Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, FFX, or FFX-2. I do however own a ps2 with Final Fantasy games.

"Whoa, cool." talking

"What the hell is wrong with that boy?" Speaking al bhed. Naruto can't understand this now but will later. (Hell, I don't even know al bhed and I don't really want to learn.)

"Wow, that must have really hurt, heh, heh." Kyuubi speaking.

'Nice' A sarcastic tone or a slightly dragged out word.

Are we there yet? Thinking

"So... hot... need...water...now!"

Naruto was currently walking through a desert which he discovered is actually hot a little while ago. After all he had stayed in the forest his whole life. The fourteen year-old had long since discarded his orange jacket and pants, deciding instead to simply wear the sweat pants that he kept on underneath his orange ensemble. He probably would have long since gotten rid of them too, but Kyuubi told him the desert gets unbearably cold at night.

"Are we there yet? If you were going any slower Naruto we would be walking backwards!" Kyuubi joked while laying down inside his cage. Naruto had recently discovered that since the fox's secret was out, he no longer had a 'reputation' to protect and could act how he wanted. The blond had quickly learned that Kyuubi's favorite pass time was mocking him. Of course with Kyuubi being stuck in a cage he would try to mock Naruto constantly, and he was doing a damn good job of it too.

"Shut it furball, I would like to see you try and walk in a desert for 4 hours with no provisions." Naruto was quickly growing tired of walking and Kyuubi's ranting.

"I bet I could if I tried, which I can't so we will never find out either way. However if you're tired why don't you rest in the shade of those odd looking rock formations?" Kyuubi was referring, of course, to the remains of what looked like an ancient building.

"Yes! Shade! Now if there was some food, water, and money there as well I would be set!"

"Don't get your hopes up. They will only end up getting grinded and crushed into little tiny bite-sized pieces."

"You're so pessimistic."

"No, I am 'realistic', there is a difference you know."

"Just shut up will you? I want to relax in the shade..." Naruto drawled while thinking of finally getting cool again.

"Remember Naruto, keep your guard up at all times. Every ninja should know that and yet you keep forgetting!"

"I don't forget, I just never bother to do it. Besides, there isn't going to be anything dangerous in a desert."

"Fine, just remember brat, this isn't our world. For all we know there could be tiny walking cacti that shoot needles and drop money when you kill them." Kyuubi joked.

"Yeah! That would be funny and cool too. At least if there were things like that here we would know what are main source of income would be."

"Indeed. But remember what I said about getting your hopes up."

"Whatever." Naruto said while trying (and failing horribly) to tune out Kyuubi's incessant nagging.

Naruto eventually made it to the shade and was had settled down for a rest, when he heard something 'moving.'

"What the hell?" The blond ramen eater yelled, while trying to find the source of the noise. Eventually he gave up, finding nothing of interest and noticing Kyuubi had fallen asleep.

Naruto sat down again, albeit more cautiously this time, and tried to calm his nerves. However this time he 'felt' something moving underneath him!

"Okay, now I know I must be gone crazy." At least this was what he thought, before the entire ground began to shake underneath him!

"AAHHHH! KYUUBI!" Naruto screamed, sounding more like an infant than the trained killer he was supposed to be.

"Brat! What the hell! I fall asleep for three minutes and you've already made the world fall apart!"

"I didn't do it! I swear!" The shinobi yelled, before he was thrown from the ground (the shade too) and sailed threw the air a good 15 feet before he landed head first in the sand.

"What did that? Once I get my hands on them I'll..." He said while turning around to find deadly-looking robots equipped with knives poised to kill him.

"Goddamnit! Can't I ever get a break?"

"I know, you were a demon vessel at birth, you're village hated you, you're sensei hated you, you tried to commit suicide..."

"It's freaking hot, there is no ramen here, and even those robots are taller than I am!"

"...You really need to sort out your priorities brat. Running would be a good start."

"Why? I can take them! There are only like seven... oh no wait some more just came out. Lets see nine, ten, eleven..."

"Naruto! I will not allow my vessel to die from attacks by robots!"

"You don't want me to die from suicide, dehydration, or even robots! How DO you want me to die exactly?"

"Just shut your trap and run!"

And Naruto did just that. He ran as fast as he could with an empty stomach, which wasn't very fast by Naruto's standards. However it was fast enough to outrun the killer machines. When he had stopped running after a good ten minutes, he collapsed, hoping the 'evil screw ups from hell' were far behind him.

"What is it with this place? I sincerely hope you didn't send me to a world with just deserts and demon robots!" Naruto panted out, completely exhausted from his mini-marathon.

"Uhh...maybe you should have hit them to see if coins would come out?" Kyuubi suggested.

"Damn...you...fox..." Naruto said on the edge of consciousness.

"Kit! Don't you dare fall asleep! If you do you won't wake up! And if by some miracle you do, I'll beat you until you pass out again!"

"Heh, you're getting desperate again Foxy-sama. But I guess I'll take your advice and stay awake a little longer. But, seriously Kyuubi. I can't move. I don't think I can get up."

"Well, can you at least roll over so you can breath properly?"

"I'll try..." Naruto groaned as he exerted the last energy he had to flip onto his back and look at the sky. Or he would have, if there wasn't a large shadow blocking his view.

"What a strange boy. He is way out here, and not even Al Bhed." The strange figure said.

"Oh great... even if I survive this, people here don't even speak my language..." Was the last thing the blond said before he fell into the bliss of unconsciousness.

"Hmm... it looks like he survived out here for a long time, and he speaks English as well." A bald man said as if he was talking to himself.

"Take him back to Home, we may be able to use him." The man said to the other people currently crowded around Naruto.

"Yes captain Cid!" One of the other men said as they began to carry the boy in the general direction of Home.

"I wonder what his story is..." Cid said before he started to follow his crew.