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My Heart's Desire

-Chapter 2-

-Last Time-

"Spirit Star!" She exclaimed dramatically before the ball of magical energy shot straight up like a cannon shot, startling the hell out of a certain self-proclaimed super pervert as it zipped past. Streaking high into the sky, it just kept going further and further until not even the keenest eyes could spot it.

And then it exploded, lighting up the afternoon sky with a vibrant neon blue hue as particles of light danced through the air, briefly taking on the appearance of a crashing wave before shifting into the familiar shape of a certain good luck charm.

-And Now-

Deep in the vacuous depths that was the space between worlds, an odd blocky looking craft of some kind could be seen casually drifting between the rocky debris and destroyed machinery that littered the otherwise empty void.

"This is soooo boring," Someone grumbled with an exasperated sigh, shattering the air of silence. "Where's the action already? We were promised action, adventure, and possibly treasure!"

"No, we were paid to map out an unexplored area, what part of that translates into anything other than pure boredom?" Another voice asked rhetorically in a dry dull tone.

"Come on, everyone knows that when somewhere is unexplored that means there's supposed to be tons of danger and excitement around every corner." The first voice said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Well I for one happen to enjoy some peace and quiet for once, so if you'd kindly keep it down."

"But I'm booooored!"

"It has been oddly peaceful hasn't it," A third voice chipped in suddenly. "You'd think there'd at least be a few Heartless squadrons out and about somewhere but there's nothing, not even Gummi trails."

"Probably just the lack of traffic like you said, no hearts to steal then no Heartless, don't overthink it so much Y-"

"Hey, what's that?" The first voice cut the second voice off midsentence as a bright blue light suddenly erupted in the distance.

"It's an SOS charm, but who could possibly… be…" The third voice started to say, only to trail off almost immediately when the light transformed into a cresting wave before shifting again into the shape of a five-pointed star constellation. "No way."

"That… c-can it be? After all these years?" The first voice stuttered out.

"It's probably a trap." The second voice said pessimistically, albeit with a hint of hope seeping in.

"Trap or not, it's the first lead we've had in ten years so we're checking it out. Floor it!" The third voice exclaimed before the craft's engines lit up and the vessel rocketed towards the direction of the new constellation had originated from.

-Meanwhile-

Staring up narrow gap of sky she could see as the last few gleams of light faded away into nothingness, Aqua nodded to herself in approval before turning her attention back to the boy she'd rescued.

"You know, now would be a perfect time for you to wake up," She said while gently nudging the unconscious blonde with her foot, only to end up wincing when that small contact caused him to tip over with a loud *thud*. "Or perhaps not."

After double checking to make sure she hadn't give the boy another head injury the blue-haired magic user sighed in exasperation.

"Guess we're doing this the annoying way then," Dispelling her Keyblade, she hooked her hands underneath the boy's armpits and hoisted him over her shoulder like a sack of potatoes. "At least you aren't too heavy, now let's get out of here already."

*Guuuuuuuuuuuurgle*

"And hopefully find something to eat afterwards. God, I forgot how much being hungry sucks." Aqua muttered as stomach growled once again, the sound echoing through the entire canyon like a beast's roar.

Doing her best to ignore her body's protests for food and against further exertion, the bluenette looked at the cliffs in contemplation for a few moments before resummoning her weapon and pointing it upwards again. "Blizzaga Hexa."

The air around her rapidly grew cold as dozens of sparkling white magic bolts shot from the Keyblade that struck all over both sides of the canyon, each shot exploding into large hexagonal clusters of ice on impact. As soon as the last one landed Aqua was gone, her legs tensing for a split second before launching her up onto the nearest icy foothold almost thirty feet above her.

She repeated this thrice over without missing a single beat, easily scaling over a third of the way up the chasm in just a few seconds. On her fourth jump however, it seemed that she'd misjudged the distance as she fell short by just a few feet.

Yet this was soon proven either untrue, or simply not a problem for the bluenette, when she simply snagged onto the ice with the teeth of her Keyblade and flipped herself onto the side of an even higher platform. From there she used her momentum to springboard her way up several more ice clusters in succession until she finally flew out of the chasm altogether and landed gracefully several yards away in a small clearing.

