Imperfect World

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AN: Like the others this was done during one lecture gone bad. Concept came about when I saw Nagi using clones and I was like huh who though him how to do that. Then next thing you know I was half way through writing this stuff.I do apologize if I can't update my other series regularly as school is really kicking my ass right now and really I handwrote this chapter before I decided to type it out since I had around 30 mins of free time in between two of my classes.

Tags: AU [BiG Time], Violence

Unbeta'd

-Imperfect World-

Story Start

Chapter 1: In Principio part 1

"Do we really have to do this?" asked a rather irritated raven haired man as he found himself surrounded by at least eight thugs, and since he was in a village full of magicians that meant only one thing, Magical thugs.

'Seriously WTF?' the man thought as he watched the thugs slowly try to but fail miserably in to intimidating him.

"Just give us all your money and we'd let you pass" said a rather grim-looking thug wearing somewhat tattered scholarly robes.

'This happens every time I take a vacation' the man said as he showed no signs of even paying attention to the people surrounding him.

One thug slowly approached the ravenette and placed a hand over the man's shoulder "Look pal just giv-" he didn't finish whatever he was going to say before his arm was snapped in two shortly before he was knocked out by a sharp jab to the face.

Before the other thugs could even react the raven haired man was already on them, breaking a few bones, tearing some muscles as he incapacitated each and every one of them before they could even react and cast any kind of magic to protect themselves.

"That's why you don't mug anyone" The man just shook his head after he easily dispatched of the thugs and continued walking heading for a small pub that he was seeing close by to grab something to eat before a small figure darted past him.

"Please teach me how to fight!" a young red-haired boy pleaded as he stood in front of the twenty plus year old, blue-eyed ravenette wearing a fur collared black jacket and black pants along with some weird-looking black gloves studded with red leather straps.

"Huh why the hell are you asking me that brat?" the man asked as he titled his head and looked at the boy who was probably no older than six or seven.

"I saw you beat up those meanies in the neighborhood without magic! I want to be strong and cool like you so teach me how to fight mister!"

"No. I'm on vacation for a few years and teaching some magician brat how to fight is not the way I want to spend it" the man replied as he started walking away but to his frustration the kid kept following him.

"Please teach me how to fight!" the kid asked again as the ravenette began increasing the pace of his and to his surprise the young red-head was actually keeping up. 'Interesting' he thought as he decided to increase his pace a bit more.

"Please teach me!" the boy asked again as sweat started appearing on his brows. He knew he had good stamina and was a fast runner but the man's pace was difficult to match.

"You know what, I'll teach you, under one condition" the man said as the boy struggled to keep up. "For the rest of the day, you need to keep up with me" he said as he increased his pace by a small amount "and you might as well give me a real good reason you want to be strong, not just because you think it's cool."

He looked at the boy for confirmation and saw the kid nod furiously "If you do both of those things, I will agree to teach you, but if you fail then-" he didn't finish as he suddenly started running leaving a trail of dust behind him.

"Hey wait Mister!" the kid screamed out as he began running as hard as he could to chase after the man.

What the kid didn't notice though was that the man he was chasing after was nothing but a fake. A realistic clone created by the ravenette who switched himself with it.

"Good luck brat" the man said as he turned around and walked the opposite direction from the boy and entered the pub he saw earlier.

Making his way to the counter the man ordered a mug of beer as well as a simple meal made of potatoes and beef before he sat on one of the lesser crowded area in the pub.

"That damned troublesome red-headed brat is really gotten on my nerves lately" the ravenette heard from a person sitting near him an old-looking man wearing a stereotypical magician's clothing, he even had the pointy hat.

"Yeah that kid really is troublesome sometimes" his companion another old man replied.

"But you can't really blame him, the boy's practically an orphan lost his parents to Them"

"So it is true, the kid really lost his parents because of Them. I heard they were killed because they refused Their offer to join. You know them, they prefer recruiting members from this side of the world." the other replied as a loud sound of something falling echoes through the pub.

Looking towards the direction of the sound the two old men saw a raven haired man; scratching the back of his head "Sorry about that dropped the mug" he said as he pointed at the draft of beer he ordered earlier now nothing but spilled bear on the ground along with dozens of shattered glass.

