Demons, Snow And Kunai | By : Nescafevh Category: Naruto Crossovers > General Views: 3683 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Tseng arrived half an hour after Reeve and both men were lead upstairs while Tifa recapped being followed, the two figures and Vincent going to investigate. Then the explosion and the fight.
"Explains the damage" Reeve said "but why do you need us?"
"You both know, or at least knew him."
"Who?" Tifa didn't speak.
Naruto answered the door and solemnly lead them to the couch where the man now sat, cacooned in blankets, head in hands, blonde hair loose around his face and hands, the head, hands and wrists the only thing visible from out of the cocoon.
At their approach the man looked up, eyes still bright with mako fever and shaking, but way more lucid then hours ago.
Reeve seemed to blink hard then his eyes widened, Tseng didn't move, suddenly as still as a cat about to pounce. The man looked them both over and spoke, his voice raspy from an throat not used to speech for so long and soft with weariness beyond his physical age "ah, greeting again Reeve. It has been a while." He glanced at Tseng, something flickered through the eyes and then was gone "I assure you, Tseng, I have NOT returned to take Shinra from Rufus-even if it IS rightly mine by age." His face twisted "I have no interest in it whatsoever and will never return there, even if by choice."
"Why DID you return?"
"It was not my choice. I was forced."
Reeve spoke "you were reported as dead, by Zack and as an Angeal clone. How is it you are alive now and have not only your own body again, but no sign of Angeal cells or their degeneration?"
"I wouldn't say that" he shrugged one side of the blankets down to show him the white wing encasing him, shivering slightly with his slowly receeding mako fever before pulling it back up around him to warm himself from the cold he was suffering, then accepted a cup of warm tea from Naruto with a nod and soft thanks, wrapping his hands around it and just holding it to soak in its warmth for a few seconds before slowly sipping.
"I WAS dead, my return from the lifestream was not by choice. I was sent here and Mother Gaia gave me this body to use. All traces of Jenovah cells are gone, The wing never came from her. It was something of a gift from Mother Gaia to her chosen. However those she chose on birth were taken in some way by Jenovah before she could awaken that part of them."
"You mean" Tifa breathed in awe "that Angeal, Genesis and Sephiroth were chosen by Gaia to be her champions AGAINST Jenovah in the lifestream before their births, but somehow Jenovah manipulated both Hollander and Hojo into choosing THEM to contaminate with her cells. That it turned the three into HER champions instead?"
"Sort of."
"Sort of?" Tifa repeated.
"She tried first with Genesis. But Genesis was always sensitive and could hear Mother Gaia's voice to an extent, only mistook it for something or someone else" he glanced at her "Genesis was never raised with knowledge of Mother Gaia, only the lifestream. He didn't know about her being the voice and will of the planet. So by the time he could hear her, Jenovah was already using her will on him."
Zack gasped "so that summon he used that time in the cavern! That was Mother Gaia's form and Jenovah's will!"
"Essentially yes. So she tried again with Angeal. Angeal had the knowledge to separate both voices, to know which to listen to, unfortunately he was too weak to stand strong emotionally against Jenovah, so instead of trying he, well you know what he did."
"Got Zack to kill him" Tifa looked at her friends face, twisted in greif and anguish.
"By the time she tried with Sephiroth it was too late. He was so contaminated, his body so full of Jenovah cells he could not even hear her. Then having that bitch in his head since the day he was born.... well, Hojo had only to tell him that Jenovah was his mother and she had no chance. So in order to stop him she choose Cloud as her warrior when he proved himself in the reactor against Jenovah."
Clouds twisted face showed it was a job he would have been glad not to have.
They understood "so YOU are now Gaia's chosen."
He nodded "not that I wanted the job. After I died I was happy in the lifestream" his face twisted "with my mother, my family. There was others she could have chosen, but because of my connection to those three and Zack, plus my knowledge of your group and Reeve and Tseng I was chosen. However I was never an fighter and I require training. Mother Gaia gave me information about this forms abilities and skills, but it doesn't give me any skill yet with which to use it and there are some things only experience can give you."
