A Serendipitous Key of Hope
Disclaimer: I do not own any Disney, Final Fantasy, Weekly Shonen Jump or Kingdom Hearts characters.
- Omake -
Naruto sits by his laptop reading the latest news. "What the hell? Hinata, come look at this!"
His beloved wife comes into the kitchen, discarding an apron to a backed stool. "Naruto?"
"Some company is making a movie about how you and I got together, but it's wrong!" He enlarges a photo, showing his acting all mopey. "This isn't how I was! I wasn't super depressed when you left for him!"
"Why is the actress playing me not a Hyuga? She's not even using contacts or genjutsu to make her eyes white," Hinata adds.
"I'm gonna have a talk with them." The Hokage gets up and grabs his coat. "Hey, you think maybe-"
"Do not ask them to add in a sex scene, please," Hinata says to him wishfully.
The Hokage stares blankly, before sighing. "Fine."
The XII Keyhole: City of Nightfall
"Thank you for your purchase," says a kind old woman who hands over a jewelry box to the cerulean haired Hyuga Heiress Hinata.
"Thank you." She bows to him and walks off, clutching the box close to her heart. She walks through the streets staring up at the stars.
It's been days since Naruto was last seen in the village, days since she told him her feelings. She has spoken with Sakura and was told that he's on a super top secret mission, and as a ninja accepts it. She wants to see him badly, to give him the gift she bought for him after seeing his new clothes. It will go really well with them. But she shouldn't worry too much; he has too many promises to keep to let himself die. She just needs to believe in him, and he'll return. No earthquake will scare her away. "Be safe, Naruto-kun."
"Hinata!" She turns to her three o'clock witnessing her approaching friends Kiba and Akamaru coming her way. "There you are." He then notices the box in her hands. "Buying stuff? I didn't know you liked jewelry."
"Oh, uh," she stutters. To her it's embarrassing to have her friends know she purchased this gift for Naruto, even though it's obvious to everyone but him.
"You can stop beatboxing; I already know it's for Naruto." Kiba's answer brings her to turn bright red. "Naruto probably might not notice."
"You're pretty insensitive." Out from behind them Shino steps forward, causing the two and the dog to jump back.
"Shino! Stop doing that! You move too fast for my nose to catch." Hinata giggles at Kiba's outburst, and the subsequent argument that came after.
'I guess it's okay for now.' Hinata looks up into the skies, smiling as she takes a look to the stars for hope. 'I hope to share these moments with Naruto.'
The earth quakes. Everyone's balance drifts to the side as loose items fall to the vibrating ground. Loud cracking can be heard below them. Dark fissures slice into the earth splitting everything apart. Hinata picks herself up to avoid the fissure, rolling to the side to avoid a one way descent into hell. She quickly spots something rise up from the fissure; she doesn't recognize them, but is stricken with horror at their yellow eyes and black skin.
The Heartless rise up and attack all around them, causing the ninjas to take action and fight back. Kiba gets up quickly and with Akamaru they fight against a large ball looking Heartless. "What the hell is going on?!" Kiba questions as he tries to slice through it. The monster bites down on him and tosses the shinobi onto Akamaru.
"Kiba-kun!" Hinata calls. She uses her Jyuken style to repel it, standing between the monster and Kiba.
Shino steps to the side avoiding the Shadow Heartless lunging for him. 'Why are my insects avoiding them? Are they afraid?'
The Heartless flies in at her, but it turns invisible and passes her, before knocking into Kiba and Akamaru. 'Why did it ignore me?'
"Well, well, well, look what we got here!" A beam of light shoots out and hits Hinata, sending her crashing into a wall faster than her Byakugan could catch. She looks at where she was shot, seeing some sort of energy arrow thing. Her 360 vision spots the shooter, a man in a black coat wielding what looks to be a gun-bow thing. "S'not every day you get to see a smokin' hot babe battle against monsters. Ninjas are getting pretty desperate."
"Hinata!" Kiba calls out.
Hinata pulls out the arrow and glares at her opponent. "Who... Who are you?"
"Not important babe." She holds up her stance, still weakened from that attack. "But, we're taking you in before this world explodes. Got special plans for ya."
Kiba gets blitzed by the Heartless, leaving him unable to see what happened. Though a flash of light hits his sights, and the monsters disperse soon enough for him to see the guy walking off with the teen bombshell. "What the?! Hey, let her go!"
The man jumps on top of a roof and heads off, before being cut off by a flash of lightning. "Raikiri!" The hooded man jumps back avoiding the lightning blade, his blanketed face darting a golden eye at Hatake Kakashi.
"Whoa, didn't see this comin'! A kindred spirit!" says the hooded man.
"So, you're the one behind all this." Kakashi draws a kunai and prepares his headband to be pulled.
"Oh dear. You seem to have the wrong impression of me. My job was to find the princess and bring her back alive. Those guys with the red clouds are workin' this gig." He steps backwards, causing Kakashi to react. He draws out a chain and throws it, wrapping around the guy's free arm. A Shadow Clone then comes in from above with a chakra powered kunai. "You should focus on what's going to happen to this world than me."
