Pairing: Naruto/Medusa/Scathach/Arcruied/Mordred? Shirou/Saber/Rin/Sakura/Luvia/Illya?

Rating: M

Summary: The throne of heroes had originally been meant as a dimension to contain the souls of transmigrants and powerful chakra ghosts such as Hagoromo and Hamura but then quickly filled up with Heroes deified throughout human history as time went on. However sick and tired of looking down on the world from the Throne Naruto is pleasantly startled when he is summoned for the 5th Holy Grail War as its Archer.

Disclaimer: I neither own Narutoverse or the Nasuverse. It all the intellectual property of Masashi Kishimoto and Kinoko Nasu. I am just writing a kickass non-profit fic using their themes, characters and universes.

A/N:

So welcome to Archer of the Fifth, my first Naruto/FSN crossover. I've been dying to do one of these after reading Lucid Beserker by Madhakerslacker and being introduced to the greatness of the Nasuverse by Third Fang and his brilliant From Fake Dreams. Anyway if you make it all the way through this first chapter please leave review and tell me what you think, constructive criticism please cause I really want to become a better writer and your opinions matter. On with the story.

Chapter 1: An Archer, Saber and a Lancer walk into a neighborhood!

"I am everything that you earnestly want to become Shirou. I saved the whole world more than twice in my time and so many people so many times that I couldn't remember them all even if I bothered trying to count all my adventures. I am what you wish to be but if you truly want to become like me then you are going to have to leave this foolish path you've chosen for yourself, cause such an ideal can only lead to damnation."

— Naruto Uzumaki to Shirou Emiya

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My life was saved.

My life was saved so I won't die that easily.

I need to live, to fulfill my duties.

And I can't do that if I am dead.

I am not going to be killed in a place like this.

For no reason by a guy like you who kills people like its nothing!

A curious expression crossed Naruto's face as he not so much heard these words but rather felt them resonate through his very soul and call to him in a haunting and almost beautiful way. Something was happening and not just happening here but happening to him specifically.

In this infinite but bland landscape were nothing ever happened to him, Naruto couldn't help but be fascinated by this change of circumstances. Their was a powerful tug on his soul and it quickly dawned on Naruto that he was being summoned back to the world of the Living. However that was completely impossible, Naruto knew this as surely as he knew his own name.

The only way for him to go back was via Endo Tensei no jutsu (Impure World Reincarnation technique) or someone using the Rinnegan to perform the Gedou: Rinne Tensei no jutsu (Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life technique) . However the ninja world had long since faded to dust, dust that had then been scattered to the four winds eons ago. Not to mention Naruto severely doubted any Rinnegan users were left and even in the off chance that an Otsutsuki out there might still have the legendary ocular powers, he most certainly wasn't on Earth. Even from the Throne of Heroes Naruto would have sensed such a thing. Those eyes resonated with his very soul after all and thus were intrinsically tied to his legend.

Relinquishing himself to the effects of the summoning which was far less than perfect Naruto was pulled through space and time into what appeared to be a small shed of some sort. Despite the shock of being summoned back to the land of the living, he didn't linger on this long for he was not alone in the shed. Yes their were two other individuals

The first was a boy that looked like he'd been roughed up quite a bit already. He had rust colored hair and golden eyes that immediately reminded Naruto of Senju Tsunade, his grandmother figure. Said boy was sprawled on his back trying to sit up and wore what the automatic information the Grail downloaded into a servant's mind referred to as a school uniform. A school uniform with blood on it and located where the heart should have been was a tear that looked like it came from a bladed instrument.

A part of Naruto's mind even as he took in all these things dwelt on the fact that the sheer concept of a school uniform was rather absurd to him. When he went to school each ninja wore whatever the hell he or she liked and it was usually tailored to their specific needs, fighting styles and abilities.

Their was no such thing as true uniformity amongst ninja's...well ninja's who wanted to get above the level of Chunin that is. Uniformity meant predictability and while he had a reputation as the most unpredictable knucklehead ninja in Konoha, all ninja's tried to be unpredictable. The rest of Naruto's mind however gave its undivided attention to other person in the room.

