Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto nor do I own FFXIII. But I'll let you know when I do :)

I would appreciate some nice comments about this one. Not that I'm against criticism just make it constructive. I wrote this story so far because, hey, I love writing and it keeps my mind busy. I also enjoy these two universes and I hope my passion for both of them show in this story. Also since this is my first story this chapter has been created to be used as more of a sample then anything else. But if I receive several reviews that ask for me to keep going from you guys then I will consider continuing the story. The story will be different(obviously) but I don't know how much I'll differ from the main storyline. Lastly, I truly want to keep writing this story and hope you guys enjoy as much as I have writing it. I'm done now so enjoy! ;)

Chapter 1: A New Beginning

There stood Sasuke Uchiha staring at the lifeless body that he had recently called best friend. The battle between the two shinobi's was intense, and even though Sasuke was presumed the winner, he could slowly feel his consciousness slipping away from him.

"Damn it Naruto! How could you have ever gotten this strong in such a short time."

Kneeling down from the sharp pain in his shoulder, Sasuke was now inches from Naruto's face. Looking straight on, he could see the peaceful look the young whiskered Jinchurikki had on his face. It was almost like he was grinning back at him while mocking him, laughing at him, and possibly... crying? Sasuke couldn't tell, nor did he feel like he had the strength too. A sudden break in the sky let loose a single beam of sunlight that shot down through the sky at the speed of light(No pun intended). The beam of light enveloped the two young shinobi's and cast a reflection off Sasuke's Hitai-ate back at the young Uchiha. Sasuke glanced back at the now scratched Leaf Headband that was lying next to Naruto.

"I guess this officially makes me a rogue ninja." Sasuke thought while his vision began to fade.

"Naruto, you are the only person I will consider as an equal." He began to to lose his voice and knew he only had a couple of moments before he would totally black out from utter exhaustion.

"You are still a dead last in my book however" Sasuke whispered before collapsing onto the ground next to Naruto.

Before he collapsed he thought he saw a slight grin forming around Naruto's face, but thought nothing of it since he believed that Naruto was truly dead.

Little did he notice that his surroundings had changed during his battle with Naruto. After the final attack coming from Sasuke's Chidori and Naruto's Rasengan the pair of shinobi's had inadvertently caused a rift in the fabric of space. Because the attacks were so powerful it sent both Naruto and Sasuke to another world which neither of them would be prepared for.

Unknown Time

Sasuke was the first one to wake up and was surprised to see Naruto laying down beside him. But then just looking at Naruto suddenly brought back a flood full of memories to the young Uchiha. He remembered that he had fought Naruto and won. Grinning slightly Sasuke looked back up into the sky and remembered what his brother had said to him,"When you have enough hatred come look for me. When you have these eyes then you can fight me. But, these eyes are special and require a...sacrifice," Itachi Uchiha then gave his brother a glare that demanded all of the young Sasuke's attention,"you must kill your best friend!"

The memory, the pain, the suffering that Itachi had caused to him made himself clench his fist in utter fury.

"That man stole everything from me. No, even worse he stole my life, no even worse than that he stole my soul!" Sasuke screamed in his head. But now that he had the Magenkyou Sharingan he could finally defeat his brother and claim his rightful title as an avenger!

A sound of a bird brought Sasuke out of his brooding and made him realize his surroundings. He was not by waterfall or forest. Instead he seemed to be surrounded by towering buildings, that he could only guess, reached to the heavens. Deciding that he should use his newly acquired powers, he activated his Sharingan by focusing his Chakra into his eyes. His eyes soon turned red with three tomoe around his central pupil

"What? How can this be? I killed my best friend!" Sasuke was now second guessing his actions until he heard a very faint, but to him thunderous, groan coming from behind him.

"Ow, why does it feel like Lady Tsunade punched me in the gut again? Naruto groaned loudly unaware of the shaking figure in front of him. Rubbing his belly, Naruto began to stand up and brush away the dirt that had accumulated onto him while he was unconscious. Suddenly aware of Sasuke's presence because of the Uchiha's teeth grinding, in frustration of Naruto being alive, took a cautious step towards him.

