This is a Naruto/John Carter Crossover Fan Fiction Story Only.
Having lost all of his precious people, Naruto sub consciously sealed his Chakra as his own body trying to better fit in with the rest of the people, but once his heart is open again, he will slowly regain his old abilities.
We finally reached a cave that even those pursuing us didn't want to be anywhere near it. I looked at the still injured and complaining old friend. "So James are you done complaining about what you just caused? I told you these people under your command are not all honorable, how naive can you be."
He looked at me as I helped him get off the horse and I began to take the buckshot out of his hide. "Like you would not trust the people under your command Naruto, you had quite a few rotten eggs under your command last war now that I think of it, ouch, hey watch where you stick that needle!"
I looked at him and kept on working, "I did have some rotten apples, but do you honestly think I trusted them that much? Who was it that flat out betrayed our unit and went to work with the enemy? You even got a better rank than mine for doing that, or care to deny it Lieutenant James Powell?"
I decided to continue to work, the faster I got the idiot patched up, the faster I can go back to look for my gold mine. "Damn it Naruto, you are not mending your saddle there, that is my hide you are sewing. As for me betraying anyone, have you even thought that maybe it was my way to make sure you would make it out of that war alive? Damn if that didn't hurt, didn't your native friends teach you to close a wound better than that?"
I bite the thread and closed the wound with a heated knife. "Not really, I should slit your throat ear to ear to keep you from forcing me to do something stupid, but like you said we were friends once. Maybe this will teach you that these so called savage natives aren't as savage as you or Custer would like to believe."
"Go ahead and take the horse and rifle, I am staying here and see why the men chasing us were so spooked of this place, this might just be the place I been looking for." He got up and walked over the horse and took a pistol from my saddle bag. He aimed it at me for a second, some friend.
"I ain't going nowhere, you want to look around this place. I am sure going to stick around and keep an eye on anything that tries to do you or me in. Seeing you realize there is no spider cave of gold will be more than enough of a reward for me."
I began to walk into the cave and couldn't help but to think that James actually enjoyed seeing me fail. I took a large, thick piece of wood, a rather sturdy stick, and began to spin it making a whole bunch of spider waves in my way becomes a torch. I began to light it and looked up to find the roof of the cave was covered in gold, and right in the middle of this large opening in the cave was the image of what looked to me looked like a spider.
"NARUTO BEHIND YOU!" I turned around and shot a man that clearly tried to stab me with this weird looking knife. I shot him and he let go of a strange medallion. I picked it up and he began to speak some strange words, I tried to understand but they sounded so strange it was clear I needed to repeat them.
"Ak Ohum Oktay Weez." He looked at me and began nodding his head, and as he was close to dying said the last word, "Barsoom." The second I said that word I felt something hit me hard, hard enough to make me lose my footing and I was lying on the cave floor for a second before somehow I opened my eyes and I was outside the cave again, except the sky didn't look quite right.
I, of course, tried to get up, didn't have much of a success at first, honestly, I felt like I was a new born trying to learn to walk for the first time. The more I tried the more angry and frustrated I felt, I walked a few inches, inches that felt to me like miles, but inches, and I fell down on my face yet again. The area looked much like I remember, a desert as far as the eye can see, I felt so angry that I picked up a small rock and threw it towards a large rock formation that looked like a column.
I somehow not only hit he large rock column but made a large part of it break off and come crashing down near the base of it. I slowly began to get better at walking, then running, and finally, I began to feel comfortable enough to try and jump, I jumped hundreds of feet in a single jump. I kept jumping and looking around me to get a sense where I was.
To some of the idiots, I know it must look like I was flying, too bad this was really just me jumping around from one spot to the next. I walked up towards the rock formation and realized I began to hear something, something like eggs cracking. Oh great, the last thing I need is that I just stepped near a viper nest.
As soon as I walked closer I felt something a kin to a tingle in the back of my head and I evaded what looked to be something firing a rifle at me. I say something because the creature had mandibles on the side of their jaw, four arms and was shouting to me in a language I never even heard before.
I looked at the creature that shot at me and since I had no weapons, wait what happened to my pistol? I had it with me when I entered that gold mine. I picked up a rock and threw it at one of them, and the creature just shot that rock to pieces, no real surprise there, I just hope that was his last bullet.
One of them had his arms up and was talking to me, I don't think he was surrendering. I almost want to say he was treated me like a kid and he was trying to calm me down, I said arms because now a few feet away from me I realized that these creatures also had green skin and not two, but four arms. "Jeddak Tars Tarkus." He was introducing himself, I guess I better do the same, no need to be rude now is there?
