Disclaimer: The Forgotten Realms belong to Wizards of the Coast (Unfortunately *mutters about what the stupid bastards did to Mystra and Ellistrae). Naruto belongs to Kishimoto.

Author's notes: For the most part I don't much care for Naruto crossovers because it takes place in its own original universe. This is going to be one of the exceptions. Blame Fosfor/Case13, Skelethin and MageOhki for this.

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It began with a whisper on the horizon, a casual little breeze that swept through the military village of Konoha that struck at just the right time to slip into the Hokage's tower and brush across the desk of one temporarily reassigned Iruka Umino. The chunin let out a slight squawk of annoyance as the mission papers scattered in an instant, flashing and swirling into the air as he quickly went to work scooping them back up. As luck would have it, it was at that exact moment that a blonde figure burst forward and practically ran into the room.

"IRUKA-SENSEI!"

"Ow..." Flinching back slightly Iruka turned his head and stared at the broadly smiling blonde and couldn't help but feel his lips twitch slightly in amusement. "You know, Naruto, you could always simply greet me like everyone else does."

"Why?" Naruto blinked slightly as he looked up at the man, genuine confusion written across his face.

"... Never mind." Iruka sighed slightly and shook his head before glancing towards the door where he saw the rest of Team 7 entering at a more sedate pace. "Here for a mission then?"

"Yeah! Can you make it a super awesome one?!" Again, exuberance shone in Naruto's eyes as he eagerly smiled up at the man, before frowning slightly as he crossed his arms. "The last ones you gave us sucked!"

"Mah, now Naruto..." Kakashi slowly shook his head and sighed just slightly as he glanced down at the exuberant boy. "D-Rank missions play an..."

"I know, I know!" Naruto huffed slightly and shook his head with a sigh before slumping back down, "You told me already, a buncha times! Doesn't mean they don't suck!"

Iruka sighed and glanced over towards Kakashi, who merely raised his shoulders in an almost bored look of disinterest. "Right, well they still need to be done, and until you get more experience and rise in the ranks, you get to do them, just like I had to do them, and just like Kakashi had to do them."

"Actually, I was sent straight into combat." Kakashi noted with a slight shrug of his shoulders as his students immediately turned their attention fully onto him. "Though, I'm sure, if it hadn't been in the middle of a war, I would have had to do them too."

"Thank you, so much, Kakashi." Iruka ground his teeth slightly as he sent a slight glare at the smiling jonin. "You know, I think I have the perfect mission for you now that I think about it."

"Is it cool?!" Naruto's eyes glistened slightly as he stared up at his former Academy instructor hopefully.

"One of the abandoned supply depots has a rat problem." There was a simple smirk on Iruka's face as he handed the mission statement over to Kakashi. "Your mission is to eliminate the infestation." Seeing the sudden, speculative gleam that flashed across Naruto's eyes, Iruka quickly amended his statement. "With the building left unharmed."

"Awww... dammit." Naruto pouted visibly as Sasuke snorted softly and Sakura gave him a silent glare that promised him pain as soon as they'd left the office.

"Mission, accepted... I guess." Kakashi noted with a slight reluctance as he slowly shook his head and sighed just a bit.

-o-o-o-

Like a great, majestic predator he stalked through the empty, dust strewn corridors with a fluid, stealthy grace. His eyes, sharp as they flicked one way than the next, blade held at the ready. Then it came, a flash of movement in the shadows and with a swift practiced motion, his weapon was airborne, flying towards its target.

"DAMMIT! QUIT THROWING THINGS AT ME!" Sasuke growled as he twisted out of the way of the rock and glared at Naruto.

"Oops, sorry, I thought you were a rat, not a rat bastard." Naruto shot back with an overly exaggerated grin on his lips.

"NARUTO!" Sakura's fist fell on him in and instant as he could feel the impact striking swift and true upon his skull, sending him flying into a nearby wall. "Quite being an idiot!"

"... That didn't hurt." Naruto protest groggily as he pushed his hands back against the stone wall, trying to steady himself against the wave of disorientation swept over him.

"Are you sure about that?" Sakura growled at her teammate as her emerald eyes twitched almost fiercely. "Can't you just be serious for a change?! I mean, look at Sasuke-kun!"

"What? Why would I want to be like.. WOOOOOOOOW!" Naruto's response was cut off half way through as the section of wall he'd been leaning against had fallen in, swinging back to send the boy falling backwards and vanishing into the shadows.

"...Dammit, Naruto! We're supposed to leave this place intact!" Sakura growled again before frowning just a bit as the blonde failed to respond. "Naruto?"

"What did the idiot do this time?" Sasuke grunted as he stalked up next to Sakura and stared carefully into the depths of shadow that opened up before them.

