AN: This would be the official first chapter of this fic. The previous first chapter will eventually be reposted once the story reaches that point, with a few corrections as the fic progresses. I want to remind everyone that Saubure is located in Europe, so the use of Japanese terms will be limited and for the most part it should be assumed that they are speaking in French, if that is the language they use there.

I will be going by the anime and in it the place is called Saubure, I'm saying this because I've noticed how it's also referred to as Sauville. If there are any corrections that need to be made I'll will eventually go back and make them.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Gosick

The Day a Fox and a Wolf Meet

"Talking"
'Thinking'
(Author's Note)

A blonde teen with sapphire blue eyes and six whisker marks, three on each cheek, walked through the halls of Saint Marguerite Academy, an academy located at the base of the Alps in the Kingdom of Saubure a small European country bordered by France, Switzerland, and Italy. The teen's name is Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze and he was getting tired of the obvious whispers coming from the other students of the academy that weren't even trying to hide the fact that they were talking about him. The whispers didn't really bother Naruto; it was something he had grown up with and long since gotten used to, it was mostly what they were calling him that bothered him. Yellow Reaper, a name Naruto seemed to inherit simply because of his Japanese background, even though he didn't look anything like what one would expect of a typical Japanese person. Even then it was what the name translated into Japanese, Kiiro Shinigami; even though it sounded much better then Yellow Reaper; Naruto hated having anything to do with the God of Death.

It was the spring of the year 1924, and it marked the beginning of the twelfth year that Naruto was brought into a different world. At the conclusion of the Fourth Shinobi War Naruto had managed to stop Madara, but at the cost of his own life, and it was in death that he met the Shinigami. Usually when a person has lived through what Naruto has and everything he's done you'd expect a god to be thankful for Naruto's actions, or regretful for the life Naruto had to lead, but not the Shinigami. The white haired bastard found Naruto's life entertaining; everything the blonde went through, everything he suffered through, simply provided the God of Death with some form of amusement, and the Shinigami couldn't let his main source of entertainment just die. So in order to ensure that things were kept interesting the death god sent Naruto to a different world. It wasn't an act of regret or kindness by offering Naruto a second chance at life, it was a selfish god wishing the source of his entertainment to continue to exist.

The smirk that suddenly appeared on Naruto's face just worked to confirm what the students said about him. Luckily the world that Naruto was sent to was pretty tame compared to the Elemental Nations, so Naruto took joy from the fact that there wasn't anything happening around Naruto that the Shinigami could find interesting. With the only real exception being the Great War that had ended and subsequently part of the reason that the blonde was now in Saubure, as the nation had taken note of Naruto's substantially high test marks and had accepted him to Saint Marguerite Academy.

Naruto was also partially grateful to the Shinigami as well, since the death god decided to send his parents with him to the new world, giving the three of them to be an actual family. Though the Shinigami also decided to turn Naruto back into a four year old as such his mother, Kushina Uzumaki, took that chance to baby him. Even though he enjoyed his second childhood, and getting to spend them with his parents, those were some of the most embarrassing years of his life and Naruto was desperate to forget them.

In the time that the family had been in the different world they had noticed many similarities and differences between this world and the Elemental Nations. Cars were something of a rarity in the Elemental Nations; the only time Naruto remembered ever seeing them was during his Mission in the Land of Spring, when Team 7 was charged to protect Koyuki. And yet they seemed far more common in this world. Yet both worlds possessed them along with trains and ships. Another difference was how electricity was used, electric lighting being the opposite of the frequency between the two worlds. The Elemental Nations also had more appliances that ran on electricity than the one the Uzumaki-Namikaze family found themselves in.

Naruto came out of his introspection of the past when he entered the room that would be his homeroom and made his way to his desk. The other students immediately moved as far away from his as possible, while still making it obvious that they were talking about him. Ignoring them Naruto pulled out a book and started to read it while he waited for the sensei to arrive and class to start. The book he was reading was Jiraiya's first ever book, The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Ninja, one of the few things Naruto was able to bring with him and the only book by Jiraiya in the entire world. Though his father, Minato Namikaze, was talking about seeing if they could get his sensei's original book published in that world. Kushina made sure that The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Ninja was the only book by Jiraiya that would exist in the world.

Naruto was interrupted from his reading when he noticed the face of a woman that had brown hair, light colored brown eyes, with slightly pale skin, wearing round glasses, white dress shirt with frills in the front, and dark red knee length skirt, very close to him.

"I think you should read ghost stories!" The woman suggested strongly.

Cécile Lafitte seemed to be a very friendly passionate woman, if not a little childish when it came to certain things Naruto decided. She was also the person most serious about her students learning and getting an education that he's met since Iruka. Sadly, unlike with his previous sensei, Naruto wouldn't be able to sleep through any of the lectures or risk facing his mother's wrath.

As it was only the first day classes had yet to officially start, so the students only had to attend their homeroom class for the day before having the rest of day free. Since Naruto was a new exchange student Cécile decided to show him around the academy and explain a few things about Saubure.

"At this academy…no, at this country, there are a lot of ghost stories, you see." Cécile began explaining a bit of the country's culture. "I man, even the political world has a Ministry of the Occult, which just goes to show that we love our ghost stories." The woman finished by spreading her arms out wide.

