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Demons, Snow And Kunai	By : Nescafevh Category: Naruto Crossovers > General Views: 3683 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chaos' second anguished tortured scream was muffled as after releasing the figure he dropped bonelessly to the ground, face pressed into the hard surface as he hunched over on himself.

A third soon followed.

A forth was him reared back on knees-yelled at the roof above them. It caused those around him to back away, startled and frightened by this reaction from something they had previously seen as just an animal-like monster when not completely under his host's control. What was causing this reaction?

The figure looked to them for an explanation, but they couldn't answer even if they wanted to.

"Vincent" Cid started to say, concerned for his friends strange behavior, but Cloud just motioned him silent "Chaos, what is wrong? Why are you so upset?"

Clouds voice seemed to snap the raging demon's attention out of whatever rage or anguish had hold of himthem at the moment. His yellow glowing eyes snapped to the blonde haired young man for a brief second, but everything he saw there he never expected to see in the powerful soul-devouring demon.

Anguish, grief, hurt, guilt. Cloud blinked as a thought occurred to him. All the feelings of a grieving parent.

What did it mean?

The demon's eyes narrowed before he turned back to look at the other, his voice strong but tinged with pain and regret "they are to me what Sephiroth is to my host."

Cloud frowned deeply as he thought about this comment. It had been at least six months since the newly dubbed 'Omega Incident' had happened, six months since Vincent had learned from Lucretciea's files that Sephiroth was his son all along.

After learning of this Vincent had gone into an even deeper reclusion so that even Cloud couldn't find him. It had taken a great deal of effort to even get him to come on the case.

But what about that cryptic reply? What did he mean by 'they are to me what Sephiroth is to my host. ' What could that mean?

Tifa was the one to figure it out, eyes widening nearly all the way to gasp out "YOU have children, Chaos?"

"Fragments of my flesh and soul, made from me to be my soldiers eons ago. But through my host I have come to not only see them as my children but love them as such."

"How did you get separated?"

He glared at them "a human. Eons ago I was called by mother Gaia to fulfill my purpose. Humans were getting too prevalent for the planet, killing it, harming her. They were messing with forces they didn't understand, using dark magic that was hurting her.

That human had amassed a huge number of followers, a cult, to do his bidding and increase his numbers. He linked their lives to his with his dark magic, feeding off their life-force so even if they died under his control their souls would be absorbed by him, depriving the lifestream of them."

This both horrified and angered them.

"I knew despite my power I could never fight the human and his followers together, so I, with mother gaia's consent, created ten soldiers, my children, to help my battle.

I would fight the leader while my children would handle the followers, keeping them from interfering. However things did not work out as planned. Every cultist my children cut down only made him stronger, until there was none left and the leader was swelling with dark magic and the souls of more then a thousand males and females."

They couldn't believe this.

"The first thing he did was attack my children, beating then and destroying their bodies, but I couldn't let him take my offspring as he had the humans."

This they understood, how powerful would an human be, using dark magic, feed on thousands of souls then absorbing fragments of the being created to end all life on the planet?

"I attacked, disrupting his spell. My offspring would end up somewhere neither of us would know, but at least he could never use them. Nine disappeared but the tenth ended up returning to mother Gaia. Only in the last century have I found him."

"Who?"

There was a flash of light and the winged demon disappeared just long enough to reveal an huge bulky horned figure with greywhite fur before the winged figure was back.

"Galian" they whispered in awe, the great horned werewolf-like creature was also Chaos'? In some ways it explained a few things.

"I fought that human and even though I eventually won, it was with a price. My children are gone from me so I will never be whole and he cursed me, trapping me inside the center of an pure mako crystal, trapped until the human woman my host mated with found a way to release me."

"Why did they end up as animal demon's?"

"Maybe without bodies they had to take what they could get and ended up trapped in them. Then after being in them so long they began to take on their aspects" Tifa suggested then looked at the figure "did your mate ever mention any early memories from before, the earlier the better."

The red glowing eyes moved as he shook his head "no, but the Kyuubi did once make a crack about how they were in our world long before humans-let alone any of the nations and how they were 'forced' to live like animals. I thought it was just a crack because of the way the village was treating Naruto. But maybe he remembers some if not all of it."

"Kyuubi? You spoke to him? How could you if your mate fully merged with him?"

"Earlier on before the merge, one of the other times he came to get me. I tried to use the Shiringan-our family lines inherited ability-on him, only to find myself inside his head, facing the demon. Nothing in

my life can ever compare with facing a pissed off demon, the size of an mountain, flaring such power, all turned on you. But he spoke with me, but I refused to hear it, I left him there, the entire time trying to ignore his words."

The winged demon looked to the figure, something soft and compassionate in them they had never seen before. "Kyuubi is my child, even merged with this human childs form. As you are mated and part of that human, that makes you my child as well, under my protection and care."

"Your son..." the figure sounded shocked and stunned and they could hear a touch of awe and hope there, like the idea someone might want to claim him was something he never thought anyone would willingly do.

They frowned "you did have a father before, right? Didn't you say?"

"Of course" he seemed to steel himself quickly, only for the bravo to instantly deflate and look vulnerable again "but he never had time for me. He had our clan to run, an take-over to plan, an corrupt Police Force to run and my brother to manipulate and torture. He never really had time for the second son, the disappointment."

This saddened them and when Chaos stepped towards the other, moving slowly and carefully as not to alarm or alert the other, Cloud suddenly spoke "wait Chaos, what does Vincent think of all this? Or haven't you asked him."

The demon glared at him through yellow glowing eyes. "my host sees this as the opportunity it is. He was unable to save his son from the darkness around him, now he has another chance with an son who kept strong against the darkness around him and another who struggled and made his way out-by the skin of his teeth, but made it out still."

"Wait" the other interrupted "host? You're an Jinchuuriki as well?"

"What is an Jinchuuriki?"

"It means loosely 'human sacrifice'. It's the term used on the vessels of the tailed demons."

"Vessels?There's more than your mate and the other?"

"Of course. Each village fought for control of one for 'military purposes'. All nine are part of an human host, but only my mate and Gaara, the one-tailed raccoon, have actually fully merged with theirs, that's how my mate knew it would work to do so-Gaara was the first. Although his was life and death."

"What do you mean?"

"I told you that criminal organization my brother joined to spy on was after them, who do you think they kidnapped in order to extract first? After all, the one tailed raccoon was the weakest of the lot. If they could extract HIM, the others should be slightly harder, but just as worth it. Only one thing, after extraction the host becomes useless."

"How do you mean, useless?"

"In order to survive the possession a Childs body adapts to the extra boost of power, an adults body is already set in its way and so it would kill them. So the Childs body grows and adapts to it, even learns to rely on it as its own life. What do you think would happen if that power was taken from it?"

Tifa was again the one to answer "it dies."

"Exactly" the figure spoke "and when my mate and some of his human friends found him just when they were about to finish and provided a distraction just long enough-in order to survive-both the demon and host were able to fully merge, become one. That's how my mate knew he would be able to survive doing so with his."

"So all Chaos' other children are inside human hosts as well?" The figure nodded.

Chaos looked to the figure "I wish to see my child. Will you allow me to examine him? I may be able to heal him."

"You can help him....father?" Cloud stepped forward "if he can't, if WE can't, we know people who could."

"Yeah" Zack piped up "there's this guy, Tseng. I was almost killed by some guy not long ago, he found me and hid me while I healed. Even though he was risking himself in the process."

"What do you mean?" this time the figure questioned them.

"Well the guy who was trying to kill Cloud and I had been experimenting on us but I got lose and took Cloud here with me" he slung an arm around the leaders shoulders. "he was working for this rich guy here who wanted super soldiers. Both Cloud and I used to work for him too, and so did Tseng, the guy I mentioned. This rich guy was really ruthless with getting what he wanted, he would not hesitate to have anyone killed for betraying him-even if only HE sees it as betrayal. If this guy found out he was hiding me, one of his escaped experiments..." next to Cloud he shuddered "anyway he willingly did so until Cloudy and his group of friends here got rid of the guy. When the guys son took over and was just as bad, Cloud and his friends beat him up until he learned his lesson and became one of the good guys and I could come back to him. Cloud and I are, well, mates too."

