Hello readers and welcome to my new chapter. I hope you guys like this story, cause I'm doing my best. The chapter might get here faster if I had a partner, but I don't for this story, so I have to do this myself. It's hard to do, but honestly, I like writing stories. Planning to make a christian fiction book in the future, just need to put it in words. Got the plots and some of the characters, but I just need to put it in words. So, without further ado, enjoy the chapter.

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Chapter 4: Traveling in Lake Breska

"Snow." Naruto called out while Snow, Serah, and Vanille are running. "Vanille, Serah, slow down. We don't have anywhere to go anytime soon. Save your energy."

When the three heard that, they slowed down enough for Naruto and the others to catch up to them. All of them look slightly sheepish while Lightning and Sazh shook their head at them.

"Kids these days, full of energy." Sazh muttered. "Speaking of which, where are we going?" Naruto look around, only to see ice all around.

"I'm guessing we'll walk until we find an entrance." Naruto guessed, continuing to walk at the lake. "Our l'cie marks don't really have a time limit and if you guys turn into crystals, or into a cie'th, I can change you back."

Lightning perked up when she heard that. "Speaking of which, how did you do that?" Lightning asked. "And don't give me a vague answer Naruto. If it wasn't for you, Serah would've…." Lightning trailed off after that, not wanting to relive what nearly happened. Serah slow down so she can be at her sister's side before taking her hand and giving it a squeeze in comfort. Lightning gave her sister a small smile, who smile back.

"Wow, a true and genuine smile." Sazh said with a bit of awe. "I only known you for a couple of hours, but I can see that your not the type to smile." Naruto chuckle while Lightning glare at the african american.

"Too true." Naruto agreed, getting the glare aimed at him. "But to answer your unasked question Lightning, only very few people can do that trick." Lightning was a bit shock that he knew what she was thinking, but then remember that the two can read each other easily. And she was slightly disappointed that others can't learn this trick as well.

Vanille stare at the l'cie mark on Naruto's hand, which is crimson red. Then she remember that Serah, while in her crystal form, was red and her eyes lit up. "Is it due to your l'cie mark?" Vanile asked, pointing at the mark.

Naruto chuckle while the others look at Naruto in question. "You guess correctly Vanille. It's due to the l'cie mark that I have the ability to turn l'cie back to their human form, but still keep their magic. You're still a l'cie, but not with the consequences added into it, whether you complete or fail your mission."

Vanille look towards Gaara. "And does Gaara have the same power as well?" Instead of Naruto answering, Gaara answer.

"Yeah, I do." Gaara said, nodding towards the girl. "Seven others have the same power as well. But different marks and different elements to use. My main one is sand while Naruto's main one is wind."

"I can also use lightning and water, as well as use the dark and the light element to power me up when I need the boost." Naruto added in.

Sazh spoke up. "So, what your saying, is that even though we don't destroy cocoon, if that our focus is, we won't be turn into a cie'th." Snow turn to him with a glare.

"Our focus is to save Cocoon, not destroy it!"

"And your gonna listen to a girl who was half conscious at the time?" Sazh retorted, making Serah flinch and glare at him. "Listen kid, fal'cie are enemy of Cocoon! Why the hell would it give us an objective to save it? And save it from what? Itself? Ragnarok? Another fal'cie?"

The group began arguing, with the exception of Gaara and Naruto. Serah, Snow, and Vanille believe that their focus is to save Cocoon while Sazh and Lightning disagrees. The mother and son try to play peacekeeper, mostly Nora doing the talking, with no luck with appeasing the group. Naruto and Gaara merely watch on in amusement.

"How long to do you think this argument going to last?"

"Maybe a few minutes. Maybe an hour." Gaara guessed. "Is your friends alway like that?"

"Mostly Lightning and Snow, especially when Snow ask Serah to be his girlfriend." Naruto said. "Speaking of which, I should ask when Snow propose to Serah. That'll be a story I would like to hear."

Gaara was about to say something else, when he sense a platoon of people coming at both side. Naruto tensed, feeling the same thing Gaara is feeling.

"Guys!" Naruto called out, but none of them were listening. "Hello? People? We got a problem." The arguing kept going and going until Naruto decided he had enough. He put his finger in his mouth and whistle so loud that the others had to stop arguing to cover their ears.

Lightning look at him in annoyance. "What is it you want Naruto?"

"PSICOM are coming! Right now!"

Immediately, everyone ready their weapons, and sure enough, the PSICOM soldiers are here, at both sides. The group kept their weapons up as the soldiers ready their own weapons.

"Drop them, now!" The leader of the platoon shouted. Naruto look around and counted twenty soldiers, ten at each side. Naruto discreetly look at Gaara, who nodded at the hidden message.

