As promised, here is the first chapter of my new crossover. Enjoy!

Title: Antifreeze fox
Author: NHunter aka N.H. aka 夜狩猟家 aka 灰色天使
Genre: General, Adventure
Rating: M = NC-17
Pairing: Naruto N.-U./Maria Lancelot or Amelia Evans/Naruto N.-U./Maria Lancelot
Warnings: AU; Accidental Dimensional Travel; OOC; crossover; some changes to the events in "Freezing"; sage and truer-jinchuuriki Naruto, seal-master Naruto, strong and (sometimes) intelligent, sometimes wise, cool Naruto; some violence; lemons; crazy author...
Disclaimer: I DO NOT own "Naruto" or "Freezing". No profit is being made. Oh, and I borrowed some names from other anime & manga. I don't own those either.

"speaking"
'thinking'
"speaking of the higher beings / jutsu / speaking in power mode"
'thinking of the higher beings'

Antifreeze fox
chapter I: Sages don't freeze

Naruto was walking through the city, trying to understand both where he was and how he had gotten here as he definitely wasn't in Elemental nations (also his summoning technique wasn't working even if he still had chakra, both his own and the Kyuubi's). Most likely his being here was caused by whatever phenomenon occurred when tried attacking Madara with senjutsu-powered rasengan, while the man was trying to suck him into his dimensional pocket. Oh well... He was brought out of his musing when a group of four 'bandits' appeared in front of him.

"Hey, you!" The leader of the group addressed him. "You aren't local..." No kidding! Naruto was still in his new shinobi outfit: dark-gray pants and pullover, black jounin-style vest with Uzumaki spiral on the back, armor plates strapped to his forearms, red cloak with black Amaterasu-like flames on bottom edge and Konoha hitae-ate on his forehead. "So why don't we introduce you to..."

"I have no time for you. Get lost." The Kyuubi jinchuuriki replied coldly: he really had no time for this... Unfortunately the gang didn't like his answer.

"Now, listen here, were wanted to go easy on you 'cause you're new here but now you've sealed your fate!" The leader of the bandits (who also happened to be one with most brawn) said loudly, before charging at Naruto... Only to get blond's fist implanted into his gut. Then the Kyuubi jinchuuriki raised him into the air on his fist.

"I said I have no time for you." Naruto hissed once their eyes were more or less on the same level, while also changing his blue human eyes into red and slitted Kyuubi's for a moment. Seeing that this had desired effect on the gangster, the young toad sage threw him to the feet of his band... Too bad the guy was so shaken by what he saw that he simply couldn't warn the rest of the bandits when they drew their weapons and prepared to attack.

"Bastard! You will pay for what you did to Gouzu-sama!" Naruto shrugged, before blurring out of existence, reappearing behind the gang moment later. If not for the slight billowing of his cloak and kunai appearing in his hand, one could think that he simply teleported to his new location.

"Your wounds are superficial, but I do advice to treat them." Indeed, many cuts had appeared on the bodies of the gangsters, who were now on the ground. "And I hope that this will be a good lesson to you why you shouldn't attack someone who is stronger than you... The next opponent you meet might not be as merciful." And then he returned the kunai to its holster on his right leg and walked away...

A couple of hours later Naruto was still walking through the city, but by now he left the crowded downtown and was in the more or less abandoned part next to the sea. Why the locals seemed to be afraid of living close to the sea was beyond him... Suddenly sirens went off in the distance. Using whatever sensor abilities he had without sage mode, Naruto tried to locate whatever may have caused that, but the only thing he could feel was a shift of energies on the beach not far away from his current location. Shrugging the blond jinchuuriki continued wandering through the abandoned part of the city – it's not like that thing was more dangerous than Pein, right? Especially since right now nothing too abnormal was happening there as far as he could tell...