"He has doctors, highly skilled doctors and surgeons. They could figure out what's wrong and probably fix it." Tifa said "If they don't know what's wrong, no-one will."

After a slight hesitation the figure moved aside, allowing Chaos and Cloud to slowly and carefully approach the form laying under and over the blankets on the fern branches, the top of the sunshine blonde hair just visible.

Slowly and carefully of his claws Chaos reached out and grasped the blanket, peeling it back to expose the form underneath.

Shockingly he resembled Cloud in a lot of ways.

His hair and eyebrows was blonde and the hair stuck up in a seemingly random fashion-a little long in back-but while Clouds was pale blonde, his was a dark blonde, almost yellow, kind of like sand. His body was built almost exactly the same, short but definitely muscular and looked around the same age.

When Cloud carefully peeled back an eyelid adorned with dark blonde almost yellow lashes they saw beautiful blue eyes along with the first sign of inhuman blood, the pupil diluted in the light from the roof into long vertical slits.

The eye color was a beautiful blue, like the afternoon sky just before it started to get dark, not so dark, not so light but with just a touch of grey to it. Clouds were blue as well, but his were a lot paler than these, like the sky at its brightest with flecks of green from ITS presence inside.

He wore a long-sleeved cloak of white with red flames over the bottom, a swirl in the center of the back and black flames around the collar and shoulders, leather dark fingerless gloves with metal plates on the back engraved in a strange symbol, black knee-length trousers of an strange material, long-sleeved black shirt of the same material, black leather boots with some sort of material that resembled bandages wrapped about his legs between shoes and base of the pants, protecting his legs.

But what was the most fascinating feature was gracing the face or rather the cheeks. Adorning them was six slash-like marks, three on each cheek, horizontally, slight barely there marks that could have been scars from a knife or even shallow sword except....

During their started examination the rest of the group had moved closer to look, including the two now conscious members and it was good-old tactless Yuffie who piped up with "hey, they look like whiskers!"

"That's from the fox" the other said "he had those ever since I've known him, long before he merged with it. Before they were just marks that darkened and widened when the demon came out, now..."

"Now they are real" Chaos said, one clawed hand barely touching the almost invisible lines of white resting slightly raised off the golden skin.

As if really sensing through them the unconscious figures face twitched and the closed eyes screwed up in an obvious sign of confusion.

The nostrils flared as he seemed to take in their sent and when Chaos placed his hand nearby the figures face broke into a happy smile, he sighed what they swore sounded like "daddy" and settled back down into his previous state.

"It seems he, or rather the Kyuubi, DOES remember you" Zack smiled at Chaos while the girls behind them all 'aww, that's cute!' together at the scene.

"Unconscious as he is, in his state, he is relying on instinct and senses. Any familiar sent will make him instinctively react as such. My sent in this form even though it is not mine will be relatively the same, we DO share a soul, they are of my form and flesh, that sent immediately means safety and family. He reacted as so."

"Then if Naruto remembers you, even as the demon's memories then you ARE who you say you are." he sighed, one part relief and one part exhaustion, as if he didn't have to be tough anymore. "I believe you, I will trust you, for now. Can I trust your comrades?"

Chaos raised his head and looked at them silently, appraisingly for a few silent seconds before he said calmly "some more than others."

"What does that mean?" Barrett growled but when the demon locked eyes with him, he soon backed down by looking away.

"The boy and his mate are definitely trustworthy" Chaos eyed Cloud and Zack "They both have been treated as weapons and experiments and will not mistreat others. My host has also been treated as such and through his memories and emotions I know they are worth the trust. The female fighter my host, and therefore myself trusts. The others....to certain degrees.”

“We should bring him outside” Cloud spoke out “that way we can examine him properly in the light” he looked at Chaos “I know it takes energy for you to hang around like this, can you stay, or are you going to withdraw and let Vincent out?”

"My host is not fighting me. He is allowing me this time with my son and his mate. Because this is a mutual decision and he is not fighting my control, I have more energy. Which means unless something comes up more strenuous I have some more time. An few minutes perhaps, but we both shall be drained afterwards."

Cloud nodded and allowed Chaos to shift position and, careful of his claws slid his arms under the unconscious figure and slowly stand, lifting the figure with him.

The demon frowned when he felt something he never expected from the form in his arms, a second energy, a second presence. He knew what it was and why it was there and wondered if his child's mate knew, probably not considering the way he had been talking about his mate.

Chaos resolved to talk to him about it later.

The figure rolled into the demon's firm chest, snuggling into the muscle and flesh there, seemingly content, until a small frown creased the forehead and he mumbled "Sasuke" in a confused weak voice.

"I am here, Dobe" the other moved forward and took his hand, the other hand pressed under the shirt to the lower stomach, over the belly button.

When they got outside they lay him on the soft grass in an open field near the cave entrance full of sunlight, allowing them to see the other fully for the first time and again Yuffie was the one to express their thoughts.

"Hey, he looks just like you Vinnie!"

"What do you mean...." the figure shifted his attention from Yuffie and the others back to the demon beside him just in time to sense and witness the slow change of the winged figure.

The body shrunk slightly, wings disappeared, skin went from hard armor-like to cloth and flesh, claws vanished and so on.

In the end a figure of red and black leather stood a few inches above the other.

The group was right though, they both had pale skin, shoulder length black hair. Both looked delicate in a way but seemed to also radiate power and strength in an almost unearthly way.

And most interesting was the eyes. While Vincent's was red from an inheritance in the males in his family line-having some Cetra blood in their ancestory somewhere, the others were also red, but with the strangest iris they had ever seen.

They had three black comma-like items inside the red, one at the top and another one either side.

"Wow" Yuffie said, as she moved up close, pushing her face to his so she could check them out up close "those are so cool!"

The others all moved closer to look but the figure looked uncomfortable, his eyes closed for a few long seconds then when they opened they were black as his hair, only completely normal.

Disappointed Yuffie backed away, the others soon following.

The figure, who's hair stood up in back but also hung loose and quiet long underneath, turned back to the mandemon. He looked him over and frowned "she's right, you could definitely be an Uchiha."

"Uchiha?" they questioned and the figure nodded "my....clan, my family before my team and mate."

"So what are your names?"

"I am Sasuke Uchiha" he bowed politely from his crouched position next to the blonde "my mate is Naruto UzamakiNamikaze."

The group took the opening and introduced themselves as well. "Why does your mate have two last names?" Tifa asked.

"Uzamaki is his mothers last name, Namikaze his fathers. You see as Namikaze the forth Hokage had many enemies outside the village, people ready and willing to kill him if given the chance. Even before becoming Hokage 'The Yellow Flash' was a legend.

When the third Hokage realized that as an orphan Naruto would be in constant danger due to his inheritance, he gave him the name of his unmarried mother.

You see Kushina was a refugee, the last survivor of a village that was destroyed when she was a child. She was given a home and life in our village and she grew up with Minato as his friend before later becoming his lover.

They were unmarried and to keep her safe not many outside and inside the village knew about their relationship. So the third gave Naruto his mothers name to protect him as a child and baby. He planned to tell him who his father was when he was old enough to protect himself and fight..."

"But he was killed" they finished.

The figure-Sasuke-nodded "exactly. That not only made my mate the next in line as Hokage before Tsunade, but the last of two very special clans, he hasn't even discovered his bloodline abilities yet because he doesn't know what his father was capable of, anything...special was classified. Plus because his mothers clan and parents were killed when she was young, SHE didn't know what she could do."

"Bloodline ability?"