Standing directly across from the boy was a man with luminous red eyes and blue short hair that fell into a ponytail behind him. He had pale skin and a grin that could only be described as absolutely feral, while his body radiated authority in a way that could never be described as human. He wore a skin tight body suit that was colored blue, with silver decorations along its length and silver pauldrons on either shoulder.

Runes...Naruto didn't know much about them but the grail supplied him with the knowledge that the man's clothes were covered in them as well as his weapon and what a weapon it was. A blood red spear with runic patterns inscribed all across it and a serrated edge that looked...cruel. It was also leaking enough killing intent to make Zabuza go into a little corner and cry in shame, something that was sending Naruto's Negative Emotion sensing abilities haywire

Said spear was also in the blue haired servants hand and already mid thrust and on a vector that would most certainly prove fatal for the boy that could only have been Naruto's summoner. As for the spear, it was without a doubt at least one of the servant's Noble Phantasms and getting uncomfortably close to the russet haired boy's heart. Naruto couldn't allow this and so he acted or more precisely he moved. Like lightning...

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"The Seventh Servant!" Came the startled cry of the blue haired spearman as his thrust was stopped with a loud clang. Said loud clang was a relief to Emiya Shirou's seeing as it meant he wasn't dead just yet. Slightly to his left where previously no one stood was a man who looked to be in his early twenty's, with sun-kissed blond hair and sapphire eyes that simply glowed with power. He was also holding back the deadly red spear with what looked like a mere kunai.

'Was he a ninja?' Shirou wondered to himself.

As a citizen of Japan and a youth, while not as normal as your every day 17 year old for a whole list of reasons we will not be going into, Shirou was still a teenager and as such was exposed to a number of things teenage boys liked such as robots, samurai and the ever mythical ninja. Their was simply no way he wouldn't recognize the classic ninja weapon.

Their was no time for such thoughts though as a second kunai popped into the blond's free hand before being thrown at the attacking spearman. Shirou's blue haired assailant didn't even blink as he brought the bloodthirsty crimson spear in between himself and the incoming projectile before casually deflecting it. It was in that instant that something clicked in Shirou mind and he realized that the second kunai was special.

Aside from it sharing a general resemblance to kunai in general, this new kunai had two extra blades jutting out of its sides at a slightly inward angle. It was also slightly larger than your typical kunai and had some yellow paper around its grip with special writing on it and the ring at the end.

But what truly freaked Shirou out about it was how he instinctively knew that the weird writing on the kunai was a beacon that allowed one to teleport to it. Something that was proven not even a nanosecond later when the blond man instantaneous shifted from where he was two meters away from the spearman to about half a meter like a video recording that had some how skipped a second forward.

A sphere of blue concentrated spiraling...prana...appeared in the newcomers left hand and slammed into the spearman's chest without a seconds hesitation and blasted him out of the shed with enormous force followed by a shout of. "Rasengan!"

With that done the blond man took a second to turn towards Shirou and finally spoke. "I believe this is the part where I am suppose to ask whether you are my master?"

"..." Shirou didn't reply though. How could he? What would he even say after witnessing something so unbelievable. Everything that had taken place had taken place within the space of three seconds. He wasn't a fool and could tell right away that he had just borne witness with his own eyes to high level Thaumaturgy bordering on true magic.

Without missing a beat the blonde continued unbothered by his silence. "But clearly you are even though you seem a little tongue tied at the moment. That's fine, you're probably not used to being in fights like this so let me deal with our unwanted guest first and then we can talk!" With that Shirou's savior turned back to the hole through which he had blown the blue haired spearman and then with speed so great it left a shockwave that toppled Shirou over for a second time that evening the blonde man charged the enemy.

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All thoughts of his master's well being were shoved to the back of his mind as Naruto slammed a wind wreathed kunai into Lancer's crimson spear. This was not an opponent he could relax too much against. Cu Chulainn, the Child of Light, the Hound of Ireland. A man whose legend was equal in weight to that of King Arthur of Britain and a student of the god killer, Scathach. This was bound to be an interesting fight and Naruto had high expectations of Lancer.

Naruto's potent razor sharp wind prana ground against Lancer's legendary spear for less than a nanosecond before a slight tilt of the blue haired servant's wrist redirected all the force to the side harmlessly slicing a massive gouge out of the earth while Lancer retaliated by swinging his spear's shaft around to clobber Naruto in the head.

