Hi folks, I apologize for the delay but I had quite the fight with all my exams, (I am in my Graduation Year) and had not that much time to write.

Also, special thanks to Guardian's Light, who was so kind to proofread this chapter, and now you will be able to have another chapter without many errors. If you haven't read Tsunami or Tectonic, I advise you to do so, those are two incredibly well written stories.

avatoa, Add Chocolatebunny, Sabaku no Yumi: Thank you for your kind words, I shall do my best.

Alexis kiah: I am grateful for your suggestions but I am sorry to say, that I don't really plan a romance between Hay Lin and Sasuke, especially since Sasuke is acting under Nerissa's orders right now but I am pretty sure you will like the turn of events.

Renji9031: Don't worry she won't be part of Akatsuki but she might have connections which might surprise you.

The Crazy Talk Kid: Thank you, I would like to think so too but I have still ways to go.

Shiroi Misa: I am glad you liked this story and Matt will have some quarrels with his demon, let's just wait and see how they will turn out.

Sasha: I am happy to see that you enjoyed this, I hope you will continue reading and enjoying Ninja and Guardians.

Guardian's Light: Again, thanks for everything, we will see more about the teacher now .

Anyway I wish all of you a happy new year and without any further ado I present you the next part.

Disclaimer: I do not own any original characters/techniques/places/names/objects of Naruto and W.I.T.C.H. and I don't intend to make money with it, not that I could if I tried.

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"The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult."

Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

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Battles are lost and won, nobody can and will deny that and some will say there is a pattern; they say a battle is influenced by the determination of the combatants, the willpower. Some say it is only a comparison of skill, the one who is superior wins, while others are of the opinion that no matter how skilled or talented someone is the one with the greater experience will win.

If that was a fact, it would mean the older someone is the greater the advantage he has and thus making him the better fighter or at least the one who will come out victorious.

One drop of knowledge is more powerful than a sea of force, wisdom and intelligence are essential to the outcome of a battle, and most of the time is gained through experience.

Luck, an important yet unpredictable factor, is still influencing battles in an unforeseen way and is able to change a situation immediately; no matter how bad or how good it looks.

So the many ways of a good fighter were varying; wisdom, talent, power, luck, hard work and intelligence, even though most would focus on one, they would agree that all of these attributes were needed.

The old woman that was sitting in a gigantic dome of earth filled with thousands of wheels, big purple discuses of energy that were hanging like paintings on the walls of the dome except in two places; the exits of the room, possessed all these attributes, honed over the eons.

Leaning on her cane, an old piece of wood carved with artistic runes and symbols, she gazed into one of those purple discs, inside seeing the Oracle and five young girls, and hearing every word they were saying while grinning maliciously.

A shrivelled raisin indeed, that girl would learn to respect her elders, the hard way. Her grin widened when she saw that three of the girls looked confused having never heard her name before, the eyes of the dark skinned girl widened in realization apparently having recognized her name while the brown haired girl scoffed.

"You can't be serious?"

Oh, the very hard way!

Her laughter echoed the ghostly dome as she took a few steps back while laughing, partly of anticipation and partly of amusement. Teaching was what she enjoyed; she loved and lived for it.

Well the Guardians would find out about her way of teaching soon enough, and if respect to people older then them was one of the lessons she had to give, who was she to decline?

After all, teaching a slow learning student was so much more fun and it seemed that she would get five of them.

She taped the ground with her cane and magically the ground under her started to move like a conveyor belt aiming to the exit of her room.

Once again she admired her ancient rod, being in her possession for centuries, even though contrary to regular belief, it was completely useless.

Many people who had visited her to seek studies, knowledge or power, always were thinking that this cane had magical abilities. She didn't bother to correct them, it was actually one of her favourite hobbies to give this cane a variety of powers, saying that it was the source of her energy or it had the ability to return the death, one time she had made one generation of Guardians believe that she could create planets with it.

So many fools, so many possible lies and every time it was funnier then the last. Whereas she only had it because it looked so fancy, but it was always hilarious and entertaining to see other people stare at it with fear, admiration, respect or even greed.

There had been a few who tried to steal it, pity, she never liked to harm anyone but she liked thieving imbeciles even less, so she had to dispose them and only few of them actually put up a fight, always leaving her place in a mess. You would think having as much power as her would ease such tasks like cleaning but she had learned soon enough that sometimes magic could not match the efficiency of a broom and brushing.