"I see," Naruto murmured. Personally things like ghosts still scared the blonde teen despite everything, so he couldn't understand why an entire country would be so interested in them. "And I guess that this 'Yellow Reaper' is one of those stories, right Cécile-sensei?" He asked her.

"That's right," Cécile answered smiling at the blonde teen, "Though it is more properly known as the Springtime Reaper." She continued. "The 'Yellow' part is an honor that your fellow students have added in your name, Uzumaki-kun." The brown haired woman finished.

'How exactly is that an honor?' Naruto silently wondered to himself with a sweat-drop, still being called a reaper is much better than being called a demon he supposed. "Ah, please call me Naruto." The blonde requested. He wasn't sure if Cécile heard what he said, because the woman suddenly grabbed a hold of both his hands with hers, the same expression on her face as when she encouraged him to read ghost stories in class.

"If you've got a common topic to talk about, you can make lots of friends!" Cécile said, as she moved closer into Naruto's personal space, causing the blonde to lean back slightly. "Make a hundred friends and climb the Alps together, Uzumaki-kun!" The dark brown haired teacher finished loudly by pointing to the mountains off in the distance.

Naruto just looked at the woman dumbfounded, not sure how he was supposed to respond. At least he knew now that Cécile-sensei hadn't heard him.

Sometime later Naruto found himself in the academy's library, a tall tower that stood taller than any building Naruto had seen before back in the Elemental Nations. The building was also filled with more books than any other place Naruto had ever seen in his entire life, it looked like the kind of place either Sakura or Sai would enjoy spending their time in. Making his way towards where Naruto learned the ghost story books were located the sky-blue eyed shinobi followed Cécile-sensei's advice, if for no other reason than to give him something to do for a while.

Pulling out one of the books Naruto took a seat on the platform ladder and began to read, "Let's see… A ghost ship that appears on stormy nights, the Queen Berry… Leviathan, an alchemist who could produce gold from the intestines of dead men, sounds like something Orochimaru or the Kakuzu guy would be interested in." Naruto muttered to himself, as he flipped through a few pages of the book before something else caught his eye. It was the picture of some type of wolf, "A brilliant gray wolf that speak the human languages," Naruto read as a smile appeared on his face. "A talking wolf, huh? Finally something normal," The blonde finished, closing the book. After talking toads, slugs, foxes, and ox octopus hybrids a talking grey wolf wasn't all that strange.

Just as Naruto was about to put the book back on the shelf, the shinobi spotted something on one of the ladder's steps. It was long and thin and the same color of gold, it only took Naruto a couple of seconds to realize that it was a hair. Out of the corner of his eye he saw something at the very top of the tower shining in the same radiant golden color. Walking to the stairs Naruto once more noticed just how tall the library of Saint Marguerite Academy was. For a normal person climbing all those stairs would take several minutes and exhaust them, but for a shinobi, who kept up their training even after entering a new world, it would only take a few seconds, though Naruto didn't like how the academy's dark blue uniform restrained him a bit. Dashing up the steps Naruto reached the top in no time at all and found himself' in awe of the beautiful botanical garden that was located on top of the library, while the books bellow might be something that Sakura would like Naruto had no doubt that the garden was something that Ino would enjoy. Taking a closer look at the ceiling Naruto was 100% sure that Sai would like the place, as the ceiling showed an amazing painting.

While the garden was definitely beautiful it paled in comparison to the source of the shining golden color that Naruto had spotted. It was a petite girl, that Naruto would almost think was a really a doll if it wasn't the small amount of chakra he could sense in her, wearing a frilly black Victorian dress with white sleeves. The girl had smooth porcelain skin, her eyes an amazing emerald that could easily outshine Sakura's, and what Naruto considered most amazing of all was her long golden hair that fell around her that shined brilliantly in the sunlight that streamed through the glass windows. Around her were a few scattered books all of them opened.

"You're faster than I expected." The girl began her voice soft, yet it carried a certain' strength to it that Naruto found that not a lot of people possessed in this world, without turning to look at him. "But you're still late, Springtime Reaper."

Naruto raised an eyebrow in confusion, how can he be faster than what she expected and yet still arrive late? "How do you even know about me?" The young Uzumaki asked her curiously.

"The future that rose from the silver jar was reflected in the magic mirror." The girl said as she stood up slowly, a hand held mirror in her hand. Naruto noticed two things as the girl stood; one even though she was standing up the golden haired girl was very short compared to him, the top of her head probably only reaching up to his chest, and second her hair went down all the way to her ankles. "According to the augury, it seems you'll visit here again. Tomorrow when you here the noon bell ring…" She predicted her eyes closed and her right hand placed on the mirror.

"Are you supposed to be some kind of fortune-teller?" Naruto asked her dubiously. He didn't have much faith in fortune telling, especially since the last time a blonde girl told him his future Naruto learned he was supposed to die.

The girl ignored his question. "You were chosen…" The girl continued before finally turning to look at Naruto, "As a single fragment with which to fill up my boredom." She spoke confidently with a smirk on her face, assured that what she said was true, as she stared straight at the blonde shinobi.

