The old hokage sighed as he ran his hand over his face, after having listened to the young...fayth's? Story, he was at his wits end about him taking naruto to spira, of course, the fayth named Bahamut went on to speak more of spira, informing the elderly leader of the world, about sin, it's peoples, the natural laws of the world, and many others things about it. It was clear the fayth was trying to reassure the wizened kage of the decision to take naruto to the world of spira, and if he had to guess, it was only because naruto himself respected sarutobi that the old man was even being granted this conversation. After bahamut had finished his explanation and story, with the others chiming in every now and then, Hiruzen took stock of the situation, looking over to jecht.

"So, what you are saying is that in about 8 or so more years, you will cease to exist here within this...temple, as your consciousness will be pulled into that of a giant beast that's natural instincts are to cause strife, chaos and destruction around the world, regardless of your own intent, and you had no idea this would happen to you at the time you gave up your life to become the final summoning to stop the very creature you have now been forced to become, because this creature acts as a safeguard to the last collective consciousness of a people long since dead. And that you all are planning to stopping this cycle of death by a chosen, your own son, from that dream world sin safeguards, and you've enlisted naruto in helping that cause along because he has unique qualities you will not inform me of but insist he does possess, and so flung him into a world where there is two factions of people who dispute one another regularly, but are hounded by creatures called fiends that are the haunting dead turned into monsters who prey upon the living. Is this all correct?" He asked not only the man, but all of the fayth present, and after a few glances to one another, they all nod their heads. "Beautiful..." He muttered sarcastically.

"Hey old timer, take it easy, where bahamut dropped him off he'll be relatively safe for the time being where he can grow stronger and develop. The people there are no strangers to adversity, and will surely connect with the boy. Besides, when you compare side by side, from what we know of your world and naruto's experiences, spira is many times safer than this world, even if we had dropped him into a fiend den, he'd be safer than most any day he would be in your village." Jecht spoke, seeing no problem in smacking the old man with the truth of his words. Hiruzen recoiled, but nodded glumly.

Sarutobi sighed, looking back to the child form of bahamut. He considered a number of things, naruto was already in a deal here, and these beings had power he couldn't just over rule now that everything was explained, and like itachi he'd been given a similar demonstration, who was still by his side, just as surprised. "You stated that naruto would be able to return, can he come back within 5 to 6 years? That would put him at 12-13, the age he'd graduate from our academy to be a qualified shinobi. He has pretty much all the required learning material he'll ever need, which I am thankful now I over-prepared those learning scrolls now. Should he stick to his training, I would like for him to come back to test out to officially be a shinobi of the village...if he still wishes to be one by that time." He admitted the last words tiredly, as this was all weighing on him heavily.

"Should he choose to, yes. But if he does, we would still require him to come back to spira, so he may continue with the task we have asked of him...we have addled him with a burden yes, but we are tired, and the cycle thus far has been never ending. It's time for it to end, so that we may rest. However as far as his training goes, that will be up to him, but as I've stated, spira is different from yours, there is much he can learn there as well, and given his determination, I wouldn't be surprised if he comes back stronger than you'd expect. We will help him where we can, but until sin's return, our influence is limited. which brings me to the last point I wish to discuss with you." The child form stated. "This ruin was once a temple, truthfully we are unaware of how we came to be here, at least part of our consciousness that is, but in this world, our influence is limited to this temple, this is where naruto will return to from spira, and where he must come to to return to spira. I would ask a favor that if possible, you restore the temple, so our influence can be stronger, and thus our connection to spira, is stronger. In exchange, we may be able to offer something in return, what depends on our influence. This is up to you though, we can only ask."

"I'll do what I can, it may be a few years before that is possible, since I have already started cleaning the lake that is my village of scum and disease, I need to see it through, and this will take time. By then hopefully I can say the village will at least be more accepting of naruto, if not a better place...Please try to watch over him, everything has been so difficult for him, if he really has a chance for something better in spira, please see he finds it." He practically pleaded to the fayth, and they nod with a smile each. "Thank you...now I must return to the village, before my foolish council thinks I've abandoned the village or some other fool thought they may come up with. I'll return when I can. Come along weasel." He spoke, as he bowed respectfully to the fayth who faded away, as hiruzen and itachi left the chambers. Along the way though, he cast a glance to his anbu. "While I don't condone your actions you've taken weasel, I can't blame you for them nor were you ordered to otherwise. Naruto's absence and intentions...pains me, but I understand them at least, as I do yours. So as punishment, you will be going through a dedicated training regiment with the head of anbu, testing out for a captain position, and assisting with the head of anbu to assess the standards of all anbu within ranks, recruiting and training new anbu, whilst working with the head of anbu to reinforce village security. Understood?" He voiced to his subordinate with a glare, though just a twitch at the edge of his lips that threatened to grow into a smirk.