A little bit more than an hour later his wanderings brought him back close to the anomaly. And right on time to see something happen... The dome of bluish energy some hundred feet in diameter appeared out of nowhere right over the original anomaly, while a slightly pulsing blue hexagonal pattern appeared on the ground, causing a strange sensation of being unable to move even a muscle struck him... The dome dissipated, revealing a gray and blue humanoid monster with six blade-like arms, the monster, which, apparently, was the cause of this strange 'freezing' sensation.

Not wanting to be destroyed by the alien being – and the said being seemed to be thinking about ending his life as it turned towards him – Naruto started collecting natural energies for his sage mode, and was bit surprised by how hard it was while he was 'frozen'... The monster must have felt him gathering the energies, as it swung one of it's massive arms towards him.

Thankfully the monster wasn't very fast and the blond jinchuuriki managed to enter the sage mode on time... With some effort he raised his hands to block the incoming attack, which, while not dealing any physical damage to him, still threw him good thirty meters away.

"What are you?" Naruto asked as he stood up. Of course, the alien thing didn't answer. "Oh well, doesn't matter, 'cause I'll beat you anyway!" The Kyuubi jinchuuriki proclaimed while summoning single shadow clone (this too was more difficult than normal). Together with the clone Naruto created a rasengan shuriken, though it took at least trice more energy than normally, so much that the clone actually dispelled from the lack of chakra once the jutsu was complete. Shrugging this off to the effects of that annoying 'freezing' field, the young sage threw the jutsu at the monster in front of him. "Die, bastard!" But to his surprise, the rasengan shuriken started losing energy as soon as it left his hands and completely dissipated barely three meters into its flight. "What?" Instead of an answer, he got a 'punch' from the monster to his chest, and his sage mode was the only thing that protected him from being turned into a meat paste on the ground.

Feeling that his sage mode was almost completely out of power and would fade soon, Naruto used created another shadow clone (which was supposed to distract the monster for those five seconds he needed to recharge the sage mode), and shunshin'ed away from the monster's sight... Four seconds later he got memory feedback from the destroyed clone. And what was worse, he knew that the monster could feel his new location... Unfortunately for it, though, it wasn't fast enough to finish the blond jinchuuriki before he reentered his sage mode...

Naruto once again used shunshin, this time teleporting to the roof of another building, slightly to the side from the monster, and summoned two shadow clones – one to distract the opponent, and the other to help him create another rasengan shuriken. The distracting clone was destroyed in a matter of seconds by the monster, but it still fulfilled its role, as it gave enough time for Naruto to complete a rasengan shuriken.

"OK, bastard, if I couldn't kill you from a distance..." He jumped off the building and towards the monster in front of him, aiming to hit the thing's 'abdomen' with his attack. The sage mode should be enough to protect his hand from the backlash of the jutsu. "...It doesn't mean that I can't kill you point blank!"

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Shigeru Aoba, an assistant pilot of the Chinook-like chopper that was carrying seven Pandora-Limiter teams to deal with the latest Nova entered the passengers' cabin. Immediately everyone there looked at him.

"OK, guys... and ladies, the command center sent us a message. According to their sensors the Nova you were supposed to kill disappeared." This statement raised quite a few eyebrows: Novas were yet to show an ability to spontaneously disappear. "But you are still going there to direct an investigation." Several Pandora nodded in response, but that was all. Aoba was about to return to his pilot's seat when Makoto Hyuuga, the primary pilot of the chopper, shouted from the pilots' cabin:

"I can see the Nova. It's top half is missing. Whoever did that was strong!" Well, at least that explained why the sensors lost the Nova – it was killed. But this raised another question: who did that as all Pandora from trainees to those who already retired from the active duty were accounted for, and there were none near this location.

By the time the chopper landed some three hundred meters away from the Nova's position (as it should have been done, according to the protocols), West Genetics fourth year Pandora and their Limiters inboard had made up at least fifty different theories of what had happened there, and absolute majority of these theories was quite ridiculous.