Naruto could see it clearly in the girl's eyes, immeasurable confidence and pride without any of the arrogance. But Naruto could also see something else in her gaze, something deep beneath all the confidence and pride. "Is that so," Naruto murmured, still looking at the girl carefully trying to figure out what it was she was hiding but ultimately decided he'd have to wait and figure out what it was later, his mother demanded he send her a letter after he arrived at Saint Marguerite. "Then I'll see you tomorrow." The sky blue eyed teen said, turning around and walking down the stairs, with a wave to her over his shoulder.

After the blonde teen had left Victorique walked toward the glass windows and watched him as he made his way to the dorms. He was different from what Victorique expected; the blonde was much faster then what she expected without making a sound or looking winded, the only reason she knew about his progress up the stairs was because the steps that would creek as he made his way up, but it wasn't just his physical abilities that interested the stoic girl. The sapphire eyed boy was calm, completely unaffected by her "fortune telling" and instead he focused on her, Victorique could easily tell that he was analyzing her, trying to figure something out because she was doing the same thing.

There was a light in his eyes that Victorique had never seen before in anyone, they were warm and comforting. A smile appeared on Victorique's face, yet she could also see secrets hidden in his gaze, secrets that she was interested in figuring out.

Returning to her books Victorique was actually looking forward to her meeting with him tomorrow.

The next day Naruto searched out Cécile-sensei, hoping to get any information he could on the mysterious girl in the library's botanical garden, a name at least. When he finally found her the two sat at one of the benches that were located throughout the academy, while Naruto asked her his question.

"Oh, that's Victorique-san." Cécile supplied happily.

'Victorique,' Naruto thought as an image of the golden haired girl flashed through his mind, before focusing his attention back onto his sensei.

The dark brown haired woman almost seemed to be shaking with excitement. "That's wonderful! You made a friend already!" Cécile exclaimed joyfully. "She's a classmate of yours, Uzumaki-kun. There's always one empty chair in the classroom, right?"

"Well I wouldn't go as far as calling us friends." Naruto muttered, slightly taken back by the woman's exuberance. "And just call me Naruto." The sapphire eyed shinobi said to his sensei. Again Cécile didn't seem to listen to a word that Naruto said; something the blonde shinobi noted happened a lot when the woman was excited about something, as she grabbed a stack of papers and put them all on his lap.

"Oh, this is perfect. Uzumaki-kun, give these handouts to her, okay?" Cécile asked, though she didn't give Naruto time to answer as while he was looking at all the papers, silently wondering how and why there were so many, the woman got up off the bench and moved several feet away before Naruto even realized that she had moved. "See you later!" She shouted at the shinobi while waving her hand goodbye.

As Naruto watched the woman walk away with a spring in her step the teen considered the possibility that maybe the humans in this world did have some kind of powers. Just as he thought that the noon bell rang. Naruto remembered Victorique's prediction and how he would return to the library when he heard the noon bell ring, it was kind of scary how she turned out to be right about that, but then again it had been more than a couple of days since the last time that Naruto had ramen. And an Uzumaki could not go so long without the food of gods known as ramen.

An hour and half later, it had been two days after all, found Naruto once more at the top of the stairs of the library. The first thing he saw when he made it to the top was Victorique rolling around on the ground, her hair twisting around her, making loud incoherent sounds of displeasure as she did. Victorique finally came to a stop when she noticed the blonde teen standing over her.

"You're late!" She said, sitting up and pointing an accusing finger at him.

"I was eating ramen," Naruto said as if that answered and excused his apparent tardiness, as he set the papers Cécile had given him down. "What are you doing?" He asked her curiously.

Victorique wondered what ramen was exactly and why it took him an hour and a half to eat, coincidently it only took Naruto about thirty minutes to eat 25 bowls of ramen the hour was a consequence of having Kakashi as his sensei, Kushina preferred that her son was occasionally late rather than him read smut everywhere, but decided to let it go for now. "You got here later than I expected, much later." Victorique pointed out forcefully with a light glare, as she made sure her clothes were clean, "So I was getting bored." She finished indifferently.

"Is that so," Naruto murmured looking at her curiously. Normally if he had kept someone waiting for nearly two hours they would be much angrier, but besides a bit of displeasure Victorique didn't seem to care all that much. "Hey, how exactly did you know about me or that I'd be back?" The blonde shinobi asked her.

"The Wellspring of Wisdom told me so." Victorique said simply as if it were obvious.

"Wellspring of Wisdom?" Naruto repeated confused.

"The people of this country are naturally superstitious, than they learn of a student arriving in the spring from oriental descent. This naturally caused them to believe that the student would be one with black hair and dark eyes, which must have made people recall the academy's legend of the 'Springtime Reaper.'" Victorique explained looking at Naruto smugly, though there was curious look in her eyes as well. "Clearly their assumption wasn't entirely correct." She finished, and Naruto knew that she was referring to his blonde hair and blue eyes. "What's your name?" The emerald eyed girl asked him, though it also sounded a bit like a demand.

"Naruto Uzumaki." The blonde supplied.

"So, Uzumaki-" Victorique began but was cut off.

"Naruto," The sapphire eyed boy repeated, getting a curious look from the golden haired girl. "Call me Naruto." The blonde insisted.

Victorique looked at him expressionlessly but decided placate him and comply with his wish for the moment. "Very well, Naruto, being new to the Kingdom of Saubure you would of course be curious as to the legend behind the story, so it would only make sense for you to come here and investigate it." She explained, turning her back to him at the end.

