the woman finishes her sentence. He sees that she is too far away to really see clearly, and all he can really see is her hair and the color of her skin. She has long purple hair and she is fair skinned, which contrasts starkly with the black of her military grade outfit. She seemed to be blurry from the distance, which should be impossible to his eyes, but he could still see that she had to be one of the most beautiful women he'd ever laid eyes upon.
"Wow… I mean... um... what?" Naruto stammers as he reaches back to scratch his head with a fox like grin.
"It has to be you Takehito-san. There is no one else with hair similar to yours. I never thought you would be my Ashikabi-sama!" She lowers her voice as she murmurs, "We thought you may be someone like Mutsu's ashikabi…." She smiles and raises her voice again, not knowing that he could still hear her even from that distance, "But it looks like we were wrong. Takehito-kun, I would be honored to have you as my destined one! I'll see you on the outside!" The beautiful woman disappears with a small smile.
"Woah! Talk about a case of mistaken identity." The blonde frowns in thought. "Did she just say destined one? Ah! I bet this is going to be a big problem for mew somehow. I have a feeling that I either made this Takehito either a very lucky man or gave him a huge headache." Naruto looks back at the place where the woman was standing, on top of an unbroken helicopter blade. "Though I would have loved to have some of that, she was gorgeous. Though she spoke in Japanese, so she's on the other side of the world." The blonde turns to the water. "Well, anyways, how do I get out of here? Wake up! Wake up!"
"Wake up!" said Naruto as he jerked up in bed.
'I wonder who she was. I wouldn't mind if she was in more of my dreams.' Naruto thought to himself as he fell back asleep in his bed, to dream about the beautiful girl he just met in his dreams.
(Boeing 737)
Naruto looks up from the screen showcasing where the plane is at that moment, and towards Kakashi. "Everything ready for touchdown?"
"Of course. I'm excited. I've been waiting for use to make this type of an entrance since they invented these things. Just think, you could make it a scene for of the newest version of Icha Icha, and I can be the star!" said Kakashi as he has stars in his eyes from his dreams of being in the Icha Icha books.
"I swear you take those books too seriously." Said Naruto with a sigh as he climbs out his seat to see the pilots of the plane. "You two doing alright up here?" Naruto says as he eyes two brothers in the cabin, both with black hair and red eyes, with three commas spinning around the center.
"Sir! Yes, Sir! Everything is ready, just waiting to make it to the marker, and we can go for touchdown." Said the older brother as he looks back at Naruto.
Naruto walks back to his seat after a quick, "keep up the good work."
"Everything's good. Make sure to wake me before touchdown." He tales Kakashi as he goes back to the screen, and after a game of blackjack he fades back to another dream.
(Dream Scape)
"Woah! This isn't my company. Where the hell am I?" Naruto exclaims as he looks around a spartan office turned condo. That is clearly on the inside of a skyscraper type building. He walks out towards the balcony to see what city he is in, and can tell from photographs he has recently seen that it's Tokyo. The last time he was in Tokyo, it was a much smaller city with no steel type buildings. The longer he stared at the city, he took notice, the blurrier it became. He turned to head back inside to get answers to his dream, when he saw his normal appearance in the window, and once again closed his eyes to turn into a version of Kakashi like in his previous dream.
When he tried to open the door back into the room, he found it locked. "I don't even remember closing this door!" he mutters as he jiggles the door in place trying to open it.
"Takehito?!" exclaims a voice in pure shock.
"Huh? Hey! Can you let me in?" Naruto states as he sees the blurry girl from the inside of the apartment. All he can see at the moment was her long silver hair and an outfit similar to the girl from the previous dream.
"The door won't open." States the girl as she tries to open it. She eventually takes the key and slides it into the lock, but the door resolutely decides to stay closed.
"I noticed!" a chagrined blonde announces.
"Is that a joke Takehito-san? I never would have figured you the type to joke in my presence. I also never figured you to be Ashikabe material, maybe Miya wasn't lying. We were all pretty sure you were gay, what with the way you and Seo talk on the phone and the way he brings you gifts, but maybe not." She gives up on opening the door and steps back with a sigh. "Well, this isn't working. Maybe we should just wake up and we can see each other tomorrow, but a dream's not going to be enough to earn me, you will have to prove your strength to claim me as your Sekirei! See you tomorrow!" She said as she disappeared in front of the door.
"I have a feeling that was another beautiful girl that thinks this Takehito is her "Destined one." I'm really setting some guy up with a harem, and apparently he's gay." He ponders the dreams for a second. "Oh well, hopefully they realize he's not me." Naruto whispers to himself as he forces himself awake.
(Dream Scape – One day Later)
Naruto finds himself in the same room in the next nights dream, and instead of going outside, sits on the bed to wait. He changes himself to look like Kakashi once more as he waits. He feels the cold steel of a blade on his neck and he stills.
"You're not Takehito!" The angry voice of the girl from the night before shouts into his ear.
Quicker than she could see, Naruto leans back away from the blade and pushes it away with his pointer and index fingers. "I never said that I was. You and another woman, have both mistaken me for the same man." Naruto said without moving an inch. The girl stares at him for a moment, thinking on how to respond.