Of course it wasn't her who had to the cleaning but her students back then, Merlin, so she remembered one of her countless students, had a knack of enchanting brooms and brushes in a magnificent way to do the chores. She smiled with the thought of him, he was talented, a worthy Heart and coincidently was from the same world as the new coming girls.

She hadn't got a visit from that world for quite a time now, the last one was four hundred years ago, save the last Guardians of course, but they hardly counted as they were told by the Oracle to come to her.

The cave to enter her realm was a tourist attraction but his original story was long lost, so she wasn't that surprised by the lack of guests not that she complained. She had enough to do already, with all those who asked her advice and sought for her training, but like everything worth seeking; you had to pass a test, a very amusing test.

At least for the ones who watched…?

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In a safe distance to the roof where the Konoha Shinobi were currently sitting, two figures tried to put as much houses between them as possible with only one thing in mind; to get the hell away from them!

They had seriously underestimated the Guardians and even though the battle, without the interference, would have ended to their favour, they put up a much greater resistance than expected. Especially the Water Guardian's attack was frightening at least.

"Sis, we should get away faster, the silver haired man was Hatake Kakashi and next to combat he is famous for his tracking. I bet he can smell us the whole time and will start to hunt. With this damn cat, I can't even use my technique!"

That was another worrying component of the situation; the cat. Somehow the cat's presence was enough to dispel a high level illusion as Shinta's. That was a major drawback in their attack strategy, since the real teamwork depended on the youngest boy in their team.

While the other three, her especially, seemed really strong in combat, it was the fact that the created illusion of Shinta often ensured a victory.

True, like all ninja he had the basics in close combat but he was rather weak in that prospect, leaving them with nothing but retreat at the moment.

"I realized that much." said Tomoko, glancing over her shoulders, before dashing away with more speed leaving the village with Shinta following her.

"Still, I don't think he will follow us. And stop calling me sis." She added angrily as the two entered the woods at the same time.

"How will we meet Ryu-san and Shinichi?"

"If they were smart they would have left the village with a hostage."

"Unfortunately neither Ryu-san nor Shinichi are known for doing smart things." said Shinta, making a funny face at the thought of the possible catastrophes those two may have caused.

"Exactly, which is why I suspect they will have found the only one hostage who either doesn't know the location of the Infinite City or won't tell anything."

She laughed hollowly as she jumped from the next tree branch. "Maybe even both, who knows? Or they didn't even manage to find a hostage, right now."

"We will see, sis." Shinta ignored the glare as he sped up and shot past her, landing on a small spot of grass.

He brought his hand over his eyes, looking past the trees where he could see a few movements.

"Well…I'll be damned…." he said, looking genuinely surprised.

Tomoko landed next to him, following his gaze with interest.

"Well there is a third person with them, let us hope he can give some useful information."

"That would be too good to be true." sighed Shinta, now speeding up again and both Sound Shinobi reached the spot of their companions in only a minute.

Ryu looked extremely annoyed while he glared at the old man they had bound to a tree, giving them a quick nod as acknowledgement.

"So how does it go?" asked Tomoko, looking curiously at the old man, his white beard having several reddish parts, no doubt his own blood, several missing teeth and numerous cuts all over his body, but to her great surprise (and Ryu's annoyance), a small smirk on his face.

"Never will I tell you good for nothing bastards the location of the Infinite City." he spat, no doubt for the hundredth time.

"We have found the most stubborn, old geezer in the whole freaking universe." growled the archer, "He won't tell us a thing and believe me, I tortured him quite a bit."

"You have to press the right buttons, Ryu. Otherwise you will always fail." She looked at the man again, who was glaring at them.

"What does he say?"

"Only crap about honour and morals, pah! Can I kill him?"

Shinta walked to the man and leaned down, coming on eyelevel.

"Hey old man, what is your reason for being so stubborn? As soon as you tell us the whereabouts of the entrance, we are going to set you free."

"You hooligans wouldn't understand, so just go ahead and kill me. I would rather die then betray the Rebellion." Spat the man, coughing. His dark eyes, perhaps kind and cheerful most of the times were now sparkling with fury.

"Our sons and daughters have been fighting for the good of all of us, risking their lives. How could I betray our saviours, our children for my health? And now I should tell you, Phobos' henchman the very entrance, so you could attack them? I think not."

Shinta looked at him for a few seconds before forming slowly a few hand seals. After finishing them he looked sadly at the man.