"An ability passed down and shared between members of a clan and family. Like the Sharigan..." he pointed to his left eye so they could see them bleed red again, this time the three commas in his eyes merged into something else altogether "this is the Mangekyô Sharigan, the fully mature sharigan. The early form contains one tomoe, the second stage has two, them three then the Mangekyô. However even though the Uchiha clan rarely breeds outside the clan due to paranoia about tainting the purity of the bloodline abilities, since everyone is different the Mangekyô is different to everyone.

Madara, the guy who betrayed the village after he couldn't take over-the first Uchiha-had the eternal Sharingan. These are my brother Itachi's eyes so I have the Mangekyô Tsukuyomi."

"What does the abilities do?"

The Mangekyô is different for everyone but the first three stages are always the same. The first stage and tomoe is the ability to see an enemies...energy flow, to see where and what area it is concentrated on. The second stage you essentially slow down your enemies moves and even predict them to anticipate and stop them. But the third stage, the third stage is different and more powerful. With the third stage you can not only learn their moves and powers but on an lesser mind you can control their moves.”

"And your brothers....YOUR eyes? What does the fully mature version do?"

"Many things, but that's not important now." They opened their mouths to speak, but stopped when the figures attention turned back to his mate, mouth pursed in a firm line.

They took the hint for what it was, Cloud and Zack dropping to their knees on one side of the figure while Vincent and the red eyed other....Sasuke, were on the other.

Taking out an scan Materia from his pocket and fitting it in a slot in his clawed gauntlet next to a regen, Vincent activated it and proceed it slowly examine the blonde laid on the ground before them from top to bottom-from the tip of his toes to the very tips of his wild hair.

Vincent frowned as he spoke "the seal is damaged. That is what is causing this state."

Sasuke frowned as well to this "the seal? I thought it ceased to exist when my mate merged with Kyuubi."

"No, just changed. Even though they merged, the seal holds the majority of Chaos'...." he cut himself off and took a deep steadying breath before letting it out and continuing on "...OUR child's power. Because it is damaged it is leaking that energy inside him, like blood into the lungs."

Although they didn't fully understand why it was serious, the 'blood in the lungs' let them know it WAS serious so they nodded.

Then Vincent did something they had never seen or even expected him to do before. He sat back, removing his single black glove from his right 'gun' hand, followed with an uncomfortable hesitation by unbuckling and loosening the bindings of the ever-present gauntlet.

Contrary to the belief of most the group and some of the public, under the gauntlet wasn’t an artificial limb or even mutilation. Ever since he had joined the group there had been numerous whispers or discussions about why he wore the thing and what was underneath, why he NEVER removed it.

One night just after they had beaten Sephiroth together the group-minus Cloud, Yuffie, Tifa and Vincent himself, had sat around drinking in ‘Seventh Heaven’ discussing various subjects from “god damned Shinra and their god damned Turks” to “what the god damned is that Yuffie chicks problem!? Is she on PCP or somet'in?”

So it was inevitable the subject came around to the crimson gunman’s gauntlet.

After many rips and speculation Barrett seemed to get upset-or insulted. He stood and snapped “You guys are idiots! Don’t you know anything! Think for a minute instead of sticking your collecctive heads up yer asses.”

Cid had snorted “then why don’t ya tell us what we’re missing, asshole.”

Barrett glared “the guys, like me, an gunner. We’re distance fighters. You guys are close up fighters. If some guy or monster gets too close, you have your weapons, us we don’t. It takes time we don’t have to draw a knife and even he to use those critters of his and in those seconds the enemy could kill you. I have my strength, but HE’S a skinny little ass, even if he WAS an Turk. Of course he needs not only a weapon already on hand but close enough to use possibly WITH the gun.”

This made sense.

Now with the glove gone and the heavy gauntlet clunking to the ground followed by the glove underneath they all saw for the first time what EVERYONE wanted so badly to really know.

Nothing, a normal set of hands, calloused from the gun and frequent use. Except for when he reached out to lay both palms over the stomach of the blonde, just below the bellybutton.

Claws, his normal hands were clawed, baring long sharp curved nails, almost like cat claws.

The hands pressed to the spot under the shirt and coat, skin on skin, and even under the thick material they became aware of an growing red glow, almost moving like wisps of smoke, coming from where he was touching.

"What are you doing?" Sasuke asked, tone somewhere between suspicion, worry and curiosity.

"He is being exposed to too much power through the leak. I am attempting to patch it up temporarily while Chaos is siphoning off the power leaking through-like removing the blood from the lung."

"Why can't you fix it permanently, instead of just for now?"

"I know nearly nothing about seals. Only the very basics. I may be able to temporarily patch it up but until we find an seals expert, it will not last very long. A week or two then either I will have to patch it up again and then on every week or so or until we find someone to do it permanently. Not just that until it is fully repaired Chaos will have to siphon him every few days or risk it eroding the patch faster."

"If there was a way to contact my mates human friends they could get a message to Jiraiya. He could either tell us or if there was a way here again, he could SHOW us what to do."

"Who?"

"I told you about him, one of the three Sanin."

At their blank looks he further explained "the greatest warriors, the one my mate calls ero-san and he called kid. He's an expert with seals, I told you he taught Minato. He's the one who been keeping an eye on my mates seal since returning to the village."

"There's a chance they could come here as well?"

"I'm positive yes. Jiraiya-san just has to learn the seal that guy used, work out what happened when both attacks crossed and how to replicate it exactly and they could probably come here looking for us. However there's no telling how long that will take."

"What about Reeve?" Yuffie suggested "or Tseng? One of them might know about seals."

"Thats actually a good idea" Cid said, just as shocked as the others "though why Reeve? He's an engineer. Why would HE know anything about seals?"

"Well first he is the leader of the WRO, they could have found stuff while finding and dismantling any of Hojo's labs, including that stuff in the basement of the Shinra mansion, you know, the stuff Sephiroth was reading when he went mad. Also, he was the one who designed Jenovah's sealed room, wasn't he?"

They had to admit, she had a good point.

"Or what about Shelke?" Tifa suggested "she was Deep Ground's research and computer expert. She had all that info from Hojo, and if he knew of seals, she could go on the Net and find out."

"And why Tseng?" they asked.

"Well he's the leader of the Turks and Rufus' right hand man, he trusts him completely, so he wouldn't hide anything from him." She looked at Vincent "Turks don't just kill and do all the dirty work, do they. They're also, like, information collectors aren't they."

Vincent nodded "at least in my day they were."

"So if Hojo knew anything about seals, either Rufus would know, or Tseng, or Shelke, or both, or all three, and if not either or all could find out. I mean before Sephiroth's mom put Chaos in Vinnie, Hojo did with the others, didn't he? That would mean one or both had to have known about seals to do that."

They again realized she was right. Only.....

"What would Shinra want in exchange for the information though?"

Yuffie looked at the black haired demon mate "you're an ninja, aren't you." The black haired half-demon looked at her seriously "you know?"

"It's obvious" she tapped her own hitate "although I don't know your clans symbol."

"This is our villages, Konoha, I don't know yours."

"My clan, Kasaragi."

The figure-Sasuke-shrugged "whatever. Why do you want to know?"

"You're good, SOOO much better than I am" she looked excited, bouncing on the spot just as normal with her "can you teach ME! I wanna move and fight like that!"

"Yuffie..."

"Yeah, yeah" she sighed, looking at the Uchiha "if you work for Shinra-or more technically-Tseng, for the information, or if Reeve knows it, the WRO, Shelke might give it for nothing though, she DOES kinda likes Vincent....." at the groups glare she frowned "what? Zack was suggesting it first!"

As much as they hated the idea, they knew she was right.

"Who do we contact first?" Tifa asked.

"Wait" the red eyed half demon's head was suddenly raised, eyes alert "someone or something is here."

The group collectively grasped their weapons as Cloud murmured "what do you mean?"

"I can feel their chakra."

"Chakra?"

Before there was an answer he spun, called "THERE!" and threw one of those strange knives at something in the bushes behind Cid.

