Naruto/ Final Fantasy Fusion
Disclaimer: I don't claim to own either Naruto or any of the Final Fantasy Games referred to in this story. (Although I wish I could.)
Summoner Naruto
By Mage-Alia
Chapter 4: …first impression…? I hate you.
Summary: After failing the Genin exam Naruto ends up walking a different path after being presented with a Summoning contract for the rare creatures called "Aeons". Now, unable to use Charka outside his body, Naruto needs to find his own purpose in life while he deals with elementals that tell bad jokes and his extremely reluctant guardian, Sasuke.
Pairing: SasuNaru
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Eighty-eight reviews for three chapters… (Author faints)
A/N: I GOT TO SEE THE ANIME! I got a whole lot of the episodes and saw them for the first time…. It was because my friend found a whole bunch and told me that she had a surprise and I subconsciously started guessing and got it right, then got excited ahead of time and calmed down when she arrived….
….Did that make sense to anyone?
Anywhoo, someone mentioned Sakura in a review and wondered if she was off the hook because Sasuke was the main guardian. Well… you have to admit, until she wakes up to reality around the time of the chuunin exam she's relatively useless. Plus, she resents Naruto for having Sasuke to protect him all the time even if it is forced, so in the guarding bit she takes a back seat until later in the story.
Naruto and Sasuke where both in stormy moods hours later when they'd returned to the classroom to await their new Sensei, but while the other teams had already left, they where stranded on their own, getting more and more irritated by the absence of their teacher.
Iruka had appeared a few times while they where waiting to check in on them but had only sighed in irritation when he discovered that their new Sensei still wasn't there. He knew who it was, of course, but he wasn't telling. It was creeping closer to the three-hour mark when Naruto stuck his head out the door for what had to be the seventieth time since they'd entered.
"Naruto! Just sit down already and quit fidgeting!" Sakura yelled across the room as he pulled his head back inside.
"Why is the sensei of our team so damn late then?" He retorted over one shoulder, shutting the door and folding his arms over his chest in an impatient gesture. "All the other teams have gone off with their teachers, and Iruka-Sensei hasn't been back for a while…" Sakura and Sasuke had blocked out the rant after that and Naruto noticed. He stopped and pouted before getting an idea and reached for the dust board eraser while pulling a small packet out of his pocket. Neither of his teammates really noticed until he dragged a chair over to the door.
"HEY! NARUTO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" Sakura shouted, making Sasuke look up to see the blonde setting the eraser in the door, shutting it until there was just enough pressure to hold it in place until the next unsuspecting soul opened the door.
"Nihihihihihi!" Naruto giggled as he jumped down and stood back, admiring his handy work. "That's what you get for being late!" He chirped brightly, pushing the chair back to where he'd found it.
"Geeze… Naruto!" Sakura stood, hands on hips and eyeing the trap. "I am not involved with this and don't expect me to get you out of trouble!" inside though her "inner being" was happily anticipating the results… not that she'd ever tell anyone else that though.
"Pft…" Sasuke scoffed as he cast a look at Naruto out of the corner of his eye. "Like a Jounin would ever fall for such a simple booby trap…" He abruptly went quiet though when a hand moved around the frame and pushed it across. A mop of silver hair was all they got to see before the new arrival's face was covered in a cloud of chalk dust.
Bang.
Silence…
"GYAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You fell for it!" Naruto yelled, quite gleefully doing a little victory dance and Inner Sakura was dancing right along with him, but externally…
"I'm so sorry Sensei," She pleaded, her hands creeping up to her chin as she tried to look sincere, clearly marking her lie to anyone who understood the basics of body language. "I tried to stop him but Naruto…" Sasuke had a different reaction altogether.
'…. This is really a Jounin? He doesn't seem very reliable.' He thought, his hands still linked in front of his face, half concealing his slightly incredulous expression as he continued to itch the back of his hand. First he was stuck with the useless Dobe and a fangirl and now he had what looked like a lazy idiot for a Sensei. The Jounin looked at them all and rubbed his chin thoughtfully as he took in their various reactions.
"Hmmm…. how can I say this… my first impression is… I hate you."
"….."
Naruto was sure he could hear crickets chirping on the other side of the village.
