Space. Many people have wished throughout the centuries to journey into the great beyond to learn what was out there and to seek out new life forms. Until recent years it wasn't possible and now that it was there are hundreds of extraterrestrial life forms that had been found all over the universe, some even being identical to humans.

And yet through all their explorations into space they had just barely begun to uncover even a quadrant of deep space. Humans had yet to even leave the Western quadrant of space ruled by one of the four Kais, King Kai. They had really yet to leave the galaxies surrounding their own and explore planets like Namek... Which used to exist before Frieza blew it up after feeling threatened by Goku.

Yet all of this really didn't matter to Goku, who was currently flying in a Saiyan pod with the location of Earth programmed into it. It must have been Vegeta's pod now that he thought about it. Why else would Earth be in the programming?

"Oh well..." Goku stretched while within the craft, being a little cramped as he did so. "At least I got to stretch my legs and learn a new technique at that planet. And food! That food was so good! Just thinking about it...

Salivating at the thought of food, a little drool escaping his lips, Goku was already feeling hungry and in all fairness he hadn't eaten in over a week or two so that was natural. His body was burning the excess calories he had from the massive amount of food he devoured on the last planet he had visited.

"Man I'm so hungry!" Goku complained as he restlessly shifted in his seat, his thought process firmly on the subject of his empty stomach. "I really wish I didn't use up all those sensu beans on the way to Namek... I'm hungry now!"

He finalized his statement by stamping his foot onto the pod. However he forgot to calculate in his massive strength and the durability of the pod.

To his luck he didn't puncture through the space pod and instead just caused a massive malfunction as electricity started to crackle all around the ship. "Uh-oh! That's not good! Better land..."

Searching through space, hoping to see a planet in the distance, Goku sighed in relief seeing one. He didn't once wonder if the planet could support life in the slightest and set the coordinates. Somehow with all the malfunctioning circuits it managed to accept the directions and sped towards the nearby planet, set on a crash courses.

Getting a closer look at the planet, Goku was absolutely giddy. It was a planet very much likes Earth at first sight. There were landmasses, oceans and even arctic poles. One could think it was Earth but there were few large continents like there was one earth and instead there were hundreds if not thousands of islands spread throughout the oceans that circled around one larger continent.

However once more none of this mattered to Goku. He was just giddy for the fact if there was water that meant fish! And fish meant...

"Well... At least I'll get some food when I land! I'm going to catch the biggest fish I can find when I land!" Goku happily squealed as he entered the planet's orbit, glad that his hunger would soon be sated...

For now.

Things had not gone well for Uzumaki Naruto today... Scratch that. They hadn't gone well for him this week!

Everything started with getting the notice that they would be competing in the Chunin exams the day before they started. A little heads up would have been nice...

Then during the exams the first test was a written one... And Naruto hated written tests but to make all things worse it wasn't until after the test that he was informed it was about espionage and the fact that he had one of the Chunin guys next to him that had the answers... COME ON!

Next was the second exam in the Forest of Death... Where to start? That forest was a nightmare with everything that happened for there were just too many things that went wrong! First that Rain guy ambushed him while taking piss, then getting ambushed by that creepy snake guy and being blown over a hundred meters by his wind blast and then eaten by a snake...

Then Sasuke turns into a wimp and he had to set him straight, gets knocked out and Kyuubi sealed off creepy snake guy before the Sound team attacks them while he and Sasuke are unconscious and being defended by Sakura...

How she managed to fight all three off after Lee got put out of commission even he didn't know...

Then that entire saga with Kabuto, who he couldn't believe was that weak but already had the necessary scrolls to get to the next round followed by those damn haze clone rain ninja that were making fools out of him until Sasuke forced his Sharingan active, despite the pain, to help him beat them.

The prelims were the first good thing that happened for he beat Kiba... With the help of a fart in his face. Now that he thought about it that really sucked that he couldn't beat Kiba without that fart happening!

And now finally, Kakashi said he couldn't train him during the month for he would be training Sasuke to fight Gaara. Okay, fair enough. That guy was scary after he pummeled Lee like he did and was ready to kill the bushy-eyebrow kid but did he have to stick him with an incompetent teacher like Ebisu!

