Alright! Chapter 2!! This one was fun to write. Hope you enjoy!

A Ninja and a Keybearer

Chapter 2: Traverse Town?

Naruto groaned. He peeked open an eye and quickly shut it. 'I must of stayed out to late practicing,' he concluded. He tried opening his eyes again, slowly so the light wouldn't blind him. Finally he opened his eyes fully. What he saw though wasn't any training ground.

Looking around, Naruto saw that he was beside a huge door with a lock on it. He was propped up against the corner, like someone had put him there, but what he noticed the most was that there was a town. Neon lights blinked everywhere, but no one else was in sight. The blonde pushed himself up and started to walk around. "Wh- Where am I?" he asked aloud. Was it Genjutsu? For all he knew, it could be.

Suddenly, the ground seems to turn dark as the same strange creatures crawled up. Naruto could feel his anger rising up. It was because of these stupid things that he wasn't able to save Sakura! He'd make them pay for that. Naruto quickly made a hand seal and yelled out, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Suddenly ten Narutos appeared. Each clone quickly took a kunai and threw it at the black creatures. They dissolved when the weapons hit them square on. It didn't work so well as it would have with any other enemy, but unlike last time, he was ready. He threw another kunai and jumped back. The sudden explosion from the paper bomb wiped out most of the creatures, but there were still more.

Naruto dispatched all but one of his clones, which disappeared in a puff of smoke. He held out his hand and the clone started moving his hands around, channeling the chakra the real Naruto let out until it became a perfect blue sphere. The last clone disappeared and the blonde ninja held out his hand clutching the ball and screamed, "RASENGAN!!" The ball of chakra ran through the rest of the black things until there were none left.

Naruto sat down and panted after his strange battle. "What were those things?" he asked to no one in particular.

"Heartless," said a voice from above. He jumped, because he wasn't expecting an answer, and looked up. A young man with a scar running down his face between his eyes and shoulder length brown hair was watching him.

'Almost looks like Iruka-sensei,' Naruto mused. A sudden pain of sadness hit his heart, but he didn't show it in front of this stranger. "Who are you?" he demanded.

He just stared at him with that cocky indifferent look Naruto got almost all the time from Sasuke. Finally he spoke. "No one who really matters… But who are you? Where did you come from? And what are your intentions?"

Naruto smirked. This guy had guts. "Why should I tell you? For all I know, you could be one of Orochimaru's henchmen trying to get me to tell you where Sasuke is. Well, even I don't know. And your Genjutsu sucks!! You think I'm stupid enough to believe I'm in another town??"

The man frowned, clearly not understanding, but then his confusion was replaced slight annoyance. "If you don't tell me what I want to know, I'm afraid I might have to take you by force and interrogate you," he said while reaching behind his back.

Naruto saw the movement and got into a defensive stance, with one hand near his shuriken holder. "Ha! You can't do that! Only the Anbu can catch me and make me tell them what they want! And they're elite ninjas!!" Naruto lied. Suddenly he threw a shuriken at the man and hopped onto the nearest lamppost above his eyesight. Hopefully he would sense him. He was disappointed. At the last second, the man pulled out what looked like a sword with a gun handle for the hilt and blocked the incoming weapon. He then turned around and hit the lamppost Naruto was on. The blonde fell, but somehow landed on his feet. As he was unsteady, the man hit the hilt on the back of his head. 'Not again.' And then he blacked out.

Squall Leonheart, or Leon as he preferred now, lifted the boy on his shoulder and carried him back to the hotel Yuffie was at the other "guest". "I gotta admit, kid," he murmured, "you're pretty good."


Sora looked over at the keyblade. His weapon. Yuffie the Great Ninja, a girl who had been there when he woke up, had just told him about everything. The heartless, the worlds, Traverse Town, and all the other weird things that had been happening to him recently.

"But… what do I have to do with all this?" he asked.

Yuffie was fixing to answer when a figure stood in the doorway. Walking into the light, Sora saw that it was the man who had wanted the keyblade. He quickly jumped up and grabbed said weapon. The man raised an eyebrow at him and then at Yuffie, who started giggling.

"Watch out Yuffie! He's the one who-!"

"Calm down, Sora," the ninja cut him off. "This is Leon… and someone else." She looked at Leon questionably, who shifted the boy on his shoulder. "Where's he from?" she asked.