"What is your name? You have caused me quite a lot of trouble with your deceit, and possibly much more trouble for Miya. I caught Takehiko and Minaka talking about using Miya's imagined reactions to Takehito, to control her and keep her in line." She says as she walks around him to look him in the eyes. Sheathing her sword as she walks.
"Do you want the name of who you see right now? Or do you want my name?" The blonde turned silverette says as he looks at her.
She looks at him strangely. "What's the difference?"
"Everything. The person you see at the moment, is whom I choose to look like in this dream. This is not my real appearance, and if I give you this appearance name it will not be my name. But why should I give you the name of my disguise or my real name and appearance? I don't even know you."
"You can change your appearance inside a dream? How? You're supposed to be my Ashikabe, so explain yourself and I may forgive your transgressions." She said with an intrigued smile that looked almost bloodthirsty.
"First off, I have committed no transgressions. Secondly, you both have used that word, Ashikabe, what does it mean? Lastly, if you want my name, how about you introduce yourself to me first." Drawled Naruto as he watched her take in his response. His body still and poised to respond at the slightest hint of violence, even in a dream.
"My name is Karasuba, and an Ashikabe is what we Sekirei call our chosen one. It is the man or woman we are destined to meet and spend our lives with. We can react to our chosen one after meeting them, or sometimes can see them in a dream, as I am with you." She saunters around him in a circle to examine his disguise, now that she knows it's not his real form. "To be able to disguise yourself so well, even in a dream, are you strong, my Ashikabe?"
"I suppose I can be, if the need arrives. Why can I see you clearly this time, but in our last dream everything was a blur?" He says as if he just noticed that the dream is crystal clear to his eyes, unlike the other dreams.
"Perhaps it's because you are getting accustomed to reaction dreams, or perhaps it's because this isn't our first reaction dream together. I do not know. There is only so much we know about the bonds so far, and only the pillar would know more." Karasuba responds as she begins to show how much the conversing is annoying her. "Enough explaining. I have answered some of your questions, at least answer some of mine! What is your name?"
"I'm Naruto. If we really are destined to meet and be together, then I'll let you know my full name in the future. What do you know about the bonds? What do they do?" Naruto studies how antsy Karasuba is getting with the conversation.
"We don't know. No one has bonded as of this moment. Only our pillar, Miya can answer your questions. Where are you? Are you in Tokyo? Can you fight? I won't allow you to wing me if you are a weak human." Karasuba purrs as she starts to grip the handle of her katana.
"I am not in Tokyo. I am in another country working on something very important to our world as we know it." Naruto says as he scratches the back of his head and gives a foxy grin. "I believe I'm pretty strong and fairly competent in a fight."
"When will you come to Tokyo for our battle? The Sekirei plan is supposed to take place here in Tokyo. You do want to claim me, don't you?" Karasuba purrs the last sentence as she gestures with her arm at her body.
"Any man would be a fool to not want to claim someone as beautiful as you Karasuba, even if you are a little bloodthirsty ha-ha." Naruto's face goes from his grin to completely serious. "However, this project is very important. It will have to take precedence. It should be complete within 2 years. Do you think you can wait for me that long?"
Karasuba ponders his words. "I never really expected to find an Ashikabe. I always believed you humans were worthless. The military was so week in their attack, I just never thought it would happen. If you're good enough for me to react to, even in another country, I can gladly wait a couple of years. However, I won't stay stagnant. I will continue to train and become stronger, so you better keep on your toes for when we have our battle." Karasuba glances back at him and remembers his disguise. "Can I see you now, the real you?"
"Well that depends, will we have more of these dreams? Or is this the last time I see you before I go to Tokyo?" Naruto asks with a raised eyebrow.
"I don't know, but I wouldn't be entirely opposed to getting to know you more in more dreams. I know you're dying to see me again. I'm the girl of your dreams, of course." Karasuba gives a flirty wink.
"How about I let you see one part of the real me? That way I stay out of any radars at the moment, and if we have more dreams, I will show you more. If not, then I know your name and what you look like, and as much as you like battles, I'm sure I'll be able to find you, even in a city like Tokyo. I do have my ways." Naruto walks up to right in front of Karasuba and closes his eyes as he will his hair to change back to his normal spiky blonde hair. "What do you think?"
"Awe, I liked the silver hair. It matched mine." She states with a playful smile. "Of course, with my Ashikabe, it's the gold standard."
Naruto steps closer and reaches out to grab Karasuba's hand, bringing it up to his lips and kisses the fingers. "I hope to dream of you again soon, my beautiful bird." Naruto says lacing his words with a charm one can only have through thousands of years of experience. "Goodnight, my Sekirei."
Karasuba blushes softly, before catching herself and calming herself. "Don't get ahead of yourself." She warns as Naruto just smiles and disappears from the dream. "…but Goodnight." Karasuba declares as she disappears as well.
(Boeing 737 - Above Tokyo)
The clones are moving around faster as they get the final touches of the plan together. "We are ready, Boss."
Naruto jerks in his seat as he is pulled from his reminiscing by Kakashi. "It's time. Let's go!" Kakashi states as he begins casting a grand fire ball into the side of the plane as Naruto fastens his parachute to his back.
"See you guys in the next round." Naruto exclaims as he waits for the plane to begin to fall as the engines explode in the flames, and as the smoke begins to make a path he jumps into the smoke and falls before pulling his parachute and falling in the cover of the flames. "Look out Tokyo! I'm back!"