Knowing that the Nova, S-type by the way, was already dealt with, the group wasn't in as great hurry as they would be otherwise, but it still took them less than two minutes to reach the place where the battle – those marks on the ground were a clear signs that there was one – took place. And as soon as they were there, along with the bottom part of the Nova and parts of its appendages, they could see a blond man in strange clothes leaning against the wall of a nearby abandoned building.

"Yo!" The man – while he looked to be a year or so younger than them, he had so impressive aura of an experienced warrior that no one would dare to call him just a teen – greeted them as he pushed himself off the wall. "You lot look like you can tell what the heck that thing was?" He asked, while carelessly pointing to what was left from the Nova with his thumb. A couple of Pandora materialized their Volt weapons, as they were afraid that he was an enemy, but the man didn't seem to want to fight as he put his hands in the pockets of his cloak.

"That was an S-type Nova." The girl that seemed to be the leader of the group answered, while gesturing to her comrades to put down their weapons. "But I'd like to know how you killed it, assuming that you are the one who did it." The man shrugged.

"How 'bout slamming a couple of S-rank ninjutsu into its chest? For some reason my ranged attacks failed." His words cause a lot of shocked expressions among the Pandora-Limiters group.

"Not to sound as a disbeliever, but you shouldn't have been able to move at all in the freezing field Novas produce." The same girl replied after a second – she too was surprised by the man's words.

"Yeah, had to resort to my higher-tier skills to fight it." The blond replied with another shrug. "But that nasty ability aside, this thing wasn't that tough." Three of the seven girls – the ones that were more prideful of their Pandora powers developed ticks on their foreheads from this comment. "Good name for the ability, by the way, I did see real ice forming where this Nova thing was standing." There was an argument among the group, to which the man didn't bother to listen to, before their leader spoke again.

"You are coming with us to the West Genetics." That was an order, despite the fact that it was clear that she wasn't sure that her group would be able to force him, should he be unwilling to comply. Without causalities, that is.

"As long as I get some answers to the questions I have, and you don't use me as lab rat, I see no reason to deny your request." He replied with yet another shrug, before making a threat: "But should you try something funny with me... Let's just say that my demons are quite real." The leader-girl nodded.

"Well, if you'd follow us... um..."

"Namikaze-Uzumaki Naruto." The man helped. He looked like he was about to say something more, but decided against it.

"Thanks. If you'd follow us, Naruto-san." With a nod, the man followed the group back to the chopper.

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"Welcome to West Genetics." A young woman, in her early twenties, with greenish hair made into a ponytail greeted Naruto once stepped onto the landing pad... The woman was wearing purple shirt and dark-gray miniskirt under a white lab coat. "I'm Elize Schmitz and you'll be in my care for the time being."

"Nice to meet you. I'm Namikaze-Uzumaki Naruto, though the use of either last name alone is OK too." The Kyuubi jinchuuriki replied with a slight bow, before lowering his voice so that only his converser would hear him. "But I'd feel much more welcome if they'd stop pointing sharp things at my neck." He nodded towards the Pandora behind him.

"Now Namikaze-san, If you'd follow me..." She said, before turning around and starting walking away. A couple of step later she stopped and turned around. "I'll be in my office if anyone needs me." Her words, though, made it clear that she didn't want any of the Pandora following her and her guest, who, by now, caught up with her.

Naruto and Elize walked through what seemed to be a mix between a military base and a very rich civilian school. The trip wasn't long, though, as they soon arrived to Elize's office, which was an infirmary, meaning that this woman was head nurse or something there. Out of the windows in the office the blond jinchuuriki could see a room with medical equipment he had never seen before (though with doctors in Konoha healing everything with chakra that wasn't very surprising).

"Now, Namikaze-san..." The green-haired nurse said once they were comfortably sitting in her office. "I feel that there are many things you'd like, but I want you answer some of my questions first." The blond nodded. "And my first question would be what are you and where are you from, because I know for sure that no normal human can move in a freezing field, yet you did that and even killed an S-type Nova."