Naruto blocked this with his Hiraishin kunai with which he used the side prongs to catch the spears butt with. However not missing a beat Lancer twirled it once more in a different direction with the broad blade of the spear coming to slice Naruto apart this time. Naruto again used his regular kunai encased in wind to smack the spear aside but jumped backwards as Lancer dropped into a sweep kick.

Unfortunately this was all a ploy by Lancer to get Naruto into the air. A clever trap really, due to the fact that if he was suspended in midair his speed would be negated by gravity along with his ability to dodge and even his blocking would be extremely limited.

In fact despite the fact that Naruto had merely hopped over the blue Knights sweeping leg and thus could only stay in the air for a second at most, this was a lifetime to servant that could move at speeds that far transcended human ability...and Lancer's were well known for the their agility, with this particular one standing out even amongst the rest.

Cu Chulainn was already prepared with his crimson spear in a thrust position by the time Naruto reached the apex of his little hop and it was already speeding forward to pierce his heart before the ninja even started descending.

Now their were several options available to Naruto to deal with the situation, deflecting the attack with any number of ninja technique's was a possibility but he didn't want to show off too much of what he could do just yet to Lancer. So Naruto settled for a trick Uzuki Yugao taught him long ago, one used by her former lover Gekko Hayate.

Naruto brought the ring of his regular kunai into the trajectory of the spears thrust and caught the spears tip in the middle of the ring with his left hand. It wouldn't hold against a B rank Noble Phantasm for long even if the kunai was being augment by his prana but that was fine, he just needed a nanosecond.

His right hand shot out and the tri-pronged kunai shot towards Cu Chulainn's head who instinctively dodged it with a tilt of his head. Unfortunately for the crimson eyed spearman Naruto instantly teleported to it and slammed another flash created Rasengan into him.

'To hit the legendary Cu Chulainn with a Rasengan twice using the same trick, priceless! This day just kept getting better and better.' Naruto thought as Cu Chulainn was blasted backwards and flipped end over end from the sheer force of the attack before spinning to his feet and quickly stopping his momentum. All in all he looked merely a little ruffled up and ready to go a hundred more rounds.

It was impressive seeing as in Naruto's time a Rasengan was considered an A rank technique albeit his standard rasengan's were far smaller than those created by his father the original creator and the ones he'd just used were flash created. Still even a Jounin back in his day couldn't just shrug of a Rasengan like Cu Chulainn, at least not unless your name was Hatake Kakashi or Maito Gai.

"So you did teleport." Lancer finally deigned to speak up, more curious than angry about taking a second Rasengan to the face.

"Oh that." Naruto said as he looked at the Hiraishin kunai in his hand before twirling it between his fingers in a fancy display and replying. "Just a little something I borrowed from my dad. Truthfully I am not all that good at teleportation but sweet kami does it have its uses. Now enough of this feeling each other out thing Lancer. Let me witness the true power of the Hound of Culann. I have plenty of respect for your master so I have high expectations of you."

"Are you saying you knew that woman?" As Lancer replied Naruto detected an edge to his voice that promised death if the blue haired man heard something he didn't like. Lancer was quite passionate when it came to anything involving his master it seemed.

"No! However you and many others who made it to the throne of heroes have all spoken reverently of her and your actions as her disciples shall speak even more clearly. So enough talking, show me what you can do." Naruto bellowed before he blitzed forward and was intercepted halfway in by the Child of Light when Cu Chulainn's spear shot out and destroyed his wind encased kunai like fragile glass. The Hound of Ireland was a formidable opponent who deserved his name and his place on the throne. And more importantly he was done playing.

Before they had been feeling each other out and had held back much of their strength and ability to better test the waters. This time shockwave after shockwave after shockwave resonated across the yard as spear met kunai and obliterated the shinobi's weapon of choice only for another to instantly take its place.

While his Hiraishin kunai due to the legends of his father and later him using it was able to stand up to a true Noble Phantasm and survive, Naruto's regular kunai on the other hand shattered with every strike. Thankfully they were part of a greater Noble Phantasm which included most of his jutsu and he could create more instantly so long as he had the prana to spare. And if nothing else Naruto was a prana nuclear reactor.

