Hinata Chronicles Chapter 46, a Naruto + Kingdom Hearts Crossover fanfic

Hinata Chronicles Chapter 46: Fighting the witch and her servant

"Maleficent! Maleficent!" The portly feline known as Pete called out, running as fast as he could. He skidded to a halt near the entrance to the room in fear of disrupting his mistress, though the news he carried was urgent.

"What is it, you bumbling fool?" the horned witch known as Maleficent demanded in an annoyed tone of voice, turning towards her servant. "Have my forces invaded Radiant Garden yet?"

"N-no ma'am. B-but. . ." Pete stammered, knowing that she would not like the news and would probably thrust her wrath upon him.

"Spit it out you fool!"

"They're gone! All gone!" Pete answered in a panicked voice, "All of the heartless under your control are all gone!"

To say that she wasn't happy was an understatement. "What!?" Maleficent roared angrily, not unlike her dragon form. "How is that possible, you imbecile!? The number of Heartless were more than enough to overwhelm their weak defenses! Especially their pitiful Committee!"

Pete was already cowering before she called him an imbecile (again) with his meaty hands covering his head in case of being hit. Nervously putting them down he once again spoke, "S-some managed to make it in, Your Highness! B-b-but I-I-I think it's the keyblade Brat and his friends! Some of our scouts reported seeing freed hearts floating away! A-a-and h-he's got more help, Your Highness!'"

"That accursed Keyblade!" she cursed in hate, eyes smoldering.

Hinata, Naruto and Xion ran through the empty canyon, blades in hand as they headed for Maleficent's castle.

"Now for the assault on Maleficent's castle." Xion said as she then turned to Hinata who had her Byakugan activated. "What do you see Hinata?"

"Looks like Maleficent's pissed that we destroyed most of her forces." Hinata said.

"She should be, and now we are coming for her!" Naruto announced.

"Right!" Hinata and Xion said together as Hinata threw her keyblade and summoned her glider.

"Get on everyone!" Hinata said, climbing aboard and revving her engines once she was seated. The other two jumped on quickly, not wanting to waste any more time. The trio soon flew off to the castle.

Meanwhile with the others back in town. . .

Kakashi, Sai and Leon were still fighting off the heartless, noticing that there seemed to be less of them.

"Something's up. Do you know what's going on?" Leon asked Kakashi as he slashed through another heartless.

"I think I've got an idea," Kakashi said as he looked on towards the canyon. "We're counting on you three. . ." he thought.

Sakura and Ino and were healing some of the citizens as Aerith made sure the barrier stayed up.

"Get back here soon Naruto," Sakura muttered as she finished healing a child's wound. "Same with Hinata and Xion."

Kiba, Akamaru and Red XIII were fighting the remaining heartless when Shino's bugs returned.

Shino listened to what they said and then smirked. "Time for the counterattack."

"What about your friends?" Red XIII asked.

"Shino?" Kiba asked as Akamaru gave him a confused look.

Shino continued smirking, ignoring their questions as he released his bugs on the heartless. "Great job Hinata." He thought.

Hinata, Naruto and Xion were flying straight to the castle, preparing to fight the source of Radiant Garden's current heartless situation.

"Let's finish this." Naruto said as he gripped his blades, ready for the upcoming battle.

"Yeah. . ." Hinata said as she sped up the glider.

"She has no right trying to take over this world." Xion said as she got ready to summon her keyblades.

The group soon approached the castle. "Prepare to land." Hinata announced.

Naruto then smirked at the two. "Meet ya down there," he said, a mischievous glint in his eyes. He then jumped off the glider and landed on the ground 50 feet below. On impact, it felt like his whole skeleton was rattled.

"Ow. . ." he muttered, shaking off the pain being sent from his legs to the rest of his body.

Xion couldn't help but sweat drop, "That's Naruto for you. In fighting or infiltration, no matter what, he has to be first."

"Yup," Hinata agreed, chuckling but still carefully steering the glider down. Once she landed, both she and Xion hopped off and she turned it back into its keyblade form. "Heal!" Hinata announced as she did a Cure spell on Naruto. "Please be more careful next time, alright Naruto?" SHe then kissed him on the cheek.

"Got it. Thanks," Naruto said back rubbing his cheek, making a mental note never to do that again.

"Let's go." Xion said as she summoned her keyblades. At that moment, some heartless started to appear. "I guess we're expected, huh?"