Naruto look at the leader with a raise eyebrow. "I had no idea the PSICOM swing both ways. Sorry to disappoint you guys, but I'm fully straight." Snow let out a chuckle at the joke while Lightning sigh in exasperation.

The leader point his gun directly at Naruto's face, making Lightning tense and grip her sword tighter. "I'm not playing with you boy! Drop your weapon!"

"Yeah, I rather die than a fight before get executed for nothing, thanks." Naruto commented nonchalantly, swinging his swords lazily. "Why do you soldiers alway think that most people will surrender? Unless they do surrender without any prompting, they would most likely not take the option idiot."

"You're getting on my last nerve, boy!"

"Aw, what's the matter? Did I hurt your feeling?"

The group found this amusing, despite several guns being pointed at them. Even Gaara and Lightning had a twitch of a smile on their lip.

"One more word and I'll shoot!" the leader yelled in rage. That prompted Lightning to aim her gun at him with a glare. "I mean it!" Naruto look up in thought, as if considering his threat. Then….

"Word."

The leader yelled in rage before shooting a barrage of bullets, prompting all the others to shoot. Suddenly, sand shot up around each of the group, forming a cylinder type sand shield for each of them.

"What the-" One of the soldiers said before he notice something wrapped around an ankle. The others notice the same thing and when they looked down, they discovered that it's wires of sand.

"Aaaah!" Several of them screamed as an electrical current streamed through them. The source of the sand is where Naruto is at, where several string of sand are on the bottom of the cylinder. When Gaara brought the shield down, and the soldiers were stopped getting shocked, they all tried to shoot at them.

Only to see that their weapons have malfunction.

Naruto grin. "The electrical currents weren't enough to shock you unconscious, but it's enough to shut down your weapons." When he said that, the others either grin, smile, or smirk while the PSICOM suddenly felt scared.

It just not their day, isn't it?

(A massacre later)

Sazh look at the dead soldier on the ground, with a curious. "They weren't so tough, huh?" Sazh commented, getting up from his crouch position. "Aren't they suppose to be the best soldiers? The cream of the crop?"

"PSICOM are suppose to be anti-Pulse fighters." Naruto answered. "They never have fought in centuries. Most of them are just rookies, using expensive weapons and armor. But it's useless without knowing how to use it."

Snow gave a cocky smirk. "Nothing us l'cie can't handle." He got hit in the back of the head from Lightning, eliciting an "Ow!" from him.

"Cut the crap, Snow." Lightning said, looking at the corpses. "The rookies may not be so tough, but it's the elite we have to worry about. If they get on the field, it's game over." That dampen their mood slightly.

"Then we better run!" Vanille said, with her usual cheerful voice. She grab Hope's hand, surprising the boy, before the two ran in front of the group.

Sazh sighed. "Kids these days. Always full of energy."

"Tell me about it." Nora agreed, looking at her son and the pink hair girl. She smile, thinking the two of them together are cute. "Well, we better catch up to them before they run too far." Everyone nodded in agreement and caught up to the two children.

As the group walked at the lake, Snow began talking. "You know, of all the messed up ways to meet, this is the top. Well, might as well make introductions. My name is Snow, Snow Villiers. What about you two?" He pointed at Nora and Hope.

"I'm Nora Estheim." Nora answered. And then Hope introduce himself. "And I'm Hope Estheim."

"Serah Farron. Pleasure to meet you all." Serah introduced, mainly speaking to Hope, Nora, Vanille, and Gaara. "My sister over there goes by Lightning, due to Bodhum Security Regime. Only me and Naruto knows."

"And I still have yet to get either of them to reveal it." Snow said with a bit of a pout, which looks pretty funny on a large guy like him.

Vanille spoke next. "My name is Vanille."

"Gaara."

"Sazh Katzroy. Good to meet you."

"And I'm Naruto Namikaze, as most knows." Naruto introduced himself last. The group see Vanille wondering around the crystallized lake, with Snow following her.

Sazh sighed in sadness. "Why does kids get dragged into this?"

"I know the feeling." Nora said, looking at her son in sadness. "I would give anything for my son not to be a l'cie. Even become a l'cie myself so he doesn't have to." She kept asking herself why she was spared becoming one and not her son. But she can't change what happened. She can only hope that her son journey doesn't become so harsh.

"Don't worry, I'll keep the kids out of trouble." Snow said, smirking.

Sazh patted Snow's shoulder before saying. "Problem with that is, you're one of them." Naruto laugh a little while Snow look a bit insulted. "Trying to take on a pulse fal'cie, that was our first mistake. Should've left it to the sanctum."

"Hey, we manage to defeat it. That counts for something." Serah said, trying to find a bright side. "And you helped us fighting it. Gotta be something that prompt you to do it."

