DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto and/or Undertale.
A/N: Since this story at least has some recognition from people, I'll continue this one, but please choose an OC (only yours, not someone else's) to pair with Naruto (I'm not going Naru/Hina or anything else because it's overdone, and please not anything close to Slash, I just don't like it much in Fanfiction and hold no disdain for people who enjoy it, just pls no), while knowing that he'll be paired with only ONE other person that I haven't chosen just yet, I'm seriously considering Ayame, messing with her age just a bit so she only like, two years older than Naruto.
Just to be sure:
"People talking" (including Naruto and Sans)
'Naruto thinking/ talking to those in the seal' (not before later in the story)
"Chara/Kurama talking"
/Frisk talking/
"Technique/Jutsu/Magic"
Chapter 2: Mobs, a Mindscape and Weird People
In the currently peaceful village of Konoha, everyone was celebrating the Nine-Tailed Fox's defeat by the Fourth Hokage. Well, almost everyone, in fact, a five year old little boy was not celebrating, especially since he was being chased by a group of around 15 drunken adults who were trying to kill him and 'Finish the Fourth's job'.
Poor little Naruto was not aware of what they meant and really often asked himself why anyone would want to hurt him when he never really did anything against them. Sometimes he would hear three different answers from nowhere, one was /You should forgive them for their ignorance and will one day come to see you for who you are./. It was said in a very soft voice that could be mistaken for a whisper, Naruto thought it beautiful and liked the voice as he thought that's how a big sister would comfort their brother. Like Ayame would sometimes do.
The second voice was more of a harsh advice that was said in a voice one would be able to describe as demonic. Naruto would too, if he didn't sense the protectiveness in it and the underlying tones of concern, it said "You should get used to it, that's human nature, you should not trust villagers and ninja, they would stab you in the back.", he still liked this voice because without it he would be too trusting and would have become a trusting fool, but he still didn't let it change him into a person incapable of trusting, it seemed to admonish him like a big sister would scold him, like Ayame did once he had spilled his ramen.
The last voice came as a sort of drawl that would seem lazy, but had tones of wisdom and awareness. It said "you shouldn't care about the villagers, they're just ignorant, one day karma will come collect its debt." In a deep tone, Naruto loved it because it made him think of how he thought an uncle would give advice.
Right now, he was wearing a sky-blue fur-lined hoodie over an orange shirt with two parallel stripes around the middle, one royal purple and the other bright green. He was also wearing brown shorts and pink open-toed ninja sandals. Ayame, Old man Teuchi and Old man Hokage told him to find colors that would hide him, but he asked himself why, he loved these colors after all. His hair had grown to his shoulder blades and was a spiky mess of golden yellow, white and chocolate brown.
As said before, he was being chased by a mob of drunk villagers, he had just taken a turn into an alley just to arrive at a dead end, he could have sworn he heard the drawling voice say "we're boned." And "we're going to end up dead in a dead end". Overcoming the urge to either snicker at the pun or facepalm at the timing, Naruto slowly turned around to be met with 15 drunken adults with different sorts of weapons ranging from a frying pan to a rusty knife.
The next few minutes were hell on Earth before he was welcomed by the darkness.
(In Naruto's Mindscape)
The five years old boy opened his eyes to be met by a stone ceiling and a wet sensation around his body. He lifted himself to his feet and looked around himself, he identified his surroundings as a sewer.
'How did I get here?' he thought, confused. There was only one path so he started to walk in the only direction he could: forward. After a couple of what he thought to be minutes, he arrived at a series of gigantic iron bars and a dark room, he entered the dark room.
Suddenly, two different pairs of eyes ignited towards him a pair of white lights and a pair of red eyes looked at him and felt himself silently judged by the white lights. The shadows slowly receded to show a five year old girl with brown hair in a bowl cut, crimson orbs shining with interest, a purple sweater with two pink stripes around the middle.
The second person made him start to freak out, a skeleton with a big grin and pinprick lights for eyes, it wore a blue fur-lined hoodie above a white shirt, black basketball shorts with stripes on the outside and pink slippers. Suddenly it talked.
"heya, you've been busy, huh?" its grin widened momentarily. But for Naruto that was the straw that broke the camel's back and he fainted.
"You absolutely HAD to scare shitless a five year old child who is often abused?" Chara lifted an eyebrow, even she wasn't that ruthless when it's a child.
"meh, he'll come around in a couple of minutes" shrugged off nonchalantly the slipper-wearing skeleton. "no need to bash your skull at my actions." he winked at Chara.