"And she sticks the landing." She said in a mock announcer voice with a small bow to her imaginary audience before shaking her head and taking a good look of her surroundings.

However, as her gaze drifted over the flourishing foliage growing all around her, Aqua couldn't help but smile softly to herself. The fresh scent of grass, trees, and flowers all but flooded her nostrils as she inhaled deeply whilst the warm rays of the sun contrasted with the gentle cool breeze against her skin making her shiver slightly.

'I almost can't believe it, I'm actually back.' It was nearly overwhelming for her, after so much time spent stuck in the barren wastelands of the Realm of Darkness where she'd been devoid of practically all sensations aside from the cold embrace of… well darkness. Even the mild stench of sweat she could start to smell wafting off herself was a welcome change, as it was simply more proof that she was actually sweating again.

*Ffwhoo-Clang*

Sadly the bluenette wasn't allowed to enjoy the sights for long as her ears picked up a familiar soft whistling approaching, causing her reflexes to kick in just soon enough to swat away trio of… pebbles that had been flying right at her. Immediately on high alert, she had no time to collect her thoughts as she deflected another barrage of stones before jumping to the side to avoid even more that came from behind.

"Oh ho, not bad young lady," A jovial sounding voice stated from seemingly from every direction at once. "Not many can say they were able to stop one of my sneak attacks so easily, color me impressed."

"And who would you be exactly?" Aqua demanded with her eyes darting around for any signs of her assailant as she carefully dropped her 'passenger' down beside her to free up her arm and stood over him protectively. "Better yet why are you throwing rocks at me?"

"Well if you must know," A cloud of smoke suddenly burst out a few yards away in front of the Keyblade wielder, putting her even further on edge…

…Until it faded away to reveal an old man with super long shaggy white hair doing a ridiculous pose atop a large orange and blue toad.

"I am the man with no enemies in the North, South, East, and West, nor even in the Heavens!" He exclaimed dramatically while whipping his hair around wildly before adopting another pose. "I am the white haired toad tamer, one who makes the ladies swoon with just a wink… for I am the great Jiraiya, yeah!"

…

…

The sound of a cricket chirping filled the air as Aqua just stared at Jiraiya with a completely deadpanned expression on her face. "You look like a complete idiot."

"And you look like you haven't bathed in weeks," Jiraiya retorted with a huff as his eyes flickered over the grime and dirt covering most of the woman's body. "As for the rock thing, well let's just say I wanted to test the waters to see if you were friend or foe."

"…By throwing rocks at me?"

"You'd be amazed how effective it is," The shaggy haired man said while hopping off his toad mount, which promptly vanished in a puff of smoke a moment later. "I'd go further into depth about it but I'd like to make sure my student is doing okay, so if you wouldn't mind stepping aside?"

Briefly confused at what he meant, it only took a split second for the dots to connect in Aqua's mind as her gaze flickered to the unconscious boy beneath her then back to the old man. However, that didn't mean she dropped her guard for even a moment, if anything her defensiveness only grew as she pointedly stepped even more in the man's path.

"How about you explain why I just had to save your supposed student here from plummeting to his death first?" She asked back with a frown, which caused Jiraiya to flinch slightly with an awkward smile.

"Ah that… would you believe me if I said that was an important part of his training."

"You call throwing an unconscious child down a thousand foot canyon training?" Aqua asked in disbelief as her eyebrow started to twitch rapidly.

"Hey, he was completely awake when I tossed him in there," Jiraiya stated with a huff as he crossed his arms, only to almost immediately freeze up once he realized exactly what he said. "Uhhh okay, I can-"

"Thundaga!"

"AHHH!" A girlish shriek escaped the man's lips as he narrowly jumped out of the way of a massive ball of lightning that completely obliterated the foliage behind him. "Whoa there, take it easy lady! You almost hit me with th-*Fwish*-Yeowch!"

