Why am I doing this?

So yeah, Hai the names Magnum , and for some reason I'm doing another story, let's just ignore the fact that I've already got other stories that I should be working on and get a move on.

Anyway, while I was writing the last chapter for Konoha's Orange Tactician. This idea poped into my head and now it won't leave me alone!

The Tellius games are probably two of my favourites in the Fire Emblem series despite their flaws, I'm more then willing to go back and play them (More so Path of Radiance since Radiant Dawn requires alot more time to play through.)

And so, while I was writing a sence involving Elincia in my other Naruto/Fire Emblem crossover, this idea came to me and most of the time when ideas come to me they don't leave me alone.

So without further ado I give you my second venture into the Naruto/Fire Emblem crossover fiction with!

The Shadow of Crimea.

Prologue: The Thief and the Princess.

The boy spied on the Vendor while the tender was patiently waiting for customers, his hand tightly griping his hood.

The Market place was filled with people at the moment, many of them buying the simple things that everyone needed like food and water.

The boy in question, however wasn't able to simply go and buy the things that he needed to live.

He was an orphan after all, how was he suspose to have money?

He continued watching the vender, like a bird stalking it's prey. Finally, after several minutes. A Customer had arrived.

Now was the perfect moment to strike.

He brushed past some people as he slowly stepped out of the alley.

The Vendor was still distracted by the Customer, good.

He sneaked out of the crowd quickly and out of view of the Vendor, as he sneaked behind the small Market stand.

The Vendor was still talking to the Customer, perfect! Now he just needed to get what he needed before he was found.

He got his small torn bag open and started grabbing whatever food he could get.

He could hear movement from the front of the stand, damnit he was running out of time.

The boy quickly snagged a few more pieces of fruit and began to make a run for it.

He choose a good moment to get out of as the Vendor was just about to go into the back of the stand.

"Stop, Thief!"

The boy just kept running even faster.

Unfortunately, the boys bag hit a nearby snag just as he was exiting the Market place, causing his stolen goods to litter out onto the street.

The boy snarled as his loot fell to the ground, he saw that the Vendor was racing after him meaning he didn't have any time to pick up the food.

Having no time to reclaim the food, the boy just continued running, his hood falling to reveal the boys spiky blonde hair.

The Vender cursed as he collected the stolen goods while being approached by the earlier Customer.

"May I purchase those?" The green haired Customer questioned, his knightly attire shining in the sunlight despite it's dark colouring.

The child scurried into a nearby alleyway. He checked his bag, nothing remained in it, just a large simple hole located where the food would should been.

His stomach growled as a single tear fell down his face. It seemed he'd be going hungry once again.

He pulled out a small Knife from his pocket and held the handle as he looked at it.

The Knife was simple in design, the only true difference it had compared to a normal Knife were the words that were craved into the blade.

'Momento.'

A sudden noise alerted the boy as he got up and scanned his surrondings. Had the Vender come looking for him?

An object rolled along the ground toward him, as it got closer, the blonde realized that the object was an Apple.

Despite the boys thoughts screaming at him that the Apple was bait, he couldn't help himself as he dived forward and began eating the red fruit.

Footsteps began to echo out through the alleyway as a figure approached the blond child.

Assuming that it was the Vender, the boy pulled his Knife out in a defenseive stance.

But as the figure got closer, the boy slowly lowered his Knife.

It was a Knight.

"What's a Knight doing here?" Were the boys thoughts as he stared up at the armored knight that slowly approached him.

The child tried to hide the Knife and Apple quickly hoping that the alley had been dark enough that the Knight hadn't seen them.

The Knight slowly removed his helmet as the boy got a good look at his face.

The first thought that came to the boys mind was the fact that the Knight was a man, he had short green hair along with a mustache and a beard. The mans face was aged and seemed to have been through many battles in his lifetime.

The man knelt down and stared into the blondes blue eyes.

The Knight brought out a bag and opened it's contents for the boy to see.

