Ohayo, whatsup guys? how're you doing?. PKA here with the latest chapter of this awesome story, I mean like seriously I never thought that I would be here doing this since I both loved being a reader cause I get to see other chumps at work while seeing things from another perspective and hate it cause we don't have enough competent stories out there, especially when it comes to crossover.
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'Thoughts'
"Speech"
flashbacks
"« »"( )" I'll use this two to indicate an action taking place in the background and location.
"~" radio communication :(
Story Begins »
••••
"[Lara]A famous explorer once said...That the extraordinary is in what we do...Not who we are. I'd finally set out to make my mark, to find adventure. But Instead...adventure found me."
••••
(Dragon's Triangle, south of Japan)
Two silhouette could be seen running to and fro on the upper deck of the ship trying to help keep the ship from sinking.
«statistics, raging storm»
one of the figures stopped at the railing and pulled out a radio from their jacket pocket as they held on to the railing for support.
(via radio)
"Hello!"
"Naruto how's it going!"~
"not good grim, we've got a hole in the ship!"
"What?, What about Roth!?"~ he turned to his left just in time to see Roth round a corner
"he went to go get lara!"
(thunder boom)
"You should get inside as well!~" grim advised but naruto shook his head even though he can't see it.
"I would but someone's got to keep a lookout!" he shouted over the noice of the storm then he took a step forward only to slip and hit his head on the railing, he fell overboard just as the ship split in two.
"Naruto! Naruto can you hear me!"~
"...Naruto!"~
••••
(Lower Deck)
"Lara! Lara!!" Roth shouted around fretfully. He moved through the slowly but surely flooded cabin of the ship.
"Lara!" He made a left turn towards her cabin only to find it flooded, fear gripped his heart as one of his greatest nightmares is slowly becoming a reality, but as if God heard his prayers he heard a cry for help but there was no one in sight.
The waters a couple of feets infront of him bubbled for seconds before going silent prompting him to look underneath the surface of the water as he caught sight of something, he wasted no time in grabbing the drowning appendage and pulled it out of the water revealing it to be Lara herself.
Immediately her body got drawn out of the water she greedily took in a large intake of air before going on a coughing fit. Roth barely had enough time to sigh out in relief before the ship split yin two separating him from Lara.
"Lara!".
••••
Lara sat down on her bed typing away on her phone before a loud bang interrupted her. She moved her legs over the edge of the bed to get off but the ship sudden movement caused her to topple over.
She struggled up to her feet and made out the door into the hallway only to get thrown back into her cabin as water rushed in and flooded the room.
In our darkest moments...
"Help!" Her cries for help was drowned out as water completed flooded the room.
«Gasp»
...When life flashes before us...
She struggled to push through the door but eventually lost oxygen as she began to drown.
We find something;
Something that keeps us going...
A hand grasp her own and hulled her out of the water and onto solid ground before she fell on her knees and went on a coughing fit.
"Lara!"
She looked up to see Roth on the other half of the ship motioning for her to jump with his left hand outstretched.
...Something that pushes us.
She got into a Sprint and once she got to the edge...she jumped and caught his hand, for a minute there it felt like all was well until her grip began to slip and she falled into the sea.
"Lara!"
••••
"Reyes! Alex! come on!" Jonah called out as they ran down a hallway with Whitman not far behind them. They rounded a corridor only to come upon a door with water on the other side.
"What now, Jonah?" Alex couldn't help but ask as the door began to bulge under the pressure of the water.
"I don't know"
"There's another escape door behind the ship" Reyes informed
"Can you take us there" Jonah asked
"It's not like I could say no" reyes muttered before leading them down another hallway with the others not far behind her. They made it to another corridor where they saw Roth pull Lara out of the water.
"Roth!" Reyes called out just before the ship split in half with them and Roth on one side and Lara on the other.
"Jonah look!" Alex pointed at a figure as they fall into the raging water below.
"That's..."
(Ship swayed)
"...Naruto!" Without a second thought Jonah dived after him shocking the rest of the crew.
"Did he just..." Whitman shocked sentence was interrupted as the ship began to sink.
"Lara!" They heard Roth shout as Lara fall into the stormy sea.
"What the fuck Is going on! where's Sam!"