Itachi was to say, quite floored with everything that had happened and been explained, but took it all in stride, for the time being anyway. Now after what his leader explained to him, he smiled under his mask as he caught what his intentions. "Hai, Hokage-sama...if fact, I can tell you of one such breach in security right now, one that naruto took advantage of to make his excursion from the village discrete." He stated, catching his hokage's attention. He recognized what this was without doubt, and he wasn't going to dwindle the opportunity. They started conversing over this new subject as they made their way back to the village, but a thought struck him. "Sir...eventually people will notice naruto's absence. What will the stories be sir?" He asked.

"Officially, naruto is an asset to the village and as such he is being sent off for training with a trusted source, unofficially, he was driven out by rogue elements within the village that seek to cripple us and we've helped naruto escape from it and then there is the truth, which only you and I will know. No ranking for this secret, understood?" He spoke as he glanced over to the weasel masked anbu, who nodded. All of them were true,in more than just a vague sense. It was enough for the time being. But they continued to talk as they got back to the village, where, now with naruto gone, part of the leverage the civilian and even his elder council used against him, was now gone. Now he really could clean house without worry.

Naruto looked around from the top of the dune he was standing on, taking in the scenery to as far out as the horizon, and all he could see was sand and blue skies with a glaring yellow sun. He was in a desert, truly a desert... "How the hell did I-" Then he remembered grabbing onto Bahamut's hand when that anbu, weasel if he remembered right, came rushing into the chamber...wait, anbu? Why the hell was an anbu there, he was sure he lost his tail back in the village, he had to, but apparently not, otherwise he wouldn't have been there...Too much to think on, right now he was tired, hungry and thirsty, it was hot out and he had no idea of where to go. Unsealing from his storage scroll that held his supplies, he opened a bottle of water and drank, trying to figure out what to do. "Alright, let's see...I'm in a desert, no idea where to go...It's hot, and I already know if I can't see much of anything, I don't need to go rushing off...let's see something tall, something tall." He spoke as he looked around. In the distance he could see what appeared to be a faint rise of rocks. There, if he could get up higher, he might be able to see where he needs to go. So that's what he started to do, trudging along the sand to his new destination.

The trek was a bit harrowing, having to learn how to walk on sand and sand dunes for the first time. Zori sandals were not made for this. Note to self to get proper boots if he had to stay out here. But he worked with it and kept on, getting closer the longer he went on. He was sweating up a storm when he did get there, and took the time to drink more and rest a minute before he started to climb. Not that difficult and once up high, he could better see the lay of the land. The horizon from this view was a bit different, he could see rock structures to one direction, but another was a large dark spot on the horizon, it was somewhat far away, but it was there. Thinking over which direction to go to, he didn't feel all that great about the rock, but he had a neutral feeling about the dark spot, so that was likely the better choice. He learned to trust his gut after escaping enough confrontations with the villagers thanks to listening to it.

Throwing his pack down in the direction of the spot, he climbed down and rather than immediately head off, sat in the shade of the rocks and drank more water, ate some of his food and just rested out of the heat. He sat for about an hour before he got up and picked up his pack, and started walking. The walk was majority wise uneventful, there were a few interesting bits, stumbling on some old wreckage, a chest was there that he opened and sealed away what he found inside, along with finding some interesting bits and bobs i the sand that he collected up. If nothing else, he'd find a use for them, trade or sell them he'd bet, it was like treasure hunting. However the more he walked, the more he realized just how far this thing was, and how big it must be as well. He kept going through water like crazy, he didn't pack for a desert, nor did he even know what all to do in a desert! He was getting agitated with bahamut dropping him off here, even with the hood of his new vest up, it didn't do much to stave off the heat.

