Reading Chapter 2: Fated Meeting of the Speed Duo
"I'll read the next one." Sakura said as the book was passed to her. "Chapter 2: Fated Meeting of the Speed Duo."
Naruto was hanging around the city and enjoying the sights while waiting for the night in order to take part in the Soleanna Sun Festival. Walking through the streets, Naruto saw what looks to him as puppets made of metal patrolling the street with the letters written G.U.N on it. The surprising thing is that they aren't controlled by a puppet master and no chakra strings attached to them.
"Kit, I think no one in this world possess any chakra, I guess we're the only ones," said Kurama.
"Maybe they use their advanced technology to make up for the absence of chakra, I guess," said Naruto, looking a someone holding some sort of screen the size of a tablet and pressing the screen with his finger as it made different sounds.
"It looks like Sonic's world is more technology advance than our world." Minato said.
"Oh trust me, the things in Sonic's world will leave you shell-shocked. They can even travel into space." D-nasty smirked surprising the shinobi.
"No way! Space travel!" Ino gushed.
"That's amazing!" Choji exclaimed.
"Just what period in time is your world?" Silver asked.
"A feudal japan era with low technology." Asuma said.
"Wow. So you guys are WAY behind." Amy said.
Suddenly his nose picked up a familiar scent which made him drool "Could it be? Please let it be so!" Naruto dashed off at high speed while tracking the scent. After running through the streets, he skidded around a corner and came upon a sight that made him cry tears of joy and Kurama groan in exasperation. Ten minutes later, he was sitting in front of a noodle stall eating his tenth bowl of ramen much to the shock of the chef.
Everyone from Sonic's world was shocked at the ramen Naruto was able to put away, while those from Naruto's world wasn't shocked at all.(Even though Naruto was rubbing the back of his head sheepishly)
"You can really put the ramen away." Knuckles said.
"Ramen is my favorite food. I'm pretty sure anyone else would act the same way if it was their own favorite food." Naruto said.
"True. I'm the same way with chili dogs." Sonic said.
"Or me with grapes." Knuckles said.
"And me with mint candies and other stuff." Tails said.
"Speaking of which, I'm craving some ramen right now." Naruto said getting up to get some.
"Me too. Be right back." Kushina said following her son.
"Matter fact, I could use a chili dog fix." Sonic said getting up too.
"Anyone else want to get some food? There's plenty." D-nasty said.
Everyone else's stomach grumbled signaling they were hungry so they got up to get some food too. Once everyone was seated Sakura began reading again.
"Wow kid, you really love noodles,"
"Of course, ramen is the food of the gods that can even transcend dimensions! I need my faith in it wasn't misplaced!" said Naruto with sparkles in his eyes.
"Damn straight!" Naruto and Kushina shouted making everyone laugh.
"Seriously kit, if you don't die on the battlefield then I'm sure you would die from overeating ramen," said Kurama "Seriously, you should try eating other foods,"
"Well I do, but to me ramen will always be my number one favorite," thought Naruto. after eating three more bowls, he paid for the ramen and turned to leave but he stopped and looked behind with a smirk "Just to let you know," then he spoke in a deep voice "I'll be back," the chef simply stared and had one thought in mind, that he should stock on ingredients when he does come back and eat at his stall.
"That would be smart with the amount Naruto eats." Kurama smirked making Naruto pouted and grumble.
"Hey Kurama, what do you think the princess is like?" asked Naruto, who was currently on top of a tall bell tower and enjoying the view of the city.
"She must be a good ruler judging by the way the city is flourishing and I don't sense any negativity with my emotion sensor," said Kurama. "Anyway, there's something that I want to ask you so could you come in here?"
Naruto quirked an eyebrow before sending his consciousness into his mindscape to meet the fox "So what's up Kurama, what is it you want to ask,"
"Could change your mindscape into something else? 16 years in a sewer can drive anyone nuts and I don't think I can take anymore," said Kurama, Naruto looked around and saw how dreary the place is.
"You're right, so how do I go about it?" asked Naruto.
"This place is created by your sub-consciousness so all you have to do is think of what you want it to be,"
Naruto closed his eyes and started to concentrate, then the sewer disappeared in a flash of white. Then it faded to reveal them standing in a grass clearing with a large lake nearby and a lush forest nearby. "It may not be much but I hope that it will do,"
"Thanks a lot kit, it may not be the outside but it's way better than the sewer, I can move about freely now," said Kurama who shrunk to the size of a horse before stretching his body.
"Mr. Naruto did you do that for Kurama in real life?" Cream asked Naruto.
"Sure did. It was one of the things I did after the war to show Kurama I appreciated him and that we were friends." Naruto said.