"We're here!"
They all turned as one to see a soaked grim and Sam by the doorway looking worst for wear.
"The ship is sinking, we've got to abandon ship!" grim stated as they moved closer to the group.
(Wind howling)
"Where's Lara?" Sam asked the question that has been bugging her mind since grin pulled her out of her flooded cabin.
"She fell overboard"
"What?
"Now is not the time for that, we've got to abandon ship!" grim advised trying to be the voice of reason.
"He's right, we'll look for them later" Roth tried calm the situation but that was impossible with the raging storm and the sinking ship in the background.
"I don't know about you guys but am not dying here" Alex said before jumping off board shocking the everyone on deck.
"I didn't see that coming"
"he's got a point though.." Sam said as she walked towards the edge of the ship "...am not gonna stand around here and wait to sink to my doom while Lara's out there. Am gonna jump now, and I suggest you all do the same."
"Am with her, am not gonna sit on my ass either" Reyes stated after watching Sam take a dive into the water below before doing the same with the others following soon after.
(Thunder strike)
"Well this sucks, If only they had listened to me" Whitman cursed before taking a dive off the ship before it got swallowed whole by the ocean signifying the end of the Endurance.
(Thunder Boom)
••••
(A few minutes later, Shores)
«Storm rages on»
«Squabble»
"This one's bleeding out...put some pressure on it"
"Come on...come on! Breathe, goddamnit!" Alex cursed as he performed a CPR on Naruto.
"I knew something like this would happen! Where the hell are we?"
"Come on doctor! Help us out here"
"Jesus Jonah, what's going on?"
"How am I supposed to know"
"Where's Lara?" Roth asked as he couldn't find her anywhere.
"Lara!" Jonah called out
"She's gotta be somewhere around there..."
"And how do we know if she's not drowning at the bottom of the sea, cause last time I saw her it was at the middle of the fucking storm".
"Take it easy Jonah, she's gonna be fine, am certain of that" Roth reassured as the body they were tending to made a slight movement.
"Hang in there, naruto"
"Lara where are you!"
••••
«Storm rages on»
"*Cough cough*"
"Lara!"
"Hello!" Lara shouted as she surveyed her surroundings to find the source of the voice before she caught sight of Jonah and the rest of the crew on a cliff.
"Help!..."
"Reyes! Jonah!" She screamed as she got back on her feets
"Am here!" She took a step forward only to black out.
••••
«Unknown location»
«Rope creaking»
«Water Drip, candles lit»
"Arrgh..."
"...where the hell am I?" Naruto couldn't help but ask, as when he had fallen unconscious into the raging tides below, he had thought that it was over for him, probably that he had died. But here he was, tied upside in some sort of cave with no possible way of escape.
"Lara! Sam! Roth!"
"Arrgh...I can't give up, not when my journey just began, I've got to find a way out of here" he turned his head left and right looking for a possible escape route but found non until an idea struck him.
"Am tied close to a candle light, why didn't I fucking see that before" deciding to keep his self loathing for later after he made it out of God knows where alive and focus more on getting out of his bondage. With a mighty heave he swinged his body closer to the candle light but missed it by a few inches.
"Again" he took him a deep breath and with another mighty heave, he swinged his body closer to the flame again and this time his binds caught on fire.
"Yes!" He jubilate as the flame slowly burned through his bindings but one thing he failed to give account for was how far to the ground he was, but he realized his mistake the moment his body hit the ground and he sprained his wrist.
"Fuck!" He gripped his now swollen wrist then he picked up a sharp rock and cut it open a little to squeeze out the blood before he tore the right sleeve of his Black shirt off with his teeth then tied it around his sprained left wrist.
«Naruto groans» ( I might do this from now on, keyword 'might' :) ).
He got back on his feets as he moved through a dark passage way to his right.
"Hopefully this route will lead me out of here"
«Water dripping»
He made it out the other side and came upon a candle filled room while torches lined the walls.
"What's with all the candles?" He grabbed a nearby torch and moved down through another passageway to his left only to find it blocked by objects, he touched and felt the texture of the material to find it flammable before setting it ablaze with the torch to reveal a way. He made it into another area filled with candle lights and human skeletons littered the floor with a decaying body tied up in midair.