He spent a few seconds looking at his reflection, on the puddle and glass in the ground before he shook his head and stood up paying for his meal before leaving the bar. "Damned brat" he whispered as he slowly followed the trail that the kid and his clone left.

Hours passed as the kid kept running after the man, when he was catching up the man started running even faster. It was an excruciating experience for the boy but he never gave up. The boy scraped his legs, palms, and elbows as he tripped and fell multiple times over. He was exhausted, injured, thirsty, hungry, and sweaty.

Yet he never gave up and continued chasing after the man.

Eventually the man stopped running and turned around to face him, it's been a whole 9 hours since this whole chase started and the man was pretty sure it was about time to end this, "So you finally found an answer on why you want to become strong?"

"No!" the boy said proudly between breaths, smiling as he looked at the older man "Honestly people always call me an Idiot and it's really hard for me to think of an answer, I don't want others to experience what I did that one reason" the boy grinned as he looked at the raven haired man who was just silently observing him. "But you know what Mister I'll give you my answer in the future when I find it!"

The man chuckled lightly "You're really something aren't you" he said as he exploded in a puff of white smoke leaving behind a wide eyed boy.

"Oi brat, what the hell are you waiting for? You said you wanted to be stronger right?" came from behind the boy, making him turn around immediately as he spotted the grinning ravenette arms crossed on his chest while impatiently tapping his foot.

"Let's go" the man added as he started walking away.

"Yes!" the boy said as followed the man. "Umm mister what's your name?" the boy asked as he looked at the man.

"My name is Naruto but you can call me Sensei" he replied as he tilted his head to his side to face the red-head.

"What's your name then brat?" he asked

"Nagi, Nagi Springfield!" the boy answered cheerfully with a wide smile on his face as he followed the man.

-Imperfect World-

Nagi spent a few years under the man's tutelage as he learned how to fight from the man. Despite being the happiest years of the boy's life they were also the most painful ones as he spent almost every moment training in hand to hand combat, magic, ninjutsu, or Shundo. So the boy was quite proud after mastering his master's fighting style despite how much the older man told him that it was nothing more than a glorified version of brawling. Not like Nagi cared since it was a fighting style that fit him really well. Aside from that the ravenette also thought him how to use the physical power in the internal burning of one's own energy, or better known as Ki as well as teaching the kid a lightning spell or two since it was the boy's affinity sadly it wasn't his so the spells he though were rather weak and mediocre. He tried enrolling the boy to a magical school but the boy ended up as a drop out in record time since he blew the half the school away while cursing at the instructors in his first hour in school.

It still confused the raven haired man to this day what exactly happened during that one hour but every time he asked the red haid never bothered answering.

Despite not wanting to admit it Naruto himself was having a blast training the kid, he never did train anyone in the past besides if his memory served him correctly, Konohamaru. He enjoyed teaching most of his skills to the kid, passing it down as he watched the kid slowly hone his arts. He wished that it could stay like this a little longer but he knew it couldn't last forever.

He already received a message a few days back, his vacation was already over and he had to go back. Naruto couldn't help but grit his teeth as he remembered breaking the new to the boy. It was the only time he actually saw the kid cry throughout the years they've been together. Eventually the boy calmed down and asked if he could come with the ravenette. Sadly he couldn't but the ravenette did have something in mind for the future of the boy and it involved the last trip the two had together.

A trip to Japan.

"So it's time for your last test!" Naruto said as he walked beside the now ten-year old boy, who was wearing an orange gi along with a black belt tied around his waist. The two were walking towards a certain school in Tokyo.

"What's the test?" Nagi said excitedly as he began to shake making Naruto chuckle and ruffle his hair.

"Oh it's nothing hard, you just need to win a small tournament"

"Cool! But it sounds too easy Sensei" the boy said as his eyes narrowed at the man who despite all the years that passed was still wearing the same black clothes.

"Good your learning, remember always look underneath the underneath"

"Hai sensei!"

"We're here" the older of the two said as he pointed at two gigantic gates that had a huge sign saying 'Mahora Martial Arts Tournament'

The boy just stared wide-eyed at the sign as he sensei promptly opened the two gigantic gates with but a flick of the finger, as the doors opened Killing Intent began flooding the entrance as men and women of all sizes glared at the new comers.