Deflecting three strike from the butt of the weapon and shaft before a nasty thrust that came in so fast the attacks seemed simultaneous, Naruto sidestepped and snapped out a kick which Lancer was forced to block with his spear. It was never going to connect with the spearman, Naruto knew Lancer was too good to let that happen. His kick did however have sufficient strength to send the Hound of Ireland skidding backwards in a shockwave of power and leave two 15 meter furrows in his wake.

Naruto's move had bought himself a second and he needed to use it wisely. Drawing on a lifetime of battle experience, Naruto's analysis of the battle so far assured him that if he continued fighting like this he would lose to Lancer so he decided to break out a few more surprises. A kunai slipped into his hand which he immediately threw at Lancer before flipping through four hand-seals in a blur and muttering. "Kunai: Shadow Clone Technique!"

A single Kunai became a wall of fifty razor sharp blades ready to skewer the blue haired spearman and crossed the distance between the two combatants in a microsecond. Humans couldn't have reacted to such a thing, even season jounin in his time would have had trouble, especially with the speed Naruto threw the damn things at.

Lancer on the other hand merely became a blur of speed and deflected every single one of the kunai even knocking some of them right back at Naruto who had to tilt and twist to avoid his own weapons skewering him. Not one of them could've touched the blue haired demigod if Naruto threw kunai at him all day, but this was perfectly fine by Naruto, it was all part of the plan after all.

A smoke bomb was already prepared in his hand and an instant later it exploded across the floor creating a thick fog of smoke that obscured all vision. Even so Naruto knew that Cu Chulainn wouldn't need to see him to skewer him so he quickly moved to the next phase of the plan.

As a heroic spirit Naruto had immense agility, agility that was extremely high due to his legend even if it was reduced now that he was a mere servant and due to his legend having been forgotten. That being said, the Body Flicker technique was specifically created to boost a ninja's speed to the extremes and was only limited by a ninja's tunnel vision.

Which was why Uchiha Shisui, Namikaze Minato, the Fourth Raikage Ay and many other shinobi feared for their terrifying speed had all without fail overcome this problem. Most of them could even move so fast that they simply looked like they were teleporting even when they were not (Namikaze Minato was considered an extremely fast shinobi even without the Hiraishin no jutsu/Flying Thuder-god Technique and was often mistaken for using his legendary teleportation technique even when he used the Body Flicker technique).

Most shinobi used it to get around quickly and to wow or spook fresh genin. The ANBU Black ops operatives were a little more creative in how they used the technique and often used it to completely invigorate their entire bodies with chakra allowing them not only to move at incredible speeds but do other things at incredible speeds. Things like, flashing through complex and lengthy chains of hand-seals in little more than a second, a skill that was easily one of the most common forms of this the technique and one Naruto now employed.

The world that already appeared to be moving at little more than a crawl to Naruto was suddenly frozen in place as he strung together 3 three separate techniques together with hand-seals. It wasn't an easy skill and took a lot of practice but when you could spam shadow clones like Naruto and gain 20 years of training experience in a week well...their wasn't much he couldn't learn if he didn't want to.

As Naruto finished the last hand-seal and felt the technique's taking effect the smoke ahead of him burst apart like an exploding balloon in a shockwave created by Lancer as he blitzed forward fully intending on impaling Naruto where he stood. Naruto merely smiled in amusement and pulled out a stack of 20 exploding tags and scattered them around him before he was out of time.

Lancer's spear pierced straight threw Naruto's heart as he yelled. "Whatever you are thinking of doing I won't let you."

"Its too late." Was the only thing the impaled shinobi whispered before he burst into smoke and was replaced by a log. A log that was riddled with explosive tags that were all alight and ready to detonate.

Sensing something bad was about to happen Lancer made to move away but a pair of hands burst out of the soil and began to pull him down. Without even thinking about it the butt of his spear smacked the clone clutching at him in the head dispelling it but the Servant of the Lance was already knee deep in the ground by then.