«Squeaking»
«water drip»
"Is that..."
He reached out a hand to touch one of the skeletons but quickly withdraw it upon contact as he felt a shiver up his spine while his eyes grew wide in shock.
"Oh my God! it's real!"
He walked down the hallway and into room with a scaffolder alongside vases on the right and a path to the left which he took. Immediately he set foot into the dark room, he got tackled to the ground which caused him to drop his touch as a man started to choke him.
"what the.." he grabbed onto the head of his assailant and gave him a headbutt causing his grasp on his neck to loosen, not letting up, a mean right hook found it mark on the face of his assailant sending him off to the ground In pain. He hurried back to his feet and picked his touch off the ground and ran out of the room not minding the groaning form behind him.
"who the hell was that?" he questioned while rubbing his sore neck.
He passed through a crevice in the wall to another area, his torch held up infront of him to see a clear path. He walked into an enclosed hallway with holes lining both sides of the walls.
«cricket creaking»
"I don't like the looks of thi..."
His sentence came to an abrupt stop as he tripped over a wire and fall flat on his face. A whistling sound filled the air drawing his attention, he turned his head to look behind him just in time to see a hail of arrows flying out of the holes in the wall from the end of the hall heading towards him.
"Shit!"
(Arrows Whistling)
He hurriedly got back to his feet as he picked up his pace by running through the hallway with the hail of arrows behind him. He took a sharp left turn and ran down another hallway, his instincts kicked in as he ducked just in time to avoid an axe to the neck.
«Rapid heartbeat»
"What the..?" His heart skipped a beat as he realized that he had just had a close encounter with death. He examined the sharp edges of the blade as his heart beat increased but his observation Time was short lived as the hail of arrows returned prompting him to pick up pace again. He ran down another hall but came to an abrupt stop at the end of the hall as a large gasp separated him from the other side.
He glance back behind to see the hail of arrows closing in on him, a beat of sweat ran down his brows as he took a few steps back before taking a running start, once he got to the edge of the hall he leapt over the gasp to the over side.
He grasp onto the edge as he heaved himself up the ledge and immediately fell on his back to catch his breath.
«Heavy Breathing»
"That was close" he sighed out in relief as he stared at the roof of the cave or wherever he is.
(Earthquake)
A shockwave rock the cave as he hurried back to his feet only for everything to go silent again.
«Rocks Clattering»
"What the hell?" He looked up to the roof of the cave once more but this time his heart froze solid at the sight before him, he moved just in time as a spiky rock came crashing down, breaking off the section of the ledge that he had been standing on causing a crack in the platform.
(Rocks falling, Cave come crashing down)
«vibrations»
"You've got to be kidding me" He hurried off of the ledge that he stood on as he jumped from one ledge to the other in a mad rush as the cave came crashing down. He caught sight of a light at the end of the cave prompting him to increase his speed. He got close to the mouth of the cave but unknowingly triggered a trap that sends him falling down a hole Into the running waters below, pushing him out of the cave and into a waterfall sending him down the side of the mountain. Thanks to his quick reflexes, he was able to grasp unto a piece of metal of what looks to be an airplane and climbed his way to it to back then began scaling his way up the plane but the extra weight weighs it down as it slowly began to fall.
"Oh, You've got to be shitting me" moving as fast he could he scaled it to the top and jumped off just in the neak of time as the plane fell off the side of the mountain.
«heavy thud and crash, steel clattering»
(accelerated heartbeat)
"Phew! That was close..."
"...Argh!" He stretched out his back "am glad that's over"
"Now to go find the others" he walked off the side of the waterfall and into the forest with half of his soul intact.
"Talk about finding Greener pasture, hahaha..."
"...Yeah, now that's a good joke."
••••
(Mountain side)
After escaping from the cave and the scavenger, Lara navigated the mountainside until she got to a large branch then carefully transversed it to the other side. Further down the mountain, she come upon a crashed airplane hanging on the side of the cliff with it being the only Link to the other side.
"Okay...I can do this" she moved closer to it and began scaling it to the middle then to the right, the pieces of the plane that she was scaling on began to fall off forcing her to jump off to the other side. Immediately she landed she quickly rolled out of the way as the wing of the plane come crashing down.