"That was the idea," Aqua stated in a cold tone which contrasted her suddenly flaming Keyblade as she glared at her opponent, who was nursing the newly made wound across his chest. "Now you have five seconds to either leave or give me a good reason not to turn you to ash."

"Ah yes, well when you put it like that…" Jiraiya started while holding his arms up in what seemed like surrender, only to suddenly drop them and start smirking knowingly for some reason. Before Aqua could even think of why that was though, her instincts flared to life and she spun around to block the flying drop kick from a perfectly identical copy of Jiraiya which burst into smoke on impact.

However, that brief distraction proved to be her undoing as the real toad sannin swiftly trapped her within a veritable web of ninja wire.

"Let's go with option C and you tell me where you came from and what you really want with Naruto." He finished in a much more serious tone than before while kneeling beside the bound bluenette with a small toad held in his hand.

"Ribbit." *Thack* *Gulp*

'What the fuck!' Aqua mentally screamed, her voice failing to work as the amphibian grabbed her with its tongue and, in a feat that should have been utterly impossible given its tiny size, swallowed her whole. Before her brain could even begin try to process what just happened though, the Keyblade wielder was knocked out of her thoughts when she landed inside a spacious and surprisingly well-lit tunnel of flesh.

And if that wasn't freaky enough, the moment she landed the pulsing tissue of the walls and floor started shifting around her, forcing her into a sitting kneeling position whilst further restraining her.

Jiraiya landed in front of her a moment later and immediately placed a hand right on her forehead. "Don't worry, this won't hurt a bit… probably."

The next thing Aqua knew she was enveloped in a cloud of smoke and the 'room' she was in suddenly seemed to be a whole lot larger and felt a lot slimier…

And why did she have a sudden craving for bot flies?

-Several hours later-

Within a modest office we find an elderly man sitting behind a desk with his fingers steepled together and a pipe puffing lazily from his lips. His name was Hiruzen the third Hokage of Konoha, otherwise known as the God of Shinobi and the professor, and currently he had a rather… interesting situation on his hands at the moment.

His face was set into a mix of contemplation and exasperation as his gaze drifted from one side of the room, where Aqua and Naruto were seated, the former looking absolutely pissed whilst the latter was still out cold. Then his gaze went to the other which had just his former student Jiraiya, who was wrapping his burned chest with a sheepishly apologetic expression on his face.

"So just to make sure I've got this straight, you detained and interrogated this young lady because she risked her life to save Naruto's? And with the Kaeru Kaeru no Jutsu of all things?" He asked while finally settling his gaze on a certain toad sage. "

"Okay so maybe I jumped the gun a little bit but in my defense I had no way of knowing that the suspicious person who popped out of literally nowhere was actually a traveler from another world and not a spy of some kind," Jiraiya retorted with his arms crossed. "Plus, she tried to cut me in half when I tried to get my student back."

"Given the circumstances I'd say she was in the right to," Hiruzen replied as he gave his former pupil a very pointed look, before turning to Aqua and bowing apologetically. "You have my sincerest apologies for that whole mess Aqua-san."

"It's fine, this would not be the first time I've had to deal with… misunderstandings that got me in conflict with local world authorities. Although I could have done without being turned into a frog." The bluenette muttered sourly while fixing Jiraiya with a withering glare that made the pervert gulp.

"I turned you back, didn't I?"

"My tongue is still prehensile."

"That'll wear off in about a week or two… probably."

"It had better or I swear I'll-"

"Can we please stay on topic?" Hiruzen interjected sternly, getting the squabbling duo to snap back into silence. "You've made some rather intriguing claims Aqua-san. Other worlds, world hearts, heartless, these Keyblades, I'm sure you can imagine how difficult this all is to take in."

"About as hard as the fact you apparently already believe me despite how crazy it all sound." The Keyblade wielder retorted with a noncommittal shrug which made the old man chuckle softly.

"Ah yes, well give the circumstances I can hardly say that you're lying in the first place," Aqua glowered at an innocently whistling Jiraiya. "However, to be frank I was already aware that you… didn't quite belong from the moment you arrived in this room."

"Oh really? And how did you know that exactly?"