Knee deep was not enough to keep any heroic spirit in place, let alone a Lancer and this particular Lancer was a top class Heroic Spirit with fame that equaled the likes of King Arthur and Heracles in some parts of the world. It was however sufficient to delay him by a microsecond and that was enough for all the tags to simultaneously detonate.

BOOOOM!

The shockwave from the explosion shattered every window in Shirou's house and rattled the ground all across the neighborhood. Shirou who had been watching as much of the fight as he could with his Reinforced eyes found himself blown backwards into the shed once more from the force of the explosion. Even the real Naruto who was crouched on a nearby rooftop, invisible thanks to the Touton no jutsu/Transparent Escape Technique still had to use chakra to stay in place or risk getting knocked off the roof.

In the center of the backyard from the middle of a massive crater engulfed in flames and smoke Lancer jumped out onto the opposite roof. His clothes had tears in them and he was covered in in soot, burns, scratches and a plethora of other minor wounds but all in all he just looked pissed off rather than actually hurt.

Snarling he yelled. "Bastard! Show yourself. What is the meaning of this sudden cowardly and deceitful way of fighting. When we crossed blades early I was certain you were of the Knight classes."

Dropping the invisibility technique Naruto replied with a dark chuckle. "I am Ninja you know. Uzumaki Naruto, Konoha's Number one knucklehead ninja they used to call me."

"So you are Assassin?" It was an accusation. It was completely incorrect too seeing as Naruto was summoned under the Archer class but it wouldn't hurt to misguide his enemy a little and let them come to the wrong conclusions on their own.

"I was trained as one." He replied not really giving a definitive yes. He then shifted his position and said. "However do you have any right to complain Lancer! I know for a fact that you are at least thrice as strong as you showed me and were still holding back in our fight. Its your own fault if you got caught in such a simple trap cause you were pulling your punches enough for me to actually set a trap in the first place."

"Tch!" Cu Chulainn snorted in disgust before saying. "It's not that I was pulling my punches, its my cowardly master who ordered me not to go all out. Its the only reason you are still breathing or I would have definitely skewered you by now."

"I see, that explains why this fight felt so easy." Naruto replied with a smirk.

"Don't get cocky blondie. I wasn't meant to go all out tonight merely observe other masters and their servants. Your master just so happened to have witnessed an earlier battle between me and another servant which was why I was trying to kill him. I didn't expect him to summon the seventh and final servant." Lancer growled.

"He is strange master that one, I can tell that much." Naruto agreed with a whimsical lilt to his voice.

"Don't need to tell me twice. I already killed the bastard once tonight before he came back to life and then when I confronted him a second time he proved that he totally sucked at magecraft but had top notch battle instincts. If I had known he would summon someone like you I would have definitely killed him on the spot." Lancer declared with a tinge of frustration and respect in his voice.

"In that case Lancer, I appreciate that you didn't. Its not every day you get to walk the Earth and fight against other legendary heroes." Naruto replied with Nostalgia lacing his voice this time.

Lancer paused for a moment, looking as if he had suddenly drifted off in thought before he said. "Hmph! My master wants me to retreat. It seems killing that boy isn't worth the trouble of fighting you...yet. If you'd agree to continue this some other time I will retreat for the night."

Simply nodding his head Naruto replied. "Sure, that's fine. My master seems pretty confused, I think I might have to break him in and teach him about the Holy Grail War. So until our rematch you better not get yourself killed and next time I won't go so easy on you Lancer."

Lancer actually grinned at this, a genuinely happy and none-bloodthirsty grin as he replied. "You stole the words right out of my mouth Assassin. Though I am glad that you at least have the guts to face me in open combat."

"Hmph! What an interesting guy." Naruto muttered to himself as he watched Lancer leave before he turned back to the shed where Issei was standing still gaping at the fight that had just taken place. Sighing as he walked back to his master Naruto muttered under his breath. "I see this will take some explaining."

"So the authorities aren't going to come around questioning why their was an explosion coming from my house." Shirou asked in utter disbelief while eyeing the busted up yard suspiciously.

"Not unless they can pierce through the multi-layered barrier I put up around the house before everything went Boom." Naruto replied with a shrug. He wasn't yet entirely sure off the full capabilities of modern day humans, civilian and magus alike but he hoped that wasn't one of them.

