Disclaimer: As much as we hate to admit this, we do not own Naruto, nor do we own Yu Yu Hakusho.
A/N: This story is set about 5 years after Sasuke left the village, all the characters are older and with different stats now, and to make things easier we're just gonna say Sasuke came back.
Note: This story is a Naruto/Yu Yu Hakusho crossover. Other than that, there isn't anything else that wasn't mentioned in the summory... or so you think. Muh ha ha.
No really, that's it.
Now! On with the story!
Chapter One: DiscoveriesHiei staggered, the weight of his bleeding companion on him, as he carried him to safety. On their last visit to Demon World they had run into some residents. When Kurama had gotten injured, Hiei tried to fight the demons off single handedly. Becoming wounded himself; Kurama had convinced him to run. As much as Hiei didn't like the feeling of retreating, there had been no way he or Kurama could fight with the wounds they had received. Hiei paused to get his bearings and shook Kurama.
"Wake up." He said to thedrowsing kitsune. Kurama stirred and tried to stand. Staring out over a hill he pointed.
"There's a village. Maybe we can get some help there," he said walking to the edge, Hiei supporting him.
"You put too much in store for human sympathy," Hiei said as the ground beneath Kurama gave, sending him plummeting, Hiei in tow. Hiei landed with a crack on top of Kurama. He heard a scream before darkness overtook him.
Two silhouettes leapt through the thick forest trees as they raced home. One of the two slipped on a mossy branch, and plummeted towards the ground.
"Ahhh-" his yell was cut off when he abruptly stopped in midair.
"Baka" a voice said above him. The owner of the voice had caught him by his ankle as he held on to the tree branch. "Quit being clumsy Naruto."
"Shut up teme," the reply came as Sasuke pulled the blonde up. The two chuunin took off , only to be halted by the blonde once more. Said blonde looked around the wooded area. "Did you hear that?"
"Hear what?" the brunette asked, slightly annoyed.
"There was a scream." Naruto took off in the opposite direction.
Muttering colourful words under his breath, Sasuke followed his teammate. He stopped beside Naruto who was intently looking at something on the forest floor. "Dobe, what is it?" Sasuke answered his own question though when he glanced down.
Two figures, one a smaller dark haired was laying on top of a taller red haired person. There was no evidence of hitai-ate on the red head. Sasuke could see a glimmer of a white headband through the other's ebony hair. Naruto hurried to their side, checking for a pulse.
"Sasuke come here."
The Uchiha's eyes bled to red as they scanned the two unknown men before they faded back to coal. Convinced that the two injured people were harmless, he knelt down beside Naruto.
"What is it," he asked.
Naruto looked up at Sasuke, confused.
"They have … no pulse."
"What?" he asked as the smaller one groaned and sat upright.
"Kurama" he muttered, laying a hand on his companion's shoulder.
Reaching a hand out, Sasuke tapped the smaller one's arm. Seeing a flash, he quickly stepped back as he blinked. He was almost instantly greeted by the sight of a katana pointed at his throat, it's only blockade an intinctive kunai.Sasuke glared at the small dark haired attacker through the two weapons. He stepped back, katana raised in defense.
"Don't touch me human," he growled.
"Itai" the small man glanced down at the red head before ignoring him once more and fixing his gaze on the dark haired ninja.
"Hey! Your friend! He's bleeding," Naruto suddenly exclaimed.
"Yeah, so?"
"We need to help him, he's losing too much blood," Naruto explained. He had been taught to detect wounds when he had left the village with Jiraiya-sama. When he used the Kyuubi's chakra, he could smell any blood, internal or external.
"Then you help. I don't care whether he dies or not."
"That's not very caring Hiei." Kurama said sitting up. Naruto looked down at him.
"Hey are you alright?" he asked.
"Don't be too friendly with them Naruto. Even if he's injured, the red head could be hostile like the little one is." Sasuke said glaring back at said little one.
"Hiei calm down." Kurama said as the temperature surrounding the four began to rise. Smiling, he turned back to Sasuke and Naruto. "I am Kurama and my little friend here is Hiei." He turned to Naruto, "Could you help me up, little fox?"
Naruto hesitated before extending his hand out to Kurama and helping him up.
Kurama hissed as the jagged edges of his broken ribs jabbed his sides.
"If you could tell me the direction to Gandara, it would be much appreciated" he said as he caught his breath.
Sasuke spoke up, "There is no Gandara around here."
"No? Have you a … where is some place where I might find a healer?"
"There's a hospital in Konoha, that's the closest village right now," Naruto said.
"What village have you come from?" Sasuke interrupted the two. Kurama looked over at Sasuke confused, "Village? I'm not quite sure what you mean, but does Kyoto mean anything to you?"
"No, there is no such place here," he thought for a moment, " …or anywhere for that matter."
"I see. Then I guess we don't have a home, "Kurama said, leaning onto Hiei.
"Wanderers eh? Well we'll take you to the Konoha hospital," Naruto said, ignoring Sasuke's disapproving death glare and began leading the two. Kurama straightened and hurried to catch up to the blonde, leaving Hiei standing next to Sasuke. He glanced at the ninja once more before catching up with Kurama, wrapping an arm around his waist Hiei pulled Kurama to lean on him again.
"Idiot. Even with your demon healing you can't be rash," Hiei whispered sharply. Sasuke raised an eyebrow at the unfamiliar language and ran up to follow the trio.
"Hey Tsunade baa-chan!" Naruto greeted a blonde and rather, well- endowed woman. "What are you doing here at the hospital?"