Probably." Naruto said as he took out both blades and gripped them. "Ready. . ."

"Go!" Hinata finished and the trio dashed into them, meeting the Heartless head-on.

"Your highness! They're here!" Pete announced.

Maleficent looked back at Pete, frowning in irritation. "Then what are you waiting for, you fool? Go greet our 'guests', make them feel right at home. . .for they will never be leaving!" She then disappeared in a blaze of green flames.

Pete saluted to his disappearing highness. "Sure thing! I'll give them a pounding they'll never forget!" He then ran off to where the intruders were fighting off their remaining forces.

Hinata, Naruto and Xion rushed into the castle, slashing through any and every heartless that was in their way. The three soon made it to the main hallway that branched off into many other hallways full of doors.

"Naruto, send some shadow clones through the castle. It will widen our search for Maleficent." Xion said.

"Got it!" Naruto said as he made 15 shadow clones (and a hidden 16th one) and sent them off on some of the paths.

"The three of us should stay together," Hinata said. "That way, we won't be caught off guard."

Naruto and Xion nodded their heads in agreement. They headed deeper into the castle taking a path that the clones didn't take, not knowing that Pete was watching them at the moment.

Who are those guys? They aren't the boat boy king, the brat or the lackeys!" Pete started to scratch the back of his head in confusion. "I better report this to Maleficent!" He then ran off to go find her. Unknown to him, Naruto's secret 16th cloned spied on Pete as he left.

"So that was Pete, huh. I better report back to the boss," he said as he sneakily disperses himself, causing the real Naruto to get all the memories.

The three were running through the castle, trying to find Maleficent and stop her invasion. Suddenly, Naruto received the memories from one of his clones. Not stopping for a bit, he reported to his companions, "Seems like they were expecting someone else."

"They must have thought that Sora, Mickey and the others were here." Xion responded, keeping up with the fast ninja. Even though she wasn't trained the same way as her new friends, years of fighting Heartless helped her endurance and other strengths.

"That's a possibility." Hinata said, easily keeping up with her boyfriend. They soon made it to a large, round arena-like area. "Be ready for anything."

Naruto and Xion nodded as they were suddenly surrounded by heartless. Just then, they heard laughter from a distance.

"Well it seems like the little kiddies have come out to play!" The three looked to see the portly minion of Maleficent. He was smiling wickedly at the three as they glared at him.

Naruto took out his blades and gripped them tightly. Without looking back he told the girls, "You two go on ahead, I'll take care of this fatso."

"Who are you calling fat!?" Pete yelled, indignantly but was ignored. He let out a yelp of surprise as Naruto disappeared like a blur, the heartless around them destroyed milliseconds afterwards.

"You sure Naruto?" Xion asked as Naruto reappeared again in that same instant.

Hinata gave Naruto a concerned look, one that a girlfriend would give to her boyfriend.

"Definitely. Get going, I'll catch up." Naruto said, glancing back to flash a reassuring smile before returning his focus on the dumbfounded lackey.

A moment went by until Xion responded. "Alright, just be careful with Pete and watch out for his barrier. Hinata, let's go!"

"Alright, catch up as soon as possible."

"Got it."

Hinata and Xion quickly slipped by the villain, leaving Naruto and Pete face to face.

"You punk! Just who do you think you are?" Pete asked, enraged.

Naruto smirked as he threw his blade in the air until he firmly caught, gripping it in his hand. "Just a passing by shinobi. But more than that, I'm going to be the next Hokage! Remember it!" With that said, he charged at Pete.

Naruto quickly charged at the portly enemy, blades brandished and menacing. Pete, surprisingly quickly, reacted and threw around himself a few colorful balls before rolling a much bigger, glowing sphere towards him.

Naruto jumped up to avoid the sphere but was surprised when it exploded just when he was over it. The explosion caught him off-guard and threw him back a few feet. He quickly hopped back onto his feet before noticing that a few of the smaller colorful balls were spread around him and that they were glowing oddly.

"What the-" Before he could react, those smaller spheres also exploded, though on a smaller scale compared to the bigger one.

When the smoke cleared, a strange mix of black and white, the ninja was nowhere to be seen. Pete laughed proudly, meaty hands (or were they paws?) on his hips. "Hah! Ain't no one gonna stop the Mighty Pete!" he boasted.

"Oh yeah, 'Mighty Pete'?" a mysterious voice said.

"Huh?" Pete looked around confusedly, not knowing where the voice was coming from.