I did my best to salute him, "Naruto Uzumaki I am from the state of Virginia." Wouldn't you know it, the thing named Tars Tarkus came to only understand the name of the state where I came from and kept calling me Virginia. I saw that one of the creatures near him was coming towards Tars and he was aiming at him.
I jumped to where he had placed down his rifle, picked it up and tried to figure how this thing is loaded, as I stood there between me and the creature that obviously wanted to kill Tars, why did I feel like I should protect this creature if the only thing he did was introduce himself, and misinterpret my own introduction, I don't know, I just know I felt like I should protect him.
Next thing I know I get hit on the back of my head and everything went black. When I finally open my eyes, I am tied up and on the back of this massive looking animal, looked to me like a mixture between a rhino and a horse. In what I assume are the saddle bags were dozens of crying babies, at least that what I think the crying green things were.
They had mandibles like the big green aliens, so I figured they must be their kids, but why to bring them here or did they pick them up here, that is when I got my answer. I heard several men begin to shoot at the inside of the cave that I thought I heard cracking eggshells. That must have scared the green babies something awful cause they started to do what every baby does when that scared, they began to cry and I began to think I would get a splitting headache.
The ride was long and I realized something that I didn't when I first look at the place, I somehow didn't think I was on Earth anymore. I could not look that much of my surroundings, being hogtied like I didn't give a good enough vantage point. I did see several things first we arrived on what looked to be the remains of a city, a city that was built or carved out of the rock.
The second thing I noticed is that one of the men had the medallion I took from the guy who tried to kill me. So, in short, I was not only humiliated by being captured this easily, they even stole my property. I hope they will at least let me down gently, I heard something being cut and next thing I felt was me kissing the ground. Guess this is the way they treat people, for some odd reason that actually made me feel quite at home.
Let's just say my childhood was not what you call tender. The green babies tried to run away and who would blame them, they must be scared, and that is when several dozen green alien females began to fight each other as each tried to catch one of the green babies. What is it with these creatures? Are adoptions handled via a free for all?
That is when one particularly gruff looking female grabbed the cords that tied my legs and began to drag me. Please don't tell me she thinks I am one of those babies, and that she is going to adopt me. I have seen wolves with a more motherly attitude that this thing when I was a kid, I was an orphan. If this was the only choice between having a single parent and remaining an orphan, the orphanage regardless of how abusive, seemed like a better choice than her.
She let me go and another one came towards me with a knife, great it's not adoption for me at least, I am being dragged to be gutted and cooked like a fish. If James could see me now, the stupid bastard probably would find it funny.
Damn these ropes are tough, I kept trying to break free, if I got free I could jump away from this place. Well, it looks like me and those green babies actually had the same idea, who would have thought that was possible. She had brands all over her arms and legs, she came close and pointed the knife at me, can't move and this female green alien is going to cut me open and cook me, a great way to end a life.
I secretly hoped that I would heal my injuries like always and the shock would allow me to escape. Instead of cutting me open she began to cut the ropes tying me. I can tell you this much, she is strong, as soon as the bindings were done I ran towards the man who stole my medallion, but I tripped yet again as I tried to get a hold of my medallion.
She picked me up and took me to a nursery by the looks of it, please don't tell me they are going to. First I get my head dunked in the foulest looking water I was seen, and then my face and body got some white powder thrown all over.
She came and began to feed the green babies something, "Wait what the hell is that thing!" She looked at me and made a sign that clearly told me to be quiet and then she simply pushed the opening of the giant gourd she was carrying in my mouth. "This is the voice of Barsoom, you will understand if you choose to listen."
That is when what she and the other females were saying started to sound like words to me. The grunts of the green babies were cries alright, and quite loud. I for some reason felt tired and began to feel like I really could use a nap. I closed my eyes and the moment I woke up I was pretty much surrounded by all these green babies, I had to get away from this place before I ended up covered in stuff I didn't want to see or smell.
I tried to move and managed to get free from the pile of sleeping babies without waking them up, that is when I was met with a rather large reptile looking dog, he had more legs than the dogs I knew and a rather large mouth with two tongues. "So you are the one that made sure nothing happened to these kids, what a good boy you are, who's a good boy? You are."
I began to scratch him over his head and behind his ears. For some reason this made the large animal look quite happy, I swear he behaves like a puppy. I knew that this thing would probably follow me wherever I went and decided if anything needed a good walk it was this dog looking creature.
So I and this dog thing went outside and began to look at my surroundings, maybe if I found the guy I met before he might tell me what is going on, at least he might be able to tell me now that I can for some strange reason understand the language.