Nagi gulped while his sensei just shrugged off the intent "Nagi stay here and sign yourself up. I'll watch all your matches and I swear to Kami if you don't win in the end we're going back to full time dodging training. I'll see you after you win the tournament" he said as he left the area, leaving behind an already nervous boy amidst a swarm of fighters.

"You look nervous" came from a voice behind Nagi prompting the boy to turn around.

"I'm not nervous because I know I'll win in the end!" he answered as he saw the boy who decided to talk with him. It was a Japanese boy a few years older than him with spiky black hair, wearing square rimmed glasses along with a black turtleneck sweater and gray pants. The boy was also holding a sheathed nodachi and that was enough to tell Nagi that the boy was another participant in this tournament.

"You're pretty confident"

"Yeah, how about you how are you feeling about this?"

"I'm quite nervous myself actually" he said only to get slapped in the back multiple times by Nagi

"Don't worry; you'll do fine that is until I kick your ass in the end" hw then chuckled "Hahaha, that's just a bit of sensei rubbing into me" he said as he scratched the back of his head "Oh my name is Nagi" he introduced himself.

"Ah, my name is Eishun Aoyama nice to meet you Nagi-san"

"Nagi's fine, no need for the honorifics" he said as he extended his hand gesturing a hand shake for which the other boy kindly complied.

"Well Nagi I hope to fight you in this tournament"

"Sure be ready to get your ass kicked by me"

"I should be the one telling you that" Eishun replied with a wry smile before he took a small bow "As much as I'd like to talk I must get going" he added before turning around and leaving.

"Yeah see yah" Nagi said as he waved at the boy, before turning around himself as he started to look for the registration booth.

'Weird kid' both of them thought as they went their separate ways.

-Imperfect World-

The tournament itself pretty straight forward and simple, it lasted for the span of three days in which the audience of a few thousand watched them fight. The first day consisted of a few battle royale while the second and third day battles were basically one on one fights. All of the battles were hosted in the arena which was a white 100 meter squared ring. There were only a few rules in the tournament such as use of weapons was allowed, any preferred fighting style can be used, no ring outs, no killing. So it was just basically knock your opponent out and that's it.

Simple rules that even an idiot could understand.

For some reason Nagi was quite pleased with the rules as he easily understood it.

The young red-head as he was having a good time his first opponent was a rather obnoxious teen wearing pink gi with overly exaggerated moves. The teen tried firing KI based projectiles at Nagi but they were pathetic, so pathetic that they actually dissipated shortly after they were released.

Nagi punched the guy in the gut once then kicked him in the face.

That was all it took for him to win qualify to the final four.

His second match shortly after the fight against the pink gi guy was a bit tougher than the first one. Nagi fought against a rather bald-headed man with a bit of his remaining hair on the side of his head spiked towards the back. Apparently the man was some big shot owner of some huge ass company. The man was definitely strong as all his attacks seemed to shock Nagi when they hit him.

Not that it hurt.

He'd experienced worse under his sensei's tutelage.

Nagi didn't really care as he defeated the man by kicking him between the legs making the man lean in forward before kneeing him in the face, followed by a flurry of punches before the man could even hit the ground.

It took a lot more effort but Nagi finally managed to get to the Finals.

Just one more win for him to officially graduate from his master.

It was to no surprise that he reached the final round and was now facing an opponent who he considered the only one not to be taken lightly. Eishun Aoyama, a practitioner of the Shinmei-ryu sword style and from what he saw in the boy's previous fights a damn good one as well even his sensei said that the boy was good and that alone meant something since his sensei rarely praised others.

Eishun stood in front of him in a rather calm manner standing upright as he held onto his blade ready to draw it at any notice while Nagi on the other hand was direct opposite as he adopted his usual brawler stance with his legs a few steps a part while his hands were help up in front of him with closed fists.

The fight already started five minutes ago, yet the two were still not moving from their initial position. Despite the crowds booing the two held their ground as they saw no opening in each other's stance.

That was until a gust of wind blew into the arena making Nagi slightly shift his guard making an opening that Eishun immediately took advantage of.

