I Do Not Own Naruto or BlazBlue. I mean, come on, I really want to own them but it is just not gonna happen. Unless one of you has a time machine that I can borrow? Serious, which one of you has the damn machine?!

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"Hey good guy!" Yuki called out as she had a grin on her face, hovering over Naruto who finally seemed to move. "Does it hurt here?"

She then proceeded to poke him in the ribs with her paw. Naruto groaned a little as he was sore and that poke was mildly uncomfortable.

"Hm... So..." Yuki thought for a moment, still grinning as she did, before she suddenly poked his thigh. "How about here?"

"Ugh..." Naruto finally was coming to the world of consciousness and slowly becoming aware of his surroundings.

"Meow..." Yuki purred before she poked him one last time. "How about here?"

"GAH!" Naruto cried out as she poked him in the eye. "What are you doing you crazy cat?! You could have poke out my eye like that!"

"AHH! Scary!" Yuki cried out at the angry face Naruto was giving and leap away from the volatile boy, who was rubbing his eye and making sure it was okay.

Once he was sure, Naruto gave her a glare radiated with his murderous intent to get the point across. "Oh I'll be more than scary if you keep poking me in the eye!"

"WAH!" Yuki cried again as Naruto's 'scary face' had become even more frightening to her.

Before she could be scared to however the only thing scared Naruto spoke. "Well it seems that you are finally awake. My how you wasted my precious time sleeping for so long. I had something very important to tell you and now I fear I might just be too late. A pity."

"Gah!" Naruto cried out as Rachel appeared literally behind him and jumped out of his cot in fear she might continue the last torture session they left off at. "Rabbit! Stop doing that!"

"Doing what? Are you senses so dull after three days of sleep that you did not notice that I have been here the entire time? And here I thought we had improved them after these last few months. How disappointing." Rachel acted as if she had been their the entire time and was insulting as ever.

Instead of taking the bait to get further insulted, Naruto put together what he had learned in between all the insults and jabs thrown at him. He had been out three days after over expending his Azure use and from what it looked like he was in the Kaka village elder's hut.

Also noting what she said before, Naruto lifted an eyebrow. "You have something important for me? I pray it isn't a gift I hardly survived the last one you gave me."

"As if I would give another gift to you. You simply cannot appreciate the same delicacies as I." Rachel responded in her usual haughty and superior tone. "I had come to tell you that I have found the perfect situation for you test your mettle but seeing as you could not make it through such an easy mission as this one..."

"Hey, the mission itself was not the hard part! Tailing Yukaka through the thick wilderness, avoiding all those beasts that wanted to rip me limb from limb and scaling insane cliffs with a passenger is not an easy task! I may be getting better but that was just brutal!" Naruto defended himself.

"Are you done barking, my dear Chihuahua?" Rachel once more insulted Naruto, who only growled but did not respond, allowing Rachel to continue. "If you do believe you can take care of this simple tast for me, I will oblidge your and inform. I want you take care of a piggish little man that has set seige to the island nation of the Land of Waves."

"Is... That it?" Naruto blinked as that seemed extremely simple for something Rachel wanted of him.

There had to be some kind of catch.

Smacking Naruto, for she was not finished, Rachel was mildly surprised the Kaka teen growled at her as she had been simply listening before. "Hey! Don't hit good guy, meow! I'll make you hurt bad if you try it again, meow!"

"Oh the cat speaks?" Rachel spoke with a slight grin at seeing this. "Is that so? Then I must be careful for I don't want the future guardian of the Kaka Clan to scratch my delicate features."

Somehow, despite ignoring all the insults Naruto threw her way from time to time, Yuki seemed to get that she was being insulted. And she didn't like it at all.

Naruto placed his arm before Yuki, stopping her from doing anything stupid. Rachel was well beyond them both in terms of ability and he didn't want to see his friend get hurt for doing something stupid. "It is okay Yuki. She is like this to everyone. It is how she shows her... appreciation towards that person."

"Hardly." Rachel cut the legs out from underneath Naruto making him just want to bash the vampire's skull in. "Before I waste any more of my valuable time on this pointless endeavor I shall finish what I started so you should ever be so grateful."

Ignoring Naruto and Yuki's glare, for she had closed her eyes uncaring, the vampire princess continued. "The piggish man has complete control of their economy and has taxed them to the point of near starvation. They had tried to fight back but he pays off brute squads to enforce his will and beat them senseless if not kill them. And on a few occasions to those that won't back down... He has even public executed those people."

