AN: Greetings, everyone, and welcome back! Here I am again with another one that I've had stored up for quite a while now, and I figured I'd go ahead and release both chapters one and two to see what you guys think. Now, just to warn you, my recollection of Arthurian Legend is a bit rusty, so please forgive me if I miss some things or get some other things wrong or mixed up. Constructive criticism is always appreciated, and as always, no flames!

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto or the Fate series, all rights go to Masashi Kishimoto and Kinoko Nasu respectively.

Chapter 1: Ninjas and Knights

"Naruto! Naruto, hang on!" Sakura screamed at the top of her lungs as she held on desperately to the right hand of the one and only Uzumaki Naruto as he was being sucked into one of the trans-dimensional portals that Kaguya had opened in order to be rid of him.

"Just accept your fate! This world has no more need of you!" The Rabbit Goddess exclaimed as she then made the gravitational pull of the portal increase. "Disappear once and for all!"

"Bitch!" Naruto cursed loudly as he stared back defiantly into Kaguya's Byakugan. "Like hell I'm gonna leave this world without a fight!"

"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura called back to her third teammate. "Please! Help Naruto! I'm losing my grip!"

And there Sasuke stood, eyes flashing between Naruto and Kaguya, as if weighing his options. Finally, he took a few quick steps forward before vanishing in his Rinnegan's Teleportation Ninjutsu to get to Sakura's location, where he then extended his right hand over Sakura's shoulder in order to grab onto her hand, in an effort to drag Naruto from the brink.

"I owe you one, Sasuke!" Naruto yelled over the wind and dust that was being blown about the area.

"No, Naruto…" Sasuke said, his voice barely above a whisper as his left hand shot forward too quick for even Kakashi to follow.

"Sasuke, you…" Black Zetsu muttered in amusement.

With widened eyes, Naruto was visibly very stunned at what had just happened. Just a few inches from his face was Sasuke's left hand, covered in Sakura's blood, as he had shoved it straight through her heart from behind. And Sakura stood there, unmoving, eyes wide with shock, yet… lifeless. Those green eyes that Naruto had fallen head over heels for now had no more light in them and he was now grabbing onto the hand of the very man that killed her.

"… I owe you, Naruto. For getting into this predicament." Sasuke finished with a faint but noticeable dark smirk.

"Wh… why…?" Was all Naruto said.

"You'll never understand me… you are and always will be just a step behind me. You've been a thorn in my side for far too long and it's about time I be rid of you. And what better way to send you out than to kill your little whore right in front of you."

"Sasuke… SASUKE!" Naruto bellowed in utter rage as he dropped back into his Six Paths Sage Mode, only for Sasuke to let his grip up, thereby sending the blonde Sage barreling towards the portal.

And in one last act of cruelty, Sasuke tore his arm out of Sakura's corpse and kicked it towards Naruto, who caught it and screamed out his rage one last time before silence reigned over the battlefield as the portal closed.

(Within the portal: Sometime later)

Had it been minutes? Hours? Days? Naruto had no idea how much time had passed as he and Sakura's corpse floated in this black void. And he had given up on screaming when his own voice had given up on him. He couldn't move, he couldn't speak… the only thing that he could do was desperately hold onto Sakura's hand as they both tumbled through whatever it was that they were tumbling through. Time held no meaning for him anymore, and those things he once called memories were now blurring together.

What seemed like an eternity passed as Naruto finally closed his eyes and drifted off into a deep, dreamless sleep. And there he stayed for a time, fingers laced with Sakura's hand, as if he was desperate to not lose her.

And then, his eyes fluttered open just in time to see a white light in the distance, and said white light was getting bigger and bigger by the second. Was this it? Had his death finally come? Was it a hallucination? Naruto resigned himself to meet whatever was about to happen… but what he wasn't expecting was to fall through another portal and onto the soft, green grass of a field, followed by Sakura's corpse.

A split second after he hit the ground, he began coughing and hacking violently, trying to get some actual oxygen back into his lungs. But despite this, he crawled his way over to Sakura's body and placed his right hand over the gaping hole where her heart used to be.

At first, there was nothing, but then the sound of tissue and skin threading themselves back together filled the air as Naruto watched on in barely contained happiness that at least his Yang Seal was still working. After a few brief moments, the hole in her chest had closed and her heart had been mended. So caught up in his following tirade of joy was Naruto that he failed to realize that despite her wounds being healed, Sakura was still not breathing, a fact that he soon realized when she never once opened her eyes.

