Hello readers and welcome to my new chapter. Now, I forgot to tell you this, but I'm going to now. The minimum of pages I'm going to do for each chapter will be six chapters, so they can come quicker. I hope you guys are alright with that.

Also, I made a Inside Out and Harry Potter crossover. (Don't say anything, I know I have to many stories that I need to finish). If you want to check it out, you can. And not much happens on this chapter, just the canon stuff with added dialogue. The next chapter will probably have some character development from the group, so if your into that, be expecting that the next chapter. Enjoy.

Dislcaimer: I do not own Naruto or Final Fantasy XIII.

Chapter 5: A New Friend

Naruto, Lightning, Serah, Snow, Sazh, Hope, Nora, and Gaara are looking at Fang and Vanille, who is close at her side. It was a few minutes ago when Fang revealed herself and she and Vanille had a tearful reunion. Also when Naruto and Gaara took down the PSICOM while Snow took down his own eidolons.

Now, all of them gathered up in front of the new arrival. Naruto was the first to speak. "So, I'm guessing that your a l'cie as well? And that you're a friend of Vanille?"

"Yes and yes on both accounts." Fang answer him. "Been looking for Vanille for months. I almost didn't think I would find her, until now." Vanille nodded in agreement and hug her friend by the waist.

Naruto smile at them. "Well, I'm glad you guys reunited. By the way…." He look at the l'cie mark on her shoulder, "How did you get the mark?"

"From a fal'cie. Isn't that obvious?" Fang remarked and Naruto chuckle. He knew that it's the only thing he is going to get out of her concerning the mark.

"Okay, keep your secret then." Naruto said in an easy going manner. "Beside, I'm keeping secrets as well so I don't really have the right to force any answers out of you."

Before anyone else to speak, Lightning spoke up. "So, are we all going to get out of here? PSICOM might show up any minute."

"I agree with soldier girl on that one." Sazh spoke up. "I rather not spend my life in their cells, or end up in a firing squad." Naruto chuckle a little before nodding.

"Yeah, let's go. The sooner we find a way out of here, the better." Naruto said and everyone is in a agreement that. So the group began walking again with Fang with them this time.

Naruto walk to Snow's side, curious about his fight with the eidolons. "So how was the fight with the two eidolons?" Snow grin and gave his friend of thumbs up.

"As usual, the hero wins." Snow said. Serah giggle at Snow's confidence (or cockiness?) while Lightning roll her eyes. "You see, this is how it went…."

(Flashback)

Snow ducked when Nix threw her wheel at him. He move to the side when Stiria attempted a swipe at him. He grin. "So that's how it's going to be huh?" Snow said, getting to his fighting form. "Well, let me give you a taste of what this hero can do."

"Come on, you can do it Snow!" Serah cheered from the sidelines. Vanille is cheering alongside with her while Sazh and Lightning are merely observing. Hope and Nora are watching as well.

"I dont' know about that." Sazh said, giving his opinion. "You need to strategize in order to beat an eidolon, and from what I seen, the kid…."

"Is not one to strategize." Lightning finished. Serah falter a little, knowing that it is a fact, but Vanille still kept her hope up.

"Maybe he might think of one." Vanille said positively. But true to Lightning's word, Snow is getting nowhere in the fight. For the next five minutes he's been trying to pummel the two Shiva sisters, with no luck on landing a hit critical hit. Snow began to get tired, worrying Serah.

Sazh sighed. "Come on, kid. Try and use your brain for once." Sazh called out. "Punching those two aren't going to do anything. Plan a strategy."

Snow breathed heavily. Normally, he would say that heroes don't need strategies, but considering that he isn't landing a single hit, he decided to think of one for once and not just wing it.

Unfortunately, the eidolons won't give time to think and he dodge two punches from them. "Come on!" Snow shouted. He duck when Nix swiped at him and prepare to punch her rib cage. "Give me a break." When he punch the rib, something surprising happen.

A cold blast formed around the knuckles and Nix cried out in pain when the ice punch made it's way to her ribs. Snow stare at his hand in shock while the others are as shock as him and Nix was recovering from the attack.