Suddenly, a shadow loomed over him. And it was getting bigger. Looking up, Pete watched in shock as Naruto fell towards him from the ceiling, blades at the ready.

"Get a load of this!" Naruto yelled triumphantly. With gravity at his side, he slashed at Pete's vulnerable form, producing a few yelps and shouts of pain.

One more slash, this time nicking an ear, and then he planted a foot on the lackey's head. Pushing off, he leapt away and simultaneously left Pete kissing the floor.

While Pete was trying to wipe the taste from his mouth, in a rather comical fashion, Naruto smirked and kept his blades at ready in case of a sneak attack.

"Hah! It's obvious you've never fought a shinobi before! Before those bombs exploded, I switched myself with a Shadow Clone, so I wasn't hurt at all!" Naruto boasted confidently.

Pete gave Naruto an annoyed look. "Bah! I don't care who or what you are, brat, you're gonna be pulverized by me!" He then lumbered over to Naruto, fist pulled back to punch him.

Naruto only smirked at him, standing still as the big lug 'ran' at him. "Give it all you got!" he taunted.

"With pleasure!" Pete replied. Once he finally made his way over, he tried to punch him but the ninja disappeared. "Huh?! Where'd that punk go!?"

"You should never let the enemy get behind you like that," a cocky voice said. "Leaf Village Secret Finger Jutsu!"

"Wha!?" Pete yelled out as he looked behind himself, but it was too late. Pete's expression changed drastically.

Naruto jabbed his fingers up Pete's butt as he then pushed them in further. "Thousand Years of Death!" He yelled. "This is so gross. . ." Naruto thought as the fox laughed wildly in his head.

"YEOW!" Pete screamed as he was launched into the air. He face-planted into the ceiling and as he fell, he was knocked unconscious. The scream was so loud that it was heard past the thick walls of the room and to the city beyond the canyon.

In Radiant Garden. . .

Kakashi, Sai and Leon were panting as they finished off the last of the heartless, when they heard the painful cry.

"What's going on?" Leon asked as he looked at the castle. He then looked at Kakashi, who was wide-eyed and was shivering, rubbing his behind a little. "You alright? You have a weird look on your face."

"Uh. . . you don't want to know. . ." Kakashi meekly said as he then palmed his face. "Naruto you didn't. . .?" He thought.

Hinata and Xion heard the cry as they continued to make their way to Maleficent.

"I'm guessing Naruto won." Xion said as she smiled at Hinata.

"That's my boyfriend. He'll catch up." Hinata said with a proud smile, her Byakugan activated. "300 meters, turn left now."

"Got it." Xion said as they turned into another hallway.

"Almost there." Hinata said.

"What's she doing?" Xion asked.

"It looks like Maleficent is just standing there. I guess she's waiting for us to appear." Hinata said as they made it to a large set of doors. They could feel the malevolent darkness seeping through the cracks. "I can see that the doors are unlocked. She's behind here. Ready?"

"Of course." Xion smirked, summoning her keyblades.

With that, they burst through the doors, keyblades at the ready. The room they were now in was large and circular. It was also very creepy looking with its cracked flooring, torches blazing in green flames and Gothic-styled walls. The edges of the room were crawling with black vines covered in thorns. On the opposite end of the room, a few feet above a small platform, was a set of doors, the Heartless emblem emblazoned and seeming to glow a tainted light. All in all, a very dark and evil room.

And standing in front of the doors was the mistress of all evil herself.

Maleficent smirked wickedly at the intruders. "Well well. What do we have here? A pair of novice keyblade wielders that believe they can stop me and my conquest?" she taunted.

"Enough, you witch!" Xion said angrily, "You have no right to try and wreck this world!"

"That's right, Maleficent!" Hinata agreed, pale eyes hard. "And besides, we're Keyblade Masters!"

The horned witch only cackled in response. "And you think you two will stop me? Others have tried before, but they have all failed!"

Xion smirked when she remembered one of Sora's memories. "Oh really? If I remember correctly, Sora's stopped you numerous times before when he first got his keyblade!" she taunted.

"And yet I still live!" Maleficent sneered in response.

"So what?" Hinata retorted, "That doesn't mean you're invincible! And even if you do survive this, we're going to take you down again!"

"Fools!" Maleficent roared, having had enough of being reminded of her defeats. "Your pitiful lights are feeble and weak against my darkness! With that power on my side, you'll never be able to stop me! Me, the queen of darkness!"