"Barrier?" Shirou asked as he looked around in confusion. He couldn't see or more precisely smell anything that might indicate a barrier of some kind had been erected. Of course with all the prana Lancer and Naruto had been throwing around it would have been difficult for even a first rate magus to determine if a barrier had been erected.

"Well I suppose in your terms you'd call it a Bounded Field." Naruto began explaining, mistaking the confusion in Shirou's voice for him not making the connection that a Barrier was a Bounded Field. "Sound proof, Anti-shockwave, Anti-kinetic impact and an Illusion all rolled into one with a few hastily placed seals. It was the best I could do on short notice with Lancer zipping around everywhere like a maniac but it did the job and nobody who shouldn't know about the Holy Grail War should come looking for us."

"Well that's good then. I don't want to involve innocents in this...tournament?" Shirou muttered in visible relief even as he chose the last word carefully and in clear disapproval of the Heaven's Feel Ritual.

"Yep." Naruto nodded his head in reply to the question, popping his his lips at the P sound.

Getting back to their original topic Shirou began. "So just to recap, you were saying that you are a Servant, the spirit of a hero from ancient legend shoved into a life-like vessel for the purpose of competing in a tournament between magi known as masters for access to an all-powerful wish granting artifact also referred to as the Holy Grail."

Making a so so motion with his hand Naruto replied. "More or less."

"And I am now one such Master?" Shirou asked unsure of this whole magical ritual.

"Technically yeah. I mean you got the command seals on your hand and everything." Naruto pointed to the red symbols engraved on the teens wrist. They kind of looked like a bow too, probably cause Naruto was the Archer class Servant.

Of course Shirou was perceptive enough to pick up that their was more to the story and asked. "But?"

"But you kind of suck as a Magus, not to mention that of all the Heroic Spirits you could summon, you summoned me of all people. Something that is utterly impossible or its supposed to be but for some reason with you it isn't. Honestly I can't tell if it was just dumb luck on your part or the involvement of something else that I can't quite put my finger on yet." Naruto explained in exasperation as he looked the young magus up and down as if he had three head and fifteen arms growing out of his back and shoulders.

Shirou simply ignored this and asked. "Why would you say that? The last part I mean, I already know I am just a third rate magus."

"Well cause you are human for a start and a modern day human at that. It's supposed to be completely impossible for your kind to summon me, seeing as I am not exactly a regular servant. Secondly you are all far too weak to summon me and from what I can tell none of you even remember my legend any more so you wouldn't even have had the requisite knowledge of my existence to do so in the first place." Naruto explained to his Master before adding. "So why is it that not only did you manage the impossible but I can't shake the feeling that someone deliberately set things up so that I would be your servant. Honestly its frustrating the hell out of me."

Looking down rather nervously as Naruto blabbered on and on Shirou finally asked. "Are you unhappy with me as your Master then? I know I am 3rd rate magus."

Naruto who had began pacing backwards and forwards as he was lost in thought instantly stopped and rounded on Shirou before replying. "Don't be an idiot Shirou. You may suck at being a master but that doesn't mean I am not grateful to be alive again, breathing this air and walking this earth. Besides there is always room to improve. I can even train you if you like?"

Shirou head snapped up to look at Naruto so fast the ninja swore he heard something crack as his master all but yelled. "Really?"

Ignoring the ringing in his ear Naruto nodded firmly and replied. "Yeah! You don't look like you are in you late twenties yet which means there is room to grow and become strong. That is if you are willing to be me my student."

"Then yes, I would gladly be your student sensei." Shirou whooped enthusiastically.

"Good. I suppose we should formally introduce ourselves now. I'm Uzumaki Naruto, Archer class Servant of this war and your new Sensei. Just call me Naruto or Sensei." Naruto said extending a hand for a handshake.

Shirou hesitantly took the hand before firmly shaking it as he replied. "Shirou, Emiya Shirou. Its a pleasure to meet you Naruto."

"Like wise. Now how bout we put this conversation on hold and go talk to the Master and Servant pair that have decided to pay us a visit at this late hour and by talk I mean I confront them while you wait for my all clear signal. You've already died once tonight according to Lancer, I would rather it didn't happen again." Naruto said poking Shirou over the bloody hole in his uniform from where Lancer had stabbed the boy through the heart.

