If someone told you I own Kingdom Hearts and Naruto, they lied.

"Kuchiyose no jutsu!" Naruto cried summoning a huge eagle. "What happened, Chisoku?" He asked jumping on the eagles back, and motion Lee to do the same.

"It all happened so suddenly," Chisoku said, as the larger eagle took off, carrying the two leaf nins. Chisoku caught up and continued explaining. "Sasuke and Gaara came up when suddenly the two Kages began fighting. The everyone was fighting, any sand nins there were began fighting the leaf nins. The civilians were put under a Genjutsu, and then a good thousand men from the sound invaded."

"Sounds like a problem," Naruto said, as the eagle flew over a "So Lee, are you ready to give the Sound a good kick in the rear?"

"That sounds quite youthful, Naruto."

Naruto sighed. This kid needed some lessons in cool. "Alright, let's do this." The eagle they were riding screeched and began a dive. Their target had no idea what hit him. The eagle's black talons made quick work of the Sound Chunin, and the two Leaf Genin that had been facing him were saved by that dive.

"Alright, guys, go find someone else, we've got it here." Naruto said as he jumped off the Eagle which disappeared with a puff. Lee was quick to jump into the fray, reading Naruto's scroll the whole way, and bashing sound skulls in at the same time.

Naruto took the opportunity to take a quick check of the situation. There was a huge purple box at the arena on top of the Hokage's box. The Kage battle no doubt.

He took a quick look to the south, A huge three headed serpent was coming through Konoha's wall, and causing enough destruction to make a tsunami look tame.

Suddenly, a power spike to the west caught his attention, it was a mixture of chakra and pure, raw power, there was only one thing that could do that.

Naruto looked at the giant snake, then the purple box, then the direction where the power spike came from, and then back to the snake. Naruto smiled, this could be fun. Quickle created two shadow clones, one of them drew the blood circle, and summoned Songen. The Bald Eagle looked at down at the Shadow clone which jumped onto his head. "I hope you're hungry, because we're taking out that snake."

"Sounds like a plan," The eagle's deep resounding voice said. Songen spread his wings and took off, into the sky.

The other Naruto clone summoned a toad. "There was a power surge that way. Let's go!" The toad croaked and jumped off.

The Last Naruto turned to the large purple box. And he disappeared, leaving nothing to show that he was even there.

The snake had proved to be a small challenge. Songen had come in, and grabbed the snake with his talons before flying into the air. Unfortunately, this snake, seeing as how he had a mission to fulfill, began to try and strike the bird. They were miserable attempts. Songen quickly lost patients and lifted the snake's body to his beak. He bit down, and the snake's blood quickly drained from the body, and before long, the snake was dead. Songen circled around and brought Naruto back to Konoha, "Thanks for the snack, Naruto."

"No problem, Songen."

The Eagle nodded, and disappeared. The Naruto clone was about to do the same when suddenly he heard an all-too-familiar hiss. He turned, and to his dismay, he saw something he had hoped he would never see in this village.

They were Heartless.

Naruto arrived at the Hokage's battle. He stared into the box in shock. Orochimaru, posing as the Kazekage was holding the Hokage, with a knife to his throat. "Ah, just the boy I wanted to see." The snake sanin hissed.

"Leave him out of this, Orochimaru." The Hokage said, "This isn't about him."

"Oh, on the contrary. He is a huge part of this." Orochimaru said.

"Let Jii-san go, Snake!" Naruto said.

Orochimaru laughed, "No, me and the old timer have some unfinished business to take care of." The snake smirked. "But don't worry; I won't leave you bored out there." Orochimaru said, grinning evilly.

Suddenly, something began rising from the ground in front of Naruto. With a quick flash, his Keyblade sprung to life. His eyes narrowed as he recognized the creature in front of him to be a Soldier Heartless. Suddenly, that Heartless was accompanied by another, and then another. Before he knew it, the whole roof was covered in black creatures.

A thought dawned on Naruto. "So you're the one who brought Darkness here!"

"Foolish boy, Darkness has always been here. I just brought it to the surface." He turned to the horde of Soldiers, "Bring me his heart."

The Soldiers charged the black clad boy, who met them with his Keyblade swinging.