Tifa suddenly realized something "it was why you were following me, only I could lead you to Zack and Cloud and with you being in the midst of an mako fever, you couldn't find them yourself!"
After an brief shudder from the mako he nodded.
"What about the other one following me? The one in black and red. Do you know or have seen him?"
"No, but Mother Gaia knows it. She gave me a sense of danger and grief. Who or whatever it is, it is a threat, but someone she wants us to save."
"Could it be the one who will be responsible for Sephiroth's return? Maybe if we save him, it will prevent the future in Naruto's dream."
Lazard slowly shook his head "she says that will happen, the events have already started-even before she summoned these people-but he is important to the future, he has a major pivotal part in the way it goes."
"Who is he?"
She won't tell me, only he is also someone we knew and thought dead. However he never died, only came close. We have to find out for ourselves."
This made a few of them unhappy, but Naruto looked like he was taking it as a personal challenge to save this man. And one look at Sasuke who was watching him and he had seen it and wasn't pleased.
Tifa turned to Tseng "I know all information from the TURKS and such goes through you before going to Rufus, but you can't let him know about this. He can't know about Lazard being back. No matter what way you look at it, he'll react badly. Their situation, while not exactly the same is like Sasuke and Itachi's and it will probably end out the same way. Until Lazard is fully recovered and can handle him, Rufus can't know."
Vincent nodded "there are more important things right now for Rufus Shinra to worry about other than why and how his older brother has returned."
Tseng looked torn between telling his boss and lover his only family left that actually meant anything was still alive and healthy or keeping it from him for his own sake.
However in the end it may be better he didn't know, Vincent was right, he had more important things to worry about now, like Sephiroth's return and finding the rest of the ninja's before that happened. He nodded silently and spoke "if he was to find out through other means beyond my control however....."
"We understand"' they agreed.
Tifa turned back to Reeve "did you find out about Killer Bee and how he ended up on GSL?"
The man nodded "apparently some record company discovered him there and thought his rapping would inspire an new craze in music, so enlisted him. He was smart enough not to sign an contract, so we can pick him up. I have an meeting with him tomorrow at nine so you can meet my car downstairs then."
Tifa nodded and Naruto copied, turning to Vincent "you coming father?" When Vincent cocked his head at him in curiosity Tsunade spoke "that nuisance has been located already?" Naruto grinned widely and explained what had happened. The healer rolled her eyes and sighed.
Tifa looked back at Vincent and explained in an brief sentence "the Jinchuuriki of the eight-tailed."
The demon vessels eyes widened marginally and he nodded his confirmation to the boy's question.
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The next day Tifa, Vincent and Naruto met Reeve outside the building. He let them into the back of his limo with him. Tifa looked around her in awe "I've never seen you in a limousine before, Reeve."
The man looked embarrassed "unlike Rufus I don't make a habit of using one. However it seems the man's manager is an ass and so I felt it better to make an impression when we arrive."
Tifa frowned "are we going to have trouble getting in to see him?"
Reeve sighed "I told the man that I have his clients family and friends here who want to see him, that they were separated by events beyond their control and he would want to see them, but the fool refused. I suspect he thinks if he keeps him away from familial influence, he'll be able to control or manipulate him."
Naruto just shrugged "if he makes an ass of himself and refuses, I'll just flare Kyuubi's chakra. Octo-pops will feel it and come a running."
"Sounds like an idea" Tifa smiled. "If this guy thinks refusing to let us in to see him will protect his gil source, keeping us away will make it worse."
Sure enough when they arrived first the security guard then the actual manager refused them entrance, the manager making excuses, changing the subject and even denying Reeve ever contacted him to buy time and hopefully make them loose interest.
Finally Reeve sighed "you were warned" and turned to Naruto "go ahead."
Naruto nodded and immediately there was a flair of heat and power around him. He held it for at least a full minute before it was gone. "What did you do?" the man frowned, only for Reeve to speak "you will see."
The next thing they knew there was the sound of soft shoes running on the floor and just the man they wanted rounded the corner, took one look at Naruto and exclaimed "kid!" before pulling him into his arms for an bear hug. When he pulled back he was off "yo, yo, yo, bro what timing, where have you been hiding?"