Something black that resembled Nananki launched out of the bushes, straight at Cid, snarling ferociously. However thanks to the figures warning the blonde was ready, swinging his mako-enhanced spear around to strike the creature dead-on.

Which exploded on contact, covering the piolet with an strange black wattery substance.

At sight of the formerly blonde piolet standing there dripping with a black substance, almost completely drenched, gripping his spear and swearing his head off, Barrett, Yuffie and Zack cracked up, they couldn't help themselves. Even Vincent cracked an barely-there smile.

However the black haired half-demon frowned deeply and walked towards the man, swiping a finger in the substance before bringing it to his nose to sniff for a few seconds.

"Ink" they heard him murmur his eyes suddenly narrowing in anger "I know of only one being who uses ink monsters and can use chakra like Naruto and I."

This had all their attention "who? You know who caused that?"

"Yeah" he growled "and he has a warped sence of humor." He raised his voice loudly "for an assassin and spy, that was sloppy, even for you, come out."

Silence.

At hearing the words 'assassin' and 'spy' the entire group tensed, hands going to various weapons.

"I know you are there, I can smell you now, come out."

Nothing.

Sasuke shrugged "have it your way."

The next thing they knew he was flying through different positions with his hands (I know they're hands signs, but do the rest of the group know what it's called?) before crying out "Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu" as he raised his hand to his mouth and an sudden huge gout of flame was blown from his mouth between two fingers.

Shocked by his ability to summon flame without the use of fire materia they watched as the fire engulfed the bushes.

There was a flash of black and white and they were in time to see and hear the clang of clashing metal as Sasuke drew an sword from his hip, the blade hitting against another as the other also drew his, except from behind his back.

They watched in awe an sword fight equal to Cloud against Sephiroth.

They suddenly pushed away from each other, back-flipping and landing, Sasuke on hands and knees and the other with one knee down on the ground and one knee up, kind of an half crouched and half kneeling position.

Sasuke raised one thumb to his mouth and bit it with a sharp tooth, again the positions before slamming his hands to the ground, exclaiming "summoning jutsu-wolf summons!"

At the same time the other pulled out an huge scroll, laying it flat on the ground. As they watched hundreds of painted animals leapt out of the scroll, straight at the half-demon.

Just in time to impact with huge ferocious wolves of jet black with red eyes rising from the ground.

Ink splattered everywhere, the wolves disappearing in puffs of smoke.

The half demon snarled in fury, eyes bleeding red and crouching in an decidedly animal posture, power emanating from his every pore as something black, much like the others ink, began to creep up his face on the left side from somewhere on his neck.

"Shit" the other quickly put the scroll and his weapons away, hands up in a sign of surrender "calm down, Uchiha, you are getting too overexcited."

The snarling increased, hands going clawed as they dug into the ground in front of him, the black now reaching his eye, slowly turning the red, white and black there an shinning yellowgold, somehow reminding them of Chaos' eyes.

“”Uchiha calm down, I surrender. If you keep getting angry you’re going to open the second stage.”

“Second stage?”

The other glanced at them before speaking “Orochimaru the sanin he left our village to learn from put a curse seal on him. It was supposed to be controlling him until the sanin was able to use him for the purpose he wanted him from, but Naruto killed him before he could. We all thought once the sanin was dead the seal would fade but it didn’t. Sasuke hasn’t used it since he mated with Naruto, but if his demon side’s power was to boost the already powerful mark....”

They realized what he was saying and to Cloud it sounded too much like when Sephiroth controlled HIM through the Jenovah inside him. He had done things he truely regretted under his control, he found himself wanting to stop this other from doing the same.

“What can we do?” Tifa asked softly and added “who are you?”

“Sai” he said “I am....one of Naruto’s human friends.”

“HE said you were an assassin and spy” Cloud frowned.

“I WAS. My master had me join Naruto on one of his searches for the Uchiha when he was with the sanin. I was a spy, charged with assassinating the Uchiha once they found him.”

“What changed?”

“Naruto made me see differently. I was raised to be nothing more than they made me, my older brother died being our masters weapon, but Naruto taught me about comrades, about friends and friendship, about the real meaning of living. When it came to it, I decided my mission was to bring him back with us, just like Naruto wanted and sided with him and his ‘human friends’ against my master.”

“How did you get here?”

“I was standing behind Kakashi-sensei when the mixed seals hit them. I ended up in the next village from here and had to try and find them. Fortunately I was heading this way when I felt Sasuke’s chakra spike and was able to track it here.”

“Chakra?”

“Not important right now, stopping the Uchiha is.”

They realized he was right, the power was building.

Before anyone could move there was a new older and deeper voice who spoke out behind them “tsk, tsk, tsk, Sai, are you stirring your teammate up again? It’s always either him or Naruto. One day one of them is going to kill you.”

A figure casually walked out of the trees behind them, head buried in a book with a strange orange cover.

He was lanky and tall, looked about Cid’s age with wild silver hair sticking out on top. He was wearing black cargo pants, an green flak jacket with an long-sleeved black jumper underneath. But what was strangest about the figure was the fact that his face from the nose down was covered with an black cloth mask and one eye, the left, was covered with the same headband as the other three had, the entire side down to the mask hidden by the slouched cloth so only the right side and it’s piercing dark grey orb showed.

The figure, Sai, relaxed visibly at the sight of this person and flashed an somewhat empty smile, continuing in his emotionless monotonous tone “he was with these other people. I was merely testing his feelings towards them.”

“If he’s not trying to kill them all or being his usual Uchiha self, then they’re not threats, you should know that by now. And I thought Naruto told you to stop using that fake smile.”

The figure stopped grinning and cocked his head slightly “I thought that an smile is usually the easiest way to defuse a tense situation, sensai?”

The man sighed “when it’s real and heartfelt, like Naruto does. Yours doesn’t work because it isn’t real, you don't feel it, you didn’t read that as well, you don’t know that until you experience that. You have to actually experience these appropriate situations, Sai.”

"Uh guys" Yuffie called "what about..."

By now the creeping black was moving down his arm and leg, over his forehead and turning his black hair grey.

"The only person who can stop Sasuke and the curse mark is Naruto." The figure put the book away and that caused the other to frown in concern "the only other option is to fight him until he runs out of chakra" he glanced at where Vincent was knelt beside the blonde figure, hands still pressed to the seal and red wisps of power curling around his fingers and arms.

"How you can siphon the demon power and be no worse for wear, I don't know but THIS may help" he reached into one of his pouches on his vest and threw something to the gunslinger.

A folded piece of paper.

Once unfolded they saw an strange and complicated symbol, a seal they realized. "That's an temporary seal I received from Jiriaya-san himself. It will repress ALL his chakra-including the demon-for a few minutes. If you repress the overflow he should be able to awaken temporarily. At least long enough to either shut the curse mark down or control Sasuke."

The gunslinger raised his hands slowly and placed the paper over the seal over the stomach.

There was a flash of red and a few seconds later the figure stirred "Sasuke?" he mumbled thickly.

"Naruto we need your help. Sasuke's freaking out and activated the curse seal. Only you can stop him."

"Sasuke?" he murmured again, eyes slowly opening. His first sight was of Vincent knelt over and next to him. His nose twitched, taking in the gunslinger's scent and his frown suddenly broke into confusion "father?"

Before Vincent could answer the other teenager frowned as well "that's what the Uchiha called him. Why would BOTH of them call him father?"

"Because he sort of is" Tifa explained as the gunslinger gently sat the other up "Chaos is the demon foxes father, so since Sasuke is Naruto's mate...."

They understood this but asked "who is Chaos?"

"A demon inside Vincent. According to our legends he is the being destined to destroy all life on this world when the planet is dying. Another, Omega, will then take all those souls and seed a new world with them and start another life there. He told us himself he had created ten children from his own flesh, one is still here but the others ended up on another world-yours apparently."

"The nine tailed demons" the other teenager breathed in awe.

"Yep" Yuffie grinned.

