Icarus Chapter 1 – Rebirth of the King
Hello one and all, Iskander Mandoraekon here with a new story for the Naruto-Type-Moon universes. I got this idea after reading the Return of the King story by Engineer4Ever a long time ago before I even began writing and I finally just said to myself, why not write your own. As such I would like to present to you all the first chapter of Icarus.
That's all for now, have fun reading!
I do not own the Fate Stay Night or Naruto; if I did then Naruto would be making babies with Temari, Ino or Tenten instead of that stupid fangirl by the name of Hinata and Shirou wouldn't be completely obsessed with being a hero of justice along with knocking up all the girls infatuated with him.
Naruko Uzumaki was four years old when the Lady of the Lake found her huddled beneath several layers of trash attempting to stay warm on the coldest day of the year, where it was actually snowing in usually tropical Konoha.
The blonde haired child had been awestruck when she had first gotten a look at the beautiful woman that stood before her with a concerned gaze. The woman had beautiful white hair that made it look like it was flowing water falling down to her knees every time she moved. She wore a sea green dress that flowed like the rivers near the village of leaves with each step she took or when the wind would blow in their direction.
"What are you doing out here in the cold, little one?" The woman asked as she knelt down next to the freezing four year old, her eyes conveying warmth that the girl had only ever seen in a select few people like the Ramen stand family or the old Hokage. "You'll freeze to death if you stay out here in this weather."
"T-The mean l-lady l-lo-locked m-me out," the girl whimpered, not knowing why she was opening up so easily to a stranger she had never seen before while trying to clutch the bag covering her closer to her body as she felt her feet beginning to freeze.
"Oh you poor child," the woman said as she took in the scraps of clothing that just barely covered the girl's form and modesty. "Won't anyone take you in?"
She only received the shaking of Naruko's head.
"N-No one likes me," the girl said as she flinched upon remembering the backhand that one of her new instructors had given her for asking a question. "Th-They always tr-try to hit me and t-throw rocks a-at me w-when I walk by. And the Jiji in the H-Hokage tower had to leave for something i-impo-rtant a couple d-days ago."
The beautiful lady adopted a look of anger on her face that the girl didn't see at the thought of someone mistreating a child so much and then looked down at the girl with a great deal of sympathy. She would have to rectify this immediately; she wouldn't be leaving this girl to suffer like she had been doing.
The woman gazed at the shivering child and gave her a warm smile that had Naruko looking at her in wonder. "How would you like to come with me, little one?" She asked as she held out her hand to the girl, fully intent on taking her back to her lake and teaching her how to survive in the world while working to confirm her suspicion about who she believed her ancestor to be.
Especially since she could see the resemblance between her and her old friend Arturia…
"Who are you?" The young blonde asked with open curiosity on her face as she held her hand out to the beautiful woman.
The lady smiled, and took the girl's hand into her own and just before they could disappear in a flurry of water that nobody would notice, spoke. "My name is Vivian, the Lady of the Lake."
One Week Later
Hiruzen Sarutobi, famed Sandaime Hokage of Konoha and the last remaining Kami no Shinobi was so enraged that the paperwork covering his desk was burning up on its own from his rising fire chakra. The entirety of his personal Anbu protection squad was currently on a building at least a block away, fearing for their lives when his rage had begun.
And they had a good reason for not returning…
Naruko Uzumaki, the girl that the Sandaime often times saw as his own surrogate granddaughter, had gone missing during the massive snowstorm that had come up a week ago when he had been at a hospital in a close-by village watching the birth of his grandson, Konohamaru due to his daughter-in-law going into labor while on a mission.
Immediately upon his return with his newly born grandson and exhausted daughter-in-law, the old man had found out that the girl hadn't been seen at all since her class had let out of the civilian academy on the day of the snowstorm for the entirety of a week, the Sandaime had then sent out dozens of Jounin and Anbu to comb the village looking for her, especially since Teuchi and his nine year old daughter Ayame, two of the only ones friendly to her at all, hadn't seen her for the past week.
So far no reports had come into his office from the teams that would tell him about a success, only that they couldn't find her at all and his rage was growing with each one. He wouldn't stop looking until he found her alive and well, or dead in a ditch, though he dearly hoped it was the former.
He really needed for Jiraiya to come back from whatever goddamned hot springs or brothel he had gone to this time and get back here immediately to join in the search for his goddaughter.