Naruto grinned at him "it's a long story, Octo-pops and we've trying to get in to tell you but this guy wouldn't let us" he thumbed at the manager.
Immediately the dark man's eyes narrowed dangerously at the weazely little man "Bad move fool, I told you I ain't nobodies tool. Once my crew and I are together, your job is gone forever."
"But....." the man protested. Tifa just glared at him "I'd get out of here if I was you. If he didn't sign contract you don't have a leg to stand on. You blew it when you tried to keep Naruto away. If you hadn't you COULD have make yourself look good, but you did the opposite."
"But he's famous because of me! He owes his popularity to ME!"
"I don't care about that fool!" the ninja snorted "the kid's my brudda, I'd accept nothing other! All that stuffs just for fun!" he glared angrily at the man "If you were smart, you would run."
The man opened and closed his mouth a few times, so Reeve turned to the security guard "you heard the man, he's officially fired. Do your job and remove the ruffian before you loose yours."
The security guard complied, bodily carrying out the man who was protesting the entire way.
While he was gone the black ninja lead them back to his dressing room to talk. Once everyone was seated he told them about how he got there, Naruto returning the favor by informing him about his groups own events.
The rapping ninja didn't seemed at all surprised about Aeris, only grinning when he commented about how Naruto finally "got dat ass back the way he wanted" and Naruto looked incredibly pleased with himself as he confirmed, leading Tifa to believe that the other ninja knew what he was going to try and do when he helped him safely merge with the demon fox.
Then the blonde introduced Vincent, telling the man exactly who he was to them. When Vincent proved it by bringing out Chaos, the man's reaction was priceless to Tifa. He caught the winged demon up in an fierce bear hug, calling the creature "daddy" in an happy childish voice. Even more priceless was the demon's completely baffled look.
When, Naruto, barely able to control his laughter, calmed the black ninja down and got them to sit again, he proceeded to explain the coming events and what they were going to attempt. Then he asked him for his opinion and what he could think of doing, if he would come back with them to the Apartment building and move in with them, with fellow ninja.
"Well that all seems like such an daunting task. I don't know, maybe I should ask" he raised his voice and looked towards a door in the back of the room "do you think we should go, or should the answer be no."
Out of the door walked two women. Both were familiar, one a pale blonde young woman with strange green eyes, the other black wild hair with red eyes similar to Vincent, but looked layered in circles.
And on the older woman's hip was an child of four or five, a pretty little girl with wild black hair but red eyes. When the entered the room the girls eyes shyly wondered the room, to lock on Naruto. With an joyful cry of his name she wiggled free of her mother and into his open arms and smile, the pregnant blonde calling her "Heiwa-neesan!" as she did.
The girl seemed to know about the pregnancy and carefully climbed onto the arm of his chair and hugged him around the chest fiercely, murmuring his name in joy and relief, eyes full of tears. When she was hugged out on him, she moved downward, surprising Tifa as she hugged his stomach and said Aeris' name as well. The child KNEW about her?
Naruto murmured something to her and she looked up at him in joy "really?" when Naruto nodded and said something else serious she looked even more excited, hugging slightly tighter and speaking softly to it, about all the fun they would have.
Both women were looking at him open mouthed "Naruto? Are you.... pregnant?!"
"Yeap" Naruto grinned at them "to the teme." Tifa smiled at the other women "her name is Aeris and she's reincarnated from an women we once knew and he's due to give birth soon."
When they looked at her curiously Tifa introduced herself, Reeve and Vincent, explaining what had happened and who they were to him.
The group looked relieved, the wild-haired woman looked to the blonde "so my team..."
Safe" he smiled. The woman looked relieved and asked "and Shika?" Naruto nodded "he's been worried about you and Heiwa, and Ino, but trying to hide it. But I know him better than that."
They looked happier at this and that's when Tifa recognized them from the photo. Ino Yamanaka and Kunerai Yuhi. The blonde was Shikamaru and Choji's teammate and the wild haired woman was the team captain and sensei for Hinata, Kiba and Shino, which also made her the woman who had been dating the son of the Third, making the little girl their daughter.