He didn't seem to be making any progress at all far as he could tell. The young boy of seven didn't have much in the way of survival knowledge, he had already burned up through his water, the heat was beating down on him and he just felt weak. "Great, go to a world where they tell me I'll be accepted, just to die before I meet anyone to accept me. Sounds awesome!" He went on heavy with sarcasm. But as he crossed over another dune, he briefly caught movement out of the corner of his eye. Getting back to the top of the dune, he scanned the view until he found it. Several spots on the sand moving around a larger spot. Looking to where he was heading, he kept where it was in his mind, whatever these spots were it was too close to ignore. Excited at possibly meeting people, he took off at a run,sliding and skidding down the dune as he struggled to keep his footing till he was flat and just kept moving. Smiling all the while at finally seeing some movement.

As he got closer, he could see the larger spot was some kind of carriage? It had wheels and places in it to sit, and he could definitely see those moving around it were people, but they were wearing skin tight clothes and goggles. They reminded him of those green goggles he saw in a store window, he wished he had gotten those now. But he kept running, though as he crested over the last done, in his excitement he tripped and toppled, tumbling down the dune, gathering the attention of those walking around. They tensed and grabbed something long that had blades at the end under a barrel as they approached. But as the sand and dust settled, revealing the small form of naruto, they relaxed and approached as he was sitting up, dizzy and nauseaus, plus with the heat, wasn't a good combination as he threw up all the contents of his stomach, including all the water he had drank. He hadn't been feeling good anyway thanks to the heat. His vision went hazy before it cleared up, and he crawled away from his mess that was soaking into the sand now.

The men came over and looked him over, before they started talking, though he couldn't understand them. They were going back and forth now, naruto was just looking between the three of them curiously as they were talking.

"Ed'c zicd y get! Pid frana tet ra lusa vnus?"

"Hu lmia, pid ra muugc du pa ymuha, yht ra ryc hu kayn, un ajah fydan uh res. Ypyhtuhat?"

"Muugc mega ed, pid ra'c hud uha uv uinc. Ra tuach'd ihtancdyht ic, yht rec aoac yna pmia. Pid fru fuimt pa uid rana du ypyhtuh res?"

"Lyh'd cyo, pid maytan haatc du ghuf, ev drana fyc cusauha fyc rana, udranc sekrd ghuf fa'na rana. Fa zicd lusbmadat rusa. Fa lyh'd muca rusa ykyeh."

"Nekrd mad'c muyt ib. Knyp dra get yht fa'mm rayt pylg. Pid keja res cusa fydan pavuna ra byccac uid. E'mm tneja."

"Nekrd. L'sana get, fa kud oy."

Finally they seemed to decide on something, they went back to their carriage thing, while one offered him a canteen, which he took happily and gulped down, before handing it back to the man, who helped him to his feet and they walked over to the vehicle, helping him inside of it. He was amazed when it suddenly rumbled, and they were speeding away through the desert. He smiled and looked out of the side of the vehicle, amazed by what he was seeing and how fast they were going. The other men laughed at his wonder.

"Cu ra megac dra neta rir? Syopa ra'mm mega udran machina ar?"

"Syopa drec uha rych'd paah lunnibdat po yevon oad?"

"Syopa, un ra zicd tuach'd ghuf. Aedran fyo drec luimt pa y kuut drehk. Vun huf mad'c zicd keja res y cruf."

With that they sped up and took a sand dune as a ramp, the dune buggy catching air and sailing before landing roughly. Naruto was hooping and hollering. "This is Awesome!" He shouted as he held on for dear life, terrified yet excited at the same time. The others enjoyed his excitement as they drove, but eventually they cooled it down as they were getting closer to home. Now naruto could see it better. It was a large central tower of metal surrounding by ten identical square towers around it. Naruto's wonder didn't cease as they came into to the structure and stopped. Getting out, the men came around him and placed a hand on his shoulder, gently, though he flinched and recoiled a little, this gave the men pause, why would he act this way...the thoughts they had on the reasons did not sit well with them. This time they willed him along to follow them as they made their way through home, into the central tower, were they traversed metal hallways, before they knocked on a door. One of the men stayed with naruto as the others went inside. After about 10 minutes, the two men came out and motioned naruto inside, where they closed the door behind him.