It was with a light glare that Shirou who was somewhat opposed to Naruto's plan finally relented a few minutes later with a frustrated. "Fine."

Smiling at the fact that they had gotten that little tid bit sorted out Naruto quickly sped off in the direction he sensed the Master and Servant duo approaching. They weren't far thankfully and Naruto was able to get to a street where he would be able to intercept them rather quickly. 'This will be fun.'

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It was with a feeling of dread that Saber and her Master Tohsaka Rin approached the familiar neighborhood, well familiar to Saber that is, Tohsaka not so much. When she had first come across the boy Emiya Shirou as Rin was healing him after her fight with Lancer at the High School she hadn't thought too much about his name. After all he looked nothing like Emiya Kiritsugu or Irisviel von Einzbern.

Now however, she couldn't deny the growing coincidences anymore. A boy with the same last name as her former Master, living in the same neighborhood her late friend Iri had been murdered who just so happened to stumble upon two servants fighting. Said boy then not only got stabbed through the heart by Lancer and survived – albeit he remained on the brink of death – long enough for Rin to use magecraft to bring him back from the edge but made a full recovery in seconds which was a clear indicator of something beyond even Rin's effort's being in play something Rin didn't seem to notice.

And now they were about to head into said boy's neighborhood where Kiritsugu might be located alive and well and possibly even with a servant of his own. A lot of this was just conjecture and guess work but if any Master could've survived the war and the wrath of Gilgamesh after she destroyed the grail, it would've been that man.

She hated to complement him and as far as they stood she would kill him on sight for his betrayal if the ever crossed paths again but regardless of that she couldn't deny that Kiritsugu was good at what he did. The best even.

Which was why she had determined that she keep slightly ahead of her Master at all times and be extra careful upon entering this neighborhood. Caution that paid off when a Servant seemingly dropped out of the sky and landed in the middle of the street before drawing two small daggers. Naturally King Arturia Pendragon charged at her fellow servant with intent to take his head their and then.

Their wasn't even so much as time to blink between drawing his weapons and having to block the missile that was without a doubt the Servant of the Saber colliding with him. Face to Face, emerald eyes to sapphire eyes, man to woman and Knight against Shinobi, the two blondes ground their wind wreathed blades against each other, though Naruto's kunai were still visible unlike his assailants.

The invisible blade was definitely a Noble Phantasm seeing as it snapped the ordinary kunai Naruto held in right hand after it had taken the strength of his opponents Noble Phantasm for a few seconds. Only the Hiraishin kunai stopped Saber from carving a path across Naruto's body from right shoulder to left hip. Of course she still had enough power behind her swing to blast Naruto backwards with sheer strength much to the ninja's surprise tossed a kunai at her face even as he went flying.

'She's quite strong for such a little thing.' Naruto thought to himself as Saber blurred towards him and struck another lightning fast blow. 'I could simply match her strength but that would be boring so I will go with speed. Besides I already showed Lancer a bunch of things so I need to show her something different.'

All these decisions where made in the time it took a fly to flap its wings once and then Naruto kicked out, catching Saber's wrist with enough force to direct her sword slightly to the left of where it should have been and allowing him to dodge her vicious riposte. As she spun to engage him again Naruto produced another Kunai and threw it at her face once more which she deflect but in the time it took for her to raise her blade he had crossed the distance separating them and was in her space.

Redirecting her blade to block Naruto's next attack as he attempted to point blank stab her in the eye, Saber was surprised and caught off guard when Naruto suddenly appeared behind her with another kunai poised to stab her the kidney just as the one in front of her shimmered into an afterimage. A burst of Prana to her feet allowed her accelerate past the sound barrier away from Naruto even as she spun around and tried to bisect him while doing so but Naruto merely out-sped her sword swing and got in front of her before she could properly react.

The shift in the battle became rather obvious as Saber despite using Prana burst to enhance her speed found herself on the defensive and outpaced by a far more agile Naruto who was simply grinning like a loon the whole time. Clash after clash of chakra enhanced kunai and invisible sword occurred one time after another and yet Saber could barely do anything other than block or deflect Naruto as he toyed with her.