In a flash, he and Hinata disappear, evading the knife a ghost to the physical world. It's as if space rendered to his will. "How did he..." Before Kakashi could question that, the entire world quickly begins to crumble.
Elsewhere outside of her office, Tsunade and Shizune battle against a Large Body. The Hokage throws a punch strong enough to send it swirling backwards on its belly. "How is it still standing?"
...
In Disney Castle, Donald, Goofy, Queen Minne and Daisy stand among one another with the yellow dog in the library. They're thinking over the contents of the letter left behind.
"Donald,
Sorry to rush off without sayin' goodbye, but there's big trouble brewin'. Not sure why, but the stars have been blinkin' out, one by one. And that means disaster can't be far behind. I hate to leave you all but I've gotta go check into it. There's someone with a "key"- the key to our survival. So I need you and Goofy to find him, and stick with him. Got it? We need that key or we're doomed! So go to Traverse Town and find Yugi. He'll point you in the right direction.
Signed, King Mickey Mouse.
P.S. Would ya apologize to Minnie for me? Thanks, pal."
"Oh dear, what could this mean?" worries Daisy after reading the letter.
"It means, we'll just have to trust the king," says Queen Minnie with a positive tone in her almost mourning voice.
"Garsh, I sure hope he's alright." Goofy worries about his missing king.
"Don't feel sad Queen Minnie. We'll find the king, and this key!" Donald's declaration brings reassurance to the queen's heart. He then turns to the duck lady, asking, "Daisy, can you take care of the-"
"Of course," she finishes, already knowing what he's about to say. "You be careful now, both of you."
"Oh, and to chronicle your journey for us to see upon your return, he will accompany you," says Minnie gesturing to the table.
Donald looks over at the table, seeing absolutely nothing until something moves. "Over here!" Closer inspection reveals it to be a cricket. "Cricket's the name; Jiminy Cricket, at your service."
"We hope for your safe return. Please, help the king!" Donald salutes upon the queen's final words, before looking between her, Daisy and then Goofy.
The last of whom shouldn't be there. "YOU'RE COMING, TOO!"
With all said and done, Donald and Goofy with Jiminy on the captain's helm, traverse down a flock of stairs directly for the hangar. "Gawrsh Jiminy; your world disappeared too?"
"It was awful, out of nowhere..." says the cricket as melancholy as an insect can be. "And as far as I know, I'm the only one who made it back."
"Goofy?" The duck gathers the dog's attention.
"Oh right! While we're in other worlds we can't let on where we're from. We gotta protect the world border!"
"Order!"
"Right, order! Wait, what was it that I said?"
"You said border!"
Goofy then makes a goofy laugh, while Donald sighs at his idiocy. They eventually reach the hangar, a hodge podge of all things cartoony and hilarious. The dog man then makes a comment: "I guess we'll need new duds when we get there."
Donald gets to the horn, calling out. "Hello!? Donald Duck to launch crew; anytime you're ready!"
Chip and Dale jump up to the controls of the launch bay. "You're lucky we made it back in time!"
"Yeah, that Naruto guy is a slob!" Dale pushes a lever, causing hands to grab Goofy and Donald before dropping them both into the Gummi Ship. Pluto the dog jumps in after them.
"So, what do you think this Key guy's like?" asks Goofy of Donald as he takes a seat.
"He's probably some annoying guy who says 'What's that supposed to mean?' allot."
Lights flash as the gates open up, a new updated version of the Highwind class Gummi rises up to face outside. The engines fire up and the ship shakes in anticipation. Donald cries out, "Blast off!" But in a twist of fate, an arrow points downward in which a hole opens up and the ship falls downward. The two intelligent figures in the ship scream as they descend.
They come out at the bottom exterior of the world, before blasting off into space.
…
Naruto stares upward at the beautiful, starry blue sky from the restaurant he's sitting outside of. He chows down on a burger while gazing to the dark heavens. "The stars are completely different compared to back in Konoha."
After finishing his meal he pays with munny and heads off. "It's not ramen, but it's certainly filling. Now, to look for...who was he again?"
Naruto thinks about the name of the guy Yen Sid told him about, and immediately forgets. "Oh, what now? I can't get help from someone who I can't even recognize." He sighs. At the moment the poor boy's stuck on what to do. He didn't know what to do in Kuzco's world, but now he's really stuck.
No knowledge of what to do, Naruto traverses through the town until he reaches the second district. He spots less people in this area than the previous district, to a point where he wonders what's going on. 'There's something up with this place...'
His eyes pierce further down the street spotting a woman dressed in loose fitted clothing waving seductively to him. He turns as scarlet as a heart. 'Whoa. Not used to that; I guess I can ask her for some information.'
He moves closer to her, but that's when his bad feeling goes off. From behind the woman appears a black void, and her heart flies out before entering said darkness. Her body hits the dirt, and vanishes. 'Oh no... She became a...' He looks away. Even though he was trained to keep his heart in the right place should he ever see these things, he can't help but lose it whenever someone loses their heart. It's not something anyone can just get used to because it's not something anyone should see.