"Puo, tu oui ihtancdyht sa?" A man spoke, the man was bald, but he had intense eyes, green, but he kept them narrowed, so it was hard to see much more. Naruto blinked a few times, before shrugging, no idea what he just said. "What about this, can you understand me now?" He spoke once more with his rough voice. Now naruto could understand this, but it sounded somewhat...broken? It sounded like his language but it was off a bit. But he nodded all the same. The man sighed a bit. "Spiran then. So tell me boy, how'd you get here? My men were out scavenging and found you out alone. Who left you out to the sand to suffer, you got no gear, no water, nothing needed to survive." He spoke, his tone harsh, but he stayed where he sat. Naruto looked at the man, and he was reminded of jiji, especially when he was talking to his ninja. This man was like Jiji, he was a leader.

"Well, I got water ad all that...but well, how I got here...umm...well, no person dropped me off here. I was brought here by those that call themselves the Fayth." He stated simply. He didn't know what else to tell the man. The man raised an eyebrow, clearly disbelieving of his words. No stranger to others thinking him a liar, he pulled out one of the scrolls from hs backpack, his supply scroll, and unsealed one of the things he scavenged from the desert, much to the man's shock. His gaze told him to explain, and so he started doing just that, telling him the truth as he knew it. WHere he was born and raised, his world, the differences about it, his life, though that part of the story, he noticed the man gripping his desk hard enough he could swear he heard the metal of the desk groaning under his grip. Then of his escape from the village, running away, finding the ruins and his conversation with the fayth. His eyes grew wide at the detailed descriptions and names he gave of them. Then of the moment he was leaving, before he ended up in the desert. After he explained everything, even some of his problems understanding him and how the man was having the same problem in return, the man let out a heavy sigh.

"So even the fayth want to end Sin, but if them damn yevonites can't recognize their way don't work, they won't get their rest and we can't be free of sin. They've got their own plans in the works, but dropped you off here for us apparently... Tell me boy, while I do believe ya, not just anyone can know the names of the aeons, much less the statues, took us forever to learn about them, and ya showed me something I never saw before, are you really in this for the long haul? You made an agreement with the fayth apparently, so you'll probably be at their beck and call, but their goal is the same as ours. Could I count on you to help us with this then?" He asked, looking into naruto's deep blue eyes.

Naruto was a bit winded after the long talk, but as the man asked him of this, he nodded. "Completely sir. I've agreed to this, so I will see it through...I know I'll be at their call to go where I go, but I agreed to this, and so far...this has been better than most days in the village, so they haven't lied to me. The people of this world need help, so I'll do what I can to do just that." He spoke forwardly with clear eyes. There was a tense moment of silence, before the man smiled, nodding.

"Good boy. But drop the sir! I ain't no sir, My name is Cid, you call me that. Now what's your name boy."

"Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki."

"Naruto eh? Odd name, but I guess that's the usual for your world. Now listen here naruto, I want you to keep how you got here to yourself, it's too complicated for many to understand, and if you say it to the wrong people, they'll tie ya up and stone ya for sure, damn yevonites and their ignorant ways. If anything, You tell them you come from a distant land, where things are different, you ran from home, boarded a ship, but was sent adrift due to a storm and drifted here to our island desert of Bikanel. It's close enough to the truth to not leave too many holes and excuses things you may or may not know. However you gotta learn our ways, of spira and Al Bhed, you're gonna learning how to survive and fight, I know you got them scrolls your old man gave ya to learn from, but things are different here obviously. We'll tell one other person, my daughter, she'll be someone you can talk to without restraint, but in return, as she helps you to learn while you're both being taught together, I want you to teach her whatever you learn from your scrolls. Ya got me boy?" He went on, taking lead of where this was going like holding the horns of a minotaur.

"Yeah I gotcha old man!"

"Hey I ain't that old yet!"

"But ain't you? your hair all fell out." Naruto snickered, picking at him. Naruto could practically see the vein bulging on his forehead, but he barked up a laugh. Oh he was gonna like this kid.

"Alright, shut yer trap. Anyway, I'm gonna go get her, we'll explain it to her and get things started, you'll get settled in today, tomorrow you start learning. Now sit there and touch nothing." He ordered, as he got up and left the office... naruto waited all of ten seconds before he stretched out and touched the man's desk with a grin. By the time Cid came back, naruto was sitting in Cid's chair, feet on the desk. "What'd I say boy!" He shouted, making naruto laugh as he rolled out of the chair away from the man's grasp. After some chasing, they calmed down and took their seats again. "Anyways, this here is my daughter, she's bout your age, Her name's rikku. Now, explain everything to her like you did me, and I'll cut in where I think I need ta." He explained, as he took his seat.

