"Naruto!" Normal Speech.
'Naruto!' Normal Thought.
"Rasengan!" Power/Jutsu/Technique.
"Naruto" Demonic/Dragon/Monster/Spirit Speeches.
'Naruto' Demonic/Dragon/Monster/Spirit Thoughts.
Summary: What could possibly happen, for an unknown fairy-like self-proclaimed best traveling companion creature, a traveler from another world with mysterious powers to wield elements without the need of vision hell bent on finding her brother, and a stranded but powerful Shinobi looking for a way back home, to travel together in the world of Teyvat? The most exciting adventures, that is!
Intertwined Fates
Chapter 2
Another world
After feeling the pain of having his right arm blown apart, the first thing that Naruto Uzumaki felt upon becoming self-aware once again was excruciating pain. It felt like thousands of boiling-hot knifes were slicing into him, like his muscles were being shredded and torn to pieces in order to fit into a tiny little blackhole that was sucking him through before his entire body being set on fire, quite literally.
And then, the pain disappeared, as his regenerative healing factor kicked in and mended the torn muscles and broken bones inside his body. Naruto didn't know about his lost arm though, doubting the fact that Kurama's chakra and his strong lifeforce could help him regrow the whole thing, but it no longer hurt as much, and as the pain began to fade into the background Naruto began to feel other sensations. The feel of lush, comfortably soft grass beneath his frame, the bunch of something his head was laying against, not soft enough to be a pillow but at the same time not hard enough to be a rock.
Then his nose picked up the sweet scent of roasted meat that pervaded his nostrils and soothed his mind and soul, but at the same time made him realize just how hungry he was. His ears then picked up the sounds of people chattering, over the crackling of wood burning in a campfire, though he was unable to make out exactly what they were saying to each other, and it was not just because his senses were all fuzzy.
Naruto couldn't recognize any of those voices either, but at the very least they sounded friendly. He could also start feeling the bandages that wrapped around his body, over his bigger wounds and bruises. He could also feel several layers of cloth were bundled up around the lower half of his right arm, probably as the result of a desperate attempt to stop the bleeding before the wound closed up by itself.
Slowly, the blond opened his eyes, and the first thing that greeted him was the starry night sky that could be seen through the gap directly above him in the forest canopy, making Naruto realize that he was in a forest of some sort. Still, it was impossible for him to determine exactly where he was, and as his senses grew sharper and became clearer, questions began to race through his mind. Where was he? How did he get to a place like this all the way from the Valley of the End? And more importantly, what happened to Sasuke?
For a moment, Naruto wondered how long he had been out for, before shrugging the question off in favor of getting up, using his left elbow to prob and then push himself up with a grunt. Instantly, however, he fell over as a sense of vertigo and nausea swept through him, and he would have fallen on his face if it weren't for the person who caught him.
"Hey, don't move. I don't think you are not strong enough to do that yet."
It was a girl, one of the cutest girls he had ever seen in his life, with pale skin, fiery-gold eyes and short cropped, choppy bob blonde hair with two long bangs coming down to her shoulder. Even though she appeared to have spoken to him in a language that he could not understand, Naruto barely paid any attention to it at first as he stared up at her in confusion, noticing her strange clothing, being a sleeveless and box pleated white dress held up by crossed black straps. She also appeared to be wearing a long scarf with the same design as her outfit, and had two light blue flowers pinned to the right of her head.
"Wha… who are you?" Naruto asked weakly, before widening his eyes in surprise when he saw a small, petite fairy like girl with white hair and dressed in a white jumper flying into his field of vision and hovering over them, her blue cap flecking magically with stars and constellations like those glistening on the sky above them. In addition, she also had a rose-gold crown that levitates above her head as though it was a halo.
"What is he saying, Lumine?" Paimon asked, tilting her head to the side in confusion as she rubbed her chin in a thoughtful manner. "Paimon has never heard such language before."
Of course Naruto couldn't understand a word she was saying, as the blonde haired girl offer him what appeared to be a bottle of water after laying him against the trunk of a large tree, making the blond look unsurely at it for a moment before grabbing it in the only hand that he had left and bringing it over to his mouth to drink, quenching the terrible thirst that he had only just realized he had then.
