A Serendipitous Key of Hope
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Kei: Let us begin this segment finally, going further into the Agrabah arc.
Omake...
Konan stands before her former master as he speaks. "I told Nagato that this was a chance for him to become a Keyblade Master again, and I wasn't lying. But, that flicker of darkness worries me. Ever since he's awoken those eyes, I've noticed it appears here and there."
"You mean the Rinnegan?"
"Yes, that." Eraqus sighs with worry. "It pays me to say this, but I want you to watch him."
This takes her back. "What? I can't spy on Nagato; that would be wrong!"
"Konan, as a Master you must know that there will be times where you'll be forced into decisions you don't like." Eraqus points over at the outside sunny world. "All I've done has been for the benefit of the world, and the darkness only takes hold when it should. That's why I haven't taken a lover, because-"
"I know." This she cannot agree to because of what's in her heart, but she understands. "Love has the strongest influence on the Heart. But you don't have to worry about Nagato; I can assure you he'll remain unchanged."
"I hope so." Konan nods before taking off, running out the temple just in time to see Nagato summon his armor.
The power user summons his Keyblade Glider and takes off into space, while Yahiko watches. Konan approaches him, asking, "What's wrong?"
The younger apprentice sighs, before activating his own armor. He then summons his glider and takes off on the surfboard like weapon. "Sorry Konan, but I gotta go after him!"
"What?! Yahiko, wait!" Konan sighs before summoning her armor and glider, flying after them. 'What happened with Yahiko?'
End Omake…
The XXVI Keyhole: Be Careful Who Wishes What
Flashback…
"Alright, what did you have in mind for your first wish?" Naruto asks looking upon Aladdin.
He turns incredibly bashful. "Well, there is this girl..."
"Er, WRONG!" Genie hits a buzzer he somehow made. "I can't people fall in love remember?"
"You can't?" Donald asks. "I thought you could make any wish!"
"Well yes, but there are a few restrictions. A couple of quid pro quos…" Genie says while counting extra fingers.
"Like maybe..." This is Goofy.
"Rule number 1, I can't directly kill people with wishes, so don't ask." He slices his head off for emphasis. "Rule number 2, I can't force someone to fall in love with someone else." He shows two star crossed lovers parting. "Rule number 3, I can't bring people back from the dead! It's not a pretty picture; I DON'T LIKE DOING IT!"
"Crap..." Naruto mutters to himself. "So much for that… But, why the girl?"
"I don't want her to just fall in love with me; that'd be wildly unfair… I just want a chance." Aladdin takes a seat by a palm tree. "Jasmine is amazing. She's smart, and fun, and-"
"Pretty?"
"Beautiful!" His upstage of Naruto's statement makes them both smile. "She's got such deep eyes, amazing hair, and the best smile in the world!" He falls over gushing.
"Well, if you like her so much, why do you need a wish?" asks Goofy.
Aladdin sighs. "Really, she's a princess. And when I met her I didn't even know. A guy like me wouldn't have a chance; only a prince can marry a princess."
"Tough luck Naruto," Donald says to the blond.
"What's that's supposed to mean?!"
"I'm just saying, you're no king. And you can't just become..." Then it hits them. Naruto and Donald turn to Aladdin, who gets it too.
"Genie, can you make me a prince?!" His request is ecstatic and energetic.
Genie pulls up a recipe book for royalty, whatever that is, and begins flipping through the pages. "Let's see… AH! We have it; but was that an official wish? Say the magic words!"
Al gives a small snort, knowing he's just doing it to prevent another freebie. "Genie, I wish for you to make me a prince!"
"ALRIGHT!" Genie then transforms Aladdin's entire wardrobe, making him Prince Ali. "Ah, I like it. Muey macho!"
"I clean up nice!" Al looks at himself using a mirror Genie made as he changed him.
"Still missing some things, like… Mode of transportation! Where's the monkey?" Sensing he wants him, Abu makes a run for it, but then gets pulled in by the carpet. "You'll be ready to ride into Agrabah on your brand new camel!"
Abu turns into a camel and spits, standing on Carpet. Though, the djinn's not impressed. "Not impressive enough." Snapping his fingers, he becomes a white horse. "No, wrong continent." Abu rapidly shifts forms, turning from a duck to an ostrich to a car. Back to a monkey, Genie gets an idea. "That's it! ISA LA LUMBO SHIMIN DUMBO!" In almost no time, Abu turns into an elephant.
Naturally, this freaks him out. Naruto looks over at Donald and Goofy, both of which have changed too. "What the hell?!"
"You wanna be in on this too right?" Al asks them.