"He always forces women that cannot pay his taxes into slavery has them work in brothels if not as his own personal little toys. The man that can't he has them outright killed. The people have lost their will to fight back but one man refuses to give up and has started a bridge to connect the Wave to the mainland." Rachel continued and had to repress the urge to grin as she did would not give him the satisfaction of making him think she was proud of him.

Even if she was on a very, very small scale.

Naruto's eyes burned as his jaw twitched. His fist clinched and un-clinched as he undoubtedly was thinking on all the ways he could make the man suffer. And then without hesitation he grabbed his coat and slid it on before lifting the Bloodedge and sheathing it across his lower back. Immediately after he was already heading to the exit of the hut.

"Wait good guy!" Yuki called after him. "You're suppose to be resting, meow!"

"I can't rest now. Not without thinking about all those that are suffering and crying out for help. Not while I can do something about it." Naruto bit back a growl as he fiercely stood by his decision. "Rachel... Does Tager know?"

"I've told him so he has all the details and is formulating a mission plan as we speak." Rachel nodded as Tager was an intricate part of any plans she had for Naruto.

She may call the interventions but Tager was the man with the plan. A plan that would keep Naruto safe as possible, for both his and their sake, and get optimal results with minimal damages... Most of the time.

Naruto had already proved he had a loose cannon streak after killing two Waterfall Anbu with his Azure when he was suppose to only incapacitate anyone that interfered.

Nodding as he expected as much, Naruto stopped just as he was to open the door and his eyes narrowed for a moment. "What about my mom?"

"By the gods no. I would like to live a few more centuries at the very least. I will leave it to you or Tager to tell Noel." Rachel haughtily spoke, not letting the information that Noel would most certainly flip out at being told that she was taking Naruto from coming home bother her.

"You are cruel and sadistic, rabbit." Naruto growled at the vampire princess before he pushed the door open and walked out.

But soon as he did the sun's rays washed over him. All the dark thoughts of what he was going to do to the piggish man Rachel mention slipped from his mind. He looked up to the partially cloud sky and smiled, closing his eyes and letting it's warmth fill him.

His eyes snapped open and his resolve was set. All that hatred was replaced by an unyielding resolution to do what was right. He would go save those people but first...

"Tager." Naruto found the Red Devil rather easily, surprised he was actually in the village but must have come with Noel to check in on him.

After all while Tager may be his trainer he and the Red Devil shared a special kinship with one another. Well... That was until he let Rachel take him for three months of training.

It was also adorable to see the Red Devil smile and laugh as a few of the Kaka kitten were determined to see if he had any horns beneath his hair or not while another few were simply having a ball hanging off him like a jungle gym.

"Ah, good morning Naruto." Tager spoke with a little joy in his voice, having fun playing with the children, before putting that aside for now as he could see Naruto meant business. "I take that if you moving around that Rachel has already told you."

"She has. So when you are able to pry yourself away from their clutches, as even I admit that is a difficult chore as they are determined little buggers, I would like to talk to you about it." Naruto nodded before grinning as it seemed the kitten sunk their claws in and were not ready to let go and stop playing.

"No, no. I can take care of that." Tager said and with on arm he reached over and plucked the bones a trout from a nearby trash can and dangled it above one of the kittens.

Soon all the kittens were off of him and pawing at the bones. Then one jumped up and snatched it out of the air and took off. In the very next instant all the other kitten were hissing and yowling as they chased after the one that stole the bones.

Naruto simply looked on with his mouth agape. He couldn't believe that Tager had so easily distracted the Kaka kittens with such little effort. And it was with a simple skeleton of a fish!

"Now that is taken care of." Tager wiped his hands clean. "Why don't we go somewhere out of the open and discuss this?"

"How about a restaurant, meow?!" Yuki, who had been following Naruto, proclaimed.

And it was Naruto's stomach that responded with a thundering roar. He simply chuckle and held his belly after that. "That actually doesn't sound like a bad idea."

Tager only let out a bellowing laugh. "Sure thing. You're probably starving I bet."

"Yuki is sssooo hungry, meow!" Yukikaka proclaimed as she was hungry, making Naruto sweat drop as the question was directed at him, though that was not any different than normal.

Yuki was always hungry.

"So my best bet would be to stick with the bridge builder then, after I offer my services to him and get him to accept." Naruto replied after Tager was finished giving him the details of the plan he came up with. "That leaves one problem though. Gato will most likely target the man's family and I can't be in two places at once. I'll need some assistance on this one."

