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 5: Ding go the bells.

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

A/N: Hehehehe, hi everybody! I think I might have been a Naruto fan before I'd even heard of it because I was cleaning my room and I found a stash of old clothes at the back of my wardrobe and wouldn't you know it, every single thing in the pile was bright orange. Heh, seriously, I used to wear it all at the same time and even mum would have trouble looking at me! Hehehehehe….

Someone asked why wasn't Naruto getting taught by Gai if he couldn't use his charka. Weeellllll… Naruto being able to hurt people kinda defeats the purpose of him being a White mage doesn't it. Characteristically in most Final Fantasy games the group Summoner is a white mage. Naruto still has to follow those rules even if he doesn't have magic or Charka to use. That's probably why I'm going to make it so that Tsunade teaches him how to dodge if I ever find a way to work her properly into the story.

(Hehehe I kinda forgot about that…heh)

"Hey guys, good morning!"

"YOU'RE LATE!" Kakashi was nearly blasted off his feet by two of his three genin as they yelled at him for being tardy. He grinned at them unrepentantly and waved of Sasuke's glare dismissively, not in the least bothered by the twelve year old boy's dark look. All three had arrived right on time for the test but had ended up waiting another three hours for their sensei to even make an appearance. There was a large hole in the ground by Naruto's feet where he had been digging in the earth with an old Kunai he'd found half buried there. He didn't carry to many Kunai anymore. Just enough for basic defense since he couldn't really use them anyway.

Kakashi lead them through the forested part of their training area to where three large stumps had been left in the ground. They looked well used but still sturdy, just like all the trees in Konoha. The silver haired man set down his bag and pulled out an alarm clock which he set for noon.

"Alright, you have until midday." Kakashi said as he reached into a pocket of his vest and pulled out two bells dangling from red strings. "Here are two bells. Your task is to take these from me before the alarm clock rings. If you don't get a bell you won't get lunch and not only that but I'll tie you to one of those stumps and the other's will eat in front of you." He had a dark smirk twisting his mouth beneath his mask after saying that.

'So this is why he told us not to eat.' Sakura and Sasuke thought together. They looked at Naruto standing between them but the blonde just wore a guilty little grin on his face telling them he's completely forgotten about not eating. Something he was probably now quite grateful for. Kakashi ignored the byplay with a bored expression and continued his explanation.

"You only need to get one bell. There are only two so one of you will definitely be tied to a stump and the person who doesn't get a bell fails, so at least one of you will be sent back to the academy." Naruto gave a determined pout as Sasuke shifted slightly to his left. A quick glance and the blonde could see the fiercely resolute look on his face. Sakura had drifted into a brief daydream that was probably about Sasuke and Naruto was sure he didn't want to know what she was thinking. In the mean time Kakashi had secured the bells to a belt loop and was waiting for their attention.

"In this exercise a doubt you could even catch me so I'll allow you to use anything at your disposal to get the bells. The only way you'll get close is if you come at me with the intent to kill." Sakura seemed to wake up then.

"But then you'll be in danger!" Kakashi gave her a dead pan look.

"If you haven't noticed, you're a Genin and I'm a Jounin." He pointed out that fact and Sakura backed down with an abrupt 'oh'. Naruto absentmindedly pulled off his left bracelet and began to unravel the bandages. He never took his eyes off Kakashi as he unraveled straight to the second level and grinned. The Jounin noticed and raised an eyebrow but grinned back nonetheless. Ebisu had been ranting in the morning briefings about Naruto's Aeons and personally, he was hoping to see them.

"Ok." He began crouching slightly. "Let's get going. Ready… START!" The Genin wasted no time in leaping away. Their Genin exam had begun!

"The basics of a ninja are to hide yourself well."

Kakashi scanned their training area with a practiced eye as he searched out his Genin. He could just see the trails that lead to their hiding places and the displacement of leaves, grass and twigs where they where crouched watching him. To a civilian the area would look deserted but to a Shinobi with decent tracking skill and some ability to sense charka they would see every step the genin had made and come to the conclusion that Sasuke was in the trees to his left and ahead of him while Sakura was at his right hidden under some bushes.

'I guess for Genin they've hidden themselves well.' He thought, scratching his head a bit where it still itched after the incident from yesterday. He hadn't managed to get rid of all the itching powder. Speaking of which, where was Naruto? He looked around lazily and tried to see a trail but there where none. He stretched out his Charka sense and felt around but even that didn't seem to work. Something appeared to be wrong with Naruto's Charka. Even so, while he looked Sasuke was watching Kakashi peering around from his perch in the trees.