"What did you have the mindscape look like?" Blaze asked
"An open field with lakes, rivers, trees, and mountains, same animals, heck I even made an image of Madara for Kurama to torture." Naruto said snickering at that.
"And let me tell you, I enjoyed every minute of it." Kurama smirked.
"No problem buddy, so what do we do now since we still have a lot time before tonight?" asked Naruto.
"We could some training, I'm going to teach you how to use your senses, claws and tails in battles since it would be a waste if you don't. You could integrate your claws and tails into your already unpredictable fighting style to perform maneuvers to confuse your opponents and your fox instincts would help you detect enemies among other things,"
By the time Kurama had finished talking, Naruto already looked raring to get started on his training "Well what are we waiting for? Let's this show on the road!" he took a stance with his legs apart, his left hand balled into a fist and positioned at his chest, and his right hand thrust forward with his claws out.
Kurama crouched low and faced Naruto with a foxy grin on his face, they stood still for while then as if a signal sounded they charged at each other with excitement in their eyes. During the training, Naruto learnt how to incorporate slashes and tail attack into his taijutsu which he calls the Fox's Claw style which Kurama took a liking to the name *Kurama puffed out his chest with pride making the Naruto and his parents snicker* and his foxlike instinct made him more much unpredictable than before. He also created some more techniques of the swift release as well which he could mix with his attacks.
Soon the night had fallen and the buildings and towers were all lit up, fireworks were on display in the night to produce a festive mood and many people were standing on both sides of a large canal with a few a few of them on standing on boats as they await the Princess's royal procession. Naruto stood amongst the crowd as they waited in excitement.
"Everyone is in a celebratory mood, don't you think Kurama?" thought Naruto, and he heard Kurama grunt in agreement when someone from among the crowd spoke up.
"Look! Here come Princess Elise!"
Naruto looked down the canal as the crowd started to cheer to see a large silver boat which was designed to look like the wings of a bird rowing into view, dancers dressed in yellow were on the deck and on the bow stood a teenage girl with short red hair with feather crown on it, she wore a white dress with feather trim and white evening gloves reaching to her elbows and a pantyhose with red high heels.
"So that's Princess Elise, she's quite pretty if you ask me," said Naruto as he watched the princess wave at the crowd.
"Looks like you inherited your father's infatuation with redheads," said Kurama with a mischievous grin, making Naruto blush in embarrassment as he had complimented his mom's red hair when he met her chakra memory during the time he trying to take Kurama's chakra.
"AW! My baby's gushing for a redhead! I'm so proud!" Kushina squealed hugging her son.
"Hey! Cut it out!" Naruto shouted in embarrassment making everyone laugh.
"Never sweetie, never!" Kushina said refusing to let go.
"When your mother gets like this, it's impossible to get her off son. Believe me, I've been there." Minato chuckled.
"I think it's cute!" Hinata giggled.
Suddenly there were flashes making everyone turn to see D-nasty with a camera taking pictures.
"Oh don't mind me. I'm just taking pictures for a scrapbook." D-nasty grinned mischievously making Naruto's face go a little pale.
"Delete those right now!" Naruto shouted.
"No way! This'll be the first of the many pictures I take of you and everyone else!" D-nasty said.
"Eeeeeeeh! A picture of me and my baby!" Kushina squealed.
"Hehe, give me some of those pictures." Tsunade snickered.
"You got it." D-nasty said giving a thumbs up.
"Why me?!" Naruto wailed.
"Quit joshing me Kurama, and besides I'm not human anymore," thought Naruto before he turned his attention back to the boat which had rowed across the canal until it came to a stop before an altar. Kurama frowned a bit as he thought he had sensed two energy signatures from the princess, one was faint as if sealed away while the other was emitting a lot of it but decided to think about it later.
That made everyone frowned in thought.
Princess Elise stepped off the boat and climbed up the stairs to meet the bishop, then one of the servants passed on a torch to her. When Princess Elise stared into the flames, her eyes glazed over as if her mind wandered elsewhere until one of the servants called out to her. Soon the whole place was silent as the princess started to speak.
"We give thanks to the blessed flames. May we always continue to have peace. Sun of Soleanna, guide and watch over us with your eternal light," then she stepped forward and placed the torch onto the altar which lit up in flames to signify the beginning of the festival as fireworks were launched into the air again and everyone started cheering. Naruto smiled happily at the speech and wondered if the Elemental nations was now in peace as well.
Suddenly, something flew through the air and crashed into the buildings, causing explosions and destruction around which made the people start to panic.
"What the hell's going on here?!" shouted Naruto looking around for the source of the attacks, then he ran up the side of a building till he reached the rooftop and looked up to the dark sky to see a large airship which was descending from amongst the clouds. A hatch opened up and several of those metal puppets that Naruto saw earlier before dropped out and landed on the altar, surrounding the princess and her servants with no way of escape.