He saw the other sister coming at him and he barrel roll from under her arms. Then, by instincts, he swiped his hand at her and a small blizzard form, pushing her back and damaging her.

Snow grin. "Alright. I'm starting to like the l'cie magic." He saw Nix throw her wheel at him, causing him to instinctively form a shield around him to block it.

He ran at Nix once the shield was done and after he dodge a swipe from her, did an uppercut blizzard, causing her to get knock backed and on her back. Stiria suddenly did series of swipes at him, but luckily, Snow quickly formed another. When he saw the eidolon getting slower, he took the chance to punch her in the gut, winding her out.

Snow grin once more. Finally, he got some punches in. Suddenly though, the eidolons started glowing once again, making the others back up. The two of them suddenly (and slowly) disappeared, Snow's l'cie mark glowing as they were completely gone.

(Flashback End)

"And that's when we watch you and Gaara take down all those ships." Snow finished up. Naruto was silent through the hole thing, but then spoke when Snow was finished.

"So there really is a brain in the skull." Naruto said playfully, making Snow punch him in the arm. Naruto laughed. "But seriously though, good job requiring your eidolons. Few ever win against them."

Snow grin. "Hey, a hero-"

"-always wins. I know Snow." Naruto finish up. He hear that so many times, he memorized Snow's speeches by heart.

Serah spoke up. "By the way Naruto, where did you and Gaara get your eidolons?"

As the group walked, Naruto began telling stories about his travels. The several places he went to, where he got the eidolons, and times where he and Gaara sometimes travel together. The group had to push through rubble, jump over cliffs, and fight off PSICOM soldiers or the occasional monsters.

It's been at least an hour when they first started traveling around lake Breshka, when they all saw an army of PSICOM at the bottom of the cliff they're on. They saw several teams forming up down there and ships scouting around.

"They must hunting purge survivors." Sazh guessed. Naruto, Lightning, and Fang nodded in agreement.

Vanille gulped a little. "I hope everyone made out okay."

"We do as well Vanille." Naruto responded, especially the NORA group. He turned to Gaara. "You're sure you got everyone out of the restricted zone?"

Gaara nodded. "Everyone I could find at least, though I'm not sure if the PSICOM would be hunting them down at Cocoon. The best we could hope for is that they're hiding. Nowhere is safe for the people of Bodhum."

Sazh hit the ground under him in frustration. "Damn it. Just because they shared a neighborhood with the fal'cie, they are treated like pulse tainted rats."

Vanille and Fang look at Sazh at the last sentence before Vanille look down sadly. "People really hate pulse, don't they?"

"Not hate." Sazh corrected, getting up on his knees. "Fear, is more like it."

"All scared of Pulse boogeyman." Naruto added in. He look at the l'cie mark on his wrist. "Many would be awake at night, knowing that l'cie are around them, living with them."

"Up until now, Eden's always stepped in." Sazh continued. "To correct their errors in judgement. Guess humans aren't worth the effort. Figure they'll just let us kill each other off."

Fang sighed. "All this talk is making me depressed. How about we not talk and get out of this lake?" Before anyone could say anything, they all felt a rumble.

"Um….what the heck was that?" Snow asked, bewildered. His question was answered when several ships flew past them, causing the group to step back.

Lightning look at up at the ships. "They're sealing off the area. Trying to trap any stragglers."

"Shit." Naruto cursed, ignoring the looks from Serah and Nora. "We get our out of here before we get caught in the net. I don't want to be the catch of the day for these guys." With that, the group ran out of the area, trying to find a way to get out.

(Gates of Antiquity)

"Okay…." Naruto said slowly, touching one of the red-orange crystals. It felt warm. "This is getting creepier and creepier."

"You don't have to tell me." Snow said with his hands behind his hand. The group made it to the Gates of Antiquity, after there track through the lake. What freaking most of them out is that fire also turn to crystal as well.

"Even the fire turn to crystal." Sazh said as the group walk up stairs. "This is getting ridiculous."

"I think these are beautiful." Serah said, looking at all the crystals. Snow and Naruto smile at the girl while Lightning has a twitch of a smile.