"Zangaken!" the black haired boy yelled out as he immediately rushed in and delivered a harsh vertical strike strong enough to slice a boulder in two towards Nagi who reacted by jumping back to evade the blow only to find a gash appearing in his chest.

'That was dangerous' Nagi thought as he decided to go into offense to not let the katan wielding boy to unleash another blow like that. Taking one quickly step forward the boy seemingly vanished and reappeared in front of Eishun surprising the boy at the sudden burst of speed Nagi showed before he was forced to dodge a few blows aimed for his face before he double over after the red head sucker punched him in the gut before jumping and connecting with a round house kick to the face.

Eishun clicked his tongue as he wiped his now bleeding lips and began evading Nagi's punches and kicks while looking for an opening. 'There!' the boy thought as he managed to thrust the butt of the handle of his blade at Nagi's stomach paying him back for the earlier attack before slashing his blade at Nagi releasing his Ki in a circular manner to create cuts all over the boy's body as he was sent flying onto the air "Zankusen" he announced the name of his attack as he sheathed his Katana.

"I win!" he whispered to himself as he looked at the body of Nagi lying on the ground covered in wounds. Turning around he made his way to leave the ring only to stop on his footsteps as he immediately brought out his sword and blocked an arrow like projectile made of pure ki sent to him by Nagi.

"Match isn't over yet" Nagi told Eishun as he once again adopted his brawler stance before screaming and charging in on Eishun as he threw a few KI enhanced jabs.

In the VIP seat above the stands a pair of blue eyes watched the battle closely. "Ah there you are" the voice of an old man came from behind the blue eyed man.

"Hello Konoe-san" the ravenette greeted as he continued watching the battle. "Mind doing me a favor?" he asked.

"Ohh what could someone like you possibly want from me?" the old man asked back chuckling near the end as he rubbed his beard long beard.

"I want you to introduce the kid to Filius Zect, I'm pretty sure that old bat could actually teach the kid how to become a decent mage"

"And why would I do that?"

"Because that kid holds limitless potential in him, and I honestly suck at teaching magic"

"Hmmm" the old man mumbled out.

"That and I have the latest edition of Icha Icha for you"

"I'll do it" the old man instantly replied causing Naruto to sweat drop.

Back in the arena things were going pretty well for Nagi as he opted on using Shundo a high speed movement technique that allows him to almost disappear in multiple bursts of speed. "Ora Ora Ora Ora" Nagi screamed out while furiously punching Eishun.

"Tsk" Eishun clicked his tongue as he couldn't find an opening to use his blade without killing the boy. No matter how tempting it was, he didn't come this far in the tournament to lose via disqualification. Taking a deep breath, Eishun began weaving through Nagi's attacks before jumping back and thrusting his free hand forward into a palm strike "Zankusho!" he muttered as a bullet made out of KI was released from the palm of his hand.

"What the heck" Nagi asked is surprise as he observed the attack sail past him and hit the concrete in the ground, creating a small crater as it did so. "Are you trying to kill me?"

"Kill no, maim possibly, knock you out, yes" Eishun replied as he suddenly vanished appearing beside Nagi fist already connecting in the young red head's face" You're not the only one who can use Shundo you know" Eishun told Nagi who was sent stumbling back by his punch, before following up by hitting Nagi again with Zankusen sending him down to the ground.

"Arggh…" the boy grunted out in pain as he rolled away from Eishun's follow attacks. Ignoring the pain from his bleeding wounds Nagi managed to sweep Eishun in the legs knocking him off balance, giving the red head some time to at least recover and distance himself from the swordsman.

Sadly Eishun quickly recovered and was now standing in front of Nagi in the same stance he used at the beginning of the battle.

"Damn I'm bleeding badly" Nagi said as he looked at his wounds before placing his hand beneath his chin adopting an actual thinking pose in the middle of a battle. "Sensei did tell me not to use this if possible but I guess you're just too strong for me too beat without resulting to this." Nagi told Eishun who simply raised a brow at the boy's declaration.

"But I did promise him I won't use magic" he said as he placed his fingers middle and index together before crossing them "This isn't magic though" Nagi said as nine exact replicas of him suddenly appeared and charged at swordsman.

