Yupp. I just...I dunno, wanted to write this for an odd an unexplained reason. But hey, my muse being random is what I live for.

The first thing Naruto noticed was that the cliff rocks above him were made out of some sort of red substance that he had reminded him of Sunagakure dunes and red sand that that Sasori guy was known for.

The second was that there was someone's face in front of him.

"GAH!"

He jumped. The boy blinked.

"I'm sorry, did I scare you?" He asked innocently.

"Yeah." Naruto panted slightly. "You did. What gives, man?"

"Sorry!" The boy rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "My names Asakura Yoh. What's yours?"

Asakura? And what was this boy wearing? You couldn't run in that coat…but he did have a sword. He may be dangerous. But where was his (1)hitai-ate?

"Uzumaki Naruto." He said breezily. "And where am I? And who are you? What village are you from?"

"Village?"

The boy was looking at him strangely. He took notice of the boy's friends standing behind him. Or were they teammates? They all wore weird clothes, and not all of them had weapons. One had a Kwan do, the other a…was that a snowboard? And there was a man with a wooden sword. What odd people.

"Uhm, I'm not entirely sure what you mean. But I'm from Izumo, Japan. We're in America right now."

"Where's America?" He asked quizzically.

The boy in front of him, and all the people behind him face planted into the floor.

"What's with this guy?!" A boy with odd looking blue hair pointed an accusing finger at him. "I mean honestly, how do you not know where America is?!"

"Yoh-dono…I—" A being vaporized beside the young boy, the bottom of the figure was faded out, and he seemed to hover.

Naruto screamed.

"G-Ghost!"

They all looked at him.

"Yes, ghost." Yoh nodded, as if it was the most normal thing in the world. "I'm a shaman. Aren't you here for the Shaman Fight?"

"Shaman Fight?" Naruto gulped. "What the hell is that?"

The boy looked at him funny again, and was about to say something, when time seemed to freeze. Naruto sighed in relief as he felt a familiar tug erupting from his stomach, and as he opened his eyes he saw familiar cage bars in front of him. At least, there was something he knew. The water dripped from around the sewer, water flowing about him to the drainage pipes. The Shiki Fuuin seemed to be fine, judging from its looming characters in the center of the cage.

"Brat" The demon growled. "That boy is a shaman."

"What the hell's a shaman?!" Naruto gaped at him.

"Remember those monks at the temple?" The Kyuubi asked him like he was talking to a slow, dim-witted child. "They see spirits and such, and send wandering ghosts to the after world. They are shamans."

"Oh." Naruto blinked in understanding. "But why can I see ghosts?"

The Kyuubi bared its teeth menacingly, and Naruto remembered that those teeth were about thirteen feet tall. "I am a demon. You can see me right?"

"That's true…"

"Now go away." The beast growled. "And next time, tell that frog-smelling human not to mess around with seals, because it seems he's warped us somewhere."

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"'Naruto-san?" That Yoh boy asked again. "You seemed to have lost consciousness."

"Oh…sorry." He didn't sound it. "Look, I'm not from around here. And honestly, I don't think I'm a shaman, and I'm definitely not participating in this… 'Shaman fight' or whatever."

"Yoh-dono…" The ghost began again, and Naruto tried not to pale at the sight of a…ghost. "I don't believe this boy is from, this…world."

"Where else would he be from?" The boy with golden eyes snorted. "The after world?"

"I'm not dead!" Naruto sighed in exasperation. "And that ghost is right. I'm not from this world. I'm pretty sure I'm actually from another dimension or something, because…I don't know what a Japan or an America is."

"But you can see spirits." The man with the afro pointed out. "So you've got to be a shaman."

"I'm not a shaman! I can't do…shamanism, or seal ghosts and demons, or anything like that."

"Oh!" Yoh blinked. "Then you must be like Manta, he can see spirits too, but he isn't a shaman."

"Okay…sure." Naruto sighed. This was going to take forever. "Do you guys know any person I can ask that could get me home somehow?"

They all looked confused. For a while, they said nothing, just mulling about and thinking. While they did, the young boy (who actually turned about to be fifteen!!) came up and introduced himself as some Chocolove kid, and proceeded to tell Naruto who everyone else was. Apparently, the boy was Yoh, and his spirit was Amidamaru, a samurai. There was Ren and his spirit Bason, HoroHoro and Kororo, and Ryuu and Tokagero. Then there was Faust and Eliza, his dead wife. That was scary. But they weren't here right now.

"I suppose…" Yoh finally mumbled. "You could ask the Patch to communicate with the Great Spirits, they could probably get you home."

Ren nodded in agreement. "That would be the only possible way, besides entering the Shaman Fight."