"You are a brave man," he said "and I respect you courage and determination, but I am afraid we are in need of that particular intelligence, so I beg your forgiveness. Not that it matters, then you will only be a babbling idiot after I am finished with you so I would ask you to tell me before you force me to use my technique."

The old man stared at the young kid, how old could he be? Sixteen at most and yet he was already doing this unforgivable deeds, Phobos was indeed corrupting everyone.

And that was the reason why he couldn't tell them the location. If they entered the Infinite City, they would catch the Rebellion of guard and he couldn't let that happen. He was one of the few who knew a few of the entrances and he would sooner die then tell them.

"I am sorry for you youngsters." He responded, now grinning again. "But this stubborn old timer has one last job yet to fulfil and that is to keep the secrets, no matter what you do, I will protect that knowledge."

"What a waste." Was the only thing Shinta said and he touched the forehead of the old man with both of his hands.

He closed his eyes as he forcefully entered the mind of the old man, searching for a few seconds, before being thrown out after a few seconds.

He opened his eyes, shocked that this…this geezer actually had the mental strength to throw out someone of his calibre but then realized something.

"He is dead." said Shinta, standing up. "Somehow, he died in the process of me entering his mind."

"You mean his heart couldn't take it?" asked Tomoko, scratching her chin.

Shinta shrugged, looking sadly at the old man, who was still smirking, the last expression he had, frozen on his face for eternity.

"Stupid man, it was futile." cursed Shinta, "Your death was in vain, gramps. Noble, but in vain, you were furiously thinking to protect it but you were still thinking about it, so it was the first thing I saw."

A firm hand placed itself on Shinta's shoulder and when he looked up he realized it was Shinichi's.

"Do not despair, Shinta-kun." Spoke the swordsman solemnly, "He died a hero's death, just like a true man. Even though we fight on different sides I cannot help but admire his strength of will. We are honoured having found such a strong enemy."

It was in times like these when Shinta appreciated having Shinichi in the team but the snort of Ryu drew the attention of him away.

"Strong opponent? He was an old man, not even a threat for a Genin, let alone us."

"It is sad to see that you, my friend, cannot see the value of a man's inner strength."

"I'll give you some inner strength." said Ryu dangerously, his patience already being at his end with spending such a troublesome time with idiots, mallet heads and Shinichi.

Shinichi unsheathed his katana and readied himself.

"I, Shinichi Hikaru, accept your challenge. My noble edge is waiting for you, my brave friend, to prove that all your actions will be futile."

"Good grief," sighted Tomoko, standing up. "Let's just go to the Infinite City…"

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"So the old dude sent us on another quest without telling us exactly what we should expect. For an omnipotent being he sure is close mouthed." complained Irma, after stepping out of the fold, as she looked at her surroundings. The fold, as Irma was the last one, closed behind her leaving the five girls alone.

As much as she could tell they were at a coast, with a high cliff with several plants and the azure blue ocean. She could make out some large buildings, apparently hotels in the distance and with the hope to know the place she turned to Taranee, who had entered the fold as the first.

As expected Irma wasn't disappointed.

"We're in Turkey." said Taranee carefully, fanning herself with her hand, surprised by the sudden change of temperature to thirty-two degrees.

"How would you know?" asked Hay Lin amazed, gazing down the cliff, feeling the warmth of the blazing sun.

"I swallowed the geography book and memorized every place on earth mentioned in books." said Taranee dryly and groaned when she saw four shocked/scared/amazed/disgusted faces of her friends.

"That was a joke…, I was here before, three years ago my family spent their holidays her, in one of the many hotels."

"Nice," complimented Will, relieved that her friend did not memorize all geography books on earth, now feeling silly for believing it. At the same time she cursed the fact that she was wearing her usual pink jacket, but it was better then two other options; naked and in Guardian form, both of them should be avoided in public, no matter their position on earth.

Even in holiday zones it was risky to appear as giant fairies, with the exception being Rio in Carnival.

"So where should we go? All he said was that we would find our teacher in the most magical place in this area."

Cornelia sighing while looked at Taranee.

"Well, I do hope you know some magical spots around here, preferably near the beach."

Taranee smiled and kicked a stone down the cliff, watching the stone hitting the water.

"Coincidently, I know. Well I am not sure, but I can't think of another spot. We had many sight seeing tours and there are two places that could be magical.

One; the old Byzantine ruins of the old city and two, there is this cave, called "the Cave of the Seven Sleepers" where seven Christian men should have slept for centuries."

Will thought for a moment before pulling out the Heart.

"My guess is the cave and the way Tara explained, I think she has the same opinion."