Cackling madly now, Maleficent spread her arms into the air, the platform she was on rising with the motion. Her power increased and the two Keyblade Masters could see the dark aura snaking out of her form in waves. They were powerful enough to force the doors behind them shut.

"That's almost the same thing she said that time," Xion thought, gritting her teeth and gripping her keyblades harder. She looked up at the dark mistress and thought, "And it's probably the same attack, too."

"Ready?" Hinata asked, Byakugan activated and keyblade ready.

"Yeah. Don't go under that or try to break it," Xion advised, indicating the floating platform, "She's got it enforced and will try to smash you underneath."

"Right," Hinata replied.

With that, they charged. Maleficent only smirked wickedly at them.

Naruto looked over at the unconscious Pete. "Man. . . I wonder what it was like for Sora to have to deal with this guy." He then shrugged his shoulders and he ran off to where Hinata and Xion were, but not until he tied up Pete, hands and feet above his head.

"I'm not gonna even ask how you did that, kit." The Nine-Tails said in his mind.

"You don't wanna know. . ." Naruto said as he rushed through the hallways. "Hinata. . .Xion. . . I'm coming. Just hang tight and leave some of the fight for me."

"Come out, my fiends of darkness!" Maleficent demanded as two Defender heartless suddenly appeared. The duo immediately split off to fight each one.

"Great, more heartless!" Hinata muttered as she blocked it's shield attack. "If Tenten was here, she would SO want this shield!"

Xion chuckled a little. "I'll say." Xion then did a Gravity spell as she flattened and destroyed the Defender she was against. She then turned towards Maleficent. "What's the matter you witch? That all you got?" She taunted.

"Why you!" Maleficent ranted as she raised her staff. "Meteors of heaven, unleash thy fury!" After the incantation, she summoned a portal that looked like it lead to space behind her. From the dark depths, massive dark blue meteors hurtled out.

"Incoming!" Hinata called as she destroyed her Defender. She then started to run up the wall using chakra, the space rocks missing her by mere inches.

"Crud!" Xion did what Sora did during his fight with the evil mistress and dodge rolled to avoid the meteors.

"Now you'll know the meaning of fear! So run, you fools!" Maleficent taunted, still safe on her floating platform.

"I don't think so!" Hinata shouted as she jumped off the wall and slashed at Maleficent once she was close enough.

"What!" Maleficent yelled in surprise. Her concentration broken, no more meteors were launched and the portal closed. She used her staff to block the next series of slashes from the shinobi.

Xion breathed a small sigh of relief before getting closer to the platform, which was still glowing a sickly blue-green. Casting another Gravity spell, the platform slammed into the ground so hard that it made the witch stumble.

Seeing the opening, Hinata slashed a few more times before leaping away a bit and raising her keyblade. Taking aim, she cried, "Ragnarok!"

The projectiles hit their mark, stunning the evil witch. Xion took this opportunity to get a few more quick slashes in, alternating with her keyblades.

Having had enough, Maleficent sent a wave of darkness from her entire body. It slammed into the duo and sent them a distance away, knocking the air out of them.

"Thunder, light, and lightning strike!" Maleficent chanted, summoning numerous black bolts and shocking the pair. She smirked at the sounds of their pain from the attack. Another wave of her staff and the platform once more rose into the air.

"Come on, where did they go?" Naruto thought as he ran through the halls.

After the battle with Pete, Naruto soon realized a major problem in his plan to keep his word. He was lost in the endless and numerous hallways of the castle.

"Man! Why didn't I send a Shadow Clone to follow them?!" he cried out in frustration after finding himself in another dead end.

"Well," he sighed before turning around and rushing off to continue his search, "At least all this exploring got me some neat stuff."

For indeed, he could feel the little bit of weight in his pockets from the unique items he managed to stumble upon. A few of them were small, round glass flasks full of green liquid. When he first found one, he thought it was some weird, otherworldly juice. He gave it a whiff to be sure, but it didn't smell like anything. So he took a small sip and was surprised by how sweet it tasted, almost like honey. The bottle disappeared in a small cloud of blue-white smoke, shocking him.

He was more surprised when he noticed that a small scratch on the back of his hand glowed green a bit before healing. Another item he found was another flask full of blue liquid. After sipping that, which tasted bland, he immediately felt some of this chakra return, though not all of it. Thinking that these would be useful, he kept them for his friends and the battle they were no doubt fighting in now.