"I don't know." Sakura admitted as she shifted slightly, uneasily staring into the darkness before glancing back at Sasuke. "Do you think... we should make sure he's all right?"

Sasuke turned and stared at the girl for a moment, his eyes narrowed into almost incredulous slits before he immediately shorted softly and shook his head in disdain. "Of course we should make sure the idiot's all right." He paused there for a moment before grunting softly as he added. "What do you think Kakashi would do to us if we didn't?"

"Ah, right..." Sakura nodded her head before staring uneasily towards the waiting darkness, before again glancing towards Sasuke. "So then... Um..."

"... Please don't tell me you're scared of the dark." Sasuke scoffed slightly before stepping forward, ignoring the way the girl seemed to flinch back at his words before he stepped into the darkness. "It's only... Wooooooah!"

"Sasuke!" At the sudden sound of distress, Sakura immediately lunged forward into the darkness, before immediately she could feel her foot falling as the floor gave way to a sudden steep incline, sending her tumbling forward into the darkness and down the sudden slope, until she suddenly smacked into a soft, warm body. "Ooow..."

"Get off me, Sakura!" Sasuke's voice growled as she could feel a hand roughly pushing her away, before the sound of feet a body pushing itself to it's feet could be heard next to him.

"Oi, you don't have to be such a bastard about it, Sasuke! You're the one who landed on me when I was trying to get back up out of here!" That could only be Naruto, as the two could practically feel the glare he was directing towards his other male teammate.

"Quit acting like an idiot, Naruto!" Sakura shot back as she pushed herself up to her own feet and glanced around as they could see the faintest bit of light back up the shift. "The only reason we're even down here is because of you and how you couldn't stop being so childish."

"But, Sakura-chan...!" Naruto immediately protested as they could practically feel his eyes growing wide in the darkness.

"Ugh, if I could see you, Naruto..." Sakura muttered slightly as she shuddered uncomfortably while looking around once more. "It's so... dark."

"I can fix that!" Naruto spoke up quickly as he shifted in the darkness and brought up the hands into a Ram seal as suddenly his body was covered in the rising glow of yellow chakra. "Iruka-sensei taught me to do this when I was trying to figure out how to do clones!"

The soft light rose up and spread out across the boy's body, lighting up the area around them as a look of concentration flashed across his face. "He told me what it was... but I kinda wasn't paying attention."

"Naruto..." Sakura glared at the boy, before hanging her head and sighing slightly as she glanced around the slowly growing visibility.

"Whaaaa?" The boy shot back, frowning as the light suddenly surged a bit more, flooding the area around them.

Then Sasuke noticed that the glow was no longer just coming from Naruto. "Wait, something's going on.. Naruto, cut it out!"

"Huh? Why?" Confusion reigned across the blonde's face as he frown slightly, his chakra dimming but not stopping.

"IDIOT! CUT IT OUT NOW!" A note of panic cut into Sasuke's voice as he pointed to the glow that was spreading quickly across a complex set of characters that was lain across the floor, the walls and up the ceiling. "You're activating a seal!"

"Oh.. CRAP!" Naruto pulled his hands apart like they were on fire, but the glow flowing off his body never halted. "OH CRAP!"

"Naruto!" Sakura almost screamed now as she realized what was happening. "STOP!"

"I AM! I mean I DID! I'm not doing this anymore!" The panic was laced into his voice as well as he glanced around them before pointing to the shaft. "RUN!"

In an instant, all three genin were moving, but it was already too late. The last of the figures lit up, and suddenly flashed, before the room went dark again. Empty once more.

-o-o-o-

They were falling, suddenly. So suddenly that they barely had time to register that simple fact before they landed in a heap on the vibrant greenery of a massive forest floor. For an instant, the soft thud of their impact was followed by a measure of groaning silence only to be broken an instant later.

"GET OFF OF ME!"

Slowly and carefully a black haired figure would stand and slowly look around, followed a moment later by a girl with bright pink hair, before finally a disheveled looking blonde pushed himself up as he visibly grumbled and shook the dust off his orange jacket. For a moment, he said nothing, merely glaring at his two companions, before finally he twitched and glanced around. "... Where are we?"

"Somewhere outside of the village, obviously, idiot." Sasuke snorted softly as he glanced around, before frowning slightly as he glanced up at the massive trees that surrounded them.

"... Are you sure?" Naruto was studying the trees himself, frowning as he squinted just a bit and glanced over them, even as he would occasionally let his eyes dart around in a nervous flicker of movement.

"You mean, besides the fact that there's suddenly a sky over our heads and the gigantic trees all around us?" Sasuke countered with an acidic hiss of breath.