"I'd say that I'm a genin of Konohagakure no Sato, but I'm sure than you know not of such place, so I'll limit myself to saying that I'm from what appears to be an alternative dimension..." He made a pause to let the woman in front of him absorb this information. "As for why I'm here? I believe my traveling here to be an accident, caused by a concatenation of circumstances during my last battle in my home world."

"That should explain your choice of clothes..." Elize replied, still not exactly believing what she had just heard.

"Is there something wrong with those? Aside from the lack of orange, of course." This caused the nurse to let out a giggle. "Also, I think it'd be easier if we are on the first name basis, Elize-sensei." She nodded.

"Very well, Naruto-san. If what you said is true, then comparing your abilities to those of either Pandora or Limiters would be useless and you should be classified as a separate class of entities." Even though he didn't like the dry scientific language Elize was using, he nodded in agreement. "I'd also like to run a couple of tests on you to see the extent of what your body can do. We are currently in a period of peace in a war with extraterrestrial life-forms called Nova and anything that can give us additional powers to stop them from wiping humanity from the face of Earth would be very useful."

"I doubt that I'll be of much help there as most my skills were useless in that freezing field, and those that worked, required a certain power up that I'm not willing to teach to anyone there due to the risks involved. That is if they can learn it all..." Naruto replied. "But back to the original question, as long as you don't try anything I don't like, I'm fine with being your test subject. So let's say that I have the right to refuse cooperation for certain test, and we have a deal." Elize nodded.

"That is actually more than I expected." She said. "I believe I don't have any more questions right now, so I'll answer yours now."

"Can you explain what is going on here. With some explanations to the terms you use." The Kyuubi jinchuuriki requested.

"Very well. This might be a long story, so can I offer you some drinks before we begin?" Naruto nodded. "Will some coffee be OK?" At his nod Elize got up and walked to the corner of her room where something like coffee machine was. She asked what kind of coffee he'd like, and, getting the answer that he had no preferences, decided to make two espresso for them. "Also, before we begin, I'd like you to know that today is 17th march 2065, but you might have already noticed that." The blond shinobi nodded – he had seen a couple of different newspapers with this date today in the city. "OK... First of all, I'd like to explain what Novas are."

"That would be helpful." Naruto agreed.

"As you might have noticed, Novas are an extraterrestrial silicon-based life form, that have an ability to freeze everything within a certain radius. The only exceptions to this rule would would be Pandora in either Nova or Pandora forms, and you. Limiters, while using Erienbar set can locally neutralize freezing field of Nova and create their own... As we are right now, humanity's knowledge about Novas is limited and most of it is beyond my level of clearance, even though I'm a retired Pandora myself. As far as I know, even the reason behind the attack is unknown... Novas can't stay in Earth atmosphere for long, and will self-destruct after about thirty six hours. That is how we 'won' the first clash in 2012..."

"Am I to assume that a weapon to fight Novas was found?" Naruto asked as he accepted his coffee from Elize.

"Yes. Pandora are this weapon. The first one had Nova flesh implanted in her body, but later a special genetically-altered tissue called stigmata came into use. Currently Pandora have up to six stigmata in their bodies, but even in the recent history there were special individuals that had more. My comrade and dear friend, Kazuha Aoi, had twenty and was considered to be one of the strongest Pandora in history... Anyway, all Pandora have strength and speed beyond what normal human can achieve. Their bodies are also more durable."

"Sound a bit like a certain type of 'upgrades' used back in my world..." Naruto commented. "Though we definitely didn't fuse demonic flesh with human..." Seeing Elize's confusion, he added: "Yes, our world has some real demons. Most of those aren't that strong, but some... Anyway, can you please continue your lecture."