"Naruto. Where are we?" Trying to hide his emotions with his patented monotone.

Naruto realizing the same thing that Sasuke had noticed before moments ago was now also dumbfounded.

"I...I don't know Sasuke," Naruto replied before glaring back at him," but I do remember you trying to kill me you teme!"

Ignoring Naruto's sudden outburst of anger towards him Sasuke began to walk around the park, well what he assumed was a park, and began looking over his surroundings.

Naruto having nothing else to do followed in step with Sasuke's. The two shinobi's had wandered around for what seemed like a couple of hours into they came to what looked like an information center. Casually walking over to it, Sasuke picked up a pamphlet and began reading over it. Naruto,gazing at his reading, saw a wide range of emotions run past the Uchiha's face.

Worried that something could cause his best friend that many emotions in such a short amount of time spoke up,"Uh what is it Sasuke? Are we lost?" Sasuke just shook his head slowly at him before resuming his reading. "Well where the hell are we then since this doesn't look like the Fire Country at all!" Naruto yelled getting irritated from his friend's lack of communication.

Sighing slowly Sasuke looked Naruto in the eyes and said,"Your right for once loser. We're not in the Fire Country, and since you suck at reading I guess I'll have to explain it to you as simple as possible." Naruto began pouting about how he wasn't trying at the Academy and how he would've embarrassed him if he actually tried.

"Shut up and listen dobe because I am not repeating myself again you hear?" Naruto, grumbling, nodded his head in understanding even though he wished his friend could have used nicer words to get his attention. "We seem to have been transported into another universe. Our final attack must have disrupted the space time continuum." Noticing Naruto was tilting his head to the side in confusion, Sasuke sighed in frustration and continued," In dobe terms our attacks created a magical portal that sent us here to another world that is unlike our world. From what I have read this planet is called Cocoon and the city we're in is called Bodhum.

Silence was heard between the two friends after that last statement. Naruto was now having a major headache from the sudden turn of events. How could this all happen to him and why of all people that he could have been with had it had to be Sasugay! He was always talking down to him and when he wasn't he always had to show off in front of everybody, especially to him! At least with Sakura she was pretty enough to look at and wasn't such a bad person herself when she wasn't always around Sasuke. Keyword being always.

"Hey, Naruto why don't we go to the library and look up more information on what we're dealing with here." Sasuke asked bringing Naruto out of his stupor.

"Okay, lead the way Sasugay. At least now your eyes will be useful for something other then killing your friends!" Naruto replied with a mocking tone.

A tick mark appeared on Sasuke's forehead but he ignored Naruto and indeed led the way. After what felt like even more grueling hours of getting lost and sidetracking the pair finally came to a building that resembled a library. Going in they couldn't help but gasp at the interior of the library. There thousands upon thousands of bookshelf's littered around the library. They were even more shocked when they realized that there were several hundred more rooms just like theirs.

"Hn... I'll have a look around and find any books containing any material that might help us." Sasuke said before leaving to another room.

"Wait Sasuke!" Naruto cried figuring out too late how easily the pair could get lost in such a large building.

"Hey! The weirdo in the orange jumpsuit shut the hell up!" A feminine voice cried out to the whiskered Jinchurikki.

Looking towards the receptionist desk Naruto could only see a pink haired figure covered behind a computer. Embarrassed that he was just called out for being loud in a library he shrunk his head beneath his jumpsuit until a realization hit him as hard as his embarrassment. Mad at the attack on his clothing fashion he stomped up to the receptionist desk and began to yell at the girl behind it.

"Now wait just a mome-" Naruto couldn't finish his sentence when he saw the girl up close. She looked to be around 12 years old and had very striking features. She had aqua-colored eyes that seemed to pierce through his soul. Her face seemed to be flawless with no imperfections that he could see. He also saw a lightning shaped pendant hanging from the girls neck and the exposed skin it was rubbing against. Unconsciously his cerulean eyes began to drift further down the girls neck onto her chest-

"What the hell do you think your doing pervert?" Both of them blushing from the awkward scene Naruto had created for both of them.

"Sorry sorry sorry! I didn't mean to. I was just looking at your face and then I saw your necklace and then-" Naruto shut up quickly because he knew he was pretty much digging his own grave and making it even worse.

