A Serendipitous Key of Hope
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Kingdom Hearts.
Manabu: We hope you didn't enjoy the last few fights, because this is when things start to kick up.
Yusei: Let's not focus only on fights. That's why people bitch about certain stories.
Madas: Let me in here!
Everyone else: NO!
Yusei: Before we go in, let's include one of those omakes we did for Water Princess.
Julia: Do you have one?
Manabu: I do. *gets stared at by everyone* What?
- Omake -
"Orochimaru's Evil Incorporated! After hours..." After the jingle plays, Orochimaru's laughter could be heard.
His door crashes open, and in steps Naruto the fox boy. "Ah, Naruto the Foxboy. How predictable, and by that I mean... Completely... Dictable?" As he questions the grammar in that, he presses a button on a switch hidden in his sleeve and traps Naruto in a cage. "Now, before we get to the neat and gritty, time to explain my plan. Behold! The Dome-Inator!" He reveals a large invention with a laser beam focused outward into town.
"And by that, I don't mean dominate; it's... Wait, did I say that right-D-Dome-Inator." Naruto rolls his eyes. "A-Anyway, it can make a huge barrier over top of anything that hits it, kind of like a bubble! With it, I will cut away the air supply to Jiraiya's office, forcing him to give me control over the entire Tri-State Nation!"
As Orochimaru laughs, Naruto comes in and punches him into the ground. "Wha-how did you get out..." Naruto walks over to the cage, revealing that he can walk through the bars. "How come I didn't notice that before?! Well, returning that back."
Naruto then goes over to the machine and presses the self destruct switch, which blows up the machine. He then throws a smoke bomb to the ground and disappears. "Curse you Naruto the-" He stops when his door rings, and in steps his ex-wife Tsunade. "Tsunade? What are you doing here?"
"Dropping off another alimony check," she tells him, handing over the slip of paper. The blond lady then looks around. "What's all this?"
"Oh, this is just the remains of my inator."
Tsunade sighs disappointed. "I think I'm paying you too much alimony. Try not to blow yourself up again." She then steps out the door.
"That only happened ten times!" he replies as she leaves. "Now where was I? Oh yeah. Fox-Boy!"
The Seventh Keyhole: Chaos Showdown
"Orochimaru-sama, I have news to report." Kabuto enters the room of his leader Orochimaru, who remains silent while shifting. His veiny eye stares out, piercing through the submerging darkness. "I have news to report."
"News?"
He adjusts his glasses. "You were right; Akatsuki is behind the appearance of those black creatures. They call them the Heartless."
"The Heartless?" Orochimaru smiles before chuckling. "I knew it."
"Knew it?"
"Never mind that. What can you tell me about her?" Orochimaru begins to laugh. "It's about time they made their move..."
...
"And that's all we have to report," Kakashi says to Tsunade. Over three days have gone by since Gaara was rescued from Akatsuki. Kakashi and the rest of the shinobi who went to Sunagakure stand before her giving their report.
"Very well..." Tsunade says as she looks around. "Where's Naruto?"
"He remained outside, and hasn't come in since," Sakura tells her. She then looks to the side disappointed. "Why didn't he come in, that idiot? He has allot of stuff to explain anyway."
"I'm really interested in what he knows too..." Neji admits himself to his concern. "I couldn't see his chakra network at all, only something else that completely replaces it. Where did Naruto go these three years?"
The aged Hokage pauses briefly before she glances over at Kakashi. She can tell he also desires to know the truth as well. "Go ask him then."
Outside, Naruto leans on the door of the Academy building, staring at his hand intensely. His heart beat thumps loudly as he recalls back to the battle between him and his friends and Akatsuki. It makes him ache trying to see how strong he really is alone. The fact that he has help makes him wonder if he truly changed for the better at all.
While he awaits the others to finish, he sees a Shadow Heartless creeping catch his attention. He follows after it quickly, making sure to keep quiet. Though his tracking leads him to follow it to the Hyuga Compound. "Why is it here?"