"Your guess is as good as ours," confirmed Irma, "and seeing that Tara backs you up it would be even better."

With a flash of pink the girls transformed into their Guardian forms, now sticking out even more in the landscape.

"I know this isn't really undercover but hey, it is better then to walk there, wherever there is…"

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To be busy, it could be a good thing or it could be bad, it differed from situation to situation, and just now being busy with the task of occupying a few dozen mutant animal-things five times his size, Sasuke couldn't help but put this into the category of bad things.

Those … well, beings were quite fast and most of them, if not all, had claws. Big, sharp, dangerous, and sometimes even poisonous claws.

And speed combined with poisonous claws is nothing to wish for in an opponent, even less if there are about thirty of them.

So Sasuke had to use everything in his repertoire to prevent being caught and until now, he was doing a pretty good job.

The forest they were in was burning, the smoke and fire was making it easy for him to ambush them from time to time and it was partly covering his scent as they had pretty good noses.

So with a clever combination of kunai traps, exploding tags and snake summons he was fairing rather well, not having a serious injury so far.

One of the non poisonous natives hat hit him at the back and while he could have normally dodged such a fast but inefficient strike, the fact that the beast was able to bend his arm like a kraken caught him of guard and he had to pay for such a mistake.

Still, he was not out of harm's way, they were really persistent and durable, having hard skin/scales and tough attitudes was one of the reasons why his attacks were not that damaging to them, he simply had few ways of dealing serious damage without using much chakra, so far the only things effective were the Fire techniques and precisely aimed strikes with his sword.

Right now, he was sitting on a tree, gazing through the branches, looking out for more of the beasts, knowing that every second they chased him, his mistress would have more time to conquer the Heart, then she would provide him with power, the power to defeat his brother…

He jumped down, smeared a bit of blood on the summoning tattoo on his right arm and summoned a huge snake, one of the size that he had once encountered in the chunin exams.

This was bound to attract their attention and even though this had cost him a great deal of his chakra, seeing how this gigantic serpent rampaged through the forest and his habitants, he decided that it was worth it.

Now he could relax a bit, he needed this small break, a summon of that size was rather chakra consuming, even more if he had spent the better part of the last hour to hurling fireball after fireball.

The young avenger was sure, that with his Chidori he would have been able to kill them, but there was no way that he would be able to use that move so many times.

The gigantic snake hissed and smashed a few trees with his monstrous body, the angry and fearful groans and grunts of the Zoans alongside with the sound of the fire and the crumbling forest ground and trees created a symphony of destruction, letting Sasuke smile and his cursed seal started pulsating again, flooding him with the feeling of power, the power over others, enough power to destroy a certain man…

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Night, few things had been aligned with dark matter as it was with the night, the time where the ruthless and vile persons seemed to plot their foul schemes, it was almost cliché.

Yet, in the Hidden Leaf Village, at night, deep in one of the old buildings were two people, different and similar in more then one aspect.

The building itself was impressive, inside of it was a great, gloomy hall, with several columns holding the ceiling in place, of course it was Japanese style. Several floors were crossing in each other and the place the two were meeting was the one in the lowest stage, the younger one kneeling in front of the old man.

His face was covered in bandages, together with his right eye and a scar in form of an X was decorating his chin. His right arm was apparently missing and he was supporting his body with a cane he was holding with his left, functioning arm. The dark and white clothes formed a nice contrast with his intentions.

The boy kneeling in front of him wore dark clothing as well, but in a more…unusual manner.

He wore a forehead protector of the Hidden Leaf Village on his forehead and his clothes were disturbingly revealing his stomach, also his left sleeve was way shorter then his right and even though most Shinobi settle for dark clothing every piece he wore was black, except the forehead protector and the sword stripped on his back.

"You have been informed about the current situation and I have already arranged things such that you will be placed in that team with Elyon." Spoke the man with the stoic expression.

"In addition to your age not being much different from Queen Elyon Brown, you are also the strongest one of your generation in the Village… and above all else that wonderful artistic taste of yours is simply breathtaking."

He pointed with his cane at the young boy.

"From this day until the end of the mission you will be known as Sai."

The boy smiled falsely and nodded.

"Sai…as you wish."

The man frowned, his old face looking slightly disturbed.

"There is no need for you to use such a fake smile in my presence." scolded the old man.

"My apologies…, the manual I've been reading said that the first thing needed to gain a person's favour is a smile…, I have been practicing but still…,"

The smile faded and he looked emotionless at his superior.