"Well you don't… Wait." He then thinks for a moment. 'If Jasmine is a Princess of Heart, they might come after her too.' "You know, why not?" He gets changed.
"He's got looks! He's got the servants! But that's not the end of it! Hold onto your butt kid; we're gonna make you a star!"
End Flashback…
Aladdin, er, Prince Ali gives a heavy sigh. He walks back and forth in the garden just within the palace, regretful. "This isn't going well."
"What's wrong?" Naruto asks, playing chess against Carpet. Funnily, the rug's winning.
"I thought I would become a prince and she'd talk to me, but she completely blew me off," he tells him. "We talked a lot before."
"When she knew you were broke?"
"She might have just been humoring me," he speaks out of fear.
Abu the elephant tries his hardest to peel a banana, only for his hooves to smash it and shoot the fruit meat in his face. Pissed, he tosses the peel into a pile of past attempts. Goofy then says, "Garwsh, why not use your trunk?"
Genie then comes out of the game to speak to Al. Ala Jack Nicholson. "Alright Sparky, here's the deal pal. You gotta be a straight shooter Al. Only then will her heart open she shall."
"… What?"
"TELL HER THE TRUTH!" yells him and Donald.
"No way!" Aladdin snaps. "She'd just laugh at me if she knew the truth. That I'm just a worthless street rat."
"Better than her thinking you're a jerk who sees her a trophy," says Naruto, before flipping the table when Carpet beats him. He then walks over to Ali, saying, "Let me speak from experience when I say girls hate it when guys try to do things for them. You can't force her to marry you, according to the wish granting genie anyway."
"Come on, Naruto. Finding Genie was a big break for me; and the first wish I made ends up with her hating me. Thinking I'm nothing more than all the other guys after her. How would you feel?"
"Hey, if I could wish my problems away, I wouldn't be here."
"Then why are you here?!" This conversation starts to get serious. "You said you're here to help, but you're just telling me my ways are stupid."
"That's because I'm here to help, not agree with everything you do," snaps Naruto in the same tone. "Infact, be ready with Carpet." He then starts jumping up/climbing the side to reach the top f the balcony.
"Crap, what's he doing?!" Ali gets worried thinking of what Naruto could be doing. One slip up could destroy all that he's wished for. He grabs-read calls over-Carpet and together they fly up to see what happened.
Jasmine sees him atop the carpet in shock. "How...are you doing that?"
"It's… It's a magic carpet," he tells her. "We can ride him anywhere in the world."
"Is it safe?"
"Of course; do you trust me?" Jasmine blinks in surprise before looking up at him, asking him to repeat. "Do you trust me?"
With his hand stretched out, Jasmine looks back at Naruto, before taking Ali's hand. "Yes." Her suspicious reply leads to her taking to the carpet and them taking off into the deep blue. Naruto watches as they take off into the air, sighing.
He then climbs back down, escaping her pet tiger Raja, and landing beside the others. "So Genie, you-"
"Uh oh." Genie gets pulled away into the air. "HE TOOK THE LAMP!"
Naruto, Donald and Goofy look up at the sky seeing him go on. Donald then says, "Well, that worked out."
"Hey, why are we helping them out again?" Goofy asks Naruto.
"Jasmine might be a Princess of Heart, and since the Heartless are here we might as well keep a look out." Naruto looks over at Abu trying to peel the banana with his trunk now, which is tricky to him. "Let's take a minute to look around town. We might find some clues."
"Clues? You mean about the Heartless?" Donald asks.
"What do you think? Better than waiting to hear how the date went," he adds before heading to the exit.
"Hey, no getting into trouble!" Donald runs after him saying this.
"Shut up!" As he shouts back, Naruto watches Goofy joining them as well.
Hours go by after they leave and then return, where they see to their shock Abu tied up. "Abu!" They shout before running to his side, Donald using Fire to set him free.
Goofy then asks the monkey turned elephant, "What happened? Who did this to ya?"
Of course Abu explains, but being an animal they can't understand him. Naruto looks to the side seeing Carpet tied around a tree. "Carpet too? That means Aladdin came back!" He carefully unties the animated rug, who swirls around him before picking the guy up. "Where are we going?!"
Carpet flies him above the palace and heads off in an unknown direction, but on his way he sees Genie flying in with Aladdin. "Al!"
"Naruto!" Genie says. "Boy, where have you been? My dear pal Al almost had a close encounter of the aquatic kind!" He then turns into an Italian mobster. "He'd 'ave been sleepin' wit da fishes."
"What happened? We just came back when we saw Abu and Carpet tied up," Naruto responds.