"What the?" Eishun asked as he saw multiple red-headed kids running towards him 'an Illusion?' he thought as he slashed one of the clones and felt his blade sink into it 'it's solid?' Eishun thought as he was forced to use Shundo to move away from the clones only to be surprised when the clones themselves used Shundo as well to chase after him. "Kami damn it" Eishun cursed out as he was slowly being overwhelmed by the multiple red head's he cut one down two other's appeared and it was seriously pissing him off.

As the bespectacled increased the speed of his blows slashing off all the approaching clones he failed to notice until it was too late that one of the Nagi's jumped towards him fist already pulled back. The next thing the young swordsman felt was a fist hitting him in the cheek sending him sprawling back until he felt multiple legs kicking him in his back sending him up to the sky as his blade slipped from his hands. Eishun's eyes widened as he saw Nagi suddenly appear in the sky using Shundo.

The last thing the swordsman saw before he lost consciousness was the grinning face of the red-head as well as the boy's fist only a few inches away from his face.

"Springfield Rendan!" Nagi screamed out as his fist connected at Eishun's face sending the man crashing down into the arena creating a 20 foot crater where the swordsman landed.

There was a stunned silence as the Nagi landed on the ground, falling on one knee as he started breathing heavily "Need to train some more" he said to himself as the crowd broke out of their trance and began clapping.

"The Youngest Winner of the Mahoura Martial Arts Tournament: Nagi Springfield!" the announcer sitting on the a booth at the side of the stage screamed out as the crowd cheered loudly.

"Hahahahahaha! I WIN!" Nagi laughed out as he placed his hands on his hips. He kept laughing and laughing as his wounds continued bleeding. Before long Nagu suddenly stopped and fell backwards unconscious.

"Idiot" Naruto said as he shook his head and made his way to retrieve his student.

-Imperfect World-

"Arrggghhh" Nagi hissed out in pain as he felt his wounds throb as he sat on a bed in the medical bay. Nagi was promptly dragged by the tournament staff into the room with Eishun shortly after he lost consciousness. It only took him a few hours to of sleep before he was up and about again. Shortly after Nagi woke up he found Eishun resting on a bed beside him, a few conversations later and the two instantly became friends.

"Hahahaah!" Eishun chuckled while sitting beside Nagi before he grunted in pain as well. The swordsman didn't suffer much damage from the Springfield's attack aside from a few bruises and minor fractures he was fine. Nagi on the other hand needed to get some serious stitching all over his body to close all the cuts that he had all over his body. "Well that was one hell of a fight you two had for the finals." the third person in the room said as he looked at the two badly wounded kids –well at least Nagi was badly wounded with all the cuts in his body while Eishun was relatively uninjured except for the bruises he had on his left cheek and body courtesy of the hard-hitting blows of Nagi. "I won't be surprised if they decided to cancel that event jut because of the sheer brutality that the audience saw from two Kids"

"Yeah I was so awesome!" Nagi said as he raised his arms up in the air only to freeze as he started to feel more pain

"Stupid brat calm the hell down" Naruto commanded as the badly injured Nagi forced himself to sit down while Eishun wisely tried his best not to chuckle knowing his wounds would hurt if he did.

"You did well" Naruto said as a seal appeared on his wrist glowing brightly before the room was covered in a puff of white smoke. "And here's your graduation gift" he added as he handed a long wooden staff wrapped with white cloth to the young mage.

"Thank you sensei!"

"It's nothing brat" the older man said as he looked at the red-haired kid one last time "This is goodbye kid, it's been a fun few years but my vacation just ended and I have a job to do"

"Is this really goodbye sensei?" the boy asked as he held onto his sensei's gift. He already cried so there was no more need for an emotional goodbye.

"Nah, I think we'll meet in the future, I just feel like it's going to happen" Naruto replied as he ruffled the kid's hair before turning around and slowly walking to the exit.

"I'll see you two later" the ravenette said as he waved at two one last time before finally leaving.

"Hey Eishun"

"Yeah?"

"Wanna go on a journey with me?" Nagi asked as he smiled at the swordsman.