"S-Sakura-chan…" Naruto hoarsely muttered. "Oi, Sakura-chan… get up. Your wounds have been healed."

"Kit… you know as well as I do that she's…" Kurama began.

"NO! She's not dead! I healed her! Just shut up for once, Kurama! She's alive and… and she's gonna punch me for being so loud. She's gonna punch me, I'm gonna be scared to death of her and… it'll… it'll be just like old times! You'll see!"

"Naruto, please…" Gyuuki mediated. "The girl's dead. Not even your Yang Seal can undo that."

"No… no! No, she's NOT dead!" Naruto exclaimed as he took Sakura into his arms. "Sakura-chan! Say something! DO something! At… At least hit me! Right now, hit me! Send me to the moon! Prove the Bijuu wrong!"

The only thing that happened at that moment was a light breeze which softly blew Sakura's pink locks. And then it finally sunk in. Despite his efforts, she really was dead. As this fact hit him, Naruto slowly lowered her body back onto the grass as the tears began to fall. Throwing his head up to the sky, he screamed in pure anguish and sadness, as if cursing the Gods for what they've done to him. After a few more moments of just letting the tears fall, Naruto finally stood and dried his eyes just as he heard what sounded like a stampede coming his way, when in reality, it was a group of four people on horseback.

Naruto had no idea who these people were, and he really didn't care. If they attacked him, he would respond in kind, and if they wanted to talk, then he'd be civil. The odd thing about the group though, was that they all were wearing full plate armor, something that Naruto had only seen in the history books that dated back to the Sengoku Era.

The group came to a halt just a few feet away from him and the apparent leader, a man with long flowing black hair and black full plate armor, addressed him.

"Be you friend or enemy, sir?"

At this, Naruto blinked in confusion… he couldn't understand a word of what the man was saying.

"Lancelot, look! A corpse at his feet!" One of the other strange men said in their tongue, to which Lancelot held up a hand to silence the man.

"Calm yourself, Tristan. I see no blood on his clothes, nor do I smell it in the air. It isn't a fresh kill and from the looks of things, our strange guest here was crying over her."

"The plague may have gotten to her. Nasty little affliction going around as of late." Another of the men offered.

"Be that as it may, he still hasn't given us an answer." Tristan pointed out.

"Who are you, if I may ask?" Naruto asked in his tongue, which was Japanese.

"Ahh…" Lancelot sighed. "I see the problem now. Language barriers. He doesn't speak English and we don't speak his language."

"What should we do with him then?" The fourth man asked.

"Back to Camelot! You two, stay here with the body and give it a proper burial. Tristan, you're with me." Lancelot ordered, and instead of trying to speak to Naruto, he gestured with his hands for him to climb onto the horse.

"Go with them, kit. I sense no negative energies from them. In fact, this might just be our saving grace. If we go with these men, we can probably find out where Kaguya sent us." Kurama reasoned, gaining a few voiced approvals from Matatabi, Gyuuki and Isobu.

Hesitantly, Naruto grabbed onto Lancelot's armored hand and was hoisted up onto the horse, at which point, the knight spurred the animal on, back in the direction that he had come from, with Tristan following close behind.

(Camelot: Minutes later)

To say that Naruto was blown away would be an understatement. Camelot was a grand castle with an expansive town under its protection. The many citizens that they passed promptly made room for them until they finally passed through the gates of Castle Camelot proper, where a couple of squires took the horses back to the stables, while Lancelot led Naruto through the many hallways and corridors, which finally led to an expansive room which Naruto recognized as a throne room.

At the far end of the room was the throne, and upon which sat a blonde haired, green eyed boy that Naruto put at around 16 to 17 years of age. He assumed that this boy was the land's ruler, hence why he sat upon a throne. In the middle of the room was a large round table with about a dozen wooden chairs surrounding the entire circumference and to the right of the boy's throne was another throne, where a young woman with dirty blonde hair and piercing jade green eyes sat, likely the boy's wife Naruto again reasoned.

Bypassing the table, Lancelot walked right up to the throne, albeit a few paces back, and took a knee. "My King, Sir Tristan and I bring with us a most curious fellow. We found him and the body of a girl, most likely his friend who died of the plague, just outside the town. I tried questioning him, but he doesn't speak our language."

"And you were hoping Merlin could help with this linguistic barrier right, Lancelot?" The boy asked.

"Precisely so."

"Merlin, if you will?"

"Of course, of course." The aged mage said as he took a few steps forward and looked Naruto dead in the eyes, as if studying him, or rather, his very soul.