"Well, okay. But who are the 'Patch' and what are the 'Great Spirits'?"

They all looked at him strangely, before remembering that he wasn't exactly a shaman or from around here.

"The Patch is a tribe that can communicate with the entity that all souls come back to, called the Great Spirits. They are the ones that are running the shaman fight." That HoroHoro kid explained slowly. "But before you ask, the Shaman Fight is a fight between shamans that will determine who will rule the world for the next five-hundred years."

Naruto gulped. "That sounds harsh."

They all shrugged.

"You should travel with us." Yoh smiled. "Company is always—

"HoroHoro, above you!"

"Eh?!"

HoroHoro quickly jumped out of the way as a large iron looking knight dropped from the sky.

"What the hell was—

"Ah…it's finally our turn, but…"

Naruto looked up to see three girls—dressed just as oddly as they boys in front of him—the leader of the group seemed to be the one with cobalt colored hair. And the other two were flaxen and ginger-haired. Naruto blinked, as he noticed that one girl had some sort of pumpkin, and the other was holding a doll. Were those spirit things like the ones that Yoh and his friends had?

"…how disappointing, you're just a bunch of careless brats." The bluenette finished.

Naruto would have been angry had he not been as confused as to what the hell was going on around here. Were they…going to fight them? With spirits?!

Ren pointed his Kwan do at them. "Who are you all?"

The ginger-haired girl with pig tails smirked, leaning on her broom. "Why are you all acting so important?"

"I don't know why you came here but… if you touch us, you'll be burned." That Ryuu guy—with the really, really, really odd hairdo stepped forward.

He then winked at them, and the blond stepped back. "Mari feels sick…"

Honestly, Naruto would feel sick too if that weird guy winked at him too. Even in Orioke no Jutsu form. That Ryuu guy…he was just a walking fashion disagreement. These girls though, didn't exactly look friendly nor did they look like they came to chat. Naruto had come to the conclusion that these Shaman people fought with these spirit ally people, and that they were all getting ready to fight.

"Super shock!" Ryuu seemed devastated that the Mari girl didn't like him.

"What a nuisance!" The orange haired witch rolled her eyes.

"I can't believe Hao-sama is worried by these people." The bluenette added.

Hao-sama…? Naruto wondered. Who's that?

He sounded important.

Apparently he was, because HoroHoro blinked. "You're with Hao?!"

The bluenette narrowed her eyes. "It's rude not to address him properly."

Somehow, as Naruto sweat-dropped comically, these girls reminded him of those batshit crazy minions Orochimaru had back when he was Gennin. Now that he was Chuunin though, it didn't really have the same scary affect it used to. The armor suddenly moved, as if on the blue haired girl's command, arms unfolding and gripping its weapon. Amidamaru dissolved next to Yoh as the staff was pointed at the young shaman.

"Hey you. Don't you feel sorry for Hao-sama? Only being able to use such a meager Oversoul?"

"Oi, Chocolove." Naruto whispered fiercely. "What's an Oversoul?"

The African American shot him a look before whispering, "It's where you fuse with your ghost or spirit partner, and it's a way that we fight."

"Ah." Naruto nodded slowly.

Yoh blinked at Kanna's words. "Huh? Meager?!"

"You're weak because you use a human spirit." The bluenette narrowed her eyes.

"Amidamaru is strong." Yoh rebuked calmly.

Kanna laughed. "This is why Hao-sama is sad. The person himself can't see his weakness."

"I don't care what Hao thinks." Yoh narrowed his eyes.

Well, there were a few things that Naruto could piece together after listening to where this conversation was going. Whoever this Hao person was, he was apparently strong and had a lot of followers, and this had something to do with Yoh. Maybe this Hao person wanted Yoh to join him? These girls obviously were here to fight, but it seemed—from the way the armor held its sword in a more offense way—that they weren't here to kill. Just to…test maybe? Either way, this was confusing.

Kanna put a hand to her head and sighed. "You've angered me enough."

"Let's hurry up and kill them." The blond—Mari—added.

Naruto sighed. Maybe they were going to kill them.

"Ashcroft!"

The great hunk of armor began to move, swinging its sword menacingly, if not a tad slow. Yoh quickly did the same, blocking the sword with his own. Naruto noticed that the ghost by his side had suddenly disappeared, but now there was some sort of armor attached to the sword, that glowed an iridescent blue.

"What's the meaning of this?!"

The girls had yet to move, the bluenette smirking. "We're going to make you understand how weak you guys are."

"We have to make you realize that you can't be of help to Hao-sama in your current condition." The ginger haired girl smiled.

Okay…so they weren't going to kill them? How confusing!