Sazh shrugged. "Might've been. Not so sure anymore." With that, the group kept on walking. They took on the occasional cei'th and PSICOM scouts, but nothing truly dangerous. Also met some debris and use those to pass wide gaps.

All the while, Hope look at Naruto curiously. Ever since he saw his mother alive and learn that Naruto was the one to save her, he liked him. Seeing him keep his cool and seeing him in battle made the young boy admire the blonde quickly

And what wants to know more about him. "So Naruto, what did you before all of this?" Naruto turn to the kid when he ask the question, making Hope shrank down a bit in shyness.

"Well, I mainly try to find out where my parents went, with little success." Naruto answered him, a glimpse of sadness in his eyes at the thought of his parents. "I also been doing my focus, meeting others who had the same focus, like Gaara hear."

"What is your focus anyway?" Lightning asked him. "Do you even know your focus?"

Naruto nodded. "Yeah, I know, but I'm not going to tell you yet. Information is a dangerous thing and I don't want to tell you anything that might endanger any of you." Lightning wanted to argue, but Naruto gave her a look that made her surprisingly silent. Lightning sigh. Only Naruto can make her silent, even if she want to protest.

Naruto suddenly tensed and stopped walking, making the others stop and look at him in confusion. Naruto heard something coming. Something big.

"Everyone, prepare yourself." Naruto commanded. Before anyone could ask why, their eyes widen when they saw the warmech above them. The range users point their weapons it while the melee fighters ready their own weapons. Hope breathed heavier in panic before stepping back and landing on his butt.

The warmech flew other them before landing in front of Hope, making the poor boy panic even more. He crawl backwards away from it before getting his boomerang and getting up.

"Not him again." Sazh groan, getting questionings look from the others accept for Lightning. Seeing the looks, he explained himself. "Me and soldier girl over there fought the thing when we got to the restricted zone. It doesn't know how to give up, as seen other here."

"No kidding." Lightning said. "So let put it down for good." They all saw it powering up their guns and all of them dive for cover while Gaara formed a sand shield. It send out a barrage of bullets, buy luckily, everyone manage to find some cover.

"Nora, Hope, Serah, Gaara, Sazh, when that thing stop shooting I want you to shoot it with your range weapons!" Naruto commanded. "Snow, Lightning, Vanille, your guys with me! While that thing is distracted, we're gonna try to find a weak spot!"

Got it!" Lightning said, speaking for everyone. Once the machine stopped firing, the range users did what Naruto said. Sazh and Nora send barrage of bullets at the thing while Hope keep throwing his boomerang it and Gaara use sand bullets at it. While it was distracted by the three, trying to keep itself from getting harmed further, the melee users did their job.

Snow was at it first, punching the wheel with his fist, causing it freeze from the magic he's using. Vanille latched on one of the machine guns with her rods and pull on it till it finally break apart.

Lightning slide under machine, turning her sword into a gun and started shooting under it, causing it to leap away and it to nearly malfunction. It started to shoot at Lightning, only for a sand shield to appear in front of her and protect her from the barrage of bullets.

"Thanks." Lightning said, speaking to Gaara. Naruto use his magic to slowly form a ball of wind in his hand before thrusting it at the machine. That cause it to blown upward, like a horse galloping, and exposing his underside.

With the underside expose, Naruto threw his two swords at it. The results?

When the swords got lodge in, it seemingly shut down for a few seconds, before it exploded. Everyone either cover their eyes or hide in cover when the explosion happen.

"That was easy." Naruto said, walking to the wreckage. He picked up both swords and put them back in his sheath. "Way too easy."

Just as said that, several ships appeared around them, all turning lights on them. "Several pulse l'cie spotted." A voice said from one of those ships. "I repeat, pulse l'cie spotted."

Sazh groan, pulling out new clips for his gun. "You just had to say that, didn't you?" Several PSICOM got out of the ship, all armed. The group can see that a few of them have purple armor on. Rangers.

"Shit." Naruto cursed, seeing the number of soldiers. "This is going to be a long day." Right after he said that, the PSICOM started attacking.

Naruto and Lightning both worked together with one group, using their own sword skills, with the occasional shots from Lightning, to take down these guns. Snow kept dodging all the gunshots and took them down with one hit in the heads, with Serah providing support with her bow. Vanille use her rod to to throw the the soldiers around, sometimes at each other, with Hope covering her back, using his boomerang to take down several of them in one go. And Sazh and Nora are shooting them down, with Gaara blocking the bullets coming upon them with his sand, and shooting gallops of sand at every platoon.

The group of l'cie, plus Nora, are taking them down one by one, group by group, but the more they seem to take down, the more PSICOM seems to come. And the group is getting tired.