"No, I won't, but trust me I'd like to bash YOUR skull at your stupidity." Countered the admittedly less megalomaniac child.
"you'd have a bad time trying, but whatever." They were interrupted by groaning coming from Naruto.
"Ugh, either I lost my brain or there was a skeleton in the sewers." He muttered, he looked up and froze, apparently, he didn't lose his brains.
"meh, we all have skeletons in our closets, you just have one in your mind." The skeleton answered his muttering, and that threw Naruto for another loop, the skeleton just TALKED.
"Will you just stop with your puns or do you want him to become braindead?" Chara froze when she finished saying it, and disgust started appearing on Frisk's possessed face, the skeleton's grin widened even more if possible and he seemed to ooze pride. Their arguing was stopped by a snicker coming from Naruto that caused Chara to pale visibly.
A light bulb suddenly lighted above Naruto's head, he figured something out.
"Wait, you weirdos are the voices I hear sometimes. Am I going crazy or something? And where's the last voice? You know, the soft and beautiful one?" he asked, a frown on his face that almost looked like a pout.
"for now, let's discuss where we are. To make it short, this is your mindscape, or your mind taking shape for you." Explained the admittedly short skeleton.
"Why is it a sewer then?" asked the five-years old after some time taking to understanding what explained the skeleton before him.
"That's because of all the bad things the village did to you, it sort of damaged your mind, it means that you think of yourself as something belonging in the sewers." This time the other child answered, frowning at the thought.
"W-why are you two here then?" Naruto asked next.
"when you were just born, the Kyuubi attacked the village and the only thing that can beat it is sealing it inside a powerful newborn." Bluntly answered the hoodie-wearing skeleton in his deep voice. Shock covered Naruto's face and the mindscape visibly darkened, this caused the other child's eyes to change from crimson to chocolate brown, said child rushed to Naruto and hugged him while he cried silently in her arms. Frisk sent a glare towards Sans that promised a LOT of pain.
After some time, Naruto stopped crying, but continued hugging Frisk.
"W-who are you, really…" softly asked Naruto while looking at Frisk, he was surprised by the eye color's change but didn't mention anything about it.
/My name is Frisk, and when my eyes change to red, a ghost that goes by the name of Chara takes control of my body, think of it as split personalities. / answered Frisk, surprising him with the favorite voice of the three who he could hear, when he recognized her voice, he hugged her closer and snuggled her neck. He wouldn't admit it, but he was shorter. Frisk simply smiled warmly at Naruto and continued hugging him. Naruto turned his eyes towards the skeleton who took it as a cue.
"i'm sans, sans the skeleton. you could say i'm a bone-a-fied one. sorry for scaring you right out of your skin kiddo." said Sans, his smile beginning apologetically before widening. This made Naruto smile a small smile at the puns.
"and i hadn't finished my explication. You see, when the fourth hokage sealed the furball in your gut, we appeared on top of the plushie via a rift in space and time and were also sealed into you." He continued his explanation. "another fact is that this seal drains part of our powers and give them to you. Meaning that you should be able to use bones, coloured bones, fire magic, soul power and finally the power of reset." At the end of the explanation, Naruto's eyes were opened so wide you could swear they would pop out."
"What do you mean magic, it doesn't exist?" he asked, tilting his head to the side, Frisk had to suppress a squeal at the cuteness. She then started to explain.
/It doesn't in this world, but we aren't from this world. In our world, there existed Humans and Monsters, the power of one human's soul is about ten times the power of the existing monster's soul united, but humans can only use magic that goes with the color of their soul or if they are taught how to use magic like a Monster. A monster's soul is made of positive qualities like love and compassion, compared to a human's soul which can become corrupted. Sans is a skeleton monster, so he can use bone magic. A monster's body is made mostly of magic while a human's body is made of very little magic. I can use the magic of my red soul and allows a sort of power you won't be using for now. You will first learn to control bone magic and fire magic, the latter comes from Chara, she was taught by monsters. / Frisk finished her lengthy explanation.
"Really!? I can use magic? But if I can use magic, can I not use Chakra?" he asked excited at the prospect of learning magic but still worried about using chakra.
"you will still be able to use chakra, but you will have to learn that on your own. Well, let's start training, shall we?" asked Sans rhetorically, Frisk nodded before talking.