'What is he doing?' He asked himself as his eyes went to the orange and white form on the edge of the trees about a hundred feet behind Kakashi. Naruto hadn't moved since their initial dash and seemed content to stand half concealed by the tree trunks, the turquoise colored thing with the ruby horn floating beside him. The odd thing though was the extremely faint glittering sphere that seemed to surround them.

The minutes ticked on and for a long time nobody really moved and Kakashi just gave up looking for Naruto when he remembered his condition. He was a Summoner and he couldn't fight the same way most Shinobi could so of course there'd be some trick up his sleeves to give him an advantage in this kind of situation. Sighing he reached into his equipment pouch and rummaged around before coming out with his little orange book. It was a new edition and he'd been looking forward to finishing it but with the amount of interruptions he'd been getting lately now seemed like as good a time as any to get in a chapter or two.

The genin however where all sweat dropping at the mere sight of the book let along what it was. Naruto decided he was done with hiding and dismissed Carbuncle. The floating creature vanished and its reflect shield along with it. Kakashi turned around abruptly as the Aeon left and Naruto came back onto the radar. Of course he had lost the element of stealth but it didn't matter all that much. Reflect could redirect Charka attacks back at the user as well as block tracking Jutsu's somewhat but the summoning process for each Aeon couldn't truly be hidden. There was always something audible or visible. Naruto swiped his hand along an unused second level node and made a fist of his hand and the ground around the training area began to shake slightly. A rumbling built along with it but then, as abruptly as it had come it stopped. Everyone but Naruto where looking around almost franticly thinking the same thing. What had he done? Then almost in answer to his question there was a most unexpected sound.

"WARK!"

They nearly jumped out of their skin and Sakura and Sasuke blew their cover when they saw the big golden colored bird standing by the trees.

'What the…'

"WARK!"

They jumped again and looked to the other side where a new golden bird had appeared.

"WARK!"

"WARK!"

"WARK!"

"WARK!"

"WARK! WARK! WARK! WARK! WARK! WARK! WARK! WARK! WARK! WARK! WARK! WARK! WARK! WARK!"

Soon there where around fifty tall golden birds surrounding Kakashi all making the 'Wark'ing noise loudly. Naruto was still grinning when he swung up onto the back of the nearest bird and leaned down over its neck as a bird ridden by a strange pink creature that had a red bauble floating over its head and a cape streaming from its back. The caped critter rode forward and all the birds tensed before it raised a stubby arm and yelled at the top of its lungs.

"KUPO!"

In a flash every single bird charged into the circle, creating a complicated hatch work pattern that blocked Kakashi at every turn. When he took a step away from his place he was either buffeted by the powerful wind that rushed around the running birds or was nearly knocked over by flightless wings and spindly legs. Taking a chance when he saw Naruto riding a bird Sasuke leapt out of his tree. The bird didn't even loose a step as he landed and kept running, now making it's way to the center of the formation. It wouldn't break out of the pattern to any of Sasuke's prompts but at least it was heading in the right direction. Naruto leaned low over the side of his Chocobo and reached out as he passed Kakashi. The Jounin saw him out of the corner of his eye at the last minute and span around to avoid the bells being taken but even as he did he wasn't anticipating the movements of the Moogle that had come up on his other side. It flew right off the Chocobo's back and grabbed the bells, breaking their strings on order to pull them loose and promptly flew back to the Chocobo as the others began to disperse.

Sasuke was startled when the birds broke apart and vanished into puffs of smoke when they'd run far enough. The bird he sat on 'Wark'ed one last time and burst into a puff of smoke, nearly dumping him into the dirt. However he caught himself just it time. Now there where only two remaining, the one Naruto rode and the Moogle. The blonde Summoner was wearing a smug foxy grin as the Moogle threw him the bells. They jingled cheerfully in his hands as he thanked the creatures and dismounted, dismissing them with a wave of his hand that made them vanish into thin air. Sakura and Kakashi where still somewhat out of it, Sakura caught up on the summoning ability and Kakashi on the fact that Naruto had been the one to actually get the bells. It was a first so you had to forgive his surprise.

Naruto finally seemed to notice Sasuke standing out in the open and flashed him a grin before flicking a bell at him. The Uchiha caught it out of reflex and stared at it somewhat surprised before giving the Summoner a clear 'What are you doing' look. Naruto shrugged.

"I only needed one." He said just as the bell rang to announce they'd reached midday. Kakashi shook himself out of his stupor and looked around, idly noting the bells in the boy's hands before clapping his own together.

"Well, looks like Sakura's the one being tied to the log."