"Well that explains it" the silver haired man, that they now realized had been the 'decoy' earlier, said "you did something incredibly foolish, Sai. When you attacked the group in an effort to test his feelings on them, you threatened his father figure. You know how Sasuke lost his family to his brother, Naruto is all he really has left.

Now he finds he has a father, a father who probably already shows he cares for both him and Naruto, who never had a father or mothers love before. YOU threaten that and of course he overreacted."

This made sense to them all.

"Naruto" the silver haired man looked to the blonde "Sasuke needs you, he's out of control."

"Sasuke, Kakashi-sensai?" his head turned slowly towards the power he could feel, seeing the pissed off figure and the blue eyes widened in horror and shock "SASUKE!" he launched himself from Vincents arms and towards the figure, the silver haired figure snatching the paper away as he went past.

The two collided with a flash of power.

They heard the black haired boy snarl loudly, followed by an answering one from the other.

"What's he doing?" Yuffie asked curiously.

"Reestablishing dominance" Vincent said softly in answer "he's be unconscious for so long and his mate caring for him his hold has weakened."

Zack spoke out with a laugh "The way they're going he'll burn off that excess energy anyway."

They realized he was right and watched the fight, what they could see of it through the flashes of power. It seemed both were fully changed, the blonde baring nine fox tails behind him and the other-to their shock-something that resembled a mix between bat wings and hands behind his back.

The only problem was, the power seemed to be building with no sign of end when Tifa suddenly spoke “wait a minute, how much energy does the blonde have?”

“Why do you ask?” the silver haired man asked.

“Well Sasuke is half demon, isn’t he?” when the lanky man nodded “he implied that the blonde, Naruto, feeds him power. Wouldn’t this fight mean they’re both feeding off the same energy?”

The silver haired man cursed when he realized she was right.

The other teenager, Sai suddenly spoke “Naruto has almost limitless Chakra. Now with him merging with Kyuubi, his supply has increased ten times.”

“Meaning what?”

“Meaning they could be at it for days.”

This time they cursed.

“I will take care of this” Vincent growled in a voice not his.

“You’ve already used your strength before, can you do this without damage?”

“The strength I siphoned from him will give me the boost I need, both to stop and dominate BOTH. However we will all end up unconscious afterwards.”

Knowing how vulnerable this would make him to them Cloud nodded “we understand. We’ll take care of you all.” Vincent stood up straight, the group backing away to give him room, Zack looking to the silver haired man, nodding with “you better move away.”

With a graceful back flip the silver haired man landed beside Cid.

As they watched the gunslinger rose to full height, his red eyes flashed and with a bubble of power his form changed. The purpose for the bubble was two-fold. One to release the condense the power around him into where it was needed and second as protection from attacks during this brief but vulnerable time between forms.

Once the bubble of power had been reabsorbed the figure of Chaos stood there.

“Wow” the figure called Sai murmured “sexy and scary at the same time” he eyed the demon up and down and something sparked in those black eyes.

The silver haired man shook his head at him “I swear you are only attracted to the most dangerous people, Sai. I swear one day one of your so-called conquests is going to kill you.”

“Don’t worry about me, Sensai, I can take care of myself” this time the small smile was real “it’s the excitement of something no one else can have.”

“Forget it” Zack grinned at other “Vincent’s straight as they come. He had an girlfriend and son.”

“He may be straight” the boy looked to him “but what about his demon?”

“What do you mean?”

“I find that the demons are surprisingly neutral when it comes to their sexuality. Despite their hosts preference the demons don’t seem to care.”

"Be that as it may" Tifa said "some good advice is don't screw with either Vincent or Chaos. They aren't afraid of disemboweling you for the fun of it."

The grin the teen gave them was decidedly predatory.

There was a sudden flash of red and black from where Chaos once stood, a roar of the demon's fury.

For some reason it sounded like "stop fighting you brats!" to Cloud and looking at Zack's answering grin, he heard it to.

Chaos as a father, this was going to be interesting.

Both boys suddenly stopped fighting and turned to look at the newcomer, the grey-skinned one-Sasuke-raising himself up to full height proudly and snarling back "You can't tell me what to do!"

Zack snorted at this, typical teenager. Although how they understood the meaning of the snarls, he didn't know.

The silver haired man snorted "Typical Uchiha stubborn streak. It's integrated into their line, raised to believe anything else is weakness. Even Obito had it. I tried to convince Sasuke during his training that that would one day get him killed....but as I said, integrated behavior. He is better then he once was though."

"You hardly talk about Obito, sensai" Sai said "I know how painful it is to you."

The silver haired man shrugged but didn't comment.

Although the group wanted to ask who this Obito was they recognized an painful subject for the man and resolved to ask one of the other three later.

As they watched the blonde looked at the other, whined and lowered his eyes then head submissively, backing away slightly.

"It seems the fox DOES remember him" Nananki said.

They nodded and watched as the winged demon growled once softly at him "good child. Join the others." The blonde nodded and headed over to join them, the tails and claws disappearing, smiling at the silver haired man with a cheeky "hi Kakashi sensai" as he scratched the back of his head.

The book was out again as the silver haired man gave a two fingered wave. When the blonde's eyes moved to the other black haired teen he looked shocked "Sai? How did you get here?"

"I was behind Kakashi-sensai when the seals hit you all."

"I know, I saw you, but you were across the room. How did YOU get hit to from that distance?"

"He said he ended up in the next town and was working his way here when he felt your energy and used it to track you." Zack said to him "could he have been hit by the end of it, that's why he ended up so far?"

"Possible" the silver haired man nodded as he rubbed his chin thoughtfully "but you realize what that could mean, don't you."

"What?" they questioned.

The black haired teen answered softly "I was standing back-to-back with Sakura."

"NO!" the blonde cried in horror.

"Sakura?" they frowned.

"My other student, along with Sasuke and Naruto. She currently is the student of the Fifth Hokage."

They remembered what Sasuke told them about the woman who was one of the three strongest warriors and understood.

"This means" Tifa started "that your teammate could be anywhere in our world."

"She could be in danger! She's all by herself sensai! No one to defend or help her!" The blonde was terrified of this idea.

"What can we do about it? We have no idea where she is."

"Wait" The blonde looked thoughtful "if the summons worked here..."

"They do" Sai said "Sasuke used the wolves against me before he freaked."

The blonde looked suddenly excited "great! Obba-chan still shares her summons with Sakura, doesn't she?" When the others nodded, he grinned "good."

He bit his thumb, went through similar hand positions and then slammed both hands on the ground with a cry of "Summoning jutsu-toad summons!"

There was a flash of smoke and a weirdly colored toad appeared. "Yo Naruto" the animal waved with one front leg.

"Hey, can do me a favor. I need you to go back to your dad and ask him to check with Jariaya what happened there. Once you've done that get him to ask how many of the guys are missing from there during the fight.Tell Jiriaya we are safe for now and he can take his time finding us, but we need to know how many of the guys are here. Get him to ask baachan to ask the slug summons if they can find out where Sakura is. If she's here somewhere to ask at the nearest village were she is and stay there until we find it and her."

“Right, it may take a bit though” the blonde nodded and the toad waved and disappeared again.

The next thing they knew there was another snarl-”idiot!” and a flash of black and red and the 'father’ demon had seized the grey skinned one by the neck again, only this time even though the grip was undeniably hard, again it wasn’t choking.

The grey skinned figure snarled and his body bucked in the grip, the handwing things flashing forward to strike the other.

Only to be trapped behind him by the others own wings.

The next snarl was truly pissed off, he started to struggle more and a sense of power started to grow around him. Only for the blonde to step forward, snarl “Oh no you don’t!” and a flash in the blue eyes cut the power off “if you’re gonna rebel against dad, do it with your own chakra, not mine!”

The grey skinned figure snarled at him furiously, to which the other answered with a flare of power and his own snarl back. The other blinked at him, stunned, then turned back to struggling with the other.