He managed to lose the jounin after ten minutes and now he was training on his own. Like losing him was hard in the first place. He outran chunins, jounins and the Anbu alike the day he painted the Hokage monument... He just couldn't get away from Iruka for he knew all his favorite hiding spots...

But now he came to a new problem. How in the hell was he suppose to train himself for the next month if he didn't know what to work on? Sure he created techniques of his own just from seeing others but it just wasn't the same. Besides Kakashi had always said he needed to work on chakra control... So how did he do that?

Of course there was the library and the scrolls he had at home but he hated reading. Also if he didn't understand something from it he couldn't just ask someone how it worked for there was no one there to ask. It was just better to have someone overseeing his training in the first place.

Groaning out loud, just wondering how he was going to be able to pull this off, Naruto sighed as he ignored a rising roar in the distance. "I guess I do need Ebisu... Even if he can't even train Konohamaru... At least he'll know how to work on chakra control. I hope."

Since it was the last thing he wanted to do, Naruto gave the biggest tree he was next to a look and remembered the tree climbing exercise his team was taught in the Wave Country. He really didn't want to go back and look for Ebisu just yet so it was better if he did something he knew of first.

Getting a head start, he dashed up the tree before he noticed something was off about this. His chakra flow did not feel like it had been when he first was able to perform this exercise on a daily basis and since it wasn't right he wasn't able to keep his footing and slid back down.

"Damn!" Naruto cursed at this inconvenience but his eyes narrowed. "What the hell did that creepy snake guy do? Not only did he seal off the Kyuubi from helping me I can't even do this right anymore!"

His hatred grew for that snake bastard. That was just one more reason he had to beat the crap out of him the next time they met.

After a few more attempts he realized he wasn't getting anywhere for his chakra kept acting up. He knew whatever it was that happened had to be fixed. The only person he knew that could fix whatever that snake did, other than Kakashi, was the old man Hokage. So it looked like he would have to make a visit to the old man soon...

"Great... He's not going to be too happy with me especially after my last prank on him." Naruto grimaced for he remembered pranking the Hokage just at the beginning of the week before he smirked. "Then again, the old man loved every second of it. Sexy Harem no Jutsu probably just reminded him of the good old days..."

"AND WHAT IS THAT SOUND?" Naruto finally noticed the loud roar that had been getting steadily louder and louder for the last couple of minutes.

Looking around his area, expecting to see a cougar or something like that in the area, he saw nothing and began to wonder what in the world was causing such a sound. That was when he finally decided to look up and notice something rather dreadful coming his direction. "METEOR!"

"OH CRAP, OH CRAP, OH CRAP! RUNNING, RUNNING, RUNNING!" Naruto screamed out as he took off, trying to avoid being blown into smithereens by the falling object of impending doom.

Little did he know a very similar mantra was being yelled by a certain Saiyan. "OH CRAP, OH CRAP, OH CRAP! DON'T CRASH, DON'T CRASH, DON'T CRASH!"

Neither mantra did much to help either out as the space ship crashed into the forests with a huge impact, narrowly missing Naruto but instead lifted him into the air from the impact and flung him to the side and through a few trees in the process.

Electricity surged around the pod as the hatch struggled to open before finally just stopping. Seeing there was no way else out, Goku forced the door open and practically ripped it off its hinges. "Woops... This is going to be a problem. Hope someone on this planet knows how to fix this otherwise I might be in trouble."

"Hey wait a second!" Goku realized before putting his hand on his head and started concentrating, searching for a presence. 'Hey King Kai! I need a little help here!'

"Goku, what did you do now?" The frustrated voice of King Kai spoke within his mind having caught Goku was in some sort of trouble. "Don't tell me you crash landed again! What am I going to do with you?"

Wincing from King Kai's annoyed tone, Goku could only nod before responding. 'Um... Yeah. Could you communicate to Bulma or someone back home that I'm stuck on a planet only a few galaxies away and I need a ship sent here to take me home? I kind of broke the pod...'

"Oh for the love... Alright, fine. But you owe me big time!" The North Kai responded sounding even more agitated at first before he simply sighed knowing there was no way to get around it.

Goku was one hell of a fighter... But he was dense in every other sense and happened to be very accident prone.

'Thanks King Kai!' Goku responded before smiling as he looked around. "Alright, now time to get some food and maybe check out the locals..."