She sighed, putting down a clipboard. "Our last ANBU team came back real roughed up and I had to come here." She looked down at him, "What do you want brat?"
"Well, since you're here would you mind looking at someone for me?" he asked, gesturing towards Kurama. She glanced over at the redhead.
She let out a sigh. "Sure, it's better than paperwork." She then looked at Kurama again. "Come with me please."
Kurama nodded and, with a few strange words to Hiei, followed.
Tsunade entered a vacant room and gestured to the gurney she told Kurama to lay down. Hiei stood in the doorway, standing guard, as Kurama obeyed her. She quickly formed various hand symbols before concentrating on one. Her hands began to glow a faint green and she moved then over Kurama, pausing over his chest.
"What are you doing?" Hiei asked, a hard edge to his tone. Tsunade didn't respond, but continued, ignoring Hiei.
"She's healing him. You've never seen a medic nin before? That green glow is a special kind of chakra," Sasuke answered for her, coming up to stand by Hiei.Tsunade stopped and looked at the redhead with a frustrated expression. "Why isn't this working?" she asked nobody, her voice full of vexation.
"What's not working? What are you trying to do?" Kurama said attempting to sit up, "And what's chakra?"
Tsunade didn't answer but gazed in Sasuke's direction before turning to Naruto, whom had entered behind Sasuke.
"Please take them both to the civilian ward of the building. Tell the doctors to treat them both traditionally. I'll meet you there in a little while."
Naruto nodded and turned to the two demons. "Come on," he said, enthusiastically, once more leading the way of the two demons. As soon as the three were gone, Tsunade immediately swiveled to face Sasuke,
"Where did they come from?" she asked.
"We don't know. They couldn't name any villages, and the city they named doesn't even exist. Naruto found them unconscious in the woods when we were coming back from a mission."
"Alright," she leaned over to him and said something in a whisper. He nodded and they both left the room, each going in their own direction.
Hiei sat by Kurama's side, looking around warily. The two conversed in a foreign tongue, so that no one could eavesdrop.
"These people aren't normal humans," Hiei said.
"Not if you count glowing green hands, then no, they're not. Especially Naruto, he has a fox within him." Kurama uncharacteristically replied .
"They don't trust us."
"It is not that they don't trust us. Most likely they don't like the circumstances associated with our arrival and our lack of knowledge about the geography of the land."
A knock came from behind the closed door. Without waiting for an answer at the door opened and a pale man with long puce brown hair strode into the room. Tsunade followed.
"Sorry to barge in on you, but do you mind if we ask you a few questions?"
"Sure" Kurama answered.
Tsunade then continued, "What particular city did you come from?"
"Kyoto"
"Do you mind if we try something on you, it's a harmless way to gain more insight."
"With what?" Kurama asked, ignoring Hiei's immediate answer of NO.
"With Byakugan," the wan man answered, "It's a bloodline trait that has many optical advantages. One for example would be the ability to see the circulation of ones chakra, the combination of spiritual and physical energies that encircle the body and are used if the supply is high enough."
"Fine." Kurama closed his eyes and turned his head to face away from Neji and Tsunade. She gestured to Neji and he nodded. Weaving his hands together with his index and middle fingers against each other, he concentrated and put his hands to the bridge of his nose, his eyes closed.
"Byakugan," he said, the veins around his eyes bulging, and his white eyes fixated on Kurama. He closed his eyes and lowered his hands, his face retuning back to normal, but with a confused expression.
"Hokage-sama, he doesn't seem to have any chakra at all, but he does have a golden aura about him."
"That's what I expected; you may leave now Neji-san, that's all I wanted to know."
Without comment, the jounin left the room.
Tsunade looked to Kurama, "You two aren't from around here are you?"
"...Not exactly," he said suspiciously.
She nodded as she thought, "Am I right to assume that you both came from 'demon world'?"
Immediately, Hiei stood in front of Kurama, his katana pointed at Tsunade. "What do you know of it?" he growled.
Kurama stood, one arm holding his injured ribs, with the other he grabbed the blade and moved the tip towards the floor. Kurama spoke to Tsunade, "Why do you ask?"
"In this world, we have the ability to summon demons and other powerful creatures. They are kept separate form us though, in a different sort of dimension, if you will. There are stories of a third dimension; people have dubbed it 'demon world'. If the stories are correct, then you both may have fallen through a hole in our worlds. Someone must have tired to call on a summoning but performed the wrong hand signs or in a wrong order. You two were just lucky enough to find that hole they created. I ask you both are actually from demon world because you have demon ki, instead of chakra."
"So if we're not in our home world, then how do we get back?" Kurama asked.
"Well, there is only one way I know of. There is a forbidden scroll stored away that holds the way to and fro our worlds. If we can retrieve it, I'll send out some of my ninja to assist to back to your world."
"What about the little fox and his friend that helped us today?" Kurama asked.
"I highly doubt that they'll be of any help to you or your friend. I'm not even sure I'm able to send out a team skilled enough for this mission at the moment, what with all of the ANBU out of commission."
"Why is that?"
She sighed, "Because the scroll is guarded and kept in the middle of the Sound."
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Scooperchan: Ahem… anyway, I tried to keep the Naruto characters in character and SMK did the same for the Yu Yu Hakusho people. If anyone objects to any of the weird stuff in the story, please remember it is a fan fiction. Also, it might take a week or so till the next chapter if you wish to read more … we're slow typers.