Naruto was surprised by her reasoning and how she was able to come to such a logical conclusion with so little facts. The only people he knew that came close to being as smart enough to figure such a thing out were members of the Nara clan. Looking at her carefully Naruto saw that around her neck was a necklace, jutting out from her dress most likely because she was rolling around earlier, with what looked like a coin hanging off it.

"Hey your necklace is on backwards." Naruto pointed out, reaching out to straighten it only for Victorique to quickly move away before he could.

"Don't touch it!" Victorique told him, as she grabbed a hold of her necklace and held it tenderly in her hands.

Seeing the way that Victorique was holding her necklace and the way she looked at it, gave Naruto a good of how valuable it was to her. "Is that precious to you?" Naruto asked her softly.

"Yes, very precious." The emerald eyed girl answered just as softly, "So, so precious."

"I know how you feel," Naruto said, losing his necktie and unbuttoning a couple of buttons on his shirt, drawing Victorique's attention to him. "Because I have something like that, that I consider precious as well," The sapphire eyed boy continued, pulling out the necklace that Tsunade had given him so long ago and showing it to her. "This was given to me by someone who believed in me, and my dream, when not a lot of people did. That person became someone very dear to me to the point that she was like a mother to me." He finished, as he silently prayed that the woman that became like a mother to him had survived the war.

Victorique was surprised that they both had a necklace given to them by someone who cared for them. Victorique's necklace was given to her by her mother, Cordelia Gallo, and not only was it the only thing she had from her mother, but it also was the only physical proof she had that one day she'd be reunited with her. Naruto's seemed symbolize the belief that the woman he saw as a mother had in him.

But before either could say anything more they suddenly heard coming off from the side. Looking toward the source Naruto saw the elevator that was inside the library door's parting to reveal a blonde man.

"What. The. Hell." Naruto muttered looking at the man. In his life Naruto's met many strange looking people, Lee and Gai-sensei being at the top of a very long list, but in front of him was a man that might be able to match the two bushy-browed taijutsu users in weirdness when it came to appearance. The man wore a pristine white suit, with gold buttons, and a pink ascot around his neck, but while strange the suit wasn't the reason that Naruto considered the man odd. The man had long blonde hair that pointed forwards in a sort of spiral near the tip, before it split with the hairs pointed backwards.

"Grevil," Victorique spoke plainly, saying the man's apparent name.

"You know him?" Naruto questioned her disbelievingly.

"Ah, what beautiful weather we're having today." Grevil said in over exaggerated manner and motions, as he walked over to stand between the two teens. "And we also have a boy who looks like a baby squirrel. Maybe I'll try reciting a poem to this baby squirrel." The blonde haired man finished thoughtfully.

"Baby squirrel," Naruto muttered his eyebrow twitching, as the image of a squirrel appeared in his head with his hair.

"Last night, at a mansion in a certain village, Roxanne, an old fortune-teller, was murdered." Grevil continued, ignoring Naruto's obvious look of anger. All the while Naruto was thinking of what a lousy poet Grevil turned out to be, though Victorique seemed to be focused on the story Grevil was telling. "The fortune-teller lived in her mansion with an Indian manservant and an Arabian maid. Her granddaughter came for a visit that very night."

"Why were the manservant Indian and the maid Arabian?" Victorique asked Grevil.

"The fortune-teller had a penchant for exotic servants and could speak Hindi and Arabic at a conversational level." Grevil answered before he leaned in towards Naruto, one arm across his chest while the other was cupping his chin in a thoughtful manner with a finger pointed at the blonde. "Oh, and it seems the maid can only speak Arabic." He stated.

Naruto took a couple of steps back, to put some space between him and Grevil, and looked at Victorique. "Is he supposed to be some kind of detective?" The sky blue eyed shinobi asked her curiously.

"This is Inspector Grevil de Blois." Victorique answered impassively. "He is the owner of the oddest hair in all of Saubure." She finished as if stating a fact.

"I can believe that." Naruto said looking once more at the man's hair, noticing how Grevil seemed to be getting annoyed by the two talking about his hair.

Standing up straight Grevil placed his hands against his waist with his eyes closed. "Just before the murder, the fortune-teller was relaxing in her bedroom. The manservant was in the garden just below her window, returning the released hares to their breeding pen." Grevil went on with what Naruto was starting to understand was a story to a murder investigation.

"Hares?" Victorique inquired.

"The fortune-teller raised many hares. Apparently, she would allow hunting dogs gnaw them to death from time to time." Grevil replied staring at Victorique.

"How morbid," Naruto commented.

At that moment Grevil seemed to realize he was talking with Victorique directly before he focused his attention to Naruto. "But let's get back on topic, you innocent baby squirrel, you." He said almost chidingly.

"Oi, don't call me a baby squirrel, or I'll make you regret it." Naruto said back anger and annoyance evident in his voice. "And if you are going to talk to her don't do it through me." The blonde finished as he pointed at the golden haired girl standing beside him.