"Man, that was close" she continued up the cliff towards a large wall, then performed a wall scramble to reach the higher ledge and then jumped down the other side only to come upon sam's pack. She rummaged through it but could only find her camcorder with a matchbox and a two-way radio.
"Sam! Roth! is anyone there"
Statistics*
(Thunder crackling, rainfall)
"Shit" She pocket the radio and walked off to the edge of the cliff with a gasp separating it from the other side, she jumped and grasp the edge of the cliff only to slip and fall into the forest below.
»Coastal Forest«
(Rainfall, howling wind)
(Heavy breathing)
"I fell...again"
"Am starting to think that this island doesn't like me" She groaned as she picked herself up before walking down a path as she navigated her way through the coastal forest, she crunched low to pass under a cliff until she came upon a deserted campfire just as a rainfall began.
She gathered the sticks that littered the ground together, then brought out the matchbox and used the last matchstick to create a fire. She picked up the radio and tried to get in touch with the others once again but there was no signal
Statistics*
"Damnit!...wherever they are, I hope that they are okay"
••••
"Am so not fucking okay!"
(Thunder strike)
A drenched naruto sat down infront of a campfire under the shades of a worn-out tent. He has a fish cooking over the fire as he reflected on what he had been through so far. It hadn't been long since he got out of the cave (more like prison) and made it into this forest looking like a ragged doll.
It hadn't taken him long to find out where he was, it turns out that Lara was right. The island upon which he stood on is actually the Yamatai, the very same island that they have been searching for, the lost kingdom of himiko the sun goddess.
"Turns out that the myth were true...himiko really ruled Japan at one point" he reached into his back pocket and withdraw a green crystal necklace, he caressed it, getting lost in it green glow.
"Don't worry Naruto-kun, they might not know it yet...but believe it or not...you're destined for something great, don't ever forget that."
"I really wish you were here, granny"
He gulped down the fish, then laid down to get some rest as blue eyes fluttered close.
"Am really not looking forward to the rest of this expedition"
••••
A pair of eyes blinked wide open as they took in their surroundings, the rainfall continued to fall in in the background, the sound of thunder drowned out every other sound alongside the howling wind.
The figure now awoken from their slumber, stretched out their muscles before making it up to their feet. He put out the campfire then set out into the rain and deeper into the forest in search of a way out of the forest.
"I sure hope lara and the gang are okay...I can't stand the thoughts of them dying"
Statistics*
"All unit report" a voice call said out of nowhere startling him.
"What was that?" He asked as he turned around hastily in search of the voice but all he found was green.
"Is anybody there?" the voice questioned but this time he heard it clearly as he stealth towards the bush where he believed the voice was coming from. He silently moved passed the bush towards the source of the voice and quickly regretted his decision.
"Oh my God!" he tried his best not to empty the content of his stomach as what laid before him was the rotting corpse of a man with a machete going through it chest. Gathering up his courage, he moved closer to examine the corpse only to realize that the voice was coming from a radio on the corpse vest. He took the radio from the corpse as he listened In on what the voice is saying.
"All unit, head towards north... we'll rendezvous there~" the voice cut out but Naruto wasn't listening anymore as his mind was busy replaying one word in his head.
"Survivors...could it be the gang" he pocketed the radio, then grab the hilt of the machete and pulled it out of the corpse. He runs north towards the rendezvous point, the thoughts of meeting other survivors were enough to keep his strained body going.
"Am coming guys!"
••••
(Birds chirping, wind blowing)
It hadn't taken him long to reach the rendezvous point, thirty minutes to be specific. And he had been right in one aspect, they were survivors, but they ain't his crew mates. He placed his machete on his belt, grey cargo pant now turned brown already ragged and torn, his Black shirt was now tattered beyond recognition, white sneakers covered in dirt and mud and he looked like he was barely holding up.
When he had first arrived his plan had been to try and get their attention but after watching them slit a man's throat, he had immediately gone about a change of plans and was now instead trying as best as he could not to attract any attention to himself. He hid behind a tree as he spied on people dressed in winter gears as they patrolled the area, he look beyond the group of men and set his sight on a Zipline connecting this side of the forest to the other below.