"I find myself incapable of properly producing this thing called an expression…"

This let the man smile genuinely, "You are to accompany and protect the Queen, finally our world is part of the great changing's again and we have to ensure the leaf's safety in those times. Do not fail on your mission."

"As you wish…Danzo-sama…"

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They had been flying for about thirty minutes when they landed again, now having put quite the distance to their point of arriving, near the mountains.

"Are you sure this is the right way?" asked Hay Lin, seeing a few ruins and a lot of tourists in the distance.

"Yes, the cave was only a few kilometres away from here."

"So basically speaking, it could be anywhere in a five kilometre radius?"

"That pretty much covers it."

"Ok, Will, you transform me back." interfered Irma, "and then I will go there and ask for some directions."

"Because you speak Turkish so fluently." said Cornelia sarcastically.

"Or they understand English, seeing that this is a tourist centre and all."

"She is right, you know." said Taranee, watching how Irma transformed back into her normal form, grinning confidently. With a small wink she started jogging toward the pile of tourists.

She arrived there only a couple of minutes later, sweating like after a marathon, running with many clothes in this heat surely wasn't one of her brightest ideas.

Irma approached a bulk of tourists, who, to her luck, were apparently speaking English since the guide was using that language.

After he finished his speech about the history of the old bath house, she walked to him, asking him about the directions. The guide told her, that the cave, indeed, was a tourist attraction around here and its location is about six kilometres in the east.

After thanking the man and returning to her friends, they took off again, carefully avoiding being seen. Somehow, Will couldn't explain it; they managed to arrive at a cave. It looked like a normal cave, except the fact that it was supposed to be a tourist attraction and the total lack of any humans within sight was more then suspicious.

When Taranee pointed this out, the other girls had already noticed this, looking around warily.

"Well, I can only guess, but this may be the work of the Oracle." suggested Will, "You know, like letting us enter this with peace and without worries."

"Or it is a bad season for magical caves." joked Irma, glancing inside the cave.

"Do we simply enter or is there something like a Stargate?"

"Hay Lin, I don't think we will use a Stargate, or anything similar."

"Sometimes a cave is just a cave." philosophised Irma, entering the cave with sudden bravado. It was dark and as normal as cave could get, somehow she was disappointed, having expected something more impressing. When Cornelia, as the last one, entered the world seemed to take off like plane; at least that was how the Guardians felt when a sudden yank went through the ground, resulting in an ungraceful fall of the Guardians.

"Or a cave is a magical loon zone." muttered Will, standing up slowly, now noticing several changes at the place. Firstly it was much bigger now, having roughly a radius of one hundred meters, the walls had strange symbols in a specific order, one every five meters.

"How cliché." commented Irma, gazing at the surroundings. "They've got everything; runes, torches and a scary echo. The only thing missing is a magical lamp guarded by ancient and powerful protectors."

The woman, gazing into on of her countless discusses of energy, smiled. How very convenient that she said just that, well it would be very bad to disappoint them. If ancient and powerful protectors are what they wanted then that was what they would get. She wasn't a bad host after all and had to respect the wishes of her guests.

Yet you should always be careful what you wished for, how very true that old saying was. Indeed, they could become true.

She looked back, at the seven figures standing behind her, nodding at the one on the left. The one, a man wearing the full, silver armour of a knight of the thirteenth century, said nothing but sunk slowly in the ground, only to reappear a few seconds later in front of the Guardians.

The girls, not as shocked about the appearance of someone from the ground as one would think, watched in awe as the man drew his sword, a wonderfully crafted, double edged claymore and lifted his shield with the left hand.

"Until here and not further, vile witches, Sir Hastings shall be your opponent, one of many on the top of that, and he will not receive a defeat."

"This will turn out nasty, right?" asked Irma, really hoping that this wouldn't be the case.

"It is up to you, I have objections of fighting girls and will let you retreat in peace but I shall not back down if you make the mistake of fighting."

"Any plans?" asked Taranee, overcoming the shock of facing a knight, there shouldn't be that many left and they met one here on the top, this was really not their week.

"Hit him with everything we got until he stops moving?" suggested Will carefully, not really in the mood of thinking otherwise. Also this guy was alone and was using sword and shield, how dangerous could he get?

Cornelia seemed to think along the same lines as she started to speak not a second later.

"You think of fighting us at once? You and what army?"

Famous last words.

"I take this as an intention to fight." said Sir Hastings. "Indeed, I have no army to my disposal, but on the other hand, I don't really need one."