"Kya!" Naruto hears a voice. He turns around quickly to see who it was, only to find no one. Though hiding behind a fence, clearly is Hinata Hyuga.
All grown up in her teen years she has become a beautiful woman. Her attractiveness matches even Sakura; her chest is three times larger than hers anyway. Dressed in her purple jumpsuit, she couldn't believe Naruto is back. "Naruto-kun...You've finally returned..."
"Yes I have Hinata," says Naruto as he sneaks up on her. His sudden appearance spooks her so much she falls unconscious flushed with red. "Oh damn! Hinata!" He catches her just in time.
"Why is she still fainting?" He groans before laying her down. As he does, he smiles. "She got so pretty in three years."
"Yo, Hinata! Where are ya-" Naruto looks to where the voice is coming from, and sees Kiba with big Akamaru and Shino. "Naruto? Is that you?!"
"Kiba! Shino! And...Akamaru?!" His jaw drops when he notes the dog. "Holy hell, you got big!"
Shino looks down at Hinata, before sighing. "Hinata fainted when she saw you didn't she?"
"... I guess so..." He looks around still seeking the Shadow he saw earlier. Naruto looks back down when Hinata moans opening her eyes. "Oh good, you're back up."
"Naruto-kun..." She turns red again.
"Oh, sorry." He backs away from her giving space, noticing Kiba and Shino moving away. "What are you guys doing?"
"Giving some space!" Naruto tilts his head to the left.
"Space?"
Hinata looks over at them, sighing with a heavy heart knowing she has a shot at confessing her feelings. "Naruto-kun, is it okay if I talked to you?"
"Uh, sure. What's wrong?"
Hinata sits up next to him. "Uhm..." She bites her lip. "All this time I've love-"
"You!" Naruto gets up and rushes forward. Hinata watches as he charges at the Shadow Heartless. "You're not getting away this time!"
"Naruto?" She watches as he attacks the monster, killing it in one strike of his Keyblade. "That sword..."
"Takes care of that... What was it doing here in the first place?" He then looks around worried. 'Maybe Akatsuki is watching me here.' He then looks over at Hinata. "Sorry about that; I have to kill those things now."
"What was that?"
"We call it a Heartless. They're monsters created from the darkness in people's hearts," he tells her, before holding out his weapon. "This Keyblade is the best weapon weapon to destroy them."
"Really?" Naruto sends his Keyblade away. Her eyes become downtrodden with worry. "It seems there are more dangerous things around you again. First Gaara's Biju, then Orochimaru, now this..."
"You knew about that?" She shrinks with embarrassment.
"Naruto, please be careful. I don't want anymore bad things to happen to you."
"Hinata..." His heart is taken back by her true feelings of care. Does she see him differently?
Hinata bites at her lip again, ready to tell him again. "Naruto, I-"
"Hinata!" She bites her lip at the sound of her sensei, turning around to see her with the others. She then notes the situation she's in, and gasps and blushes embarrassed.
"That's my sensei... I have to go."
"Oh. I'll talk to you later then." Naruto gestures for her leave.
The white eyed girl takes a good hard look at him, inhaling deeply, before stretching her head out to kiss his cheek. She then rushes off to her team, her head exploding crimson. Naruto stares at her in shock, wondering just what happened. Though it then hits him quickly. 'Hinata... likes me.'
Time passes after that time. Thinking about Hinata and her affections which he realizes may have been around longer than he thought, Naruto looks around the evening that is his village, sitting on top of his apartment house. As glad as he is for having Hinata like him, he's really trying to process how he himself feels for her. Even worse, he can't even focus on that because of his own duty; the promise he made to Sakura.
"I need to see just how strong I really am... Sasuke's still out there..."
Sighing, he blinks seeing a group of Shadow Heartless merge into the ground and glide away. He slides down the railing and chases after the monster drawing his Keyblade. As he does, he notices the monster isn't attacking him. Though as he goes further, he begins to think this is a trap.