"Where. Are. They. All. Coming. From!" Snow said in aggravation, punching every soldier with each punch. Began to surround them all as the group got tired.

Sazh aim his gun at another soldier, only to hear a 'click' when he press the trigger. "I'm out!"

"Me too!" Nora replied, looking at the gun. Snow gritted his teeth as the soldier has the other backing up. They need to something, anything, to change the tide. Something that would take them all out.

Like a prayer being answered, Snow l'cie mark suddenly started glowing, catching the attention of everyone. The PSICOM started back away in fear while the ball started forming bigger and bigger.

The ball started getting bigger and bigger until it suddenly exploded, revealing two humanoid figures. Two beautiful looking females, with blue skin, strange hair, and strange clothing. Both has a wheel attached to them, one on the leg and the other on the hair.

Snow stare at them. "What the-?"

"Eidolons." Naruto said, causing the others to look at him. "You remembers the tell don't you guys? Mystical entities that only show themselves only to a few selected l'cie. Said to be saviors of l'cie bound to their focus against their will." The two women suddenly threw the wheels attached to their body and took down all the PSICOM soldiers around them.

Snow grin. "Alright." They suddenly turn to the group, causing Naruto to pale as he remember one other thing.

"And there is one more thing." Naruto started to warn them. "Without any exception, they'll attack the l'cie that summoned them."

"WHAT?!" And to prove Naruto's words, one of them launch an ice attack at Snow. He had to jump back to dodge it, with gritted teeth. "Just great. Anybody got any ideas to handle both the ships and these two?"

Naruto grin at him, holding up his l'cie mark. "Don't worry, me and Gaara can handle the ships ourselves." Everyone look at him like he was crazy.

"Naruto, have your travel made you insane?!" Lightning yelled, looking at the ships. "How on earth would you and Gaara alone handle all those ships?!" Naruto l'cie mark suddenly started glowing, along with Gaara's. Naruto's mark is crimson red while Gaara's is sandy brown.

"By summoning our own eidolon." Naruto answered and with that, two eidolons were summoned the same way Snow's was. The two eidolons are two times the size of Snow's, both of them having the same pro wrestler type body. Except Naruto's is red while Gaara's is brown.

Naruto turn to the gobsmack group with a foxy grin. "Like I said, me and Gaara can handle this. You guys can get a rest while Snow handle his own eidolons." With that, Naruto and Gaara to their Eidolon. The two eidolon charge at ships, entering into their Gestalt mode, with Kurama is his fox form while Shukaku in his lizard form.

"Ready to do some damage Kurama?"

"You better believe Naruto." Kurama replied with a vicious grin. During their years of travel, the two became close friends. They lost their ability to read each other's minds when Kurama turn into a eidolon, but Naruto often summon to either talk or fight. Like right now.

The ships started shooting at the eidolons, but it barely did any damage. Kurama before slashing one of the ships and then bite into another, making it explode. One try attacking from behind, but Kurama grabbed it with his tails and smashed it with his tails.

Meanwhile, Gaara's eidolon is having a blast, slowly crushing any ship with it's sand and tongue. He also use his tongue to throw them on the crystalized water, causing them to explode.

Soon, the ships were all destroyed and the ones that try to escape were caught by either Kurama's tail or Shukaku's tongue.

"Heh." Kurama chuckled, laying down on the ground. "That was way to easy."

"You said it Kurama." Shukaku agreed with a mad cackle. "Though it was fun to stretch our leg." Kurama nodded in agreement while Naruto and Gaara merely shook their head at their eidolons. Meanwhile, the group was watching the eidolons with wide eyes, even Lightning. Snow was done with his eidolon and is joining the group in the stairing.

They are all surprise that the things could talk and also at how strong they are. Vanille, however, eyes widen as she recognize the two eidolons. From a legend she heard of from her village.

"Heh, interesting eidolons you got there." A voice said from above them. They all turn to where to the voice at to see a black hair woman on top of a crystal like hill.

The girl has bronze like skin, green eyes with a beauty mark beneath her right eye, and wavy black hair that is braided. She's wearing purple claw like earrings, a short black top, black sleeves over her forearms. sandals, two fur pelts hanging from a cord beneath the belt, and and blue clothing that looks indian like. She also has a spear on her back.

The woman observe the group, and the eidolons as well, but then her eyes widen when she saw Vanille, who has the same look. "Vanille?" Fang said, jumping off the cliff and onto their level. Vanille smile widely before running to the woman and hugging her tightly.

"Fang!"

And that's the end. So Naruto and Gaara's eidolons are revealed, Snow has his eidolon, and the group met Fang earlier. I hope you guys like this chapter and the action in it. Review, favorite, and follow and I will see you later.