Naruto and his toad were jumping through the trees, trying to find the source of the power surge. "Can you move any slower!?"

"Shut up, gaki! It's not my fault. If there weren't so many trees around, I would have gotten you there already. I'm moving as fast as I can."

"Listen, if I'm right, there is a power over there that has the power to throw the universe into chaos. We need to hurry."

"Alright, alright! I'm movin', I'm movin'!"

The toad hopped along quickly, into the forest. Suddenly, the sounds of battle erupted ahead of them. "We're almost there!" Naruto yelled.

Gaara laughed, his arm and face distorted by sand, and a tail growing from behind him. "This is all your existence means to you? Let me make it clear for you then…You are weak!"

Sasuke twitched.

"You're too soft, because your hatred isn't strong enough! The power of hate is the power to kill; the power to kill is the power of vengeance. Your hatred is weaker than mine!"

"Shut up." Sasuke said.

"Do you understand what that means?"

Sasuke looked up at him, he was going to do it again; he began to pump chakra into his arm. Slowly, the tendrils of lightning of the Chidori began to form.

"It means you are weaker than me!" Gaara yelled, jumping at him.

Sasuke jumped too, wanting to meet him in a head-on collision.

The Chidori began to spurt out.

They hit in mid air.

Gaara landed on a branch in front of him, Sauske landed on the Branch Gaara had been standing on.

Sasuke's shirt was ripped, but Gaara was trembling, weather this was from meeting someone who brought him life, or an injury, it was impossible to tell.

That is, until his sand arm fell off.

Half of Sasuke's body was covered in black flame marks, emerging from the seal on his neck. His Chidori was chirping in his hand, full strength.

Gaara growled, and more sand came, replacing his lost arm, and covering his other arm, completely transforming his mouth and torso, the only part of him that looked human was his legs. He almost laughed, high from the power that rushed into him.

Sasuke collapsed, the curse seal was fighting for control. He couldn't move.

Gaara turned, his sandy face twisted into a fang-filled smile. "You're going to die, and you are going to give me life!" He raised his arms in front of him, "Suna Shuriken!"

Quickly, sand shuriken began forming on the arms. Once formed, they shot from the arms, coming at the immobilized Sasuke with deadly blades of sand.

"Jetaga!" A voice cried below them. Suddenly, Naruto was there, in the path of the shuriken. "Refelga!" A crystal clear white sphere surrounded Naruto. The shuriken ricocheted off the sphere back at Gaara, who absorbed them easily. Naruto then used the force of the shuriken to push him backwards to the branch that Sasuke was laying on.

"Sasuke, how many times have I told you that target practice doesn't help the target."

"Shut up, Naruto."

"Naruto…" Gaara said, his eyes narrowing, "You are keeping me from my prey."

"No, I'm keeping you from my teammate."

"I will have his blood, even if it means I have to take yours first." The Sand began moving across his body, towards his right hand. The sand began to condense into a thin tube. The tube stretched from his hand into the air. When the sand had completely uncovered Gaara's body, the form in his hand was suddenly recognizable. It had round hand guards, and a thin blade made of sand. Its point was no doubt strong enough to put a hole in three inch thick metal. Its key was three amorphous points that refused to take a shape. "Meet the Keyblade, Sandstorm."

Naruto headed for the south gate, in Valor form, slaying heartless as they came at him. His red cloak had several large tears in it, gifts from the Heartless. He just didn't get it, he knew that Soldiers were stronger than Shadows, but they weren't that strong. What was going on?

"I was afraid of this." Kyuubi said in his head, "Everything you have fought before were only shades of grey, this is true darkness."

"Thanks for the answer, although it would have been useful to tell this to me earlier."

"I didn't think they come so strong yet." Kyuubi told him.

Naruto brought Oathkeeper down on another heartless, sending it to the void. Another Soldier jumped on his back, he quickly brought the Kingdom Key behind him and stabbed the creature. He saw that there were several Genins being backed into a corner by six Soldiers, and moved to help them, when he did though, twenty Soldiers got in his way. Naruto quickly brought his blades down on them, making sure they felt it. One of them were able to claw at his leg, and Naruto felt it. The strike slowly began to suck some of his strength, but it only lasted for a second. Heartless were like that, their hits suck at your strength, then your will, and finally, your heart. Naruto sent the Soldier that hit him into the abyss. He was glad he pumped extra Charka into this clone, otherwise he would have dispelled a while ago. He thought of this for a hundredth of a second before rushing to save the Genin.