That is when I heard something like a big party, as I walked towards the building. There was no door, so I went inside and found that some men were having a wrestling contest of some kind, somewhere even making bets by the sounds of it. I found the guy that I was looking for and was walking towards what looked to me looked like a throne.
The second I was half way across the hall that is when I heard the yelps and cries of the very dog I took out for a walk, I turned around and find that three men were kicking the shit out of my dog, hey wait, why did I think of him as my dog? Doesn't matter these jerks are kicking my dog. "Hey, morons, stop kicking my pet! Or I will make you suffer!"
One of the green men went towards me glaring at me, "You are nothing more than a baby, we are full fledged Thark warriors. I will kill that thing for fun and if you don't shut up, I will kill you next!" That does it, I don't know if these men knew of the concept of self-defense, and quite frankly I didn't care if they did, nobody kicks my dog!
I jumped the distance between us and with a single motion, I punched that idiot directly on his head. Even I was surprised to see him so flying and slamming against the wall. The guy on the throne got off it and walked towards the now unconscious green idiot I just punched. "You killed him with a single punch."
He walked over to where I was and the dog was, I tried to make the poor animal feel less pain. "What are you doing here? You were supposed to be with the other children. Why did you kill him?" I looked at him and began shaking my head as I walked up to him. My pet clearly felt better after I tried my best to make him feel less pain.
"My dog needed a walk, and I needed to find out where I was, I told that idiot not to hit my dog. He, of course, said that he would kill my dog, and then told me he would kill me next. Nobody hits my dog. I punched that guy only to try and get him to back off and stop hurting my dog. I didn't even punch him that hard."
He looked at the animal and then at me, "Be it as it may, children should wait in the nursery till after the female in charge of him comes to get him, to take him to her dwelling and teach him all the things that the child needs. I will overlook this, this time, because you didn't start that fight, who is in charge of your care child!"
That is when the green female that cut me loose came towards us. "Woola, I told you to keep him out of trouble. I am sorry for his actions Jeddak, I will accept your punishment. I should really have kept a better watch on him. I just figured he would be asleep like the rest of the children."
I looked at my pet and smiled at him, "So you name is Woola. Nice to meet you." Woola gave a bark and gave me a lick on my face. For a second there I was sure every man in the place was looking at me like I done something strange. "Sola as the female in charge of him, you should have taught him better than that, you will not be punished for this, but do a better job of teaching the child you are in charge off."
I actually never had a family before, well that is not true, there was Aunty Kurama, but she has been gone for so long it's hard to remember the things we used to talk about. Something about an obnoxious pink haired banshee come to mind, but for some reason, I think that was just a nightmare when I ate some bad curry one day.
The thing about this was it was completely unexplored territory for me, I had no clue how the society of these people is supposed to function or anything about it, for a person like me that is down right exciting. I get to learn all kinds of new things, and I don't think Sola will insult me three way into oblivion why she was going to teach me.
"As I was saying children in this tribe belong to the tribe, and as such you are considered a child till you are strong, wise, and capable of defending yourself but more importantly willing to defend the tribe. As a warrior for the tribe, you are to dedicate yourself to the well being of the entire tribe." I looked at her and almost expected her to say something about the flames of youth, no better forget that image.
"So this tribe has no parents then? So everyone in the tribe is orphans or what?" She looked at me and began shaking her head, I guess some concepts did cross the species barrier easier than other it seems. She looked at the other children and they were being taught how to walk and the basic things kids learn. I almost got the feeling she rather is teaching one of those kids rather than me.
"No, Virginia there is a parent in the tribe as it were, the one that pretty much must be respected and obeyed like he was a father to all the members of the tribe is our Jeddak, our leader, in this case, you already met our Jeddak." I wanted to tell her that Virginia was the place where I came from, that my name was actually another.
"Now as to children they gain a name when they do something significant to show that they are adults, and the Jeddak is the one to give the new adult his name. I was named like that and so were all the members of the tribe you see now, somewhere named by other Jeddak. Now come here Virginia, you need to learn to properly use and maintain a standard warrior weapon."
It was a rifle, I mean I know that she is trying to teach me things, but this? I fired things like this since they were invented back on my home world, did she really think I didn't know how to fire a rifle? I took the rifle chambered a shot and fired at a target a few hundred meters away. I know for certain I hit the target. How do I know that? Well, one of the men practicing came and screamed at me about interrupting his target practice.
"Sola you might consider me an infant and by your own cultural norms I am, but I been a warrior longer than you can imagine, so how about you teach me why did those guys beat up Woola? Don't you people believe that animals like Woola are your friends? That they are contributing members of your society?"