"Xion. . . Hinata. . . Hold on. I'm coming to help," he thought as he rounded another corner, determined to make it to his friends.

"See the immense power of darkness? Where is your light now, fools!? Thunder, light, and lightning strike!" Maleficent cried triumphantly, raising her staff in the air.

A dark green bolt flew from the tip towards the keyblade bearers, who were still stunned from the lightning attack earlier. When it contacted, however, the two immediately turned into puffs of white smoke.

"What?!" Maleficent shouted in shock. She then stumbled forward as she felt an immense pain on her back. She caught herself by using her staff to steady her as her platform was suddenly slammed into the ground again. Turning around, she was stunned to find the two Keyblade Masters standing and looking better than ever.

"How?" she snarled, green eyes blazing in fury. "How did you escape?!"

"Easily," Hinata said with a smirk, one hand on her hip in a haughty way. "While you were busy ranting and believing that you won, I created Shadow Clones of myself, changing one of them to look like Xion. While they took our place on the floor, we got away some distance and healed ourselves."

"Yeah, so why don't you give up?" Xion taunted.

Maleficent roared in fury before raising her staff again, "Thunder!" Bolts of lightning were sent their way, forcing them to dodge and widen the gap between themselves and the witch.

Another wave of her staff and her platform raised itself in the air again. "Meteors of heaven, unleash thy fury!" she chanted, once more summoning a rift to space and sending the meteors to the duo.

Hinata once more took to the walls, pumping chakra to the soles of her feet. Xion, who couldn't do that, took to dodge rolling out of the way, though this time, she aimed to get closer to the platform to perform another Gravity spell.

"That's getting really annoying," Xion muttered as she expertly dodged another blue projectile.

Hinata ran closer to the witch, planning on stunning her again, when the evil of mistress turned towards her with a glare.

"Not this time!" Maleficent shouted, pointing her staff at the shinobi.

From the tip, a blazing ball of green and black was released, surprising Hinata. It was quickly batted away with her keyblade, hoping to hit the witch with her own spell, but she was shocked when a bolt of lightning flew through the ball, dispersing it in small cloud of smoke. The bolt hit her dead on and she fell to the ground, consequently right on top of Xion, who managed to get away from another meteor.

"Oof!" Xion shouted, surprised at the sudden weight. They ended up in a mess of tangled limbs and keyblades, though thankfully, those didn't manage to cut them. Unfortunately, the harmful meteor shower was still in effect and they couldn't separate themselves quickly enough to dodge it.

Maleficent cackled from on top of her platform. "Into sleep you fall forever!" she chanted and a smaller, acid green bolt flew from the tip.

It hit the girls, who had managed to separate themselves, and they found that they couldn't move at all. Glancing down, they noticed that black vines kept them locked. Before they could summon their keyblades, which had fallen to the floor, and cut free, they suddenly found themselves stuck to each other, back-to-back.

"Now you face all the powers of evil!" Maleficent cackled.

Xion and Hinata glared at her, feeling a little fear. Even though they could still summon their keyblades, they might end up cutting or even piercing each other.

"This is the end of you, Keyblade Masters!" Maleficent taunted in glee. Staff pointed towards them, a blazing green ball of energy gathered at its tip, darkness surrounding it. When it was about half the size of Akamaru, she threw the sphere to the duo, who closed their eyes.

"Roxas. . .I'm so sorry," Xion thought sorrowfully, "And Axel. . . I guess I'll be seeing you soon." Her lips twitched into a small smile at the thought of at least being reunited with one of her old friends.

"Oh, Naruto," Hinata mournfully thought. She felt tears start to push against her eyelids, but she held them back. "I'm so sorry. . .And Neji. . .I wasn't able to bring you back and now. . ."

"I don't think so!" A voice suddenly shouted, snapping the duo out of their depressing thoughts.

Just before the sphere would have hit the two previously doomed girls and erasing from the universe two keyblade masters, a blade, silver and looked like a stylized version of the symbol of a leaf, flew over their heads. It sliced its way through the sphere, making it disperse into slightly harmless smoke, and continued on its path to the stunned Maleficent. She managed to block the blade with her staff, knocking it away towards a high corner of the wall behind her, where it stuck stiffly.

