Ramen Doodles
By Andrew J. Talon
Disclaimer: I do not and probably never will own Naruto or any other copyrighted works mentioned in this story. I am not writing this for profit.
Author's Note: When I have writer's block, I often write a lot of random snippets of ideas, omakes, and continuations of other author's ideas that kind of petered out. As I'm afflicted with a bit of writer's block regarding Key Through the Heart (again), I've decided I'm not going to leave you guys in the lurch. Therefore, enjoy some writing I've been doing over at The Fanfiction Forum.
Well, I've graduated, and I'm back from my archaeology class field trip down to Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. I felt like Daniel Jackson or Indiana Jones, standing in rooms built a thousand years ago and picking up pottery shards made by human hands long before any of my ancestors set foot in the Americas. I got chills looking up at the pictograph of the 1054AD supernova, and imagined what it would be like to be in that canyon a thousand years ago, when a bright new star burned in the sky, visible even during the day. It was awesome.
I'm working on a snippet (and on getting pictures I took up online on my Devart account), but until then, here's a snippet of a Terminator/Naruto fusion or crossover idea I had in response to the new movie coming out. Keep in mind though that I'm not a big fan of the Terminator movies and I only watched the TV series for Summer Glau. With that in mind, here's the following scene:
"GUH!"
Slammed through a tree trunk by Sakura's punches was not something unknown to Naruto-They'd trained plenty of times, sparred enough for him to get a really good appreciation of her strength. But this? Oh yes, this was different.
For one thing... She didn't punch this hard.
Naruto groaned and sat up, laying in an imprint of his body into the ground that was deeper than he thought it could be. Already the itching, burning pain of regeneration, coupled with the pain of his injuries were clouding his senses.
But he wasn't a ninja for nothing. He sensed the woman walking towards him, and looked up. Everything about her, from her scent to her face to her clothing said "Sakura Haruno".
Everything but the cold, calculating air about her. Everything but the expression she wore.
"Naruto Uzumaki," she stated in a flat tone. "You are to be terminated." She held up an arm, which morphed, literally, into a large barrel. He could feel chakra being summoned, converted, into lightening elemental chakra...
It's going to kill me, Naruto thought. He wheezed, trying to push himself back up. But the Fake-Sakura had hit him in the right places. He felt broken bones hindering his movements. He summoned up his own chakra just as the Fake-Sakura lowered her weapon at him.
TSEW! An explosion erupted around Naruto. The smoke rose, dust billowed around. The Fake-Sakura waited, scanning the debris... And calmly turned to grab his wrist, holding a buzzing Rasengan away from her with ease.
"GAH!" Naruto cried, gaping in astonishment. The Fake-Sakura gave him almost a pitying look.
"Resistance is futile," she stated, pushing her weapon against his chest. Naruto struggled.
"Stop!" He growled, trying to tug away from the Fake-Sakura, but the fist held tightly. He slammed a kick into it's belly, punched her with his other fist even as the weapon charged, but nothing stopped it. Nothing even fazed it. It's weapon fully charged, the Fake-Sakura still had no emotion as she prepared to fire again.
TSEW!
The vaporized remains of a log were blown into the wind. The Fake-Sakura looked around, scanning. Behind a tree, Naruto held his side and gritted his teeth.
Replacement jutsu... Hard to do... It wasn't just being held by the thing that had made it difficult. It was as if the thing was suppressing his chakra. How? Why? And where was the real Sakura?
TSEW!
"GAH!" Naruto barely dodged the energy blast, leaping to another tree. The Fake-Sakura followed, another energy blast erupting from her arm.
"What did you do with Sakura-chan?!" He shouted back angrily, landing on an opposite tree trunk. He flashed through hand seals and unleashed a powerful wind jutsu at the Fake-Sakura. It was hit dead in the chest, but poofed away, revealing the replacement. Naruto moved as fast as he could, barely dodging another energy blast from the Fake-Sakura.
It didn't answer, save by reappearing behind him and slamming a fist into his kidney.
"GURK!" Naruto shouted, stumbling. He managed to slam a foot into it's face as he went down, which sent the thing falling back. Naruto gritted his teeth and flipped onto his feet, slamming his fingers into a handseal.
"KAGE BUNSHIN NO-!"
The Fake-Sakura fired another energy blast, forcing Naruto to leap to the side.
"-JUTSU!"
The clearing was filled with Narutos, the real deal quickly escaping into the crowd, trying to think. Trying to plan. This thing was tough. This thing had done something to the real Sakura, he knew it. He had to figure out what-!
POOF! POOF! POOF!
Naruto blinked. Smoke filled the clearing. Smoke from busted clones. In the center of it all stood the Fake-Sakura, calmly lowering her weapon arm to fire on him. Fully charged, the weapon went off.
BOOM!
Naruto opened his eyes. He smelled burning flesh and... Machinery?
In front of him stood a familiar brunette, hair up in two buns. She held a barreled weapon of her own, but it was hand-held, large and crude-looking, not part of her like with the Fake-Sakura. She held this weapon up and fired, hitting the Fake-Sakura right in the face and blasting her off her feet.
"Tenten...?" Naruto asked in disbelief. The bunned-girl turned her head to look at Naruto over her shoulder. He gaped at her face, as it became clear where the Fake-Sakura had hit Tenten.
"Come with me if you want to live," Tenten stated flatly, a brown, human eye and a glowing blue, mechanical eye staring directly into his.
A Naruto/Terminator crossover. If I was writing it, I would be tempted to go with a fusion-style idea: Chakratech goes wrong in the future. If it was set in the Alt-Canon Narutoverse, no doubt their version of Skynet would be made by Sakura.
Another way would be if the Resistance had managed to shut down Skynet remotely, and a few thousand years passed until the time of Naruto, when a few scientists either find an ancient computer or invent a new one with a communications system capable of contacting a satellite network in orbit. They accidentally bring it back online, and it begins to rebuild while providing knowledge and schematics for more advanced technology to humanity, all in the guise of a kind of ancient Oracle. It learns of Chakra... And begins to build it's knowledge of how to allow cybernetic creations utilize that energy. All to set the stage for Skynet to return to power, and exterminate humanity once and for all.
Meanwhile, a Chakratech version of a Terminator (preferably in a female form) is shot into the past and right into the lap of the future savior of humanity: One Naruto Uzumaki.
My own thoughts on this are that Tenten would be the perfect fit for the Terminator sent back in time to protect Naruto. We have no past history on her. No last name. No family. We've seen Terminators (such as the TX or T-1000) able to alter their physical appearance. I see Tenten as a sleeper cyborg, unaware of her nature until the time is right. When the future Skynet sends a Terminator of it's own to kill Naruto.