Vanille suddenly started running and skipping around, with her tugging Hope's hand. The boy himself, is blushing at this while his mother is watching in amusement. "Don't stray too far you two." Nora called out, but her words fell on deaf ears with Vanille.

Naruto suddenly heard something from the distance, something that made him stiffen and look around. From the sounds of it, it's flying and coming this way. His eyes move to where the sound is coming from and then his eyes widen at the site. "Hope, Vanille, get over here!" Naruto shouted, startling everyone.

Vanille and Hope stopped on their tracks, wondering why Naruto sound panicked, until they saw a monster coming at them. The both of them have their eyes' widen and started running back to the group, screaming.

"Vanille!" Fang screamed while Nora screamed "Hope!" Vanille and Hope ran back to the group, all of them taking out weapons for the fight.

"God damn it." Naruto cursed, taking out both his swords. "Can we go anywhere that doesn't have animals attacking us?" Nobody had the chance to answer that, as they were all push back by a gust of wind by the Garuda Interceptor. Naruto gritted his teeth. All right, no more mister nice guy.

"Gaara, you hold it down!" Naruto barked out. "Fang, Vanille, distract the thing before it can realize what Gaara is going to do! Lightning, we're going to cut the wings down so it won't be able to fly! Anyone with a gun is going to shoot this fucker! Now!"

Gaara started getting sand on the ground, creating a giant circle. Fang meanwhile, charge at the monsters. It send out another gust of wind from its wing, but Fang slide under in time and then stab it's leg. It cried out in pain and turn around in order to attack Fang, giving Vanille an opening.

Vanille use her rod like a fishing net and threw it at the Interceptor, connecting it to the monster's back. She pulled in as hard as she could, with Snow helping her out, startling the thing and making it fall down, right where Gaara's sand is at.

Before it even knows, ropes of sand formed arounds it's wing, trapping it. It shrieked and started thrashing around, making Gaara grunt as he concentrated at keeping the sand from breaking. "If your going to attack, do it now."

Naruto and Lightning doesn't need to be told twice. The two charge at the thing, sword drawn, and started cutting through the wings. It shrieked as it felt being it's wings being cut, and thrash around even more, but Naruto and Lightning was going through the wings quick. Finally, the two completely cut off the wings.

"Kill it!" Naruto shouted as Gaara couldn't hold it anymore and Interceptor got up. Sazh and Nora started shooting at it with their guns while Serah use her bow. Hope, meanwhile, keep throwing his boomerang at it and they kept at it, until the monster fell down, dead on the floor.

As soon as it was dead, everyone let their guard down and put up their weapon. They all spotted a ship in front of the group, something they didn't notice before. Vanille ran over to the ship while the others walk to it.

Everyone observe the ship in front of them, all of them relieve for something good to happen. "This should make things easier." Vanille commented on happily.

"Well, knowing our luck, it's probably missing an engine." Sazh commented, making Vanille 'hmph' at him.

"You should be so negative."

"And you should keep your hopes up." Sazh shot back. Vanille grumbled as the group walk over to the ship.

"He got a point Vanille." Fang added in, walking to her friend's side. "We shouldn't really keep our hopes, considering our luck."

"So we got four pessimist on our group." Naruto said, joining in on the conversation. The four pessimist he referring to are Lightning, Gaara, Sazh, and Fang. "Good thing we have plenty of optimist."

"Not really a pessimist. More like a realist."

"Details, details. Doesn't change the fact that you guys the negatively."

As the banter kept going on, everyone got onto the ship. Serah saw Lightning give Fang the evil eye, making the younger sister giggle a little. Wow, she never imagine Lightning being the jealous type.

"Ok everyone, buckle up and sit down." Sazh called out. He activated the engine that starts the ship and it began to take off. It suddenly blasted off, causing Vanille, Serah, and Sazh to cry out in shock.

Naruto sensitive ears suddenly heard others ships coming from behind them, and he look behind to see several ships coming right at them. He groan. Why can't things be easy, just once?

And that's the end. I'm sorry if this isn't a good chapter, but I couldn't really think of much to type. And sorry that it isn't really that long. I hope the next chapter will be better, if this one isn't. Review, favorite, and follow and I will see you later.