"Hehe, you're too slow, Naruto!" the blue hedgehog yelled behind him as he dashed through the green hills.

The hardheaded ninja just smirked as he stood hunched over, gasping for breath.

"One of these days…" he started, "I…I'm gonna beat you, Sonic!"

At this, Sonic the hedgehog stopped in his tracks and began to laugh.

"Hey! What's so funny?" he yelled.

"Hello, I'm Sonic the Hedgehog. Moves faster than the speed of light? Any of this ringing a bell?" he taunted.

"Honestly Naruto. Give it up already! No one will be able to beat my Sonic in a race" ~ the pink, female hedgehog gloated.

"Amy? When did you-"

"Oh, Sonic! I've been so worried about you! I thought you could've turned into a zombie!" she cried as she ran over to Sonic, giving him a hug.

"Don't worry, Amy. They'll never catch me!" he boasted.

"Sonic! We've got trouble!" a voice called out. Sonic turned in the direction of his name and saw an old friend.

"Knuckles? What's wrong?" Sonic replied.

"I don't know why, but there's a hoard after the Master Emerald. And at the rate that they're advancing, and with their raw power, they could destroy it!" Knuckles reported.

"What? Oh, man, we've got to get going!" Sonic said. However, before the two could take off, a ninja called out to them.

"I'll come too!" Naruto yelled.

"No, Naruto. This isn't your battle to fight." Sonic replied.

"B-But I-"

"No buts, Naruto. The Hedgehog kingdom is my responsibility, not yours. I can't have you getting hurt here."

"Tch! You're just like the rest of them" Naruto mumbled, admitting defeat.

After Sonic and Knuckles left, Amy approached Naruto in an attempt to console him.

"You know, Naruto, Sonic can be like this a lot. He might just be worried about you."

"That's the point, Amy! I'm a capable ninja, I don't need hedgehogs to 'worry about

me'!" And with those words, Naruto walked away, leaving Amy Rose standing alone.

From the Hedgehog Kingdom, Naruto made his way to Tokyo!

"Who needs them! I'm one of the strongest ninja out there. Hell, I'm gonna become Hoka-" Naruto put a sudden end to his ranting. "Right…" he said in sadness, upon realizing what he had failed to do twice.

"Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" a female voice suddenly rang.

"What was that?" Naruto wondered aloud. He began to search for the source of the scream. Luckily, it didn't take him long to discover a young girl, only a few years younger than him, being pinned to the ground by a hunter.

Naruto reacted immediately.

"RASENGAN!" he yelled as he began to form a blue energy sphere in his hand. At its completion, he forced it into the hunter, which let out a short wail before it was blasted off its victim. Once Naruto ensured the zombie was dead, he turned his attention towards the injured girl. She was bleeding from her chest, and slightly from her neck. Naruto observed that she had long, orange-colored hair, tied back with a red ribbon. She wore a pink and black mini-skirt and matching shirt. Also, she donned an open, pastel pink vest, which now had several spots of blood on it. Her hands had black, fingerless gloves, and pearl earrings were present on her ears. She seemed to struggle to stay conscious.

"Hey, are you ok?" Naruto asked rather foolishly. The young girl attempted to lift up her arm, but this seemed to be a difficult task.

"Th-Thank…" was all she could say before she slipped into unconsciousness.

"Hey! HEY!" Naruto yelled, trying to get the girl to wake up.

Before Naruto had time to come up with a plan to help the girl (which was more time than you would like to imagine), her pink belt-buckle began to flash. Curious, Naruto reached out for it, and saw that it could be removed without much difficulty. He began to turn it over in his hand, before discovering that it could be opened. The inside bore a screen on top, and buttons on the bottom. The face of another girl, close in age to the pink-clad one Naruto had saved, appeared on the screen. She had short, bluish-purple hair with two green barrettes in each side. Also, Naruto noticed that she had big, green eyes.

"I've got-" The girl began to say, before she realized she wasn't talking who she thought she was. "W-Who are you? Where's Blossom?" She demanded, suddenly taking a scary turn.

'She… She's like Sakura…' Naruto thought to himself before responding.

"WELL?" the girl impatiently yelled.

Naruto had a sad look on his face. He may not have been the sharpest guy, but he knew that the "Blossom" the girl was referring to was the bleeding girl next to him. He didn't know how to break the news to the girl on the screen, but he knew he had to if he was going to save her life.

"She was attacked… by a hunter…" he said. The girl on the screen went from angry to sad.

"No…" was all she had left to say. There was a silence. "But… she's ok, right? There's no way Blossom could be dead… right?"

"She's alive" Naruto began, "but she needs help"

"Where are you?" the girl shouted, seemingly fighting off tears.

"Uh…" Naruto started. He didn't know Tokyo very well, and had mainly just wandered there. "Here?" Naruto nervously said as he turned the communication device, revealing the landscape.

"I know where you are! I'm on my way!" With that, the green-eyed girl vanished from the screen, leaving behind static. Naruto then looked at the buttons on the bottom of the device. There were a total of four, and each distinguishable by the fact that they were each a different color. They were blue, green, pink, and yellow. Without even thinking about it, he pressed the blue one. Then yellow lights began to flash around the screen, and before Naruto even had time to process what he had done, the face of a blonde girl appeared on the screen. She had big, blue eyes, and her hair was tied into elaborate ponytails. Her bangs seemed to be pinned back by a blue hair barrette.

"Hi Bl… Oh, you're not Blossom. Who're you?" The girl said cutely.

"Naruto Uzumaki…" the ninja answered, lost in the girl's blue eyes.

"Naruto, where's Blossom?" she delicately questioned, acting as a foil to the green-eyed girl.

"Oh, her?" Naruto said, too dazzled by the blonde girl's charm to answer in the way he should have. "She's over here, bleeding to death."

There was a silence as the blonde's eyes began to fill with tears. It suddenly donned on Naruto how insensitive he had been. He began to panic, because he didn't how to right the wrong he had created. He turned the device in quick, panicky movements.

"Look! This is where she is! You can come here!"

"BLOOOOOOSSSSSSSOOOOOOM!" the blue-eyed girl started to wail.

Naruto felt a sudden gush of air, and then saw the green-eyed girl standing beside him.

"Momoko…" she whispered when she saw her bloody, unconscious friend. She then glanced over at Naruto, and saw to whom he was speaking with. "Bubbles!" she called out.

"B-Buttercup…" the blonde said through her tears. Buttercup snatched the device from Naruto.

"Bubbles, it's going to be ok, alright? I'll bring Blossom to the hospital, and I need you to get in contact with the professor, let him know what's going on, ok? Bubbles!" Buttercup said.

Bubbles nodded as she wiped away her tears with her free hand. The screen turned to static, and then Buttercup closed the compact. She replaced it on Blossom's belt, and then wiped tears away from her face. "Don't die, Momoko, don't die…" she whispered as she took Blossom into her arms.

"Let me help" Naruto called out Buttercup. The Powerpuff Girl looked hopelessly over at the ninja, and then nodded her head. Naruto took Blossom from her comrade, then Naruto said, "Show me the way." Buttercup, now crying, nodded again and jumped into the air, taking flight.

Cast:

Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto: Shippuden)

Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog series)

Amy Rose (Sonic the Hedgehog series)

Knuckles the Echidna (Sonic the Hedgehog series)

Blossom/ Momoko (Powerpuff Girls Z)

Hunter (Left 4 Dead)

Buttercup/ Kaoru (Powerpuff Girls Z)

Bubbles/ Miyako (Powerpuff Girls Z)

Honorable Mention:

Sakura Haruno (Naruto: Shippuden)