"As I have mentioned, Pandora have two extra modes. One of them is called Nova mode and occurs when one of us allows stigmata to corrode our bodies too much. Generally, if this happens, Pandora's life is forfeit. There are rumors that a couple of Pandora during the fourth clash could exit this mode safely, but there are no confirmation to that." Elize paused for a second, before continuing. "Pandora mode is something most Pandora have. It boosts our abilities and allows us to move in the freezing field without a support from Limiter. But it has time limit of three minutes and leaves us barely able to move at all after the time runs out."

"And Limiters are somehow assigned to Pandora? I saw that every Pandora had a Limiter with her, and each pair seemed to be rather close."

"Assigned would be a wrong word here. Pandora chooses a Limiter, or several, while in training – but you can have only one when she's graduated – and performs a ritual called Baptism to form Erienbar set – a connection between all five senses of Pandora and her partner. Also, Pandora gives her Limiter one of her stigmata. Since this requires a lot of trust between them, most if not all Pandora-Limiter pairs are lovers. And at least eighty percent of them marry each other once they are old enough." The green-haired nurse said, giggling slightly when she noticed Naruto blushing at her mentioning 'lovers' part. "Only Limiters that had gone through baptism can use their abilities. I know only one exception to this rule, but he's just as special as his sister was..."

"You mentioned clashes several times during your explanations. What were those events?" The blond sage asked.

"Occurrences when Novas attack are called clashes. So far there were nine, all, except for the last two, separated by eight years. There were only three years between eighth and ninth clashes, though... During each clash there were several Novas popping around the world near major cities. Except for the last battle of the second and the eights clashes, Novas always appeared alone... And since there was a Nova attack today, I suppose, the tenth clash began." Naruto nodded.

"Thank you, Elize-sensei, that was very informative." He made a small pause to finish whatever coffee was still there in his cup. "Now I have one other question. Will I have a place to stay here? I got no money and while I have no problems with sleeping outside, having a comfy bed and a roof over my head would be preferable."

"Actually the headmistress agreed to let you use one of the rooms in male part of the dormitory. Well, as long as you keep it clean..." The Kyuubi jinchuuriki groaned: he hated cleaning. "...And don't break anything." The green-haired nurse said. "Also, the mess has some food that you can get for free. It's only one portion per person, and, honestly, that food isn't as tasty as the one you have to pay for, but I think you wouldn't mind that much." Naruto nodded. "I'll talk to headmistress, and, hopefully, you will be payed for my tests, as well as you will get a stipend once you join the ranks: you've already proved that you can defeat a Nova even if your abilities are different from our."

"That would be really great. Pass my thanks to her for the room too." The blond sage said. Elize nodded.

"I'll show you where your room is." She said, before taking a plastic card from the pocket of her lab coat. "This is the key. I strongly advise against losing it." She added, before giving the key to Naruto. "As you will notice, the dorms are shared, but I still would advise against visiting girl's rooms without an invitation." By this time they had exited the building where Elize's office was and were now approaching western-styled four story house built from red bricks. "You room will be on the second floor. I do hope you will be able to find it there yourself." Naruto, unfortunately, took offense to that.

"Hey! I'm not stupid!"

"Sorry." Elize apologized. "Anyway, meet me tomorrow in the mess – a single-story house next to the dorms – at eight in the morning, and I'll tell what we will have planned for your that day." The Kyuubi jinchuuriki nodded.

"Thank you. Have a nice evening." He said, before entering the dormitories. Quickly getting to the second floor, Naruto went along the corridor, looking for the room that was assigned to him. Instead of the normal lock in it, the door had a small plastic box next to it, with a slot for a key-card... Indeed, when he slid the card he was given through the device, there was a 'click' and the door became unlocked. Shrugging, the Kyuubi jinchuuriki entered the room, and was momentary surprised by how big and well-furnished it was. But in the end decided that he could ponder about that – and the lack of local students in the corridors too – in the morning: he was quite tired from the today's events...

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