Hello! I do not own Naruto!

So, anyway, this is a crossover...um...it really is...i just haven't exactly made it clear as to what i am crossing it over with...at least not for this chapter (lol)

Chapter One:Unexplained Mysteries

Naruto Uzumaki struggled to rise, groaning as pain shot through his body. Brilliant cerulean eyes opened and the world slowly came into focus. The first thing that he noticed was all the trees. Lots and lots of weird, distorted trees that you would never find in Konoha. They seemed to draw in darkness until it hovered everywhere, despite the gaps in the branches where pale sunlight filtered through. His eyes then caught sight of Hinata Hyuga, her cousin Neji, and Tenten. They lay several feet away from him, Neji the only one showing any signs of waking.

Finally toiling to his feet, Naruto helped Neji up, and then began shaking Hinata, while Neji attempted to wake Tenten.

"Hinata! Wake up!"

The blonde-haired boy fell backwards as the girl shot up with a small cry. Her pupil-less eyes lost their shock and confusion slowly replaced it.

"N-Naruto? Wha-Where are we?" she queried. The two stood as Tenten and Neji joined them.

"Good question. Ask another," Tenten retorted deprecatingly. She grinned at the blushing Hyuga to show she was joking and looked back and forth between the two cousins. "I don't suppose one of you would be so kind as to check things out?"

"Hn," was the only reply from the older Hyuga as he activated his bloodline. It was not until then that he noticed the unusually silent Naruto. The normally hyperactive blonde was staring off past Hinata, to Neji's left. Turning to look in the same direction, straining to locate the object of Naruto's unwavering attention. Seeing nothing extraordinary there for a good four miles out, and nothing unusual around them (save for the trees), he released the Byakugan and frowned.

"Naruto."

When the boy didn't respond, Neji's frown deepened. His hand flashed out toward the boy's head and suddenly found itself caught in an iron grip.

"Um…N-Naruto," Hinata whispered as the two girls stared at him in shock. His blue eyes blinked, then focused on his hand gripping his friend's arm.

"Oops. Heh, heh." He grinned sheepishly and released his hold. Neji ignored the throbbing in his arm and arched an eyebrow.

"Would you be so kind as to inform the rest of us as to what has so avidly caught your attention, Naruto?"

"Power." Seeing the odd looks the others gave him, he grinned and hurried to explain. "I mean, there's this weird power coming form over there," he said, gesturing," and Ky-I mean, I've never felt anything like it. It's…weird."

Neji raised a mental eyebrow, but didn't mention Naruto's hasty cover-up. He would worry about that later. For now…

"Let's go," he said and turned. He could hear Tenten sigh with exasperation.

"Go where? We don't even know where we are, Neji."

"Are we going to investigate?" Naruto asked, a fox-like grin spreading across his features as a light of anticipation gleamed in his eyes.

"Yes. Now move."

Gaara of the Sand struggled to push himself up. His head pounded as he looked around. Pale eyes caught sight of his sister leaning against a wall, looking at him. The Leaf Nin Temari was so obsessed with lay beside her, staring idly at the ceiling. What was his name? Nara, that was it. Uh…Nara Shikamaru…right. Not that he cared.

"Gaara, you're awake," Temari said, relief evident in her voice. Gaara started to nod, then froze. He had been asleep?! And there was no blood and gore and horribly mutilated bodies everywhere? As that crossed his mind, he felt a familiar stirring within. Apparently whatever had happened affected the tanuki as well.

"Where are we?" he asked, rising to his feet. Shikamaru stirred, then looked up at him.

"Don't know. People came and gave us food a while ago; no one's been back since. We figured we'd wait until you woke up before we busted out of here. No sense in lugging you around. Too troublesome."

The teal-eyed boy looked around the small, empty, gray room and frowned. No gourd. Closing his eyes, he cast his senses out, searching for his sand, soaked with the blood of his victims, a veritable extension of his own body…

A strange energy slammed into his mind, picking up his fairly small body and hurling it against the far side of the cell. Temari leapt to her feet with a cry and rushed to his side, with Shikamaru not far behind. Gaara shook the two off as a snarl of fury contorted his face. The familiar rage of the demon Shukaku rose within him and the air seemed to shimmer with power. He was vaguely aware of the two other's fear on either side of him, but he cast it aside. A thin trickle of blood ran down the side of his face from a small, but deep cut on his right temple. He was bleeding.

Someone was going to pay.

Kakashi, Lee, and Ino crouched low as they watched the odd looking creatures scurry down the alleyway, calling out in a strange, hissing sound that the three assumed was their language. When the five finally gave up their search for the Leaf Nins in the alley, Kakashi looked at his subordinates critically.

"So…"

"Where the hell are we, and what the hell were those?" Ino Yamanaka demanded before he could continue. Kakashi sighed.

"If I knew that, Yamanaka, do your really think that I'd be running around in this muck?" the Copy-Nin demanded, nudging one of the many piles of refuse that littered the streets.

"Do not discourage, Ino! We shall prevail against all odds and figure it out with our most youthful and fiery passion! For we are Ninja of Konohakagure and nothing shall defeat us!"

This particularly loud and extremely untactful oration was delivered by one Rock Lee as he thrust a triumphant fist into the air, the other clenched tight before him in defiance. Ino and Kakashi stared at him for along moment, half expecting to hear crickets in the background. Unfortunately, all they heard was the dull roar of civilization and the buzz of the strange vehicles flying overhead.

"Riiiiight. Ahem. So, we don't exactly blend in at the moment. We'll use the Art of Transformation to disguise ourselves until we can buy some native clothing. Both of you keep quiet as much as possible as we don't know what language they speak around here. The last thing we want is to draw attention to ourselves." Kakashi paused, noting Ino's frown, and sighed once more.

"Yes, genin?"

Ino's eye twitched, but she didn't comment on his use of her current status.

"How exactly are we going to pay for this? If we don't speak the language, and we don't look like the freaks that live here, then what exactly in the three worlds made you think that we have the same money? In fact, I'm not currently carrying any money. Are you Lee? No. So unless you happen to have some…"

Though covered, Ino was sure Kakashi's lips were curling into a condescending smirk. The Jonin held up three pouches.

"Actually, I lifted these off our odd looking pursuers. There's bound to be something we can use to help us out."

"You STOLE--!"

Lee's outcry ended in a strangled gasp as Kakashi's hand slammed across his head, knocking him over.

"Quiet!" he hissed, then calmed. "A ninja in a hostile situation does everything in his power to help himself and his companions unto the end of such hostilities or those causing it, whichever should come first. And so far? I don't think they're very friendly around here."

So, so, have you guessed it? Review and let me know what you think the other half of the story is!