Disclaimer: I don't have any ownership of Naruto or Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. I am just doing this for my own entertainment and hopefully the reader's.

December 22

5:45 A.M.

In Orbit above non-administered world "Earth"

Time Space Administration Bureau Warship Arthra

A teal haired woman relaxes back in the captain's chair contemplating the small crystal rod in her left hand and the red key attached to it by a short chain. Sighing resignedly she closes her green eyes and takes a sip of the tea in the earth tone ceramic cup she picked up from the tray.

'Admiral Lindy?' A child's voice whispered in her mind.

'Yes...' She tried to answer back just before the ship was rocked by a shockwave. Followed by emergency alarms and intruder alerts blaring.

"Stabilizers at maximum power." the teen girl with short brown hair called from the control station between the captain's chair and the panoramic viewing screen.

As the ship ceased rocking Lindy Harlaown made her way to the young woman's station. "What is the current status Amy." Waiting for the girl to compose a response she slipped they key back into her pocket and winced at the splashes of green marring her blue and white uniform."

"Somehow a group of intruders bypassed our security measures and teleported into the ship's hold." Typing a series of keys the girl continues. "The shockwave was only a side effect of whatever technique they used. It knocked out the security cameras as well, but I am bringing them back online." A small viewing screen appears before the two of them showing a flickering black and white image.

"Fate?" Lindy asked in surprise as the black and white image showed a girl with her ward's long twin pony tails and barrier jacket. 'She couldn't be here.' The child's hands were to the temples of a boy with lighter color hair almost of age with Lindy's son. As color came back to the feed the girl was revealed to have red hair and the wrong color scheme to her barrier jacket. Moments later the girl changes to supporting the blond boy when he begins to fall to the deck. The spear like stave he had been holding disappearing, being replaced by a silver bracelet with a blue diamond shaped gemstone on his right arm.

After doing her best to lay the larger boy on the ground gently, next to an similarly unconscious older man dressed like a kabuki theater performer, the girl stands up and looks around worriedly. Spotting the camera the girl bows deeply in an apologetic fashion. Straightening back up she spreads her hands apart palms up to show that she is unarmed.

'I apologize for any trouble we havecaused Admiral Lindy.' The girl's voice said in the woman's mind. 'My companions were attacked by the Wolkenritter and...'

'Be at ease child.' The admiral replied kindly. Turning to Amy she says, "Have a med team meet me in the hold. Turn off the alarms and inform Enforcer Chrono that I do not believe he needs to storm the hold. Another viewing screen pops up showing a black haired teenage boy wearing a black duster coat with shoulder spikes relaxing back from where he was preparing to open a security door and blast a spell into the room. He scratches the side of his face in chagrin while listening to his mother continue. "The hold is one of the most secure rooms on the ship to begin with. I think it is safe for you to wait for me to join you before greeting our visitors."

Levina knelt on the deck checking on Jiraya's pulse and breathing as the Admiral and Combat Mage enter the room through the main lift from the bridge. "What of the young man?" The woman asks with a disarming smile.

"He is just exhausted from transporting us here." She responds with a slight giggle. "The book hardly had a chance to drain him at all before the knights got more then they bargained for." Levina turns back to the man and gains a concerned expression. "Jiraya-sensei is much worse off. Onii-chan said he wanted to go to a place where we could get medical attention for him, you and the Arthra were the first place I could think of."

"It is quite apparent you know of us, but who are you?" Chrono quietly orders. "And why are you dressed like Fate?"

"I'm Uzumaki Levina." The young girl points to herself with a big grin. "As to why I am wearing a barrier jacket like Fate's is I was her..." Levina's expression turns just a bit confused. "I guess it would be better to say I have her memories and abilities up until her linker core was absorbed into the Book of Darkness."

"You're a program created by that book?" Chrono says while stepping in front of his mother, his staff like device appearing instantly in his hand. Lindy puts a hand on his shoulder and shakes her head negatively.