"I have." Lumine finally said, replying to Paimon's inquiry much to her travelling companion's surprise. Clearing her throat and coughing a few times into her hand while Naruto could only stare blankly up at them in utter confusion after he had finished drinking the entire bottle of water, Lumine then opened her mouth and spoke again, this time in the same language Naruto had spoken earlier "Hey there. Can you speak again? Do you understand me now?"
"Wait… I understand you know." Naruto answered in surprise, making Lumine beam at him in confirmation before he decided to ask her all the questions he was having in his mind, briefly glancing over to Paimon, who crossed her arms on her chest and looked at the two blonde haired people in confusion "Who are you? What is she? Where are we right now? What…"
"Easy there. I am surprised that you are alive, let alone still have the strength to fire so many questions at me like that." Lumine said, gently putting a hand on his chest to calm him down before continuing "But to answer your questions. My name is Lumine and this is Paimon. I don't know what she is either so please don't ask, but she and I, the two of us found you badly wounded after literally falling from the sky and crashing into a hunting ground not too far from here. We are in a forest not too far from Mondstadt of Teyvat."
"Mondstadt… Teyvat… what are you talking about?" Naruto couldn't help but ask, becoming even more confused than before, as he had never heard of such locations before in his life.
"I know that it will be difficult for you to believe me…" Lumine began, trailing off as she looked to the side for a moment before continuing after turning her eyes back to him "but you are not in Elemental Nations or Earth anymore. You are in a different world called Teyvat now."
"Thank you." Naruto said, nodding his head gracefully at Lumine when she walked back to him with a long skewer of some mushrooms and evenly cut pieces of roasted meat, making his stomach grumble loudly at the sight of it.
Before he could say anything else start eating the thing, with Lumine sitting down next to him by the campfire, he was stopped by the sound of Paimon delightfully devouring a large chunk of meat almost as big as she was, which made him sweat drop as he glanced over to her and watched her eat.
"In case you want to ask, I have no idea where all that goes either." Lumine spoke, answering the question he was wondering as if she could read his mind while eating a mushroom on her skewer, chewing it carefully and then swallowing before continuing to talk to him "She's the reason I had to hunt for this boar in that hunting ground after all."
"Hmmm, Paimon really doesn't like this language barrier thingy. Why do I have a feeling that you are making fun of me again?" Paimon asked, stopping for a second to look at her traveling companion, who just laughed it off while waving a hand at her.
"I am only telling our friend here the reason why we were at the hunting ground earlier, that's all." She said, before looking back at Naruto and seeing him eating the meat on his skewer, looking quite content with the taste of it "So, you are feeling much better now, right? When we found you, you were this close to dying. We did not know what to do, but then you start healing on your own. Even your lost arm stopped bleeding when I was about to cauterize it."
"Ah, I see." Naruto said, unconsciously looking over to his lost right arm "Still, thank you for saving my life."
"Don't mention it. A boar got caught in your fall, so you actually helped fill our stomach tonight." Lumine told him with a soft laugh.
After that, the two of them sat there and ate in silence, listening to the pleasant sounds of the forest at night, and watching Paimon as she ate her second meal. Naruto was not someone who was known for his table manners, but Paimon… she was on a whole other level.
"So uh…" Naruto began, breaking the silence after eating like half of his skewer. "You said you had been to Elemental Nations before, right?"
"Yes, I was a world traveler." Lumine told him, making Naruto raise an eyebrow at her in wonder, noticing the past tense in her statement "I had the power to travel between worlds, and I have traveled to your Earth before with my twin brother. There, we met the people of your world, and a man whose name was…"
She then trailed off, looking up while tapping her chin in a thoughtful manner to recall the name of that person.
"Hago… Haro… something…"
"Hagoromo Otsutsuki!?"
"Oh yeah! I think that was his name! He was the one who taught me your language." Lumine said, beaming at him while nodding her head in confirmation
"Wait, you are really talking about that horned old man?!" Naruto asked in disbelief and shocked "He died like… almost a thousand of years ago in my world. How old are…" Before Naruto could finish asking the question, Lumine had picked up a pebble on the ground and flicked it at his forehead, making Naruto react instantly and raise his hand to catch it in the air.