Grevil ignored his comments, as he continued with the story. The man went on to explain that on the night of the murder there was a gunshot that caused everyone to gather outside the fortune-teller's room, which was discovered to be locked. How no one seemed to answer when the maid called out. How the manservant was prepared to chop down the door with his axe only to be stopped by the granddaughter on the grounds that if her grandmother was dead that the house would then belong to her, and she didn't want anything destroyed, Naruto scoffed at how greedy and selfish the granddaughter seemed to be. However, since the maid didn't understand what the granddaughter was saying, the maid brought a pistol from the other room to help with the locked door by shooting the keyhole. When the door was opened, Grevil explained, they found the fortune-teller shot through the eye on the other side with the window locked and not weapon anywhere in the room.

During his retelling of the crime Grevil at some point started to stroke the tip of his hair, which Naruto found strange since he didn't know if the man was doing it consciously or not. Victorique on the other hand was focused solely on the things that Grevil was saying that happened on the night of the murder.

"So tell me, baby squirrel! How do you think it happened?!" Grevil asked once more leaning in towards Naruto.

"This is your last warning, don't call me baby squirrel!" Naruto repeated an uncustomary scowl on his face with his arms crossed over his chest. "As to what happened, it's obvious that when the maid shot through the keyhole she ended up shooting the fortune-teller as well." The Uzumaki finished.

Grevil didn't actually expect the boy to answer, as it was not his opinion that he was really after, but had no way to voice it without acknowledging the fact he was speaking to Victorique. The blonde man was saved from the trouble when both males heard a yawn coming from the only female present.

"Uzumaki is surprisingly right." Victorique informed the inspector shocking the man with the news.

"Oi didn't I say to call me Naruto?!" Naruto demanded heatedly, "And what do you mean surprisingly?!"

"The fragments of chaos are all lined up." Victorique said, ignoring Naruto's questions, as she brought out a white ceramic pipe with a blue flower painted on it and acted like she was smoking it. "I'll reconstruct them for you."

"Reconstruct them?" Naruto inquired as he looked at her curiously.

"I'll take fragments from the chaos of this world, and using the wellspring of wisdom inside of me, will reconstruct them into truth." The golden haired girl clarified. For a moment Naruto was sure that he saw Victorique's eyes flash. While he wasn't completely sure Naruto thought that the golden blonde haired girl was talking about solving the case and explaining exactly what happened.

"But the manservant under the window is the most suspicious-" Grevil started his back facing them, as he took a superior pose.

"The murderer is the maid, Grevil." Victorique reiterated, as she let out a sigh, cutting Grevil off and causing a sour look to appear on his face.

Grevil turned around and tried to grab a hold of Naruto's shoulders, only for the blonde shinobi to sidestep him. "What are you talking about boy?! Explain yourself!" Grevil demanded once more using Naruto as a means to talk to Victorique.

"The fortune-teller was the only one who could understand Arabic." Victorique began drawing both blonde male's attention to her. "The maid knocked on the door and yelled in Arabic. There was no answer, so she took out the pistol from the next room, then shot the door lock, correct?" The emerald eyed girl pointed out, before ending it in a question, Naruto and Grevil nodding their heads simultaneously to indicate that everything she said was right. "What did the maid yell out before that?" Victorique continued to question as she began to pace. "Perhaps, 'Mistress, someone is after your life. You heard the gunshot just before, didn't you? Move away from the window and come near the door.' In other words the maid knew that the fortune-teller was still alive. She called out to the fortune-teller in Arabic, tricking her, telling her it was safe in front of the door, and then shot the lock and the fortune-teller together." She finished, as she stopped pacing to face the two other people, recounting the events of Roxanne's murder

'Amazing,' Naruto thought as he stared at the girl who figured out everything that happened from a second hand source, with only having to hear the circumstance of the crime once. 'She was able to recount everything that happened as if she had actually been there when it happened.'

Victorique then continued finishing enlightening the other two blondes of the events that transpired. "Most likely, the reason the fortune-teller was shot through the left eye was because she tried peeking through the keyhole." Victorique stated.

"Hold it!" Grevil spoke up, "Then where and when was the first gunshot… baby squirrel?!" The blonde inspector demanded, before catching himself and directing the question at Naruto at the last second.

"That's it, I told you you'd regret it if you called me that again Baka-Inspector, and Naruto Uzumaki doesn't go back on his word!" Naruto shouted angrily at the older blonde, though Grevil seemed to just dismiss the younger one's proclamation with some annoyance at being called an idiot.

"I'm sure that the first gunshot was from the room next door." Victorique said, cutting into the two male's conversation. "The purpose was to frighten the fortune-teller and bring together the people in the mansion. If you investigate, I'm sure you'll find a still fresh bullet hole in that room." She finished by giving Grevil some advice.

"I see," Grevil murmured momentarily cupping his chin before turning to leave. "Well, it's time for me to return to the police station. This walk has put me in a fine mood." The man declared loudly.

With Grevil's back turned to them Naruto took that moment to pull out a sealing tag from a hidden pocket and throw it at the inspector's back, Victorique being the only one to see him do it. Once the tag came in contact with Grevil's back the seal on it glowed before it and the tag disappeared completely, shocking Victorique with what she saw enough that her mouth ended up slightly open. The tag was something that Naruto created along with his mother for the sole purpose of pranking someone without letting any of the people of this world know how it happened.

When Grevil entered the elevator Victorique recovered enough to say a few last things to him. "What about the criminal's motive?" Victorique questioned. "And she is no doubt hiding what she shot with the first bullet."