He slammed his sword into the ground, creating an energy wave which burst the ground open, shooting towards the Guardians.

Cornelia reacted just in time and raised an earth wall and shielded them from the devastating attack.

"What happened to chivalry?" asked Will angrily, "Aren't you supposed to let ladies attack first."

"My good girl, this is a battle, not a ball." said the knight, apparently amused of the childish thoughts of the Guardians. "Your goal is to defeat me and mine is to defeat you, by all means, there is no need for me to let you attack me first, since you outnumber me."

The girls all took battle stances, now ready for the fight.

"I see, you accepted to fight, then let the trial of the Seven Sleepers begin!" he yelled, thrusting his sword and letting a wave of energy fly at the girls…

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"… and that's how the things are." Tsunade finished explaining and leaned back in her chair, tapping the desk with her fingers. Yan Lin, sitting in a chair next to her was watching the young man standing in front of them closely. Those masks the ANBU were wearing had always fascinated her. The impassive look of the mask, the creation of a second identity, the responsibility, it reminded her of her former Guardian duties.

"So you will be put in charge of Team Elyon, even though you have no real command over Queen Elyon. Originally I wanted Kakashi to lead this team as tracking is one of his many specialities but since his presence is needed in Meridian you will take his place. Inuzuka Kiba will be part of your team, as will Rock Lee." continued Tsunade.

"Acting as a replacement for my old senior Kakashi of all people, this is an honour indeed." said the member of ANBU, shifting his weight from the left leg to the right.

"This is not an ANBU mission but a normal one, as such you will take off your mask and I will assign you a codename. For the duration of the mission you will call yourself Yamato."

The ANBU took of his mask, revealing the face of a relative young man in his early twenties, who was smiling.

"Understood, Tsunade-sama."

"The mission will be protecting Queen Elyon and Matt Olsen from any harm and locating Jiraya of the legendary three ninja and his pupil Uzumaki Naruto, so that the seal which hinders Queen Elyon's powers will be erased."

Yamato nodded and looked then at Yan Lin, who had cleared her throat, apparently to say something.

"Matt might be a bit impulsive at times, but I am sure you will find him useful. If you can try to teach him a few things so that he may defend himself better, I have reason to think he has lost confidence in his abilities since he is dealing with enemies much stronger then himself."

"Yes Yan Lin-sama."

"And one more thing." added Tsunade. "One more person, a recruit from the ANBU training division of Roots will be placed in Team Elyon, so pay close attention to his behaviour."

"Why is that?"

"The recruit is one that Danzou recommended. The man called Danzou was a hawk in the past, standing in opposition to the Third. Within ANBU he created the ANBU training division of Roots as a detached force and acted as its head. Surely you have heard of his name at least?"

"Aren't you worrying a bit too much?" asked Yamato sceptically.

"One can never be cautious enough." said the former Air Guardian. "There are many signs for an upcoming chaos and there is no need to let another catastrophe happen."

"Well, it is quite the honour for me to guard the Queen of a planet."

"You were chosen since you had the best record within the ANBU so we have no worries, anyhow, go and introduce yourself to the team."

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Three hours later, Elyon Brown, freshly released from the hospital, stepped into the clearing in the training grounds where she was supposed to meet the members of the team which will accompany her in her unusual quest.

From the distance she can see two people there; one completely dressed in different shades of green and an orange blur on his legs and a familiar shape, namely Matt.

She starts to walk faster and reached them quickly, unfortunately she has to realize that the green figure was a nicer sight from the distance as the boy demonstrated why people with a bad taste for fashion shouldn't be allowed to buy clothes on their own.

Yet Elyon had learned the hard way not to judge people based on their appearance as she met handsome humans who were fouler creatures within then many monsters. So she was curious how her first real and friendly meeting with a ninja would go.

Kakashi didn't really count as all he did was attack her, hopefully this time it would be a bit more peaceful.

Only a little bit of peace, was that too much to ask for?

You would think the life of a Queen, a young one at that, would be more merry but Elyon had given up that childish dream long ago, as much as it first started as a fairytale, discovering that she was the Queen of a foreign Kingdom, yet it turned out to be a nightmare; her brother trying to kill her, the handsome man who introduced her was in reality a snake hybrid and the kingdom, or more precisely the planet, was widely known as the planet of evil.

Realizing that she had a life out grossing most stories she has read Elyon decided to face anything this new team and this new dimension might throw at her, what could be more horrible then High School mathematics anyways?