It explained why the woman was concerned about Shikamaru, the Nara heir had been protective about them since his mentor's death. Naruto looked at the rapper "I know you're like the latest thing here, but are you gonna stay, or come to be with us? There is people I want you to meet, allies to make, other brother's through father."
"And Naruto to protect from the threat of some outside source that is going to try kidnap him and take Aeris from us" Tifa added, ignoring the pregnant blonde's glare.
The three all looked at her "what do you mean?" Tifa told them about the prophetic dreams Naruto had, especially the one about the baby being taken from him and the figure in red and black following them. Then she told them about the blonde also following her, who he was and what he had told them.
By this time the two women were also seated, the child curled up in her mothers lap, thumb in mouth, drifting off to sleep.
"So SOMEONE'S gonna kidnap the kid and take him from us" the black rapper said "and take the UchihaUzumakiNamikaze heir from us." Tifa noticed with his seriousness he was no longer rapping "the kid's kid is gonna be my niece, NO fool will touch him."
"We all vowed the same thing" Tifa said "we won't let him out of our sight." Vincent nodded seriously in full agreement, causing Naruto to sigh "guys, I can defend myself."
"Not in your current state you can't" Tifa said firmly. "At this point in your pregnancy with you due any day now you have to be extremely careful. Any overuse in the balance of your chakra or physical exhaustion or more than the basic physical activity could either cause you to go into early labour, damage the fragile balance in your body of the pregnancy or damage HER." Kunerai answered "why else do you think all pregnant Kunoichi are not allowed to go on missions for the duration?"
Naruto looked stubborn and reluctant to do so. But he also nodded at them. He wanted to continue the way he was, but also wanted to protect Aeris.
After a bit more conversation the three adults joined them in the limo so Reeve could drive them to their hotel rooms, pack their belongings and check out. They rejoined them in the limo after the driver had packed their belongings in the boot. Inside they chatted and got to know each other, Tifa telling the girl Heiwa about Marlene and Denzel, the little girl pleased she would have friends to play with, friends to learn with.
However any easy conversation came to a end when they reached an set of traffic lights. A shot ran out, a muffled cry from the front and the sound of a horn as the driver slumped over the stearing wheel.
Before anyone could move the rear window shattered as two cylinders entered the back with them, exploding with a hiss as two clouds of gas filled the car.
"Knock out gas!" Tifa exclaimed between coughs and, senting the other with an sickly familiar smell she gasped "the herb!!"
Immediately Reeve, who sat by the door, fought to open it, Tifa on the other side. The door only moved a couple of inches before Tifa saw an tell-tale shimmer around the vechile "they have an barrier materia! They're going to trap us in here until the gas gets us!"
Tifa heard Naruto yell something, Vincent growl furiously, and Killer Bee mention something about taking his demon form and breaking the barrier open.
"You can't!" Naruto coughed, "if you do you could hurt us if it still traps you! You could hurt Aeris or Heiwo!"
"We can't just sit here and let the gas get us!" Tifa said between coughs "Naruto you're dream! This is it!"
"I know!" he wheezed helplessly "I know!" When Kunerai called her daughters name helplessly, leading Tifa to think the girl was unconscious, an furious growl came from the blonde and an huge flare of power came from him. "NARUTO!" Ino called "what are you doing!?"
"What Gaara did!"
Tifa realised instantly "he's signalling the others! They're not far!"
The power suddenly stopped as if an electric current cut off and when Tifa called his name there was no answer.
"Naruto's out!" she cried helplessly, only for Ino to add "so's everyone else! We're the only ones...." the words stopped.
Tifa realised she was the only one left conscious and even then her vision was going grey and her body swaying. Weakness and lethargy filled her limbs and thinking was becoming difficult. Somewhere a little voice in her head said it was because of the raw mako in her system that she hadn't been knocked out so quickly, but that was unimportant and she pushed it aside. She needed to do something and she needed to do it NOW before she blacked out.
Before she could think of an answer however, everything went black.
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I read a while ago that Asuma and Kunerai's child was supposed to be a girl, so I made her so.
Heiwo-Peace
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