However before he could explain, when he turned to rikku, she had blonde hair of sandy gold, and bright green eyes, though now he noticed, in her eyes with black spirals set against the green. "Pretty eyes.." He spoke without thinking, staring a few moments, before shaking his head, never noticing the girls blush, and her father's raised eyebrow. Said old man coughed, getting them back on track, and after some fumbling, naruto started explaining everything like he did for cid. Though cid did cut in a few times to say his peace and have naruto demonstrate a few things to legitimize his words. They finished with the cover story naruto was to tell, and then waited. Rikku just sat in her seat frozen. Naruto was starting to get nervous, leaning forward in his seat waiting for her to do or say...anything.

"Aren't ninja supposed to wear black Pajamas?" Was the first thing she said and naruto face planted right into the floor. Cid just roared in laughter while Rikku giggled.

"No we do not!" Naruto shouted, indignant and frustrated. Damn civilians all said the same thing! He huffed and the other two just kept laughing. But soon they all calmed down and looked to one another. "But seriously, what do you think about all this? Not like everyday an other worlder just drops in on your desert." He probed a bit.

"True true, but the old man vouches for ya. If he says your telling the truth, you must be. Still, it's weird, things you know and can do, it'll be cool to learn them too, just so long as you learn our stuff too! This'll be awesome, but we gotta learn everything!" She jumped up excitedly. Naruto sighed, it was good to have someone to talk to, and she seemed to enjoy jokes and pranks like he did.

"Right right, settle down there girl. Plenty of time for that. For now, take him to a room of his own where he can settle in and get some rest, then bring him some food, he can get acquainted with everyone tomorrow when he stars learning, alright? Good, not get, the both of ya." Cid hollered, shewing them out of his office. Rikku grabbed naruto's hand, and proceeded to drag the male blonde off balanced, out the door and down the hall. Naruto was shouting to slow down, while she just dragged him faster. cid chuckled at the sight. Kids will be kids.

Only minutes later did Rikku stop, leaving a swirly eyed naruto spinning outside a door before he shook his head. "Right here we are. Count yourself lucky, most don't a room to themselves, but since you got to train in stuff no one else can know, you need the privacy. My room is right across from yours, right there see. Here's your key, everything you should need should already be in here, now pops said to let you settle, so you do that and I'll be back soon with food and water for ya alright. Kay, later, see ya!" And with that, she disappeared. Naruto looked to the key in his hand then to the smoke cloud where rikku used to be...

"So this is what Jiji feels like when I do this to him..." He mused, before shaking his head, unlocking his room door and heading in. To his surprise, the room was fairly big, but sparse on furniture. It reminded him of those studio apartments he saw around konoha...actually, now that he saw a door to a bathroom, and what appeared to be a cooking area against the other wall, that's exactly what is was, even had a fridge! The middle of the room was empty aside from a rug, a bed against a wall under a window, there was a bookshelf, chest and a dresser. Sparse, but no less than what he had back at konoha... That thought really hit him. This was happening, he wasn't in konoha anymore, he was free of the hate of the villagers. His life was his own now and that...scared him, yet it was freeing, like he dropped a weight he never even knew he'd been carrying. Breathing, he smiled, and got to work.

Taking his scrolls, he got to work unsealing his personal belongings and anything he kept from his apartment, which wasn't much, though there was a leather chair he had kept that he was sure his landlord wouldn't miss. That was set beside his bed. Clothes were put away, any food and all was put into the cabinets and fridge, books and scrolls. wait... He was now pulling out stuff he knew he didn't have. Confused, he went ahead and unsealed everything from the scrolls he had that were his learning scrolls. There he found a bunch of things, such as extra gear like shuriken kunai, senbon, wire, various pills, tags, a short sword, weights..where had all this come from. But among the pile there was a letter.