/Yes, let's, but first let me clarify something. It seems you are gaining parts of our personality, meaning that you will like chocolate as much as Chara, you will have the tendency of judging people like Sans before either sparing them like me or attacking them like Chara, you should also be able to will her True Knife to you so you can fight. Sans and I will teach you how to analyze your opponent and dodge their attacks expertly. All this has already started since you seem to have our preferences for clothes: pink and hoodie from Sans, purple from me and green from Chara. That's without your eyes and hair changes, red, light blue, yellow and brown come from Chara, Sans and me respectively. / Naruto was in awe of the explanation as understanding and realisation dawned on him. That was the reason he was craving chocolate as much as ramen, that and his physical changes.
Frisk stopped hugging Naruto and her eyes turned red, her warm smile shifted to a sadist one in a matter of seconds, chilling Naruto to the bone.
"So, ready for training brat?" asked Chara, Naruto's face was still pale but he nodded slowly.
"i'm letting you teach the kid about the Knife and Locket, how to wield them and start him on how to dodge. he'll be here for a while with how much he was beaten." Stated Sans, before lazily sitting down and going to sleep not too far.
"So, brat. Concentrate in the image of a really sharp kitchen knife, and imagine it in your hand to start." Naruto did as asked, but it failed the first few times. He succeeded after a while and held Chara's True knife in his right hand.
"Good, now, this knife is indestructible and you can wish it to your hand each time you lose it and you'll get it back in hand. Now I'll teach you how to wield it, you don't simply slash without a mind, it will also require physical conditioning that you will do once you're out of your coma." She said with a serious face. And thus, started Naruto's training in his mindscape with a bunch of weird people that he started to consider as his family the more he spent time with them.
(2 months later, inside the seal, in Naruto's mindscape)
A five years-old boy was surrounded by fire and bones of three colors, normal bone-white, blue ones and orange ones. The flames varied from red hot flames to sky-blue ones and orange ones. The boy held an extremely sharp and large kitchen knife in his right hand and there was a golden heart-shaped locket around his neck. The boy wore a blue fur-lined hoodie over an orange shirt with two colored stripes, one purple and the other green. He wore brown shorts and pink open toed ninja sandals. His spiky hair descended to his shoulder blades and was three different colors. The boy's eyes had changed, his left one had a white iris, but it would flare with a sky-blue and yellow flame when using magic. His right eye was deep blue with specs of red and chocolate brown.
On the sidelines were two people, a child and a monster, both were Naruto's teachers. He learned to control fire magic, bone magic, how to *Check people and judge them appropriately, how to harness Karmic Retribution. He learned how to use the power of Reset for the better of all people and not abuse it.
"well done kiddo, i think you're ready to go into the world, you have sufficient control of our powers for now, remember to judge people before taking action." Said Sans before going back to sleep.
"Be careful, don't be too trusting of people and don't let yourself be beaten and train well your power, speed, magic and knife wielding." Chara said her piece before letting Frisk back in control, Chara had mellowed out a lot due to Naruto, she found him impossibly cute, but hoped that he wouldn't take to Sans' puns in the later years.
/Remember Naruto, killing is not the best solution but sometimes cannot be avoided, just let a chance to everyone. Eat correctly, ramen and chocolate aren't enough, or you'll be little for too long. Don't forget we're here in the seal anytime you need us. / Frisk hugged Naruto for dear life, having gotten attached to her 'little brother' and being overprotective.
"Don't worry Frisk-nee-chan! Chara-nee-chan! Sans-ojii-san! I'll be careful and make you proud!" boasted Naruto, returning frisk's bear hug before fading from his mindscape.
(Same time, Konoha Hospital)
Naruto opened his eyes to a white ceiling and a beeping noise. He turned his head towards the noise and saw the hospital's machines. He looked at the window and due to the light entering the room, saw that it was during the day, probably the morning.
'Chara-nee, Frisk-nee and Sans-ojii told me not to tell anything to Old man Hokage about them, magic and the furball, but I'm curious about his LV and will try judging him, *Check-ing him' he thought before lifting himself in a sitting position. Before he could get out of bed, the door to his hospital room opened and came in the Old Man in question.
"Old man!" shouted Naruto as Hiruzen Sarutobi walked close to the bed with a smile of relief on his face and some stray tears in his eyes, if he noticed the change in Naruto's eyes, he didn't mention it.
"Naruto! You're alright! I was worried." Naruto gave the old man a big sheepish grin, but *Check-ed him through squinted eyes, the information appearing in his mind.