Grevil's surprised face was the last thing the two teens so of him, that and watching as his white suit turned pink, as the elevator doors closed. The blonde inspector would have no choice but to spend the rest of the day in his now pink suit.

With Grevil gone Victorique turned her attention to Naruto, an excited gleam in her eye. "What was that?" She asked him excitedly, acting for the first time like an actual teenage girl. "What sort of magic were you able to perform on Grevil?"

"Ah, I don't know what you are talking about." Naruto said looking away from the girl's inquisitive gaze, but Victorique wasn't that easily deterred.

"I wanna know, I wanna know!" Victorique shouted, acting surprisingly childish as she made her fists go up and down like she was a baby throwing a tantrum, before stopping and pointing a finger at him. "To stave off my boredom you must tell me what that magic was."

"No," Naruto refused.

Sitting on the ground Victorique began to roll around like when Naruto had first arrived. "I'm bored again," Victorique moaned.

Watching the girl roll around on the ground Naruto was surprised by how quickly she was able to go from acting completely serious and mature to being nothing more than a simple child, complaining over not getting things her way. "Who are you?" Naruto wondered out loud.

Victorique sat up at his question. "If you want to know about me tell about your magic." Victorique said just short of making it a demand. "And dance." She finished in an effort to get back at him for denying an answer for something interesting in the first place.

"I refuse." Naruto replied instantly.

The two stared at each other in a battle of wills, sapphire staring into emerald, neither willing to give in to the other.

The next day Naruto found himself in the police station after spotting a picture of Grevil on the front page of the paper, taking credit for solving the crime that he had brought to Victorique the other day, and receiving a kiss and yacht from the fortune-teller's granddaughter. Naruto was only partially mollified with knowing that Grevil had his picture taken while having to wear the pink suit, though he was saddened to see that the picture was in black and white. Arriving at the police station Naruto sought out Grevil to have him explain why he took the credit that rightfully belonged to Victorique.

"Oi, Baka-Inspector what the hell is this?!" Naruto demanded angrily, upset that Victorique wasn't the one receiving the recognition for solving the case, as he held the paper out towards the man who was now wearing a different white suit.

"Oh that," Grevil started unconcernedly. "I didn't coax her into the kiss; she forced it on me-"

"I don't care about the kiss!" Naruto said cutting Grevil off, drawing the attention of a few other officers to them and causing Grevil to look around wildly at people now watching at them curiously. "I want to know why the hell are you receiving all the thanks when it was Vic-" In a surprising show of speed Grevil covered Naruto's mouth, to keep him from finishing what he was about to say and dragged him to his office, away from prying eyes and ears, and slamming the door behind him.

"I see, so that's how it is." Naruto said much more calmly as he straightened out his academy uniform blazer, having escaped Grevil's hold the moment they entered the room. He didn't like the uniform; it was restrictive and was mostly a dark blue color without a single hint of orange. "You don't want anyone to know about Victorique and how she's the one who really solved the case, right? I guess it wouldn't look good if everyone figured out that Inspector Grevil was a fraud." The blonde teen continued before looking at Grevil with a smirk on his face. "So the question now is what will you do to keep what I know secret?" Ah, blackmail always a valuable tool for a shinobi.

"Alright, alright!" Grevil relented, moving to sit down at his desk. "You are both invited to join me on my maiden cruise this weekend." Grevil said with a sigh.

"That's the least you can do." Naruto said.

"You make it sound like it was such a simple thing." Grevil said absentmindedly, picking up the doll that was on his desk. "Victorique doesn't get special permission to go outside without my influence."

Naruto narrowed his eyes at the last thing Grevil said, something about it seemed off. What did he mean that Victorique wasn't allowed to go outside without his say? "What do you mean?" Naruto asked him in serious voice that demanded answers.

Grevil seemed to realize he unintentionally said something he shouldn't. "Forget I said anything." Grevil told the younger blonde male hastily. "This weekend then, I'll see you both there." He finished leading the boy out of his office and closing the door once Naruto was on the other side.

Naruto looked back at the office for a moment, still contemplating what Grevil had let out accidently and wondering what more there was to the mysterious Victorique that he didn't know about. Eventually the blonde shinobi had no other choice but to make his way back to Saint Marguerite Academy.

When Naruto returned to Saint Marguerite he immediately made his way to the library to inform Victorique about Grevil's invitation to go out on the yacht he received that weekend. The golden blonde didn't look all that interested when Naruto first brought it up, choosing to instead focus on the books she had laid out before her, searching for something that could help explain what it was that Naruto had done the other day.

"Uzumaki-"

"Naruto, Naruto." The blonde sapphire eyed shinobi cut her off, once more trying to get her to use his first name. "Call me Naruto."

"Naruto," Victorique began again using his first name this time like he requested. "Are you going to have fun spending your precious weekend with Grevil?" She asked him.

"Of course not," Naruto replied. "But I think you should get something out of helping Grevil solve that case. I figured what could be better than going out to sea for a day on a yacht that should rightfully belong to you?" The whiskered teen returned.

"I see," Victorique whispered thoughtfully. "I'd be able to leave this prison." She continued in a whisper looking up to the ceiling. Though she spoke in a whisper Naruto still managed to hear what she said, once more making him curious about Victorique's situation that'd make her feel like she was in a prison. "I'm going to prepare for the trip." Victorique declared standing up from she had been sitting on the ground.

