Good evening, ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to chapter two of my crossover. I'm so glad that people reviewed, and I'm really happy that some people actually like it! It means a lot to me! Well, anyways, I believe I forgot to say what outfits the Yu-Gi-Oh characters were wearing. Let's just say they were wearing the clothes that they wear for the final season. If I screw up in describing their outfits, I'm sorry! Also, in this chapter, you will discover a twist I put in this story. It should be obvious, so I don't want people to tell me what it is, because I'm the writer, and I already know! If you don't figure it out, then I guess you'll know eventually. Well, I've been rambling too much, so anyhoo, moving on!(and yes, I'm using the American versions of both shows)
Disclaimer: If I owned either of these shows, do you really think that I'd make Lee not have a girlfriend or have the last season of Yu-Gi-Oh end the way it did?
Oh, one more thing. This chappie has a previously part at the beginning, and that and flashbacks will be italicized from now on.
"I can't believe I wasted my time with that jutsu!" Naruto thought angrily as he slurped his ramen. "The next time Sakura suggests this, I'm not going to do it! I don't even think that these people are going to come! What if this is all a practical jo-"
His thoughts were interrupted when a kunai knife landed right in front of him. He almost began to freak out, but then the blond recognized the symbol on the blade as that 'bloody eyeball'. He was suddenly filled with excitement.
He exclaimed, "Yes! They're finally here!"
Encounter in the Forest: Strangers Revealed
The sun was setting in the distance, filling the sky with colors of red and orange. There was barely a cloud in sight on this beautiful afternoon. This was the exact kind of weather that Tea Gardener awoke to.
As she got up from the ground, she asked herself, "Where am I?"
While she slowly stood and wiped the dirt off of her skirt, she observed her surroundings. She was in a clearing somewhere in a forest, and trees seemed to be surrounding the area.
After a moment of thinking, she came down to a conclusion. Tea thought, "I guess whatever happened led to this, but why would we teleport into a forest? It just seems strange."
Suddenly, she realized something; her friends weren't with her! She got into a panic and ran straight into the forest to look for her friends. While she ran, she screamed, "Yugi! Joey! Tristan! Where are you?!?"
She was afraid that her friends were in danger, and she wanted to lose those feelings of fear. Then, after a few minutes of running around, she suddenly tripped. When she looked to see what tripped her, she saw two pairs of legs sticking out of the bushes.
"I think I know who these pairs of legs belong to, and I hope I'm right," Tea thought to herself. Sure enough, as she yanked at their legs, Joey and Tristan were pulled into the clearing. They were sleeping peacefully, almost as if it was a normal day.
Tea groaned; she was kind of mad that they would be sleeping like that while she was running around scared to death. She then smacked them across the head. Half of her reason was to wake them up, and the other half was just because they annoyed her with their peaceful looks. Immediately, the two boys woke up and yelled in unison, "YEOUCH! Tea! What the heck was that for?!?"
"Oh, come on!" she replied angrily. "I didn't hit you that hard! Besides, you should be more concerned about where we are!"
It was at this moment that the boys forgot about their pain and observed the area. After a few minutes, Tristan said, "Where are we?"
"Don't ask me. I have as much knowledge as you guys," Tea said truthfully.
"Oh, great!" Joey said. "Why does this always happen to us? Whenever we have get-togethers, it always ends up with-" He paused and realized that something wasn't right.
"Tea, have you seen Yugi?"
"Wait, wasn't he with you guys?" Tea asked them. After seeing them shake their heads, they waited for a few milliseconds. Then, all three of them got terrified looks on their faces, and they immediately began running through the forest, hoping with all their hearts that their small friend was okay.
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Naruto had been wandering through the woods for the past fifteen minutes, and his patience was wearing thin.
"I don't get it!" the blond yelled at no one in particular. "These people should have shown up by now! Where are they?"
As he walked into another clearing that had an old oak tree in the center, he said, "If Sasuke and Sakura are playing a joke on me, someone's gonna pay!"