"I was before mother and father rescued me." The girl says with a wistful smile, while keeping her empty gloved hands in plain view.

"Where are they?" The green haired woman asks quietly.

"This is going to sound strange." Levina says quietly while pointing at the blond haired boy beside her. "I call them my parents because they said they wanted me as their child and gave me life. Yet they were spirit reflections of Naruto's parents who had already died that were guardians of a seal that onii-chan maintains with his life force on a spirit creature or demon called the Kyuubi no Yoko imprisoned within his body." She brightens with a big smile. "Onii-chan said that he wanted to be my big brother and protect me. Though since that fragment of his mother became part of me I sort of took her place as guardian and I am supposed to protect him."

Taking the bracelet off Naruto's wrist and pearl like gem on a cord from around his neck she points at the orange crystal in her glove. "The book also was making duplicates of Fate and Nanoha's devices, father analyzed them and copied their functions to create a new device for Naruto and seal himself within it." She finished with offering the bracelet and necklace out to Chrono who cautiously stepped forward to take them.

"What about your device?" The teen asked quietly causing the girl to turn a bright shade of red. This garnered a cough from his mother.

As he turns slightly back towards her, the admiral leaned down to whisper in his ear. "I think the issue with that is she has no other clothes." The young man at least had the good grace to blush. "I don't think she is a safety concern so please send in the medical team to see to these two, take those to the lab for Amy to start examining, and go borrow a outfit of Fate's from her cabin."

Unable to think of any way he might redeem himself at this point the young enforcer hastily salutes and leaves the room at just short of a run. Lindy grins just a bit impishly before turning back to the girl and offering her a hand up. "So where did the power for them to do all this come from?"

"Mother had a special ability that allowed her to restrain the Kyuubi, which she passed on to me along with her knowledge." Levina says with a grin. "The seal weakened when the book tried to absorb Naruto's linker core instead of trying to penetrate the seal to get at the demon's power directly. The demon tried to overwhelm book and posses it, but mother was able follow it and use her ability to turn it's power against it as well as raid the book trying to pull it back out." Shrugging she smiles. "She got me, the devices, and the data copied from Naruto-nii-chan and Jiraya-sensei instead. Father was able to repair the seal, but they were stuck where they were and had to make use of the power mother had purified and constrained from the creature."

"Then there is no concern over this demon escaping right now?" Lindy asked quietly as the group of four medics came in and placed the two men on levitating stretchers.

"The seal is quite powerful, and it takes a great deal of effort to extract the tailed beast once sealed." Levina states sadly. "The creature is in sort of a double bind. It wants to get loose, but if it's host dies so does it. I think it jumped on the opportunity to gain a new host when Naruto's life force started to diminish."

Lindy gently keeps ahold of the girl's hand and leads her from the hold and into the ship's corridors towards the med bay following sedately behind the med teams. The woman was content to see the child relaxing in her presence and did not press her for further information. Letting the conversing of the medics fill the silence.

However the mother had to smile at her son's uncharacteristic haste. Shortly before they reached the med bay Chrono returned carrying a bundle that the woman was certain contained at least several sets of her foster daughter's clothing.

Levina gratefully took the bundle of clothes from a slightly winded, and still blushing, Chrono as he returns. "You have my word they will be safely cared for out of your sight." Lindy says as she turns the girl towards a door that opens up to an unoccupied cabin. The girl nods and steps into the room closing the door behind her.

Watching him finally lean against the wall to catch his breath, after the door has closed of course, Lindy had to chuckle. "I don't think she took that much offense."

"I was more concerned with getting those devices to Amy to start analyzing." Looking up at her ruefully Chrono shakes his head. "What makes you think she, and those other two can be trusted so easily?"

"A mother knows." Lindy says with a warm grin. "Everything about her reminds me of Fate."

Left with no way to argue with that statement Chrono leans back against the corridor wall. 'What are your observations so far Amy?'

'It has been only a few minutes since you gave these to me Chrono!' The older girl's exasperated voice answers in his mind. 'How do you expect me to know anything yet?'