"Eishun paused for a moment as he began thinking of the situation. It was either go home and train his swordsmanship or go travelling while training swordsmanship. IT was a no brainer since he didn't really want to suffer his sister's wrath after he tells her that he lost in the tournament. "Sure why not, but where are we going?"

"Mundus Magicus" the red-head answered as he stood up from the bed and began walking towards the exit "Eishun what are you waiting for? Let's go"

The swordsman only shook his head while chuckling as he followed Nagi. 'This is going to be an interesting journey' he thought.

-Imperfect World -

Meanwhile while the two kids were planning the beginnings of what would turn into a grand adventure, Naruto was walking slowly hands in his pockets as he left the boundaries of Mahora Academy.

"Yoh" the ravenette said as he kept walking as he felt a familiar presence appear behind him.

"He has awoken from his slumber, you are needed once more" a cold, monotone, and almost mechanical voice saud.

"I know… trust me… I know" Naruto said as he placed his hand on his chest before sighing "Although I am given freedom than any of you, I can't go against his words." He took a deep breathe "You know sometimes I'm really jealous of you"

"I do not understand"

"I hope one day you do" Naruto quickly replied as a large complex magical circle appeared beneath him and his companion, breaking the boundary of two worlds as the two were teleported into the other.

The ravenette's companion just looked at him with a confused expression not really understanding what the man was saying. "I do not understand" he said once more.

The ravenette just shook his head and started walking through a red carpeted hall way in what looked like a luxurious albeit dark mansion. The two kept walking as they entered a dark room, barely lit up by ominous looking flickering blue flames. A few figures were standing scattered around the room while one figure stayed in the middle, standing silently and erect as the two walked towards him.

"I see you have come back" the man in the middle of the room said, a cloaked figure wearing dark robes that covered all of his body.

"Hn" Naruto replied as he knelt on one leg in front of the man.

"Welcome back my aloof friend"

"Glad to see you too" the ravenette answered back sarcastically, something which the cloaked man clearly missed.

"Well rise my good friend, the time is at hand" he declared as Naruto slowly stood up and slowly walked to the robed man's right side while his companion stood on the man's left signifying their positions within this organization.

"My friends, do you know of my wish?" the man in the middle asked as he looked around the room.

"My wish is to lead this world to its future; the world I wish for is one of peace, a paradise, a utopia within this cruel and imperfect world." He then raised his arms to his sides as the light of the room slowly opened revealing everyone in the room. Various mages, demons, dragons, and demi-humans, stood tall as they watched the robed man continue with his speech.

"We have the power, we will find peace, we will all find happiness in the paradise brought about by the Perfect World" he dropped his hands to his his sides dramatically as a large key appear behind him floating in the air.

"We are Cosmo Entelecheia and we will save this world" he declared as everyone in the room started cheering, high and almost euphoric as the man's words increased their morals to new heights. Even the normally emotionless one had a smile on his face.

So they all cheered.

All but one of them.

Just one person in the entire room was clenching his hands so tightly that his nails dug into the palms of his hands making them bleed.

He didn't like this.

He wanted nothing to do with this.

No he even wanted to stop this madness but he can't.

He can never go against the man's wishes.

He was bound to the man.

He was bound by the very same curse that was once inflicted upon the famous hound of Culann.

A curse which was constantly strengthened by his own idiotic ideals.

He never goes back to his words.

Never goes back on his promises.

That was his way.

That was his curse.

So the man just stood there at the right of the Mage of the Beginning, as his nails dug deeper and deeper into his skin.

As he kept ignoring the pain.

As he kept showing a rather impassive face to the crowd.

As he kept wishing that this madness would end.

-Imperfect World END-

AN: Naruto's appearance is based on his counterpart menma but personality and ability wise he is more like Naruto. I could've just let him stay blonde and all but I wanted to change his hair color, it's not like its some plot device in the future, I just felt like doing it. Yeah… just felt like doing it.

Eishun's last name is from Love Hina if you know the series then you know why I took the last name. Since I really didn't think that he was already a Konoe in this part of the story sicne he doenst get the last name until after marrying Konoka's mom.

Oh and to add this is the first of a three-part prologue for this story before it goes to Negima timeline.

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