"Sasuke-kun's right, Naruto." Sakura agreed, even as she shifted uneasily where she stood as she felt the hairs on the back of her neck raise up.

"No, I mean... LOOK at the trees. Have you ever seen trees like these around Konoha?" Naruto countered as he pointed to the massive elms around them.

Sakura opened her mouth to shoot back a response, before she actually noticed the trees surrounding them and frowned slightly. "Actually, now that you mention it..."

"So?" Sasuke paused a moment and glanced around. "They're just trees."

"It means that I don't think we're anywhere near Konoha, bastard." Naruto shot back as he glared slightly at Sasuke. "Whatever that seal thingy with those glowing things did, it sent us some place no where near home."

"Great, what the hell have you gotten us into now, idiot?" Sasuke growled as his eyes narrowed into slits as he gazed at the blonde.

Any response Naruto was about to make, was cut off as a dark, melodic chuckle rippled through the air. "Oh now you have no idea how close you are right there, little one."

Immediately all three had shifted into position, crouching low as they drew forth their kunai into defensive grips as their eyes latched onto a smirking figure perched predatory atop a thick tree branch some twenty feet in the air. Their eyes immediately widened as they took in the almost pure white flesh of the dark haired woman, dressed in ragged worn cloth spattered with long dried blood. Her cold, crimson eyes glinted down at them as wings the color of blood shifted around the thick bow she held in her hand as the air seemed to thicken and grow cold as they met her gaze.

"Oh, so the little kitten's think they have claws, do they?" She chuckled slightly, her eyes gleaming in their malicious light as the erinyes calmly notched an arrow into her bow and took aim. "I guess I'll just have to see about clipping them, hmm?"

A frown marred her lips a moment later as she calmly batted away the bladed edge of one kunai with the back of her hand while the other slid harmlessly over her shoulder. "Tsk... really, I'm insulted. Throwing those weak little toys at me? Not even an ounce of magic in them at all!"

The trio immediately scattered out of the way as the flaming arrow flew free from the bow and struck the ground where they'd been an instant earlier. A brow arching up the devil casually curled her lips back into a kind of feral smirk. "Oh, what's this what's this? Quick little kittens, hmm? Maybe you'll be fun to play with after all... I wonder, I wonder... Will you scream when I start to pluck off your fingers, one by one?"

There was a sudden intake of breath further down the branch, and she arched a brow curiously and turned her head, just in time to watch the sudden explosion of fire escaping Sasuke's mouth and consume most of the branch in front of him as he jumped back just as it began to break and fall. The smirk that had blossomed on his lips died a swift death a moment later as he stared in absolute shock. The creature, now quite obviously female as she stood up in all her naked glory was glaring at him in annoyance as her wings spread out wide.

"Fire...? You try to burn a baatezu?!" The outraged snort that left her lips was followed by the drawn hiss of an arrow, before another flaming projectile was launched at the stunned Sasuke. "Oh, I will BREAK you mortal!"

Frozen as he was in that moment of shock, Sasuke began to react too late to the incoming arrow, only to suddenly feel the jarring impact of a body, slamming into him as Naruto knocked them both out of the way of the projectile. Instantly rolling to his feet, Naruto made a single hand sign before suddenly 20 copies of himself appeared around him. A worried frown on his face, Naruto pointed his fingers at the erinyes and shouted out his command. "You know what to do!"

Instantly the clones bounded towards the devil, who actually blinked slightly in surprise before she reacted, drawing her bow again and letting an arrow fly. "Ah, curious... A most interesting little trick you have here, mortal. One I haven't see before, yes..."

As an airborne clone dispersed into a cloud of smoke on the flaming projectile's impact, the others landed on the branch around her. For a moment, the devil canted her head slightly to the side, almost amusingly curious at the clones as she notched another arrow and loosed it point blank into the chest of another. Instantly they were on her, trying to hold her down and grapple her into a hold.

The results were spectacularly horrifying.

For the Konoha genin at least, as they could only watch in shock as the creature, while not dealing with them with the insulting ease of Kakashi, barely seemed to take note of their presence. One clone, who had grabbed hold of the arm holding her bow, was smashed into the nearby tree, dispersing in an instant before the one gripping onto her other arm was stabbed through the eye with an arrow. As she ignored the way the others clung to her legs and waist, she notched another arrow and then took aim at the horrified original.

"Now, let us see if you vanish along with your little copies, shall we?" The creature almost seemed to purr as she cocked her head to the side and grinned darkly at the boy before loosing her arrow.

Fortunately, the blonde ninja was already on the move, dodging out of the way as he bounced over towards Sakura, Sasuke rounding about after him. "Um, anyone got any ideas?"