Suddenly, he stopped. Naruto could have swore he heard snapping branches from above him. He could tell that someone was hiding in the tree, and he thought, "I knew it. They were just messing with me!"
"Come out now, Sasuke!" Naruto shouted, thinking that it was him in the tree. "If you think you can beat me, show yourself, you coward! I'm not scared of anything!"
He then hit the tree with enough force to break the branch above him, but he didn't expect the sight he saw. Apparently, someone was holding on to the branch for dear life, and the branch was left dangling on the tree. Naruto spun around and came face to face with a pair of frightened and innocent amethyst eyes.
"AHHHHH!"
They both screamed at each other until the branch finished breaking and fell to the ground, taking the stranger with it.
As soon as Naruto calmed himself, he shouted, "WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT FOR?!? YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO PULL A CHEAP MOVE LIKE THAT, YOU . . . huh?"
He suddenly realized that this boy couldn't possibly be Sasuke. He looked nothing like him! The boy had the craziest hairstyle Naruto had ever seen, with it being mostly black with pink and blond streaks and blond bangs. He wore a navy blue jacket and pants to match with a black shirt to go underneath. Finally, Naruto noticed that the boy had a gold pendant around his neck, and it had strangely enough the same eye on it that the blond had used earlier for the summon.
"Who are you?" he quietly asked with curiosity. Then he realized something and said, "Wait a second: golden object, strange clothes, hair that looks like it would eat you. . ."
Hearing this, Yugi sighed and thought, "Why is it always my hair and size that people find strange?"
As he stood up, Naruto said, "That could only mean one thing," There was a two-second pause, and then Naruto caused the boy to fall down by shouting energetically, "THE UNIVERSAL SUMMONING JUTSU WORKED! YEAH! ALLRIGHT! WOO-HOO!"
He kept on shouting in joy while Yugi just sat on the floor, staring at him.
"Who is that, Yugi?" Yami asked his friend.
"I don't know, Yami," he answered through their minds, "but he seems so much like Joey. . . . . . Oh no! Our friends might be in trouble!"
Naruto was still shouting with joy when he heard the boy say, "Um . . . excuse me, but. . ."
The blond then rushed over to him and said, "Oh, man! I forgot to introduce myself! I'm so sorry about that, man! My name is Naruto Uzumaki! Believe it! What's your name?"
He received a moment of silence. Then the other boy finally said, "My name is Yugi, Yugi Muto."
Naruto suddenly felt a strong headache. "What's going on?" he thought. "I feel like that name rings a bell. I don't remember meeting him, though. Why do I feel so weird?"
"Are you all right, Naruto?" Yugi asked, concerned when the blond gripped his head.
Realizing that he was looking quite strange to him, Naruto brought his hand away from his head and said, "Oh, I feel fine! It's okay, really! Just a headache. . . . Oh, do I know you, by any chance?"
"I don't . . . think so," Yugi responded, feeling a bit unsure about himself.
"Yugi! What's wrong?" Yami asked, seeing his worried face.
"Oh, nothing," Yugi calmly told him. "It's just I feel like I might have seen him before. It's impossible, isn't it?"
For a while, Yami thought about this. Finally, he replied, "I don't think it's impossible, but it seems very unlikely that you would know him."
". . . You're right," he thought. "It's probably just his personality that makes me feel like this. Now, I should worry about my friends' safety."
"Hey, Naruto," he said, "Could you help me find my other friends?"
Naruto stared at him for a moment and thought, "Okay, so this guy isn't a ninja, that's for sure. Dang it! I thought I would've summoned stronger people! . . . Oh, well. Maybe his friends are tougher."
"Sure!" he said to his new made friend, and he led him through the forest. "If we're lucky, my other friends will have found them by now!"
With this being said, they left the area.
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"Yugi! Where are you?"
Tea shouted for her friend for what seemed like the one hundredth time. With each passing moment, her level of fear increased. She was about to run and shout some more, but then Joey, who was right behind her, collapsed from exhaustion.