The pebble still hit his forehead, making Naruto lean his head back slightly, widening his eyes in surprise. It was only then that the blond remembered he had lost his right hand from the elbow down, making him unable to catch the pebble before it hit his forehead.
"Has anyone ever told you it's rude to ask a girl her age?" Lumine asked playfully, having noticed Naruto reacting almost instantly to the pebble she had flicked at him. The only reason he couldn't stop it, was because his right arm was no longer there.
She couldn't help but wonder if the young man was like Hagoromo and some of his people.
"And yes, I am much older than I look. My brother and I… we have been traveling worlds for a very long time now."
"Can you take me back?" was the question that Naruto had in his mind, and the question that did not take him even a moment of hesitation to ask, even though he had a feeling that he had already known the answer.
"I could… but I lost my powers." Lumine said, looking down at her skewer for a second before continuing "After my brother and I traveled to this world, we were met by an unknown entity of Teyvat. We fought her, but she was too strong for us both. In the end, we were defeated and she sealed us away. It's been five hundred years since… and when I woke up a few months ago, I also found out that I lost all of my powers. I am stranded here, just like you are right now."
"I am sorry to hear that." Naruto said, making Lumine smile softly and nod his head to him in acceptance "What about…"
"My brother? He has gone missing." Lumine answered before Naruto could finish his question, leaning back slightly with a sad look on her face "I have been trying to look for him since I was released from my seal."
"I see…" Naruto nodded his head, finding it difficult to accept the fact that he was stuck here in Teyvat. Was there any other way for him to return to his world? And it wasn't just about him finding a way to return to his world. It was also about him having had to get back to his world his world as soon as possible to stop Sasuke, if the guy was still thinking about remaking the world in his stupid image.
Come to think of it… how did he get stranded in Teyvat but Sasuke didn't again? Did something happen during their final clash?
"Hey Lumine." Naruto suddenly spoke up as an idea came to his mind, making Lumine turn her head to look at him "Do you think that your brother still has his powers?"
"I don't know, to be honest." Lumine answered, but Naruto had fully expected her to give such an answer "But I think he woke up long before me, since the circumstances of our sealings appeared to be different. I also believe that if I can find him then maybe, just maybe… we can work out something together to restore my power."
"So… if I help you find your brother and restore your power, can you take me back to my world?" Naruto asked hurriedly, leaning forward a bit to look at the blonde.
"I mean… I will still take you back to your world even if you don't want to help me. I hate seeing people getting stranded in worlds that aren't theirs. Not my first time meeting someone like you, by the way." Lumine said with a shrug of her shoulders, before smiling at him as she said "But sure, if you want to help me find my brother, then I can use all the help that I can get."
"Thank you." Naruto grinned, nodding his head gratefully to Lumine "Still uh… do you know where to start though?"
"I am thinking about heading to Mondstadt tomorrow." The blonde girl answered, gesturing a thumb to Paimon, who was lying on the ground in self-satisfaction after she had finished her meal. "Paimon seems to think the Seven can help me find some information about my brother, and the nearest one is in Mondstadt."
"The Seven?"
"The seven gods of this world who reign over the seven main regions of Teyvat. I didn't stay on your Earth very long, but I don't think you guys have gods that walk amongst mortals there, do you?" Naruto could only shake his head slowly in response. It was after that that the two finished their meals, allowing Lumine to dust her hands before standing up to do the same to the back of her skirt "Well, tomorrow we can go to Mondstadt and ask Barbatos if he knows about any anomaly in his world. I don't think that he knows anything, but I guess it's better than just wandering aimlessly around in the wild like I have been doing for the past few months, you know."
"Oh, by the way, I haven't known your name yet."
"Oh, it's Naruto… Naruto Uzumaki."
"Naruto… as in fishcake? That topping you put on the ramen?"
"Yes. You have ramen in this world?"
"Yes, we do. You should rest up, Naruto. We will go to Mondstadt together tomorrow." With that said, Lumine walked over to Paimon and told her about everything she had just talked with Naruto, leaving the blond to sit there by himself and stare at the campfire before him.
To say that he was worried would be an understatement, but for the time being, Lumine and her twin brother were his best bets for having a chance to come back to his world.
End of Chapter 2
Note: and that's the end of this chapter folks! Sorry for the long wait!
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