And yes he was toying with her. She could tell by the way he didn't even try to slash or stab at her with any sophisticated movements or skills. She already knew he was great at handling his kunai judging by the ease and accuracy with which he could throw them at her and she had already seen him attack with actual technique rather than this poke her in the back thing he was doing.

Saber was quickly loosing her composure as she felt her temper flare and finally fed up with this game Saber unleashed a blast of Prana that created a shockwave power enough to send Naruto flying backwards and then with a mighty roar she came at him with everything she had as he reeled.

Staggering from Saber's sudden offensive Naruto ducked under her first swing then sidestepped the second before skipping backwards and away from the third and fourth. Saber's attacks might as well have been lightning for all their speed and Naruto quickly found that he had not escape as unscathed as he first assumed. The skin around his neck was slightly split and leaking a few beads of blood from where the swordswoman's invisible blade had tried to decapitate him for the millionth time since he had started blitzing her with his speed while poking at her with his kunai but it was ultimately nothing to be concerned about.

Sure it was really tricky to determine the true length of her damn sword but it wasn't like Naruto was unfamiliar with fighting against people using invisible blades. Every ninja that ever used Wind Release technique's could be classified under that particular category and he'd been fighting them without problem for decades. Hell, switching to sensory mode would have made the fight almost too easy, almost because this was a servant and skill was a factor.

Of course before Naruto could escalate their short skirmish any further Shirou popped around the corner of the alley leading to the road they were fighting on and in doing so unfortunately placed himself squarely between Naruto and the enemy servant just as she was about to attack him. Cursing his Master's carelessness Naruto threw his Flying Thunder-god Kunai for the first time during the whole fight directly behind himself before Body Flickering towards his Master.

As if that was a sign in itself to attack, Saber sped forward with her blade poised to stab Shirou or him when he got their fast enough. Dipping into his true speed slightly Naruto became little more than a streak of light for a second before appearing in front of Shirou and then biting his thumb and smearing some blood on a sealing array tattooed into his wrist.

The ensuing cloud of smoke from activating the storage seal blocked out the enemies vision and allowed Naruto to place a hand on Shirou and teleport him to Hiraishin kunai he'd thrown behind himself earlier without anyone seeing exactly what he did in that split second the smoke obscured them. Meanwhile his free hand retrieved the new weapon he'd just summoned and parried Saber's latest sword strike with impressive results.

The Truth Seeking Ball/Gudou Dama that he had shifted into the form of a Tanto not only held against the invisible Noble Phantasm but utterly dispelled the wind surrounding it revealing...a sword. No, that felt wrong. Just calling it a sword was far too simple a description for the bladed weapon pressed against his TSB Tanto.

It was magnificent, majestic, dream-like and utterly Victorious for one. As in this weapon utterly radiated Victory which in turn meant for all its gold and blue decorative colors it could only be one particular weapon. A sword so majestic that any one who saw it could not fail to recognize the identity of its wielder. The blade laying naked before his eyes was unquestionably the Sword of Promised Victory which meant the woman before him was.

"Hello your Majesty, it really is an honor to run into you in this little war." Naruto said as he stared the beautiful King of Britain in her beautiful worry-laced emerald eyes.

Fortunately before anything could escalate further her master, a young girl about Shirou's age with brown hair done up in pigtails and aqua-blue eyes, who up until that point had been quietly standing on the sidelines finally spoke up saying. "Saber wait."

That single command made Saber stop and back up from Naruto, blade still ready to defend herself and her Master should he reengage them. Naruto found his respect for the King rising a bit, for her never dropping her guard even as she was willing to be diplomatic. He on the other decided be rather casual about everything.

"So what can I do for you this evening ladies." Naruto asked as his TSB returned to its ball form and hovered next to his hand leaving no question about how fast he could draw his weapon should the situation call for it. "Because as fierce as her Majesty is with a blade in hand, it doesn't seem like you came all this way to pick a fight."

"Well you are right about that. Thankfully all our worries are assuaged and my school mate is still breathing. Ain't that right Emiya-kun!" Saber's master replied, her eyes shifting between Naruto and Shirou as if they were the most fascinating beings in the world.

End Chapter...

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