"It was Jafar. He tried to kill me off," says Aladdin before turning his eyes to the palace. "Come on." Together they enter the palace, Genie entering the lamp. There they see Jafar with Jasmine and the Sultan. "Hey!"
"Prince Ali!" says the Princess with hope and glee. Jafar and Iago flip out seeing him.
"Admit it, Jafar! You tried to kill me!" says the false prince standing before him.
"N-No-Now, I do not have to answer to such ridiculous nonsense," he defends, obviously denying it while moving closer to the dazed Sultan. The cobra scepter moves closer to his face. "He's obviously lying."
"Obviously lying..." Aladdin sees this happening, and before Naruto could put it together, moves in as Jasmine desperately calls to her father.
"Hey, can I see this?" Aladdin casually says before grabbing the scepter, and smashing it into the tile floor. It shatters, leaving a headless stick and the Sultan free from his confusion/hypnosis. As he sputters coming to reality, the street rat tells him, "Your Majesty, Jafar was controlling you with this staff."
"What?" This obviously angers the aged king, who along with his daughter, Aladdin and Naruto move forward to storm a defeated Jafar. "Guards! GUARDS!"
"Oh well, we're screwed," says Iago as he goes on a rant. Ignoring him, the vizier spots something gold in Aladdin's hat, which he instinctively and happily prepares to reach for. The guards however grab him beforehand, and take him away.
"That's it." From above, two Soldier Heartless jump out and kick the guards off of him; unlike normal ones, these are green with white claws. Aladdin steps back protectively over Jasmine and her father while Naruto rushes in. "This is not done yet boy!"
Jafar then throws a vial to the ground, creating a smokescreen that causes him and the Heartless to disappear. The only thing remaining of him is his evil laughter. Such an annoyance it is! The guards go out after him, looking for Jafar as per the Sultan's orders, while Naruto sighs. "Well, I guess I found the Heartless cause."
He then turns around to see Aladdin and Jasmine hugging after that event, with her father and even himself noticing their sudden closeness. "Praise be to Allah! I can't believe this is finally happening; my daughter has found a suitor!"
Naruto watches with a smile as the Sultan goes on about wedding them at once and making him Sultan. However, he sees a sullen look appearing on the fake prince's face.
The Next Morning…
An entire night has gone by without an incident from Jafar. Daylight hits the night kissed sands like a heatwave as the others prepare for their rise. Although with the Heartless starting to show up, Naruto and the others remain on high alert. The trio prepares for Jafar's assault, with Donald and Goofy hanging around Jasmine for protection.
Meanwhile, Naruto is with Aladdin getting in some practice swings just outside of his quarters. He unfortunately can't get any concentration done, with Al's depressing monologue. "They want to make me Sultan..."
As he grumbles, Genie begins to quickly push the issue onto him. Not really subtle about it either. "So, about that third wish..."
Aladdin looks terrible. "Genie, I can't wish you free."
"Wait, what?" Naruto gets into this now. "You made a second wish already?"
"It was to save me from drowning… I let Genie make the wish for me." Al then turns back to Genie. "But, I'm sorry. I don't think I can do it."
"Sure you can! Just go-" Genie then moves Al's lips to make him say out the wish.
"I'M SERIOUS!" he shouts, causing all the jokes to drop like a terrible movie. "Look, I know I promised you, but I don't think I can pull this off. Without you, I'm nothing."
"But Al, you won!"
"BECAUSE OF YOU!" Al point at the blue djinn almost desperately. "The only reason anyone thinks I'm anything is because of you! If everyone found out the truth, I could lose everything." His eyes look away. "I'm sorry; I can't do it."
If nothing else, Genie is visibly distraught. At worse, he's holding in his lividness. "Fine, whatever. I didn't expect much." As he speaks, his body shrinks just above the lamp. "I mean, you lied to everyone else I was just beginning to feel left out.
"Now if you'll excuse me, Master." Master is spoken with the utmost spite.
Al holds up the lamp, saying, "Genie, I'm really sorry. I am." His reply is a random raspberry. "Oh fine! Screw you then!" Acting out of anger, Aladdin shoves the lamp under his pillow. Abu and Carpet see this, and almost immediately leave.
Naruto, having stuck around, groans inwardly. "I cannot believe you would go back against your word; what about that honor among thieves crap?!"
Aladdin turns away to blow him off. "I only steal to eat, and for others! And that has nothing to do with this! Everyone wants some guy I'm not to be sultan!"
"AND WHY NOT?!" Naruto shouts in the most annoyed and aggressive way possible. "Everyone thinks you're Prince Ali; Aladdin might as well not exist anymore with all the lies you've told! What, you thought you could make a wish on a lamp and have all your problems go away?! You've just created harder ones to deal with!"