"Oh... This is the worst pain ever..." A groan nearby caught Goku's attention.

Quickly locking onto the location of where the groan came from, Goku grimaced seeing a few broken trees where it looked like someone was flung through them. Then he saw a rather young boy, almost twice Gohan's age from the look of it, in rather bad condition.

Landing next to him, Goku refrained from groaning as he was sure this was his fault. The boy probably tried to get out of the way of his space ship but got caught in the aftershock of his landing and got thrown here. "Man... I don't even have a sensu... Wait, what's this in my shoe?"

"Hey! A sensu! ...Why was I keeping it there?" Goku wondered as he pulled off his boot from his elaborate outfit he got from the last planet he crashed on only to see one of the magical beans fall from his shoe. "Oh well, doesn't matter. Here, eat up. It will make you feel good as new."

At this point, Naruto really didn't care what the guy was offering. He was pretty sure his spine was broken along with many other bones in the process. It was just luck that he survived the meteor crash and having this guy find him so quickly. And if whatever this was could take away his pain...

He chewed the bean and swallowed. Then something he never felt in his life filled his very being like nothing before.

Naruto felt his very body reacting to what he had swallowed. His broken bones mending in record times, his bruises mystically washing away and all the pain that he was in moments before began to vanish in moments. And the weirdest thing of all was he felt somewhat full... Like he just ate a few bowls of Ichiraku's ramen.

Slowly sitting up, his eyes wide at the magical healing powers of whatever that was that he swallowed, he looked at the man in shock. "What the... What was that? I never felt so good in my life!"

"That's a Sensu Bean for you. It heals all minor damage done to the body and even fills up your stomach for a few days... Though it hardly fills my appetite anymore." Goku responded grinning widely at the young blonde's amazement of his healed body. "And sorry about that. I couldn't control my ship as it crashed down."

"Oh, that's okay... WAIT WHAT?" Naruto brushed him off like nothing happened before he caught what he said. "Your ship! You mean that meteor was you! AH! ALIEN!"

"Hey take it easy." Goku tried to placate the young boy, understanding why someone would freak out from an alien landing on their planet. "I was on my way back home when my pod started acting funny and I had to land. Things got out of hand and I crash landed here. I've already called my friends so they should be here soon to pick me up."

"About that Goku..." King Kai's voice came from within his head, catching the Super Saiyan's attention. "It will take them about a month to get there. Thankfully they have a ship ready to launch but you're a bit further then what you expected. They should be there in about three weeks or so to pick you up. I had to give them the coordinates for it is a planet the Earthlings haven't visited yet."

'Oh, is that so. Oh well, I'll just train while I wait for them to get here. Thanks again King Kai.' Goku shrugged that off easily for he could wait that long for his friends to pick him up.

"Don't mention it... But just for the sake of things Goku, the planet you are on has some of the warriors I've trained in the past. However they have a weird way of using chi. Instead of letting it flow freely they have found away to control it to use more subtle techniques. It is quite fascinating actually how they're able to do it... But it weakens them tremendously compared to other fighters out there." King Kai decided to inform Goku since he would be staying there for a month.

'Really? Huh, I might be able to learn a few things while I'm here then. Good to know King Kai! Talk to you later!' Goku mentally waved off the Northern Kai before noticing the blonde haired kid was looking at him funny. "What?"

"You zoned out for a moment and looked like you were off in deep space. Now as I asked, where are you from and why were you away from home?" Naruto responded before asking the question Goku had zoned out on.

"Oh, sorry about that. I was... Never mind." Goku scratched the back of his head before thinking about Naruto's question for a moment. "I'm from earth a few galaxies away from here. I was coming back home after saving my friends from a space overlord that was trying to get immorality with an amazing power level. I've never fought anyone so strong before."

"Wait... You're a fighter!" Naruto caught what the guy was saying before his mind started working a mile a minute. "Can you train me then?"

Naruto wasn't sure why he asked but something about the man before him screamed to him. He wasn't sure what but he could feel that this guy could train him and make him stronger than he ever imagined, helping him not only beat Neji but prove to everyone that he was Uzumaki Naruto, the next Hokage!

Deciding to explain things a little further, Naruto excitedly kept on going. "There is a tournament in about a month that I have to get ready for but I have no one to train me thanks to my sensei training Sasuke who is also part of my team for he has a scary opponent in the next round. He assigned someone to train me but I'm stronger than that guy anyways so..."