The Sandaime then sighed and pulled out a picture of his successor, Minato and the man's pregnant wife, Kushina, the only picture left of the Yondaime's visage except for the Hokage Monument and what resided in the man's sealed house. "Don't worry Minato-kun, Kushina-chan, I'll find her and I won't let anything happen to her."
He was about to stuff some tobacco into his pipe to calm himself and clear his thoughts to direct his abilities more clearly towards the search when his door opened emitting his former teammates, Koharu and Homuro, along with his former friend, Danzo. Immediately making his eyes narrow in suspicion and anger at the sight of the idiotic warmongers that sought to undermine his authority at each turn; damn, now he had to wait even longer to look for Naruko while tossing whatever these idiots wanted from him out the window into the massive metaphorical pile of shit he always kept for idiots.
"What the hell do you want?"
In a hut by a pristine lake in the Land of Rivers; Three Days Ago
'W-where am I?' Naruko thought to herself as she woke up finally from burning out her remaining consciousness after taking Vivian's hand. 'I feel warm.'
Opening her eyes, the young blonde decided to look around to see if she could locate the person who had brought her into her home or see where she was in the first place since it felt warmer than it was in Konoha when she was last awake.
Taking in her surroundings, it would appear that she was on a large bed with a couple large blankets covering her in a large hut. As she was taking in the fact that whoever saved her liked the color blue from the multitude of blue colored furniture in the room, Naruko heard a soft humming coming from the direction of the only door that she had seen so far. She then turned towards the window as she saw something move past and caught sight of the beautiful woman that had saved her from freezing to death, allowing memories from before she passed out to fully return to her mind.
She appeared to be watering plants by the windows and placing another one that looked like a mixture of different colored roses, before she began walking back towards the door of the hut and when it opened, Naruko was greeted with the familiar sight of the woman she had seen on that cold day when she had been trying to stay warm with trash bags.
This time however, she was wearing a pure white dress that made it seem like she was made of water and light at the same time.
"Well, it seems that you've decided to wake up finally young lady," Vivian said as she gave a smile to the girl that had so thoroughly taken her interest. "I'm happy, I am sorry for the rough ride in getting here, but I haven't had contact with mortals in a long time so I forgot that their bodies don't react kindly to the Fae's method of teleportation."
Naruko narrowed her cerulean blue eyes in confusion, making Vivian remember how hard it is for children to understand what she was meaning at that age, even if the girl was close to five, she was still a four year old. "Who are you?"
"Ah, I believe a proper introduction is in order," Vivian said with a kind smile directed towards the little girl and she gave a small bow. "My name is Vivian and I am known greatly as the Lady of the Lake, I am from the Unseelie Courts and am what you humans used to call the Fae, or the Faeries."
The woman then gave Naruko a dazzling smile as she beamed at the girl, "Now may I know your name, my dear?"
"Oh, oh, my name if Naruko Uzumaki and I'm going to be the next Hokage, Dattebane!" Naruko exclaimed like she usually did in the recent Academy classes her Jiji had placed her in when she was asked to share her name and then she seemed to calm down as she looked out the window again to take in the view of the large lake before looking back at the Lady of the Lake with a cute confusion on her face. "Excuse me, Onee-chan, but where ar' we, I've neve' seen this place before in Konoha?"
"Ah, so cute," Vivian said as she giggled at being called the girl's big sister. "We are at my Lake, the source of my power and you are correct little one, you are no longer in Konoha. I believe this land was named the Land of Rivers, though it was once named Ireland before the shifting of the world."
Vivian then held up her hand at the shocked and terrified expression appearing on the girl's face, making it clear that she had never been outside the walls of her village. "Do not worry your safety, I promise that no harm will come to you here while you are with me."
"Why am I here instead of Konoha?!" Naruko asked as she stared at her rescuer. "Does Jiji know where I am?"
"I'm afraid not," Vivian said with a small smile. "I brought you here, because this is where I live and because I saw something inside of you that I haven't seen for thousands of years."
She smiled again and in a flash of light a golden sword in an equally golden scabbard appeared in her hands, making Naruko's eyes immediately dart to the shiny surface and unknowingly making a certain creature in her mindscape snap awake fully at the sight of the weapon.