Naruto was slashing his way through the Heartless. In the purple box, Sandaime Hokage was fighting his own Heartless. Naruto took a quick look into the box. "It's a Wizard!" Naruto yelled, pointing at a Heartless that floated above the ground and carried a small wand and wearing a pointing hat. "Only use physical attacks against it, it absorbs everything else." Naruto instructed.

The Sarutobi nodded and brought a huge black staff against the Heartless, knocking it into the wall, which destroyed it on impact. The Staff suddenly grew a monkey head, "This kid knows his stuff." The monkey said.

"Enma, not now, he has his own battle to concentrate on." The Hokage said.

"Alright," Enma said, before his head shrunk back into the staff.

Sandiame quickly repelled another attack made by a pirate like Heartless, and sent it to the void.

Naruto wasn't having as much luck, after Kyuubi told him that these Heartless were much stronger, his prediction proved right. Naruto felt very weak, as multiple wounds covered him, there were just too many of them for Naruto to keep track, just as the thought went through his head, one of the soldiers scratched his back, leaking some of his strength. Naruto turned and brought his Keyblade to the creature's chin and sent it flying into non-existence.

Orochimaru frowned, the boy had proven to be quite knowledgeable about Heartless, it worried him slightly, but the number of them seemed to keep the boy at bay. He'd have to break that spirit, the only question was how. Then a thought entered his mind. An evil, dark thought.

Orochimaru smiled at the thought of it.

The sound of steel clashing against steel echoed through the forest. In truth it was steel against sand that was as hard as steel, but there is not much difference. Gaara was stronger than Naruto had expected, which only surprised him. If his heart was so strong, then why did he have no emotions?

"It's because his heart has been smothered by Shukaku's darkness."

"Biju have darkness?" Naruto mentally asked, ducking under a vicious, primitive swing.

"All hearts have darkness in them, Biju are no exception."

"Well, then what can I do?" Naruto asked, as he launched a few strikes.

"You have to show him the light." Kyuubi said.

Naruto nodded, he then launched a quick series of attacks, which ended with a vicious thrust to the stomach. "Gah!" Gaara yelled as pain hit him. Then everything faded to black.

"Gaara…Gaara…Why are you letting you light be smothered?"

The fight faded back, less than a second had passed. He launched a strike at Naruto. Naruto dodged, and the world faded back to black.

"You are so strong…Don't let the darkness consume you…"

The fight came back into view, he blocked another strike and launched a counter attack.

The darkness faded back.

"Why are you letting the darkness consume you?...Your light is stronger."

The fight faded back, "What's happening?"

"Don't listen to the voice." Shukaku's voice rang in his head.

Naruto smiled, it was working. "Kyuubi, you're a genius."

"I'm trying to concentrate."

"Sorry." Naruto quickly launched another attack.

Gaara went back into the black.

"Use your heart Gaara…It wants to be used for good."

"What are you!?" Gaara cried into the blackness that surrounded him.

The fight faded back, this time he was too slow to stop a swing to his chest.

The black came back.

"Surely you have used your heart before."

A name floated through Gaara's head."Yashamaru." He quickly destroyed the thought, he wanted to kill him.

"But he tried Gaara, he wanted to see past Shukaku, he wanted to see beyond that, he tried, but he could not."

Gaara thought about that. The fight didn't come back, and he took the time to wonder. The whole while, the voice began whispering to him. "What if he had had more time? Is it possible that he could have learned to love you?"

The thought chilled him. Was that possible? Could have Yashamaru loved him?

"Don't listen to that voice!" Shukaku's voice echoed in the darkness, "He is trying to turn you against me!"

"So? What has he done for you? He would leave you the second he could, the only reason he hasn't is because he's too stupid to know how to work his Keybalde."

"Stay out of this, Kyuubi! Don't listen to him, boy!"

"Don't let your light go out, boy. Darkness and hate will not help you."

Shukaku howled in rage.

Gaara sat there, in awe. Kyuubi was here? Why? How?