As if getting sick of all the struggling the black cladskinned (I haven't decided if Vincents' leather is Chaos' skin or clothes yet) drew a deep breath and roared in the youngers face "KNOCK IT OFF!!"

The grey skinned other looked totally baffled at this, like he had no idea why he did it. His eyebrows furrowed and he opened his mouth as if about to protest, but the other roared again, this time with a flash of power behind it "I SAID STOP IT!!"

With a disgruntled look the grey started to bleed out of the boy's skin, turning his normal color and the hair went black while those strange bat winghand things shrank and disappeared.

Within a minute or two the more familiar figure of Sasuke was there, hanging from Chaos' grip.

With a pause to make sure he stayed that way, Vincent was also back, gently lowering the other to the ground so he could release him from his clawed grip.

Then, leaning tiredly on each other in a way only family could get away with, the two made their way to join the rest of the group.

The silver haired man frowned at Vincent when he saw them side by side "if it weren't for your eyes I'd say you were an Uchiha. However your eyes could also be seen as a kind of halfway between sharingan and normal. How is it you have such eyes. They are not normal, even where we came from."

"Wait, sensai. Remember, Anko had red eyes too."

"Who?"

"That scary woman from the Chiunin exams. She could almost be dad's female twin. She was another of Orochimaru's ex-followers like Sasuke and had a curse mark too."

"Arh, you mean Kurenai's ex-teammate."

The blonde nodded "yeah, her."

"Indeed they could be twins" the silver haired man nodded as he scrutinized the gunslinger "except she has a preface for fish-net and HE likes leather."

"This 'leather' is necessary" Vincent sniffed dignitally "it is reinforced as body armor, it adapts and changes to whichever form I take and allows for freedom of movement in any shape. For someone whose skills relies on agility as well accuracy, that is extremely important."

They realized he was right.

"What about the cape, vampire" Barrett asked, using the name he occasionally called the gunslinger since finding him in the coffin under the Shinra mansion.

Cid scoffed "even I know that one, idiot. Chaos' wings." A 'light bulb' went on in the black man's head and he nodded.

However Cid HAD called him an idiot, so he did have to defend his honor-by abusing the piolet and starting an argument.

Which paused when the blonde snorted "reminds me of Asuma."

They all looked at the blonde "who?"

"The thirds son" Sasuke called out "he's like a mix of you both, tall and really muscular like HIM" he motioned at Barrett "but a real macho guy, always with a cigar hanging out of his mouth. He was killed in battle too, though. Just like his dad. Left an pregnant team mate, Kurenai, and another son, Konohamaru. "

Now that all the excitement was over they started to fully get oriented, starting with the 'Avalanche' group introducing themselves to the new figures and vica versa.

They found out that the silver haired man had been the 'team leader' of the two boys and their female team mate growing up, that he had been the one Sasuke told them about when he both mentioned his brothers ex-partner and the one who would get the code from the books for the leader. When they found out that was what he kept getting out and reading and enquired why he was still reading it when the 'spy' and messages were gone, he seemed insulted they thought he wasn't a fan of the books and enjoyed the actual stories and authors work, but the man was so funny with the way he acted, the floppish, idiotic way even though they knew it wasn't true, they didn't know how to act.

Although Zack and he seemed to get along excellently, if their conversation was anything to go by. In fact it seemed that Zack had enticed a couple of copies of previous books to read from the guy and they sat together, heads buried.

Vincent and the ‘wolf’ half demon were cuddled in a dark corner, the crimson gunner on the outside and protectively curled around the younger black head. Yuffie had the blonde ninja in a corner of the clearing, bugging him to show her a few moves, to teach her something.

Cloud watched them for a while, just turning to move away when he heard the blonde yell “Kage Bushi...”

“Naruto no” the silver haired man suddenly called “I think the last thing this group would want was Yuffie in stereo.”

“Hey!” Yuffie put her hands on her hips and pouted, pretending to look offended.

Naruto grinned widely, “Come on, Kakashi-sensai. Yuffie is the only one here with the chakra to pull it off and it would help her in battle.”

The one eye narrowed “Naruto...” The blonde sighed "fine, I won't teach her."

"What was he gonna teach her?" Barrett questioned "and what is chakra?"

"Chakra is the energy that flows through all things" the one called Sai said, explaining about jutsu's and refining and controlling chakra for certain purposes.

"Sounds like mana" Barrett snorted.

"And your jutsu's sound like our limit-breaks" Tifa said before looking around "Hey, where did Zack go?"

"And Cid" Yuffie piped up with, also looking around.

"The high mountain ranges of Nibelheim block nearly any or all cellular signals" Cloud said "and there is also interference from the mako reactor."

"So?" Yuffie asked.

Barrett rolled his eyes at her while Nanaki went on for him "so they have gone back to the village so Cid can summon the Highwind to get everyone out of here and Zack is calling Reeve."

"Who is this Reeve you speak so highly of?" the silver haired man asked and for just a minute his voice was thick with accent.

"He's the leader of the WRO, World Restoration Organization, and a friend" Nanaki answered "they, at the Organization, help people in danger or trouble and try and repair and restore our planet." Glancing at an apparently asleep Vincent, the fire lion told them about Shinra, the general, the destruction of Neblheim, the meteor and the serious damage of the planet as well as Midgar.

Then with another glance at Vincent the events of the clones turning up and the newly dubbed 'Omega Incident'.

The silver-haired man frowned "it seems your world has indeed been in recent dire trouble." He then returned the favor by telling them his own life and the events of 'The Hidden Leaf Village' leading up to approaching them all in the clearing.

They were curious about these 'jutsu's' and 'kekkai genki's', but the story saddened them, especially about the figures best friend dying to protect himself and their female teammate. But now they knew why he had the head-band slouched over his eye. Since he wasn't born with the ability like Sasuke, he couldn't control it as one. Since it was a sight ability, if he constantly kept it covered, he ensured it was 'switched off' so to speak.

Also why he wore the mask. As the son of a great warrior, everyone who he met in his world would either know who he was or judge him by his parental.

As a child he probably decided to cover half his face would hide that fact to enemy and friend. After that, he would have built his own reputation and style, so he continued to wear it.

If the skin-tight mask showed them anything about the shape and definitions of his face, he was probably a very handsome man.

A shame to cover it, really.

"What did you mean by, 'Yuffie in stereo'?" Tifa asked.

"Arh that is better explained by example" the silver haired man looked at the grinning blonde "Naruto?"

The blondes grin grew-if it was possible-and flashed though a series of hand signs before ending with an exclaimation of "Kage Bushin jitsu!"

There was sudden pops all around them, breif puffs of smoke and before they knew it the clearing was filled with at least two hundred other grinning Naruto's, all exactly the same down to the last detail.

Yuffie, eyes so wide they nearly popped out of her head, suddenly exclaimed "THAT IS SOOO COOL!" She turned to the nearest grinning image and began jumping up and down excitedly, chanting "teach me! teach me! teach me! teach me! teach me!"

Cloud frowned, turning to the silver haired man "illusions?"

The man shook his head and turned to the one called Sai, raising an eyebrow at him. With an decidedly evil grin the once assassin and spy had decapitated a clone next to him, only to get a pop and the image was gone.

"Hey!" the one on his other side yelled noisily and what followed was equal to an fist-fight between children.

Until the ex-assassin scored a direct hit on the other boys shoulder, causing it to to pop out of existence.

Cloud frowned at it "solid illusions?" he suddenly blinked "clones?"

"Any Ninja worth being called one can create an clone" the silver haired man said "however it's just an illusion, it has no body or solidarity. However Naruto's can do so. They are called Shadow Clones."

"Why is he different?" Tifa asked "is it because he merged with Kyuubi? We've never seen Chaos do it."

"That's part of it" the cyclops answered "you see the jitsu is or was forbidden. Naruto got hold of it and learned it while he was twelve and in the academy" he glared at one in particular who grinned sheepishly and scratched the back of his head nervously "until then he was failing."