"Why now? Theirs is still a few days left before the weekend." Naruto started off. "Then again I guess going out to sea would be exciting for a ten year old." He finished, Victorique stopping when he said ten year' old.

"What?" The emerald eyed girl muttered, as she stiffly turned to face Naruto. "Did you say?"

"What's wrong?" Naruto asked her obliviously.

"You said I was ten didn't you?" Victorique asked, her face being shadowed by her hair.

"Aren't you?" The blonde shinobi questioned innocently tilting his head to the side in confusion. When he first saw her Naruto assumed that Victorique was a girl that was skipped ahead because she was some sort of genius prodigy, with how she figured out who the murderer was yesterday sure supported that idea.

"I'm fifteen!" Victorique shouted, surprising Naruto both by her real age and the fact that she actually yelled.

"Really?" Naruto said stupefied. Looking her over carefully Naruto couldn't find anything that would suggest that she was actually fifteen. "It's just that you're so short that I just figured you were like ten or something." The cerulean eyed boy said with a sheepish as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Baka-Naruto!" Victorique shouted once more marching up to the boy while stomping her feet, "How dare you call me short?! You're just stupidly tall!" She proclaimed, once she was close enough Victorique kicked Naruto's shin, causing him to gasp in pain as he kneeled to hold his hurting shin. "Hmph, I hope that this will be a useful lesson that will help you think things more clearly in the future, Baka-Naruto." The slim girl finished, before spinning around her hair swishing the air behind her, as she made her way towards the elevator.

"Hey I thought students weren't allowed to ride that without permission." Naruto voiced still holding his throbbing shin, damn if that girl couldn't kick hard.

"This elevator is for school personnel and me." Victorique replied without turning around as she entered the elevator. "You can huff and puff down the long staircase with the reminder of your stupidity." The irate golden haired emerald eyed girl stated, taking the elevator down.

Naruto couldn't help but chuckle once Victorique was gone. That girl could be very cruel if she wanted.

Once the weekend arrived Naruto stood outside of Saint Marguerite Academy's front gate looking at all the luggage that Victorique was trying to bring with them, while the golden haired girl sat on one of the suitcases wearing a light grey sunhat in addition of her black Victorian dress.

"What the hell is all this?" Naruto asked Victorique disbelievingly. From what he could see there were at least eight different suitcases, and that was just what he could see Naruto was sure that there were a few more being hidden by the others.

"My brain has meticulously calculated this as the very least amount of baggage necessary for the trip." Victorique replied confidently.

"I somehow doubt that." Naruto mumbled dubiously, at least now he knew why she started packing early. "How are you even going to carry all of this?" He asked her.

"What do you mean? Naturally you'll be the one who carries it all, Uzumaki." Victorique said as if it were obvious.

"What?! When the hell did we decided on that?!" The blonde shinobi asked indignantly, as Naruto began looking through everything that Victorique brought.

"Hey, what right do you have to go through someone else's things?!" Victorique demanded.

"If I'm going to have to carry all of this, then I should at least know what it is." Naruto replied as he continued to look through her things, "Let's see… a compass, lifejacket, three different changes of clothing, some utensils, snacks, and a chair, really? I might understand the other stuff but this seems like too much." He finished, after all who knew what could happen while out at sea that would require one of the afore mentioned items.

Victorique started to pout when Naruto started looking through her stuff, her cheeks puffing out as he went on while turning a nice shade of pink. "If I say it's necessary, it necessary!" The emerald eyed girl shouted.

The blonde shinobi looked at her skeptically, "Fine," Naruto eventually said with a reluctant sigh. Naruto pulled out a sealing scroll and proceeded to seal' all the luggage that Victorique was bringing into it, with the exception of the suitcase that Victorique had originally been sitting on so it wouldn't seem odd for them to be traveling without any sort of bags. His clothes would already draw enough attention considering he was wearing a dark orange jacket with the Uzumaki swirl on the back, with a white shirt, and black pants. Clothes that were' definitely not common in Saubure, or anywhere else for that matter, "Alright ready to go?" He asked his traveling companion, grabbing the remaining suitcase and slinging it over his shoulder.

"What did you just do?" Victorique asked him curiously, her eyes once more filled with wonder at another display of Naruto's magic.

"What are you talking about?" Naruto asked her innocently, once more acting like he didn't know what she was talking about, as he started to walk away.

A short while later Naruto and Victorique were on a training heading toward the city of Saubreme the capital city of Saubure. Naruto was passing the time by once more reading The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Ninja, when he looked over at Victorique. He was caught off guard by the look on her face as she stared out the compartment window, her emerald green eyes practically shining with happiness and awe, as she watched everything pass them by, that was only matched by her smile. Her hair, that which wasn't covered by her hat, glowed in the same golden glow as the first day he saw her in the library.

Victorique seemed to feel Naruto's stare on her as she turned her head to look him with a confused expression. "Why are you looking at me like that?" She asked him, somewhat uncomfortable by how he was looking at her.

"Oh sorry," Naruto said giving the girl a small smile. "It's just you looked so different right now from how you usually are, you looked so happy, that I couldn't help myself." He told her before turning back to reading his book.