When the smoke cleared, she was surprised to see a blonde teen standing protectively in front of the two girls, red eyes glaring at her in fury. She could feel a slightly animal-like aura leaking out of him and it intrigued her with how evil it seemed to be. She also noticed another one of those blades in his hands, though kept in a reverse grip. The image, though different, reminded her of another blonde warrior she once angered.

"Well, who do we have here?" Maleficent sneered in contempt. "A little boy who think he's a hero?"

"Naruto!" Hinata and Xion cried in relieved joy.

"You witch!" Naruto snarled in fury. "First you go after this world, then you hurt my friends! Especially my girlfriend! You're gonna pay!"

Maleficent cackled in response, "Oh? You're not a keyblade wielder and not even they are unable to defeat me!" She then added with a sneer, "Not even that other blonde warrior, Ventus, was able to stop me!"

This only served to make Naruto angrier as he gripped the blade so hard that his knuckles turned white. "You. . ." he growled, "You'll pay!" With that, he charged.

"Wait a minute!" Xion yelled out, stopping Naruto's charge. "Y-You know Ventus!?"

Maleficent halted her own counterattack as well. With a smirk, she looked down at them. "Indeed I do. . . Why, the boy's disgusting light was very hard to miss. A Keyblade bearer like yourself, and just as naive. In fact, I know of not only the foolish boy, but of his close friends as well. Xehanort told me much about all of them, even about the young Keyblade Master and especially the foolish 'Peacekeeper'."

Here, she gave a sinister laugh, "The darkness within that boy was strong and he was so easy to control. When I found out that he also wielded a keyblade, I couldn't deny an opportunity to obtain a heart of pure light. With a little. . . persuasion, he used his keyblade and retrieved for me Princess Aurora's heart. When I told his friends of this, they fervently denied the truth. But I could tell that Ventus was upset. In fact, the young boy ran off, leaving his other friend behind."

As Maleficent was explaining this, Naruto broke the girls free from the vines with a quick and subtle slash of his blade. "Here, take these," Naruto reached into one of his pockets and handed the two the vials of green and blue liquids. "They helped me feel better after I beat Pete so I held onto some for you guys."

He then glared back at Maleficent. "So that old fart Xehanort was the one who told her about other worlds. . . I bet he was just using her for something of his own gain." He thought.

"From what I've gathered about this Xehanort. . . he's a manipulator like those damn Uchihas. . ." the Nine-Tails Fox growled in his mind.

"Thanks Naruto." Hinata said as she drank the ether, feeling some of her chakra return. "That witch! She basically helped wreck the lives of three good people that didn't deserve it!" She thought as she finished the bottle.

"Thanks for finding us some potions and ethers." Xion said as she finished her own bottle. As the bottle disappeared in a puff of smoke, she thought, "So she knew all three of them. . .and was part of the reason Terra went down the path of darkness. . ."

Hinata and Xion soon got to their feet with Naruto after the vials disappeared. They all glared at Maleficent, re-energized and ready to fight once more. The evil witch glared back with just as much contempt.

"Now Maleficent. . ." Hinata said as she summoned her keyblade.

"It's time for you. . ." Xion said as she, too, summoned her keyblades.

"To count up your sins!" Xion and Hinata said at the same time as they pointed their blades at Maleficent.

"You're going down now!" Naruto said as they three charged at her.

"Fools!" Maleficent retorted, raising her staff. "You'll never be able to defeat me!" With slight wave of her staff, her platform took to the air again.

Pumping chakra into their legs and feet, Naruto and Hinata sprinted towards her, aiming to stop her before she summoned her meteors again.

Maleficent, seeing their attempts, cried, "Away!" The room darkened slightly, the torches flickering, before bolts of dark lightning appeared to strike down on the warriors.

Xion quickly aimed her keyblades at each of her friends and shouted, "Reflect!"

With that, a nearly transparent sphere of hexagons appeared around the two warriors, glowing as they were hit with the lightning strikes. A second later, after the dark bolts stopped, the shield seemed to pulse and as it shattered, a wave of light was sent to Maleficent, stunning her. Her spell successful, Xion ran to the platform, readying another spell.

Taking this opening, Naruto and Hinata jumped up onto the walls, one on each side, and rebounded off of them. When they crossed next to each other, they slashed at the stunned witch in between them, eliciting a few cries of pain.

"Gravira!" Xion shouted, using her magic to forcibly pull down Maleficent's platform. It hit the ground with a large thud.

"Behold the mistress of all evil!" Maleficent chanted. In a burst of flames, her form vanished and was instead replaced with a malevolent, swirling vortex.