"I'm here because Naruto sent me here, he wants to help you."

"Don't listen to him! He wants to kill us, he sent Kyuubi to make you drop your guard!"

"That's not true! I only want to help."

"Why should I listen to you!?" Gaara asked, "Why should I trust you?"

"Because I know what Darkness does to you." Kyuubi answered, "It will slowly begin to swallow you unitl you are nothing but a mindless slave to its will. You think your finding freedom, but you only get slavery, you think you are receiving love, but you only get hate, you think you find life, but there is only death."

"Prove that to me!" Gaara yelled.

"Do you care that people think you're a monster?"

"Yes."

"Do you take their word for it?"

"Yes."

"So then they call you a monster? Or do you say that you're a monster?"

Gaara had to think about that. In truth nobody had called him a monster, but the look in their eyes was enough. He opened his mouth, then a thought hit him, how many of those looks were looks of hatred? He thought about it, and was surprised to see that they were only looks of fear. They only feared him because of a monster. Why did they fear him? Because he acted like a monster. Why did he act like a monster? Because he was a monster.

"I-I say that I'm a monster."

"Do you hate monsters? Do you hate those like Shukaku?"

"…I…ah…y-yes…yes, I do…"

"Then you hate yourself, you only act like a monster because you think you are a monster, and because you hate monsters, you hate yourself."

Gaara looked into the darkness, shocked, he had been right, instead of finding love for himself, he only found hate.

"Come Gaara, come to the light." In the darkness, Kyuubi beckoned.

Gaara looked around. Where was the light? Then he saw it, a tiny pinprick, out in the distance.

"Come to the light, and find real love."

The fight came back, Naruto was staring at him, a serious look on his face, which suddenly softened. "So Gaara, have you chosen?"

Gaara looked up at him, suddenly dizzy. He then passed out.

Naruto quickly took care of another Heartless in front of him, and was about to move on to a second when he noticed something, the Heartless had stopped. They only stared at him with their pupil-less, yellow eyes.

"Ku, ku, ku." The snake laughed behind him, he turned and saw something that horrified him. Orochimaru had a sword stuck through Sandaime's back. Enma was being held in place by two Wyverns. "Oh, don't worry boy, he's not dead, not yet. He's only paralyzed, for life." Orochimaru said, smiling evilly.

"Naruto, get out of here." The Hokage said, clenching his teeth through the pain.

"And let Sandaime die?" Orochimaru said, taunting him.

"Let him go, snake!"

"I'll tell you what, I'll make a deal with you, boy. If you can break this wall, I'll let Sandaime live, and I'll leave Konoha, never to return. But if not, I'll kill him."

"Why should I do it?" Naruto asked.

"Because if not, I'll kill him, and let the Soldiers take care of you." Orochimaru said, smiling.

"Don't you dare touch him!" Naruto said.

"Make me." The Snake taunted.

"Fine! I'll take your deal!" Naruto said lifting his Keyblade to the wall.

Nothing happen.

"This is a little more complicated than a Keyhole, you'll have to do better than that."

Naruto blinked, and he began to search for something he could do. He hit the wall, the Keyblade bounced off. He then began frantically searching for something he could do. Only one thing came to mind, but he realized with horror that he couldn't do it. He needed more chakra, he needed to make some shadow clones, but the Heartless had sucked his Chakra like a leech sucks blood. He began doing everything he could think of, he hit with lightning bolts, explosions, fireballs, ice beams. He did everything he could, but the wall stood stout. He began attacking the wall, but it refused to break.

"Ku, ku, ku, Surely, a 'Keyblade Master' could do better?"

Naruto began hitting the wall harder.

"Hahaha! You can't even break a simple wall, some Keyblade Master." Orochimaru said, as he thrust his sword a little deeper into the Hokage's back.

"Ahh!" He cried.

"Stay away from him!" Naruto yelled, attacking the wall with all of his might.

Orochimaru let him, it was not long before the blows became weaker, until eventually, they were barely swings.

"Ku, ku, ku." Orochimaru laughed. "You haven't even put a dent in it. You, failed, Keyblade Master." The name itself was a blow to Naruto. "Nopw watch the man who let you live die!" Orochimaru said as he drove the sword home.