She turned around to see him sitting on the ground, panting and out of breath. As she tried to bring Joey to his feet, she said, "What are you doing? This is no time to rest! We have to find Yugi!"
"But Tea," Joey complained, "we've been searching for hours, and I'm exhausted! Can't we take a little break?"
"Oh, please!" she said angrily. "We've only been searching for ten minutes, and isn't what you're doing right now considered a break?"
Before Joey began to complain even more, Tristan came to join them.
"Well, I couldn't find him," he said as soon as Tea was about to ask him where Yugi was. "Don't worry about it, though. I'm sure he can look out for himself."
"It's not that!" Tea said. "It's just, what if something strange shows up?" After she said this, Tea looked even more afraid for Yugi.
"Okay, now you're acting stupid, Tea," Tristan said. "There isn't anything odd in this forest."
Then Joey chimed in, saying, "Yeah, Tea! What do you think is going to be in this forest, anyways? Assassins? Evil sorcerers? A fire-breathing dragon?"
As soon as the blond said this, a huge wave of fire passed behind him, and he screamed and ran behind Tea.
"Son of a Red Eyes! What the heck was that?" he shouted.
"It must be a fire-breathing dragon!" Tristan said in a panic.
The two boys began running around like lunatics at that moment, and they kept screaming, "AHHHH! A FIRE-BREATHING DRAGON IS GONNA KILL US!"
Tea wasn't so sure about this, but she did know that they were in danger if something, or someone, caused that fire and wanted to hurt them.
Suddenly, after Joey and Tristan stopped running in circles, Joey heard a voice from behind him say, "You're such a loser."
Then, the blond was filled with blind fury and shouted, "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU'RE CALLING A LO . . . ser?"
As he saw who was behind him, Joey saw a boy who had raven black hair. He also had deep onyx eyes and a cold stare that unfortunately reminded him and his friends about a certain CEO. The boy wore a navy blue T-shirt with white shorts as well.
Suddenly, Joey noticed something and began holding in laughter. The raven-haired boy raised an eyebrow at him, and Tea asked, "What's so funny?"
Before the blond burst out into laughter, he shouted, "His hair looks like a chicken's ass!"
Then, he began laughing so hard that he fell to the ground while everybody else stared at him like he was a crazy person. Later, Tristan joined in saying, "You're right. It is a chicken's ass!"
While the two boys laughed their little hearts out, Tea sighed and thought, "At this rate, we'll never find Yugi." So she tried to grab her friends' attention and began saying, "Tristan, Joey. . ."
"Don't you dare laugh at my Sasuke!"
Tea stared at the girl who the voice belonged to. The pink-haired girl shouted angrily at her friends at smacked them incredibly hard around the backs of their heads. Tristan yelled in pain while Joey shouted, "She hits harder than Tea does!"
Suddenly, everybody stopped, realizing that they didn't know each other at all.
As Tea took a closer look at the girl, she noticed that she had green eyes, a wide forehead, and a red outfit. Also, they noticed that they both had matching headbands with an odd symbol in the middle.
Meanwhile, Sakura and Sasuke observed these new people. There was one girl who had short, brown hair and blue eyes. She wore a red skirt with a sleeveless black shirt and white boots.
There were also two boys. One had brown hair and eyes, and he wore black pants with a white shirt and a blue jacket. The other had blond hair and brown eyes. He wore black pants, a blue shirt, and a white jacket.
Finally, Sakura said to her teammate, "Wow, I guess Naruto was able to pull off the summoning jutsu after all, and I thought he was just joking when he told me."
"Wait a minute," Tea asked, "what do you mean 'summoning jutsu'? Were you the ones who sent us here, and who exactly is this 'Naruto' you're talking about?"
Before they received any answers, though, a boy jumped from the bushes, surprising Tea and her friends. This boy had blond hair and deep blue eyes that were filled with excitement at the moment. He wore an orange outfit, and it looked like he had whiskers on his face.