"Why?"

"He couldn't preform some of the simplest jitsu's."

"Well yeah, of course I couldn't" the one next to Tifa spoke "I tried using my own chakra and Kyuubi's kept stuffing me up. I mean no one taught me how I was supposed to control and separate both chakra's when I want to do something!"

"Anyway" the cyclops huffed "the shadow clone jitsu is forbidden for a few reasons."

"And?" they questioned.

"First point, to create a shadow clone, it halves the users chakra exactly in half and divides it between user and copy. Two clones would mean you're at third strength and so on."

They understood this "it would make the user weaker and more vulnerable, while because of his almost limitless mana, he is barely affected" Tifa motioned around them.

"Correct" the silver haired cyclops nodded.

"What other reasons are there?"

"It allows any knowledge gained by a clone to be spread out among the group, and ALL knowledge gained returns to the original when the clones disperse. Imagine spreading this many clones out in a library."

"Every book it reads, the original would remember" Nanaki answered "however such knowledge all at the same time would not be good. The original would go mad, if not completely insane. In order to avoid such an event, you may as well just read it yourself."

The cyclop nodded "or one or two dispersed slowly. However, in the past, due to Kyuubi's influence that's not a problem. A momentary lapse and he's back."

It was beginning to sound like this thing was made for the blonde and none of them would be able to use it.

Nanaki spoke out again "something like that would make him near unbeatable in battle." The silver haired man nodded but the fire-cat's companions looked at him curiously. He went on to explain "he creates thousands of clones and sends them off to fight an enemy, while he waits and watches. He can learn how an enemy fights, what his weakness are without lifting a finger. Every time a clone disperses, their knowledge comes back to him. Then, when the enemy is exhausted, he can finish them off."

"But that's cheating!" the blonde knelt beside Nanaki and scratching his ears suddenly exclaimed "I mean where's the honor in doing something so sneaky!"

The silver haired cyclops' replie was to bop the one on his left on the head, who dispersed. The man looked startled muttering "I thought that was the original." He looked around the clearing "Naruto..."

Every clone grinned and said in union "try and find me, sensai" in a teasing tone. The silver haired cyclops' one eye narrowed and he was about to move when there was an red and black flash and the one on Tifa's right went down on the ground, crying "TEME!" as he did.

Instantly all the others said "damn!" and began to pop out of existence all around them, leaving little puffs of smoke behind.

Meanwhile beside Tifa and hidden by the smoke, moaning was starting.

She blushed when she recognized the tone of the moans and moved away among the smoke closer to Nanaki.

There was suddenly two sets of murmurs and an kind of earthen dome rose up out of the smoke, cutting all sound off in that spot.

The silver haired man frowned "where did Naruto learn an earth-type jitsu, let alone THAT one?"

"Probably from Yamoto during our time under his command while you were in hospital" Sai said "his element was earth."

"I know" the cyclops said "we were teammates in ANBU once. I was just unaware of him teaching Naruto any jitsu's. Naruto's wind element and Kyuubi's fire element should make that extremely difficult."

"We are in the Kyuubi's land of origin" the pale black haired boy said "with it's...source. Perhaps that is awakening new or previously inaccessible abilities."

"Chaos and Omega were children of mother Gaia, the spirit and soul of this world" Nanaki started to explain "All life comes from the lifestream, blood of this world just as all dead return. Is it so hard to believe that as his child he may have control now over ALL elements since that connection has been reestablished?"

They knew he had a point.

Vincent suddenly appeared on the silver haired man's left, awake and frowning at the earthen shield for a few seconds before looking to Cloud "how long have Cid and Zack been gone?"

"About fifteen minutes. Why?"

"They should be back by now, should they not?"

Cloud frowned "they should. If the villagers are causing trouble..."

Vincent spoke "they are being paid by Shinra to act like the village is still there. But they are supposed to immediately alert them of any...unusual activity. The fact they have not at the first sign of these people means they are hiding something from their employers."

"You're right" Cloud nodded seriously "they've not only hidden the arrival of such powerful people from the ones they're supposed to tell the minute it happens but tried to get rid of them by hiring us to supposedly 'destroy a demon threat'. If Zack calls Reeve..."

The black-haired demon vessel nodded. Cloud frowned and reached for his sword "I'll go..."

But Vincent waved his hand away "I shall go. I can travel faster and be there sooner."

Reluctantly the blonde released his sword and nodded.

His cloak wrapping around him like it was alive, the demon vessel was suddenly gone. Cloud would have usually gone himself, but he didn't have Fenrir with him and he knew in this form Vincent could dive in, rescue the two men and be back to them in less than five minutes, moving so fast that there was no way the 'villagers' could follow, let alone track.

Yuffie spoke out "when Rufus finds out, those guys are sooo dead!" Barrett glared at the female ninja who just poked her tongue out childishly at him.

An hour later they still hadn't returned and some of them, including Cloud were beginning to worry.

At an hour and a half Cloud was gripping his sword, prepared to go look for them.

Barely two minutes ago the earth shield had fallen, revealing the two naked sleeping figures, wrapped in each other's arms and legs and nothing else. Yuffie had giggled, Tifa had blushed and politely turned away, the silver haired man's one eye turning into an upside down U as he grinned.

Striding forward the cyclops removed his flack jacket, laying it over both young men's private area, blocking sight of any such area and earning a pout from Yuffie.

He then pulled out an rolled up scroll from one pocket an unrolled it, laying it on the ground flat to show the strange symbol in the middle "it's a good thing that I keep extras when on missions with those two. Ever since becoming mates they take every chance they can to 'mate' which usually includes tearing each other's clothes apart."

Yuffie giggled again and the lanky man placed both hands on the symbol, crying "storage seal, release!" Next thing they knew, two piles of clothes and shoes were sitting neatly folded on the page between his hands.

He moved to start dressing the two with the other black-haired boy's help (cuffing him over the head every time he stopped and purposely ogled either one-which was often) the scroll was then replaced in a hidden pocket and he shrugged the jacket back into place.

Once done he frowned at the two behind the mask "it seems Naruto more than Sasuke these days initiating the mating, although Sasuke does his share. It's as if they suddenly loose touch with reality and all that matters is having sex. Naruto may have been highly impulsive in his youth, but there is something more primal here. It's as if..."

"That is because it is" a rich voice said from the trees behind them.

They spun to find Vincent there, leaning against a thick trunk, ankles and arms crossed. Once he had their attention he uncrossed and strode forward, heading towards the four ninja's.

Cloud frowned at him, tensing when he noticed he was alone "where's Zack and Cid?"

Vincent motioned his question away with "safe" as he continued to approach them. Bending slightly he eased the blonde into his arms, looking at the lanky man "can you carry him yourself?"

"Of course" the silver haired man easily picked the other up and with the other pale black haired boy in tow they headed back the way the gun slinger had come. After a hesitation the rest of the group followed.

Vincent spoke out, explaining softly.

"Chaos' children weren't all males. Two of them, on the moment of their separation, decided to be female. When their souls went to your world ONE must have chosen to inhabit an female animals body to stay that way."

"Kyuubi" the silver haired man frowned "what are you saying?"

"What event strikes all females yearly?"

Tifa answered this "our cycle when we can conceive."

"Exactly" the gunman nodded "only in animals it's called...."

"Going into heat" the silver haired man's one eye widened nearly all the way. "So your saying that because Naruto merged with the fox he's going through his heat. Somehow Sasuke knows instinctively so he's loosing control as well. That because both are male they can't get pregnant and the heat is getting worse because it's driving them to reproduce but they can't."

"Not exactly but close" the red and black clad demon vessel said "after he merged with the fox and took the other as his mate, because he is male, his body recognized they would be unable to reproduce, so it adapted to allow, during his heats, to do so."

The silver haired man's eyes nearly popped out of his head "during his heat Naruto can GET PREGNANT!?"