"Hey your highness." greeted Matt, looking tired, the headache he received from Lee's devastating kick was still bothering him and had not let him rest peacefully.

"You know that you should call me Elyon." scolded the young Queen, "Very few people do it nowadays and I miss it."

"As you wish… your highness." grinned Matt and had at least the decency to look ashamed after receiving Elyon's glare.

"Anyways, I am proud to introduce Lee to you. Lee this is Queen Elyon Brown, the ruler of the planet, or realm whatever you like more, Meridian."

Lee bowed formally and Elyon was surprised to see such good manners, the few ninja she had met were a bit more then rude.

"It is an honour to meet you Queen Elyon-sama; I shall vow to protect you until my very last breath."

Elyon exchanged an uneasy glance with Matt but to her surprise the Regent didn't roll his eyes or look amused, instead he looked as if he would have expected this statement.

"Ahem, I…I feel flattered but I don't think it will come to that." said Elyon, how should she response to that? It was not an every day event that someone you just meet vowed to protect you until death.

Maybe it was a ninja thing.

"But it certainly will." Came a happy voice from behind and the three hurled around to face the next member of their team.

A boy with red triangles on his cheeks and mostly black clothing neared, wearing his Hidden Leaf forehead protector on his forehead. Yet the most noticeable thing was that he was riding a white dog, a really huge white dog.

While this surprised Elyon and Matt, you can get used too many things but seeing a dog the size of a polar bear wasn't that usual, Lee simply greeted him.

"It is a good thing to see you Kiba-kun."

"Hey Lee, what's up? Life treating ya good?"

"How can I be in a sullen mood at such a nice day? Akamaru-kun really has grown."

"I don't know about that." muttered Kiba, patting his faithful dog on the hand. "Still good, ol' Akamaru to me."

Before they could acquaintance themselves with him, two figures appeared in their midst, revealing a man in his early twenties and a boy of their age, who had an obvious and clearly annoying fake smile on his face.

"Well, well, it seems you are all ready to go."

"Who the heck are you?" barked Kiba, annoyed at the unnecessarily, show-up appearance.

"I am the Squad Leader of Team Elyon, Yamato, and this is the third member of the team, named Sai."

"What is with Tenten?" asked Lee confused, "Yesterday it was her who was supposed to come with us."

"Drastic change of plans, Lee-san. She was appointed another mission and we got Sai here as replacement."

Lee was obviously disappointed but didn't say anything as did Kiba but he did glare at them.

"So, before we head off I would like to say something, as you all know it is a bit unusual to form a team like this, normally we would undergo a few days of training to know each other and develop adequate teamwork, but right now we simply don't have the time. I don't expect you to like each other, I know there are often rivalries, but for the sake of the mission behave civil."

He stopped for a moment as if he wanted to say another thing but ended without saying anything further.

"Are you guys ready?" The boys nodded and he turned to Elyon.

"Elyon-sama, I was told you would be able to fly, is that correct?"

The young Queen nodded and levitated a few meters, while she was watched by Kiba and Lee in obvious awe, while Sai had still the same smile on his face.

"You can do that too, can't you?" he asked Matt who nodded.

"Okay;" said Yamato, content with it. "We will head off right now."

Matt took this moment as his clue to transform and once again the sight of the "Angel of Malice" appeared in the mortal world.

Kiba and Yamato were evidently impressed, yet Sai not so much, as the next seconds proved.

"Guess you can look like a man after all."

While this was the first thing to annoy most of the group, it was certainly not the last.

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"Whew, and I thought Phobos was a hard enemy." cursed Will, angry that the knight in front of her blocked another lighting bolt with his shield.

Cornelia, palms touching the ground, letting a few boulders fly at the Sir Hastings, only to see how he sliced them in two with his sword, while dodging the attacks of Hay Lin and Irma, agreed.

"At least Phobos didn't have indestructible armour and matching weapons."

Taranee, engulfing the knight with fire only to see how he marches through it without trouble flies next to Will, looking slightly panicked.

"Will, what can we do?"

"I don't know none of our attacks are working!"

"Maybe only the real classic attacks will be working?"

Will and Taranee turned around to look at Hay Lin, who was rather busy creating a vortex of air and hurling it at the perpetrator and groaning in frustration as he blocked that attack too.

"What do you mean?"

"Well it is rather obvious that he is really, really immune to our elemental attacks."

"Wow Hay Hay, how did you notice?" joked Irma from the sidelines, trying stopping the knight from coming nearer with a constant steam of water.