The vortex headed right towards Naruto, who jumped off the walls to get away. But Xion, who was nearby, wasn't fast enough and was hit by its edges, making her cry in pain, her back to the wall and no escape available. It pressed on until a cry of "Thunder!" from the opposite side of the room and a bolt of lightning struck the center slowing it down until it faded away and Maleficent's form reappeared, a hand clutched to her chest.

Naruto swooped in and grabbed Xion, taking her out of harm's way. He placed her back down when he reached his girlfriend, turning back to face the witch as Hinata performed a cure spell on Xion, who nodded gratefully.

Turning around, Maleficent snarled in fury, acid-green eyes blazing. She raised her hands to the sky and green flames surrounded her before she disappeared, cackling. The trio looked around, muscles tense and blades at the ready, before noticing several bursts of darkness around them. From them appeared Darkball heartless, animated black and blue orbs with three waving tentacles, two of them acting as makeshift horns. Their faces were dominated by their large, creepy smiles and its beady yellow eyes quickly locked onto them. They floated of their own accord and shook and twitch almost sporadically.

They charged at the trio, who were quick to defend. A few slashes of their blades, and the dark creatures were defeated. However, they were repaid for the efforts with a shock of pain, literally.

Laughing madly, once more on the floating platform, Maleficent waved her staff in the air and chanted, "Meteors of heaven, unleash thy fury!"

The meteors hurtled towards the heroes, forcing them to separate from each other. However, before anyone could get close to the platform, lightning bolts struck them again. Naruto stumbled in his wall climb and fell towards the ground. He rolled on impact, and quickly leapt back to his feet.

Hinata raised her keyblade after getting behind Maleficent's back, who just launched a fireball at Xion, which was deflected back at her. "Ragnarok!" she cried, taking aim and launching glowing projectiles at the dark mistress' back.

They hit their mark, but before Xion could attack her, she vanished in a burst of flames. Without its controller riding it, the platform fell to the ground, making Xion stumble and nearly hitting Hinata, who jumped back. She went to Xion and placed a hand on her shoulder to steady her. The ex-Organization member smiled at her gratefully.

The sounds of clanging metal caught their attention. Looking up, they noticed Naruto slashing at Maleficent, who defended with her staff. In an amazing display of skill, Maleficent managed to swipe at the shinobi, hitting his head. Naruto stumbled and Maleficent swept his legs out from under him, making him fall on his back.

"Now you'll know the meaning of fear!" Maleficent sneered, aiming her staff and gathering dark energy at its tip.

"Naruto!" Hinata and Xion shouted in horror. They quickly rushed to aim their friend, but suddenly, two Defender heartless blocked their way. Joining them were a few Darkball heartless, who immediately charged at the girls.

Hinata gritted her teeth as she batted away a Darkball's head butt before dodging a Defender's charge. Her eyes strayed to her boyfriend, who was suddenly tied to the ground with black vines. A cry of pain snapped her head to the right, where Xion had been hit in the back by a Darkball, making her stumble nearly to her knees. She kept herself up by using one of her keyblades, but she was panting tiredly and the heartless were still around them.

"No!" Hinata thought in horror at how two of her most precious people were in extreme danger. The charge of a Defender and a Darkball made her leap away, landing her almost exactly between Naruto and Xion.

Suddenly, one of Xion's keyblades was knocked out of her hands and it stabbed itself into the ground near Hinata's feet. Getting an idea and remembering a similar scene before, she quickly pulled it out and threw it at the back of the Defender that was charging at Xion while also throwing her own keyblade towards Naruto.

When the energy ball was a big enough, Maleficent cackled and aimed the tip of her staff at the immobilized boy, who was trying to activate Kyubi form, but was too tired to do so. Just before she could launch the dark spell, a white keyblade, streaking through the air like a shooting star, hit and jostled the staff. The impact changed its direction, making her misfire to the far wall and destroying the statue in front of it in a green, flaming cloud of dust and debris.

Maleficent turned to snarl at the girl who threw it, not noticing that the blade had cut free the fox boy under Hinata's mental direction. He quickly rolled to his feet, picking up his fallen blade as he did so.

"You're the one who's going to know fear, Maleficent!" Naruto cried triumphantly, charging at the distracted witch and slashing at her side.

"What!" Maleficent cried in furious pain, turning back to the blonde warrior. Before he could land another hit, she vanished in a burst of flames.