"Kit, it seems someone is after the princess and we're about to find out who," said Kurama who was watching through Naruto's eyes as a smaller airship descended towards the altar.
On it is a bald headed man with a long moustache and wearing black glasses, red turtleneck coat with white trim, yellow cuffs and gold circular buttons, black one-piece pants/boots with silver accents and buttons and a pair of white cuff-less gloves.
"Ugh, Eggman." Sonic groaned.
"That's your mortal enemy?" Neji asked.
"Yeah. But don't let his looks fool you. He's a true evil mastermind." Tails warned.
"Even if he looks like he has a face his mother would be ashamed off?" Tenten asked.
That made everyone from Sonic's world snicker.
"That was a good one." Amy said.
"A pleasure to meet you at last, Princess of Soleanna. I am Dr. Eggman. I've come here to obtain the secret of the flames of disaster from you. And to take the miracle gems that are the key to its secret, the Chaos Emerald!" said the man.
"'Flames of Disaster? Chaos Emeralds? I may not what they are but they sound like something that should not be in his possession," said Naruto as he got ready to jump in and save the princess until Kurama called out to him.
"Hey kit, I'm sensing someone approaching them at speeds even higher than yours,"
"Is it hostile?" asked Naruto.
"No I don't sense any negative emotions from it,"
Then a blue wind started swirling around the altar until they heard someone talk above them "My…That's a pretty snazzy performance," they turned to see an anthropomorphic blue-bodied hedgehog with quills that curve down with tan muzzle, arms and a circle on the torso with a black nose, he also wears red sneakers with a white strap, cuff and gold buckle each and a pair of white gloves.
"Aw yeah! Sonic enters the house!" Amy cheered.
When Princess Elise took a look at the hedgehog, she rather saw a white hedgehog in his place "You? It couldn't be…."
"Was that me?" Silver asked.
"Think so." Shadow said.
"But how?" Rouge asked.
"Not you again, get him!" Eggman growled out.
The mechs started shooting at the hedgehog only for him to dodge by leaping into the air, then he started attacking them at speeds which they couldn't react to before he stopped before the last one which was standing at the edge and tapped it with his foot, causing it to fall over then he ran back to the princess and stood there while wagging an index finger while grinning.
"I'm Sonic, Sonic the hedgehog!"
"You always get in my way, all mechs attack!" at Eggman's command, the robots approached them but before they got any closer, a diamond shaped knife with a hoop at the handle landed between them much to their confusion. "Who is it now?!"
"That would be me," they turned to the voice to see an anthropomorphic nine tailed fox with orange fur and black whisker marks, wearing a black headband, an orange sleeveless hoodie vest, black cargo shorts and orange high top sneakers.
"Who are you?!" asked Eggman.
"My name's Naruto Uzumaki, a ninja. I didn't like what you were doing so I'm here to stop you," said Naruto as he walked to the knife and picked it up before turning to face the man.
"Is that so? All mechs attack that fox!" shouted Eggman.
Naruto looked behind him and called out "Get the princess out of here while I take care of these guys,"
"Okay, I don't know who you are but thanks for the help," Sonic quickly picked pick Elise in a bridal carry and took off at high speed, leaving Naruto behind with Dr. Eggman and his machines.
None of them knew that someone else was watching the hedgehog run off with determination in his eyes "I've finally found him….the Iblis Trigger!"
"Shadow Clone jutsu!" in a puff of smoke, five clones appeared and stood at the ready "Get these people out of here!" nodding in affirmation to his command, the clones grabbed the bishop and servants and carried them to safety.
"That's pretty cool how your clones get the citizens to safety while you fight Eggman." Knuckles said liking that tact.
"Thanks." Naruto grinned.
"I don't know who you are, you've already proven yourself a threat to my plans!" said Dr. Eggman as the Mechs began to attack.
Naruto twirled his kunai before holding it in reverse and charging forward to engage the enemies, one of the machines rapidly fired bullet but Naruto quickly defended himself by using the Swift release to speed up his reflexes as he deflected the shots to hit the other machines, making them explode. Another shot a missile from behind, the fox sensed this and leapt into the air, then he dived at the mech with a quick Rasengan in his free hand and rammed it into the machine, turning it into scrap metal.
Several mechs surrounded him, then Naruto grabbed some of his kunai from the pouch and tossed them into the air. He jumped them and used his tails to grab them through the hoops before spinning around and flinging them at the mechs, then he put his hands together into a ram handsign and pulsed his chakra, the papers that were wrapped around the handles lit up in flames before exploding, taking out the mechs.
"Wrapping this up! Swift release: Bladed Shadow Dance!" Naruto channeled wind chakra into his kunai and ran through the mechs at speeds fast enough to leave afterimages before skidding to a stop at where he started, when he placed the kunai back in its holster the mechs fell apart in pieces.