"Okay… Let's begin with some introductions." The masked man leaned against the railing that circled the roof of the Academy. Now that they where out in the light they could see him better and to them he looked like any other Shinobi in the village. He wore the standard blue shirt and pants of a Konoha Shinobi with bandages wrapped around his thigh where a shuriken holster would normally be kept. His pants where also bound to his shins by numerous bandages, leaving his toes that poked out from the end of his sandals as the only skin showing below the waist. Also, he had the flak jacket of a Chunnin and fingerless gloves with a plate of metal riveted to the back.
"What do you want to know?" Sakura took it upon herself to ask questions for the group since Sasuke just didn't talk and Naruto was staring stupidly.
"How about… your likes, dislikes, dreams for the future, hobbies… stuff like that." Naruto snapped out of his stupor and spoke up.
"Hey, hey! Why don't you introduce yourself to us first?" Surprisingly Sakura agreed with him.
"Yeah… you look suspicious." The man looked at them lazily with his only visible eye, the other having been covered by his lopsided forehead protector.
"Oh… Me? Well.. My name is Hatake Kakashi. I have no desire to tell you guys about my likes and dislikes." He paused. "Dreams for the future…? Hmmm…. Well…. I have lots of hobbies." His sentences where incomplete and dodged the issue as he absentmindedly scratched his head with increasing regularity.
"So… all we learned was his name." Sakura said in a low tone while he was distracted. She sounded somewhat disappointed.
"Now it's your turn, from the right!" He said, gesturing to Naruto who sent him a trickster's grin.
"Me! Me! My name is Uzumaki Naruto and I like Ramen and Shiva-nee-chan! What I like even more is when Iruka-sensei buys me Ramen! What is dislike is waiting for Ramen to cook and my dream…" Kakashi stared at the hyper Summoner, his visible eye wide.
'Does he always think of Ramen?' he asked himself silently.
"…my dream is to become Hokage and surpass all previous Hokage so that I will have all the people of this village acknowledge my existence!" The Jounin found himself taken aback by the words.
'He can't even use Chakra but he still wants to be Hokage, this will be interesting after all.'
"Hobbies…" Naruto trailed off slightly then grinned. "…Pranks I guess." Kakashi reached up to scratch his nodding head before he froze and looked back at Naruto. The blonde was looking pointedly at his head and Kakashi lowered his hand, ignoring the itch and sweating slightly.
"I see… Next!" All eyes turned to Sasuke who had been sitting at the center of the trio, drawn back from the rest of the group, elbows propped on his knees with hands clasped in front of his face.
"…My name in Uchiha Sasuke. There are tons of things I dislike but I Don't really like anything, and… I wouldn't call it a dream but, I have an ambition. The resurrection of my clan and… to kill a certain man…" Kakashi, Naruto and Sakura all stared at him, the female of their group wide eyed as she thought of the dark twelve year old as cool. Naruto on the other hand was frowning slightly at his new guardians.
'oh geeze, how can this guy protect me if he wants to go killing people?' Kakashi however, barely showed a reaction at all. His single visible eye had gained a hard glint under the eternally lazy expression he wore.
'I thought so.' The Uchiha's words had confirmed his earlier suspicions about the boy's goals in life.
"Ok…" He brushed off the gloomy introduction and crossed his arms over his chest. His gaze drifting to the final member… "And lastly, the girl." Sakura smiled timidly under the looks of her team mates… well, Naruto and Kakashi looked at her, Sasuke just stared straight ahead, probably because if he looked at the pink haired fan girl she'd either start squealing or he'd be sick. One or the other.
"I'm Haruno Sakura, the thing I like is…" She trailed off and looked out of the corner of her eye at the dark haired genin sitting on the step above them. Sakura giggled slightly and blushed. "Umm… should I say my dream for the future…?" She said more to herself than anyone else. "Oh MY!" She covered her mouth with her fists at the direction of her thoughts and even Kakashi was unnerved by the display. "The thing I dislike is Ino-pig, oh… and Naruto, my hobby is…" Once again she looked at Sasuke and blushed. Kakashi and Naruto had the same basic reaction.
'Are boys the only thing she thinks of? Girls are more interested in love than Ninjutsu these days…' After the moment of uncomfortable silence that followed in the wake of Sakura's half babbled announcement Kakashi cleared his throat and sat up slightly his eye flicking from one genin to the other lazily.