Meanwhile, after setting Naruto free, Hinata called back her keyblade and went to help Xion, who was slowly giving ground to the remaining Defender and the last Darkball due to fatigue. Keyblade raised, Hinata slashed at the Darkball's back, destroying it. Before she could strike the Defender, it turned towards her and smacked her away with its shield. Before it could turn back to its other opponent, it was destroyed by Naruto, who took the reprieve from Maleficent to assist his friends.

Xion was panting heavily in exhaustion. "Cura!" Hinata cried, pointing her keyblade to the air and letting the soothing magic heal their wounds, though some scratches were still left. Xion was still tired from having to perform numerous Reflect and Gravity spells earlier, so Naruto produced another ether from his pockets and handing it to her, which she took gratefully.

After downing it quickly, Xion asked, "Do you see her Hinata?"

Hinata was looking all over the room, Byakugan eyes seeing past the statues and thick vines. Sighing, she deactivated her Byakugan and turned back to her comrades. "No," she answered with a shake of her head.

Suddenly, bursts of darkness appeared all around them and more heartless entered the fight. Naruto growled angrily. "We don't have time for this!" he shouted in frustration, performing a familiar hand sign.

"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" With that, about 5 Naruto copies appeared, though they had only a single blade like the original. While the clones took care of the Heartless, Naruto and his friends continued to search the room for the evil witch.

From nearby, a burst of green fire appeared, surprising the trio. They could see the faded form of Maleficent and as the flames died down, she grew more solid. She was smirking wickedly at them.

Naruto quickly charged towards her, trying to end this fight. However, before he could get into a meter of her, she raised her hands and cried, "You haven't won yet! Behold the mistress of all evil!" With that, she turned herself once more into the dark spinning vortex of doom. Naruto couldn't stop his momentum fast enough and was hit full force from the attack.

Seeing this, Xion's eyes hardened and she looked at Hinata, whose face had taken a stern expression. She looked back at the ex-replica and they both nodded their heads before raising their keyblades to the air.

"Thundara!" They cried in unison. The bolt hit the center of the vortex dead-on, making it fade away and back into the robed form of Maleficent. She was clutching her chest and panting hoarsely in pain.

Naruto leaped back to join the girls, shaky in the knees from pain, but still standing strong. "Let's finish this!" he cried.

"Right!" Hinata and Xion agreed.

Creating 2 shadow clones, Naruto preceded to perform Rasengan, one in each hand. On either side of him, Hinata and Xion coated their keyblades with power from the light within their hearts. Once all three were finished, the keyblade masters presented their keyblades to Naruto, who touched their tips with the Rasengans. They were absorbed into the blades, making the golden-hued light take on a more blue-green tone similar to regular chakra, though outlined in white. He then took out his own blade and the same was done to it, making the metal gleam in greens and blues, bordered in white.

"Maleficent!" the trio shouted in semi-unison, eyes determined.

"This," Xion said, gripping her keyblades.

"Ends," Naruto growled, eyes turning a fox-like red.

"Now!" Hinata finished with a stern shout, knuckles white from holding the keyblade so tightly.

With that, they charged towards the witch. Maleficent had no time to defend herself, still trying to recover from their previous attacks and the thunder strike shortly before. In flashes of blue and green and white, they slashed numerous times at her prone form, determination and adrenaline pumping through their veins. They were moving so fast, one can only see streaking blurs. They soon leapt away, surrounding her in a triangular fashion before drawing back their blades and pouring more of their power into them.

"Light Style: Rasenblades!" they cried in unison before throwing them at Maleficent, who was stunned in the center not only by the pain, but by how powerful they were. With no time and no energy left to react after such an onslaught, Maleficent was struck by all four blades, a flash of bright blue-green accompanying it.

"No!" Maleficent shrieked in fury and pain.

Time seemed to slow down as she stumbled after the attack. Green and black flames once more surrounded her, but they were slow-burning and as they faded, so, too, did Maleficent.

Before she faded completely, she looked up to glare in loathing at the trio, who had returned to each other sides after retrieving their blades.

"Do not think that this is the end!" Maleficent cried. "Once I return, you will feel the full wrath of my vengeance! Sora as well! And with you all gone, no one can stop me from being the dark ruler of the entire universe!" she then cackled madly as the last of her entire form faded. All that was left was a giant scorch mark on the earth where she once stood, green embers dotting it and smoldering.