His thoughts come to be realized when he leaves the village while tracking it, and it finally stops on the road. The Heartless resurfaces and faces him. "Yensei said that you guys were mindless, so what the hell?"
"You're about to see hell right now." He quickly turns around in response to the voice, and sees a man in the same cloak as the guy who attacked him years ago. A portal of darkness opens up behind Naruto, and the guy pushes him in quickly.
Naruto falls out the other end, landing by a waterfall. "What the?" He spits up water as he stands, and faces the person who comes out the other end. "You! I've been waiting to fight you; time for round 2!"
The man pulls over his hood, revealed to be the white faced serpent man known as Orochimaru. He gasps in shock. "Orochimaru?!"
"It's been a while hasn't it, Naruto-kun?" he begins, slowly approaching him. "When I last saw you you struck out Kabuto using the Rasengan. Now you're killing my predecessor Sasori."
That catches his attention. "You know that whack job puppet dude?"
"What? He didn't tell you we were partners?" he replies, causing Naruto to widen his eyes in shock. "I guess not."
He then curses inwardly, wishing he had known that so he could get some information about Orochimaru out of him before his death. But this is fine; he can restrain this snake and get him to give up Sasuke. "Whatever. If you're here now then I'm taking you out and bringing back Sasuke!"
"Bring back Sasuke? Pointless, you foolish child." The snake man rears his head back and draws his sword from the serpent down his throat.
Naruto prepares to draw the Keyblade, but from above Soldiers and winged Soldiers come down at him. He jumps away and cuts them down, before focusing on the approaching Orochimaru. They lock blades. "To be honest, I've been watching the actions of Akatsuki using the Heartless as my eyes, and when I saw that sword of yours I was reminded of when I last saw it."
"Last saw it?"
"And I was wondering if I could finally get my hands on it this time if Sasuke took it from you."
"Sasuke?!" Orochimaru kicks Naruto into the waterfall, its cold stream pouring down on his head.
"Sasuke-kun, it's time." Naruto looks up through wet eyes and sees a figure coming towards the river. His shock for the night is increased to the maximum when he realizes the snake perv is right. It is Sasuke.
His outfit has changed to become similar to his own in regards to zippers. His shirt is composed of a one sleeve dark blue open jacket over top a white shirt that has the Uchiha symbol on it. The jacket sleeve covers his entire right arm with straps to tighten its hold, including a dark blue and purple fingerless glove attached to it. On the left arm there are only bandages over his hand. His pants are a grayish purple shade shortened at his ankles and has similar, red and purple colored boots on his feet. He is taller than Naruto by two inches, has much spikier hair than before, carries two guardless katanas on his back, and has his Sharingan activated.
"Sasuke..." Naruto feels completely relieved to find his friend he's been training to bring back is safe and sound. This proves that Jiraiya was right when he said there was time before Orochimaru would take his body over. But as he stares up at him, a strange feeling enters his heart. This is something he remembers, whenever he sees a person with a strong heart of darkness.
"So it's just you? Sakura and Kakashi weren't dragged along?" questions the Uchiha swordsman as he inches forward. "Well, this is fine."
"Sasuke, why are you still with this guy?! He's just using you so he can get a new body!" Naruto tells him.
"I know." His answer shocks him. "I knew exactly what he was up to when they came for me. And I don't care." He draws the shorter katana and leaps upwards at the blond.
Naruto prepares to make a move, but gets caught in his grasp. He's so much faster than before.
"Instead of worrying about me, you should have been training to become Hokage."
"What kind of Hokage can't even save his friends?" Sasuke hmphs at his typical response, before bringing down his weapon to stab him from behind.
Naruto breaks free of his grip and moves quickly away, as if teleporting. He comes up behind Sasuke and summons his Keyblade for a strike. Sasuke however turns around and blocks his weapon. "What?"
"Are you taking this seriously?" The Uchiha glares at his weapon. "You can't think of fighting with this little toy."
He grins. "You'd be surprised what this little toy can do." He places his other hand on it, causing lightning to course through and hit Sasuke.