"Correction, he already IS pregnant. Their bodies are still going through heat because his fox is trying to not only ensure pregnancy cements but tapper off the remaining heat effects."

"Are you sure?" Cloud's eyes were also wide.

"I sensed it-a new life inside-when I picked him up before. When I scanned him afterwards it was confirmed."

"It explains Sasuke's sudden over protectiveness" the man, Kakashi, said seriously. "I mean he's always been protective of his teammates in the past and once he almost died protecting Naruto-and that was just on their first mission together. But the way he's been acting since his return to the village was just way too overboard. He's been acting as if Naruto is his and his alone and his whole happiness and life depends on Naruto paying attention to him and being constantly by his side. Naruto joked once he even follows him into the bathroom."

"Eww" Yuffie wrinkled her nose and looked disgusted.

"If he is, he instinctively knows Naruto is bearing his child." Nanaki said "and like a wolf-mate he is protecting his pregnant mate. This I understand as an animal and would do the same." He looked at the boys from his position walking by Vincent. "Perhaps because his own instincts tell him his mate is male and not supposed to be pregnant, they have become overly protective. By constantly staying by his mates' side he is ensuring nothing endangers his offspring and mate during this fragile and vital time."

"Do they both know?" the cyclops murmured, looking at the young man in his arms thoughtfully "or is all this instinct?"

"Naruto would know" the ex-assassin and spy said "I mean how could he not?"

"Not necessarily Sai" the silver haired cyclops said.

"Yes, I think he would know" Nanaki said softly "he backed down from Vincent fast when confronted."

"He used the fox cloak to protect himself when he faced down Sasuke earlier" the sword-weilding ninja added.

They looked at the young man "fox cloak?"

"An covering of the foxes chakra around his body" Kakashi explained "it is like the fox superimposing his image over Naruto, but we call it the fox cloak. Someone outside touching him is burned and Naruto or the fox can manipulate it to do various things, like making fox tails to use like other hands."

They understood the basic idea of it.

"There is also what happened just before we ended up here with Naruto" Sai looked at his leader.

"What do you mean?" the cyclops looked at him.

"A week before the villagers attacked I was waiting outside the Hokage's office to report from a mission when I heard them arguing. Naruto wanted a couple of months off from mission work, but wouldn't tell her why. It went suddenly quiet for a while then Naruto stormed out of the office.

I saw the Hokage behind him, she looked so horrified and haunted, I thought he had threatened to quite and leave the village and her. She yelled out something about telling Sasuke, that he deserved to know, but Naruto yelled something about if she opened her big mouth he WOULD leave the village."

"Why wouldn't Naruto tell Sasuke that he was a father-our rather WILL be a father soon?" Kakashi seemed confused and alarmed by this.

"I think I know" Tifa said thoughtfully.

"Tell us" they looked at the big busted fighter.

"You remember what he said about his family and line?"

They nodded and Nanaki seemed to follow her line of thoughts "his family betrayed the village and 'if it could produce someone like his brother and as easily corruptible as him, perhaps it should end with him.'"

"So you're saying" the silver haired man started "Naruto wouldn't tell Sasuke about their child because he knows this and thinks if he finds out he'll reject not only the baby, but him because he will refuse to leave it, or even give it away."

"It seems so" Nanaki answered.

"Sasuke wouldn't do that" Sai said "he would see any child they had as another little piece of Naruto that is all his, something that he can care for, guide and raise in all the love, protection and gentleness of his brother when they were young and what he wanted from his own family."

"But Naruto wouldn't see it that way" Kakashi said "he may be as intelligent as Sasuke, but in terms of socialization and how others think, he's a two year old."

Any other talk was cut off as they approached a clearing and the sound of engines. There sat the Highwind, engines on, waiting for them.

Standing waiting on the open ramp was a figure and Cloud relaxed when he saw who it was.

Zack met them halfway down, his tall frame and muscular arms surrounding Cloud as he pulled the blonde to him, murmuring something about "stupid Shinra idiots, stupid mountain hicks" before apologizing "no insult meant, Chocoboo."

Surrounded in his boyfriends arms and head buried in his strong chest, Cloud breathed in his sent, cinnamon mixed with the sharp tang of mako, and relaxed, assured of his unharmed state.

He mumbled a reply, something along the lines of "that's okay" and "that place is no longer home to me anymore-Sepiroth destroyed that" and stayed where he was, relishing his relief and relaxed state.

Even when everyone was aboard and Zack was walking him in as well, he didn't relinquish his hold on his boyfriend.

They lay both boys out in the crew room, the other two ninjas joining them in their state of sleep (the silver headed man pulling the sheet up to cover his face so he could remove the mask), and sat together in a group in Cid's quarters, discussing what had happened. Then it moved to what they were going to do.

Where were they going to house their new friends? Especially with Naruto's 'tender' condition and Sasuke's over protectiveness of him. They also didn't think the other two ninja would want to be far from their teammates.

The silver haired man joined them after an hour or so, the ex-assassin and spy next, probably because both had used less manachakra than the other two.

The silver haired man told them any place was fine by them, as ninja they had sometimes slept in caves our outdoors during a mission.

"We would need a place close to Doctors or medical aid" Nanaki said "with Naruto pregnant and being male, there is no telling how difficult or complicated the birth will be. No one will know what would happen."

They agreed with this.

"Tsunade-san would probably be able to examine him and figure out a way" Sai said "she is a brilliant tactician and healer. In our world she is an wizard at potions and cures."

"If she couldn't figure it out, chances are her and Jiriaya-san could" Kakashi said "there are times I think those two could accomplish anything together."

Sai nodded seriously "the Hokage and the Sanin are definitely the real treasures of The Hidden Leaf village."

"And we have Naruto to thank for that."

Again the boy nodded in agreement.

"Did you get hold of Reeve?" Cloud looked at his partner "before those idiots attacked, I mean."

Zack nodded "Cid's dropping us all at Rocket Town and he's meeting us there."

"Maybe Reeve can help with the medical issue" Vincent said, rubbing his chin thoughtfully "he has doctors and medical personal." He looked at Kakashi "if you work for him instead of Shinra he would provide everything you need, medical assistance, food, lodgings, clothes, even help assimilating into this world. Even training in the use or materia and our types of weapons. Have you done bodyguard work before?"

Kakashi nodded "it's part of the training and sometimes important missions require protecting VIP's."

"Good. We've been telling Reeve for years he needs a bodyguard. He's an very important person to our world and the running of the WRO. YOU could be an bodyguard and because of your....unusual looks the enemy wouldn't suspect you of being one. No insult intended but here bodyguards look more like him" he motioned at Barrett.

The silver haired man nodded in understanding, not the least bit insulted.

"What about us?" the black haired young man asked.

"What are your talents?"

The silver haired man answered for him "Sai's limits lay in only his imagination and chakra."

"What do you mean?"

"You saw his chakra animal. As long as Sai can draw it, he can create it. He can then send it to do various jobs. The creature has no limit except Sai's chakra. They don't eat, they don't sleep, they don't feel pain, they just do what they're made for. He is also trained the same as us and skilled at swordplay."

"So" Vincent said, looking at the young man "if Reeve provides you photo's of monsters in our world, you can reproduce them as your own."

The young man nodded.

"Well then I think you and...my son's could become monster hunters, but when something different and more dangerous comes up, you can do so."

"Like Sephiroth, or Deep Ground!" Yuffie sounded excited.

"Yes" Vincent nodded.

Cloud turned to look at Vincent "you said you sensed the baby, do you know yet if it's a girl or boy?"

"It's too early to tell, but it's strong, as strong as Kyuubi was. The baby is safe and fortunately despite what happened, Naruto's body is nurturing and protecting it safely."

Before anyone else could speak there came a gasp from the doorway "Naruto is PREGNANT!!!"

The groups' heads snapped to find two figures standing in the doorway, one shocked and stunned, the other horrified.

Sasuke looked at his mate "Naruto, how could you?!"

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