I must have done something right in the preview for this story to get that many fav's and alerts, hm.

Anyway decided to give it a go, the timeline is 10 year's after the events of Braska vs Sin. With that cleared.

Let's get on with it!

''There is a famous saying, 'The Calm before the storm', it is called. I didn't exactly know what it meant until after I met that blonde haired guy. But after he literally crashed into my life, my whole world was flipped upside down...and I gotta say. IT IS AWESOME!" ~ Rikku

Naruto: The Ancient One

Prologue: The Mysterious Adventurer Part 1

''Cu fryd tu dreg, Lit? (So what do you think, Cid?)'' a man spoke in a foreign language, dressed in something akin to a soldier's uniform with a utility belt around his waist and a marksman rifle strapped across his back. He turned his goggled vision cutting across a number of his fellow brothers and sisters gathered around their prisoner, to another man who was for all in tents and purposes the leader if the feeling he gave off was any indication.

Cid, was a tall muscular man with a bald head which had the word "Love" tattooed in Spiran. He had black eyebrows and he had some black facial hair. His attire consisted of a yellow and brown dive-suit outfit with green belts and a collar, with blue elbow-length gloves and blue shoes. Finally he had a pair of goggles hanging around his neck.

His Al Bhed green swirl-patterned eyes narrowed in suspicion as he stared at the prisoner tied down in a chair before him. He took in the full appearance of the person who had dared. Dared he say! To try and sully his sweet daughter's innocence, or at least that was how it looked from his point of view. The thought of the whole thing being a big misunderstanding went out the window as he erupted in a righteous ball of fatherly fury upon this bastard.

No matter how much his flushed and embarrassed daughter, Rikku denied such accusations, what he saw was enough for him.

But it was more than that now, from what his scouts had reported the blonde literally dropped right out of the sky and slammed directly into Rikku's location. No sign, no warning, he literally just fell right into Rikku's proverbial lap. Yet, Cid was not the leader of the Al Bhed for nothing and he had taken the blond without question, refuting Rikku's questions as to what he was doing.

He had to be sure this bastard wasn't a spy sent by those higher-then thou bastard Maester's in Bevelle or any other of those religious nut jobs. He couldn't risk any news of the "Home", the sanctuary built for the Al Bhed tribe in Spira, a place his people could come back to and be welcomed with open arms. Being leaked back to their enemies, he'd kept it a secret for year's and he would damn well keep it that way!

He took an appraising eye of his prisoner and his first impression of the guy wasn't much. He was rather tall, standing a good head taller then himself he wagered. His attire consisted of simply a full body black tattered hooded cloak, a pair of black leather gloves with a protective metal plate on the top part of the glove. Beneath that he seemed to be wearing beige pants with black boots along with a few straps tied around his left leg. He had a healthy tanned complexion though and looking up at his face he could clearly see he was not from around anywhere in Spira that Cid knew of at least.

That was because of three unique trait's that stood out the most to him, first was his overly long spiky golden hair that was literally a mess of spikes that fell around his hand and passed his neck. How far that went he wasn't sure, but the bangs shadowed much of his eyes along with two longer bangs framing the sides of his face. The shade of his hair was akin to that of the sun itself really, truly unique. The second trait was those marking marred on the guy's face, he'd admit to having freaked out when he heard a few of Al Bhed women whisper at the sight of them, speaking as if they resembled that of a fox's whiskers.

But the greatest and one that troubled Cid the most was the guy's eyes.

His eyes, such a deep shade of azure that Cid was sure no one else could compare, it was literally like the man was born with liquid sapphire's for eyes. And yet for the strangest reason when he looked at those eyes, which were currently looking from him to another Al Bhed and to another and another. Cid, felt a cold shiver run down his spine when he saw them.

It was like he was staring into the eyes of something...different, something unlike a human, not of this world...but that had to be his imagination or something.

Yeah that had to be it.

Shaking his head he increased his glare on the blonde who in turn felt it and turned his attention back to him with a confused expression. He hadn't struggled or even attempted to fight back when he was taken away. So either he wasn't worried about his predicament in the slightest because he had something planned or just didn't seem to care at all.

Instead of answering his fellow's question he peered closer at the blonde and decided to speak in his Al Bhed tongue. ''Fry ryja oui lusa rana, pmuhta? (Why have you come here, blonde?)'' he wasn't expecting the man to answer him since it was more of a question to himself then anything. But imagine his surprise when suddenly said blondie's face contorted into a scowl. And since Cid made the mistake of getting too close, the blonde reared back his head and suddenly slammed his forehead against Cid's with a resounding smack.

''Oe! So hysa ech'd pmuhta, oy pymt pycdynt! (Oi! My name isn't blonde, ya bald bastard!)''

All of the Al Bhed present took a step back at this when the blonde suddenly started spewing words in their tongue. None more so were surprised as a Cid who literally stumbled back and fell on his ass. By God! He felt as if he had been hit with the force of a sledgehammer!

''O-oui cbayg Al Bhed?! (Y-you speak Al Bhed?!) '' Cid spoke causing the blonde to roll his eyes, as if speaking their tongue was that much of a surprise. Then again from what he's seen in his years of being in this land, speaking Al Bhed wasn't exactly a good thing in the majority of Spira. It'd normally cause him to get dirty looks and the contempt of many, but all that paled inc omparison to what he'd suffered as a kid. So learning their language was simple really, just took a bit of studying.