"Because your presence is a pure vacuum to my senses."

…

"…Pardon me?" Aqua asked with a quirked brow in confusion.

"To put simply Aqua-san everyone in this world has an energy known as chakra in it in some way or form, except for yourself that is," While he spoke, Hiruzen briefly held up one of his hands as it was enveloped in an incredibly faint glow. "That would normally mean you're either an illusion or dead, but since both options are obviously untrue…"

"Then my crazy story suddenly seems a lot more plausible." Aqua finished as she nodded in understanding.

"Plus a hot girl from another world being accidently summoned by a brat ain't the weirdest stuff we've seen before," Jiraiya chipped in, before suddenly crossing his arms and pouting. "Lucky little bastard, how come he gets to summon hot ladies while I'm stuck with toads?"

"I cannot argue there," Hiruzen agreed with a nostalgic chuckle, whether from his former student's antics or some old memory unsure. "Although that does bring up a few more questions, such as the fact you believe Naruto somehow summoned you from this Realm of Darkness you mentioned before, correct?"

"Far as I can tell, one moment I was minding my own business and the next I'm falling off a cliff after I found this," Aqua held her hand out so her Keyblade could reappear in her grasp and holding up the orange Wayfinder that dangled from its chain. "I highly doubt it was just a coincidence but other than that I'm stumped."

"Hmmm, how interesting," Hiruzen muttered as his eyes roamed over not just the star but the entire weapon thoroughly, especially on the 'teeth' of the blade, before holding out a hand. "May I?"

"You can try, but don't expect it to stay long." Aqua said blandly as she flipped the Keyblade in her grasp so she was holding the blade itself and held the handle out for the elderly man.

Confused at what she meant, Hiruzen was about to ask the bluenette what she meant by that as he accepted the weapon, only to have the question answered for him when he felt it literally start pulling away from him the instant she let go. He pulled back with more than a little effort, his face slowly turning red as he struggled to hold it in place as he leaned in to get a closer look.

He only managed to keep it for about a few more seconds though until it vanished with one last powerful tug, almost dragging him out of his chair in the process.

Yet despite this, the elderly man's eyes still twinkled with interest and curiosity as he watched the Keyblade reappear in Aqua's grasp a moment later, whom promptly dispelled it with a casual flick of her wrist. "Quite the handy defense mechanism there."

"I get that a lot, now not to be rude but can I go? To be frank I'm starving and exhausted." As if to prove her point, Aqua's stomach growled extremely loudly, making both Jiraiya and Hiruzen grimace in sympathy.

"Indeed, it has gotten pretty late anyway," Hiruzen said while glancing out the window to see the sky had grown dark and stars were already starting to pop into view. He then stood up and stretched a bit while making his way to the door, briefly brushing against Jiraiya on the way past. "We can continue this conversation later, for now let's get you something to eat, Jiraiya's treat."

"What do you mean my-HEY! Give me my money back!" Said pervert started to ask, only to end up yelling indignantly when he noticed his wallet was in the Hokage's hand.

"That sounds like a fantastic idea to me," Aqua said with a vindictive smirk, before pausing as she gestured to the surprisingly still unconscious Naruto, who'd tipped over as they'd talked and now had his head resting on her lap. "Shouldn't we take the kid home first though?"

"Oh right, I almost forgot," Smiling knowingly back at her, Hiruzen made a show of clearing his throat while cupping a hand to his mouth. "Who's up for a free all you can eat ramen buffet at Ichiraku's?"

Before the bluenette could even wonder what the old man was up to, the sleeping blonde's eyes snapped open as he bolted straight up in an instant. "FREE RAMEN!? I'LL TAKE TEN OF EVERYTHING!"

…

"…Why am I in Jiji's office?" Naruto asked in confusion once his brain fully registered where he was, causing him to scratch his head in confusion. However, after a few more moments the whiskered boy noticed some distinct and important things. First was the admittedly very pretty lady sitting beside him, second was the funny tingly feeling spot on his cheek, and lastly… "Hey, where's my headband?"

-End Chapter-