"But think of it, he can't be immune to all kind of attacks, maybe only to elemental attacks."

The young Air Guardian was disappointed to see that Taranee was disagreeing.

"What we use are physical attacks and until now it seems that we can't crack that shell."

"Maybe we don't have to." wondered Will, realizing an opening. "Corny, open a hole under him, bury him alive!"

Ignoring the cursed nickname, she made a wide step and made a pushing down motion with her arm, causing the earth the knight was standing at to sink rapidly until he was five meters under the earth. Before he could even attempt to climb up, Cornelia straightened the walls in his earth hole, making it impossible.

"Way to go Corny." cheered Irma as she landed next to the hole and clapped her on the shoulder. "Trapped him with a classic hole, guess Hay Lin was right after all. Let's just a add a nice touch to it"

She conjured a steam of water out of her hand and started to fill the hole with it, ignoring the surprised faces of her friends.

"You do realize that he can't swim with that armour, do you?" said Will slowly.

"Relax red, Hay Lin is going to freeze him there, we can't risk him doing some weird trick to catch us off guard."

Hay Lin, having seen through her friend earlier than the others smiled, took a deep breath and froze the water when it reached the tip of the helmet.

"Well this was surprisingly easy." stated Cornelia, looking extremely relieved.

"I was afraid that this guy would be a lot harder to deal with but I guess he only got some fancy weapons."

"Now, now dear, what gave you that idea?"

The girls spun around to look at the strange knight, seeing him standing firmly in front of them, his armour looking unfazed and his sword pointing towards Cornelia.

Irma turned back to the hole and wasn't surprised to see only the ice.

"How did you get out?"

"You see, I would tell you, but since I am trying to kill you it would be highly stupid of me to reveal the techniques which are saving me."

"We are in trouble girls." whispered Irma, "That guy is not a moron."

"Have a Plan B?"

"I would really let you plan but I think I will just kill you and get my break."

"You want a break, tin box? I will give you a break!"

Cornelia pushed both of her arms forward and let two vines burst out next to her, slithering fast towards the knight, grabbing him by the ankles and lifting him so fast that he dropped his sword and shield.

Making the motions with her hands the ranks started to whirl Hastings around and after a few seconds of whirling they slammed him hardly against the wall, leaving a clear imprint of his armour.

"This fancy metal coat may protect you from any damage but when I continue this, it will injure you, no matter how strong it is."

When the ranks started to whirl again the Knight reacted and out of the sword another beam shot out and cut the ranks, setting him free again.

As he quickly recovered his weapons he knew he was now in serious trouble. The Earth Guardian seemed to be the most dangerous Guardian, right now her attacks and abilities were the only one working against him.

So the logical thing to do was to kill her first.

He dashed towards her, attempting to strike her down but was stopped by Will, who had grabbed his arm, using her superior strength to prevent him from attacking.

"No stabbing here pal!"

She is strong… thought Hastings as he tried to free his arm, without his armour, so he was sure, she would have crushed his arm, a terrifying power on a young girl.

"I see hurling some lighting bolts isn't your only ability." He slammed his shield into her stomach and managed to struggle free.

"Well then, show me the true power of a Guardian."

"I am happy to." An almost too cheerful voice came from behind him.

He whirled around to see nothing but then Hay Lin became visible again and started a small whirlwind, trapping the knight in the middle.

"You know that in the eye of the storm, there is no air to breath."

She maintained the small tornado for a few more seconds and then stopped, seeing the first member of the seven sleepers fall unspectacularly to the ground.

"I guess that's it." stated Will, kicking the sword and shield away from him.

"Well, if there are seven sleepers, we should see six more."

"Right Tara, spoil the moment, really it's fine."

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Well, I hope you liked it, as I am not that content with it. I have rewritten this chapter about a dozen times, unsure whether to add Sai or not or use a completely different way for the trial, to let them fight all seven at the same time but then I decided to take this version.

As you see, we are now entering the Naruto Universe and don't worry, as up now, things will not continue as in the manga but there will be spoilers from now on, so, when you have not read the most recent chapters of Naruto, I advise you to read it until I get the next chapter if you don't want to read it here.

For the question why I will not follow the manga, it is really simple; I dislike where this leads to. Sasuke seems way too strong, Kabuto is an Orochimaru fanatic and Naruto is an idiot who turns berserk and charges every single time he sees an opponent without any teamwork. So be ready for major AU.

Have fun in the new year.