Well he was wrong about the dying part. But he was right about making things worse. BAM! Naruto's entire body flew back 50 ft. all the way back to the entrance and landed with a bone cracking thud!

"Shut up pervert! You do that crap again and it will be more than just your bones breaking." She glared at Naruto with certain death written all over her face. Naruto gulped and hurried out of the room to avoid any more painful accidents. While he left the girl began to relax after he left the room and a slight pink showed up onto her cheeks.

"Although he was kinda cute for a perve- no Lightning you don't have time for boy's! Your main focus is on making money and supporting Serah. Sighing softly to herself she reminded herself of the hardship she and her sister had been going through the last 4 years since their parents had died. Lighting was working her ass off to support both she and Serah. Even then they barely had enough to live with. Shaking her head she went back to work hoping to forget about the recent embarrassing moment she had just had with a whiskered boy.

Sasuke had finally found 2 books that he thought had information that could help them understand the world they were in. Just then he heard books falling onto the floor and several gasps coming from the few people who were in the room. "Naruto, what the heck did you do now?" And as if on cue, our orange whiskered jumpsuit hero exploded out of a pile of books and blindly ran into Sasuke.

"Oh thank god teme I found you! I just met the devil and she has pink hair!" Naruto said in panic.

"Get off of me you dobe!" Sasuke cried out from the suffocating grasp the young Uzumaki had on him. After getting back up and dusting his clothes off Sasuke glared at Naruto expecting an answer. But the only answer Sasuke got was Naruto hastily looking around as if his life depended on it.

"Wait, the only time I've ever seen him like this is when Sakura is pissed of at him." Then a light bulb went off in his head. Naruto pissed off another fan girl again. "When will he learn that fan girls are nothing but mindless sex machines." Sasuke shivered at the memory of hordes of fan girls engulfing him into painful and mindless shows of affection.

"Naruto, I've found some books that might help us get back to Konoha, so will you stop your paranoia and help me read them dobe?"

Naruto stiffened at the word Konoha and turned his head back to Sasuke so fast he thought his head was going to rip off. "So you found a way home Sasuke?" Naruto was now practically jumping up and down from pure and utter excitement at possibly going home.

"No, listen I said might not will." Naruto quickly deflated at his statement. "It's incredible how fast he can switch moods so fast. But then again he's not the number one most unpredictable ninja for nothing." Sasuke thought until he remembered why they were in the library in the first place. "Lets go find a table and start reading this stuff before it gets too late." Naruto just nodded his head as he followed Sasuke to a nearby table.

Both shinobi's were at the library pouring over their new source material. They were so focused that they didn't notice the sunlight fading beneath the horizon until a voice snapped them out of their deep research.

"Hey boys it's nearly ten and the library will be closing soon, so I suggest you leave since I don't feel like doing overtime for nothing."

"I'm sorry lady but can you give me and my friend a couple of mor-" Naruto exploded out of his chair and quickly raced behind Sasuke using him as a human shield. "Teme that's the girl! That's the devil in disguise!" Sasuke only squinted his eyes toward the girl and then shrugged and began reading the book in front of him again, completely ignoring the pink beauty. She was very pretty but to him she was nothing special other than a regular hopeless fan girl.

"Did you not hear me duck ass? Get the hell out of my library before I kick both your asses and your hair!" She slammed her palms into the table mere inches from Sasuke's face. But a certain blond hair only heard the remark about his friends hair and began rolling on the ground in hysterical laughter.

"Oh my god his hair does look like a duck's ass. Hahahahahahaha!" Naruto couldn't stop laughing. The fact his hair looked like one made the joke impossible not to laugh at he thought.

"I..i... it does not not!" Sasuke screamed while turning slightly red from the embarrassing comment. "Oh Naruto I will definitely kill you now. As for the girl-" Sasuke glared at her with such hatred that it might have rivaled his hatred with Itachi's.

"Tch whatever just get the hell out of here." She walked away while leaving one boy crying from extreme laughter and one boy shrouded in deep malice.