*Check
Name: Sarutobi Hiruzen
LV: 83
HP: 2500/2500
ATK: 250
DEF: 125
Current and Third Hokage of the Village Hidden in the Leaves, has been through two of the Three Great Ninja Wars. Tried his best at giving you a 'normal' childhood, but clearly failed. Is still trying to protect you, mainly from your parents' enemies, but failing to protect you from your own village. Someone would say that ninja endure.
Naruto was shocked, but didn't show it, the old man had killed at least three times the amount of monsters there were in the Underground!
"Of course, I'm alright!" boasted Naruto, before turning slightly serious, "but, how much time was I here?" he asked, his tone softer and his eyebrows furrowed. The Hokage's smile lessened before answering.
"Two months Naruto, you spent two months in a coma." This didn't really shock Naruto but the mask he constantly had on made him one of the best actors and liars in the world, even if he didn't like the latter, the former is what kept him sane, so he acted accordingly.
"T-t-two months, you're kidding… right?" he asked, sadness and despair filling his voice and face at the end. He really was a good actor, Chara commented once that it would be a great asset as a ninja. Meanwhile, the aged Kage sighed and pat Naruto on his shoulder, a soft and concerned smile on his face.
"You will just have to catch two months up. How about we start with some ramen?" asked Hiruzen. Naruto jumped at the occasion, two months without ramen were pure torture, he also needed to buy chocolate and ketchup. He became addicted to the last one due to Sans' fault.
"Heck yeah, ramen! Here I come" shouted Naruto, his mask still up, before practically dragging the old man to Ichiraku's ramen stand. Naruto changed during his two months of training, he was now calmer, more composed, more intelligent, more analytical… he was more, but he discussed the option to keep up appearances at least until he became a ninja with his family (he now thought of his three teachers as family), and decided to keep his mask at least until he became a ninja.
The two of them arrived at Ichiraku's faster than possible, Hiruzen debated with himself the fact if Naruto used the Body Flicker technique or not for a second before sitting down at the stall.
"Ayame-chan! Teuchi-ojii! Guess who's ba-mph!" he didn't have time to finish before being bear hugged by a brown-haired missile, said brown missile being a cute girl three-years older than Naruto by the name Ayame, the daughter of the ramen stand's owner Teuchi Ichiraku.
"Naruto-kun! Where were you? What happened to you?" demanded the young girl after ending the hug, her hand on her hips and her face in a serious frown. Naruto became saddened.
"W-well, I was in the hospital because of the villagers." He stammered a bit his answer with his face lowered a bit and his voice a soft whisper. The problem being that an Ayame in protective mode has her senses powered up times 10, so she still heard it clearly.
Naruto heard a gasp and suppressed a wince when hearing it. He was slowly hugged by Ayame. She held him tightly while tracing circles on his back, just like Frisk did when comforting him.
"I'll get everyone who ever does that to you again and they will suffer." She promised in a whisper, but Naruto still heard it and it made him think of Chara, he didn't answer but he had a small true smile on his face.
"Ahem" they were interrupted by the voice of Teuchi. "I know you like Naruto but I'm not yet prepared for more, Ayame." He said jokingly with a teasing smile on his face. At that, Ayame let go of Naruto with her face red as a tomato and faced her father.
"Tou-san!" she complained, her face still red.
"Anyway, what will you have, Naruto-kun? Hokage-sama?" asked the older Ichiraku.
"Three miso ramen for me, with extra pork!" exclaimed exuberantly Naruto, which was met with a smile and a nod from Teuchi.
"One miso ramen, please." Answered Hiruzen, a gentle smile on his face.
"Alright, four miso, three with extra pork incoming." Confirmed Ichiraku before disappearing in the back of the shop.
Several minutes later, Naruto and the old Sarutobi finished eating their ramen, but were still seated at the stand when the Hokage asked a question to Naruto.
"Do you remember what happened before the attack in the alley?" he asked carefully, not wanting Naruto to focus too much on the painful memories, neither apparently knowing Ayame was listening to their conversation from inside the stand and if Teuchi saw her, he said nothing to discourage her from doing it.
"Y-yeah, I was kicked out of the orphanage some days ago-" all the people listening to him (currently Hiruzen, Ayame and Teuchi) froze hearing this, from either anger, shock or sadness or all three of them"-and I was doing my best to not get seen by anyone because it was the day of the festival, and its always worse the day of the festival. But I was seen by a random ninja that was hoping roof from roof and he immediately disappeared towards a bar. Several minutes later, an entire mob of people minus the ninja appeared, I took a wrong turn and…" he explained, trailing off at the end for obvious reasons.