Out pops a Shadow Heartless. Naruto draws out his Keyblade, and in a flash faster than he summoned it, slides in to cut through the Shadow. That's when more rise up from the ground. "I guess you guys never stop either!"
The Shadows step to the side, allowing a bigger Emblem Heartless called Large Body to appear. He raises his Keyblade and takes aim, summoning an energy sphere of ice, before firing a wide burst of Blizzara that continues before completely freezing the fat monster whole. He then summons flames around the Keyblade and rushes in, twirling the sword to shatter through it. Its heart flies skyward from the remains. Naruto then turns around to face the rest of the demons, who jump in after him.
"Black Magic!" The Heartless are surrounded by black energy, before shattering to pieces. The warrior who saved him is a white skinned wizard dressed in dark purple clothing with a big, pointy hat. He wields a green staff sparking with energy.
"Naruto Uzumaki right?" he asks him. "It took you a while to get here."
"How do you know me?"
"You're the new Keyblade Wielder Yen Sid clued me in about." Naruto quickly turns around to face the confident voice, a male slightly shorter than him, dressed in a blue, school uniform with a black t-shirt. He has a star shaped hair colored black with outer portions of auburn, golden bangs that stretch along his five points, purple eyes full of sternness that speaks volumes of intelligence far beyond his age, and wears a chain necklace holding a golden upside-down pyramid with a strange eye on it.
"You know Yensei?"
"He mentioned he would be a good person who definitely deserves to wield the Keyblade. I was hoping he'd be more experienced," he responds, the magician floating next to him before vanishing.
"More experienced? What's wrong with me?"
"I was hoping you would be a Master," he tells him. "But I guess this is fine with what's left. Let's get inside before more show up." He walks closer to Naruto, and as he does Naruto notices his voice change. He's also slightly smaller, slightly. "My name is Yugi Muto."
"N-Naruto Uzumaki." The two then run off.
The Heartless form around every shadow of the blackened city. Soldiers mostly storm the streets guided by their heavy metal sergeant. Somewhere by the third district, a hooded figure with a black coat covered in red clouds wanders. "Where's that Keyhole? We can't destroy this place without it.
"Still, better than babysitting a bunch of broads." He removes his hood, throwing back his long, blond hair.
…
Sasuke breathes heavily as he looks back, expecting his pursuer to have long left him alone. Though the longer he remains hidden, the more his senses become clearer, the more he realizes how foolish his wishful thinking is. "Damn."
He jumps away from the building before it shatters to pieces. The man in black stands before him, gut punching the Uchiha so hard he spits up saliva. The man then kicks him to the ground, leaving a crater the size of a garden. Sasuke tries to pick himself up from the gravel and dirt, glaring ahead at the man. "Time to further our plan."
The man holds a hand out to him, light sparking in the shape of a sphere. He thrusts his arm out. "Getsuga Tenshou!" He jumps backwards to avoid what he recognizes as a slashing wave of pure darkness. The man covered head to toe in the black coat stares forward at his new enemy. "Well, it's about time I caught you ya bastard."
The newcomer reveals himself in the streetlights; he's a tall man concealed in a black cloak. Enough of the cloak is pulled to reveal the peach skin he has. Also of noticeable character is traces of orange hair. He wields a large, black sword shaped like a khyber knife with a hollowed out portion from the base to the middle of the sword. "Where's Inoue?"
The man holds a hand out, firing his attack at the newcomer, who is forced to block with his sword. He draws a smaller, similar blade from around his right hip and adds to his stopping force, no longer sliding.
"Chidori!" Sasuke comes in at the man from behind, but his attack passes through. 'Again?!'
"It would appear I am disadvantaged." The energy blast explodes in front of the dual swordsman's face. "And now I'm not," he swings his foot, colliding with Sasuke's skull so hard he hits the dirt with such force enough that rocks and blood erupt.
"Now you've done it!" The double swordsman gathers energy around himself. He slashes to release Getsuga Tenshou, before slicing with the smaller blade to make a cross. "Getsuga Jujisho!" His cross blades raze through the ground and the buildings in its path. "He's gone..."
"Well, it's fine this way," he looks skyward seeing the coated man holding Sasuke.
"What are you doing with him?"
"This boy has a fine set of darkness inside of him. We can use that to our advantage." The man in the black coat raises his hand and all around them becomes white. He disappears, and an assortment of lights appear around him. The lights fire and blast him, forcing the warrior to redirect, repel, and reflect anything that moved even an inch closer.
Kenshin: That's unfortunate. They just went and raped Hinata and Sasuke.
Ester: Whoa, what?!
Manabu: No they didn't!
Kenshin: Yeah they did. They hoisted them away against their will. That's what rape use to mean.
Takeshi: Let's not use that definition in the narrative. No one will ever get it.
Kenshin: Next time, Naruto gets some info on his enemy this time and meets new comrades.