"WAHHHHH! SASUKE-KUN! HELP ME!" Sakura wailed loudly from her place at the base of the log and the said Uchiha scowled in irritation. The high-pitched wailing was bad but the affront to his pride was even worse. Naruto, the dead last of the year had gotten both bells before him and not only that, he'd displayed an incredible summoning ability when he called all those birds.

'Chocobo's.' A little voice in the back of his mind corrected him. 'They're called Chocobo's.' Sasuke mentally shoved the voice and beat it down into the lower depths of his mind. It had been popping up every time the blonde idiot said or did something he didn't understand and it was quickly becoming just about as irritating as Naruto himself.

"Shut up, Sakura." Kakashi said flatly. "Quite frankly if it where up to me you wouldn't be tied there." The pink haired girl brightened.

"Really?" She asked, no longer screeching.

"Yes." The one visible eye darkened. "Because if it where up to me you and Sasuke would be going back to the academy immediately."

"WHAT!" Kakashi sighed.

"You where a shoe in for a genin team because of Naruto, regardless of whether or not you passed but the performance of you and Sasuke was so bad I have no doubt that if worst came to worst you'd never be able to fend off the enemies that threaten our resident summoning expert. Sakura, you didn't even go near Naruto and immediately ran off to find Sasuke without thinking. If Naruto hadn't gotten the bells I would have been able to put you under Genjutsu in no time with a weakness like that, and Sasuke. You tried, I'll give you that, but in the end it was Naruto that gave you the bell. You didn't even consider him either. You tried to work on your own ignoring the other resources at your disposal, and Naruto." The blonde perked up slightly from his place between Kakashi and the other two.

"Hai, Kakashi-Sensei?" The Jounin looked a little thunderous until his expression suddenly gave way to a smile.

"You did well." He complimented. "Even if the purpose of this test was something else entirely you took me completely by surprise with that summoning and managed to get the bells, something no one has ever managed before." Naruto took the praise and found himself smiling somewhat goofily. Sasuke however was far from happy with the results and lunged forward with a Kunai in hand. Naruto suddenly came out of his happy place as the Uchiha barreled toward him, fully focused on Kakashi but the blonde threw up his hands in alarm and went to block when something happened. Sasuke vanished mid step and reappeared directly in front of the blonde on his knees, the kunai in the dirt where he'd vanished and a confused expression on his face.

No one dared to so much as breathe as Sasuke tried to keep up with the abrupt change.

"What just happened?" Kakashi asked in deadpan and Naruto looked down at his arms in surprise.

"DOBE!" Sasuke had finally found his bearings.

"WHAT?" Naruto replied in kind, still somewhat surprised.

"QUIT DOING THAT!"

"IT'S NOT ME!"

"WHO ELSE COULD IT BE? THE HOKAGE?"

Effectively shunted to one side Kakashi and Sakura sweat dropped as the insults where hurled back and forth like tennis balls, until...

"IF IT WAS UP TO ME I WOULDN'T BE IN THIS MESS!"

"OH YEAH! THAT'S IT! I'M GETTING SHIVA-NEE-CHAN!"

The argument broke off and Naruto stomped to one side, jerkily pulling at the wrappings to reveal the circle on the back of his hand. Moments later Ice thundered down and shattered to reveal the ice queen.

"Naruto-Sama?" She greeted, somewhat confused as to why she'd been called.

"Shiva-nee-chan!" Naruto whined. "Tell him I'm not doing it."

"Doing what?" The bluette asked patiently.

"That teleportation Jutsu thingy." The blonde waved an accusing finger in Sasuke's direction and Shiva followed the direction before closing her eyes and shaking her head in what couldn't be mistaken for anything but exasperation.

"I can not." She answered and Naruto's cheeks puffed up in indignation.

"Why not?" He demanded and Shiva crossed her arms over her chest.

"Because you are doing it." She explained and Naruto felt his jaw drop.

"WHAT?" She sighed mentally and swayed gracefully over to a clear area by the stream and waved a hand, creating a large throne of ice, practically out of thin air. She took a seat and propped her chin on one hand looking for all the world like a bored noble as she cast a look over them, her blue eyes settling briefly on Sasuke's half concealed Guardian mark before meeting Naruto's gaze.

"It would be best to explain from the beginning." She said and Naruto plonked himself down on a nearby rock to listen, glaring at her stubbornly. Another mental sigh later and she continued.

"When a guardian is chosen and marked, they enter a binding contract with the Summoner. They will do all in their power to protect the Summoner from all kinds of dangers because, it is against a Summoner's code to harm others themselves. That is our job. They are the embodiment of white magic's and to hurt another would most likely cause some distress. If the Summoner can not Summon and he is alone the 'Teleportation Jutsu' can be used to call a Guardian to his side at any time, meaning a Guardian has to be prepared for anything or he will fail in his duties." She paused while that sunk in and a few moments later Sasuke looked at her, glaring.