"Okay, that's enough of that." He began, shifting imperceptibly as the steal bar of the railing he was sitting on started to become uncomfortable. "We will start our duties tomorrow." Naruto lit up like a box of fireworks.
"YAY! What kinds of duties?" The curve of their Jounin Sensei's mask told them he was grinning beneath the cloth.
"First we are going to do something with just the four of us." Everyone perked up at that.
"What is it?" Sakura asked. Kakashi just flashed her a look.
"Survival Training."
"……." A gust of wind rattled over the roof.
"Survival training?" Naruto muttered more to himself than anyone else. Sasuke twitched and Sakura was looking at Kakashi sharply.
"Why is it our duty to train?" She asked. "We did enough training at the Ninja Academy." No one said anything as they stared at the Jounin before he abruptly burst out laughing.
"Oh this is something special." He said, the impression of a wicked grin rolling off him. "You see, because out of the graduating Genin from the Academy, only nine with remain as Genin. The rest will be returned to the Academy or they will drop out." Jaws hit the floor.
"WHAT?" Naruto half choked, half screamed. "But we graduated from the academy!" Naruto's hand went up to his forehead protector. Kakashi unfolded his arms and shrugged nonchalantly.
"The Academy exams are there to weed out those who don't have the potential to become Ninja. You Naruto, barely scraped through since you where the dead last." Naruto growled and sat back glowering as Kakashi handed out the sheet's of paper with the details of their exam on it. While the Genin where absorbed in reading (Well, Sakura and Sasuke where, Naruto was having a bit of trouble.) Kakashi grinned and clapped his hands.
"Well then, now where done here. You guys can all go home, oh, and one last thing. Don't eat any breakfast, or you might throw it up." Then, without so much as a goodbye he poofed out of existence. Naruto stood the moment he left and shoved the crumpled paper into his pocket before stomping to the clear area of the roof grumbling. Before Sakura could ask what he was doing Naruto unwrapped the bandages from his arms back to the second level and carefully looked over the tattoo's displayed. Sasuke and Sakura stopped what they where doing and stared as he finally brushed a thumb over Shiva's node. As was normal with the lesser level Summoning a single pillar of ice slammed down in front of him and nearly creating a crater in the roof.
The icicle shattered and there stood Shiva in all her semi-nude glory.
"Good afternoon, Naruto-sama." Sakura's jaw dropped when she heard the honorific from such a beautiful woman. Sasuke however was frozen under the force of the raw power that seemed to simply flood off the Aeon.
"Hey Shiva-nee-chan!" Naruto bounced over and hugged her. Shiva looked around the roof and her eyes fell on the rest of the three-man cell.
"Are these your Team mates?" she asked, a disturbing amount of curiosity displayed in her expression.
"Well yeah." Naruto squinted at her. "I told you yesterday that I was getting on a genin team, did you forget or something?" Shiva looked mildly insulted.
"Naruto-Sama, I do not forget. I merely thought they might just be friends because one has your guardian mark, that's all." It took all of ten seconds for Naruto to realize what she had just said and another five to react.
"What!" Shiva looked at him oddly then walked over to the still frozen Uchiha and grabbed his hand. The icy shock of her touch caused him to snap out of his stupor and try to back away but Shiva had him in an iron grip as she pulled him forward and showed the back of his hand that had been itching all day to the blonde.
"This!" She pointed out the discoloration on his pale skin. It was red and raw from the itching but there on the back of his hand was a pale gray circle with the silhouette of a dancing nine tailed fox layered over it. In the foxes mouth was an odd staff.
Naruto gapped at it.
"It's a different shape for every Summoner but they always end up giving it to their most trusted guardians. Those who would protect them even at the cost of their own life." Sasuke abruptly decided he didn't like the sound of that.
"WHAT? There's no way I would die for that Dobe!" Shiva gave him an amused look that said she clearly didn't believe him but let the matter drop for another day.
Okay… hmmm… I think I'll leave off there for now. (I say that a lot don't I?) Think of this as a filler chapter. Next chapter you'll see a new Aeon Summon and the survival exam. Also if anyone wants to take a look at my homepage they can find a couple of pictures of the different Aeons, Summons and Eidolons that will be mentioned in the story. There aren't many yet but they'll give you something to picture if you haven't played any of the final fantasy games.
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Cya