Ugh...he hated studying...

''Hu cred, pymto. (No shit, baldy.)'' the blonde spoke with a bit of bite as he had a deadpan expression on his face at that moment. Staring at Cid as if he were that stupid to be surprised some outside the Al Bhed spoke their tongue.

''But I prefer speaking this way as it's more my native tongue, can you understand me?'' the blonde stated causing Cid to blink before narrowing his eyes. Ah, so the blonde could speak Spiran then? Good, for a moment he figured the blonde to be a lost son to the Al Bhed with how fluent be spoke their tongue.

Nodding Cid, reluctantly spoke in his rougher version of Spiran. ''Aye, I can and first off gotta say, you have a head of steel.'' he said rubbing his aching head with a groan whilst the blonde just grinned showing his pearly whites. This guy had NO idea how right he was.

''So I've been told, now I think it's time we had a proper introduction, don't you think?'' he said making Cid blink before deciding to ultimately agree. So far, the blonde hadn't done anything hostile towards them besides calling him baldy which he didn't mind all that much, and knocking him on his ass with a headbutt.

That alone earned him some points in Cid's book...

''Aye, the name's Cid, I'm the Leader of the Al Bhed Tribe, and you are?'' he questioned reaching out with his hand to shake the blondes.

The blonde rose an eyebrow at that, so this bald guy was the leader of the Al Bhed, surprise surprise.

''Well my name is Uzumaki Naruto and I'd shake your hand, but currently I'm a little tied up you see?'' he said, wiggling his hands with a small grin. Upon seeing that Cid scratched the back of his head and nodded to the Al Bhed behind Naruto to untie him. The kid was still underwatch, but he'd yet to be a threat so Cid figured he'd cut him some slack.

'But his name, I've never heard of a name like that before, it's definitely not Spiran nor is it Al Bhed, so what could it be?'

''There ya go now-''

Rgggghhh!

Silence...

Every single Al Bhed in that chamber, including Cid went wide eyed as the sound so similar ot that of a Fiend's growl sounded off. echoing within said chamber. Their eyes turned, wide as dinner plates, upon where it came from which was in the blonde's location who didn't seem the least bit ashamed that his stomach was making itself known that it needed food.

''What the bloody hell...'' Cid muttered while Naruto just gave a small grin before scratching the back of his head in a sheepish chuckle.

''How about we talk over something to eat, I haven't eaten in...how long has it been?'' he turned, hand on his chin and eyes closed in squints, pondering on how long it had been since he last ate causing a mass sweatdrop from the Al Bhed. Some even had guilty began to draw out their weapons at the sheer sound of it, thinking it was a Fiend.

Only to be ashamed of themselves when it was just the growl of a stomach, no matter how unnatural it sounded.

''Bwaha! Sure thing! Us Al Bhed have all types of food you can think of.'' Cid let out a boisterous laugh, feeling completely sure now that the blonde wasn't a threat to his home. But he was STILL mad about how he had ended up in that position with his daughter and he'd find out how that happened somehow or someway.

''Cool! You got any ramen, I'm starved!'' he said with his blue eyes filled with so much hope for the food called ramen that it tittered him on the edge of losing his sanity if he didn't get to enjoy it.

Cid turned toward him after sending off the rest of his fellow brothers and sisters with a blank expression causing the blonde to quickly lose hope before a grin split across his face.

''But of course! Al Bhed is the only people in Spira that makes that delicacy! In fact, it's our number 1 dish! Having over 100 flavor's from beef, shrimp, miso, chicken, octopus, and even shark meat!'' he announced, proud of that fact. It was true, ramen was a rare recipe that was founded by his Al Bhed ancestors that was passed down for generations for it's succulent flavor and potential of adding into so many variety of flavors. In fact you couldn't find it anywhere else then in "Home", the Al Bhed sanctuary or rare Al Bhed travelers.

And like that Cid bashed in the dam that was held within Naruto, his body began to uncontrollably tremble before the blondes blue eyes began to water. Tears of joy began to leak from his eyes before he fell to his knee's and cried out to the heaven's in joy.

''FINNNNAAAALLLLLLYYYYY! RAMEN AT LAST, DATTEBAYO!''

And thus the blond haired adventurer weeped as he walked alongside a grinning Cid, happy to have another that shared the great respect for Ramen.

Ramen was all ya needed, anything else was shit in Cid's opinion and he was glad the blond shared that ideology.

Another point in Cid's book.

'Perhaps this kid ain't so bad...maybe introducing him to Rikku would be a good idea.' Cid thought with a small grin.

Too bad he would never know until later just who exactly he had walking alongside him in the "Home" of his people.

Or of how exactly he even ended up in Bikanel Island...

That would be a unique story to tell...

End

And there we go, Cid and the Al Bhed's first impression of their mysterious visitor.

All criticism is very much appreciated, was it too short? Too fast? I would like to know.

The timeline is 10 year's after Braska in canon defeated Sin, but before Rikku and Cid's ship saved Tidus from the Ruins. But remember...

I'm not a guy that follows canon :)

Bye!