'I am just asking for an initial impression.' He responds almost to mildly, and is rewarded with a mental growl.

'The bracelet is obviously something new and will require careful study.' Amy's mental voice chides. 'The gem device seems to be based off the Rasing Heart Nanoha received from Yunno, but there is additional functions and the only response I am getting in a diagnostic is it is missing parts.'

'Keep me updated.' Chrono chides mentally almost relaxed as the cabin door opens again and the red haired Fate lookalike Levina? steps back out holding the extra clothing aside from the black blouse, white shorts, and white knee socks she was wearing.

Reaching out one hand the girl offered Chrono the orange metal triangle with a crystal in the center that reminded him of Bardiche. Taking the device he also began to reach forward to relieve the girl of her other burdens when his mother interrupted.

"Why don't you leave those here so you have something else to change into later." The green haired admiral stated as she pointed back inside the cabin. "No one has been assigned to this cabin, and you can be close to your friends."

The girl nodded gratefully and dashed back in to lay the clothes on the bed.

'You are determined in this aren't you mother.' The boy mentally grumbled to her, only to be treated to an impish smile as the girl returned.

"I believe Amy is waiting for that." Lindy chided gently, sending the young enforcer marching off again.

"Thank you again admir...ble?" Levina started before the woman gently put a finger over her lips.

"You are quite welcome Levi-chan." The warship commander smiled as she gently took the child's hand and started leading her towards the medical ward of the ship. "Though if you wish to show it you can start with calling me Lindy." The girl smiled and gently grasped the woman's hand with both of hers as they continued walking.

"So what is this Kyuubi no Yoko exactly?" The admiral gently probes.

"Some in our world call it a force of nature." the red head says with a tired sigh. "it's exact origins and purpose are lost to myth and legend. It's form is that of a giant fox as large as a skyscraper," She spreads put her arms out wide for emphasis. "and it feels like the embodiment of rage and malice when in it's presence. Left alone it feeds on itself and grows stronger."

"Your world?" Lindy asks with a raised eyebrow.

"I have the choice of the memories of a woman in her twenties that knew both love and friendship or the memories of a nine year old girl who until just recently had a mother whose most memorable form of encouragement was laying into her with a magical bullwhip." The child's hands tighten briefly as she looks up at the woman. "Which would you want to more closely identify with?"

Instead of answering Lindy reaches down and gathers the girl up in her arms. Levina lapses into comfortable silence with her head resting on the woman's shoulder.

"Then why not simply destroy the demon along with it's host once captured?" The admiral quietly asks after a while?

"Doesn't the TSAB have similar rules against harming innocents?" The girl says quietly. "Is the jailor guilty of the prisoner's crimes?" She looks at the woman with pain filled eyes. "Could you ask someone you care about to make that sacrifice?"

"No I couldn't." Lindy says as she pulls the child closer. "Neither would the TSAB, I asked to hear the reasons for those on your world."

"Before eighty years ago no one had the power to even direct it let alone capture the beast." The girl states with a shrug. "Then two clans vying for power in the shinobi villiage of Konohagakure emerged. One man with the ability to direct the Kyuubi tried to use it to destroy the rival clan. The leader of that clan, the Senju, had the ability to suppress the Kyuubi's power and his wife, A member of my mother's clan the Uzumaki, had the knowledge of sealing techniques and magical strength to seal the beast within herself like was done with Naruto-nii-chan."

"Did it somehow escape the seal later?" Lindy sits down in a chair just outside the examination rooms where the two were being treated. "Or was it extracted later, and if so why?

"Our clanswoman lived for nearly half a century with the Kyuubi sealed within her. When she sensed her life was nearing its end our mother Kushina was picked to be the new host." Levi admitted. "Few things exist without purpose or balance even demons."

notes:

Levina was referring to Fate's biological mother Precia Testarossa, and I fully believe she was a character that like Genma Saotome needs to have a special level of hell reserved just for her.