"Do you mean to say that I am at the beck and call of this Idiot?" Shiva frowned at the name-calling but nodded anyway.

"A guardian will live to protect their Summoner, even at the risk of their own life." She recited. "The code of the guardian." Still attached to the log Sakura was fuming.

"YOU IDIOT! YOU MEAN TO SAY HE ENSLAVED SASUKE-KUN!" She had come to the worst possible conclusion she could as her inner self began yelling profanities. The comment earned her glares from the Ice Queen, Summoner and the Uchiha in question, all for various reasons. As Sakura shrank away from the deadly stares Shiva stood and in a wave of her hand the icy throne melted away.

"If that is all Naruto-Sama, I will leave now. You still have a test to complete." She bowed to Naruto and nodded once to Kakashi before she sprang away and vanished into thin air. Deciding on what he'd do Kakashi held out the bento's he'd prepared earlier to Naruto and Sasuke.

"Alright, I'll give you one more chance to pass this exam so eat up and whatever you do, do not give any of your food to Sakura okay, she's tied up because she caused you to fail the first time, don't forget that." The boys took the food and began to eat as Kakashi made a few hand seals and vanished in a puff of smoke and leaves. Shortly after he left Naruto stopped and looked up at Sakura as her stomach gave a loud grumble. He returned his gaze to his food and back as he debated whether or not to give it to her when Sasuke made up his mind for him. The dark haired boy held out his half finished bento in the pick haired girls direction.

"Here." He said gruffly, his head down. "If you don't eat you'll end up passing out in the middle of the test." Naruto pushed it back to Sasuke and offered up his own instead.

"You eat that Sasuke-Teme. I ate breakfast this morning already." He held up a piece of sushi with his chopsticks and Sakura reluctantly ate it. Disappointed that Sasuke wasn't doing it instead, but she wasn't in any situation to be picky, she knew that much. Their lunch continued on in silence until suddenly the sky darkened and Kakashi reappeared standing above them with a thunderous expression on his face. The Genin felt a thrill of fear at seeing.

"YOU GUYS…" Naruto closed his eyes waiting for the worst when suddenly the immense pressure was taken off them and the dark skies where blown away, leaving a brightly smiling Jounin.

"…PASS!" There was silence for a moment while it sank in before the three gave a shout.

"WHAT?"

Everyone turned to look as Kakashi entered the Jounin's lounge in the Hokage tower and dragged himself over to a couch along one wall, barely paying any heed to the curious eyes watching him. He flopped down and threw an arm across his face before Kurenai made her way over, Asuma in tow.

"So… how did it go Kakashi?" She asked her red eyes flickering to Ebisu. "What Aeon did he use?" It took a moment but Kakashi mumbled something under his breath. Fortunately their sharp hearing caught it anyway.

"Birds?" Asuma butted in gruffly. "You got beaten up by a bunch of birds?" Suddenly a Jounin from the back of the crowd spoke up.

"It wasn't the big yellow ones, was it?" Kakashi sat up opening his eye to stare at the man curiously. Seeing this he shrank back slightly.

"Heh… I saw them last week." He said, poking his fingers together nervously, not unlike the Hyuuga heiress was known to do. "There was a disturbance and the Anbu where called but when they got there the only thing visible was a big flock of yellow birds that chased them around the village for an hour before they vanished. I think the captain is still gibbering about flying teady bears that go 'Kupo'."

Everyone sweatdropped.

A/N: Hooeee… Kakashi kinda seems out of character doesn't he… well at least in that bit after Naruto gets the bells. Maybe… hmmmm… I can already tell this is seriously going to bake my noodle. WHAAAAAA! I had it all planed out and all I had to do was write it down but now I'm finding the little bumps and plot holes and it's slowing it all down… humph!

Anyway... The guardian mark thingie... that was an original idea so to speak. Like it says in the summary, Sasuke is a reluctant guardian. He wouldn't do anything like that normally so he needed to be forced into it, thus the mark. The original concept of guardians comes from Final Fantasy X, mostly.

Hehehe… I don't know what to really call that last bit with the Jounin's. I thought of it just before this was posted so I decided, 'what the heck' and put it down anyway.

Don't forget to review!

Cya

Chapter 4 Omake!

By Purple Lurker

"WHAT? There's no way I would die for that Dobe!"

Shiva looked up from her copy of Naruto manga volume 3 chapter 27 pages 298-end but let the matter drop for another day.