"I don't understand…" Yoh frowned, struggling with the blunt sword the knight had him pinned with.

"You'll understand eventually, even if you don't want to. So why don't you just accept it?"

Ryuu came from behind, the Tokagero spirit apparently Oversoul'd with the wooden sword, and he chopped the thing into bits. Naruto narrowed his eyes, the broken bits seemed to stay stationary in the air, before easily coming together again. The Shinobi would have called it Chakra strings, however, these people didn't use Chakra. Whatever they used, it was different.

"How about you get to the point?!" Ryuu growled at the girls.

Soon enough, they had all used their Oversoul, HoroHoro's seemed to be some sort of snowboard thing, and Ren's was molded around his Kwan do. Chocolove—who had been standing beside him—sprang into action as well.

The fighting continued, all the group verse the girls, and from what Naruto could tell, things weren't going entirely well. At all. These girls were much stronger than them for one, and they seemed to be almost…toying with the boys. Naruto mused, that they didn't seem too particularly strong. If anything, they were nothing more than Gennin battling it out. But that Hao person they had mentioned, seemed to be more of a problem for the boy's in front of him.

Suddenly, the boys started going down.

Ren was defeated first, falling to the ground with a thud. Naruto didn't have to look to know he was still alive though. Then HoroHoro, the weird doll shot bullets at him and the boy had made a wall of ice to protect himself, but they went through it. The Chocolove.

"It's your turn, Asakura Yoh." Kanna smirked at him.

Yoh charged at them with some attack name that Naruto couldn't hear over all the racket, but that Ashcroft thing seemed to be fully able to withstand the attack.

"Now it's our turn."

"Oi." Naruto growled. He honestly didn't want to be bothered to fight. "Forgetting someone?"

The girls narrowed their eyes. Apparently, they weren't informed of his arrival.

"Fine then." Kanna didn't seem to mind. "You can try—

"Katon: Housenka no jutsu!"

The girls widened their eyes, as did the boys who were struggling to get up. Naruto had leapt into the air until he was higher than the cliff the girls had placed themselves on, doing weird things with his hands before he blew massive fireballs. The girls quickly jumped out of the way, collecting their Oversouls and frowning. That wasn't expected.

"Hao-sama's element?" One whispered.

Huh. Naruto grinned. So that Hao person used Fire.

"I don't know who you weird chicks are," He began, charging up a Rasengan. "But I don't care either. Rasengan!!"

The girls could barely dodge.

Ashcroft met him first, leaping into the air to protect its master and the other two witch looking girls, but he was quickly turned into nothing more than a heap of metal. Apparently, Chakra nullified Furyoku. The spinning ball that had the force of a hurricane was coming at the girls fast, and they tried to leap out of the way.

However, the Rasengan was able to get parts of them, before it took a massive chunk out of the rock the size of an enormous crater. Yoh and his friends gasped. They hadn't realized how powerful Naruto was, or the fact that he had power at all.

The girls held their wounds and growled, fear stricken as they watched the smoldering hole from the attack that had blasted a good 50 feet of rock into the air.

As they gathered the attacks again, something else besides Naruto's impressive attacks met them.

The girls gasped, as they recognized the blue and red figures out of the dirt and dust that had picked up as something destroyed Ashcroft again.

"Zenki and Kouki!" They yelled.

Sighing, Naruto was relieved that he didn't have to show off any more then he already did. He didn't know if it would be a problem or not later on.

A woman—or a girl, really—with a frown etched on her face that reminded him remotely of Tsunade, held a large string of pearl white beads in her hand. She wore a short black dress, with blue beads that looked like the kind the monks wore at the Hi no Kuni temple back in Konohagakure.

"If you wish to continue." The blond began, and Naruto realized that this was like Tsunade reincarnated or something. "I will be your opponent."

"Zenki Kouki." The bluenette growled. "You are…

"I am Anna, the spiritual medium." The blond began her introduction, in that icy tone. "The woman who will become the wife of the Shaman King."

Naruto sweat-dropped. That was quite the introduction.

"I see so you're…" Kanna took a swift look at the blond, and then her eyes looked back to Naruto, who was still using chakra to stand upright on the rock face. She must have noticed she was out skilled and outnumbered. "Macchi! Mari! Let's go."

"Running away?" Anna frowned.

Kanna smirked. "Hao-sama told us not to get involved with you." Her smirk widened. "We'll forgive you today."

Then they disappeared as if they used a different form of Shunshin. Huh, so this world had a Shunshin variant as well.

"Oi, Naruto." Yoh, he noticed, did not seem entirely mad at him, just surprised. "You have some explaining to do."

Huh. So reviews? Thoughts? Come on people...(:

1. A hitai-ate is like those headbands they wear.