"Sure!" Goku grinned at the prospect of having someone to spar with while he was on this planet for it would be a great way to kill time. "I've got nothing better to do while I'm here but first... I'm hungry. Is there any place to eat?"

"Yatta!" Naruto yelled out happily that he would have a competent trainer for the next month before he caught what Goku had said. "Sure, I'll take you to the Ichiraku's ramen... What the..."

Goku tensed and prepared for battle as he could feel hundreds surround their location swiftly. In the very next moment, dozens of Anbu, jounin and chunin quickly had surrounded the area. They were probably all from the same town the kid was so there probably was nothing to worry about but despite that fact everyone seemed tensed and combat ready so he was ready to fight if he had to.

"Hey... OLD MAN! What are you doing here?" Naruto suddenly yelled out, recognizing the aged figure who was leading the group of ninja that suddenly arrived. "I was just about to take my friend here to go get something to eat before he started training me!"

Blinking at what was just said, the Sandaime Hokage wanted to roll his eyes; he really did. However from the meteor crash, something that was not very normal within Konoha, to the massive power he felt emanating from it and now from the man next to the said blonde, the Third had to be careful. Everyone was tense and ready to deal with a threat for this power felt like nothing they had ever sensed before, dwarfing Kyuubi with relative ease.

Taking a deep breath, Hizuren gazed upon the blonde in a serious manner to try and inform Naruto of the severity of the situation that was at hand. "Naruto... Can you kindly explain to me what you know? That would help greatly at this time for you see we came here expecting the worse..."

"Huh?" Naruto seemed a little confused at what the old Hokage meant by expect the worse but he understood that he wanted to know what happened. "Well let's see... I was out here training after Kakashi abandoned me with Ebisu and I shook off the perv... I was about to head out when suddenly out of nowhere this meteor fell out of the sky which happened to be a space ship owned by..."

"The name's Goku." Goku added to try and help Naruto in his cause by explaining what he could while noting the shocked looking faces on those in the area despite there was evidence of such for his pod was still intact.

"Thanks... Well when I noticed I tried to run off but it was just too fast and I got caught up in the crash and was badly hurt." Naruto grimaced as this part would be rather hard to explain for he was no longer even scratched from the crash. "Goku here noticed me rather quickly and noted I was hurt and gave me this weird pill that healed all my injuries. Afterwards..."

"He healed you? With a pill?" Hizuren raised an eyebrow as did many shinobi and kunoichi in the vicinity before turning to the Saiyan. "Would you be so kind to show me what it was that you healed Naruto here with?"

"Um... About that." Goku nervously grinned as he scratched the back of his head. "That was my last one... I didn't even know I had a Sensu left and it was by chance I still had one. Don't know how it got there as these are new clothes I'm wearing unless the bean was in-between my toes this entire time."

"Wait... It was in-between your toes! EW!" Naruto wanted to puke for he knew a little more about hygiene then people gave him credit for and knew that was a rather disgusting place for anything to be.

Not entirely believing the story that was at hand, knowing Naruto was rather easy to convince, the Third Hokage refrained from acting hastily on this situation for it all could be just a massive misunderstanding. First thing first; confirming his story.

There was a weird pod he noted on the way here.

Naruto was training here, he was watching the blonde through his crystal ball before he felt this man's massive power nearing at an accelerated pace.

He indeed crashed from what he had seen of the pod, it wasn't in the best condition.

Finally, he probably did heal Naruto for he was very sure Naruto's clothes weren't that torn up when he was watching him train just a little before.

But the elderly Hokage was no fool either. This could just as easily be a ploy by one of the other nations that now had access to greater technology. But to have someone of this kind of power... Why was he not known about?

Going by his gut instinct, the Third kept his gaze on the weirdly dressed man. "Mr. Goku was it... How was it that you ended up here?"

Seeing it was his turn to tell his part of the story, Goku wisely decided to answer. "Well sir... I was on my way back home after trying to save one of my friend's home planet from an evil tyrant. Now I'm on my way back after settling everything and I kind of wrecked my pod. So I had to call my friends to come pick me up for there is no way for me to get there on my own unless you have ships here that can transverse a few galaxies or know someone would can fix my ship I would be grateful."