Tager only grinned as Naruto caught onto this and looked to the person that was seated next to him. And there was Yukikaka, stuffing her face full and completely oblivious of the conversation that just took place.

"I would like to rescind that plea for assistance." Naruto grimaced at the idea that Tager would send Yuki with him. "I was thinking someone... Who has basic cognitive thinking."

Yuki blinked as she took her attention from her food and a slurped what was in her mouth down. "Cog-not-eve thinking? What's that meow?"

"Someone who can thinking clearly and precisely when a problem occurs to solve that problem." Tager responded, knowing that it was for not as she probably didn't understand what precisely meant, before turning his attention to Naruto. "I already asked the elder and she was determined to send Yuki with you. This is not negotiable."

"So... I'm going with the good guy, meow?" Scrunching up her face a bit and remembered what the scary bunny lady said. "Alright! Let's go kick some butt, good guy!"

"Well... At least she got the gist of what to do it seems." Tager bit back a laugh as Yuki really did remind him of Taokaka.

"Excuse me?" Both Naruto and Tager froze at the voice for they both knew who it belonged to.

Noel Vermilion. And she was glaring right at them with the fury of a woman scorned burn brightly in her eyes.

Even the always clueless Yuki had moved a few tables down, taking her food with her, for lacking lady was scaring her.

Slowly Naruto who, as was Tager, adverting his eyes from her looked up and smiled at his mother figure. "Hi mom! We were just talking about..."

"You and Yuki being sent to the Land of Waves." Noel finished for Naruto, leaving the boy pale and Tager ready to break through the wall if an escape route was needed.

And both gulped, wondering if Rachel suddenly got the stones to tell her, when Noel knelt down and sat at the traditional style Japanese table and spoke. "Yukaka told me. She was there when he went to ask for assistance, Tager."

"I, uh, Yes! About that, Noel..." The Red Devil stuttered and was analyzing any possible answers that wouldn't set of seemingly mood changing Noel.

"There is no need. I understand." Noel spoke and a small smile slipped onto her lips as she looked at Naruto. "Helping people in need is something you just have to do. I can't say I enjoy that we're being separated so forcefully but... You are more than capable of making your own decisions. I trust you, Naruto."

Seeing Noel was calm about it, both Naruto and Tager sighed. And then at very moment she smacked both in the head. "But you should had told me about it before going to everyone else first! I might not be your birth mother Naruto but I am still your mother!"

"She admitted it." Tager muttered under his breath as Noel had been fighting with herself about whether or not she wanted to be called Naruto's mother.

Ignoring the Red Devil's mutterings, Noel sighed as she slowly looked towards the open entrance and a rather skittish Fu slowly entered. "After seeing her these last few days... I realized what it was that you were doing and I felt bad for over reacting."

"You broke my processors." Tager muttered under his breath again for when he had told her Naruto wouldn't be coming straight home and instead had a job to do she had hit him so hard that she broke a few of his processors.

Again ignoring the Red Devil's mutterings and motioning for Fu to join them, which she did albeit slowly and cautiously, Noel smiled as Fu sat next to Naruto as Yuki decided it was okay to return and did the same only on Naruto's other side only to continue munching on her food.

Then she chuckled a little at the sight. "It seems you do have a little of Ragna's charm. How that reminds me of the old days when he use to take me out to dinner and Tao always seemed to come along, whether out of jealously or free food we were never to sure about though."

As Fu blinked, not quite sure what she was talking about, Naruto looked horrified and announced his thoughts. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! There is nothing of that short going on here! First of, Yuki is only a friend that borderlines on moocher. Secondly, I just met Fu and brought her to the village just a couple of days ago. I hardly even know her personally so don't get any weird ideals thinking that we're anything like that!"

Fu's ebony skin paled as she to looked horrified at that thought but unlike Naruto did not voice her opinion. He had stated that with clarity for her. She simply scooted to the side and sat at the corner of the table, getting away from Naruto but not too close to Noel.

Noel could not bite back her laugh and shook her head, try to fight back the fits of laughter welling inside. "I'm sorry. I know that but it was just so... So reminiscent."

At this Tager cracked a smile. "That I can understand. I've stopped and thought about and at times over the years I've felt like I was Kokonoe and Naruto was taking my old place. It was strange for some time but as I think about it... It is rather humorous how the wheel keeps turning."

"Indeed. I remember when..." Noel started in on about a time she and her friends Makoto and Tsubaki were in the Librarium Academy, an ancient military academy from what Naruto knew.