The hilt of the sword was an aquamarine blue that had several golden designs interlaid in it and it was attached to a golden cross guard that had mirroring blue lines starting from the left and right side, the sheathe that it rested in was almost completely gold with blue designs crisscrossing all over it and it had small runic designs towards the top where it revealed the hilt.
"This is the sword and scabbard that belonged to the only one other in the entirety of this world; she was one of my greatest friends, as well as a king and a knight," Vivian said as she looked at the sheathed blade with a loving grace. "She was named Arturia Pendragon and she was one of the greatest and kindest warriors to exist in this world."
Taking note of the interest in the girl's eyes, the water faerie gave a kind smile and placed the blade on the bed, "Would you like me to tell you her story, little one?"
Naruko's attention snapped back to Vivian at her words and the faerie giggled at how fast her head nodded at the prospect of hearing about the woman her savior was talking about.
About halfway through the telling of Arturia's legend via water faerie, Naruko could no longer stay awake; she truly wanted to hear more about the amazing warrior king, but her four year old body wouldn't allow it and forced her fall asleep as the energy she had accumulated during her excitement fled her body.
Vivian smiled down at the girl as she drew the blankets of the bed back up to her chin and looking at her whisker marks decided to take a peek at the state of the mind of her newest ward in order to see if she could talk to whatever inhabited her body.
The moment she entered the girl's mindscape, the Lady of the Lake immediately recoiled in disgust at the smell and murky water of the dank sewer. Growling that a child of her age would even know what a sewer would look like and imagining what type of abuse she had to go through at the hands of the villagers, the faerie waved her hand, immediately transfiguring the girl's mindscape into a lush and bountiful forest surrounded a large cave with bars of wood over the opening and a lake that resembled her own out in the real world.
Sighing in relief and giving a calm smile at the much better scenery, Vivian began walking forward again towards the bar covered cave that she could feel an immense amount of confusion coming from. When she arrived at the opening, she found it to be closed by a large paper hanging over the opening of the cave with strange runes she had never seen before covering it.
A single giant, red eye with a slit pupil opened in the darkness as she finally walked to the gate and the Lady of the Lake stopped in her tracks, staring up at the optic organ in curiosity. "Greetings, am I to assume that this young girl is your vessel?"
The beast snarled before moving forward into the light of the newly changed mindscape so that the faerie could lay eyes of the figure of the colossal nine-tailed demon fox that had laid waste to Konoha over four years ago. "You are correct, Fae. What do I owe the pleasure of seeing a member of the Unseelie Court of your magnitude inside my Jinchuuriki's mind?"
"Oh, I don't mean to intrude too much into the dear girl's mind," Vivian said politely as she looked up into the eyes of the giant fox, a feat only a few in the history of the Elemental Nations could do without flinching. "I merely wished to understand why I felt a massive power that was not her own inside her body or why it felt somewhat familiar."
The Kyuubi growled at the mention of being familiar, "I have never met you before Fae, nor have any of the Jinchuuriki that have held me before, if it is something you feel as familiar, then you would have had to have met my father Hagoromo, or the creature he made us from."
"Ah, so you are from that abomination?" Vivian asked, getting a raised eyebrow from the demon fox. "If Hagoromo is your father, then that would make her your grandmother. I'm honestly surprised; I didn't think there were any fragments of Princess Kaguya left in this world."
"Hmph," came Kyuubi's snort. "If father wasn't able to get rid of her then it was for a good reason considering he was the most powerful being in the world at the time."
"Ah yes, yes he was," the Faerie said with a nod of her head as she remembered seeing the proclaimed Sage of the Six Paths once over a thousand years ago at the ending of the Age of Magi, before she turned back to the demon that sat in front of her. "Now to business, I would like to make a deal with you." She said getting a look of interest and cocked eyebrow from the Kyuubi. "I was wondering if you could perhaps be willing to share your power and whatever other benefits come with being your host. Then maybe I can introduce Naruko to you and get you something that would get you out of this cage to allow you out of this cage, perhaps a collar or something?"
"You wish for me to grant a brat my power!" Kyuubi snarled in rage as he lowered his head down to glare directly at the supernatural being in front of him. "And why in all the hells should I do that, Fae!?"
He was actually impressed when she didn't flinch in the slightest at the sight of his rage, but merely raised her eyebrow. "I assume that you actually wish to live past Naruko's life span and be able to escape afterwards correct?"