"Sakura, Sasuke, you won't believe what just happened! I found. . ." he stopped speaking and saw the three new faces. Then he exclaimed, "Cool! You found some of them too! I'm so stoked that this universal summoning actually worked!"
"Wait! That means this is a different UNIVERSE?!?" Joey yelled at him.
"Hold on, Joey," Tea said, realizing something. "Did you say, 'too'?"
It was at this moment that Yugi came into the clearing and said, "Hey, guys. I see you've met Naruto."
"Oh my gosh!" his friends said as they ran over to him and formed a group hug. "We've been so worried about you!"
While they were reunited, the Uchiha showed no emotion whatsoever, and Sakura stared shockingly at them.
As Naruto joined his friends, the pink-haired kunouichi said, "That's some crazy hairstyle!"
"I know!" the blond replied to his crush. "Doesn't it look like it would jump up and eat you?"
"Naruto!" Sakura shouted, disgusted that he would say something so disrespectful.
"Well it does!" Naruto said. "I mean, his hair is even stranger than Bushy Brow's! Don't you think so, Sasuke?"
Sasuke just ignored them and continued to stare suspiciously at the strange people in front of him. Naruto became annoyed that he wasn't answering his question, and he began waving his hand in front of his rival's face and saying, "Hello? Earth to Sasuke. Is anyone in there?"
Ignoring the blonde's actions, the Uchiha asked, "Who are you strangers?"
Everybody stared at him for a moment. It was after a few seconds that Naruto said, "Oh, man! I can't believe I forgot to introduce myself again! I'm Naruto Uzumaki, and one day, I'll be Hokage! Believe-"
"Will you SHUT UP?!?" Sakura yelled while hitting him across the back of the head. "Oh, sorry about him. Naruto tends to annoy everyone with the whole 'Hokage' thing. By the way, my name is Sakura Haruno."
The four of them just stared at her. Joey and Tristan were officially terrified by her, Tea seemed to admire her strength, and Yugi just stared blankly at her the entire time.
"It's a pleasure to meet you," Tea finally said. "My name is Tea Gardener," then she gestured to her two taller friends, "and these are my friends, Tristan and Jo-"
"I can handle my own introduction, Tea!" the blond teenager suddenly shouted. Tea groaned, but she let him go on, hoping that he wouldn't make himself look entirely foolish. Then he spoke.
"The name's Joey Wheeler, all-time champ at Duel Monsters, so if you're smart, you'll show me some respect!" he said proudly.
". . . . . . . ." There was complete silence, and everyone either spoke quietly amongst themselves or remained silent.
"There he goes again," Tea sighed.
"Isn't Yugi the master of Duel Monsters?" Tristan asked.
"Let it go, Tristan," Yugi said calmly.
Meanwhile, Sakura wondered why he was so clueless like Naruto. Naruto, on the other hand, was quite amazed and was convince that he was the master of Duel Monsters (even though he had no idea what it was). Sasuke, however, made the first out loud comment.
"Hn. . . Whatever. You're such a loser."
Joey anime fell, and he felt very mad. "He is TOO much like Kaiba! I can tell I'm not gonna like this guy!" Joey thought to himself.
"Hm," Tristan thought aloud, "You kind of remind me of someone we know. What's your name again?"
". . . I don't think I need to answer that," Sasuke replied. This caused angry growls to come from Tristan, Joey, and Naruto, who really didn't like his attitude.
Suddenly, he said, "I won't say, that is, until you give me your name," and this whole time, he was referring to the tri-colored haired boy.
There was an awkward silence, and he answered, "I'm Yugi Muto."
"Hm. . . I'm Sasuke Uchiha." The raven-haired boy replied.
There was an incredibly long silence to follow afterwards, and the entire time, Sasuke continued to look suspiciously at Yugi with his cold stare. Finally, after a few minutes, he walked past the bushes, bringing Naruto and Sakura with him.
"Hey!" Joey shouted. "Where do you think you're going?"