Once again, it was a hard story to swallow. Naruto probably would believe it for he could see the good in anyone's heart if it was there but there was nothing to say that this guy wasn't the tyrant in the story with that horrible power he felt emanating from him.

However he also sensed about him... The same calm he was sure Naruto felt as well. It was like he was before a mother bear yet he was nothing but a cub to the man before him yet if someone reared their teeth towards him and brought out the violence...

"I see..." The Third Hokage spoke, choosing his words wisely with this new possible threat before him, the elderly man gazed over at Naruto for only a moment. "We have no one that I know of that can fix your ship or have any of our own. I can safely assume our planet is not as advanced as your own. How long will it be till they are able to retrieve you?"

"They said in about three weeks to a month... But now hearing Naruto's problem I think I'll stay the month and help him train. I hear there's a fighting tournament coming up here and I want to see it having won my planet's Tenka'ichi Budokai a few years ago. I want to see how it turns out for I like watching fights... Well I enjoy being in them more but I have a feeling it's more for the kids here." Goku responded before chuckling softly and scratching the back of his head.

Thankfully this being spoke in the same language and it seemed that they also used a similar language for certain events and was able to translate what he had said. That only gave this man more credence to being a possible threat, a very dangerous one at that, for they had no clue how powerful his people were.

Still he did not want to be the one to bring forth this one's anger and bring possible destruction to his village if he could avoid it. "Very well then... For the time being I will allow you free stay here till they arrive to pick you up and for the tournament. I will have someone take you to your room after you finish with your training today."

"Than...!" A loud roar echoed before Goku could even finish and in classic style Goku laughed. "Sorry... I'm starving. If you don't mind I would like to get something to eat and Naruto here was about to show me to a place to eat so..."

"I'll pick up the tab after. ...Just keep under a five bowl minimum, Naruto." The Third spoke, still leery about this entire situation but he wasn't going to press it if this being wasn't threatening to use force.

Anything to stay on his good side for now... For the Sandaime Hokage seriously doubted his ability in sealing if they were forced to fight this one whose power seemingly overwhelmed anything he ever dreamed of. Not even the fox seemed to match a fraction of his power...

"Thanks old man!" Naruto cried back before grabbing Goku's hand and drug him to his favorite restaurant. "You're going to love it. Their ramen is the best in all of Konoha and it is perfect food for training since it peps you up!"

"You don't have to sell me! I love ramen!" Goku responded happily, almost lifting Naruto in anticipation of being fed, and hurried Naruto along for he was starving.

Soon after the two faded from sight, the head of Anbu cloaked in a creamy white cloak dropped next to the Third Hokage. "Sir... Is this really wise..."

"We have no choice in the matter. I'm sure you felt it to... The power he radiates." Hizuren told the Anbu while keeping his eyes firmly on where the two had left. "And to be honest, I don't think he is a threat so we will show him our hospitality for this seems to be pure happenstance. And as long as we don't make him bear his teeth..."

"We should be fine." The white cloak Anbu nodded for he knew all too well what would happen if the alien being were to attack.

"Keep an eye on them. While I will trust him and give our hospitality to him, I do not want him out of sight. Who knows what could possibly happen or if he's really benevolent as he seems. There is just too many variables with the only sure factor is his power. And above all else..." The Third hesitated for a moment as he choice his words carefully.

"This village safety comes first and if we have to, sacrifices will be made."

The Anbu bowed lightly before dispersing from sight to trail the alien being and Konoha's sunshine, leaving the Third and many other perplexed ninja with cleanup.

A/N: This chapter is more of a prelude of what is to come. Sorry if it kind of trailed there at the end but that scene was giving me fits and I was trying to keep the situation at heart while keeping the characters on key... And it was a little more difficult than I thought.

To be honest a few years back I was adamant about not doing a Naruto/DBZ crossover for I thought the difference in power was absurd. I still believe it is but I think I have a balance here and I think I will be able to work with it.

The next chapter will be of Goku's training of Naruto and Konoha's reaction to Goku's presence. Also I have a poll on my profile page to determine the pairing since it is kind of a side thing but might develop into more later into the story.

Anyways, let me know what you think so far and I believe a new chapter will be out within the month, maybe in a week or two. Peace Out.