"Yes," Kyuubi said as he looked down at the impressive faerie that wasn't intimidated by his tactics and he could tell it wasn't because there were cage bars between them, before motioning to the seal that blocked his cage from opening. "However that brat's father, the blasted Yondaime, was the one to seal me inside her with the condition that I never get out even in the event of her death, meaning I die with her."
"Hmm, if this Yondaime man is as good as you say with these strange runes, then cannot his daughter learn them as well?" Vivian asked, immediately catching the fox's attention, the demon fully knowing the lineage that his host wielded and knowing that if anyone could overpower the Yondaime's seals, it was an Uzumaki. "We could train her in the use of these runes and when she is dying without the hope of healing like at the end of her life, she could release you from your binds and free you into the world."
"Hmm fine," Kyuubi said making Vivian's eyes light up before he lifted a hand into the air to stop her from speaking just yet. "However I wish to add on another stipulation to the terms for her using my powers…"
"And that would be?" The woman asked as she cocked an eyebrow at the being.
"If she wishes to use my power, she must first earn it by becoming strong and only rely on it in dire situations when she is in extreme danger and is being threatened to be overwhelmed," the strongest Bijuu said as he stared down into the woman's eyes. "She can't just use it anytime she pleases for an easy way out and in addition to letting me move about her mindscape without being stuck in the blasted cage, she must destroy the bastard Uchiha clan or at least remove their chances of bringing more of their blasted Sharingans into the world. Lastly if the manipulative bastard is still alive, she must help me kill Madara Uchiha."
"Very well Kyuubi-san, I will inform Naruko-chan of her burden and that you're willing to help her grow as soon as she is awake, good-bye for now," the water Fae said before she bowed in respect to the powerful chakra entity before she allowed herself to be taken out of the girl's mindscape. As she returned to the material world, Vivian looked down at the girl with a smile on her face as she watched the blonde sleep peacefully. "Be prepared my child, for you will soon begin your training to become as strong as Arturia was, if not stronger until you are ready to take you place as the new King."
Next Week
Vivian was proud of the girl she had saved and taken in, Naruko had taken to training with a wooden sword every day from seven to nine in the morning with only small ten minute breaks every time she hit a half-hour mark. When the nature spirit had asked if she wished to become like Arturia, the girl had jumped at the chance, especially since Vivian would be teaching her along with the nice, if a little grumpy, fox.
When told the rest of Arturia's tale, the girl immediately wanted to become a swordswoman like her idol and become a powerful kunoichi when she grew up. After she was done with her sword drills that Vivian was teaching her at a slow rate, the spirit would teach her how to read and write something which she had been denied by her teachers at the Academy.
Then she would take large breaks to spend by herself either learning or taking a break to give her exhausted and young body a chance to cool down before she would repeat the process of her sword or exercising to build up her strength and then going to eat dinner with her new 'mother' as she began calling Vivian and she would talk to the Kyuubi every night for two hours while her body slept in order to teach her about her mother's family and what they were known for.
Vivian then smiled while Kyuubi groaned in annoyance as Naruko stumbled over herself while using her wooden sword and dropped the wooden weapon on her feet, making her eyes burst into tears.
This was going to be a long few years…
Hello everyone, I hoped you all enjoyed that chapter. As I said, I got this idea after reading the Return of the King story by Engineer4Ever a long time ago. In this story, I basically made it where Vivian, the Lady of the Lake, decided one day to take a walk in the mortal world outside of her home by her lake to see how much the world had changed since the last time she had been out and about. This is how she ran across Naruko, who as some of you figured out will be the descendant of Arturia or Saber if you don't know her name, and Shirou.
For where the Lady of the Lake is with Naruko, her home and lake are hidden in a small pocket dimension in the Land of Rivers that turns anyone who walks too close to the entrance away while making them feel confused. Only those that Vivian lets enter can come in. That list consists currently of Naruko and the Fae.
For Naruko, she will be going back to Konoha when she is nine in about five years and she will look a lot like Arturia did, only with the image of Saber Lily instead of the usual blue robes. However while she will look like Lily, she will retain a similar personality to Saber from Fate Stay Night.
Lastly as a little spoiler, I intend to make Tenten a descendant of Shirou as well, however she will have come from Shirou and Rin's union, unlike Naruko, who is descended from Arturia and Shirou.
That's all for now, PLEASE REVIEW!
Iskander Mandoraekon signing out, Ja Ne!