Sasuke paused right in front of the bushes for a brief moment. Then, he said, "We need to have a talk. Wait here." After that, he and his comrades disappeared behind the bushes.
As soon as they were out of sight, Tea had everyone sit down so they could try to figure out what to do.
"Apparently, this isn't anywhere in our universe, much less near Domino," she said, "so how are we going to get back home?"
"I say we find that fire-breathing dragon!" Joey exclaimed. "We could try and tame it, and then, it would take us home."
" . . . Okay, that idea is just stupid, Joey," Tea said. "Dragons don't exist, and even if they did, I've never heard of a dragon that could travel between universes!"
"Oh, yeah," Joey said, feeling stupid.
Everybody thought some more, and finally, Yugi said, "Maybe we should ask Naruto and his friends to help us. They were the ones that brought us here, after all."
For fifteen seconds, his friends just looked at him. Then, Joey said, "Are you nuts? Don't get me wrong, Yugi. I think it's a good idea, but can we even trust them yet?"
"Well," Yugi said. He didn't want to tell him what he had felt near Naruto yet, so he had to come up with a good reason. Finally, he said, "I just have a good feeling that he's a good person, and I know we can at least trust him."
"Well, if he's fine with you, then he's all right with us!" his friends said.
"All right," Yugi said, happy that no questions were asked. "Now we just need to wait for them to get back."
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"What's the big idea, Sasuke?" Naruto yelled at him. "What's so important that we have to talk about it in private?"
"Shut up!" Sasuke quietly yelled at him. "We have to keep our voices down. We don't want them to hear us."
"Yeah, Naruto," Sakura joined in. "We still can't trust them yet. Not until we know more about them."
"What?!?" Naruto said with rage. "How can you not trust them? It's not like they want to kill us!"
Sakura thought for a moment about this. "Well, that's true," she finally said. "They don't look threatening in any way, and those two boys, Tristan and Joey, seem kind of clueless. . ."
"There's still something I don't trust about that one boy."
"Huh?" both Naruto and Sakura said. They were a bit baffled by Sasuke's words.
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked him.
Sasuke then said, "Did you not notice Yugi's pendant? There's something unnatural about that object. It has the same eye on it that Naruto used for the summoning, so it must have some significance. I can't really trust that boy until I know more about that object."
"You've got to be kidding me!" Naruto said angrily to him. "Out of the four of them, Yugi is the most trustworthy!"
"How do you know, Naruto? You've only met him recently," Sasuke said.
The blond was caught off guard, and he began to stumble with his words. Finally, he said, "Well, it's just that I have this feeling in my gut that Yugi's a good person."
He laughed a little nervously thinking, "I can't tell them about that strange feeling I had near him earlier. Then they'd be even more suspicious! Either that, or they'd think I'm weird."
After he saw Naruto's reaction, Sasuke thought about trying to find out why, but he decided to let it slide. Instead, he said, "No matter what we think about them, though, they're stuck with us now. What will we do about this?"
"But Sasuke," Naruto said, "didn't the jutsu book have a way to reverse this?"
Sakura then said, "You idiot! The page was missing, and it would take forever to find it! We should just ask Lady Tsunade if-"
"NO!" Naruto yelled. "If Granny Tsunade finds out what we did, we are so dead!"
"Correction: You'd be dead," Sasuke said with a smirk, knowing that he and Sakura would be able to get out of it unscathed.
"Whatever!" the blond said back. "If anyone at all finds out about this, we'll be in trouble!"
"Fine!" Sakura said sharply. "We won't tell anyone, but we still need to find a place for them to stay."
"Don't worry about that, Sakura!" Naruto said. "I got it all figured out! Tea can sleep at your house while Sasuke and I stay with the guys."
"And why am I being dragged into this?" Sasuke asked.
"Where will you guys stay, though?" Sakura asked, confused.
"Take it easy, guys," Naruto said, "I already know the perfect place. You guys know about the abandoned training building near the edge of town, right?"
