Chapter 1

Disclaimer, I do not own Naruto nor the Skulduggery Pleasant Series

I would like to make it known, that aside from being my very first try at this writing/crossovering/whatever the hell I'm doing and that this story was done at a flight of fancy after far too many days without sleep. May contain OOCness, AU and other applicable nonsense

Note: starts of during the third book

On with the story

Valkyrie had been trailing after Fletcher, right beside her partner Skulduggery and Paddy—or was it Mr. Hanratty—and they had made it to the middle of a field at Aranmore Farm. They needed to find the location that the Faceless Ones would pop out of after all. They were at the place where Fletcher said it felt like where the opening was. Then he just suddenly vanished.

That was followed by a sudden flash of light above them, Valkyrie shielded her eyes with her hand, wondering just what in the hell is happening, wondering if the Faceless Ones were coming.

And then it hit her. Quite literally. Even knocked her right off her feet.

One minute she was standing there, worried about what happened to Fletcher, when he just up and disappeared in the middle of the field, the next she was blindsided by what felt like a small elephant. Okay, maybe that was exaggerating things slightly, if anything she felt that she was slightly bigger than what fell on top of her. Of course that didn't make it weigh nor did it make it hurt any less.

She proceeded to do what most people would do when something heavy fell on them, she groaned in pain and attempted to push the object off.

Great, first Fletcher disappeared, then I was blinded by light and then something fell on me, Valkyrie thought to herself dryly, and she thought it would be a fairly easy day today.

Shaking her head, she blinked rapidly as her eyes got used to the lighting, she looked up and found herself too close for comfort with a regal looking girl, with hair of the most striking shade of red, extremely pale blue eyes and dressed in Oriental outfit.

Oh yeah, the girl also seemed to have no pupils in her eyes, had a strange line-like marking on her forehead and had two horn-like protrusions on her head.

"Would you kindly get off my partner?" Valkyrie heard Skulduggery asking, his words followed shortly by the distinctive sound of a revolver being cocked.

The person on top of her turned their head to the source of the noise, only for their eyes to widen. Probably at the sight of a talking skeleton no doubt.

"What?" the person replied, obviously still addled by the skeleton, their voice, Valkyrie noted, was soft and melodic, albeit rather androgynous.

"I asked if you could get off my partner."

She blinked twice, her mouth opened slightly only to close as she turned back to face Valkyrie. Almost immediately the redhead's eyes widened before she scurried off, a sheepish smile on her face, as she rubbed the back of her head in what seemed like embarrassment.

As she stood up, she held out her hand for Valkyrie, now normally she wouldn't accept the help of someone who just fell on her, but the apologetic look on the girl's face persuaded her.

Soft, she thought offhandedly as she was pulled to her feet. Looking towards the unknown, it was made frightfully clear that this person was not a Faceless One. The fact was as plain as the, well, nose on her face.

"Not to be rude, but who or rather what are you," right Skulduggery was there, Valkyrie had forgotten for a second, that and the fact that his gun was out.

Anything further was halted, when her phone started ringing, startling the pale eyed beauty, if the step back was anything to go by. Looking up, Valkyrie saw the slight narrowing of the girl's eyes, and tried to smile reassuringly, at least she thought it was a reassuring smile, but if the slight relaxing of the redheads frame is anything to go by then it was working.

"Hey, Val," oh, it was just Tanith. Apparently Fletcher was with her.

"It was Tanith," Valkyrie said to Skulduggery," Fletcher's with her."

"That's good to know, but we have more pressing issues at the moment." He replied, his gun still trained on the horned girl. As if feeling threatened, the girl moved behind Valkyrie, grasping on her jacket, only the top of her head visible, as she peered warily at the skeleton over Val's shoulder.

"Why don't we take her in?" Valkyrie asked, "I mean she's obviously distressed she and she might know something if she came through from the other side."

"Valkyrie, you don't know her." Skulduggery replied, his voice still even.

"C'mon look at her," Valkyrie said, moving the girl in front of her, "What's the worse she can do?"

"You'd be surprised."

Silence.

"You're not going to budge on this are you?"

"Nope."

"Well then," the skeleton detective tucked back his revolver, "Shall we?"

Meeting back with the others was interesting enough, Ghastly and Tanith hid their curiosity well enough, but Fletcher was another story.

"You have horns," the blunt remark, eerily similar to his reaction to Skulduggery, had the poor girl scurrying back to where she felt safe, being behind Valkyrie.

The ride back to Kenspeckle's was similarly as interesting, the horned girl seemed unwilling to part from Valkyrie's side, to the point that the smaller girl was seated on the other's lap on the passenger seat of Ghastly's van. Along the way the girl had dozed off, unsurprising since she was stifling her yawns just earlier, it was kind of adorable, not that she would ever say so out loud.

"Are you sure this is a good idea," Ghastly asked from the back of the van, still sceptical about the horned person sitting on the dark haired girl's lap.

"Yes… no… well, maybe," Valkyrie replied, tracing her fingers on the horns of her passenger. "It can't hurt to try right?"

Once they had arrived at the Hibernian, they placed the still napping girl in one of the rooms, they'll let her rest up while they gather information on how to kill a god, or rather Ghastly and Tanith are going to babysit Fletcher there—and keep an eye on the girl—while Skulduggery and Valkyrie gather information. And they knew just where to find it, Valkyrie just needed to talk with her dead uncle.

[At the Hibernian]

Kit, we have a problem

'You don't say Kurama!'

End

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