"Haha okay teme lets go before she comes back and really hurts us." Naruto got up and began walking towards the exit of the library. Sasuke engulfed in anger slowly followed after Naruto. It took a while for the boy's to recognize the situation they were in and by then the boys were tired and hungry from the day's long adventure. They crept into an alley and decided that it was better to sleep under a roof and somewhat hospitable conditions compared to anywhere else they would might have picked. They then hear a loud shriek and Naruto being filled with bundles of energy and good morale's decided to run toward the direction of the sound. Sasuke really hoping that Naruto would use his selfish side for once just grumbled and followed.

When they both got to a clearing they saw a young girl being mugged by a massive man. He was trying to steal her purse while the girl was kicking and screaming in desperation. Naruto wasted no time and charged the man from the behind. Now usually a 12 year old boy would stand no chance against a fully grown man who was just massive compared to his average male counterparts. But this 12 year old boy was different compared to the rest of the boys in his age group. First off, he was very well built and strong from all the ninja training that he received. Secondly, he was a freaking ninja! And lastly, and most importantly, he was Naruto Uzumaki and he took crap from no one. Especially a crappy man trying to harm an innocent girl no less. With one leg kick to the man's head he was knocked to the ground unconscious and missing several number of teeth in the process. Sasuke could only grin at the scene because he was proud of Naruto for both his efficiency and thoughtfulness he showed. Sasuke couldn't help but feel a slight twinge in his stomach for not wanting to come but rubbed it away.

"Are you ok M'Lady?" Naruto was showing his foxy grin in front of the young girl who now started to blush from the unexpected formalities.

"Yea...yeah thanks to you mister." She replied stuttering.

Just then a flash of pink hair flew by the young girl and went straight for the blond haired shinobi.

"Ah crap it's her agai-" Naruto's thoughts were shattered by a solid fist smashing into his face. Naruto keeled over grasping his face in agony while Sasuke sweat dropped.

"I'm sure glad crazy women don't punch me." Sasuke thought to himself.

"Serah are you okay? Did this man hurt you?" The pink haired beauty asked the younger girl.

Serah just simply pointed to, what she thought to be, a random direction. The pink haired girl look towards where she was pointing and saw a large man lying on the ground clutching her purse.

"Oh so that guy.." Serah nodded slowly.

"And then the guy I... Serah nodded again.

"So then I..." Serah nodded in acknowledgment.

"Tch minor misunderstanding that's all." She said to Serah,"All though he did deserve it for earlier." She smiled to herself while looking at the knocked out boy. "Besides he'll be okay once he wakes up. The fact that your safe and sound is all that matters sister.

"So this crazy bitch does have a heart after all." Sasuke thought to himself before stepping out of the shadow. "So now that my friend here saved your sister's life don't you think you should at least help him since you just slugged him to kami.

Lightning just shrugged,"Find your own road to hell. I could care less if both of you got hurt." It was lie but she needed to keep her stoic attitude up for her sister's sake. Also she was starting to respect to blonde idiot a little more for protecting her sister.

"But Lightning he saved my life! Most importantly he saved you future heartache if I had gotten hurt." Serah pouted to her sister.

"Sigh, indeed he did. I already know how this is going to end." Lightning closed her eyes and crossed her arms awaiting for the inevitable.

"We can't just leave them here on the streets, they could get hurt or even worse die!" Serah then used her signature puppy dog eyes and got real close to her sister's face so she couldn't avoid them.

Putting up an act like her technique worked she sighed and said,"Fine but I'm not carrying that brat home. You, emo boy, carry him or else get left behind." As she turned around glimpsing Sasuke's steaming face. Reluctantly, Sasuke went over and slung his fallen comrade onto his back who had been knocked out from "friendly fire". Well not really but Sasuke overlooked that part. The two girls led the boys to a dull looking house with bits of it coming off from several places.

"This wreck is your home?" Sasuke said in shock at seeing a house he assumed would just collapse from just looking at it.

"Don't like it then go back home you inconsiderate prick!" Lightning humphed in annoyance.

"We don't have a home." Sasuke replied slowly.

"Then go back to your parents kid."

"My parents are dead..." A awkward silence froze the two girls in sudden pity. They too had lost their parents 4 years ago and were uncomfortable talking about it also.