It was now Victorique's turn to stare at Naruto. The sun-kissed blonde was turning out to be a real mystery to the golden blonde with the more time she spent around him. Her attempts at discovering what he did to Grevil rendered few real results, with what little she did find being vague fairytales that spoke of incredible feats of magic. Then there was what she saw him do today, after much probing Victorique finally got Naruto to reveal that he stored her things inside the scroll so he wouldn't have to carry it all himself, though he wouldn't tell her exactly how he did it.

But as Victorique looked at Naruto what he was able to do wasn't what was at the forefront of her, no matter how much curiosity it created inside her. It was the way that Naruto looked so peaceful while reading that book with that smile on his face, one that seemed to fit him better than his fox like grin. Looking at him now reminded Victorique of the light she had seen on the day they met, and how it offered warmth and comfort for the person it was directed to.

When the two blonde's made it to the city of Saubreme, Victorique was looking at everything trying to take it all in at once. Naruto had to answer her questions of what a few of the stands were when she pointed to them, making him wonder just how often she got the chance to go out. The blonde shinobi let her look around a bit longer before drawing her attention.

"We should get going." Naruto told her, as he whistled signaling for a stagecoach, Victorique turning at the sound and watched as the stagecoach stopped in front of them. "Come on."

"Was that more of your magic?" Victorique asked him, "Or is he your servant?" She finished sounding completely honest in her curiosity, and shocking Naruto and coach driver with the question.

"You don't get out much do you, Victorique?" Naruto asked her instead, he was sure that the coach driver was a second away from just leaving, getting a huff as a reply.

Arriving at the port Naruto and Victorique were greeted by Grevil wearing a sailor's outfit with a large red scarf tied around his neck, while giving them a salute in greeting. The clothes the blonde inspector was wearing was once more threatening to make Grevil the weirdest person that Naruto had ever met.

"Ahoy; there matey!" Grevil greeted them.

A moment of silence, both blondes were seriously considering just turning around and leaving.

"Like my clothes, it's perfect don't you agree? The theme is 'man of the sea'." Grevil continued, not at all affected by the younger blondes' lack of response, before sparing Victorique a glance and then quickly looking away. "Oh, yes. About that murder, remember the first shot fired from the next room? What got shot was a mirror." The inspector revealed.

"I see. A magic mirror, eh?" Victorique whispered.

"And the prime suspect, the Arabian maid… is a beauty."

"What a pointless thing to say." Naruto muttered dryly.

"Ahem, regarding the motive, the maid babbled something that didn't quite make sense." Grevil said after coughing into his hand lightly. "She said this is the 'revenge of the box…'" The blonde inspector finished, trailing off at the end unable to make sense of what the maid was saying.

Naruto was able to catch Victorique's whispered, "Revenge of the box?" As she brought her pipe and held it against her lips, a gesture Naruto was starting to realize showed she was thinking something over.

A shout from behind them drew the three blonde's attention to a man wearing the blue uniform belonging to the Saubure police, "Inspector! Inspector, awful news! The Arabian maid escaped!" The officer shouted, shocking Grevil with the news.

"Are you serious?!" Grevil questioned incredulously, though he didn't wait for the man to respond, as he jumped off the yacht, and one of the smallest boats Naruto had ever seen, and passed by the blonde teen. "Excuse me, Uzumaki-kun, I've got to go!" He said using Naruto's name for the first time as he went. "You can board' the yacht, but don't take it out!" The blonde man yelled back as he left. "Adieu!"

"I wouldn't really call this thing a yacht." Naruto once more muttered dryly. It was only a second later that Naruto realized that Victorique was standing beside him, which surprised him since with his shinobi training he should have noticed the second she started to move, looking around he found the golden blonde inside the yacht. "What are you doing?" Naruto asked her.

"You know, this yacht belonged to the fortune teller." Victorique informed him, as Naruto climbed down the small ladder.

"Oh?"

"This looks like an invitation, addressed to Roxanne." The emerald eyed girl continued, holding the invitation in her hand, before handing it to Naruto. "Read it," Victorique instructed.

Taking the invitation Naruto did as she said, "Ok, dinner on a luxury liner on the coast near here. Miniature Garden Box Evening, where the main dish is hare?! Naruto finished reading dubiously; the chances of that last part being a coincidence were too small.

Victorique nodded her head, as if agreeing with Naruto's thoughts. "The fortune-teller raised hares." Victorique started by saying something that they both already knew. "Then we have the name, 'Miniature Garden Box Evening', and what the maid said, 'revenge of the box'…"

"They're both boxes," Naruto said, pointing out the obvious. "Hm, seems like things are finally getting interesting." The blonde shinobi mused; things had been too boring lately.

"What do you want to do?" Victorique asked him, intrigued by his reaction and how the anticipation was radiating off of him.

"Let's go check it out." Naruto replied confidently, his eyes burning with determination, and a smirk on his face.

"Spoken like a true Reaper." Victorique said with her own smirk.

Reaper, seems like the Shinigami will get a chance at watching something entertaining after all. Oh well things had been too boring for to long for Naruto's tastes anyway.

AN: There is the first chapter of this fic I hope everyone enjoyed it. I'm not sure if I was able to get everyone's character right, especially Victorique's, but I'm just getting started on this so I hope to get better. I know that this wasn't all that different from cannon, but Naruto hasn't had the chance to affect too many things yet so it will take a while before things start to really change. I already have one big change planned.

Now on with Chapter 2