It was all the fruit he'd tried to steal!

He slowly moved his hands toward the bag until he stopped himself and turned back to the green haired Knight.

"Would you like these?" The Knight questioned as he observed the boys face. The boy nodded, with his question answered, the Knight placed the bag next to the boy, who proceeded to chow down on the food.

The Knight watched as the boy ate like he hadn't had food for weeks.

Something about the boy seemed familiar to the Knight, the Knight couldn't quite place why however as he continued observing the blonde.

Then a thought crossed his mind as the Knight decided to ask the boy a question.

"What's your name, boy?"

The boy swallowed another piece of an Apple as he turned to face the Knight once again.

"Naruto." The boy said simply as he returned to munching away at the food.

"Where are your parents, Naruto?" The Knight continued his questioning in the hopes of finding out why the boy seemed so familiar to him.

"Don't know." Another simple response.

The Knight began feeling sorry for the young boy, not only was he an orphan Thief but also had no clue about where his parents were.

Suddenly, the Knight realized something as he looked at the blondes hair.

He'd had a comrade at one point that had hair like that.

Could the child be linked to one of his old comrades?

The Knight then remembered that he had other matters to attend, he then stood up.

He turned to bid the boy farewell, until an idea sparked in his head.

"Naruto." The boy looked upwards when his name was spoken. "Would you like to have a place to live?"

The boys eyes lit up at that, of course there had to be some kind of catch but what did he have to lose? He basically lived in alleyways at the moment.

The boy nodded at the Knight as the green haired man looked back with a smile.

"Then follow me, young one!" The Knight called out as he walked out of the alley with Naruto following behind, still munching away at his Apple.

"Hopefully Ramon won't have a problem with this." The Knight thought as he looked up at the sky.

A young girl sat by the window of the countryside villa, looking out at the lake that lay nearby.

The girl had green hair in a bun along with bangs covering the side of her face, she wore an orange gown as her outfit.

The girl quickly got up from her siting area when she noticed a black horse slowly trotting up the path to the villa.

Her Uncle had come!

She rushed down to the front door before any of the caretakers her father had assigned her had come and opened the door.

"Uncle Renning!" She called out as she opened the door and went over to the her Uncle.

As she walked over, she noticed a second person siting on her Uncles steed.

It was a young boy around her age, wearing a silver hooded jacket along with black pants that seemed to be starting to tear up.

The boy had blonde spiky hair and clear blue eyes similar to her milk siblings.

This stranger made her somewhat nervous, it didn't help that her soical interactions were limited.

"Ah, Elincia, just the girl I was hoping to see!" Her Uncle said as he dismounted from the horse and turned to the youngster that was acompanying him. "You can get off now, Naruto."

The blonde slowly jumped off the horse as he looked around the area.

He found the whole place beautiful, the pure white villa looked more welcoming then any of the houses he'd seen back where he'd been staying.

The lake was gorgeous in Naruto's eyes, the light shining off it from the sun just improved the image for him.

And finally, there was the girl.

He stared at her for what felt like a full ten minutes to the boy.

She was the prettiest girl he'd seen throughout his life, her dark green hair was unlike any other shade he'd seen before and her dress made her look like one of those Princesses he'd seen in those picture books he'd found in the trash sometimes.

Naruto was beginning to think he shouldn't be here as he pulled his hood over his head and tried to pretend he wasn't there.

"Elincia, I need to speak with your caretaker for a moment, is it alright if I leave young Naruto with you?" Renning questioned as he observed his niece.

The girl now known as Elincia nodded, Renning smiled as he knelt down to the hooded blonde.

"Stay with Elincia for now, Ok Naruto?"

Naruto nodded while trying to avoid eye contact.

"Alright, stay safe you two!" Renning proceeded to go into the villa, leaving the two too their own company.

Elincia stepped over to the blonde as he continued to try and avoid eye contact.

"Umm, excuse me?" Naruto didn't make any movement to respond to her as he continued trying to keep his head turned away from her. "Uh, would you like to come in, Sir Naruto?"