"Yeah, but how do you know about it?" Sasuke asked. "Not much people would pay attention to it."
"Bushy Brow showed me one time, and it's because no one pays attention to it that it would make the perfect place! It has room for a lot of people, too!"
The two shinobi stared at him for a minute. Then, they agreed with him, seeing as they didn't have any better ideas.
"When did you get so smart, though?" Sakura asked.
". . . I feel hurt now," Naruto said.
"Let's just get the others now," Sasuke said.
When they got back to Yugi and his friends, they were talking amongst themselves.
"Well, guys, we know what we're going to do now!" Naruto announced. The four teenagers stared with curiousity. Then he continued and said, "We've decided that. . ." he pointed to Tea, ". . . you'll stay with Sakura while the guys will stay with me and Sasuke!"
"WHAT?!?" Joey yelled almost immediately. "There is absolutely no way that I'm staying with mini-Kaiba!"
They all stared at him while the ninjas thought, "What in the world is a kaiba?"
"Joey!" Tea yelled at him. "Let's just do as they say! We need as much help as we can get."
While those two kept arguing, Yugi went over to Naruto and said, "Thanks, but are you sure about this?"
"I'm positive!" the blond replied. "Besides, I don't want my new friends to get hurt."
Yugi grinned at him, and after a few more minutes, Joey was finally able to agree with the plan (with some persuasion from Tea and Sakura). Then they all left the forest.
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Two hours had passed, and it was dark and quiet in the halls of the bare training building. Naruto was walking down the hallway for a third time with food and a sleeping bag in his arms, and when he reached the door on his right that led to the room they were sleeping in, the Uchiha heir was waiting for him.
"It's about time you got here," he said with a smirk.
This worked in enraging Naruto, who quietly yelled, "Well, if you had gone with me, I would've gotten here faster!"
"Well, someone did have to make sure that nobody else came in here," he replied. Naruto knew he was right, so he just dropped the argument there.
When they entered, the three boys were already fast asleep in sleeping bags that Naruto got for them. Joey was mumbling in his sleep, Tristan was snoring, and Yugi just slept at ease.
As Naruto quietly put down all of his things, he asked quietly, "Hey Sasuke, do you think we'll be able to get them back home?"
After the Uchiha had locked the door to their room, he replied, "I don't know, but the sooner they leave the better. Now good night."
He then got into his sleeping bag to avoid further discussion.
". . . Good night," Naruto said in a barely audible voice. As soon as he was sure that Sasuke was asleep, he quietly took off his headband and jacket since it was a warm night.
"Man, so much happened today!" he thought to himself. "I tried out a new jutsu, made some new friends, and kept myself from being bored! I can't wait for tomorrow!"
As Naruto got into his sleeping bag, he looked over at Yugi's peaceful face, and he thought about what Sasuke had said earlier.
"Did you not notice Yugi's pendant? There's something unnatural about that object. It has the same eye on it that Naruto used for the summoning, so it must have some significance. I can't really trust that boy until I know more about that object."
". . . Hmph."
Naruto was annoyed by what he had said. He thought, "I still don't see what the big deal is! He looks trustworthy enough."
Then, his eyes came across the gold object. Then he wondered, "Although, I guess there is something odd about that thing. What is it supposed to be anyways?"
Naruto stayed up a little longer, wondering what kind of power the object could possibly have. Finally, after a half hour, he fell asleep.
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Naruto: All right! That's it! I'm getting to the bottom of this right now!
Sasuke: What are you talking about, you loser?
Naruto: Come on! You know what I mean! The big mystery!
Sakura: I'm sorry, but I still can't follow you, Naruto.
Naruto: I'm talking about that golden object! There is something strange about it, and I'm gonna learn it's secrets if it's the last thing I do!
Well, I hope you enjoyed the chappie! It took me forever to type this, so please don't flame! Also, if you want to see my drawings, go to my fanfiction profile and click the link to my fanart-central profile. Peace out!