"Uh what about him?" Serah asked pointing to a hanging Naruto.

"Never knew his to begin with." Sasuke's eyes glanced to the ground after saying such an emotional statement.

Not wanting to make the situation even more depressing Lightning motioned everyone into the house and closed the door. Once inside Sasuke was able to get a good look inside the house. Too be honest the inside was a lot better then the outside of the house. It was still a little cramped but for the two people living it sufficed. But he couldn't help but get a little nauseous when he saw that most of the things in the house were colored a bright pink.

"Why is it always the pink haired girls who are the craziest?"Sasuke began to walk towards a nearby couch until an abrupt cough stopped him in his tracks.

"Uh what do you think you are doing? Lightning asked with emotionless face.

"I was gonna put my friend down on the couch, what else would I be doing?" Sasuke was now getting annoyed by this girls stubbornness that he thought she was just trying to make his life as much as a living hell as possible.

"No, that couch is clean and both of you brats are filthy." Lightning said while waving her hand in front of her nose in disgust. "Just go down stairs and make yourselves at home. Me and Serah are going to bed since we've worked all day and are now tired." Lightning gave a small shove to Serah towards the upstairs hinting her to go up there with no arguments. She quickly hugged her sister and waved goodnight to the boys. Sasuke simply nodded in acknowledgment not feeling like waving back to her. But surprisingly when she went near Naruto she stopped abruptly, turned towards the hanging figure, lifted up his head by pointing his chin up, and then did the most unexpected thing. She gave a quick kiss on the boy's forehead, blushing a little while doing it, turned away, and ran upstairs quicker then she had before. Lightning stood there stunned at what her sister had just done. Blushing a little, Lightning began feeling some alien emotions.

What is this feeling I'm getting? It's such a warm and comfortable feeling. And then there's another. It's making my hands clench up and my head think terrible, painful things I should do to my sister." She pondered upon her new emotions while Sasuke stared at Lightining in curiosity then shrugged and began walking downstairs. The slamming of the downstairs door woke her up from her daze and she began following Serah's lead to go to bed, and going upstairs muttering that it was because of exhaustion that made her feel those new found emotions.

Sasuke could only look upon in horror at the sight in front of him. There in front of him was a single futon in the middle of the room with solid cement covering the flooring. He was absolutely not sharing a bed with Naruto. Even though they did kis- Sasuke quickly shook his head at the thought like his hair was on fire. Looking at Naruto then back at the futon and then back to Naruto again. Sighing, Sasuke took off his blue, short-sleeved shirt and bundled it into a ball. He then took Naruto's orange jumpsuit off much to the young Uchiha's discomfort. He placed his short-sleeved shirt that was now a ball onto the ground using it for a pillow next to a nearby wall. He then laid the orange jumpsuit down next to it to act like a poorly made mattress which he knew in essence that it practically was a poor excuse for one. Finally, he placed his best friend onto the jumpsuit and made sure that his head was resting on the short-sleeved shirt. After he did all that he collapsed onto the futon and immediately began to feel the familiar feeling of sleep pulling at his consciousness. He ran through the whole days events in his head while slowly closing his eyes. He knew there was many more questions that needed to be answered, but for now he would just forget about it and sleep. He then glanced at Naruto who was at the opposite side of the room snoring quite obnoxiously. It was apparent he was uncomfortable from the cold, hard flooring but he still seemed to find a way to fall asleep.

"Hn, better the dobe then me." He thought before giving a genuine smile that displayed both happiness and security,"even after all we've been through he's still the same loudmouthed loser. But still got to hand it to him to persuade a devil like Lightning into letting us sleep over especially considering the condition of this home." Sasuke then quickly glanced up and scanned the room for any signs of deterioration. Satisfied but not comforted he rolled over onto his side and closed his eyes letting sleep take him. Although, every creak and groan noise quickly woke up the young Uchiha from his fruitful sleep. Sighing, he knew this was gonna be a long night.

Hope you enjoyed the story. The story only gets better. Remember to review and voice your opinions. I will read them just so you know your voice is being heard. Until next time ciao!