Naruto turned towards her after that. "Why did she call me Sir Naruto?" He was just a lowly orphan thief after all, why did someone that looked to be royalty call him a Sir?

He nodded dumbly in response and followed her inside.

The inside of the building seemed to be even bigger then the outside to the young thief, he looked from wall to wall in amazement of some of the decorations that the building had.

While he was taking his time being awe stricken by the decorations, he didn't realize that his Knife had fallen out of his jackets pocket.

Elincia had however noticed the small Knife as it fell on the floor, while she had at first been slightly shocked by the sight of the weapon. Out of curiosity, she decided to pick it up.

"Ummm, is this yours, Sir Naruto?" Elincia asked as she held the Knife out to the blonde, noting the words craved into the blade.

Naruto stopped looking around and turned back to the greenette, he tried to hide the blush that his face obtained when seeing the girls innocent face, damnit why'd she have to look so beautiful to his childish mind?

He slowly retrived the Knife from her while uttering a soft thank you.

"Is it important to you?" She questioned as he pocketed the Knife once again.

The boy nodded. "It's the last thing I have of my parents." Naruto answered quickly as he once again tried to avoid eye contact.

"Does that mean your parents are..." Elincia paused as she observed the hooded blonde. "D-dead?" She questioned with a stutter, she didn't like the thought of death.

"I don't know." The boy answered as he pulled out the Knife once again and began staring at it. "I woke up one day and I was alone, all there was this was this Knife as far as I can remember."

Elincia began to feel sorry for the boy as she watched him stare at the small Knife before turning towards her.

"Elincia, are you a Princess?" He questioned with childish curiosity as he looked at the greenette.

Elincia nodded in response, while she had been told that her status as a Princess was to be kept a secret, it couldn't hurt to tell this one boy right?

"Then why don't you live in a castle like other Princesses?" Naruto questioned, his voice still filled with the same childish curiosity as before.

Elincia looked down at the ground as she answered. "My existence as Princess is suppose to be kept a secret in order to keep me safe, or so I've been told."

Now being a child caused Naruto to not understand things very well.

But if she needed to be kept safe then didn't that mean she needed someone like a Knight in shining armor to keep her safe?

Maybe he could be her Knight in shining armor?

Naruto shook his head at that, he was no Knight. He was a Thief.

But maybe he could still protect her.

As her shadow.

"Elincia!" The hooded blonde said as he removed his hood allowing her to fully see his face. "If you need someone to keep you safe, then I promise that I'll protect you till the day I die!" The boy shouted out loud enough so that anyone in the building could hear. "And I never break my promises!"

Elincia stared into the blondes determined blue eyes as he faced her directly.

For some reason she felt somewhat more at peace as she stood next to the boy who's status as a Thief she was unaware of.

While she didn't fully realize that the boy had just pledged his life to her, she had began to feel some kind of connection with the boy as they continued staring into each others eyes.

Fate seemed to have plans for this lowly Thief and secluded Princess, wheather they knew this or not didn't matter to either, all they knew was that they'd both just met one of the most important people in their lives.

Authors Notes.

So yeah, hopefully this came off as intended and I didn't fail big time with this.

Anyway this is gonna be a side project and it'll probably keep that title as side project unlike Orange Tactician.

This is my first time actually trying to go with a story that focuses on a Romance and I really hope I can pull this off, either I stuff it up or it works out. Hopefully it's the latter.

I wanted to do this story due to my own personal liking for Elincia as a character and I wanted to do a Naruto in Tellius story, logically this is an AU but yeah.

Anyway I'd love to hear what you readers thought of this, was it bad? Was it good? Did I fail at setting this up? Let me know, I love reading feedback and I do respond to most of the reviews when I think it deserves an answer.

Anyway have a good day/night dear reader and I'll see you again next time.

Edit: Fixed some of the more noticeable grammar issues I could find and reworked some lines so that they make more sense.