Naruto

if you're reading this then you've found a place to settle and unpacking all your belongings. By now you've noticed you have more than you packed yourself. This is weasel, one of your Anbu guards. I saw what you did in the hokage vault, but I don't blame you, in fact I can estimate that you'll be leaving this night. With the hell you've suffered, I'm surprised you hadn't tried this sooner. You deserve better than this, but you can't do this without some support. So when the chance presents itself, I'll be taking one of your scrolls and sealing away additional items for your use and training, some quite rare or above your, or even a chunnins ability to get ahold of, or restricted to anbu access. In this envelope, there are more papers detailing training menu's and plans to help your progression and how to be safe in your training with the resources available to you, including those jutsu from the forbidden scroll. If we do not meet, know that when I return to konoha, I'll inform the hokage of how you let the village, but not to where, your path is your own. Hopefully you can become strong away from the hate of the village, and maybe one day, you'll return to show them who you truly are, and reveal to them their error. I'm placing trust and investment into you young naruto, but I have some faith. If you ever do return, I look forward to seeing and testing your progress. Till such a time, live well, and grow strong Naruto.

Your watchful guard

Itachi Uchiha

Naruto was wide eyed as he read the letter...Weasel hadn't been at the chamber to bring him back to konoha, he'd been there to see he didn't get hurt on his way out of the village and where ever he was going. "Itachi..." He whispered as he held the letter. "Thank you." He stated to no one, but he felt it still needed to be said. Yeah, he was definitely going to see Itachi when he went back to konoha, the man had just supported his decision, knowing what it meant, even giving him help and stuff for what he intended to do. Taking the stuff, he looked over everything, including his notebook he copied the jutsu from the forbidden scroll onto, compiled everything and resealed it back into a scroll. Setting those scrolls onto his book shelf, he took a breath and looked over his room. Yeah, it felt like his room now. The center of the room was still empty aside from the rug, but as he sat in his leather chair, he thought on what he was going to do next.

Obviously this was where he was going to be living now, among these people in spira, they'd teach him about their world, their people, their ways, even their way of fighting and surviving, meanwhile he had his own learning to do. However, he wouldn't be doing them alone, Cid's daughter Rikku would be there learning it all with him. So he'd have an honest training partner for both their learning and training schedules. That got him excited for the future, maybe rikku could be his first friend, his own age...he'd like that. Though when he thought about her, the first thing that came to mind were her eyes, and while he was no aware her and her people all had the same eyes, he couldn't help but think of rikku when a black on green spiral came to mind. Settling into his chair, he continued to think for a little while until a knock roused him and he got up, going over to the door and opening it, seeing rikku with a tray piled high with foods. "Hiya, gotcha a selection since I didn't know what you wanted and-" She stopped as she looked around, clearly surprised by the look of the room, even the chair she knew for a fact that wasn't in the room, leather was hard to get a hold of for furniture.

"Storage scrolls remember? I brought my stuff I didn't want to leave behind. Besides, I like this chair." He said with a smile as he sat down in the very chair he noticed her staring at, after taking the tray from her. SHe shook herself of the amazement and plopped down on the bed beside the chair now looking to naruto as he ate with a vicious need.

"So this chakra stuff, really is amazing isn't it, to be able to do things like this right?" She spoke aloud, looking tot he scrolls on the bookshelf.

"Oh yeah, though it's kinda hard to get it under control once you awaken it, but once you do, you'd wonder how you lived without it."

"Awaken it? wait, you mean like Mana and magic right?"

"No, chakra...wait, Cid said something about magic, is that your worlds version of inner energy?"

"seems like it. We tend to awaken it by having someone who's already awoken their Magic pushing some of their power into us to awaken ours to use it. You?" She asked the whiskered blonde. She didn't want to say anything, thinking that someone had marked up his face with a marker.

"Well my teachers when talking tot he class I didn't get kicked out of, says that most do meditation, but for some who have trouble with it, they do something almost the same as you just said...Hey, I got a idea, want to see if I got Magic and you got chakra?" He asked her as he finished his food. If they were going to learn things from each other, it'd be good to now if they even could use the same power for things.

"Ugh...maybe...if I do, I could do things like you could right?"

"Sure, after some training to get it under control. Jiji always tells me you have to train a lot to get good control, but once you got that control you can do a lot of things, like breath fire, shoot lighting from your hands and other things too!" Naruto exclaimed. making riku's eyes widen.

"That sounds like our spells, maybe they're more alike than we know."

