First off, let me say this: I mention a weapon multiple times that half of you say is spelled "kunie" and half of you say is spelled "kunai". I'm spelling it "kunie". End of discussion.
Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom or Naruto!
"I, Technus, shall escape once more, ghost child! And when I do, I promise-"
"Yeah, yeah, I'll believe your promise of world domination when I see it." Danny sucked the technology-obsessed ghost into the Fenton Thermos and floated back down to an alleyway next to the skyscraper where he had been fighting. The building was the main headquarters for some multinational DotCom company and housed a series of huge servers. Servers that Technus could have used to take over the Internet. Good thing Danny had stopped him on time. Amity Park's Public Enemy Number One transformed into average, run-of-the-mill Danny Fenton and strolled out of the alley to meet up with his two best friends.
"So, I take it the fight went well?" Sam asked.
"Yup. Just Technus blabbing about his secret plans long enough for me to get him into the thermos without too much trouble."
"Great. Now c'mon, or we'll be late for the movie."
"True that. Man, I'm so excited to see X-Men III! I've been waiting for months!" Just then, a small knife came out of nowhere and pierced Danny's sleeve. The knife continued on its path and flew back into the alley, dragging Danny with it. Danny yelled out as the knife pinned him to the side of one of the buildings in the alleyway. A glowing green figure stalked into the alley behind the knife that he obviously threw. Danny exhaled a small amount of blue mist.
"Greeeat. My ghost sense goes off after I get pinned to a building. Nice." The boy's grumbling ceased when the figure came close enough to make out finer details. He was wearing a piece of cloth that covered the lower part of his face. He was bare-chested but wore cowhide gloves that extended from his elbows to his wrists, and he had a massive sword strapped to his back. He also had a small pouch that was attached to his pants at the waist.
"Hello, halfa," he began. "My name is Zabuza. I've come here in order to take you as my apprentice so that together we can rule this pitiful town, and gain the respect of all its citizens." Danny went ghost and phased through the kunai that was keeping him pinned to the wall.
"Dude, you have no idea how often I get that. My answer is the same, as always-I will never join the side of evil. Never." Zabuza sneered.
"Heroics. Pitiful. You're just lucky that I'm new to being a ghost and my chakra hasn't adapted to my ectoplasmic signature yet. But in time it will, and I'll be able to use the full extent of my abilities. And you won't stand a chance against me." He crouched down and leapt into the air and disappeared faster than Danny would have thought possible. No way a new ghost can fly that fast…he must have jumped, but what kind of person can jump like that, even without ghost powers? Danny left the alley, shaken.
"Dude, are you all right?" Tucker asked his halfa friend.
"Not quite. That ghost was powerful, and it seemed as though he wasn't using powers at all. When he becomes more experienced, I don't know if I'll have what it takes to bring him down."
"What do you mean, more experienced?"
"He said something about his chakra adapting to his ecto-signature, whatever that means."
"Chakra? What the heck is that?"
"Darned if I know. We'll have to keep a sharp eye out. But enough of that, let's get to that movie already!" Danny started running in the direction of the movie theater. His two friends glanced at each other, shrugged, and followed him.
After the movie, the three of them were headed home.
"How sick was that fight scene at the end?" Danny asked nobody in particular.
"Sick-witted," Tucker replied.
"Yeah, I have to agree, that film was one of the best I've seen in a long time," Sam added.
Just in front of the trio, the hand of a clock appeared out of nowhere and spun around an invisible clock face. A blue vortex of energy followed the hand's path, and as the hand completed its circuit and disappeared the vortex took the shape of a circle. Clockwork, the Master of Time, floated out of the vortex and pressed the button on his staff. Time froze. Clockwork deftly extracted three medallions from within the folds of his robes and in one fluid movement cast them all so that one landed on each friend's neck. Danny, Sam, and Tucker unfroze and stood before the Time Wizard.
"What's up, Clockwork? Did my evil future self get loose?" Danny asked worriedly. Clockwork held up his left hand (the right was holding the staff) palm-out and motioned for Danny to relax, that everything regarding Dan was okay. For now.
"Don't worry about Dan; he's safely contained for the time being. I've come here because of a different ghost. The one you fought today, Zabuza."
"What about him?"
"You've noticed that he's displayed a large amount of power, skill, and grace without invoking any ghostly abilities?"
"Yeah,"
"That's because when he was alive, he was a feared ninja-killer. He was incredibly strong and had all of a ninja's abilities. Once he learns to integrate these abilities with his ghost powers, even you won't be able to stop him."
"Can't you do anything about it?"
"I'm on thin ice as it is for coming into the time stream; even though I'm allowed to interfere my employers don't always approve of it. The most I can do is provide you with some help."
"Help? What kind of help?"
"I'm going to create a space-time portal that will bring three ninjas here, to this location and time period. They fought Zabuza when he was alive and should be of use to you. Just be warned, one of them is a bit…eccentric. I can't say anything else without disrupting the time stream even more, except good luck, Danny." Danny nodded respectfully and Clockwork disappeared. Time turned back on and the three friends removed their medallions.
"We get to meet three actual ninjas? Cool!" Tucker exclaimed.
"I wonder what they'll be like?" Sam mused.
Suddenly, another vortex appeared in front of Danny and three people fell out, two boys and a girl. One of the boys had black hair and was wearing a blue jacket with an odd symbol on the back and shorts. The symbol resembled two semi-circles, one red and the other white. He had on armbands similar to Zabuza's but they were all white, not spotted. The girl had waist-length, pink hair. She wore a red piece of clothing that extended from above her shoulders down to a couple inches above her knees, and that had a white ring between her shoulder blades. She also wore a pair of skin-tight shorts underneath the red garment. The last boy was wearing what appeared to be an orange flight suit, like the one a fighter pilot might wear. The suit had blue patches over the shoulders and a red circle on the back, similar to Freakshow's crystal ball. He also had a whistle attached to one shoulder. He had a goofy grin on his face, china blue eyes, and wild yellow hair. The three of them all wore headbands that had a piece of metal on the center. The metal plate was engraved with the symbol of a leaf. The piece of metal also had an odd gold marking on the upper left-hand corner, which upon closer inspection was a C with an inscribed W. The symbol acted like Clockwork's medallions in that they kept the three ninja rooted to the time period they were currently in; they were just less cumbersome than having a medallion swinging around all the time. They stood up and dusted themselves off.
"Uh…hi. I'm Danny Fenton." The blonde kid pushed through his two friends so that he was standing right in front of Danny."
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki!" he exclaimed in a loud, annoying voice. "And I'm going to be the next hokage! Believe it!" Danny mentally cringed.
This is going to be a looong next few days.