Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto and the Key of Twilight ❯ Chapter 13

Kingdom Hearts/Naruto Crossover

-Naruto and the Key of Twilight-

 

Naruto paced the lobby of the hospital, his eyes darting regularly to the clock on the wall. It had been almost an hour since he had been told that Riku had been injured.

 

“Naruto,” Tsunade said as she finally came out of the operating room.

 

“How is he?”

 

“He'll be asleep for a little while longer,” Tsunade told him. “But he's going to be fine. It's lucky the cut wasn't any deeper.”

 

Naruto nodded.

 

“No, you don't understand,” Tsunade told him. “Riku's three months pregnant.”

 

Naruto pushed past her and walked into the room where Yen Sid was standing over Riku's wounded body.

 

Riku's eyes were closed and his wound was healed. All that remained was a long scar where the chakram had sliced him, and that was very faint.

 

“By next week, the scar won't even by there,” Yen Sid assured him. “In the meanwhile, look out for him. Make sure he doesn't get too much activity. The chakram damaged the womb. Fortunately, it missed the baby, but only by a fraction of an inch. And any undue stress could reopen the damage that was repaired.”

 

“What about the baby he's carrying now?”

 

“He'll be fine, and so will the baby. But this will probably be the last one that he'll conceive. The womb is too scarred for another pregnancy to take hold.”

 

~Meanwhile, in the lobby~

 

“It's all my fault,” Tenshi sobbed. “Riku's gonna die and I killed him!”

 

“Riku's not gonna die,” Kashou told him. “If he was they'd have told us already.”

 

“But I cut him open! I...” Tenshi put his head in his hands, wept while Kashou put her hand on his shoulder, and sat beside him, offering him her sympathy.

 

Tenshi wasn't sure why, but for some reason, Kashou's presence seemed even more pleasant to him ever since he'd acquired the chakrams.

 

He looked up as Naruto re-entered the lobby. He had seen his sensei angry before, but when Naruto's eyes landed on him, they bled into a slightly purple color. Naruto looked down and said,

 

“Gather up the rest of Cell 7 and Satoshi, Namikaze, and Shiro and meet me in my office in half an hour.”

 

He left without another word but Tenshi could tell how angry he was by the door slamming. He gulped and looked at Kashou. She too looked frightened. To lighten the mood however, she said,

 

“Just imagine, Kyuubi has to live with him.”

 

They both knew what a troublemaker he was and shared a laugh, even if it did sound a little forced.

 

~Time Skip: Half an hour ~

 

The small group of children stopped outside of Naruto's office door and looked at each other as if bidding their friends to memory. They gulped simultaneously and opened the door. Naruto stood with his back to the children, looking out the window and standing in a military fashion, his orange and black cloak billowing behind him.

 

“Close the door.”

 

Kyuubi looked out into the hallway at the two ANBU guards that stood sentry on either side of the door. One took off his mask and gave the kids a pitying sort of look. Kyuubi closed the door as slowly as possible, not liking blocking off their only escape route. When the door finally clicked, Naruto turned his head and looked at the group over his shoulder. When he spoke, Kyuubi recognized his tone as the one that was trying to retain his anger.

 

“Riku is pregnant.”

 

The kids gave each other small smiles but looked back at their sensei when the sound of cracking knuckles caught their attention.

 

“Luckily, he and the baby are alright.” At this, he turned full around and faced them. “Had the situation been otherwise, the consequences would have been even more severe. Considering that I'm the Hokage and you're all genin with families, I can't physically hurt you.”

 

Kyuubi ducked his head and flattened his fox ears against his head, making himself look as small as possible.

 

“However,” he started. The kids felt a chill go up their spine. His eyes pointedly landed on Kyuubi then flickered to Tenshi who visibly cringed. “By the time I'm done with you, you'll all wish I had hurt you.”

 

He walked around his desk and walked an invisible line in front of the kids. They could hear his steady breathing and heavy footsteps as he walked in front of them. Kyuubi took a step back and put a hand on the doorknob. In a flash of orange Kyuubi was suspended in the air by his tails, squealing in pain. The other kids all backed away and watched as Naruto whispered something in the boy's ear.

 

Kyuubi was let down and he quickly crossed the room and went out to wait in the hall, along with Satoshi, Namikaze, and Shiro. Naruto looked over his cell and said,

 

“You both extremely disappoint me. I guarantee that had you gotten to Otogakure, you all would have been slaughtered or worse. For the next two weeks, you will both meet me after dark at the training grounds and you will both get a very thorough going over. Don't eat dinner because you won't be able to keep it down with what I'm putting you through.”

 

He stopped in front of Tenshi and said,

 

“Kashou, you're dismissed.”

 

She gave her teammate a fleeting look and left.

 

Tenshi bowed his head, shamefacedly, as Naruto turned to face him.

 

“Tell me how you came about these new weapons of yours,” Riku's co-Hokage said, quietly.

 

Tenshi began to speak with his head down, but Naruto cut him off.

 

“I can't hear you if you're talking to the floor.”

 

Tenshi raised his eyes and faced his Cell Leader.

 

“They were given to me by the statue in the cave.”

 

“The statue?” Naruto asked.

 

“There's a cave just...”

 

“I already know about the cave,” Naruto pointed out. “I've lived here all my life. But I've never seen a statue in it.”

 

“It was a statue of a man in a long hooded coat. He looked a little like me, but he had redder hair and these marks like tears under his eyes.”

 

“I see,” Naruto began pacing again. “Did the man in the statue say anything to you?”

 

Tenshi nodded. “He called me Axel.”

 

“Axel?”

 

“Yeah,” Tenshi replied. “I don't get it, either.”

 

“Axel was a Nobody,” a voice from the door explained.

 

Naruto turned and saw Sora standing there looking very worried.

 

“Don't you ever knock, Sora?” he asked.

 

Sora didn't bother apologizing. After a lifetime of walking in unannounced, there wasn't much point in starting now.

 

"What is a Nobody?" Naruto asked.

 

Sora turned to face Naruto and Tenshi. But instead of speaking, he closed his eyes and let a small boy, about fifteen by the looks of him, step out from within him.

 

"I'm a Nobody," the new boy told him. "My name is Roxas. I'm what was created when Sora temporarily became a Heartless. Other Nobodies are made the same way. Thirteen of us, including myself, made up a team of greater Nobodies called Organization XIII. Axel and Demyx were part of that organization."

 

"Demyx?" Naruto asked. "What does he, whoever he is, have to do with anything?"

 

"It's his sitar that Kashou has been summoning." Roxas explained. "I believe that she's his reincarnation, or something like that. I'm not sure that a Nobody can have a reincarnation, since they effectively never really existed in the first place."

 

"You said they were made when their hearts were taken," Tenshi suggested. "Perhaps what we inherited was their hearts rather than their souls."

 

"That's probably it," Roxas decided. "And since Axel, Demyx, myself retained the greatest memory of heart of all the Organization members, Demyx and Axel's Nobodies, or what part of them retained consciousness wherever they went to after they were dispatched..."

 

Naruto held up a hand, wondering just how long this self-confessed Nobody would have gone on if he didn't stop him.

 

"So you're saying that they sensed their hearts in new bodies and joined with them." Naruto said.

 

Roxas nodded.

 

Naruto considered this.

 

"That makes sense," he finally said. He turned to Tenshi. "I think you and Kashou should receive special training, to help you cope with the existence of your second souls."

 

Tenshi nodded.

 

"Incidentally, what kind of weapons were those?"

 

Tenshi shrugged.

 

"Chakrams," Roxas replied as he stepped back into Sora. "They're called chakrams."