The Uchiha laughs as he intakes the lightning, before drawing out the Chidori over his entire left arm. "Guess you forgot my special technique." Still gathering power, he reaches out and grabs Naruto's sword arm and rushes both of them into the dry, stone wall of the waterfall. "What will you do now?"
Naruto looks up realizing the lightning is making him stronger. He then transfers his Keyblade to the left hand, shocking Sasuke in the process, and swipes him in the ribs with the sword's teeth. He flips in the air from the blow, landing back on the water.
"Freeze Raid." Naruto then throws his Keyblade which spirals in an icy mist. Sasuke deflects it away to the water, causing it to freeze completely. This gives him the chance to gather more ice around his hands and send a spiraling wave towards Sasuke.
Though he jumps up in the air, the ice trails follow after. "Amaterasu!" Black flames form in front of him, blocking the ice and melting it.
"What the?!" Even Orochimaru is surprised to see this. "What jutsu is that?"
"The black flames of Amaterasu..." mutters the pale Sannin. "Why do you have that power?!"
Sasuke turns around to look over at his sensei, revealing the black crimson eyes of three intersecting ellipses. "Mangekyou."
The Uchiha then grins before holding out a shuriken. "I'm coming at you now, Naruto." The black flames gather on his shuriken, before he throws it at Naruto.
He draws back the Keyblade and deflects it into the icy river, noting the black flames aren't sticking to his sword. He then rushes forward to clash with him, who throws away his sword and raises a weapon from darkness that easily stops his key. "What?!"
"I didn't think I'd have to use the sword he gave me on you, but it seems you've reached a level of power even with mine." In his hand now is a sword shaped like a bat wing, with a bright blue eye in its center. "Dark Firaga!"
"What?!" He backs away getting blasted by darkness flames.
"Sonic Rave!" Naruto dashes forward at a blinding speed, slicing the right side of his body.
"Chidori Senbon!" He forms lightning around his blade and releases Chidori daggers that pierce and shock Naruto.
The blond takes a knee, in pain from the damage he's taken. "Heal." He casts a spell on himself, healing and returning to one hundred percent. Sasuke rushes in to deal the decisive blow, but Naruto rolls over locking his legs around the Uchiha. Though he gets overpowered and turned on his back he swings his Keyblade to block the bat looking sword twice before rolling around, thus, unlocking both of them. Unfortunately, this also leaves Sasuke standing on his feet, Chidori sword ready to cut him up, but, luckily for him, he manages to spin along the ground and lock his right leg behind Sasuke's and roll him forward. With his one sole opening, he strikes his opponent twice on his left, one on the arm and the other his hip.
Now Sasuke kneels, dropping his arm as he tries to stand. He can't believe this is possible; Naruto is on equal terms with him, using a blunt weapon. It's a key afterall. "Where did you get that sword?"
"None of your business!"
Orochimaru is steaming in fear. He brought Naruto here to study the Keyblade and increase Sasuke's power, but knowing that Sasuke can use the Mangekyou is a hinder to his plans; the only reason he went to him in the first place was because Itachi couldn't be reached, thanks to that very same doujutsu. What's for him now?
"Naruto, if you insist on getting in my way, I will defeat you and that weapon you control one day. But...for now I'm leaving."
"Sasuke, are you serious about this? Is revenge all you ever want?"
"You don't know my suffering, so you have no reason to speak. All you get is my thanks, for being my reason for the power I've gained. I don't need anyone anymore now." He raises his hand, and a portal of darkness appears around him. He then vanishes inside glaring at Naruto.
"Wait!" He rushes towards the darkness, before being blindsided by another portal that opened before him.
…
Naruto lands somewhere steamy. He groans feeling his chin strike something hard. "What the hell was that?"
"Naruto?!" He looks back and sees Ino among other girls in towels. That's when he realizes he's in a bathhouse.
"Ah crap." The sound of his screams could be heard throughout the village.
Yusei: That brings this chapter to an end.
Manabu: Next time, Naruto gets ready for another mission. But first, he meets someone he was least expecting.