"Maybe, only one way to find out. Hit me with your best shot, come at me." he said boastingly with arms held out wide to his sides with a big'ol grin. Rikku merely just rolled her eyes and walked around, putting her hands to his back, and slowly built up her magic, before pushing it through her arms and into the boy's body. Once ti happened, the effect was instant as naruto felt a surge of foreign energy enter his system that felt like fire as it started coursing through his system. He buckled to his knees and struggled to breath. Rikku panicked, but naruto could hear her, though as the new energy was coursing inside him, naruto wasn't the only one to notice.

Deep within naruto, four beings took notice, the new energy was completely foreign, however it was already present in the system, but it mattered more to only one of them. "Interesting boy..." a deep rumble voiced from behind bars, as it observed the energy complte it's circuit throughout the boy's body, and intermingle with his mental and physical energy, before it appeared to, merge with both energies, altering them, strengthening the two separate energies. However this was Naruto's Mental and Physical energy, that were already altered by Kyuubi's chakra from being in the womb of a the kyuubi's former jinchuuriki, his mothers own special chakra, his father's chakra, being the kyuubi jinchuuriki himself and other traits hewas unaware of. The process while painful, created a synergy into the two energies that resulted in a combination that was much stronger, and now as they molded into chakra, the newly resulting chakra was intense. This new chakra coursed through naruto, flooding and soothing away the liquid fire that his system feel lie it contained with new vigor. Once fully circulated, this new chakra circulated back to the seal, where Kyuubi experienced something similar himself, and it smiled, as similar changes were happening to it and the seal. "Very interesting."

Back with Naruto, he was gasping for breath after he recovered, and then smiled as he stood up, looking to his hands as he flexed them several times. "This feels awesome! Rikku, you gotta try, chakra and magic together feels like that time in the buggy thing on the way here they took the dune like a ramp and we were sailing in the air, It's incredible." He spoke a mile a minute. Rikku's concern was still there, but to see he recovered, her worry faded away and replaced by youthful curiosity. Did it really feel so good?

"Alright naruto, just not too much alright." She said, turning around. Naruto took the moment to place his hands on her back, and pushed his new chakra into her body like she did her magic. After a moment, rikku had a similar reaction he did, and thugh worried, he stayed silent, until she calmed. Naruto watched the expression on her face change and she could feel her own body fill with new power, like she'd been operating all this time at only half power, not being kicked into overdrive. Her grin split her face in two as she jumped and laughed excitedly. "This feels great! Like I can fly!" She voiced and ell onto his bed, happy with the feeling. Oh yeah, she was definitely kicking gippal's ass with this. Then she remembered all this needed to be kept secret and she pouted to herself. No fair.

But once the euphoria passed and the two calmed, they spent a while just talking about a few things, before they saw it was getting dark. "Guess I'll see you tomorrow. I'll come get you when it's time. Till then, try and relax and get some rest. Tomorrow's a big day for us both. A lot to learn and cover, and test our what we can do now, right?"

"Right. Night rikku."

"Night Naruto." She called out before she let, leaving naruto to his new room. He was still jiving about his new chakra, but she'd been right, he needed sleep. Settliginto bed after turning out the lights, he thought for a little while before closing his eyes. He must have been more tired than he thought, because he wouldn't recall thinking anymore after closing his eyes until next he woke.

- translation -

"It's just a kid! But where did he come from?"

"No clue, but he looks to be alone, and he has no gear, or even water on him. Abandoned?"

"Looks like it, but he's not one of ours. He doesn't understand us, and his eyes are blue. But who would be out here to abandon him?"

"Can't say, but leader needs to know, if there was someone was here, others might know we're here. We just completed home. We can't lose home again."

"Right let's load up. Grab the kid and we'll head back. But give him some water before he passes out. I'll drive."

"Right. C'mere kid, we got ya."

"So he likes the ride huh? Maybe he'll like other Machina eh?"

"Maybe this one hasn't been corrupted by yevon yet?"

"Maybe, or he just doesn't know. Either way this could be a good thing. For now let's just give him a show."

"Boy, do you understand me?"

So two chapters in one day, and working on a third here soon. I'm hoping some are finding my story to be at least interesting enough to take a look at. I've written a few things before, but no one has ever read them since I've not posted or shown them to others, so this is a first for me. I know my writing is a bit atrocious, working on that, but here's to future improvement.

Kind of a info dump with the first two chapters, but I was so concerned for setting up the premise for the story and everything I think I went a bit overboard. Well, tell me what you think in the reviews and where I can improve. Ja Ne.