"Dunno. Wouldn't answer. I found him fighting some heartless in the third district, but when I asked who he was and where he was from, he just yelled at me, accusing me of…" Leon thought for a moment, trying to remember correctly, "trying find out where… Sasuke was. Something like that. But he might be working for her, so I took him here. Had to knock him out though." He shrugged and set the boy down on bed beside Sora. "Oh yeah, sorry about earlier. Just wanted to get you away from the heartless."

Sora smiled. "It's all right." He looked down at the boy. He looked a couple of years younger than him and had spiky blonde hair. He was wearing an orange and blue jacket and orange pants. "Is he from another world too?"

"Probably. I've never seen him here before," Yuffie said, studying him.

"Oh yeah, he mentioned something about ninjas, Yuffie. This fell out of his pocket, too." Leon tossed an object at her.

Sora looked over. It was a headband, but with a piece of metal on the front. In the middle of the metal was a swirly looking sign. Looking closer, Sora figured out what it reminded him of. "Looks like a leaf."

"A leaf? Yeah it does look like it… I just can't remember anything about it though," Yuffie said, a puzzled look on her face. "What else did he say, Leon?"

Before he could answer, the boy groaned. "He's coming around. That was fast."

The boy opened his eyes slowly. He squinted at the three figures in front of him, trying to see who they were. He looked over at Leon and quickly jumped off the bed, but winced when the movement hurt his head. He reached a hand back and felt the lump Leon had given and winced again. "Hmph. Sakura should take some lessons in hitting from you," he mumbled. Suddenly he saw Sora and Yuffie staring at him. Looking at what was in Yuffie's hand he raised his eyebrows then glared, blue eyes flashing. Without warning, the boy charged at her in an attempt to get back his property, only to be stopped by a blade in his way. He quickly jumped back and threw a shuriken at Yuffie, but was surprised when she caught it with the quickness only a ninja possessed.

She studied the pointed star and looked back at the blonde boy. "So you are a ninja! Thought so."

He stared back, dumbfounded. "Either Kurenai-sensei put a Genjutsu on me, or I'm not in Konoha any more," Sora heard him mumble.

"Who are you?" Sora asked. The boy looked at him and glared, but suddenly, he smirked.

"It's common courtesy to introduce yourself before asking," he said.

Leon only snorted at the boy's rudeness, but Sora complied. "Alright then, I'm Sora, from Destiny Island."

The boy raised an eyebrow, but introduced his self anyway. "I'm Uzumaki Naruto, the next Hokage, believe it!"

"What's a Hokage?" Sora asked.

Naruto looked shocked. "You're kidding! You've never heard of the Hokage? The Fire Shadow? The greatest ninja in Konoha?"

"… No."

"Aha!!" All three boys jumped and stare at Yuffie, who had yelled out. "Now I know where you're from! You're from the Shinobi Nations aren't you?"

"No, duh…. I'm not in Konoha, are I?"

"Nope."

"Not even in the Fire Country?"

"Nope."

"… Anywhere in the Nations?"

"Nope."

Naruto fell on the floor and looked blankly at the wall. "Then… where… Where am I?"

"You're in Traverse Town," Leon said before Yuffie could answer him.

"Traverse Town?" All three of them nodded. "WHERE ON EARTH IS THAT!?"

Sora covered his ears. This kid had a big pair of lungs.

Yuffie just smiled at Naruto. "No where. You aren't even in your world. By the way, I'm Yuffie, the greatest ninja ever!!" she said, striking a pose.

Naruto seem like he was going to faint, but he snapped out of it when he heard the words greatest and ninja put together in one sentence.

"No you're not!! I am! You think I spent my whole life letting everyone glare at me for no reason?! And it isn't even my fault the fourth sealed that stupid fox inside me! I'm gonna become Hokage and get better than all of them!! That way they'll stop disrespecting me and look up to me!" He suddenly stopped, as if he had realized he'd said a big secret.

"Fox?" Leon asked.

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Don't worry. Sora will get a bigger part. He'll be more interactive next chappie. :) Did I make Leon a little OOC? Sorry if I did. So anyways, you may be wondering why I'm using the english version of the jutsus and saying Naruto's name they way Japanese do. Well, I can barely remember any of the jutsus in their original Japanese form. All I remember really is Kage Bushin. So I'm sticking to the English, where I know I'll get it right. But I'm saying his name in Jap. version, because he's Japanese... Plus, it'll be funny when he meets Goofy. Think about.

Uh- oh. In his anger, Naruto just revealed his biggest secret. What will Leon, Yuffie, and Sora do when they find out he's a Jinchuriki(sp?), a demon host? How's Naruto gonna find that keybearer if he's in another world anyway?

NEXT TIME: Secrets Revealed