'That's my only shot at getting out of here' he had his keen eyes on two men communicating with one another but couldn't quite make out what they were saying before one of them motioned for two others to follow him as they took the Zipline down into the forest.
'I can't afford to get caught'
(Leaf rustling, branch crunching)
He heard Footsteps approaching him from behind, his instincts kicked in as a whistling sound filled the air prompting him to duck just in time to avoid a blade to the neck. He pulled out his machete as he turned in an arc, his blade cutting through flesh like butte, blood sprayed out of the now headless corpse like a fountain, drenching him in it before the body fell lifeless to the ground. He stared in horror at the corpse as it bled out at his feet, he could do nothing but stare at his blood covered hands in horror.
"What have I done?"
(Leaf rustling)
"Who's there?" A voice shouted snapping him out of his trance as a shadow loomed from behind the bush.
A figure walked out of the bush with a knife in hand as he glanced around the clearing.
He and his partner had been charged with watching over this side of the forest incase any of the survivors passed through here. Not long ago, his partner had claimed to have heard noises coming from the bushes, so he had gone to check it out, that was fifteen minutes ago and he hadn't been able to radio him, which is why he's abandoned their post in search of him, but what he found was the headless corpse of his friend, he turned around to go and report his findings to the others but came face-to-face with an arrow aimed at his face.
"Sorry"
He let the arrow fly and meet it mark as it bore a hole through his head. He stared at the corpse with an arrow through it head, his face rid of all emotion. He hated himself for what he had just done, but as much as he wanted to hate himself right now, he just couldn't help it after watching a man's throat get slit, and the worst part is... there's still more of them out there.
Steeling his nerves, he retrieved the arrow before salvaging the corpse and fetched out a radio from his back pocket.
"Just what I needed"
••••
(underground)
(water splashing, rippling)
water parted as Lara moved through it with her torch held up and a bow slung across her shoulder with the quiver on her back. Not long ago she had been able to contact Roth via radio and have been told to meet up at his location, and she's trying to find her way out of the forest until she stumbled upon a bunker that led her underground to her current location.
She walked passed a marking on a wall before walking up a couple of steps that led her out of the water. Moving towards a door that led to the other side, she pulled on the handle to get it open but the door didn't budge, she tried again with more force but the results were the same.
"Dang it! I need something to pry it open with"
Deciding to search the room, she came upon a stack of flammable objects and set it ablaze with the torch revealing an entrance, she put out the torch before walking through to the other side. Upon walking into the room she covered her nose as a foul smell assaulted her nostril, before her were foul meats hanged on a hooks and beyond that laid a wooden pry knife stuck in a piece of meat.
"Just what I needed"
She took measured steps forward, when she got close enough she grabbed the pry knife and yanked it free then hurried out of there and back into the room that she came from.
Lara inhaled a deep breath, filling her lungs with fresh oxygen, ridding her of that foul stench. she moved back towards the door to give it another go but caught sight of a piece of paper lying next to a mask on a desk, she picked it up and it read.
"Forgive me my son...for I have tried...and yet could find no way off this island. The yamatai truly is a mysterious place, guided by mysteries and knowledge far beyond my understanding. Death is indomitable, for I have seen many of my comrades meet their ends at hands of others. I would have given up, but the mere thoughts of you... kept me going."
"oh my God" She turned the back of the paper to look for the identity of the writer only to gasp at the name on it.
"...Minato namikaze".
••••
The end.
Okay so am not gonna lie but this has been one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life, almost like when I had to perform my song on stage infront of a live audience. So at the beginning of this fiction I realized that I have been trying to recreate the exact same scene as in the video game, so I decided to make a few changes and put in my own ideas and a little twist if you know what I mean.
Also if you haven't noticed, am trying my very best to keep Naruto...as Naruto, though he'll be more realistic than naive. Now I planned for this chapter to be longer but I decided to end it here, sorry.
I'd like to use this opportunity to apologize for those of you who haven't played the game and finds it hard to know the location or places that I describe. I try my very best to carry everyone along by being as descriptive as possible but you'll get used to it. And if you haven't noticed already, I actually skipped some parts that I find irrelevant and too stressful, sorry.
As much as I would love to explain some more am actually too lazy and sleepy to do so, so apologies -_-).
That'll be all for now, pls review and comment, later.