"In that case, I'll be getting you an apartment for yourself with a stipend for you to spend money for clothes, to eat and all of the necessary expenses." He said in a normal voice with a normal smile, too normal like a mask to not show his anger.
"And I'll be helping by creating recipes that are well balanced or else you'll stay a Chibi for the rest of your life." Joked Teuchi, but his face was in a serious frown. Suddenly, a certain brown-haired missile slammed into Naruto, he hugged Ayame before everyone heard snivelling, Naruto could feel his shirt dampening. Everyone looked at her and stayed silent until she stopped crying. She stopped hugging Naruto and started talking, pure BRAVERY in her brown eyes.
"I want to be a kunoichi." she stated, her eyes red and puffy from crying, surprising everyone present. Hiruzen recovered first.
"And why is that?" he asked the little girl, she was after all at the age to start the academy.
"To protect Naruto from this village." She answered bluntly, but bravely, further surprising everyone, but especially Naruto. She was going to go that far?
"And what about you wanting to continue the ramen stand after me?" asked Teuchi, not for the ramen stand, but for her dream. At the mention of her dream, she hesitated slightly, but stood her ground.
"Why would I continue it if the only people I serve ramen are those that hurt and hate Naruto?" she answered, her determination to help Naruto continuing to surprise the group.
"No…" quietly said Naruto.
"Huh? Did you say something Naruto?" gently asked Teuchi. Naruto had his head a bit down, his hair shadowed his eyes. He lifted his head, letting them see the pure DETERMINATION and INTEGRITY glowing in them.
"I said NO!" he suddenly exclaimed.
"B-but Naruto-kun!" complained Ayame, surprised and a little bit hurt by his outburst.
"I'm glad that you want to protect me, Ayame-chan." He said honestly, surprising everyone with his seriousness, Ayame gained a small smile at his words. "But I don't want you to be in danger and abandon your dream for me." She was about to protest but he raised a hand before continuing. "And if you're going to protect me, who is going to protect you?" he asked with a frown. To say that everyone was shocked was an understatement, mostly because of the maturity he just showed.
"I can help with that." Interrupted Teuchi, they looked at him while he went behind the stall's counter, bent down and took out a scroll.
"When I was younger, I was a ninja too, except that I lacked a lot of chakra and wanted to avoid damaging my hands because I also wanted to become a cook. So, I created a certain fighting style that uses only the legs: the 'Red Leg' fighting style." He handed the scroll to Ayame. "If you really want to become a ninja but preserve your body to become a cook, follow this scroll. That way you can keep an eye on our favourite blonde customer, but still keep up with your dream." He finished. Hiruzen remembered that fighting style and smiled, maybe they'll have a second 'Devil Cook Ninja' in the village. They all looked at Naruto to see what would be his reaction. He had a small smile on his face that gradually changed into an ear-to-ear grin.
Ayame smiled and hugged Teuchi, thanking him before going to Naruto and hugging him again. Naruto used that opportunity to *Check her.
*Check
Name: Ichiraku Ayame
LV: 1
HP: 20
ATK: 2
DEF: 0
Daughter and successor to Ichiraku Teuchi the ramen chef. This girl is one of the most KIND and BRAVE people you will ever find. She would do anything to protect those she loves. She holds you in the highest regard. Detests perverts, may god help those who cross her, for even he fears a woman's wrath.
If Naruto was surprised, he did a good job at hiding it, maybe the end scared him a little, he remembers she became mad at someone, he still doesn't know what happened to them.
"Hey, Ayame-chan?"
"Hm?"
"If you will enter the academy, then I will too." She was about to protest but thought about it before nodding.
Not far, Hiruzen and Teuchi were watching the exchange.
"Looks like the next eight years will have me clear a ton of paperwork." Hiruzen remarked before sighing in resignation before muttering darkly about 'damn troublesome Uzumakis' and 'The Bane of all Kage'. Teuchi chuckled with a sweatdrop.
"Maybe, but at least nothing will be dull in this village anymore. I just hope they'll be careful." He sighed, they were going to get in trouble, weren't they?
A/N: My chapters will be around this long, maybe less. I just can't do much bigger and honestly, I have already read and corrected this chapter 4 times before posting it. That and I've got an exam in less than a week, meaning there won't be a chapter for some time. Take care and remember that if you've got ideas that I could incorporate inside the story, I'm all for it, so just PM me.