Sasuke growled for a moment as his eyes narrowed towards where the woman was almost negligently drawing another arrow. "She's not going to be like Kakashi. She WANTS us DEAD. And we're not strong enough to beat her." The last was spat bitterly past his lips even as the three immediately scattered around another of the launched flaming arrows.

"Then what the hell do you suggest we do, bastard?" Naruto growled as he made his seal again, and another group of 10 clones were racing towards the slightly annoyed looking erinyes.

"An annoying, but triffling spell, is this the best you can do?" Her hands moved faster, blasting two more of the clones before they could even reach her, and had an arrow pointed at the chest of a third right as they came upon her.

"... Naruto, how many of those clones can you make and still have enough chakra to move?" Sasuke asked as he watched the devil quickly dispatch the remaining clones.

"Umm... a few hundred or so?" Naruto shrugged his shoulders and scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "I never really tried to count em all."

"..." Sasuke merely stared at the boy for a moment, feeling the urge to let his jaw hit the floor before shaking his head, glancing towards a disbelieving Sakura before he turned back to Naruto. "Can they do transformation?"

"Yeah, why?" Naruto blinked again as he looked at his teammate in confusion just as the erinyes prepared to finish off the last of his clones. "Because, we're running out of time here..."

"Naruto, make as many of them as you can." Sasuke answered simply. "Have half of them attack her, and the other half turn into copies of us and run. We need to get the hell out of here."

"But..." Naruto immediately began to protest before Sakura hit him on the back of his head.

"Are you TRYING to get us killed?! She brushed off Sasuke-kun's best attack like it was nothing! We need to get out of here!"

"Sakura-chan...!" Naruto pouted slightly at her, before frowning as he caught sight of the rather annoyed looking erinyes notching another arrow. "Fine!"

With one sign, suddenly the entire area was filled with copies of the blonde. Hundreds of identical figures glared back at the shocked looking erinyes as they adjusted themselves on their places, covering the forest ground and the massive branches of the tree. For a moment, the devil said nothing, watching as one third of them transformed into copies of the blonde's teammates, before she spoke. "Impressive little trick for a child. But... I can still see which ones are the real versions of you."

Then, suddenly her vision was filled with clones. Jumping at her from every direction, attacking her from every angle. A hiss of frustration left her lips as the blows were absorbed and ignored, but still they weighed her down. She threw them off, but more piled back on, slowing her down as she was forced to destroy them one after another. An outraged scream filled the air as she finally swatted away enough to find no sign of the remainder, nor of the original three. The ground was stampeded over, with tracks heading in each and every direction.

Eyes narrowing, the devil let out an angry hiss even as it viciously shot an arrow into one clone's stomach. "So, you do vanish after all..." A pause, and a cold smirk curled across her lips. "Safe journeys then little ones. Do try and stay safe, until I find you again."

-o-o-o-

Sakura was panting, struggling to keep up with her male teammates as every so often her eyes would flash back behind them to make sure they weren't being pursued. Her whole body burned as she struggled, valiantly to keep up with Naruto and Sasuke, but the pair barely seemed to be noticing the exertion. She paused in her consideration, before slowly amending her statement. Naruto barely seemed to notice it, Sasuke was sweating, his breath coming just a bit harder than normal.

Then, suddenly Naruto had slowed, allowing her to catch up while Sasuke slowed himself as well, glancing with narrowed eyes at the two. Naruto suddenly paused, directly in front of the almost completely exhausted Sakura, causing her to run directly into his back. Not giving her a chance to yell at him for his actions, the boy immediately grabbed onto her thighs, pulling her up his back as he leaned forward then shot forward again.

With a startled hiss of anger, Sakura's voice growled at the boy in between the worn pants. "Naruto! What... Do you think... you're... doing!?"

"You're about to start slowing us down." Was the simple response as the boy continued to run forward, his pace slower than before, but, still faster than what Sakura knew she'd be able to maintain for very much longer.

"He's right." Sasuke added with a grunt even as he quickly fell in line next to the blonde. "We don't know if she's going to follow us, or even what else we might come across." The frown on his lips grew as he glanced around and growled slightly. "We don't even know if we're headed in the right direction..."

"We don't even know where we ARE." Naruto shot back with a growl as he glanced around them. "This is NOTHING like back home. It's just... It's too weird, something's seriously wrong."

"I..." Sakura paused a moment, frozen in indecision, before slumping slightly as she wrapped her arms around Naruto's neck. She knew, logically it was the best choice, Naruto was the least effected of the three of them by their sprint, still her eyes flashed towards Sasuke, longingly for a moment before nodding her head. "We need to find a river, or something."

"Right." Naruto answered simply