But he currently didn't care as he whispered to Fu. "We should probably leave. They're going to be talking for a while and will forget we even exist."

"I-I think that's a good ideal." Fu said as she slowly began to sneak away when she turned back to Naruto. "What about your friend there?"

"Does it look like she's... Oh great now she's napping." Naruto was about to say something about her attention span only to the Kaka teenager head was against the table a snot bubble had build from her nose, soundly asleep. "I swear she is the most blissful person in the entire universe."

"That doesn't sound too bad when you think about it." Fu smiled as the walked out of the restaurant, Naruto thanking the waitress and chef as they did. "After all I've been through I kind of envy an existence like that."

"You aren't the only one." Naruto shook his head but held a slight smile to it. "There are times when everything seems to much and I would just want to forget it all."

"Yeah..." Fu nodded, walking along side him and watching as a group of kitten stormed by them in search of something.

A few moments later she and Naruto busted out laughing as a Kaka kitten, one holding a skeleton of a tuna, popped out a trash can and ran the other direction. Naruto could only shake his head at the sight. "That kitten is going to be a great warrior for the clan."

Fu stiffened at that comment before shaking her head. From what she learned life here was peaceful and there was no real form of ninja life, a life she was accustom to, and the warriors here simply were for defense of the village. Even the Ikaruga ninja she had met with seemed so... Different from any other ninja she had ever seen.

They all seemed so peaceful, so in tune with one another to work as hard as they could for the sake of the village whether that be fighting off some sort of beast or fixing a lamp post. They put such vigor into everything they did as did their boss, Lin Shishigami, who most of the others worked hard to be like outside of her... Eccentricities.

She soon learned Lin was a bit psycho about upholding justice, undoing the wrongs and punishing the wicked for it took an entire group of her subordinates just to keep her from running off to the Waterfall after hearing a little of Fu's life.

Fu was afraid if Lin went the Waterfall village might not exist as more than enough of both the Ikaruga shinobi and Kaka warriors wanted to tear down their walls. They all saw her as an innocent soul with a great penchant for life and found it sickening to hear what the people of her village did.

It honestly was a breath of fresh air.

"Thank you." She said after a long pause before she looked at Naruto and gave him her first true smile. "Thank you... For everything. I... I can't believe a place like this exists in this day in age. It's so..."

"Breath taking." Naruto said before he suddenly pushed Fu to the side and against a building, who looked startled only to watch the Kaka kitten with the fish skeleton run for its life as the crowd of kitten chased after it, closing in as the dust billowed behind their charge. "And... Just a bit insane."

"Good insanity though." Fu said as Naruto let up, turning her head away and hiding the light blush she had creep up at their proximity.

In fact that had been the first time she had ever thought someone could and would do something like that to her. Or make her even that he was only inches from ki... She did not want him to know she was blushing because of that!

Naruto looked at Fu oddly, seeing her avert her gaze from him and seem almost ashamed but of what he had no idea. He shrugged his shoulders as it was no business of his and he just figured she was shy, something he had to expect after her treatment by her previous village.

"Anyways... I best be heading to the lab and preparing for my next adventure." Naruto sighed as he looked up to the bright sky for a moment only to turn his attention back to Fu and gave her a bright smile. "I'm glad you are enjoying it here. It might be difficult at times and the people are quite eccentric... But there isn't a place a rather call home than here."

Closing her eyes and smiling, Fu said her good bye. "See you soon then... Wait, where are you going?"

"The Wave. Seems the people there are being oppressed by this tyrannical ass clown known as Gato. Going to kick his ass, free those people and get the word out." Naruto waved it off like it was no big thing and started to head off.

"W-what?" Fu was caught off guard by that statement, as he said it was such ease and fluidity, before calling out to him. "Wait! Get the word out about what?!"

"That's easy!" Naruto turned back and grinned at her, his eyes closed as he did. "That this world's next hero is here... Naruto the Bloodedge!"

And with that phase, he turned and made his way to where Tager set up his new lab not knowing he had a torrent of fan kittens following in his wake screaming 'YAY!' at the top of their lungs.

And Fu fell down laughing see the kittens were carrying the kitten that had skeletal remains of the tuna, looking quite surprised that he had been caught.

A/N: AND CUT! That's chapter five, folks! I don't have much to say as this was just to set up the next few chapters and to show how Fu was adjusting to the village. This chapter was for character development.

Anyways if you have something you want to say I'm all ears!

Peace Out!