Naruto couldn't help but feel the old man's very spirit invade him and, after a few brief moments, Merlin began chuckling.

"Well…" The mage chuckled once again. "We have a special case here. He's from a land far to the east, far past even Rome. I've been there a few times in my day, and I should be able to adequately translate what he's saying."

"Please do, Merlin." The boy said.

"Boy." Merlin began in fluent Japanese. "What's your name?"

"Naruto… Uzumaki Naruto." Naruto answered, a bit surprised that the old man could understand him.

"His name is Naruto Uzumaki, my Lord."

"Ask him how he came to be here, please." The boy said, keeping a firm gaze on their guest.

"How did you get here, Naruto?" Merlin asked again in Japanese.

"Heh. It's a long story and I'm sure that you wouldn't believe me." Naruto responded, a light chuckle escaping him.

"Try me. You may be surprised at the outlandish things that I've seen. Though if I were to hazard a guess… time travel?"

"Your guess would be correct, old man." He nodded. "Though it's more or less dimension hopping instead of time travel. See, I'm not from this world. I'm from a different universe that's actually not unlike this one."

"Say no more, I know what you are now, Naruto. No wonder I felt Hagoromo's Chakra inside of you…" Merlin lightly stroked his beard.

"You know Hagoromo-jiji?" Naruto's eyes widened as he took a step forward, but Lancelot's hand on his shoulder stopped him.

"He was your world's Sage just as I am this world's Sage…" He stopped only to nod. "Though I guess it's fair to say that you're your world's new Sage. So, Kaguya was resurrected after all, huh? Troublesome woman…"

"You're telling me, old man. Though… if you're this world's Sage, does this mean you can send me back?" A hopeful gleam shone through in the boy's blue eyes.

"Afraid not, my boy. My powers only go so far and I have only grown weaker with age. I'm afraid you're going to be stuck here."

"But what does this world need with two Sages? Surely there's some way to send me back to my own world?" He was grasping at straws. "I mean… I have to save it from Kaguya and… and I have to issue out my payback to the one who ensured that this happened to me…" At the thought of Sasuke, Naruto lightly snarled.

"Woah, woah, one step at a time, son." Merlin held up his hands in a placating manner. "Let's deal with the most pressing issue first: Getting you a pass to stay here in Camelot."

"You can do that?"

"Of course I can. See that boy on the throne?" After a nod from Naruto, Merlin continued. "He's the King of this land called England. I, however, am part of the reason why he ascended to the throne. He'll listen well to my advice."

"Thank you, err… what's your name?" He chuckled at his own lack of manners.

"Please, call me Merlin." The aged magician bowed.

"Thank you, Merlin. I'm in your debt." Naruto returned the bow.

"Ok…" Merlin sighed in English. "He's from a different dimension, believe it or not. He was thrown here from his own time and he's now stuck here."

"But… how is this even possible?" The boy asked skeptically.

"He's a Sage, just like me, Arthur." Merlin explained. "Because he's a Sage that also means that he's one of my comrades. I believe him and his story, and I also recommend that he stay here in Camelot. Fear not, he's a trustworthy boy and he's also fiercely loyal to those that prove to be his friends and allies. My mind's eye has seen this."

"But… what about the language barrier?" The now identified Arthur asked.

"I will teach him how to fluently speak our language while also tutoring him in his abilities as a Sage, possibly even teach him how to use Mana."

"Lancelot, what say you?" Arthur asked, turning to his trusted ally.

"I concur with Merlin." Lancelot nodded. "I believe that Naruto could prove to be a valuable ally, especially considering he is also a Sage. With your kind permission, my Lord, I also wish for him to be made a Squire. I'll take him under my wing and teach him the way of chivalry and swordsmanship."

At this, Arthur rose from his throne and cast his gaze down upon Naruto once again. "Naruto Uzumaki… I, King Arthur Pendragon, son of Uther, Lord of Camelot and King of England, hereby personally welcome you to Camelot."

"You're in, kid. Welcome to Camelot." Merlin said in Japanese, gaining an excited smile from Naruto.

"Thank you, Merlin! Thank you so much!" Again, Naruto bowed, this time deeper.

"Ohoho, don't be thanking me just yet." Another stroke of the beard. "You're now my student, and don't think for a minute that because you're a fellow Sage that I'll take it easy on you during your new training!"

"Hai, Sensei!" Naruto dutifully responded as he snapped to attention.

'This boy…' Arthur thought to himself as he stared on at the blonde enigma that was Naruto. 'I foresee plenty of headaches in my future…'