"Not bad." Blaze said.
"That was amazing!" Cream exclaimed.
"Chao chao chao!" Cheese agreed.
"You'll soon see more of Naruto's impressive skills." Sakura smirked.
He looked around to himself standing in the middle of destroyed mechs but there was no sign of Dr. Eggman.
"Where did he go?"
"He must have gone after that hedgehog and princess while using those machines to keep you occupied," said Kurama.
"Damn, I gotta hurry over there fast!" Naruto sped in direction of where sonic in hopes of getting there before anything happens.
With Sonic and Elise
Sonic was running through the streets with Elise in his arms as they attempt to get away from Dr. Eggman.
"Umm...why are you helping me?" asked Elise.
"No special reason, and I'm sure I can say the same for that guy from earlier," Sonic replied, then he leapt over a canal but then a group of mechs landed before them. Sonic placed Elise on the ground before dashing at the machines and quickly taking them out with his homing attacks. But then he heard Elise cry out and turned around to see her being grabbed by a mechanical arm that's attached to Eggman's ship which started to ascend towards his larger ship.
"Sonic, take this!" Elise wiggled an arm out of the machine's grip and threw a blue gem towards Sonic who caught it.
"I got it! And don't worry, I'll rescue you!" said Sonic, then someone landed next him and saw that it was the fox from earlier.
"You mean 'we'?" said Naruto with Sonic nodding in affirmation.
"Saving people is what I do best." Naruto and Sonic shrugged before looking at each other and chuckled.
"I know," said Elise.
"Hmph, it's only a matter of time before it's mine. Until then, you can hold onto it for me!" said Eggman, then he turned to face Naruto "And I'll deal with you later!"
Then they watched as the doctor enter the ship with the princess before it flew away to who knows where. Sonic turned to face the nine tailed fox.
"So you're ninja huh? You wouldn't happen to know a chameleon by the name Espio? Cause he's a ninja too," said Sonic.
"Y'know since that's brought up I you guys would get along great with Espio." Knuckles said looking at the ninjas in the room.
"Yeah, he's pretty proficient as a ninja." Tails agreed.
"We'll have to see now won't we." Asuma grinned.
"Nope, I don't know anyone by that name, but I'd sure like to meet a fellow ninja," said Naruto, becoming interested in how ninjas operate around here, then he noticed the gem in his hand "What's that you're holding?" Kurama was also interested as he could sense high amounts of energy coming from it.
"This is a Chaos Emerald that Elise gave to me before she was taken away so that Eggman wouldn't get it,"
"A Chaos Emerald?" Naruto looked confused.
"You don't know what a Chaos Emerald is?" asked a surprised Sonic and received a nod in return " Well no one knows they came from and they've been around for several millennia, but there are seven Chaos Emeralds of different colors that contains mystical properties and contain unlimited amounts of chaos energy. Each one contains unlimited power, but when one combines all seven emeralds, he gains ultimate power and unlimited,"
Naruto and Kurama stood there with shock on their as it almost sounds what would have happened if Madara had fused all of the bijuu together to form the Juubi, something he was able stop before it happened.
"Unlimited power in one of those gems?" Kurenai said stunned.
"And there are seven of them." Guy said stupefied.
"I shudder to think what any of our enemies would do with that kind of power." Shino frowned.
"Trust us. We've seen that happen and it's not pretty." Shadow said.
"Many times, Eggman had been going after the emeralds to rule the world with me and my friends to stop him, there are times when I used the power of the emeralds to transform into a super state to fight him. But after using all the seven emeralds, they would normally scatter themselves so you'll have to search for them again,"
"It must some kind of failsafe to prevent someone from using it repeatedly," said Kurama with a thoughtful look.
"It is." Everyone from Sonic's world said.
"It seems that the Chaos Emeralds isn't the only that he's after, I overheard him mention something about learning the secret of the flames of disaster from Elise so we'd better hurry and rescue her before anything bad happens," said Naruto.
"No problem, this will be done in no time!" said Sonic before smirking at Naruto "Think you can keep up?"
Naruto smirked back at the hedgehog "I should be asking you that question,"
"Heheheheh, you and I will get along just fine. Let's juice!" Both Sonic and Naruto sped off in search of clues to the where Eggman may have gone to in order to rescue Princess Elise.
"Seems like Naruto and Sonic are already getting along in this story." Kakashi smiled.
"Not surprising. It is Naruto after all." Ino giggled.
"And Sonic's the same way." Cream laughed.
"When you think about, both are kind of the same." D-nasty said.
"We are not." Naruto and Sonic said making them look at each other again making everyone laugh as the duo joined in.