The Hokage's Face was twisted in pain, and blood began to seep from his mouth.

"No!" Naruto yelled, he began hitting the wall harder. "No! No! No!"

"Yes! Yes! Yes! You have failed Keyblade Master, all of your power is nothing to mine. All of your efforts are nothing more than dust on the wind, smoke in the air, noise at the gates of Heaven! It's nothing!"

Naruto could barely hear him, he was hitting the wall with all of his remaining strength, tears running down his face. "Don't die Jii-san, I can save you."

"No you can't, Keyblade Master, Watch him die, knowing that you can do nothing for him."

"Shut up Snake!"

"Make me." The snake taunted.

Naruto screamed to the sky, and began attacking the wall with everything he had. The cursed wall did not move.

Naruto sunk to his knees, unable to do anything. "Jii-san." He whispered, before more tears began rolling down his cheeks. Thoughts of him were coming back at him, The Hokage taking him to the park, to the academy, protecting him in the old man's office. He had always been there for him. More tears ran down his face, and then he heard a cough.

"N-Naruto."

Naruto looked up, to see the Hokage's smiling face,

"N-Never give up on your dream."

Naruto looked up at him, more and more tears were running down his face.

"I-I want you to m-make me proud."

Naruto began to break down. "I'm sorry, Jii-san! I'm so sorry!"

"No, Naruto, I'm sorry…I'm sorry I wasn't there…there for you more."

Naruto began crying harder.

"And…and the when…and when you become Hokage, I…I want you…I want you to…remember…me." And then he breathed his last.

"Nooooooo!!!!" Naruto yelled to the sky. He began hitting the wall with a newfound force, "No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! NOOOOO!" He cried, hitting the wall with each repetition of the word no.

"No. No. No." Naruto cired. Tears were falling like rain. "No." Then, the strain was just too much, he passed out.

Orochimaru laughed at his victory over the self-proclaimed Keyblade Master. Now, his victory would be complete, all he had to do was to reach out with his Heartless and steal his heart. He was about to, when he realized that he felt very, very weak. It took him only a couple of seconds to realize that he was steeping himself in Darkness too long. He cursed himself for not realizing that he couldn't take the Darkness long enough to complete the invasion. He turned to one of the four ninjas holding the barrier up. "Tell them to abort."

The ninjas nodded, and dropped the barrier. One of the four ninjas released a flare, signaling to retreat. The Heartless faded away, and the sound nins and sand nins left. Orochimaru turned to the unconscious form on the roof. "I will have your heart soon enough."

The next day, a mass funeral was held. Several people came up and gave small elegies. Naruto stood in the crowd, his hood up to hide his red face. The Asuma Sarutobi came up, to speak about his dad. "My-my father, Sandaime Hokage, in his final hours, was able to decide which one of our Genin should become Chunin, he chose two, Shikamaru Nara, and Naruto Uzumaki."

Naruto looked up.

"I realize that this is a sad day to be promoted, but these two earned it, so in order to fulfill my father's dying wish, I want these two to be promoted Chunin. Solemn claps filled the plain. Shikamaru slowly walked up to retrieve his new Chunin vest, but Naruto did not move.

"Naruto, please come up here." Asuma asked.

Naruto walked to the front, a black wraith against a grey sky.

"He wanted you to have this." Asuma said, handing him the Jacket.

Naruto only stared at it, then in a sorrowful voice said."I'm sorry, but I cannot accept this."

This received silence form the crowd.

"I cannot accept this because I don't deserve it. I had in my power, the ability to save the Hokage, but I was foolish and wasted my energy trying to be Konoha's savior. I tried to do everything on my own, and I failed. What killed Sandaime Hokage was not Orochimaru, it was my own pride. I cannot accept what I do not deserve, and Chunin is a rank I am not deserving of. I am sorry, Sarutobi-sama, but I cannot accept it."

Then Naruto turned, and without another word, he walked away.

Naruto opened the door to his apartment. Hi eyes were red, and poufy. He dragged himself to his room, fell on the bed, and cried himself to sleep.

End of Chapter

Thanks to gwmclintock9 for inspiration.

On a brighter note, I'm impressed with myself, I wrote this whole chapter in one day! That's just cool. See you guys soon.