"This has nothing to do with you!"
"No, it's about you! You're so stuck in your lies you're afraid of what people might think of the real you! No one will ever support someone who lies to make himself look better."
This time Al explodes. "You say that because you know nothing about me! I have no family who could have taken care of me! I've lived on the streets for my whole life without anyone caring about me; you don't know what it's like to be hated and abandoned for no reason!"
This hits him a bit. Naruto begins to understand his feelings on a more personal level more than before, especially considering their similar childhoods. And yet… "Actually, I can. And, so what?"
"What?"
"Just because you had a bad childhood doesn't mean you should let it control your future. Everyone goes through suffering, it doesn't matter who. And all you're doing is making Genie suffer; you think you got it bad? He's been forced into slavery who the hell knows HOW LONG and literally can't do anything about it! You gotta set him free, and tell everyone the truth."
Aladdin looks down with a sigh. He knows Naruto is right, and Genie is his friend too. He has to set him free. He walks over to where he left Genie's lamp, only to find it missing. "Huh? Where's the lamp?"
Naruto moves forward to join him, where they both see it's gone. "Uh oh. You don't think Abu and Carpet took the lamp right?"
Before he could answer, the skies outside begin to turn dark. Black clouds gather overhead and snap with lightning bolts. Al sees this and begins to worry, heading outside with Naruto. "What's going on?" asks the street rat.
"Does this happen often?" His question gets him stared at like he was Freddy Krueger's illegitimate child with an avocado. "You're right, that was a stupid question. Let's go!"
The two orphans head out to the center of the storm and its destruction. There they also witness the palace is being lifted off the earth by a blue god. Actually, getting a closer look at it, it's Genie!
"Whoa! When did Genie get buff?!"
"You're really focused on that now?!" After scolding Naruto, Al whistles for Carpet. Together, the three fly high up to Genie. At the top f his lungs Al shouts, "Genie, stop! What are you doing?!"
"Sorry Al," he replies, setting the palace on top of a mountain. "I can't help you anymore; I got a new master."
The blue djinn then points down at where Jafar is, in the palace using magic to pulverize Donald and Goofy. "Donald! Goofy!" Naruto jumps off Carpet summoning the Keyblade.
Jafar raises his scepter, fully repaired, which opens its mouth and unleashes a red wave. This captures Naruto and sends him crashing to the ground. His eyes then note the sword. "Ah, so you're the boy who has the key! I was wondering when you'd show up."
Naruto tries to raise himself, as Jafar cackles with the lamp in hand. "But you're too late; I now have the lamp, and now I am the most powerful sorcerer in the world! Now to keep you busy."
He jabs his scepter into the ground, causing all the pots within and out the palace to grow spider legs. Naruto looks up, and to his shock notes Jasmine in his arm. "Jasmine!" Before he could make a move, the pot Heartless attack him.
"Ah yes, the princess will be with me for the time being. Farewell!" He flies high up with the unconscious princess, laughing as he nears Genie.
Jafar comes before Aladdin, who soon sees his hostage. "JAFAR, GET YOUR HANDS OFF HER!" The former vizier zaps him, canceling out his wish by reverting Aladdin back to his old, ratty attire.
"I knew it. Prince Ali was nothing more than that worthless street rat I sent for the lamp!" Al's eyes widen when he hears him. "I'll be sure to make you pay once I fill this world with darkness and give the Princess to Maleficent."
He then sends Al skyrocketing to the ground with Carpet, witnessed by a saddened Genie. He falls on top of Naruto, and they get jumped by the Heartless. The sorcerer then turns his eyes to Genie. "Now, slave, for my second wish, reveal to me the Keyhole!"
"The what? Yeah, I don't know-" Jafar grabs his nose.
"DON'T TALK BACK TO ME YOU BIG BLUE LOUT! JUST DO IT!" Breaking free, the genie sighs before snapping his fingers. Pink sparkles fly across the skies, towards the desert. He then holds a hand out, which the sorcerer stands on, and together he flies them over to the location.
Naruto slashes the pots away from him, holding Al up with one arm. "I'm not going down that easily!" The moment he says that, the pot spiders gather together into one single centipede monster. The head with its electrifying antennae snarls. "… It's never easy, is it?"
Kei & Yusei: No it's not!
Takeshi: And so, we end with another chapter in the second third of the Agrabah.
Julia: With the next chapter we conclude things. What will become of Naruto, Aladdin, Donald, Goofy, and even Jafar?
Kenshin: What about the omake?
Yusei: Timeskip.
Kei: Yeah, what's wrong with you?